Ever wondered what its like to put all your eggs in one basket? Well traditionally speaking....its not a good idea right?...Well lets analyze that hypothesis a bit...Having a plan B or a safety net is great as against risking it all on plan A and push yourself to make Plan A to work like there is no tomorrow.
The smart people always have a plan B....they know, what they are doing, does not have a 100% chance to succeed...And they have a hedge fund kinda concept going for them. So if the attempt does not go through, they can say "Well whatever!!! I always had plan B if this did not work out. I am so smart that I am always prepared for the worst!" Hmmm...well thats a good way of looking at it.
Lets look at the other side now...The Brave people put all their eggs in one basket...They kinda risk it all on that one chance they got....And they are not prepared for the worst....They always keep saying to themselves "This has got to work...else I am totally screwed!!!" So they are audacious enough to not think about protecting themselves from failure!!!
Lets dig a little deeper in the Smart person psyche and the Brave person psyche shall we? The Smart person starts his attempt to get plan A working....Well he runs the first 50% of the task really well...Now as he approaches the last leg, the pressure is almost wilting and knocking the day lights outta him....Now he must fight that pressure off and become a stronger person and try and win plan A...Guess what...his sub-conscious takes over and he begins to think..."What the hell? I have plan B!!! So whatever happens, I am gonna be just ok!"...And before the person knows it....Well he has lost his perspective on plan A and now he is all about plan B....In the process it may so happen that he fails to make that last stretch and fails by just a small amount. Now lets look at the Brave person...He starts off just like the smart one...After 50% of the task is done...He realizes "Geez man! I got a lot of stuff riding on this baby!!! I better get this done".....So he starts running harder towards the finishing line....and as he gets closer to the line...he gets faster coz he knows theres no second chance....
The Brave ones are the ethereal optimists and the Smart ones are somewhat optimistically pessimistic. The third kinds "pessimistic ones" are not considered at all...Coz there is no way in hell they can win. So do you really make that decision to be smart or brave? Or does it depend on the circumstances? Well I would say its a mix of both. Having said that Circumstances do tend to influence your choice. It all depends on what you may have to lose if it you don't succeed. More often than not situations in which you have 'nothing to lose' or you have 'everything to lose' have a way of invoking the braveness of a person. It is when you have something to lose that it becomes grey....Coz then you have a choice to let plan A take as much as you are willing to lose or a little more than that. This little more that a person gives up is a really difficult mix to achieve...if it is too much it jeopardizes plan B and if it is too little...well bye bye plan A....So ppl who have too little to lose in the first place tend to bank on plan A....ppl who have everything to lose put everything behind plan A coz its just about enough to get them thru.....Its when you have choice between either plan A or plan B to succeed that the smart guys chicken out and go for plan B.
So Tell me something? Are you the smart one with the "Hope for the Best. Be prepared for the worst" attitude? Or are you the brave one with the "Be prepared for the Best. Get screwed lest the Worst" attitude? Waiting for your comments...(Ain't this blog very unlike me?...Well I am inspired to write inspirational stuff once in a while!!! What inspired me you ask....I ll get back to it in my next blog!)
Friday, January 26, 2007
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
My Style of writing
For those of you who have been reading my blog a lot....(hmmm...so I am a self confessed apotheosis of immodesty...bite me) must like this for my style of writing. Well let me give you a background of why it is so!!! As you may already know, I take a lot of inspiration from movies and television (read my other blogs if you don't know...grrr)...This is no different...I have been a fan of Sitcoms all my life....But to tell you the truth...the ones that appeal to me the most are not the ones with laughter track on them....My favorite shows would have 2 most notable ones...Ally McBeal and Scrubs.....Why so?...The striking resemblance between the 2 is to deliver a serious or somewhat sane message without having to be serious or sane about them....For starters the protagonists Ally and Dr. Dorian are always guided by their own voices...Not just that these inner selves think of the most whacky things at times completely opposite to the happenings....they are insane at sane times and sane at insane times....and if you really analyze this is something I identify with a bit.....So getting back to my style of writing....you will always notice something written in brackets which if ignored don't impair the relevance of the written matter (But make it B-OR-I-N-G) and gives you a mirthful third person view on what I am writing. Heres looking forward to a lot more whacky stuff from yours truly....
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
I Banged a Pole
Before you get any ideas from the title....take the literal meaning of it....Oh no...not that literal meaning....I mean the other literal meaning....hmm...let me explain....I was walking while reading a newspaper (or maybe I was reading while walking on the footpath...neways) and I failed to notice a Steel pole right in front of me...and sure enough I banged right into it with my legs on either side of the pole....Fortunately my hands took the brunt of the clash....I didn't bang my head and I am sure I will be able to start a family...(toungue in cheek)
Well has this happened before?...hell yeah...with so many disastrous (hyperbole intended) consequences...you just need to start talking to my mom and half my stories (btw if my mom starts narrating 'funny to you horrific to me' tales...you gotta keep in mind that anything before the age of 10 will be said as if it happened yesterday and any amount of denial from my part will only result to more publicity to the alleged incident) would reflect such acts of absent-minded behavior....and that is all that I have to say about that....(Sorry Forrest...couldn't resist copying that one from you)
Well has this happened before?...hell yeah...with so many disastrous (hyperbole intended) consequences...you just need to start talking to my mom and half my stories (btw if my mom starts narrating 'funny to you horrific to me' tales...you gotta keep in mind that anything before the age of 10 will be said as if it happened yesterday and any amount of denial from my part will only result to more publicity to the alleged incident) would reflect such acts of absent-minded behavior....and that is all that I have to say about that....(Sorry Forrest...couldn't resist copying that one from you)
Sunday, January 21, 2007
Guru says 'I Am Bani yeah'
Its 2 am and I just got back from a screening of 'Guru'. What compelled me to write this blog at this late hour?....Well I just told you I saw Guru.....Well if I yap abt the stellar performances of the lead and support actors in the film...then I would be aping what every newspaper reviewer has done or what any other amateur blogger has done (well I am confident I am not an amateur any more....a confidence I drew from Gurukant Desai) .... So instead of doing the usual routine, I would like to say how well the book 'The Polyester Prince' has been adapted for big screen keeping all lead characters intact. If you haven't read it...well you are missing out on a piece of history u ought to know about.
The film delves into a lot of jargon..well not a lot of it (non-convertible debentures and all)...which could have been avoided or explained better considering you are making a mainstream movie....u say its not mainstream???...well what was the future Mrs. Desai doing dancing at the start of the film or Mr. Desai in the middle of the film. What such roadblocks of musical boredom did was consume precious film reel...taking away a chance to film some more insightful scenes into the success of Gurukant Desai....which has a few chapters...90% of them showing some kind of manipulation....
So what could have made the movie interesting?...Lets see how about a common mans life change during the course of the film due to his investments in Guru's company?....Hmm that would have made the film an account of a Hero...in the cliched bollywood sense.....maybe......The episode of the protagonist against the cartel of bears in the stock market would have been a really good and easily understandable part of the original protagonist's growth...Unfortunately this is not one of the episodes covered.....The remark about needing a license was sharp, witty and yet I believe went unnoticed by a generation which knows nothing about the post independence era from conventional sources of education....So a small anecdote or insight into the license era would have been welcome.....The scene between Guru and the newly appointed prime minister...oops i meant minister was not sinister enough and did not suggest the kind of pressure it put on the minister...they should have stuck to the bag containing the bribe being returned to the minister...as that was the unofficial scene between u knw who and u already knw who.....And that was too sensational for the book too.....Hmm well these are some of my opinions and I don't expect Mani Ratnam to follow them....(as if....)
All in all the philosophy of the real life person or the character come through right in the last few scenes where he challenges the way business was carried out before he came along....And that is one of the scenes which really touches the viewers...Most other scenes though brilliant just don't tug at your heart....
Last words...Heres looking forward to some great future work from Mithunda and of course 'Abhishek Amitabh Bacchan' (poora naam haaaiin)
The film delves into a lot of jargon..well not a lot of it (non-convertible debentures and all)...which could have been avoided or explained better considering you are making a mainstream movie....u say its not mainstream???...well what was the future Mrs. Desai doing dancing at the start of the film or Mr. Desai in the middle of the film. What such roadblocks of musical boredom did was consume precious film reel...taking away a chance to film some more insightful scenes into the success of Gurukant Desai....which has a few chapters...90% of them showing some kind of manipulation....
So what could have made the movie interesting?...Lets see how about a common mans life change during the course of the film due to his investments in Guru's company?....Hmm that would have made the film an account of a Hero...in the cliched bollywood sense.....maybe......The episode of the protagonist against the cartel of bears in the stock market would have been a really good and easily understandable part of the original protagonist's growth...Unfortunately this is not one of the episodes covered.....The remark about needing a license was sharp, witty and yet I believe went unnoticed by a generation which knows nothing about the post independence era from conventional sources of education....So a small anecdote or insight into the license era would have been welcome.....The scene between Guru and the newly appointed prime minister...oops i meant minister was not sinister enough and did not suggest the kind of pressure it put on the minister...they should have stuck to the bag containing the bribe being returned to the minister...as that was the unofficial scene between u knw who and u already knw who.....And that was too sensational for the book too.....Hmm well these are some of my opinions and I don't expect Mani Ratnam to follow them....(as if....)
All in all the philosophy of the real life person or the character come through right in the last few scenes where he challenges the way business was carried out before he came along....And that is one of the scenes which really touches the viewers...Most other scenes though brilliant just don't tug at your heart....
Last words...Heres looking forward to some great future work from Mithunda and of course 'Abhishek Amitabh Bacchan' (poora naam haaaiin)
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Fast paced book....lack of content
Reading 'One night @ Call center' was a been there done that for me...The accomplishment was reading a complete book in a single day...Well for some this would sound absurd coz.....I know ppl who can finish a 500 page novel in a matter of hours.....But given that I have a penchant for dragging a book for months...this was quite an accomplishment. The earlier record was 3 days for 'Five point Someone' by the same author.
Lets get to the book now.....'1 nite...' has been on my shelf for a couple of months now. Finally I decided to get it over with. Given the fact that Five point someone is one of my favorite books ( I agree with ppl when they say its too amateurish...but I do like independent low budget films as much as a like a Spielberg epic)...I had a lot of expectations from this baby.....and maybe I expected Shamita Shetty to be as ravishing as Shilpa Shetty...(I suck at metaphors don't I? Couldn't think of another one if not a better one)...It was not to be though......The book has a few great things about it...The best thing is the way Chetan Bhagat creates a scene with elaborate dialogues and settings....You actually feel like you are watching a movie with the characters as real as real can be.....The next would be the message put across...which is to follow your heart always....Last but not the least the crisp editing....Editing??? A Book???...Well I have come to realize, Chetan does not write books....they are more of screenplays....coz if I made a movie out of his books...(I wish I could make a movie....) I would not change the scene placement one bit...Its a pre-edited version.....
Now onto the sad part....the perception of a call center job is completely one sided...well of course there are better jobs than a call center....But then again....a voice BPO was just the beginning for the bigger and better KPO (Knowledge process outsourcing...go look that up wikipedia...duh)...It was the same as the Indian software industry which started with fixing a '00' to a '2000' when Y2K struck.....as years went by, it climbed the value chain and are doing cutting edge stuff now.....Last but not the least....there are subtle ways of saying things and keeping points of view against a group of ppl. and these are always better than brash ways of demeaning a particular group.....the book opts for the latter on the pretext of sounding patriotic...a bit on the lines of Gadar's Sunny paaji.....All in all, it maintains the tempo set by the earlier book and is certainly a 'cantputitdowner'..(hey i actually came up with a new word)
Lets get to the book now.....'1 nite...' has been on my shelf for a couple of months now. Finally I decided to get it over with. Given the fact that Five point someone is one of my favorite books ( I agree with ppl when they say its too amateurish...but I do like independent low budget films as much as a like a Spielberg epic)...I had a lot of expectations from this baby.....and maybe I expected Shamita Shetty to be as ravishing as Shilpa Shetty...(I suck at metaphors don't I? Couldn't think of another one if not a better one)...It was not to be though......The book has a few great things about it...The best thing is the way Chetan Bhagat creates a scene with elaborate dialogues and settings....You actually feel like you are watching a movie with the characters as real as real can be.....The next would be the message put across...which is to follow your heart always....Last but not the least the crisp editing....Editing??? A Book???...Well I have come to realize, Chetan does not write books....they are more of screenplays....coz if I made a movie out of his books...(I wish I could make a movie....) I would not change the scene placement one bit...Its a pre-edited version.....
Now onto the sad part....the perception of a call center job is completely one sided...well of course there are better jobs than a call center....But then again....a voice BPO was just the beginning for the bigger and better KPO (Knowledge process outsourcing...go look that up wikipedia...duh)...It was the same as the Indian software industry which started with fixing a '00' to a '2000' when Y2K struck.....as years went by, it climbed the value chain and are doing cutting edge stuff now.....Last but not the least....there are subtle ways of saying things and keeping points of view against a group of ppl. and these are always better than brash ways of demeaning a particular group.....the book opts for the latter on the pretext of sounding patriotic...a bit on the lines of Gadar's Sunny paaji.....All in all, it maintains the tempo set by the earlier book and is certainly a 'cantputitdowner'..(hey i actually came up with a new word)
Thursday, January 04, 2007
Deja Vu meets Signs
One Confusing movie meets another and becomes the story of my day this New year....Confused? Well for starters..deja vu is something repeating itself..(also a confusing, stretch to your imaginations movie starring Denzel W.)......and Signs is the M Night Shyamalan movie stressing on the fact that everything happens for a reason.
Well over the yrs since my school days, I have had the penchant for losing things. Flashback arnd 17-18 yrs ago...my first school picnic was an auspicious start to being a loser..(don't mistake it with the noun loser...grrr)....I mean at the art of losing....I was arnd 6-7 yrs old and was packed to board the school bus with a bag filled with a bottle, tifin and the works.....well I came back with all my stuff barring me myself being in the lost and found dept....The above happenings recurred many a times over the next few yrs...of course with a few disparities.....Umbrellas was a rare commodity for me to use (more so to own)...coz I lost the umbrella of all my family members...(ok rephrased all male family members....I ain't gonna carry a red umbrella to school...I wasn't my metro-sexual self yet...that word wasn't even born then)...The usual place of occurrence was a rickshaw. As usual I 'd keep it at my side and forget it after i paid the fare and then run after the rickshaw, hoping against hope itself. This led me to completely avoid carrying an umbrella in my college days..unless it was pouring outside of course....that gave me a responsible image too...(not coz of the 'not carrying umbrella' thing...the 'not losing an umbrella' thing)...well you cant drown if u don't swim rt....or do u drown coz u don't swim?...u got what i wanna say!!! Thats the deja vu part...
Well what abt the 'Signs' part of the blog u ask?.....Well here they are
Well over the yrs since my school days, I have had the penchant for losing things. Flashback arnd 17-18 yrs ago...my first school picnic was an auspicious start to being a loser..(don't mistake it with the noun loser...grrr)....I mean at the art of losing....I was arnd 6-7 yrs old and was packed to board the school bus with a bag filled with a bottle, tifin and the works.....well I came back with all my stuff barring me myself being in the lost and found dept....The above happenings recurred many a times over the next few yrs...of course with a few disparities.....Umbrellas was a rare commodity for me to use (more so to own)...coz I lost the umbrella of all my family members...(ok rephrased all male family members....I ain't gonna carry a red umbrella to school...I wasn't my metro-sexual self yet...that word wasn't even born then)...The usual place of occurrence was a rickshaw. As usual I 'd keep it at my side and forget it after i paid the fare and then run after the rickshaw, hoping against hope itself. This led me to completely avoid carrying an umbrella in my college days..unless it was pouring outside of course....that gave me a responsible image too...(not coz of the 'not carrying umbrella' thing...the 'not losing an umbrella' thing)...well you cant drown if u don't swim rt....or do u drown coz u don't swim?...u got what i wanna say!!! Thats the deja vu part...
Well what abt the 'Signs' part of the blog u ask?.....Well here they are
- After around a yr of not having to sit in a cab...I started using em regularly...Well someday I had to lose something....strike 1
- It was the New year weekend and I saw a really good leather jacket sale....An inner voice said 'Get it dude!!!'...but for once the angel in me decided to save up.....hmmm the sale was a sign dude...don't u listen...buy one...u can keep an extra jacket???...Strike 2
- I was about to leave my apt with an inexpensive jacket...but it was cold....and I decided to take my expensive leather jacket instead....duh!!!...Strike 3
- At the airport, before getting into the cab, I decided against wearing the jacket..coz its so hot....and then when I alighted....the rain had stopped too...giving me no reason to look for my jacket.....Strike 4...You are out.....(I know its out on Strike 3 u snobbish baseball fans)
Sunday, December 31, 2006
The year that was.....
2006...what a year it has been...Its almost the first yr in my life where I really took control of every aspect of my life....well almost...Took the bull by the horns (pic attached as proof) to put it more poetically (Is that a word?). I achieved objectives which I set upon myself at the
start of the year..ok ok not all the objectives (hey is this a boring blog or what?)...I still gotta learn a guitar...and I forgot most of the stuff I did not achieve....(this is really a boring blog ain't it?)
The year started with a lot of aspirations and vulnerabilities and along the way...I developed got through many of them and developed new ones....I learnt a lot about life and about myself...Striked out a lot of members of my To do once in a lifetime list...Made a lot of good decisions...(hey the bad one's were someone else's fault u know...hehehe just kidding...)...have received some good advice and doled out some good advice...I learnt a lot about relationships and people......made some awesome friends who will remain with me for as long as they don't land up on my wrong side.....hehehe just kiddin....I lost a few friends...well not out of a fallout...but just the way I have always lost friends....by non communication...well thats on my list of vulnerabilities to plug list in 2007..
Anyways so tomorrow is New years Eve and I hope 2007 is more rocking and more fun than 2006 was....heres a bid adieu to 2006
start of the year..ok ok not all the objectives (hey is this a boring blog or what?)...I still gotta learn a guitar...and I forgot most of the stuff I did not achieve....(this is really a boring blog ain't it?)The year started with a lot of aspirations and vulnerabilities and along the way...I developed got through many of them and developed new ones....I learnt a lot about life and about myself...Striked out a lot of members of my To do once in a lifetime list...Made a lot of good decisions...(hey the bad one's were someone else's fault u know...hehehe just kidding...)...have received some good advice and doled out some good advice...I learnt a lot about relationships and people......made some awesome friends who will remain with me for as long as they don't land up on my wrong side.....hehehe just kiddin....I lost a few friends...well not out of a fallout...but just the way I have always lost friends....by non communication...well thats on my list of vulnerabilities to plug list in 2007..
Anyways so tomorrow is New years Eve and I hope 2007 is more rocking and more fun than 2006 was....heres a bid adieu to 2006
Thursday, December 14, 2006
My Next Big Blog
Hmmm....well its been a while since I created another piece of art for my millions of readers....ok let me cut the BS....I have started on my next blog several times...but haven't found the content good enough for this space.....I know what you are thinking...Isn't this blog a waste of space too.....well I agree to some extent...but I ll give my real view at the end of the blog.
I have always refrained from writing the happenings of my personal life in my blog...well...I will keep on refraining from doing that...So haven't I told you what this blog is all abt? (how many times have I written Blog in this blog...early bird prize for getting that one right is a 100$ dinner with me...be sure to get it when u come...hehehe)
Lets get to the point here. Much has changed since I last wrote here. The most notable being I have a 3rd place which I can call home...the airport. Well since I have started traveling...I end up at the airport for a better part of the day when I do travel....(No I haven't joined FedX...was thinking abt it...but then I saw Cast Away) Ever since I have known myself (which is like forever..duh), I have spent a lot of time waiting at some place or someone or something....at the train station...for friends who are always on time....for the school bus (but then I have run after a bus too) .... So when it is a flight why should it be any different?....well with the current no liquids rule....the check-in takes light years...(Am I the king of exaggeration or what?)....the worst part is taking off all ur metals at the security....no offense meant to airport security guys...they do a real good job given the number of ppl traveling. The best part is when I get onto a plane...well I wait again for a PYT ( you go figure out what a PYT is....your intelligent enough to take a guess) to get on and take the seat next to me...(word of advice..the middle seat has double the chances...)...and then wait for an excuse to strike a conversation...and then wait for the bag to turn up on the baggage claim conveyor belt....and then wait for the car in front of me to get thru the parking fee booth ASAP....and believe me ASAP= as slow as possible in this case....well that just about consumes every bit of my creative take on this subject...so last words...It is not a waste....(huh? u didn't read the 1st para did you...aah now u did...and u do not agree...too bad...write your own blog....ciao 4 now)
I have always refrained from writing the happenings of my personal life in my blog...well...I will keep on refraining from doing that...So haven't I told you what this blog is all abt? (how many times have I written Blog in this blog...early bird prize for getting that one right is a 100$ dinner with me...be sure to get it when u come...hehehe)
Lets get to the point here. Much has changed since I last wrote here. The most notable being I have a 3rd place which I can call home...the airport. Well since I have started traveling...I end up at the airport for a better part of the day when I do travel....(No I haven't joined FedX...was thinking abt it...but then I saw Cast Away) Ever since I have known myself (which is like forever..duh), I have spent a lot of time waiting at some place or someone or something....at the train station...for friends who are always on time....for the school bus (but then I have run after a bus too) .... So when it is a flight why should it be any different?....well with the current no liquids rule....the check-in takes light years...(Am I the king of exaggeration or what?)....the worst part is taking off all ur metals at the security....no offense meant to airport security guys...they do a real good job given the number of ppl traveling. The best part is when I get onto a plane...well I wait again for a PYT ( you go figure out what a PYT is....your intelligent enough to take a guess) to get on and take the seat next to me...(word of advice..the middle seat has double the chances...)...and then wait for an excuse to strike a conversation...and then wait for the bag to turn up on the baggage claim conveyor belt....and then wait for the car in front of me to get thru the parking fee booth ASAP....and believe me ASAP= as slow as possible in this case....well that just about consumes every bit of my creative take on this subject...so last words...It is not a waste....(huh? u didn't read the 1st para did you...aah now u did...and u do not agree...too bad...write your own blog....ciao 4 now)
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
First Impressions....
First impressions are last impressions....so they say! Well I gotta challenge that one. Ever wondered why people always say 'Just be Yourself'...confused as to how these two relate...Well let me explain.
I've always believed everyone has 2 sides to themselves....(well who's writing this column...I am...so if you have a problem with the everyone....go write your own)...One of these sides is the one they expose to the outside world and the other is...well the cliche'd real them. As the boundaries between being a stranger and getting to know the person converge...one comes face to face with the real person....But is the person who you meet initially...not the real person...hmm well if you really dig deep into this hypothesis, you will realize that no one is cruel enough to do a volte-face from the initial personality to the known one. Its just that sub consciously everyone develops a public image that represents the person who they want the others to see them as. Emphasizing on the above..a more exaggerated (and a real filmi) take would be a criminal leading a normal life on his off day or (more later) and then donning his work uniform at work..a la Satya...the RGV thriller. So the next time you say to someone 'Just be yourself' coz they are behaving obnoxiously irritating or nervous...maybe thats the real them...or maybe not...I am not a psychology major...go figure that one out for urself and let me know...
I've always believed everyone has 2 sides to themselves....(well who's writing this column...I am...so if you have a problem with the everyone....go write your own)...One of these sides is the one they expose to the outside world and the other is...well the cliche'd real them. As the boundaries between being a stranger and getting to know the person converge...one comes face to face with the real person....But is the person who you meet initially...not the real person...hmm well if you really dig deep into this hypothesis, you will realize that no one is cruel enough to do a volte-face from the initial personality to the known one. Its just that sub consciously everyone develops a public image that represents the person who they want the others to see them as. Emphasizing on the above..a more exaggerated (and a real filmi) take would be a criminal leading a normal life on his off day or (more later) and then donning his work uniform at work..a la Satya...the RGV thriller. So the next time you say to someone 'Just be yourself' coz they are behaving obnoxiously irritating or nervous...maybe thats the real them...or maybe not...I am not a psychology major...go figure that one out for urself and let me know...
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
What If....?
If Fate does not make you laugh....then you didnt get the joke....Ever wondered how small incidents/decisions in life impact the way life would be for the rest of your life? Well a few crazy insightful introspective moments prompted me to write a bit about this....let me look back at a few of them as they would have created a parallel universe which wud have been a lot different from the current reality...
1) A few years ago after my tenth (yeah just a few yrs...main itna buddha bhi nahi hua yaar) I was dead sure I was gonna get into commerce...well it turns out I decided to switch to Science 3 days before my result....Consequence...well I had a miserable 2 yrs in SIES junior college when I would have been having a ball in one outta Poddar or Sydenham...hmmm...well I wont write abt the good things that happened coz thats not what this blog is all about.
2) 2 yrs later after my 12th, I was again dead sure that Mumbai was gonna get another hafeez contracter in my shape and form...(for the ignorant souls..I wanted to become an architect)...but again 'meri antaratma' my inner voice gave me direction to turn towards engineering and become a martyr in the struggle to fight null pointer exceptions...(non software folks dont even try to decode that piece of work)...Well what if I hadnt had that thought....I would have been working nights...maybe become a tea addict or worse a smoker....had the opportunity to roam arnd south mumbai as I wud have been in JJ....watched lotsa of movies....hung out at places like Cafe Mondegar...(Gosh I discovered this place so late)
3) What if I had continued Athletics when I was young...well I would have been taller....lets not even go there...this would be like asking bridget jones to write abt the lack of love in her life
4) What if I had studied a bit harder or been sane enough to not make any silly mistakes in my CATs (there were multiple ...yeah)...I would have been sitting pretty in a B school (i know its hard work) and later got a start in my corporate career...
5) What if I had'nt faced financial hardships during a phase in my life...well maybe I would have been a lot more care free and gone on to become a die hard party animal...(thats a bit of an exagerration..but as long as it seems dramatic who cares...) I certainly would have been more trustful of people and maybe would have been able much milder in my ways.
6) Well lets look at a lighter one now....hmm how abt this one.....What if I had sent a red rose to my crush in college???...hmm...hmm...hmm..if not an approval that would have certainly sent my skills of expressing my love in public way up north....
7) What if I had not got into my first company and got into another one?....Well the possibilities are endless on this one...I cud have cleared CAT (goto step 4...another software eng piece of work)...I cud have been in the company of a lot more eligible bachelorrettes...(is that a word?).... I cud have shifted outta Mumbai and had an independent life early on and become a lot more street smart.
Well having said all of the above.....I think the most important thing would be that I would have written this blog with all the things that I did do as one of the points and then went on to wish for all the things that I doid accomplish due to the above not happening.....Am I confusing you????.....I believe that whatever a person is, is influenced by so many conspicuous and lot of inconspicuous things. And truly it is the journey that matters and not the destination...(Thats me trying to sound intellectual)....Summing up whatever decisions I made or whatever need not be looked at as wrong or right...coz they wouldnt have created the 'Me' writing this piece de resistance...So the best thing to do is just leave this introspective nostalgic fervor of a blog as a single moment in time and get on with life....
1) A few years ago after my tenth (yeah just a few yrs...main itna buddha bhi nahi hua yaar) I was dead sure I was gonna get into commerce...well it turns out I decided to switch to Science 3 days before my result....Consequence...well I had a miserable 2 yrs in SIES junior college when I would have been having a ball in one outta Poddar or Sydenham...hmmm...well I wont write abt the good things that happened coz thats not what this blog is all about.
2) 2 yrs later after my 12th, I was again dead sure that Mumbai was gonna get another hafeez contracter in my shape and form...(for the ignorant souls..I wanted to become an architect)...but again 'meri antaratma' my inner voice gave me direction to turn towards engineering and become a martyr in the struggle to fight null pointer exceptions...(non software folks dont even try to decode that piece of work)...Well what if I hadnt had that thought....I would have been working nights...maybe become a tea addict or worse a smoker....had the opportunity to roam arnd south mumbai as I wud have been in JJ....watched lotsa of movies....hung out at places like Cafe Mondegar...(Gosh I discovered this place so late)
3) What if I had continued Athletics when I was young...well I would have been taller....lets not even go there...this would be like asking bridget jones to write abt the lack of love in her life
4) What if I had studied a bit harder or been sane enough to not make any silly mistakes in my CATs (there were multiple ...yeah)...I would have been sitting pretty in a B school (i know its hard work) and later got a start in my corporate career...
5) What if I had'nt faced financial hardships during a phase in my life...well maybe I would have been a lot more care free and gone on to become a die hard party animal...(thats a bit of an exagerration..but as long as it seems dramatic who cares...) I certainly would have been more trustful of people and maybe would have been able much milder in my ways.
6) Well lets look at a lighter one now....hmm how abt this one.....What if I had sent a red rose to my crush in college???...hmm...hmm...hmm..if not an approval that would have certainly sent my skills of expressing my love in public way up north....
7) What if I had not got into my first company and got into another one?....Well the possibilities are endless on this one...I cud have cleared CAT (goto step 4...another software eng piece of work)...I cud have been in the company of a lot more eligible bachelorrettes...(is that a word?).... I cud have shifted outta Mumbai and had an independent life early on and become a lot more street smart.
Well having said all of the above.....I think the most important thing would be that I would have written this blog with all the things that I did do as one of the points and then went on to wish for all the things that I doid accomplish due to the above not happening.....Am I confusing you????.....I believe that whatever a person is, is influenced by so many conspicuous and lot of inconspicuous things. And truly it is the journey that matters and not the destination...(Thats me trying to sound intellectual)....Summing up whatever decisions I made or whatever need not be looked at as wrong or right...coz they wouldnt have created the 'Me' writing this piece de resistance...So the best thing to do is just leave this introspective nostalgic fervor of a blog as a single moment in time and get on with life....
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