Single /Comitted/No answer!

You meet a person suddenly from no where ...you don't know Her...but agree to talk and spent time with. Like ...why not give it try...?!!

And you realize may be you would like to meet her again....and this time you actually spent hours together ...even without realizing this that you have spent 5 hours at a stretch. You don't even know her but still want to spend the whole life with her... but also worried if you are ready to commit , its like are worth of her .....will she be happy with you...

Which "relationship status" will it be called?

I think I know :)

Boring Thoughts!!

After spending a long weekend doing nothing great ... it is really depressing. Just slept and watched online movies... Oh yes been to office as well for few hours. But I am totally bored. have not seen a movie in a cinema of more than a month now..but still I am not feeling I should be watching one... strange?

but true... I seriously need a change ,to do something different ... but what? Noooo Idea..!! Just sitting at home and sulk!!! Some time I feel like, go to Calcutta stay with parents...if unable to find a job there..open a food stall or grocery shop. Simple life (seems so ,I know its not) no peer pressure,no competition,no appraisals,need not ask for vacation..etc etc. Here you have to compete else they declare you redundant!! इनकी तो %$£&^%&^*(^.. ..Luckily today can go to Leena-Raks place and expect some good food... .. I hope my boredom will change after that... and again this bloody office tomorrow .. यार लोग काम क्यों करते हैं? Why cant they give salaries without doing work...!?!..after all these companies have billions of dollars...... but all these thoughts are baseless... you have to work and compete to earn your bread,butter,chicken,mutton, biriyani, burger,pizza, sweets, dresses, mobiles, internet, car and so on and so forth.... *phew* Life is bloody complicated!!!

रावण का ग्यान !!!

कभी कभी रावण भी बड़े पते की बात बोल जाता है !! क्या कहा? कौन रावण ? अरे रावण को नही जानते ...वही जो राम जी के हातों मारे गए थे । ... हाँ वही॥
टीवी में आने वाले सेरीअल रावण में रावण के कहा "कोई भी बात उस्से सम्बंधीत व्यक्ती से ही कहनी चाहीये ।" सही तो कहा है ... अब कीसी को भी कुछ भी कह दोगे? दुनीया के ज्यादातर झगडे इन्ही कारणों से तो हो रहा है । खैर अब आप की मर्जी जीसे जो कहना हो कहो ..मेरा क्या ? मैंने तो चेतावनी देनी थी , दे दी... बाक़ी आप जानो :)

6 Feet Dosa

Last Sunday(30 April'07) we (me ,my parents and roomies) decided to have some South Indian dinner. The obvious choice was The Chennai Dosa now what to eat.... as all of us have the habit of doing things in style ..we ordered the Biggest Dosa (6 Feet Family Dosa) along with Smallest Idlis. ...

When the waiter gets the 6 feeter to your table ..and everybody is looking at you ,feels like a celibraty ... its more about the presentation and the feel Great factor than taste ,which makes this dosa ..popular....

The Biggest Dosa!!

The Smallest Idlis

Dosa Fans!

Parents

Hungry Kya!!!

Check My blog in http://www.ifood.tv/blog/6_feet_dosa

हिंदी ब्लोग्गिंग तो बड़ा मजेदार है

अभी अभी हिंदी ब्लोग्गिंग ट्राई किया ....
सही में गूगल ने कमल कर दिया .... :)

बाक़ी तब जब लिखने को कुछ मिलेगा ...

The Namesake: RandomThoughts

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a namesake is a person or thing having the same name as another.

After a long time I went to see a movie alone… its just like all my friends were busy otherwise. But sometimes it’s not a bad idea to see movies like “The Namesake”. Actually everybody in the cinema was watching it alone. When you are abroad for a while, far from home, such stories about migrated Indians becomes more meaningful, and Namesake being about a Bengali family was easy for me to relate to.

While enjoying the Bengali dialogues in a London cinema, I felt as if I was rediscovering one of the most beautiful aspect of Indian culture the Family bond, (may be because parents are coming tomorrow ). True, we stay in the developed world get all the modern facilities; hang around in pubs clubs with friends and all, buy all branded clothes, study in reputed universities, work for the big MNCs, but still end of the day when we return home, we still crave for that Mother’s care, discussing hell lot of topics from sports to politics with Father. Most of us are so helpless that if required we cannot even fly to India on a short notice. Everybody is so alone here even with hundreds of friend around, especially the first generation moving here.

Even in the Chaos, pollution, corruption, of India there is the closeness of relationships, even the friends are often like relatives. I think it’s a unique trait in Indians that they try to find a relation with everybody, see how many aunties and uncles you had in the childhood. All the kids call you bhaiya/didi (well the trend is going now) or the most popular names for strangers Bhaisaab and behenji. It always reminds me of the pledge we were supposed to take in school “All Indians are my brothers and sisters (accept one)”

Now the word “Namesake” is again an interesting one, in Bengalis we have a trend of having two names one petname (daak naam) another Good name (bhalo naam) ,many of us have issues with our names…especially when your petname is like , guchhu, batul, bappa, piklu, tiklu etc and your goodname is like shudhangshu,shankhachakra,anudhyan,debargha and many more complicated and long names ,basically those words which were directly taken from Sanskrit and nobody uses them now, and to pronounce them correctly you have to be a Bengali aur a Sanskrit scholar . Sometime I think this is our way of saving those words from extinction, like naming a road in memorial of some great leader. The dilemma of Gogol Ganguli is faced by many… Bengali names sound too complicated to others. I remember I had tough time to make people pronounce Debarshi... I had to teach them from words like maharshi or even Arshad Varsi… and what I achieved is many versions of my name… Debasree, Deb-rishi, Debashi, DD, DDN, Debs, Deba and the most popular DEBU!!!

PDQ!?!

That day we were having that serious meeting about all messed up test systems which will affect the production blah blah ....etc.All tensed and worried , the SME (Subject Matter Expert) was suggesting solutions.. and all were trying to analyze the issue , though two third of the attendees had no idea , what the issue was... Me as usual pretending to understand everything and enjoying my "Blue Lemon Twining". Over all a boring meeting...
Suddenly the SME says " We have to do this PDQ". almost every body was shaken out of sleep and all agreed. I had no Idea what a PDQ is.. and was feeling like a fool . Suddenly this Spanish colleague of mine , gathered the courage and asked "What is PDQ?"
The answer "Pretty Damn Quick" and the room bursts into laughter.. none of them knew this

But the mood of the attendees were changed PDQ.

Holi in London with the Orkut Gang!!

Oh I was playing holi after 5-6 years ...the reason I dint have enough friends in India during the Holi (as all my friends were nomads like me)
And I enjoyed every bit of it...while starting from home I had absolutely no Idea how the day will develop..and thats the fun, if every thing is planned ...then half of the fun is gone trying to keep thing as per plan!!
Me,gaurav,Vids and Mahesh some how found those rangoli color and then "Shuru karo Holi leke Wahe Guru da naam" and thanks to the "multicorored gals" we started on the streets (woooohoooo) !! though we tried our best to reach some park to play holi ...but we couldnt...
aur kya solid attention mil raha thha ... bachhe-budhe aur jawan..sabhi kindaa impressed thhe .... had to face one N.minded uncle jee..have no Idea what he was trying to convey, and the old lady who got nostalgic about India and asked us to pray for his son , who ,even after staying in the same city, never visited her..

and then comes the "Dirty Dancing" totally colored and dancing ..to the beats of the road side DJ, people taking snaps with us , explaining what is Holi ...and justifying its nothing to do with religion etc etc ..
and during this all ... fresh layer of color being applied regularly...

then the wonderful lunch...thanks to Pearl and Amit for ordering that nice "gol gappe ka paani.."

and last but not least ...saaf suthre hone ke baad ..Arti ka surprise ...those who left early have really missed that...

SKU011.CAB solution

We all face the issue of SKU011.CAB in MS office.
Here is the solution

Go into Registry Editor (Start, Run, "regedit"). Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, Software, Microsoft, Office, 11.0, Delivery. There should be only 1 directory under Delivery, which is your DownloadCode (mine was 90000409-6000-11D3-8CFE-0150048383C9). Select that directory. On the right side of the screen, right-click on CDCache. Change the value to 0.

Solitude.....

Is Solitude for olds and saints? Don't know ...!!!! but some time I think brief Solitude helps a lot. It gives you time and space to be with your self, regain your shattered confidence,think about what all went wrong ...and right.

Short-term solitude is often valued as a time when one may work, think or rest without being disturbed. It may be desired for privacy.Long-term solitude is often seen as undesirable, causing loneliness or reclusion, resulting from inability to establish relationships. However, for some people solitude is not depressing.

For those who are known for their socializing ,partying, big friend circle... Solitude is something which doesn't come very naturally, even if its normal with him,its not acceptable for the people around. I have gone into solitude for quite sometime ,even skipped the birthday of a close friend ,upset my best friend (if I am still so!) but it was a much needed break . Well its not that I am enjoying the self imposed loneliness, I miss all my dear friends ,but I am comfortable with it.