Thanks Dude!

UK@YM> Oye call me I need to talk to you about something!
Me> Abe kya ho gaya?

UK> Meree shaadee ho gayee hai!
ME> Whaaaat???!!!

This was the dirtiest trick this sweetest guy could play on anyone, and last of all on me! (He isn't getting married, not so soon!)Anyways, I talked to him today afternoon. I don't know who I really pretend to be most of the times. But there are only a few people in this world with whom I play myself. I just talked and talked and poured everything inside me. And now I feel so good.

There was something burning inside for such a long time. It now seems to be all gone. I can't even begin to write the contribution this guy has made in my life. The first few years I hated to admit it. But as the years went past, I just couldn't do away with it.

Thanks UK.

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Have a ticket for the matinee show of Paheli. And I am preparing myself for three hours of non-stop Shahrukh Khan. Ek aadmi itna pain kaise maar sakta hai?

Food For Thought?

Apurv:"Batman is my favourite superhero."
Anurag: "And why's that?"
Apurv: "Coz. he's the only one without any supernatural powers. Simply put, he's an ordinary guy!"

Who would be my favourite? A guy who can jump from rooftops, make himself invisible, wake up the dead. OR, a normal guy doing extra-normal things while just being himself.

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Last week I made some very important decisions about my life in general and my career in particular. Still there are people who need convincing. Or is it just me?

Lots of questions. Most of them unanswered.

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Have been hearing some very cool uses of the word shit in normal everyday conversations.

Hagga Ucchhalna:: Simply talk shit.

Tat*i Phenkna:: Same as above.

Hagge Par Nanchna:: Be in a pathetic
situation.

Hagoda:: Bloody looser!

Hagan Chand: An innocent looser.

Hagga:: An extremely versatile adjective.
For eg. hagga khana, hagga kaam, etc.

Party Time?

Originally uploaded by Anurag Ruhela.

Thanx are due to Nandan for this picture!

Monday at Work!

A WARMONGER EXPLAINS WAR TO A PEACENIK
PeaceNik: Why did you say we are we invading Iraq?

WarMonger: We are invading Iraq because it is in violation of security council resolution 1441. A country cannot be allowed to violate security council resolutions.

PN: But I thought many of our allies, including Israel, were in violation of more security council resolutions than Iraq.

WM: It's not just about UN resolutions. The main point is that Iraq could have weapons of mass destruction, and the first sign of a smoking gun could well be a mushroom cloud over NY.

PN: Mushroom cloud? But I thought the weapons inspectors said Iraq had no nuclear weapons.

WM: Yes, but biological and chemical weapons are the issue.

PN: But I thought Iraq did not have any long range missiles for attacking us or our allies with such weapons.

WM: The risk is not Iraq directly attacking us, but rather terrorists networks that Iraq could sell the weapons to.

PN: But coundn't virtually any country sell chemical or biological materials? We sold quite a bit to Iraq in the eighties ourselves, didn't we?

WM: That's ancient history. Look, Saddam Hussein is an evil man that has an undeniable track record of repressing his own people since the early eighties. He gasses his enemies. Everyone agrees that he is a power-hungry lunatic murderer.

PN: We sold chemical and biological materials to a power-hungry lunatic murderer?

WM: The issue is not what we sold, but rather what Saddam did. He is the one that launched a pre-emptive first strike on Kuwait.

PN: A pre-emptive first strike does sound bad. But didn't our ambassador to Iraq, April Gillespie, know about and green-light the invasion of Kuwait?

WM: Let's deal with the present, shall we?
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[Can read the whole thing at: http://www.minimumeffort.com/nutshell.html]


BugMeNot.com
Came across this site almost accidentally. It's an extremely useful site and must be bookmarked. You can get the login/passwords of almost every imaginable paid/requiring registration site here. For example, New York Times, India-Today, Janes.com, USNews.com, etc., etc.

Sudoku
Is the new rage in timepass games, I hear. Its now published by leading dailies in India like Hindu. It is basically a japanese game which became popular there in around mid 1980s. The west caught up much later. The game can be played online at this link: http://www.puzzle.jp/letsplay/play_sudoku-e.html

A Great Weekend!

This weekend has been one of the more eventful ends to a week for me since last couple of months.

1) First of all on friday happened what I'd call the QS2's Day Out!. All the employees of Qwest Software Services(QSS) took a day out of their boring lives and visited a cool Bangalore sub-urban resort by the name of Club Cabana. It was really a treat to spend a full day with the guys with whom I spend my days and have built a nice relationship. Also it was a chance to get acquainted with the new folks. The highlight of the day were the awards given away to the brighter folks amongst us. Ranchu, Makhi, Anandilal and Tiger were among the chosen few. Congrats guys! The day ended with a little too much of leg-shaking, roti-making ;) and the required dose of antakshari on the way back.

2) Next day, saturday, an old friend of mine, Mr. Gyan announced that he will be getting married soon! This was huge, so we all had a nice get together at Naga's place. Its always great to meet with old friends, share our experiences and just have a helluva time. After watching the sun set from atop naga's terrace, I (and naga of course) couldn't resist and I stayed over for the night. We watched 3 movies in a space of 30 min on naga's brand new laptop.

3) Today, sunday, I am again all by myself. I bought The Fourth Protocol by my current favourite author Frederick Forsyth. Its touted to be one of his best by a lot of reviewers, so lets see how it turns out to be!

Okay, so after a long time I have written a My Diary type post. But I think it was after a very long time that I actually enjoyed myself. So it was definitely worth a few words.

Office

Office
Originally uploaded by Anurag Ruhela.

This was one of the snaps which was taken around some time last year. Its almost been a year at TS2! I would love to write down a lot about how much I have changed in this last year or so. But that's something for some other post.

My New Phone--Nokia 6610i!


This one had almost everything I wanted/needed:

CIF Camera
Stereo FM Radio
xHTML Browser

Also a host of features such as the highly useful LoundSpeaker, some cool personalization features, a suite of business applications. And last but not the least the reliability of Nokia.