how the 'one' thinks

Blogging from my phone!!!

2010-09-30T10:29:00.000-07:00

No particular reason to put this post in. Just playing around with my phone. A few firsts for me over here. This is the first time I am writing a post from my phone. This is the first time I have thought of posting from my phone. It is also the first time that I am typing out something significant on a virtual keyboard. Not exactly thinking over here, just a session of virtual scribbling, whilst listening to the only English music station amongst all the available channels on chennai Fm. Must also mention the amazing writing tool that I have with me.., just need to slide my fingers over the letters.. And lo! The words magically appear! Such fun! And not to mention the fact that I am also surfing on this very phone.. No wonder my laptop is feeling insecure! Do all my browsing on this when I am home, and play games on my console. And to think there was a point of time when I ran the risk of morphing with my laptop! How things change! And at what pace!!

Maybe someday I won't even need this phone.. Maybe like google says everything will be in the " cloud" and all I will need is a chip to log in with, activated with a thought command of course,and then bring out a virtual reality keyboard to carry out my work. Or maybe as scientists in Sweden have predicted, by 2014 I will be using a variable size screen, when the only option to magnify will not only be pulling the image apart with your fingers, but increasing the size of the screen itself! the possibilities, as they say, are practically endless.
Well time for me to end. Maybe I will find something else in my phone which will prompt me to write again.. Till then I can only marvel at the way things are changing, man pushing boundaries and astounding himself in the process..

THE BEST THAT I HAVE TASTED : PART 1

2010-05-20T03:07:00.000-07:00

As usual the time period between two posts is very long. So, I start writing again,promising myself that this time this will not be the case anymore.

As you must have already guessed by the title of the post I intend to talk about food, and since you can also see " Part 1" written alongside, there will be more stuff on similar lines.Anyone who knows me even remotely knows that I love to eat. I am not one of those who are very adventurous and will try out anything and everything that is served in front of them.I like to keep it safe and eat stuff that at least has something which I have tasted in the past or have some sort of confidence in.That ways I am always in a position to compare what I have eaten to some previous gastronomical experience of the same kind.The Best that I Have Tasted series will have my thoughts on what I think is the tastiest of that particular kind of dish. Although I am a non-vegetarian, I do have some all-time vegetarian favourites, so I think we should have an equitable distribution between the categories and to prove my case I will start with an all time favourite of a lot of people , The Samosa.

Now as most of us know, the Samosa is a deep fried, triangular patty shell which has a savory filling which might consist of potatoes, peas, onions , cottage cheese, chicken or in some cases even ground beef. Needless to say, for people who like eating fried food and who are okay with stuff dripping with oil, the aforementioned concept can only mean taste heaven. And the best part it is made well at quite a few places. So, the way it is cooked and the ingredients put vary from place to place. However, there is one particular place which makes it better than anywhere else.

It is a small shack , located in the heart of Heavy Engineering Corporation township Ranchi. For quite some time now, HEC has been declared a failed proposition, making huge losses consistently, outdated production techniques which have no hope of being revamped and absolutely no development in infrastructure. The general level of dilapidation lends a very subtle undertone of gloom to your mood when you get there. All in all, not a very inviting place to go to. However, right in front of the community hall Sector 2, there is one place which always has some bustle around it, " Devanti Chat" and it makes the best samosas I have ever tasted and I am pretty confident that once you try that out , you will agree as well.

The first time I ever heard about it was in class Vll , when a few of my friends who used to stay in HEC said that there was this new place which makes better samosa than any other they have eaten before. Curious, I persuaded my Dad to come with me and buy some. It took some pestering , but finally managed to get him there. He bought me two and then….
I couldn't have agreed with my friends more!! That was actually the tastiest samosa that I had ever eaten..or should I rephrase it and say that it is the best that I HAVE ever eaten. The patty is fried just right, and the filling inside is an amazing blend of mashed potatoes and spices, served with red "chutney", it is a kaleidoscope of tastes as soon as you put it in your mouth. And it just doesn't end there, if you want them to make it even better, they will serve it with chhola and onions, thus transforming it into an awesome snack. And I am surely not the only one who has had this feeling after tasting this delectable bit of fried heaven, people form traditional "samosa strongholds" like Allahabad and Banaras have also been astounded by the brilliance of Devanti. I have been a regular there since Class VII, and the best part is that the taste has remained the same. Many a times we see cases where eateries start to do really well and then they decide to expand and ruin everything. Fortunately that has not been the case and it still is the same place in front of the community hall serving unbelievable stuff. At times, the entire lot is finished off in less than an hour. This consistent excellence has also had a positive impact on the competition as they have had to improve their standards just to stay in contention. Ah!! What a sublime example of "Culinary Economics"!!

So , if you ever want to go to Ranchi , and if you are even remotely interested in eating fried stuff, Devanti Chat , Sector 2 HEC is the place to go. One bite of that majestic creation and I am sure you will keep coming back!! All this is making me hungry, where' my food??

NOSTALGIA..

2009-09-05T13:32:00.000-07:00

"Here I am,

Lost in the light of the moon,

That comes through my window.."

Hmmm, it can start at any given place at any given time. This time it was 12:30 in the night , in a noisy, uncomfortable auto rickshaw, trundling across the roads of Delhi. I seldom listen to the radio but,somehow, today I went out with my mobile phone headset rather than my I-pod. The very primitive suspension had done nothing to quell the perennial sense of irritation that I am clouded with and the Bhangra numbers on the local radio stations were not helping at all. God these radio stations!! Sometimes it feels as if they use a generator to set the beats on the songs they remix!! Abysmal!! So,helpless, I just kept on shifting through the stations and then,suddenly ,the lines wriiten on top of this post found me.

Nostalgia: A longing for the past, often in idealised form. In common, less clinical usage, nostalgia includes a general interest in past eras and their personalities and events, especially the "good old days".

Year :2006, Place: a very small room in a very hot hostel in Munirka. INXS's Afterglow was shared by a few inmates and struck a chord almost instantaneously. The song has a very disctinct Indian feel with its English wordings. It starts on a very sedate note but picks up in the later stages, reaching a stage where you can't help rising up with the song,wondering at the beautiful transition from slow Indian percussions to the rising tide of western orchestra. A few days later, it was on everyone's lips, and was being sung by almost everyone,while taking baths, while shaving , even while washing clothes!!

Year : 2007, Place: A-31 Laxman Singh Complex, Munirka. Tanmay Mukherjee's laptop was playing the very same song, and Venkat Guru remarked that this was almost like our anthem,something we might sing when we meet 20 years down the line. A few months later, we were travelling in a white Alto, through the same streets of Delhi, enjoying the winter , the night, and this very song was our companion. This is a great song, but when played in the middle of the night , it gets a completely different feel to it altogether. Its as if this song was created to do just one thing, touch your soul in the dark.

Cut to the present, and the very same autorickshaw ride. " Touch me and I will follow..."

At that moment,what was till then getting to become a turntable weilding Hades' version of the underworld,suddenly brightened up. The cushion of recollection of those blissful times gave me the comfort I required. The song was back on my lips and I could almost visualize my friends singing with me. The roads were once again pretty,bright and promised a smooth journey, without letting me worry about the distance ahead. All those familiar faces, the joy of just being there...I know at times nostalgia can be a seductive liar, but right now it was smoothing out the rough edges , through a song which was so close to my heart. It was one magical moment, when music, memory and my friends had come together and lifted the gloom around me. Yes, there was an "afterglow" of those magical moments spent together, which sadly will never ever come back, but I guess in not coming back they have attained this exalted status, one which can be treasured for days to come.

" Bathed in blue,

The walls of my memory divides,
The thorns from the roses.
It's you who is closest"

"It was a beautiful day..."

2009-01-12T10:12:00.000-08:00

Hi there,

It has been a long long time and it is almost nostalgic getting back to this blog. I guess staying alone makes you go back to those things which you fail to appreciate otherwise. I have been wanting to write on this for quite some time and finally got myself to do it. This is about Goa and Anindya and I went to Chapora Fort, which is also called the 'Dil Chahta Hai' fort.

" The heart is a bloom,

Shoots up through the stony ground..."

These lines are form U2's immortal song, 'The Beautiful Day' and what a day it was!! Walk up the slopes,towards the remnants of the fort and you see the sea extend till the horizon. The lush greenery around made the steep slope inviting and you forget how tired you are. You just stride towards the gate,absorbing the ethereal beauty around you, wondering at the might of the nature and its forces.
You reach the gate, you get inside and suddenly the word 'ruin' no longer remains an analogy of destruction. The elements have worked on man's creation like a sculptor and created an object which only keeps on improving with time.
You start moving towards the battlements and you have one of the most beautiful horizons greeting you. Right in front of you lies the infinite sea,with the sun playing hide and seek with the clouds. On the right side a river flowed towards the multitude,meeting it in a congregation of waves, symmetrically etched out on the blue-grey surface. All this was accompanied by the howl of winds blowing high and mighty. It was almost as if nature was telling man," look, I can be the conductor and the painter at the same time!" Sitting on the battlements, spellbound by the magnificence around, you just get to realise how insignificant you are in the scheme of the cosmos. Man cribs, complains and struggles through life when all around him is the cogency of his father, provided to relieve him of all this. That day, two friends in the midst of a wonderful spectacle came very close to realizing this.

"What you don't have you don't need it now

What you don't know you can feel it somehow

What you don't have you don't need it now

Don't need it now

Was a beautiful day "

Encore!! The Start Of A New Trimester....

2007-12-30T09:19:00.000-08:00

"MBA is a very tough course!" They said, " The curriculum is really rigorous! It aides you in your overall personality development." They said.... They absolutely don't know what they are talking about.
Hmmm, you do have to study a lot ( supposedly!!) and cover a lot of subjects, without ever getting to know what they are really about. And yes, the two banes of any MBA's life ....presentation and the division of the curricula into semesters, trimesters,and a whole lot of similar 'sters'( cheapsters!!!). These two do seem to have a very quaint relationship in their sequence of periodic occurrence.
MBA started with presentations, it was followed by the beginning of the 1st trimester, which was adorned by similar performances, given in multitudes by the faculty and when they were bored of doing their duty they let us take the stage( why??!!!!) . Then a pattern emerged which became all too familiar...the age of the trimester is directly proportional to the intensity of presentations. And yes...it ends with another overture, the big one...The end term presentation!!!! Woah!!! Sounds big, doesn't it ?
Now, when we are at the verge of ending our regimen we have been faced with another. All through the course, when we would start off at the initiation of each trimester, we would look at the subjects of our liking with enthusiasm, hoping to do big things, with the subject and for ourselves. But everything would be drowned in trying to deal with the pressure of 'coping with and managing change.' One subject has followed another and all people like us have done is scrape through. So, is the final trimester supposed to be any different , i guess not. The start is the same , enthusiasm for subjects which offer some hope for the students to prove themselves. However, going by history this is not going to happen.. The subjects and the classes will start to meander and people will lose any semblance of interest. Result: The same boring trimester which will end with same ritual, yup, presentations.
Two years of MBA and we have learnt to use big words, as i shall do right now. We do tend to look for "value addition", but even the day before we had a debate whether we are better off than what we were 2 years ago. Well maybe, the master plan has worked, maybe they have managed to train us to take on the world without us even realizing it.Hmmm, man has certainly started playing god...and before i have any more pangs of irritation and guilt on my decision to become an MBA , let me welcome another Trimester with open arms and hope that we do get to " learn" something before we leave.

The " M" Factor ....Once Again..

2007-12-01T18:37:00.000-08:00

The year, 1997...the movie, Dil To Paagal Hai, the lady...Madhuri Dixit. Although the jury is still out on the movie and how good it was , but i couldn't care less...whilst watching that movie all i could see,hear and sense was the coruscating beauty of Madhuri Dixit. The diva had once again shown that she could give to the big screen what many others in the field could just dream of doing.
Cut to 1999, my last year in school and as is mostly the case we were up to filling up "slam books" for our fellow students and each one of them would invariably have that column which said" you love....?" and i could fill in only one name, Madhuri Dixit. While i wrote this line , i clearly remember, saying her name aloud and smiling to myself.

Cut to 2007, my last year in a b-school, and suddenly there is a movie starring Madhuri again.."Aaja Nachle!!" The ratings come out ,"its an average" scream the tabloids...my friends ask "Why then would you want to go for the movie ?" "Ratings be damned! I will go for Madhuri" , and thank god I did.
I don't want this to read like a movie review, the movie is ok, nothing much to write home about , a few good songs , a nice musical if you are interested in that genre. Honestly , all i was interested in was Madam M. All through the movie i would try and find out where she was different, where was she the same, had she become more or less beautiful? Had she slowed down as a dancer, so on and so forth.
Well to start of , she has thinned down a lot compared to her last movie, which was nice...yes, she was looking much older. For the first time you could notice that the dancers around her were dancing as well, if not better than, what she was doing.But we don't love Madhuri only for her moves , her expressions were still there and what expressions!! No one could even dream of such expressions while performing such complicated dance moves , the body and face in perfect symmetry, her visage like the sky which she was painting with a rainbow of feelings. There has never been any question about her acting abilities, that was always there, and it is safe to say that it has matured with age, and moreover for a actor of her capabilities this movie was not a challenge at all. Plus , she has still her million dollar smile going, the one which had a million hearts fluttering every time it lit up her face.
And as the movie continued I realized one thing , I am still in love with the lady , she might grow older , turn 80 ... but as long as she continues to smile like that .....sigh!! Someone said that the best deed that you can do is to make someone smile , Madhuri you can do that to millions.Please keep coming back.

Painting The Town Red!!!!

2007-10-24T11:28:00.000-07:00

Ok, Now, this is some news ...Kimi , World Champion!! Hard to believe ,yes i know , but who the hell cares...Yahoo!!! I have seldom prayed like the way i prayed that day. Last few laps , egging on the Scarlet Ferrari to go ahead and at the same time waiting agonizingly to see whether no other car in front of Lewis Hamilton met with any misfortune. And finally it happend, Raikkonen became the world champion.
I never thought that i would be doing this , but here i am , I am colouring my Blog in the colours of the Ferrari Livery, " Steady In Scarlet" ( Inspiration from Sherlock Holmes' Study in Scarlet....Ok, Bad Joke).
The fact of the matter is Raikkonen has been my favourite racer for years now , and finally he has won the championship. He came close twice , but this year he has finally done that , and changing the colours of my blog is just a small way of showing my appreciation.
Thank you Kimi , thank you so much , you have given all your fans so much to smile about.

A-31/ 32

2007-09-03T09:15:00.000-07:00

Just a small example of a highly intellectually stimulating conversation...
(This is a translation, so please forgive me if it sounds a little crude)
Anindya," On hearing that my ass burst into four!!!!"
Sam," Only 4.....Na!na!! 64"
Anindya," That would mean 64 bums!"
Tanmay," Nai, how could that mean 64..that would be 32..bums are dicotyledonous you see!!"
Anindya," I don't get the logic."
And finally, divine realisation...
Tanmay," We are live time wastes.."

Hmmm...now that i have given a little excerpt of what goes on let me tell you what this is all about. The aforementioned names are three of the four members of flat nos. A-31/32...four guys who are very different, and i am sure at first sight would have hated to stay with each other,but somehow have managed to come together and even more surprisingly managed to stay ( rather peacefully) for more than 7 months together.

Venkatsubramaniam Guru Iyer is the other member of the Fab Four ( That makes us sound cool!) and these days the only thing that is left in his wardrobe is a T-shirt which says "God is Placements" . Tanmay loses at Fifa to Single Reddy every Single time, but he still keeps on practicing( the last time they played the score was 14-0). Anindya is busy inviting red ants for dinner, and me...oh hell!! i have still not washed the clothes that i soaked 5 days back..i guess they can wait for a day or two.

I know this is starting to sound very tacky...but somehow it is this madness which keeps us together. We can talk a lot , but we don't talk when we are together,blame those infernal laptops. But when we are without them( the laptops) we are having a ball...Its a strange relationship that we have , we are great friends, and it shows when we are outside, moving about together. But, at home, we don't talk at all( laptops again). And on those rare occasions when we do get down to chat, wow!! The topics and the points of view...Uff!! Aristotle and Plato would love to be a part of the kinds of discussions we have.

Philosophy, History, Science, Arts...we have thrashed them threadbare, and i am sure come up with some very interesting theories as well. Cars,girls and chicken have all been named in the same breath and sometimes ranked with the same attributes in mind. It is an eclectic mix of cross cultural thoughts combined with out -of -the -box thinking , and the best part is ..all of it is fruitless. Sometimes i feel as if we are a throwback to the generation when adda was in vogue, but we have managed to twist it and make it wackier..

Call us anything you will, arrogant , anti-socials, weird , or plain mad..but you can't deny that we are interesting to the boot. Capable of stunning everybody on one day ...and behaving like rubbish on the other. The enigma of A-31/32 continues, continues to confound even me ...
hope that we are like this forever... i love to see Venky scowl!!!

This Is The Life!!!!

2007-06-18T21:19:00.000-07:00

Here i go again. The summers have ended, college has more or less started and most of us have returned. Today, I only talk about us. I returned on the 15th and Ani was already here. When i entered my room, the scene that greeted me was one of complete chaos. The room was in shambles, however the nice thing was that Ani had manged to buy a cooler, and that was more than enough to take away the pains of the dirty room. Then, another issue...internet. The connection expired the same day , so Ani had to dish out money again, and yes we got back to our prime connection.The next important job at hand , downloading the latest flick!!!
The next couple pf days were spent in complete indulgence, sleeping, eating( most of the times without brushing !!) and giving a damn to room and cleanliness. Ummm, the charms of bachelor life.Sigh! Then the others came, Venky came down on the 17th morning and Tanmay followed a couple of hours later. War was about to start.
What followed after that was one of the most ferocious attacks on dirt and grime that you could see. The rooms were a flurry of activities for the next few hours, cleaning and changing the layouts,re-installing the cooler, moving the beddings to the other room. The master plan was to move all the beds to the same room , so that we could all enjoy the joys of the cooler. And after lots of trials and tribulations we succeeded. There it was , the room in all its glory , with four beds lined side by side and the A.C( air cooler) going at full blast. Ahh....And how could i forget the laptops.
Feels really nice, all of us back together. This might just be the last year of our lives as students, but living together, facing the roller-coaster that rears up one day and falls away the other, tells us that we have at least done one thing successfully, establish relationships that last. Tanmay once touched us all by saying ," I miss my family !" and then said that the family was us.Guess that sums everything magnificently.

Problem With the last post

2007-04-25T17:10:00.000-07:00

hi there , i guess there is problem with the last post . there is no option to post your comments . you can use this post's comment to post comment for the last one .

OK!! Online Again...

2007-04-25T06:37:00.000-07:00

Well I am writing down this thing , because I just feel happy and I want this joy to reach out far and wide ….we are ONLINE AGAIN!! HA HA !! This is a nice nice feeling to have!!

Well , the story goes like this , we are four of us and we share a flat. We are net addicts (like most of us are) and there hardly used to be a day when we were not online. However , after summers started in our B-School , we had to disperse and thus let go of our internet connection . Well, after we came back , we had to wait a long time to take this connection and as you know the way things happen over here , we were connected only after my flat mate had to threaten the service providers, ( love you Venky!!) .

AHHH!! Can’t even begin to tell you how it feels. Its almost like getting that organ back , without which you are absolutely disconnected. Hey, now I know what sixth sense means. I hope people are able to make head or tail of what I am trying to say , and even if they are not …what the heck!!! As I said in the beginning I am happy and I want to write.( By the way , i hope Tanmay reads this!)

Take care everybody and once again… HAPPY SURFING!!!

P.S( This is venkat my flat mate )

Just Listen !!

2007-01-06T05:08:00.000-08:00

Hey , there. I know that the title of the post sounds a little weird , but the truth is that I could not express what I wanted to say with the limited vocabulary that i posses. Well let me get down to business. This article is about music. Not exactly music but a musician , one who has fascinated me with the world he has created in my mind every time his tunes have hit my eardrums . Well ,the person I am talking about is none other than the one and only A.R.Rehman.
This New Year's eve I had nothing much to do , so i decided to celebrate my new year in front of the T.V. Expecting something new I kept on surfing the channels with hope , but in vain . The stuff dished on T.V was the same hackneyed fare. Same stars, same dance sequences , the hosts all looking the same ( they really don't want you to have a nice start to the new year these days) until i chanced upon a Channel showing Rehman live in concert. Needless to say the surfing stopped then and there.
It was classic Rehman! The songs, timeless as they are , created a different aura altogether. The show had everything , melodies , beats, tune , even Shivamani!! It brought back a flow of memories and impressions that Rehman and his music have created on my mind through the years.
It all started when my uncle one day gave me the soundtrack of Roja . I was very young then , i guess 7-8 years old , but even then songs like Dil Hai Chhota Sa, Rukmani Rukamani, etc, caught my fancy . After that i made a conscious effort to follow each and every movie that Rehman would compose music for . Most of his songs then ,where composed in some South Indian language and when dubbed in Hindi the lyrics sounded really corny . It was with Rangeela that he came out with his first Hindi album and the results were startling. People in North India came to realize ,the genius of the man . Many other albums followed and a special mention has to made about the epic non-film album with which he came out , 'Vande Mataram'. The album was something which single handedly relieved people of the mediocrity that the Indian Pop Music scene came to be associated with .
Then the best part ,1997. The year that he came out with the music for Dil Se. The music for Dil Se rocked the world . It was mindblowing in the true sense of the word. It brought him international recognition , fame , and a guaranteed lifelong fan. I remember telling my cousin that I love " Chaiyya Chaiyya" and i am sure that it was the first time I had ever said so about a song. In my opinion that is Rehman's best work till date ( there are many who think that Taal is better, but we are entitled to our opinion, aren't we?) .Rehman is renowned for the way he combines percussions with melody and he has never bettered Dil Se in this aspect.
A.R.Rehman has given us unlimited joy, smiles, made us feel patriotic , pumped adrenalin into us ( may be not all of us , but sure as hell he has done that to me). And if anyone still doubts the magic that only this man can create , ask any Rehman enthusiast for a copy and....JUST LISTEN!!

The Magician

2006-11-10T19:52:00.000-08:00

What is magic , is it the ablility to do what most of us cannot even think of doing , or is it the ability to control the uncontrolables ? Whatever it is ,it does have a lasting effect on us and it can and does spell bind as long as it lasts . Someone who has control over magic is known as the magician . Today i would like to talk about a differnt sort of magician . His name is Roger Federer.
Now the question arises why Federer? He is just a tennis player , albeit the world no. 1. Still, why call him a magician. Well, maybe i am a very big fan and cannot see beyond him in the tennis circuit, but people who have seen him play and people who understand tennis( and when i say people who understand tennis , i mean people like John Mc Enroe, Ivan Lendl) will tell you that there is something about him which differentiates him from every other player on the planet.

The headlines in the paper before the final of the Australian Open ( a match in which the red hot Marcus Baghdatis was his opponent) said it all . The headline went , " The Sorcerer And The Apprentice" . This is just one of the numerous instances in which people seem to agree with the fact that you should consider yourself lucky that you were born in the era in which you can see this person live , breath and obviously, play. ( Ivan Lendl once said that Roger hits shots that have never been seen before). People say , that Lleyton Hewitt is a good hustler , Rafael Nadal will run after each and every ball and make you play that extra shot, but they forget to mention that Federer glides on the court. Its his effortlessness which is just breathless. He has brought back something to tennis which was lost in the era of fast courts and high-tech racquets , art . Each and every shot he plays , the backhand crosscourt or the forhand down the line or the volley , have a touch of that artist in him who is hidden somewhere when he is not on the court . But the court is his canvass , the racquet his brush and his shots are the strokes of a master at work , painting the most eye-soothing picture . The opponent can only afford to be awestruck by the aristry of the creator and the marvel that his creation is .
Federer is an artist , a surgeon who dissects his opponents on the court . He has power , skill , speed , accuracy, touch , grace, in short he is exactly what I mentioned earlier a MAGICIAN!!!! Come lets be spellbound.

Fernando Alonso:The Lucky One

2006-10-11T11:38:00.000-07:00

So, the so called " Spanish Donkey" is on the verge of winning his second Formula 1 championship ! Well as we all know the world salutes the people who win , but come on ! Fernando Alonso ? We should all confer him a new title - 'the luckiest champion ever' !!. The guy always seems to start the season in the best car available and takes a lead in the championship ,which is huge to look at intially. Last year he had a lead of over 40 points over Kimi , and this year he was almost 30 points ahead of Michael , but even then people seem to get close to him . And when they get close to him he starts to drive like ... well a "donkey". What a joke ! And then the guy has the cheek to say things like he was never under presure from his rivals ?! Last year in the second half of the season , when McLaren and Kimi were all over him , he was nowhere to be seen . It was almost like the championship was decided by the reliability of the McLarens . This year Michael Schumacher almost took over the reigns from the "donkey" and then came to the fore the idiot's luck .Schumacher was leading the race and then he has the first engine failure in god knows how many years. What crap!

The only thing that has come of him becoming the champ is that the sales of Reanult have gone up in Spain , and even that is not as good as it looks .BBC top gear did a survey and 15 of the worst 20 cars were French and 7 of them were Renaults. ha ha !!

I am aMclaren fan , but this bullock cart puller is going to rob me of that joy as well . He is getting into Mclaren the next year ,[ well the injustice continues]. I despise him so much that i wont even be able to pitch for my favourite team any more . Just the thought of seeing him in silver .. yuck!! There was a survey recently to decide who is the most popular racing driver in Formula 1 and surprise surprise !! he was ranked even below Jenson Button. Serves him right! He has so much cheek , when this season started and he had the fastest ,the best handling car in the pack , he would qualify the fastest , after his team informed him that he was on pole , he would just quip,"The Usual." Imagine ?!! Why , Why him ? Can't we have anyone else? Poor Kimi , he is the most talented driver in the pack , he just does not have any luck going for him and neither does he have the machine . He showed all of us what he can do when he has the car to support him , [incidentally he was voted the second most popular driver after Michael in the survey.]. Well he is getting into Ferrari next year , as Michael's repalcement. Finally he has come into a team that can provide him with a car that handle his style of racing - that is all out aggressiveness. Well, I will pray for Kimi and his team so that Formula 1 is rid of this menace getting to be the champion . It is a known fact that , if Kimi is provided with the package he is going to win the championship . Well , go for it Kimi!Kick the Spaniard's ass . Get us some retribution , we love this sport and if he keeps on winning it is gonna lose its charm. Please help us out.

Internet : Manna From Heaven ??

2006-10-08T07:02:00.000-07:00

Well this is a rather weird topic to be my first blog on the net , but something has happened in the past couple of days that has almost forced me to make this my first post.Well i am a student at Lal Bahdur Shastri Institute of Managment, and being an outsider { i don't belong to delhi} i stay at the hostel . Well, the big news is that finally our hostel has been wi-fied and this has created an absolute storm in the lives of students living in this hostel . It is almost as if they had been waiting for something like this to come - to their rescue. Well, its not their fault actually , it is a great help to have something like this at hand when you are a part of something as demanding as an MBA course . However, the question arises on the "constructive" usage of the net. Well that is debatable .
People who, even a couple of days back would have been studying all night , are awake even now - surfing . There is a wave of requests for help/assistance to my room mate , (who incidentally is an engineer), to format laptops to the required ip configuration. My roomy is having a blast as well , has been downloading God knows what , for the past 36 hours . I don't think that he has switched his laptop off. All my friends are busy doing something or the other on the net - chatting , downloading , "orkuting", so on and so forth. Fooh!! this internet really is something. It can capture audience like few other can. Well and one more thing , i am enjoying the net as well, sitting on my bed typing away like anything. Well more on this the next time , time i got busy with some surfing.
HAPPY SURFING!!!