Writeup for Srijan Sandhilya - extended version

I never knew the word limit in the writeups on BITSAA site..then i came to know it was just 500 characters but by that time i had written this writeup for my BUDDY srijan...I wanted him to read this so couldnt find any better option than to post it on my blog. If you dont know srijan(what!! you don't know srijan..) i suggest you to click on X button on the top-right corner of your screen(top left in case you are a linux user) as this post is very much classified and none of your concern.So here it goes-

Sreejan(or Srijan..i am still not clear about this thing seeing the variations on facebook and various other sources ..newys chuck it) Sandhilya aka Jhandu….I have known him since the first day on campus itself. He used to be my wingie room no. 309. I was in 304. His first roomie was a sardar who left the college to seek admission in some college in Punjab(what a loser he was to miss on befriending and learning from such a MAGNANIMOUS person) The first time we met he seemed more or less a typical bihari(though he is marwadi by origin) with that accent. Never knew this guy was no ordinary guy like most of us and that some time down the line he is going to prove his real self as an indigenous genius. And even I wasn’t wary of his mastery over sarcasm.

Following some 2 months of lonely nights, he was roomy with the alter ego of gaurav bharadwaj, saurabh bharadwaj( I was there that night to witness them make out ).His most activities include mooting current affairs, boasting of his B knowledge, exploring past facebook statuses of his friends to find somewhere to fit in his ironical comments to make the situation a complete farce, Sleeping with dogs(literally dogs), hagna(this time too literally constipation), savoring chicken(or any other form of bones and meat studded over them),framing jokes about chirag,kicking people out of his room whenever he feels like opening DC and do something nasty(and glutinous), managing fake profiles on facebook and many more harami things you can think of doing in BITS. Still no matter how much of a smug he is..he is really a buddy(he will not agree to this but he is and he knows this).This was proved when on my Birthday when he and gaurav brought an eight-pound cake . I just can’t forget the moment that day. I was so much touched by that moment of torpor and diabetic sweetness that I had never expected from both of them. There are a lot of things that could be learnt from him...most palatable being swimming. Others being modesty, smugness, sybaritism and how to abstain from girls whom you like..no matter how close she was to you or  held the same post in your high school times... just to be sure that you are not at all predictable.

Now no matter how evil or caustic he is/was towards me, i would remember him as one of the most important brick in the wall of my BITSian life. There have been times that I was irate at him because of the times he made me embarrassed and conjectured in front(or mayb on phone) of some of the BITSian gals but still the fun times and confabs we had are more than just to make me pliable of all my cantankerousness.

Hope the fun continues in 8^th semester so that he is screwed in his A8 CDCs as much as I am in my A7s(aah just kidding..hope he rocks them just like he did In all CP courses).My comprees start in 4 days still I am writing for him just coz I don’t want to lose this opportunity to banter on him( You won’t find many such opportunities in his case).

Movie(s) Review - James Bond 007

The name is Bond…James Bond!!

Hello people! I have been a bit dormant in posting since past few days(months to be succinct), well nothing vitriolic about blogging, I just have been out of business(and town) and my eyes were most of the times glued to Cricket(India Won.!! Yipee..). But here I am posting another thing that I have been upto these days and that might interest you. And this time it’s about a sleuth. A well known contumacious sleuth created by a World war II veteran ‘Ian fleming’.I have been watching all the 22 Bond movies(thanks to APOGEE 2011,BITS LAN and ‘noWonder’). Bond, as you all know, has also been associated in framing lingo in almost every other college around.. as noun and adjective “abe kya bond admi hai” or ”bondpana” or “bondpanti” or “bondgiri”. For more (official) Information about James Bond, you should pay a visit to his wiki page and for the unofficial review, you may carry on reading this post.

Well the Bond Movies are just a bunch (a little more than a Score I mean,22 when reckoned) of action(and mirth) packed movies featuring hottest actresses of the contemporary times as the bond girls and some quirky contraptions called bond gadgets. And no need to mention the splendid cars, mostly Bentley, Aston Martin and BMW loaded with cutting edge technologies and automated guns, missile launching systems and enhanced GPSes(in the latter editions).Bond works as a professional secret agent for MI6, a british agency who gives him the official license to kill anyone anywhere anytime in the whole world. As depicted in one of the movie, he was married once but his wife was killed and since then he never married again. He only woos and romances with on an average 3(taking only integral values in consideration) girls per movie (The most beautiful one I think would be the bond girl in “From Russia with love”).The other protagonists in the movie series are M(the code name of the head of MI6 and who is rather an officious person), Money Penny(the assistant who is in desperate love with James bond but has to remain satisfied with the light flirting that bond does with her) and some other characters with varying appearances.

With the enemy’s rancor to decimate nations(and sometimes the whole planet itself like in Moonraker) and bond flaunting his sleight to deal with all the trying circumstances with his sangfroid. Some movies also feature various eerie villain’s entourage like some of them have midgets (like in The man with the golden gun), some have giants(like in Moonraker) and some even have pudgy korean figures(like in Goldfinger).Most of the versions focus on the covetous bad guy’s plans to obliterate people sometimes because of personal malice and the other times for some financial or political gain. The genocide being planned by the bad guy majorly employs atomic or chemical weapons.

My favorite movie amongst all these would happen to be “Goldfinger”.The actor starring as bond being my favorite of all, Sean Connery. The eponym is coz of the main villain ‘Auric Goldfinger’ whose plans are not much sinister as is the case in most other bond movies like to annihilate scores of people or dropping an atomic bomb. He is just a Gold magnate(and smuggler) and plans to pollute radioactively the gold reserves of US so that his gold reserves gain value and he could ostensibly be the richest industrialist in US by selling gold at exorbitant prices.

One of the editions, "Octopussy" was shot in india with kabir bedi being the only Indian actor ever to star in a james bond flick. He was starred as a villain’s mate in the movie. It houses the tale of james bond trying to salvage a bomb being deployed by a belligerent terrorist ‘Khan’. Bond romances with a blonde girl(a blonde bond girl :D) named Octopussy who is a princess and lives on a secluded island where no males are allowed .She is also a friend of ‘Khan’. In a scene in this movie, Bond camouflaged himself as a crocodile (I know it’s hard to believe but he actually did) to sneak into that island. The rest of the story followed and eventually had a happy epilogue as always.

The 23^rd edition which maybe the last one, as I expect because all the novels have been adapted into movies is to be released in 2012 stars “Casino Royale” fame Daniel Craig and the movie title is “Bond 23”. I am definitely going to watch it the first day first show(possibly if i am out of this village by that time) as bond movies promise to be glutinous with no revulsion.

Hello folks!!

Congrats to all of you for the splendid success of India in the world cup 2011. And after hearing the rumors of Sachin's retirement, I can just say that i wasn't being agnostic(yes! coz after all he is a god) in my blog about the world cup(you may scroll down my blog archives and read that in case you havent). But still lets hope that he stays for a jiffy, may be just to complete his ton of centuries to etch it in his annals and also most importantly so that every Indian can boast about it.

Anyway, on some requests and recommendations, I have again compiled some eclectic statuses which i would like to share with my blog's visitors to give them another reason to smile and rejoice the feat! Enjoy Reading!! :)

           
                                                  

>First team to win world cup on homeground!

and first champion team to be led by a wicketkeeper

what an inning by DHONI!! 

India proved that they are the champions and not just because GOD plays for them!!!!!

>LAGA DEE LANKA................

>2007 early exit to 2011 winner...All things are possible!!:)

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gulli cricketers? helicopter shots?? pure luck??

shut the FUCK up!! WE are the WORLD CHAMPIONS...!!!

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wanna taste some victory??? go ask DHONI !!! he cooked it for all of us !!! and trust me..hes the best cook i have eve seen!!!!!!

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doesn't bloody care if the world is ending in 2012, because we are the CHAMPIONS.

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BCCI to give 25 lakhs to Siddhu too for scoring maximum number of words in a single world cup.

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ek sawaal... jo abhi bhi mere mann ko sataaye ... "whr the fuck is poonam ?? :P "

>  i am the dust-sorm at SHARJAH, i am the mayhem at MULTAN, i am the nightmares of the GREATEST, i am the TURBANTAR, i am the WALL, i am the DADA, i am the 10 for 75 , i am the VERY VERY SPCL 281, i am the NAT WEST FINAL, i am the 6 SIXES in an over, i am the WORLD CHAMPION !! I AM " TEAM INDIA " :)

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Gambhir, if u were a girl, i'd marry you right now!!
Sachin, for you, even the above constraint is relaxed. just say yes!!...

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Pratibha Patil has invited team India for tea. Didn't we hear that she was far better at cooking?

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Seeing so much blue color around after the world cup victory, James Cameron has decided to re-release Avatar in India.

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India!! Ist team to win all three types of world cup: 60-60, 50-50, 20-20

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"O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won!!!!"

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how come a pitch which was supposed to support spin bowling towards the end turned out to be a batting one ? seems like the Wankhede pitch report was nothing but an "April Fool's prank" on SL !!!

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Can tick off a certain point from my Wishlist now !!!

Congrats Team India

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yeh toh SACH(in) hai ki BHAGWAN hai....!

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Poonam Pandey: Hum in sri lankans ko hara ke dikhayege...
Kumar Sangakkara: chalo hum haar gaye ab dikhao...:P :P

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"i m glad that i saw god of cricket walking with the utmost cup of the cricket"
n we told the world that u can't mess around becus 'daddy 'is here...

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It's estimated that the earth shifted on it's axis by approximately 0.55 degrees in about 5 minutes when the entire population of India jumped up and down 

Hello folks!!

There has been infinite fervor throughout the nation regarding yesterday's win of India over Pakistan and thus making it to the finals. I saw a lot of interesting as well as funny facebook and Google talk statuses which i compiled and would like to share with you all so that you too can have a smile and laugh over them. If you also have came across some interesting one or crafted one of your own then share it as a comment to this post. I shall also add some if i find more...Enjoy reading... :)



>Never seen such fervor, pugnacity and patriotism....Ramayan's next edition to be issued this saturday !!(thats my original \m/)

>thank you missball-oh-fuck(misbah-ul-haq) and Yousuck khan(younis khan) for playing at your individual best......

kaash pakistani bachpan mein school gaye hote toh jaan jate ke aag mein haath nahi dete haath jaal jata hai

>....dear pakistan,we come from the land of KAMASUTRA...we have 277 ways.....u just witnessed one!!!:-)

>Interesting to see that during the awards ceremony for today's match, there was no Manmohan, no Aamir, no Ms Pandey either. Just a certain Manu Sawhney, who heads ESPN Star. He happens to be a BITSian :) (off course this 1 is the koolest :P)

>Hindustan - Tees March ka Tees Maar Khan !

>Sanjay Manjrekar: "The call is for 2, but the fielder is virat kohli... so no point"

>Quote on Sachin Tendulkar by Barack Obama: "I watch cricket, not because I understand it, but just to see who is the guy who …when he plays…the productivity of my country drops 50%."

>counter terrorists win !! \m/

>Gilani to PM: Aaj ka match mohali mein kyu rakha gaya ???
PM: Kyuki haarne ke baad tumko yehi se bus mein bitha ke lahore ke liye Ravaana kar denge :P :P

>PAK OFF!

>The Indian Cricket Team has managed wonderfully and peacefully to do what our Intelligence has failed to do- "Keep Pakistan out of Mumbai !"

Book Review - The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich

Hello friends….I am writing this blog as a personal book review of the book I recently read “The Accidental Billionaires - The Founding of Facebook A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal” by Ben Mezrich. Well the reason I chose this book was just that I had no other option. A friend of mine was supposed to give me another book from the store of Sidney Sheldon (which she hasn't given me till now, TIMESTAMP – 10:41 PM, 26th Jan 2011) and so I groped for this ebook from my LAN and read it.
I had no personal propensity about reading this book as I had already seen the movie “Social Network” which has been adapted from this book and also has been nominated for the annual Oscar Awards 2011.So I started it off with not so much of frenzy as a veritable real life drama deserves. But as the story went by, it educed and gripped in my interest as some of the aspects of the book differed from the movie like in the movie. It wasn’t depicted lucidly in the movie that who was behind the case of sean parker being busted while getting stoned but some of the excerpts of the novel clearly mention that mark wasn’t as bovine in this case as the world thinks him to be. Besides that also there are much other cases of dissidence between the book and the movie.
There is no denying the fact that mark has been an effulgent prodigy in the history of computers and networking, but he has been alleged of plagiarizing technology and ideas(though he has been disbursing all of it). The story also depicts how unkempt a person Mark is in his personal life. Anyways the thing he engendered way back in 2004 is one of the addictive things in today’s world as well as a boon to social networking which has been given a new dimension by adapting the whole of our Social Experience online. The way you get invited to events on facebook is as identical as you get invitations through mail at your door is one such instance of this assertion.
Anyways there were certain things that were peculiar about the novel which were great to discover like I never knew that originally the poke feature in facebook was designed to let someone know that you have checked out their profile and you are interested to see them. Well lots of my friends have been indiscriminately using this poke thing without even knowing that they are actually wooing at the profiles they poke. No one knows what impression they must have made of themselves over the people they have been POKING (how does it matter anyways as most people getting poked never knew its meaning :P)
Though mark zuckerberg has been constantly rebuked and reprimanded by people over the years for what he did to Eduardo and the twins (maybe sean parker too) but still the legend of this geek is worth a read.

RE: Apprehension to lose Master Blaster

Hii friends…I was apprised of a blog some guy wrote , in which he talked about why he dint want india to win this World cup 2011 just because he is afraid that Master Blaster Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar will quit the game if India wins. May be this guy thinks that sachin envisages to give a farewell tribute to Indians and that’s why sachin has been waiting for this mighty quadrennial ICC Cricket World Cup 2011. He has eulogized sachin(which surely is deserved by the cricket god) but he says that he adores sachin so much that he will even quit watching cricket if there is no sachin in it. 

I wrote this blog because I don’t really acquiesce with the opinion this guy held. Might be I find him much more clairvoyant, but I differ a bit with this chap. He is intimidated by the very thought of sachin leaving cricket. I don’t intend to write badinage to this SACHIN fanatic’s views. But in my opinion, no matter what the verdict of the world cup 2011 is, sachin will quit himself from the game.

We are aware of how briskly sachin has achieved fame and honor for himself and India. He has won several laurels for india, booked records (and even broke lots of them etched by Don Bradman and Brian Lara). Also everyone knows his avocation (virtually), endorsement of various commodities ranging from toothbrushes to sedans. No doubt he is the best sportsman india ever had (or may be will ever have). He indubitably made CRICKETism(or CRICKETianity…ahh whatver) the 5^th major religion (besides of course Hinduism,Islam,Sikhism and Christianity) and the irony about this religion being that it is exclusively followed by the former four. 

Talking about the master blaster quitting the game, he has been playing the game since a tender age to his present age of 37. When a child is supposed to learn tricycling, he held a cricket bat and vivified the gully area. He is a self made personality from scratch, born in a house of a novelist. He has been there in the good (World cup finals 2003) as well as the bad (World cup 1999) as well as the ugly (World cup 2007). No one can question his adroitness in cricket, but there is a limit to everything nature has created. He can’t do all his life, How could he. He gets atrophied like any other human on this earth. He just has been vividly waiting to give his career’s best in this world cup 2011 and that too which is being held on the holy land where he was born and raised. Referring to the annals of Cricket World, India won the world cup in ’83 on the playgrounds of england ,and now its being held on sachin's homeland itself making the World Cup ’11 even more valued to india(it hurts more if you are beat on your lands and that too in front of majority spectators being of your race). Of course, he will also get the full time devotion to his career in advertising and that will surely make up for what is lost when he will (or may) quit the game and he is surely going to be legendary in that like big B(old bones die hard). Also I anticipate another appendant restaurant christened to be Ramesh’s or may be Anjali’s with better cuisines of the worth of price paid, for a gourmand like me sometimes thinks of food only!! :P

So badly flattering time’s celerity as there is still more than a month for 19^th feb to arrive and then India hosts the most appraised laurel in the world of cricket the World Cup 2011. Let’s see what god (and the Cricket God) has in store for us.

Travel log to Chandigarh,Shimla and Kufri

Hello everyone..a very happy new year to all of you. With the inception of this new year I thought of resuming my blogging after almost an aeon.

This Blog is actually a travel log to my visit to Panchkula,Chandigarh,shimla and kufri where I spent my new years eve 2011.It all revolves around 3 protagonist states (Punjab,Haryana and HP) and 1 UT(of course chandigarh).My brother stays down in panchkula(in Haryana) and that’s where it all began.
 

On the first day of my trip, we went on to visit Chandigarh city. The city is good enough in terms of catering rustic needs of aristocratic class people like roads are tidy as well as broad enough to make your SUV gallop around in the city. The people are pretty and cooperative enough to channel you through all the ways around. For some the Guns n Roses song “Paradise city”  holds a meaning  to this city as the grass is green and the girls are pretty .Just the poor thing is that you won’t find that great food out there(as apparently Punjab side is famous for ) like lassi and sarso da sag. There are not much restaurants around,so if u are a fast food fanatic..there you go.Places like Sukhna Lake and Rock Garden are worth a visit. You can enjoy boating in sukhna lake with the scenic beauties around like the horizons along the lake and a closed windmill located at the left side center of the lake.In rock garden you will find a judicious usage of your home made garbage like pottery,broken tiles etc into small canopies and hut like structures. If you are not an atheist kind,there is a mansa mata temple in panchkula as well as a well known gurudwara and another shiv temple(famous for majestic veracious appearance of shiv ling back in the medieval ages). All 3 derive their fame for sending your wish to god. Besides that pubs and discs are also good enough to visit in the main city of chandigarh. That was the end of the first day of our trip.

At the break of the dawn on the next day, around 6.30 AM we set off to our adventurous excursion to Shimla(and not stipulated kufri).It was hell cold and I sincerely recommend you to wear gloves and nice gripping pair of shoes(which most of us dint). And ya if you can’t get along with the motions of your SUV, do take recommendations from your family doctor because the roads are too curvaceous and zig zag. The road to shimla was expected to take around 3 hours max(too paradoxical as it actually took us 5 hours). It traversed from Haryana then Punjab and finally HP. I should mention that December to mid February is the best time to visit shimla and places around as you would be able to see the snow fall. During our journey we could see snowflakes on our way 15 kms before shimla itself. Houses looked magnificent with foots of snow resting over them blushing in the daylight. Continuing with the way you can either stay and have a look around at shimla but we chose to go up further as we had anticipated more of snow and ice around at kufri(40kms from shimla). The roads were blocked half by snow and rest half by queues of cars being channeled by policemen there. But the scenic beauties of the formidable nature could be seen from inside your vehicle. Trees and forests around could be seen spattered with flakes of snow. We actually felt that this was the crux of our trip but there was more (adventure) to come. As we ascended towards kufri , all of a sudden our car skidded on a small block of ice on the road while turning and the car rotated 180 degrees and thumped a fence on the diversion which saved us from falling straight from the cliff. We had bluffed death by just a millimeter. We thanked god for not fixing our tryst with death and giving such an edge because the roads were very risky and that’s where we realized that why KUFRI isn’t that famous instead of being far better place than shimla. We then continued ascending after recovering from that sudden shock. Cars in the queue drifted very slowly. So now when our vehicle was stuck in the jam, we started our waddling gait up and getting some pics clicked with the wonderful ambience around. Now we were at that place where the real fun starts. There is a 2km path reaming with snow and you either need to hire a horse or ramble enjoying each and everything around which seemed no less than some paradise. We chose to walk to the top where we found much astounding things like the apple gardens and skiing. Those were the extreme pure apples there, which are even exported from India but we dint dare to grab any of them may be because of paucity of stamina after walking hard on the snow ridden paths. There were restaurants and dhabas on the road side there which charged ridiculously high for even a cup of Maggie. That spot had a great vista of Himalayan range which was fully covered with snow all over and seemed like a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Some people involved themselves in skiing there and some relished watching them. We preferred the former. The key thing was not to be impertinent to nature else you get castigated severely by her. By then it was almost 4 PM and there was not even a somber ray of sunlight overhead. We decided to return back then as some of the group members were exhausted and attrite. The way back was worse than way up. It was a road jam of about 2 hours till shimla and that again was followed by another road jam in shimla of 1 hour. It was darn cold our way back and lots of cars stuck on our way covered with foots of snow by the road side .We took a detour which lead us to Haryana from the outskirts of the city itself. We then stopped by a restaurant on our way home to have our supper. Finally the day ended with having some scotch to escape the austere climate.