Joie de Vivre: May 2011

Sunday, May 29, 2011

Diwali ki woh raat

My first Diwali away from home ....

दिवाली की वोह रात

अपनो से दूर सब को याद कर लेता हूँ |

बहन को पटाखौॅ से डरा लेता हूँ |

उसके साथ चुप के मिठाई खा लेता हूँ |

दादा दादी से पैसे ले लेता हूँ |
उनके आशीर्वाद से सो वर्ष जी लेता हूँ |

बुआ के साथ हरयाणवी बोल लेता हूँ |

उसके साथ अपने लिए लड़की ढूंड लेता हूँ |

मामा के सीर पे चढ़ लेता हूँ |

उनकी सुपारी छुपा लेता हूँ |

दोस्तोँ के साथ घूम लेता हूँ |

सारे किस्से याद कर लेता हूँ |

यादोँ की लड़ियो से यह सूनी दिवाली की रात बरात कर लेता हूँ |

पल पल की इन यादोँ से एक पल और जी लेता हूँ |

Monday, May 23, 2011

Almost a perfect day

What is a perfect day ? Start the day early, get your timetable right, have good food and have fun and sleep twice-thrice during the day just to catch up on the sleep for the next day.

So this Sunday started quite well. As I woke up I talked to a very dear friend, then with my bua. Talking to her is always fun, gossip about family and her advice to find a girl for myself. As she doesn't want to do the matchmaking thing for me. Did my routine exercises after that, meditated, had cereal and got to work. As I was trying to complete my optimization homework (yes I still have to do homework), i was pondering on the fact why the hell am I even doing courses. I should concentrate on a finding a supervisor, write ludicrous research interest documents to express my love for the research I want to do and I should "fill gaps in my knowledge". Ohhh this the filling the gaps part which I am doing. After realizing that what I was taking as artificial variables were in fact slack variables, pk comes into the room and suggests we start cooking lunch.

Azhu had his eyes on pk and vj, making sure that these guys didn't put to much masala into the rajma and fried-leftover-spaghetti. So after 2 hours of cooking we were having rice, spaghetti, rajma, channa masala and methi ke parantha. Come to think of it we are five nerdy bachelors whose life revolves around discussions of deathnote, movies, maths and have really awesome food everyday - \m/. FYI if some wants to cook some amazing methi paranthas click here. Sorry Manjula aunty but some how nani's indian cooking website is better. As we started watching firefly for the 3rd time, we discussed if we should leave food for anky who will be arriving soon from Kaiserslautern. Well hunger seems to overpower goodwill and reason.

Feeling full, I got back to work. I realized my chuddie-buddy/bhai Chintu had asked me to convert some videos to 3gp for his nokia 5130 phones and send it to him. I had previously tried arista transcoder (the only ubuntu interface for 3gp conversion for a 64 bit machine) which had given me 3gp videos without the audio and mp4 videos without the video ..weird ...... Finally azhu's new 32 bit windows 7 installation came in handy...... mobile media converter works awesomely (unfortunately the same is not available for 64 bit ubuntu, somebody needs to file a bug). As I again got back to work, sitting on my grandpa chair I was over-encumbered by food induced sleep and went to bed to catch on sleep for the next day. During the sleep, I remember pk entering my room talking about extremely cheap o2 connection and then anky coming back with his honeybee shades on. 2 hours later I found myself in the kitchen next to azhu who was cooking dal in a pressure cooker and frying the leftover rice (I dont remember how I got there may be sleep walked into the kitchen). In that inebriated state, I saw azhu prepare food and keep it in pk's room. My hunger seemed to have comeback. As azhu went to call vj from his room, I tried to control my hunger.

As I moved towards the pressure cooker to open it against azhu's advice, i had flashes from my childhood --- I was 7 and my ma was offering me my favourite chocolates but i refused and she kept them in the cupboard. Then suddenly the hunger over-encumbered me and I was standing on a stool trying to pull out the chocolates from the cupboard. Whoosh went my stool and my head made contact with the floor. Blood started oozing from my head. My chillax little sister (3 years then) came in with a white towel and gave me the towel. As I applied the towel on my head, my sis shouted "ma mitu bhaiya ka sir phat gaya jab woh chocolate le rahe the app ki cupboard se" our eyes met, a grin appeared on her face.... (some how kids also get dark humor).

I came out of it, as I inched closer to pressure cooker, I suddenly remembered how recently while trying to get the apartments keys duplicated at shop near McD-- I was overpowered by thoughts to have that fresh-lettuce-tomatoes-cheese-aloo-patty-veggie burger and gave the keys at the shop and hurried to McD. In the hurry to have that burger I had forgotten to ask the guy how much would it take to get the keys duplicated. Well I had the burger and returned to shop only to burn a hole in my pocket for 39 euros for 3 keys..... wtf ...... were these thoughts pointing at something, was hunger playing with my good sense to make good decisions.

Ahh what a load of crap, I went ahead and tried to open the pressure cooker. It wasn't going to open easily but i was determined to satiate my hunger, a few cuss words later I was about to open and then pressure cooker decided to help me..... bam went the cover of the cooker to the roof ...... and hot dal on my face and everywhere except in my stomach. I rushed to basin only to open hot water and wash my face with it. ufff it was like lava was eating away my flesh. (AHHHHHHH).

The rest of the night went by with azhu, vj and me having the leftovers. Vj one of the tallest guy i know, touched new heights, cleaned the roof standing on a table while azhu laughed his ass off.. and i applied cold water to my face. I also goto see an emergency room from the inside, talked to the doctor about how jim morrison, jimmy hendrix and ozzy osbourne might have had similar accidents but they must have been drunk. Seeing off avishek, I went back home with a black eye with cream all over my face. And sleeping off in my bed finally finishing the work I had started in the mornning.

So what is a perfect day ? According to me seva, sadhna and satsang defines it . Seva, I helped my friend encode videos CHECK. Satsang, I had good people around me all the time CHECK. Sadhana, I finally completed my work ... well almost half CHECK. Apart from that I got a funny story to blog about, everyone had a good laugh about a burnt face, pk has a new wall Murial in his room made of dal which he didn't ask for but the effort counts, I got insights as to what might the reason behind my impulses of stupidity-- HUNGER and a burned face.

Sunday, May 8, 2011

25 Random Things

This mania had caught me up when I had joined fb. While I think of ways to kill my ego, how egotistical was I to do this or am I while I repost it.

2 I love cars and bikes.(by the way i don't noe how to drive anything :P)
3 I love paneer, chicken, mutton, bengan ka bartha, bengan aloo, aloo parantha, the list is endless .... i don't like mushrooms.
5 I love walking, running, exercising and playing cricket (even though i 'm just good at fielding).
7 I love watching movies. i aim at completing the imdb's top 250 list.
11 I feel really weird when i 'm not able to check my email for the whole day
13 I 'm finding it very difficult to write down these 25 things.
17 I am a pushover. I easily say yes to anything.
19 I really feel that slumdog millionaire has been over hyped. Would rather see TZP at the oscars!!
23 I write poems.
29 I like keeping clean. So don't be surprised if you find my room tidy.
31 I can be really lazy and careless ... sometimes.
37 I am big fan of Jessica Alba. Though her acting is not gr8. But i find here really really beautiful.
41 I really hate when people walk around listening to music on their mobile in loud speaker mode.
43 I feel like crap, when i see people bitching about each other on tv.
47 I do maintain a timetable but usually find it difficult sticking to it.
53 I love beaches.
59 I 'm big fan of sitcoms.
61 I don't drink and love it when people find it hard to believe.
67 I love when people go drunk and laugh on my stupid jokes.
71 I find it really difficult to believe that people crib about being in an IIT.
73 I believe in a supreme power but condemn all the rituals we follow.
79 I 'm really confused what type of job i want but should be well paying enough so that i cud buy a mansion near a beach and a pontiac.
83 I love cartoons. My current favourite is Shin Chan.
89 I used to break dance, and hoping that i 'll pick it up soon again
97 I am a mathematician. (I just realized there are 25 primes in the first 100 naturals)

Best Ever Wallpapers

1. The Challenger: Can't just turn away my gaze.

2. The butterfly effect

3. Calvin & Hobbes

4. Pulp Fiction

5. Rise of planets

6. Natalie Portman. There is just more than beauty to her.

7. R2D2: Beep boop beep boop

8. No idea who these guys are; but the shades on them look cool.

9. Everything is pseudo random.

10. Arbit -1

11. Justice league: Grew up watching these, well was in my 3rd year of college when completed it :P

12. The commander of 3rd brigade of Laptops

13. pi : yeah I did my major in maths

14. I 'm everything

15. oOOOOooooooooooooo

16. This is how feel when my sis asks me questions

17. This reminds of the time when friend Khanda had messed up big time at an excursion.

18. I find your lack of darthvaderism disturbing.

19. Ooooh colours :P

20. Arbit - 2

21. Me but not me.

22. The only time me and my sis didn't fight for the TV remote was when Phineas and Ferb was showing on TV. Agent Perry to the rescue.

23. Just Imagine

24. Summer Glau: wierd name but yeah hot bod.

25. Ubuntu introduced to me by a friend. The best ever OS to waste your time with when you had nothing else to do or something very important to do.

26. Long live prosper. Damm will we start teleporting.

27. If Mona Lisa was fighting one of the world wars and still sure people would have been interested in her smile.

28. Wish I had a list like this.

29. Megan Fox: As soon as I knew she was doing a nude scene in Jennifer's body, I was all pumped for the movie. Damm those producers who decide to cut those from the movie but hail the internet that I still found the scene :P