I feel.. I feel like myself!!

Well driving a Bajaj Avenger on an empty road, wind blowing in your face.. you all alone, actually gives you a lot of time and peace to think about life. I am no different, it is just that when i am on my 'bird'..as i call it..i just contemplate. The beauty of this bike is that it just takes away all the tensions away from you... leaves you with the comfort that you can actually feel like thinking about the nicer things in life..
The brilliant ad by Bajaj people says... i forgive all.. i feel.. i feel like god. One of my friends said that "come on! you didnt buy the bike after the ad and the tag line..did you?!".. well i was seriously hurt as i did buy the bike after seeing the ad... ok understood that we lesser mortals can never equal the almighty.. but having a feeling is good enough..
But i saw the whole tagline in completeness...it says - " I FORGIVE ALL..I FEEL LIKE GOD"..
but people just hear the last words....feel like god.. throughout the ad, the biker keeps on forgiving the people who havenot been good to him...thats was the reason i bought the bike..
i wanted a bike which can take me to a mental level where i would be able to forgive people of their follies ... and above all forgive myself for some of them...
And frankly speaking.. i have reduced uttering the obscenities while i drive when somebody cuts me off..or crosses a redlight.. well i do feel like forgiving people...
On a practical note.. what more can we do..than just to restrain ourselves from getting angry.. People always get angry when somebody drives rash.. and loose their temper.. casuing serious stress to themselves.. but when they are at the position where they can actually not jump a redlight... they just cannot restrain themselves..
And after that.. they give a million excuses to themselves or to fellow passengers .." yaar yeh india hai,.. yaar koi aa nahin raha ... just look and go"...
My rationale i simple.. i dont get angry at people.. i just dont forgive myself for not following the traffic rules.. That way i dont have to give explanations to anyone...atleast not to myself..

Thats why i bought my bird-- i actually makes me forgive people.. that is actually one of the toughest emotions in the world..to actually forgive people.. may be thats why Bajaj's brilliant admakers compared the rider's mental state to GOD.. if you can actually forgive people.. you are one step closer to him..and surely it makes me feel like myself..
And yeah when i was departing from that friend of mine on my BajaJ Avenger.. i simply forgave her too... cause yeah..

I FORGIVE ALL.. I DO FEEL LIKE GOD...

Its high time that I get out of my typical lazy IT attitude and be a lil active....So this is an honest try to do so . I dont know how long i would be able to sustain this ..... Met Bhim a few days back in the insti...... I was at SDA hunting for a meal .... Had some very nice sensible talk with him. Its good to hear that everyone is doing something worthwhile ...... Heard that Kalia has started preparing for CAT and I believe he can crack it provided he is not distracted too much by the babes he hangs around with these days( INFO : Courtesy Mr. Jain )...It has been a while that I met all you guys but trust me...I hav tried many times but its either too much work or too much laziness......
Have heard the American Bros are having loads of fun these days....GG and Bhatia have bought cars and all....I was blessed by the Gods when I got a call from Nekhil Mishra....Ya ppl in India should be happy to know that the alleged news of him being teleported to some parallel world was a total hoax and he is very well out here and kicking....
Havent heard much about Sareen or Cheti though....I know Cheti tries his best to get heard but u know.....He He He....Just kidding Cheti....
Well little about me .... Few weeks back I bought a car for myself....A FIAT Palio ... named her also ...... Aphrothena ...... Aphrodite + Athena ( For not so lit low lives ;-) these are Greek Goddesses ).....I think too much for a blog....O&O

A miserable initiative on my part it seems....the start of the Game 24/7 appears be a flop show.Only 5 out of 15 invitations have been accepted so far.Just an observation.
I can understand that winggies are really busy with their own lives that they cant waste their precious few seconds to become a member of the blog
I hope that things will improve number of members.But I would rather be interested in seeing more posts


Atthi is going to start his professional life two days from today...Best of luck Atthi ...And do pitch in with new experience of job life.
Rishabh bhaiya has finally joined two test series and is gearing up for the CAT -2007 ... and when i am writing this he is out taking a CL Test...Best of luck to you too
Khera and I ...magai for GMAT ...what else...
Parakh and Bhatia ...Busy dating some new gals...bhagwaaan jab deta hai to ...samay pehelwaan to ....matko ke din ab badal gaye ...(mera no kab aayega)
Bhim ..as usual senti on a gal and thinking new ways to woo the maths dept chick ...guys please help him with new and hottest topic of research in chemical engineering and suggest something innovative that she comes to our bhim(hero) leaving her bf (villain)...lol...

Meeting with sareen - over beer

Hi guys!!

it was long time i met sareen, who just came back from his stint in London.... his project went well and the next phase he will beworking on from india..( i am writing this as he declared he has the inertia to write stuff )
Well after a couple of beers at the 'masala junction', we started venturing into the details of our wingmates lives'. Ofcourse, i was the person who was telling him about the goings on in other peoples' lives.

We discussed about the characteritics of our wingmates - well what a drab topic on a saturday evening...but nonetheless the beer mellowed us down and we had a good talk about the guys we spent four years in the hostel..
he was actually ( as always) very much positive about bhatia..quoting him - " yaar bhatia dil ka max saaf aadmi hai, jo dil main aata hai wo bol deta hai.. kaafi naraaz tha wo mishra se"
well i couldnot agree more with him.. and i said most of the guys are pretty straight forward in our wing...
We talked about tau, khera , don, rishabh, and to my utter surprise DJ.. how come on earth saree found DJ dil ka saaf ..hahahaa ( yaar DJ dil pe mat lena)...
But the came the statement from saree which was actually bang on.. " yaar jab bhi DJ ko bulao wo aa jaata hai.. kabhi na nahin karta".. point taken.. DJ is ofcourse 'dil ka saaf"

then.. things went towards better things in life.. why we dont have a get together where we all meet along with our better halves.. i guess that was my idea because as the guys get maaried.. rather than maintainin distances.,it will be cool if we actually maintain the same kind of friendship.. for that its important for us to become comfortable with each other's life partners..
well that was it.. two guys..mildly high over kingfisher strong beer..and discussing things which actually matter..
not what is irrelevant.. but whats the essence of life.. how to actually enjoy life... how not to worry about our careers for a while.. and just live lives..the way we used to..
as i walked out.. with the occassional sutta in my hand...i wondered what better way this meeting could have been.. and i thought about the group called "GAME 24/7"..

and in the air was a song.. oh paaji order pe daaru peene chal.. and i was a bit high!!

Investment - random musings

Hi yaaron!!

I was thinking of writing something on this topic. Since it concerns one and all, people nowadays are making investments in the stock market, in real estate, and in commodities . So i thought it will be really helpful for all of us, with varied degree of knowledge in this field, to come out and discuss the nitty-gritties of this 'last liberal art' - Invseting.

To begin with - investing, according to me, is placing money on some article, piece of land, piece of business, or some commodity with the intention of making some reasonable ( definition varies - for some 10% is reasonable and some people make claims of 100% returns or more) returns. The most common examples are real estate and equities. Since i am more exposed to equities, i will be talking, henceforth, from the perspective of stock investment.

For a prudent investor, it makes sense to buy a stock which is available in the market at a price substantially lower than its value ( again the definition varies but as a standard 30-50% can be regared as a safe range of discounted value). The tough part is to find the stock/s which is/are trading at the price signifiantly lower than its value. Again how to evaluate is another important question in itself.

So for today i will leave the floor open for discussion on which stocks to buy, how to find the value and how do people define investing in the stock market..

Bhimania
Cheti yaar..mast slangs hain.. so from now onwards..stop throwing a teddy when we are maaro gaand...aahhaha

Spoofy and Dodgy Part-I

My company has filtered out the orkut links. Fuck!! Man, it will be hard to stay in touch from now on. Anyways, I will crib about it on my own times, why bore you chaps.
Good job my dear fellas. Chhotu dost, your blog is awesome, a fine piece to pass time with. So whats up these days? Whats keeping you busy!!

As we are talkin about anything under the sun here are some of the new slangs I find quite intersting frequently used in the UK:
- 'throwing a teddy': the way babies throw their toys in revolt to show their dislike towards other's actions. This slang is quite a frequent in day-to-day conversation about a person complaining of silly stuff. example me dashing out the hostel room in frustration or whatever, whenever you guys started the Gaand Marna routine of you lot.
- 'Rajie': used as 'Rajie bastard' (reminds of Raj aka Rajesh Jain is he likes to be called) is actually further more degarding than a plane bastard more or so like a pervert.
- Cunt: Not a female cunt you Rajie bastard!! I never knew 'Cunt' was so degrading. It not only means that you give a shit (i like British pronunciation 'Shiiite' as-in 'like') about society but it means that a cunt is a total outclass and person who doesn't care about anyone and HENCE no one else gives a shit about.
- Spawnie Git: Lucky person
- Foxchourouska (I doubt the spellings): this is sorta cryptic notion for Fuck-off or fucked up. Its used publicly and deamed less offensive. For word diggers, I came to know that its roots are to do with phonetic letters describing FO -- Fuck-off!!

there are many more that I spotted but will write if anyone interested.

Happy posting ...

BEGINNINGS

BEGINNINGS

Friends!! After passionately and vehemently coaxing Rajesh jain into starting a group blog, finally i am doing my part. His part was to actually create this platform. Mine, or rather ours is to make it vibrant, full of actvity. The genesis of the idea was in the continued dormancy of our e-group. Fine, orkut is the in thing, u write the quick scrap.. intimate about ur well being, but that was it.. nothing much..not a platform for the friends to discuss, communicate ( rather miscommuniate) our ideas, feelings, viewpoints.. like the way we used to do... endless hours of the nights.. one room cramped with guys..cramped not because of the physical space but becuase of the ideas... whuuhaa..it makes me nostalgic!!!

I may say.. for many people in our group it appears that the friendship we shared during college days was of convenience.. just we were brought together by circumstances, we developed a relationship..which survived through thick and thin...

But now as we all have embarked on our various journeys, it may not be possible to meet frequently. We get busy in professional lives.. may not have the time to respond immediately, and becuse of that the relationship is getting weaker...no way ... i think we are a group of buddies not separated by geographical distances.. KEHTE HAIN DURIYAN DILLON MEIN HOTI HAIN DESHON MEIN NAHIN..

thats why this blog is..

when u r alone and have time on ur hands.. drop in something, anything.. what happened in ur meeting, what happened with ur PhD advisor.. or maybe ( if people are not offended) what happened with ur better halves..hahahaha

well the gist is ..if in this internet age, we cry foul that we cannot carry this relationship together... then shame on us...

sincere plea to members who are especially busy.. not to take any names....

talking on phones one to one.. it may be good once in a while but..lets communicate freely and at will..

lets have a new beginning to this never ending friendship...

DIL CHAHTA HAI..

Bhimania

A new initiative ...

Dearest Winggies
The purpose of this blog is to stay in touch with all the winggies.
I hope that this will be a better and effective way for (mis)communication among us.
Signing Off
Rajesh Jain