Sunday morning and the same old story
Its Sunday morning again and again ahh! Missed my class. Was waiting for this the entire week, no certainly I was. I hope somebody believes me on that. Anyways woke up at 11. Got to sleep on my bed after a long time and after a long tiring week. Just don’t know what was tiring in the past week. Was it the labour and time I put into work or was it the emotional trauma I went through. Though one thing is for for sure , we seldom get what we want and truly deserve and aspire for in our lives. May be sometimes if seems like we are very close but we seldom are and the distance keeps on increasing no matter how fast we run . its just all the same. Its like trying to get hold of the horizon and running towards it. Anyways a lovely morning to start with and am already sweating (god bless this summer). So here’s how it goes for me. A Sunday morning with nothing, absolutely nothing to do. This the reason I hate Sundays. I hope someday somebody invents a device where I can skip this day of the week.
Hope u guys are having fun. J.
U Think U R Smart..Try these
SECTION 1: PURE LOGIC
Q1: What can you hold in your right hand, but not in your left?
Q2: How many birthdays does a typical woman have?
Q3: If a plane crashes on the Indian/Pakistan border, where do you bury the survivors?
Q4: A cowboy rode into town on Friday, spent one night there, and left on Friday. How do you account for this?
Q5: Is it legal for a man to marry his widow’s sister?
Q6: Why can’t a man living in Delhi not be buried in Mumbai?
SECTION 2: PARADOXES (Coming soon)
As You Like It But who m I
no its not any shakepearan stuff out here or as u say sme nuclear physics. have u ever been surrounded by questions you hardly find a answer to or rather i might say ” do they really have an answer to?”. I have so many questions and not enough answers, and the problem is all my questions are the big ones, the ones there are no answers too. you might be thinking that m insane and there r no such questions . but the fact is questions are there, its our perspective whether we have that soul to wonder about such unsolved mysteries of life. mine are not that complicated but rather complexed and a lil perplexed.:)
Are we alone in the universe?
Is there life after death?
Who am and what am i?
Am i the centre of the universe?
yes i know these are abstract and doesnt bear any meaning in light of rationality. but the last one is even more a twisted tale of my existance.
you might think its egotistical, but break it down. I know I am real, I think and feel and see and hear and touch and taste, I experience it all, I know that, it is 100% true, its fact, its real, its undeniable.
but what about you? I don’t know you are real? I don’t know if you think or feel, see or hear, touch or taste. I can only take your word for it that you are.
what if YOU are the centre of the universe and I’m just a part of your life. thats it .think about it.
Greatest love flicks
Freinds after years of movie watching . what do u expect out of me???.. appreciation. Here comes the much awaited list for all of you. but there might be other movies apart from this list which could have been featured here. it all depends on the taste. to start with i would like to list down the top 5 love flicks according to me and my judgemental skills released after the year 1980.
The list is based on the following parameters: huh……no parameters just love these..and that’s the reason they r here>>>>>
1. P.S I Love you:
People change in time, relationships change in time; Love doesn’t. A man expresses his feelings of his love to his wife, through several shocking surprises after his death. This movie would tell why love is the only power that connects people, if no one could tell anymore what it really means. Hey wait.. enuf of descriptions……just watch it urself and I am sure u would agree with the reason I have put it on the top of the list.
2. When Harry met Sally:
“men and women can’t be freinds” yes! thats what the theme of the movie is. offcourse with some amendments at the end. Rich in both comedy and drama it explores the long building friendship between a man and a woman over the course of many years and many loves. When Harry Met Sally will have you believing in fate and taking a second look at those who enrich your life. The most famous line of dialogue, “Men and women can’t be friends because the sex part always gets in the way,” became a frequent topic of talk show discussions, magazine articles, and dinner table conversations and even some of our canteen discussions . After raising the issue, the film spends the rest of its running length challenging it, and it’s up to the viewer to decide whether the premise is proven or disproven by events. After all, although Harry and Sally become fast friends, their relationship does not remain platonic.
3. The notebook:
The Notebook was a great romantic tale about 2 young lovers who come across each other at a small-town carnival one night. The girl’s parents disapprove, and it becomes a struggle right away for the relationship to get off the ground. When war hits the country, Noah is called off to war, and Allie is left wondering if she will ever see him again. Not hearing from him, she decides to get married to another man, and the story really begins there. the dialogue the made the movie really special was: “I am nothing special; just a common man with common thoughts, and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten. But in one respect I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who’s ever lived: I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul; and to me, this has always been enough.”
4. Pretty woman:
What can I say that hasn’t been said? This immensely popular, modern fairy tale romance is a fantastic ‘feel good’ must see. I can’t resist watching it every single time it comes on TV. To tempt you if you haven’t seen it…it’s the story of a feisty, good hearted hooker named Vivian Ward, who is hired for a week by a wealthy businessman, Edward Lewis, to serve as his escort at a number of business related social functions. Needless to say, the relationship doesn’t stay ‘just business’ for long.
5. Serendipity:
I will just write a few lines and m sure you couldn’t wait to see this one.
Magic happens, if you let it; and sometimes even fate or destiny– or whatever you want to call it– steps in to lend a hand. But when it concerns love, and finding that special person you’re going to spend the rest of your life with, should you risk tempting fate with a test of that love or what is seemingly meant to be, or should you just follow your apparent destiny and embrace it? Such are the questions two people must face and answer. And this movie surely deals the topic quite well.
If u like this piece do comment and lemme know. And watch out the list the for thrillers and action will be up there soon.
Rulz…Guys its time..
since ages men have been hearing the rules made by women..guys what r u waiting for..remember it were noble men who penned the the functioning of the entire universe and u find this rocket science. fyn here it is…
this is for all those who have been making rules and the some poor souls are abiding by it…
Please note … these are all numbered “1″ ON PURPOSE!
1. Birthdays, Valentines, and Anniversaries are not quests to see if we can find the perfect present yet again!
1. Sometimes we are not thinking about you. Live with it.
1. Don’t cut your hair. Ever. Long hair is always more attractive than short hair. One of the big reasons guys fear getting married is that married women always cut their hair, and by then you’re stuck with her.
1. Shopping is NOT a sport. And no, we are never going to think of it that way.
1. Crying is blackmail.
1. Ask for what you want. Subtle hints do not work! Strong hints do not work! Obvious hints do not work! Just say it!
1. We don’t remember dates. Mark birthdays and anniversaries on a calendar. Remind us frequently beforehand.
1. Most guys own three pairs of shoes – tops. What makes you think we’d be any good at choosing which pair, out of thirty, would look good with your dress?
1. Yes and No are perfectly acceptable answers to almost every question.
1. Come to us with a problem only if you want help solving it. That’s what we do. Sympathy is what your girlfriends are for.
1. A headache that lasts for 17 months is a problem. See a doctor.
1. Check your oil! Please.
1. Anything we said 6 months ago is inadmissible in an argument. In fact, all comments become null and void after 24 hours.
1. If you think you’re fat, you probably are. Don’t ask us. We refuse to answer.
1. If something we said can be interpreted two ways, and one of the ways makes you sad or angry, we meant the other one.
1. Let us look. We are going to look anyway; it’s genetic.
1. You can either ask us to do something or tell us how you want it done. Not both. If you already know best how to do it, just do it yourself.
1. Whenever possible, please say whatever you have to say during commercials.
1. Christopher Columbus did not need directions, and neither do we.
1. The relationship is never going to be like it was the first two months we were going out. Get over it and quit whining to your girlfriends.
1. ALL men see in only 16 colours, like Windows default settings. Peach, for example, is a fruit, not a colour. Pumpkin is also a fruit. We have no idea what mauve is.
1. We are not mind readers and we never will be. Our lack of mind-reading ability is not proof of how little we care about you.
1. If we ask what is wrong and you say “nothing,” we will act like nothing’s wrong. We know you are lying, but it is just not worth the hassle.
1. If you ask a question you don’t want an answer to, expect an answer you don’t want to hear.
1. When we have to go somewhere, mind your dressing, i surely would not take you out otherwise. Really.
1. Don’t ask us what we’re thinking about unless you are prepared to discuss such topics as, the offside rule, investments, sports or cars.
1. You have too many shoes.
1. Foreign films are best left to foreigners. (Unless it’s Bruce Lee or some war flick where it doesn’t really matter what the hell they’re saying anyway.)
1. It is neither in your best interest or ours to take the quiz together. No, it doesn’t matter which quiz.
1. BEER is as exciting for us as handbags are for you.
1. I’m in shape. ROUND is a shape.
Thank you for reading this; Yes, I know, I have to sleep on the couch tonight, but did you know we really don’t mind that, it’s like camping.
IPL Fever
It’s now been a week since IPL. For those of you who completely missed out on it (do email me on how that was possible), it stands for Indian Premier League. Or rather India’s Powerful Lobby. After all, BCCI did manage to get all cricket playing countries to participate – Cricket Australia gave in eventually, the British Cricket Board too is succumbing to it!!
Everything that had to be said about it has been said. But not by everyone. I had refined from commenting on it during the tournament – partly because I was too engrossed watching it – so I shall state it now.
It is said that societal behavioral habits take years to change. I defer on that statement. These are the societal changes I have observed take place in our country in flat 45 days!!
TV Remote is with the man again. Yes,it’s true in case of Bengali men too!! In fact they might hold on to it longer considering that Euro has started off.
‘Short’ and ‘Instant Delivery’ are buzz words. Most of the good things in today’s life are short and instant; SMS, Relationships, Sachin Tendulkar…… As a matter of fact, Twenty 20 was very much like the cheerleader’s skirt – short and instant enough to grab everyone by their eyeballs. This format is perfect representation of our changing patience levels. Instant gratification!!
Cheerleaders will be used more often. With every saas-bahu serial completing it’s 100th episode, or political party completing its 5 years, or MET department being successful in predicting India’s monsoon, we will see them do the jig. As a nation, we now want to celebrate our victories.
We, like British, love our royalty. Why else would 4 out of 8 teams have some mention about it. (Rajasthan Royals, Super Kings Chennai, Kings XI Punjab and Royal Challengers). Out of the remaining four, Mumbai Indians is the only name that appears creatively challenged. After a complete cycle, we have started taking pride in our royalty again. One more thing. Money can’t buy everything (read creativity) but then that’s more for Mukesh Ambani.
The reason for success of IPL lies elsewhere. Inherently, we always wanted to ‘openly’ cheer performing sports person from competing teams but swallowed it to nurse our national, patriotic pride. It’s not that we are any less democratic as a country, but it’s our own jingoist fervour that stopped us from doing so.
As IPL was not about any nationality, it liberated us from that moral restriction. It was acceptable to cheer Shaun Marsh or Shane Watson beat the s&%t out of Indian bowlers. Admit it you had always wanted to openly cheer Shoaib Akhtar bowl out the batting line up. It is only post IPL that we have really started enjoying cricket more as a sport!!!
And It’s my opinion that IPL now socially stands for India Patriotically Liberated
Bad Stocks Can Bail You Out At Bad Times.
Recessions are hard on everyone – aren’t they? Actually, just as wars have their war babies (companies that perform well during war and suffer during peace), recessions have their tough offspring as well. In this note I would surely tell you the industries that flourish in the adversity of a recession and why they do so well when everyone else is struggling to make ends meet.
DISCOUNT RETAILERS:
It makes sense that, as budgets feel the strain of an economic downturn, people turn to the stores that offer the most for the least. Discount retailers like Big-Bazar, Subhiksha, Wal-Mart in the west are ones that may appear to do well at any time, but this is not entirely true. They often suffer in good times as people flush with money buy higher-quality goods at competing outlets. To remain competitive, they are forced to upgrade their product lines and change the focus of their business from thrift to quality. Their profits suffer from either lost sales or less margin on the goods they sell.
In hard times, however, these retailers excel by going back to core products and using vast economies of scale to give cheap goods to consumers. Designers and producers of lower-end products also see an upswing as more people jump from brand names to make their paychecks go further. People may not like discount retailers, but in a recession most people end up shopping there.
SIN INDUSTRIES:
A personal favaurite for a worshipper of bachhus like me ,but hold on theres lot more to the industry and its rightly said that in bad times, the bad do well. Although it seems a little counterintuitive, people patronize the sin industry more during a recession. In good times, these same people might have bought new shoes, a new stereo or other, bigger-ticket items. In bad times, however, the desire for comforts doesn’t leave, it simply scales down. People will pass on the stereo, but a nightly glass of wine, a pack of cigarettes or a chocolate bar are small expenditures that help hold back the general malaise that comes with being tight on cash.
Be warned, though – not all sin businesses prosper in a recession. Gambling, with the exception of the truly troubled gamblers, becomes an extravagance and generally declines during recessions. In fact, casinos do their best trade when the economy is roaring and everyone feels lucky. The most prosperous businesses in this industry are the purveyors of small pleasures that can be bought at a gas station or convenience store.
SELECTED SERVICES:
Expect a downturn in the service industry as a whole, as companies and families are willing to do more themselves to save money. A certain class of service providers will see an upswing during hard times though. Companies that specialize in upgrading and maintaining existing equipment and products see their business increase as more clients focus on working with what they have now rather than buying a newer model. In the real estate industry, they say renovators hire as builders fire, and this holds true for many other industries as well.
THE STATICS:
In a recession, simply carrying on with business as usual can be an achievement. Pharmaceuticals, healthcare companies, tax service companies, gravediggers, waste disposal companies and many others are in a category that, while not jumping ahead during a recession, can plod along while other companies suffer. This is simply because people get sick, get taxed and die (not always in that order) no matter what the economy is like. Sometimes the most boring businesses offer the most consistent and, in context, exciting returns.
THE BENEFITS OF RECESSION:
The biggest benefit of hard times is that companies get hurt for inefficiencies that they laughed off in better times. A recession means general fat trimming for companies, from which they should emerge stronger, and that’s good news for investors.
One of the best signs is a company in a hard-hit industry that is expanding anyway. For example, McDonald’s continued to grow in the 1970s downturn even though restaurants generally suffered as people cooked rather than going out to eat. Similarly, Toyota was opening new American plants in the 1990s downturn when the Big Three were closing theirs due to falling sales for new cars. A recession can be a blessing for investors, as it is much easier to spot a strong company without the white noise of a strong economy.
WAITING/WATCHING IT OUT:
Although it is good to know which companies excel in a recession, investing according to economic cycles can be difficult. If you do invest in these industries during a recession, you have pay careful attention to your investment so you can readjust your portfolio before the economy rebounds, stemming the advances the recession-proof industries have made.
Some of the companies performing well in a recession will also perform well in a recovery, and more will change their business to take advantage of it, but many will be passed by their toughened-up brethren that race ahead in bull markets – financials, technology firms and other faster-moving industries. With the proper timing, however, these industries can provide a buffer within your portfolio while you wait for your high fliers to take off again.
Hello world!
hello friends.
i used to blog on blogger, but due to the difficulties i faced there, i had to shift base …neways i look forward to the kind of support and response i used to get there.here i am transferring all my previous posts to this blog and the new ones are about to come soon. just watch out, theres something in store that u guys gonna love.. hope to see ur comments coming…love ya
thanking u in anticipation
yours
nishant.
confessions of a sleepless mind
Could our thoughts actually kill us, I sometimes wonder especially, on those long and sleepless nights when my mind couldn’t bring itself to rest from inexorable and inveterate spinning of yarn after yarn of these intermittent and concomitant(hey chill i got these words from a dictionary..jus read on) thoughts, won’t it be great if for once we can detach this jelly inside our head and store it in a jar like our mom used to store choclates for those special occasions but if only our heads came with a hatchet and in built IPods and plasma screens built on the insides of our eyelids, life really would have been whole a lot easier. I was watching Matrix( The Movie) the other day, which part well that I don’t know because all them seemed like equally incomprehensible to me, and there in one of the scenes The Chancellor tells Neo that it’s only human to be rendered incapable of sleeping, now I am not a savior, in charge of saving human lives, so I guess my thought process and my insomnia has something to do with me rather than the world. We all have demons of our past hiding underneath our beds, lurking alongside lizards and spiders to grab us as soon as we step down, you can’t leave your past behind and sometimes I feel as a human we never get to live in the present, we either are worrying about our future or we just keep on crying for our past, there is nothing wrong though for it’s not easy living life on an edge and when everything fails we can always look towards the future with a gleam of hope. The problem with people like me is, we can’t stop thinking, it’s something which keeps us going though later we all succumb to our addictions but like I said thinking never killed anyone though it can drive you insane and lead you to a brink of suicide but being on the brink is different from tripping over and seriously only a non thinker could ever come up with an idea so absurd because after feeling the way the things go around in this life, I for sure wouldn’t like to pin my hopes on finding salvation in some other life and if my close friend Constantine (Neo again, reincarnated) is to be believed, hell isn’t in anyway better than our life down here on earth.
