F.R.I.E.N.D'z

When I failed, they patted on my back - it's alright

When I had heartbreaks, they cheered me up - there are always second chances

When I achieved, they were besides me - I am happy for you

When I was turned down, they made it easy saying  - there is always a next time

When I erred, they backed me up - It's not your fault

When I refused debauchery, they patted - stay good for us as well, will you?

When in trouble, they stuck around all along

When I fooled around, they cleaned up my mess

When I was sick, they cared for me

When I was mad, they were inturn mad

When I failed believing in myself, they believed - You've got it, you've just got to realize it

When I was furious, they made fun of me… still they remained friends with me

I just hope I've been just the same they've ever been to me all along...

Reminiscing all those treats, late night outs, movies, outings, few long trips, bullying, being bullied, ogling, classroom naps, little ego clashes, occasional fights oevr unethical play

Though there weren't many, am glad I've got few of em…

Having a friend around is a FRIENDSHIP DAY everyday of the year, round the clock..,

Thenappan..,

After effects of being to a funeral

Funny, when the soul departs the flesh, it is called a BODY in urban words or Cadaver in medical terms! We forget the fact it was a person just before where they are now, if only they could hear and see things around after their own death, they'd wish to die all over again!

Scene 1 - Just outside funeral service

Our task here is to shift body to places, once when the body arrives from mortuary, I've got to take it up the stairs to home and later, after the rituals are done with get it back to the cremation van.

Scene 2 - Tea stall around the block

G: Seems like India won a silver in Olympics, great news rite!

B: (thinks to himself - duh, it was like 15 hours back - why are we speaking about dead news!) Wow, great news yaar

Some X (who's here for the funeral, smoking black cigar) - Aiyoo rama !!!

Scene 3 - Mortuary Van

Driver: What you paid was for the paper work, we are doing things with interest for the departed souls, you should be respecting that and tip us good!

Relative: No way am paying extra bucks, we will go by the terms we came into earlier, even before paper work started out!

Scene 4 - someone over phone

When are you planning to come Iyer Ji, it's already half past 10, we were supposed to start our rituals about an hour back

(hangs up as he sees the Iyervaal's TVS Scooty coming to a hollering stop)

Iyer 2: Sorry Mama, got into the traffic

Rel: What ji, it's Saturday, since when are we strangled in Saturday's jam

Iyer 1: Okay Okay, we already delayed, lets light up fire before the Rahu Kalam

Scene 5 - Among the gathered relatives

A: Hey, these are the one I mentioned earlier - the in-laws.

B: Oh, good, I thought they wouldn't show up

A: of course they would, they are the in laws!!! And by the way did you notice the one along with her hair cropped - a pop cutting or something…

Scene 6 - Close circle of the deceased

This should not have happened, this is a dream, I was supposed to take you to over a walk this Sunday. Come on, up now, lets prepond it, how about we go for that walk today instead of tomorrow.. Come on now, get up, please…

Scene 7 - Not so close to the deceased

Any idea how long it might take?

P.S. - Random events from different funerals I've been to, are put together. Though they vary from each one of them, they still seem to be correlated ...

Thenappan..,

Jism 2 Controversy AGAIN !

Jism 2 poster are now being removed from buses n electric poles in Mumbai.

IRONIC - Why allow post them in the first place??? Isn't that obvious people would chose starring at almost naked Sunny Leone than the pretty boring Indian Roads !!!


Here is a visual treat on what most of the commuters will miss henceforth in Mumbai roads...

Source:

http://movies.ndtv.com/movie_story.aspx?section=Movies&Id=ENTEN20120211208&keyword=topstories&subcatg=MOVIESINDIA&nid=250371

Thenappan..,

Finding Time

As usual, the Monday morning, forwarded my blog on the latest flick I watched – The Dark Knight Rises – to my colleagues.

Taking a peek into it, one of my colleague got back to me with a simple query – “it should be eating up much time, how do you manage!”

“Well, I don’t have a girl friend to spend my weekends with and it leaves me ample amount of time for me to trifle around; my friends are workaholics just like I am – working at home & occasionally blogging from work; hardly step out of home if not for cinemas; never indulge myself with hiking or sports or anything as such & neither do I have such athletic physic; am also kind of sleep deprived, summing up all, I’ve got nothing better to do than scribble which I call myself a blog!” is what came to my mind. But then something more of a fact flashed and I blurted out the same – It’s not about patience, but passion…

 Sounds true though now, doesn’t it!

Thenappan..,

Failed Promises

Funny, politics is all about failed promises...
another one of the promise which soon will be added to the failed list

Power will be restored back in 90 minutes
~Shinde

this was said about 30 minutes back.. lets wait and see!


Thenappan..,

Kargil Vijay Diwas

Kargil Vijay Diwas

It was this day some twelve years back the 60 day Kargil war came to a halt with our Victory of Operation Vijay which is now named Kargil VIjay Diwas!

My Respects to the brave souls we lost in the frontier for a cause which the politicians are busy exploiting today!


For more about Kargil (1999): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kargil_Vijay_Diwas


Thenappan..,

In Time

Time: It teaches you bitter truth of life..

In time,

Your friends become foe and foe your friends...

You master your virtues, nevertheless become slave of debauchery

You start out in the name of passion, end up with boredom

In the end, you become whatever you wanted to be and hate yourself for the same...

Thenappan..,

The Replacement Factor

It's been hardly a week and the Guwahati incident has already been replaced by Rajesh Kanna's death.

NDTV headline reads "The last words of Rajesh Kanna - PACK UP"

Nut heads, real nut heads these media people are. Not now, not henceforth, it's been ever since early nineties. Those who have known Kublha Khan or those have watched the movie Citizen Kane would know this.

Citizen Kane is a character, a mutli millionaire who lived through the world wars and an influential entrepreneur. His dying words "Rosewood" were fuming across the streets as media made it talk of the town. News reported were competing to find it out first. The following two hours after the death of Kane was merely a reality show run by press person only to find out Rosewood was no person, no concubine of Kane which most of the media persons believed, not the name of his virtual daughter, not his crush and not his second family, but the skateboard he had as a kid. Yes, the skate board was named "Rosewood" which none of the news persons found out until it all came to an end.

The once sensational news is overridden by the next. People move on, funny, yet it's incontrovertible!

Seriously "PACK UP", god I just can't get it over my mind. Who cares what his last words meant, no disrespects to the veteran, but it's just intolerable !

Thenappan..,

When will this end or will it end firsthand?

Ref. to Guwahati molestation case

I've been receiving twitter feeds over my mobile since July 9th. And it is today, a week after the horrid incident, I am aware of it's seriousness. Firstly its a shame on me that I turned my face away for the sole reason it didn't concern me. Secondly who are those as**oles, are they even one third human!

The Guwahati Incident <A Brief>

July 9 '2012, G.S Road, a teenager was walking past a local night club after attending a friends B'day party. She was pummeled and molested allegedly by a mob of 20 monsters (which the media now claims to be a team of Newslive channel).

As she was stripped off and harassed in public over 30 minutes, it's a shame no one came to her rescue and the more sickening fact is the whole scene was video taped by another mean monster of the same regional television channel.

Getting to know of such incidents just scares the shit out of me!

How could one behave as if in WILD !

What kind of a sick bastard would pummel a teen out of lust!

I still can't believe if this is India or am I reading about some Arab countries!

If I were given the authority to verdict!

I might sound harsh, but they deserve it

These mean monsters should be stripped crude and made to walk out on streets with burn marks from cigarette butt stamped all over their bodies, which they should carry.

But again I wonder would this happen, some freak or nerd from Human Rights or XWZ Commission would peek his nose talking some crap - "Whatsoever might be the crime, one should not be treated this way"

It just makes me ponder, what can be done. If the guilty isn't punished a crew comes shouting with plea for justice and if by miracle if a crude verdict is passed some other NGO group comes around the way bargaining to show some humanity and call this insanity

What needs to be done and can it be done? Perplexed !!!

Thenappan..,

It took me two years..,

Took me two years, even though it was by choice

I still remember sitting in the interview room affront my then QA Manager two years back. He did ask some tricky questions and apparently had knocked me down. It was one though which would be resonating in my inner walls of my cerebellum.

"How do you see yourself in, say about, 3 years from now?"

This was prompted against me, so I had to answer something witty and convince him to recruit me, so I gave my best (or atleast I thought it to be the best :D )

"Three years from now, I'd be the same place you are now!"

What I expected was a pat for my attitude, but the actual was a failing test case!!!

He poised back - "Do you think I am here in just a matter of three years?"

"Do you really expect things to be that easy?"

There were a lot of questions popping up in my mind in response to such a flabbergasting question "Damn, is that what a manager would expect of me, or would the so called internal politics hinder my growth or maybe I'd never get a chance and I'd remain a resource, the bottom of the cycle whose name, sorry, only his title would be mentioned every once in a while in the onsite status calls!

Fortunately/ unfortunately, I was indeed recruited and here I am, to be seated in an interview room, for the first time not having to answer but to poise questions!

Though it was not by my choices and just an option that my present manager is held up with things, I wouldn't be presumptuous and call this "It was destined to be" for I believe "One paves his way to his destiny"

Am even more gracious that I am here in the place an year ahead while I had intended to be there sometime later!

Thenappan..,