Like a fish out of water....

A renowned oceanologist once famously said (maybe not that famously, but do we really need to get down to the nitty grittys ?), "I fucking don't care for the ocean any more, you know. Its just full of fish and water !"

What does this line have to do with anything you ask !? Well, nothing really. Just thought of opening a post with a famous quote. And it helps us slide right into the topic which i want to discuss today. Fish and water. Whats with these fish. I mean, seriously. Whats with their unhealthy addiction to water ? Cant live without water, eh ? Are you telling me that after so many billions and billions of years of evolution, you can't get over a simple hurdle ?

Depending on anything for your very survival, is very very dangerous. Just imagine if we humans say tomorrow, "I need caviarre to survive. Give me caviarre or i ll die right here in front of you. Shaking my hands and legs and gasping for breath as i yearn for those delicious little things". Seems stupid, doesn't it ? And yet we bear the same kind of stupid addiction of these fish creatures. Remove them once from the aquarium just for a moment, and they start throwing tantrums. Drama queens i tell you !

And so i have decided, enough is enough. Somebody's got to stop the yapping and do the dirty work. We have to teach these fish to survive without water. We cannot just sit by the sidelines and watch these wonderful creatures destroy themselves with their own gills. We will do whatever it takes. We will go to every school there is. We will teach the fish the importance of being in control of their own lives.

We ll start with baby fish steps, sorry strokes ! Get an aquarium with some fish in it. Just take one of them out for a brief instant. Let them get a taste of how wonderful and freeing it can be ! At first, they will not like the idea. They will show their resistance by dieing. But worry not. After a few hundred generations of fish dieing the same way, evolution will take its effect. I am guessing that it will. It will, won't it ?! It will. Lets remain hopeful. Life's nothing without hope, right !?

Let me know how it works out for you, and your fish too ! Remember, together we can, and we will make a difference !

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क्या थे और क्या बन गए

ज़िन्दगी से रूठ कर हम आवारा बन गए,

शायद ज़िन्दगी ही हमसे रूठी थी

इस बात से हम अनजान बन गए.

वो मिले जब हम को एक रास्ते पर चलते चलते,

अपना रास्ता मोड़ कर हम हमराही बन गए.

चलते गए उनके साथ साथ ऎसी ख़ुशी में,

की हमें भी लगा हम अब्ब इंसान बन गए.

अपने हसीं आँखों से जब पिलाई साकी ने शराब,

उस आखरी प्याले की कसम हम शराबी बन गए.

जब नचाया हमें अपने इशारों पर मुक़द्दर्र ने,

होश खो कर चल दिए और बंजारे बन गए.

जब अंत समय आया तब ऐसा धोका किया अपने ही दिल ने हमसे,

के अपनी ही ज़िन्दगी से हम अनजान बन गए.

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Resolutions : update

Lets start with an update regarding my resolutions which i so proudly wrote about in my last post.

Become ultra fit : I really have not become any where near as fit as i wanted to be. I still have a long way to go. On the contrary, i have let myself go and lost some of the my edge. I really have no excuses for going off the boil. I guess i was just satisfied with what i had achieved. Lesson learnt : Satisfaction is bad in some cases, we need to stay hungry and greedy to achieve more than what we think we want to really achieve what we want !

KO in boxing : I have started to learn boxing. Thats the good part. Obviously, there is a bad part too. I have not been as sincere and punctual in my efforts. Plus i had to take a break for a couple of months. Result being that i am still to enter the ring to fight. So the dream of a KO is still a bit far away. But i am sure gonna try and at least win a fight !

Relearn the guitar : I bought a new guitar ! That was the easiest part of it, so i did that very well. Bought myself a nice and expensive guitar. What have i done with it ? not much. i mean, not as much as i could have. But i am learning. Slowly and surely. I am taking youtube lessons and practicing whenever i get some alone time. There isnt much of that going around for me right now. But thats a whole different story.

Become simpler : I am proud to say that this is the one thing i have been able to successfully achieve (or so i think). I have had a transformation in my thought processes. I have learnt to be calmer, more attentive, less arrogant and overbearing in my conduct. I have started to enjoy the simplest pleasures in life now. All the bitterness and narcissism has been thrown out the window for good (i hope).

Writing : Writers block, writers block writers block. What can i do. Its the perpetual enemy of gifted writers like us :P.... Seriously speaking, i really have not been sincere enough to just sit down, think about some stuff and write it down. Even for doling out crappy writing as i pretty much always do, i need a bit of free time, time where i am completely at ease and calm. That hasnt happened in quite a while. And i dont know whether it will happen in the future or not. I am hoping this blog will be the start of some sort of a comeback.

So all in all, it has been a miserable attempt at doing things which i thought would really make me happy in the year to come. You d think that i d be very sad right about now. Fact is, i am not. I am very happy with my life right now. I have some new and scary responsibilities in my life now. But i am enjoying them all. I have realised that to be really happy in life, all you need a couple of people who really love you and care for you no matter what. Everything else life throws at you is bearable as long as you have such people around. And the thought of losing any of them is scarier than you can ever imagine. So hang to those ppl reallyyy tightly !

A lot of all this might sound really cheesy and clumsy to a lot of readers, specially coming from me. To all those people : screw you ! :P

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Resolutions

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Okay, now that we have gotten the obvious jokes out of the way, lets get down to some serious crap;my thoughts !!

So basically this is not the first time i am making resolutions for the new year. But this is the first time i am going to hold myself accountable for each one of these resolutions. I am going to track my progress as regards all of them, keep myself on my toes and not slack of as the year grows more than two months old !

So here goes, my resolutions for the year 2011

1 : Become ultra-fit, and stay fit

To be honest, this has been a mainstay in all of my resolutions till date, yearly, monthly, weekly or even daily. But this year, as some of you may know, I have made some good progress. And i am hungry for more ! So this year, i am going to make myself ultra fit. The bulging biceps and six-pack abs kind of fit.

2 : Win a boxing fight with a KO

Now that i have started to pursue my childhood fantasy of learning boxing, i am going to take this up as a serious hobby. I am going to become faster, better and stronger. And then i am going to start participating in boxing tournaments ! And when i have gotten beaten up in a couple of them, i am going to get my payback on some poor fellow by knocking the living daylights out of him !!

3 : (Re)Learn the guitar

Once upon a time in Pune, i used to play the guitar. And i used to be fairly good at it. But i let that passion go under the garb of being too busy with my academics and not really having the time for such a frivolous activity. If only i knew then what joy it can bring to an individual, i would never have allowed myself to stop. But anyways, what has happened has happened. Now i am going to relearn everything i knew back then. And then i am going to get better. I want to be able to put a smile on at least one face through my music. (Well, it wont be my music, but the rendition will be all mine !)

4 : Stay simple, stay raw

Well okay, i have taken this from an actual MTV ad campaign (pathetic me, right !?). But the thought behind it is completely mine. I want to turn myself into a simpler, more innocent and happier version of me. I want to get rid of a lot of bitterness i have picked up in the past. This bitterness has manifested itself into a lot of wicked humor, nasty opinions and some narcissism. I don't like what i have turned into and i am going to do something about it. I just want to turn back the clock to more simpler times personally.

5 : Write ya wrong

I am going to write a lot more in the coming year. Yes. That does mean that there will be a lot more crap on this blog. But thats the way its going to be. Thats the only way i can improve. I am going to do some learning on the technicalities of short story writing and then apply my own set of non-rules (its just a fancy name i have coined for not having any rules) to these learnings and come up with more crappy stories !! Just hope at the end of the year, when i write my next set of resolutions, i will be a better writer if nothing else.

Thats it. Those are the big ones. The major milestones. I will be a satisfied man if i can live up to these resolutions. Wish me luck !

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Tya valaNaa vartii

GhaDla je tya valaNa varti,
visarlo nahiye mi ajun.
Gamaavla je tya valaNa varti,
raDlo nahiye mi ajun.
BheTli hoti ji maNse tya valaNa varti,
ruslo nahiye mi ajun.

Raag nahi mala tya valaNa cha,
to tar tyacha dharma hota,
paN tya valaNa varchya 'mi' la,
maaf kela nahiye mi ajun.

Ataa maatra damNe nahi,
thakNe nahi, melo tari thambNe nahi.
Punha bheTaaycha vadaa kelaay tya valaNa shi,
Poorna kela nahiye mi ajun.


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firr se

Aadhe adhure khwab jo pure naa ho sake,
ek baar phir se neend mein woh khwab bone do.
Ro diye hum jo aasu unke liye,
unhein firr se peene do.
Beet gaye jo pal unke saath,
unhe firr se jeene do.
Karr na paye jo hum poore vaade,
unhe firr se nibhaane do.
Ek zindagani mein to nahi karr sake uspe pyarr hum,
humein ek zindagi aur jeene do !



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Hep and cool advice for the Uth !

In the same manner that people like Arindham Chaudhari share their "mantras" to success, today i ll share with this blog the basic principles which i have held very close to my heart as i wade through the shit that life throws at me !!

Do unto others as you would have others do unto them 
This is basically the definition of the typical herd mentality. If a bunch of your dumb friends are treating something in a particular manner, do the same. Dont think, dont ask questions and for heavens sake, dont contradict. You ll be dropped from the "group" like Shinney Ahuja from the household workers convention.

Never reveal what you really feel
This is just to avoid people from "opening up" to me ! I dont want to know what you think. I have enough shit of my own. Dont dump yours on me. Plus, what you may really feel or think might be really lame. Why risk embarassing yourself in front of the only handful of people who are dumb enough to tolerate you. Just not worth the risk i say, specially when some of you are really really hard to bear !

Drink, smoke, do drugs !
Go on, destroy your life. How do i care. If you are dumb enough to put that shit in your body in the first place, the world is better off without people like you. Do all of these, do them all at once, do them in large doses ! the quicker you get out of here, the better.

Always try to be "different" from the crowd.
This ones a bit tricky. Many "life coaches" will have you believe that different is better, different will succeed. Bollywood is rife with directors whose story is a bit "haTke" from the run of the mill stuff. Wonder how the same kind of crap lands up in the final print. Maybe its the editors, maybe they are the ones sabotaging these gifted filmmakers. Anyways, the point is, be different, be unique. Specially when the rest of the crowd is more intelligent and way more gifted than you are. Be dumb, be stupid. Atleast you will be able to catch the eye. A losers sad lifestory always has buyers, and a few sellers too (if ya know wat i mean !).

Dont work hard
Working hard is for workers. People with no talent. Remember, you are special. You were born with only half a brain ! Dont worry, that is still a talent. When you have sucked out all the goodies that you could "parasite" off your parents, move on to a dumb job in some dumb company. No other company is going to hire you anyways. Tell people that this has been your life long dream. Even if the money is not that good, you dont mind because the satisfaction is immense.

Dont be nice.
Throw those manners, if you have any in the first place, in the nearest dust bin you have around. Even if there isnt one, just throw it anywhere you please. Remember, you dont have manners, so no need to worry. Manners make you look ol fashioned. They dont "go well" with your recently acquired hep and dont-give-a-damn attitude. Even if other people find you rude, not to worry. Its better to let people think you are rude rather than to let them realise you are a dumbass fool; really. Ask Raghu the eternal Roadie. "He has what it takes !"


There are a lot more to come. I aint done y'all . Dont worry !




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