This weekend I watched 2 contrasting movies, "Rakta Charitra" and "Before The Rain". In the former one the protagonist takes a very voilent revenge of the murder of his father and brother and in the later the main charachter just forgives the sinner. It is about an idealistic young Indian man who finds himself torn between his ambitions for the future and his loyalty to the past when people in his village learn of an affair between his British boss and a village woman. The village woman takes her life when she doesn't get the recognition. The main charachter is suspected of the murder of the woman but he chooses not to tell the truth untill it comes to his own life. After that he is given the task to take the life of his british boss and till that time he was outcasted from the community. But in the climax he forgives his boss and asks him to run away. The first movie didn't make me think much but the second movie charachter type has always kept me confusin...

At 9:30pm I received a call from Mr. Zero, my ex roomie. He asked me whether I was game for a ride to Bangalore International Airport(BIAL). I asked, " What's the matter?". He replied in his usual way of making things secretive and interesting, "Would you like to complete the job half done the weekend before?". A little bit of background, last weekend after having his Korean whiskey we just stepped out of the house to have some fun. I don't remember who suggested but we decided to go to his love interest and give her chocolates. I think the suggestion can come from me only because at the time whoever was with us no one else was involved in that relationship. I don't know why but I love to play the role of a cupid. I always want to play an important role in my friends relationship. That makes me feel that I'm still connected to them even after the advent of their love. So we just started on our bike ride to reach her place which would have been some 3...

This year two of my brothers were there with me at my flat. Last day we watched Once upon a time in mumbai, a movie filled with heavy dialogues, great characters. I didn't like the way one of the leading lady was treated in movie, it was definitely not a respectful way to treat a lady. I couldn't figure out why was she in love with the lead. But this is not what I'm going to talk about today. I want to scribble about something which happened for the first time today. In the evening my brothers left for Pune some two hours before the train timing so that they have enough time to reach the station before train. I'll come back to this point again to tell you what happened with them. So, as soon as they left I and my flatmate left for BTM Layout to surprise his sister as it was her b'day. We went on my brand new RE Classic 350 which was delivered just a month before after a waiting period of six months. So you can imagine how much did I love my bike for which I could wa...

Last week I was at my home town. I had went there to enjoy my holidays but to me and my family despair, typhoid caught me on the first day and didn't leave me till the holidays were over. I had to attend one of my senior's marriage but couldn't go in that also. My chance of meeting with friends and having fun were also lost. After 3 days of fever I was taken to the nearest doctor. After examination his very first question was if I've been outside my hometown in the last fifteen days. The obvious answer was yes, I live in Bangalore and have come here just three days back. Hearing this he opened his Pandora's box diseases starting from malaria, typhoid and reaching "I don't know what" disease and added precautions he takes from patients from Pune and Bangalore after the swine flu stint. He was looking for his mask but couldn't find it. He did his best to create panic in my mind. He gave a huge list of tests to be done. My father was familiar with thi...

So, after four years of first interaction it became really unbearable for the guy to contain his feelings within. More so because of the last three days. He was suffering from cough and cold. So, the girl sends him some short message services. But they were not of the get well soon kind. They were mostly related to friendship and love. All the feelings buried deep down inside were coming on to the surface. He started feeling as an adolescent when love seems to be a divine thing. He assumed that this can happen to him also. After 3 days of several messages back and forth, fourth day there was no message from the girl. He had became addicted to the girl's love filled messages till now and its absence for one day was killing him. He was becoming extremely restless as if some essential element was missing from his life. He couldn't tolerate it. The next day he just dropped a message that whether its over. She said since there was nothing to say she didn't message him. So, he as...

This is from the time when I didn't know how to swim. I can recall two incidents from that time which are worth mentioning. The first one was at chhatth'2000 and the second at chhatth'2001. In our village we used give aragh at the bank of the river opposite to our village as that bank had sand. We used to call it baluahi ghat. So, the day before teenagers from our gaon used to swim across to decorate the other bank. Decoration was a symbol of reserving the place for us. We used ribbons, series bulbs, banana trees etc, to decorate the place. Back to the point, it was the day before the festival. All teenagers were crossing the river. There was a boat also and as I was a novice swimmer(that would also be boasting, I just used to throw my arms and legs), I was on the boat. As the boat reached the mid river my uncle asked if I knew swimming. I don't know what occurred to me, I nodded in yes. Then he just said jump in the water why the hell are you on the boat, enjoy man. Wi...

I don't remember what choice I had filled for preferred job location after training, but when the print out was put on the bulletin board it showed "Gurgaon". Had I been a far sighted person I would have been very elated with this allocation the reason being the proximity to my hometown. But, I've have always followed others through out my life how could this be an exception. So, I followed my smart friends who had been allotted "Bangalore" as per thier choice. I asked the HR department to change the location and it was done. The reason for coming to Bangalore - it had greater oppurtunities (job openings in other companies) for not working in Aricent. After coming here I realized I'm not made for living far off from my home. I kept on cursing myself for making this decision. Because of recession the so called oppurtunities were also absent. At this time my college friends and the project assigned at office gave some respite. Now something about the proje...