Airport

One of the most interesting place that I have come across is the Airport. Well! It is quite strange, only for past few years I am getting this opportunity to see this family of place more often, before that it was always either bus stands or the railway stations. Although my first flight in plane was on January 1st 2000, what a beginning! that was the first day after the millennium celebration.I still remember I was in Engineering first sem, I was made to sleep early and we were awake by 3 AM and watching the millennium celebration happening all around the world in TV. My first flight on plane was to Chennai on the way to Andaman Nicobar Islands. Probably that is a different topic altogether by itself.

After staying in Kansas for nearly 2 years, I had almost become a host over there. I used to come to airport on numerous occasions to drop-off so many of my friends. Saying Alvida to so many was always painful. Certainly Life is Big, and I am sure I will bump in with all my real friends again. Finally I had to probably make my final trip to Kansas Airport ( I am not sure if that was the final one, for this year at least ). The strange part is I was always there to send off all of them, but no one comes to send me off. That's fine!

Airport is such a heterogeneous mixture of all kinds of people, from all countries. There is certain smell or should I call it as fragrance in every airport that is kind of very different. Is it the smell of the toilets, phenol or the mixture perfumes of so many people, or air by itself in which we all fly. I hate waiting anywhere, however in airports that is the only best work to do. So my best time pass is to observe people around. All these business people with their formal wears, suit boat show off so much of a class look that as if they are the only people who are making the world to work. Always stressed with their laptops, blackberry, hi fi mobiles holding a first class ticket, which is more of booked at the company expense. Then there are these young teenager who prefer to sit at some corner on the floor instead of the chair which their gizmos connected to power slot. Girls often with a pink ipod, pink laptop, chewing a gum, looking very serious around (Oh! God this pink obsession). Then the young hunks with some sporty shoes, with haphazard bags, caps, some junk style, raw look with some food in hand. There are our desi people too. What do they do, they just stare at the other desis. I don't know whatz up with this staring business. There are some families with kids with their own mini-DVD players, video games. So much of electronic stuff in airport myan! Then these rollers in between for the babies. These rollers are so much of a mess, they are annoying to others too, they always take so much space and are always parked on the way, with the babies and some even grown ones sitting happily in it. Probably I will not understand the use of this now, but I feel it is a big irritating luggage (of course I am not referring the baby). There is other category of people too, these hippies, some art guys, or the music guys, they are always in a different world. Oh! yeah these airport or airline people too, with their uniforms, remove that remove this uuff this security checking, so much of a hassle. Sometimes I feel these guys are still going to school, because they still wear uniforms. Anyway this above sentence is silly. It happens like this because waiting and watching kind of develops a boredom. Finally with boarding call, that be as per the zone, we finally get to enter the plane. First 10-15 mins is all about fitting the big lug gages inside those boxes. Now the excitement of who will be your neighbour, you know it what it turns out always.

Till now I have seen Chennai, Port Blair, Hyderabad, Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai, Frankfurt, Paris, New York, New Jersey, Atlanta, Cincinnati, Chicago and Kansas Airport. Of all I like the Paris Airport, why it is stylish and fashionable as per its city. Although this time the toilet was bad. May be that particular one. Anyway it is damn good. I haven't seen the whole world there is a separate ranking available for airports based on many criteria. In fact I expected more out of the new Bangalore International airport. It is of course big and good, but to the international standards, it should have been more a lot more different.

Anyway that's it, I am feeling less interested to write more on this topic, but it is quite fascinating on how the directors have managed to make a movie "Terminal" Tom Hanks on it. Really a good movie. Well! All the way on this travel back I was tired tired tired. The very first leg from Kansas to Atlanta made me feel such a long flight. Then Atlanta to Paris and Paris to Bangalore, back home and then slept like a log. End of the story.

Funny and True ;)

Couple of days back I got this set of sentences as a forward. Found it really cool!

Relationship between eyes

The best relation ever is between two eyes,
"They blink together, move together, cry together, see together and sleep together".
STILL they never see directly each other.
But when they see a girl, one will blink and the other will not.

Moral of the story: " Girls can break all kind of relationships ".

Aeeerrrooopllaaaannneeeeeee

When I was little, probably of age 4-5 years, that was when I joined the school for LKG or may be before that I guess. I had one ambition then. Whenever whoever used to ask me what will you become, when you grow up, I used to say "I will become a PILOT". My ambition or craze for becoming pilot was so strong that I had a huge bunch of toys which were only aeroplanes, helicopters, guns. We used to stay in a small taluka place Yadgir in Gulbarga district. Hardly any plane would fly through that air route, even if it happens to fly, you can hear a mild plane sound and suddenly I used to start searching the whole horizon of the sky. Somewhere if lucky would find an ant sized aeroplane. In every fest I just used to get planes and helicopters. Whenever I had fight or angry with any of my aunts or cousins, my punishment to them was "I won't take you in my plane". At that point of time we had black & white TV. If I remember correctly the brand of TV was Crown TV. It had a wooden shutters too :). So in that area it was like only we had TV. All the people, kids from neighbourhood used to come to our house and watch TV. TV was such a cool thing then, but it was not for me. If everyone used to be inside house I used to be outside with my planes. The only movie at that age I remember seeing was a movie probably called "Vijay" which was about a war and there were lot of planes in that movie.

As we grew we changed places, houses, schools, then in 8th standard I decided to become IAS officer. As we grow, our childhood dreams, imaginations, innocence all fade and we advance towards so called realities of life. Then all the herd mentality will start. Play safe nature is always so much embedded within. Then took science in PUC, then there are only 2 options. Engineer or a Doctor. I don't have any backup or background in Medicine so Engineer is the best choice. Then study cram cram in exams get good CET ranking, get good Engineering college, then cram cram study in engineering, get good company. This thing never ends. It is a rat race and everybody will be just running. If I imagine this I see a huge 6 lane road on which the whole population is running. I am standing on a footpath with a bag(why bag I don't know). I would stop somebody and ask "Hey where are you going", he would say "Don't waste my time, I will be late, I have to go". I didn't get the answer, so again "But where are you going". He would say "I don't know but everybody is running". I get the same answer from couple of other people. Well! This is not the case with everyone. Just my imagination, sometimes I feel even I am also running, but very hard to accept that, probably I won't accept it even today.

Whatever! Though the dream is still there. Just by mere coincidence, or that`s how life takes you or something like that. Even though there are numerous companies in various domains, I landed into Honeywell through campus placement in my college. I remember the first day in Honeywell after the initial orientation of half day we were assigned with the teams and I didn't knew what the hell was my team all about. A senior of mine working in Honeywell had told that Automation and Control Systems has better work than Aerospace. So I went on to the 5th floor of our Uranus building, I was anxiously looking at the books, boards, posters at the cubicle to see what domain did this team belong too. Though ACS was good I wanted to be in Aerospace. Finally I am in the Aerospace domain and it has been such a interesting journey to not just see but work on so many exciting things about aeroplane. I salute to the Wright Brothers who discovered that we can fly like birds a century ago. Even after travelling in planes so many times, whenever a plane flies in the sky, I don't stop staring at it until it fades away. Guess what! A pilot working here in Honeywell Olathe is going to take me on a plane. I will be sitting in the Co-Pilot seat. In air I will definitely take control of the joystick, operating the instruments and I will be flying it. Just waiting for the Tornadoes to settle down to give us a clear sky.

One day I really want to fly my own plane. I will become a pilot...

I Touched the iTouch

I had a confusion in my mind since a long time. In December I was thinking thinking and finally didn't execute it. Nothing great! It was just that iPod vs iTouch vs iPhone. My brother was more on to iTouch. It is cool and looks damn good.

Well! the thing is iPod classic has 80GB costs $250 and iTouch $300. If I take iPod I can store lots and lots of data, songs and movies. In iTouch I just get 8GB seems to be less. I don't want to pay another $100 just to get 16GB iTouch. But I have 500GB hard-disk. I can watch movies in iPod too. What else is great in iTouch, nothing more just Wifi and calculator and other stuff. How much to I use these Wifi stuff in India. If I setup the WiFi network in India, I would rather use laptop to browse the net rather than doing it on iTouch. One more thing is that if I take iPhone then iTouch would become redundant. I don't want to take iPhone from here, by breaking that AT&T contract and do the exercise of cracking it for Indian mobile network. I would be at the risk of guarantee of iPhone.

Yesterday was a Good Friday, So I thought I should do something good. In the evening went to Plaza and then to the Apple Store. Apple store always looks so good, everything white looks royal, sleek, Hifi(Wifi was there) and techno atmosphere. Especially the new MAC Air is just awesome so thin. Then focusing on my requirement I went to the place where iPods were kept because the store was about to close in another half an hour. I went on with initial thing of pressing all the buttons and hearing bits and pieces of what was there in iPods. I was thinking white iPods looks better than black iPods. It was good.

Then turned towards the place where lots of iTouch were kept. iTouch welcomed to its interface with a big screen. It just looked awesome, big screen, so sensitive, all 3D glossy icons, the maps, calci, safari browser, music quality, photo viewer. The interface is just too good, you can pinch it and anti pinch it(I don't know what is the opposite word) for zoom in and zoom out. Just for satisfaction I checked my gmail on it, luckily it went to my actual mail account. It is like a big room inside (a web page or anything) and you can just by moving your fingers you can reach the ends of the pages top down left right. Man! This damn whole thing impressed me a lot.

iTouch: Hey! How am I?
Srini: Too good man! Steve Job and your engineers have worked a lot on you to the most minute details.
iTouch: What do you think, I am better than iPod
Srini: Yeah! I am feeling but space, and your big brother iPhone and all....
iTouch: Man! Don't think too much, For everything so much analysis, you feel good about me, just take it, I will be loyal to you :). Moreover see I am new and cool, iPod by its name 'classic' it is pushed back to old age now.
Srini: Ok! Da! enough of your marketing, I will buy you now.... :)

So my credit cards was swiped just like that and iTouch was in my hand. My friend exclaimed Welcome to the iPod family!. Get out! you are telling as if Steve Jobs is your uncle(He has a iPod that's why all this style). Well! One more thing, iTouch or iPhone is not the Resistive touch screen unlike kiosk, PDA, ATM machines. It uses the Capacitive touchscreen technology where a thin film conducts continuous current to the sensor. You know human body is also like a electrical device, your finger touch would create a capacitive field and this change is the capacitive field it create distortion which can be used to execute an action. That's why iTouch or iPhone works with your fingers only not with stylus or even your hands with gloves. If you don't understand don't bother or ask questions back to me, this is just to show off that I am electronics engineer hahaha :D.

End of the Day "I touched the iTouch"...

Long Weekend Nowhere to go

It is a long weekend this weekend. The whole of this week our greatest topic of discussion is "What is the plan for this Weekend?". I don't know how many times we have discussed about this. To plan any trip is not a difficult thing, it is very easy; just decide on what is kind of requirements you have or type of fun you want to have, freeze the place, take the maps, book the motel online, start your car(Ofcourse if it is a road trip). I like road trips because it is fun to drive. But there are some things like in a group, some one has to take the initiative, some one has to do all the arrangements, some one will drop off in the end, some one has to maintain the enthu in everybody, now these kinds of things are not easy.

Actually in my last visit I have covered the possible places in the north, east, south, west of Kansas. The places which I would like to see in US are Las Vegas, Los Angles, Yellow Stone National Park, Niagara Falls, Miami Florida(any Florida beaches), Hawaii. I mean these are special. If I try to plan for any other cities around it would be again typical tall buildings, some observatory, zoo, aquarium, museums, park. So for the places of my interest I have to fly.

So I am in a fix situation, I feel like going out somewhere and really feel relaxed, rejuvenate and reset the health state of the mind. I have to do some of my work too which are to be done from my side. Going out also gives happiness and accomplishing the work that we have in mind also gives happiness. Doing nothing, just killing time is the worst thing to do, it is very boring, frustrating, it is like flowing as the wind blows, and then regretting that I did nothing. I feel 80% of the time in our life(by making a generic statement I am not trying to drag everybody) we do nothing, it like death waste, killing the time just like that, rest 20% of the our life time is what something remarkable we do or which remain on the top of the head that we did something. For the time line it is not required to consider a whole life time, just considering timeline of a year or 3 years is good enough to do the analysis. Suppose suddenly you ask me what significant things did I do in the last 5 years, or if you ask me what do I know, I just go blank... aaah aaah aahh.

What crap am I talking about. Some crap man! Actually I am bored I am searching for happiness. There are lot of these Maahaaan sayings "Happiness is within", "you can be as much happy as much you decide to be" blah blah... After knowing all these still you won't see or get the happiness. Bliss is a long way to go, as I believe it is advanced stage of a happiness. Man! then it gets spiritual. One has to realize himself to be in a blissful state. One will be happy when he finds what makes him happy, what he loves.

By the way I was talking about trip for this weekend, totally forgot about the topic, but they are inter-related. Even if you go around if you don't get the happiness then there is no point in a trip too. Man! A good company is required, not that I have bad company.

Whatever! I am not going anywhere out this weekend.

Memories with no delete option

A month passed by since I am back to India. Suddenly in between I was having a different kind of a feeling. I was so busy in work at office and some personal work in hunting for the property. I was just living every day. Go to office, come back, sleep, do some work, fill forms and back to office, meetings and tracking. Just like salt or sugar when dissolved with water will loose its original form. I got dissolved in this busy world. Today I was listening to some of my favorite songs that I used to listen in Kansas. It had happened something like this that the USB memory drive of 1 year which was disconnected from my PC, suddenly got connected and started showing me off all the history files.

Initially Kansas was like a boring place, but slowly as I went on spending my days in here, I started liking the city. What was special about the city, the people I met here, the homely nature of the city, the plaza, the parks, the downtown, the candlewood suites, my running path, the office, the work, everything almost everything in here. As though I found it was not good for buying anything much of electronics items unlike the deals in Fry’s electronics of Phoenix. But I did roam around places here and went around lot of restaurants and pretty good hang out places. Though all along the time we went on blaming Kansas for its geographic position, it is like you won’t understand the importance of something that you have, until you loose it.

Initial one month went off in just getting settling down in here, getting my laptop, SSN, DL, car and things like that. Then when we 3 Honeywell guys (Bejoy, Arya and me) got together we started experimenting the roads and places around. After the Wipro guys and gals pitched in the Candlewoods, our group started growing. I still remember I had invited everybody to The Country Club Plaza, I had heard that it was a good place! that’s it. We missed the exit or a lane change and went altogether in a different route. Someone helped us in showing us back the route, but we were in doubt whether they are helping us or taking us somewhere. After the first visit to Plaza and then later discovery of this place, it formed our favorite place to hang out every weekend. Few of the places of Plaza I just can’t ever forget. The fountains around, the bridge over the water stream, the statues, the cheesecake factory, the starbucks, the America’s Pub, the Barnes and Nobels, so many other restaurants. Plaza is one such a unique marvelous place; it is so romantic, it so mystical and magical.


We went on trips to the cities around as far as possible. St Louis was the first trip. It was just 260 miles away from Kansas. It was good fun time to see the arch, the kiddy museum, the zoo and just roaming around. Only frustrating part for me was that I always missed the exits, may be as I still say it was because Vinod was helping me properly with navigation. The Chicago trip was just amazing. Man! Chicago, has its own flare, it own style and attitude for which I liked it a lot. Just after spending 3 days in Chicago I felt it is a city to live. The drive was just too long and memorable. My second profession was driving, I was a driver :), but since I love driving, I don’t mind this even as a profession. The Dallas trip was good, too long drive for 2 days, but it was a good break. The Rocky mountain trip was rocking. Rockies in covered with snow was like heaven, it was too beautiful to handle, the lake walk, the trees half covered with snow, the colorful lighting on streets, the thanksgiving parade, the starbucks over there, twin owls hotel. It was one trip with no deadlines and we watched so many movies while in hotel. It was the best trip of the year. The New York trip was fantastic in its own ways. These cities are just the best cities in the world. “I love New York” that is saying that goes around everywhere in NY and I really feel the meaning of it.

The friends I got here, I believe them to be friends for lifetime. I just hope so that we keep in touch till the last moment on this earth, but I don’t know. My Honeywell folks were Bejoy, Arya, Madhava, Harshad, Prashanth, Sachin, Enrique. From Wipro were, Anoop, Pooja, Vidya, Matangi, Nakul, Ayyanar, Vinod, Nirmal, Safeer, Srirajesh, Imran, Senthil… Well! I am not taking any attendance here :). Each of them came and went off for a period of a time. I always had a strange feeling why do people meet and depart. I used to kind of give them send off and I used the feel what the hell am I the host here or what. But I knew no one is permanent, even one day I have to leave from here. Anoop Pooja and Safeer were on H1, so in a way it was good for me with a thought that I will always have their company. Unfortunately something happened, Pooja left Kansas, unsolved mystery forever for me. All means of contact with her was lost just like that!. I wish even today Can God make some modifications here. Anoop was always there, in fact he was a default person in all my trips and weekends. Dude! Thanks man!. Matangi is an amazing cook and she never feels bored to cook any day any time. She is like a radio (Mat don’t feel bad, it is a complement in a good sense), once it is ON it goes on and on. Nakul was cool, we all had a big adventure and worlds of fun was loads of fun. Arya is a cool person, I really had such a good time to have him in our company. He has his own typical style and philosophies. Something or the other thing would be going on giggling, laughing or some jokes when he is around. Madhava is one person who ultimately gave me a send off. On the way back to India I went through New York and New Jersey. Anoop came along and we roamed around a lot of places in New York. It has just too hard for me to say Bye to him, talking some crap and avoiding eye contact I ran off to my path next ahead at the Times Square. It is very difficult for me to stop writing for this blog, because I have so many more things to say. The strange yet another thing is that I started writing this post when I was in India and I am completing this when I am back in Kansas again.

All these memories are buried in my mind and would remain green forever.

Home Sweet Home

Many topics have come and gone in my mind. Time is flying and the situations in which I am around are rolling one after the other. I don't want any of those feeling to go off without notice. Somehow I need to keep up with the time and keep writing.

After encountering the deadly snow storm of Kansas, I somehow reached New York. New York is altogether one more separate topic. New York in Christmas time was awesome, it was totally filled with energy. I threw myself into the Lufthansa flight to Frankfurt and then into the flight from Frankfurt to Bangalore. The journey was tiring, with very little sleep on the those comfortable seats(just like BST bus). Now this strange thing that should be true with almost everyone. Always you would expect some good looking female should come on the seat beside yours. Till someone arrives you would be damn curious about who is gonna take that seat. This is true for bus, train, and plane. Ultimately what happens is kind of always certain that, it would be taken by either some old uncle, grandma, or another male software engineer, unless and until you are damn lucky and your time is so good that all the nine planets have got aligned in a straight line. So the obvious thing happened with me. When the plane touched the Indian land some kind of happiness aroused inside me. After all it has been really long time almost a year. I was just waiting to get on to the Bangalore land. When the plane door was opened I could feel the smell of the city. Even after a year it hasn't got changed, it won't ever probably. The taxi wala didn't knew the road to my home and I hadn't forgot the road either.

As I was passing through the roads a lot of memories were going as a flash back in my mind. I could see nothing had got changed, everything remained the same, even the ditch near my home. I reached 4:20 am and was totally tired, but was not in a position to sleep. I went on talking, talking and talking with my Mom and brother as if I hadn't spoken for years. Even they didn't had a good sleep, but they were also excited to have me back. The next day my Dad was flying all the way from North India, Punjab to see his son after a year. After really a long time we all four had dinner on a same table. The challenge for me the next day was to drive to airport to pick up my Dad. After driving really powerful cars of 200-300bhp, I was pushing really hard the accelerator pedal of our car. Moreover the traffic and the driving on the left side of the road the quite opposite of US. Though I felt a bit of hurdle to move around in traffic, but then I have driven 10 years in India and just a year in US. I was more than excited to drive my Pulsar. I was all the time driving car, so my pulsar was looking at me with side eyes. So I had to come take it for a ride, you know what, it responded me with the same roar when I turned its accelerator. I was back on the Indian tracks in total action in a day. I haven't forgotten anything, driving, riding, swimming is all like walking. All of these you have to learn once in life.

After coming from US, even if you want it or not there are few things which you feel implicitly. Everything looks small, the roads, the cars, the airport, the cubicles, the shops, the buildings, and everywhere so many people, the dust, up and downs on road. You try to walk on the left side of the pathways. You would the pull the doors in office to open, but they are to be pushed in order to open whereas in US it is standard that to enter you have to pull and to exit you have to push. You would be more used to English films and channels where in you would have the update information but nothing much about the latest Hindi, Kannada songs. So when you are changing channels on the TV, it would somewhat get stopped at HBO or Star Movies, VH1 and also you would recognize the songs. The English accent would have got a bit different. When we went for shopping I was converting the price to dollars ;) (This is not attitude, OK!, the thing I was buying was cheaper in US). These are things that you feel naturally, but whatever be it, the happiness you get being in India is something non-replaceable with anything.


I went to my cousin's place to celebrate new year. It was total fun and there were all young people and so many of my relatives. Suddenly you would have become a highlight. Everyone asks these set of questions, How was US, Where all did you go, How did you feel, Did you used cook, What did you get me, where are the chocolates, you have become fat, Are you going back. Somewhere inside I was really feeling bad. In the period of one year I couldn't speak to so many people who I know, so many of my relative, so many of my close friends. Many things have happened in their life about which I am not updated with. My cousin is Mom now, four of my friends got married, I couldn't even attend, I don't remember the names of their finances, some have changed their companies and I don't know where they are now, one of my friend went to Germany, other was busy preparing CAT, few of them are in US, but couldn't meet them there. When you are in the other side of the earth and in total opposite times you would really miss many things. When I was watching TV, even then I felt in a year I have missed so many things that have happened here. But really Brand India is great now and fast encompassing around the world. The stock exchange, the Indian bull has ran to great heights, some 110 shared have risen 1000 times, which means if you had invested 1 lakh, it would have become 10 crore. Every channel has Shah Rukh Khan with his six packs because of his brand establishment. It seems India is the flourishing with new opportunities and energy.

Even in office everyone comes to your cubicle. I went on telling my experiences and places I went in US. Of course even on the project I was in limelight. But it is like this say when Tendulkar hits a century he would remain in limelight for some days, all news channels and all the people in hair cut saloons speak about him. Or say some new movie is released those actors in the film will be in total limelight spotlight what not. Then as the time moves on the glamor dies down. People forget and Man the nature to get adapted with the environment. So after some time the nasha of US goes off. You would become one of the sheep among the herd and move on.....

PS: But I don't agree with the last sentence.

Om Shanti Om

Should I write about this movie or not? Am I too late, because the movie was released a bit time ago? Is the hype of this movie over? Anyway whatever be it, I feel like writing about it. You know right! Any Shahrukh movie is hyped, advertised, spoken all over and spread over everywhere. Sometimes I feel Shahrukh Khan as more of a business man than an actor. He is too shrewd, witty and a perfect entertainer. He knows what really has to be done. You just see his interviews, he takes over the anchor, acts like humble and proves that he is the king of bollywood. A great Filmfare anchor, keeps all the right people in their good books, cracks jokes on his competitor in a intelligent way and makes everyone happy. At times he portrays his emotional side with senti senti dialogues. He has struggled and come a long way to reach here. That's why for all this I like him.

I was too much occupied in work and was waiting for this movie to release, as a break from work. So on the day of the release along with friends I went to the movie theatre here to AMC 30. Though we were looking for the night show, I don't know why because it was SRK movie all the Indians seemed to have occupied the theatre. For the first time I saw it was housefull and sold out. My previous experience with Kansas Movie theatre was different. For "Chak De" there were totally 7 people in the big theatre including us. Guess what! for "Hey Baby" the whole theatre was occupied by me and my friend Anup. I was having a feeling this theatre is a adjacent room to my hall in my house. The reel was rolling specially for us. Anyway we booked the ticket for 5:30PM show for Saturday. I was in office till 5:15PM(Yeah! even on Saturday) and then rushed around driving crazily and reached 10-15 mins late(oh! shit how can I be late again). The film had already started. After 2 and half hour the film got over. Thats all! the blog is over.

"Blog abhi khatam nahi huvi hai, blog abhibi baki hai mera dosto". Overall if you just see without really making your logic part of the brain to work, it was a good entertaining movie. I enjoyed watching it and some part of it I like watching it again and again. It looked like the whole movie was done without any tension, everyone were let free to act whatever they want to do. I think, for the first half of the movie they really thought a lot, worked a lot and have put on many things to the show. There are these few of the things which I liked the most in the movie. You know, it is so nice and easy to go back to the history & remain in that time line and tell about what that is going to happen in future. Like SRK telling to Farah Khan tu kya film ka director hai kya, some other guy telling to Om "Sirf jacket pehene se koyi hero nahi banta, kuch shakal bhi hona chahiye aur style bhi rehna chahiye(Even though it is true SRK is a great actor now), Pappu and Om at the Tea shop telling a fresher about name "to Govinda try karu, aaahhh try karo"(today Govinda is a hero, (name matters a lot)), Om telling Shanti "Dosti mein mera ek usool hai, No Saarry no Thank you"(Dialouge in Maine Pyar kiya). The set up of the oldies looked so good, the digital mixing actors in the song "Dhuun ta na na", the music has more of Dhol sound, the old type big collars, tight light colour pants, the colour of the costumes with square chux shirt, big flower sarees, those plastic baskets, the badminton style, old type cars, lightings, hair styles. It was filled with humour also filmi Maa, actions of old styles, different versions of Bhagoo, South Indian actor Omshantinatan Swami "Naa Raamba, Naa illaay, atttii pattii katti heyyh heyyh, Yenna Rascalla Myind Ittthaa". Whenever the scene turns into too sentimental type suddenly the next moment it would get a swift turn to a humour. The second part was ok dokie types, with some masala of filmfare, 31 actors entering in a song, SRK Darde Disco item song and that cool types modern bigada huva baccha.

How can I forget to write about Shanti, which forms the center of focus in the name of the film. Man! She is so beautiful. Deepika Padukone has already created waves among everybody. When she enters to the theatre out of the car, in that pink dress she looks so gorgeous. When the song Dhunn ta na tadun tanan started, my eye's pupil size enlarged(I don't have to explain this funda right!). She looks so cool in the second half of the movie. I feel beauty has an aura around it. This pervades everywhere the feeling of happiness. It is like the aroma of the frangrance that bring about a strange kind of a joy. This feeling lingers through out the film and even in the songs. Om(SRK) falling off with a hand on his heart to her smile is just so true. I would also do the same action for her smile :D.

With all this mirch masala, I feel there is some theme and philosophy in the film. It is about having a dream, chasing a dream and dream does come true. The best part I felt is, whatever dialogues in the first part of the film are repeated in the second part with the dream being realized. Even though you make call it, its after all a film, but after all in life you need to have a dream. I had read in the book "The Alchemist" about how the world conspires when you start chasing your dream leaving behind everything.

" Itni shidhatt se meine tumhe paane ki kooshis ki hai, Ke har zarre ne tumhse mila ne ki shazhis ki hai"

"Kehte hai, Agar kisi cheez ko dil se chaho, to puri kayanat usse tumhse milaneki kooshis mein lag jati hai. Aap sabne meri chahat se mila diya Thaanks I feel like I am the King of the Wooorrllldddd..."

Storm, Snow, Ice, Bore

Weather weather weather. I wonder whether weather is so important. Actually for the people like us who live just near to the Tropic of Cancer(Geography pada hai na 5th or 7th I don't know) we always have such a good weather. We just don't realize that we have a good weather untill and unless we are out of our place and see some crazy weather at the extreme north and extreme south fo the globe. Kansas being in the mid of no-where on US maps has very volatile weather, more volatile than a girls' mind(Now why girls' mind are volatile or all are not like that, I don't know; don't ask me all that. Just feel that their mind are volatile).

You know what! when any two US people meet the one think they start the conversation with is about weather. Hey! How you doing? How is the weather at your end. People tend to speak hours together about weather. Then when they see weird faces like ours they ask how about the weather in India, How is the weather in Bangalore. Then we start calculating in our mind 27 degree celsius which means F = 9/5C + 32. Are the F and C at right places? Is it 9/5 or 5/9. I think it should be plus 32 because Fahrenheit is a bigger number(wah logic), ah! 9/5 * 27 ah! too complex formula man!. Shit! I have to appear for CAT, can't I calculate such a small thing in mind. Hey! People are still waiting and watching your face expecting a answer about the temperature and weather. Oh! Forget about the formula, just guess a number we keep doing a lot of guess work at many places. Yeah! Our weather doesn't vary too much, just the people vary a lot. Somewhere from 70 degree F to 90 F. Anyway they are not going to come to India and check the weather. They say we have 60 F now, which is kind of very good. Again for my understanding how much is it in Celcius. Is it C = 5/9(F-32)? Who cares. I just feel bored to speak about weather.

Over here there is a weather channel or should I say like that every channel speaks about weather. People in office here have live Doppler Radar graphs on their screens. They have live temperature update. Any plans to any tour they first check the forcast. In fact they check the forcast everyday before coming to office. Hell! man.

Actually past a week here the weather is totally changing. I didn't check the website or watched any tv news about weather. In fact there was a snowfall here on the day just before the Thanksgiving Day. And then actually there was good amount of snowfall on last Thursday. Was it Thursday or Friday, I don't remember. Anyway so everyone in office told that there is going to be a huge snowfall today. Oh! is it? how do you know, forcast, weather update mail. Just a day before everything was green and sunny. When I got out of my office, man! Kansas looked totally different. Everything changed in a day. Even though there was no sunlight, it looked so bright everywhere. Everything was covered with snow. It was like a white bedsheet is thrown all over. Even my car with more than 3 inch of snow. Feel like this setup should be untouched to protect its beauty. Then when cars and start rolling on the roads the snows gets dirty with mud and sand and becomes the ugly grey. So last weekend it was all cold and snow, I couldn't go anywhere. I spent the whole saturday just in home. It was just good to watch from window, but was very boring to stay home. Even it happens there when it is raining heavily, you just can't go anywhere and have to stick in home. It gets really boring sometimes if you are alone.

Soon after this snow face was over, one more strange event in weather. Ice Storm! This doesn't mean that huge cones of ice are going to hit the ground with the blow of the wind. It is actually that it starts raining and temperature starts dipping down and down to the freezing point. Then the water on the trees, roads, boards, builings, cars, obviously everthing starts freezing to form ice. Water over ice freezes again and just forms the accumulation of ice. I have some pictures of it. It looks so amazing. Man! I kind of saw all kinds of weather being here. Morning when I was driving to work I was feeling like driving in the Montreal circuit, Canada. I haven't driven there, but this was a circuit in game Need for Speed.


Finally what! Nothing.
Moral of the story is Snow, Ice, Storms are just good to see, but boring weather to live.

Back!

Three months back I had written something on this blog and then on I have not scribbled much over here. I don't know what is the exact reason or there are many of them. But somehow writing something is fun! I really enjoy the feeling of some kind of accomplishment after finishing an article each time. Anyway these are not the articles that are going to be printed neither in "The Times of India" nor in "The New York Times". Well! I don't even want it to be printed there, why in the hell there, for that matter why in the hell here.

Somehow I don't know why these kinds of thoughts are popping off from my mind. Who is going to read all these, what is the use after reading all these, who is going to care me anyway, who is going to look at me, what is the use of this life, why should we live! oh ooh! hold on! where is this going. I don't want to end up either into some philosophy or psychology. I don't know why generally people don't like to enter into these fields, but inherently everybody deal or stay on these fields.

I have read few of the blogs where people write so openly and frankly on what is happening in their life and then some are like that opinions of the happenings or way of life. I don't know in what way I write. After all how much have I written till now. But so many topics came in and out of my mind. There are so many things after all. Actually there are a zillion things and everything is important. Kya bakh raha hoon....

Ah! I got the reason on why I am saying all this. Actually I am lost. I don't know what to do. I never thought I would get lost in this way. I need to find myself back. I keep saying myself, I am back, am I, really? Okay! I was finding the meaning out of everything. Meanings for the questions. Who is going to care me anyway. What difference will my life make to this world.

Well! I want to end this blog with some positive note. It is just for me to feel better from the feeling of hopelessness. So this is a short story in two lines. A woman was walking on the sands of beach barefoot on a sunny day in the evening across the shore. I love the beaches. They are so good. The whole atmosphere at the beach is so enchanting. That cool breeze on the face, the roar of the waves, the crimson blue sky after sunset, happy faces playing in the salty water, the feeling of cool sand to the feet, the touch of the water when it flows in, then the trickling feeling or submerging feeling when the water flows back to sea, aah! everything is so awesome. I wish Kansas had a beach here. Actually sometimes I feel like going out from the room to somewhere and then I stop myself with this question where should I go... If there was a beach here, then I would have gone there and sat alone. By the way coming back to my story of two lines, there was a strong wind the previous day, so due to the strong waves a lot of star fish were thrown to the sea shore. So this woman was picking up each of these star fishes and was throwing them back to the sea. After all fishes live in water you see. If you had seen around there were thousands or millions of star fishes on the shore. At the other end a man was observing on what this woman was doing. He was surprised a bit and out of curiosity he came to that woman and asked. What are you doing? The woman replied I am just giving lift to these star fishes back to their home. The man asks, there are so many of them millions of them what difference will you make anyway.

The woman picks up a star fish from the sea shore, holds it and shows that to the man and throws it back to the sea and says "I made a difference to this star fish"....