Just had a thought...

on my journey back to Bangalore, of the names of people with whom I've shared a room, apart from my sisters and a cousin. One night stands don't qualify :P. Turns out to be quite a list.

Yogesh Waghmare
Zihar Shaikh
Mohan Kshirsagar
Ashim Srivastava
Naresh Rathi
Deepak Nawal
Pranav Arora
Yogesh Tiwari
Kiran Kedari
Lalminsanga
R.B Thohepau
Viren Pawar
Kaushal Karkhanis
Ameet Lomate
Amit Khivansara
Siddharth Rajurkar
Girish Mohile
Kshitij Amodekar
Piyush Sonawane
Maibam Singh
Rahul More
Kailash Babu Diwakar
Vinay Kumar
Samreth Singh
Asutosh Kar
Pavan Misra
Ashish Kumar
Arpit Agarwal
Ankan Mandal
Prashanth
Karthik Natarajan

It's official...though only a game ;)

About Music...

"It's not about how well you play, it's how you feel about what you play."
-From "The curious case of Benjamin Button"

My West Coast list

chronological

1. Mumbai
2. Kelshi
3. Alibaug
4. Srivardhan
5. Harihareshwar
6. Ganapatipule
7. Thiruvananthapuram
8. Kovalam
9. Kanniyakumari
10. Diveagar
11. Diu
12. Palolem
13. Baga
14. Miramar
15. Adegaon
16. Kaup
17. Uchilla
18. Yermal

East Coast begins with....
1. Kolkata :)

New year week

No"public" resolutions, but this is what I started the new year with:

1. What women want
2. Seven Pounds
3. 21
4. Mumbai Meri Jaan
5. Slumdog Millionaire
6. Singh is Kinng
7. Street Kings
8. The Dark Knight
9. The Blue Umbrella
10. Incomplete Dostana
11.Couldn't-take-after-30minutes-Golmaal Returns
12. Just started-Into the Wild

Like father, like son

My father's handwriting @age 59

Also tells the plight of Maharashtra ;)

Beat this!!

Neither Photoshop nor India....this is in Dessau, Germany :D
courtesy: K (Anna)

30F

My Firsts, 5th-9th December 2008:

1. Met someone I knew, at the Bangalore airport
2. Felt sick on a plane
3. Wrote a page for someone, on the plane
4. Got off with luggage at the NID main gate
5. Totally ignored someone I like
4. First for breakfast in the mess
5. First cam
6. Got semi-lost in Ahmedabad!
7. Someone said,"I will hug you"
8. Felt like a responsible senior
9. "Samuel" is not as easy to pronounce as it seems
10. A treat with the class and faculty where Me and A paid
11. First suit
12. Heard an expression of "Oh my God" for the above
12. Fetched a drink for a friend when she asked
13. Said NO and didn't feel bad about it
14. An hour late to receive parents on arrival
15. Breakfast with parents in the mess
16. Felt important, though only briefly, coz there were 216 others convocating too
17. Hugged so many friends to congratulate them
18. A pair of old, proud, moist eyes
19. Danced on the tables in the mess
20. Got pushed and pulled by my classmates
21. Stayed at the mess party till 4 a.m
22. Said "Good bye" very easily
23. Walked my "girl" friends to their room
24. Had breakfast at Udipi cafe
25. Dinner with parents in the mess
26. Slept at a hotel in Ahmedabad
27. Denied entry at IIM
28. Entered IIM very confidently from the 2nd gate
29. Met a Kannada speaking auto driver in Ahmedabad
30F last row last seat, right window.........everything felt right

A piece of me

more

I think she's a girl

Dear Georgia,
I think I'm in love with you.
No matter how hard I have tried to deny myself, it's not happening.
You are just there everywhere I see and appear in whatever I do.
I have tried to consciously avoid you, but you don't seem to understand.
You are just there.
It's just this...and nothing more I have to say

"Guide"d

June 2005 : "It is better to make a decision at the right time, than to wait for the time to make a right decision" - TDG via nid.edu answering my query of IDC/NID, Thanks :)

stutter

shoes are broken
not the steps
eyes wide open
not the rest

Geek celebrations

Name : Macbook
Skin colour : White
Generation : First (late 2006)
Original price : Never mind
Current value : It's not always about money :P
Nature of work : creative (hahahaha) rest of the time...just try and avoid the sight of my doting owner
Cities traveled to : New Delhi, Ahmedabad, Ahmednagar, Bangalore, Mumbai, Panjim, Pune, Solapur
Bad experiences : Burnt power adapter cable
Nervous moments : Jury presentation at NID auditorium, Friday, 13th April 2007
Looking forward to : Another nervous moment...
Happiest moment : The day he took me home :P
Embarrassing moment : Random shutdown during a concept presentation at Y!
Intimate moments : Lots
Wild encounters : Geoffrey (the cat)
Biggest achievement : 2.5GB space still free (of 60GB)
337 battery cycles, beat PM and SS in NFSMW
Split personality : Windows xp via boot camp
Visible signs of aging : Brown stains, a cracked corner, low battery, the same yellow apple wallpaper (hasn't changed since a year) and only 2 icons on the desktop
Extra marital affair : None
Biggest Crash : Hello!!! not the right time

Claim to fame : It's my 2nd birthday :D

MOVIESPOTTING

With me it's true that I enjoy a movie only when I have tons of piled up work to do.
How else can you explain this time last year, with a hard disk full of movies and all the time in the world, and me not even bothering to open up and check on any. And the same time this year, loaded with probably all the work possible in the world, I still catch up on a few portions every night. Actually it is a good incentive, to set a deadline like "today i will work
till page number...xyz of my document"....and only then I get to watch a movie :) It's another story that most of the times, I skip deadlines, of course, coz it's me who sets them in the first place :D

Here are the ending words from a few nights back, a movie which was very well made and re-established a few basic facts of life.

I am moving on, going straight and choosing life,
I am going to be just like you,
The job,
The family,
The f**** big television,
The washing machine,
The compact disc and electronic tin opener,
Good health,
Low cholestrol,
Dental Insurance
Mortgage,
Start a home,
Leisure wear,
Luggage,
Three piece suit,
DIY,
Game shows,
Junk food,
Children,
Walk in the park,
9 to 5,
Good at golf,
Washing the car,
Choice of sweaters,
Family Christmas,
Tax exemption,
Clearing gutters,
Getting by,
Looking ahead......the day you die.

-Trainspotting

Tagged

Life 10 years ago
HSC- high on engineering dreams
Physics Chemistry Mathematics Electronics :P
Hercules Rockshox
Cricket with a leather ball
Big fish in a small pond

Life 5 years ago
Big fish in a big pond ;)
High on architecture
Still on Hercules Rockshox
Waiting to get out into the world
Pune is the place!!!- nothing's better

Life tomorrow
Everyday is a Monday!!
Cities don't matter...

5 bad habits
procrastination
day dreaming
high expectations from people who don't deserve it
talking less
expressing even less

5 things I will never wear
A dazzling sherwani
A washed out and grunge look pair of jeans
Ear jewellery
A leather jacket
Make up

5 biggest joys at the moment
Almost 2 year old Macbook
Bangalore
30th of every month
Some real friends
That I can adapt to any situation
That I don't regret anything I did this year, last year, and the year before that, and before that

Something to achieve by next year
Something real...
A new resume

Something that impacted me last year
All ends need not necessarily have beginnings

5 things I want to do before I die
Get drunk
Swear at someone in public and storm out of the door
"Dance"
Make a pass at a girl
Own a BMW
Live out of my studio
Play at a rockshow
Make a difference to a few lives

: )

And today I read another tagged questionnaire.....phew!!!
I do want to fill them up :P

Status

Facebook asks: What are you doing right now?

Well, as for me, I am thinking about writing a post which is actually a tagged thing circulated among friends which is as follows

Life 10 years ago

Life 5 years ago

Life tomorrow

5 bad habits

5 things I will never wear

5 biggest joys at the moment

Something to achieve by next year

Something that impacted me last year

5 things I want to do before I die

Flashing lights

Title of one of the songs that I have been listening to lately, and also lights is a part of one of my other momentary favourite that goes....Hey there Delilah.....and somewhere in between..."Times square can't shine as bright as you"

Talking of lights, last night will be a bright spot in my life as a cricket enthusiast. Another first to the list. The pace, the array of shots, the fast paced movements, the dazzling colours, the unanimous oohs-aahs and even boos, the shattering of stumps and bails, the cheer leaders within the crowd and outside them as well, everything......and of course Bengaluru :P 

Whoever said that cricket was a slow and boring game!!!

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SMTWTFS

SMTWTFS just doesn't seem clear
It was x3 a few days back....now it is x?
A few more things that are unclear
But I guess hazy atleast sounds better than lazy :)

SMT'WTF'S