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Jan

Twenty Two Again!

Raj 6 Comments

Categories: Funny and Life

In case you are wondering what the title means, I wrote this post titled Twenty Two exactly an year ago.
The last few days have been full of confusion. Has it ever happened to you feel that even though everything is going okay, you still feel a little concerned as if something is not right. Also, I keep trying to do new things in life but somehow all of those soon merge into the mundane fabric of my life. Is there even a solution? I’m not sure. I’m not even sure if I make sense at all. But I am still gonna write it. You see, one of my problems that I’ve recognized recently is over thinking. In fact, there are many draft posts that never got published because of it. And as they say, accepting a problem is the first step towards solving it. So lets see how this goes.

Interestingly, in the post that I wrote an year ago, I had mentioned how my broadband provider was being a real pain. What I didn’t tell you was how I called up its customer service center everyday and gave the guy/gal a piece of my mind. They somehow always managed to get on my nerves. They made me discover how much hatred I was capable of. After a point of time, I started to talk to them with sarcasm only. As a result, I said some stuff that I have never said to anybody in my life. Here are few samples. Remember, they drove me crazy and I do not repent saying any of this:

“Not all of your customers are as dumb as you!”

“Does your company only hire retards?”

“Can anybody on the field team read?”

“How many of your company’s employees do I have to kill to get my connection fixed?”

“Do you use a different system of units for measuring time?”

“You suck at your job. Please quit!”

Ah, good times!

Jan

Mumbai, the beach and very little else!

Raj 7 Comments

Categories: Life

Mumbai is the city I’ve seen in countless movies and TV shows. The city I knew about so much even before visiting it. The only Indian dream city until the IT revolution happened. Its the city I’ve always wanted to visit which is why when my friends planned a sort of a reunion new year’s celebration in Mumbai, I was all too happy. There were some last minute hurdles like canceling and booking flights right before the trip started but then everything went smoothly and I landed in Mumbai. I accidentally hired an AC taxi instead of a regular one and ended up paying more than double. Well, lessons learnt!

Soon, I, along with my friends, most of who were playing the hosts, set out on a tour of South Mumbai. But not before my first ride on the Mumbai local trains. Apparently, these trains are the fastest way to get around Mumbai. Though my friends claimed that the train was empty by Mumbai’s standards, it was almost full. When we got out of the station, I found myself exactly where lots of Hindi movies begin, CST. From there, we walked through the Fort area of Mumbai all the way to Gateway Of India. We passed through a lot of landmarks, all of which were captured by my camera. Since we all were hungry by that time we reached Gateway, we decided to look for an eatery and decided to head for the famous Leopold’s Cafe. But since it was full, we had to settle for the nearby McDonald’s.

We restarted out tour by taking a taxi to Marine Drive and it looked beautiful at night. Our next stop was Girgaon Chowpatty, which was the beach my friends thought would be less crowded than Juhu beach. I could barely see the beach cos it was really dark and the water there was so dirty and polluted that none of us even wanted to go anywhere near the beach. That didn’t dampen our spirits though. We went to Nariman Point next and clicked lots of pictures.

On day 2, We left for Kashid, a clean and serene beach 150 km from Mumbai because my friends felt that the first beach I say in my life should be good. (Yes, if you remember reading this post, I had never been to a beach before this!) And what a beach it was! Absolutely clean and with almost no people. I was thrilled to be there. I played like a baby for hours in the water to the amusement of my friends. I don’t think they had seen this side fo my before. After we all were tired and dirty and wet, We struggled for more than hour to find a decent place for lunch and had to travel 15km more to Murud in the end. We reached Mumbai at night and hit the bed.

The rest of the trip went on pretty well but these two days were definitely the high point. To see all the pictures from my trip, head over to my flickr set.

Dec

I’m No Superman!

Raj 8 Comments

Categories: Happy and Life

As has been the tradition on this blog, I wish myself a very happy birthday!!

It wouldn’t be entirely right to say that the last year was tough. Its just that whenever I think that I am finally living in the real world, things get a little more real and I feel lost.

In the last one year, I went through a lot of ups and downs and found myself looking for answers to a lot of questions but most importantly I learnt a lot of things about myself. That I am just a normal human who’s just as likely to falter and fall as the next person. That I will have to go through things that I once thought would never happen to me. Well, self awareness is always good! Plus, I did have my share of fun too.

There are few things that I plan to do in the coming year. Some changes that I hope to bring to my life. I’ll let this blog be the witness of how much I actually achieve.

Oct

My Life as a Movie

Categories: Tag, Movies and Life

As far back as I can remember, I always imagined my life to be a movie once in a while. And this was much before “The Truman Show”. So in my movie, I am obviously the protagonist and the people I know have key roles of varying importance. Some people have main roles, some recurring, others have guest appearances and then there are lots of extras. Though it can get boring at times, it’s mostly interesting with unexpected twists and turns. Is it common for people to think of their lives as a movie? I’d like to know!

I recently saw this movie, “Stranger than Fiction”, in which a guy starts hearing his life being narrated as he leads it. Now that would be annoying! I would never want that to happen to me. But I wouldn’t mind having some background music in my life. Cheerful music when I am happy, suspenseful music when I am anxious, sad or soothing music when I am down and no music at the time of important and serious events. Just like in the movies. That would be fun, right? Even few original theme songs wouldn’t hurt!

While on the subject of movies, I finally got around watching “Before Sunrise” last Saturday. I remember watching first few minutes of the movie years ago on TV and I didn’t like it much back then. I later learnt how it was considered a modern romantic classic of sorts and I got the DVD from a friend months ago so I finally relented and decided to give it a try even though I generally avoid sappy romantic movies. I ended up liking it mostly for its realism. In fact, I liked it so much that I watched the sequel “Before Sunset” the same day. And I liked it better than the first, which happens very rarely. Also, Julie Delpy is brilliant in both the movies, more so in the second one.

I got tagged by Amodini yesterday and since I was already writing this post, I though I would include the tag right here.

The rules of the tag are:

You must list one fact that is somehow relevant to your life for each letter of your middle name.
If you don’t have a middle name, use the middle name you would have liked to have had.
At the end of your blog post, you need to choose one person for each letter of your middle name to tag.

But I’m gonna twist and turn the rules cos its fun that way!

So I may or may not have a middle name but I’m gonna go ahead with “Raj”.

R – I’ve registered myself on so many websites in the past seven and a half years that every time I come across a seemingly new site, I first key in the default username and password I normally use and more often than not, I’m already registered.

A – A lot of people think I’m arrogant. I am not sure if I am. Who cares!

J – I’m bad at telling dirty jokes. And that’s why I never do it! Now that’s one weakness I can live with.

Those were three perfectly useless facts about me. Let me know if you’d be interested in knowing more such facts about me!

Anybody who is in dire need of subject for a new post should feel free to pick this tag up.

Sep

Swirl

Raj 7 Comments

Categories: Life

Remember the quarter-life crisis I mentioned few months back? Well, it hasn’t gone away yet! It comes back unannounced time and again to haunt me. And it’s not alone anymore. It is accompanied with massive bouts of loneliness. The reasons are many and yet none that I can pin down in particular. Everything just comes together to ensure that I am uneasy, confused and in turmoil most of the time. So much so that I spent an entire weekend wondering if I can somehow fix the situation. But at the end of that horribly long weekend, it dawned on me that there probably is no quick fix for what I am going through.

So I etched a vague plan on how I can make things better but that would take its own time. For the time being, I have just decided to stay happy somehow. And since I work well with missions, I went ahead and turned it int one - “Mission Happiness”. Sounds easy, doesn’t it? Stay happy! But surprisingly, its proving to be far more difficult than my last mission. Each day is a struggle. To pretend at work that everything is alright, to sound happy on the phone with Mom n Dad, to do everything I once liked doing, to be happy, to just be!

But being the hopeless optimist that I am, I know that things will work out eventually. I just hope this phase ends sooner than later!