GOA ahoy..

Very few pics.. attributed to..

too involved in the riding experience..
forgot to take camera along while travelling in goa...
Plain lazy...
alcohol content in blood preventing operating a camera...
drizzling..raining..pouring...basically not good for the camera...
bad...pathetic.. horrendous roads..preventing us from stopping...
Riding in forests at night..too scared to stop:)

Our Democratic Secular country!!!

What a farce...secular government..democracy...in the interest of the people..
all those khadi clad morons have left no stone unturned in trying to make sure that India will take a couple of steps backward instead of being more competitive..
what a bunch of cowards.. not one has the guts to come out & say that this whole reservation is a big mess.. why can't we have somebody at the helm who can bring in better resolutions..
How is reservation going to make a difference? Why can't we have better infrastructure & try to help the people who deserve it..
The easier path is not necessarily the best path.. why can't there be enough reserach on this before implementing such a rule?The man who proposed this is clueless about the logistics of the whole thing.. read more here

My main grouse is that this takes away what a meritous candidate has fought & worked hard for all his/her life.To lose out to somebody who is not as qualified, especially when the means are readily available to both, is just too de-moralising.
Ask me how i know...

reservation should not be just because of what you were born into.. it should be for the people who have the potential but not the means to achieve it.. that is when this will have value..

All this is going to do is create more vacant seats.. so the khadi weasels go ahead & make more seats.. how is this going to help.. this my friend means that to meet this 8,000 crore fund..you & I will pay more tax.. yes you & I who did not get through reservation.. why can't this instead be used to provide better infrastructure..

..& this is surely going to create a lot of unrest between the masses.. & some speak of social harmony..

How does this reservation even make sense.. is this like an eye for an eye?.. if yes..then what about in another 50 years.. will things reverse? & will every fifty years after that be a see-saw about who gets reservation..

What about all the vacant seats/posts that were marked for reservation? So many of these are under utilised.. isn't that like taking away the chance somebody had at a decent livelihood?
Some guy with merit could have made use of it & probably made ends meet & fed a family..
isn't that injustice?

the need of the hour is to better the education standards in government schools.. identify the ones with merit..& provide them with the means to go ahead in life..
not this farce of a solution..

is it any surprise that we still have brain drain?
how can somebody not go to greener shores where their merit is rewarded?
..where you don't have to listen to all the white lies about secularism?..about rights..

..& I just can't wait for the next elections.. I just hope this momentum carries through...
I can't help but lose faith in our system each day..

Ankahee...

After watching Ankahee.. Someday. I hope i meet Vikram Bhat..i'm gonna make sure that i can get my money back!! & twice over for this excuse of a movie.. hardly a wonder that lots of people left mid-way..all of them must have gone in search of Somebody to beat up in lieu of Vikram Bhatt.. C & me are lucky to get away unscathed after recommending this & dragging V & S to the multiplex..
The story is very arth'ish.. the other woman factor looming large..Somewhere down the line it felt like Bhatt was justifying his stand.. & not a very convincing one at that.. the acting is just passable..Amisha is either all sugar coated..or glycerine-coated..both too much to digest.. Aftab has three expressions & variations of that throughout themovie.. Esha is maybe just a tad ahead of the others..the wide psychotic look maybe helped..
The story could have been treated much better..with some more intelligent dialogues to hold the audience's interest...Sadly this department has been the one that has let us down miserably..The dialogues are as unimaginative as they get.. the arguments by aftab & easha were as far from convincing as possible. it was difficult not to wince at some of the poorly writen lines..
It looks like there was not a lot of effort that went into the making of ankahee.. watch it closely & you can see that continuity of the sets has gone out the window.. one of the scenes has a telephone that is not wired!! All excusable if the story had been worth it..
The saving grace though has to be the music.. an amazing score & superb rendering of "tumse yu milenge.." by Kunal Ganjawala.. just can't get this song out of my head.. wish the movie had been half as good.. But a lesson well learnt.. don't judge a movie by its promo!!

Secular country?? Yeah right!!

Where else..but India..
A movie that's good enough to open Cannes.. needs to be banned here..

The reunion..

Sunday was defintely a memorable one.. hope it was equally
so for all of us who caught up...tracing back i guess it
all started off with a few of us getting touch over the
net.. small pockets of us had kept in touch but never th e
whole group.. amazingly we hardly ever bumped into each
other the last three years.. & boom.. all of a sudden the
time is right & all of us meet up at college..10:30 was the time we planned to meet up.. & all of us
trickled in at our versions of 10:30.. was there by around
10:40.. Found that i was the first one there.. Shilpa had
text'ed that she was on the way .. returned Supreet's call
to find out where he was.Took a walk around college..going over all the memories
associated with each staircase..corridor..hangout.. Shankar dropped in soon & we thought we would check out
the medico "babes"..too bad none of them had turned up on
sunday.. Supreet rode in on his kinetic & all three of us
made ourselves comfy on the entrance stairs.. "Titanic"
was the initial venue for all of us to meet up..but then
the place was just too hot..So the shade it was.. So here
are the three of us trying to catch up on years & we see
a familiar looking girl walk by..& its Rashmi.. she did
not look very different apart from the pair of glasses
perched on her nose..This got us started off on our 3 year
updates again..which was all repeated when Ashwini
appeared in a couple of minutes.. We called up Divya & she
was still at Queen's road waiting for shilpa.. So all
prepared ouselves for a long wait..KC was the next to
arrive..kicking off with his jokes..he has certainly not
changed.. the next appearance was something unexpected..A splendor
comes in & parks right under our noses.. & lo and behold
it was our HOD.. a sort of uncomfy moment..mainly because
we had not expected this.. he wanted all of us to make it
to his chamber before we left.. he was insistent.. so we
decided to wait for the others & meet him at one go..Soon shilpa, Divya & suhas joined us..followed a little
later by Abhishek.. & how could we give up on this photo
op..got some good snaps of all of us.. ironially we had
not thought of such stuff in all the 4 years of college..
& here we were after 3 years..drowning in nostalgia..
Kicked off our search for the HOD..finally located him &
waited for him to finish his work before talking to him..
..all we wanted to do was to just head out for lunch.. so
all of us were looking to keep this meeting as short as we
possibly could..All of us trooped into his cabin..prepared to nod in
silence for a few minutes & then head out.. none of us
were prepared for what lay ahead..The HOD started off by
updating us on what was going on in college.. the new
ventures the college was thinking of.. the results..etc..
& soon we were ready to run... but then something
changed.. we all realised how much respect he was showing
us.. he was genuinely happy to see us...not saying
anything just for the sake of it..from then on not many of
us realised how time flew..All of us did not mind butting
in with our ideas..we were surrised at how much he
remebered stuff about us..a pleasant surprise..it was a
very healthy discussion which showed us a side of him we
did not knew existed.. a person concerned about his
students..not afraid to criticise the system he was a part
of.. all of us soon opened up & it was our turn to update
him on what we were doing & what we wanted to do.. time
just flew..it was more than an hour when we bid our good
byes to him.. promising to return in a couple of weeks
with more of our old comrades..
By now we had decided to head out to a resort on
Kanakapura road..& boy it was hot..made it there in about
a half an hour..& a filling lunch it was..the food was
really awesome..Here is where we get to the icing for the
day..midway through lunch..Divya could not find her camera
anywhere..so retracing our steps we reasoned that we must
have left it behind in the prof's chamber.. so called him
up & he offered to meet us back in college in about an
hour..all of us prepared to head back & what do we find?
The camera was in the car all the while!!.. so this meant
another call to thank the Prof.. & apologise for troubling
him..but then... Divya realised that she had "found" only
the camera case & not the camera..so another call by Suhas
to the HOD to tell him about the fiasco..By now Diva is
all flustered..the lost & found & lost again camera was
expensive.. so the tension was palpable.. A couple of minutes more & KC gives her the case & the
camera is mystically inside the case!! boy she was ready
to throw the kitchen sink at us..she would now have to
call up the prof AGAIN to explain the whole thing.. that's
when we break it to her that Suhas had faked the call & we
had hid the camera.. the expression was priceless.. & is
soon going to be posted here..as long as Abhisek decides
to send across the pic soon...None of us really wanted to end the day I guess.. we
headed back to college & talked some more.. finally called
it a day when people remembered that it was late & there
was much work to attend to the next day..Defintely a memorable day & looking forward to seeing all again..soon..

Compound sentences..

Saw this...

..and this

...on the great wall of china..

..and if you are wondering about the title.. here's the background story...
A teacher is done explaining grammar to her primary students..and wants to know if anybody can come up with a compound sentence.. so one bright lad gets up & quips.."please do not stick bills on this wall" :)