Game ON

Event dated 24th September 2014. 
Now a days, evenings , when we have nothing to do- we are rushing to the badminton court.
Below are the Highlights of yesterdays Events:

MIDESH VS SAVITA: Midesh Challenges Savita.
Savita Accepts the challenge and match begins.

Midesh Plays:

Savita Plays:

Midesh Loses:

 

Midesh angry:

 

Savita wins again :

Midesh cries:

SAAVI TRIUMPHS:

Midesh Goes home:

Meanwhile in alien world...this also happened....

 

Ranga Breaks Reshmi's Mobile :

RESHMI:

 

 

RANGA:

 

 And all the while JAY does this:::

 

The Journey TO...........Divine land

The Awesome day arrived. Simon picked Archana -- (He was very excited about this). Me and Prabin left together. And then met Kiran and Bharat. Btw, I met Bharat for the first time.

The trip began like this:

Bharat to Prabin : Why is Savita dressed like a Brinjal!!
Prabin to Me: Is Simon going to drive? I want to drive.
Me to Kiran : DSLR --WOW!!! Click my pics.
Archana to Simon and Simon to Archana.: Aah--dnt know. Only their eyes were doing the talking...


And then the journey continued like this:

Kiran needs space

Kiran goes and sits behind alone. Now, he is not really talking to anyone. He is silent and reading something from a piece of paper. 
Its more than an hour and he is still mugging up something from that paper. I keep pestering...Kiran what are you doing??
"shut up yaar...let me concentrate..." are the replies.

I finally manage to snatch it. It has 10 points jotted down. And it has things like :

1.The difference between a great photograph and a mediocre one is being in the right place at the right time, with a camera in your hand.
2. Place the subject in the right corner of the shot and focus on background
3. Look for colours. Or do the opposite: look for a total absence of colour, or shoot in black-and-white

Kiran-Why were you by-hearting this??????????

Which Songs to Play

 Savita: I will sit in the front, I will play the songs.
After 30 mins.....
Everyone shouts: What boring songs yaar.Stupid collection please change.
Kiran : Please throw Savita out
Savita : GET LOST    :-(

Kiran : Guys dnt worry. I will play.
After  20 seconds of every song he plays (Old Hindi songs)
Everyone shouts: Kiran. Please change the song.
Kiran : Guys only this song!! (And goes into trance state)

Prabin Jumps : I have awesome collection. Check this out.
After 2 seconds :
Simon : Wow English Songs (hums the lyrics)
Savita and Archana : Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. Please change.

And then fight of English songs and Hindi songs continued.

Drivers

Simon tries to do the stunts and racing with his first time in Scorpio.

Weird driving -- not required brakes AND when required NO brakes.

Prabin : Simon drive slow.

Simon gives explanation, which no one bothers to listen.

Everyone : Drive carefully Simona.

Simon , again gives some explanation. And does the same weird driving.

Everyone : hmmmmmmm

Weakling Prabin : SIMON.....WHAT ARE YOU DOING? Give, I will drive.

Everyone looking at Prabin : Showoff!!

Golden Temple:

Before reaching Golden Temple, Kiran would have said 100 times "Next Stop Golden Temple"/ "Mundena Nildana Golden Temple"

And the moment we entered Golden Temple, Kiran said "Lets Leave!"

We did not leave, We had fun, We shopped, We clicked Pics.

Kiran got upset, Kiran got angry. 

So angry that he SMOKED alone without Prabin.

PICTURE GALLERY:

FYI---Both the Photographers are missing.

 The First One

 

Bharat Clicked these Awesome pictures:

THE JUMPING PICTURES

 

 

 
SIMON AND ARCHANA EVERYWHERE

COORG: The Planning Phase.

Who? When? Where? How? Usually these questions are enough to plan for 2 day trip.

But -- Planning the same with Kiran is like making life long decision. The process goes through various phases. This is a summation of how events happen through mail chains for weeks.

Kiran :  Guys Homestay ? or Hotel? or my Home?
Me: Your Home Kiran....yahooooooo 
Simon : Hotel will be costly is it? Kiran's house is good option

Achu : Muje bata dena  details.
Prabin : Anything is fine.

Bharat : ........................
Kiran : Guys....no yaar...Lets search for Homestay.





                                                                                                          Kiran : Select Options - HoneyValley? GoldenHarvest? Or Brainhuntholidayhome? - Am sending you links
Me: Wow...HoneyValley looks superb. Isnt it?

Simon : Yes HoneyValley is good Savi. 
Achu : Cost kitna hoga?
Prabin: Anything is fine
Bharat: ......................
Kiran : Guys...no yaar...we will finalize GoldenHarvest

                                                                                                        

Kiran : We have two days. Rafting is compulsory. Guys bolo yaar,  if we should cover Mandalpatti first day or second day?
Me: Wow....Mandalpatti.  We will go first day itself.

Simon: Yes, First day sounds good.
Achu: Kiran you know Hindi? 
Prabin : Anything is fine.
Bharat: ...............................
Kiran : No Guys. First day we go for rafting. Second day we will go to Mandalpatti

                                                                                                        

Kiran : Guys we have two cars- Savis and Simons. Or Simon gave an option of Zoom Cars also.
Me : Ya right...whatever ..!!!

Simon : See Zoom cars is a good option because ...

Below calculation for our own cars for 6 ppl:

1)    Alto = Total 900 km = mileage 18km per liter = 900/18 = 50 liter = 50 * 78rs = 3900 = per person = 1300 rs

2)    Figo = Total 900 km = mileage 15km per liter = 900/15 = 50 liter = 60 * 78rs = 4680 = per person = 1560 rs

Or

If we are only the only 6ppl (1+ we can adjust)… We can hire the Car from Zoomcar which is without driver….

We can hire a Scorpio for the trip. For 24hrs/1day they will charge 2500/rs with a limit of 200km per day which is reasonable.

Prabin : Guys What I THINK is.........................Anything is fine.

Achu : Muje finalize karke batadena.

Bharat: ............................................

Kiran : hmmmmm....I dnt know anything about Driving. But Zoom It is.

And that's how we chose Homestay and stayed in GoldenHarvest.
But my opinion was never valued and so we NEVER SAW MANDALPATTI and crashed the ZOOM.

Stay tuned............................

Taming the Men of these kinds.

So, some months ago--- I meet this really "irritating" person Dheeraj. (All thanks to Vinu)
Irritating means- A guy who would force himself to the company of girls, even after knowing he is UNWANTED. And then would bore the hell out of you.

Girls: Lets go to Brigade
Dheeraj: I will also come.

Any Girl: I need to go to medical school.
Dheeraj: I also need to go

Any Girl: I want to go to washroom.
Dheeraj: Even I wanna go.

Exaggerated one: 

Any Girl: Whisper over. Need to buy
Dheeraj: Me toooo


He has a wild crush on Vinu....(Who "brings" him along everytime we decide for coffee or lunch). Since Vinu has been away from Wipro Bangalore Office, I have had a "Safe" distance from Dheeraj for a long time now.
And then, I met him yesterday....

Me (Overacting): Hey Hi.

Dheeraj ( Almost in tears, that some one said hi) : HI!!!

Me: How are you?
Dheeraj (Sniffing his nose, after wiping his tears) : I am fine. How are Others?
Me (in my mind): Others??? who others? Guessing he meant Vinu. But, whatever. So:
Me (Loud) : They are Fine. At their Desk!!

Dheeraj is now happy for one microsecond, then confused.

Dheeraj: Who are others?
Me (Laughing inside , but with straight face) : You asked na? Same others. Ok byeee......!!



I know, he is still trying to solve the mystery-  Who are "OTHERS" ?

Dheeraj Shocked. Savi Rocked.

Maa...Pyaari Maa

Hmmm..Ideally I am not supposed to make fun of my Mom. At-least not in Blogs. 
But again, I am not an Ideal person you see.
Abhishek's (Sheku-my brother)  and my moms conversations are worth sharing.
My mom is kind of the typical Indian Mothers. So when I say typical it means.

Sheku : Mummy I stood 1st in Fancy Dress competition.
Mom: I knew it. I did dream about it last night


Sheku: Mummy, I am quitting IT. I want to do hotel Management.
Mom: I knew it. Something in my mind was going uneasy..I knew you will change your opinion.


Now in US ,when my brother calls home.

Sheku: Hello.
Mummy: I knew you are going to call now. I was standing near the phone.Its called Mothers love.


Then one day my brother had a tooth surgery and was admitted for 3 days.
We hid this incident from  my mom, thinking she will be worried. And later after some days, she calls me to scold.

Mummy: My only son is admitted and you dnt tell me? why ? why didnt you tell me ?
 Me: I thought you will "KNOW" it!!! :-D

Just cnt stop insulting him

Even after insulting him on my Blog......this situation arises again............

We are sitting in the canteen : Me, Ranga and Reshmi. 
A guy passes by. There is a history behind , and so we ask Ranga....

We: Why dnt you just hit that guy?
Ranga : No paa...
We: Why?

Ranga : His Long.

So Ranga, answer this ----- You really wanted to say that or did you mean he is tall?

On the Mystic Side : Mystic River

Now, I am not really the one who would write a Blog on Movie reviews. But , Mystic River - OMG what a movie.

I am just so fascinated by everything about this movie. I mean, come on - You will just hate the director for the climax. 

But then, the movie does not leave your mind for a long long time. Its so psychologically captivating.

Its all about - How Clint Eastwood plays with your mind and makes you look like a fool in the end. 

And hellooo--- the movie is a 2003 one which I saw in 2014, and yet ended up not guessing anything even remotely close.

Worst is , even after the final reveal, you keep having second thoughts -  this cannot be the suspense.

HATS OFF!!

The scenes which just adds to the plot. You think you have observed it all and analyzed even the smallest detail. 

But, no -- you are no genius. 

Cause these are planted to confuse you and it just makes you rack your brain more and conclude NOTHING.

• The childhood scene. It runs for 5 mins and later makes you think, That's the big hint !! cause that stuff, details of which is almost forgotten later. 

• Dave getting abused by men. Interestingly, you only conclude that Dave has turned out to be a sex addict and not other way around. Ideally , he is supposed to hate the sex part. And we being dumb never guess.

• Never really revealing what happened between the childhood and the present. It all comes in bits and pieces which keeps adding to the plot.

• That extra Kiss planted by Katy on her fathers cheek. Wooooooooooooooo, my mind traveled all the wrong way, during the case solving section. Even the part of Katy running away to LA to get married. Jimmy was my suspect

• The main confusion of  Dave being cut, bruised and then lying about it to his wife.

• Jimmy hates Hariss. Plot disclosing the history behind it, slowly and making you scratch your head.

•  The history of Sean. Some lady calling and then not speaking. Only her lips are revealed. He keeps guessing its his wife.

•  Making Jimmy himself look shattered father but deep inside he also looks like the culprit, in sections of the movie.

•  Jimmys wife is not Katys actual mother .Does that make you think , there is some link?? Oh!!!

• The store guy, who is present only in 2 scenes in the beginning. Makes you think, he has something to do with it.

•  You dnt know, what happened. What you do know is, Katy knew the person. So, you keep doubting every person who was linked to her. But, then would you guess the actual culprit?? NO......

Apparently , every clue which, you think is given to you, has nothing to do with the murder.  

Even the Jr. Harris being a mute, you will never ever guess till the last second, that he had anything even close by related to it. He was not mute for no purpose.

And then in the end, you know -- The movie was never about MURDER or finding the killer. It was about DAVE. How both the times he dies (one mentally) and (one Physically), is because Jimmy. And both times, when he had LITTLE to do with it.

Though Sean and Tim won Oscars, the only person I stand and respect is "CLINT EASTWOOD".

Only he could make this happen.

The close to final scene , even after you know who the killer is, You still wait for the plot to change. You want DAVE to be the killer. How else, could you justify Jimmy killing him?

And yet you dnt see the change. And now you want to bother about the killing anymore. And yes, you know the movie is not exactly what you thought the movie was about.

So, the closer you look, the more you allow him to enter your braind. 

All in All -- Genius work..!! 

BTW - CLINT is so damn handsome , looks like Greek God. He is yet is so brainy and incredibly talented director and so extremely convincing as an actor.

You have no right to have it all - unless you are God. I love !!!

So you want to "Impress" me ?

There are 2 Me. 

1. The "Me" for the world. (Me4World)
2. The "Me" for myself.(Me4Me)

Me4World, I act and express myself the way they want me to.

And then there is this actual Me,: Me4Me- who (if permitted) is dying to express myself, the way it actually is.

9.00pm after office  everyone is running to get the cab. 

Bengali guy: Hey Savita, one second
Me4World: Hey hi, whats up?
Me4Me: Oh God!! Oh No!!

Bengali guy: So, going home?

Me4World:Yeah. rushing to get the cab.
Me4Me: No, I usually go for a jog at 9.00pm after office with laptop bag on my shoulders.


Bengali guy: You know, I was following you on Facebook.
Me4World: Oh is it?
Me4Me: When and why did I add him?

Bengali guy: I saw your dancing photos. You dance well. Shiamak Davar troupe?
Me4World: Thank you.Yes. Shiamak.
Me4Me: How the hell can you make out from my PHOTOS that I dance well.


Bengali guy: You should start dancing in office. Everyone will like it!!!
Me4World: Yeah Idiot...I will come tomorrow and start dancing after I SwipeIn. Loser!!
Me4Me: Oh Shucks. I just said it loud and directly to him.

AWKWARD......................

When life throws you such things..........

Can't believe I have a blog for this person. But ya-- Needless to say, people who make office life worth living - need to be credited.

The Guy: Ranganath RR

Known for : His English or should I say -His YEnglish
Good Points: Bearing all the insults I thrash upon him -Silently.

Conversations:

 Hey Ranga , why is your hair so messy?

Reply: I didnt CAMB my hayrr.

  (He meant COMB and HAIR)

Hey Ranga, New shirt is it?

Reply: No, Its Jabong

Hey Ranga, Whats up?

Reply: I like BAUYS 

(He meant BOYS or BAIs--No idea)

Ranga, Pls stop commenting the same line "Savita-is this you?" below all my pictures on FB. I will give you 5rs!!

Reply: I will give you 51

(For what?? I dnt knw)

 

Life is miraculous, even when it's disastrous.....

There are some days in our lives, when everything goes wrong. You try your best and do everything, but the day will take over you. You either end up getting frustrated at what is happening OR you end up laughing your lungs out. And that's what happened on the Fateful Friday evening... with three of us.

So--You already know Vaishna my Tom-Boy friend. Like always she plans to party in a Pub On a friday evening.
Nonsense Idea!!
Yeah yeah...I know what you are thinking. Party, Pub, Friday everything sounds Fun!!

But the issue with Vaish is, she plans these kinds of stuff on Friday, when I am in office and every time during month end. (when you are almost saving coins for bus fares).
Also, you end up looking horrible in office wear.

Conversation Me-Vaishna :::

Me: Are Plan acha hai, magar nai yaar.
Vaish: Kutti. Kyu?
Me: Office se kaise aau?
Vaish: woh sab muje nai pata. 7pm ke pehle pohach.Free drinks for ladies. 

Me: aaah?? Free?
Vaish:Yes....aaa.
Me: Dressed horrible
Vaish: Are yaar, thats ok. We will go by 7 and leave before 9. thats when actual public show up.
Me: Vaish---- no money yaar
Vaish: Are I will pay.

Aah...ok!!!
:-D 
:-D

Party plans are transferred....

Introducing the new member -Reshmi aka Reshma aka Resh.

 Conversation Me-Reshmi :::

Resh: Are Plan acha hai, magar nai yaar.
Me: Kutti. Kyu?
Resh: Office se kaise aau?
Me: Are...come with me. 7pm ke pehle pohach.Free drinks for ladies. 
Resh: aaah?? Free?
Me:Yes....aaaja
Resh: Dressed horrible
Me: Are yaar, thats ok. We will go by 7 and leave before 9. thats when actual public show up.
Resh: Savi---- no money yaar
Me: Are VAISHNA will pay.

Ha ha ha ha....

And that's how, we decide to leave. 
Plan :Withdraw whatever money and take bus and reach pub asap. So that we reach before 7pm. Now rest of the stuff
Task 1: Withdraw money : 500Rs.
Task 2: Beg for money : 400Rs.
(Meanwhile get insulted by Honey)
Task 3: Run to gate 10.
Task 4: Get into Volvo. 600.
Task 5: Call Vaishna and inform her you got bus.
Task 6: Wait for bus to start.
Task 7: Gossip and Gossip.
(Meanwhile Resh irritating me with stupid question "Are you sure this bus goes to jayanagar?"
Task 7: Buy ticket. 
No more tasks. After this point, we are thrown out of the bus.
The conductor gave us only one reply.
Even to questions like " Does it go to jayanagar?" "Which way it goes" "Where is exit of NICE road" , The answer was 

"NICE ROAD"

Finally, we get into the normal bus, and buy tickets. Me and Reshmi laugh and laugh till we notice people are looking at us. It took us ages to reach the destination. 

Meanwhile in the bus , a girl standing beside us is asked to call the conductor (We needed to get the change back). The girl poked the conductor to death, till I stopped and her said.."its OK!!"


We both look at the watch. We have 15 misn to go. Vaish still needs 15 mins, so me and Resh Decide go and "book" seats to claim our free drinks. 
No lift? No issues, run run run, take the escalator and run run..!!
Panting we run towards the pub. I enter. 
The guy stops us. I still enter. The guy says: "Women special is stopped. No free drinks. Under renovation".

Embarassing!!

Reshmi being the ideal example of FRIENDS----runs away. I stand and stare at the Guy and then walk away.
:-(
:-(

I call vaish to tell her stupid plan has flopped. Meanwhile I hear Resh telling Suneet, about how dumb she was to listen to me.

But, after all this Vaish says--"Wait kar, we will plan something". And I pass on the hope to Resh.
We wait below McDonalds, Laughing and laughing at our fate.

Vaish turns up. Tells us, "Are bahut happening jagah hai. Chalo.."

We take a Rick and after 10 mins of "yahi pe hai", Vaishna finds the place. 
We enter and we find out, what we thought was a pub, turned out to be a "CHINESE RESTAURANT"

Fascinating ah!!!

We go sit there. Tired and looking pathetic. Cursing Vaishna's friend who suggested this place.
Apparently, the friend was pissed cause Vaish didnt call her for girls party. And this was her revenge.

The Menu comes and Vaishna keeps shouting kuch khane ke liye decide karo. Meanhwile Me and Resh are reading through the drinks section.  
The waiter comes and asks us to order. Vaishna is ordering and suddenly ---
Resh innocently looks at the waiter and asks "Charger Point hai?"

The waiter laughs, Vaish laughs, I laugh and Resh has a straight face for 5 secs. 
The charger Point was an input to many many non-veg jokes -- including - The guy would have gone and cross-checked if he had any charger point

Within 15 mins, we were surrounded by family with kids. 
Tamil Brahmin family. The kid who fell in love with Vaishna.
The IPL english talking family.
The one kid husband wife family. 

All of them cursing "Look at those girls"

We ended and the waiters laughed at us while leaving. We  planned for Ice cream. And we walked.

At the center of the junction road, under the streetlight , we got horrible pictures of ourselves.

In the Rick, I teased Vaishna about her "Women of the Series" Award she got from office for some cricket match. And she half consciously said these lines:

"Main bahut acha kheli, sab ladke mere saath khelna chhate the"
"Main sabke balls ke peeche bhagi"
And many censored stuff.
ANd she also got emotional and said "Resh is the best one , I have bought for timepass, Till date"
I am guessing Resh cried after going home. 
ha ha ha ha...


The funfilled evening came to an end at IBACO. Then we parted. Vaish walked home. Suneet dropped Resh. I took a Rick.

The rick Guy dropped me till my house in Electronic City. He then scolded me saying " THIS IS NOT ELECTRONICS CITY "

Another Insult--I was was just wondering --"why is the day not ending yet!!" 
PHEWWW!!




 

Honey Honey..

"Where ever you go, He follows"
Probably Half of the Indians would have seen and adored the Pet after the very famous Hutch (Now Vodafone) AD. Its more of a status factor than a Protector Pet.

The Store owner gave us various options. And later said,  there was one Pug which was a female and no one wanted. Pathetic right?
So my brother knew, we had to get her. And finally our pug arrived from Goa. The small , innocent and cute Pug.
And my name who is an expert in giving Weird name, names her Honey. And that's how Honey entered our family.

My parents probably love Honey more than their real kids. Honey has a place in my moms everyday chores. She wnt even go to market without making sure Honey was take care of. Dad though will not agree, but he is addicted to her.
She is the most intelligent being.

Honey is loved by each and all. Our house is now know as " Honeys House". My cousins come home only to meet her.
These are my cousins and Uncle Proudly Posing with Honey.

And then a pic of the true owner. My brother --- and me.

More blogs to follow with her stories...........