Sunday, March 29, 2009

rumblings over the weekend

Well....some time since i actually wrote something....the passport outing did go out miserably.....some wise head in the passport office decided that a bank statement with the last entry from 22-Feb is not current enough and so needs updation.....leaving me with a couple of choices...take another appointment and get back with the documents updated, or race against time- get a entry made in the passbook within an hour....so there i was, thanks to some wonderful friends that i have, doing a round trip to Karol bagh...well over 11 km, in an auto, withdraw cash from bank, get passbook updated, and go back in time before the office closes....whew...the bad part- i was traveling in an auto after ages, and they travel like at a snail's pace, and the good part- I MANAGED TO BE BACK IN 60 minutes....despite a little help(??) from my friends.....someone named Paritosh aka PK da could throw more light on it.... OK, the weekend was like real cool....was in office on Saturday, went to Om sweets twice- somehow the masala dosa was better than the signature matar kulcha and cholle bhature , and then watched multiple movies back to back...was to get some cash deposited to my PPF account for the current financial year, but had to drop the idea, so there's more work already lined up for next year...getting my PPF account normalised. Well, here's my take on the movies for the weekend.. 1. Gulaal - Great movie, amazing songs and most amazing lyrics...the movie somehow looked similar to Omkara....both movies were about deceiptful women, and good women, deceitful men, student and larger politics, and semi urban backgrounds...loads of undercurrents and khadi boli.....i kinda liked the girl who played Kiran in the movie, not sure who was the actress.....she was good as the cool seductress, real devilish eye manouvres, all in all a good and intense watch, a good film from Anurag Kashyap after a not so good Dev-D 2. Aloo Chaat - Again a decently light watchable movie, only a one time movie, too many loose ends, but a feel good sort of movie 3. Finding Nemo - Well, watched it for the zillionth time, somehow the movie always makes me feel good, and makes me nostalgic about a big ocean and friends who help you cross it when it matters the most....the forgetful dorry and then nostalgia led me to finding songs, there's this album from Vangelis called Conquest of paradise(well its and OST for the movie by the same name), and it is just amazing...the title track somehow makes me feel all charged up, and there's this piece, entering twin falls by Nicholas Gunn.....no matter how low you may be feeling, these songs could life your spirits....entering twin falls again comes from a dear friend who (rightly) pointed out the mood swings within the song.....would request everyone who comes to this blog to try and listen to these tracks... the week ahead promises to be hectic, and i m not used to working hard anymore.....so not sure when i come back to the blog

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Esteemed Company

Wanted to post my suffering at the passport office, but this one is tooooooooooo gud See here

Monday, March 23, 2009

The fear for Passport

start of another new week....had a lazy weekend, in fact so much so that did not even move out of home even once on sunday :) vaise going by the weekend there is not much to work for over the week either:) Tomorrow, i m supposed to apply for the reissue of the passport....just another reminder that i have been out of college for 10 years....!! and this is the time when you really start thinking about the indian beaurocracy.....i m trying to check and recheck if there are any additional documents that I should carry just so that i am able to present them, in case the clerk at the desk asks for it out of his whims and fancies....the next on the agenda is police verifcation, and i m wondering if someone will be home when this person comes calling (though i feel that since my address has nt changed over the last 10 years, and my passport still has a validity of 6 months in there- there should not be a police verification, but who knows...) and lastly who is going to collect the speed post when the passport finally comes in....there should be an option to collect the passport from the office itself(wishful thinking!!) So here we are, the way beaurocracy could hamper a smooth issue of passport....a new thing that i learnt was that ration card is not the only residence proof you could rely on....they have actually asked for a PSU bank statement(thankfully 1 of them has the residence address, every other accoutn has office address there), some bills( which are all on my mother's name), election i-card...which has the address partially incorrect....and now beat that, i am just wondering that after staying at the same place for 30 years, i have issues getting the documents right, what happens to a person who is not even staying in the same city for these many years.....quite a frightening sceanrio.... I agree that the passport is a sensitive document, and that there should a proper scrutiny for each one that is issued(keeping in mind the terrorism menace that we have), but the process hsould be a little simple...and thankfully i feel that is happening, for once rite now, i have fille dup the form and can take an appointment, a far cry from the last time when i actually was standing at passport office rite from 8 in the morning, soon people are going to get their passport within 3 days, thanks to an initiative in which PwC, my alma mater also had a role to play... anyways for now, i m dreading how would my encounter with the great indian democracy go tomorrow, will post the experience tomorrow

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Dinner, Marriage and the way time flies

was out with friends a while back for dinner, and somehow there was a small remark about marriage- nothing serious, but it made me think - why is it that marriage is so much a part of our culture, that it has to appear anywhere are everywhere in discussions and chit chat, ok, it was not being discussed today, but was just a part of leg pulling, but still.... as i look at it, marriage is about a lot of companionship, a lot of being together, and a part of the being together in bed(well i have tried to be use axioms for the bed part, we all know what it is)....and so companionship is the key...you should be able to connect to the person, and that is where the indian society stands on its head, how can you be sure that you connect, and if you guys are not sure, how do you take the plunge? and what if the plunge drowns you and never let u resurface??? ok, i know this is a rather pessimistic view of the entire thing, after all almost all the people we know, or most of them have got hooked up this way. shady hai bhai!!! ok, back to dinner.....went to bercos' - good starters, not so good main course, and followed by an amazing coffee at CCD....wrote on tissues, and cards and bills after like ages.....f@#$ yaar its like more than a decade out of school and would soon be a decade outta college....., someone mentioned that arts faculty has not changed for some time, as long as i could remember arts faculty was like going thru permanent renovation, and so was all the main campus.....seems like yesterday.... ok, i still have nt decided or thought over if the blog is gonna have a cenntral theme, besides of course ME, but maybe i would just ramble for sometime till i get the hang or regular blogging.....any ideas , any one..??

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

It really starts in an unintended way

ok, i had created an account for myself on blogspot by quite a chance and was not even sure if i wud be ever using it to actually pen down my thots..... some of the earlier musings, are also at badintentions.rediffblogs.com - i hope it is the rite address,

Well so here i m, unintentionally locked out of the house, and thus sitting in CCD and finally getting onto the blogspot bandwagon. I have been reading and commenting on a lot of blogs recently, thanks to loads of time that i have....and i think i m kinda getting hooked to understand what these people think and write....looks like i m finally getting a bit tech savvy.....been working on a PC/laptop for over 10 years now...and for the first 5 years i did nothing but checked my official email, and a random check on whats happening in cyberworld for nothing extraordinary....and then WEB happened to me, first i was hooked to orkut, and now its facebook...chatting was never too in, till gtalk pulled me in, and yet i have not ever made a voice call despite having spent obscene amounts on international calls......then came in songs, software and media download, and now blogs......whew...been a long transformations, is nt it??

hopefully i wud be a little more regular in creating and updating this blog, no idea what i would be focussing on though, may be anything and everything.....

Well, one thing that comes to my mind and which would make this blog a li'l useful for visitors beyong reading my random musings is to help them find their way around delhi- the obvious markets and the underbelly...this is a city i have lived in almost my entire life, and i know it well....so much so that friends call me when they are stuck on the roads for alternate routes, food joints, movie halls and just about everything about delhi....so feel free to ask me any information, and i wud try my best to answer it asap...

i m not sure how you add blogs that you read pretty regularly, however i would try and add the ones i follow almost on a daily basis, i like the writing of some of the people, and would really want others to read them too