Saturday, August 25, 2007

A Coffee to savour...

A group of well established and successful professionals once got together to visit their old college lecturer. Catching up on all the old times, about the college life and the good old days, the conversation soon turned into complaints about the various stresses at work and in life....

Smiling, the lecturer went into the kitchen to get his guests a cup of coffee... and he returns with a large pot of hot coffee, and an assortment of cups- Porcelain,plastic, glass... some plain looking... some exquisite and expensive... He asked them to help themselves to a cup of coffee...


When everybody had a cup of coffee in their hands, the lecturer said -

If you notice, all the nice looking and expensive cups have been taken, leaving behind the cheap and the plain ones on the table..While it's only normal to want the best for yourselves, thats also the source of all ur problems and stresses... What all of you really wanted was coffee, and not the cup, but you consciously chose the better cockery, and even now you are eyeing each other's cups.

Now, If life is coffee, then jobs, money, your status in the society etc are the cups. They are just the tools to hold and contain your life, not the life itself... Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the main content inside the cup..

Happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather recognizing and appreciating the things that we do really have...

So dont let the cups drive you or distract you, Just concentrate on the warmth and the flavour of the coffee within...

Drink up your coffee and enjoy!! CHEERS!!! :)


Btw, "Mujhe coffee peena bahut pasand hai!!" ;)

Ad Mad

Off late many of my friends had been asking me, why i have stopped blogging...

Well the answer is plain and simple... Just cuz im damn lazy to put all my thoughts on the blogsite... I would rather blurt it out in my mind... swear a bit at all the shitty things happening around me.. and just move on with my life...

But today... something reeeeeeeeaaaaally really compelled me to log into my blogger account and start typing... and i must thank Shiney Ahuja for this...
Confused??? Yeah.. even i was... cuz he has acted out in the most pathetic, sick and nonsensical ad i have seen in the recent times... The first time i saw it, i was damn confused.. but the second time, when i really concentrated (though i didnt had to), I felt like really pulling the hair out... Not mine, but Shiney Ahuja's!! The sucker... read on...

The ad starts with some builder mafia trying to confiscate a couple of beach-side shacks and restaurants.. the goons are throwing away all the furniture, and the owner of the restaurant, a sexy lass... looks around in desperation!!
With a bollywood ishtyle, our hero Shiney makes a dramatic entry...

"Ye zameen in logon ki hai..." he tells the builder.. as the damsel in distress looks on helplessly....

"Koi boundary line hai kya??" the builder asks...

"Boundary line dekhni hai??...." and then Shiney turns around and starts whistling...

and lo behold... out from a distance in the sea, there is a shark fin which approaches in the direction of the hero...
and then the most sickening and stupidest thing happens...
The shark fin leaves the sea, cuts open the earth and the sand , and forms a boundary line around the beach shack...

"Ye dekho boundary line"... Ahuja says and walks away with the shark fin following him...

confused???
hahahahaaa....

the ad was...

Shark tooth cassettes and Cds... lead the way!!! :O

Well i was really disappointed with Shiney... he had a really good choice of movies to act in like Hazaaron Khwaishein Aise.. Gangster.. Metro etc... I guess he shud stick to movies... ;)

Well.. But all is not lost in the ad world as some brilliant and catchy ads keep coming around, Like the Hutch "Thoda aur" series...
But theres one ad which i really liked... it went something like this...

A phone rings in a house and an old Parsi lady answers the call...
A man speaks on the other end..

"Hello, Rita?"

"Yes...."

"Aye Rita... aati kya... 9-12 show hai multiplex mein... ekdum raap-chik dhamaal karenge hum...."

The old lady hangs up... "Pata nahi kitne saal chalega ye sab....." and she walks away...

The man in the public urinal zips up, keeps the cell phone in his pocket, and walks away...

On the wall in front of the urinal is written in bold ink...
"For fun and free sex, call Rita 4131165" !!!

Stic markers... chale saalon-saal !!!

Friday, August 17, 2007

Chuck De....

Chak de... Ho chak de India... Chak de.. Ho chak de India....

The songs blaring all over the place.. On each and every radio station i tune into... (Thank God.. a relief from the usual Himesh stuff!!) and on every music channel on the idiot box...

SRK... the Bollywood icon, with a gang of 16 girls.. rocking the Astro-turf with... (ahem) Hockey sticks!!
This is supposed to be a boost to the game of hockey in India... a country in which we Eat cricket, drink cricket, Breathe cricket... and also we Shit, pee, burp and Fart cricket... and Stink of cricket...
Hockey is our national game... err... was is supposed to be "was our national game"?? well who the fuck cares?? Its cricket that we live for...

Dhyaanchand who??? I know even the size of Sachin Tendulkars Underwear... thts the response u'll get from the teens of today...

Cometh the World cup disaster... the public once again goes beserk.. Fuck cricket and the cricketers!! We need to improve other sports.. hockey, tennis, etc etc... we need to bring those sports back to their helm...
And then this Movie...

SRK says... This is a movie about a Muslim guy, coaching an Indian team, of 16 girls.. in a game of hockey...
Has all the bollywood masala right??

I saw the making a couple of days ago.. It was nice to see all the girls putting in all the hard work... from learning hockey skills from none other than Mr. Dhanraj Pillay... to slogging it out in the acting schools..
Mr.Dhanraj Pillay said... u can call me anytime of the day or night , and i'd surely come to help those girls...
That was the same Dhanraj whom the World had seen on national TV channels, with teary eyes, saying that he has made a mistake by playing hockey, in a country where noone cares for any other sport , except... well... cricket!!

Maybe the times are changing.. i thought... This movie will surely, make at least "SOME" impact on the minds of the concerned people... and give a boost to the game of Hockey, in general...
Special free screenings were held for women's hockey teams...
SRK personally had flown over to London for the World premier... (and he was seen at the Oval during a test match!!)

I went for the movie with loads of expectations... i'm not a fan of SRK, but the movie was pretty good...
One scene in which theres a brawl between the girls and a group of men in Mcdonalds... a guy tries to sneak up behind a girl and tries to hit her with a cricket bat, when SRK stops him and says...
" Mard ho to saamne se waar karo... Humaari hockey mein Chhakke nahi hote...."
and the entire theatre goes up in an applause and laughter...

wow...
I reached home.. and was pretty satisfied... I could see an inkling of hope for the Indian Hockey... maybe they'll get good sponsors and good astro-turfs for training...
I switched on the tv.. ESPN channel...

Chak de.. Ho chak de.. India..... chak de.. ho chak de India....
SRK : Be there to support ur team for the 20-20 cricket World cup in South Africa!!



(P.s.... We still eat, drink, breathe.. and shit,pee,fart cricket!!)
Chuck De India!!