Grass is always greener on the other side. So they say. They also say ignorance is bliss. What you don’t know won’t kill you and curiosity supposedly kills the cat. How are we supposed to find out about the ‘other side’ if these sayings ask us to contain ourselves with the answers that we have? Isn’t asking questions good? If yes, where’ll the answers come from? I think there’s this someone(who according to this other someone is very fishy) who will answer all of life’s unanswered mysteries ‘someday’. If not, we just have to ask them many simpler questions to find the answer to one big question. On the whole, they always like to confuse us don’t they?
p.s- 1st time i'm typing something in the section that says- Labels for this post : :-B
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Friday, June 20, 2008
BLACK (or white?)
A common sight that you see outside a movie theater, especially if the movie is brand new or super-hit is people selling tickets in black. I've purchased tickets that way 2-3 times in the past, never did i experience what i did today.
Normal day to begin with. We went just in time for the movie only to see house-full board at the ticket counter. And, the guy at the counter said 'you should've come before 2 minutes'. Sigh! Wondering what to do we look around only to see mere baap pehle aap playing in the next theater. Throwing one another an expression of disgust we waited for don't know what. After a wait of around 30 minutes, we gave up.
We finally started walking out which is when there were these people who were chanting 'balcony balcony'. On being asked how much, he said '100 rupees madam'. My friend very smartly asked '100 rupees for 2 tickets?' (I couldn't suppress a grin because I knew (so did she) that the tickets costed 65 bucks apiece) . There began the bargaining. We said we were ready to pay him 160. He dismissed the idea without even considering our beseeching looks. With heavy hearts we began tracing our steps back to where we parked our vehicle. The guy who earlier said no to 160 rupees came running towards us and said 'give me 160 and take these tickets, the show is about to start'. We couldn't belive our eyes, readily gave the amount and walked inside the theater.
We went in the theater, the guy nicely tore our tickets, and then we happily went to occupy our seats and we found 2 other people already sitting. The guy who shows people to their seats asked us for our stubs and verified with those people and saw that they had the same seat numbers. He asked us how much we paid for these tickets. We said '80 rupees'. He grinned making us look worse by the minute. He later came and said ' these are tickets for the morning show'. We were stumped, felt extremely stupid and walked out hurriedly(with one half of the ticket) in a hope to find the guy who sold us the tickets. Hah! Like he'd lurk around, wait for us to come yell at him or whatever. End of story? No, not so soon.
Now that we didn't have any other option, feeling awfully cheated we walked towards the parking lot which is when we were approached by 2 people. One of them told me ' I want two tickets please give them to me'. The other one said 'no, no don't give him both, give me one'. The 1st man had already snatched the tickets from my hand, oh they weren't even tickets just the stubs, thrust 150 bucks in my hand and left in a jiffy. I was so shocked when he asked me for the tickets, even more shocked with how quickly it all happened and I had the 150 rupees in my hand. I still am very puzzled with the whole thing. There is something very wrong. But we were tensed-happy that we got our money back. All sorts of things started reeling in my head. What if that money was fake? What if it were some kind of a nasty business that we got ourselves into? Who was that man? Well, you know..
How strange do you think it is?
Normal day to begin with. We went just in time for the movie only to see house-full board at the ticket counter. And, the guy at the counter said 'you should've come before 2 minutes'. Sigh! Wondering what to do we look around only to see mere baap pehle aap playing in the next theater. Throwing one another an expression of disgust we waited for don't know what. After a wait of around 30 minutes, we gave up.
We finally started walking out which is when there were these people who were chanting 'balcony balcony'. On being asked how much, he said '100 rupees madam'. My friend very smartly asked '100 rupees for 2 tickets?' (I couldn't suppress a grin because I knew (so did she) that the tickets costed 65 bucks apiece) . There began the bargaining. We said we were ready to pay him 160. He dismissed the idea without even considering our beseeching looks. With heavy hearts we began tracing our steps back to where we parked our vehicle. The guy who earlier said no to 160 rupees came running towards us and said 'give me 160 and take these tickets, the show is about to start'. We couldn't belive our eyes, readily gave the amount and walked inside the theater.
We went in the theater, the guy nicely tore our tickets, and then we happily went to occupy our seats and we found 2 other people already sitting. The guy who shows people to their seats asked us for our stubs and verified with those people and saw that they had the same seat numbers. He asked us how much we paid for these tickets. We said '80 rupees'. He grinned making us look worse by the minute. He later came and said ' these are tickets for the morning show'. We were stumped, felt extremely stupid and walked out hurriedly(with one half of the ticket) in a hope to find the guy who sold us the tickets. Hah! Like he'd lurk around, wait for us to come yell at him or whatever. End of story? No, not so soon.
Now that we didn't have any other option, feeling awfully cheated we walked towards the parking lot which is when we were approached by 2 people. One of them told me ' I want two tickets please give them to me'. The other one said 'no, no don't give him both, give me one'. The 1st man had already snatched the tickets from my hand, oh they weren't even tickets just the stubs, thrust 150 bucks in my hand and left in a jiffy. I was so shocked when he asked me for the tickets, even more shocked with how quickly it all happened and I had the 150 rupees in my hand. I still am very puzzled with the whole thing. There is something very wrong. But we were tensed-happy that we got our money back. All sorts of things started reeling in my head. What if that money was fake? What if it were some kind of a nasty business that we got ourselves into? Who was that man? Well, you know..
How strange do you think it is?
Friday, May 30, 2008
Make new friends
but keep the old.
One is silver
the other gold.
Mim, from The Guy Next Door
I dunno why i got reminded of that now.
Change is good, but how good is the question.
I've already blogged about how things have changed so much. Nothing is gonna be the same again. The people, the circle of friends, the hanging out part, the classes you attend and the people that you attend with, nothing.
Somehow at this point of time it just doesn't seen right, Birla uncle take away one entire year from the college life that we can have. Early goodbyes, work, money, project, intern is what these holidays have been about. It's not the just-lazing-around holidays. When do you have ps? Where are you planning to stay? What company? How much does it pay? When'll you come to Bangalore (or Goa)? Ah, I just wanna not go through all this a year before it actually should happen. Anyway, I just wanted my mind off this thing for a while so the post :) . For those of you who are going for ps, good luck and for the rest of you, enjoy the last (or the 2nd last) sem in college :)
Auf Wiedersehen!
P.S.- This will probably be my last post before ps. One or two of those stupid questions in my head might come up :P
P.P.S- I love that book ! :)
but keep the old.
One is silver
the other gold.
Mim, from The Guy Next Door
I dunno why i got reminded of that now.
Change is good, but how good is the question.
I've already blogged about how things have changed so much. Nothing is gonna be the same again. The people, the circle of friends, the hanging out part, the classes you attend and the people that you attend with, nothing.
Somehow at this point of time it just doesn't seen right, Birla uncle take away one entire year from the college life that we can have. Early goodbyes, work, money, project, intern is what these holidays have been about. It's not the just-lazing-around holidays. When do you have ps? Where are you planning to stay? What company? How much does it pay? When'll you come to Bangalore (or Goa)? Ah, I just wanna not go through all this a year before it actually should happen. Anyway, I just wanted my mind off this thing for a while so the post :) . For those of you who are going for ps, good luck and for the rest of you, enjoy the last (or the 2nd last) sem in college :)
Auf Wiedersehen!
P.S.- This will probably be my last post before ps. One or two of those stupid questions in my head might come up :P
P.P.S- I love that book ! :)
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Toothpaste theory
Are you like "what the hell!!" ?
What do you think it might be?
How close do you think you can come to the actual theory? :P
Well, tell me what you think it might be, i'll make gow post abt the whole thing (it's her theory!:))
Cheersssss!!
What do you think it might be?
How close do you think you can come to the actual theory? :P
Well, tell me what you think it might be, i'll make gow post abt the whole thing (it's her theory!:))
Cheersssss!!
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Err what?! :O
Few shocking things i've seen on tv in the recent past-
On some mtv programme on being asked who wrote the national song- the girl replied Subhash Chandra Bose. thats not all, she dint seem embarrassed or anything on saying something as foolish as that! What do these ppl learn in school?
More famous mtv roadies - qsn- whos the president of India? How can a person not know the president of his/her own country?
Answers that came up- Manmohan Singh, APJ Abdul Kalam, Sushma (I know its a lady but dunno the name.. i mean how on earth!).
Channel V Iq- people couldn't identify Pratibha Patil but most ppl could identify Esha Deol.. Tch tch
If this is the literate population of the country, we seriously are in grave danger! :-\
Oh this is something worse (happened in the US, pheww)- On the show beauty and the geek when someone was asked when the next presidential election is gonna be held, someone said 2006!!!!!
Peace!
On some mtv programme on being asked who wrote the national song- the girl replied Subhash Chandra Bose. thats not all, she dint seem embarrassed or anything on saying something as foolish as that! What do these ppl learn in school?
More famous mtv roadies - qsn- whos the president of India? How can a person not know the president of his/her own country?
Answers that came up- Manmohan Singh, APJ Abdul Kalam, Sushma (I know its a lady but dunno the name.. i mean how on earth!).
Channel V Iq- people couldn't identify Pratibha Patil but most ppl could identify Esha Deol.. Tch tch
If this is the literate population of the country, we seriously are in grave danger! :-\
Oh this is something worse (happened in the US, pheww)- On the show beauty and the geek when someone was asked when the next presidential election is gonna be held, someone said 2006!!!!!
Peace!
alien kid?
whos this alien kid oink keeps talking about?
is there some hidden code that we are supposed to decipher?
does it refer to oink/any of us in the next birth? :P
am i the only person who didn't understand what he's trying to say?
is everyone else pretending to understand just cuz they dont wanna make a fool of themselves? :-\
too much star wars effect or something?
Cheers!
R2-D2 :P
is there some hidden code that we are supposed to decipher?
does it refer to oink/any of us in the next birth? :P
am i the only person who didn't understand what he's trying to say?
is everyone else pretending to understand just cuz they dont wanna make a fool of themselves? :-\
too much star wars effect or something?
Cheers!
R2-D2 :P
mind block?
has it ever happened that you cant think at all?
even if you wanted to real bad ..
oh during an exam, your mind just goes blank and all you can remember is that it comes on this part of so and so page but nothing relevant to the answer comes to your head!?
ah this mind block(as i call it) also happens when you want something to happen so desperately and it doesnt! (you all know what i'm talking abt :-\) and this post which comes as a result of all that!
even if you wanted to real bad ..
oh during an exam, your mind just goes blank and all you can remember is that it comes on this part of so and so page but nothing relevant to the answer comes to your head!?
ah this mind block(as i call it) also happens when you want something to happen so desperately and it doesnt! (you all know what i'm talking abt :-\) and this post which comes as a result of all that!
Remote Control
Such a fascinating thing!
how did people change channels on tv before it was discovered?
was it discovered before the tv itself?
one day the remote control stops working, no one even bothers watching tv that day! at least i wont! :P
if the remote control stops working do you people watch the same channel all day or do you have the patience to go change it on the tv? or how does the whole thing work out? :P
Cheersss!!
how did people change channels on tv before it was discovered?
was it discovered before the tv itself?
one day the remote control stops working, no one even bothers watching tv that day! at least i wont! :P
if the remote control stops working do you people watch the same channel all day or do you have the patience to go change it on the tv? or how does the whole thing work out? :P
Cheersss!!
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
A blog addict ?
Who is a blog addict?
1) someone who blogs lots?
2) person who reads others(known, unknown ppl) blogs
3) one who creates new blogs for timepass?
4) all of the above
5) other, specify
1) someone who blogs lots?
2) person who reads others(known, unknown ppl) blogs
3) one who creates new blogs for timepass?
4) all of the above
5) other, specify
Saturday, May 3, 2008
gg cOmPRE
another compre, same story.
i'm not the kinda person who aces compre or even does remotely well. its screwing-up-big-time time for me and i must say i've gotten used to it. exams doesnt seem of any importance anymore for dunno-what reason!
2nd exam today, opre. oh my gawd! amazes me to see myself forgetting simplest of things at the spur of the moment and screwing up any paper given to me.
ah 4 more exams to go and im outta this campus for a good six months. need the break more than anything else now. well, dont think anyone's gonna read this anytime soon, wont be relevant later but what the hell i'll just post it.
Peace!
i'm not the kinda person who aces compre or even does remotely well. its screwing-up-big-time time for me and i must say i've gotten used to it. exams doesnt seem of any importance anymore for dunno-what reason!
2nd exam today, opre. oh my gawd! amazes me to see myself forgetting simplest of things at the spur of the moment and screwing up any paper given to me.
ah 4 more exams to go and im outta this campus for a good six months. need the break more than anything else now. well, dont think anyone's gonna read this anytime soon, wont be relevant later but what the hell i'll just post it.
Peace!
Saturday, March 1, 2008
random thoughts
1 cdc sem gone, another going. I've been feeling extremely stupid for the past dunno how many weeks. Lack of knowledge, shirking off work to while away time just like that, not studying for tests and what not. This post is coming after i re-re-read ms's post (physic-ally impossible?) , test1, putting off sop work because of other stuff, test1 markswhich got me wondering. I talk to myself a lot these days(Oh, its not uncommon) about everything.These are the most frequent questions that i ask myself- What is this engineering all about? Is this what my reward was for studying my ass off for 2 years? Does Birla Institute of Technology and Science feel happy to see students whining and complaining (for lack of power, water.. yes yes we live in a forest)? Is this where I was destined to be? Have I gained an ounce of knowledge after coming here? Whatever so called education that we are getting here, is it enough to call ourselves engineers? What am i going to do? When am I going to stop feeling so stupid? What is going to happen? When is it all going to become alright, finally?
Peace.
Peace.
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