Ek subah aisi bhi

Ek subah hua yuin ki hum bistar se uthe bhi nahi aur ek kaala mota aadmi mere saamne aake khada ho gaya. Mujhe laga Kahin main sapna to nahi dekh raha. Darr ke uthkar baith gaya. Bola koi chor daaku ghus aaya hai lagta hai. Saale ko tizori ki chaabi nahi mili to uthane aa gaya hoga. Ab Is bewakoof ko kaun samjhaaye ki ATM ke zamane mein paise ghar pe kaun rakhta hain. Faaltu ke meri neend kharab kar daala. Bara darr bhi lag raha tha. Kala aisa ki daamar ka ghamand todh de. Mucchein ya baddi baddi. Abe yeh kya......sar pe sing pe hain uske......oye mar gaye yaar.....yeh to yamraaj lag raha hai mujhe. Nazar thodi usse hati to dekhta huun........ek haath mein rassi.....oye angrez de puttar......rope rope....kehte hai.....aur dushra chod....i mean the other end ek lambe chaude buffalo ke gale mein bandhi thi. Us bhainsh ne kaafi dino se dhoya nahi thi....kaafi badboo aa rahi thi usse. Khair back to situation of crisis. Bande ne bola finally........ Abe kis language mein bol rahe ho maharaj????? Oye hoye yeh to meri fav language sanskrit mein kuch bol rahe hain....lekin char saal ke padhai mein aur kitana yaad rahega. Sandhi vicched aur ramah ramam ramaan aise hi kuch kuch yaad aa raha tha. Saala desperation mein bhi comedy sujh raha tha. Maine himmat karke bola sanskrit gottila( kannad mein bola thoda impress karne ke liye which means sanskrit nahi aati). Hindi english ya bengali mein translate karke bole prabhu. Prabgu ki leela aparampar hai bhai. Kisi bhi bhasa mein aapse baatein kar sakte hain. Garazkar hindi, hamari rashtra bhasa mein bole.....chal bete bahut so liya, ab tera time ho gaya hai,  swarg mein kuch din bita le fir nark mein kaafi time bitana hai. 

Meri to sitti pitti gum..... Lekin darr ke saath gusssa bhi bahut aaya. Abe job se bhi nikalte hai to 1-2 week notice milta hai, aur yeh to zindagi ka sawal hai. Kam se kam 1 month to banta hai yaar. Meri biwi ko bank accounts ka kuch pata nahi. Saare password use batane hain. Credit cards ke bill chukane hain. India money transfer karna hai. House rent bhi dena hai parso. Mere bacche ko school kaun chodega. Abe mere saath mere family ko kyun disturb kar raha hai khote. Yeh to comedy se tragedy mein tabdeel ho rahi hai. Maine kaha beta aise kitane situation maine patiently handle kiye hain. Yeh to aar ya paar ki siruation hain. Darega to marega aur fir kuch nahi karega. Maine usse kaha.....maharaj thoda shower wagerah le lo aur apne buffalo ko bhi clean kar lo. Mere apartment mein pets policy thodi strict hai. No pets allowed aur aap to itna wadda ganda janwar le aaye ho. Apartment waale bhi mujhe bina notice ke nikal denge aur security deposit bhi refund nahin karenge.
Maharaj bole ab to tere saath hi nahaunga yamlok mein. Lets go fatafat. Ek do ko aur uthana hai. Abe aise bol raha hai jaise shopping karne nikla hai. Bacchoon ki jaan lene nikla hai saitaan kahin ka. Kaash Aru ya meri maa hoti to abhi daant dapat ke bhaga deti. Paheli baar apneaap ko ashay mehsoos kar raha huun. Mushibat mein log prabhu ko yaad karte hai. Yahan to rakshak hi bhakshak ban ke aaya hai. Kise yaad karun???? Bachao bachao kehte kehte main bhagne ki koshish karne laga. Yeh mere pairoon ko kya ho gaya. Dekhta huun mera beta arjun mere paon ko pakad rakha hai. Oye apne hi baap se gaddari. Chod de mere baap.... Chocolate doonga...... Kaafi struggle ke baad meri aankh khool hi gaya. Sssala horror se bharpur sapna tha. Dekhta kya huun arjun sach mein mere paon ko apne daant se katne ki koshish kar raha hai.
Main jhath uthke usko gale laga liya aur mere ankhon mein thode aansun aa gaye. Socha abhi to isko kitana kuch sikhana hai. Come on god, not this soon.

Apne zindagi ko aaj salaam kehta huun
Har ek din ko main apna inaam kehta huun
Jee le is zindagi ko jaise kal koi kal nahi
Upar se call aa bhi gaya to koi gal nahi

HPIT Fashion Show 2005

Camping at night : 6th August 2010

Camping at night

Though it was not my first camp, I was excited by the very thought of spending a night at jungle. We were four families having one kid each. The camp site was only 30 odd miles from our residence so there was no overhead of driving. For 12 ppl we need to book 2 sites which was done promptly by Sandip.

A week ahead we met at our favorate pub called Irish pub to chalk out the plan and make a checklist. Checklist included food, camp material, baby item, personal belongings and the like.
Starting Monday till the day of the event we did the necesary shopping from walmart, shoprite, indian stores etc. Tuks decided to keep all the camp related stuff and jayant took the responsibility of food which included fruits and freshly prepared veg biryani. Pratap was in-charge of drinks - soft as well as hard. Since alcohol is strictly prohibited, guys came up with a neat plan to add johny walker black label into the bottle of coke and play and drink it safe. Boys will be boys you know.

Thursday night i and aru did all thr major packings and set them right on the car. There were many arguments and disagreements in between which any couple can imagine that happens in any travel so i am skipping those part. Friday the 7th we wake up at decent time, given that we both were working from home. Aru did the chores for baby and I started wfh. Few minutes past 12, I had a plan to buy few minor items. Accordingly I went out and what I found made me real panic. I was like out of blue and couldnot figure out for few seconds how to react. I took out my wallet in a jiffy and started looking for AAA card. As expected my card was missing from my wallet. Soon I unlocked my car and started looking in various storage sections inside the car. Finally I found it out. Called those triple a guys and informed them that one of my tyre got flat. They asked me what do I need. I said can they fix it? They replied back saying they can tow the car though for which I agreed. Immediately I called Tuks and sandy to inform the situation. Tuks suggested me to........TO BE CONTINUED

Ab aagey.....start writing again on Aug 30th 2010.

Tuks suggested me to replace the tire with the doughnut. This way we will not be delayed much. After waiting for long, the AAA guy came, made the replacement and I was all set. A big hurdle was taken care.....

We all(Sandy/Pratap/Tuks/Raj) started in our respective car and headed for Beaver Pond. It was about 30 miles away. Took the help of indispensible Navigator(a true friend at road) and it guided us with small hiccups to the spot within an hour. Sandy reached there first, followed by Raj, Pratap and Tuks. Tuks, who bought his new Lexus couldnot resist to drive few extra miles for fun. Anyways, we all reached there, registered our vehicles and finished few formailities there at the office.

The Place looked beautiful. There was a small beach, not very far from our location. We could see few people playing near it. Day was sunny and hot. We all were wearning comfortable dresses to avaoid the heat. Children were very happy. Arjun(my son), Saachi(Sady's daughter), Shubham(Tuk's son) and Tanishq(Pratap's son) were very excited. Our camping area was sorrounded by big green trees. Our camping spot was serial number 28 and 30 which were just adjacent to each other.

Our plan was to set up the tents before its too dark and then shoot for the beach. We have two tents to setup. We know we will have some problem during setting the first one and then the next one is not going to take much time. All of us started breaking our heads and put our best ideas(which we thought). Sandy suggested emulating the setup from our neighbouring camps, which we Indians are definitely good at, unarguably. This exercise reminded me of my Group Task test at SSB(Service Selection Board), Banaras for NDA(National defense Academy) where I couldnot do very well. Pratap((a product of Army school)) came up with some idea which made the process a little faster. Sandy, Tuks and I also made our life-time contribution. we setup the first tent....Yahooooooooooooo............Googleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

In the meantime, our dharmpatnis(wives) made delicious bhel(Haldiram). It was yummy, for sure. Kumud(Tuk's wife), Swati(Pratap's wife), Aru(Raj's wife) and Rupali(Sandy's wife) did fantastic job with the bhel. After finishing the snacks, we headed for the beach with volleyball. To our utter disappointment, the beach was closed at 6PM. Still, we went near water and keep doing some water activities till we get a final warning from the authorities. we played volleyball for a while and then we headed back for our camping site.

What is hope?

What is hope?
Hope is the unyielding belief that the current situation will change for good. Things will fall into place and happiness will prevail. It is this word which make us keep going in spite of adversaries. Hope may come from within or because of some circumstances.

My dad is alcoholic and is in very poor health condition. I have a hope that he will leave the evil and will look healthy and hale again. Today his sugar level tested very high and I am really concerned. Don't know what to do? How to bring his level down to normalcy? Help him God. I hope you understand it, my Lord.

Email to convince my friends to play boxcricket

Save the planet and also.......plz read

We all r concerned saving the planet trying to go green eating organic food consuming less gas doing car pool using less power consuming less paper but inspite of all our effort one creature is going to die: not unknown to us it's our box cricket. It's at the verge of extinction and only the member of box cricketers can save it.

Natural question comes to mind : how?
We need our time and involvement. We are social beings and love to be in groups. Box cricket is a small group but ask yourself won't you enjoy this one hour here with dirt cheap investment or no investment. I feel it's like a free ride so why are we letting this go? Why don't we all step in and share the. Ownership and responsibility ?

I know we all have our genuine reasons to not able to make it to the ground so what I am proposing here is please fill in ur availability throughout the week from mon to friday so that we can come up with at least 3 common days of playing.

Every year we play from June to august after that nobody is going to even see each other for next 6-7 months so why r we missing this chance of comradship and togetherness.Let's turn up to the grasses

Saying all that pls let me know who can come today

Life is a journey

Life is a journey of experiences for me . The happiness and pain on the way teach me a lot. When I get rest, i.e on sundays I ponder over the past; relish the good things and regret on my mistakes. On Monday I get rejuvenated and motivated by default. It is the day full of hopes and expectations. Today I am travelling(on a bus going to New York city) to my work place. Hope life will teach me something today. Plz share how life is treating you?

Thought of the day

One cannot be successful in a day or overnight but one has to face a history of struggle and failures.

Hmm....I feel so

The intensity of pain can be truly realized only by those who have gone through it. It is very difficult to realize other's pain and its beyond the capability of a common man. Only great men can shed tears when he see any living being in pain

Cricket and oooouchhhhes

On Sunday I played cricket after a long time. Dropped 2 catches, but managed one brilliant one, scored just half a dozen run and was brutally run out with severe bruises in my left elbow. Also broke my left thumb while successfully dropping one catch. God bless cricketers........ We need to understand that nobody drops catch intentionally......have sympathy with me.......fuck the bloody ball though.

On Following Sunday, again played another match, scored just a dismal 2 runs, was victim of a misjudgement and declared caught behind. I assumed the extra role of wicket-keeper this time, dropped one catch and the only catch that came to me, twisted my left leg this time and am not able to walk properly for a week and till today have a severe pain while walking.

Observation

Whenever you step forward to explore or see things you always find something new, something which has the ability to surprise you or secretly please you. Today I found a restroom/toilet near my office, from where I can see Statue of Liberty(SOL) . One thing leads to another. My search for toilet lead me to SOL. Even though I know where is SOL it was a pleasant surprise to see it so near. After I emptied my kidney I thought to watch the sea little closely and to my dismay I was watching SoL in front of my eyes. Next week I am planning to take my parents to SOL. Last week plan was a disaster bcos of me. We headed for Point Pleasant beach but lost extra 30 mins travelling in the wrong direction. By the time we started and by the time we reached there was hell and heaven difference between the weather. Pleasant and warm weather became windy and chilly. We made so much of prep, so much food but it was a disappointing trip. Finally we bid goodnight by watching a horror flick "The Others".