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Keep Walking …

Keep Walking is the tag line and brand identity for Johnie Walker and I kinda love it !

The words Keep Walking leave an indelible mark. Gives a lot of inspiration to people, at least me, to keep trying hard, keep working, keep striving, keep winning and above all KEEP LIVING.

There are lots and lots of people who would be very very good at things, great minds, excellent at thinking but would stick something stupid to their hearts and mind and drag themselves back.

Keep Walking is just a plain advertisement, but it epitomizes a way of life. People should take an example and learn. I have been collecting a few images of the Johnnie Walker advertisement campaigns and do I need to say that they were EXCELLENT.

Would be posting a few links in future… and till then KEEP WALKING !

So my BLOG has got 3000+ unique hits !

WOW, I feel like a celebrity 😀 I know that I account for atleast 1000 of those visits and few other friends for other 1500 but I am happy for those few just surfed in by design or by chance.

As a very good friend’s Yahoo Messenger Status says “Miles to go before I sleep …”

Saurabh

http://egyaan.blogspot.com

911 – the number Americans associate with emergency. 911 – the nuber americans assocate with tragedy.

It was 9112001 when a few men rocked the world and brought America on its feet. The WTC and the Pentagon were attacked and thousands of innocent americans lost their lives.

Today is the third anniversary of the attack and we should take a few lessons from the tragic event and try to make sure that this kinda thing never hapens in the future.

There are so many interesting facets to the September the 11th attack against America and there are so many things I would like to say here but I won’t be doing it because one I don’t have that much time to write about it and two some people might be offended with the stuff.

I have my deepest sympathies with the friends and families of the victims. I know its difficult but there are somethings that much be accepted and we dont have control over em.

It was one of those times when I actually promised someone something. I promised Ridhima that I would complete the stuff in PhotoShop before 6 in the morning and I would mail her the thing.

I could’nt complete it 🙁

When I post the following code, it is supposed to help me get higher ratings with Search Engines…

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Found this on http://www.blogchalking.tk/

Lets see if this works.

This is a Yahoo conversation between me and a very good friend P.A. We both had our view poits and we both had opinions. This is the transcript…

me (1:12:07 PM): vote dala?

P.A. (1:12:25 PM): yeah

P.A. (1:12:28 PM): u?

me (1:12:29 PM): kisko?

me (1:12:36 PM): Me yes to congress !

P.A. (1:13:26 PM): khatam aadmi …… khatam party

P.A. (1:13:32 PM): ur gonna lose

P.A. (1:13:34 PM): B-)

me (1:13:36 PM): this is what YOU think

me (1:13:45 PM): I hve already won it. I casted the vote for the right person

me (1:13:49 PM): the results are immaterial

P.A. (1:13:57 PM): i Know whos is gonna win

P.A. (1:14:00 PM): thats what matters

me (1:14:10 PM): ha

me (1:14:30 PM): one side you have got 8th pass/fail candidate and one side youve got PGDRM…

me (1:14:34 PM): chal me not gonna fight

P.A. (1:14:34 PM): =P~

me (1:14:49 PM): I made my decision and thought about it, had reasons

me (1:14:57 PM): you made your decisionyou had your reasons

P.A. (1:15:02 PM): exactly………………. education is no substitute 4 good governance n policies

P.A. (1:15:23 PM): else all those Foreign educated netas wwud have nt been involved in scams

P.A. (1:15:38 PM): what a dud reason to vote 4 a candidate

me (1:16:07 PM): huh?

me (1:16:17 PM): and why did you vote for BJP?

me (1:16:28 PM): you know the candidate? his history? his past?

P.A. (1:16:40 PM): I know the candidate

P.A. (1:16:49 PM): cause he’s been to my nanaji’s house

P.A. (1:16:53 PM): plus

P.A. (1:16:59 PM): he is known to a be decent chap

P.A. (1:17:04 PM): humble guy

P.A. (1:17:09 PM): nt very famous

P.A. (1:17:15 PM): LAl bihari tiwari

P.A. (1:17:22 PM): listens to ppl

me (1:17:27 PM): humble? :O? my ass

me (1:17:36 PM): you were at the marriage of his daughter?

me (1:17:41 PM): you shoudl have scene there

P.A. (1:18:02 PM): n obviously

P.A. (1:18:03 PM): its more abt the party n policies 4 me n less 4 the candidate

P.A. (1:18:03 PM): bhaiya paisa hai ….to kharch to karna padega

P.A. (1:18:14 PM): aur ladki ki shadi pe to farz banta hai

P.A. (1:18:25 PM): neta ki ladki hai aakhir

P.A. (1:18:30 PM): whats wrong with that

me (1:18:36 PM): am not talking about the way he spent

me (1:18:44 PM): chal chod, would tell ya whenwe meet

me (1:18:49 PM): and you voted for the party?

me (1:19:26 PM): WOW… Had VajpayeeJi been 5 years younger I would have voted for him but not anymore when he is ready to pass his bastion to that son of a botch

P.A. (1:19:31 PM): yes

P.A. (1:19:31 PM): NDA

me (1:19:37 PM): NDA :))

me (1:19:51 PM): the same NDA who one days says they want alliances andother day they say they are tired of em?

me (1:20:06 PM): the same NDA whihc was thrown outta poewr by jayalalitha and they are backwith her now?

me (1:20:17 PM): the same who threw chautala out and they want him back now/

P.A. (1:20:17 PM): Still better than …………….congressssssss any dayyyyyyyyyy

me (1:20:27 PM): the same nda where mulayam singh is in and out

P.A. (1:20:34 PM): they to sold everything to get votes

me (1:20:38 PM): where mayawati one day is friend and other day is foe?

P.A. (1:20:40 PM): all this allinace n horse trading etc

P.A. (1:20:45 PM): is a legacy of congress

P.A. (1:21:06 PM): what abt NCp

P.A. (1:21:08 PM): n sharad pawar

P.A. (1:21:19 PM): :-))

me (1:21:29 PM): bhaiya sharda pawar was always the part of congress

me (1:21:39 PM): he spil;t from congress on some local issue pertaining to maharastha

P.A. (1:21:42 PM): atleast .BJP is a more younger n better run party

me (1:21:48 PM): younger?

P.A. (1:21:48 PM): it has organisational sense

me (1:21:52 PM): YOUNGER?

me (1:21:59 PM): where do you see young pople in BJP?

me (1:22:04 PM): in Bahu Irani?

me (1:22:14 PM): in VajpayeeJi/

me (1:22:21 PM): yeah infatc Vajpayee Ji is younger at 80

me (1:22:40 PM): and I have no clue about the organiational sense 🙁 so cant beat you on it

P.A. (1:23:09 PM): not justa coalition of kings n patriachs

P.A. (1:23:09 PM): B-)

P.A. (1:23:09 PM): andar lele

me (1:23:37 PM): NDA is not coalition?

me (1:23:51 PM): :O its NAME is “alliance”…

P.A. (1:23:56 PM): bhaiya ……. in fighting is famous in cong

me (1:24:12 PM): yeah its not beacuse Vajpayee Ji is still here

P.A. (1:24:12 PM): aapas main hi ladte rehate hai…

me (1:24:22 PM): the day Vajpayee Ji exits, you see

P.A. (1:24:23 PM): kaam kya karenge

P.A. (1:24:23 PM): ek woh pagal sonia

me (1:24:34 PM): that SOB MM Joshi is abhi sey saying hes the number 3 man in BJP

P.A. (1:24:35 PM): tell me …………..WHO IS THE CONGRESS CANDIATE $ PM

me (1:24:38 PM): yep !

P.A. (1:24:39 PM): can u tell…………………????

P.A. (1:24:42 PM): can u?????

me (1:24:47 PM): AREE SONIA is not to be the PM, she is not qualified

me (1:24:57 PM): but there are lots of others

me (1:25:08 PM): I would say if I had the decision to make, I would havechosed Dr. Singh anyday

P.A. (1:25:32 PM): bhaiya kisi ko nahi pata

P.A. (1:25:39 PM): congress ke worker ko nahi pata

me (1:25:39 PM): but again the ENTIRE alliance would sit and plan about and decide, not like the other party where they say they already have a sucessor to Vajpayee Ji and they dont name it

After this he suddenly left and our BIG FIGHT 😀 which I thought was winnig was over 🙁

Anywys the priminary results for Andhra Pradesh Assembly Election 2004 are out and in the first round Congress is winning 200 odd of 294 seats. Last time around Congress just had 100 seats. ChanrdraBabu Naidu has been removed from the throne and his great dream of getting everything for Andhra and eventually himself is over.

Cheers to Congress !!!!

It’s been more than 48 hours and I haven’t been online. Sucks. I need to be online to gauge my chances at MDI and kill time but alas my ISP has some problems in the RF link. The bad thing is that he is the ISP for all the Internet cafes around my place. So if his Internet is down, you can’t get online at least not in D.G. And this is being typed offline so that I could just copy paste the stuff as and when I go online.

Coming to the real topic, Rain Drops Are Falling On My Head… Yesterday it rained and it rained like anything. I was in the park, playing cricket when it started pouring. It was amazing fun to be in he rain and playing cricket. It made me forget all my worries and I enjoyed it a lot. Ever since I grew up (physically), I haven’t been playing that much. I guess there is a sort of barrier as you are all grown up and no one expects you to play like kids in the rain. Talking of cricket in the rains, yesterday I invented a new form of cricket in which diving and sliding was mandatory. Just imagine the wet slippery grass, keechad (dunno wats this in English) and other junk sticking onto when you dive on the roads. It is REAL FUN. I know this sounds very pathetic and cheap but whoever thinks this is not that good, should do it once.

Another thing about the rains, you get to see all kinds of looks on people’s faces. Some are trying to run for the shelter, some are trying to get as wet as possible, trying to figure out the most open place on the ground. Some would try to stand under some kinda shed and take their arms out and have the feel of it. And then there would be those who would take their clothes off and would run on the road and speed their mobikes on the slippery roads.

And what about the breeze and mausam after the rains? The best time for a romantic date, a stroll on the road, some wishful thinking. The mind is so clear and clean that you could give competition to any mastermind including Bill Gates.

As the night falls, after such a plesant time, its almost the perfect time for the Guitar. Although I have forgot EVERYthing I learnt on a guitar but still even Sa Ni Dha was amazing. That was the time when you feel as if the guitar is the last thing to do on the Earth.

B.S., the guitarist, called me up on Tuesday. It felt so good to talk to him after so many days. He said that he was talking to A.B. and while talking, my name creeped up. Chalo he at least talked to me and I remembered about all the good times we spent together playing CS in the office and falling for Rai University ki girls.

I guess this would be an appropriate place and time to talk about B.S. He is also a BITian like me but he is one year senior to me and he passed out of PGDAV. I first met him when he joined the office. My first views about him were like wow yet another chinki and a new kid to play with, to torture, to crack jokes on etc. But again I realized that he was pretty cool and in fact had a very good sense of humor and was more than a friend. He is very good at playing guitar, sutta maaro and taking udhaar from people.

As I am writing this, I have to mention that he was the only one among the group of 20 people (who said they were my friends) who thought about talking tome. I had to leave my job because of my folly and my blind faith on people.

Apart from Bhaskar, I had a fight with Joie and we still aren’t talking the way I want to. I think she still is kinda skeptic about all the stuff I say. I just wish someone could teach me how to control myself when talking. But again things are looking good and we should be back on the track soon.

Also another thing to ponder over here would be why people make fun of chinkis? I think people try to make fun of everything and anything that is not conforming to the preconceived notions and believes. Lets take for example a man with red hair. Most people on the streets would laugh at him, as we in INDIA aren’t used to watching people with red hair. Again in the case of chinkis, the problem I think is their outlook. I have seen chinkis not interacting with other people and just keeping to themselves. It’s all very very complicated. Hope I could understand.

I lost a few chnages that I made to my template beacuse of my crappy internet connection. The ISP would cache the pages once they are requested and would not update them for the next time. When I request that page again, the ISP would serve the page from cache rather than taking from internet. So after updating the template, I hit the save button and I realized that changes made havent been saved.

Yesterday, I lost a very good friend. We are not talking anymore.

I just wish that I could make myself clear before we stopped talking.

Just as I was typing this I gotta know that we still ARE talking but I think we are’nt friends anymore, atleast we are’nt as good friends as we used to be before I opened my big mouth and talked nonsense.

I think we should be able to sort things out but I am just hoping and being very optimistic here.

Need some BIG time help :((

Dewang

So an update after so long. Was kinda busy and was down for about two days. Will talk about it in the post and if you are reading this, get ready for some “constructive” criticism.

Ok let me start with today’s incident at IMS. Today was the last official class of the year at IMS for my batch. That means I will miss a lot of people and lot of very good friends. I think before everything else, I would list their names. Here they are in Alphabetical Order (and if you don’t follow Alphabetical Order, people would complain ki mera naam neeche kyon. Nah no one would. Had they been like complaining sorts, I wouldn’t have included their names here). Ok here goes…

– Abhinav ????

– Abhishek Mishra

– Deepti ????

– Divy Suneja

– Jyoti Sahu

– Kunal ????

– Parikshit Ranavat

– Punit Sehgal

– Pradeep ????

– Prashat ????

– Prerna ????

– Priyank Gupta

– Rajatesh Kumar

– Saurabh Khosla

– Sudipto ????

I would like to say if I miss your name here, PLEASE PLEASE let me know and I would include them. And let me tell everyone else that list is NOT complete at all. There were a lot of people whom I would like to stay in touch with.

P.S. “????” doesn’t means that they are all brothers and sisters or relatives of any sort, but I dunno their surnames.

Ok now today’s incident. It was a Maths class and a teacher from IMS NOIDA was here to take the session. He knew Aditya Takiar and Ashish Anand. Well all said and done, right after the class ended, a guy walked up to the teacher and asked if he could play the Piano lying in the corner of the hall. If you are surprised ki bhai IMS main you guys go to study and what is a piano doing there. Ok, since it was music, I was instantly curious. I wanted to know how does that chap plays and I talked to him and asked if he learnt somewhere or anything like that. He said he used to play at school. And the moment he started playing, I was AWESTUCK. He was so good at it and best part, he knew the Titan Soundtrack (the 8th or 9th symphony of Beethoven). Man I was so impressed that I wished I hadn’t stopped playing my guitar. For one moment I even thought I would go back to Mr. Johnson and ask him if he can teach me Piano. Rest assured people I would be starting my guitaring days soon. And there are people around me who have started learning Guitar so inferiority complex ;). So keep your eyes open for the next Santana or Bryan Adams.

Ok enough for time being, following are the stuff that I will be adding to this post.

Quake 3

Seats at IIMs

Entrepreneurship

Teachers @ IMS

and may be anything else too.