Haven't been blogging for a while, but couldn't resist a short one in the light of the Sreesant (read gopu mon) Harbhajan(read bhajji )incident !!
Quite a hilarious turn of events with the angry young men of Indian cricket getting involved in an on field brawl and one guy bursting up in tears (understatement, because a girl couldnt have done this better !! ). The actual slap did not come on video(even you tube let us all down) and the reason why bhajji boy slapped him is also not clear. What Sreesant would have told to intimidate Bhajji is oepn to the figments of ones imagination. Maybe Bhajji is justified in slapping Sree and maybe not. At the end of the day it ended up in being an absolute embarrasment to everyone in Indian cricket, Sreesant in particular and to a certain extend to the part of the country where this guy comes from (me included). To english/hindi media he said Bhajji is an elder bro so it din't matter and to the mallu media he said he din't quite figure out why bhajji beat him up, well here we have a confused soul, right, so whats new !!
If this was a one off incident that happened to some gentle calm decent guy who minds his own business(yes delivering on the cricket ground ), I myself would have empathised and maybe taken out a candle march to show my support (lol!!)...but on this count I would say Sreeshant deserved it....When he started off as a regular bowler for the Indian side, all of mallu land took pride and I still remember the initial matches in which he reprseesnted the country were I used to get goose bumps just watching him bowl, not for anything else but just because of sheer pride. Then he took it one step further and started his aggression, the bit that was considered to be the forte of Australian cricket, that time we cheered him on, alas we thought there is one guy who can show em that two can play the game!!...Sree took it several steps further when he started being the joker in the pack on more occassions than one . Many a times I wanted to see him beaten up by the likes of giants like Hayden !!! But it took a sardar to do the needful...congarts bhajji..you made my day :)
Really appreciate how people like Sree came up from nothing and due to sheer perserverence and determination made it to the Indian team blah blah, but there is a line that has to be drawn, which he needs to know. Maybe some people learn it the hard way.
This blog is not a pat on the back for Harbhajan , many a punjabi lads n lasses would love to voice their 2 cents worth about him, the same way I'm writing about Sreesant. Ya Bhajji too had his share of the limelight for reasons good or bad...but thats not my concern, but Sreesant mallu lands very own son is going on the big stage and doing many a avoidable antics, the same stage that he shares with the likes of gentlemen like Dravid and Tendulkar!
For me the two most important highlights from this whole incident came from Ponting and Rediff:
Ponting said something in the lines of ' thank God this incident happened between two Indians'..self explanatory statement......thank heavens really!
Rediff referred to the fact that the young cricketers are finding it hard to cope with all the money (read - IPL kind of money) and the limelight..something on the lines of an Orientation camp with Ravi is on the cards. Even I feel that this actually is the need of the hour.
Well as curtains have fallen on the bhajji-sree incident with both hugging each other etc etc...hope some people did learn some lesson..ha ha hope Sreesant watched the videos in which he was crying ..:)
Dear gopu please don't embarass us in future ! And please carry yourself better on the field and otherwise....respect others..play the game in the spirit its meant to be played....be aggressive but don't take it to the extend of intimidating the other party...relax and enjoy the game :) Gopu mon ..just chill !!
The End.
Part I couldnt fit in the blog:
One hilarious incident ..in an interview on Neo TV ...this gopu mon says Italian is his favourite cuisine..bloody ass...his staple food must have been Pazham kanji with Avial (translation would screw this original mallu favourite) for all you know!!!
Friday, May 2, 2008
Monday, September 24, 2007
IF - Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!
--Rudyard Kipling
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!
--Rudyard Kipling
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Singapore-Moral of the story so far...
This is about the supersonic life. Life goes on at break neck speed in these parts, no one has the time, and people rush from home to work and back and in between there is hardly time for noticing the person next to you.
If you move around here, you cannot help but notice that people mind there own business!
This can so symbolically be visualized by the simple picture in which every person on a bus or a train has a pair of headphones stacked deeply in each ear and the eyes gazing into eternity, absolutely ignorant of the person beside!!
Sometimes you miss that touch that you get to feel in India (so aptly said in few words in the movie 'Crash').You tend to miss the nosey parker in the buses and trains of India, who would lap onto each word you talk on the phone or would notice each of your subtle movements.
What I feel is that people live their life and theirs alone; I know that this culture is creeping into the Indian psyche as well, but here it is too evident. All you need to do is board a bus or train to see it in front of your eyes.
The people are friendly, if you ask for help, you will surely get it, like the time when I asked for direction and a guy told me the same in Chinese!!Inspite of convincing him that 'I not Chinese, I know no Chinese etc’! But the point is you really have to ask for it
Everyone are running here and they may not notice you the pace at which they are going...
If you move around here, you cannot help but notice that people mind there own business!
This can so symbolically be visualized by the simple picture in which every person on a bus or a train has a pair of headphones stacked deeply in each ear and the eyes gazing into eternity, absolutely ignorant of the person beside!!
Sometimes you miss that touch that you get to feel in India (so aptly said in few words in the movie 'Crash').You tend to miss the nosey parker in the buses and trains of India, who would lap onto each word you talk on the phone or would notice each of your subtle movements.
What I feel is that people live their life and theirs alone; I know that this culture is creeping into the Indian psyche as well, but here it is too evident. All you need to do is board a bus or train to see it in front of your eyes.
The people are friendly, if you ask for help, you will surely get it, like the time when I asked for direction and a guy told me the same in Chinese!!Inspite of convincing him that 'I not Chinese, I know no Chinese etc’! But the point is you really have to ask for it
Everyone are running here and they may not notice you the pace at which they are going...
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
The Invincibles : To Loyola and the ISC batch of 1998
This is about a 'band of brothers' that took Loyola by storm both for the good reasons and also the not so good ones !!
Am penning down incidents that struck me when I sat to write,May not be chronologically right but the content is true,guessthat matters the most.
Notorious bunch of boys we were !! Well was there any other batch in Loyoala history that had the guts to revolt against a teacher and go to extreme measures to get him out of our territory,well we actually spilled ink on a day to day basis on this persons 'mundu'.Even though the fun din't last long and the drama ended with two members of our band getting suspended(that too an all time first in Loyola),it eventually led to the teacher being chucked out of the place!!With great names in our batch like pattalam thomman,whose name send shivers down the spine of many a junior and senior ....we really were a brutal bunch and a force to reckon with!!
Cant think of any other batch in Loyola(or any other school) who dreamt about attending the 'School Day at Holy Angels Convent(HAC)'.Well ,for the uninitiated,HAC school is a girls only school and HAC's 'school days', as a rule DO NOT allow Boys,even cousin brothers etc.Talk about boys from a 'boys only school'.Ya we actually did it...bunked Eliyamma teachers Maths Tuition and ya we were at HAC's school day .Using the passes that some of our 'contacts' at HAC arranged for us(Well these 'contacts' were so called 'girl friends'or imaginary 'girl friends' of members of the band !!) With many of the band members having already tied the knot,I'm restricting myself to this !!.Well we got in the audi and settled ourselves comfortably ,tragedy which had to strike us,did strikeat the fag end of the show,when the HAC girls started booing there own choir group singing on stage.Screwed we were,'cos we were sitting in front of the booing gang .. man that was it !! Obviously a clear case of mistaken identity,but who can defend our cause,we ourselves being uninvited guests ....with allegations from all quarters that we crossed the limit etc etc,we left the place unable to defend our case...The icing on the cake was laid the next day in School when our very own Vice Principal Fr,Idassery asked us "ningal poyi HAC school dayil koovi ennu kettallo..."(I heard that u guys booed at HAC school day !!) Yes we became celebrities overnite !!!
Then dont think any batch from a 'polished' school like Loyola would pick a street fight !!Well if it was a street it was ok,but this was Pattom Junction one of the busiest main roads in Trivandrum !! If I'm not mistaked around 30 guys from our batch of 45 were there on that eventful day to beat up a guy from KV Pattom.Again not goinginto details inorder to save some blushes .In short it was a 'pennu case'(girl-boy issue).well that guy was beaten upby by few of the guys and the rest of us surrounded the place providing support.Ya we never did anything other than in a team !!No one taught us the importance of team work,it was in our Psyche right from school days !!
We, in DP's(Deepa Pillai ma'm,our very own English Teacher ,allrounder and the mother of all Loyola Plays) own words performed the best Drama that any Loyola 'school day' saw.With just a tape recorder and the cassetes and some disco lightsfor special effects and the AP house tech whizkid Bhakshis wizadry(with the sounds),we managed a drama that we regret not having captured on video :(- .With the modern digital technology,the mixing on laptops and the works and in DP's words "The vande mataram piece mixed on computer in 7 different styles and other innovations that the kids did this year and the previous years dint even come anywhere close to the 'technology-less original' we came out with "that too way back in 1997 !!No school level drama could match the improvisations we did,like the famous shadow play.Still faintly remember the shadow play with Abba as the elephant and someone beating Raman for that special 'touch' to add originality to the scene. And how can I forget the 'deadly' dance (I think that too a first on the Loyola stage) that we performed as part of the play !! With only KP knowing the meaning of the word - 'dance'...lol ...worm and glass and rope and what not ...gave Michael Jackson a run for his money that night!!!....ha ha ha
We broke all records with our ICSE 1996 results and again broke all records with ourISC 1998 results !! The former went down in history with us being coined as the 'best ICSE batch' Loyolahas seen,with distinctions galore .The latter went down in history with us being coined as the 'worst batch' Loyola has seen,with Kerala CEE exam seeing us getting featured in the ranks that were multiples of thousand !!Ofcourse in that part of the world,you are graded not by what you really are,but by the grades and the ranks you get...
Ha ha all the heroics apart(with the disclaimer : The above feats were performed by experts,not to be imitated by lesser mortals!!),we were actaully a decent batch ..lol..we had a good image in front of the fairer sex of the surrounding schools,I'm not jokingI'm serious...lots of girls hooked up with members of our band (even if they dint we paired up in our minds!!Its all in the mind baby) I can very well pen down the name of all the pairs ,the real names n the nick names..but for raesons stated earlier,am restraining myself !!
Again we are a close knit group take for eg our yahoo groups (ISC98Loyola@yahoogroups.com), each new day we wake up to atleast3 fresh mails(not forwards) from our group ,telling of everyday happenings !! this is apart from the regional(whether it is the US or blore or tvm)get togethers we have regularly .We stay so much in touch that each of us know were the rest of the batch is at this point in time and what they are into !! Can any school batch ask for more, that too after 10 years of graduating !!We ourselves wonder at times !!
Whatever we were and watever we were not ,while oft on our couches we lie (10 years after Loyola),we can proudly say that we were indeed 'the best batch' Loyola has ever seen and yes ofcourse DP and the rest of the then faculty at Loyola would second that.There are reasons aplenty to prove my point.I dont think there was any other batch in Loyola History,with so many people choosing the not so oft trodden paths.With people in the Indian Army,people mastering in Linguistics ,Architecture,Law,name the field we have a person doing just that....also name a place ,and we have representation in that part of the globe...Well the fact is we are getting older by the day and looking at what is happening these days in Loyola and the pace at which technology is catching up ,that feeling gets stronger.We never saw a mobile hand set until our first job !!Kids now will laugh at the thought !!
Well so are we really old,with many guys already married n settled and eventhe next generation having come.
I really dont think we are old-yeah we are young at heart and still raring to go.If given a chance we all would love to jump right back into our black pant and white shirt(ya untucked ofcourse!!) and well a bathroom sleper to match and still stand apart in the crowd and hold our head high and sing the anthem on the assembly steps....
Long live Loyola's sons.....long live the band ...
Am penning down incidents that struck me when I sat to write,May not be chronologically right but the content is true,guessthat matters the most.
Notorious bunch of boys we were !! Well was there any other batch in Loyoala history that had the guts to revolt against a teacher and go to extreme measures to get him out of our territory,well we actually spilled ink on a day to day basis on this persons 'mundu'.Even though the fun din't last long and the drama ended with two members of our band getting suspended(that too an all time first in Loyola),it eventually led to the teacher being chucked out of the place!!With great names in our batch like pattalam thomman,whose name send shivers down the spine of many a junior and senior ....we really were a brutal bunch and a force to reckon with!!
Cant think of any other batch in Loyola(or any other school) who dreamt about attending the 'School Day at Holy Angels Convent(HAC)'.Well ,for the uninitiated,HAC school is a girls only school and HAC's 'school days', as a rule DO NOT allow Boys,even cousin brothers etc.Talk about boys from a 'boys only school'.Ya we actually did it...bunked Eliyamma teachers Maths Tuition and ya we were at HAC's school day .Using the passes that some of our 'contacts' at HAC arranged for us(Well these 'contacts' were so called 'girl friends'or imaginary 'girl friends' of members of the band !!) With many of the band members having already tied the knot,I'm restricting myself to this !!.Well we got in the audi and settled ourselves comfortably ,tragedy which had to strike us,did strikeat the fag end of the show,when the HAC girls started booing there own choir group singing on stage.Screwed we were,'cos we were sitting in front of the booing gang .. man that was it !! Obviously a clear case of mistaken identity,but who can defend our cause,we ourselves being uninvited guests ....with allegations from all quarters that we crossed the limit etc etc,we left the place unable to defend our case...The icing on the cake was laid the next day in School when our very own Vice Principal Fr,Idassery asked us "ningal poyi HAC school dayil koovi ennu kettallo..."(I heard that u guys booed at HAC school day !!) Yes we became celebrities overnite !!!
Then dont think any batch from a 'polished' school like Loyola would pick a street fight !!Well if it was a street it was ok,but this was Pattom Junction one of the busiest main roads in Trivandrum !! If I'm not mistaked around 30 guys from our batch of 45 were there on that eventful day to beat up a guy from KV Pattom.Again not goinginto details inorder to save some blushes .In short it was a 'pennu case'(girl-boy issue).well that guy was beaten upby by few of the guys and the rest of us surrounded the place providing support.Ya we never did anything other than in a team !!No one taught us the importance of team work,it was in our Psyche right from school days !!
We, in DP's(Deepa Pillai ma'm,our very own English Teacher ,allrounder and the mother of all Loyola Plays) own words performed the best Drama that any Loyola 'school day' saw.With just a tape recorder and the cassetes and some disco lightsfor special effects and the AP house tech whizkid Bhakshis wizadry(with the sounds),we managed a drama that we regret not having captured on video :(- .With the modern digital technology,the mixing on laptops and the works and in DP's words "The vande mataram piece mixed on computer in 7 different styles and other innovations that the kids did this year and the previous years dint even come anywhere close to the 'technology-less original' we came out with "that too way back in 1997 !!No school level drama could match the improvisations we did,like the famous shadow play.Still faintly remember the shadow play with Abba as the elephant and someone beating Raman for that special 'touch' to add originality to the scene. And how can I forget the 'deadly' dance (I think that too a first on the Loyola stage) that we performed as part of the play !! With only KP knowing the meaning of the word - 'dance'...lol ...worm and glass and rope and what not ...gave Michael Jackson a run for his money that night!!!....ha ha ha
We broke all records with our ICSE 1996 results and again broke all records with ourISC 1998 results !! The former went down in history with us being coined as the 'best ICSE batch' Loyolahas seen,with distinctions galore .The latter went down in history with us being coined as the 'worst batch' Loyola has seen,with Kerala CEE exam seeing us getting featured in the ranks that were multiples of thousand !!Ofcourse in that part of the world,you are graded not by what you really are,but by the grades and the ranks you get...
Ha ha all the heroics apart(with the disclaimer : The above feats were performed by experts,not to be imitated by lesser mortals!!),we were actaully a decent batch ..lol..we had a good image in front of the fairer sex of the surrounding schools,I'm not jokingI'm serious...lots of girls hooked up with members of our band (even if they dint we paired up in our minds!!Its all in the mind baby) I can very well pen down the name of all the pairs ,the real names n the nick names..but for raesons stated earlier,am restraining myself !!
Again we are a close knit group take for eg our yahoo groups (ISC98Loyola@yahoogroups.com), each new day we wake up to atleast3 fresh mails(not forwards) from our group ,telling of everyday happenings !! this is apart from the regional(whether it is the US or blore or tvm)get togethers we have regularly .We stay so much in touch that each of us know were the rest of the batch is at this point in time and what they are into !! Can any school batch ask for more, that too after 10 years of graduating !!We ourselves wonder at times !!
Whatever we were and watever we were not ,while oft on our couches we lie (10 years after Loyola),we can proudly say that we were indeed 'the best batch' Loyola has ever seen and yes ofcourse DP and the rest of the then faculty at Loyola would second that.There are reasons aplenty to prove my point.I dont think there was any other batch in Loyola History,with so many people choosing the not so oft trodden paths.With people in the Indian Army,people mastering in Linguistics ,Architecture,Law,name the field we have a person doing just that....also name a place ,and we have representation in that part of the globe...Well the fact is we are getting older by the day and looking at what is happening these days in Loyola and the pace at which technology is catching up ,that feeling gets stronger.We never saw a mobile hand set until our first job !!Kids now will laugh at the thought !!
Well so are we really old,with many guys already married n settled and eventhe next generation having come.
I really dont think we are old-yeah we are young at heart and still raring to go.If given a chance we all would love to jump right back into our black pant and white shirt(ya untucked ofcourse!!) and well a bathroom sleper to match and still stand apart in the crowd and hold our head high and sing the anthem on the assembly steps....
Long live Loyola's sons.....long live the band ...
Monday, May 21, 2007
The New House and the weekend update ....
This blog started on Friday and ends now(Monday 12.15pm)..so this is a two in one .....
Phew !! Atlast the house hunt ends and we have got a place to stay for another 6 to 8 months or so.Got to share this house with the owner and the owners Dog for 2months,but we are not complaining because we have the master bedroom plus the hall plus the kitchen plus the choicest things likeplasma tv,home theatre system,already installed internet and phone and the usuals like the aircon,refridgerator ,washing machine etc.With a rent of 600 s$ we are not complaining at all !!Everyone whoknows abt this stuff here says it is a kewl deal :)
Work has not kicked off in full flow so guess the blogging n writing will go on at this pace for some more time..lets c !!My boss also hasn't turned up till now.
Hours away(its 12.05pm here) from the 3rd weekend here,lots of things lined up,got to meet relatives on saturday,then got to meet a college friend,and sunday - the 'eleusive' church and more relatives.Dont know how its all going towork ,you need to check my blog next week to know for sure !!
Surpriceeeee(weekend plans materialised!!!) here goes ....
Weekend was good fun,did all the things i planned to do...phew doesnt happen very often,met relatives and went to church too and the topping on the icecream was the visit to Vivo City near harbour Front,the visit that stretched into the wee hours of Monday Morning,talk about a jam packed weekend!!
Had good fun and food at Jolly Ammamma n Geetha Uncles place...feasted on the chappatti n poori n paneer n egg n channa n dal n fried rice n custard !!!Was too busy eating to count the number of courses that was. God bless my sweet ammamma(aunty) :) I've hinted her about me being a prospective threat in future and the unannounced visits she could expect !! Guess Jolly Ammamma wont be 'jolly' henceforth....!!!
Church(http://marthomasg.org/) was fun too,the people were real nice ,the youngsters n the mid aged folks were soo active and I cherished every moment of service,the choir was too good ,one of the best ive ever heard,Which might not be the case in future after me having joined them !!Practice for 'Choir Sunday' stretched on for a good 4 hrs after service,never even in my wildest imagination did i think that I would be excercising the strength of my vocal chords so soon in Singapore !! God save the church !!
Vivo City(http://www.vivocity.com.sg/home1.html) was one hell of an experience.You can call it a mall,but its much much more !!...amazing ambience and very well oragnized tooo...the stunning malls at Gurgaon are all miniscule in comparison..Name the brand,and they have it...loathed on prospective brands to buy after the salary,and got a general idea about where a major chunk of my pay would be going!!.Got a glimpse of the famous Singapore Lion from the roof top of Vivo,which is very close to Sentosa and Harbour Front(the house of the Lion!).The adventure went on till midnight after which we had to catch the last bus to the flat .Between we had food at our favourite hangout Madinathul, a Muslim place with Indian food(made in Indian style too,could we have asked for more!!)
Will talk later about the life on the fast track here in Singapore....now gtg n eat at Madinathul...
Phew !! Atlast the house hunt ends and we have got a place to stay for another 6 to 8 months or so.Got to share this house with the owner and the owners Dog for 2months,but we are not complaining because we have the master bedroom plus the hall plus the kitchen plus the choicest things likeplasma tv,home theatre system,already installed internet and phone and the usuals like the aircon,refridgerator ,washing machine etc.With a rent of 600 s$ we are not complaining at all !!Everyone whoknows abt this stuff here says it is a kewl deal :)
Work has not kicked off in full flow so guess the blogging n writing will go on at this pace for some more time..lets c !!My boss also hasn't turned up till now.
Hours away(its 12.05pm here) from the 3rd weekend here,lots of things lined up,got to meet relatives on saturday,then got to meet a college friend,and sunday - the 'eleusive' church and more relatives.Dont know how its all going towork ,you need to check my blog next week to know for sure !!
Surpriceeeee(weekend plans materialised!!!) here goes ....
Weekend was good fun,did all the things i planned to do...phew doesnt happen very often,met relatives and went to church too and the topping on the icecream was the visit to Vivo City near harbour Front,the visit that stretched into the wee hours of Monday Morning,talk about a jam packed weekend!!
Had good fun and food at Jolly Ammamma n Geetha Uncles place...feasted on the chappatti n poori n paneer n egg n channa n dal n fried rice n custard !!!Was too busy eating to count the number of courses that was. God bless my sweet ammamma(aunty) :) I've hinted her about me being a prospective threat in future and the unannounced visits she could expect !! Guess Jolly Ammamma wont be 'jolly' henceforth....!!!
Church(http://marthomasg.org/) was fun too,the people were real nice ,the youngsters n the mid aged folks were soo active and I cherished every moment of service,the choir was too good ,one of the best ive ever heard,Which might not be the case in future after me having joined them !!Practice for 'Choir Sunday' stretched on for a good 4 hrs after service,never even in my wildest imagination did i think that I would be excercising the strength of my vocal chords so soon in Singapore !! God save the church !!
Vivo City(http://www.vivocity.com.sg/home1.html) was one hell of an experience.You can call it a mall,but its much much more !!...amazing ambience and very well oragnized tooo...the stunning malls at Gurgaon are all miniscule in comparison..Name the brand,and they have it...loathed on prospective brands to buy after the salary,and got a general idea about where a major chunk of my pay would be going!!.Got a glimpse of the famous Singapore Lion from the roof top of Vivo,which is very close to Sentosa and Harbour Front(the house of the Lion!).The adventure went on till midnight after which we had to catch the last bus to the flat .Between we had food at our favourite hangout Madinathul, a Muslim place with Indian food(made in Indian style too,could we have asked for more!!)
Will talk later about the life on the fast track here in Singapore....now gtg n eat at Madinathul...
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Rest in pieces !!
Also dint tell you about our temporary stay...good place..its a 3 bedroom place in which the Companies Consultantsstay on a temporary basis.All the places here comes fully furnished with Tv,Refridgerator,air conditioning etcall these are not considered luxury by any standards here,actually its all taken for granted !!
We need to move out of this place soon and get a place for our own,with real estate prices supposedly on all time highsanyway we have our fingers crossed.The main purpose of this edition is not to talk abt our cups of sorrows!!It is to introduce some very interesting folks and about some interestinglessons we learnt in the 2 weeks,I wont tell you about the lesson learnt ,that is for you to understand and internalise !!
Two other guys both tamil stay in the adjacent room,one guy is Raju(nice guy) the other Sudheer(we call him by his pet name..ass#$%^..for this excerpt i will call him ass),also there is Satya(another tamil guy) the house caretaker(we call him Stud Boy).Stud Boy n ass live of the food n drink we store in our room n fridge :( its so pathetic and shameless..we get 2litre coke and the duo drink 1.5 litre !!! We cook food and at the fag end comes the ass(local tamil guy who talks like an american rap star) "hey man,watsup man,how was ure day man,u mind me eating with u man,its ok?no man?".I reply saying ya its fine but we have to adjust 'cos there is less food.He replies "ok man".He starts gobbling the food and finish the rice - THE ASS*&^% !!!! and me n hemant have not started eating yet !!! This is as shameless as it can get!!!
Well ...what more can I say....I can If I get started but...later :)The hunt for a new place to stay is underway....
We need to move out of this place soon and get a place for our own,with real estate prices supposedly on all time highsanyway we have our fingers crossed.The main purpose of this edition is not to talk abt our cups of sorrows!!It is to introduce some very interesting folks and about some interestinglessons we learnt in the 2 weeks,I wont tell you about the lesson learnt ,that is for you to understand and internalise !!
Two other guys both tamil stay in the adjacent room,one guy is Raju(nice guy) the other Sudheer(we call him by his pet name..ass#$%^..for this excerpt i will call him ass),also there is Satya(another tamil guy) the house caretaker(we call him Stud Boy).Stud Boy n ass live of the food n drink we store in our room n fridge :( its so pathetic and shameless..we get 2litre coke and the duo drink 1.5 litre !!! We cook food and at the fag end comes the ass(local tamil guy who talks like an american rap star) "hey man,watsup man,how was ure day man,u mind me eating with u man,its ok?no man?".I reply saying ya its fine but we have to adjust 'cos there is less food.He replies "ok man".He starts gobbling the food and finish the rice - THE ASS*&^% !!!! and me n hemant have not started eating yet !!! This is as shameless as it can get!!!
Well ...what more can I say....I can If I get started but...later :)The hunt for a new place to stay is underway....
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
About China Town ,Little India & Mustafa....
Looked forward to the 2nd weekend in Singapore and lo n behold :Missed my first cricket practice here and my first sunday church service here becouse of a bout of flu thatkept me in bed all weekend :( That was sad...but sunday evening as soon as I got signs of recovering,I was on my feet and on the bus to the nearest MRT Station(Metro Train)Off to Outram Park,where Hemant(my partner in crime from India!!) and his friend met me.
MRT is really kewl all you need to do is getting acquainted with the colour codingcant explain that,(no need to scratch your head like we did in the Electrical machines lab!!!),you need to see it to believe the structured way these ppl go about the whole thing :).
Leave aside the Eazylink card to make payments(no station counters here) and the colour coding,the Delhi Metro is very much comparable if not at par :)
From Outram Park ,on the next MRT to China Town.
Dint tell you about Little India and Musthafa.here goes.....
Little India - It must actually be called Bigger India for the number of Indians there at that place and the typical Indian style everyday dramas here,street hawkers yelling and the works,Click a pic here n send to folks back home n they will wonder where you really are,Singapore or Janpath in delhi!!!
Mustafa is a one stop shop !! (on one side of li'l India)One stop it is ,without the slightest exaggeration,eggs,milk,suitcases,cologne,bookks CDs.Puttu Maker(rice cake or watever!!),frozen Idiappam and Kurma,the works man,You name it and they have it !!!Its like a pilgrimage,the joke around here is that in future ,immigration wont clear you until n unless you provide a bill stating that atleast once youhave shopped at Musthafa !!!Its one experience,its 24X7 ,but Sunday ,wrong day to be here :)Cant blame all the contract workers roaming around with family enjoying the few hours of freedom.
Ya Like Little India,China Town is li'l China :)...street shops with 3 for 10$ is the norm(reminds u of the anything for Rs.99 China shops back home),typical China Baazar also a hindu temple and a mosque side by side in perfect harmony .Again food is everywhere ,all shit can be had here....!!Singapores favourite pass time is eating,you go to anyfood place and it will be full,anytime of the day,any day of the week !!!But still people stay trim here ...!!Ripleys believe it or not...:)
Roamed n roamed without any purpose in life,when we had enough we hopped on the next 'BMW' and yeah we were back home !!
MRT is really kewl all you need to do is getting acquainted with the colour codingcant explain that,(no need to scratch your head like we did in the Electrical machines lab!!!),you need to see it to believe the structured way these ppl go about the whole thing :).
Leave aside the Eazylink card to make payments(no station counters here) and the colour coding,the Delhi Metro is very much comparable if not at par :)
From Outram Park ,on the next MRT to China Town.
Dint tell you about Little India and Musthafa.here goes.....
Little India - It must actually be called Bigger India for the number of Indians there at that place and the typical Indian style everyday dramas here,street hawkers yelling and the works,Click a pic here n send to folks back home n they will wonder where you really are,Singapore or Janpath in delhi!!!
Mustafa is a one stop shop !! (on one side of li'l India)One stop it is ,without the slightest exaggeration,eggs,milk,suitcases,cologne,bookks CDs.Puttu Maker(rice cake or watever!!),frozen Idiappam and Kurma,the works man,You name it and they have it !!!Its like a pilgrimage,the joke around here is that in future ,immigration wont clear you until n unless you provide a bill stating that atleast once youhave shopped at Musthafa !!!Its one experience,its 24X7 ,but Sunday ,wrong day to be here :)Cant blame all the contract workers roaming around with family enjoying the few hours of freedom.
Ya Like Little India,China Town is li'l China :)...street shops with 3 for 10$ is the norm(reminds u of the anything for Rs.99 China shops back home),typical China Baazar also a hindu temple and a mosque side by side in perfect harmony .Again food is everywhere ,all shit can be had here....!!Singapores favourite pass time is eating,you go to anyfood place and it will be full,anytime of the day,any day of the week !!!But still people stay trim here ...!!Ripleys believe it or not...:)
Roamed n roamed without any purpose in life,when we had enough we hopped on the next 'BMW' and yeah we were back home !!
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