Nightmare of a common man..

'Your contract is going to expire in two weeks from now and we are not renewing it this time. So, you have two weeks for you to complete all your pending tasks and give trasition to the employees'. The words just ignited a bundle of emotions in the body of a generally cool person like me. I started running away. Running away from the end date of my contract.
I kept on running and running, to land up in a boat using which I sailed away from the end date as fast as I could. I wanted to run away for the fear of approaching the end date.

Then, there came a place where the river just ended and I had to get down from the boat. 'Bang', came the sound of a building crashing down when I just got down the boat. I just stared at the building with deep sense of shock,
to find out that it was named 'DOW Jones'. I again started running for the fear of the destruction that's happening right infront of me.

Then, suddenly came a person from the bushes, who had a long beard ,a cloth on his head ,an AK-47 in his hand and cruelty in his eyes. As he came closer to me, I tried to recollect this cruel person. I saw him somewhere. Spark. I saw him on CNN. He none was other than Moulana Masood Azhar, the notorious terrorist, who had recently planned the attack on Mumbai and planned many such in the past. The entire world including the big guy USA, is searching for him. Why is he trying to kill me? I just took a deep dive in the river (which was at its end) to
try to escape the bullet fired by his gun.
While going into the water, I just saw that he was shooting another person who was in the same place. The person just started falling down into the water. I was horrified as I was watching a life being put to an end, just like toasting my waffle in the morning.

This time, it happened to the person beside me. Next time, it could be me.

The thought itself had scared me and then suddenly I saw Masood coming towards me with
his Gun pointed my face under water. He seem to be knowing what is there inside the water.
This time there was no running away.

Masood just dipped his gun inside the water and placed his finger on the trigger and started pulling it....

Click....

I suddenly woke up with a jerk, to realize that I was actually having a nightmare. All the stuff that is being shown on TV, internet and other forms of media seems to be having an evil
effect on me, so much so that I'm keep getting dreams containing all these overtly highlighted news by the media. A glass full water in a single gulp helped me to get back to sleep.
My problem was fixed with a single glass of water.

Was it really fixed? Well.It was not fixed, it was just given a workaround for the time being. It can only be fixed by spreading peace across the world, which can only be done by a good political system and robust economic system (at least in India), which can never be achieved.

All the people who are displaying their anguish on politicians, will be able to get their pictures on the news papers, which will neglect them someday, at least when some other interesting news comes.

And slowly everyone again will get back to their 'chalta hain' attitude.
So, I will have to manage with this workaround.
A glassful of water in the middle of the night, everyday.

My Karz to Himesh Reshammiya..

Once upon a time a Dhobi used to have a dog and a donkey. The dog always used

to protect its owner and his house by barking whenever a thief comes around.

The donkey used to help him carry all the clothes on his way to Dhobi ghat. 

The Dhobi used to look after two of animals with equal amount of affection as both 

of them used to help him lead his life with ease in one or the other way. 

One fine night, the dog was dozing off when a thief was trying to enter the house. 

The donkey, who was watching all this, brayed loudly to wake up its owner. 

The owner got up thinking that the donkey was making unnecessary noise and disturbed him while asleep and beat the donkey to death.

I remember the above story from my childhood days whose morale is that everybody should

do whatever they should be doing.

This was one of the things that came to my mind when I was watching the latest venture of Mr.Topi Wallah, who sings only with his

Nostrils, Himesh Reshammiya,Karz. KARZ, the story which revolves around the concept of reincarnation, the indianized 

version of the american film 'The Reincarnation of Peter Proud', was a big hit by Subhash Ghai in the 80's/

After so many years, when someone is remaking such a great film, there will be expectations.

Moreover, there will be comparisons. I wasn't expecting Himesh to do a great job, nor was I interested

in watching the movie.

One of my roomies said that he'd found a review which says that the movie is just awesome.

It didn't interest me a bit. But I just went into watch the movie, that too after watching

'Body Of Lies'. Probably I had some 'KARZ' in my last birth to that I had to pay back to Himesh.

The movie had an array of actors who scored zero in acting, dancing, singing and also in

looks. Urmila looked sensuous in some scenes. But, in lot of scenes you could just see the wrinkles on her face, though she'd maintained her rangeela badan.

The new heroine looked more like a doll with no expressions at all. She wasn't even beautiful, compared to today's bollywood standards.

Throughout the movie, I felt Himesh was taking his revenge on people 'saalon..meri gane nahi sunenge?? Lo..ek hi picture mein

mere sab gane pack kar diya..Ab dekho aur maro.. meri Karz chukao..'. This wasn't my feeling alone.

Everyone sitting in the hall must have felt the same thing, I'm sure.

This movie had left me wonder why do people do such things? Why can't Himesh just compose music,

which atleast is appreicted by some, if not all, bollywood music lovers?

Why does a software company owner like Ramana Gogula starts harrassing people with his music?

I guess it's just a way of telling others how unsatisfied they are with their life.

I guess thats what happens to everyone if they do things that they don't enjoy doing.

I don't know there could be many reasons behind trying out new things.

But many times, you will know if the new path is apt for you right after you try it.

But why torture people with so many attempts?

I cut the topic here before I torture people just like Himesh, the topi wallah.

But if you read some review which tells you that Karz is good, just screw the reviewer, like the ones mentioned below:

http://www.encyclocentral.com/28324-Karz_Review_Indicates_That_It_Is_A_Movie_Meant_For_The_Masses_With_A_Lot_Of_Entertainment.html

http://www.bollyadda.com/2008/10/karzzzz-movie-review-karzzzz-review.html

H(ookers) 1 B

I know it's non-sense, but consulting jobs are no better than prostitution. Contractors are just like hookers.You must upgrade yourself to the latest technology every now and then to be in the business, like hookers who must maintain their bodies to be on demand. And then you have these so called Consulting firms, who try to market you for the clients, claiming that you can walk on the water as it comes to that particular technology. They are just like pimps, who market every hooker as the source of the best experience that one would ever come across.

And then comes the client, who does not want his employees to be bothered about all the effort that needs to be put on upgrading their skills. He does not want them to be troubled for working on critical things. He even feels that it's disgrace to his employees to work on these things. So, he wants an expert to do these disgraceful things, a contractor! He's just like some husbands, who know that their wives will not happy doing some disgraceful things for them and so they go get a hooker.

Their wives are like permenant employees in a firm, who never upgrade themselves, do not involve themselves in critical and sometimes disgraceful things needed to be done for their husband's pleasure and even then, get the official love of their husbands. And guess what, they do not even have a fear of losing their positions. But the contractors will be kicked out of the office after thier job is done.

Furthermore, to bring these two professions even further closer, the contractors even have the hourly billings! This hourly rate also depends upon the contractor's profile, just similar to a hooker's hourly rate depending on her profile. And guess what? A part of this rate goes to the Consulting firms, the brokers. Here the hookers are better than contractors while giving commission to the pimps, in the sense that they get the moeny directly into their hands and they take out the portion that should go to the pimp and hand it over to them.Poor contractors, they don't even have this facility. In their case, the Consultant firms grab the money from the client first and then give any left over money to contractors at the end.All the hard work was done by the contractor and yet his boss gets the money into his hands first.

Pathetic isn't it?

I know it doesn't make sense to compare H1B folks, who are respected by everyone back in India for earning in dollars, with hookers.

But thats the strange reality.

I hope people planning for H1B realize this. You don't have to hate this profession. But just realize what kind of shit you are gonna land into.

Cheers..

Contracting...Contracting...

"Please display your identification card". Thats the board which welcomes anyone entering the plant-cum-innovative center of KEMET Electronics Corporation. Everyday the security personnel stand at that board and greet everyone with a warm smile.Surprisingly today nobody was there. Not worrying too much about the absense of te security folks, I just walked further to see a lady who religously reads a book with a coffee mug in one hand and a book in the other.I did not see her either. Not paying much attention to these abnormalities, I entered the building to solve the maze ahead, the pathway to my cabin. I need to walk a considerable distance inside the office before I reach my cabin and it involves a lot of left, right and U-turns for me to solve the maze. While on this maze, I usually see lot of peoplewalking, some smiling, some discussing the serious issues of today's world such as gas prices, some giving me a scournful look, may be because of all this fuss about outsourcing, some whispering 'oh..these contractors..' to each other and some others sometimes commenting about my stout personality. But today, there were not many people on the pathway. Even the people who are walking, they just seemed they were not interested even in greeting me. Some even looked like they were not interested even in life anymore. I just started wondering what could be the reason behind the gloominess of all the people at KEMET. Suddenly a thought struck my mind. A thought that could threaten any guy like me, underachieved and unsettled. Layoffs... As a good practice, every morning when I start for the office,I check the share price of the client that I am currenty working for. Today I did not do because I justwoke up late because of weekend hangover. I was sure that its stocks have gone much lower, which could lead to jobcuts. Unknowingly I just started to feel as if the burden ofthe whole universe is on my head. 'No.It's not gonna be me',I just said to myself and continued walking.After this self-motivation, I reached my work station, docked my laptop,turned it on and opened Lotus Notes. There was a mail from a guy who happens to be a little more than just a colleague to me. We both pooled a car for quite sometime and thats how we developed a decent level of friendship. By the way, the mail was about his last day in the office. Shocked, I went to him and asked as to why was he sacked. He replied 'They said it doesn't have to do anything with myperformance and the only reason is the poor performance of the company in this quarter. They promised me to call me back when the situation gets better'. After a some pat-on-backs to my colleague, I just returned to my desk and saw an email from the client manager asking me to meet him immediately. I just had set my mind that this is gonna be a bad day. After a half-hour serious meeting with the manager, I just came to know that I just saved my ass off the jobcut just because I know a technology that none of their employees know. But they also informed methat they are planning to train one of their employees on it and then get rid of me. They did not give the last statement but thats what it means.They are not gonna retain me anyways. If not this time, they will definitely sack me the next time. You can't be lucky everytime. But this is the true nature of the contract jobs. They are lucrative but fluctuating in terms of job safety. They can give you everything.A merc, a Condo house in the costliest area of the town, ipods, iphone, backberries, WIIs,PS3s, Mac Books and what not. Oh yeah, peace. They can give you anything except peace. Yet, people like me just dive into the contracting field, for the reasons known to them...

Crap#6 Subconsciously Unconscious

Everyone at some point of time in their lives would have had this feeling. If not already had, I am sure that they definitely will have it one day.You will hang out with people. You will party around, freak out and what not.If someone asks you what you did on the weekend, you will have lot of things to say about.I mean lot of objective things to speak about. But there is something in you, that tells youthat this is not what you want. That is, subjectively there is nothing you can talk about.Your inner core silently moans, which can make you feel lonely even though you are in a crowd of a million people. You will be normal with the people around you. But your inner core somehow doesn't feel uncomfortable with the surroundings, though there is nothing wrong in it.
That means your sole is unconscious of the happiness spread around you. It doesn't do it consciouly, but something tells it not to imbibe the happiness around it or resist it.
That is, you are subconsciouly unconscious.
There could be a lot of situations which bring out this feeling from you and some of them are:

Running with life for survival:
One point of view is that when you are growing in age, you are also expected to grow in some other aspects as well, such as financial status etc. These can be termed as incentives after which the entire mankind follows its ass off.These expectations can be stressfull sometimes. And this stress changes your thought process to a single-minded one, which is about exploring various ways of reaching your new goal, which is earning those incentives. So, you become too busy in your life, which makes you a mechanical person and so you don't enjoy anything in life. This was a bit materialistic view isn't it?

Resistance to change (due to nostalgia?):
Some say that when you stay in a place for a while, you get used to the people over there and you just happen to create your own world consisting of your own parameters to the joy of life. And when you come out of this comfort zone, there is definitely a difference between your parameters and the new people's paramters. This is a transient phase where you feel that you are not happy even though you are doing pretty much the same thing which you did with your old circle. There is nothing wrong with the new people, neither there is any with you. It is just the friction that one's mind has to face before a smooth transition into a new circle. But this is a temporary phase and as you get along with your new circle of people, this feeling slowly fades away.It doesn't fade away entirely, but atleast to an extent where you don't feel lost in your core anymore.

Crap#5..'అప్పిగాడు..వాడి వీసా'..telugu short story..

This is not my experience alone. I just borrowed the visa stamping experiences from my friends and many other people and compiled it as a story...Writing the story was easy but making it syntactically correct in Telugu was a big challenge. Thanks to the translation tool Lekhini (lekhini.org) and also to KK for suggesting it to me. It might just encourage people to write their stuff in Telugu.
After I'd completed the story, I didn't like it much. But I just posted it 'coz it could be a timepass for someone as bored as me.

అప్పిగాడు చిన్నపన్నించీ అంతే, అదో టైపు. ఎప్పుడు పక్కనొడు ఎం చెస్తే అదే చెయ్యలనె ఆలొచనే తప్ప, వాడికి కూడా కొన్ని సొంత అభిప్రాయాలు ఉంటాయి అన్న విషయం వాడికే తెలియదు. ఒక రోజు వీడి స్నేహితులంతా కలిసి విదేశాలకి వెళ్ళి అక్కడ బాగా డబ్బు సంపాదించి తిరిగి వస్తే మాంచి పెరు, ఇంకా మాంచి హోదా, అంతకంటె మంచి పెళ్ళాం వస్తుంది అని మాట్లాడుతుంటే ' ఇదెదో శివాజి సినిమా లొ హీరో ఎంట్రీ సీన్ లాగా ఉందే..' అని విన్నాడు.విని ఊర్కున్నాడా అంటే, లేదు. వాల్లతో పాటు పొలోమని H1B కి అప్ప్లై చెసాడు. అప్ప్లై చేసాక వీడి స్నేహితులు వీడికి 'ఒరేయ్ అప్పిగా..ఈ సారి లాటరి సిస్టం అంట రా..ఏమో మనకి డౌటే ' అని చెప్పారు. వీడు 'ఆ..మనకి వస్తే ఎంత రాకపొతే ఎంత..బొచ్చు లో వీసా ' అని తేలిగ్గా తీసిపారేసాడు, తెలుగు సినిమాల్లొ హీరొయిన్లు పాటల్లో బట్టలు తీసెసినట్టు.కాని లోలోపల మాత్రం, ఏమవుతుందొనని కొద్దిగా టెన్షన్ పద్దాడు.
తీరా ఒక నెళ్ళాళ్ళ తర్వాత చూస్తె వీడి ఖర్మ కాలి వీసా అప్లికేషన్ సెలెక్ట్ అయిపొవడము, అది అప్రూవ్ కూడ అయిపొవడము చక-చకా జరిగిపొయాయి. అదెదో కొన్ని సినిమాలు స్తార్ట్ అవ్వడము, షూటింగ్ జరగటము, రిలీస్ అవ్వటం, ఫ్లాప్ అయ్యి వెళ్ళిపొవటము జరిగినట్టు గా...
ఇక, తరువాతి ఘట్టం.
వీసా ఇంటర్వ్యుకి ప్రిపర్ అవ్వటం. వీడి మిత్రులు చెప్పిన దాని ప్రకారం, కన్సులేట్ వాళ్ళు అడిగె అక్షయ ప్రశ్నల్లొ ముఖ్యమైంది 'నీకు నేను వీసా ఎందుకివ్వాలి? అనే ప్రశ్న. ఇక వీడి మిత్ర బృందం ఈ ప్రశ్నకి ఎవడి పంథా లొ వాడు జవాబులు రెడీ చెసుకొవటం మొదలెట్టారు. నాకు వీసా ఇస్తే నేను US ఎకానమీని కాపాడుతానని ఒకడు, వీసా ఇస్తే మా కంపనీని వృద్ధి లోకి తెస్తానని ఇంకొకడు, ఇలా ఎవడికి తోచిన సమాధానాలతొ వాళ్ళు ప్రిపేర్ అయిపొయారు.
ఛివరికి ఆ రొజు రానె వచ్చింది. స్టాంపింగుకెళ్ళే రోజు..
మిత్రులంతా కలిసి విమానం లొ చెన్నై వెళ్ళి, అక్కడ ఒక హొటల్ లొ బస చెసారు. ఆ రాత్రంతా అప్పిగాడికి ఒకటె ఆలోచనలు, ఏం సమాధానం చెప్పాలి అని. భోజనం చెసి, డాక్యుమెంట్స్ సరిగ్గా ఉన్నాయ లేదా అని చూస్కొని, ఇంక నిద్రకు ఉపక్రమించాడు. సరిగ్గా, అందరు నిద్రలోకి జారుకునే టైం కి హఠతుగా, అర్ధరాత్రి ఉలిక్కిపడి లెచాడు. అందరు వీడిని మొదట వింతగా చూసినా, తరువాత 'ఆ..ఈ అప్పిగాడు తేడా గాడు లెరా..ఎన్ని సార్లు చూడలెదూ?? ' అని సర్దుకున్నారు. కాని వాళ్ళకేం తెలుసు అప్పిగాడికి ఒక అద్భుతమైన ఐడియా వచ్చింది అని? ఆ ఐడియా జీవితాన్నే మార్చెస్తుందని? ఇంక అప్పిగాడు ఉరకలెత్తిన ఉత్సాహం తొ పెందళాడె లేచి, తలారా స్నానం చెసి, తన ఇష్ట దైవం అయిన తిరుపతి వెంకన్నకి దణ్ణమెట్టుకొని, మాంచి దొర బాబు లాగ రెడీ అయ్యి,కాన్న్సులేట్ కి బయల్దెరాడు. అక్కడికెళ్ళి చూస్తె చాంతాడంత లైను ఉంది. పొరపాటున ఎదైనా రజినికాంత్ కొత్త సినిమా ఆడుతున్న థియేటర్‌కి వచ్చామ అని కాసెపు నివ్వెరపొయారు అప్పిగాడు, వాడి మిత్ర బృందమూను. కాని అక్కడ సూటూ, బూటూ వేసుకొని ఒచ్చిన జనాలను చూసి, రజినికాంత్ సినిమాలకు లుంగీలు కట్టుకున్న మేస్త్రీలు వస్తారు గాని ఇలా ఇస్త్రీ బట్టలేసుకున్న వాళ్ళు రారు అని అప్పిగాడు వాళ్ళకి జ్ఞానొదయం చెయ్యడంతొ, ఇక ఇది కాన్సులటే అని నిర్ధారణకి వచారు అప్పిగాడి మిత్రబృందం. ఇంక లైనులో నిలుచుని, లోపలికి వెళ్ళె సరికి పొద్దున్నే తిన్న ఆ కాస్త ఉప్మా కూడా గాల్లో కలిసి పొయింది అప్పిగాడి మిత్ర బృందానికి.
లోపలికెళ్ళాక, అప్పిగాడి మిత్ర బృందం లోంచి ఒక్కొకరు ఒక్కో ఆఫీసర్ దగ్గరికెళ్ళరు. ఇక, మన అప్పిగాడెమో ఒక తెల్లగా పొడుగ్గా ఉన్న తెల్ల దొర దగ్గరికెళ్ళాడు. లైను లొ వీడికి ముందు ఒక నల్ల చీర కట్టుకున్న అమ్మాయి ఒకర్తి ఇంటర్వ్యు కోసం వెయిట్ చేస్తోంది. అప్పిగాడికి, సహజంగానె నల్ల చీర కట్టుకున్న అమ్మాయిలంటే బాగా అభిమానం.అందరికీ తెల్ల చీర కట్టుకున్న అమ్మాయిలంటె ఇష్టం. కానీ వీడికి మాత్రం నల్ల చీరంటేనె ఇష్తం. వాడంతె, అదో టైపు. వాడికి ఊహ తెలిసి, వాడికి వయసొచ్చాక నల్ల చీర కట్టుకున్న అమ్మాయిని ఇంత దగ్గరగా చూడటం ఇదే మొదటి సారి. ఆ అమ్మాయి తన వంతు రావటంతో క్యూ లొ నుండి వెల్లిపోయి ఆఫీసరు గాడి తిక్క ప్రశ్నలకు ముద్దు ముద్దు గా సమాధానలు ఇస్తొంది. 'అబ్బా..ఎంత ముద్దు గా ఉంది ఈ పిల్లా అనుకుంటూ వీడు ఆ అమ్మయిని అదే పనిగా చూస్తూ మైమరచి ఒక్క క్షణం పాటు అమెరికా కెళ్ళి ఒక రెండు మూడూ డ్యుయెట్లు 'నల్ల చీర కట్టుకున్నదెవరి కొసమో..' అని పాడుకొని వచ్చేసాడు.
చివరికి ఆ తెల్లతోలు ఆఫీసరు వీడిని 'రారా..' అని పిలిచాడు. చంద్రముఖి సినిమా టైపులో.వీడు ఆ నల్ల చీర అమ్మాయి గోల లో పడి ఈ తెల్ల తోలు వడి పిలుపుని పట్టించుకొలెదు. దనితొ వాడు 'ఎరా.. వెర్రి పీనుగా..సహార ఎడారిలో స్వెట్టర్ తొడుక్కొని తిరిగే వాడిలా అలా చచ్చు మొహమేసుకొని చూస్తావేర? ఇక్కడికి నువ్వొచింది అమ్మాయిల్ని చూసి సొల్లు కార్చుకోడానిక..లేక వీసా తెచ్చుకొడానికా?' అన్నట్టు ఒక చూపు చూసాడు. దాంతొ మనోడికి ఒంట్లొ వణుకు స్టార్త్ అయ్యింది.
అప్పిగాడిని ఆఫీసర్ అందరినీ అదిగే ప్రశ్నే అదిగాడు 'నెను నీకు వీసా ఎందుకివ్వాలంటా?' అని.అందరిలా బుద్ధిగ చెప్తే అప్పిగాడు తేడా గాడు ఎందుకవుతాడు? అందుకే ఇలా చెప్పాడు:'నాకో చిన్న కల ఉండేది. నేను మైక్రోసాఫ్ట్, సియాటిల్ ఆఫీసులో ప్రాజెక్టు మేనేజర్ని అయ్యాక, బిల్ గేట్స్తొ బోర్డు మీటింగు లో ఉంటె, ఒక తెల్లని అమ్మాయి నల్లని రంగు చీర లో బయట నాకొసం వెయిట్ చెస్తుంటే..ఆ చూపులు నన్ను తడిమి..ఎందుకో అటువైపు చూస్తె నా పెళ్ళాం.. ఆమెతో పాటు వందలాది మంది జనం. జగన్ కోసం జనం ప్రోగ్రాం కి వచ్చినట్టుగా. అప్పుదు నెను గేట్స్ తొ ' గేట్సూ...గేటు అవతల నా మేట్ నా కోసం వెయిట్ చెస్తోందీ అని చెప్పి బయటకు వస్తే 'ఎవండీ..మీరు Best Software Engineer of the Year గా సెలక్ట్ అయ్యారూ అని నా భార్యామణి చెప్తుంది. అప్పుడు నా కష్టానికి తగిన ఫలితం దొరికిందన్న సంతోషం తో నేను ఉబ్బి తబ్బిబ్బై పొతాను..అప్పుడు అప్రయత్నంగా రెండు కన్నీటి చుక్కలు అలా జారతాయ్....అంతే '.ఆ ఆఫీసర్ వీడిని 'సొల్లు కబుర్లు చెప్పకేం..' అన్నట్టు చూసి, ఎవో డాక్యుమెంట్స్ అడిగాడు. అప్పిగాడికి ఒకటే టెన్షన్. స్టోరీ అంతా సొల్లు అని వాడికి అర్థమై పోయి వీడికి వీసా ఇవ్వడేమోనని..కానీ వీడి అదృష్టమో..లేక అమెరికా వళ్ళ ఖర్మో....లేక ఆ అమెరికా వాళ్ళకి వీడిలాంటి తేడా గాళ్ళె కావాలో..నారు పొసిన వాడే నీరు కూడా పొస్తాడు అన్న చందాన, అప్ప్లికేషన్ అప్రూవ్ చేసిన ఆ అమెరికా వాడికే అప్పిగాడికి వీసా కూడా ఇవ్వక తప్పింది కాదు. అప్పిగాడికి వీసా ఇస్తున్నట్టు చెప్పగానే అప్పిగాడి అనందానికి అవధుల్లేకుండా పొయాయి. బ్యాక్ గ్రౌండ్ లేకుండా ఫిలిం ఇండుస్ట్రీకొచ్చిన కొత్త హీరో సినిమా హిట్టైతె ఎంత ఉప్పొంగిపొతాడో, అంత కంటె పదింతలు ఎక్కువే అనందపడ్డాడు..
ఇక తర్వాతేం పీకాలొ వీడికి ఇప్పటికి ఐడియా లెదు..
తర్వాత ఏం చేస్తాడు? ఏమో వాడికేం తెల్సు...?

వాడి గ్యాంగ్ ఇంకా డిసైడ్ చేస్కోలేదుగా మరి..!

I Love You....

I love You...

I love you, for making me feel important
I love you, for answering all those stupid questions that I used to ask with great patience
I love you, for laughing at all those stupid jokes that I used to crack
I love you, for making me feel great by listening to all the non-sense that I used to tell you ...

I love you, for all those 'choo-choo mantras' that you've used for soothing my pain
I love you, for getting me Diwali crackers even when we could not afford for them
I love you, for buying my favorite T-shirt to make me happy on the day you met with an accident
I love you, for not saying anything when I'd stolen money from your pocket ..

I love you, for all your prayers for my exams even though you don't really like going to temples
I love you, for watching all those stupid movies with me even when you are extremely busy
I love you, for giving me the most luxurious life at the cost of compromising on your basic needs
I love you, for not imposing your ideas on me and giving me the freedom to live my life on my own terms..

I love you, for believing that I am the most good-looking man around
I love you, for holding my hand whenever I needed a support in my life
I love you, for being my best friend and allowing me to talk about my girls after we got drunk
I love you, for forgiving all the unforgivable mistakes that I have done
I love you, for all your unconditional love towards me ...

I love you, for teaching me the importance of money
I love you, for making me relaize that relationships are more important than money
I love you, for giving me that gentle hug at the send-off which spoke a thousands of words...

I love you, for being my true inspiration....

I love you, for giving me all those wonderful moments.......

I love you Dad..............

Crap#4..Ex-Introverts

I keep looking at lot of people's profiles (mostly girls) in orkut and I come across their strange claims in the 'about me' section of their profiles. I generally do not concentrate on this section, because I know most of them project 'what they wanna be' whereas it should have been 'what I am'. Another
reason is that their 'Albums' section is quite interesting than their 'about me' section!
But, out of the few 'about me's on orkut that I have read, a lot of people have mentioned that they were either extroverts or introverts.

Believe me, nobody on this earth can be a pure extrovert or a pure introvert.
Introverts are defined as the persons whose psychic enrgies are focussed inward. They are generally difident and they are mostly interested in being alone. Not having a company does not bother them. They can be happy in their solitude and can be boring to others.
Extroverts are the persons whose psychic enrgies are focussed outward. They are assertive, outgoing and very sociable. These people fill all the parties with a lot of enthusiasm and joy. These people really feel bored to the hell when they do not have a company or have the above kind as their company.

But what is new in these definitions? Ah, well, I don't say that these ones are wrong. What I want to convey is that you really can not attach only one of these to a person and conclude that he/she is an introvert or extrovert.
Everyone is a combination of the both of these qualities. When you attach only one of these to a person, then you must be taking a decision on the basis of proportion.
Have you ever, wanted to have a big party and called up your friends, started partying and suddenly after a couple of drinks, became silent?
Have you ever, wanted to stay calm in an official party and met some people who share some common interests and suddenly started being an outgoing person, at least for that moment?

Thats because human nature is complicated by the unlmited number of dualities that exist in one's personality . You can find feminine behaviour in a man or masculine behaviour in a girl or child's nature in a grown-up person. Though you find them in rare instances, you still find them.
Similarly, a person also has both extrovert and introvert components in his social behaviour.Human beings have the capability to pick whichever is apt for the situation as instructed by your mind. For example, lot of people who were introverts while in India, become outgoing after coming to US. Thats because they were in a situation which demanded them to be an extrovert. So, when the mind says 'Go freak around', an introvert person will go around and party. When it says 'Lock youself up and stay inside', an extrovert person will just turn his thoughts and actions in inward direction.

So, we may say that a person's social behaviour is largely impacted by the state of mind, which again is based on the situation, be it internal or external.

Hence, if a person were given only those situations where he had to be an introvert, he/she starts believing that he is an introvert. But when one faces situations which demands him/her to be an extrovert, he/she becomes one and if these situations are continuous, he/she feels sociable. It is also
true that he/she might not be able to stay too long in that state. He/she might bounce back to the old nature. But, when the situation demands him/her to change himself the other way around, he/she will jump to the other side of the twilight. Sometimes, it could be inconvenient for a person to change his/her nature from one side of the spectrum to the other side, but thats how it is.

I believe that a person can never be an extrovert or introvert for the entire life. .
I am known as the most moody person amongst my friends. Yet, some of my pals feel that I am joyous. Thats because my behavior,as governed by my mind, has been projected to different people in different ways, giving them different opinions on my nature.
So, all the (normal!) people on this planet are neither pure extroverts or pure introverts as extroverts can be introverts sometimes and vice-versa.
All the people are ambiverts.

Crap#3..Problems are good..!

I was standing at the Begumpet Airport where I was starting off my journey for the US of A.Many people who came to see me off, told me that I was taking a huge risk and was inviting a lot of problems as I was unsettling myself and trying to settle in a new place and unlearning what I knew till then and was learning new skills. Some people really thought I was crazy.This has not been the first time people told me anything like this. When they used to say that, I sometimes used to get convinced that they were right. I just used to question myself 'why the hell am I leaving for the US, when I have everything going so well here?'.

Long ago, one of my closest friends lent me a book called 'The road Less Travelled',which tells you that the only way to be fullflled in life by solving the problems in one's life. A summary of what was explained by Scott Peck in this legendary book is as follows:
When people encounter problems, they have two choices.

The first one, followed by many people, is to skip the situation that could create a problem, even though that could offer them a lot of rewards, when solved. This is the easiest choice that can be made.

The second choice, the toughest one, is to go and actually solve the problem.

You may, for that matter you will, face a lot of obstacles and there could(or should I use would?) be many road blocks. But, the fact many people do not realize is that, only by clearing these hindrances, one can become a fullfilled individual.
This well-known and well-ignored fact is explained wonderfully by a quote which goes something like:'Boats are not made to stay in the docks'.

Before I decided to leave everything which was already in place, I did a retrospection of my life since my childhood, I never had any major problems or worries. My friends in school and college used to have so many problems in their lives. I used feel that I was the gifted person for not having many problems. If at all, there were any, I just used to ignore them and pretend like there was no problem at all. But the fact was that, I was never outside of my comfort zone. I have never tested my abilities in an unknown area.

Now, when I look back and think of my friends who had faced problems, I realize how mature they have become in the course of facing the challenges that life had thrown at them. And how spiritually grown-up they have become by choosing the path of solving the problems. 'Oh Boy..You gotta face problems to grow up??' I said to myself.

So I slowly convinced myself that people who are willing to grow up, should seek problems, not avoid them.

Now, I am here in the US of A, which is called as 'The Land of Opportunities' by many people. But now,as the market is in its downtrend, it appears like 'The Land of Problems'.

But I am not worried, becuase I realized that 'Problems are Good'!

Crap#2..O chitti Kavitha (Inspired)

I am obviously copying Trivikram from the movie 'Nuvvu Naku Nachavu'.
Sorry guys..I can't help it though..
I had this thought a while ago and wanted to post it on the blogspot whenever I open one and so I'm posting it even though this style has become boring.
Ee cheta saale ganiki kotha thoughts raava anukuntna parledu..lite tiskondi ee okkasari ki...

Devuda..o manchi devuda...

Vaagadaniki thindi nichav...
taagadaniki peddi nichav..
tinadaniki chintu nichav..

dobbinchukodanki rao nichav..
nannu dobbadaniki kid nichav..
vadini dobbataniki siva nichav..

circles geeyatanki KK nichav..
downloads cheyyadanki santosh nichav...
burrapadu cheyyadaniki chaitu nichav...

appulu cheyyataniki setti nichav...
vantalu cheyyataniki kishore nichav..
tiffins cheyytaniki pappu nichav...

dabbu dachadanki guddi nichav..
dabbu jalladanki raghu nichav..
dabbu nemi cheyalo teliyani nannu veellakichav..

kullu jokuleyyataniki govind nichav...
boothu jokuleyyataniki sha nichav...
endukichavo teliyadu gani gajji ganni ichav..

ee sollanta opigga chadavadaniki ee edava ni kuda ichav..

Kani Devuda..inni ichina nuvvu..okka chinna job ivvavooo...?
nuvvu istavu..naku telsu..endukante basically u r good GOD.....

Crap#1...My first blog...!

I was talking to one of my friends when this topic came up in the discussion. There are two types of people: those who take the winning side and those who choose to be with the losers. Of course, for that matter, there will be two/more kinds of people in any aspect of life.

It has been my practice to consider my college as the dictionary for everything that puzzles me. That's because, you could find out any kind of character, good or bad, soft or rash, cutie-pie or bitch, for that matter any damn character can be found in a college, or at least my college. After all, college is considered to be a miniscule representation of society, at least the bad part of it as far as I know.

So, I started thinking about my college days and started classifying the people out there to fit them into these two genres. I found people belonging to the first side and the second side. But, interestingly, I figured out that there is a third kind that many people out there belonged to. These people never take any side. I always used to think that these people might be afraid of taking the losing side for the fear of losing and inferior to join the winning side because of the out-of-place feeling.

These people’s natural behavior contributes to their personality, lifestyle and social activities and thus their social status in a lot of ways.

Whenever there is a conflict between the first two types, this type will just watch the show. This is the reason this type cannot gather the support of neither of the groups. And these people are constantly subject to lot of mental, sometimes physical tortures, as they do not have anyone’s support. In some cases, people used to use these guys to start a major fight between their groups.

But that’s just the one side of the story, which is the all about these people’s external behavior.
The other half of the story is that, these people are so cool and composed as hey do not have to subject themselves to the pressure of winning or losing. Other than this strong plus point, they also have some other positives. These guys know a lot of dynamics about the other two diversified groups who are constantly in conflict in ideas.
Furthermore, the advantage with this genre is that they do not have the fear of survival. The people on the winning side change their side when their side loses and vice-versa, but these people do not change their side at all.
I feel that this part of their behavior contributes to their 'trustworthy' image. If I remember correctly, people from the other two sides used to share their trade secrets with these guys.
So, why don't people stay in this group of silently watching people and minding their own business? The answer is simple, survival.
Yes, the people in this group won't have any add-on benefits such as moral or financial support in case of any crisis. The people who can help these guys are the ones in the same group, who are very less in number. So, for these people to cling themselves to this group, they got to have a lot of guts. Only those people, who are mentally strong and self-confident, can be in this group.

Many people have embarrassed such people right in front of me in my college and also at my work. Instead of giving them an oral support, I was part of the group that insulted them for their neutrality, their equanimity and their composed attitude. I never realized how strong these people really are.
But why the hell am I writing about these people? Technically, now at 3AM in the morning?
Well, I really don't know...!
Just wanted to start off writing blogs on some crap (lol) and I picked up this subject, which always interested me, 'people'......