c'mmon

yeah i kno!..somehow the boring aftr diwali break made me pick it up..
i wudn't say i'm a chetan bhagat fan, never-the-less i have been thru all his books (well wat else can ne author or publishing house aspire for!) unlike the name the novel has little revolution to portray and the author leaves it to our imagination as to wat kind of revolution myt occur in 2020 (if any!)..though the story line set in the backdrop of varansi is pretty typical but it has all it takes to makes a bollywood masala muvi..beginning with a poverty stricken IIT aspirant who even aftr repeating an year in kota doesn't make it to a good engg insti..on the other hand is the protagonist's best frnd raghav who bags a good enuf rank and also gopal's love, aarti ( and thus the love-triangle)..then a certain shukla ji the politician comes into the picture..he is a mentor and father figure to gopal, but a villian for the other guy raghav who is trying to bring about this revolution against corruption and injustice!
the only thing that grabbed my attention was the bhagat's eye for detail and the kind of observations or shud i say allegations which he makes on girls thru the digs his character gopal makes at aarti..take for instance how he points out that girls use a '!' very often and a smiley when they want to avoid a topic or they don't kno about it..amusing as one may find at first this comparison and description of Girlese, but after a reading over hundred such pages it certainly becomes irritating..
the book like chetan bhagat's every other is a best seller thanks to the people who have just started reading novels and find the language easy and the subjects catchy..or shud i say thanks to the author for making people read atleast..
but i hope the author realises that there is dire need to revolutionize and write about things with greater depth and also i hope i wouldn't have to wait till 2020!

diwali h! :)

we have so many festivals in our country but diwali without a doubt takes the lead..

a very happy diwali to all!

green pigeon

bird3

bharosa2 :D

Bol

rendered 'bol'less i would say!
well for all those who r wondering what exactly am i referring to, the topic of this write-up is none other than a pakistani movie called BOL..don't worry if u havn't heard about it coz now i'l make u watch it :P..
had heard a song of this muvi by atif aslam called 'hona tha pyar' and it did make a place in my list of favs..and generally i have a tendency to watch a muvi for just bcoz i liked a particular song in it and wanted to check out the context in which it was included! and without a doubt the same happened when it came to this song...

it had been quite sometime since i had this movie in my laptop but it was today that i finally played it..and it's unlikely i'l forget it for tyms to come! though the theme of the muvi is a very typical one..depicting a muslim society with a 'hitler' dad and the multiple daughters he's blessed with..but the way it's been depicted and the story that been woven is so powerful that it took me by total awe.. truly speaking even aftr watching the muvi i didn't even have the slightest clue as to who directed it or who starred in it (except for atif ofcourse!)..now since i'v mentioned atif so coming to his role in the muvi i would say it was one of the most non-challenging roles compared to those played by others in the film..and since more was expected of him it was an extremely disappointing performance on his front..
but the protagonist of Bol (Humaima Malik as Zainub) certainly left no stone unturned to give the muvi her best..it was her performance, the rebel that she played, that kept me spellbound throughout and though i kno it was only a muvi but if i'm not wrong then such situations do exist in today's world as well..i wish every girl or lady displays such tremendous courage and grit to fight against the atrocities and oppression they are subjected to without any fault of theirs except for the fact that they were born so!
i don't kno if the theme was able to strike a chord with u or not but if you were able to read all of this then i was certainly recommend u watch the muvi too..i wish the msg of this muvi doesn't die out soon!

floral2

steve jobs.

the apple co-founder passed away on the 5th and the world hasn't stopped talking about him ever since..what was it that made him comparable to some would say thomas edison! the man no doubt was a great entrepreneur and he certainly doesn't need an obituary by a person who doesn't own an apple product..but after reading and hearing about him all day today i fell like putting forth some views of my own!

jobs as most of u by now must be aware was not a college graduate and was an adopted child..he mentions in one of his famous speeches, how lucky he was to have understood what he wanted early in his life and made decisions which were more or less guided by his heart..having being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2003 he understood what each passing day meant and the need to utilize the little time he had..

it was under his supervision that the mac and the 'i' products saw light of the day and needless to say these creations were milestones in the history of modern technology..but more important was their packaging and elegance they brought along..even steve at certain moments had to confess to the technology not being their original but what they finally made out of it certainly was..

well some people also suggest that he was more of an expert in marketing rather than a creator..he knew his business well and that certainly helped the company scale new heights, apple is the most valuable company in the world today, leaving behind competitors like microsoft and ibm! 

a few days before steve passed away i was reading an article questioning the exorbitant prices of the ipad in comparison to one of the products by its competitors, the amazon kindle fire..the later is not very different from what the ipad has to offer, even so the price difference is huge..apple it is said has a huge margin of profit(30%) whereas amazon is ready to even face loses for a long term gain and is said to have a margin of just around 3%..so the big ques was that why would anybody ever buy an apple ipad?..apple by now undrstnds the fact that more than anything else it the sleekness of their products that adds to the charm and that owning the brand's products has become a status symbol among the youth and elder generation alike..

just the othr day a frnd who was planning to buy a new phone said now that steve is no more he'l have to buy the new iphone just as a tribute to him..this proves what a strong influence the 'stay hungry. stay foolish.' man exercised.. 

bird2

crane

cropped!

Getting a haircut has always been painful (no sarcasm intended!) for me!! my mum used to dread taking me to a barber coz she had experienced the aftermath plenty of times..and that included me crying (tears rolling down my cheeks :P) while scissors worked on my hair and pestering everybody at home with luk "how short they r now!"..needless to say i didn't have very gud things to say about the person who did it..
now once it so happened that for a change i didn't show any of those above mentioned emotions! My mum who had gone with me as usual with fingers crossed too saw this change of behaviour and was obviously delighted! thus the verdict was given that henceforth i visit the same place and the same person wud cut my hair everytime..i agreed and all went well for a few years.. but dear frnds this is not the happy ending to a hybrid fairy tale of rapunzel ! :P
some years later..2/10/2011..it had been quite some time since i had been thinking of getting a haircut done..yes i thot i had grown all rational aftrall it was just hair! so mustering all this rationality i went to the salon..and my first guideline to the barber as usual was 'cut as little as possible'..but ye log sunte kahn hain! bas baal mil jaein aur scissors, shuru ho jate hain! well i guess the above lines give u an insight to wat great tragedy fell upon me today :P..i'm trying to b funny evn tho i'm very upset about it! all i can say is history repeated itself yet again... :'(