More Pune..less Gurgaon and the 'new hire'

I hope you will find the title quite strange..but for now,this is my identity 'NEW HIRE'..naam toh suna hi hoga....and why this title...plz continue reading..

IT people or say IT nomads...say anything...this is the most lucrative field to work..where people jump from company to company every month...If i say that every hour..3 IT persons quit and join a new company..that would not be wrong....and I was part of 11th April,2011..12 noon batch of this nomadic shifting...Finally..i have joined a new firm in the Mecca(2nd one..after b'lore) of IT..Gurgaon(New hire.....)

P.S----> No regrets with the present company...


It was't that bad feel..worst was when i shifted from my home place to Noida 3 years back...Gurgaon is a city of rich...flaunting people..known by its name 'A Millennium city '..it is a brand in itself...Here, people believe in living life king size and they are not at fault....the high incomes here compel people to live like that...but the city lacks that sense of simplicity and friendliness...If you like to spend big bucks, live a flaunting life then Gurgaon is for you....for me..It should have been Pune.....

I visited this place in Feb..and as soon as i landed there..it took me in itself..I never felt i am visiting it first time....Pune is a mix of Delhi, Mumbai, Gurgaon and Goa...60% people here are youth..Much of the Pune's cantonment area is having the Goan style of living...as you go deep into the city...a whole new appearance of city starts revealing itself...

Being a hill locked city...it has got some of its greenery intact...Its proximity to nearest hill-stations and sea adds some stars to its location and provides it a soothing climate to boast of....which becomes best when you come in rains...

Here..You can find best of street foods...Punjabi, Mumbain, Delhi, gujrati..loads of local delicacies to offer...especially..vada paav, kachori, kulfi, dabheli...mouth watering dishes and that too available cheaply....

A local Puneite can give you an 'angry young man' look...if you call him by saying 'bhaiya'..they take it as insult..like being compared to biharis.....better call them...'bhau', 'anna' or 'dada'...Here you will not hear anyone saying 'photostat'..its called xerox....No lafda of wearing any hemlata(in my words)..or ....helmet...and all autos are on petrol...no CNG or diseal.....

People here...are quite simple...all prefer a bike over a new car... eat and wear simple...they are not addicted to look into mirrors again and again...and to seek some spirituality...you can go to Shirdi which is around 4 hours away.....and thanks to IT, the urban life is always on the move...

In all, its the best IT town, a best place to live and love.....60% youth...more probability to find your gf/bf...

Social Networking....take that...its wonderful

Its 2.42 am by my lappy watch...sleeping n blogging...but events in past 1 hour just gave a bit of push to my adrenaline to do this write up...

Harbhajan Singh and Ashish Nehra had taken India to a miraculous win...and some facebook and twitter updates were expected...so not a BIIIIIIGGGGGG deal...

But as soon as i was about to switch off my laptop...i felt mild tremors of eartquake..the iron door of my house and so of other houses in the vicinity were shaking badly n i just came running out of the house...in this cold....called up home and made my parents a bit cautious about the events...

Now..i came back inside..switched on the laptop n opened google to search some news abt present eartquake...there was no media coverage as of now abt the earthquake...though on google..a real-time twitter update tool runs which keeps track of all the updates coming...n sec after sec...earthquake updates were there...i opened fb...n almost deja vu was hpng there...frens were updating earthquake-earthquake...

SO that's the magic of Social Networking in this age....It has given a new meaning to our virtual world...that connects people....you can't expect any media coverage as such as social networking does...we ourselves are the corresspondents...in this world of netizens...Twitter n fb are the tools of the day where one can speak his words or pour his shit freely...

A page-3 article of actress Konkana Sen came in this regard...guess, i m not that filmi buff but still this news has some connection here...The actress was facing trouble with her Tata Sky connection from past 3 days...n after being fed up she posted..na tweeted... her sigh remarks about Tata Sky on her twitter update..one of her fans was following her updates on Twitter updates and he turned out to be someone from Tata Sky only...he got it fixed in 2 hours....

Same goes with our former Minister of state Shashi Tharoor..He had got some Norton Antivirus product but its authorisation key was n't working...he also put his sigh comments about Norton on twitter..n within same day..the problem was resolved by Norton engineer....

Social Networking---may become an addiction..but if we use it judiciously and for changing society...it will turn to be a bliss...Its a new age thing which has shrunk us into Global Village...connected by our gadgets n posting n tweeting ourselves on the global 'wall' n twitter's 'notice board'....we all compaining, crying or laughing..all with those virtual social tools...Social Networking rocks...

Indian railways and its ways....

Indians and Indian Railways are having one thing in common- their size..Both are so populised..Indian railways being 4th largest rail network of world and 2nd largest public sector employer in whole world...and about Indian population...has a world rank of 2nd in terms of numbers(will be 1st in 2035)...

Indians have a distinct behaviour when they have anything to do at railway station- take travelling in train, dropping their relatives, their eating n toilet habits..everything...

Taking a dig on travelling...Indians or say....we are always particular about one thing..that our luggage should always be placed in the space over our head...Counting through my travel experiences, i have always seen people arguing, fighting for some 0.5 by 0.5 ft luggage space..adjusting or throwing away other passenger's luggage..and adjust their luggage like putting their baby comfortably in a pram....if the space over-head falls short, they will keep the luggage near their seat in between the passage...giving trammelled ways to move...and more the size of person, more will be his luggage...Railways should introduce separate luggage coaches in the passenger trains...to promote peace and luggage-passenger integrity in the trains...

Relatives who come at railway-stations to drop their near-dear ones form another exciting class of travellers...As soon as the train comes...the relatives along with passenger who is the real one to travel..get ready to do a high jump towards the train...After making the passsenger comfortable and exchanging a final warmth feeling with him, they try to move towards the exit door of the wagon..pushing n pulling other passengers out of their way...though, most of the times they will deboard somehow..but in many chaotic cases, relatives also become part of the journey...an extra luggage of the passenger...and giving some extra revenue to the railways in terms of fine...You can't take this risk in newly introduced trains-Durronto express...because it has no other stoppages in between and you will straight reach your destination..along with the extra set of your relatives...

Eating and Toilet habbits are other prominent look-at points at railway stations and trains...Railways lines not only serve as the lifelines of the country but also the toilet-lines..As 40% of population of India still does n't has access to toilets...they consider to put everything out of them on railway lines....one mug of water along will be handy for cleaning...all done under open skies..even the birds flying above feel embarrased and consider themselves more civilised then Indian humans...Eating habits of travellers also depends on their origin...Southies will feed on Idli,vada, sambhar...Northies will feed heavily on paranthas and tea...and all waste then thrown on railway lines....and no one bothers as it all has to be taken out on raliway tracks only..either by puking or shiting...

Railway stations too form a mini-India in itself...especially the New Delhi Railway Station(NDLS) n Mumbai's station...People from all origins..all 28 states n 7 UTs can be found moving here...doctors, beggars, teachers, students, engineers, govt. babus, peasents, workers..all professions.......hindus, christians, sikhs, parsis, muslims..all religions n castes..evryone can be found on NDLS...anyone can hardly disagree...its an example in itself of the place of national harmony n peace.....

Railways are having a whole ecosystem in itself..n we need to improve our travelling n living habits to make this ecosystem more livable and adaptable...Long live Indian railways!

Urbanised and rich India..but rural and gareeb bharat..

I read a report on Urbanising India today-published by Mckinsey. The facts and figures provided were quite astounding but it was a reality of the new vibrant and developing India...By 2030,590 million of Indian hoi polloi(people).. will be living in cities...twice that of poulation of USA...and one of Indian states to show this trait will be our own Punjab..where more people will be migrating from their villages or in desi language..their pinds to cities...Its very nice and lofty in way to think about that future..considering yourself as part of many Indian Urbanites...but as conditions are today...do add more chaos and mayhems to your urbanite dreams because its going to be a harsh relaity rather then a fantastic truth...

Indians are not fit, character wise to live like people in US or China or Europe..or name any beautiful landscape you think off...Corruption, over population,price rise, lack of infrastructure, health problems have already marred India...and by next decade, these problems will be infecting our roots..our next generation will be cursing us....Lets start with the data below

India just spends 0.2 % of its GDP on health and that too 78% of the health budget has to be borne by us privately...20% of rural population never care to go to a doctor....there is just 1 hospital bed for 1000 people...what you can expect now in 2030 ??it will be nice for us to start saving now for your health or buy a health insurance!!

Infrastructure is lacking like anything...though we have not so world class cities today and take pride in Delhi's roads, its metro...n in our Mumbai-city of dreams..but the cities have already reached to their peaks....and living there is just like filling an over-flowing pot..we have our IT hubs today like Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune. Gurgaon to name few...some of them are already developed n some of them are developing..but at such a slow pace...that you will find yourself in queue on the very first day of their use...may never get a chance to use the infrastructire...beacuse high density of people depending on it...

Problem of Price rise viz. of vegetables, milk and other FMCGs...things that are of daily use and vital necessaity for a common Indian has put a burden on our pockets...the problem has attained such a horrendous shape..that even govt. is feeling helpless now on to how control this menace...Food inflation is at its peak since last 2 years....same with petrol prices....these things are becoming as precious as gold today.....Montek Singh Ahluwalia says that price rise is a symbol of India's prosperity in terms of our spending power.....but he does n't see the fact that spending is increasing because everything is priced at such astronomical numbers that even one month's salary will fall short to compensate the spending...

Corruption to the tune of Rs 20 lakh crores has led to our free-fall to bottom of Global Corruption Index..today we are compared with the likes of those poorest of poor African countries where people fight or bribe officials for 2 meals of day.....Everyday..one scam or the other takes our notice....and we start cursing our polity and bureaucrats...Such money if spent on development of infrastructure, providing relief to poor could have done wonders till now but its all doing wonders in the coffers of those babus who have sucked up this money like highly starved termites...

Everyday, every common Indian..in someway or the other....faces these problems....gets harrased...and then after just cursing the bad people..we sleep to again get harassed the next day...those whom we take as responsible, show their chalta hai attitude and leave the people in unending misery...

Its all our responsiblity....to take things in our hands now...and eradicate these problems...promote those people to administrative posts who owe their responsibilty to us to change our lives and make them livable...who can earn our daily praise instead of curses of daily harrassment....A massive change in our chalta hai character has to be infused form inside all of us...to be more practical and stop being ingenuous..about our surroundings.....If we can walk the path of this change with strictist possible adherence to the rules...we can definitely have a comfortable future for our kids...for ourselves..for everyone..

a first of 2011...

First Blog of the new year....a new decade and that too after a long nice 6 months gap.....that hindi adage holds true here now....daer aaye durust aaye or sham ka bhula agar ghar wapis aa jaye, usse bhula nai kehte...(is this adage right??)...anywz...I am also at my home sweet home today...to celebrate special ocassions of Lohri n my Pa's 52nd birthday...though I couldn't give him any nice gift this time due to that thing....but will definitely give smthng big next year....


The journey(Noida-> chandigarh) had been quite foggy today....I got the first taste of Delhi's cold by driving bike at 6 am to catch that first metro to kashmiri gate...At Yamuna bank station...6 female CRPF personnel boarded the train...all glued up to radio's early morning broadcast or talking to their bfs/hubbies....by seeing them, I just got the true feeling of women getting their lost respect in India..Their faces..showing all light of confidence and zeal to serve the country was enough to give a tight slap to any man who still has those chauvanistic thoughts against womens' freedom...

After reaching Kashmiri gate...my stomach had started playing orchestra to feed the rats running inside....So i had to gulp some sandwiches and gave a 100 rupee note but he was short of change..so instead i told him to give me one water bottle and rest of the change... n here came the monetry loss of the day...i hurriedly put the change in my purse and scurried away to catch the 7.15 am bus...leaving bottle with him...sob sob....

Rest of the journey had been good....had a nice sleep for next 2 hours..thanx to last night's 4 hrs sleep, the bus's blower and the fog...i wish i could have brought my blanket along...But this time....the bus driver did some nice thing..he stopped the bus at the Haveli in Karnal..instead of their usual stoppage(some restaurent of Punjab transport dept....where an omelette costs Rs 70 and a burger costs Rs 90...)....Though my tummy was full...and rats were at peace..so i did't seek any refreshment but it was a nice place to do some quick photoshoot..to put them on fb...The Haveli is a nice place with an aroma of Punjab in its air..in its surroundings

Finally reached home after 6 hrs of long journey...had a nice feel to see all the smiling faces of near and dear ones..and then made most of the day with celebrations at home and doing the office work....

Today's blog post is lacking the flow of my disticntive writing style and may seem monotonus...so..apologies for that!!

God bless everyone...Adios!

Mooch nahin toh kuch nahin!!!!!!!!!!!!

Its the hottest day of the season..44 degrees..WTF...seems the distances between the mighty sun and our cute mother earth are just getting effaced. ..Are the two going around ;).....and here comes another drop of sweat droplet from my hair, following a clean path till nose and falling on my laptop...aaaa....just like the holy Ganga flowing from a dense forest and knocking at the doors of Arabian sea...........
Phew....forget it...but today’s post is about the Mooch alias Moustache alias....Its having so many names...the history of its name is as complex as to count the number of hair on your head.....

The word "moustache" derives from 16th century French moustache, which in turn is derived from the Italian mostaccio (14th century), dialectal mustaccio (16th century), from Medieval Latin mustacium (8th century), Medieval Greek moustakion (attested in the 9th century), which ultimately originates as a diminutive of Hellenistic Greek mustax (mustak-) "moustache", probably derived from Hellenistic Greek mullon "lip" ( I love you Wikipedia....;) )

My moustache came quite early at the age of 15-16....small black grass growing above my lips....i used to keep it as i wanted to flaunt it.. the signs of my youth age..but then i saw my photographs...which showed the disgust of my face due to my Moustache...so i had no other option then ..to press ctrl+X i.e cut it....

Leaving me....The moustache's history is as long as the age of man itself...Its a one of those gifts of god to the proud males...to distinguish us from our counterparts---females(among other things..lolz)....moving bit ahead...the Punjab and Rajasthan’s kings used to keep their moustache as high as Mt. Everest..Which served as the barometer of their respect...their rule...but as the time passed....the snow of this Mt.Everest started melting(no global warming here..)....it started becoming small in thickness, in length...in every dimension...and till now....I guess...it is being counted as endangered species....

The thickness and its shapes start increasing in ascending order as we move from East Asia to India...and it becomes more long and thick....as we travel to the vast deserts of Middle east..and Africa...from the thread like thin of Chun, Mun, Shins i.e. Chinese to a dense forest like thick of Khans, Pathans i.e. Arabian people...People like Charlie Chaplin, Hitler, Einstein, Verappan etc. got a special place in history due to their unique moustaches....

It’s still prevalent among Punjab especially sardars who are the flag bearers of the Mooch regiment....saviours of this Hairy thing... other people being our..Rajasthan people,some of our daily friends viz. Watchmen, doodhwala etc and our very own Bollywood.... Sardars still keep oiling their moustaches..My physics tutor used to...Sardars keep stretching the moon shaped ends of their moustaches....to keep them up.....above the sky...( i am not singing twinkle-twinkle poem here)....

This moustache has also caught the attraction of our bollywood...Shahrukh kept it in his average hit movies Paheli and Rab ne bana di Jodi...Salman Khan is keeping it in his forthcoming movie, Shatrughan Sinha kept it in all his movies...Amitabh Bachchan kept it in movie Lakshya...Hrithik kept it in Jodha Akbar....

But, our Gen-Y finds it uncool to keep this style....Girlfriends frown on having a glimpse of it on their Ranjhas' face...They give a caustic look and then act as critics aka Shoobhchintak...they keep suggesting to them to keep different looks..to look cool among aam Janta....then this depressed BF has to go to his stylist aka barber to get some work of scissors and machine..... Hair above lower lips and chin are now modified to keep that Makhi-shaped reverse triangular cut style of Dil Chahta hai.....to a straight hairy boulevard path from lower lips to end of chin...to those semi circular cuts above chin....among many others.(wow..I can be a barber now....lolz) ...

In all...we must keep a check on the decreasing limelight of moustache...being a saviour of this hairy angel thing would be much better than being a traitor...First of all....we should stop degrading people to avoid moustache...let those people love their style....We should ourselves try to keep this style for shorter intervals..Guys studying in colleges, working in offices should have a Moustache day for fun sake...keeping their moustaches in different styles...this will not only work as cool for their own image, it will help to save the low burning flame of keeping moustache....

In the end...i can just salute to the all people who are the torch-bearers of this sacred style...and love to remember those famous quotes on moustaches.... moochan de vatt, mooch nahi toh kooch nahin...etc...

Om Ganeshaye namah!!!....Now that's a desi way to seek blessings from god before starting any work…..but...for blogging….. I would need blessings of my creativity and thoughts..so my mind, soul n body…..be with me….lolz..

I read today's technical news...n just saw the breaking news...which pushes your desires to a new limit….which makes your toungues to wag out…..…....
Apple finally launched a new model of IPhone….and then even my desires started jumping to grab this geek but it will take sometime…but then something struck my mind…How this alphabet ‘I’ has haunted me for whole life…..

There is a long list of these Is which have take toll on my life........life of people around me….now, lets break the Ice and here goes the list of those Is that have and might…remain of my life for certain amount of time….

This ‘I’ is a faulty one but still it ate a good deal of childhood time…...Until KG class, I wasn’t aware of the Roman numerals and whenever results were written at the blackboard or somewhere…I used to read this sacred letter at the top of the board as alphabet ‘I’ and in line with it was written the class topper’s name….I always dreamt to have that ‘I’ and be among class toppers…getting thirst to be the topper and get that I but then my bulb glowed as I jumped from 1st to 2nd standard that this ‘I’ is not an alphabet, it’s the roman representation of ordinal numbers i.e. ‘first’……

This ‘I’ came at the dusk of my teenage years but it was the reason for my father’s major depression due to me….adding another feather to my chagrin….as he expected me to have this ‘I’ tagged as a badge on my life…..but I hardly cared to have it….It was the majestic ‘I’ of those 6 Engineering temples….……the divine IITzzzzzzz……This ‘I’ had shaken the time between my 17th and 18th birthday as I never deserved it because of my meager hard work…It was the time when I woke up to this liberal world and came out of that conservative sau and sharif ladka image…It was the time when I started copying my friends’ lifestyle and started trying new fashion…in short this maa da laadla got spoiled during this epoch….and that ‘I’ never became part of my life….

This ‘I’ is currently…not haunting….but its my dream to have this ‘I’ so that my above sin gets washed out…..this ‘I’ belongs to those mighty castles from where future managers come out….the mighty IIMzzzzzz…..This is the I that can change my life upside down in a blissful way and of the people who desire more then me to see me with this ‘I’….This ‘I’ requires to have those high levels of smartness and I.Q. that I have to achieve in these coming 5 months……and I am achieving my high performance levels to touch the summit of this ‘smartness’ peak….

These Izzzz come in the same package which I desire to have after finishing my MBA and want to grab them from my own salary….that salary that not even near to the money numbers that I get now…..These Is are all those gadgets lauched by Apple….IPAD, IPHONE, ITOUCH……they are still a dream for me which are attached if my that above ‘I’ comes in my life…..


Last but not the least, this ‘I’ is the one that is dreaming the above ‘I’zzz….this ‘I’ is the spoiled brat of his parents….this ‘I’ is the one with whom all of above Izzz follow….this ‘I’ is the one who wants to stand above all those Jzzz, Kzzz, Lzzzz who are around him…..and dreams of the coveted seats of IIMzz and IITzz…..this ‘I’ is His Holi Highness ME…..


Phew…not that long list…I guess…but whatever be the story…the whole Maya of this ‘I’ has captivated not only me but many other normal lads of my age….who have a life more or less…same like me….I just wanna say this to all these friends of mine….These Izzz will come and go from your life…No doubt…..they can enrich your life to new levels….but worrying for them will not bring any conclusion...Not having either of them is not the end of life…but one ‘I’ will always be with you and you have to always keep it happy….cherish it….respect it…and give your best possible….to make this ‘I’ smiling… and always stays bindaas…..This ‘I’ is simply……..you and me….as person…


Finally this ‘I’ epic has reached its end with these not-so-funny lines which I used in childhood to tease someone who just said ‘I’….

I I I I…..
Teri Girlfriend aayi,
Tune chai na pilayi,
Tujhe sharam na aayi,

The sun had set in, wheels were in motion and i was being dropped at the station...i was just viewing end of another blissful stay at my home...simultaneously listening to the missile like scolding words of my father..as usual...which are his complaints with me....actually by this..he shows how much he loves me...and exhumes everything out of his heart that he has stored for me...aah!!..me a lucky son of an unlucky father;);)

On way to Delhi...I was catching the beautiful scenes passing outside my window...Burnt wheat fields, facades of kuchha village houses passing by..village damsels....trees..n all beautiful creatures of man n nature...Then one unusual eye-soothing n lips-smiling sight caught me at one of the stations....a child in his village school uniform was trying to drink water from his above-height tap...he was making all-wet attempts..laughing..unaware of people watching around him...unaware of his clothes which were getting soaked..bunked his school to catch the 1st glimpse of the train....I was just trying to feel his carefree state of mind....unaware of anything around...and then i asked myself

"Dude! why can't you be like that???"....a carefree soul...what i need...a temporary nirvana..exonerating all those chaos..botherings..problems....commotions...worries....fears....that have always been revolving around me....

Then, another voice came from somewhere...clearing all that smog around me...a waking up dude-like-saint...it just told me these lines..

"Dude! I am you...I am the source of all those worries..commotions....all those synonyms u used...i m also in relation with them....but perhaps my best identity is...I am the solution to all of them...Just learn to be satisfied..living in ur present...past is not gonna come back..and future is just another unknown fiction..it is just your present..and you have to decide what you want to do in this time...have this frivolous thinking like u r having now...or just start doing some action for all those magnified-but-miniature form problems....be lively with your present..it always accompanies you wherever you go...everyday is a new day and you have to end each day by giving your ultimate best to the present....this not only improves your problem past but also sows seeds for a better tomorrow... so Wake up shivu!! present is calling you.....stand up dude n JUST DO IT!!!"...