My first hunt -- Part 3 -- A Never Ending Saga

It’s been couple of months for my first hunt but it is still haunting me!!!

Since then I came across few more proposals and now finding it hard to keep on denying without any specific excuse, even my favorite savior line “I need some time” seems to be helpless these days.

And at last, bro said, dude set a deadline soon.

Al right!! Here I go with my favorite panel of I, me and myself for a brainstorming session.

Well, from long time it’s been a standard process for me to take my long term decisions by either fast forwarding or going backward to 5 years from now.

Fast forwarding myself to next 5 years:

Five years down the line will I be happily involved with someone for the rest of my life? Will I prefer to be more responsible? And will I still prefer the chick chase and single hood?.
Mmmm….Not sure.

Al right let me try the backward process:

When was just done with my Engineering and was about to start my professional life. Getting into a 9-6 job for 5 days a week for a highly disorganised freak like me looked like a daunting life style, but if I would have backed out at that time I would not have grown in my life.

Just to convince myself I went 5 more years back:

When was aiming to do my engineering having studied in kannada medium for 10 years and all of a sudden expected to study all those dry engineering subjects in English looked an impossible task (as I was scared with English  ) but I just took it up and managed to get an engineering degree and surprisingly with an affinity for English language.

Hmmm……Looks like these two backward analogies are striking the cord.

At least they made me to think over whether I am really running away from the next challenges of my life? Am I not willing to get in to the next phase of life only because it seems daunting and demanding?

May be right now I don’t have any clear answer, and I can’t stop pondering unless I deduce the one .

Hope one fine day I will deduce my answer and may come up with a last part of this post “My first Hunt” but till then let my hunting blog keep you haunting, best of luck :)

My first hunt -- Part 2 -- I need some time

I was just making myself comfortable in the back seat of gaddi (I needed to relax badly after getting rid of those (20*2) + eyes) bro whispered again “So….?”

Immediately same question popped up from mom too “So beta…?” and obviously I repeated the same to myself …so what??? And a complete blankness followed in.

You know, I am a typical Gemini, very indecisive may be more than a typical geminate but for that moment I survived with my favourite saviour line “I need some time”.

Finally, I set a meeting with I, me and myself to take a decision on this.

Nope I could not figure out a single advantage (apart from ONE obvious ;) ) besides could see hell lot of negatives if say yes to this, just not this any alliance for that matter.

Just to count few

1.The very thought of sharing my rest of life with someone else sounds so freaky! And mind you she is still a stranger to me so its more freakier.

2.COMMITMENT!!!! If I say yes to her it obviously means stop chasing/flirting/staring other girls. Then the very purpose for hanging out with friends on the weekends in malls, pub and canteen is lost.... inshort the fun is lost.

3.I should bid good bye to my hard earned freedom and happy days of single hood, I think single hood is the only phase of our life which truly and only belongs to ourselves.

4.Now I should start living my life as per her wish, I hate this part the most.

5.Be accountable for your where-abouts and how-abouts for 24/7.

6.This one is the killer ....You have to buy two new cell phones (Preferably reliance with R to R free since you’re the one to pay the bills) and gift one to her. Now every day… literally ever day log in to call as soon as you get up and continue to be logged in while your working and wait.. u r not done yet...call goes as long as your day is on :( .

Do I need all this??? …..NOPE, clearly no, (very seldom I get clear answers when I set a meeting with I, me and myself).

So I mustered my courage and said to mom “mom say no to them, I can’t get into this.” (And how can I get away without using my favorite line) “Mom,I NEED SOME TIME”.

As usual this line worked and I managed to get escape from my first hunt.

My first hunt --- Near death experience

Finally after a long pursuit of one of our close family friend I agreed to meet his family friends daughter for the alliance (back in my mind was excited after seeing her photo :) )

PART - I

Before getting into their home Big B whispered ”Don’t be nervous dude” and that was enough to shake my confidence :(

Amused (Horrified) to see some 20+ people and later get to know that many of them are their relatives specifically came to SEE ME!!!!, huh!! when some (20*2)+ eyes are on you, you will become damn conscious, you cannot be your own and certainly turn stupid with your words and acts.

After waiting for a long the to-be-bride arrived with best possible make up available. I was not even comfortably having her glance due to these (20*2)+ eyes, but to be candid in the last 5 years I have mastered the art of peeping girls, “Hmmm…cool” that was my 1st unexpressed expression when I saw her.

At the final H-hour we both were let to talk or rather exchange few questionnaires.
Out of complete nervousness we greeted each other, I mustered my courage and said “Please don’t be nervous”. She might have said 'look whose talking', if she has sensed my nervousness.

Well, in that short span of 10 mins in which you are suppose to decide your spouse (or ur future MASTER) I ended up asking very dumb questions like what’s your qualification and occupation etc, which I already I knew!. In the last 2 mins she too completed the same formality about asking same Qs to me and TIMES UP!!!!

....... (has)To be continued................

Thanks to Team India and Anna Hazare

I am pretty glad to witness two back to back events of patriotism in just past two weeks

1.Team India bagging world cup after 28 years has certainly lifted the spirit of nation, it may sound irrational but such a victory will surely act as a confidence booster to billion plus people.

2.Anna Hazare’s anti corruption movement, though this X army man has executed several such movements before, what makes this one so special is the magnificent response he received especially from the youth and the media. It certainly talks volumes about the new citizens of India.

I think leaves are changing and India is all set for it’s spring time… Jai Ho

M$K

Five reasons why men in blue should deliver their best performance of their life on 2nd April 2011

1. Cricket is a religion in India and I don’t think there is any other way to set EUPHORIA for all the 1.21 billion people or 17% of the human beings with that single moment.

2. Common guyz Its been 28 years we won the world cup, this nation has given so much to this game and it can’t wait more than this.

3. The greatest player this game ever produced, Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar who steered you and your team to the victory for innumerable times when you were in crisis, is asking for it, perhaps this the last time he will be playing with you for this only unaccomplished glory of his career.

4. A one such victory in 1983 made this game so popular in India, just imagine what it can lead to with second world cup in its kitty.

5. We never know when you are gonna play your next world cup in India again, and that to be the finals.

It will be a joy of heaven winning infront of home crowd, winning in Mumbai winning in INDIA

Team India, this is the moment to bleed your life and become immortal.

Best of luck

M$K

Return of the prince….. but as a King

The man who was struggling with injuries and was going through the worst form of his life, who almost thought of quitting his cricketing career has now bounced back as a real champion, who is the frontrunner of man of the series and is certainly the triumph card for team India in WC 2011.

Way back when Yuvraj Sing scored a quick fire of 84 off 82 balls against mighty Aussyz in his second ODI in 2000 media adored him and hail him as the prince of team India, and apparently Yuvi played like a real prince but he remained a prince even after 11 years of his cricketing career with his flamboyance attitude. Somewhere down the line he refused to grow to the next level, he was floating in his past glory and success and consequently lost his form.

Now the same media ridiculed him, he went through a roughest patch of his life, he saw the worst humiliation when his own fans were addressing him as “Water man” when he was an extra player in the squad.

During this rough patch Yuvi held his ground amidst all the humiliation with sheer grit and learnt his lessons.

Now with more sensibility and maturity in his game he bounced back as a great match winner.

The point here MSK-Vani wants to convey is Life is not sadist and it doesn’t throw adversities to you just like that, it wants you to learn and grow to the next level of life by defeating those adversities.

Remember whenever we meet a real tragedy or adversity in life we can choose to react in two ways either by losing hope and falling into self destructive habits and thus making the situation more worst or by simply using the challenge to find our inner strength to raise to the occasion.

Any time, Choice is ours!!!!

M$K

My top five events of world cup so far

1.Ind Vs Aus: India beating three time world champions and setting a semi final against their arch rivals, its double bonanza!

2.Ind Vs England: Super close match so far in the tournament, total of 600+ runs scored in a single match.

3.England Vs West Indies: England bowlers fighting hard their way to snatch victory when they almost lost the match against w Indies.

4.Pakistan Vs New Zeeland: Swashbuckling performance by Ross Taylor scoring 90+ runs in last five over. Pure entertainment.

5.Ind Vs South Africa: One of the strong batting team losing their 9 wickets merely for 29 runs and how can one forget Nehra’s last over!

How about yours?

Paying Attention to attention

As usual today also I turned off my alarm assuming it as yet another week day.
And very lately I realised when I reached VT (Victoria Terminal) that am not on my bed and itz Indian Railway’s Sleeper class upper birth!! Thanks to my co-passenger who woke me up saying Dost last top aagaya.

Due to my sound sleeping habits instead of getting down at Thane I landed on VT at Sunday 5am!
And to my dismay there wasn’t any immediate local to return to Thane 
So had ample amount of time to spend at VT, within my 5mins of waiting I got bored to the core.

I decided to enroot to marine lines instead of waiting for local train, it is one of my fav place in Mumbai and I never had an opportunity to be there before sunrise (thanks to my brilliant sleeping habits).
Hired a taxi and kicked off my journey, seems I was pretty much hooked with boredom, realised sitting all alone in taxi too so boring, having said that there are many interesting things can be done in taxi provided u have a good company ;)

Just to kill my boredom I asked Taxiwala to turn on the music and must say these Mumbai taxiwalas have good sense of music, Kishore da was singing aanewala pal jaane wala hai ho sake to isme zindagi bitaloo, the last two words caught my attention and I started my dissection on zindagi bitaloo.

I was wondering what actually zindagi bitaloo means. At physical level it could be merely breathing in n breathing out, so looking at mental level what does it really mean?

Was drilling through my knowledge accumulated from past 2.5 decades and finally came up with an answer for zindagi bitaloo and to my surprise the answer was giving thought or paying attention to, let me clear that its my understanding of zindagi bitaloo and it is not in synch with the lyrics here.

I think its little complex to explain. The reason why I linked attention with life is whatever object you pay attention in that particular moment that object will come to an existence only in that moment, for example if your thinking about your Ex gf/bf in that particular moment then everything associated with her will come into existence for that moment and instead if I choose to think of my boss in that given moment my boss will come to an existence with respect to that moment.

Notice that you can choose to give your attention to whatever you wish. You can choose to pay attention to your work, girl friend or your income.

Well, with this dissection I realised that attention is a precious commodity of our life, its an investment we make out of our life. So use it carefully and consciously.


M$K

iGate acquires Patni

FYI:

Finally the much delayed deal between Patni Computer Systems Ltd. iGate is inked and iGate CEO Phaneesh Murthy made it official today.

US-Based iGate has acquired close to 63% stake in Patni Computer Systems ltd which is Currently India’s Sixth largest IT firm.

The deal is said to be 1.22 USD billion, iGate will buy 46% of stake from Patni Brothers and 17.3% from Genral atlantic.

This makes the combined entity of iGate-Patni a billion dollar company which reported $941 million in the third quarter of 2010 and the total head count shoots up to 25 thousand.

M$K

Thanks to the Mayan calendar and the Hollywood block buster 2012

Huh! Itz already 6th Jan, as usual this year too I am late to chart my plans and resolution for this year, with this laid back attitude I was wondering will I be able to follow my resolution at least this year but thanks to the Mayan calendar and the block buster Hollywood flick 2012 which depicts end of the world by 2012, well, I am not saying I am gonna believe this dooms day theory, however I wonder if I happen to believe this just for a while and just before chalking down the road map for 2011, I understand I can add immense value to these upcoming 365 days (6 are already gone :( ).
For a lazy loony like me this fake belief will certainly kick the ass.

So going ahead with this dooms day theory for this year, I am all up to cherish my dreams which are being fantasized from ages and have hardly put my efforts to cherish them.

So here I make up my mind to enjoy, accomplish, and most importantly live these 365(minus 6) days to the FULLEST.

I wish you too will say thanks to Mayans and add a zing to this year and also to the many more to come ;)

Have a rocking year :)


MsK