SINGH IS KING

"All the passengers are requested to faten up their belts, the plane will reach Copenhagen in 15 minutes. We are flying at a height of...... ", "Dude!!! Wake up man , its about time, plane is about to land. " screemed Rahul


A long pause!!
"WOW!! we are here finally , Denmark , the land of beech & bitches. I can't belive shekhar finally allowed me to join you guys for the tour. I mean after all that has happened back in last month. I thought I screwed big time. Thanks to my pursuasive skills that I took Mozez under my wraps, Shekhar could have said nothing once Mozez was in".


Ahhhh!!! I want to sleep and this jackass is exhausting his lungs blabbering same story he has been telling me since last 1 week; like my winamp put on Repeat mode and playing a single song all day long. God! I enjoyed that so much in college when I used to irriate everybody by putting one of Mr. Topiwaala's song in repeat mode and lock my room. Even my UPS was a powerfull one, it prolonged the torture for another hour and half atleast. Although I wish I shouldn't have done that I got a fare share of GPL for doing that. Those filthy leather boots!

"Ahh!! Finally Almighty is awake, get up man and fasten your belt, didn't you hear the announcement , ohh , that air hostess she is so hot , wish i would have got into her" pervert said for the nth time.


"Can you stop screeming, I wanted a few minutes of sleep , thanks to you now I am sleep deprived as well. I wish shekhar would have said no to you" I cursed myself for forcing Shekhar to put Rahul's name for onsite team and this self-proclaimed genious is taking a toll off me.


After 30 mins plane landed and checkout and severe inquiry and scruitny of customs , thanks to pickles & spices (Naaraayani's had a bag full of those) and irritating, scrutinizing (call it suspecting) eyes of customs officers to myself, Thanks to my appearance, When will these guys start differentiating between a muslim and a sikh and importance of a turban. If they can't understand such simple stuffs then what the hell do you mean by globalisation & shrinking world. Anyways, so another 1 hour of checks and questions, there we were , Me, Rahul , Naaraayani, Shikha dhawan and PVR aka Parsawnaath Vishwaprakaaash Raheja, RAW agents in a special mission disguised as normal middle class humans sent to save the country from a terrorist group who are planning a major attack in India and leads brought us to Denmark where all of them are meeting with their financers.
Kidding!! Actually we were just another bunch of software engineers (we prefer to be called that way, in real we are just a bunch of semi-techi self proclaimed genius who always think about building big stuffs and then go back to same old life cycle of bug fixing, code enhancement, ...) coming out of the world's largest software Engineer's production factory a.k.a India, which sends enggs all across world to handle there software problems, to fix bugs, enhance their crappy systems, support, You name it We will build it; is our unspoken motto. And that too cheaper than anywhere in this world.You know why we are so successful in this , because we know something others don't, that is JUGAAD. more about this later, for know back to Copenhagen..
So as I said we were actually employees of a company named 'MindKeeper' sent to client site for next 3 months, which was a renown investment bank of Europe, this process termed as 'ONSITE' is the only reason why people in India want to join this area. Every body back there thinks that we will earn in dollars, euros, pounds, yens and will save it all to have a lot of money in rupees (thanks to high exchange rates) when we return back to India. Then we will have enough to survive for our whole life, and a middle class man's dream start of saving evey bit of money from evey inch possible and save it all to have a little fun later in life, but irony is that 'later ' never arrives and the middle class may may become an upper middle class person but his whole life he keeps saving a little more from every little corner.
This made me decide since my last tour that no more savings, just have as much fun as possible , 'kya pata kal ho na ho!!', yes this was not my first tour unlike Rahul. I am not a fresher, already have had a 4 years experience in this field and I am the lead of the team which has just landed to save the world !! ooopsss to save the project , which otherwise will also be going just fine, but as I said we like to pretend we are very important for client the whole world(read client's system) will crash down if we stop working, especially when we sit infront of a non-techie (and we find a lot of those kinds out of India, India has way too many techies, damn mass software engg production country!!!)
But right now my mind was messed up , I haven't got a chance to sleep properly last night thanks to all, too many questions coming up from Rahul, I was busy with lead responsibilities for the whole day yesterday and now there is no cab waiting for us to take us to hotel. I don't even know the name of hotel. Damn!! I hate being a lead sometimes. But no , this is not the time to freak out, but to show how good of a leader you are. I need to call Mozez and follow up further. GOOD IDEA!! Param you are a genious, I gave a pat on my back.
"Hello Mark!! Hi Paramjeet this side from India........"


So After another 3 hours of hazels and 1 hour of check in formalities we were finally in our rooms. when I looked at clock it was already 5:00 PM. And I thought I will enjoy the Sunday before the work start. Anyways on the positive side, I just found out that they have a musical evening in the hotel this evening, I hope it is good. I should freshen up and get ready, but before that should get back to finish my pending sleep. Another 30 mins will not hurt. I have asked everybody to assemble by 7 anyways. And I started snoring again.............zzzzzzzzz!!











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I want to go back again!

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Morning were early and Nights were late

I had to eat my veggies till nothing left on plate!

I was forced for 5 hours of bonded labour

And 2 hours aftermaths when it was sober!!

 

Sneaking was a challenge and Peeking was a crime

And if you get caught you surely met divine!!

I loved hot sun & I loved muddy play

I always get a beating, though whatever I say!!

You have to act good , You have to learn manners,

Family has reputation , they say should I remember!!

I hated back then but studied with my heart

Wishing these days will get over

And I will have a good start!!

 

But now when I look back

I want to go back to;

Life without tensions, life without pain

I want to go back when,

Life was without hurdles, life was without worries

Coz my friend then I had no hurries!!

 

Some things I like

Where The Mind is Without Fear

WHERE the mind is without fear and the head is held high

Where knowledge is free

Where the world has not been broken up into fragments

By narrow domestic walls

Where words come out from the depth of truth

Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection

Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way

Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit

Where the mind is led forward by thee

Into ever-widening thought and action

Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

 

                                                                Rabindranath Tagore

Child's Play!

Crashhhhh..............and there goes the ball again .

'Arjun , you know the drill! the 1 who hit it in the DEN he has to get it back'.

'Comeon guys!! please somebody accompany me . Hey vikram come yaar, atleast you can come with me'. 'No dude!! I am ready to give my life for you , but going inside that DEN , you are on your own Arjun', said Vikram. 'What happened Arjun , you scarred ....'shouted some from the back. 'Arjun Sharma is afraid of nothing ok. NOTHING!!' .'then go and get the ball STUD !! it will get dark in a while and we will have to quit in between', grumbled Pankaj. He was the DADA of the group , DADA means aka Saurabh Ganguly, and not some gangster or bully. And he was standing on the runners end at the verge of his personal best score, which is 37 by the way.

'Damn!! whose face did I look to when i wake up this morning ? This is going to be tough', And I moved a few steps towards the DEN. DEN was not any LION's cave, wish it would have been LION's cave, it would have been easier to comeout alive from their but here it is far worse, its Major Khalnaayak , actually Major K. K Naayak 's house. and trust me he was worse then an angry and hungry lion , especially to us kids. Whole society is afraid of him.

Last I heard a rumor that a post man enterd his house but nobody saw him coming out from the house, no body recieved their posts that day

Time 2 Rise

Time to rise
Enough have you said
Enough have you laid
But Never ever were you fade
There were times when you were sorry
There were times when you felt sad
But Never have you got back into act
you have cried , you have grumbled
But never I think you have fumbled
Enough have you slept
& enough have you said
Its time to Rise, coz
Life always come to you once you are awake!

Vardaan Maangungaa Nahin

Na jeet mein na haar mein.

kinchit nahin bhaiyabheet mein.

Sangharsh path par jo milla,

ye bhi Sahi; wo bhi Sahi

vardaan maangunnga nahin!

vardaan maanugungaa nahin!!

Wandering in desert

It has been 1 year, or 1 year 1 month and 18 days to be exact. And I still haevn't found my Elixir.
this last year I was just lazing off , No I mean literally lazing off, all I did was wander around in the city , which by the way is beautiful , I love this city. Went on mechanically to my job which has nothing much to offer not in terms of challenge for the least. The greatest challenge I ever felt in my job till date was how to score maximum frags in a game of Unreal tournament, which we played almost everyday since last 6 months. I was a bad player, but without modesty I would like to add that I am one of the better ones now. We followed this UT session religiously everyday for last six months. the whole scheduled broke up once the new Headdtart came, I wonder now if previous batch also used to play the same way. Anyways those days are over.
Apart from these challangeing tasks of lazing off, wandering in city , meeting , greeting & chatting (most of the time over internet) old & new friends once in a while and playing UT and yeah watching a movie every night , thanks to torretns and broadband. I am pretty much aimless, lost, confused , tired , no not tired actually. I am like the protagonist of Alchemist looking out for ELIXIR of Life , its just that he was atleast trying to find it , I am just thinking about finding it out. And that part consumes most of the time of day I guess.
At the end of a day when I look back to see if I can find out anything I did that day which I would like to remember for my life well so sad it sounds to my own ears but have to say it that since last 1 year 2 months and 18 days to be exact there are rarelly any moments or events or life changing moments which I will cherrish for my life . I may sound a little weary but thats the sad truth of that time.
Unlike before that for which I would like to remember every second of my life ,Alas! that is not possible, damn! weak human memory...........
Although I must admit I haevn't did much then either , but guess there was a difference in approach then , then also I used to wander around in city (which was way less crowdier then) , meeting , greeting and chatting consumed most of my time and I used to play games, and stayed away from studies like I stay away from work here.
Then what made the difference ??
Why do I feel like this now and why I felt so different before? Have I lost something or Is there something I didn't get I wanted to achieve. Is it just jealousy from my peers when I see their achievements? It can also be the distance from the family, I know going back home is a far dream which I have stopped even dreaming about. Or is it the quest for knowledge as I am learning NOTHING !! nothing as all...........

too many questions too many answers required or is it just 1 answer which will solve all the question , one universal answer to solve all the questions. 1 Master Key. Damn it! I do feel like protagonist of Alchemist.

hell even If I am I wonder when I will start the journey to find the solutions , will I ever even start or just keep thinking about it leave aside the possibility of finding answers to these questions.....

guess all can be summarized in just 3 small words .

































I am CONFUSED!!

Its been a Year

Its been a year since I came here , and lot has happened in these 360 + days.

India has got a waiver in NSG (which is the latest!), Now they say they have to depend on US Congress passing 123 agreement some kindaa waiver from Hyde Act. Its all messed up, newayzz the final out come as they say is that we will be spending Billions of dollars to establish a few Nuclear Reactor (we could have got many small Hydro power station in northern reigon and a range of Wind Mills at western ghats and kacchh reigon which would have provided some employment as well and a hazard free energy source ),Newayzz Nuclear reactor; which are supposeidly the most dangerous way of producing POWER and also 1 of the costlier in terms of initial investment. But as they say it will be cheaper in long term (If there is any Uranium/ Theorium left to get energy from). Hope I will get only electricity out of it and not fringe benefits of Radiation all for free 24*7 at my place.

But at present I can easily say that our PM is one committed person towards country (well not sure abt INDIA bt surely abt USA thats also a country afterall)....Bihar was (and still is ) facing the worst flood in last 40+ years, In Orissa naxallites in cover of agiation are killin Christians , Kashmir is on the verge of breaking off from country and Inflation is at All Time High .... and not to forget Arjun singh after dictorial decision of 49% quota in all govt. institutes and jobs want to have this implemented in private companies as well. But our dedicated PM is well focussed and single minded towards 1 & only 1 goal , to get the treaty signed between India and USA which will make get India into a deal which not surely will guarantee nuclear supply either to run those nuclear plants for which India will have to spend billions of dollars.

India sure has found great freind in USA ....