DL 1S M 8101

DL 1S M 8101 - The Yamaha RX 135. Sandyz Bike.

When my dear Kawasaki Bajaj Caliber Croma (with disk brakes) is not working, this is the bike that I roam around on.

I can recall four incidents when I was out with someone on this bike, and the petrol finished. I had to drag the bike to a good distance.

Twice I was with Aastha and guess what, next moment I was dragging the bike with her. Luckily I found the petrol pump in the next instant.

Next I went shopping with Surbhi and while coming back from Delhi (yes from Delhi) I had to drag the bike all the way from Delhi to Gurgaon over the border.

Next I was out to get a cake with Shubhi and as usual I was found dragging a bike to the Cake Castle. This time I had to call Jeetu and he came all the way from library to the Sector 14 market to rescue us from the place.

Bottom line... even though the bike is Yamaha, roads are ok, city is Gurgaon, I have great people to take along with me but somehow I don't have a bike. And when I have it, its the same good old RX 135.

I think its a jinx. Whenever I am out with someone male... it somehow never happens and when its the ladies, it it bound to happen !

Bike, my life, when ever I am down, very happy, very sad, I just need to go out on a bike for a ride ...

Saurabh Garg BLOG - 4000 hits old !



I am sure that of those 4000 hits, about 2000 are because of two people. Me and :p:D. If it wasnt't her, there would'nt have been so many hits and so many comments.

And apart from all that, another culprit would be Google. Somehow it tends to point to my BLOG for no reason what so ever. There have been few samples posted here.

India vs Pakistan - Cricket !!!!

India vs Pakistan - Cricket !!!!

Cricket - My Life. As Ashutosh Rana says "aap cricket mujhe sey khilwa leejiye, dikha leejiye, bulwa leejiye, kahin bhi josh main kami nahin hogi"... These lines are applicable to me in evey sense of the world.

I dunno when the fascination for cricket began and I dunno when I started playing but I always knew I am a HUGE cricket fan. There have been times when I got bored of the 22 people chasing a mere ball for one full day or at times on five days at a stretch.

I would like to copy a quote from the soccer world...

"Some people say soccer (cricket) is a matter of life and death...
They are stupid...

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It's much more than that"

Cricket for me has always been about trying hard, turning the tables when odds are stacked against you, taking on the most diffcilt competition, team spirit, rivalry, learning and fun. I could have found more adjectives if my vocabulary was a bit more diverse.

There might be a question ... how come cricket after so long and so sudden... Reason would be PD. I was talking to her this morning and suddenly we start talking about the current India Pakitstan series. Its day five and India needs a few wickets to defeat Pakistan and the tailenders are very resilient. They are not giving up !

We were talking about online commentry and how to watch the matches online and suddenly I get this feeling that somehow I want to be close to the game. TV room is so far fform my room that if I started walking, I could become the protagnist of the famous Johnie Walker campaign ... Keep Walking. Then i thought may be online commentry but rejected it. And finally I thought lets get famous. Why not put something on the Dear Blog.

By the way another thing happened... As I was writing this, there was yet another power failure and the entire thing got lost. I was talking to Pd and am sure she would have ran away by now to her best half. But thanks to my dear software, I was able to recover back whatever was said and written and typed.

Talking about Cricket yet again, my favorite players over the years have been Robin Singh (now retired), ofcourse Sachin Tendulkar, Brian McMillan (retired), Late Hansie Cronje :-(. Now since I have touched upon him, I would want to talk about him... I dunno...

Javed Akhtar - Kyonki Fighter Hamesha Jeet-ta Hai ...

Zidagi Hai To Khwab Hain,
Khwab Hai To Manzilain Hain,

Manzilain Hai To Faasle Hain,
Faasle Hai To Raaste Hain,
Raaste Hai To Mushkilain Hain,
Mushkilain Hain To Hausla Hain,

Hausla Hai To Vishwas Hai,

Kyonki Fighter Hamesha Jeet-ta Hai.


These words were penned by Javed Akhtar for an advertisement for a brand called Rotomac Fighter.

This ad was on television long long time ago and a few days ago, I just felt like listening to the jingle. It took me time to get the advert from MagIndia and when I got it, I was SO happy.

As I was writing this post, I was thinking about this writing instruments company in India that was bubbling on to the scene and had at one point of time challenged the authority of interntional giant Reynolds. I think the pens they made were great and they had good reach. The media promotion campaigns were also good. They had huge stars like Javed Akhtar and Raveena Tandon working for them. Today no one probably remembers the company and the brand. This would definately become a nice case for strategy course... I would love to see what Prof. Amit Kapoor would want to say about it.

Talking about Javed Akhtar now...
Hes got a talent with words. I don't realy know what all lyrics he has penned down but I have a lets say brand association of Javed Akhtar with great lyrics. The advertisement that I have talked about above is a case in point here. (I learnt this new term - case in point - in one of the classes at my PGPM).

Wish I could write as well as Javed Saheb and stand upto my promise of a poem to P...

KK - Pyar Kay Pal

Yesterday we had the farewell party for our senoirs and like all the parties at MDI, this one was also excellent.

when the party ended, I was sitting in front of the mess and somehow the DJ played PAL. I had to run to the floor and I stood with my ears to the woofers and speakers. The song is SEXY, the speakers were EXCELLENT and the DJ was AMAZING. He knew where to stop to music and where to give effects. It was awesome to listen to that song with so much energy behind it. I would recommnd everyone and anyone to atleast try listening it to once at full volume. I sang along it on top of my voice and after that I hardly was able to speak.

Here is my favorite song from my favorite singer...

Pyar kay Pal - KK

Hum, rahe ya na rahe kal,
Kal, yaad aayenge yeh pal,
Pal, yeh hain pyaar ke pal,
Chal, aa mere sang chal,
Chal, soche kya,
Chhoti si hai zindagi,
Kal mil jaaye,
to hogi khushnaseebi,
Hum, rahe ya na rahe, yaad aayenge yeh pal...
Hum, rahe ya na rahe kal,
Kal, yaad aayenge yeh pal,
Pal, yeh hain pyaar ke pal,
Chal, aa mere sang chal,
Chal, soche kya,
Chhoti si hai zindagi,
Kal mil jaaye,
to hogi khushnaseebi,
Hum, rahe ya na rahe, yaad aayenge yeh pal...

Shaam ka aanchal odhke aayi,
Dekho voh raat suhaani,
Aa likh de hum donon milke,
Apni yeh prem kahaani,

Hum rahe ya na rahe yaad aayenge yeh pal,

Aane waali subha jaane,
Rang kya laaye deewaani,
Meri chaahat ko rakh lena,
Jaise koi nishaani,

Hum rahe ya na rahe, yaad aayenge yeh pal,
Hum rahe ya na rahe kal,
Kal, yaad aayenge yeh pal,
Pal, yeh hain pyaar ke pal,
Chal, aa mere sang chal,
Chal, soche kya,
Chhoti si hai zindagi,
Kal mil jaaye to hogi khushnaseebi,
Hum rahe ya na rahe, yaad aayenge yeh pal
Hum rahe ya na rahe, yaad aayenge yeh pal


Awesome song...

If you want to listen to the song online, here is the link on Raaga.com at the URL http://www.raaga.com/channels/hindi/movie/V000234.html
Since m talking about my favorite singer, here is a link that talks in detail about KK... http://www.hindilyrix.com/singers/singer-k-k.html.

I want to write so much about KK here in this post but right now its 1:11 AM and I havent slept for last two days and have a class at 8:30 in the morning tom. Will try to add stuff later...

Ruchi Pokhriyal - My Mentor

Mentor - Dictionary.com defines the word mentor as a wise and trusted counselor or teacher. Ruchi through this first wonderful year at MDI has been much more than that.

I have talked about her previously too on my BLOG and here are the links to the previous posts if any one is interested...
http://septemberthe22nd.blogspot.com/2004/10/ruchi-pokhriyal-my-mentor.html

Today we bid adieu to our seniors here at MDI and as a part of the MDI tradition we were supposed to present momentos to our Mentors and somehow I got this wonderful feeling when I was on the stage with her - WOW. It was like parting with one of the best friends...

I wish her all the best in all the years to come and a few wishes to myself ;)

Nishant Nigam - Happy Birthday !

4th March - Nishant Nigam's Birthday.

Nishant Nigam - yet another very good friend at MDI. Call it luck, call it chance, he was in my first sem academic group and the again in the second sem. In these two sems working with him I realized that he is of the best people that you would ever find. Cool, Calm, Composed, Understanding everything you want from a friend and a person, he has it.

Then came Imperium where I found that he and me had SO many things in common that I lost track. There I learn how to stand for each other, how to care for each other, sacrifice yourself to make sure tht the other person is doing well. The first two semesters and then Imperium bonded us as friends - Friends Forever.

If I start talking about him on a post, I can go on for ever. I can talk about the times when we - a group of 10 people - would sit in his room for hours and do nothing but talk, when we would just kill time by roaming around in campus. When we all would study in his room ! Yeah actually Study :D

So it was his birthday and since he has no roomie, I had to get all the cakes etc and we got em. The number of people that came to greet him birthday was probably the maximum for anyone. Simple enough measure of the popularity of the chap.

Here is the end of this post and wishing him all the luck in life and best wishes.

(copy-pasted from my other *secret* BLOG)

Eternal Bliss !

Today after I had completed the Delphique Panel Selection along with other people, I was walking down the ring road in the campus and felt very very relaxed. Probably the best feeling for quite some time now.

I have realized that the amount of satisfaction and happiness that you get after working so hard is great. I am not one of those who would work hard very often and wait for the result. I normally don't work hard but if I like something, then I am on it like anything.

Also one thing that drives me is Challenge and Competition. if a task is very challenging, I love to work on it, even though 9 out of 10 times, I won't be successful at it but still I like to give it a try. And if you are real lucky, the one time you suceed, the satisfaction that you get out of it is AMAZING. Has happened with me once and boy it was one hell of a feeling...

Zoom !!!!

This post is not for the people on DialUp. This post has about 30 images and this is one the best pieces of creative work, I have ever come across.

I don't know who made this, infact if someone else is aware, PLEASE let me know about it.

N'JOY !



























































Simone Singh

I saw her on television after a long time. More to come soon.

The Nidhi Kapoor Story

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