So this morning we are having breakfast in the mess and my dear roomie Mr. Pochu Prasad tells us that in Mahabharats there was a character who was childhood friend of Lord Krishna. Once they grew, that friend would take the same thing we are eating to Krishna when Krishna became the king. I agree. Perfect. 10 on 10.
Here is the interesting part ...
Pochu says that his name was Kucheludu or something like that and I yell like crazy that he was Sudama. I now have a lot of attention and I ofcourse sit down but the argument continues and we are deadlocked.
I give him a challenge that go ask ANYONE, anyone on the road, hostel and just mention three words - Lord Krishna, Childhood Friend and Poor and you would get the name. I am winning 5 - 1 right now and he has been outta room most morning tryng to find people to help him.
And here is another interesting part ...
Since Pochu is from Hyderabad, he asked yet another andhraite and he also said Kuchar.
And it wont get more interesting than this ...
Pochu is at this very moment on the phone with his mom asking the name of the poor friend. I dunno what her reply would be but as they say ... Curosity Kills and this reminds me of one of the mental models taught by Prof. Bakshi - Social Proof !
Do the epics change as we move from North India to South India? I know people are known with different names but is it possible that someone is famous as Mr. X in these neck of the woods and Mr. Y in other?
Edit: The name was changed from Kuchar to Kucheludu on a special request from my roomie ...
EarthQuake - my first
I was about 9:30 odd in the morning and I was working on my comp ... typing away a senti mail to the group of best friends here and suddenly, the pen fell down from the table and EURREKA !!!! it was an earthquake !!!!
More later .. gotta rush ...
More later .. gotta rush ...
An accident and and a gift
So I was "apparently" working for Imperium and was supposed to goto a Flex Banner shop to get the backdrops for the Shubha Mudgal night and KK night.
So the shop owner was about 70 years old and was as active as anyone else could be. So we discussed the modalities and other finer details with him and we finally decided on the deal.
As we were coming back, he asked us to wait and went to his car. He got me and Divya a small gift each. He might have got that pouch and the keychain for free but the entire action of getting the gifts for us (we were mere customers) was very touching and I felt very very special !
Wish all the other people were as affectionate ...
And by the way I had a minor accident... I rammed 8101 into a Tata Sumo. No one was hurt physically but there was some broken glass and a broken heart ...
So the shop owner was about 70 years old and was as active as anyone else could be. So we discussed the modalities and other finer details with him and we finally decided on the deal.
As we were coming back, he asked us to wait and went to his car. He got me and Divya a small gift each. He might have got that pouch and the keychain for free but the entire action of getting the gifts for us (we were mere customers) was very touching and I felt very very special !
Wish all the other people were as affectionate ...
And by the way I had a minor accident... I rammed 8101 into a Tata Sumo. No one was hurt physically but there was some broken glass and a broken heart ...
Gandhi
Gandhi – one word, one name, one person and finally one nation. Gandhi is one of the few leaders who gave direction to Indian people and were instrumental in India’s struggle for freedom.
Born on 2nd October 1869 in a trader’s home, Gandhi was a very shy person by nature and had great difficulties in standing in front of a crowd and deliver a five minutes speech.
Probably the best thing about him was the way he was able to communicate with the 40 odd million Indians at that time. In those times, media was underdeveloped; there was no internet, television or radio access to the masses of the vast Indian continent. The media was heavily regulated and controlled by the British Empire. Yet he was able to communicate effectively to the 40 odd million Indians spread sporadically over the Indian subcontinent. Even today without the help of modern telecommunication techniques, no world leader can expect to be as effective.
He was shot dead by Nathu Ram Godsey on 30th January 1948 in Birla Mandir at Delhi and an era came to an end.
There have been many accounts of Gandhi’s life but personally I think Freedom at Midnight by Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins captures Gandhi the best. They analyze Gandhi very rationally in light of all the evidence they could collect after talking to lot of people including Lord Mountbatten. This book is a must read for anyone remotely interested in India and its struggle for freedom.
In the end, here is a quote from GandhiJi himself ...
Born on 2nd October 1869 in a trader’s home, Gandhi was a very shy person by nature and had great difficulties in standing in front of a crowd and deliver a five minutes speech.
Probably the best thing about him was the way he was able to communicate with the 40 odd million Indians at that time. In those times, media was underdeveloped; there was no internet, television or radio access to the masses of the vast Indian continent. The media was heavily regulated and controlled by the British Empire. Yet he was able to communicate effectively to the 40 odd million Indians spread sporadically over the Indian subcontinent. Even today without the help of modern telecommunication techniques, no world leader can expect to be as effective.
He was shot dead by Nathu Ram Godsey on 30th January 1948 in Birla Mandir at Delhi and an era came to an end.
There have been many accounts of Gandhi’s life but personally I think Freedom at Midnight by Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins captures Gandhi the best. They analyze Gandhi very rationally in light of all the evidence they could collect after talking to lot of people including Lord Mountbatten. This book is a must read for anyone remotely interested in India and its struggle for freedom.
In the end, here is a quote from GandhiJi himself ...
Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
Learn as if you were to live forever.
Yet Another Poem !!!!
When the class is so boring,
And everybody around is snoring,
Garg gets up to his antics,
and discusses 3M optics,
what a pity... we have to hear,
Cos its a course subject we have to bear ...
This is yet another thing that 04p030 wrote for me! I think I need to boost up my creativity and write better bigger and filthier poems on her !
And everybody around is snoring,
Garg gets up to his antics,
and discusses 3M optics,
what a pity... we have to hear,
Cos its a course subject we have to bear ...
This is yet another thing that 04p030 wrote for me! I think I need to boost up my creativity and write better bigger and filthier poems on her !
Missing my DCam !!!!
I used to own a Canon A75 before my sister robbed it off me and took it to Mumbai along with her. I was promised that I would be bought another camera pretty soon but it has been about 4 months now and the pretty soon is not yet here.
Its raining like anything here and in the past half an hour I have seen about 100 different shades of yellow, purple, red and what not in the wide open sky. Apart from these beautiful colours, my campus is all green and red and gray and the combination is any photographers dream. Right now outside my window, the sky is a tint between purple and orange, there are greeen leaves, red buiding and a guy in red t-shirt and white shorts.
I want to be a photographer some day and I think clicking random pictures here would help me learn the fine art.
O I miss my camera so much...
Its raining like anything here and in the past half an hour I have seen about 100 different shades of yellow, purple, red and what not in the wide open sky. Apart from these beautiful colours, my campus is all green and red and gray and the combination is any photographers dream. Right now outside my window, the sky is a tint between purple and orange, there are greeen leaves, red buiding and a guy in red t-shirt and white shorts.
I want to be a photographer some day and I think clicking random pictures here would help me learn the fine art.
O I miss my camera so much...
The Gender Wars
There is this girl in my class and she can play the Nokia Snake like no one else. I think she is addicted to snake and there was this Strategy Lecture where I was not so interested in the topic being covered so I came up with this sort of poem for her ...
And as they say Tit for Tat, she came up with this ...
Certainly far far better than what I wrote but things din't end there. She had to say the following also...
Once there was this lady
and then there was Nokia's Snake
She would do anything
anything in the world she could make
She had the drive to go endlessly
but the snake would put the brake
People around her would give her advice
the dear advice that she won't take
04p030 @ 98100***** won't listen
won't listen cos she was ADDICTED TO SNAKE
And as they say Tit for Tat, she came up with this ...
Here's was this guy who didn't like snake.
Who loved to chatter without any break.
On every silly thing, he has the silliest take.
Check him out on the blog he makes.
Certainly far far better than what I wrote but things din't end there. She had to say the following also...
Saurabh
And
Unstoppable
Rambling
Are
Best/Bitter (take ur pick!)
Humour
Thats Saurabh Garg for you!!
Haasil - Aankhen Bhi
A brief filmography of my current favrorite song .. :D
Aankhen Bhi Hoti Hai Dil Ki Zuban
Movie Name: Haasil (2003)
Singer: Abhijeet
Music Director: Jatin-Lalit
Lyrics: Israr Ansari
Year: 2003
Producer: Karma Network Ltd
Director: Tigmanshu Dhulia
Actors: Hrishitaa Bhatt, Jimmy Shergill
Aankhen Bhi Hoti Hai Dil Ki Zubaan
Aankhen Bhi Hoti Hai Dil Ki Zubaan
Bin Bole Kardeti Hai Hsalat Yeh Pal Mein Bayan
Aankhen Bhi Hoti Hai Dil Ki Zubaan
Bin Bole Kardeti Hai Hsalat Yeh Pal Mein Bayan
Aankhen Bhi Hoti Hai Dil Ki Zubaan
Khamoshi Bhi To Pyaar Hai
Rakhti Bahut Yeh Asar Hai
Kab Ishq Hojaye Yaha Dil Ko Kahan Yeh Khabar Hai
Do Din Bhi Yeh Silsile Chup Sake Hai Kahan
Aankhen Bhi Hoti Hai Dil Ki Zubaan
Aankhen Bhi Hoti Hai Dil Ki Zubaan
Hume Neend Aye Na Jab Aankhon Mein
Badhne Lage Bekarari
Shabnam Ko Bhi Chune Se Jab
Mehsoos Ho Chingari
To Aisa Lagta Hai
Ek Hai Zameen Aasmaan
Aankhen Bhi Hoti Hai Dil Ki Zubaan
Aankhen Bhi Hoti Hai Dil Ki Zubaan
Bin Bole Kardeti Hai Hsalat Yeh Pal Mein Bayan
Bin Bole Kardeti Hai Hsalat Yeh Pal Mein Bayan
Aankhen Bhi Hoti Hai Dil Ki Zuban
Movie Name: Haasil (2003)
Singer: Abhijeet
Music Director: Jatin-Lalit
Lyrics: Israr Ansari
Year: 2003
Producer: Karma Network Ltd
Director: Tigmanshu Dhulia
Actors: Hrishitaa Bhatt, Jimmy Shergill
Aankhen Bhi Hoti Hai Dil Ki Zubaan
Aankhen Bhi Hoti Hai Dil Ki Zubaan
Bin Bole Kardeti Hai Hsalat Yeh Pal Mein Bayan
Aankhen Bhi Hoti Hai Dil Ki Zubaan
Bin Bole Kardeti Hai Hsalat Yeh Pal Mein Bayan
Aankhen Bhi Hoti Hai Dil Ki Zubaan
Khamoshi Bhi To Pyaar Hai
Rakhti Bahut Yeh Asar Hai
Kab Ishq Hojaye Yaha Dil Ko Kahan Yeh Khabar Hai
Do Din Bhi Yeh Silsile Chup Sake Hai Kahan
Aankhen Bhi Hoti Hai Dil Ki Zubaan
Aankhen Bhi Hoti Hai Dil Ki Zubaan
Hume Neend Aye Na Jab Aankhon Mein
Badhne Lage Bekarari
Shabnam Ko Bhi Chune Se Jab
Mehsoos Ho Chingari
To Aisa Lagta Hai
Ek Hai Zameen Aasmaan
Aankhen Bhi Hoti Hai Dil Ki Zubaan
Aankhen Bhi Hoti Hai Dil Ki Zubaan
Bin Bole Kardeti Hai Hsalat Yeh Pal Mein Bayan
Bin Bole Kardeti Hai Hsalat Yeh Pal Mein Bayan
Yahoo 360 Invite
I am looking for a invite to the Yahoo 360. If ANYONE can send me the same, PLEASE PLEASE do so. My email address is septemberthe22nd+yahoo360invite@gmail.com.
Counter-Strike - Date with the Destiny
Tomorrow on 24th April 2005, my Counter Strike clan MML would be entering a competition at Reliance Web World in Gurgaon. Last time when we went there, we eaily won the tourney and walked away with the prizes. This time, its different. I have been told that there are far too many teams and the teams are far too better. Anyways challenge and risk are my way of life and I am looking forward to the event.
People who would be helping me out there and are my clan members are ...
Pawanjit Singh Wasu aka MML | hitman
RajKiran Sharma aka MML | ICEman
Sudhanshu Gupta aka MML | Anathema
Saurabh Garg aka me aka MML | Krror_Singh
two other MML mmebers that would not be able to make it due to their commitments and academic rigor. The reasons would be explained sometime later when I would be having 1000000000 xtra minutes to type in. By the way they are Bethune Velamati and Satyajeet Gandhi.
And since I am talking about gaming and on top of it I am talkin about First Person Shooters and on top of it a team game, how can I end this post without mentioning kAgE? kAgE aka Kunal Garde happens to my mentor and I hope I get to beat him someday, somewhere in ANY game !!!!
People who would be helping me out there and are my clan members are ...
Pawanjit Singh Wasu aka MML | hitman
RajKiran Sharma aka MML | ICEman
Sudhanshu Gupta aka MML | Anathema
Saurabh Garg aka me aka MML | Krror_Singh
two other MML mmebers that would not be able to make it due to their commitments and academic rigor. The reasons would be explained sometime later when I would be having 1000000000 xtra minutes to type in. By the way they are Bethune Velamati and Satyajeet Gandhi.
And since I am talking about gaming and on top of it I am talkin about First Person Shooters and on top of it a team game, how can I end this post without mentioning kAgE? kAgE aka Kunal Garde happens to my mentor and I hope I get to beat him someday, somewhere in ANY game !!!!
Adobe to acquire Macromedia
Adobe - the document company is all set to acquire Macromedia - the digital company ! More to some soon on this wonderful acquisition.
I thought that Macromedia would be gobbled up by Microsoft but Adobe it was !
More to come ...
I thought that Macromedia would be gobbled up by Microsoft but Adobe it was !
More to come ...
Books Books Books
Although I am not one of those who would read and read and read. I read stuff when I am bored or when something is very highly recommended. I havent been able to read a lot of books but here is a complete list of books that I have read.
The list includes majorly fiction novels and some other interesting stuff.
-> Arthur Hailey - Airport
-> Buck Rodgers, Robert Shock - The IBM Way
-> Dan Brown - Angels and Deamons
-> Dan Brown - The Vinci Code
-> Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox - The Goal
-> Jeffery Archer - Sons of Fortune - Completed on 21st Sep 2004
-> Jeffery Archer - Honour Among Thieves
-> John Grisham - The Runaway Jury
-> John Grisham - The King of Torts
-> John Grisham - The Street Lawyer
-> John Grisham - The Testament
-> John Grisham - The Brethren
-> John Grisham - The Firm - Completed on 15th Aug 2004
-> Kim Woo-Choong - Every Street Is Paved With Gold
-> Mario Puzo - The Godfather
-> Paul Erdman - The Setup
-> Sidney Sheldon - Morning, Noon and Night
One good thing about books is that you get to learn about a few things without leaving your home. You would konw about the way things work in say the oposite end of the Globe, How people live in deep jungles in Africa, how do aeroplanes fly etc.
Also you can learn from other people's experiences. You can take clues from the events from other people's mistakes, great moves and be inspired.
As said so frequently, every coin has two faces and there are some very good reasons to read books and there are some reasons why I detested books.
The thing about books is that it makes one stick indoors. You would be spending long hous reading those huge novels etc. I have always been a person who would like to go out and staying indoors is the last thing I would ever do.
Also the books are at times biased. Well every form of information source is kinda biased. Talk about NewsPapers, Televisoin, Information Channels, I believe most of them are biased.
I want to add a brief summary about em. I just realized that I have read a lot of them and I don't remember the sequence of evetns ... Fors example, I don't know what happens in the Sons of Fortune or what was the ending of any Grisham... Blame it on my poor memory !
Edit Log:
15th Aug 2004 - Added The Firm
21st Sep 2004 - Added The Setup and Sons of Fotune
18th Apr 2005 - Added Honour Among Thieves, Angels and Deamons, The Vinci Code, The Runaway Jury and The King of Torts
Last Edited on 18th Apr 2005 @ 12:01 AM
The list includes majorly fiction novels and some other interesting stuff.
-> Arthur Hailey - Airport
-> Buck Rodgers, Robert Shock - The IBM Way
-> Dan Brown - Angels and Deamons
-> Dan Brown - The Vinci Code
-> Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox - The Goal
-> Jeffery Archer - Sons of Fortune - Completed on 21st Sep 2004
-> Jeffery Archer - Honour Among Thieves
-> John Grisham - The Runaway Jury
-> John Grisham - The King of Torts
-> John Grisham - The Street Lawyer
-> John Grisham - The Testament
-> John Grisham - The Brethren
-> John Grisham - The Firm - Completed on 15th Aug 2004
-> Kim Woo-Choong - Every Street Is Paved With Gold
-> Mario Puzo - The Godfather
-> Paul Erdman - The Setup
-> Sidney Sheldon - Morning, Noon and Night
One good thing about books is that you get to learn about a few things without leaving your home. You would konw about the way things work in say the oposite end of the Globe, How people live in deep jungles in Africa, how do aeroplanes fly etc.
Also you can learn from other people's experiences. You can take clues from the events from other people's mistakes, great moves and be inspired.
As said so frequently, every coin has two faces and there are some very good reasons to read books and there are some reasons why I detested books.
The thing about books is that it makes one stick indoors. You would be spending long hous reading those huge novels etc. I have always been a person who would like to go out and staying indoors is the last thing I would ever do.
Also the books are at times biased. Well every form of information source is kinda biased. Talk about NewsPapers, Televisoin, Information Channels, I believe most of them are biased.
I want to add a brief summary about em. I just realized that I have read a lot of them and I don't remember the sequence of evetns ... Fors example, I don't know what happens in the Sons of Fortune or what was the ending of any Grisham... Blame it on my poor memory !
Edit Log:
15th Aug 2004 - Added The Firm
21st Sep 2004 - Added The Setup and Sons of Fotune
18th Apr 2005 - Added Honour Among Thieves, Angels and Deamons, The Vinci Code, The Runaway Jury and The King of Torts
Last Edited on 18th Apr 2005 @ 12:01 AM
Ego Surfing !
While EgoSurfing today, I found out that a gaming website talks about me ... http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId%2C111226.
Ego Surfing sure reveals interesting things. One of the few could be searching for SAURABH GARG on YAHOO returns a page where 9 out of 10 resuts talk about me :D Can't stop grinning !
Another update ... I finished reading Honour Among Thieves by Jeffery Archer and since I have run out of material to read, I am back to the good old Godfather... I am trying to remember the sequence of events now. Another option was FountainHead but unlike a lot of people I did'nt find it that "intellectually stimulating" !
Ego Surfing sure reveals interesting things. One of the few could be searching for SAURABH GARG on YAHOO returns a page where 9 out of 10 resuts talk about me :D Can't stop grinning !
Another update ... I finished reading Honour Among Thieves by Jeffery Archer and since I have run out of material to read, I am back to the good old Godfather... I am trying to remember the sequence of events now. Another option was FountainHead but unlike a lot of people I did'nt find it that "intellectually stimulating" !
Shall We Dance !!!!
Its been long since I posted something on my BLOG ! If I go by the records it would be 9 days. Lots of things have happened... Exams got over, started with vacations, started with learning finance fundas and waiting for summer internship to start.
I was back in campus and happened to go for the latest flick - SHALL WE DANCE. Featuring Richard Gere, J Lo and Susan Sarandon ... was a nice time pass. As always when I was watching the movie, I tried to be the protagonist and apply my brain at that hard task called thinking... Throughout the movie I was trying to anticipate, guess, what would be his next move, what would be the next dialouge ... din't get that lucky today, was wrong most of the times. I know I can't dance ;).
Again talking about the movie itself, the movie was based in dunno which city but there were quite a few shots of the skyscapers... I had this funny feeling of going to the city at once. Would build the greatest sky scraper of em all. Talking of building reminds me of FountainHead by Ayn Rand. Before I read this one, I thought Ayn Rand was a male but it turned out that Ayn Rand is a female. Anyways while reading, I could connect at times with Roark, Waynand and Toohey. No no, am not trying to say am the coolest but a trying to say that at times I was thinking what they were thinking. I plan to read it once more before I write something about it.
Ever since we had vacatoins, have read two more fictions. Both by Grisham. Runaway Jury and King of Torts. As always both were amazing. However they failed to inspire me to be a lawyer like the previous ones. Probably the main character in both these was'nt someone exceptional. I can compare the chap from Runaway Jury - whats his name, with Ellsworth Monkton Toohey in the FountainHead. Both of them could persude people to do things that people would'nt have done under normal circmstances. I would certianly like to do that. Talk of evil ;)
I have started with vacations and have absolutely nothing to do at home. I plan to re-learn guitar (as if I knew it in the first place), re-bulid my website (as if I had it in first place), re-gain my position as the richest person on the planey (as if I was)... Of the three things mentioned above, I plan to achieve atleast two. They say two months is a long long time to do anything. I might even re design the BLOG if I don't find anything else to do.
And abhi I am out of ideas what to talk about and what to write etc...
I was back in campus and happened to go for the latest flick - SHALL WE DANCE. Featuring Richard Gere, J Lo and Susan Sarandon ... was a nice time pass. As always when I was watching the movie, I tried to be the protagonist and apply my brain at that hard task called thinking... Throughout the movie I was trying to anticipate, guess, what would be his next move, what would be the next dialouge ... din't get that lucky today, was wrong most of the times. I know I can't dance ;).
Again talking about the movie itself, the movie was based in dunno which city but there were quite a few shots of the skyscapers... I had this funny feeling of going to the city at once. Would build the greatest sky scraper of em all. Talking of building reminds me of FountainHead by Ayn Rand. Before I read this one, I thought Ayn Rand was a male but it turned out that Ayn Rand is a female. Anyways while reading, I could connect at times with Roark, Waynand and Toohey. No no, am not trying to say am the coolest but a trying to say that at times I was thinking what they were thinking. I plan to read it once more before I write something about it.
Ever since we had vacatoins, have read two more fictions. Both by Grisham. Runaway Jury and King of Torts. As always both were amazing. However they failed to inspire me to be a lawyer like the previous ones. Probably the main character in both these was'nt someone exceptional. I can compare the chap from Runaway Jury - whats his name, with Ellsworth Monkton Toohey in the FountainHead. Both of them could persude people to do things that people would'nt have done under normal circmstances. I would certianly like to do that. Talk of evil ;)
I have started with vacations and have absolutely nothing to do at home. I plan to re-learn guitar (as if I knew it in the first place), re-bulid my website (as if I had it in first place), re-gain my position as the richest person on the planey (as if I was)... Of the three things mentioned above, I plan to achieve atleast two. They say two months is a long long time to do anything. I might even re design the BLOG if I don't find anything else to do.
And abhi I am out of ideas what to talk about and what to write etc...
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