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News - Migrating blog.

noreply@blogger.com (Pushkar Sheth) — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 22:40:00 +0000

Hello,
I am migrating this blog to my own domain http://www.pushkarsheth.com.
So, the blog, can now be accessed from http://shethlog.pushkarsheth.com.
The blog here, at Blogger, will be officially deprecated as of this post. Do not post comments at Blogger, because they may not be read and replied to. You can instead post them at the blog on my web-site. All the previous posts have also been moved there.

A lot of fun coming up this year, so see you at the new blog!

Guru

noreply@blogger.com (Pushkar Sheth) — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 02:40:00 +0000

I saw this movie Guru, first day first show at Fame Kandivali.
More about the movie in an other post, which will come after some news regarding this blog.
So you have to wait till ~~Monday~~ next weekend or so.
Till then, bye !

The Thin Red Line

noreply@blogger.com (Pushkar Sheth) — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 18:34:00 +0000

Everyone is scared of it, everyone, who is at a nine to five job in India, don't know about other countries. It is a rule that if an employee comes after the deadline, mostly 10 o clock in a 9 to 5 shift, gets a red line on the register or the attendance book, and almost all get jitters from it as it means a salary cut for the day. To avoid this, people go a long way. Here are a few live examples:
1) My dad, a few years back, used to get his breakfast packed, and have it on the train. Haven't seen that happening that in the last few years.
2) When in my diploma college, my friends and I were waiting at the ground floor of our college building, to meet one of our professors. Well, he came rushing on his motor bike, we greeted him good morning, but he was in such a hurry that he didn't even look at us, and climbed the flight of stairs, four steps at a time. Well, we didn't realise at that moment, but when we went behind him, we saw him heaving a sigh of relief, he dodged the red line by a minute! What next, he went into his cabin as he opened his bag, took out his belt from the bag, and wore it. looking happy as ever !

Wishing you a Happy New Year ahead !!

Poor Driver

noreply@blogger.com (Pushkar Sheth) — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 08:34:00 +0000

I have been posting my rickshaw rants in some of my previous posts, this one is a bit different. I got a rick from some place to get home, before I got into the rick I had to tell him the destination, he was wearing a hearing aid in one ear, with those old ear phones, with the machine hidden in his pocket. The first time I told him the address, he didn't get me and extended his ear towards me, but the other one, not the one with the ear phone, strange. The second time he nodded yes, and turned the meter down. Now to confirm a turn, he used his hands to communicate, like he pointed towards left if he wanted to take a left turn. Without much problems I reached home, the meter showed 24 Rupees as the fare, I handed him 30 Rupees, and immediately he moved his head out of the rick and spat out his paan, just to say "I don't have change". And all this time I thought he was deaf and mute. hehe !!

Saturday Night Traffic

noreply@blogger.com (Pushkar Sheth) — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 08:50:00 +0000

The title of the post is apt.
Its 0050 hrs in the morning, and the road in front of my apartment is filled with vehicles doing their beep beep, bamm bamm.
What would the people stuck in their car which is stuck in a traffic jam feel on a Saturday night? Well, they are still in Saturday and will go to Sunday when they wake up tomorrow morning. For that matter, me too!!
I think I need some sleep. Good Night.

Days after exams

noreply@blogger.com (Pushkar Sheth) — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 06:24:00 +0000

Whats happening these days? All this:

Saturday.
0945 hrs: I have reached college by now, was sitting on one of the benches in a class, decided to check out my examination hall. By the time i reached there, i was sneezing like hell, my nose started running like a Monster truck, and my eyes tried to close down. Shee, this is not the way I would like to write a four hour Machine Design paper. Any ways, I kept my books away and was waiting for the exam to start.
1030 hrs: It started, the paper was good, though with a few surprises, and the sneeze attack stepped down a little, but my nose is still running.
1430: The paper went good. And I went home.
1500 hrs: Reached home, Any one else would have slept, I tried out a few thing on my computer I was waiting to do for a few months. And was on the computer for the rest of the day.
2330: Saw Swades for the 24th time.

Sunday.
1000hrs: Woke up with a choked nose and throat early as I used to during the exams, had Lunch, slept till about Five.
1730: Reached college for our HOD's farewell, stayed there till 8. Saw another movie and slept.

Monday.
My voice has gone. The day's activities were a staggered mix of Computer, television, newspaper. And I don't remember when and where I was through out the day (but was at home, obviously).

Tuesday.
Home today too. Feeling bored already. Read a few pages of The Art of the Deal. Made a small video out of my class pikchars.

Quick Post 2

noreply@blogger.com (Pushkar Sheth) — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 03:10:00 +0000

3 papers down, 2 to go.

This is what happen at the gym a few weeks ago:
I did my cardio and came to the weight training room for abdomen workout. Had to do side bends, so lifted two 15 Kg dumbbells (um, one for each hand), stood in front of the mirror, where every one stands for side bends, with the weights in my hands, and my shoulder drooping down cause of them. Suddenly the DJ (yes my gym has a DJ) started a kinda Indi-pop song, which made me forget that i was supposed to do abs. I started nodding my head with the song...the nods started turning into visible left and right of my head.....all in front of the mirror...when I regained consciousness, I found two kids giggling at me, and my instructor laughing behind. Where was I, haa, abs...ok..
dunno, next time I'll have to take care, or its ok some times ;-) !!

Quick Post

noreply@blogger.com (Pushkar Sheth) — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 02:18:00 +0000

A quick update about my exams: Two papers are gone....Computer aided drawing/manufacturing - Finite Element analysis and Industrial Finance - E-commerce (yes they are two subjects, actually four sandwiched into two).
There have been new additions to my role model list. Gautam Singhania and John D. Rockefeller. Well, let me make it clear, what I mean by role model is, that the thoughts and/or the style of working and/or philosophies of these people are what i would like to follow in the future, and hence they are my Role Models. Will write about the new ones in later posts.
These days I have been seeing, or rather listening to sounds created by a few* motor bikes on Mumbai roads.These are essentially old engines, souped up by the garage mechanics to create an annoying rattling sound. Now what they feel is, by souping up with the fuel line ports, they make this sound, which similar to the one made by a 1000cc bike, but as an engineer, its very easy to identify that this rattling sound is because of the fuel igniting earlier than it should, which creates a knock on the cylinder head(s), damaging the already bruised engines. They do not realise that in the 1000cc engines, its their shear power which make the heavy wroom sound. Improper engineering.

*updated later

Dialogues and more

noreply@blogger.com (Pushkar Sheth) — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 04:30:00 +0000

Here are a few dialogues that my Dad and I laugh at whenever they are heard on television:

The first one goes like this. An Indian villain hands a glass to a Chinese smuggler, pours wine into it. The Chinese guy lets go of the glass and says his thing (with the much observable Chinese emphasis on the last word) :
"I do not DRINK,
I do BUSINESS,
You also talk only BUSINESS"

The other ones much hilarious
The hero of the movie is surrounded by a Russian dictator's troops, that dictator guy was in an armed helicopter, also armed with a mic and a loud speaker (this one with a Russian accent):
"Drop your weapons,
We will not hurt you if you do not run,
this is my last warning."
dhe dhe dhe dhe (machine guns, fired at a distance from the hero)

Out of all, the one which Dad loves are Bruce Lee's shrieks in Enter the Dragon, especially the last fight. He simply loves the concentration with which Lee attacks the opponent.
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Last Sunday, a powerful, vociferous lightning struck my locality, and it destroyed all the converters of my Cable internet provider. This is the second time it happen this season. Good thing my computer was not turned on!
Hey, can this lightning problem be solved? Well, obviously can't stop lightning, am talking about protecting the converters from it.
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Vivas are over, most of them were good, they are good every time, exams from the 21st, ending on the 9th of December.

Speaking Creativity

noreply@blogger.com (Pushkar Sheth) — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 01:30:00 +0000

Became a member of the British Council Library, a month back or so, which also gives access to its online services. Logged in to see whats in store. They had a discussion forum running, the topic was about Human Creativity, and the admin there gave instructions to people to tell their stories about how they unleashed their creative powers. And what almost all participants did was, defined creativity bookishly, giving others examples apart from theirs, pathetic, even the admin would have been bored. Well let others be, here's my contribution:

Last semester we had a subject called Power Plant Engineering, and in the first lecture our professor made us aware of the energy needs of our country.That made me think of how to get power thru a non-conventional means (i.e. without oil, petrol).
Well, one option would be Swades styled small reservoirs with turbine generators, after thinking for a few days (and nights, yes!), I came up with a new innovation of a giant wheel with an array of windmills on it, these windmills rotate as the giant wheel is made to rotate with magnetic levitation of permanent magnets. This would eventually give out power for a life time once installed.
The very next day i showed this idea to my professor and she rejected it as a perpetual motion machine (PMM) and said it was impossible to manufacture and test a PMM !
Well that bug is still in me and i m going to simulate it on a computer, in the near future !

Some reader from Delhi gave me a nice suggestion, here it is:

Yes .... you'll learn the difference between science (= truth) and imagination / idealization ( = daydreams).
If you've read Karl Popper .... he says the same thing about PMM. Apparently, one of his professors told him 'Yes, everybody says it's impossible until somebody goes ahead and builds one ' !!
Fact is : There are laws of the Universe that cannot be broken. These laws are discovered from time to time. They are subject to change when new behaviours are discovered. But till such time as they are proved false, the non-feasibility of a PMM will take you a lifetime to prove to yourself !!
Required reading for Pushkar Sheth: The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham

Well, got to find that book !!

Heres one poem which Robin Williams mentions in a movie called Dead Poet's Society.

I. O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;
The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won;
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring.
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red!
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.

II. O captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up! For you the flag is flung, for you the bugle trills:
For you bouquets and ribboned wreaths, for you the shores a-crowding:
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning.
O Captain! dear father!
This arm beneath your head;
It is some dream that on the deck,
You've fallen cold and dead.

III. My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still;
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will;
The ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its voyage closed and done;
From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won!
Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells!
But I with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead

by Walt Whitman

Its Festivities Time

noreply@blogger.com (Pushkar Sheth) — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 16:26:00 +0000

This month its festivities time with Dassera (the Nine Day Festival), and then now, Diwali. Diwali also means guests coming home to greet and get together. Hey I am not writing the same essay we used to write in school for all the ten years. Guests means uncles and aunties coming home and enjoying goodies, which eventually even I get to enjoy, and mom knows best how to cook stuff, with closed eyes. That is why when theres a power cut, the menu at dinner is Maharashtrian style onion pakodas and batata wadas, which will be put up on fudlog immediately after the next power cut. And the pakodas seem authentically Maharashtrian cause my mother's sister got married to a Maharashtrian, and most of the recipe source code originates from there. Want more of pakodas, try Mumbai-Pune Expressway's Food Mall, awesome pakodas right in the middle of nowhere on the huge road!! Then its time for Naturals Icecream, OMG, its the ultimate treat !! And the newspaper prints an article that doctors of the city say bursting crackers this Diwali will cause all the Dengue causing mosquitoes fly away. Hmm and what about the humans and other animals?. Doctors. Start making crackers, .....medicated. (full stop). This post kinda seems small (and justified ;-) ) , have my viva exams right after Diwali.

One fine day at college

noreply@blogger.com (Pushkar Sheth) — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 21:30:00 +0000

Its not that I am attending my college after years, go there everyday, but yesterday was a bit different, filled with everything !! Here it goes. Woke up at 0430 hrs, had two tests in the day with a one hour time gap. Business Process Re-engineering followed by Manufacturing Planning and Control. BPR is my elective subject for the final year, and is an interesting subject, full of case studies, we learning re-engineering before we become engineers !! Studied a little for BPR, then again slept at about 0700 hrs to be woken up my mom at eight. Got ready to leave, reached college at 0845 hrs, to find every thing empty again ! The BPR test was scheduled at 10 and people were expected to come JIT. Sat in my classroom with a few pages spread on the desk, kept reading, gave the test went to the class again, tried to read some of MPC, again went for the test, finished. The professor who took the test wanted to talk to my friend and me about some project after lunch, my friend didn't want to face him cause he hadn't slept for the whole night, had to tell him to wait, went home had lunch and ran back again. My friend was still there, and what the prof did when i went back? he made me to go through 10 PDF files which were research papers on BPR. No wonder my pal didn't want to meet him The thing I realized out of reading those PDFs was that people were looking into the BPR world seriously and there were people after Hammer and Champy to write papers on BPR, which we thought was a subject untouched after those two. Good thing at least 39 from our class will get to go through such literature, but this was surely time consuming. Fought with that friend of mine for a while, left the college campus with a group of hostel people, got a rickshaw went to the gym. Aaaah this rick driver was sort of funny, one scooter guy just lost his balance and came right in front of my rick, this rick guy started his talk, dunno why he talked intermittently, here it is in Hindi and English.
eh . too . dekh . ke . chala . nai . sakta . kidhar . bhi . jaa . raha . hai . pagal . aadmi . (full stops after every word, yes...intermittent, u see!)
hey can't you see and drive, goin any where you crazy man.
Came home from the gym, laffed about the rickshaw guy's style, slept. Wasn't it a fine day after all, I feel almost all days are the same ;-) !

More knee deep treats

noreply@blogger.com (Pushkar Sheth) — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 03:48:00 +0000

Aaaah...last week, Kolkata had a knee deep treat, this week, its Mumbai's turn again, last month it was Gujerat. Well, if some of you here in Mumbai observed for the last three days, it starts raining at just about 10:30 PM, and a few days back, those of you who wake up early, the clouds are yellowish at about 05:45 AM and it starts raining after this cloud formation, it had become kinda of trend for a few days. Also this time, the rains have extended than their normal period. On what I feel as a related topic, the climate scientists say "the Earth came close to the warmest it has been in the last million years. This happens in many places, especially in a part of the Pacific Ocean, where El Nino weather patterns are born. What is El Nino? Is it a Mexican delicacy? Well, the El Ninos can push temperatures higher than they might ordinarily be. They blamed this phenomenon on global warming that is affecting the surface of the western Pacific before it affects the deeper water." Enough of the Pacific now.
Global Warming reports in India are restricted only up to journalist reports, where the concerned person at the MET department are asked a few text book questions and they answer it in broken English and a lots of blah blah. I don't think any of the weather bureau guys are checking out the global warming patterns in our country. Or is the research really "global" and we are not being told whether we are getting warmer, or are we going through those El Ninos, NooNoos or NeeNees? Yes I felt an El Nino once before i read about it, one moment its hot, we all are feeling hot then the temperature goes down a little bit and the atmosphere is sort of pleasant, or rather it starts raining. (sort of exaggerated there, but this did happen once). Got to find out if our weather bureau is taking care of Global Warming and stuff.
More...Global warming has always been a last chapter content in most of the textbooks I have read so far. It has commonly been a topic for a small project right from school times. It can be given more importance if it is introduced as a full fledged subject in the curriculum. These days, my college professors are being more aware and taking Global warming into consideration, like, the finance professor gives an example of a company closing down in Mumbai after 4 years cause it simply went under water, and it shifted base in Madhya Pradesh, where it made losses and sank !! And the IC engines professor is more concerned in making the car pollution free rather than making it run faster, or give better average. Global warming is left out as a regular Google project and no one I know around is actually working on it. Or is any one working on it?
This is how the picture gets during the rains :L: this is technically after the rains took a pause for a week, the municipality took efforts to raze two road side tea shops !!
R: aahh...this is during the second deluge that washed out Mumbai.

Beauty and the Mist - fudLog

noreply@blogger.com (Pushkar Sheth) — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 13:32:00 +0000

L: 0600 hrs, Nakki Lake, Mount Abu, Rajasthan
R: 1000 hrs, Nakki Lake, Mount Abu, Rajasthan
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I made a promise in one of my previous posts, about posting recipes, well i took that thought a little further, teamed up with two other friends of mine and started another blog, its called fudLog. Click, read, cook, enjoy ;-) !!

Sleepy Post

noreply@blogger.com (Pushkar Sheth) — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:58:00 +0000

This post is dedicated to all involuntarily suffering from sleep deprivation (I know there are many out there)
Woke up at 0500 hrs today, had to do some college work. Got in front of the mirror above the bathroom sink, the brain gave me a signal that I had to perform a task....brush my teeth. Oh yes I remember...brush my teeth, how? The brain again instructed me to pick up the tooth brush from the cabinet on which the mirror was. As the cabinet opened the image of some sleepy guy disappeared and few choices were in front of me. Which one is my brush? Yes, the Blue one. OK, pick it up. Now what next? Yes, paste. The rack besides the cabinet had two tubes waiting. One was a standard Colgate tube, still sleeping, and another was Gillette shave gel tube, standing short but awake. My hands went towards the Colgate tube, opened the cap, and spread a nice paste on the brush. It was green in colour, smelled great, and quickly spread all over the bristles. beep beep beep : ERROR. Didn't my eyes see what tube my hand picked up?
Why is this sleep deprivation thing affecting every one, especially the ones in their final year of engineering ?

Maverick and the Saint

noreply@blogger.com (Pushkar Sheth) — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 05:10:00 +0000

Yes, thats the caption i'd like to give to these two images. Can you make out why so?

Also a PhotoBlog

noreply@blogger.com (Pushkar Sheth) — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 07:47:00 +0000

This post is to announce that my weblog will also have photos clicked by me, and pics drawn or created by me, which will appear in the future posts.
(cause I) Clicked some 400 odd pics in my recent Rajasthan vacation, my journey towards being a photo journo starts here !!

The Beating Retreat

noreply@blogger.com (Pushkar Sheth) — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 12:40:00 +0000

I know many of the journalists observing Mumbai may have written about this every year, but its the time The Beating Retreat happening out here. Well, every year when the rains are about to stop, they do it in style, by rumbling clouds with a light drizzle of rains, making the atmosphere just like in any small hill station. Evenings are right from postcards, with yellow tinge to the surrounding, lovely to spend them in the terrace, with a good book. I recall having a similar chapter describing the rains in the city in my ninth grade or so.

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For the regular readers, heres the regular dose of "Rick Rants". This time, I was with one of my friends, giving me a lift home, stays a few buildings away from me. Well half the way we saw the meter running at one change per 10 seconds and then one change per 5 seconds !! My friend got the chills and his face started turning pale. He started the pre-negotiation about the fare, and started giving the rick driver all the validations of him not paying more than what it costs everyday. The rick guy just gave him one answer "the spring must have failed", on every point he gave, sort of fun watching both argue ;-). Don't know what happened later, forgot to ask.

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My computer is working fine now. Finally got the RAM upgraded, or rather added would be an appropriated word, it was 128 before, now, after adding 256, its an odd figure of 384 MB, ever heard of 384 RAM before? Well I didn't feel like investing more on a 6 year old Pentium 4 machine.

My Lists

noreply@blogger.com (Pushkar Sheth) — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 07:02:00 +0000

Vehicle, Location, Terrain, Music, Year

Mitsubishi Lancer, Mumbai-Gujerat National Highway, Hills-straight road, Khamoshi OST, 1997
Bus, Bhandardara, Hilly, Dil se OST, 1997
Toyata Qualis, Mahabaleshwar, Mountainous, Main Hoon Naa OST, 2004
Bus (so called Volvo), Mumbai Pune Expressway, Hills and tunnels, Dil Chahta Hai OST, 2004
Tata Indigo, Mount Abu - Rajasthan, Hills and desert, Fanaa OST, 2006

In every vacation, there are these four variables (we can have two vacations in a year), and they become markers for the music we listen to in that trip and the vehicle we travel in. The list above shows all that. Now the next time I listen to Dil se, it reminds me of Bhandardara, or when i listen to Fanaa, it seems I am sitting in an Indigo !
Well for one of the list, the preferred vehicle would be a Mercedes SL convertible, and the destination....Goa?
Never been to Goa.
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* the year signifies that of the trip and not of the movie release.

How to Get Rich - Donald Trump

noreply@blogger.com (Pushkar Sheth) — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 05:51:00 +0000

Don't expect this book to give you solid, proven by time tips for your business, you have to be a real businessman to recognize where the tip is. After reading two books by Donald Trump, it seems that the man would have been a very good blogger (an he does blog !). His book is not more than candid discussions of how he dealt with people, and how people dealt back to him, more so how to deal with the business you want from them, not precisely at that moment it self, but to recognize in what business the person can help, in the near future. An isolated incident in college gave me two minds on whether should I help people in some work assigned to them, if the person comes to me for help? Well Trump helps raise charity for people he doesn't know, and I talked to Dad about the same, I know he helps his subordinates and colleagues for their work, he told me helping is not bad, then why should some one not be given help? Getting back to Trump, the book has a chapter in which he writes about one typical week in his life, which can give a clear view of how many things one must remember to do if one wants flawless business, flawless life (read: dad, husband, friend, entrepreneur) , and flawless money influx !
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Finished How to Get Rich in 6 hours - record time for a non book reader (me).

Expand to solve

noreply@blogger.com (Pushkar Sheth) — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 09:06:00 +0000

you people might have come across an email which shows a scanned copy of a kids math paper which says the following:

Expand:
(a+b)ⁿ
( a + b ) ⁿ
( a + b ) ⁿ
etc....

well, the mathematics wizard of my class came across this email and he was so happy with the kids theory that he started showing it to everyone in the lab, and all of us started popping out our own theories of how this happen, new time pass protocols came up: "arre etc end me aana chahiye". The obvious response from people was "Yeh bechare pagal ho gaye hai". The lab in which we did all this anti-mathematic-activities...? It is labelled as the "Finite Element Analysis" Lab.
Not much happen this week, worth bloggable. The computer is still stammering even after I formatted the drive, changed the operating system, tried all, tired.

...And, we are back !!

noreply@blogger.com (Pushkar Sheth) — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 04:30:00 +0000

I ain't stopped blogging, Monday evening, my RAM sort of crashed and went into a flashback mode, it didn't recognize any software installed after 2004, it didn't even recognize the cd-writer and printer. Well had to do all the computer related work at the college computer, where I don't dare to login to my primary id. And also, dunnno whats wrong with the college administrator, he banned people from opening Gmail in the browsers, disallowed downloading zip and exe files, only thing allowed was yahoo, and i don't understand from which world the administrator hails.

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I am seriously thinking of changing my blog title to "Rick Rants", and this will be the third time i write about my rickshaw perils. It was Saturday morning 11:15, had to go to the British Council, South of the city, with one of my friends, as i got off my building, and was reaching the gates, a rickshaw driver stopped right in front of the gates, and i got into it in a hurry, without seeing what was inside, a few seconds later, I found out that the rick was used in the morning by fisher-women to deliver their goods, double uurrgh, the floor of the rick was with some sticky goo, and the seats stinked of you know what, and it may have happened to any one of you, who live near or within a 1 km perimeter of the sea coast. I was having bad thoughts of the Council guards kicking me out because of suspicious smells, and the traffic fumes were making the chemistry even worse, i wanted to get out of the hell yaar.

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Will get my computer fixed this week (am at a cousins place), till then ciao !!

The Perfect Sunday Start

noreply@blogger.com (Pushkar Sheth) — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 17:46:00 +0000

Today has been the most perfectly spent morning I had in weeks, set an alarm last night for 6:30 but got up at 6:10, had a shave and a bath before any one else in the house did, and waited for Mom and Dad to get up, didn't bother to wake them up, t'was Sunday yaar! Picked up the news paper and went through, stopped by the window to have a look, don't remember after how many days i looked out of that window for such a long time, its been months ! Breakfast on Sundays is a treat with mom's trademark onion poha (puffed rice flakes), I name them "Sunday Poha" cause of its bright yellow colour which comes from the turmeric, will post the recipe later this week. So it was Sunday Poha with a cup of tea. The tea seems very sweet than the other days, not because its sunday and mom puts 3 instead of the regular 1 spoon sugar, nothing like that ;-) , but because of the onion combination built-up in the mouth and then a small sip of tea which makes its astoundingly sweet. Awesome breakfast, perfect start for the day !!
Have a BIG "small" test on Wednesday, see ya then!!

Auto Mobile Etiquette

noreply@blogger.com (Pushkar Sheth) — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 13:26:00 +0000

Was returning from college today, in an auto-rickshaw. On the way the driver suddenly pulled over to the side of the road, i knew it was a normal thing, they adjust something from below the seat, but this time, it wasn't this thingy. He paused after stopping the rick gently and picked something from his shirt pocket, and a desi ring tone started to get audible as he removed it from his pocket (this too gently, we are talking about a quasi static process here !!). Well its to be assumed that he started to talk, in some extremely difficult to catch up language (forget the accent), the call lasted for 3 minutes, for one minute general talks went on, but in the last two minites he was saying just one thing to the opposite guy: "e baat bhaiyya ko mat bolnaa", must have said it almost 20-30 times, in different pitches, volumes, and emotions !! Finally i was getting bugged and told him: "a bhai, koi tarika hota hai", at that moment he dumped the phone into his pocket, and kicked to start.
Just guess which phone he had, he was carrying a Nokia 7610 !!

Simple Pleasures of Life

noreply@blogger.com (Pushkar Sheth) — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 15:29:00 +0000

Yes today its Janmashtmi, celebrating the birth of Lord Krishna.
This is a pic from outside Andheri Station.

Pleasure for them:Breaking the Handi.
Pleasure for me: Seeing the Handi Break.
There are some things money can't buy,
for every thing else there is Mustard Card !!

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Photo Courtesy: Shaishavi Kadakia
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