Im almost there....(again)

Im almost getting there, I think Im just that much closer to start blogging again(not like I did blog in a very big way earlier,but still..)
Looks like the Diwali spirit is really getting to me!! :)

More about Jaani Dushman-it actually has CREDITS!

According to IMDB, Jaani Dushman-Ek Anokhi Kahani actually has screenplay credits. Somebody called Naveen Bhandari along with Rajkumar Kohli are credited for the screenplay of this awesome EPIC.

I'd love to be around them listening in on their dinner time conversations, for SURE!

 

Where there is a Traffic Jam.......somewhere in the vicinity is a bunch of COPS!!

I know the roads have been getting worse by the day,now we've reached a point where there is no road anymore. You dont even know what surface you're riding/driving on,but u at least got from place A to place B(althought you might've intended to reach place F,but you at least get to B) in a certain period of time.
For example,however bad the roads were,I always reached office or got back from office in about 20 minutes plus or minus 5.Thats 11 km's in about 20 minutes,which I dont think is so bad after all,considering i take the "peeche ka rasta" which I mentioned in my earlier post.
But off late,after the recent raves and rants about the roads n the traffic jams its been taking me even LONGER to get to office.
Nope,the reasons not coz the roads have gotten worse,trust me they can't possibly get worse.If any more road gets eroded,Im sure we'll find the remains of some ancient civilization somewhere.
Alright,so after those "raves and rants" about the road,the solution that the government could come up with,or at least an attempt at a solution,was to have COPS,yeah,you read that right,COPS AT EVERY FUCKING TRAFFIC INFESTED JUNCTION!!
HOW DOES THAT SOLVE THE PROBLEM???Ever since these pot bellied,White n Khaki(yup,even the women) creatures have been deployed at every junction,the traffic in the city has gone MAD.Its just reached a whole new level of Lunacy.
These guys have ABSOLUTELY no idea of whats going on or what needs to be done.Their easiest solution is to divert traffic in particular directions which aren't so packed,but little do they realise that EVERY COP IN PUNE has the same idea,so that road becomes even worse than any of the normal roads.
They stop traffic even if the signal is in their favour to let some HUGE ASS Tanker or Truck or something Monstrous to pass by,n then the entire traffic sits trailing it coz the road's not wide enough to overtake.
I actually saw this happen last evening when it took me one n a half hour to scale those 11 km's... all 4 cops at all 4 roads meeting at the "chowk" were all directing traffic in 4 opposite directions,so basically everyone was stationary at the same time n everyone was in motion also at the same time,only till they reached the middle of the "chowk",where again there were fights as to whose right of way it was.
If I wasn't part of that traffic jam,I'm sure id be laughing my BALLS off at the sight.
I know there have been several suggestions as to what can be done to improve the traffic situation in Pune,but I sincerely think we need to get RID of these Cops FIRST.

This is what bad days are made up of.....

Today was the first time in a long long time when i actually just didn't feel like getting out of bed n if it weren't for my bloody conscience I probably would've been sleeping till now n that really really wouldn't have been such a bad thing after all.
I got up late,(actually contemplated getting up for a long long time before i eventually did) but managed to hurry up all my morning jobs ie The Triple S(Shit Shower Shave)in good time n set off to work like on any other NORMAL day.But Normal was the last thing i should've expected.
I got onto my bike,got out of the building only to realise that i had a flat tyre.Being to lazy to wheel it over to the local tyre 'wallah' i decided to ride it there thinking it wouldn't make much of a difference.
Got there,got it inspected n apparantly my tube was beyond repair.Realised it was time to get fleeced n willingly submitted myself to whatever exorbitant amount of money he'd want to put in some fake duplicate tube so i could at least get to work on time.
Thankfully,i thought to myself,there's an ATM right next door at E-Square,so money wasn't an issue.
But apparantly it was,the guard at the ATM told me that the ATM was out of order due to some uplink problems. Brilliant,i thought to myself. So I called up my roomie,who thankfully was awake and also had just about enough money to help me pay for the tube. So I paid the guy off, insisted he give me a receipt for the tube since he was giving me a 6 month guarantee for the tube n headed off,already about an hour late. This left me with exactly 10 rupees in my wallet.
Well the next part is quite predictable,got stuck in typical morning traffic,so thought id do something smart n go from the "peeche ka rasta" since it would be less crowded n barely any traffic.
But desolate roads also mean there're no PETROL PUMPS ON THEM. Yup,you guessed it right,about 4 km's ahead my bike decides to start sputterring and coughing.
No petrol pump(gas station for you ignorant Americans or wannabe Americans) for another 4 km's ahead.
There was no chance in hell i was gonna wheel my bike for those 4 km's and anyway i had only 10 rupees with me.
Just then i dont know what happened,whether God decided that i'd had enough of whether lady luck finally decided to take some pity on me,i spotted this bootlegger,yup you read that right,a bootlegger selling petrol out of cans on the side of the road.
I actually had the balls to go n ask him if he could give me ten rupees of petrol,he laughed,scoffed n even refused saying what the hell I was gonna do with a "few drops" of petrol but finally,after a lot of begging,pleading and in the end demanding he did break n let me have that TEN RUPEES OF PETROL.Trust me I've never seen less petrol in my life.Its almost a joke.If it wasn't me id be laughing my balls of at even the thought of buying ten rupees of petrol.
But that was enough to take me to the nearest Petrol Pump.I reach there n what do i see?A line!!You know,in India,you seriously have to stand in a line for EVERYTHING.Like from using the rest room to getting a birth certificate.Anyway.. this line was massive.One single pump n a 4 row line.Thankfully this pump accepted cards.
I waited my turn in the line,saw people cutting the line,going ahead of me,fighting to maintain their place in the line as if it were a matter of life n death,n very unlike me,i just watched silently,almost as if I'd resigned to my fate.
Then when my turn came,I 'filled her up' n gave the guy operating the pump my card.How the HELL am I supposed to know that there's just one guy operating the entire station??
So this same guy who's been filling petrol since God alone knows when,goes in to swipe my card n everyone waiting in line starts abusing me n giving me glares.Again,very unlike me,without reacting,I just went ahead,signed the bloody slip and left.
All in all,pretty much a PERFECT morning!

Im Back

I haven't really had time,and even more,the inclination to Update my Blog after my First Post,for the simple reason that I'm positively sick of a Computer Screen after an entire day's work.
But now that the work load has kind of reduced,only for the time being,i hope to be blogging more often.
So you guys are gonna be hearing a lot more from now, whether you like it or not!! :P

The TV Serial MEME - by THE KOBRA(aka Pethe)

// Comedy - Sitcoms - etc
Favorite Comedy (Hindi) : Hum Paanch-hilarious-especially when the
photograph of a dead person on the wall starts talking to you.
Favorite Comedy (English) (FRIENDS not Allowed ;) ) : Without doubt
has to be MASH or even Frasier.Then take all the brit comedies...
randomly shuffle them in whatever order you want n there you have a
list.Really dont have favourites there,they're all great!

// Soaps Reality Action etc etc
Favorite Show (Hindi): Does the news at 9 on NDTV India qualify?If
not then i really dont know... its been a long long time since the
entry of Satellite TV in my life and i really hardly even remember TV
life before that!I tried to forget that part of my life asap!
Favorite Show (English): Wonder Years

Favorite Cartoon(s)
Simpsons,MOLU(really! sab ka dil behla ne wala MOLU MOLU MOLU),All
time favourite-Tom and Jerry,Southpark!!Johnny Quest,Swat Cats!

//Movie time
Favorite Hollywood Movie seen on TV only (Be honest) : Shawshank
Redemption,Mystic River,Forest Gump,THE USUAL SUSPECTS!(damn how'd i
miss that in the theatres)
Favorite Bollywood Movie seen on TV only (Be honest) : Andaaz Apna
Apna, Jaani Dushman(well i've seen it say 7 times on TV n only twice
in the theatre,so theatre doesn't even count)

Favorite DD program (National or regional) (Chitrahaar excluded) :
Mohinder(Jimmy) Amarnath and Krish Shrikanth before,during and after
every match played in India.You have to love to hate them,they're
absolutely hilarious.

Most Enjoyed Sport on TV : Football(Soccer for you ignorant Americans)

Favorite News Anchor : Rajat Kapoor (and the clover leaf bridge behind
him),good old Pranoy Roy and for news with the 'pizzaz' and 'glamour'
thats so needed to sell news now a days: take your pick of anyone on
NDTV.They're all equally bad/good.
Favorite Talk Show anchor/hostess : Conan! Vir Sanghvi in India.

//Extra
Your Wishes/ opininons about the following channel groups (At least 2) :

Star Movies, HBO, Zee Studio: Friday Night Fury on Star Movies
rocks!Best example of Bad dubbing EVER!

Cartoon Network, POGO, Nickelodeon: Cartoons in Hindi just DO NOT seem
to appeal to me.Unless they were designed to be in Hindi

Discovery Channel, Travel n Living Animal Planet, History, NGC:
History : Diana Hayden Sucks,she's not even good looking. Travel n
Living : BIKER BUILD OF & AMERICAN CHOPPER!!!NEED I SAY MORE?

Channel [V], MTV, ETC, ZeeMusic: VH1 is the way to go boys!

Star World, Zee Cafe, Hallmark: Hallmark??The same stupid channel with
the Rolex Logo?Never seen it,but seen Hugh Grant on it while flipping
channels,so it should be bad.
Star World n Zee Cafe : Only exposure to American n Brit sitcoms till
the recent onslaught of Broadband internet for almost free!

Sports: DD SPORTS!!I've seen some absolutely unheard of sports on that
channel and they even show the world kabaddi and kho kho
championships!

Others:DD Podhigai?DD Kairali?Is that what your definition of others
is?Or is it those fat ammas dancing with their huge thunder thighs on
your screen in the middle of the night on one of those regional
channels while you're flipping channels just before you sleep, n then
after you see them you just CANT sleep!Thats why i believe in tuning
my TV intelligently!Hence the famous Chinese saying : TV with 30
channles only prevents nightmares!

Welcome to the Machine!!

Ok, its been long enough n i guess i have finally succumbed to the "temptation"(?????) n jumped onto the Blog Bandwagon.
It took me a really long time to get a blog name that wasn't already taken,hence the extremely cheesy "pigs on the swing" title. Im sorry about that, I Apologize! ;P
So Welcome to the Machine everyone!

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