Days of my life!!

It's only in Hindi movies, that our Hero - an army commando, is given a new mission by the Police Commissioner!! .....or atleast by a gentleman who is dressed like a Police Commissioner of some city. Also, it's only possible in our world famous cinema that the enemy country is nothing but a table top mountain surrounded on all four sides by India!! Here is a scene from the movie: ------------------------------------------------ Commissioner : 'Only you can fulfill this mission - Your task is to enter the enemy territory and destroy them in their own backyard.' Hero : 'Don't worry sir...it will be done.' They then move into a dark room and a slide show begins. Commissioner : (pointing to the table top enemy country) 'Getting there will be your biggest issue. Going there by Helicopter is too dangerous and the only other way is through the cable car, where there is a lot of security' Hero : 'Hmmm' Commissioner : 'How to get there is your loo...

For the first six months, since moving into my New Thippasandra residence, we had been trying to de-bug the full form of a hotel that simply went by the name B.F.C A small hotel by the side of the road leading from Kagadaspura to Mallesh Pallya, had a logo that got quite close to resembling the famous KFC logo, with that weird looking bearded gentlemen. The difference being that in the BFC logo, that gentleman was replaced by the head of a Rooster. Apart from the logo, they also served a special menu comprising of 'ZinZZer' burger (which is again similar to the patented burger of a similar name) along side the regular Chinese and Tandoori dishes. Whatever the case, we liked the taste and the quantity of the food and hence, we frequented that place on a weekly basis for a sole purpose, as Nishat defines it - ' Murgi phadne!! ' Yesterday too, Nishat and me went there to have a 'light' dinner, which for me would consist of a soup and full 'chicken tikka' b...

There was a test match that was once played between India and Australia, at the M Chinnaswamy stadium in Bangalore. I don't know much about the score and all, but I do remember that Anil Kumble was at the crease, batting with Sachin Tendulkar at the other end. Kumble batted a long innings and was on 39. Sachin, took a single of McGrath and gave Kumble the strike. Kumble, played the next ball towards sweeper cover, ran the single and on reaching the other end lifted his bat to the crowd. He was literally celebrating and a big majority of the crowd in Bangalore stood up and cheered. Even the giant scoreboard started flashing the sign - Congratulations Anil Kumble on scoring 40!! Sachin at the other end, was confused. He looked to the dressing room and saw the same confused look in the eyes of his teammates. This wasn't even Kumble's highest score!! Some aussie fielders came up to Sachin and asked him what was going on with Kumble. So, Sachin went up to Kumble and asked him, ...

Now that the weekend is finally coming to a close, I can gladly declare that I was successful in restraining full control over myself. I was able to control the desire....the urge. It was really really tempting, but somehow, I have managed to scrape through and come clean. This was all caused by the onset of the Ganpati festival. Even touching wasn't allowed!! I am a guy baba ....this craving comes naturally to us!!.....and it was all over the place. Whenever I closed my eyes, whenever I switched on the TV - it was right there. But now that it is over, I can boast about my self-control and my patience. I did not succumb to my desires. Yessss!!! Phew ....bloody hell.....I must say here that surviving the entire weekend without non-veg food is too damn difficult!!

Sheetal, a girl who works in a famous software company, here in Bangalore, comes back to her PG late in the evening, totally frustrated. She picks up her phone and calls her boy-friend. The conversation goes something like this: 'Hello......Where the hell have you been?....Why did you take so much time to pick my call??' 'Ehh....' 'What ehh.....I don't want to hear any of your stupid bahanas . Do you even know how frustrated I am today??....It's 11pm. I have just got back to my room. I didn't even have proper dinner. That stupid meeting went on till 10pm.....and we were given only biscuits during the call!!' 'Ehh...what are you saying?' 'What am I saying??.....What can I say??....There is nothing left for me to say. You never allow me to say anything in the first place!!. Even my stupid manager, doesn't let us talk during the meeting. Only he keeps on talking - blah blah blah!!.......What am I saying!....Arey, if I speak two words, pe...

When you play corporate level cricket, like I do, every now and then, you tend to come across oppositions who aren't that great. On such occasions, you will find the captain toss the ball into the hands of the lesser known, non-regular bowlers to ensure that the opponents atleast score a decent amount of runs for the batsmen to chase. It's only on such occasions that I find myself bowling. Yesterday, our captain's intentions were certainly clear when Anil was asked to bowl the 3rd over and I was called on to bowl the 9th - we had to let the batsmen make some runs. (Ok, before moving on, I must state here that this blog is a reality unlike my 'DELLdrums' blog......so please read on) Twice, I have played on the Railways Ground and twice we have faced opposition that havn't been quite upto the mark. On my first outing, I saw myself giving away 40 runs in the allotted 3 overs, for no wickets. This time around the statistics were better.....only slightly. So, my qu...

Something new happened yesterday, something not very common in the history of my company. All the engineers working on a specific project were called into a room and given a program level update. It was basically a follow-up on a 3 day customer visit, termed as 'De-briefing', where the acting Program Manager, SK, spoke about the good and the bad points that came out of the visit. It was good in lot of ways, but there were a few specific sentence that caught my attention and this blog is all about that. The current project that I am working on, offers a 'first time' on lot of avenues and two of them being: - It's the first time that we are working with a company, from a Far Eastern country. - It's the first time that they are working with an Indian company, or any outsider for that matter. Hence, in such cases, correct communication takes top priority. To stress the point, SK talked about an important aspect of Human behaviour. Whenever two people, especially str...