Dad

    Nothing feels better that when you prove your father wrong.   My father is an IITian, and has always been an idealist all his life.  he is very pragmatic and has achieved a lot from his humble beginnings.  Only after i grew up and saw the harshness of the real world , i started to understand him.  After all he is a human with strengths and weaknesses too. Discovering your fathers's weaknesses is not a joy at all   .  But in an attempt of doing so you you discover what has been the thought process of your own existence. We all our an attempt of our parents. most of the time a failure of your parent's dream.   

Friends or Foes

My Dad says -  do not make friends.  they are of no use.  

Lately i have come across some unusual friends.  I have an uncanny habit of making a lot of friends.  But every friend leaves a mark on my thoughts and probably in many ways that i can think of today.      In my unending appetite for sports, i made some friends lately and few are even 10 years younger than me.  These guys are full of energy and i see them really knowledgeable on worldly matters , but they remind me of my past.  Sometime scary. So here is how i see all of them,

1) New friend (owner of a uptown 5000 Sq feet villa , in a posh locality). He is a really busy man.   he is my running friend.

2) India under 18, rank3 swimmer.  high IQ individual.  I call him overgrown brains. he is my swimming buddy.

3) 10 year younger, hyperactive . stay foolish stay hungry kind of a guy.  he wants to be my food buddy.  So today we decided that every weekend we will go out and test new restaurants and new cuisines. Now i would love to have a woman in this role.   what the heck.  till the woman comes in my life.  he is my food buddy.

Other friends i can think of

4) Drink buddy-  this guy prefers to go out with me for movies, drinking and dining. He even ditches his GF for that.  now what is making him do that.  I can tell one thing.  he runs away for those women,  But he gets lots of attention from opposite sex.  but he does not do anything about it. crazy.

5) Chuddy Buddies-  my school time friends who happen to be in the same city as i am.  They are always open for get together.  These days they have been keeping busy with taking care of their wives and producing kids.

I need to  touch base with my tennis and my  football buddies . I just 2 days in the weekends.  Limited hours, limited energy.  hey by the way i bought a guitar this week.   So I will be keeping really busy from now on.     Oh I need to study for my GMAT too.

Out of Gym again. : '(

  Gyming or lets say bodybuilding is a science. Just for the record, i was good in science in school days.  Lately i have realized that it is all about recovery.  The faster you recover the better muscles you make and faster you get them.  You should supplement your body with anything that makes the recovery faster. Sleep is one of them.  You see babies growing so fast.  So probably they build muscles faster because then sleep a lot.  I have read that the most of the babies muscles are not made in the gym but rather when one sleeps.  So a good reason to sleep more .  by the way i love afternoon power naps.  I can do anything to have one of those.  I have even heard in kolkata , all shops are closed after lunch for few hours.

  

I bought this today.  It works.

http://www.philips.co.in/c/nose-ear-trimmer/15467/cat/

Auto Wala in Bangalore

     I am not a politician, nor am I a spiritual person or a religious fundamentalist. . My comments are purely based on  my observations around me and my time. I have not heard it from anyone and they are my first hand experiences.  I have not read any Islamic books nor i have many muslim friends.  The below pics is fictitious.

   Travelling in Bangalore in Auto Riksha has it caveats. You can improve your negotiation skill and also discover new depth  humans can stoop to. You are not surprised to see autoriksha drivers asking, begging, demanding for extra money, sometimes double for their fairs. But i have observed that Muslim auto walas do not do that.  Why ?? Don't they live in the same misery as their counterparts.  They have probably equal number of mouths to feed.   I have seen so many of such instances , that Muslim autowalas not charging extra .  I believe in them so much that nowadays if i travel in auto , i wish i get a Muslim autowala.

Yesterday i lost my HTC Mozart ( worth Rs 30,000) in the auto and was depressed for most of the weekend.  I even tried to cheer myself by looking for a new phone.  I chose HTC Titan :).  But back of the mind i always had an intuition , that the autowala will come and return my phone.  I kept my colony gatekeepers informed that you might see an autowalal come with a phone.   But what the heck.  Probability of getting my smart phone back was 1 in 100.  My reason for hope was because the autowala was Muslim.  And guess what i got the phone back.  The driver used my Sim and contacted my friend and eventually my phone was with me.   Can you believe my Luck. I will send sweets to him on the occasion of Eid.

My thoughts on it.....  No religion teaches to cheat others.  Why do i see only Muslim drivers so honest.  Religious belief , ritual, teaching have actually social , ecenomic, political , terrestial  reasons behind it. What i mean is that all throughout the past centuries, religion was a way to solve social, economic and political issues.

  Like, my mother tell me not to whistle in night. Now she say that it will bring bad luck.   Not sure if it is superstition or one of such  hindu religious belief that 21 century person cannot relate to.   What is think is that Indian for most part was a jungle. In a jungle there are many nocturnal animals roaming around and whistling can attract them.  You see , probably this practice came from there.

Muslims were primarily from middle east regions and those areas are really Arid.  Now one of the most nutritious food around there was dates.  So obviously having dates is important for people in those areas. Now this is what is think.. the priest saw that importance of dates should spread for the right reason.  Somehow this practice got include in their religious practice.  I now from television that when they break thier fast or in the whole month of Ramzan then eat a lot of dates.

Now this one is really funny.  Why do we use so many flowers and so many milk in a religious rituals. Probably the priests who designed these practices wanted the milkman, farmer with cows and flower man to be in business.

here is one think i found lately. like these days our chief ministers make Software park to generate revenue.  get the local people job and eventually make them happy.  Same way centuries back, Kings in india use to make temples. Temples are like economic zones. This is what i feel. There is so much employment around temples. these days it starts from parking tickets, paying to keep our chappals, buying flower and prasads and ending up with some snacks outside the temple.  See.  if i were a minister,  i will make few temples to keep people busy and happy. 

Will complete later. .....

Why am I so Lazy....

I never wash my clothes.  My maid does for me all these years
I never cook.
I never make my bed after i get up. some else in the house does that when i am away.
I  never wash or polish my car.  i get it done
I am so quick in pointing out when someone throws a bad idea on the table.
I never take a lead in any initiative in office.
I have not tried to go on a date in the last 6 years.  Who will  persuade them. too much work.
I never take part in social events, other than eating.
I do not call my friend and relative to stay in touch .
i do not play music.
I find it lazy to get a VIDEO from the library or maintain a Music collection.
I do not shop for grocery.
I do not buy gifts for others.  Somehow i never have those extra money.
I do not call my grandma.


.... i will start all this after i get married to a pretty girl.

Leadership............................

Refreshing song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUe8uoKdHao&ob=av3e

What is going in my mind right now....

• Need to deliver training to folks from all around the world. Loads of thing to do. Scary. 
• My mother , aunt and grand mother are in town and i would love to spend time with them.
• Need to take tangible steps towards my next career move. 
• I have hurt my back and on a 3 day bed rest.  Missing Gym. 

Laundry list for Seattle Trip

1) Buy an acoustic guitar. I hope they pack it well.
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2) XBOX Kinect for Dad. What do I buy for mom ?
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3) Date with Daniela.
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4) Jaybird bluetooth headset for my gym.

Still thinking...........

Freeks!

It took me a month to change back  the design of this blog.  I find the template a but girly.  Every man has a woman in him too.  lol.  They call it estrogen. 

Boy hair cut

                I have a thing for girls with boy haircut.  I grew up with my younger brother and we had no real sisters.   I have loved my brother's company so much.  And no other person's company has ever replaced it. I was the darkest kid in the school, whick i realized very young.  So all the relatively fairer skin girls never found it interesting to have an chat with me . Courtesy to media of my type in India , the perception of of beuty created is being fair.  This gave me an opportunity to have some really good male friends all my school days and I cannot say i did not have a ball of time those days. Its like i grew up in boy's school.  I can tell after 31 years that I have not enjoyed any woman's company without regrets and string attached.  Either I had some ulterior motives or they had no choice to be with me.  Only becaue of peer presure ( like everyone has a bycle , or every one is playing vedio games) i had to get a girl friend.  After she was officialy my Girl friend, I use to avoid her.  I think my teenage hormones was supppressed infront of such bieng.  A woman.

 I get intimidated with woman who have great womanly feature.  I perceive them as a totally different specie. They do not understand anything what I believe and interested in and if I force my thoughts in them, they then find me boring. So what is with the boy hair cut girls. I think they are tom boyish.  

wiki says 

"""""A tomboy is a girl who exhibits characteristics or behaviors considered typical of the gender role of a boy,[1] including the wearing of typically masculine-oriented clothes and engaging in games and activities that are often physical in nature, and which are considered in many cultures to be the domain of boys. Occasionally, such girls are called tomgirls.""""""

     Do I know any boy haircut girl around.  I have always been attracted to them(like TV personals or someone i did not knew) .  But if I think really hard, I have not known anyone.  I know that my friend’s wife says that she was tom boyish. And me and my friend really like her company.  We can go hours talking to her. I remember, all the woman I was fond of where someone who understood men very well.  Woman who were all girly from top to bottom, i somehow ran away from them. 

  Why do women have boy haircut after all.  Probably they look better in that haircut.  But i fear, since i have not known any girl with a boy hair personally , i think they might also inherit the bad habits of men too.  Like they can be really violent sometimes or they only think about themselves. It could be that they as selfish as men are .  Like my career, my house, my parents, my friends, my freedom, my my my.  Also they can have a lot of courage and dangerously inconsiderate. :)   Men are not like that, but they do can end up doing a lot of things that even other men will be astonished with. 

  So in short, i would love to know some boy hair-cut girl.  Let me know if my-self. 

The Cycle

  So in 3 days , we(me and my dad) now know how it works.  So puffy is a 6 month old baby.  Remember , he has been taken away from her mother at a young age.  So he needs caressing. It works . He loves it.  I was caressing his back and he was enjoying it. Then he simply flipped over and was on his back. Dogs love someone caressing their stomach. I like if someone caresses me anywhere. We all need Human touch or if I put it in other words - we all need to be loved and caressed. enough of Girly talks....

   So Puffy eats, he is full of energy. He then becomes a menace. So at that time we take him out for walk.  3 Km and he is done. After that he is dead meat.  He is just lying around. Peace for us.  They are full of energy in the morning.   We were late by 1 hour for his morning walk( I was just taking a 1 hour extra sleep because of Diwali Holiday) and puffy tore everything he could lay his paws on. The biggest damage was the Flower Vass we have with fake flowers.  It a cycle.  he eats -->> full of energy-->> then we take out for walk--->>then he sleeps--->> then he eats.  and it goes on and one.

            This is the case for human babies too.  I am sure it i more difficult to handle them- cause humans have a bigger brain . you know.  Hats off to all parents who go through this.  I think for newly weds, having a pet if a good pretext for having their own baby one day.  It tests your patience, tests how much responsibility you can take, how much team work you have , how well you manage and strategies.  For Single Men having pets is even better.  After getting experience in clean your pets poos and keeping in clean, single men can learn how to be cleaner, keep things in right  place, start taking responsibility  . Instead of lying around and watch TV, Eat and dream. 

Humping

    Ah! i just need a reason to research.  I am not sure where did i get this habit. Could be from my work, which requires lot of research which primary includes surfing the net and some in house docs.  I research on almost everything.  Bodybuilding, Food place, travel options, electronic, air tickets, medicines. So my this weeks topic is related how to make dog well behaved.  Puffy is really a menace, and i am sure there were many who either overcame this problem or just got use to the problem.  I do not want to do later.  

How to Stop Your Dog From Humping

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTsAJHtJqQc&noredirect=1

This is great. First i like the idea of me playing the alpha dog. I will now arrange for a water spray.  So i will use the spray and in a stern voice say "NOOOO".  Lets see if it works

Relentless

   

    So my first experience with Puffy was an eye opener.  He is 6 months old and all he wants to do is hump my leg.  That shows humping is innate and so natural.  Whats annoying is , puffy needs full time attention. But it is like a baby, he needs to play play play and then sleep.  Full of energy.

    I am not sure what kind of joy do pet owners get.  Puffy was adorable when he was small , but now in 6 month he is a relentless bugging creature. All he wants is bite and hump. Do we feel the same kind of feeling when you have a human baby.  Probably because of the society , we have babies, or because of maternal and paternal hormones  and when you come to face the realities, you regret.  

That's my friend in the background. i am sure he is relieved to leave the dogie with me.  He is asking me to allow puffy to sleep with me in my bed.  I am not what all he will chop off when i am sleeping.  I can be open to anything under the sun bit not sharing my bed with a dog.  I think I need to be hard with puffy.  One prodigious roar should keep him away from me.  I was looking forward to the morning walk that i will have with puffy. .. if he lets me sleep. 

Doggie :)

    One of many desires I had when I was a kid, was to have a doggie. I use to get open resistance from mother , who claimed there were already 3 doggies in the house then why need 4th.. you , your bro and you father.   Now all grown up  macho man(hunk), I tried to reignite the idea in my family and now the reason is who will take care of him when you not there.  Mom says , we are too old and you are never at home.  Another good one I use to get  from them frequently was that in a flat you cannot have a dog muddling around , pets need outdoors, like a lawn.  The real reason is they fear that i will not take any responsibility for the dog after the initial excitement dies of and they would end up clearing his poop .  Parents are always correct and I guess, I believed in them more even at the expense of my desires.  

  Aye Aye, look how fate favored me this time. By the way i believe, that whatever you wish in your life, you end up getting them sooner or later.  You just don't realize it most often that you have got it.  .. My friend and his wife are going for F1 to Delhi.  They now need to keep their 6 months Labrador with me. Probably they feel i would not say no.  Why would i say no....  
Upon making them aware of the fact that my father can be a spoilsport, my friend and wife landed up at my doorstep with the Doggie , just one day before their flight.  I myself was scared how my father would react.  My dad being a good person by heart , could not refuse the couple.  The couple were at their diplomatic charming best. My dad had no chance.  So , it was decided , I have to take up the chore of taking him for a walk in the morning and also clear his poop whenever and wherever it applies. Puffy all confused at his new temporary residence, made himself comfortable.  Me and the couple went to dinner at a nearby Chinese joint,  while we left puffy and my father to get better acquainted.  On my return I could see my poor father's reaction.  Puffy someone liked my father's lungi and wanted more of it(yes my dad wears lungi at home, probably i might too after 20 years).   He happened to litter his evening snaks all over the drawing room as well.  Ok , i am not surprised by all this and till now i did not get affected as well.  What can you expect from a 6 month old dogie. The real test is tomorrow when  I take him for a morning walk.  looking forward to it.  .. I am expecting lots of attention from the ladies.  heeee :)

Lady

New Learning- My dear friend says "Referring to the opposite sex as females is derogatory, you should rather use the word lady" .  

Start

    I am not a linguist,  rather my colleagues say I am bad at writing, I personally feel that my vocab is pure negligence.  But I promise, I will make sure I really mend my ways here.   What I perceive of many other bloggers here, is their infatuation with using good words to showcase their intellect.  They get most of it by being avid readers from an early age.  You start early the better you are.   I was never good in vocab, but i was good in maths.  After 3 decades  of existence , I categorize people in  primarily 2 categories. People who are good in maths and bad in languages, and the other group are vice versa.  People who are good in both are Smart.

  So here I was, sweating it out in my gym.  I had joined it almost 10 months back and had lost 11 kilos and still going strong. I happened to admire this girl in the gym for sometime now.  I tried to find her existence on the internet   All I knew was here first name and probably where she worked.  Courtesy- Juice Man.  I stumbled across her blog and realized she was an excellent blogger. Her blogs had many admirers too. Actually, I was not surprised by her intellect, caused she defiantly looked intellectual. Probably the spectacle gives that perception.  I swept through her pages and somehow enjoyed how she puts beautiful words together. They sound great.  So that is  how the idea of  having my own blog was planted in my brain.  I am not sure if i can sound as interesting as she is, but let me try.