Thursday, September 30, 2010

No Title

Just when I started to think that my will to express is completely lost, I am inspired again, to write. My thoughts have been drifting aimlessly and it has become very hard to get something good out of it. Its not that I do any better job with a stable mind. I heard some one say that all we need is a bit of insanity to keep ourselves sane in this world. I guess I have stocked up enough madness and I am ready to hit back.

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

A Time for Hatred

I don't discriminate between people, I hate them all equally.

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Nothing Special About It

As a kid and when you are growing up there are things that you look forward to, because these were not available throughout the year. They were either seasonal or available only on occasions or available only at certain places.
The first that comes to the mind are crackers, Oh how we used to wait all the year for Diwali to arrive, the wait for dad to come home with a list where in you get to select the crackers you want for that Diwali, then wait for the crackers to actually arrive, then lay them out in the sun the day before Diwali in the hope that we will get an extra bang out of them.
There are others that we used to wait for Kites (not the Hrithik Roshan Movie), Holi, Haleem, Mangoes, Watermelons, lassi (Not the regular one).
Why were these special?
These were special because its not everyday and everywhere that you get them and it was fun to wait for them before the jerks trying to make more bucks out of them made them available everywhere all through the year. Now there is no wait, you want it you get. No fun in that, nothing "special" about that. Maybe that is the reason I keep losing interest in these things.
Crackers are used almost everyday and every damn occasion, even the colours used during Holi are used every where, mangoes and watermelon are available all through the year and now its haleem that is suffering the same state.
The one very special item that has been beaten to death was "Hyderabadi Biryani". It is not prepared anywhere not in Hyderabad, not in India, nowhere, the thing they prepare these days is briyani but not Hyderabadi biryani. How do I know? i know because I have eaten it. In my college days we used to sneak out of the house at midnight and go to "Parwaaz" or "Azeezia" or "Astoria", occasional "paradise" or "bawarchi" and feast on this special dish.
Again thanks to all those greedy morons who can't think beyond making more money, the very specialty of the dish is ruined and turned into a regular everyday dish.
Thank you all for taking the fun and special moments out of my life and turning them into regular stuff.

Thursday, September 09, 2010

100

So we have reached the 100 mark. It could have happened much sooner but hey, it will happen when it has to happen.
The latest mantra for me is to live a credit free life. I have not used credit cards for the past four months and I would like to keep it that way. This was my first step towards a CFL. The next step is to save enough and clear off my car and house loans in the next two years.
Two months into it and I had to replace my cars break pads which costed me, "A Lot" and my TV that has been in good working condition over the past ten year goes boom and I had to go and buy an LED TV. I literally lived the Quote, "Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is, we will go find it".
The very next day my modem/router goes Kaboom.. and I had to replace it with an advanced and pricier version.
Then it was the turn of the Wireless Keyboard and at this point I was like is that the best you can do, come on... Hit me, Hit me hard because, I am going to survive, I am still going to save all that money to clear off my loans.
The best part is that I still managed to stay on the schedule for clearing loans even after incurring these additional expenses.