Diwali 2006

Hi Folks,

Hope every one had a bash this diwali... I too indeed had a good time with my family and frends. I went to chennai , spent some good time and came back on sunday night. But in this post I am not going to talk about that. I just wanted to mention some funny incidents(or rather I felt they were funny) ,similar incidents which you may also wish to post.

I could not get a to ticket to chennai so I boarded a bus to hosur from where i happened to get a ticket in TNSTC for chennai. I boarded the bus at 1.45 p.m. Bus as they said would start by 2.30 p.m. Just to spend the time I started gazing here and there.

I saw a guy and his associates carrying a bag full of some clothes. They came into my bus. His associates took some vacant seats. After some time, this guy comes in and starts shouting saying he has a shawl in his hand(he had one shawl) and it was some kashmir shawl(i know its not ) and its rela worth is 475 Rs and he is putting an auction for that and starting price is 5 Rs(yes FIVE Rupees), then one of his associates started saying 5, another said 20 and until they said 140 Rs and no one else was willing to buy a shawl, he sold his shawl to one associate who quoted 140 Rs. Then he took a shirt-pant cloth piece and again started the same trick. This time someone in the crowd quoted 80 Rs and the piece was sold to that guy. This happened 4-5 times ,2 items were brought by his own ppl and remaining 3 were bought by real customers. I instantly remembered the Surya of Pithamagam movie. His slang,his looks and the way he sold things, the wordings everything were so similar to that of Surya's role- I felt like watching that scene of the movie where surya sells some items in a train.

On the return journey I had a boarded a deluxe bus from the TNSTC again. I had paid 156 Rs initially for the fare when I booked the tickets. The conductor who stood before the bus was selling additional 3 Rs tickets to all those who have booked the ticket before hand saying the price has gone up. Then I got into the Seat, which were supposed to be push backs. But the back of the seat were so loose that there was no need for a push back. Most of the seats just hit the back seater's knee caps. I felt irritated by this through out my journey and i thought they are just worth the tickets money. The best part was that we also had a Ticket conductor coming and checking for tickets at around 1.30 a.M in the morning , and by that time I lost my sleep and had to come to office after spending a nearly sleepless night.

Some thought provoking or rather not so statements...

Some quotes u dont wanna miss.....

"We will argue that he can not be hung merely on the grounds that his execution will satisfy the collective conscience of the nation" - Nandita Haksar On Afzals execution (Has she lost her conscience).

"My mom and dad are used to blank calls at odd hours at home. In fact if I don't get attention I feel I am not good looking any more" - Riya Sen
"I still haven't got what I really deserve. If I want to I could sign three solo lead movies every single day" - Riya Sen again (Is anyone listening)

"I dont like to be compared with Amitabh Bachan .... I mean he does not like to be compared to some one like me ... I mean i dont like to be compared to some junior artiste"--- Shah Rukh Khan on his movie Don (he is a meany guy indeed)

So perhaps Don was perhaps the "only caper movie ever made in this country" that had no other emotions at all. None of the 'Hindustani' requirements were present at all and yet the film did well - Farhan Akhtar again on the movie Don(read line in quotes "only caper movie ever made in this country"- Well wat he means by a caper movie)

"Pakistanis having to take my permission before stepping out of the hotel; what more can one ask for?" -Colonel Anil Kaul-Security in Charge-Pakistan cricket team in India - (Perhaps we wud ask for one victory)

"Welcome to the real world. It sucks. You're gonna love it!" -Monica To Rachel in the hit serial Friends

Newer Beta version

Hi folks,

Am juzz tryin to update my blog to the beta version of blogger .The following are the obvious differences which are visible. The view blog link opens the blog page in the current browser itself. The templates are similar to what was offered in the opriginal blogger site.The tabs are all the same. And yes we can customise in the Adsense(if applicable) in a much better manner i guess. Some small functional changes are visible in the edit the posts page also.There are some post options when u create a new post. And there is one label text box...It is said in the site that they are gonna have more changes .Hope it will give a good blogging experience...

rgds,
Sriram