IST -13 part dieux...

The sun's just rising on the world outside...and me has completed me second session of ze night run....two days this time around
Things i've done this time ....read the prologue to The Bonehunters, Erikson's next book online...read George RR Martin's novella Arms of the Craken also online...rereading The Gardens of the moon.....surprise...surprise...not online...and ..Listened to some of me weird muzak...
Exciting moments.....when i got up and walked to the sofa to lie down and doze of....
Challenges faced....how to fit a six foot frame in a five foot sofa....w/o hacking off body parts....and staying awake....failure on both counts me thinks...
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee........

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Made a good living
By dying it's true
As the world in my TV
Leaked onto my shoes
Sleep of no dreaming.......

Things...

Well….let me introduce to a f#$%ing moron….this basturd calls me up yesterday night at 845 from Coimbatore and tells me tht he is coming to bangalore. So I say Oh…this when he decides to tell me that he would like to stay with me till mon. Me being a decent type of chappie (this is when everyone must go right) says fine. The bast then proceeds to ask if I can come to the station to pick him. For the sake of clarity let us name this basturd as Builder. Well, I said no me's got to get to work. The chap then says tht he'll find his way to my place. I say fine. Today morning chap gets lost near me house and finally I go out and meet him and get him home leave for infy coming in 1.5 hours late…All fine….Later in the morning he calls me tells me he wants info on radar and sonar. I tell him I'm not the person to ask. He says you have the net na….search and tell me in the evening…..Now wat I'd like to know is how jobless does the prick think I am…and even I were jobless wat does he think…I'm some sort of slave or something….
Going to have a nice talk with the chappie tonight…..lets see if some blood falls….

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While changing me password today me realised that quite a few of us freaks have now spent around 250 days in our repsective instituitions….we've been busy haven't we….

The Trial..

Have any of you lot ever come across a 324 MB log file? Do you even have any idea how long it takes to load such a file? On me measly P-III 128 MB RAM running 2000 it took all of….25 min to load in notepad…Now that aint the end it of…Guess how long it takes to search for the word "fatal" in this file?....go on…..guess…well it didn't find the word in the file, which I needed to find...me was in great mood I tell….never felt better in me life…..

IST -13

Finally have finished 6 days on the trot of the night shift....don't know what i have achieved by it except screw me life....just to think i was in bombay enjoying my sleep same time last week...now don't think i can even sleep before 4 am...result me waking up in the middle of the day...going to be great fun as i try explaining coming in around midday tomorrow when i'm supposed to be here in the morning.....

PL: Hello, weren't you supposed to be here at 8?
Me: Oh yes...isn't it 8 now...
Pl: No, its 1230
Me: You sure that your watch is not zonked....its either that or me...
Pl: Well we know which one it is then don't we....

Or something like that..

And i really don't get what i was supposed to be there in the nights for....i'm incapable of providing anyone any help regarding the application....whatever problems came....and there were only a few... were handled by the other chap ...me just came in stayed awake in me seat till roundabouts 330 and then dozed off...me never knew that the body can twist and turn so much in a seat...

Lets wait and see what this month throws up...

Nite....

Simple Pleasures

• Going home...
• The colours in the clouds when you are above them and the sun is setting....looks like golden cotton candy that stretches out for miles...
• The sight of the city you know all lit up from the sky and recognising the roads and areas while coming into land
• Travel in a local train at 1045 in the night and its still reasonably full....this while traveling in the opposite direction...something you'll never find on the local transport here after 10...or should i say wat local transport after 10...
• F 1015 K .......not many will get this.....just stand at the door and enjoy the cool breeze as the world rushes by
• Meeting people you want to see (surprisingly, there are a few)

Now that that is all over....back to the grind....and the sleepless nights....

A tale of two shows...

i know thats a corny title......but wat the hell

Wokay two shows.....a world apart...first in infy on fri and the second at Cubbon Park on sat

infy show publicised as "we play everything from metal to pop"....felt it would be dodgy but was a bit bored so went along.....the show had promise bose amps abt....chap who seemed to know how to get the right mix...then the "musicians" themselves come on stage....and the crap starts.....guitarist had probably the worst tone tht i've heard in me life.....even worse than the guy from the band at RAIT last year who just went on and on and on.....vocalist of no ability......they tried with or without u,with arms wide open.and some other shite...basically disgusting. i'd prob take the RAIT guys any day....left before i started tearing me hair out.

Me's been looking for a TAAQ show since i came here. On tuesday me read on gigpad tht phenom will b playing at this thing called Radiocity Live....was curious had a look at the thread..learn that they b opening for TAAQ. i thought ok....we'll try to make it....Passes available accross the city phukat in various shops....i thought i'll go around and collect on sat...they should b available....come sat me go to CCDay nearby and ask for passes....chap tells me sir...passes were out by thur...now me b not very happy.....but tink wat the hell ...lets goto Cubbon Park (which is another Park in the city centre)... i have time to waste....even if i don't get passes i'll pass sometime..

Reach Cubbon Park after some of the normal half understood convos with the bangalore public....show start at 7 reach at 615 there be a good 150 ppl already queued up....me goes to the chap at the gates and ask any passes chap tells me all out b/w 11 and 12 in the morn....but i can prob let you in after 8...i thought fine,lets see. gates open at 645 ppl go in....heres when i see a couple of ppl wearing Radiocity clothing.....decided lets do a bit of bheek-maangofying and see wat happens....them iniatally reluctant...after abt 5 min said go on get in....me happy....go inside....stage set up ...manage to get right next to the barricade... in front there be some 10 rows of chairs for Vip public....the arena itself.....nice....think a clearing the size of SP quad surrounded on three sides by trees....

the place fills up to about 3/4ths full....things start round abt 730....kamina RJ's and some skimpily clad female do the introductions and then phenom takes the stage.....nice band....started of with two originals...then started into covers.....did knockin' on heavens door, DT's surrounded, a souped up version of MJ's beat it (which was interesting), summer song and a few more. Nice originals.....instrumental resurgence which is a lot like Dance of Eternity with similar weird times and unbound which has some nice keyboard and harmony parts towards the end....And man....can the vocalist sing....end of show they finish of with comfortbly numb.....the lead played the end solo awesomely....me thought woooh....ths going to b difficult to beat..
but then...i was wrong....thermal take the stage....bassie in sarong, rythm in pajama and generally looking like a bunch of hippies. They start up with....guess.....Radio ga-ga....They covered two others - owner of a lonely heart and purple haze....all awesome.....tone on purple haze was to die for....Otherwise an all original show....they play something which can possibly be called keeda tech muzak...think floyd and add RHCP and some more weirdosity and you get thermal....i haven't seen warren play, but Bruce Lee Mani is probably the most talented rock musician in India.....does awesome vocals,plays brilliant leads. him be our answer to Gildenlow of PoS i think....I have not seen anyone who has more control over his solos....awesome legato play, hammer-ons,tapping....the works ....just brilliant i tell you....forget abt the rest....its worth good money to just see bruce. Song titles i remember were steal...awesome song where each of the guitarists each sing a verse before some awesome play by bruce, Paperpuli song abt the cynical rock journalists...However for me the high point was the two intsrumentals they ended their show with....one i think called Late other unknown....here you see them literally let lose...pull out evrything and anything...at one point in late the bassie and the two guitarists playing a high speed tapping bit in harmony....fricking awesome i tell you.... end of show end of day....very satisfied.....a good weekend

been rambling on.....so think it be prudent to shut up now....

Bangalore

Wokay, boys and girls after day-before's launch into the bangalore traffic think i must make amends before I am mobbed by ppl around here.

Bangalore is a nice city, if for nothing else just for the weather....Came here right in the middle of winter...didn't feel the chill....winters over...things warming up....do you feel it...yes....does it bother you no....nice breeze keeps blowing about... atleast in the not so congested parts of town.
Also for the number of trees around......goto malleswaram and the main road is actually an avenue...trees on both sides. this south-eastern part of town is abs bullshit but elsewhere its just so green. Last month while i was still staying at me aunts place, on republic day, me grand uncle tells me go see the republic day flower show at Lalbagh (bangalore's answer to lodhi gardens). Me cribbed and more, but was eventually given the boot and told to go....so went sulking. The flower show was fine .....colourful, nice floral arrangements and all. Saw tht and decided to have a walk about.

You don't realise the size of the place tilll you've been there. I went in by the entrance near wilson gardens (i think)....after me roaming me was lost so asked security how to get out...chap tells me MG Road exit....right,Jayanagar exit....left.....Now as far as i know these two places are nowhere near each other....Now....Lalbagh, Its the sort of place where you can probably fit in a few thousand ppl and still find some peace and quite to leave you to your own thoughts. Something like the seafront at after 9 in the night.....sit on the rocks, look at the stars and basically forget abt the world. To have a thing like that in the middle of town is, i personally think, amazing.

Up in the sky

Last weekend me saw some of the most spectacular things me has seen in me life.....way up there with sunset from the mountain top at Panchmarhi (bet a few remember that) and the boat ride thru Sognefjord in norway......

I have a friend from back home who lives just of the edge of the runaway at HAL.
Manmohan Singh was in town to inaugrate something at infy mysore, but tht is a different story...So since he is in town IAF decided to give a free show.....somehow me friend found out....called me over

So i went...this being bangalore takes forever to get from one place to another....reached his place......just as the three LCA's were taxiing on the runaway.....now thts wat i call timing
Anyway the AJT was first on show did some stunts in the air .... trying to impress ppl abt its worthiness for IAF....good...but better was still to come......the three LCA's took off in formation....this seen from a distance of some 200m....man....i'm not n aircraft freak like some ....but still, i tell you tht was just awesome.....the roar of the engines as they be going down the runaway.....now tht was something.....anyway they got in the air, showed off their stuff and flew offf into the distance....

Next up was the Sarang helicopter team.......I never knew that helicopters could do some of the stuff i saw tht day.....u need balls to do some of the stuff they do.....end of show.....got to see the traffic jam on the runaway for all the flights which were grounded during the air show
Went home to me aunt's and was told tht she has complimentary tickets to Aero India.

Next afternoon we leave for yelahanka.....which be somewhere in the wilderness.....got stuck in traffic....missed the first half hour of the thing......got in just as a black aircraft with red wing tips (i think it was a jag or the yank F16) doing some pretty showy flying.....the twists and turns,the vertical 360 etc...next up some tp by a helicopters.....while they b doing this the Su-30 is rolled out.....crowd roars......chap just idling abt on the runaway......could just imagine his boredom looking at the choppers....This fat ugly chopper with twin rotors no tail rotor....kamov-32, i think, was flying abt...seemed to have a radar stuck to its belly. flys past us......this is when you here this massive roar from behind us.....turn and its the sukhoi powering for takeoff.......chaps off and in the air in some 300m maybe......god knows.....was short i'll tell you...seen from just beyond the runaway...was amazing.......once in the air he did his stunts.....involved some major thrust vectoring i think....seemed to be making turns which should not have been possible.....i don't know, at the top of his vertical, the chap just seemed to stop and rotate in his position....this not once, but twice, so don't think it was some error. does a slow speed flyover at some 100m height and dissappeared......some more chopper stunts....dropping of commados and a jeep etc......

next suryakirans were in the air....took off in groups off three groups of three......just as the third batch were up in the air spewing blue smoke, one hears jet noise(I know....) behind me and heres the sukhoi flying at 100m full throttle......eating up the distance between it and the last of the suryakirans.......something like a cheetah after game.....brilliant....chap brakes left just as it seemed he was going to run down the poor things and then landed leaving the skies to the suryakirans.....they did their usual stuff and exited. End of show was with these paratroopers jumping from some 7000 feet. Its one of the things you need to do....when you have the balls to do it. Step out of the safety of a plane and plunge down to your fate....the air rushing past you....the rush must b worth the scare

Was stuck with me cousins or me would have gone to see the static displays. anyway got out satisfied....

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Can't keep my eyes from the circling skies
Tongue-tied and twisted Just an earth-bound misfit, I

Ze Loo....

Now, those of you who are groced by prdp's sense of humour....i suggest you delete this message as soon as possible and disinfect your pcs....

Wats with this place i ask you. You goto the loo settle yourself on the can.....look left and on the toilet paper holder one sees written in big block letters..."have you switched off the lights and your pc monitor in your cubicle before you left your seat". i ask you, is tht the one thing tht is very high up in your mind when you be going to the can.....and if you've forgotten to do so....whether you'd zip up and rush back to the seat to do the needful.....There are Morons in this organization i tell you........

Also wat exactly is toilet humour? What does one do when one meets one's boss in ze loo? You can't say just "How's it going?" can you? Ran into the pl in the loo last week. Was at a complete loss as to how to handle the situation. End result was an awkward silence.....

Don't crib i didn't warn you.........

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I'm not the kind of person you think i am....yeah
I'm not the anti-christ or the ironman....yeah
You're jus a freak......

Weekend

I missed out on an opportunity to change my outlook to life. Benny Hinn was in town over the weekend. He was performing his miracles and all. He had this wonderful effect on the masses even before he arrived. Just made some of them decide lets burn a few vehicles, pelt the odd commuter. Man, i tell you, we should have gone to Yelahanka to see the show.......problably would have seen him flying around like an angel. Or we probably could have had an inquistion type scene.......

Other options,of course were to go see "Ay"....a tamil movie.....the director must have scored 800 in his verbal GRE i think. He conveys somuch through the use of just 1 syllable.........future art film directorme thinks. Him and the one who directed "Engal Anna" by some chance this be a documentary on one we know?

Some of the things i have seen in me journeys (on better way to put it)accross this city:

1. This dude is walking his dogs. Nothing special about that. Only theybe wearing Boot colour sweaters.....Hell, the moron himself walking abtin a t-shirt.....some ppl have there brains in there gonads......oratleast of equivalent size.
2. There be a road here called Sankey Road.At one point, at a bus stop, it be written in big bold letters "SankyRoad". What me is to think of that...........
3. Poster on a post at abus stop: Wanted\n\t\tMale or Female\n\n\t\tContact:XYZ.........
4. The LCA.......some already know this.....but it be a sight i tell you

this is one insane city is all i can say

Rant

WHERE THE F@#$ TO HOUSEOWNERS IN BANGALORE THINK THEYARE............Nariman Point, Malabar Hill???if anyone says bangalore...........i swear i will force you head downa toilet hole and let you to soak in the atmosphere the next time i see you.......

As most of you probably know by now, i have been asked to relocate tobangalore.....actually last fri Pl asks me while i pass by his cabin"What do you think about relocating to bangalore". I told him i'd liketo stay back.........actual words were "there's no option....uhm....noproblem"...he looks at me and says no option? ........and me thinks.........Hell, I digress.this is supposed to be a rant.
Well....seeing that we are going to be here for awhile, we decide to start looking for a place to stay on saturday. Further it being bang and all the things we have heard about the high rents here we decide we'll have a look at PG accomodation. Come saturday ...one starts bright and early at 1030 and goes to BTM (an area close to infy.....close hear being 15km......and just outside town). Get the classified paper....narrow down to a few ads that look reasonable. We reach first place ... ask for PG.......response "Hindi, EnglishGothila" (Gothila means don't know)....Me tries luck asks"Tamil?".....the bloody help there shakes head happilly and me has to converse in me dodgy knowledge of the language and hope some info gets through with the help's dodgy knowledge too. Showed rooms with 4 beds and cupboards in a room wat.....lets say......1/4th the size of the BE classroom. Price quoted ... you won't believe it....blasted Rs.2500......this for a dingy room in a house where some 20 odd ppl stay. We said no....and moved on thinking something better would beavailable........ but no.......this f@#$ing city offers nothingbetter. every1 asks 2 - 2.5 K for basically shite. trudged around till 6 in the evening. by the end of it all we decide balls to the PG.....4 of us will get together and look for a flat

So Sunday comes we leave at 10....move on to koramangala...slightly closer to the city....20 km from infy. Contact this agent.. tell him looking in the range of 6-7k with reasonable deposit.......dude tells us "Sir, Excellent house. Only 5 min away". then proceeds to take us for a good 15 min walk to wat seemd like each and evry by-lane inKoramangal 8th block....and comes tyo this house. Then he goes up this stair ...which if i am going up no1 can come down.....and shows us this flat. Now flat was advt as 2BHK so we thought we'll have some space.......We go in.....in me honest opinion .... the total space there would not be more than 4 cubicles of second floor in B-1.... to the unitiated tht would be abt....200sq ft. the moronical agent then tells us rent 6k, 10 months dep sir........Virtually give him thefinger and goto other places. Similar story elsewhere.....end of dayzilch success......me in one of me better moods...

Anyway........still searching........

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The one decent thing about sunday......finally found a place that reasonably resembles b'bay.........For going to koramangala we went through Majestic........After some searching we reach this mass of crowd going to a subway. on asking are told that subway leads to majestic. the subway has the complete feel of Churchgate subway.....complete with the crowds and the hawkers........

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Frustrated ...not yet.... getting there...yes

B is for........

…….Bangalore
…….Beehive
…….Bullshit

Wokay………. to all those doubters, me is really in Bangalore. Got here on sunday morning. Went to the hotel. Put on the TV and while browsing through channels came to Channel [V] which was showing …… guess wat………some video titled lootela by some freak called Raja……….this remember was at 745am……….and me thinks wat a wonderful start to the stint here…….Anyway spent most of the day sleeping (overnight bus travel is not the most conducive to sleep) and was dragged along to see swades in the evening………End of day one

Day 2 and one gets up bright and early at 6 as we are told that infy bus comes somewhere nearby at 7. We (four of us in the hotel) get out well in time and start looking for the bus stop. The resident Kannadiga decides to guide us. In what we think is kannada he starts asking for directions……….end result we walk about MG road for half an hour or so……..very nice considering that the outside temperature is about 13 degrees or so……..Eventually we give up on the infy bus, catch 2 local busses and get to electronics city. We being the geniuses that we are did not realize that electronics city is just that……. A city. We think we shall walk it to infy form bus stop. After a 1 km trudge we reach gate 2 and ask for our building……the dude at the gate finds this the perfect opportunity to tell us that we should have gone too gate 5………but no matter you can walk to the building. After another 15 min of aimless wandering in campus one reaches building. Once we report here the guy says ok now goto Mt. Everest conference room and join the banking fundamentals course going on there ……. Me so happy……….. What followed is 2 days of most awesome bullshit that I’ve come across in me life. Me thinks that me is leaking brain matter ………….

Well the campus here is awesome………nicely landscaped and well designed………….between every few buildings there is a water body ………. A fountain here , a waterfall there……….overall creates a nice ambience. However the best part of the campus are the two beehives in our building here. Yesterday me gets in the lift and go to the top floor ………. There on the outside me sees this huge brown thing hanging down the side of the building…..on second look it’s a beehive……..exciting ain’t it………

I must say one last thing ……….. the traffic on Hosur Road puts the traffic jams on SV road to shame…….. Me must have passively smoked ten packs in the last two days. Travel which takes 30 min in the morning takes 1.5 hours while returning in the evening ………

This idiot knows that a certain moron in this city needs to be contacted…………. Will do so after this idiot finishes with the list of relatives one has not seen in 10 years ……….

Football.........

Now i know what it feels like to be a football......

First i am booted from Pune to Hyderabad............within a week me is passed on to Bangalore. Me just hopes that this is not the one two and then the shot at goal.

Don't know what the hell me is going there for. The PL just said come over, duration and details we will see once we get there. So of me goes tomorrow. Reaching on Sunday morning.

Lets see if they boot me in the general direction of Mumbai soon..........

Hyderabad

in response to someone saying that i'm going to hell......

Hell has been breached ..........but they are not concerned ........ seeing tht one of their own is coming back. its changed a lot since the last time i was here. surprisingly there are no raging fires or pits of molten lava about (the canteen still needs to checked out tho). However maybe we can do something about that.........
Got here yesterday evening. Went an stayed with an uncle for the night. Think i will goto the hotel tonight Me has just spent 2 hours travelling by bus. I thought i can catch bus at 830 and reach here by 930.....instead reached at...blah...do the math. Met others in the lobby.....did some searching for the guy we were to meet and am now sitting here this blog. We will be briefed sometime later in the afternoon as to wat to do. The scary bit is that some ppl who reported yesterday have already been assigned to a project.
Later.....

Beginnings

so where do we begin
and what else can we say?
when the lines are all drawn
what should we do today?

One word: Start