Har ghadi badal rahi hai roop zindagi.......
chaaon hai kabhi...kabhi hai dhoop zindagi........
har pal yahaan........jee bhar jeyo........
jo hai sama...........................kal ho na ho........
A film close to my heart, in more ways than one, literally.
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Monday, July 17, 2006
S's sister's marriage
While listening to my playlist of songs, here I blabber bout the marriage of S's sis........
Here's a good piccy of S btw............HARHARHAR
First day was li'l work n lots of loafin around the marriage hall. Nothin much at all to blabber bout.
Second day was the actual day the marriage takes place. There's one pic where the sis is cryin her lungs out coz of all the emotions involved and her bro is laughing out big time thinking 'what et eez! girls!'. lol! That's a really funny pic. I just got tired of taking pics of the groom n bride. Almost everytime I click, one of 'em is lookin busy, talkin to ppl around, listening to the other etc. Just close to MI IV I tell ya! One pic was good enough for a frame. My knees actually started hurting as I ended up taking at least a couple of hundred pics within a span of three to four hours! That's not easy with all the angles u gotta lean, bend etc...no pun intended here. :D Yea, tis moi telling that line! ROFL!
Our gang of boyz found a room not occupied by anyone on the first floor of the marriage hall. Done.We were in. Got a new lock so that nobody can enter except our boyz. As almost everyone is obsessed with playin cards, so it started. Me not a fan of cards. So I just kept away as much as possible. Inside, we kinda came up with a 'code' for ppl knocking on the door. Coz if we let someone NOT supp to enter, it's gonna look bad with all the guys smoking (plain ciggies :D) and playin cards. The code word was gonna be the pwd for ppl to utter to enter. It was...........'Diamond Queen'. Can't recall who exactly came up with this, but it was soooper! As my cousin wasn't allowed to play (each guy 50 bucks was the bet till everyone who reaches 250 points is filtered one by one..) he was the official scorer. Boy, was he passionate bout keepin the scores or what now! He ditched ciggies n caapi coz he was afraid somebody might become the official scorer, not that there were many who werent playing..hehehe...So I had an idea. Told the videographer to capture a short vid of all the boyz playing cards, without lettin 'em know it's gonna happen. So took him to the first floor as the photo session was over and marriage was 'official' now. Told him to wait by the side of the door while I knocked.There were three cousin sisters of S standing in front of the room next to ours discussin god knows what (It actually acted as a make shift make up room, butt obv!) ...I knock. Mah cuz from inside with his phirangee accent 'Password puhleez'. Me 'Open the door dumbass, can't say the pwd now'. Cuz 'Please enter the password to login'.Me 'grrrrrrr.open up!'. Cuz 'Last chance to enter the pwd, else the system will get locked'. Me 'grrrrrrrr.......DIAMOND QUEEN! There, open!'. Door opens. Just a sec before I enter, glanced to the left. One gal outta the three was staring tryin to decipher what the hell was happening in our room. It was soooooooo embarassing! Then called the videographer n he took a vid. Then the boyz became innovative with the pwd. Mission Kashmir, Operation Diamond racket etc.. It was real fun fer sure!
Now it was night and time to hit the sack. One guy was feelin feverish. So took a walk with him to the medical shop after a heavy typical iyengari dinner. Belted big time.hehe..So this guy explains to the chemist 'Jaw pain, molar tooth pain, chin pain etc'. The guy at the counter said 'sir, I will give you two tabs. But these are ONLY temporary. Tomm morn first thing you should go to a doc. Mah friend said 'ok, will do that'. So he gives the two tabs n repeats the same line. friend says 'okkkk , will surely show to the doc tomm'. Gave him the money and when we turned away from the shop, the guy said 'what to do sir, nowadays even a mosquito bite can give you lotsa problems!'. I laughed loud and told mah friend 'dude, you have chicken guniya! ROFL!'. Thankfully it wasn't that. Come to think of it.........he still hasn't gone to the doc. :D
Last day was all bout work. Shift stuff from the marriage hall to one van which goes to the groom's place n shiftin stuff to another which was all the bride's stuff. An experience worth remembering fer sure.
Here's moi n S.
Here's a good piccy of S btw............HARHARHAR
First day was li'l work n lots of loafin around the marriage hall. Nothin much at all to blabber bout.
Second day was the actual day the marriage takes place. There's one pic where the sis is cryin her lungs out coz of all the emotions involved and her bro is laughing out big time thinking 'what et eez! girls!'. lol! That's a really funny pic. I just got tired of taking pics of the groom n bride. Almost everytime I click, one of 'em is lookin busy, talkin to ppl around, listening to the other etc. Just close to MI IV I tell ya! One pic was good enough for a frame. My knees actually started hurting as I ended up taking at least a couple of hundred pics within a span of three to four hours! That's not easy with all the angles u gotta lean, bend etc...no pun intended here. :D Yea, tis moi telling that line! ROFL!
Our gang of boyz found a room not occupied by anyone on the first floor of the marriage hall. Done.We were in. Got a new lock so that nobody can enter except our boyz. As almost everyone is obsessed with playin cards, so it started. Me not a fan of cards. So I just kept away as much as possible. Inside, we kinda came up with a 'code' for ppl knocking on the door. Coz if we let someone NOT supp to enter, it's gonna look bad with all the guys smoking (plain ciggies :D) and playin cards. The code word was gonna be the pwd for ppl to utter to enter. It was...........'Diamond Queen'. Can't recall who exactly came up with this, but it was soooper! As my cousin wasn't allowed to play (each guy 50 bucks was the bet till everyone who reaches 250 points is filtered one by one..) he was the official scorer. Boy, was he passionate bout keepin the scores or what now! He ditched ciggies n caapi coz he was afraid somebody might become the official scorer, not that there were many who werent playing..hehehe...So I had an idea. Told the videographer to capture a short vid of all the boyz playing cards, without lettin 'em know it's gonna happen. So took him to the first floor as the photo session was over and marriage was 'official' now. Told him to wait by the side of the door while I knocked.There were three cousin sisters of S standing in front of the room next to ours discussin god knows what (It actually acted as a make shift make up room, butt obv!) ...I knock. Mah cuz from inside with his phirangee accent 'Password puhleez'. Me 'Open the door dumbass, can't say the pwd now'. Cuz 'Please enter the password to login'.Me 'grrrrrrr.open up!'. Cuz 'Last chance to enter the pwd, else the system will get locked'. Me 'grrrrrrrr.......DIAMOND QUEEN! There, open!'. Door opens. Just a sec before I enter, glanced to the left. One gal outta the three was staring tryin to decipher what the hell was happening in our room. It was soooooooo embarassing! Then called the videographer n he took a vid. Then the boyz became innovative with the pwd. Mission Kashmir, Operation Diamond racket etc.. It was real fun fer sure!
Now it was night and time to hit the sack. One guy was feelin feverish. So took a walk with him to the medical shop after a heavy typical iyengari dinner. Belted big time.hehe..So this guy explains to the chemist 'Jaw pain, molar tooth pain, chin pain etc'. The guy at the counter said 'sir, I will give you two tabs. But these are ONLY temporary. Tomm morn first thing you should go to a doc. Mah friend said 'ok, will do that'. So he gives the two tabs n repeats the same line. friend says 'okkkk , will surely show to the doc tomm'. Gave him the money and when we turned away from the shop, the guy said 'what to do sir, nowadays even a mosquito bite can give you lotsa problems!'. I laughed loud and told mah friend 'dude, you have chicken guniya! ROFL!'. Thankfully it wasn't that. Come to think of it.........he still hasn't gone to the doc. :D
Last day was all bout work. Shift stuff from the marriage hall to one van which goes to the groom's place n shiftin stuff to another which was all the bride's stuff. An experience worth remembering fer sure.
Here's moi n S.
Saturday, July 01, 2006
tis time.
Aaj ki taazaa khabar. Apun ne MCSE karne ka decide karliya, kya?
Ab above pe khabar . Apun ko wait karna maangta kya? kyun ke text books jo hain baahut caastly hai karke suna apun ne, kya! kutte kamine, main tera khoon peejaaonga! baaaaaaaaahut naainsaafi hai , kya!
yea, I could've put it in a more 'professional' way. I am gonna do MCSE.
Conv betn my n/w admin n moi :
me : 'dood, me thinkin of doin MCSE. have suggestions of where i should learn the stuff from? i dont wanna spend money on the "well known" institutes coz i dont think anybody knows enough to teach others to get through well enough'
admin : 'dont join any course man. You are techy enough. Just learn it on yer own. Am sure u will get through'
moi : 'Yea? so what do I need? two comps with RJ45 eh?'
admin : 'eggjatly, thats ALL you need to learn, apart from the fat textbook'
moi : 'hmm........okay. what do you think it is? MS or CCNA?'
admin : 'see, ccna is for the REAL techy geekos. not for you, not for me!'
moi : 'yea, I can see the guy next to you is one of those u just mentioned'
3rd guy : 'yenappa, nange kannada kotthu(mall guy, strugglin for words now!)
moi : 'its okay, its really okay. I totally understand ur frustration in not being able to use appropriate words. I get ur point. chill. put ur headfones back on now. tata'
admin : 'lol!'
moi : 'so............ccna?'
admin : 'ccna needs practical exposure. nopes. not recommended'
moi : 'hmm..........k. MS it is'
admin : "you know, its FASHIONABLE to hate MS.'
moi : 'agree I guess. its the IN thing, the YO thing to do. support 'open source''
admin: 'eggjatly. ppl think they are doing somethin good just by sayin 'open source is the future maaaaaaaaaaan'
me n admin: ROFL!
end of conv. he had to push a new build.
So..........MCSE or CCNA guys? whatcha think ?
Ab above pe khabar . Apun ko wait karna maangta kya? kyun ke text books jo hain baahut caastly hai karke suna apun ne, kya! kutte kamine, main tera khoon peejaaonga! baaaaaaaaahut naainsaafi hai , kya!
yea, I could've put it in a more 'professional' way. I am gonna do MCSE.
Conv betn my n/w admin n moi :
me : 'dood, me thinkin of doin MCSE. have suggestions of where i should learn the stuff from? i dont wanna spend money on the "well known" institutes coz i dont think anybody knows enough to teach others to get through well enough'
admin : 'dont join any course man. You are techy enough. Just learn it on yer own. Am sure u will get through'
moi : 'Yea? so what do I need? two comps with RJ45 eh?'
admin : 'eggjatly, thats ALL you need to learn, apart from the fat textbook'
moi : 'hmm........okay. what do you think it is? MS or CCNA?'
admin : 'see, ccna is for the REAL techy geekos. not for you, not for me!'
moi : 'yea, I can see the guy next to you is one of those u just mentioned'
3rd guy : 'yenappa, nange kannada kotthu(mall guy, strugglin for words now!)
moi : 'its okay, its really okay. I totally understand ur frustration in not being able to use appropriate words. I get ur point. chill. put ur headfones back on now. tata'
admin : 'lol!'
moi : 'so............ccna?'
admin : 'ccna needs practical exposure. nopes. not recommended'
moi : 'hmm..........k. MS it is'
admin : "you know, its FASHIONABLE to hate MS.'
moi : 'agree I guess. its the IN thing, the YO thing to do. support 'open source''
admin: 'eggjatly. ppl think they are doing somethin good just by sayin 'open source is the future maaaaaaaaaaan'
me n admin: ROFL!
end of conv. he had to push a new build.
So..........MCSE or CCNA guys? whatcha think ?
Saturday, June 24, 2006
S's sister
Last weekend, sat..........mah best budd's sister's engagement was scheduled on oct second. BAM! News : Groom's grandmom is bedridden......chaos , nervousness all around. Reason :If there is a death in the family of either one, no celebration of any kind till the first death anniversary. Rules....
So S's family decide to visit their native and go to the temple of their 'home god' . Doesn't make sense eh? Mane devru. See? Example of literal translation n proof it's neva gonna work! lol!
He's on his way back as he had told our local gang of boyz that he will b back by sunday night...Sends a msg to a few (Exact msg here) saying "Hopefully...tomorrow will be the engagement of my sister...don't call me now..will reach home and call back...foot have any of the appointments tomorrow". Now boda(one in the gang, the body builder) was perlplexed wht he meant by the msg. He sent me a msg saying 'Maga, decode that fucker's msg. I am not able to eat as I can't understand!' ROFL! Thanks to my extensive research on SMSs' (read 'have sent LOADS of msgs' :D) it was a spelling mistake if you still haven't figured it out. When you have the T9 Dictionary ON, foot comes first instead of dont.LMAO! So the msg was understood by one n all now.
Now we were thinking 'what the hell is he talkin bout? How can it happen so suddenly now? What about the arrangements? This guy hasn't even reached bangalore yet!'. He reached around eleven something. Says everything should happen tomorrow guys, I don't know how we are gonna do it , but we should. It was not in english, this conversation. So it sounded a LOT more tense and not very confident too. Morning everyone is up, by eleven(reason - all concerned families of the bride all reach n ready) one city taxi booking is done for around 2 to take the bride to the groom's house and his mom's elder sister's family as they are officially gonna 'give away the bride'. One more car of a friend to drop off all the pooja materials.S goes with the pooja materials and asks us 'you guys not goin anywhere right? Nobody comin with me to drop these off?'. I said 'why do you want one more guy? Not needed. You go, drop this off n get back n call one of us'. Then the next step....................................We all went to play snooker. :D
So sometime after noon me n S decided to check for some iyengari catering service for dinner that night. Checked with 'kadamba' and they said they will do it. Rate was seventy friggin bucks for hardly six items! Two only were 'unlimited' officially. It was for around sixty ppl. No other option, so we just took it as the groom's family were very particular about iyengari's preparing the iyengari food....That's one thing done. Now one citi taxis' to do two trips to take all concerned families of the bride to the groom's place. So by S's friend we got it booked for half a day for 800 bucks. Not an awesome deal, but not a bad one too.
All reach the groom's place. S running around inside the house for ....................nothing. Basically he wanted things to work. Poor guy. Everybody understood his situation. At the same time, the groom's elder bro walks by and we exchange pleasantries............understanding S's predicament and nervousness, we made a decision then n there.......................................................................we asked for coffee. LMAO!
So we are all standing outside as if we were waiting for the dictator to give us tasks to 'execute'. I had got my sony digital camera. Sure did come in handy as it was the only one from the bride's side. Chairs were being put in place after the 'shaamiyaana' was 'erected'. Is there any other word I could've used here? :D Sounds very umm.........neva mind, I know all of ya got the point! lol! Some relative of the groom was doing this. I got a li'l ticked off and asked the guys standin n chattin there...'hello! need to get to work!' Chairs done. I asked for a cloth to clean the chairs as there was a lotta dust. I just started one by one. There were a couple of dozen chairs at the most. S comes out with my camera from the inside n takes a shot of me 'working hard'. Tells the groom who was standing beside him 'Look at him go! I haven't seen him do any cleaning at home! ROFL!'. I said 'Hello! Did anybody ASK you that question? So shut up already man!' hehehe. So I give a pose with the dirty cloth on my right shoulder. Cleaning done.
The groom n bride finish all the crap parts ( God knows what all they are made to do. They just sit there n .................do nothing! lol! and now tis time for them to exchange rings. Yea, this is a typical iyengari hindu engagement. Why rings you ask me? How do I know! I was there to just say 'hey looki here' n 'click!'. That was what I wanted to do at that time. Now the bride is searchin fer her bro. He's nowhere to be found. I run out n check. No sight of him. Come in, they waited for roughly a min then just exchanged rings. I was very confused. I didn't know what to do. There was one more digital camera capturing the moments. But it was not a sony, it was a friggin canon! (Sorry, me a die hard Sony fan!). I was about to switch to video mode thinking the other camera would have the snaps anyway. But decide otherwise and switch to photo mode. Good two snaps. Both look like duplicates, diff being who's extending the hand to get the ring, vice versa. So that's good photography. Yay! Now the groom's elder bro's wife was also having a third digital camera. Again a canon. !@#$%^&*())(*&^%$#@! So there was definite competition as to who would capture with just the right angle. Either she's sittin n me standing right behind or vice versa after a coupe of mins with all the ppl inside. It was tough to stand at an acute angle! So I thought to myself .........'oh yea? Wait till the results come up!'. ;)) S's office colleagues reach around early evening. I knew one of 'em and we had a very funny conversation which lasted ten secs! ROFL! He came n I said 'hey, see that ur also on orkut now! lol! Have fun!'. He replies back 'What to do, our boss (S) created my profile!'. Now..............S's profile was created by moi! LMAO!
Catering guys...............lol. This was 'so near yet so far' redifined fer sure! We had asked them to deliver at half past seven. It was seven and no signs. One of the gang guys calls the hotel n he informed us that the vehicle left ten mins back so within 20 more mins should reach. They had confusion as the groom's place wasn't exactly in the heart of the city, or the liver of the city, or the pancreas of the city or the..........well, you got the point right ? :D He called one of us and we all started walkin towards the main road to guide him. In the meanwhile, he calls up the landline of the groom's place. Somebody picks up and couldn't decipher who was calling and for what. We reach the main road, waiting for the guy to call any of the cell numbers as he didn't have one for us to call n guide him. Ten mins up, no calls. A couple of autos right in front of us. We were waiting for the caterer's vehicle. Five more mins passby and nothing. Now one guy from the auto nearest to us comes up n asks us 'Saar, where is this address?'. Yes, they were the caterers! lol! The guy was in the auto for almost twenty mins and we were in front all the time. ROFL!
All 'procedures' done successfully. It was a fockin smash hit with absolutely no hiccups! I asked for a laptop to transfer images as I have only a 512MB card. Got an obsolete laptop thankfully having a USB port. Transferred the first set. Now nothing much left but dinner and after for the next set of photos. So was fooling around taking photos of guys belting round after round of awesome dinner, with an amazing curd rice n pickles.*Drooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool*. We were in a corner with very less light. One guy was sitting on a chair and the rest of us around him talkin, jokin around. I had finished eating real fast as I was famished. So switched to video mode. Moved to capture everybody standing around me then slowly to the guy on the chair. Now the chair had absolutely no light as lots of ppl surrounded it. The guy Y sitting on the chair isn't exactly aamir khan's complexion..........As I couldn't see anything , I asked him 'Y, show yer teeth'. As there was a decent decible of talkin around, he couldn't hear n was also busy makin jokes n stuff with the other guys. Once more, me 'Y, show yer teeth'. This time he is like 'wha??'. Third time 'Y, show yer teeth!'. Replies 'Showing man!'. Not even ONE FRIGGIN WHITE TOOTH seen in the camera! We still trip on this clip. Now I rhyme, should I rap or just stop this crap with rap? ROFLMAO!
Thus, engagement execution completed successfully.
Oh btw, today's friday so watched 'KRRISH'. It was entertaining alright. Watchable once for the good special effects made by the same guys who did it for 'Independence Day' and a couple of other hollywood movies. Somehow couldn't help but think I was watching a rajnikant tamil movie's hindi version due to the 'mind blowing' scenes with graphics. LOL! See it to believe it. Tis too much. One scene in the climax is unfockinbelievable when the villian shoots two bullets to two ppl standing around five feet from each other................it's sooper! LMBO!
This marriage is preponed to the 10th, 11th n 12th of July!
So S's family decide to visit their native and go to the temple of their 'home god' . Doesn't make sense eh? Mane devru. See? Example of literal translation n proof it's neva gonna work! lol!
He's on his way back as he had told our local gang of boyz that he will b back by sunday night...Sends a msg to a few (Exact msg here) saying "Hopefully...tomorrow will be the engagement of my sister...don't call me now..will reach home and call back...foot have any of the appointments tomorrow". Now boda(one in the gang, the body builder) was perlplexed wht he meant by the msg. He sent me a msg saying 'Maga, decode that fucker's msg. I am not able to eat as I can't understand!' ROFL! Thanks to my extensive research on SMSs' (read 'have sent LOADS of msgs' :D) it was a spelling mistake if you still haven't figured it out. When you have the T9 Dictionary ON, foot comes first instead of dont.LMAO! So the msg was understood by one n all now.
Now we were thinking 'what the hell is he talkin bout? How can it happen so suddenly now? What about the arrangements? This guy hasn't even reached bangalore yet!'. He reached around eleven something. Says everything should happen tomorrow guys, I don't know how we are gonna do it , but we should. It was not in english, this conversation. So it sounded a LOT more tense and not very confident too. Morning everyone is up, by eleven(reason - all concerned families of the bride all reach n ready) one city taxi booking is done for around 2 to take the bride to the groom's house and his mom's elder sister's family as they are officially gonna 'give away the bride'. One more car of a friend to drop off all the pooja materials.S goes with the pooja materials and asks us 'you guys not goin anywhere right? Nobody comin with me to drop these off?'. I said 'why do you want one more guy? Not needed. You go, drop this off n get back n call one of us'. Then the next step....................................We all went to play snooker. :D
So sometime after noon me n S decided to check for some iyengari catering service for dinner that night. Checked with 'kadamba' and they said they will do it. Rate was seventy friggin bucks for hardly six items! Two only were 'unlimited' officially. It was for around sixty ppl. No other option, so we just took it as the groom's family were very particular about iyengari's preparing the iyengari food....That's one thing done. Now one citi taxis' to do two trips to take all concerned families of the bride to the groom's place. So by S's friend we got it booked for half a day for 800 bucks. Not an awesome deal, but not a bad one too.
All reach the groom's place. S running around inside the house for ....................nothing. Basically he wanted things to work. Poor guy. Everybody understood his situation. At the same time, the groom's elder bro walks by and we exchange pleasantries............understanding S's predicament and nervousness, we made a decision then n there.......................................................................we asked for coffee. LMAO!
So we are all standing outside as if we were waiting for the dictator to give us tasks to 'execute'. I had got my sony digital camera. Sure did come in handy as it was the only one from the bride's side. Chairs were being put in place after the 'shaamiyaana' was 'erected'. Is there any other word I could've used here? :D Sounds very umm.........neva mind, I know all of ya got the point! lol! Some relative of the groom was doing this. I got a li'l ticked off and asked the guys standin n chattin there...'hello! need to get to work!' Chairs done. I asked for a cloth to clean the chairs as there was a lotta dust. I just started one by one. There were a couple of dozen chairs at the most. S comes out with my camera from the inside n takes a shot of me 'working hard'. Tells the groom who was standing beside him 'Look at him go! I haven't seen him do any cleaning at home! ROFL!'. I said 'Hello! Did anybody ASK you that question? So shut up already man!' hehehe. So I give a pose with the dirty cloth on my right shoulder. Cleaning done.
The groom n bride finish all the crap parts ( God knows what all they are made to do. They just sit there n .................do nothing! lol! and now tis time for them to exchange rings. Yea, this is a typical iyengari hindu engagement. Why rings you ask me? How do I know! I was there to just say 'hey looki here' n 'click!'. That was what I wanted to do at that time. Now the bride is searchin fer her bro. He's nowhere to be found. I run out n check. No sight of him. Come in, they waited for roughly a min then just exchanged rings. I was very confused. I didn't know what to do. There was one more digital camera capturing the moments. But it was not a sony, it was a friggin canon! (Sorry, me a die hard Sony fan!). I was about to switch to video mode thinking the other camera would have the snaps anyway. But decide otherwise and switch to photo mode. Good two snaps. Both look like duplicates, diff being who's extending the hand to get the ring, vice versa. So that's good photography. Yay! Now the groom's elder bro's wife was also having a third digital camera. Again a canon. !@#$%^&*())(*&^%$#@! So there was definite competition as to who would capture with just the right angle. Either she's sittin n me standing right behind or vice versa after a coupe of mins with all the ppl inside. It was tough to stand at an acute angle! So I thought to myself .........'oh yea? Wait till the results come up!'. ;)) S's office colleagues reach around early evening. I knew one of 'em and we had a very funny conversation which lasted ten secs! ROFL! He came n I said 'hey, see that ur also on orkut now! lol! Have fun!'. He replies back 'What to do, our boss (S) created my profile!'. Now..............S's profile was created by moi! LMAO!
Catering guys...............lol. This was 'so near yet so far' redifined fer sure! We had asked them to deliver at half past seven. It was seven and no signs. One of the gang guys calls the hotel n he informed us that the vehicle left ten mins back so within 20 more mins should reach. They had confusion as the groom's place wasn't exactly in the heart of the city, or the liver of the city, or the pancreas of the city or the..........well, you got the point right ? :D He called one of us and we all started walkin towards the main road to guide him. In the meanwhile, he calls up the landline of the groom's place. Somebody picks up and couldn't decipher who was calling and for what. We reach the main road, waiting for the guy to call any of the cell numbers as he didn't have one for us to call n guide him. Ten mins up, no calls. A couple of autos right in front of us. We were waiting for the caterer's vehicle. Five more mins passby and nothing. Now one guy from the auto nearest to us comes up n asks us 'Saar, where is this address?'. Yes, they were the caterers! lol! The guy was in the auto for almost twenty mins and we were in front all the time. ROFL!
All 'procedures' done successfully. It was a fockin smash hit with absolutely no hiccups! I asked for a laptop to transfer images as I have only a 512MB card. Got an obsolete laptop thankfully having a USB port. Transferred the first set. Now nothing much left but dinner and after for the next set of photos. So was fooling around taking photos of guys belting round after round of awesome dinner, with an amazing curd rice n pickles.*Drooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool*. We were in a corner with very less light. One guy was sitting on a chair and the rest of us around him talkin, jokin around. I had finished eating real fast as I was famished. So switched to video mode. Moved to capture everybody standing around me then slowly to the guy on the chair. Now the chair had absolutely no light as lots of ppl surrounded it. The guy Y sitting on the chair isn't exactly aamir khan's complexion..........As I couldn't see anything , I asked him 'Y, show yer teeth'. As there was a decent decible of talkin around, he couldn't hear n was also busy makin jokes n stuff with the other guys. Once more, me 'Y, show yer teeth'. This time he is like 'wha??'. Third time 'Y, show yer teeth!'. Replies 'Showing man!'. Not even ONE FRIGGIN WHITE TOOTH seen in the camera! We still trip on this clip. Now I rhyme, should I rap or just stop this crap with rap? ROFLMAO!
Thus, engagement execution completed successfully.
Oh btw, today's friday so watched 'KRRISH'. It was entertaining alright. Watchable once for the good special effects made by the same guys who did it for 'Independence Day' and a couple of other hollywood movies. Somehow couldn't help but think I was watching a rajnikant tamil movie's hindi version due to the 'mind blowing' scenes with graphics. LOL! See it to believe it. Tis too much. One scene in the climax is unfockinbelievable when the villian shoots two bullets to two ppl standing around five feet from each other................it's sooper! LMBO!
This marriage is preponed to the 10th, 11th n 12th of July!
Sunday, June 11, 2006
Just another day for you and me in paradise.......
Around eleven am......date : The day I had planned to watch The Da Vinci Code / MI - III ........oh yea, date : 11th June
A call to landline @home from a cell. I was listening to 'White Zombie - Children of the grave' around 60% of the volume from the Creative 2.1 on the comp. That is loud would be an understatement and most of you guys who have a creative would agree. lol! I reduce the volume way down n pick up the call.
Me : Hello?
X : Hello, can I speak to Vijayakala please? (My mom's name is V...)
Me : Um...she's not here. Can I know who's speaking?
X : My name's D..... When can I talk to her?
Me : She will be back in around an hour. Any message?
X : Actually, I got this number from O*Y#RIWQRE marriage society. So I called up.......
Me : Oh, okay. She's gone to the same place right now. You can call her after an hour or so I guess.
X : May I know who I am speaking to?
Me : This is Raghu
X : ok.....................................(expecting some response I guess......)
Me : Okay then. You can call after an hour I guess. Bye.
Sounds like a VERY normal conversation.
P. S: I am the groom to be. The call was from one of the brides to be. :">:">:">
It's official now. The 'hunt' is ON.
Yes, I knew her name and I knew it was her who had called. So I could've spoke. But my mind was on MI III. Guess I am what I am, weird! ROFLMAO!
You can start making fun of me now.
A call to landline @home from a cell. I was listening to 'White Zombie - Children of the grave' around 60% of the volume from the Creative 2.1 on the comp. That is loud would be an understatement and most of you guys who have a creative would agree. lol! I reduce the volume way down n pick up the call.
Me : Hello?
X : Hello, can I speak to Vijayakala please? (My mom's name is V...)
Me : Um...she's not here. Can I know who's speaking?
X : My name's D..... When can I talk to her?
Me : She will be back in around an hour. Any message?
X : Actually, I got this number from O*Y#RIWQRE marriage society. So I called up.......
Me : Oh, okay. She's gone to the same place right now. You can call her after an hour or so I guess.
X : May I know who I am speaking to?
Me : This is Raghu
X : ok.....................................(expecting some response I guess......)
Me : Okay then. You can call after an hour I guess. Bye.
Sounds like a VERY normal conversation.
P. S: I am the groom to be. The call was from one of the brides to be. :">:">:">
It's official now. The 'hunt' is ON.
Yes, I knew her name and I knew it was her who had called. So I could've spoke. But my mind was on MI III. Guess I am what I am, weird! ROFLMAO!
You can start making fun of me now.
Wednesday, June 07, 2006
Thursday, May 25, 2006
kids of today........
Came a li'l late to work today. Reason with visuals below.
Almost four in the evening. Me in the night shifts for this week. I could get shut eye only from 7 am to 11 am. It's almost 2 am now. Eyes gettin heavy already.....neways..
So my mom comes up to me and says vaishnavi n ramya are gettin the make up done. They want to dance to the song before their summer vacations are over. I said : okay, lemme charge the batteries of my camera. After the make up, the two gals who are in the fifth std came back with full enthu to dance to a song from the kannada movie aapthamithra. Song is called raa raa.......as in come come......no pun intended. :D
Here is how they looked.
The first time I saw vaishnavi's performance at the end of their summer camp.......I was almost dumbfounded! I asked her 'When did you learn to do all THIS now?' lol! She said, 'Of course I know how to dance. This isn't my first performance'. Topic closed. I had nothing more to say! She dances really really well, and when I use really really , albeit it doesn't appeal to the english grammar, I mean REALLY REALLY WELL! ROFL! I suggested to her grandmom to send her to bharatnatyam classes. Vaishnavi isn't too keen as she's more of the 'western' dance oriented. On the other hand ( or leg, whichever makes ya happy ) ramya knows a li'l bit of bharatnatyam. But she can't dance the 'western' style to save her life. I then started to realize why one person can't be perfect at anything. It makes sense after all.....
I suggested that we go up to the terrace of the next building and they can dance there. Daylight with ample space to prance around. The minute I suggested, bam! power cut in our lane. So no other alternative. Went n bought batteries for the tape recorder, borrowed an emergency lamp from my local nicotime adda shop.Came back to the terrace. audience from just four or five was around a dozen. Found out that the emergency lamp wasn't bright enough. Flop show! There was a store room on the terrace. Got it opened. Saw a 60 watt bulb there. Tried to unhook it, dragged the electricity line till the door. power was back on now. Not enough light to make them dance on the terrace as it was around 8 pm already. flop show number two! lol!
Decided that only option was to make them do their bit in our hall. Place packed with all families. So I started recording their performances. So after the first song and two dozen images, I had to recharge the battery and even transfer all the vids n images to the comp. The two gals had a younger bro each. Here they are. One of THE cutest pics I've even captured!
They danced to four songs and each time I had to say 'ten minutes break. Battery to be charged again'. Nobody groaned. :)
Phew, that took me out. All the running around , getting things done quickly , assist them to dance a li'l back as there was less space in the hall. Someone from the gang said at the end of it all.....Raghu is the director, producer, cameraman and the audience too. lol! That made me laugh. Finally transferred all to the comp n burnt a dvd. Dvd had both mpg n jpgs. So mpgs didn't play on my dvd player. Got the laptop, showed the vids there. Time was already around half past nine. Got ready in a jiffy. I always think of the line 'Somebody STOPPPPPPP ME!' from The Mask when I have to get ready in a hurry. hehehe
Almost four in the evening. Me in the night shifts for this week. I could get shut eye only from 7 am to 11 am. It's almost 2 am now. Eyes gettin heavy already.....neways..
So my mom comes up to me and says vaishnavi n ramya are gettin the make up done. They want to dance to the song before their summer vacations are over. I said : okay, lemme charge the batteries of my camera. After the make up, the two gals who are in the fifth std came back with full enthu to dance to a song from the kannada movie aapthamithra. Song is called raa raa.......as in come come......no pun intended. :D
Here is how they looked.
The first time I saw vaishnavi's performance at the end of their summer camp.......I was almost dumbfounded! I asked her 'When did you learn to do all THIS now?' lol! She said, 'Of course I know how to dance. This isn't my first performance'. Topic closed. I had nothing more to say! She dances really really well, and when I use really really , albeit it doesn't appeal to the english grammar, I mean REALLY REALLY WELL! ROFL! I suggested to her grandmom to send her to bharatnatyam classes. Vaishnavi isn't too keen as she's more of the 'western' dance oriented. On the other hand ( or leg, whichever makes ya happy ) ramya knows a li'l bit of bharatnatyam. But she can't dance the 'western' style to save her life. I then started to realize why one person can't be perfect at anything. It makes sense after all.....
I suggested that we go up to the terrace of the next building and they can dance there. Daylight with ample space to prance around. The minute I suggested, bam! power cut in our lane. So no other alternative. Went n bought batteries for the tape recorder, borrowed an emergency lamp from my local nicotime adda shop.Came back to the terrace. audience from just four or five was around a dozen. Found out that the emergency lamp wasn't bright enough. Flop show! There was a store room on the terrace. Got it opened. Saw a 60 watt bulb there. Tried to unhook it, dragged the electricity line till the door. power was back on now. Not enough light to make them dance on the terrace as it was around 8 pm already. flop show number two! lol!
Decided that only option was to make them do their bit in our hall. Place packed with all families. So I started recording their performances. So after the first song and two dozen images, I had to recharge the battery and even transfer all the vids n images to the comp. The two gals had a younger bro each. Here they are. One of THE cutest pics I've even captured!
They danced to four songs and each time I had to say 'ten minutes break. Battery to be charged again'. Nobody groaned. :)
Phew, that took me out. All the running around , getting things done quickly , assist them to dance a li'l back as there was less space in the hall. Someone from the gang said at the end of it all.....Raghu is the director, producer, cameraman and the audience too. lol! That made me laugh. Finally transferred all to the comp n burnt a dvd. Dvd had both mpg n jpgs. So mpgs didn't play on my dvd player. Got the laptop, showed the vids there. Time was already around half past nine. Got ready in a jiffy. I always think of the line 'Somebody STOPPPPPPP ME!' from The Mask when I have to get ready in a hurry. hehehe
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