Hard Rock!!

To celebrate long weekend, we girls thought we should go for live music somewhere..After much discussion, we zeroed in a place and reached there at 9 only to find out Luke Kenny was playing there..But soon excitement wore off when he quoted the cover charge..We are now earning and it was no big deal was my initial thought..But some habits die hard..And whats that? Bargaining ofcourse..specially when I know that the same place minus Luke Kenny is unrestricted entry.."Please Uncle" is a mantra that always works..with traffic police, with roadside chappal vendor and anyone..We got 50% and half the cover price for food/drinks..

When 4 music illiterates saw a crowd cheering when Luke started off a new number, we shared expressions saying it might be popular one..Yes telepatic conversations is the only thing you can do there...because conversing is a highly herculean task..Almost all the chartbuster sounded the same to us and we tried headbanging too and it went well with our get up..that is to act like we enjoy HardRock..The only song I could have expected was something from 'Rock on' which was ofcourse not listed..Because its Hindi which is definitely not cool!

The numbers seemed repetitive and we thought we should spend our complimentary coupons before restaurant closes..After our last disastrous night out, where we starved and came home and ate Maggie midnight; this time we were well prepared and did not forget to go tummy full which we thought our parents will be proud off..We ordered nachos and an ice cream, both my diet spoiler..If you are wondering when did I go on diet, I go on diet between meals :) That was my original PJ..Phew..going ahead..To our surprise, we got a really huge ice cream, much larger than the size I have ever seen..While we were all set to leave, a bunch of guys came to me and tried to start a talk with us..By Bunch of guys, I dont mean these local gunda types, they were all descent and cute..Guys hitting on me!! I dont remember when it happened last..Whenever it happened, all I can say that it was ages ago..I dont even remember when a guy gave a second "phalat" to me..Anyways, I have grown above all that...Anyone who knows me can say what I would have done next..Yes I pulled my friends and ran away from there at the speed of an Intel quad core processor :)

Cardmaking-1

Happiest am I when I make something creative!!
Like when I m really bored on a Saturday afternoon, I open my scrap bag which is a city of coloured papers, designer scissors, glitters, flowers, cards and stuff which I have been collecting from time immemorial..Rarely had the time to do something out of it..A novice at Scrapbooking and Cardmaking..I m trying to learn through blogs..Here are my first 3 seeable cards..

1. Its a Best Wishes card..Tried to make a contast of Brown and yellow but dint find the perfect match..Have used a brown satin ribbon to give gift like feel..


2. Its a Party card..The base pink layer is the fancy cover of a perfume!! Loved the floral designs on it..Have used a 2 fold ribbon here..


3. Its for a friend's birthday..Have used 2 contrasting colours as base with black border..Then there are 2 types of flowers..One with paper and other with ribbon..


A picture would have helped a lot in minimising the effort to think..But I purposely dint want to use a picture because I somehow feel it attracts the onlooker more than required..It gave me immense pleasure to do these things on a weekend..Felt like a craft session in school..Go find your activity which gives you solace..Comments and suggestions most welcome :)

PS: 1. Please bear with my pics till I buy a new cam.
2. Investing more on scrap now onwards.

Aisha

Set in Delhi, Aisha is living in her fantasy land shopping for designer ware, maxing credit card bills, attending Polo matches, freaking out with her yet another brat friend and playing Cupid to her behenji friend..When there are these girls, there has to be that many guys and by default all of them love our Aisha (Its my home production)..Abhay Deol is New York return investment banker and also her sister's bro-in-law..Aisha suffers pangs of jealousy when he returns with a sexy lady..After a series of mix and match among the cast and fight with friends, Aisha realises her shallow nature and the fact that love cant be arranged. She confesses her love to Abhay..Watch out if its too late??

Yet the movie lacks something..There are some loose unconnected scenes on why one is hooking up with the other one? Finally only Aisha and Abhay are left and have to love each other..Dialogues could have been more witty..Theres nothing memorable to take home..

This film comes close to all women crew and its well shot..Everyone and everything looks gorgeous..Films like Aisha sometimes makes you wonder, is life all about finding the right guy??

MY RATING : ***

PS: Watching movie first day first show!! Ah..the good old college days!!

Ladies at 40..

The car stopped beside my 2 wheeler at the petrol bunk where I saw this lady in a green shiffon sari and dunked in sparkling jewellry..Sitting beside her was a french bearded, sombre looking middle aged man who looked more like her slave than husband..She was in her early forties and yet had an enigmatic aura..I m sure she had many men drooling over her in her younger days..The necklace she wore I assumed were diamonds considering they were riding a plush Merc..

She looked at a lean man ahead of them in a motorbike and said to her husband "Can you believe this guy asked me out in college? Look at him..He has still not overcome my rejection..".

Husband replies in a hush tone "I cant believe theres a man in this planet who wasted an entire life for you..".

She replied, "That would have been your fate had I rejected you 15 years ago..And he would have been driving the car for me now..Lucky you!!"

Women are women at twenty or forty!!

A week in office..

Though I ve been working from past 6months, I m still a fresher..After 2 days I got allocated and as I stepped into my new cubicle, I got introduced to my new collegues..I switched on my PC, rearranged the things, put a few hangings on the board, pinged friends on how my new workplace is, played a few games of word puzzle and minesweeper, stared at a few test cases as if they were extra-territorial (infact they were!)..The days passed, I worked more and the rest of the things lessened as days progressed to next week..

The next week, my PL and PM were staring at me..I thought may be I was too overdressed for office and decided to dress a little subtle from the next day..Then when I was about to leave office i.e 5:15 dot, I get a call from her..I go running not to miss my bus..She started off sweetly but me being an expert at appearing to listen intently when I m mentally not even present in the vicinity dint pay heed to her..I guess she noticed my disinterest and asked me how many 'test cases' I had executed..I happily said 4 (great according to me and previous day was 3)..She replied "You know how many cases Chirag finished when he had just joined?". I said "Do I care?" (Ofcourse in my mind. What would life be without self dialogues?). She continued "He could finish 25!!..I expect you to improve..You have now entered corporate sector and blah and blah and can I expect you not to play games on PC..(But what would office be without games!?!)..I nodded to let the enormity of my crime sink in..And if you want to perform better, you can put in extra effort after office hours (why should I when I dont get any perks?)

She looked okay the first week..Now everytime I see her, reminds me humans are afterall descendands of apes..I sense a great prospect of a potential conflict with her..I love it more when I m an active participant..

Heading ahead..

Tears welled up in my eyes when entered the unknown campus all alone in the dark night..and my eyes were in same state when I exitted the same ediface this sunny morning..Now I had familiar faces bidding adieu..Every nook and corner of the campus felt like home..Was 6 months good enough to make it home? I guess yes..I learnt a lot..Not just Java, oracle, sql..I learnt that my country is really diversified as studied in textbooks..There were people from every corner of the country..Though we cheered different IPL teams, we were all similar in a lot of different ways..We all came here for a reason and with a dream: to build a career, to make money, to go back, to learn, to know, to make a difference...Some satisfied, some cribbing..some happy, some sad..But everyones excited to explore future and see whats in store for us like a kid opening fortune cookie..I hope someday satisfaction overcomes all my desires in my life..That day I m gonna be very proud..All I can say now is: Bring it on!!

System Engineer Trainee Life

Things I learnt while working..

Queue become an essential part of your life..Be it food court,loo,movie,parlour,
laundromat

Guys in formal wear with ties and yet not fussing to ride a pink ladybird

2-3 km walk is a cake walk..Infact thats a short distance..

Strive for excellence theory is not applicable..Strive to survive..

Stop praying external supernatural forces and started praying Dev Square (test implementation tool). It can at times do wonders..Believe me..

Wait for month end for salary to credit and say to it "I work only for you my
dear"..Whatever my status is Dad is still my ATM..

There are people from all over the country who have come thousands and thousands of miles to do the same job as I do and I thought 'Who the hell cares for this job?'

There is a place above us in map which is also part of India called North India..Excepting for AP,TN,Kerala,Karnataka everybody belong to this area..And people from there speak only Hindi..Not even remote English..

Home food is heaven..I love my mom..I dont mind 2days stale food as long as its homemade..

Now I realise the importance of weekends..Prior all days used to be chilled and weekends a little extra chilled..But now Friday evenings are a blisss...Not even a day old movie can make me stay there on weekends...
PS : I know SQL, PL/SQL, JAVA, UNIX if you care...

I m back by public demand..

No posts in 2 months..Lots and lots of changes in those 2 months..It also marks a year anniversary..as in I m not in a dormant state on blogger..27 posts in a year is pretty descent I guess..

Late but never, wishes to Shilpa and Kishan for a wonderful married life together..The last word quoted..Special Thanks to all those people who travelled all the way to be part of the occasion..Pri to you whos reading this and for your full fledged encouragement and support towards me to continue to blog and Santi too whos religiously following my blog and demanding for updates and A for being my dance partner and most importantly BlackdranzerV6 whos an hibernating blogger for all the technical initiative taken..Thank you all..

I m now a single independent object oriented career focussed working women striving for excellence in a domain specific organistion..How cool is that?? I live alone, earn my bread, More on that later..