I don't know what i want to do with my life.

Trust me, I have been giving a lot of thought lately (read since last 5 yrs of my life) to what is it that i want to do with my life.

Explore your history:
When i gave a real close look to my life, i figure these is a visible pattern there. For the initial years of my life, my parents have been deciding things for me. so it was easy to follow the pre-told path. It wasn't that i wasn't interested in doing something extra-ordinary then, but even then i was a pro at attributing my non-actualization of the act to the constrains imposed on me. In a way i was so happy with my constrains, using then to my own advantage. clever huh?
Then when i was given a chance to choose, instead of evaluating all opens, exploring new venues, i opted for THE RAT RACE. TWICE!!

Now when i find myself at the end of the race and i have to, HAVE TO, HAVE TO pick something for me, i am at loss again. Amazing isn't it. Such an idiot i am, people are sad in their lives because they are not given options (though thats a lie) and i am so clueless because i have a rather lot of options.

Conclusion: I am scared of options (but then there is always one)

Strategy: This time at least i am not going to give in to the flow of life.

A blog on job!

Ok so here is the blog which i wrote for the site i was working on. though when it got reviewed it looked like

And I know it'll go through thousand more changes before it actually get published for the site.. but just to sanctify my work.. here is the original post

Tum Bhi on Tumbhi
“Tum bhi” is a call to all those people who have got talent in them and a burning desire to show the world what they are worth. These are the people who are driven by passion and are destined to rise and shine among the brightest of stars. They are the musicians who eat, think, breathe music day in day out because it’s music which flows in their veins. They are the models who when look in the camera, the camera knows it couldn’t have captured a better expression ever. They are the writers whose words are going to mark the history of our days. They are photographers who can capture a whole life in just one moment AND they are the actors who, in just one moment, can live a whole life.
No, these are not ordinary people living an ordinary life. They are messengers of the world as it was in the past and they are the sculptures of the world as we’ll be remembered in future.
If all this time you could actually feel that this fate is meant for you, then yes, you are one of them. You are the one who is destined to make a difference. The time has come to act and grab what’s yours. “Tum bhi” is a platform which recognizes talent and nurtures it further to help you attain what is rightfully yours. It is the first step in your journey to fame and it accompanies you till your destination. All you have to do is to upload your artwork at our website tumbhi.com. We have got an esteemed panel of reviewers who will meticulously examine your work and give you remarks. These remarks will help you to learn more about your skills and help you in fine tuning your art further. If your art gets approved by the reviewers then you will be the part of the League of Tumbhi Artists. From there we’ll make sure that you get all the guidance and support which would help you prepare for the big chance of your life. Tumbhi is one and only platform where we actually nurture the talent and make sure that talent is given the chance it is worth for.
Tumbhi provides you the best opportunities from the glamour world to exercise your talent. Because we know that we have given our artists the best of the training therefore we get them best of the projects to live their dreams.
Yes, you can live the dream of your life. Tum bhi!
So, do not waste any more time and upload your artwork now at http://tumbhi.com


Hah.. so much for putting heart 'n' soul!!

12 episode TV serial!!!

Imagine yourself back when you were 8. A little boy/girl donning a red nikker and an oversized shirt (which actually emphasis the size of your parent’s love towards you), who enters this big pandal all set for someone’s marriage. (I wish I knew how to sketch I would have rather come up with a comic strip here).When every eye is on the Bride and Groom, you run towards the waiter serving the cold drinks and get your favorite BLACK drink. Now if you can actually feel that fizzy sensation going up your nose then you know here we are talking about the very Indian cold drink which combated against every international cold drink giant and which India is hooked onto, for three decades now.

ThumsUp!! O Yea, we are talking about the thunder here.

In year 1977 when the cold drink giant Coca-Cola had to say bye-bye to Indian markets, two very smart men Ramesh Chauhan and Prakash Chauhan, the Parle Brothers, came up with this idea of lagao an Indian tadka of Betel Nut to the American thanda and banao a super desi drink ThumsUp suiting the Indian taste.

So when you celebrate with family and friends or cheer for cricket players, ThumsUp goes “HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN”.

Even the ThumsUp logo has a story. Of course it is a Thumbs Up sign but no, that is not where it came from. The logo of ThumsUp that we see is actually the shape of Manmad Hill of Maharashtra. (duh! That is still a Thumbs up sign though and I wish I could draw betterL ). So pertaining to ThumsUp’s pahad wali tough qualities, it was then made popular as the macho drink. That means you would always see a (handsome) rough-tough ThumsUp man riding on horse/bike, performing brave acts, fighting the bad guys and still being good to them claiming “I WANT MY THUNDER”. (They also made him wear lousy ThumsUp T-shirt at times, eww..)

In year 1993 as the govt. had allowed the international companies to enter the Indian market, the panting beast Coca-Cola re-appeared. The smart brothers, ah… I mean, the Parle Brothers thought it was in best of their interest to sell ThumsUp to Coca-Cola while it was still offering to buy the company. By the time the deal was done another beast, Pepsi had also entered into the picture and was slowing capturing the market. ThumsUp was still leading the race. So Coca-Cola thought “Pepsi is anyways second to me in the world but because of ThumsUp my own baby is not able to win the race. So I should ask ThumsUp to opt out of the race so that Coke can win” (Bells ringing??). So, that is what they did. They stopped investing in ThumsUp altogether.

That was why one day, when you were in college, and were searching for your favorite ThumsUp

The Bhaiya replied “Nai saab ThumsUp toh nai hai”

At this Coca-Cola smiled, his plan was working.

But then that Bhaiya continued “Pepsi chalegi” (:D)

It was then that all the big hopes of the giant (Coca-Cola) were shattered. It realized “while in India, be Indian”.

It went running back to ThumsUp, said sorry, jazzed it by adding a little blue to its logo and there, ThumsUp was back with a bang. This time ThumsUp was way more adventurous, ready to take any challenge and Salman Khan daring you to “TASTE THE THUNDER”. And guess what, it worked!

Being good hearted as ThumsUp is, it also did a one to one with Pepsi for his brother Coke. Therefore in 2001 while ThumsUp was calling Pepsi “baccho wala drink” openly and Pepsi was busy in answering back, our Coke tried to capture the market its back. Howzzat?

Since then many brands retried or retired but ThumsUp kept its place so much so that now the Akshay ThumsUp Kumar himself would jump off a cliff, get all his bones cracked or even do parkour for that matter just to get his ThumsUp.

So once you have tasted the thunder it’s not easy for anyone to let go of the adventure. On that note I’ll take your leave as my ThumsUp Can just got over. But don’t worry, we still got more…

…because “Aakhiri ThumsUp, Wo kya hota hai?”

-Signing off

P.S. – If you were in hurry you could have skipped the comments in brackets.

P.S.S- Thanx Nammi

kotak life: chotu kya banega??

Dude ask me.. i am the chotu you are talking about here. i know this is marketing of some silly insurance policy but the question in question is about me. By the way... "kya sirf chotu ko hi kuch banne ka haq hai?" i mean bloody sexist!!!! Sue you!!! Lemme look for the platform (online) where i can complaint about this campaign.

OOC (out of context): Yesterday i watched "my name is khan". At the end of the movie i came up with "It just takes a man to make a difference" and even then i was like why don't we associate these statements with woman. I mean why man only get to represent all the members of its species. i tried replacing man with Human to do justice to all but then "human" sounds more about some biological specimen used to describe parts of body (yuck). So this MICANVAS i am thinking about putting a event where teams are required to brand WOMAN.. wt say!

BTC (back to context) : So about choti that is in question, man how do you choose what do you want to be?? Well when i was in this strategy class today i thought of taking a loan and starting the retail business while applying the concepts i thought when was attending those enchanting lectures of sales and distribution. Then i thought of giving up marketing altogether when i started with my business ethics classes (being a Co-Co that i am) and then i thought of pulling of the world's greatest scam while i was reading Paulo Coelho's "The winner stands alone". Just then i saw this mail of internship in LOK SABHA that suddenly rekindled my political desires. When i wrote that silly co-co mail to batch the writer-worm start stinging again. i am yet to do the direction of the ambitious play which was once supposedly only love of my life.

So after 7 months I am still standing on the same place from where i once started.

No complaints, No demands

Ok yesterday I watched AVATAR... how was the movie... ahem… it was a Fairy Tale. So while watching this ever-same fairy tale again I started wondering what makes a fairy tale world different from the Real World.

Difference on1--> Real world people are fascists while fairy tale people are socialists.
->> Very Matthew view on the movie. Here i would rather not comment because i am under the influence of my MICAn biases.

Difference tw2--> Real world people are all Tech Savvy while Fairy Tale people still wear shreds, and fight with bow and arrow.
->> So does that mean if you kept thinking about everyone's good you could never progress? I mean duh... they had such rich technology around them... the power of connecting with everything around you and you are telling me they never put their mind in using them?

Similarity thre3--> (because it's three, it has to be different) All warriors are jerks?
->> That real world admiral had to fight just because he believed in destruction, that’s what he is trained like. He can't have any emotions. (If it's so think what our country would be like if military training were compulsory for everyone)
On the other hand the fairy tale people all went about... OUR SACRED LAND, OUR SACRED LAND never once they stopped and thought about negotiations. About why humans want it and what could be the prospects for them. Or more, how they can just save their sacred land, if that's all they want.
MONEY vs RELIGION- cause of fight, war, destruction... n other such blahs(which are supposedly wrong, though are they really? money- reason humans could reach till Pandora, Religion-what kept Pandorians alive)

Syndrome fou4 --> Here comes the "heroes are always perfect" Syndrome.
->> Well my question is, are they? Until the point humans were doing it for money/progress/just the research work, Jake was part of them but as soon as humans started killing the AVATARS he changed sides... n did what… KILLED HUMANS from their side. Duh, hellooo... dude u are hero right, you need to think of something that could save both parties, not just YOUR SIDE. Saving just your side can't make you a hero. You still got blood on your hands ok.
These Pandorians, when they kill any animal for food, they pray for their soul but killing a human is just OK, because they are aliens. Do any of these rules make any sense to you?
Killing something, which can’t think, is SIN but killing something, which can think, is COURAGE.

Why make such rules, which can't be applicable on every situation. Dude trust me they can't be laws. Say killing is a sin and stop justifying few forms of it. Now that i am thinking about it, i wish what the laws were like if our legal system was with physicists (not that i trust them much, but i want to see what they would have come up with.)

So, when fairy world doesn't sound too perfect that means, it's not the Fairy Land... It has to be perfect... we need to consider the fairy tale again!!!

P.S.- The title is the my resolution for first three months of 2010 where it comes to my relations with my friends/family/others who can think (and who think they can think). There being no relation of title to the content is to establish the "freedom of expression" given to me/us. After all misusing of our rights is also a birth right for us..!!

Grumblings of an MBA

This blogging business is shit man. I din't knew how big it has already became. Now we got professional bloggers who "sit in their pajamas all day long" and "write about their feelings on" every shitty thing they could find on the planet earth (or if it's some universe loving freak then even beyond that). "THE" blogger i am talking about right now is this HEATHER B. ARMSTRONG. This lady is writing on this dooce.com since 2001 n all she write there is about her life, what she feels and upload some freaky daily pictures there and VOLLA!! the site is a hit. She left her job, so did her hubby and all they do is work on this "expressing feeling" thinggy daily and *tan tada* earn millions. FREAKY?? sure!
Isn't expressing opinions and cribbing about just everything is a very Indian phenomenon? We are THE ARGUMENTATIVE INDIA right? So why aren't we big in this EARN BIG SHIT blogging business yet? ( or may be we are, it's only me who doesn't know about it... like i didn't knew that i missed my ODY lecture and had to do a make up assignment :D)
Since the time i have read about her, all my mind can think of is... duetted just write some crap, make five people read it and influence them to network it furthur. Marketing right, here is the DO NOTHING, EARN BIG deal we are looking for, so why not i invest some of "not so relevent" and "very pfaffy" marketing knowledge of mine here. All i ever wanted to do was to tell stories right. n what more fun if they are mine own huh???


P.S. I know the title doesn't suit here. But I wanted to write that one. It's my blog right. MY FEELINGS :P

just wanted to type something...

i got just seven minutes, then my cake at cafe world will be done and I could go back to me my sleep peacefully after serving it. Virtual life! Everyone is running from their life in a way or other. You would play deadly blood shed games or Opt for a life of sonority for a while. Or you might talk on phone for hours mocking distance, pretending as if nothing has changed. Or you might get high somehow and tell yourself you are happy. We do so much to make ourself happy. Indulge ourself in impulse shopping so that it could make us feel better for some time or may be eat a little bit more as it the tasty food has the ability of keeping all those torturing thoughts away for a moment. N when after loads of cajoling, coaxing you finally manage to pretend to yourself, Matthew appears and asks " How can you be happy?" Duh!!

After that long monologue when i thought i would actually come up with some tragic nuances of life which would inspire many i am just left with the irony called life. Doesn't matter what you do, someone will come and find a counter argument to it. So now you should be guilty of being happy and you are a moron if you are sad. you see it causes this lot of confusion when others try to define rules by which you should live your life. I mean you aren't paying me to listen to you... why should i do things as you like? If I am an escapist then yes I am, what is wrong in that? i am not happy with your rules, i'll make mine. What is the big fuss about it?

yeah all of the above is pretty settled set of thoughts in my mind. The only one which is bothering me now a days is... What if i couldn't come with a rule/territory for myself?

People write any shit on their blog... either ban then or better hang them!!!