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A very happy Diwali to all.

There's hardly anything to document here honestly of what I did which greatly involved eating. Mom's bday cake, to ladoos and what not. 

Neways, there's something i noticed ( not that i saw it for the first time ) which i found really very funny. Funny or maybe you'll find it strange. Anyways, however you riposte be, just go and have a look at the front of the box of crackers for diwali you bought. Probably you have a some stunningly white chinese kids over the box or ( if you are lucky ), on some you might get raunchy photographs of women posing for uhh, definitely not for Diwali.. :-) 

I myself is not a cracker bursting maniac, but as a ritual, i buy a single box of some kind of bombs every year. And this time when i bought ,it actually made me laugh. The box had a chinese kid posing and i was like what the.. What has chinese kids to do anything with the crackers really ? Its bloody our festival afterall. Damn.. And am sure its not a marketing strategy that people will get seduced into buying after watching a chinese kid gleaming at you on the box you know. I still would have been convinced to some extent with girls on the boxes but Chinese .. Hell No.. !!

Dichotomy

No, this is not the dichotomy i want to write abt.But It sure is one of the cutest pics i've seen, after the mouse on the frog one which i had sometime back in a post. I havn't seen monkeys and dogs go around so well before, but these two have certainly beaten the odds .. !!

Diwali "the" festival of india is right around the corner really. You don't feel anything like it anytime of the year like you do in Diwali. Honestly i mean!! Things get paced up, huge crowd everywhere , shopping whatever they can their hands on to and people drive like crazy this time around. 

I still havnt got that exact feel, but i'll wait for it to get on me in a day or two, when i have to go to officers for giving diwali " wishes ".

But actually, Diwali has taken a back seat, it isn't the most talked about and read about thing this month, n especially this week. The Bulls just got held by their horns really this week with market came thrashing down, n today was historical day as Sensex fell 1070 pt. stripping it to 8701. Not thats something nobody cud have imagined in their wildest of dreams when sensex was shooting up as if there was no tomm back in Jan. It came from 22000 to 8k's something in 10 months. Damn.. I remember my friends CD n ajgar were on the edge of their seats as soon as the 10 am clock strike. N funny ( ya it is actually ) it is that, now they just don't want to talk about the whole trading thing. Cd doesn't even remember his password of his icicidirect.com . Thats a kind of set back the punitive investors had, so we can't even begin to realize what the big game players are going thru. Even in my house, tensions fill up after 10 in the morning which has become quite inevitable no matter how hard my parents try not to switch to CNBC.   

Thats something which has really ruined diwali of stock brokers and many Bold people who invested blindly. Bolder than Himesh i can say..

Speaking of Himesh, i really don't expect any one to c his movie, but if you have seen it, pls be bold enough to claim it infront of everyone. Cuz i have seen this in the past, many people are his secret admirers. Ajgar my friend, bought his first film's audio CD and then he went on telling a lie that somebody else bought it, it was not him. 

N hats off to Himesh. What it seems like, somebody has over emphasized the spider climbing up again n again story to him. He just doesnt want to give up !! Just look at the promos only. Such pathetic acting. Seriously, i wud have preferred Gulshan Kumar to play the role instead of him.. Oh uhh wait, I think he was even shitter .. Neways.. On mobiles as well, people getting calls these days, " Hi i'm Himesh n bla bla.. Go watch my movie and pray for me " 

I mean what the hell ? Only a big jack ass can do something like this for the promotion. I seriously can watch Sas Bhi Kabhi Bahu thi at home,which is about to shut down i guess ( The Immortal " Ba " must the happiest person i bet ), rather go watch Karz. 

Neways, its great week coming up, with pre fireworks starting in Chelsea vs Liverpool match on sunday to the ultimate showdown on tues. Diwali i meant. N pls go easy on crackers dudes.. 

Oh n did i not mention, There's a unsecured wifi net which i've found near by my house. Soo near that, it catches full 4 bars in my room. And i tell you, there's nothing like using free net in this world. !! Trust me !!

Dusshera

I didn't plan to chip in back to back posts, but one thing led to another and it was worth every effort of mine to come back on my blog.

Neways, Happy Dusshera !! N Dusshera infact is supposed to be very eventful thing in India. I was very much part of this " event " myself back in the days. Back in the days, I no, sounds a bit stereotype ( isn't it ? ). Back in the days, ya !! back when i was uhh, i certainly cannot say " when i was much shorter " but ya, what i can say is," when i was a bit fat ". Few years ago, even i used to jump of my feet honestly, with a idea of going to a dussehra mela. With friends to catch up, play hide seek, or buy a gada or teer kamaan, n lets be honest, the focal reason was that i got legit free time to play with NO STUDIESS ...!! I was as happy as uncle Scruge was when swimming in his treasure chest.

Now, times have changed. Things like watching a ravan full of crackers dont actually seem to fill in the amount of joy ( or i shud say any ) it used to. I was just pushed over to go along with my parents who didn't actually had this planned earlier. It was my mum who wanted to go to fill in for the festive void on a festival. Though i just went there for hardly 10 min n just stood there reminiscing the days when i was the one who dragged my mum dad to go there tried to figure out gods knows what i got excited about back then.

And, honestly, nothing has changed. It's been like 7-8 yrs since i went to any mela of this sort, but really, nothing has changed a bit. Only i guess, people with more luxuries don't prefer to go and this mela thing has become an middle class afair. But as i said, nothing has changed. The people still have that, excitement in their eyes, just to get a glimpse of what they have been watching it from the day they came to know who are Ram and Ramvan. Its something very reflexive i shud say of our people. Like if you push a man into a chocolate store, no matter what his age is, he's sure in for a nice time.

Its that kinds i mean. Hundreds or i should say thousands lined up just to get a peek , of whats happening there. Well, if there's nothing happening, still they'll wrestle for the place anyways :-) .

I'll be honest myself, if i see a ravan burning, it just leaves you happy ( Even if you deny the fact !! ). Reason which i don't even know. I didn't see the ravan burning today, but i no that feeling which has long been indebted to our brain's cache memory. And its something which we'll continue to do i think. Its not that we really want to have a look, but the whole scene of Ram ji firing an arrow and making ravan burn, leaves something in you which is more perplexed than this word itself .

Well, not for those who were not a fan of Ramayan or didn't play with gada's in childhood. Shame on you !!

Ok, coming back to the topic which i havnt discussed in the past weeks. yea, iPhone !!

Got this funny list which was given a heading

Things which make your iPhone a Whore !! ( seriously, how do you come up with this.. awesome !!)

n ya even non iPhone owners might find it pretty funny. go thru..

1. You’re a member of an iPhone forum --- Hell ya i'm

2. You posted more than 500 posts in this forum -- Not really, but nearing 100 u can say

3. At home or the office, you’ve moved photo frames of your loved ones to make space for your iPhone dock/charger

4. You know what BSD Subsystem is -- plsss, dumb ass question

5. You say the word “iPhone” more than 20 times a day -- make that 100 times day really

6. You’re googling “porn for iPhone” -- Nah, am no more a school kid.

7. You tuck your iPhone in at night -- I wud hav honestly, but swim a lot on bed, so its a risk

8. You think the iPhone could save lives if used properly -- Ppl actually will laugh at this, but someday it'll prove to am sure.

9. You have a nickname for your iPhone -- Heyyy, havnt thought of this really.. shud keep one soon, ( ideas appreciated )
10. Your gf is not allowed to use your iPhone -- I don't have one, but she won't be. Thats for sure..

11. You don’t talk to people who own a BlackBerry -- Nahh..

12. The Verizon Voyager’s ad makes you laugh -- Uhhh ??

13. You would buy an iPhone even if it was $1000-- Not really,

14. You take your iPhone out naked in hopes of meeting another iPhone mate -- Everyday !!

De-vista-ted

N seriously take my word for it !!! 

Going around vista is itself so much complicated and to top that, it shits up even more when u want to install our beloved XP. With all those silly dim effects during absurd security questions and the dazzling effects which will end up leading u no where. If you want to remove any application, just click REMOVE and wait for 10 min ( with 2.0ghz and 2 gig ram ), you just have to go thru bloody unimaginable amount of pain to get things shared and move your stuff from one comp to other. 

I started transferring drivers onto a flash driver for back up, n initially it showed 15 min which was pretty acceptable for 1.6 gb. but slowly the time counter started increasing. N it reached to nearly 5 hours ( without no reason ) and that was it. I was so frustrated with vista that i decided to erase watever happens. 

But, thats actually not wat i did. :-) . There was some sense left in me to get those drivers and start installing XP. 

But !! as soon as the booted with the XP cd, i got an error that the setup cudnt find a HDD, i was like what the hell ? No wonder Apple's share is rising. neways, i got my way around that hurdle as well after searching on net for a possible solutio

n by changing AHCP to compatible hardrive in BIOS. 

After some homely feeling i got after watching Xp install process, i actually for the first sat back n relaxed for a while ( which xp installation tells you to do ). Xp installation didnt take long and after some hard fought things, i got finally booted into Xp. But uhh, there were actually quite a few barricades on the way. 

Yikessss   Driversss. .!!! 

Which is the most painful thing to do (or to find ) after installing a diff OS on laptop specially. I had some real pain in the ass finding Mac OS X drivers for my dell's hackingtosh, n now this XP is laying here like an alien on a toshiba laptop on a 800x600 resolution.

I still havnt been able to find the some drivers and one major problem now is i can't get  .NET framework to install on it. It seems like with every 1 step , am moving 2 behind. Damn.. !!

Neways, i have taken a break for a while from windows. I cudn't take it nemore of windows in a single day.  

Swearing..

Ok, ya this is an interesting topic actually. I had to go and sign few papers today and meet some one regarding it. I have known that person for a while, he's my friend's dad. And the funny thing is, when we were kids, everybody was very decent and posh talking to you and your family. Now that we have grown up , things change. And the men actually tend to count us in in there talks ( of ne kinds ). Well its good but sometimes you actually have to pretend you didnt hear the things which just flew by or just act busy in something.

 Even making dumb faces can help ;-)

Neways, its not a big issue but surely it'll take some ti

me to get into the habit of acknowledging the " swearings " :-). N mind you, hindi ones am talking about here.. !!

---Appended---

I actually came across a funny pic. Well the funny part is that, something similar can actually happen with me . :-) n VILLA are the football club - Aston Villa ( just in case )