Who created Pakistan ? Who cares ? ...

I am a bit confused over this issue , Yes about this Jaswant Singh and Jinnah affair. I thought that Jaswant blamed Nehru and Patel for the partition of India absolving Jinnah of doing so. To my simple mind that would imply that the guys who should be offended should be the "Congresswallas" , They are ofcourse silent on this issue. But now it dawns to me during that time Nehru and Patel were heros of the nation, everyone just spoke about them and noone else as such. But now it dawns to me that maybe Patel and Nehru were the secret icons of the BJP. I actually did not know this, though it is becoming clear that over the past decade BJP is slowly getting fascinated of Sardar Patel.

No let me actually correct that: Over the last decade Lal Krishna Advani has been getting fascinated of Sardar Patel. Not without good reason, let me assure you. Advani wants to ape Patel and become another Sardar. In his own mind, that is. The Sardar belonged to Gujarat and Advani's family also settled in Gujarat (Kutch to be precise) after partition. Advani these days gets elected to the Lok Sabha from Gujarat from the seat of Gandhinagar ... So basically Patel is Advani's latest icon and that of his (aspirant) "chhote sardar" Narendra Modi.But when did he become an icon of the BJP? So why are they bothered if Jaswant Singh showed him in bad light? I fully understand why the "chhote sardar" has banned the book. If he is the "chhota sardar" how can he tolerate the insult of the sardar, the original man on whom he wants to style himself?

I remember as a schoolboy we read history books that taught that the Congress party got us our freedom. But that was in school lessons. But there was an unofficial version too that we heard at home or from seniors that i had learnt from Meerut which said that the partition of the country could have been avoided if Nehru and Patel were not in a hurry to rule the country. In their anxiety to do so, and much to the dissapointment of Gandhi, these guys accepted partition. If the duo had stood firm and agreed to share power with Jinnah, partition would never have taken place. Yes independence may perhaps would have been delayed but partition would not have taken place. Independence could have come a few years later and the Congress party could have lost his primacy by the time India became independent. But partition would not have taken place

What we learnt during our school days is an awfully long time ago. The fact that a generational change takes place every 10 years these days (or is it 5 years?) means that many generations have passed after that. The Love Aaj Kal generation that is found on Facebook couldn't be bothered the least if Jinnah was a gaandu , fraud or a great man. Ditto for Patel and Nehru. They would not give a damn that India and Pakistan were once part of the same nation. For them there is India and there is Pakistan and also there is Bangladesh. So why get agitated over Jaswant Singh's book? He has written a book and let the guys who want to read it, read it (I will) Unless of course you want to make it a bestseller by creating a controversy and banning the book.

Master Bathroom

For my client , who wants more traditional fixtures than combined units ...

Sky Villas - Bahrain

The Third Dimension ... Cont

Skyvillas - Bahrain

Master Bathroom

The Third Dimension - Cont.

The revised 3D as per client ...
Villamar Projects, Lifestyle - Bahrain

3D ...

Villamar Projects - Bahrain
Lift lobby area ...

OMG ...

See the beautiful normal map?
no? Turn your flashlight on..
OMG!! a zombie, quick! switch to your gun!
Oh, crap. Where’d he go?
OMG!!!! *dead*
..

See ammo
pick it up(mmm ammo.. my favorite!)
Monster spawns.. OMG!
kill kill kill
*dead*

Note - I really didnt know my boss was a gaming enthusiast , now thats cool isint it ?..

We play unreal tornument 10 during our lunch break .. :)

I swear i will NEVER leave this office ... :)

3 Dimension

Yay !! .... My first 3D in JRHP ... :)
Villamar Golf Estates - Bahrain

How she loved a imperfect person perfectly ?

The title is apt, its just about how she fell in love with a moron like me, and the moron managed to take a commited stance to it ...:) Since a very long time I wanted to write about this, but just didn’t know where to start from, but this just comes from my inner most feelings for her...

It always happens that you are so busy in your own world, that you do not realize how important you are for another person. There were times when I was low and needed someone just to talk, or perhaps just to take my frustrations off, but there were also times that I was very eager to share something.
Initially I never took her seriously for anything but she is the one whom I can connect to. Sometimes I do feel kidnapped whenever I am with her , as I tend to deal with everything that is around me, maybe into another world itself where its just about me and her. As of today I don’t really feel the need to be alone anytime as she has been there with me every single moment, it was my mistake earlier that I never took anything in a relationship as meaningful or valuable, Hell! I didn’t even know the meaning of the word "relationship" …
I was taught by my "good friends", that flings is the motto of life and live by it. Well on the other hand I don’t really blame them, as they were not as lucky as I have been to find someone as her.
There cannot be anyone that could replace Amber from my life , without her there would be no life , there wouldn’t be anything that I could live for. If you actually come to a solid point she is the only one who can laugh at my jokes. Slowly she is trying to understand my sense of humor, though she tries to crack a joke somewhere or the other, (Ask her about the B-Silent joke, You will not survive it) but she is kind of far not really close. So yeah in that particular way it's just a fact that she is only one who can tolerate my "nonsense".
Past 1 year and 6 months have been great, we saw a lot of positives as well as negatives, and not to forget a lot of goof-ups, which had landed both of us into trouble. I am happy and thankful that she has managed to bear me for the last 18 months, and I hope for the coming years she can continue to do so to the best of her capabilities. The journey ahead may not be good , it might have a lot of speed-breakers, but with you by my side I can fight the world, and together we will do it …

P.S – Yes Aaku I can be corny using the internet as well , But yeah who really cares ?..No one reads this blog anyways… Also this post was Manjeet's Idea ...:)

11th

Just one line ...
"It went well ...:) "

The mirror has many faces...

Sometimes when i sleep i am in the arms of my own dreams , they take me where-ever they wish to in their own dreamland. I see myself in a problem , a problem that cannot be solved and my mind racing with all possible solutions towards it. Alas , there are no concrete solutions to it. The preceding conclusion to it that i wake up with my mnd being in a frenzy and a whole aching body.
One of my dreams has me standing in one of those old fashioned trial rooms with mirrors on all sides and if you look into one mirror then you see multiple reflections of the same you. I like to focus on only one of the many images that I can see and try to ignore the other images. It is almost as if I like that particular image of myself and I want to keep focusing on that as I stand in the trial room.
One of these nights when I had this dream, I had trouble focusing on that image and the whole effort of it broke my sleep and I got up and started to think about this dream and its implications in real life. To me the parallels with real life were easy to draw. I see myself, as I am today, in many images and I like to potray myself in different images to different people. All of the images put together would probably define me the best rather than each image by itself. Each image has its element of truth, hope and fantasy. There is some truth or the image wouldn’t have generated to begin with but I also hope and fantasise about completely being the person that I seek to potray in my image. Sometimes the image comes out unconsciously without me knowing it.
Reading through the archives of my blog I see images of myself that I didn’t know existed. If I now had to sit and write on the same issues I would probably churn out a totally different post. Totally different thought process and conclusion.In all this there is how I imagine myself to be. That one image that I focus on in my dream and that I like the most. That is how I imagine myself to be. Under the harsh gaze of my eyes sometimes this image breaks down to nothing and I stand naked in front of the mirror just the way I am.
Growing up I was horrified at seeing myself without an image but now I have come to like myself better this way. The image is slowly changing and it is resembling more and more of me. It is becoming more and more like a glass which is slowly getting cleared. The process is not easy but it is gratifying to say the least. The world looks much clearer now. I want to say simpler but I don’t think that is the case, atleast not yet.

Way of life .

No matter how many times I may have lost my path,There is but one destination that calls me, my feet may have stepped unevenly, up or down but the destination has always moved towards me every moment.

I am obliged to my friends on many a call,But I am indebted to them for most of this....

Let the skies pour down in hail, let the earth explode with fire,

The unstoppable cycle of time,

Let us begin a warfare...

Depression - over dose ...

First things first , this thing is going to come right from my innermost feelings ...

Shun me , ignore me, do what-so-ever , get hurt , hate it...

Off late i have been acting weird , trying to live on my own having the stupid and nonsensical idea in my mind to have no one around me as that's the way i want to live ... All is going haywire , i have never really understand that , i have really lost it...

Ugh ... for many it seem seem that i am in my most selfish gear as possible , maybe self centered mood as possible ... whatever it might seem to be , i have no explanations to it like i have mentioned hate it ...

Hell ! why do i have to sit and watch people make my own unexpected decisions in life , that make no sense whatsoever , why do i even tend to listen to them ?
Why do i have to be truthful , kind , courteous , helpful to all ? .... why cannot i just be selfish , sarcastic , mean , shallow , mean , cruel like all of them ?

P.S- i knew it i should have never taken those damn moral science classes in school ...

Anti-Blogger ...

Not updated my blog in a while , reasons or things that i might be doing that has made me into a anti-blogger...

• Having a lot of fun in my super dooper life ... which in-fact unusually is going really smoothly without any obstacles as such..



• Sticking in front of the T.V and being as lazy as ever courtesy- Indian Premier League. (Delhi Daredevils + IPL = Champs)



• On a vacation , to some exotic land which has no connection to the Internet or humans ...



• Watching countless episodes of Friends , (Addiction has no cure)



• In search for financial stability , i dont really remember when was the last time i had more than 150 bucks in my wallet...



• Researching and studying countless commercial design - Offices. Innovation and creativity is no longer present in Mahe Manipal specifically in the Interior Design Dept. , it has been nicely and very conveniently transformed into something known as Jugaad... P.S -( http://www.cben.net/ )



• Finding my inner soul.



• Finding my inner soul on Facebook . Possible !



• Commenting on pictures on Facebook .. that also includes Status messages...



• Living in complete dejection when the above three have got boring .



• Completely pissed off with a lot of ******* in college , and thus not in the right state of mind to write.



• Spending time in rehabilitation .. You know



• Youtube has taken over Blogspot ...



• I spend my night's driving all over Dubai , sometimes I like to be a cab driver for my friends ...though they do not pay me...



• If nothing at all , i end up at Sneha's house every night ... after all what are friends for late night booze and 2 day old pizza .. :)



• Plain Simple Lazy !

One or two points above are true , but what is the point you are not going to believe me ... The picture below is a hint of my current life scenario ...

My take on cities and the girls ...

As indicated in my previous posts, Boredom has captured my life. Earlier it was boredom coz of absolutely no work and now perhaps there is too much of work. In spite of my best efforts to get over this , i have failed miserably. It is this boredom that has forced me to dream/visualize places that i would like to go and basically chill out ...

1. Paris: The wine, The architecture ... the culture , The louvre , the charm and the artistic beauty of the city. Many people have told me that this city has got a certain flavour to it be it from musicians, architects or painters which is intesified byDan Brown's Da vinci code.
French Girls:They are pretty good looking infact most of them are hot...

2. Ladakh: I always as a kid wanted to go there , maybe coz i like winters a lot. The Dal lake becomes a platform to ice skate in the cold weather of December. The atmosphere there is simply amazing. The hills, the lakes , the weather it does remind me somewhat of the 3 years i had spent in a hostel in Dehradun.
Kashmiri Girls: Exceptions are always there i feel , but all in all this place is not that bad...

3.Kolkota: Not that i like Bongs, i find the dudes from Kolkota "Phattu" who just claim that they are this and they are that.. Blah Blah ! .. in reality nothing. The chicks are not less, Blondness runs in their blood, but the city in all has a lot to offer,the food,the sweets,the architecture ,the trams, the sheer richness and opulence.
Kolkata Girls: Who said Blonds were not Hot ? ..

4. Vegas: This place is where i plan to retire, I plan to be buried in Vegas itself. Just someday , someday .. i should have enough money to go there and play poker .... and yes hopefully not regret it later ... :)
Vegas Girls: Ahem ! .. Need i say more ??

5. Morocco: There’s a certain royalty about that place, a cultural heritage and that enigma factor, something that most of the Islamic cities have. Plus, I like the way its pronounced..
Morocco: Nah, all have this naqab over them ... forget it

These are the places I’ve heard about, read about, wondered of but am sure there’d be a zillion others that though do not have the discovery or enigma factor I look for in a place, they’d be a wonder just for the beauty, the peace, the ones am still to learn of and add to the list.

The Month Long Drama

I have a "write a post" stick on note stuck to my laptop (which btw is the only source of entertainment these days). And still i have managed to ignore it for almost a month, the reason I didnt post for a full month besides my laziness, is a month full of drama. Yeah a total DRAMA.
Here are a few elements of the Drama....

The "circle of friends"
Its complicated , trust me it really is. The main attribute to this maybe my blog, but anyways screw that. Gone are the days when you had selfless friends, perhaps now you dont.At present you can barely find anyone who can actually fall into that category. Someone said to be long time back blogs are a method of expressing yourself, no matter what it is. Yes i do write a blog and i write whatever i feel like,You can't stop me, Can you ? It is my method of expressing myself. If you or your better half have a problem with it, - Go fuck yourself.
Have any resemblence of something known as "Balls" ? Come talk to me instead of "crying" over for every possible thing.

The Money
Money has always been a hassle in my life, to make it worse the world is going through an entire recession period, Yes times are tough and unfortunatly noone can really help it. I really dont know how am i going to deal with this bankruptcy of mine.I am basically "broke". 2 months more and then i have to search for my internship. Ever wondered what this word means. It means FREE work.. Period
Noone gets paid for internships or do they ? ...

Note:- If anyone knows Interior Design firms that are giving internships and are also "paying" in Dubai/New Delhi ... Do inform me

Work Place Issues
This is not really radical, but work/college/Mahe Manipal is really creating a havoc in my life, yes after 3 semesters i have realised that internal marks really are important, its not really a joke anymore. The changes that have come to the surface regarding my professional work is

1. No more late submittions
2.Write notes in class, (they are not meant to be made into paper balls after class is over and thrown at random people)
3.Work your ass off this semester to increase your GPA
4.Do the crappy assignments the day it is given no matter if the midnight oil has to be burnt or not
5.Dont leave anything for the weekend.
6.Under no circumstances DO NOT bunk classes.

Note:- No i am still the same dude, i am not transforming into a Nerd, to give some positive attribute to it - I still play Foosball.. :D

Facebook
Facebook has become less intresting, It has been ages since i had really updated anything there or never the less played poker (which used to be my favourite pastime), infact for a lame reason and perhaps just for the heck of it. I decided to play Texas Holdem last night, just so that i dont forget how to play poker.


Death
Death i believe is something that is more harrowing to the family of the departed than to anyone else. A close friend of mine from college had lost his father this month , It was really very sad and i offer my condolences to him. But i am also happy for a fact that he is coming to college tomorrow after 20 days. I did meet him last night with Aamir and we shared a smoke and spoke for long. It was nice to see him smiling after a long time ... :)



Sigh , I end my non-post here. Besides this there are a lot more things that have happened this month, but absolutly nothing that can be termed as exciting has happened. Boring can be well justified.

This is where i end, to the "cry baby" and the gujju girl i know:-

Regarding my blog --- Ill keep you pissed Oh, posted ...:P
Peace

Thought for the day ...

" You should be more menti than you are senti " - Ria Shergil ...

As i sit here..

I write this keeping in view my mental status

As i sit here, I see smoke rising over my head as if giving me an indication to something. My thoughts go to endless days of thinking mindlessly. Sometimes you just want to waste time thinking about nothing , you just wish to be alone and have your own space. You need your bubble of solitude.

As i sit here, i can see the clock ticking and think as to how fast life is passing. A moment back i was in school chasing a football and now i am staring at a design portfolio. Life lived now will be history the next second. A moment lost , a moment that cannot be revived back , a moment that is finished.

As i sit here, i think of all the dreams that i saw, all those dreams that forced me to believe that it is wiser to be awake than to dream. Dreams that saw aspirations are buried, and ambitions drowning.

As i sit here, i think that till now i have had some highs and some lows. Some were good days and some were bad days. It is a flashback of memory. A black and white photo reel that is running reminding me of each and everything. The mistakes that costed me and the risks that gifted me.

As i sit here, i hope this darkness ends, giving way to a new hope. It ends the struggle. It gives me the required strength to collide with it. A new ray .... A new beginning.

As i sit here, i hope that i am wiser today than what i was yesterday. I learn to be more forgiving. I learn to appreciate life. I can hope that i am stronger and live life today , now and this moment

Boredom

Besides the fact that the word "Sick" also rhymes with a religion that my father inherits , it also creates a havoc in my life. College holidays are on, its Feb 1st now, I have about 8 days more. I am down with Viral Fever and Cold. I cant do anything besides lie down on a bed and stare at the ceiling,
Well not to completely blame on sickness , I was anyways doing the same every single day, that's life for me. Ally aka Alisha would never be convinced over this but girl i am not really lazy. Umm yeah occasionally i might refuse to do certain things , but that doesn't really brand me Lazy eh ?..
Its been long since i was at the blogging scene , (Yes , blame on laziness and nothing more).

Sammy has also left for Singapore, believe me i have no one to really share my laziness and boredom with. (Now i realise that i really miss that blond singaporian girl. Damnn !)

Boredom sometimes challenges you , it really does and that is precisely what it has done to me this past 1 week. I have managed to watch all the seasons of F.R.I.E.N.D.S (on an average i end up watching 2 seasons every night).

Cigarettes are being consumed on a very high scale, Late night drives to Ajman and Sharjah are pretty common nowadays, sharing a smoke with Pulkit in the middle of the night (4am) is to the extent boredom has driven me.
I was so bored i decided to watch Dil Kabbadi yet again for the 3rd time, (Fuck you Ryan , it aint such a bad movie in fact its too good , its a laugh-riot )

Not that anyone would be interested but just for the record , i have left Sheesha , I haven't smoked sheesha for a month now i guess. It seems a recent survey has said that people who smoke cigarettes and sheesha together have a health span of 45 years. My future plans of retireing early, live in Las Vegas and play poker can really go down in drain. So yeah that was one of the reasons as to why i had to really leave sheesha , and probably the other being i was getting sick with the smell of it. I plan to leave ciggs pretty soon too.

Delhi 6 ...

I am dieing to watch this movie , it seems to be a nice movie ....

Note - Attention all men check out Sonam Kapoor she looks damn hot !

Republic Nation

It was 26th January 1950 when the nation was declared a republic , free from the bound of the British Government , free from all kinds of restrictions, . There were sacrifices made, there were people dead , and the country was divided into two. With bloodshed, lives lost and whatever that the country never wanted I still believe if MK Gandhi did not exist in our struggle to freedom, we would have got our independence long time back , the fact that he is the father of the nation is just a hype and nothing more than that, If and only if revolutionaries had taken charge we would have got independence 100 years back. Its a simple logic if 1 million Indians had shouted and revolted against the British , where would 10000 scared Englishmen run ???... The British were in India for 200 years and it took 100 years for the struggle to start. We still suffer from our nation problems with poverty , corruption at its highest stake, However no nation is perfect, Still we had achieved our Independence, free from governance. A complete democratic government.

Today on 26th January 2008, I salute the nation, and yet again feel proud to be an Indian..

Jaihind ...

My Movie Spree

Yes, I am on a movie spree.
Its 6.24 am and i have not slept till now blame it on Sleep Insanity.
I saw Slumdog Millionare and Ghajni today. None of the movies had that "feel good" factor within them. They were good movies agreed but seriously none of them i was like happy to watch. Ghajni had a pathetic ending for the first time i saw a Mallu villain in a bollywood movie, who reminded me of Thomas of all the people. When Ghajini had hit the trailer's i had started to think as to how the movie will be, This is what i had initially thought before watching the movie, Ghajini was the name of the main actress (Asin) who had commited sucide because she and Aamir Khan couldn't get married 'coz of Asin's parents after that Aamir Khan commits suicide too . Aamir Khan has a re-incarnation and decides to take revenge from the Inlaws,but has this 15 min memory which goes on and off like a old fuse of a bulb (Don't blame me, i am really jobless these days after exams, i have SERIOUSLY nothing to do) .
Slumdog Millionare consisted of this deep, harrowing, sad story for atleast 85% of the movie. A film which triumphs community over social class? I would actually recommend Slumdog Millionare over Ghajni.
My ratings are as follows
Ghajini - 7/10
Slumdog Millionare -9/10
Ghajini had somewhere in the middle got boring , Jiah Khan looked Hot throughout the movie. (Don't get your hopes high, This had nothing related to Nishabd) . She didn't have skimpy clothes on neither did she have a 60 year old guy to really have an affair with.
Besides Aamir Khan , Jiah Khan and Asin i really didn't find anyone worth in the movie, If they had included people whom the local audience could identify with ,the movie could have been better. Now i actually wonder as to why did my mom didn't like Aamir Khan in Ghajini.

Am i turning into a women ?

Earlier just to freak out Aakriti i used to say to her things that might give an indication that i am turning into a women, but something is odd , something is really REALLY weird this past one week. I think i am turning into a women, i don't have much proof for this - for example i don't have men staring at my chest when i talk to them nor do they open the door for me and stare at my ass when i leave the room... but i do have this major feeling that i am more of a women than a man.
Everything was fine till today mom told me and Arushi to fetch few things from Lamcy.
After 90 Min's of shopping at Lamcy Plaza , i refused to push the trolley i mean wasn't that a guys job to do ? . I even started to arrange the items (eggs, aerated drinks , juice , toilet paper) , initially i used to just stack them one over the other but it seemed that i had actually started to arrange them in a systematic way. I realized that when i am a women i hate it if eggs touch toilet paper.
There are three things that men do in a Supermarket
1.Drive down and search for parking endlessly
2.Push the trolley
3. Stare at other girls
I didn't feel like doing any of these.
On my way back , i hit a car in the parking lot while i was trying to get the car out. There was a guy who was a Lebanese by his looks standing a little away . Since my window was up , I could only Lip read this is what i could manage " You Motherfucker why are you driving like a lady ? "
Once inside the house, I couldn't relax till I had arranged all the edibles inside the fridge and the other items in the kitchen cabinets
Later in the evening , i had to meet Ria and Rahul at Times Cafe. I ordered a Fosters beer and i didn't like the taste. Was i not drinking beer 'coz it can make you burp endlessly or was i acting like a women ? I seriously don't know
I told mom that i would like to come to her friends house for dinner which she had planned like a week back or so, I din’t tell her that I had this huge urge to join the ladies for their 9 pm. to 10 pm. dinner talk where everything from diaper rashes to school fees was discussed and digested.
BTW FYI mom has this friend called Divya , and her daughter Risha is like very hot, initially my sole reason was to meet her but when i went there , for some apparent reason i got bored talking to her, i was admiring her dressing table more than anything.
Somehow,Doritos seemed boring to me today while watching TV, Saas Bahu serials have a lot controversy i also found out today.

Note: If you are a lady, you probably understand the symptoms better – can you tell me the truth…am I turning into a woman? If yes, I would like to know your thoughts on same gender sex?

Residential Design ... Serious ?

So its RD that has kept me occupied for the last 10 days, Conceptual Designs are a pain trust me they are really a pain. Thinking of concepts I do have something in mind , what about 1960 or 1970 ? .. Is there anything i can really use of that ? Old Radio Transmission and Rocking Chair as furniture ? Too lame and boring , but at the same time Retro is not useful in anyway. Toh basically Meri toh lag gayi hain ! .. i have not decided anything and i have VERY few hours in hand.

This is one exam that i really need to pass , Pass but how? .. kaise ? .. I really wish the beg, borrow, steal theory would work on this also like it does in other cases. I really don't have good experiences of using this theory before and its because of that i haven't given my 1st exam,(Yes Mahe Manipal gives 100% importance to Plagiarism . Screw You ! )

Tonight i am doomed, nothing seems to be going my way. I don't have a concept so that makes SURE that i am not prepared for tomorrow's exam AT ALL, its not that i don't really want to work, My old principle of " I am not lazy i just don't want to work " has gone absolute and i rarely follow that nowadays, rarely is a wrong word here probably.

I was an idiot that i was over-confident about this exam, now i am not, in fact i regret it. Internal Marks for RD don't give a smile on my face either, So now its luck its pure simple luck that i will have to face tomorrow.

Hopefully if what my "evil" mind is thinking right now .... I WILL PASS!!!

P.S- I am telling you the world revolves around this word called "Jugaad" if not the world at least Interior Design does ... :P

Crossing One's Tea...

I dont know what you are addicted to , but off late i am addicted to Tea . It is a fact that i think i do have very few friends, and when you really need to talk to someone, i think over cigarettes and Tea is like the best thing. Sammy and Ryan would know better. Personally any kind of Tea would do for me - be it Green Tea , White Tea , Herbal Tea or my favourite Disco Chai. No you dont start dancing after having it its just a name given to a Tea by some Mallu Cafe nearby.It is funny how an Indian sitting in Dubai is writing about something that the Chinese discovered and the Japanese added flavour to. The reason being that i am so fed up of my portfolio that i am surfing endlessly on various sites on Tea out of all things possible.:S

Anyways it is believed that the Chinese discovered tea when some tea leaves accidentally fell into a pot of boiling water. Now my question is – who threw in the milk and sugar?
I am not the only one who is addicted to tea of any kind. Over the years, Indian culture & customs have been influenced by tea. Customs were influenced less by tea and more by tea smugglers, Lol.

It is said that an American improvised on tea and came up with the concept of “Iced Tea.” What beats me is that they did it in 1904 (at the 1904 World Fair St. Louis) when refrigerators were not available in a normal household. And even if refrigerators were available ….how did some random tea leaves fly into a refrigerator? Wasn’t the refrigerator door closed?
Americans live by improvising. Besides the telephone, I know of nothing that has been invented (or discovered) by the Americans. Why…they needed Christopher Colombus, an Italian sailor working for a Spanish queen, to discover their own country – the Americas!

Maybe you aren’t aware of this….in the United States of America, 90% of the tea consumed is black. And in India and Dubai 90% of the tea consumed is white (with milk that is). Ironic isn’t it - white men having black tea and black men having white tea?

According to the tea historian, whose article I have been reading for the time being , after becoming popular in China, Japan and America….tea started filtering into Europe in the 17th century. Now, my question is….if tea was all filtered…how did the Europeans ever get the tea leaves? And what a big filter it should have been. The one that I use in my house to filter tea into the tea cup has a diameter of ten centimeters.
In Europe, tea first filtered into Holland and France. In Holland it is popular to this day, but in France wine has taken over. There were a few benefits that wine offered over and above tea, and we are not talking about the alcohol content.
Some of the differences that the French saw before they shifted away from tea are:
• Wine didn’t need a heating unit

• Wine didn’t need to be filtered

• Wine didn’t need milk to be added

After such a long, boring article….if only someone can make me a cup of tea...

Breakup...

Today , Saturday January 9thth 2009 will be remembered. I lost 50 buks , I had an accident at floating bridge, I broke up with Aakriti. What more can you ask for ? Nothing , i think that is more than enough. To make matters worse i havnt studied much since morning. ( Indra would be smiling wouldnt she ? .. ) . Sometimes you probably think as to where can you go wrong in a relationship , you can try your level best but it just never works, its more like you are banging your head against a wall, why bother ?.. My suggesstion to anyone who might be reading this is DO NOT commit the mistake of getting into a relationship but incase you have DO TELL ME i would love to laugh. I spoke to Sadiq today unusually if something doomed has to happen it will happen to both of us together, the moment i told him about me and Aakriti , his cellphone rang and it was Maria they spoke for a while and after a while he said " Dude I think Maria wants to break up with me " , all i could do was laugh and nothing more. Before he was trying to cheer me up and now both of us, Lol .

For some unusual reason Mrudvi Bakshi came up in my mind today, i dont know why but yes i did think about her today, always i have heard when you break up with your gf , your gf's best friend is the reason, earlier i used to think it was her HER HER, but actually not. I dont blame the failure of my relationship to anyone, i belive in just being single and happy from now on, I have started to think about Pranay , his idology and principles in life are pretty clear, "" Stay single and be happy take life as it comes, never get serious."" . Sometimes that dude actually makes sense no matter what he says. So now officially i declare that among the 4 of us ( Karan, Alif , Pranay, and me ) ... Karan and Alif seem to be the only ones who seem to be commited. I hope Karan and Kamna dont break up, it doesnt seem they will, But Alif if his deep secret is hidden from Vinisha well yeah maybe then there is a chance...

Aahh thinking about Vinisha, i hope one day she comes to know who was actually right between me and Leena, I WASNT 2 TIMING ..... I SWEAR. As college reopens now on Sunday, i know what exactly is going to happen, Khadija will probably come screaming at me , and the following conversation would take place.

Khadija: Tum Breakup kaise kar sakte hon ?

Apurv: Kyon nahi karsakta?

Khadija:CHUP KARJAO TUM !@$#@@$#$

Apurv: Huh ??

Khadija has this uncanny habbit of really acting mad sometimes, but she is a sweet female. I fear her kids because the way she is when she is pissed off can scare anyone possible, Can you belive it she actually sprained Aamir's Neck ! .. LOL ! or maybe i am expecting Ms Mrudvi Bakshi to come again and start rambleing at the top of her voice making no sense whatsoever , but then who really cares ?.. I personally dont, and i dont want to either. She can say what she wants it doesnt really affect , i sometimes wonder why are so many people related to a relationship , isint it just the guy and the chick ? They are like too many people attached to it , Your friends , her friends everyone , its more like if we breakup , they will die..Can't the guy and the chick like talk among themselves and sort/screw everything. But NO this is Mahe Manipal, anyone who patches up/breaks up/makes out/Sex/Strip it has to become a new thing to talk about, i think Mahe Manipal survives on rumors. (ohh btw did you hear Mahe Manipal has a MMS too, lol .. yes very few ppl know about it .. but it does it seems 2 chicks from 1st year Mass Comm are in it.. cool eh ?)

Tomorrow i might be meeting my godmother , she has finally arrived back from Oz.---> Ria as she has told me online she would like to know each and every detail of what happened with Aakriti and she would like to meet her , that is something that wouldn't be happening in the near future.

I have also come up to a decision, I plan to be stoned on 17th the day i return to Delhi .. Peace :)

When i got online...

It must be 5 or 6 years back that i might have used the internet for the 1st time, it was kind of cool in school days , having your own Email and all ... though it sounds pretty lame now as a my cousin who is 5 years old has her own Email Id , thats Narayani Bhatnagar for you , elders though tell me that i was a brat when i was a kid (am i still one ?), wait till you meet her .. Anyways back to the topic , i remember i had initially had started chatting in chat rooms via Yahoo! Messenger havin the most cheeziest of id nicks buzzing_around2002@yahoo.co.in (yeah you can laugh over it but its better than coolboy, or hotboy or angelgirl)... Today I logged onto my account after like a year or so. Yahoo! has this unique feature of automatically saving all your past conversations online, that is if you would have used yahoo! messenger.

The Net was just right for me. I could lie , I could pretend i could say anything to anyone.

Here are few transcripts that actually took place about 5 years ago.

Vital Info- My Id is buzzing_around2002

6.30 p.m.

buzzing_around2002: Hi

pleazemeetme: ASL pls

buzzing_around2002:What…?

pleazemeetme: Are you a guy or a girl?

buzzing_around2002: Guy. Why?

pleazemeetme: Fuck off you punk. !!

Later I would come to know that pleazemeetme was a guy looking for a girl.

6.45 p.m.
buzzing_around2002: Hi

meetmeinheaven: asl?

buzzing_around2002: You mean sex?

meetmeinheaven: Yes. How did you know what I was thinking?

buzzing_around2002: Just like that. I am a guy.

meetmeinheaven: Then why do you want to have sex with me?

buzzing_around2002: When did I say that?

meetmeinheaven:Buzz off you fruit cake (incase you did not know, it means a homo i got to know that later)

This guy was desperate.

7.00 p.m.
buzzing_around2002: asl?

pinky190479: 15/F/Lukhnow

buzzing_around2002: whats that?

pinky190479: My asl dumbo.

buzzing_around2002: Does asl mean age, sex and location?

pinky190479: Yes. Guess you are too dumb. Bye.

buzzing_around2002: No…no.. I am new to chat.

pinky190479: That’s fine. Bye.

By now, I had smartened up and realized that on the net the guys are looking for girls. And girls too are looking for girls.

7.15 p.m
radhika_kumar (BTW, this is me): Hi

jaya_bisht79:hi

radhika_kumar: asl?

jaya_bisht79: 18/F/Nanital (UP)

radhika_kumar: Cool.

jaya_bisht79: Your asl?

radhika_kumar: 18/F/New Delhi

jaya_bisht79: Thats neat.

radhika_kumar: So what do you do?

jaya_bisht79: I am a student doing Commerce with Maths.

radhika_kumar: I cannot believe my luck. My brother is into science and he wants to shift to commerce. He had some doubts.

jaya_bisht79: What kind?

radhika_kumar: If it is worth everything, salary expected …you know that kind. If it is ok with you, shall I give him your id?

jaya_bisht79: Hm….fine. Should not be a problem. Is he online?

radhika_kumar: No he is not online now. I just called him up and gave him your id. BTW, his yahoo id is buzzing_around2002

jaya_bisht79: No hassles.

radhika_kumar: That is really nice of you. He will get in touch with you shortly. I will log off now , takecare bye bye .

Fifteen minutes after I logged off, I logged in again, this time as buzzing_around2002. We struck the right chord. She is still my chat friend and keeps enquiring about my sister Radhika Kumar,though we speak rarely nowadays

Taj Mahal , Its FAKE

Its true i am not allowed to give my History exam thankx to Ms.Indira Barve ( !@#!$!$ ) , so since i will have to give this exam again, i have been preparing for my other exams and believe it or not, it is going pretty well. My portfolio's have come out pretty well. I have my Islamic Architecture exam on Thursday and i have done somewhat preparation on it, We do have a set of 40 questions which we got to learn and then on the exam day you will have 20 questions from it ... There was this question write a note on the Taj Mahal. and the answer started as to why it was built ? Who built it ? .. blah blah . Come to think of it i have another version of it altogether. Few of you will be angry with me but personally i don't think that Shah Jahan ever fell in love with Mumtaz Mahal and built such a massive mausoleum for her ...

If some random guy told me that Shah Jahan built it for his wife Mumtaz Mahal i would readily agree to it but now since historians have confirmed it , I really don't buy that story. I have arrived at this from my own experiences. The last thing i built for Aakriti was neither the India Gate nor the Jama Masjid, but instead a hand made card on our 3rd month anniversary. I spoke to a friend of mine Vikrant about this and he said that the only thing he gave Candice ever was a wooden purse with a security code... ( Yes in Paris you do get that )

You could endlessly argue with me that Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal lived in a period where true love blossomed. But even then , I am pretty sure that it would not have been possible for Shah Jahan to love his wife the same for over 20 years. Perhaps it was good for Shah Jahan that his wife was no longer alive when he started building the Taj otherwise he would have stopped it a 100 times ...

Remember that story that Shah Jahan had cut the thumbs of all his workers after the Taj Mahal was erected, so that the Taj Mahal wouldn't be made ever again (talk about copyright laws). This is all crap, utter Bullshit. Here is the true story : The day the thumbs were cut, Shah Jahan remembered how one day Mumtaz had refused to serve him dinner. Mumtaz had been on the phone with her mother the whole day long, and hence could not serve dinner for Shah Jahan. This had completely pissed off the King of the World, he could not do anything about it... But now as she was dead he could take independent decisions , so he stopped all the work at the Taj and ordered the thumbs of all craftsmen to be cut.

It was not until next morning that Shah Jahan resumed all word at the site. My guess is Shah Jahan remembered how his wife served him otherwise (don't forget the couple had 14 kids)

Initially the Taj Mahal was supposed to be a tribute to his wife Mumtaz Mahal ONLY, but when she died Shah Jahan decided to combine the five other tributes that he was planning to build (for his earlier girlfriends) with the Taj Mahal. That is why today you see one tomb and four Minarets along with it. You probably wonder what the hell happened to the 5th Girlfriend, that is why the Taj Mahal is built on the banks of the river Yamuna. His 5th gf's name was Yamuna.

I know you wont believe me ... But neither do i believe myself ...

Is this really the exam pressure ?? .. :S:S:S

I Love you ....... (Yes i am waiting for a reply)

Gone are the days when " I love you " would actually evoke a reply from my girlfriend. I say echo because she used to give me this romantic look and reply "I love you too". Now i can say it comes under the concept of "Purani yaadien". Now that we have been dating for like a year now, things seem to be changing a bit. We have our usual fights but alls well, we patch up in like an hour of ( no talking , no smses to each other ) . I love you no longer gives me those romantic looks, they no longer get me the similar feeling if not, similar sounding words....
I wouldn't have put it up for the world to see (not that people don't have any other work other than to check blogs) if it had not been for what happened today afternoon, I was studying and she had called me, this is how our conversation went ..
Aakriti: Hey
Me:Hi wats up?
Aakriti: Nothing much .. just been busy with the coming up examz .. Eco Sucks !!
Me: Umm yeah it does ...
Aakriti: How are you coping up with your examz ?
Me: Pretty good ..
Aakriti: Are you free for 3 hours tomorrow ?
Me: It depends .. anywayz whatz the plan ?
Aakriti: No i plan to go to the creek and study
Me:huh ?
Aakriti: Umm yeah i will study there our purana aada .. will you come ?
Me: I dont know .. not sure..
Aakriti: OK BYE ! i have to study
Me: Hmm ... bye i have to study too .. Love you ..
**** The phone got Disconnected this convo must have lasted for like barely few minutes and thats how it had to really end ...

There was a time when my "I love you" had positive responses, so much that i had to give a call to Alfiya or Saniya to tell them that i will be somewhat late to class, which eventually i used to never go for. Over the past one year, the responses that i have actually got from her have been quite dwindling. Here is a list of responses that i have got from her

IMPORTANT- We started dating "Officially" on 11th December 2007

January 11th 2008
Me: I love you
Aakriti: I love you too

March 22nd 2008
Me: I love you
Aakriti: You look good when you wear your black Kurta ..
Me: :S

June 18th 2008
Me: I love you
Aakriti: I am missing you .. :(

July 29th 2008
Me: I love you
Aakriti: You have to quit smoking its been 3 months i have been telling you this...

September 18th 2008
Me: I love you
Aakriti: You have to quit smoking its been 5 months now ... 6 cigarettes per day now -- PERIOD !!

November 24th 2008
Me:I love you
Aakriti: Hey isin't your Bday coming soon ??

December 17th 2008
Me: I love you
Aakriti: Umm yeah uhhh.... (yawn) .. me too !

January 5th 2009
Me: I love you
Aakriti : I am sorry i wont be able to meet you in the evening as i have to study.. ( Bullshit ) ... and then my parents will be at home so i wont be able to call you either anywayz... take care Bye ..! ..

(And now as i am guessing ... )
January 1st 2015
Me: I love you ..
Aakriti: So ??? ...

So much for Relationships ...
A quick question before i bid adieu and go again working on my Residential Design Portfolio ...
Question: If your girlfriend puts poison on her boyfriends pea soup how will he die ?
Answer: Peas-fully .... Lmao

Yes i take immense pleasure and appreciation for my lameness .. :p

Design OBSESSION !

So Design isn't really that bad , well off course you got to study and work your ass off and yes for the last one week i am doing that , i had to research a lot for my residential design portfolio , and i came across some designs which can be described in just one word " wicked " , whosoever has designed these has really a wicked mind. (Screw you Iyer you don't teach us to do these things...) It looks cool too. I must admit it may not be practical enough but still never the less, it is pretty cool. The day probably when i aim to design something , i might be able to get an end product as crazy/wicked/sexy as these ... :)

This was on the right is really cool . You have to admit that , it could give you your 8 hours of Fame and that too every night :) . Perhaps it could guarantee to encourage beautiful dreams. I will be searching as to where to get these , i wouldn't really mind getting these pillows. EBay ??

Till about last month i was really not aware of these cigarette cases till the time i saw one of my classmates in college carrying one everyday . It was one of those Gothic/rock ones. I was still fascinated with it and wanted to get one for myself, but now after seeing this i have changed my mind. I WANT THIS !!! ... Smoking is like a sin in my family and yes i had broken that law sometime back, but this is a innovative way to really camouflage that.

Who said that smoking is injurious to your health when it gives you innovative ideas like these.

I do like reading books and i do like eggs in the morning, now this is ultimate creativity, The dude who designed this is a Pakistani and settled in New York, and works as a freelancer for a firm in New York. I have a lot of respect for him because i did see quite a lot of his designs and his designs are pretty funny and artistic as well. Though this is just a design, it is not yet in the market as such, with things like IKEA and HomeCentre present in the market, i doubt if these things i could find in their respective showrooms. IKEA does have decent good stuff but not the wicked things that i have actually mentioned in this post. Anything to do with Apple, and designers start scratching their heads to come up with something and perhaps i guess it has happened this time too. Apple @ Coffee tables. Innovation is the only word perhaps which could be said in this. I personally would never be able to think to create something like this, but it looks cool and trendy, I did use a Apple I phone sometime back and have to say that it was a crappy phone, unless you are happy with conversations that sound as if you are under water ...

Well i would be using some of these in my portfolio for Residential Design hope they come in use and well appreciated on the day of viva ...