Sunday, January 04, 2009

Hazaaron khwahishe aisi...

Hazaaron Khvaahishen aisii ki har Khvaaish pe dam nikale
Bahut nikale mere armaaN lekin phir bhii kam nikale

Nikalanaa Khuld se aadam kaa sunate aaye hain lekin
Bahut beaabaruu hokar tere kuuche se ham nikale

Muhabbat men nahiin hai farq jiine aur marane kaa
Usii ko dekh kar jiite hain jis kaafir pe dam nikale

Khudaa ke vaaste pardaa na kaabe se uThaa zaalim
Kahiin aisaa na ho yaaN bhii vahii kaafir sanam nikale

KahaaN maiKhaane ka daravaazaa 'Ghalib' aur kahaaN vaaiz
Par itanaa jaanate hain kal vo jaataa thaa ke ham nikale

Thursday, January 01, 2009

New chapter 2009


This is the first post of this year. I wish all my readers very very Happy New Year. I will try to write in more interesting way.

I came across an interesting quote in new year -

I used to be indecisive, now I'm not so sure.

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Way


Whatever was swaying is on way now. I'm not on sway. That too fast I believe.

This is the last post of this year. With me finding a way for myself I close the 2008 chapter of my life and my diary called Saucy Unplugged. Let's hope for some more new one ways and the wisdom to chose one right way whenever it is a sway.

Monday, December 29, 2008

Sway

I don't know what others would have done if in my shoes. Im really confused though and not quite convinced of what Im doing. May be there is bit of impulsive action which is driving me but its not only impulsive action. There is more of it. I don't no what. just before the moment Im undecided and when the moment comes it takes me through.
All I know is that I am not wrong in doing it that way or rather the way things are doing. It's right as long as policies are right and I'm not here to hurt anyone. Its just that I don't know which way to sway! Till I know which way to sway, lets keep doing things which do not appear 'wrong'. Although the terms right and wrong are relative terms and change in circumstances they can be taken in their usual sense.
At the same time lets refrain from changes that are irreversible. Sure things cannot be undone on time scale but there are things which have binding outcomes and (related) actons and there are things which don't. Sort of cause-effect relation.

Saturday, December 27, 2008

New Dell


"From now onwards I will be owning this laptop."
--Saucy, February 10, 2007.

This was when I first had my laptop. http://saucy-unplugged.blogspot.com/2007/02/dell-inspiron-6400.html

Round and about, with and and without laptop I had been since then (gave that to my sister). But now is new stylish spring green dell inspiron 1525 n series. Mine is here. But as the first love is the best love, my first dell was the best laptop.
This is the first day of blogging from new laptop and brings back memories of the same when same happened to fall on me for the first time (Feb 10, 2007).

Flying back into archives I got some more memories of the lad I used to be nearly 2 years back. Here is a poem I posted:


She's been down and out,
she's been wrote about,
she's been talked about,
constantly.
She's been up and down,
she's been pushed around,
but they held her down,
NYC.
She has no regrets,
she accepts the past,
all these things they helped
to make she.
She's been lost and found,
and she's still around,
there's a reason for
everything.

You know I've been holdin on.
Try to make me weak,
but I still stay strong.
Put my life all up in these songs,
just so you can feel me,
so you can get the real me.

So take me as I am,
or have nothing at all,
just take me as I am,
or have nothing at all.

Now she's older now,
yes, she's wiser now
can't disguise her now,
she don't need
no one tellin her
what to do and say,
no one tellin her
who to be.
She's on solid ground,
she's been lost and found,
now she answers to
G-O-D,
and she's confident
this is not the end.
Ask me how I know,
cause she is me.

You know I've been holdin on.
Try to make me weak,
but I still stay strong.
Put my life all up in these songs,
just so you can feel me,
so you can get the real me.

So take me as I am,
or have nothing at all,
just take me as I am,
or have nothing at all.

So it's all or nothing at all,
all or nothing at all,
don't you know I can only be me,
I can only be me, yeah,
I can only be me.
So it's all or nothing at all,
all or nothing at all,
don't you know I can only be me,
I can only be me, yeah,
this is me.

This is me,
this is me,
this is me,
this is me,
this is me,
no one else, no,
you can't take that from me, oh.

So take me as I am,
or have nothing at all,
just take me as I am,
or have nothing at all.

Written by Mary J. Blige

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Lazying

Im in one of my most lethargic modes of existence. 10 days since Im home enjoying doing nothing. Got stuck after Alexander the great - chapter 5 of History of Europe. It's almost over with this period. 27th is the registration date. It was my last winter vacation at home btw. Watching cricket matches on TV was delightful. India beating England and SA beating Aussies! That was great!

What quite makes my laziness lethal this time was inability to practice it fully. Everything I do bears high friction coefficient owing to this inability which in turn strengthens itself. Sort of deadlock!

Many a time why are we not able to speak our hearts? Why are we forced by ourselves to unnecessarily draw the covers when we know they are transparent? From whom may we hide it when everybody is aware of the truth? Its just that we are not willing to accept the facts as the appear. By concealing it we are fooling ourselves into unreal world. Isn't it logically fallible!

Many times we have heard about expression of thought. The power of expression of thought. The power that you can control your expression of thought is more important than the power of expression of thought we are proud of. If we were not able to control it then what wonders it might have brought to us. Just imagine that everybody around you knows what you think just like they hear what you say.
The fact that the feeling and the expression of the feeling can be varied saves the world for us. Sp it did saved for me.

Saturday, December 13, 2008

Change

Metamorphosis should be the word because this change is occurring over a period of time and since it is distributed over a time span its intensity is diluted. Nevertheless the change it is.

I am not the usual shy looking simple guy who I used to be. I have come a long way about initiating conversation, convincing people; quite confidently many times.

The change has saw me solving rubik's cube in a minute. The change has saw me involved in sports other than cubing. Squash, badminton, cricket (in earlier days) basketball (sometimes).

Beliefs have changed. Principles have changed a bit too. I have caught myself doing things I thought I will (or can) never do. And all this for good, positively.

"People, relationships and then you with your 'self' ". Yeah! All of 'em changing. Me to myself, people to me and me to people and their relationships are changing. Not a phase shift though but again a change diluted over time; still noticeable.

Waist size is also changing; on farther side! [:P]

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Naukri

Its season for employment, though not the best this year, people here are getting jobs. 8/11 pf my friends appearing for placements have been placed. So coming days are those of treat party and celebration of last few months of life we will live together for the last time in our lives. No one knows what is in the next chapter but this chapter of life has been kindest.

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

All of them finished

All of the exams finished. It looks like India is under continuous attack of some misguided people who are brainwashed to believe that they are fighting for there freedom. As I write this post I hear to CNN-IBN live reposting about Mumbai under attack. Terrorists in the hotel.


Anyways, with this semester gone its 3 more to go. This is the closing chapter of the seventh semester. This one gone really fast and different one. This has been most studious semester. I had issued library books as many as in total of all six semesters. In spite of this I watched maximum number of movies, we played LAN games during the semester, played squash. And much more to the fullest.
Next sem plan is to learn swimming apart from all this.

Sunday, November 23, 2008

Exams

With exams going around its a good time to study. But apart from it this we have been gaming on LAN as well as Badminton as well as Zataka as well as HeliAttack3. A game filled end sem is the achievement of this semester exam.
Besides all this fun I still hope the performance index this semester to be >8.5/10! So right is the thing that - people who feel good about them produce good results.

Now time to get back to study for tomorrow's exam.....

Friday, November 07, 2008

Our first and last love is.. self-love

Rightly said. But isn't that narcissistic?

Wednesday, November 05, 2008

Wake up call!

Now is one of the many wake up calls attended before the end-sem rings for me (to see how many search wake up call on this blog). But te fact of being so many doesn't tarnishes the honor of wake up calls. Its 11 days for end sems now. And its now-or-never type situation to get what was set in the beginning of the semester.
It has been a while since I seriously attended to studies. It all started after I returned from home on Wednesday of last week. Since then Wednesday came again and it added no academic value.

For whatever reasons I was out, I am out of it and right on track.

Friday, October 31, 2008

What's it?

Superman has it, batman has it, spider-man has it, he-man has it, even Shaktiman has it but I don't.
Clark Kent is Superman, Bruce Wayne is Batman, Peter Parker is Spiderman, Prince Adam is Heman, even Gangadhar is Shaktiman but who am I?
It's missing.

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Sometimes it's better to keep it simple

This post comes in 4 parts. First one is the title and three others follow.

Living and non-living. Whats the foremost difference between them? It is FEELINGS. At times they can be so complex. I assure you it will happen to you and you will never know where it came from and why it was! It will just be as it will be as a fact. Like an elephant vanishing in the air in front of your eyes; you can only acknowledge it and wonder at it, you can neither explain it nor you are responsible for it.

I meet some people who hold my hand & they decide to walk with me. These people & their stay in my life I cannot foresee. Life for me is living in the present, cherishing what I receive ‘now’ from people & things. Let us let things shape up themselves.

From years blogger had been a good listener to me and so it remains. It listens to my most honest confessions beyond doubts. And all the while it is the feeling of soliloquy that I enjoy. I miss those days when I used to blog and read some good ones from fellow bloggers most of whom seem missing. (Shreya still writes amazing poetry; Lesia aunty seems to appear yearly; Ishan never woke up after a good wake up call; for some blog-has-been-removed) This is the only way out so here comes the punch line: Speak out, say loud and be heard; say it to blogger.

There is an additional fifth one which ought to be numbered 3.5 .

Somebody somewhere said 'Do not fight the war you do not intend to win'. But he forgot to contemplate are there are winners/losers even if there was no war? Take your guess.

Thursday, September 18, 2008

When it pains to smile

Im in those rarest state when it pains to smile. Got my first injury (a minor one) in squash. The lips were smashed by raket into bigger lips. half part of the lips are protruding out. It may keep me from playing squash next one day.

Thursday, September 04, 2008

Gift

Never before had I felt humiliated for a gift.
Few weeks ago I bought myself squash kit and playing little regularly. Though that doesn't implies playing good. May be this is not I'm fit for with the kind of limbs I'm gifted with. Wrist joint is paining. It's difficult to make good grip of the racquet.

Monday, August 18, 2008

Its birthday again!

Lots of wishes for free. More wishes than last time. My friend list is increasing. I'm growing up. Going out and making more friends this year.

Traveling home for 3 days was not very much fun. It was raining heavily when we somehow managed to reach Kanpur Junction at 1 am. Waiting for the train, standing and sleeping together. Then finally caught a train and reached home 5:30. Three fests together at home - 15th Aug, Rakhi and the birthday. aah! nice time really! But I had to finish an assignment that was to be submitted on18th in the 9 am class. This is the irony of the story. Solving assignments at home on your 22nd birthday! Got on a train at 8:30 with my parents and sis who were going to Delhi. It was exactly 00:00 when train was at Kanpur station. I wished my sis while we moved into 18th Aug., her birthday; and celebrated with ice-cream. I gifted her my laptop. To say it is not good to present used gifts. But do you know what it takes to part with personal things like laptops? Anyways I will try a few days without having a Personal computer of my own. If it helps for better acads. Just in case it does.

Coming back to the campus it was not much different. Slept for 1 whole day and plan to sleep more. And labs this semester really suck! My interest is pathetic when it comes to making lab reports. Just getting through it.

Wednesday, August 06, 2008

Coming back


Yesterday I was just reminded by a friend that I haven't posted since long time. And rightly this my only second post after coming back to Campus.
So. I came to my second home on 25th July and felt the feel of 4th year. Not final year though (Im in five year program). Third year has been tiring and academically backward. But after the intern experience Im loving IITK like anything. It's best place to live man. The hassle of corporate life is much different from the paradise of college life. I'm sure we all miss it after we leave behind. For the first time I'm happy that I have one extra year for IIT life.

The intern experience was a learning one. Went out, met people, loved them, met bosses, worked from them, hunting for rented house, freaking out for dinners, being hated for being bachelors,.... the list goes on. And there are lot of new things which showed hard realities of life. All that helped in better appreciation of Darwin's theory. Struggle for existence and survival of the fittest. That is popularly quoted in Hindi as aate daal ka bhav. Though all the while it was exciting as well. Sort of adventure. At the same time I was counting down days for the return ticket to home. But you know what; when you long for something more than you should then life teaches you a lesson itself. Remember Wordsworth's The Prelude. When the final day arrived the icing on the cake was we missed the train!

The last day turned out to be adventurous. Then moving in and around railway station. Plans and replans came one after another. But using Internet at the station I finally ended up in booking a flight in the night which drops me at Delhi on the same day just before 12. Thanks to Ankit whose had credit card at disposal. Once bitten twice shy. Time I wanted to be safe so I reached Hyderabad airport 5 hours before the flight. Then boarding on my first passenger plane it was difficult to stay awake after the tiresome day. I was weird out physically but not mentally. My good old friend Rubik's cube (4x4x4 cube) was with me. I used it to stay awake. Then I met this air hostess who had two marked attributes. First, she had one of the cutest smiles and the second- she had seen 4x4x4 cube! People in India hardly know about 3x3x3 rubik's cube and this girl knew about the 4x4x4 one. A rare piece! At last cubing fever is cathing up in India too. As I accomplished the solve she accomplished the smile. :)

And even as all this happen the Sun and the Earth and the Moon went on rotating and as a result the days passed on and once again I find myself scribbling on blogger at 2 a.m.

Monday, August 04, 2008

One Liners

1.Some of them are really that provoking, save it for a relaxed afternoon.

2.Two wrongs don't make a right, but three rights make a left.

3.Do you have trouble making up your mind? Well, yes or no?

4.Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need more(friendship or money)

5.Death is hereditary.

6.An expert is someone who takes a subject you understand and makes it sound confusing.

7.Many things can be preserved in alcohol. Dignity is not one of them.

8.When you're right, no one remembers. When you're wrong, no one forgets.

9.Cheer up, the worst is yet to come.

10.Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

11.Experience is what a comb gives you after you lose your hair.

12.Well done is better than well said.

13.Everyone makes mistakes. The trick is to make them when nobody is looking.

14.They say hard work never hurts anybody, but why take the chance.

15.I like work. It fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

16.Where there's a will, there are five hundred relatives.

17.I have a drinking problem - I can't afford it.

18.Good girls go to heaven. Bad girls go anywhere!

19.Love thy neighbour, but be sure her husband is away.

20.Drink 'til she's cute, but stop before the wedding.

21.I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met.

22.When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

23.Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.

24.If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

25.Many people quit looking for work when they find a job.

26.I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.

27.Join the Army, meet interesting people, kill them.

28.For Sale: Parachute. Only used once, never opened, small stain.

29.Skill is successfully walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls.

30.Intelligence is not trying.

Saturday, July 12, 2008

Time of your life

Time 6:04 PM. Saturday 7/12/2008
Place: lab 2 block C IPDO,Dr.Reddy's Lab. Outskirts of Hyderabad, AP, India.
Current Mood: Hasty
Now Playing: Sajda (Lata & Jagjeet)

Was this anyone (including me) thought about me 1 year back. So we see how unpredictable our life is.

With no one around and still connected to the world via web. Got news from New York (Shanu), Paris(Aditya), Belgium (AmitC), IITK (Shadab), Patna (Krishnam), Gandhinagar (Vinay). Internet is amazing discovery. You can keep in touch with your loved once at every instant.

Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road
Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go
So make the best of this test, and don't ask why
It's not a question, but a lesson learned in time

It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life.

So take the photographs, and still frames in your mind
Hang it on a shelf in good health and good time
Tattoos of memories and dead skin on trial
For what it's worth it was worth all the while

It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life.