My Affair with Salmonella

"It took me over 3 days to realize that something was going on between me and salmonella.
And another one day that things just might get out of control.

Salmonella was someone i had never heard about.
And falling for her was totally justified since I had no clue what so ever about it.
Add to that the "first time thing"- it was for the first i had fallen for somebody,so it was kinda weird ,but then the point to focus on is that "IT HAPPENED".

Hmmmm .....

Hmmmm is something many of us relate to.
When i asked my friends what comes to their mind when they see/hear/type/speak Hmmmm
Tried to aggregate some of the weird thoughts ..

Disclaimer---Some ,if not all the thoughts are definitely mine .lol

• How Milan/Mudra Met Mudra/Milan's Mother/Maid/Maa'm/Madame Master.......
• you are busy or pretending to be busy
• Ignoring somebody or manybody's
• Thinking !!! pretending to be thinking
• on Thought provoking questions ..just before before the answers..
• when your conversation reaches the "What's Up" syndrome.
• when do u dont have a answer like Joey
• when you answer diplomatically
• When u agree to somebody
• Even when u disagree but still to agree..
• While u try to show that u really have grey matter
• When u r really serious.
• agreeing Unanimously
• last but not the least--If u r into Marketing :D

Looking forward to update the list..
keep waiting :P

Attention Prof's and Studnets-

If u think you are the worst professor alive
believe you me you are definitely wrong.

There are people alive who claim to be professors with no talent what so ever when it comes to teaching and they can definitely beat you in the RAT race.

And if you think you are "THE STUDENT"
Believe u me ,this time u are definitely wrong.


P.S >>> Felt this on the 5th day of the 5 th Semester attending lectures of the 5th Course i registered for. This is definitely not Pre Sem/Insem/MideSem/EndSem frustration.
Genuine, honest thoughts of a Under Grad.

Love Thy Smoker

Love Thy Smoker!!

With this blog post ,i would like to introduce Malvika Parmar, as a guest author on this blog. Malvika happens to be a old school friend, whom i met after 6 years courtesy Social Networking . Since i have only 1000 Mb of space left on this blog, i shall register a new blog to introduce the epical stories of Malvika.



I am a person of very peculiar and sometimes strange likes and dislikes, and I guess the latter outnumbers the former. So I thought that since this is my first post, let me just pick something on which I have plenty to talk about-the ‘dislikes’. Sounds contrary to the title? Well, I don’t blame the readers! But seriously, I am going to discuss one serious ‘dislike’ of mine.

I often come across people saying, “I hate smokers”. And this is exactly what I seriously, positively DISLIKE. I really fail to understand the logic behind it. Let me dissect the statement now, in an effort to understand the deeper meaning hidden within the spaces. To hate “smokers” means hating people who smoke (we are not talking diesel buses here for god’s sake). I don’t as often hear people saying, “I hate nose diggers” or “I hate men peeing on the pavement” as much as “I hate smokers”.

If you are so against smoking why don’t you say “I hate Marlboro” or “I hate cigarette lighters”? That would really be more logical. Its insane to hate someone for a habit that only goes to harm him. And yes this reminds me of the good old rationale of ‘passive smoking’ which people often come up with as a defence to their hatred. To all those people who think passive smoking of cigarettes would kill them, honey, the vehicular pollution affects you much more adversely. So you can start saying “I hate automobiles”!

I can understand if someone says that he/she hates the habit of smoking, like Mahatma Gandhi said, “hate crime and not the criminal”. Just imagine you have a very dear friend who you have known for a very long time and share a great bond with. Will you start hating him if he starts smoking? Will he suddenly be a less of a friend or a lesser being? He would undoubtedly hold similar importance and significance in your life. In fact you might just become a lot more caring for his lungs. I fell in love with a person who smokes and that really changed nothing, just like it wouldn’t have mattered if he snored while sleeping.

People, smoking is just another habit and I urge you not to judge a person’s character by a single habit. It pains me to think that people who lie, cheat, deceive, bitch and backstab their own friends get more respect just because the don’t possess any of the so called “anti-social” habits.

I am not a chain smoker. I smoke like ten cigarettes annually, but some of my dearest friends smoke on a regular basis. And whenever they are subjected to this social bias just because of one habit and others ignore any talent or the kindness they possess, it hurts me to be a part of such morally blind society.

This article was a result of a long argument with another friend of mine who apparently “hated” smokers. I managed to change his stance to an extent and thus I decided to write this article with the hope of changing a few more ‘opinions’.

So as they say, in spite of all the inhibitions and doubts, “love thy neighbour”, we can also follow another modern ‘sister saying’ “Love Thy Smoker”

The trip to Jaipur ..# Day 0

The last thing that i would have imagined was this condition after i reached Jaipur.
Aaa..aaaaannnn...aaaannnncchhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh

The first thing that happened to me after i stepped on Platform No 1 --Courtsey--Family No 1.
The IDEAL INDIAN FAMILY--
A husband--struggling to sleep in the train
A tired Wife -- sturggling to make her baby feed
A frustrated Chunnu--Who demands Fruuti/Bourbon/Samosa..n everything his dad says no to..
The HAPPIEST Munnu--Who has no idea ..of what
,why where when whose...?
Life is not usually accepted
in the current form by
infants of his category..
He said "It aint Rocket Science"
All the dude cares about is "NOTHING".
n
then of course
u have



Daddy Ji ..
and Mummy Ji.
Both of them as expected have developed age old problems in their body parts.
And they express their inability to sleep on the ny birth but the Lowest one.

First things first.
When i had moved out of IIT ,i had a TO-DO-LIST with me, since AC Coaches come now with Unlimited Power Supply,but then the rest in history.
I wanted to the following things..

• Write atleast 3 posts i was planning to write.
• Finish of all reading all my feads in FeedReader.
• Watch Akbar-Remixed Videos i had downloaded (this deserves another post)
• Finish off Hancock and the remaining part of Coulping.

But the rest is history.
Out of 1040 people travelling i was gifted with THY LORDS "The ideal indian family"


I witnessed the couple busy in their GRAND LUNCHEON ,which remimded off my On consumption days.
My plans of exploring my Canon SD 850 M and finishing off my to do list, already had their first ",". The fullstop was added when i politely expressed my "wish of using my seat".
And this was it.They were waiting for this.I have reasons to believe it was all pre planned.
The Mother ,father.chunnu,Munnu,Paapa ji ,and Mummy ji all started in no sync what so ever and presented me with a Paper on

"Human Ethics and Adjustment,Comprosmises and Sacrifices"

The window seat for which i was waiting ,was gone..no it was donated by YOURS TRULY to a FAMILY WHO REALLY NEEDED IT!!!!!!! $%^#$#@##@

After consoling my heart ,i was given "the option" of one of the two Upper birth.

X----- Chunnu munnu..please "uncle" ko pareshaan mat karo.unhe apna kaam karne do..

Of all things in this world i was called Uncle
i deserved a explanation.

Please tell me if i do look like a uncle ..the lady just turned me conscious.

Phew...i choose the left one ,because chunnu was on the right one.
Just when i was about to start off with Hancock ,it was time for another wannabe ,to start with App ka Surroorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr --the Movie.

That was it.
I had enough and decided to join Naveen in Chair Car.


And then i met Gunnu.Green Greyins ..bluish eyes...
Center of attraction in J 3 Coach.
he was having his minutes to fame ....
Untill he had specs of some poor fellow flying.



Finally i decided to get back to G 1--on my upper birth.
N then i discovered the AC fan right over my head.
That was it.
Wrapped in 4 bedsheets ,and with the Dell Inspiron as the pillow i decided to sleep.
N then i was show time for Munnu to show his talent.
Live Reality show--

A-- how bout u keeping on with munuu for 15 minutes
B-- i did that 20 minutes back but i will do it for u .
A-- Thanx sweet heart..please do it again.
A-- gurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr gurrrrr khurr khurrr....(pretends to be sleepy)

A--the usual wife
B-- the usual wife's husband

the Game continues for a lifetime.By 2 am i was addicted it to such a extent that the silence started pinching me.

Finally i slept after Munnu and Chunnu.

Time for action--
5 :30 Am---Train has been stopped for sunrise.Wow...Indian Railways rock.

"The train was stopped because it was running 15 minutes ahead of the expected time ."

Can u beleive it ..???W#$@@%@@!~~~!%*())_+{}"

Finally im back at the gate ..shooting sun and birds.
N with the photo shoot of chunnu ,munnu,
Uncle on the gate..
The lover boy on the phone ..

the not so excited journey came to a boring end.
N then it happened..Finally ..
Aaaaccnnnhhhhhhcccchhheeeeeeeeeeeeeehhhhh
Pheew...
Wait for more on Day 1 ..
I got some bigtime plans ...
Room No 368..

Reality Check --India US Nuclear Deal !!!

These are the best of times.
These are the worst of times.
Today when we have access to a breadth and depth of information, some of us still continue to live in a virtual world. While some of us live in a world away from cause and effect, some of us live a life which is more driven by the things happening around. The latest thing happening around forced me to share some of the facts and figures.

And while I write this post,I continue to wonder over the Intellectual Immaturity the Media has been creating. The image as portrayed by the media of the Indo US nuclear deal is nothing less then " a step towards the Utopian World".

The quick check on what people believe Nuclear Deal is –

* It offers uranium at cheaper cost
* It provides us rocket science technology for Nuclear Energy.
* It offers us Cheap Reactors.

They believe so because they have been told by MEDIA –

· It provides us access to Latest Technology

---strengthening indigenous program.

· Access to Uranium and Reactors

---To help our power generation.



Reality Check –

· Since we use HW reactors, Fast breed reactors that are based on Thorium Utilization (a technology that is much better then Uranium based reactors) and we have 90% components that are indigenous ,why the hell do we need Tech Imports ?

· We have Uranium resources sufficient only for 10000 reactors,in a world where we hardly have 140 reactors operating.

· Quality of ore possessed by us varies from 0.1% to 14 -15% ,where as the Uranium Hubs in the world including Australia-Kazakhstan's exported ore is of < 0.1% quality.

· There is enough Uranium for all the Nuclear Supplier Countries but just not for us the lesser mortals.

· We are signing off with a nation that REFUSED TO ACCEPT US AS A NUCLEAR POWER AFTER POKHRAN.

Reality check for the Media---

Integrated Energy Policy, Volume I ,Xxii

---"Even if a 20 fold increase takes place in India's Nuclear capacity by 2031-2032 ,the contribution of India's nuclear power to energy generation, at best is expected to be 4 -6.4 %

For possibility of such a marginal contribution, our Government and Media are hell bound over mortgaging our strategic interests.

Growth of Nuclear power is indeed a definite solution for Energy Crisis and need of the hour but rather than continuing with the perpetual dependency and import we can explore our options and expand our capabilities.

Last but not the least—

Some more misconceptions—

1. 1.GOVT must see some point in this

* At a point in history our govt went to the extent of buying Cowdung
* We bought pulses,rice,wheat at very high costs while our farmers were waiting for their crops to be sold at nominal prices.
* We want to have One Laptop One Child program ,when we are struggling with figures at Primary level !!!

2. The Media –they cannot be stupid !!

Those who still believe in present media please mail me back, I have better reasons to not to trust them.


Facts and figures --
Collected by Anurag tripathi- anurag.r.tripathi@gmail.com-Phd Student -Dept of Chemical-IIT Bombay from Talks by Arun Shourie ,P.K.Iyengar,A.N.Prasad

Reality Check-Indo US nuclear Deal -

These are the best of times. These are the worst of times. Today when we have access to a breadth and depth of information, some of us still continue to live in a virtual world. While some of us live in a world away from cause and effect, some of us live a life which is more driven by the things happening around. The latest thing happening around forced me to gather few quick data analysis on "Indo-US Nuclear Deal".

And while I write this post,I continue to wonder over the Intellectual Immaturity the Media has been creating. The image as portrayed by the media of the Indo US nuclear deal is nothing less then " a step towards the Utopian World".

The quick check on what people believe Nuclear Deal is –

· It offers uranium at cheaper cost

· I T provides us rocket science technology for Nuclear Energy.

· It offers us Cheap Reactors.

They believe so because they have been told by MEDIA –

· It provides us access to Latest Technology

---strengthening indigenous program.

· Access to Uranium and Reactors

---To help our power generation.

Reality Check –

1. Since we use HW reactors, Fast breed reactors that are based on Thorium Utilization (a technology that is much better then Uranium based reactors) and we have 90% components that are indigenous ,why the hell do we need Tech Imports ?

2. We have Uranium resources sufficient only for 10000 reactors,in a world where we hardly have 140 reactors operating.

3. Quality of ore possessed by us varies from 0.1% to 14 -15% ,where as the Uranium Hubs in the world including Australia-Kazakhstan's exported ore is of <>

4. There is enough Uranium for all the Nuclear Supplier Countries but just not for us the lesser mortals.

5. We are signing off with a nation that REFUSED TO ACCEPT US AS A NUCLEAR POWER AFTER POKHRAN.

Reality check for the Media---

Integrated Energy Policy, Volume I ,Xxii

---"Even if a 20 fold increase takes place in India's Nuclear capacity by 2031-2032 ,the contribution of India's nuclear power to energy generation, at best is expected to be 4 -6.4 %

For possibility of such a marginal contribution, our Government and Media are hell bound over mortgaging our strategic interests.

Growth of Nuclear power is indeed a definite solution for Energy Crisis and need of the hour but rather than continuing with the perpetual dependency and import we can explore our options and expand our capabilities.

Last but not the least—

Some more misconceptions—

1. GOVT must see some point in this

· At a point in history our govt went to the extent of buying Cowdung

· We bought pulses,rice,wheat at very high costs while our farmers were waiting for their crops to be sold at nominal prices.

· We want to have One Laptop One Child program ,when we are struggling with figures at Primary level !!!

2. ShivSena is supporting them –Can they spell the word "uranium"?

3. The Media –they cannot be stupid !!

Those who still believe in present media please mail me back, I have better reasons to not to trust them.

The Wishlist of the 20 something...

Its been over a month since i have been into exile from roomno368 ,but then there have been reasons behind it.
And now since i m back after a long time ..its time to share something really close to me ...

TO -DO - LIST-

for the next 3 years (minimum number of years left in my graduation)

Now before i share the list ,a quick glance at the development of the list -

The list would be more of materialistic but then tht's how a 20 something is supposed to be ..
Some of the features of the list are inspired (not as the Indian films,genuinely inspired)
Some of them are truly mine
and the remaining are output of my imagination but then i mean to do those too..

• Get hold of a decent Car before my graduation (Dont ask y,m obsessed with this one)
• Grab a ipod + Camera and go shooting into the wild...
• Tour extensively around India with no constraints on expenses:P
• Work on an Ideasilver
• Make this blog as the hub for general junta = a 5 + page ranks
  
• Publish my personal novel
• For once..just once ...get a SPI of 9/10 (SPI=semester performance index)
  
• Owing a Macbook
• Work in a NGO -Explore the social part of me
• Create a political party
• Learn Marathi and French
• Finish of IMDB's top movies list
  
• Learning Linux
  
• Create a Business plan out of Chemistry

That's for the moment ..
The list would be updated every now and then .
I would love to know ur TO DO LIST ..so do chip in with your lists.
And now since i m back @roomno368 i shall have something interesting coming up soon.
Keep waiting ...

21-Preview with a Premirefull evening ..

First things first ..

When I am referring to a Preview I definitely do not mean a premiere.
A preview as Our Social Media Catalyst defined as the show exclusively for the lesser mortals Media or better known as the Blogosphere ...

Coming back to the title of the post
21---the movie
A story based on the how a MIT grad beats the hell out of casinos in Las Vegas ...
The story is about how Ben Campbell ..
a born genius..a guy having a over loaded resume ..gets thru Harvard Med , but then comes the twist comes Professor Philips aks him to share a dazzling experience with him and our dude starts losing the Scholarship race.
Now this MIT graduate who have never dated nybody except maths formulas, is spotted by the "real hero" Prof Rosa who inspires him to join the not so known club of BlackJack hijackers.
The group of 4 people who have been meticulously trained to crack the Las Vegas gets their Leader when Campbell who is badly looking for 300000 USD joins them
This triggers a chain of events where the BlackJack teams gets all they wanted and few extra addons .. check the movie for the rest of it

Laurence Fishburne "THE MORPHEUS" who now looks like a Bouncer fits great in his role of the "LOSS PREVENTION Head" at the Casino. The MIT grad "Jim Sturgess" does good enough as a gambler who always gets lucky and never losses. But the person who beats them all is Kevin Spacey..no body "beats" him. The best part of the movie comes in the end..
The movie has a amazing ending

"Always a count for variable change"

Nways before the review ends a Vote of Thanks to Moksh Juneja,
the Social Media Catalyst he truly is :P

The movie is definitely worth the money and the time.
It mite not be as good as Ocean's 11 but definitely it deserves a 3.5 on 5
The movie was then followed by a get together and then a dinner at Cafe Mondegar with Tarun,Ideasmithy, Gaurav, Melody, Sakshi, Kanishka, Avantika.
After this ideal "extended weekend" evening ,i have strongly started to feel for creation of such posts like Catalysts who would help fastening the reaction time..

Now what could have been an ideal weekend evening was followed by a Friday...
Office time for all of these while i continue to submerge in my beanbag and enjoy the rains from Room No 368.

The 20 Something who is "OFF CONSUMPTION"

Inspired by Gauravonomics where the marketer goes off consumption in

"quests of find the formula to turn consumerism-caused ennui into happiness, and my quest as a marketer to learn how to apply that formula to convert our collective ennui from consumption into a yelp of enthusiasm for consuming even more."

However I am writing this post would reflect the genuine 20 year someone ,a person who has to Unwillingly ,unintentionally has accepted to live with the rules that throw him off consumption every second day when he struggles with his canteen bill , Vodafone Easy recharges and what not.

For "the guy next door " life at 20 as u wud think is really not a bed of roses ,its more then going to college ,hanging out in the cafetaria while thinking about gathering resume points and make adjustments/compromises/sacrifices which are referred to as CHOICES .

The "shituation" is the fact that this 20 year old guy who is badly struggling with

"CHARLES DARWIN's THEORY OF SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST"

is forced to go into a OFF CONSUMTION MODE for reasons better known to u and me .

Denial they say is the most predictable action of human race ,
still against all odds i still believe somewhere deep in your heart you would be able to relate to the list of reasons and mite help in adding too.

• Girlfriend in the neighboring state,
• Pending STD bills,
• A banned canteen account,
• Loans @ not so rich friends
• Another bday,nother party...
• The odd dinner with the old school friend
• Add to this inflation @ Pchidambaram and :P
• just about average grades,
• The Million $ project ..where u end up investing and the college never feels like reimbursing

SO our guy next door at times feels like the perfect loser.
The dilemma comes in when he starts planning for the Call Center in Bandra but then is this the" RIGHT AGE" and with Bill Gates quoting -

"Money is not everything but make sure u have made loads of it before u talk such nonsense"

the dilemma increases exponentially.

So when Mr Avg decided to fight against all odds ,hoping against hope he THROWS HIMSELF OFF CONSUMPTION and Launches a campaign unknown to everybody The rules of this campaign are not only strangely unique but can set example for Indian Economy

• traveling in buses and not Autos. (Notion given ---Go Green)
  
• takes the special WT train(without ticket) (Its overcrowded..so do they really care bout one just 1 Ticket!!!)
  
• Avoids CCD hangouts (Staff Canteen's Coffee is much better)
• Development of a strange liking for Mess food (Rice Dal rocks..)
  
• Starts enjoying window shopping.(Inspired by girls)
  
• Avoids malls just enough to curb that extra desire for that Blazer.(Got loads of things to do..eg. Project Report,LAB manual etc etc )

The amount and extent of adjustments our friend would be making sets examples for height for Imagination
The point to be noted was the fact that everywhere and everytime he tries to save his cents..thus he is unintentionally thrown out of Consumption.

Somewhere sometime ,all of us have faced such a phase which we would never want to repeat,but again as another firend of mine sees the "brighter part" of the situation..

"We learn living on the EDGE..the entire concept of balancing the equation is funny
and interesting but do we really have options.No we DONOT "

Personally i have been thrown out of the consumers section many a times and that too for long periods but again life @ Room no 368 should never be boring and monotonous..
Wat say u...