Mehfil-e-Aam
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
Happy All Fool's Day folks! II
I did not expect to see a second posting on the same day, nor would have most of you. If you think its normal, then you don't know me! :)Small talk.
The new iPod shuffle. The first music player that talks to you.
So little. And yet so much.
The new iPod shuffle is jaw-droppingly small. It’s half the size of the previous generation. Yet there’s room for so much more. With 4GB of storage, it now holds up to 1,000 songs,1 and lets you enjoy multiple playlists, too. Learn more
It speaks for itself.
Introducing VoiceOver,2 the feature that gives iPod shuffle a voice. With the press of a button, it tells you what song is playing and who’s performing it. It can even tell you the names of your playlists, giving you a new way to navigate your music. Learn more
iPod shuffle
4GB for $79
- 1-800-MY-APPLE.
- Find an Apple Retail Store.
- Find your local authorized reseller.
Happy All Fool's Day folks!
Hello All,Monday, February 09, 2009
Been away for close to a year!! :O
Ok, I jus saw when I was posting a comment on Harsh's new blog this morning, actually jus now, that its almost a year since I'd last posted, although there have been way more compelling reasons to do so than ever. Have I grown all the lazier? (yea, like its even possible!) Is it cos I don't have a comp and net connectivity (doesn't appear so, not from the unabated mail flow with only a fraction from my mobile {what, can't I take a minute here to gloat about my phone's GPRS capapbilities and me actually using it to the hilt, well.. almost :D}) And I can think of a zillion other excuses but am thinking, kinda on the lines of a New Years' resolve, that I would post at least a few lines once every few weeks at the very least. So, here's a quick round of what's been up over the past year. I'll try not to make it too long and if I come up with a detailed post on any, will link it up here.- Hmm... Well, the first big thing was I'd gotten off to actually making some investments as well. Me and Hema (always need someone to push me to get things done, especially ones that're gonna be benefitting (read boring with tons of paperwork, uninteresting people and other related paraphernalia) me in the long run).
- Perhaps, I'd not mentioned it, but Sangeetha's blog, led me to her friend Sidin's and its a must stop for everyone - believe me on this one. The guy is hilarious and writes both in your face and so subtle, you gotta go back a coupla times before u realise wat it's about :)
- Job shift and consequently moved bag & baggage from Hyd to B'lore; MAQ to McAfee. Loads of things deinitely happened during this time -> I travelled from Hyd's new airport to B'lore's, hated B'lore from the moment I landed, fell in love - completely head over heels with Indiranagar, had some really great food, met new folks, the new workplace, work, coffee machines, the works, and then moved in with Anil... Life hasn't quite been the same for him since!
- Ok, I started this on the 9th and went on to like #9, ok kidding, maybe 6-7 atleast and then something snapped - the autosave stopped working properly and then the manual didn't either... :( Even worse was, I didn't do a ^A+^C+^V+^S (Save the work myself manually) before I closed the window, and chrome, shuts down with no warning when there are multiple tabs open (I miss Firefox)!
- The frequent shuttling between Hyderabad and Bangalore and the nasty state National Highways can get and throw in a rickety bus in the monsoons and what do you have - a 16 hour-back-breaking ride back home for rakhi...
- My travails without my own wheels.. my hunt for the ideal ones and how I landed my Silver Surfer :D
- Disastrous movies at ridiculous prices in not so good multiplexes...
Monday, May 19, 2008
Once a Hyderabadi, always a Hyderabadi
Its been sometime and the last time I had posted too has been a forward. Although I have been meaning to come back and post here, just hasn't been happening.Well, here is yet another, in spite of myself another forward.
A li'l background though here. This one's a gem of one and keeps reminding me of how my life has been and I stick close to it too. I keep fishing this out of my inbox every once in a while for a few smiles of how birds of the same feather...
I think this will be a faster ready-reckoner for me now, and to all those who missed or keep taking a look at it every now and then, this should be helpful.
- Your address reads as 23-404-32/67A-43 (New MCH number 56-678/4A/B-22),while you actually live in the second house beside zamzam cafe in lane behind Anand Theatre on SP Road.
- You end up buying only a salwar kameez, whether it is a theatre workshop, food mela, consumer expo, designer jewellery show, science show or an automobile convention.
- Your street has at least one roadside mobile hotel that serves Chinese delicacies such as "Vegetable soft needles", "Navrotten Kurma", "Chicken Manchewurea" or "American Chompsee".
- Your answer is 'seedha chale jao' when somebody asks you for directions,whether it is to Malakpet, Masab Tank, Malkajgiri or Moosapet.
- You come across tailors sporting the board:
Immidiot delivery in two days onli. - You can speak Hindi, Urdu, hyderabadi hinglish, except Telugu, fluently.
- You ask the waiter to get you some 'Mango pickle' even if you are sitting at a lavish continental banquet dinner with exotic Chinese, Mexican, Italian and Lebanese cuisines.
- You order for a tea just after having had Caramel custard.
- You have at least one Srinivas,Prasad, Raju or Venkatesh within six square feet. OR you have at least one cousin, friend, colleague or acquaintance with these names.
- You have at least one cousin, friend, colleague or acquaintance in the US in software.
- Every time somebody gives you a piece of good news, the first thing you ask them is 'Party kab hain miya ?'
- Refer to any past as 'parso', be it yesterday or long before three hundred years.
- You call 11 AM as subah subah.
- You label your boss as 'Dimakh Kharab'
- And it doesn't matter where in the "Gulf/middle east" you are leaving you always tell you are going to "Dubai". (I know of one family who still keep telling everyone their son is in "uno! Dubai mein hai" but he is physically in Yemen for the past 5 years.
- You are 15 minutes late and you feel you are on time.
- You look at the fixed price stand and still ask 'dene ka bolo'
- If you do not eat rice at least once a day you will die.(Nothing other than Rice is considered as a meal)
- If you feel offended by someone looking at you (Kaiku ghoor raa miya ?)
- If you think you are a born shayer and use some typical filmi batein in stylish urdu and crack some romantic jokes.
- While someone does this, you say to yourself 'chubbe saale ,mooh dekh aaine mein, tere ku kaun pat thi, pataaney waala tho main hi hoon'
- If you can say the typical "Light le le baap" and be cool without analyzing what the situation is.
- If you feel its legal and your Nizami birth right to show yourhand and stop the traffic (better than any traffic police) while you cross the road whenever and wherever you like.
- If you can hang out in a Irani cafe the whole day after ordering one cup tea and a empty for yourself and your dear friend and chat like thats the last day with each other.
- If you eat Paradise Biryani or bawarchi Biryani atleast once in a week.
- If you go to the Petrol Bunk and say "Panch Point Single Oil maroo yaaro" and hand over 15 bucks.
- If you can relate the words 'Nakko', 'Hou' 'Kaiku' ,'hallu' and make these the integral part of your vocabulary.
- If you tell your friend that you will 'just come back' ("abbhi aathu mein") and your friend knows that either you will take a couple of hours or not come back at all.
- You end up watching every movie you come across, and end up saying oh! that was good , but it could be better if it was made that way.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Murphy's law
Murphy's Universal Law....(all other laws are derivations/variations/extensioExtended Murphy's Law: If a series of events can go wrong, it will do so in the worst possible sequence.
Grossman's Misquote of H. L. Mencken: Complex problems have simple, easy-to-understand wrong answers.
Imbesi's Law of the Conservation of Filth: In order for something to become clean, something else must become dirty.
Maryann's Law: You can always find what you are not looking for.
Cafeteria Law: The item you had your eye on the minute you walked in will be taken by the person in front of you.
Etorre's Observation: The other line moves faster.
O'Brein's Variation on Etorre's Observation: If you change lines, the one you just left will start to move faster than the one you are now in.
Kenton's Corollary: Switching back screws up both lines and makes everybody angry.
Hutchison's Law: If a situation requires undivided attention, it will occur simultaneously with a compelling distraction.
Jones' Law of Zoos and Museums: The most interesting specimen will not be labeled.
Wallace Wood's Rule of Drawing:
1)Never draw what you can copy.
2)Never copy what you can trace.
3)Never trace what you can cut out and paste.
Roger's Law: As soon as the stewardess serves the coffee, the airliner encounters turbulence.
Davis' Explanation of Roger's Law: Serving coffee on aircraft causes turbulence.
WILLOUGHBY'S LAW
When you try to prove to someone that a machine won't work, it will.
Courtesy: A forward apparent from Sannidhi :)
Thursday, January 17, 2008
TATA Nano in Technicolour
Well, after all the waiting, the show and the hoopla, its now time for the goofs and the jokes to start floating around. Today, when I was going over the homepage of wikipedia, I saw it listed in the recent events and went in to check out what wikipedia had to say about it.Well, the first thing to have caught my attention made me think, should the Nano be out at all... Here' why:
I really don't know what gets people to go for this kind of "variety".
In fact, when I had been to buy my second headset for my phone, the guy showed me ones with silver coloured earpieces. I told him, that I wanted ones in black colour, like the ones I already had. The guy had just this to say - "Asian paints hai saab, jo bole woh colour mil jaata..."
I did not dare ask him what else was available or what he thought of my choice...
Monday, December 10, 2007
Dessert on a Monday
Another pic intensive post, but in my defence, this one truly stands for the adage - "A picture invokes a thousand drools" :DMondays are not usually that depressing if you happen to run into one of these, and although the occasion did not really call for any extravaganza, the mere site itself was occasion enough.
This new place that opened up next to the Subway, pulled me in as if by magic... [I almost felt the thrill the Bollywood folks do on meeting their brothers lost in the Kumbh ke Mele...]
These guys actually have an amazing philosophy about their ice creams or should I be saying gelato, as is entailed in their flyer...
Now, coming down to the other side of it was a delectable spread on the paper itself; Mondays so, as is the norm with me and ice cream I did the supreme honours of picking a mix of Belgian Dark Chocolate and some alcohol based one of about half a kilo and got started... Time stopped...
The spread I have captured is of today's menu and changes apparently on a daily basis
Happy Sinning... :D
P.S.: This place has an opening in Necklace and the place I'd been to was next to the Subway near Kondapur. Special Mention here of Nash, who so, unwillingly paid for all the expenses towards Pet Pooja this afternoon :)