Friday, April 8, 2011

Confused about the victory



Virat Kohli said ‘We dedicate the world cup to Sachin Tendulkar. He’s the god of Indian cricket. With a stature that he enjoys in the cricket crazy nation, humility is almost impossible. But that’s what makes this man so special, Impossible ain’t a word for him! He’s been playing for more than two decades now, and has been a true cavalier throughout. Controversies are a rare artifact in his unbelievably long career.’

Virender Sehwag added ‘We dedicate the world cup to Sachin Tendulkar. He’s the god of Indian cricket. With a stature that he enjoys in the cricket crazy nation, humility is almost impossible. But that’s what makes this man so special, Impossible ain’t a word for him! He’s been playing for more than two decades now, and has been a true cavalier throughout. Controversies are a rare artifact in his unbelievably long career.’

‘Well , as of now , we really don’t know if the real trophy has been handed over to us or the fake one .I suppose the real one is still with the customs. So , I wouldn’t want to comment about whom to dedicate the world cup to ‘ chipped in Gautham Gambhir , trying to break the monotony in the “ dedicate world cup to Sachin “ speeches

When a reporter asked M S Dhoni , why everybody was talking about Sachin Tendulkar and not about the millions of Indian fans throughout the world who’ve been relentlessly supporting the team , Dhoni said ‘The cricket fans are fickle minded . When you are winning they cheer you or else they jeer you . Now that the world cup is in our hands , they are creating a huge hullabaloo or else they only boo , boo and boo. Wow , I just made so many rhyming sentences on the spot’, signed off Dhoni with a mischievous smile on his face’

When Sachin Tendulkar was asked that the rest of the members wanted to win the cup for him , whom did he want to dedicate the cup to , Sachin cheekily replied ‘I dedicate this world cup to Gulzarilal Nanda’. Sources say that this was a killer move by Sachin Tendulkar to divert the attention of the youth of India off Poonam Pandey and motivate them to google out information about this rather low-key Prime minister . Sources say that the trick had worked as Youtube searches were flooded with requests of Gulzarilal Nanda’s speech at the International Labor Conference at Geneva , Switzerland in 1947.

Munaf Patel sitting quietly in a corner when asked if Poonam Pandey’s offer motivated India to play harder , he said ‘ Well , instead of she going nude , she should first come and undress me .I smell so bad . Someone , motivate me to go and have a bath please!!! ‘ pleaded the medium pacer. A reporter said ‘if you dont, maggots will start inhabiting your body. Seriously. They might have already.’ Munaf seemed undeterred . Another added ‘ I Heard this amazing story on the BBC about a bloke who got fed up with showering and decided to give it up. In a while moss grew on his feet, and he ended up rooted in a flower pot in his mother´s living room. Feeing inspired? ‘ . Munaf flaunting the 2nd expression of boredom on his face said ‘Still doesn’t help’. Sources say that he has only 2 expressions the first being ‘boring’ and the second ‘extremely boring’


Sunday, April 3, 2011

On the valley called phony

This is co written by me and my friend Nivedita who happen to share the same opinion about the sudden cultural shift or whatever you’d like to call it. We were chatting about this and then thought – why not blog it out . Here it goes

At the Mall,
“Oh I love CHOCOS! I have it everyday” extralipstick screeched looking at the yellow and brown box of chocos staring at pinkmakeup.
Pinkmakeup replied “Oooo… I have OATS! It is nice for face too.”
Big Muscles said “Hi Girls, need some help?”
“Get the trolley no, please” screamed extralipstick making her face like Snoopy, her doggie, which won the best-bred title.
“You did like snoopy. Do it again” pinkmakeup screamed. And took her cell phone and clicked a pic. “Ah! Mine too”
Big muscle took the camera and they stood near a “Facebook friendly spot” and click click.
“Thank you!” they echoed.
Just then, tightjeans, Loudmouth, straightbutsometimescurly hair entered.
Tightjeans said “Hey, there is a sale at the awesomeshop”
“WOW” they all jumped with joy and Big Muscles clicked another snap.
After the shopping, with all the bags, they relaxed at “Trumpy Tea Day.”
Only a 100-rupee Trumpy chiller could relax them. After few more “clicks clicks”, they left to moviemax where they all stood in the line.
“click click” bigMuscle clicked again as they posed, while taking tickets.
Loudmouth said “Hey bigmuscles, why don’t you stand too”and "Click..click"
Striaghtbutsometimescurly shrieked “Hey …upload upload” and tag us all.
After a long day, before they kissed a goodbye to each other, they clicked few more pictures. First, single and then, groups of 2, 3, 4…and random permutations.

What is it that the malls have that make normal people behave like they have just landed from some foreign land and wear unnecessary makeup, put on a fake accent, eat uncomfortable stuff, and still pretend they are the happiest people in the world.
Why is it that when you enter a mall you see so many ppl in 3/4ths like if u were to walk on a road , you would see them in their pajamas eating , bargaining , chatting, and happy. Here it's too fake, too phony, too materialistic, so much show-off. People just want to show off that they belong to some aristocratic class. Chivalry comes to them naturally. They behave like those film critics on tv who mention about some un-understandable Oscar movie references.

I still remember some 12-13 years ago, going to shoppers stop or kids kemp was considered a big deal and it would happen once in 4 -5 months. We would wait to go to kids kemp or shoppers stop and eat in some exotic hotel nearby like that was some sort of an achievement, like that sudden happiness. So much excitement! I still remember after so much of pestering , in class 9, I got a pair of adidas shoes. I hadn't thrown the box in which the shoes were kept. I had it nearly for 2 years. It was a great thing to see that authentic adidas symbol on the shoe box. Yaay , even i own an original pair. Otherwise we would go to National Market bargain to such a great extent search shop after shop try to use our detective minds and see who is the authentic guy and who's fake, who has got the so called 'Proper Smuggled Goods', bargain like crazy and buy those pair of shoes and show off in front of our friends.

Now everyone wears nike and having a titan watch is too down market and no kid feels proud to wear such things. It's become routine now
The kids kemp clearance sale would be the real clearance sale, it would happen once in a year.
We would wait for it and buy some macho shirts , like those shirts with some guy having great muscles and some gun in one hand we would also feel super macho.Now everyone has a play station , a computer, great apparels. There's no excitement at all and they get it so easily. Not that we paid for anything we bough but we had to pester our parents so much wait for the right moment check out who bought what from where , where is it cheaply available ,check out the real 'FACTORY OUTLET'

Also, slog to get great marks for what we wanted. Life has changed. It is good for all those who love sporting their id card and for whom, the job is a mean of living but for the rest, it is a circus called "monotony". You talk, behave like the "monotonous" ring master called "herd mentality" would ask you to do.We shouldn't forget what we were just a few years back.
Get off the cloak: , Join activity clubs, make new friends with like minded. Bring more meaning to the gift called “LIFE”.


The original MOCHI