Archive for the ‘Friday Masala’ Category
Friday, January 5th, 2007
Lots of catching up to do. The last two-three weeks of sickness left me way... way back on tons of things, thoughts and thongs I've to write about in my diary.
To begin with my sickness... it started as a sore throat - which is always the case in my life. It's as if God's given me the most sensitive of throats... damn it. Wonder what would happen if HE gave me a sensitive penis? Umm... still thinking...
Now the sore throat was followed by - yep - a cold. And fever. Body aches etc. etc. The whole enchilada. So what does one do? Get up and go to the store to buy some cold medication...
So you are standing in the ...
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Friday, December 15th, 2006
Bad day. Bad Friday. I wanna grab a hunter and lash the scum... it's been a roller coaster of a morning. Today is the Christmas bonus day... where bonuses will be given out to everyone at work here. It's supposed to be a happy day. 10 days before Christmas...
Rudy is the assistant network engineer. Good guy. Lazy guy. Have had problems with him a few times. But it has all be good. 4 years. For 4 years we've shared jokes, lunches, those mad mad email forwards, stuff...
Rudy is a good guy. Layed off this morning by my VP. 4 hours before the bonus checks are to be handed out. 10 days before Christmas.
The scum of humanity leaves me ...
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Friday, November 17th, 2006
Spent the night awake until 1am talking to guys in Bombay. Guys who are amazingly passionate about cinema and theater. So many creative & full of fire - ideas being exchanged between LA and Bombay. The air waves must be boiling hot... I can feel it... Nothing excites me more than being in conversation with highly imaginative minds... last night was a good night...
Got a 4 hour quick nap. Early morning meeting. Get my morning dose of strong coffee when the first text message arrives... read it... I go "Wow!"... about to enter the conference room... another message arrives... unfolding the latest project plan for my VP to save his ass which is online... if only he had done things ...
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Friday, November 3rd, 2006
Friday. It's all cloudy here in Southern California. No Sun. The clock has moved back by an hour and I'm still having difficulty in adjusting to it. Specially the evenings when it gets dark by 4:30 instead of the usual 5:30pm.
So it's movie time. Nah. Not Umrao Jaan please. To be honest, I could barely sit through Muzzafar Ali's movie. That kind of story, treatment, flow and pace are not for me. I just can't connect to it. While everyone is talking about how Muzzafar Ali's take on UJ is a classic... could I know from somewhere if it was a hit? Did it make money? I'm not sure if it did...
But here we have JP Dutta making ...
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Friday, October 27th, 2006
Arrive early morning at work. Did not shower. And I'm angry at myself for this. Emails in my box from DT and PFC readers. A half hour later I've gone through most of them.
Today's the day. The Allen Carr seminar - to become a non-smoker forever. A bit excited, a bit nervous.
Jump to PFC. Anurag's new article. Hooked - line and sinker. Now I have no freaking idea about what is taught in film schools on underwater shoots. But hell... mind's racing around, Anurag jokingly asks for ideas and I'm seriously (albeit stupidly) throwing my ideas in the comments section. I don't care. It's a fun place to be in, nothings stupid, nothings concrete. I like the flexible ...
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Friday, October 13th, 2006
Sirjee, Sirjee, Sirjee… what… what… what is going on????
Calm down Betelal. Take deep breaths. Trash the Kajol and Krrish dolls you are carrying. Sit down and tell me what the hell do you mean by “what is going on???â€
Sirjee… It’s been more than a year since that buggar has let us on the Train. I’m upset. I’m very upset.
First of all – when you say buggar – it sounds like burger. Secondly, what buggar and what Train?
Oh Sirjee… you are so naïve. I’m talking of the idiot oz from Desitrain.com. He has not given us an opportunity to get on the Desi Train for almost a year now.
HA HA HA… Betelal. We don’t need the Desi Train. The Desi Train ...
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Friday, October 6th, 2006
Panna-ben is leaving. Panna-ben will be away for three whole months. Panna-ben’s going away is making me sad. Very very sad. Because for the next three months I won’t get good wholesome sometimes delicious many times crap but all the time completely eatable – home made food.
Panna-ben is the lady who delivers dinner at my doorstep. Day after day. Everyday. It had been a wonderful life so far. No going to grocery shops to buy your monthly list of groceries, no rushing home to cook food, no having to cry over the crap you just cooked.
Panna-ben, my messiah for food will be gone. She’s actually going to India. Gujarat to be precise.
Yes, me a Punjabi, has been eating Gujarati ...
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Friday, September 29th, 2006
Friday atlast. Taking half the day off.
Boss wants to know "WHY?"
And I end up saying something that ensures Friday half days for the rest of the year.
"Boss, I have this stomach pain for last few days. Doctors have done so many tests but they haven't found anything. So they will now do these twice a week tests on me to check for cancer... I'm nervous I don't know what to do. So I have to go for these tests every Tuesday and Friday. I can go late on Tuesday, but Friday I have to be there by 1pm"
I'm not a good liar. I just can't lie without being caught. But there are exceptions, that arise out of a few ...
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Friday, September 15th, 2006
So it's about 11am here. I'm almost ready to hit the Indian street close to my office. Destination : Ambala Dhaba. There are now 3 Ambala dhabas on that street!
The Indian street is actually known as Artesia (the city it is in). Actually the street is Pioneer. Desi stores on both sides for about 2 - 3 blocks. I used to love this restaurant called Rajdhani which used to serve Thali - Indian style. The people here would come and serve you on the table. Oh how I missed this kind of treatment which is so common in India!
Unfortunately, the last three outings to Rajdhani haven't been good. The food's turning bad to crap. Which is a pity, cause ...
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Friday, July 21st, 2006
I fired up the word doc last night to write the next chapter for One Masala Life Please! A few hours later, I delete the whole document. It just isn't shaping up to the levels that would excite me. But its high time I wrote about the boring stuff.
My Friday Masala. Bits and pieces of all that I passed by/over/under this week.
Loan Consolidation and those Debts
KK, a friend, has always been this generous guy I've known. But two days ago, at a bar, I found that it wasn't he who was so generous. It was the credit card companies. The cards he carried in his wallet were flicked out on a mere whim and there went another 100 ...
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Friday, May 19th, 2006
Friday again. And in a few hours we'll be free for the next 48 odd hours. Come to think of it, a 9 - 5 job, does have its benefits. It gives you a sense of excitement each week, every week. Think about it. You are jailed every Monday and released every Friday for 48 hours. Monday morning they bring you back in.
This screenwriting class is interesting. Started a few days ago. I'm confused though. Everything defined in terms of structure, methodology and flow, most of us movie fanatics may already know at a subconscious level. Maybe not in those text-book defined words. It's interesting to note that the Greeks first came up with the ...
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Friday, May 5th, 2006
It's been quite some time since I last recapped my week. Blogging started as a means to share my journal with a few of those who would care to read it. I do that very little these days. I wonder if I'm afraid to be openly honest about what goes on through my personal life in front of a larger audience than the few who cared to visit my journal when I first started.
Things aren't the same anymore. What started as a reflection, rant, raving or highly opinionated takes of how I viewed things happening in and out of my life... has now turned more of a habit. Perhaps passion.
I admit my regular day job ...
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Friday, March 24th, 2006
Salman Khan Update
There are some people who "go out looking for trouble". There's nothing exciting happening in their lives. They face boredom 24/7. Money, fame and all other material riches has long become a "been there done that" syndrome for them. They need something exciting and challenging to fill their lives up with again. And to create excitement they subconsciously float towards finding problems for themselves. Sanjay Dutt is one of such people. The other is Salman Khan.
His lawyers have successfully managed to get a stay order on his one year sentence in the Black Buck killing incident. The next hearing for this case is now April the 12th. So now the ...
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Friday, February 3rd, 2006
It's been about a couple of weeks since I went out to a club/bar, in other words, a long time since I went out to meet someone new (in other words, yes, no new girl in my life so far, sorry my dear pickup brothers).
Practice makes a man perfect. That's true in case of your social skill sets too. How? Here you are checking your stuff out at Costco (a big discount retail chain store in the U.S.) and in walks a hot Costco girl. She wants to check your membership card. You smile, brain digs to find your opening lines...blank blank blank. Nothing. Nada. FUCKING STUPID IDIOT. Where are my lines?
And ...
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Friday, January 27th, 2006
The net's going ga ga over Rang De Basanti. Everyone has something to say about it. One better than the other. Such has been the impact on watching the movie, there is a noticeable tremendous intensity in each blogger's post. It's frighteningly contagious, so much that...
You have just returned from an ass whooping at your CEO's office. You sit down, fire up your web browser, go to Google.com and search for "New reviews of Rang De Basanti". Yes. There are more important things in your life than coming an inch close to getting fired. That shows the passion a person has. Another week like this and you could as well as start a "Rang ...
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