Archive for the ‘Friday Masala’ Category
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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Friday, January 20th, 2006
So, how was your week? Busy, shitty, ok or something else? But “Ok†is a word we desis are so fond of using. How are you feeling? “Ok†How’s life? “Ok†How’s work? “Ok†How screwed up are you? “Okâ€. Years ago I and AV, a colleague of mine and now one of my close friends, who complains of the shitty cold in Toronto, we both attended the “Silva Methodâ€. The people at Silva Method taught us to use the word “Better and Better†instead replying “Okâ€, “Alrightâ€, “Fineâ€, “Shittyâ€, “Screwed Upâ€, “Fucked up†and whatever up you use. Try using “Better and Better†over the next two days. Check the difference out. And on Monday when I ...
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Friday, December 16th, 2005
So what happened this week? Fardeen Khan got married. The MSM websites are in a race for “who gives more space on their website to this eventâ€. I wish they could have instead had a race for “Who makes their website more glittery and sparkly†for this event.
Or perhaps who shows the most of Fardeen Khan Classics, live streaming, on their website. Classics which would include Prem Aggan, Hum Ho Gaye Aap Ke, Kitne Door Kitne Paas, Khushi, Janasheen and last but not the least Shaadi No. 1.
Really is the media this desperate to get content on their pages, print/web, that they are treating Fardeen Khan’s wedding as the event of the decade?
What’s the ...
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Friday, December 9th, 2005
News is that Neil Strauss, yes - the one who revealed the secret pickup community to the outside world, is retiring from the pickup community. Neil a.k.a Style, in the pickup community, came out with “The Gameâ€, a tell-all book about the insides of the pickup community, which I’ve reviewed here.
Before retiring Neil decided to train 5 chosen ones to whom he would pass the secrets of Pickup, tools he had invented and not yet revealed to the outside world. Before you start thinking…No… I was not one of the chosen 5. The Last Workshop. Final 5. The fee was $15,000 for a 3 day workshop. And when the curtains came down, ...
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Friday, November 25th, 2005
Friday and here in office. About to wrap up and leave. For the last 3 days my damn right side headache has followed me. Someone at lunch said “It’s a migrane†– so that’s it after years and years of suffering the sometime right, sometimes left side pain in the head, it has finally been revealed. That I too, get migraines. And for the last so many years I had been under the false impression that it is my outrageous overdone sexual activity – with partner or alone that gave me these headaches. Damn it. All this time I had been blaming mini-me for this.
And then there’s the stepping into winter, darkness by 4pm and lights ...
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Friday, November 4th, 2005
The sky is blue and the sun is out. It’s a bit cool though I suspect it’s an illusion created by the A/C. Things have settled down since morning after some major crisis at work where everything and anything was breaking down. Two more hours to go before I pack-up at work, get into my car and drive for about 2 hours. Down South. San Diego.
After my return from the Retreat, I’ve had “S†give me advanced consultations on The Sedona Method. Then last week she mentioned that she was coming to San Diego to conduct a class on the method. And I jumped on it.
It’s strange to note that, when I lived less ...
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Friday, October 21st, 2005
Time to restart my Friday Rants a.k.a. Friday Recap a.k.a. Friday Mirchi a.k.a. Friday Fire a.k.a. Friday Fataka…still not settled down on a snappy title.
So its history, archived and aligned on the web pages all over. Tomorrow when anyone types in IIPM, getting loads of negative information would help them know what started it all. The rising of the Desi Bloggers. All hail the new breed – The Blogator, the Blogger with an investigator bent. And the investigations are fast, have a wider range and much much more powerful. Thalassamikra has the latest investigation and its results on IIPM. This is the 3rd or the 4th blog revealing the misleading ways of IIPM.
Now ...
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Friday, August 5th, 2005
It’s been some 10 days. From my “American mom†visiting me, news about my first love, breakups, buying a DAP, rings to wear from home, flu, taking a painful decision to not go to Canada for a break…
It’s surprising how at times you click with someone over the phone in spite of never having seen the person. It’s all the more surprising that you manage to keep that chemistry over 5 years and yet not having met in person. It’s been that way with my ‘American momma’. Well she’s started being my counselor on the east coast, while I worked on the west. And every time we talk it’s nothing but fireworks. So it ...
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Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005
Dating affirmations do work; I lay there thinking with “C†resting her head on my shoulder while watching the live comedy standup. I think affirmations of any kind work as long as they are done with passionate intensity.
What next? I have no idea, perhaps the attraction “C†and I have towards each other will fizzle out in the next couple of weeks, or on the other hand it will grow stronger. Last Friday was fun and I’m glad “C†enjoyed it. “So what are you doing tomorrow?†she asked. When I mentioned I was busy most of the day, but would be free in the evening, she asked if I would like to have Greek ...
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Friday, February 11th, 2005
It’s raining again in Southern California (SoCal). Lunch time. “Wanna go out for Thai?†asks my boss over the phone. I look out, its raining…once upon a time I would call it the perfect weather for romance, clean white sheets over you, hot coffee by your bedside and passionately holding your love in your arms. Bite me – she would say....pulling myself back to the present, “I have some stuff to finish, you guys go ahead†I reply, and put the phone down.
It’s raining, it’s raining cats and dogs, and that’s how people objectify the rains here. For any Bombayite, it’s a pathetic shadow over what they have experienced in our dear old Bombay rains. I’m hungry. I take ...
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