Accident NO: 40

I know i shouldn't be making a mockery about having been involved in so many accidents but this one was in a way different from the rest, i wanted to know what others would have done in my place or at least how my friends judge what i did.

It all starts after a mediocre day at work and after a long gap i hit the gym, basically had a dull and tiring day. The route that I take to get back home is airport road -- MG road -- wilson garden -- sadashivnagar -- dollars colony -- bel circle -- and home.

I left office a earlier than my usual time around 9 so relatively the street was more crowded than how it is at 10 - 1030 types. As I reach the domlur bus stop an insane old guy tries to make a dash at crossing the road, there was another person also trying to cross but seeing the light turn green he backed off but for some reason the old guy persists. Seeing the old guy I slow down my pace and tell him to cross but he gives me sign to go ahead so as I accelerate but the dumb fuck makes another dash at crossing and bhaaaaammm we collide my bike goes out of control I slide and roll a lot.

A few minutes goes by I realize that I'm lying on the road I get up check on myself and the damage to the bike also I see that a crowd has already gathered, amazingly all the crowd is doing is to tell me to run, I didn't think it was the right thing to do. I again checked on how I was doing and then I picked up the bike and kept it at side of the road and then I go over to the old guy whom the crowd has safely taken to the other side of the road. I reach the place and see that no damage done at all tough he was complaining about shoulder pain, immediately a guy from the crowd comes and checks him up and declares his collar bone is fractured .. i'm like yeah right.

So now another hero comes up from the crowd is making his intentions clear by talking loudly and asking how we both are and all and then hez like okay lets get both of you to a hospital I him i'll manage on my own just get him to a doc first. The guy said okay we'll take him to Bowring hospital pay us Rs 50,000 .. I just wanted to curse my ass of at the guy but seeing the mob collected around I kept my cool and said sir "I'll take care of myself, it was as much as my fault as it was his so I'll take care of myself and let him take care of himself." To this the smart ass hero goes senti and all and takes about humanity and manavytaa and all. I told him if I had fallen down no one would have given a shit. tho this guy goes on about how karnataka people are so helpful and all. I got a feeling that this is a big time con job that they are planning and my best chance was to run off.

I stay cool and talk along for some more time and then I pick up the old man and put him on my bike. Just to see if he his faking i ask him to put his apparently injuerd arm on my shoulder for support. During the bike ride i made it a point to makehim get as many jerks as possible and on every jerk his injured arm would grab hold of my shoulder i knew that okay hez alright types but still i take him to the hospital. At the hospital I give the guy 50 bucks telling him to have a check up and leave in the same time I make a run for it.

I know it may not have been a very nice thing to do if it was not a con job and the guy was in fact seriously hurt but then i felt it was and so i made a run for it. What do u people think of or rather what u have done.

Whole of last night I sat thinking if it was the right thing to do or not! Felt bad that yeah i should have done more but then in the end I still stand by what I said ... it was as much his fault as it was mine so i'll take care of myself and he will tend to himself.

As for me I suffer a medium sprain on my right wrist and a lot of scratches and cuts, and yeah because of a bad cut on my knee I limp a bit.

Just for precaution sake i came by car today :) .. just in case the mob tries to pull me into this again :(.

Idiot sighting

I had a really sad and dull day yesterday for no apparent reason at all, so for today I thought I'd try out a different routine and read up some posts to start my day. So I go to India Uncut. Amit Varma is brilliant going through his blog more than covers up if your not in the habit of reading the newspaper daily.

Some of his sightings are so wierd that I had to put it up on my blog as well. Here are a few of them.

>> Watermelon is nature's Viagra!

>> Getting Raped!!! Use your cell phone

>> Dara Singh wants cable TV

>> Sleeping on a flight!!!

>> I Love America

Well what a start to the day .. more later .. right now i'm off to get me a bowl of watermelon :)

Kismat Konnection a review!!

Its been a long time since I wrote down something, a whole lot of stories to tell and share but guess I've been busy .... aaaahh .. who am I kidding I've just been too lazy to blog.

Kismat Konnection well where do I start. Firstly before going to this movie please forget that you have ever watched "Jab We Met", with that out of your head the movie is much more watchable.

Aziz mirza the director in an interview on Zoom( yes the one where rakhi sawant has a talk show ) said that Kismat Konnection was a FRESH love story. The only thing I found fresh here was that there wasn't the usual rain scene where love blossoms between the hero and heroine, nor were there any of the usual hungama that the parents won't agree or any such similar age old plots. For a take on fresh there aren't any parents invovled at all :)

The other part which has been so talked about is the "fresh" new jodi Shahid and Vidya. Lets get one thing clear Vidya is a much more mature/older looking woman when compared to Shahid who looks very very young. In a way I shouldnt have any complains here cause thanks to Aziz Mirza's selection I won a bet with a friend for lunch/dinner, the bet being that the movie would be "a younger man older woman" love story. Be warned there are some scenes where in Vidya actually looks like Shahid's mom or aunt ... eeeeeeWWWWWW!!!( the theatre practice scene and the scene where Shahid proposes ).

An interesting or irritating part of the movie is that whenever Vidya's face comes up on the screen there is a sudden breeze that comes out of nowhere and blows only over her to make only her hair go all over the place!! I have to say a very explicit show of freshness. To add to the whole freshness is the totally thanda connection between Vidya and Shahid. To the end of the movie Shahid's preachy speech about global warming and selfishly profiteering business corporations, this surely is a first for love story. I mean seriously wouldn't a simple rain scene have made it much more better and easier for the public to digest but then again its fresh

Another thing is the movie's fashion statement. While Shahid's stylist has a done a brilliant job with his wardrobe selection on the other hand Vidya's .. the engangement wala scene .. the last song .. the theatre practice scene ... the pool table scene ... well just three words kept coming into my head .. "OH MY GOD"!!!!

A good thing in the movie was Vishal's character who plays Shahid's best friend "Hiten". In a way one could go to the extent that he saved the movie from a compelete bummer. The comedy that he and Shadid share are quite peaceful but again very similar to that in "Ishq Vishq". I shouldnt complain here its the only thing that pulls one through the movie.

Music wise .. "Aai Paapi (Tu Hai Meri Soniye)" is brilliant also just like in JWM the last no: in Kismat Konnection "Move Your Body Now" is quite amazing as a dance no:, both Shahid and Amjaad's brilliance no doubt!. Atif also has done an okay okay job with ‘Bakhuda Tumhi Ho’. Since we are talking about dance, another fresh point is that Vidya hardly appears in any of the dance no:s but in Soniye Ve (Dhak Dhak Dhak) where she does make an entry, the three words come back to me again .. again maybe its the freshness in the movie thats so obvious that I totally missed out on it and thats why this view!!

Wrapping it up Kismat Konnection is a very very very light entertainer, a simple love story without glitz, glamour, item numbers and a whole lot of freshness!!

Lotus Pond

Yesterday some colleagues and me went to the cafeteria for lunch, we thought why spoil the start of the week with such bad food. So we decided to go out.

One of us ( not me ) had seen this bengali place on airport very near to my office called "Lotus Pond". The link has lot of good stuff written about them but I suggest u avoid this place as far as possible, don't go by the description given about them in the link. The food is very mediocre and the fish is really really bad. I'd rate the place 2/5 cause despite the horrible food, me and my colleagues had a very good laugh.

Heres why!!! ( let the mouse hover over the image to see my comments )

Bhool Bulaiya

As far as the title goes well I just wanted to use this term in one of my blogs it basically means "a maze generally one that you could get lost in".

This post is basically on the type of people you may find in your office. have fun !!!

1. Doggigar -
Tries to hang out with you and your group but somehow just doesn't seem to get the hint that he is unanimously hated. It rains when he talks. Gives out ultra SAAAD jokes. Is the favourite to win the award for “THE MOST IRRITATING PERSON”. So why the name well coz the jokes would be of this order..

Q: "dog and bone main harne wale ko kya bulatha hai"
A: Doggigar ( attempted spoof on bazigaar apparently ).

Dont worry cause mostly likely this person is your bosses best buddy so u have to actually laugh at this while your brain is recovering from the shock it just got.

2. The Hot Chick -
Has great physique. A descendant of Venus. Hangs out with less hot girls so that she stand out. Makes most of the guys drool while intimidating the rest of the girls in the office. And as obvious she will have nothing to do with you or your group. Most likely she'll have something do with doggigar to make your life more miserable.

3. The SCJP guy -
This guy is basically dumb, may know stuff and all but people interaction skill all time zero!! Oh the best part he tries to hang out with your group and just doesn't seem to get the hint that we are laughing at him and not with him. Agreed that some of us don't have a that strong a hold over English, and even the best of us falter at times. i know your saying that happens, what wrong in that everyone has a bad day, why am i making such a big post on it?? Listen ....
On a random day while I'm parking my bike and he also enters the parking lot at the same time, seeing me and he runs to catch up with me puts his hands on my shoulder and says "Dude!! your pants look amazing from the back side" ... okay and all I managed to reply was "okay!!! thanks" ... while shaking his hand of my shoulder. My thoughts .. my bad day!!

4. Ghurkha Bhai -
Well this is the overly friendly guard/office boy that try to talk to u like yr really old buddies or something. The most irritating part is that they will throw the most embarrassing statements with the most brilliant timing ever coz the rest of your group will be there too who will undoubtedly take your trip for quite some time. Beware at times they may try to hit on you .. in some case after three failed attempts they play nice by saying "bhen maanke pucha .. bura maat manoo"!!!

5. Kitty Party -
This is the most irritating group of people you'll ever find. Basically how I define this group is there will be one "Kitty" in the group and a lot of dogs who'll try to make intelligent conversation. Mostly the kitty will be the kinds of Item 2 that I talked about earlier. Whats unnerving about the whole "party" is not that the Item 2 has nothing to do with you, but the kind of "intelligent" conversation that takes place. For instance listen to this...
Apparently the discovery channel mood is set in and here is a small part of the conv --
" A -- u know there are crocodiles at this place called bheemeshwari.
B -- yeah i know .. but they are not harmful as in they only attack you if they feel your a threat!! ( yeah all u have to do is carry a whole stock of Alpenlibe )
C -- BTW .. do crocs have teeth!
B -- haan .. chote chote hote hain .. but dont worry man they won't attack !!
........... "
then the conv moves over to discussing the whole philosophy of "medium" sized t-shirts and difficult it is to shop for a "medium" sized shirt!

6. The Pagal and his group -
You may not find a lot of these people .. partly crazy .. partly fun .. basically the kind with lot of enthusiasm to do everything related to fun ... and also the kind that most people in general feel "What the @#$% is this item doing here!!!!" .. well to shed more light a few stories of the group.
for eg.

>> I'm sure none of u would have met many people who would ask a person to "TAKE" a particular albums** song,(without knowing the likes or dislikes of the person or the person them self) THREE times over a span of a week. Oh and the third time is after the person has politely refused to take the song the previous two times.

>> Supposedly "A" types a hate message about a person "B" and wants to send it to "C" whose a close friend but intentionally or accidentally the message gets send to "B". so what does "A" do ??? lots of neat and safe ideas I'm sure. But here is what "A" actually does. "A" goes to "B" cubicle and tries to switch the comp off, but Murphy being so apt the comp doesn't switch so "A" conveniently pulls out the power cord. Well overall quite cool and sensible but just so that there is no doubt what so ever when "B" finally arrives back to his/her cube "A" goes over and asks a doubt to which "B" innocently replies " My comps restarting right now could you come back a bit later!! ", "A" leaves smiling :)

These people are basically cool but well at times I guess quite intimidating and also some of their antiques just go for a toss!!

>> Like when apparently pagal and his group go down for coffee and in the neighboring office's terrace there apparently is a chick standing talking over the phone. Tho one of the pagals gets hit by an enthusiasm stroke and he starts whistling ( I know quite cheap but bear with me ). One, two whistle down and the person on the roof turns around .. which I'm very sure wasn't for the whistling but interestingly .. the person turns out to be a guy.

The only thing bad or in a way bad is that when your part of this group u undoubtedly get the look. By the look I'm refering to the look that DeNiro has in "Meet The Parents" remember the "Im watching you" one.

7. The Rest of the people Who Hates Ur Fucking Guts -
Gives a mean DeNirolook every time he/she sees u. U obviously don't know what it is he hates about u. Has menacing plans on how to screw you if the boss assign both of u on the same task team.

If u can identify more please add them in as comments !!
** the albums name was Bhool bulaiya and so the title!!!