Emm Bee Aay.

This post would have been titled “That This That Was Left Out Those Two Times” but then Vasudha Pande pwned me so I had to think up something new. You made a lazy guy think up new titles, V, God will not forgive you for that.

Anyway, the exams have finally, finally ended and I have about a month and half of summer vacations now. You would expect I’d enjoy, watch movies, hang out with friends or at least laze around if nothing else. But it doesn’t work like that. There’s a new chapter in the life and times of ME. Notice the pompous beginning? I’ve always wished that my life be so exciting that someday somebody writes a book on it. Right now that book would have about 3 pages – The title, the contents and Chapter 1 which still needs to be written. So, anyway, the new thing in life is that I’ve joined MBA coaching classes. Why I’m doing an MBA is a long story so we’ll chuck that. I really don’t know what this chapter would turn out to become. It could be life altering or it could be like re-reading of the previous chapter where I joined Engineering coaching and didn’t end up becoming one. Right now I’m not thinking about the end. Some of you would tell me that it’s stupid to do something without thinking about what happens at the end of it but I really don’t care. I’ve realized that I’m not somebody who gets motivated by aims and targets. If I am to get somewhere, I’ll get there and if I’m not, then setting my eyes on IIM-A, visiting the campus and setting my Facebook status as “Going to IIM-A” won’t help. That’s just not how I function. Besides, I know it’s not my aim. It’s just one of those things that you need to do in order to facilitate the achievement of the aim, or basically just to shut everybody up and to make them let you be on your own. I know I shouldn’t be affected by what people say but that’s just how I am. And it’s not like I haven’t tried changing it. It never worked.

Anyway, the coaching involves 2 hour long classes of Math, Logic and English. I think English is fairly fine, Logic is interesting and Math, well, it’s not that bad after all. I’ve attended about 8 classes and 1 group discussion and they’ve been do-able. But this is just the beginning so you never know what happens as the complexity and stuff increases. Logic is interesting because it makes you work. It’s surprising how you tend to not be able to solve things which have such simple logics behind them and yet you can solve the biggest math question that there is. I’d been thinking, thinking and thinking over the following question for over 2 days and yet I couldn’t come up with an answer:-

A: If I say 6, you say 3. If I say 12, you say 6. If I say 10, what do you say?

B: So simple! It’s 5!

A: Haha, no! It’s 3!

B: Uh oh?!

And you had to tell how 10 became 3. So I kept banging my head, I tried all the Math I know, I tried the number line, I tried almost every confusing technique in the book. And then I decided to put the question on Facebook and it took Dabido an entire 2 seconds to come up with an answer after I told him it’s a logic question.  Goes like this:-

6 = SIX = Three letters.

12 = TWELVE = Six letters.

And

10 = TEN = Three letters.

And that is why when I say 10, you say 3 and not 5. Just how simple was that? And yet I never thought about that. I think it’s about observation and IQ. Dabs took 2 IQ tests which told him he’s among the top 1% people in the world. So technically he’s a genius. But that doesn’t make me feel any better about myself! 2 days and I hadn’t even started thinking along those lines!

And then there’s the English which I tend to take too seriously for some reason I’ve been trying to find out for a while. There was another Flaw Detection question in which we were given a paragraph in which we had to find errors. One of the lines in the paragraph went:-

Harry Potter, the hero and Vandermot, the villain of the famous Harry Potter series were seen having tea together.

I read that line and up went my hand in the air. I had found the flaw! Here’s what happened:-

Me *raising hand*: Sir! Sir!

Sir: Yes?

Me: Sir! I found the flaw!

Sir: You did? What is the flaw?

Me: Sir, the villain in the Harry Potter series is called Voldemort, not Vandermot! Hee!

Sir: Oh come on.

Me: Yes sir! I know! How could they have been so silly?

Sir: Sir, we’re finding grammatical errors here. Not factual errors.

Me: Uh, but. But. Uh, alright.

But how can anybody just call Voldemort Vandermot? It’s almost a crime! It’s bigger than any grammatical error that there is! Not in the CAT though.  After those rather inspiring incidents, I don’t know where this is gonna go. But it is kind of scary.

Have you noticed how June has so many birthdays? Nidhi had her birthday a few days back. Kriti had hers on Sunday. Reema had hers yesterday and its Ashish’s birthday today. Some month, eh?

The power situation out here is rather erratic. I think I’ll have to go back to spending my days like I did during one of those bad summers during the engineering coaching days. We knew the power cut timings so we’d go and park our asses at McDonalds or KFC for hours every day because they had their AC’s running. 30 bucks for 2 hours in the AC is a fair enough deal, I think. Agreed the coffee sucked but still, it was better than sitting at home doing nothing and getting fried in the heat. The only problem now is that I don’t have a friend to take along with me to KFC or McDonalds. I think I’ma have to make some new friends at the coaching place. Talking about McDonalds, their Chicken McNuggets are the end of the world. And the Barbecue Sauce that they provide with them is something beyond the end of the world. Talking about the end of the world, I saw Angels and Demons. I can’t decide if it was good as bad. If you compare it with the book, it was sad. Stand alone it was just about okay. If they’d taken Megan Fox for Vittoria Vetra, I would’ve said it’s good. That said, Megan Fox isn’t looking too hawt in the new Transformers promo. Transformers reminds me of Shia LaBeouf. He reminds me of The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien (which is awesome, btw) and Conan’s show reminds me of Green Day. You totally have to watch the new 21 Guns video. Like NAO! And it’s right there on the Green Day link so you don’t even have to click anything extra. Do it, I tell you. PS – It’s high definition and so it might hurt certain dial-up and limited broadband connections. Don’t blame me if you overshoot your bandwidth!

Wimbledon is on. Nadal isn’t playing. Federer won his first match. But India is too busy cheering Sania Mirza on who’s managed to reach the second round. It’s like she’s won the title or something. But going by her current form, it is kind of big deal-ish. The grass at Wimbledon seems to be very slippery this year. I saw quite a few people falling around yesterday. Djokovic’s opponent – Julien Benneteau (Player Profile. He resembles Chris Martin a little.) had a rather bad day at the office but played well. He was running to play this lob shot and banged his knee into one of the walls (See here). Ouch, that must’ve hurt. Everything said, I hope Federer wins. And if Maria Sharapova can somehow end up winning too, then nothing like it.

That. And This. And Federer.

It’s time for another pointy post. No, come on, I know the previous post was really lame but that doesn’t mean this one will be too. I blame the previous one on the Mathematics exam, which is done now. In case you are wondering, or not wondering, how it went, it was a major disaster averted. Bole toh it was really weird but I think I’ll pass. I wish the teachers and the University come to a consensus on the syllabus soon, though. Because what the teacher teaches does not come in the question paper and what comes in the question paper is not even a part of the damned syllabus. But then there are kids who walked out in half the duration of the exam and literally scoffed at the level of the paper because it was SO easy. Always leaves me wondering what the fuck I was doing there slogging for three hours. Anyway, the next exam is on the 17^th now which means I have plenty of time to let my hair (plenty of ‘em, considering I’m a Sikh) down. And that’s exactly what I’m planning to do.

• Roger Federer won the Roland Garros 2009. Yes, he did. OH FUCK YES HE DID! He beat Robin Soderling in straight sets. Although I was expecting the guy to give a tougher fight, but heck, Fed won, and that’s what is important. And then the very next day he posts an 8 second video on Facebook introducing us to his newest friend, the “Coupe des Mousquetaires” (Coupe means Cup btw. You know that na, Kriti? Sorry, couldn’t resist. :P ). Now how many guys do you know who’d bother to do something like that? He’s such a gentleman! It was great to see him getting the trophy from Andre Agassi. And dude, the guy loves crying! He’s crying all the time. Just yesterday I was talking to Nidhi (It’s her happy birthday tomorrow, so go wish her, fave a couple of her awesome photographs and make her a trending topic on Twitter!) and somehow we got into discussing who would be wrong if Federer and Mirka get into a fight. She says it would probably be Fed and that he would just start crying. So LMAO yet so very true! And then of course there was the star of the day – Mr. Streaker. He just came running and waved a flag at Federer and tried to put a hat or something on his head. While everybody was shocked and terrified thinking what happened to Monica Seles, I being the dumb old me was laughing thinking about what had happened with Andrew Symonds! Man it would have been some scene to watch Federer tackle somebody like that. He’d tackle and then say sorry and then start crying probably. Anyway, he WON! YAY!

• The MTV Tickr has become uber-lame lately. They should probably name it to the MTV Twickr because it looks like a photocopy of my Twitter timeline. MTV has a twitter account and so all the stuff you see out there on the Tickr is borrowed from the cool peeps out at Twitter. And the jokes are lame too. Except the one where the Tickr asks, “Why isn’t Harman Baweja tweeting?”. Because, “He’s waiting for Hrithik Roshan to join Twitter and start tweeting so he can RT (Retweet) him.”  Hahaha, really! But other than that, it’s all pretty lame and stuff. I even saw them doing a, “What to do after AN haircut?” Fine, I’m a grammar Nazi but you really don’t get it so wrong on National TV!

• Sticking to MTV, thought I’d rant a little about Splitsvilla. I really wanted Joanna and Mohit to win because I like Joanna and she likes Mohit so by default Mohit should be okay. But dude, the guy is such an asshole! He got his ass whooped by Siddharth in the boxing task and still he’s bitching about him. Why can’t he just accept defeat? So, so lame. I really wish Siddharth wins now. But why am I saying all this? It’s not like anybody knows who Siddharth, Joanna and Mohit are. Nobody watches Splitsvilla! Or even if they do, they don’t like to admit it. And what’s with that Fast and Gorgeous show? I didn’t get to see even ONE gorgeous chick out there. Oh, and I just noticed that Sonel is one of the contestants. Remember Sonel? Crazy girl from Roadies 5.0? Ashutosh’s girlfriend? If all that doesn’t ring a bell, nothing will. But the point is, it’s really scary to imagine her in an F1 pit or whatever it’s called. Agreed she’s not gonna be fixing the car but still, she’s got this amazing capability of botching up. I wouldn’t wanna be a driver for Force India. Oh btw, I heard Force India might get suspended from F1 anyway. Why have this stupid competition then? But yea, they could always use the girls to do cheerleading for the Bangalore Royal Challengers during IPL 3 – Modi ka Maximum!

• Talking about Twenty20, the fact that Australia got kicked out of the World Twenty20 World Cup deserves a mention. The English press is very delighted. Indian newspapers carried a few quotes from English newspapers making jokes about the Aussies. One of them went, “What do you call an Aussie during the T20 World Cup? A spectator!”. I don’t know, I thought it was funny. I don’t think India’s gonna win this year. I think Ireland is. You know who’ll benefit the maximum out of this? Lalit Modi of course. He can take the IPL to Ireland and he’ll not even have to change the name! And he can even claim that he can see the future and he knew that Ireland was gonna win this Twenty20 and that’s why he didn’t name it Hindustan Premier League or something. The guy finds a DLF Maximum everywhere!

• Oh I saw the MTV Movie Awards btw. They were cool. Although what they did to Eminem was a little over the top but that’s MTV for you. But still, it was Twilight Night full of jokes, admiration, awards and cheers for the movie based on Stephanie Meyer’s novels which has the Diggory boy a.k.a. Robert Pattinson (I’m secretly hoping this is gonna lead millions of hot chicks to my blog, btw) in lead. Why is everybody SO crazy about him?

• Talking about lameness and TV, Channel [V] is not far behind. If it’s the Tickr for MTV, it’s Facebook for Channel [V]. The other day they ask, “Do you think Public Affection of Display is cool?” and this chick replies, “No, of course not! Imagine some guy sneaking up and trying to hug you!” and I was like, Dude! PDA’s is not equal to Eve teasing for God’s sake! Stuff like this makes me feel that my generation is actually a zero.

• Talking about zeroes, I’ve managed to successfully let Green Day’s new album grow on me. While it isn’t as brilliant as American Idiot was, it’s not far behind. Billie Joe’s vocals are impressive for one. There is less of guitars out here and well, that’s how I like it. I can’t stop listening to Viva La Gloria’s beginning. Hey Gloria, are you standing close to the edge?

• Thanks to the million holidays before the next exam and the lack of electricity, I read the entire issue of this month’s Stardust. And there was this one picture which really made me laugh my ass off and fall off the bed. Here goes :-

• What were you thinking when you got that clicked, Neil Nitin Mukesh (more chicks, hee hee) ? Or have you become Neilima Nitika Mukeshwari Devi now?

• I watched 99 yesterday. It was a nice and simple movie. I’m rather impressed with Kunal Khemu (um?). I didn’t know the guy could act. The only thing that surprised me about the movie was the way in which Cyrus Broacha (haha, no way!) got sidetracked in the movie. Didn’t have a very meaty role. Boman Irani (okay..) as usual was brilliant.

• Oh btw, if I haven’t replied on your blogs for a while, I’ll get down to doing that really soon. It’s just that I’ve been a little busy and a little confused. But I have plans this time. Not plans to conquer the world or something but yea, some small plans to fix things up. I hope they work.

• Btw Btw, Mozilla Firefox crashed three times when I tried uploading that Neil Nitin Mukesh picture to WordPress.com. Is it just the picture or does that happen with other people as well?

• Chalo then, I hope I keep posting. 2 posts in 1 week is quite a big big deal by my standards.

This. And that.

It’s time for another one of those bulleted posts. Wonder where the idea came from? Here and Here. I guess bullet posts work for me because there’s so much to say and there’s absolutely no relation what so ever between them. But thanks to them stupid exams, which have been going on for a month now, I don’t have much to say. Did I tell you they seem to be planning to go on for another month? Pfft.

• I loved Jay Leno. And I didn’t think Conan O’ Brien could have adjusted so soon but he did. And he’s been doing it in style taking potshots at Twitter like everyday. I have to give it to him for, “In the year 3000, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook will merge to create a super time wasting website known as You-Twit-Face”. Awesome!

• And then he got Green Day to perform on the 2nd episode. But that’s no big deal because I’ve seen Green Day performing at his other show many times. The big deal is that Billie Joe actually gifted Conan The Billie Joe Armstrong Signature Gibson Les Paul Junior! Pompous name eh? But it’s big deal.

• I think I finally figured out what I wanna be. I wanna be Conan O’ Brien!

• I shouldn’t have told my mom that. :-/

• Federer just about won against Del Potro. The guy is good, it was heartening to see him coming up to Federer and congratulating him like he did. I know they all do it but you can see the vibe in the way they do it. This one was pretty genuine.

• Federer is going to have a tough time against Robin Soderling. I’ll not be surprised if Soderling ends up winning. Just because Nadal lost doesn’t necessarily mean that Fed will win.

• All that said, I still and always will support Federer. Go him!

• The women’s final is going to be interesting. I think Safina will win. I don’t care, really. I’m just happy that Serena Williams won’t. :-/

• You have to read this hilarious Angels and Demons review by @ankurb

• The Tooth Fairy a.k.a. Vasudha P got a brand new Dell Studio XPS AND completed a 100 posts. So go congratulate her.

• Mr. Bharat Iyer did amazingly well in his 12th Board exams. And he’s getting his new Dell Inspiron 15 this Sunday. If all this doesn’t bring him to blogging, nothing will.

• Ms. Vasudha W also did exceptionally well in her boards. She says she passed but she ain’t back. What is it with these kids?

• If anyone from Dell is reading this, pliss notice that I mentioned Dell twice. And I also happen to own a Dell Inspiron 1525 (which you guys stopped making just about when I bought it :-/ ). Mind giving me some $$$ for all the shameless publicity?

• I’d rather you guys don’t read the user reviews in the Inspiron 1525 link. They’re too disappointing. Actually, they’re kind of true too. I haven’t owned this thing for more than a year and I’ve had a Hard Disk drive death as well.

• Bheegi Billi a.k.a Drenched is baaack. Well, kind of anyway.

• I need to figure out how to remove the related posts that come after every post. The way I used to write is well, embarrasing to say the least. :-/

• The Emperor of the World has given up on blogging. Go post whiny comments on his blog or buzz him on Twitter (@geekwrestler) and ask him to come back.

• Linking was not such a good idea, trust me.

• Yes, I know this post is lame.

• Yes, I know I should end this here if I wish to live.

• FINE! Bye!

I just don’t know.

If you’re in a particularly good mood, I advise you not to read this because I’m not in a very good one and this post isn’t gonna lift your spirits in any which way. However, if you’re angry, fucked up, pissed off and so on, I would advise you to read this because knowing that there is somebody who’s even more confused and fucked up than you are might help your case. Works for me, at least.

So Charlie Chaplin once said, “I like walking in the rain because nobody can see my tears”. That might not be exactly what he said so Charlie uncle, please don’t jump on me for copyright infringement, defamation or some such fancy thing. So yea, something like that coming from Uncle Charlie, who used to make everybody laugh was really something. Or that’s what people say. I think it’s pretty normal because at the end of the day, he was just a normal human like all of us are. Well, he might have had a better sense of humor, more $$$, more popularity but at the end of the day he was just a mortal. Somebody who had his own set of problems. Every human struggles somewhere or the other. I wonder why I’m even rambling about all this. Anyway, so he said that and it’s a popular quote and everything. Me being me, I thought I’d come up with something myself. But since it doesn’t really rain because of the screwed up ecosystems anymore, I had to slightly change the situation. So I thought I’d select something that happens more often. Something like power cuts. So my version goes like, “I like power cuts because everything goes dark and nobody can see anything”. What it basically means is that I like sitting outside in the balcony during the power cuts and imagining people in the house next to mine bouncing into the walls because they’re completely clueless and can’t see. Obviously that doesn’t happen because they’ve all got generators going but I like to imagine that. The thing is, it satisfies me to think that at least during the power cuts, nobody can see anything in front of them, just like me all the time. I don’t see any future for me. I don’t know what’s coming. And there are reasons for that, quite a few of them.

Everybody has some aim, some passion in life. I have none. Nothing at all excites me. Some people like Physics, somebody wants to get into the best medical institution in the country. Everybody who’s my age knows what they want from life. I, on the other hand have absolutely no idea, agenda or plan. This feeling becomes more prominent during the examination and result season because everybody’s going here and there to join colleges etc. and it really hurts to see that everybody has a plan. I had none when I joined college last year. And today, about a year later, I’m not any wiser. I still don’t have any passion, any interest. I had a keen interest in computers, but that seems to have died now. My mind says that’s because college isn’t satisfying enough but I think that’s just a lame excuse. I’m supposed to be starting MBA preparation in a couple of months but there’s nothing that particularly excites me about that either. It’s just a kind of a sacrifice. I’m doing that only because I want to escape everything and I want to get rid of people telling me what to do and so on. But that’s all. Whether that is a good decision, I don’t know and quite frankly, I don’t care.

This brings me to the aim part of life. The mother is pretty tired of me giving her this excuse every other day. She tells me that if I don’t have any aim in life, I will never achieve any success in life. Aim is the most important thing in life. And then she tells me to make one fast. She says that I keep lying around everyday, maybe I should analyze things during that time and make up an aim. But I don’t think that’s gonna happen like that. Aim is a very important thing in life, isn’t it? How can I just sit for a couple of hours and decide my aim? I don’t know. The fact that one of my good friends got admission into AIIMS last year and one is going to IIT this year doesn’t help things one bit. “When both of them could have an aim in that age, why can’t you?”, questions my mother. That’s a question I really have no answer to. And when I don’t answer that, she thinks I’m screwed in my head. And I don’t blame her for that. There was an article in the newspaper a couple of days back and it had John Abraham talking about how some of the most successful people he knows were clueless when they were 20. I liked that article but I never mentioned it to my mother because I didn’t want to create a fuss on that, she’s kind of touchy when it comes to my histrionics in 11th and 12th. But today when I decided to talk to her about my clueless-ness, she brought this article up. I was very surprised at how well she knows me. She said that I’m screwed up and that I keep getting lost because of such articles and because of them “stupid rockstars”. Stupid rockstars would mean Green Day. I knew I should not have discussed the idea behind their songs with them. How can you expect her to not get alarmed when she watches a video like Jesus of Suburbia or Holiday? But it’s not entirely my fault. I have to discuss my feelings with somebody and that happens to be the mother because nobody else listens to Green Day here. These are the times when I miss having a sibling. Maybe they would have understood? Or maybe they wouldn’t have. That’s another of those many things in life that I don’t know. Sometimes I wonder where I would end up 10 years from now. I might be highly successful, I might be somebody average, I may be broke or I may just be dead. I don’t know. I just don’t know.

The weather outside was good today so I decided to drag the bean bag into the balcony, just lie down, listen to 21st Century Breakdown (finally!) and just stare at the stars. I know that sounds very melodramatic etc. but I love doing that, it’s fun. And especially when there’s a power cut and everything is quiet because all the AC’s and stuff have to go off. So I asked this exceptionally shiny star guy, “Dude, you have any idea about my aim?”. And just when I thought it was gonna answer, this cloud comes and hides it from view. But me being the optimistic guy hoped that the star would tell the cloud about my aim and then it’ll rain and one of those droplets will finally enlighten me. But it didn’t rain. Optimism begins to get on your nerves after a while, I tell you.

My generation might not be a zero, but I’m pretty sure I’ll never make it as a Working Class Hero. Silence is not my enemy, this stupid brain which thinks too much is. Maybe someday I’ll just pick up my 21 Guns and cause a massive 21st Century Breakdown. That day will be fun, oh yes.

No really lol, I’m not emo. I was just playing with the song names to make something up. I can’t even kill a cockroach damnit, so chill. I’ma live. As long as my stupid junk food diet permits me to. :/

3 years!

So a couple of days back, I was reading Kriti’s post about her blog i.e. Reflections turning two. When I read that post, I wondered, “Dude, I’ve been blogging for a while too..I think my 2 years should be close too..must check.” Anyway, I didn’t get around to checking it that day but something just came to my mind again and I checked it today. And guess what?!?!?!?! No really, guess WHAT?!?!?!

Today, i.e. the 18th of May, 2009 is actually Dead End’s 3rd birthday! Can you believe it? I certainly can’t. I mean, I just managed to continue something I started like 3 years back. That is big considering how fickle minded and boring I am. But anyway, let us not talk about my negative points right now, right? Yeah. So then, do you think we did a swell job? I think we did! Overall we’ve had 384 posts, 7177 comments and bloody487,166 hits! If that isn’t awesome, what is?

I would like to thank everybody who has read, who has commented, who has subscribed to the feed, who has loved and who has hated. Thanks much, I is grateful to you. :)