Some news and some thoughts

There are a few good things I would like to share here. One of my best friends who was in desperate need of a job got placed with Satyam a few days back. Hey Mr.D I am very happy for you buddy. All the best. Many of my mates from college are getting placed these days. One more got placed in MacAfee with a good package. Congrats Mr.M. One more of my friends and a colleague of mine who was trying to shift places got transferred to Hyderabad and got placed in Oracle Apps one of the most happening IBU’s. Satyam went on a job offer spree to take 31 @ a single go this time from my college. This is the second time they have come. They are also returning for placements for the 2006 pass outs for the second time. My college is getting more and more lucrative with the number of companies that are coming in for campus placements is growing day by day.

What would I like to do with my life and where do I see myself in the days or may be years to come. I have many contradictory versions for the same. One moment I want to earn a lot and resign to a peaceful life afterwards and the very next moment I want to get into a business and end up successful which I believe I can be at any given point of time provided I really decide to be one. One moment I like to do an MBA and come back and the other I have a zero interest in the thought. I am becoming more tentative with age. Heard age brings in maturity but seems that it is not so in my case. Whatever, I will definitely not get into love and marriage at this point. This is the latest decision I have taken strongly. I don’t want to ruin a person’s life just because she found me worthy enough to live with for the rest of her life. I have become indifferent to many things and especially to my life.

A Blabber on LOVE….

As promised am back with my blabber on love. LOVE what to blog and what not to? Let me make it clear I am in no way experienced about the topic I am going to blabber about in the first place. You may ask then why go on to blabber? Had a few things to rant about and I have put in enough of homework. On a lighter note this post is in accordance with the D-Day in lives of all people who are in love and will always remain to be so all around the globe. Just thought why not take a crack at this. As to start with I would like to do a post mortem on why am I not successful in finding a person with whom I can claim to be in love with. Hey just don’t start about going on asking me about my parents family and friends. Here I am not going to talk about that. I need to reason with my still single status. I am a good friend material for all the girls who I happen to know at an intimate level but never a boy friend material. There may be many reasons for that but the following are all I could figure out.
1. My inability to take a chat forward without no good reason for doing so.
2. My inability to chat on messenger at length. Here I fail miserably because I have seen guys chatting hours together with nothing much just using emoticons.
3. My lack of tact in communicating things effectively if the person I need to correspond is of fairer sex.
4. My inability to understand the daily soaps. You might wonder how this can affect a guys being single…Let me explain when I happen to watch one of these daily soaps I tend to laugh out loud instead of sympathizing with the onscreen characters’. Here people mark me as a stone hearted bastard.
5. My inability to say things the sugar coated way. Result – Me being accused of being unromantic, emotionless what else not a bastard in short again.
6. My dislike towards all these teenage love sagas and my inclination towards fast and furious kind of movies and not to mention RGV kind of mafia movies. Don’t get on to conclude I don’t like all the movies with love as content. Titanic stands top in the list of my all time favorites.
7. Hey not to forget people never take me seriously. If I go and propose a lady from my set of friends they tend to say did you not find anyone from the morning kind of dialogues’ or just give me a friendly hit on the shoulder. They tend to believe that I can never love any one.
8. My love for sports and pace and also the way I love machines. Hey I cannot think of anything more. Aren’t these bad habits not enough for me being discarded in their hunt for a boy friend?? Come on more than enough who am I kidding.
But there are times I feel bad on not having a girl friend to share things and pamper me a bit. But I never had any complaints in this regard. Am happy to be single and happy still. But to confess I really feel bad a few times when I see guys who are worth shit go on to have beautiful girl friends. Envious don’t I sound??

Yeah and one more thing I would really like to talk about in length is VALENTINES DAY. Feb the 14th people all around the globe tend to celebrate this with full vigor. I did quite a bit research on this for quite sometime and got a small collection of facts and trivia about this day. The origin in itself has a few versions to it. Also why the day got to be celebrated as the day of love. Here are a variety of stories and legends…Source…Google my best friend.
1. Valentine was a Roman priest during the time of Claudius around AD269, who was martyred, then buried on the Flamian Way. He helped Christians during a time of persecution, was caught, put in jail, became a Christian, then was clubbed to death for this on February 14th, 269. While in prison, legend has it that he sent messages to friends saying "Remember your Valentine" and "I love you".
2. In another story, it is said that Valentine was a priest that secretly married couples, defying the Emperor Claudius who had temporary forbid marriages.
3. Valentine was jailed for refusing to worship pagan gods. Making friends with the Jailer's daughter, he is said to have cured her through prayer, and on the date of his execution (Feb. 14th), is said to have written her a note signed "Your Valentine".
4. Or this 4th story is that Valentine was a bishop of Terni martyred in Rome.
The14th of February has been set apart as the special day to remember St. Valentine. This was one day before the Roman Feast of Lupercalia, a pagan love festival. In 496 A.D. Pope Gelasius changed Lupercalia from the 15th to the 14th to try and stop the pagan festival. The church realized that there was nothing wrong with celebrating love, only the pagan elements were wrong. And so valentine went on to become a patron of love. Here are a few statistics trivia
More fresh-cut flowers are purchased for Valentine's Day than for any other holiday. Some other statistics:
Many Men Want Valentine's Flowers 61 percent of all men say they would like to receive flowers for Valentine's Day from a woman.
No Matter What Their Age Percent who want Valentine's Day flowers, by age:
• 79% of men 18-24 years old
• 67% of men 25-34 years old
• 61% of men 35-49 years old
• 55% of men 50-64 years old
• 31% of men over 65
But Fewer Men Get Their Wish 40% of men say they have ever received Valentine's flowers from a woman. Mostly Men Buy Valentine's Day Flowers 73% of people who buy flowers for Valentine's Day are men, while only 27 percent are women
Men and Women Buy Valentine Flowers for Different Recipients79% of men's Valentine's Day flower purchases are for wives or significant others. Women's lists are more varied. Men: 79% for Wife/significant other
A few suggestions for the singles I found on the net comes next.
1. De-stress. It's a personal choice. Celebrate it or ignore it, it's up to you. 2. Expect the best, but remain realistic. If your love or partner forgets all other special days, it does not mean they are a dead loss if they don't celebrate this one. 3. If no one sends you a card or gives you a gift, celebrate love, life and yourself by giving yourself something special. 4. If you can't find that special card that expresses all that you're longing to say, make one yourself, straight from the heart. It could be your best yet.5. Forget calories. When your love surprises you with a box of fattening goodies, smile, enjoy them and pass them around.6. Be bold, send a card to someone you've admired from afar. Just do it. 7. If you're alone, celebrate in style and ask yourself: Do I want or need more love in my life? If the answer is yes, start making the changes now to make it happen. If the answer is no, feel blessed and celebrate the wonder of life, love and you. 8. Valentine's Day does not have to be expensive. Simple gifts, heartfelt words, time spent together, that's what's really important.9. Light up someone's life, send a card to a person you know won't get anything. Make them smile and don't tell them it was you. 10. Write on a piece of paper the 10 top reasons why your Valentine is to you the greatest love of all, then present it to them in style.
About Valentines Day….on HALLMARK’s site
FAST FACTS
• With approximately 180 million cards exchanged industry-wide (not including packaged kids’ valentines for classroom exchanges), Valentine’s Day is the second largest holiday for giving greeting cards.
• Research reveals that more than half of the U.S. population celebrates Valentine’s Day by purchasing a greeting card.
• Romantic Valentine’s Day is a top card-buying occasion for men.
• The top recipients of valentines are: Husband, Wife, Son, Daughter, Grandchild, Friends and Parents. Women receive half of all valentines.
• Last-minute shopping is the norm for this holiday with nearly 50 percent of all Valentine’s Day cards purchased in the six days prior to Valentine’s Day.
• About 46 percent of all Valentine’s Day cards are hand-delivered, often with gifts.
• Parents account for approximately 40 percent of all Valentine card purchases. Hallmarks excerpts end here….
The night is black and the forest has no end;
a million people thread it in a million ways.
We have trysts to keep in the darkness, but where
or with whom -- of that we are unaware.
But we have this faith -- that a lifetime's bliss
will appear any minute, with a smile upon its lips.
Scents, touches, sounds, snatches of songs
brush us, pass us, give us delightful shocks.
Then peradventure there's a flash of lightning:
whomever I see that instant I fall in love with.
I call that person and cry: 'This life is blest!
For your sake such miles have I traversed!'
All those others who came close and moved off
in the darkness -- I don't know if they exist or not.
-- Rabrindranath Tagore

This sums up of what all love is in a most beautiful way. Love is by far the most complicated feeling. Here I would also like to mention something that I had read a few days ago in the newspaper stating love as pure chemistry. Chemistry in what way??? Researchers state that the feeling of love is caused due to release of few things like adrenalin etc. So everything sums up to chemistry…What a find. But even this chemistry does wonders. I have seen it making people forego family, people holding on through hardships that none could walk through in normal conditions. Just the mention of it alone does bring a zillion volt smile as a flash on to a few faces. There have been a few instances history offers us in support of this context. But on a more personal level I really feel this marking out a day for love, The valentines day nothing but a brilliant business strategy from one of the sharpest marketing minds. All this hype and hoopla are just a result of pure marketing strategy by the greeting cards and gifts manufacturing companies. And also the youth of today is being misled by all these. I really doubt the original intentions of a guy or girl who can leave parents with whom you have been for years together for a somebody. I sincerely feel that they might leave the other person someday in future for something else. I definitely know for sure now that I am prone to brickbats from many people all around the world who disagree thoroughly on my stand on this. But ok I am open to all those. Please pour in all your comments. Eagerly waiting for them…Now with this my post comes to an end and also I would post a beautiful story tomorrow. Until then Advance Valentines day wishes to one and all

Tentative Life

I am smitten by one very strange thought today. This struck me when I was going through the archives of some blog. The entry was for 29th September 2004. September 29th happens to be the birthday of one of my very thickest friends and on the mentioned date we were returning from a tour and had a blast in the bus we were traveling back home. The thought stirs up something in me in such a way that I can’t express what it really feels like. I suddenly was left thinking how many people would have done how many things and how many were really worried at the same moment I was enjoying thoroughly and how many were actually dying and taking birth right at the moment I was literally rocking all around. What amount do we contribute to the total life on mother earth??? What stirred up these thoughts in me is a blog entry…It was an entry written in reminiscence about a failed marriage. Any ways I am totally lost at this moment. Can anybody explain the phenomenon of life to me??


Photo Source :- Personal collection of Srikanth Bussireddy.
It feels like life is going to haunt me all throughout just as the shadow. Is there a way we can escape from the hands of life?? I don't suppose there is. But is there a necessity to run from life?? I am seriously confused and am unable to drive these thoughts away. Never mind this is just one of the passing clouds. Don't give a shit to what i am balbbering right now. This was more to vent out my feelings and nothing else. Would promise to be my own laughing self before i post the next one. Do wait for my post for a discussion on love. Coming soon...Until then just take care.

Rang De Basanti & More...

It has been almost a fortnight since I posted something new. I am consistently running out on what to blog. Seems that my skills to blabber about anything and everything are taking a dip continuously. Why not blabber on all the movies I happened to watch these days. The first one I intend to speak about is Rang De Basanti. It is a movie that never preaches but reaches. Aamirkhan playing DJ proved yet again as to why he is one of the best. He portrays the character of a 25-30 year old student who lacks the confidence and verve to go and face the world and stays back in the campus long after his education comes to an end. Madhavan plays a pilot and the catalyst to a metamorphosis that takes place in DJ and Co. The Co has been effectively portrayed by Siddarth, Sharman joshi & Kunal Kapoor.
Soha Ali Khan surprised me with her performance quite a bit. Even she can emote a bit mebbe sharmila has passed on her genes. The other major character is played out by Alice Patten hmm. One more phirangi actress to add to Aamir’s stable of actresses. The curtain raises with Alice’s project of carving out a documentary based on her granddad’s dairy is scraped owing to financial credibility of the project. Sue(Alice) is hell bent on etching out a documentary on her jailor granddad’s dairy who has had the opportunity of seeing India’s freedom struggle from close quarters. Thus she comes to India to work on with Soha who is a friend. Here we get to meet DJ and gang. I am amazed at how racy the narration is and the way the story unfolds itself in a fun coated way. To cut the story short Sue finds DJ and Co to be appropriate for the roles of freedom fighters, which instantly evokes laughter and mocking from the gang. The best part of the movie is I could identify myself at times. The movie flows on with Atul Kulkarni being introduced as a saffronised young student leader and he is selected to play ram prasad bismil. So Aamir is Aazad, Siddarth is Bhagat singh, Sharman is rajguru, and Kunal gets to play Ashfaqullah khan. Here we need to get a passing mention of how even a director as slick and modern as Rakyesh falters by trying to showcase hindu muslim bhai bhai thing. Barring a few hiccups here and there the movie moves on leaving you laughing or smiling most of times. As the story progresses we get to look at the change of insights of the guys portraying the charecters and a slow incarnation of the characters they portray into DJ and gang. Rahman’s BG score is mellifluous and trendy at the same time and blends itself with the soul of the story. It was great watching rahman at his best again. The songs are shot in an engrossing fashion and never separate themselves from the main story line. Now comes the implementation part of all the learning the characters had had all these days. Madhavan a pilot with the air force dies in a crash which he takes in bravely after making sure he takes the plane out of all the habited areas and throwing his life in danger. But the home minister claims this to be a fault on the pilot’s part rather than accepting the fact that the planes are made of inferior parts. This is nexus of political infamy and the home minister has a part in the scandal. So, now the gangs start to talk the language of the characters they play and decide to kill the home minister. They kill the minister, but the entire principle behind the killing goes in vain. So they decide to go on air telling the world of their intentions. Finally the gang gets to capture AIR and goes on air. In the process they all get killed but not once would you feel the ending to be so abrupt, even when all the protagonists get killed. Instead you get out of the theatre a little uneasy owing to the thought process the film stirs in you. As usual Aamir pours in life to DJ. Every character is carved in an efficient fashion. So the film finally ends, but not without making you think about the amends that need to be made on your part. On the whole I would recommend the movie to any one who are game to see a good movie.
The other movies I happened to watch are all telugu movies. Of all of them only happy ***ing Allu Arjun is worth watching once. Rerst---Devadasu ***ing Ram & Ileana (Ileana was amazing) --- Lakshmi **ing Venkatesh and Co are worth skipping. I advice to keep of the theatre and any other thought at your own risk.