Tuesday, May 31, 2005

It's beauty that captures your attention; personality which captures your heart



I gave a personality test and here is what it has to say about me....


Your #1 Match: ENFJ
The Giver

You strive to maintain harmony in relationships, and usually succeed.
Articulate and enthusiastic, you are good at making personal connections.
Sometimes you idealize relationships too much - and end up being let down.
You find the most energy and comfort in social situations ... where you shine.

You would make a good writer, human resources director, or psychologist.


Your #2 Match: ENFP
The Inspirer


You love being around people, and you are deeply committed to your friends.
You are also unconventional, irreverant, and unimpressed by authority and rules.
Incredibly perceptive, you can usually sense if someone has hidden motives.
You use lots of colorful language and expressions. You're qutie the storyteller!

You would make an excellent entrepreneur, politician, or journalist.


Your #3 Match: ENTJ
The Executive

You are a natural leader - with confidence and strength that inspires others.
Driven to succeed, you are always looking for ways to gain, power, knowledge, and expertise.
Sometimes you aren't the most considerate person, especially to those who are a bit slow.
You are not easily intimidated - and you have a commanding, awe-inspiring presence.

You would make a great CEO, entrepreneur, or consultant.


Your #4 Match: ENTP
The Visionary

You are charming, outgoing, friendly. You make a good first impression.
You possess good negotiating skills and can convince anyone of anything.
Happy to be the center of attention, you love to tell stories and show off.
You're very clever, but not disciplined enough to do well in structured environments.

You would make a great entrpreneur, marketing executive, or actor.


Your #5 Match: ESFJ
The Caregiver

You are sympathetic and caring, putting friends and family first.
A creature of habit, you prefer routines and have trouble with change.
You love being in groups - whether you're helping people or working on a project.
You are good at listening, laughing, and bringing out the best in people.

You would make a great nurse, social worker, or teacher.




Thanks to Dawn for providing me with the link.

If you wanna try... click this link Know your Personality

"If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature."
- Bruce Barton


Monday, May 30, 2005

MONDAY BLUES


Monday Blues

The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere :-)


Saturday, May 28, 2005

B&B running housefull


Running Houseful

Saturday morning 10.30, I rushed to Cineplanet - Sion, to book the tickets of Bunty & Bably for Sunday, but all the shows are running housefull, then I tried my luck at Imax - Wadala, but there too all the shows were booked.

I returned back home :-(

I'll have to wait for one whole week to watch that movie.

Some of my friends who saw that movie have not rated it well so I'm just trying to console myself that I'm not missing anything great.

Another Sunday without a movie and the cricket tournament is also over, so its tough luck for me...

I'll be watching "Man on Fire" on CD... some consolation atleast


Friday, May 27, 2005

Free cakes – not that yummy…

Remember the dialogue of Saif Ali Khan in Dil Chahata hai – “hum cake khane ke liye kahin bhi jaa sakte hn”. I remember it very well.


Couple of days back we celebrated a birthday party in our office, fortunately (or unfortunately), as the employee turnout on that day were quite few, there occurred an opportunity to freak out on cakes, which was utilised by me to the core. I mean 2 pieces of strawberry cakes, 2 of butterscotch and 1 of black forest, all went down my appetite. All was fine until the next day when the yummy damaged my tummy.
Loose motions…I had a tough time in office (I mean in the office loo). I had to have curd rice for lunch and dinner and that’s all. Yesterday night I even had some temperature but now atleast the temperature is benign, but still weak… thankfully it’s Friday, hope to get some rest this weekend.

Wishing a nice weekend to all the readers’… Enjoyyyyyyyyyyyyyy


Tuesday, May 24, 2005

Bollywood babes @ Cannes

This year at Cannes film festival 3 bollywood babes marked their presence, the gorgeous Aishwarya Rai, the ethnic Nandita Das and the sizzling Mallika Sherawat.

I was least bothered about what’s happening in Cannes until some days back I read an opinion poll in TOI. The poll was regarding which bollywood babe was best dressed in Cannes.

Then I searched in the net to find out what these babes were into…have a look



As per the opinion poll Aishwarya Rai was the winner and Mallika finished last. In the following day of the poll, there was a pic of Mallika in Mid-day, which cleared my doubt why she finished last.




Best dressed…hmmm… Did anyone cared for what she was dressed in

Enjoy more pics...
Aishwarya @ Cannes
Nandita Das @ Cannes
Mallika @ Cannes


Monday, May 23, 2005

We Won: Malayagiri Cricket Tournament

A few day back I wrote about the cricket tournament of our building (Malayagiri) - "Galli Cricket", and finally we won the finals this time. During the first year when the tournament started, our wing was the runner’s up, in the second year we were jointly declared winners with the other finalist due to controversy and finally this year we made a clean chit. It was an amazing final match.

We bowled first and our opponent scored 104 in 12 overs. In reply, we scored 109 with a lead of 5 runs; in the second innings we restricted them to chase the target of 83 in 10 overs. It was quite a modest target but wickets in quick succession did the damage for our team. I came down the order to bat and at that time 33 were required off 3 overs. By the time my quota of 2 overs got over, we needed only 4 runs off the final over. The next batsman made no mistake and we lifted the finals trophy…

We lost twice to the same team in the previous two encounters of the league rounds but we bounced back at the right time.

Cricket matches are of complete fun. The atmosphere gets completely charged up. But now with cricket tournaments getting over, we will have to wait for other tournaments to begin.


Sunday, May 22, 2005

“Uppar ki Kamai”

I went to the registration office last Thursday for registering my new flat. From my past experiences and advices from people on dealing with typical government officials, a broker seems inevitable. Whether it was my driving license, passport or getting registration for my flat, going through a broker/agent has worked brilliantly.

Morning 9.30 I was at the registration office with my parents; the broker did all the settings and our token number was 2. Though office is scheduled to start by 10AM, the “babu” came late and it was 10.30 by the time our number came. In no time form filling was complete - all computerised work (in Marathi), photo was taken via webcam, corrections in the form done with out any “jhick pick”, PAN number accepted with out a copy of PAN card, signatures taken in different forms at different tables in just 15 minutes - I was impressed.

Had I went on my own, without a broker, I would have ATLEAST returned back 4 times.

The authorities accept 30 tokens in a day, and even if I consider they are getting a bare minimum of Rs.50 per form as down the table income, the earning is Rs.1,500 per day, which comes to Rs.30,000 per month, considering 5 days a week. Pretty handsome earnings! This will be the case in most of the government departments. That’s the cost we pay for buying time (or they charge for doing work, which they are supposed to do anyways).

Government taxes us and their servants eat away the remaining.


Friday, May 13, 2005

No more SEXY roles, says Sameera

Yesterday an article in “Mid Day” caught my eyes with the
Quote
No more sexy roles, says Sameera Reddy:
“I have taken a conscious decision to shift from such roles. I have turned down quite a few roles that project me like that. Even earlier, I had never planned on having a sexy image.

But after Musafir I decided to do roles which are more performance-oriented. I want to do a mix of everything. I want to do roles that project me in the right light. I also want to do an offbeat film once in while. It satisfies the creative soul.”

Unquote


Sameera Reddy

Performance oriented roles… gosh give me a break! who will come to watch her performance.

Every one can’t be Kajol or Rani Mukherjee. These actresses should know their assets, I mean why they exist in the industry.

I appreciate Malika Sherawat for the fact that she knows what she can offer and what she is offering is good enough to sell her movies.

Sameera, you are good the way you are, don’t be otherwise or you will loose your market value.


Monday, May 09, 2005

Galli Cricket is back…

Once again I’m back into cricket fever, and am loving it. This time it’s not about watching Indian team loosing but playing cricket on the weekends. Every year in my building we have cricket tournaments. The rules are pretty simple, 1 drop catch out, runs are scored if ball hits the bat, 2 runs if ball crosses a certain distance and four runs if it crosses the boundary. Hitting six is out and one can bat for a maximum of 12 balls, 2 innings per match, 12 overs in the first and 8 in the second. 6 wings of the building are divided into 3 teams, 2 matches are played against each team and the top 2 teams play in the final.

Its complete fun, the team consists of boys, girls, uncles and aunties. This year the participation is only from boys and uncles. Every year I used to play only a couple of matches but this time I’ve decided to play all. So far my wing has played three matches, lossing 2 and won 1. On the coming Sunday my wing will play the last league round match and we have to win it to enter the finals. Last Sunday we lost our match by just 5 runs, it was sad, but the match was completely thrilling.

Its really good to have such tournaments, I’m fortunate that my building committee organises it regularly. They also organise tournaments for football, tennis, badminton, carrom, and chess. Apart from cricket my active participation is in chess. I’d won the runner’s up trophy twice. I lost to the same uncle in the finals on both the occasions. He is a state level player. Hope to outsmart him this time.

So after a long time my weekends are ending on a different note, better than watching KJ’s movies, I mean “tauba tauba” ;-)


Wednesday, May 04, 2005

Hume tumse pyaar kitna...

I was singing a song for her:
“humey tumse pyaar kitna ye hum nahin jaante”
As soon as I completed this line she started moving out,

Me: Kya hua, kahan jaa rahi hain
She: tumhe mujhse pyaar kitna ye tum to nahin jaante, Padosi se puch aati hoon, shayad who jaante ho.

People say old songs are romantic…


Tuesday, May 03, 2005

Traffic Jam at Zero hrs

Be it 9 in the morning or 2 in the afternoon or 7 in the evening or 12 in the night, the city never sleeps. Mumbai is known for this and I have my share of experiences too, though bad. The latest was on last Saturday night when I was returning from one of my friend’s wedding to find a horrible traffic jam near Chembur. It was absolutely pathetic with the roads jammed with busses and heavy loaded trucks. Other private vehicles were no less on the road. After a busy tiring day if I am caught in a traffic jam I really feel miserable about it and specially if its mid night.

To my surprise I could figure out traffic police at almost every crossing in Chembur, - confused whether the traffic police came to control the jam or the jam was because of the traffic police operating ;-)

I usually wonder what so many people do at such odd times. Even during peak afternoon on Sundays the roads get blocked - its pathetic, the city is getting horrible day by day to commute. Be it on roads or rails, everything is over crowded. I still remember those days in DTL when we used to work late and return home by standing in the 11:55PM local from Kurla.

I mean peace is just getting stranger to this city.


Monday, May 02, 2005

KAAL: What the F*** of a movie

I’ve always been very anti to Karan Johar’s movie, be it KKHH, K3G or KHNH. I have never liked any of those. It’s too much of shit drama with bull shit stories and concepts. But his recently produced movie KAAL has beaten every of his movie. A pure non-sense bull shit of a movie. While watching the movie I was actually wondering what the F*** is happening. The whole movie is promoted on the SRK’s item number and that’s the only tolerable sequence.




A lot of my friends tried to open the suspense by sending me messages but all went in vain as I deleted them straight way without even reading completely. But believe me it wouldn’t make much of a difference if one knows the suspense or not, the movie is Sick and Hopeless to the core.

I guess Karan had too much of coffee, he should go and get some cutting chai.