Normally, I do not promote fwd-ed SMS-es and mails, but yes'day I received an SMS, which I realy really liked. It transported me back to the college days with friends and the great care-free, fun n masti fraught times we spent together spiced with occasional spurts of sentiments ...

Here it goes -

Life means:
A winter evening, Four friends, Mild rain, 4 pegs of rum...

Life means:
100 bucks for petrol,two rusty old bikes, an open road...

life means:
Maggi noodles, a hostel room, 3:25 am...

Life means:
1 prep leave, 1 night, 1 book and 4 duffers...

Life means:
1 girl, 1 number, 4 friends and a fight...

Now life means:
Old friends, separate cities, separate lives and endless efforts to earn...

Happy to be your friend !

I love my friends spread across the world. Miss those days...
:)

Recently, I was told by my friend about the plagiarism done by the computer magazine "DIGIT". Along with a few other freebies, they shared a few wallpapers. One of them is -



The interesting part is that, this snap is a direct rip-off of the theme of Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Indore's annual Inter b-school Fest - IRIS 2005. A snap of the same is -



My friends from IIM - Jassi and Sharma were the master-minds behind the same. I feel sorry that their efforts are been dawned by someone with no credit to them. They do deserve acknowledgment on the same to say the least and a reputed magazine like DIGIT should not be doing this.

Its too strange a co-incidence otherwise!
What do you think?

:)

Today in office, we had a discussion in our team regarding the safety that we as citizens have in Bangalore. Especially, in cases where people like us who have moved out of their home towns/cities and are working here in bangalore.

One of my colleague had an incident where he was harrassed by a localite due to a minor nudge of their vehicles, worse even due to the other guys' fault. The person is from a wealthy background owning a few flats and land in the area. Without even acknowledging or talking, the guy simply started thumping the glass window of my friends car. On opening the window, he started abusing and even hitting. My friend sitting along with his wife measuring the heat of the situation, did not react back violently but felt helpless in this harrowing situation that too for no fault of his. clearly, he could not have approached the police as it happened in a street. though i have doubts that police would have helped considering the guy's contacts with the police/goons owing to his real-estate presence.

This is just another situation, that the people would be facing and i dont see any clean answers. I am not trying to sound cynical, but this is an off-shoot of the asperity locals have against the people coming from other states. The state security system provides no solace. The people around are not quite bothered thinking "mainn is chakkar mein kyun padoon (why should i get involved in this mess)". This ignorance from us is adding to the sorry state of affairs. Traffic sense is quite missing and the traffice police is not of much help either (besides counting their money in the corner of the road).

As a citizen, i feel that basic sense of security is non-existent and even worse, I dont see anything being done to re-store the same.

Demand for service in bangalore is so high that the standard of supply is going down. Restaurant bookings change without informing, infrastructure is in a sad state - I hope metro changes the scene here. Autowallah charges extra, meters are all running at Usain Bolt's speed, autowallahs refuse to go for no reason - no redressal and the police does not interfere either.

Another colleague of mine was returning from US to bangalore. His flight landed at 3:00 am at BIAL. A taxi service in bangalore - MERU, its driver says he will charge 1.5 times and will not give receipt for the same. all-in-all, the concept of customer/public service is being completely defeated in bangalore.

All-in-all, things are not quite hunky-dory as it seems from outside. I am sure similar problems would be in most other cities too, but for now, I am facing them here. Quite a relief, its raining great here and the climate is simply awesome...
:)