Load Shedding

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I write this post sitting in the darkness waiting for the electricity to arrive. Since the last few days whenever I have been home, there has been load shedding every day for a couple of hours. I used to think West Bengal was a power surplus state, but it turns out it is not. I assume politicians like Mr. Karat etc, never lose power in their houses, hence they are opposing this nuclear deal. One of the major advantages of this deal could be the use to nuclear power to generate electricity. I believe this state clearly needs it the most, since they have the frequent power cuts. All over India, the demand for electricity is rising and these leftists buggers along with BJP (who has now just become used to playing politics) are against these deal. The Left, I believe cares more about China, than our own people. I really salute our Prime Minister for having balls to stand up against such parties and be like do hell with them, I am going to go ahead with the deal.

Just as I have finished writing this post, the power is back. I am going to try and get some sleep before the power goes off again and I wake up to the buzz of mosquitoes and their bites.

My train route

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Tomorrow I am starting my journey from Mumbai CST to Howrah. I have mapped the route along with this post. According to Indian Railways, I should reach Howrah in 36 hours. Lets see how long it actually takes. It should be fun and interesting.

Kingfisher First

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A couple of weeks ago I travelled Kingfisher first class. The experience was sudden and at the same time very much awesome. It so happened that I had booked my tickets on late Friday night for Saturday morning flight. When I got to the airport, I was told that the flight has been overbooked and since I am a Gold card member with them, I have been bumped up to first class. I was very much surprised. Usually I don’t wear anything extraordinary while traveling, just jeans and some t-shirt. The t-shirt that I was wearing that day was very much faded out and I had not even shaved. So I did feel like I am a bit out of place, since in first class you expect a lot of business types with suits etc or some famous celebrity (today every celebrity is famous). I tried to protest the bumping up from economy to first class, but sensing that it would look stupid on my part decided to just board the flight.

As soon as I seated, I got served with a drink called Sparkle (I think it was just Appy Fizz with cherry popped in). The best part about first class is the seating, you get plenty of leg space + extra recliner seats. Ohh and I forgot to add the headphones which they provided, I think they were noise reduction ones. Once the flight took off, the air-hostess came and handed me a big menu card, which had plenty of food options (veg and non-veg). The size of the menu card was almost 20 times as huge as the one they hand out in the economy. So after a while, the air-hostess came and asked me if I wanted to have corn flakes for breakfast and something from the main menu. I was like hell yeah!! So I ordered my milk and cereal breakfast along with fruits and then something vegetarian from the main menu. The tray in the first class is almost twice as wide as the trays in the economy. The food was very good and I enjoyed eating Cinnamon buns. After the sumptuous meal, I just decided I have had enough, when the air-hostess asked if I wanted any hot chocolate.. I wanted to have it, but then I was too full from the meal and declined the drink. The rest of the journey was spent relaxing in the recliner chair and sleeping. They really treat you like kings on Kingfisher. Btw, my return trip was also bumped to first class. It is also true that once you go first class, you dont feel like going back.

Wednesday

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Wendesday, May 21st was not a good day for two of the teams that I support. Firstly, Mumbai Indians (MI) lost the game to Punjab Kings XI by 1 run. It was such a close game. I was expecting MI to go ahead and win the game easily when Sachin was still batting, but then everything went haywire and we ended up losing with the smallest of the margins. The feeling of defeat that evening had just sunk in when around 3am, my brother sends me a message saying that Chelsea lost to Manchester United 5-6 in penalties. This was not something which I wanted to hear first thing in the morning. I headed out to gym and started to watch the game, which was being replayed, while working out. I saw John Terry take the penalty and slip and the ball went wide. For that one moment, my hands were on my face and I was almost in tears, feeling the pain that JT felt on missing that penalty. I have never gotten emotional after watching any game, and I really dont know what happened when I saw that penalty. Sometimes luck plays such a huge role. Chelsea could have won the match, but they hit the bar like 2-3 times. Cristiano Ronaldo from Man U even missed his penalty shot, but Chelsea were not meant to be European Champions.. Luck.. Bad Luck to be honest.

Check out this article in honor of JT.

Bad Luck hi Kharab hai

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The last couple of weeks in April and this month so far have been financially very bad for me. It seems like the Lords of Bad Luck have finally caught up with me. First, I forget my sunglasses in the office on a Friday, realize that on a Saturday, call the office guys to check if they are still on my desk and guess what?? Obviously they are not there.. someone took them.

Then on May 1st, I lost my N73 Music Edition. I was speaking on the phone with a friend when I saw an autorickshaw, with seating available in front. I got in the rick and hung up the phone and kept it in the pant pocket. I thought I had kept it properly, but guess what.. when I got down from the rick, I felt like I was missing something, and then realized the phone is gone. Either it fell down in the rick or on the road somewhere. I turned around to look for the rick, the rick was gone. I figured may be it has not fallen in the rick and decided to walk back the entire distance traveled checking on the road, in case I found the phone lying there. But it turned out, I could not find it. I reached my gym and immediately dialed my mobile number, and I got the message, “This number is currently unavailable.” So I assumed that some bugger has found the phone and removed the SIM. All this happened in the 20 mins, since I realized the phone was gone and I dialed the number.

And today someone stole my Adidas shoes from the Gym. I, along with other regular members, keep my shoes in a dedicated shoe rack. One of the fellow members also lost his shoes last week. I was in two minds on Friday, if I should leave the shoes in the shoe rack or take them with me. So when I went to the gym in the morning.. I got this nasty surprise, that my shoes have been stolen. I just wonder why would someone steal someone’s shoes. May be the robber has shoe festish or something, but still why would you steal someone else’s shoes. Now that I think of Friday, taking the shoes with me would have been the best option.

I believe in all I have lost stuff worth Rs. 18000 ($450 USD) in the last month or so. This has never happened to me and I have been staying alone since I was 18. According to mom, I should take more precaution in the next couple of months. May be Satan has finally caught up with me. All I can say is that Mera Bad Luck Kharab chal raha hai.

Bomb blasts in Jaipur

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Another terrorist attack in India. This time the city targeted was Jaipur, the Pink City, in Rajasthan. The city, I believe has no past history of communal violence. It is very sad that 80 people died and countless other lives affected for absolutely no reason. Every year there is atleast one terrorist attack in India. I find it very surprising that inspite of such increased terrorist activity, the government is not able to do anything. This is a major problem and it requires a very different way of solving. I dont think the Intelligence Bureau or Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) in India are any good or do they have sufficient funding to fight something like this. I am also sure if confronted, they will come and show us statistics that we have prevented so and so attacks and will also tell us, we cant stop all attacks (which I agree too). What I am more worried about is the frequency of such attacks. 9/11/2001 was a major terrorist attack. It will be 7 years since that day this September and America has gone ahead and turned half the world against them, but still we don’t see terrorist attacks reported in that country. Some of the steps they have taken are pretty drastic, but I guess drastic problems require drastic solutions. I would just like to end this post by offering my condolences to the people and their families who lost their near and dear ones yesterday. May Peace be upon us, really soon.

The Dark Knight

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I am eagerly awaiting for this batman sequel to release. It should be awesome. Christian Bale does justice to do the role of Bruce Wayne/ Batman. I especially like this voice.. kind of gruff and heavy. Also from the promos, the Joker is really awesome. Heath Ledger’s last movie and he looks terrifying and the scariest joker ever. Enjoy the trailer below.

Life in a Metro

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So last evening, I decided to watch the movie, Life in a Metro. I kind of enjoyed the movie, but at the same time I could not relate to the life that the movie shows. The movie shows that almost everyone sleeps with someone else to get to somewhere else. The boss sleeps with his secretary so as to get some peace in his life. The secretary sleeps with the boss to get some additional perks. The bosses wife starts to like someone else but cant go ahead with it because she has a family and according to her lost it for one minute, while the guy really falls for her. Another guy lends his apartment to his bosses so that they can fuck at his place, instead of a hotel and at the same time this guy moves the corporate ladder pretty quickly. A girl gets duped by the guy so that he can hide from the world and family that he is gay and so forth and so on.

While watching the movie, I was like in which world does such things exist, since I didnt know any of my friends, colleagues etc indulge in such kind of behavior. I know some of the people who have sucked up to the boss like anything to get promoted. I have also heard rumors about married people have an extra-martial affair, but that is the extent of knowledge that I know or have. I would be very surprised if I found people who would actually go to such lengths as depicted in the movie. But then again such is life.. you never know who you can end up meeting.