Ban On Smoking!!!

Oct 2’ 08: No Smoking at Public Places!!!
Are you sure about the rule?

This is brilliant step taken up by law, and if it is implemented correctly, would be beneficial to all. But, I’m not sure if it would happen. Some hurdles:

1. Public Places: Do anyone in India know the definition of “Public Place” ? While offices, pubs, restaurants are all considered to be ‘public space’, there is no clear system to bring the violators under scanner. I’m not sure and even didn’t have info about it but am it that “pan shops” are considered to be public places? Cyber Café, Beauty Parlor, Parking lot what are these?
2. Many similar Regulation existing: This is one of the regulation applied so that it could be “beneficial” to public, but already we are struggling with so many other similar problems like traffic , eves teasing, sexual harassment and many more and in spite of having “ tough laws” it is not possible to catch the culprit
3. Bribe: Another issue is “bribery” even if you are caught red handed, people instead of giving those thousands would “rafa-dafa” the case in hundreds.
4. Smoking Zone: If we leave apart some “IT Companies” there are many small industries and firms who don’t have a canteen/ parking lot. To come out with “Smoking Zone” wouldn’t it be an expenditure to them?
5. Common Man Thinking: Standing at a railway Station, a person is smoking. What would be your reaction? Should I report to police? Ahhhh Let it be… Who reports to police? Who would run to court? Better I change my place. Isn’t?

Some Suggestion:

1. While implementing the law every firm/company should be given deadlines that by this time it should have a smoking zone before actually torturing common man.
2. Banners and Notices should be placed in all cities citing the difference between smoking zone and No Smoking Zone.
3. Common man could click photos of people smoking in public place and could show it to police and he could be fined then and there.

Keep Faith
Chakoli :)

Reality Show Coaching Classes

In India, suddenly “getting fame” is much easier. Thanks to media and REALITY SHOWS!!!!
After “Learn how to search” if the next business you want to start and earn “lakhs” go for “How to be a winner of reality shows”. Or , while thinking on similar line of Cat and IIT JEE “ Crack CAT-09” , it could be “Crack – Indian Idol 99 "(I ‘m sure they would give us Indian Idol 100 as well)

So just lisiting down some do’s and don’t to be successful in REALITY TV:

• Start pratcising STANDING on your 2 legs: Before a week of 1st auditions start drinking lots of “Glucose”,milk eat fruits, veggeis, egg,chicken ,fish anything you could and start pratcising to stand for hours, for 1st day start with 1 hour, then 2…then 3…. And the last day stand for whole day. After all you might have seen the long queues……………………………. So this is a must condition!!!
• Be FUNKY: Try to do something which is totally stupid and only a dumb and only an unintelligent, dim person would do. IF not sure what watch “rakhi Sawant” show on Zoom ;)
• Language: Start using dialogue like “ Mera to sapna tha bachpan se Indian Idol mein aane ka “. “ Mein paida hote huye hi maa se pehle MTV Roadeis bola tha”. Maine to chalna baad mein seekha pehle dance seekha”…..
• Emotions: your tears should run down your cheeks before any judge even ask “whats your name?”. You should just be full of emotions…… Otherwise NO FOOTAGE DEAR!!!!
• Parents: Remember to take your parents with you, and teach them if someone asks you with a video camera remember to say “ meri bitiya ka to sapna hain Indian Idol mein jaane ka”.
• Use of word “F”: For Roadeis you need it man. Don’t give that Awwwwwwwwww kinda look!!! Start using it, infront of your friends, dog, neighbours, girlfriend/boyfriend and then still if you are shy the last target……………PARENTS!!!!

Was that enough?
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr……………!!!! :@
Craps are like this!!!! :d
Happy Prepearing!!!!! :O

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Chakoli :)

DisneyLand in Mumbai!!!

Read this guys…

Excerpts:
SAWANTWADI (Sindhudurga): Maharashtra government is considering setting up an amusement park on the lines of the world famous Disneyland, in coastal Sindhudurg district. The State Government is mulling over a suggestion to set up the amusement park at Kumarmath in the district, Revenue Minister Narayan Rane said on the sidelines of an event organised to mark the World Tourism Day here.

I’m not sure MNS would allow this to happen; otherwise they will ask for some “simple” rules as per them….

• It would be renamed as “Marathi land”…


• I’m not sure about it. But I’m expecting it have a board reading “Only mahrastrians allowed”.


• And also… “Non Maharastrians will be prosecuted”.


• All hoardings and banners would be written in “ Marathi”.


• Don’t know if we would have Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse… or it would be a some “undir” and “chichundari”… (Marathi translation of mouse and female mouse as conveyed by some marathi ;))


• Why don’t they start there own currency named something as “Maratha Rupee”… Don’t know where it would stand!!!! Lol… :O


• The Maratha rupee note could have “ Raj Thackerey” instead of Gandhi pic.


• Other non-marathis would goto “Mumbai Embassy” for passport and VISA.


• The first question to be asked during VISA processing would be “Do you know marathi?”

Discrimination in terms of language!!!! Sick Mentality!!!


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Chakoli :)

Its All About LOVE!!!!

Being tagged by Arvind and Manasa...so here goes my TAG OF LOVE!!!!

RULE #1 : People who have been tagged must write their answers on their blogs and replace any question that they dislike with a new question formulated by themselves.
RULE #2 : Tag 6 people to do this quiz and they cannot refuse. These people must state who they were tagged by and cannot tag the person whom they were tagged by. Continue this game by sending it to other people.

1. If your lover betrayed you, what will be your first thought?How could a “murder” look like a “suicide”
2. If you can have a dream to come true, what would it be?
Ahhhhh….. I dream, and they turn into reality as well and if they didn’t somehting “much better” is offered. So nothing for me ….

3. What is the one thing most hated by you?Just 3 I’s…. Irritaing, Irresponsble, and …Interferring...
4. What would you do with a billion dollars?Then do I have to do anything? Just sit and place ORDERS
5. Will you fall in love with your best friend?LOL… my best friend will fall in love with me ;)
6. Which is more blessed, loving someone or being loved by someone?
Both…. And I guess getting soemone you love is just being more “blessed”…

7. How long do you intend to wait for someone you really love?If its real love he wouldn't make me wait…. Isnt?
8. If the person you secretly like is already attached, what would you do?Whats else, goto orkut profile and read his scrap book and cry cry cry…. LOL….
9. If you like to act with someone, who will it be? Your gf/bf or an actress/actor?No one…..
10. What takes you down the fastest?Sweets
11. How would you see yourself in ten years time?I would be a bigger hippopotmaus…. ;)
12. Whats your fear?Failure… in any form!!!!
13. What kind of person do you think the person who tagged you is?Arvind: Fun loving and down to earth
Manasa: Sweet and patient…

14. Would you rather be single and rich or married but poor?Marreid and RICH!!!!! Lol….
15. What’s the first thing you do when you wake up?
Look at watch…. Look at kuuchuuuuuuu and smile and say Good Morning :D

16. Would you give all in a relationship?Is All here termed as …tan mann dhan?? (Body, soul and money)
Let me think…. :O


17. If you fall in love with two people simultaneously, who would you pick?That’s not possible!!! Dil hain mera koi icecream hain kya?
18. Would you forgive and forget no matter how horrible a thing that special someone has done?
Yups I would!!!!!

19. If you get to go back in time and fall in love all over again , would it still be with the same person?Then it would be “He ll fall in love “ with me again :D
20. List 6 people to tag
Amit
Reema
Vrij
Ankur
Keshi
Vinu


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Chakoli :)

Traffic in Pune!!

Since last two days … some wonders are happening in Pune. Whats is it?
At peak hour i.e between 9- 10 am when I start from home, and it takes just 30-35 minutes for me to reach office. Whoooopieee…!!! Suddenly, traffic has vanished. Not sure where? All traffic signal are “GREEN”… or even if I get a red light, I get it clear in just one signal. That’s really the 8th WONDER!!! I mean it could happen for a day, but 2 consecutives dayzzzz… I can’t belive it. Seriously!!!!! :~

In India, let me stick to Pune and not India I guess. So In Pune, what going ahead means? Especially when there is ahuge traffic.!!! Not that you reach the final destination first but how many centimeters and inches you could move your vehicle in huge traffic. How you can get off the road and cross 5-6 vehicles and stand ahead of them.

Somethings that I observed:

• If you want to turn right, stand on extreme left and take a huge right bypassing all waiting ahead of you. :@
• Here , nobody sees traffic light, just follow the vehicle ahead of you. If the vehicle is crossing, that means it’s GREEN and you need to follow him!!! :d
• If one is stuck in a “traffic jam”, 2-wheelers are bound to start moving from left hand side, tiny bit of “so called land “ left.If you refuse to do so, they will blow horn so loud that can turn you DEAF!!!! :(
• When 20sec are left for traffic light to turn to GREEN, start up your vehicle and start blowing horn and start moving slowly. This actually leads to “obstruction” to other side vehicles but who cares? :#

Whatever, I ‘m enjoying my ride. And just to get this happen everyday, I mean “less traffic”….. kaala tikkkaaaaa for that n :O
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Chakoli :)

Sports... Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gum

Guys today's its the first aniversary of our 20-20 championship.

The finishing ball of the match...... bowled by Joginder and caught by Srisanth!!!!and the result... India WINS!!!!!20-20 world champions!!!!

yipeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee :~

But another sad part is MANUTD are at there WORST!!!Could you belive it , they are on No. 15th. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...... :@

Only "Shaktimaan" could help them now :O

Still Keep the SPIRITS HIGH!!!!!!! For our WIN!!!! :D

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Chakoli :)

Search

Human tendency or whatever, our mind is usually processing, on a station eyes searching for "someone". On a road side searching for a "vacant auto". On a drive "looking for a chai wallah". When writing a new post searching for words. In a wedding " looking for some hunk"......... :O

We are searching ..no matter what!!! :d

And now with "Googlu" (that’s what google is for me), your fingers just keep on searching for this and that.

A right combination of words is always needed for this. Recently for my post "Gullak", when I search for an image, I tried many combination but nothing worked out. Then one of my friend, who is an expert in google and often term google as "google devta" came for rescue and gave me not one but 2 beautiful pics. Ahhhhhhhh....

Searching is really an art!!!
And recently, we Indians have been ranked 10th most intense internet searchers. Read on story here...

Excerpts
India ranks after Korea, Australia, Japan, Singapore (91.2), New Zealand (87.2), Hong Kong (81), China (76.6), Taiwan (74.8) and Malaysia (64.2) on search intensity ranking

Don’t worry, if in future kids turn out to be so nerd that "parents have to send them out for Search tuitions" and also it wouldn't be a surprise if "crash course and full time courses are offered by institutes on searching ".

Its the world of searching!!!!

Keep on gooogluuuuuuuuuing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Chakoli :)

Updates for the sake of Timepass!!

Market Conditions!!!
Just heard this on Friday

“Let Media be banned for a week and everything would be fine” Don't you agree? :d

Terror!!!

Now we have seen “some” faces of terror.
All educated, computer graduates, employed with some or the other “good firms”.

Not a big deal if a person “with whom” you just met few minutes ago is working for “Osama”. Beware guys!!! :#

Looking at the matter, even our company started up checking up of “dikkis”, purses and CCTV are employed to capture the face of the perron who enters. Due to this, we need to remove our “duppata” which we “gals” usually tie up to avoid pollution. I usually give a frustrating look for the inconvenience, and usually ask the same question – the guard who scans our dikki , has he ever seen a bomb?Could he ever identify it? But can’t help it :(

Movie-Shovie

Just watched “Welcome to Sajjanpur”…. Ooooohhhlalalallalala..

Just a fab movie. Really, a movie so close to heart and so entertaining. Do watch it. Especially mausi (Ila Arun) and Munni Bai !!!!! :O
Office
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
The never ever ending work :@


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Chakoli :)

He vs She

Friends:

Women: Women on a girls' night out talk the whole time. Basically its the "Gossip" session
Men: Men on a boy's night out say about twenty words all night, most of which are "Pass the bottle" or "got any more beer?"

Conversation:

Men: Men need a good disagreement to get talking. For instance, "Wow, great movie." or "What are you, nuts? She's Hot yaar!!!
Women: Women, not having this problem, try to initiate conversations with men by saying something agreeable: "That garden by the roadside looks lovely." "Mm hmm." Pause. "That was a good restaurant last night, wasn't it?" "Yeah." Pause. :D

Toys:

Women: Little girls love to play with toys. Then when they reach the age of 11 or 12, they lose interest.
Men: Men never grow out of their toy obsession. As they get older, their toys simply become more expensive, silly and impractical. Examples of men's toys: little miniature TVs. Car phones. Complicated juicers and blenders. Graphic equalizers. Small robots that serve cocktails on command. Video games. Actually anything that blinks, beeps ;)

The Phone:

Men: Men see the telephone as a communication tool. They use the telephone to send short messages to other people.And nowadays all techie use it for anything other then actual talking.
Women: A woman can visit her friend(friend) for two weeks, and upon returning home, she will call the same friend and they will talk for three hours. :$

Mirrors:

Men: Men are vain and will check themselves out in a mirror. :d
Women: They are ridiculous; they will check out their reflections in any shiny surface: mirrors, spoons, store windows, bald guys' heads. :O

Eating Out:

Men: When the check comes, each man will each throw in $20 bills, even though it's only for $22.50. None of them will have anything smaller, and none will actually admit they want change back. :)
Women: When the girls get their check, out come the pocket calculators. :~

Dressing Up:

Men: A man will dress up for: weddings, funerals.
Women: A woman will dress up to: go shopping, water the plants, empty the garbage, answer the phone, read a book, get the mail. :O

Bathrooms:

Men: A man has six items in his bathroom -- a toothbrush, shaving cream, razor, a soap, and a towel.
Women: The average number of items in the typical woman's bathroom is 437. A man cannot identify most of these items. :P


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Chakoli :)

गुल्लक

Early morning when today I saw a "piggy bank picture" , it reminded me of my "गुल्लक" .

Ahhhhhhh, brick red colour, it was among’s my favourite and I disliked even if anyone else touched it. And we used to place it at different location to avoid fights and also "buri nazar".

Each time we got money , in that matter ranging from 10 paise to 10 rs (yup that was a big amount), and we were tempted to spend it, we were taught to save it in "गुल्लक" and when I would have "big amount" I could buy some "big thing".

After putting some money , I used to shake it to listen to its “खनन-खनन” and then used to analyze how much space is left? And then the lucky day would come when I would break it and collect all money. How proudly I used to throw it on floor to break it and then collect all money and then the counting starts. It was usually a competition between my bro and me, who would have greater amount.

Yup, now it is replaced with piggybank, but I still love it.

"गुल्लक" – our first step to savings.

Somehow I feel, apart from teaching kids about savings account, there is much more a kid could learn.

• They could be taught not just to save money but how to set aside some money from the pocket money they get for future


• They should know that they should “own money” in emergencies


• They should know that this could help them to contribute to the family coffers


• They should be encouraged to have a clear, time-specific goal to focus on while saving, so that they will be committed to achieve it.

Don’t you guys think so?

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Chakoli :)

EarthQuake

Dharati hili re… Bhukamp aaya baachon.. bhaago re bhaago…
We used to sing this song, when we were kids and never ever experienced what earthquake is?

Yesterday night something similar happened. At around 3:25 , I woke up feeling that earth is shivering , Ahh, it could be my dream but no, it was shivering . As soon as changed my posture, I didn’t felt anything . But then again regained my previous position and yup again that “shivering”. Is it because of my change in posture that earth is shivering I thought? ;). At that point actually I was in dreamland, extracting some very large and precious piece of information and when I felt those tremors , I just succeded in doing that, so my mind was reluctant to open eyes as it could result in loss of information :)

Finally, I stood up tried listening if anybody around me is feeling the same. There was complete silence. No one was panicking. No one!!!

I came out of my room, and switched on TV, to listen to the breaking news but all waste, these TV news channel wallah don’t pop up with “breaking news” when it is the most needed one . grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. :# Finally , After surfing for about 5 minutes and switching from Aaj tak , NDTV, CNBC, BBC… to even marathi channel. I got irritated and came back to my room.

It appeared to me as more of a funny thing, at night feeling the tremors, I m watching TV instead of running. :$

Then , early morning as I asked my family – Did you experienced some tremors? First they said no then when I narrated my full incidence they said, yup when you were walking to living room we could feel the “tremors”. :O

Early morning I was hit by a mail saying something like that :

Aaj news dekhi bola gaya ki kisi ke karwat badalne se tremors feel hue they pune mein... uska sketch jaari kar diya gaya hai ..

To meri aan , baan shaan ke khilaf jung ched di gayi thi !!!

I searched on google and got a tiny piece of news which says :
“Earthquake in pune, earthquake in satara area of maharashtra. Earthquake news, earthquake in India on 17th september 2008”
Finally I was relieved, and concluded I m not that FAT :D

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Chakoli :)

Job Cuts

• Satyam to axe 4500 employeeeeesssssssss..............
• TCS , 500 employes Quit
• IBM was next...
• ebay to cut jobs of ......
• Hewlett Packard cuts jobs...
• TCS,Wipro revising salary ...
• Lehman Bhaiya (Brothers) ... is next...

Is someone still employed?

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Chakoli :)

Life is Like This...

In a meeting/discussion we discuss we fight we share we argue…. We face a clash !!!!!


And then this is what affects our team/business as we start taking it personally!!!

How dare he dosen’t agrees to me. How could his point win appreciations!!! Mine was better….
And then people say I’m completely professional .

Ahhhh Irony of life !!!!

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Chakoli :)

Fancy Dress Competition

Whenever you clear up your wardrobe, you are sure to find something good :).

Just one day back, and I got my album, and while turning its pages I found myself dressed in a “lehnga” with a proper “ghoonghat” and my age might be around 4 years. What I was doing then? It was a Fancy Dress Competition!!! I remember, my nose ring was pinching me and I cried before actually going on stage for the pain and face on the photo was conveying the same story. Don’t know what judges inferred from it? Might be a vidai scene of dulhan that I got a first prize . LOL….
This reminded me of the first fancy dress participation by me where I was “Kishan Kanhiya” and I was not going on stage so my sweet maama had to stand just beside me on stage.

Then came the next pic, where I was butterfly, with blue wings and blue frill wala frock I sang loudly “Titli uddi udati chali….phoolan ne kaha aaja mere pass..” But Didn’t got anything for this :D
Then just one year later, my aunt came with a unique idea of framing me on stage as “Negative”. I was dressed all black and mouth painted white. Many people thought of it as “bhoot” and not negative and such a creative idea went away in vain

May be I’m not in touch with kids now, or may be that I m quite right, but haven’t seen or heard about the fancy dress competition.

What today’s trend is theme party, which are quite similar to Fancy Dress but not a competition? Whatever, somehow I don’t like them. No specific reason but just don’t like them :(

I’m still biased to kids in different dresses and masks and colours…..

what say?

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Chakoli :)

Desperation…

Listing some very “urgent” things and quite embarrassing…

• When suddenly you realize you are too thirsty and didn’t had even a single drop of water since last 5-6 hours and one “dumbo” is busy telling his tale to you…
• When your tummy is producing unique, loud and audible sounds signaling that you are hungry.
• When you want to empty your bladder and one “idiot” is busy discussing your plans about tomorrow in a team meeting.
• When you are having a gastric problem and in the middle of a presentation you have an urgent need to get rid of it with “sound”

May be you guys could add more to these. Let me see some more of “ critical” situations.

Keep Faith
Chakoli :)

PS: Sorry guys just got busy with stuff. Thanks for all your comments.