Quite a Happy Diwali it was :)

Much like every festivals away from home, I was expecting this Diwali to go in the same boring fashion. But quite contrary, is baar Diwali acha bita. For some unknown reason that I am yet to figure out, South India celebrates all the Indian festivals a day before its original date. Same was the case with Diwali this season.

Part I:

Bangalore's Diwali day: I was with my age-old friends "The Awara Pagal Deewana Sid, the slumdog Su and the Lusty Hawasi Aswini". We had stocked a sizeable amount of "TCS sponsored Highly discounted" phatakas courtesy Slumdog. Nevermind, they proved "Highly effective" quite contrary to its associated tags "TCS & High-discount". It was refreshing to see the Darua (the Odia wala) family man showing the courage to fire the crackers albeit with the help of some 100cm length of Paper :P . Su was at his very best that day and I was mediocre :( And fattu Aswini was out of equation engrossed over phone with a certain pretty lady ;) Then we some mards had Vodka and some impotents (Sid, u listening to this) had breezer ;) Sometime I wonder why Smirnoff always tastes good on special occasions :) I stayed at their place whole night and went to office directly from there.

Part2:

Rest of India's Diwali day: I returned form Office. To my surprise, found phatakes at my house. My roommates are generally agnostic not so coz of belief but so coz of aalas :P By that time my roomies were on high with G (kamino festival k din to break le liye hote) Seeing Dia at everyone's house humara sota hua vivek bhi jag gaya & we bought dia and threads. But sala, ab tel kahan se layen :( Tab idea sujhi, sabke die se thoda thoda tel chori karte hain lol. 

We were on 5 yellow cards (read warning from the apartment people for all possible reasons) and our days seem to be numbered in Kanaka Sadan :( Then came the plan leke bhagwan k naam, there can't be a better occasion than Diwali to get some pride back. Khoob mithai leke aaye n sabke ghar me baante. That day our khallu was at his very animated best and saala pata nahi kitne charnon me gira hoga ;) gira hua insaan :P. I got the strategy right to stand in the rear where u have the least chance of pushing urself to find a place at the charans :D Jo bhi ho, the ploy really worked, and since then we haven't recieved any further complains :) 

What an IDEA sir ji :D

3's Company: TF, Football & Guinness in an Irish Pub

Cast: Ashis Nayak as True Fan (TF)

2007 autumn: and also the autumn of TF's life; his first and so far the only Videsh bhraman. TF was in Irish land on a real short one week business trip.

It was a Sunday evening, ideally TF should have been site-seeing (this being the only weekend TF had had before a gruelling one week of training). But as he is the TF, his religion always pulls down all the other endeavour he might sneak some interest in. It was the battle between the two EPL heavyweights "Manchester United" and "Chelsea". The venue was "Theatre of Dreams OT" for players and "Temple Street" for TF :P. Yes, it is in fact Temple Street where the pub is in. In fact, every 3rd building on that holy street is a pub, how apt!!! The pub TF walked in, was a roadside 2-storied small building. (Please forgive TF for not noticing the pub's name, afterall he is TF; the only thing he was thinking was, football). The pub was decently filled and TF managed to find a very high chair (jahan se uske paaon zameen pe nahi lag rahe the :P). 

TF went to grab a beer and thought of trying the well-famous Irish "Guinness" beer. TF was getting frustrated at the time the barkeeper was taking to double-pour the Guinness; but as they say "good things come to those who wait". The beer tasted ultimayyte.

Finally the action began; the reds as always playing crisp and Chelsea the dull ugly boring football...as always. The crowd inside the pub was amazing, of all age ranging from 50 odd to even "hardly 10". TF mingled with an old man and a pretty lady (mother of the "hardly 10 kid"). Goshhh!!! those guys knew so much about football, this considering TF rates himself very highly in footballing knowledge. An awful tackle earned the X-united (at least for some hours) now Chelsea (for some cheap oil $$) Mikel a red-card; and up popped our "hardly 10 pumped-up kid" upfront the LCD, screaming "Come-on United, Fuck Chelsea, Fuck their ass, screw them" (all this in front of 30+ junta which included his pretty mom). For a moment, TF had to agree, there do exist bigger TFs than him.

The match had so many firsts: Lion Carlitos' first goal for red devils, Chelsea's first match post-mourinho era, TF's first  experience of Irish pub, TF's first experience of catching up a live game in a pub, TF's first instance of agreement that, there are bigger TFs also do exist :P

The match ended up 2-0 to United and TF was delighted :)

3's company: TF, Fooball and Guinness: An evening can't get any better than this :)

Kick-Off !!!

Well well, I am such a late entrant to the blogging world; but again they always say "Better late than never".

There are 2 reasons why i eventually am blogging.
- Many many years from now, I want to look back at these chronicles and see what I did back then. Its an effort to remember all those beautiful people i have come across at some point or other in life.
- During this 2 years of jobless job @Intel I have read enough of interesting blogs to pursuade me to have a go at it.

Hope my blog will be worth the pain u will endure reading it.
Bahot hogayi nautanki, let's kick-off!!!

Nickies for the Freakies: Wo beete din yaad hain

This being my first real attempt to post something on my this portal, i will try to scribble what naturally comes to me: "the non-fictional humour" :D

The Y2 Compscies (read: my branchmates) boasted some of the most hilariously creative nicknames u can ever come across. They were so widely used that, if someone asks u "hey buddy, what is ur real name", one was not surprised. A "Chunnu" was more famous than "Varun Tewari", a "Director" was more famous than "Anurag Singh", a "Billi****" was more famous than "Jaiprakash Verma", goshhh i still remember JP's full name.

Below I am listing down all those nicknames along with the actual names (the name given by their proud parents to continue their root ;-)). I will try to comprehend the origin of these nickies along. For the newbies, I am sorry if you don't understand some of the things. But i feel it will be indecency in disclosing some of the pseudo-names and their origin in this public community considering i do expect some female viewers for my blog ;-)

There can't be a better person to start with than every northie compscies' god "the Bhagwan" Ajay Gopalakrishan: Bade bhaiya, BigB, Lambu, Fast bowler, JavaGuru, Massiah, MaaiBaap (All because of his fundooism coupled with ever-readyness to help everyone on their projects) i still remember our first formal intro in CSEA welcome when he had said "I want to be a geek in computer" n how apt that turned out to be. The most interesting nicknames of his: AjayPreeth, Coupicle (Owing to his gupchup with a gorgeous female of our class).

Anurag Singh: Director, Daddy, Hunk, Chima, Chimu, Bodyguard. The real care-taker of the
whole 20-odd guys. Funniest moment: (Siby Chacko (Hostel warden): Are u the director of the college??? Chima: YES Sir hahaha)

Arun Pullat: Pullat, Helmet-haired, Pulli, Palat, Pollot

Ashis Nayak (myself): Nayak, Khalnayak, Aaaapti, True Fan (a newly discovered name for my love for ManUnited), True, Hyper (I tend to get hyper when on mood), Chhotu messwala(thanks to bacha haramkhor owing to my messboy chhotu's look while in my fav banian during the class trip), Mr. Raj (Lambi aur thodi senty kahani hai un dinon ki), CL (Constant Lover), Mind Inside, Chatter1

Ashish Agarwal: Boka, Jasoos Boka (Aisi koi ghatna ghati nahi NITC me, jiske baare me inko pehle se khabar na ho, sabke orkut account k activity report rehti thi in k paas), Laddoo, Ghinau, Joey

Ashok Mazumder: Dalla, Dalaal (Tommy can answer how this name came up), Dolby, Dolby Digital, Low Pass Filter, Twelve (with his tone at its highest possible decibel), Bangladeshi Refugee, Ehsaan Qureshi.

Biswajoy Biswas: Tom Cruise (for his famous (later infamous) tom cruise akin hairstyle), Tommy, Doggy, Kutta, Shaina ka pati, Ganjedi, Paaro ki maa ki...

Gitesh Grover: Ghoda (I still don't know how this name came up, someone plz help me), Rajasthani, Gulshan Grover, Model.

Harshavardhan Chinchore: Motu, Jafar ka Dost, Jafar ka pehla shikaar, Chinchu, Thakur (He looks like)

J Vinod: J DOT Vinod (more like J DOT Asthana of munnabhai), Talli

JaiPrakash Verma: JP (That is the only respectful name of his; and quite obviuosly no one bothered to call him by this tag), Ghinau-prani, Billi**** (Was alleged of making a cat pregnant after the cat was spotted vomitting in front of his room), Bhak B*******

Kamlesh Chauhan: Bacha (for his posture), Chhota Dawood, Bacha Bhai.

Sagar Khichade: Dhanno, Chhammo, Chhamiya (Its still an unsolved mystery how all the NITC females were attracted to this tiny guy when there were many hunks around the corner waiting for slightest of attention)

Sachin More: More Sachin (Jyada wala more), Ghati, Giddu, Sudoku Champ

Jeril Nadar: Jerry, Nadar, Gujju, Aaao naa (Tum aao naa, nahi tum aao naa hahaha, hillarious), Gymmer, RCC (Red Chaddi Chor), Chatter3

Nasim Akhter: Dawood, D, D Company, Don, Terror.

Pravin Palladugu: Gulti, Palu, Rashi ma'am ka chahita, Gulti Hero, Muchhad, Good Boy.

Pranab Jha: Lover Boy, The days' special collectionist (The 1st thing any F-hostelite used to do on any special day viz: Diwali, Holi, Valentines day etc, was check the comp of this guy and njoy the special collections)

Praveen Moparthy: Moparthy, VVS Laxman, Mossad

Rahul Jain: Chhamiya, Chameli, Babuji (For his unforgettable Item Number "Babuji"), Behnon ka bhaiya.

Varghese Mathew: Topper, V4ever, Rangila, Vargheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeese Mathew, Broad-shoulder lover (hahaha :D), PJ ka aashiq.

Varun Madhu: Common room man, Gamer.

Varun Tewari: It is believed, inke bhagwan sri krishna se bhi jyada naam hain. Chunnu, Dicky, SLT, LT, Lottan, Lingam, Lingisthaan, Shaina ka aashiq, Ghunghraale baal, Real Compsci k captain, Cobra, Saamp, Zehrila saamp, many more which i can't disclose it here for obvious censored reasons. NB: the origin of all these names is a single hindi word which of course cant be penned down here.

Abhishek Singh: His name should have been up front considering all the pain he had endured of sitting on the 1st bench in every exam. But it would have been a serious biological disorder if J doesnt accompany L. (Hope u got that): Jhatua, J-man, Jimmy, Jemran Jashmi, Jaahil Janwar, Hawasi, Chatter2, abhsex, haan-hello. NB: the origin of all these names is a single hindi word which of course cant be penned down here.

Vivekanand: The PR.

hmmm, very long post, but i feel it is worth every word of it. Guys, do add if have missed some of the renowned tags accidentally.