Pyaar Ka Achaar

Sandeep is back. O yes he is and I bet you know him and been missing him a lot for a long. If you are still living in darkness and do not know Sandeep, please read a previous post below (A story in the Making). Now you got it right, yes he is the same Sandeep. I bet on his capabilities. Just imagine who can make a railway station and a train compartment such a enjoyable and romantic place what he can do with the Achaar, aha pyaar ka achaar :).

No no, pyaar ka achaar is not the achaar of the love or the love made into achaar or achaar made with love, pyaar ka achaar is pyaar ne pyaar ko pyaar se diya hua achaar. Now this time Sandeep did not go to the railway station to get this achaar. You guys are so mean, you have no idea about Sandeep's versatility and you doubt it. Sandeep is the name of the love and love sees no bar, love knows no deewaar, love has no limitations, love has no restrictions and if love can give you Gulaab, love also can give you achaar :).

By now you all must be making plans to kill me with your guided missiles because I did not tell you the exact story in explicit details but had been cooking in closed vessel. The story is I just had the achaar and it was wonderful ;), kyunki isme tha namak ishq ka ;). I can not tell you more guys I just can not, I have to rush to save my ass......

A Date with A Black Panther :)

Thick Jungle, deep dense forest, it was darkness all around. The silence was so penetrating that I could even hear my friends breathe. The Jungle ruled all around. We were walking down the dark alleys of the Jungle in the middle of the night. Dyuti was looking at the sky, he loves stars. It was so clear and profound sky that night, stars were twinkling with full glow in that new moon night. Our leader Shiladitya was leading our way and keeping us alert. Sayantan had taken full Jungle responsibility on his shoulders and was arranging every bit for us. Dasu, Mukhu and I were still keeping the faith that the date will be a success. The black panther will come and have coffee with us, just like coffee with karan, we were hoping to host coffee with Dasu with black panther on board. The night continued. We made a story.

So absorbing !! But lets come to the reality now. Let me first introduce our super sixes. The one and only Shiladitya, the mentor, the executor and the performer. Hats off to him. He drove us all the way from Bangalore to Anshi and back, although our Mukhu (Arunava Mukherjee) did provide some assistance to the leader. Next is DyutiMan, noooooo no this is not a Murgi Jhol avatar of SpiderMan or SuperMan, he is our DyutiMan. He loves to explore and has few passions in life, one of them being Murgi-Jhol. Next is the arranger Dev or Dave or Saya as we know him. He is Sayantan, puts all the pieces right and arranges them just right. Next in line is Mukhu, he will do it everywhere but in water ;) !! Dasu is the next in line, leading from the front, fighting with the chhunchho (chhachundar) and claiming it to be a black Panther. He is the most enthusiastic guy in our group and a BIG time photographer. No I mean it, he is the BIG time photographer, he has been clicking photos for say last 4 - 5 years with his tripod and all sort of modern ammunitions, but we are still waiting for that first shot to see on our hands. We are still waiting for that BIG time to come. And the last, but never the least I am the sixth one in super sixes, the writer of this awfully tolerable story :).

So dear, you got the clear picture of the scene and scenario. If not please visit

http://picasaweb.google.com/singh.rajendra/AnshiNationalPark02

To continue with the night. Sometimes it feels so adventurous and thrilling to stay away from the civilization for a night and experience the life in Jungle. Though we were unlucky to see any big time jungle inhabitant animal with our naked eyes, but we are still fortunate enough to make people in Bangalore believe that the thin red line on Dasu's face is drawn by the most sought after Black Panther :). lol !! But I do greatly appreciate the amount of effort we have amounted together to cnvert that normal injury line on Dasu's face to the Black Panther's signature :). This is really amazing, though I have revealed the truth like one of breaking news :). I will also highly appreciate the effort drawn together by our caretakers that we all got Murgi-Jhol to satisfy our hunger and fulfill Dyuti's passion. Shiladitya and myself were sleeping inside the tent and we actually heard some jungle animal practicing for the next Olympic race in the mid night hours. Dasu is the bravest among all of us, he had a fight with an animal, the mighty chhunchho (Chhachundar), Dasu did not sleep all that night, while the chhunchho ate all our chips !!

This was a small time presentation of Anshi trip by we the Super Sixes. Anshi as a whole is a very nice place, very candid and actually a Jungle where you will get the feeling of being in a Jungle with no electricity, no mobile and no landlines. They lit those solar lamps to combat the darkness. The service is good, the food is enjoyable, the tents are moderately well maintained and the approach roads are not very bad as well. But make sure that whenever you wander around the jungle or even in the campus of Anshi Nature Camp (the tent area), you have full protection against the leech (Jonkes). Keep a plate of salt handy, beware and always wear tight shoes with tight shocks. All in all we enjoyed the trip, and we are committed to make these adventures happen again and again.

It's all about that "Black Panther" honey ! :))

Cheers,
-Raji

There You Go!!

Hence it started with CLI…. Oops that’s too technical. Yes, I don’t know why but always events happen in my life in a cluster! Anyways, that’s not too bad either, I like to take the heat and then to sleep…lol. Lots of work at home for preparation of an important event, my trip to Bangalore for a week, and in the middle of all these, there you go!

I started on 20^th February 2007 in an Indianized Lufthansa flight to Wichita, via Frankfurt and Chicago. In the flight from Kolkata to Frankfurt I got a good companion sitting just next to me. All the time we were talking, except the time either or both of us were sleeping. She taught me quite a lot about “Art of Living” and I swear I am impressed. Let me see when I can start doing that.

Well I reached USA, Wichita in the state of Kansas. Knowing a culture and living it, are two completely different things. American culture as being imported in our country is like saying the f-word minimum thrice in each sentence, wearing torn off low waist jeans, or making a hairstyle like a monkey just played on your head. I don’t know how but only bad things gets to reach. Probably that’s because of a corollary of the phrase that bad news spread faster than good news, being true. Bad things get popular more than good things. America is not all about Las Vegas, porn movies, Strip clubs, Hollywood actors and celebrities’ lifestyle. You need to watch a common man’s life to know the culture. I was fortunate enough to get this opportunity during this trip.

I think its enough material to ponder upon about culture, let’s talk a little bit about American system now. Again when you are inside a system, you are quite used to it, so you seldom complain, or think of improvement. But when you look a system from outside and being in another system you compare, you get the idea. First thing I noticed as soon as I started my time in USA was that everything is a standard and you got to be perfect. No ignorant attitude, no nodding heads in vain. If you want to solve a problem, make the solution a standard and make people to comply, you are done. Dig in minute details, don’t ignore, a single drop of water can be as important as your life. And again, everybody is not a genius; you need to work with dumb people. And believe me a guided group of donkeys work better than any other group of more intelligent animals. So standards are absolute requirements and compliance is a law!

Guys, other interesting and funny stuffs will be coming shortly. Its always business first, so think about it! So, there you go !!

Note: I wrote this piece in my flight back to India on 22nd April 2007.

Wichitaaaaaaaaaaa Thundersssssssssssss

Hence the fight begins ! Oh yes really a fight ! I had never seen such a game in my life. The level of enthusiasm, the crowd and above all the players sliding on the ice to hit a goal, oooo fabulous.

The crowd started cheering up the "Wichita Thunders". Yes, this was the home team. The guest team was "Oklahoma City". I have never had seen a crowd like this, typically American crowd. Cheering up the home team for everything and literally banging the guest team. They have game spirit, but no gentlemen treatment. It really added to the Adrenaline pump of both of the teams and also the fans. The wonderful game of sliding begun with aim being to carry the puck to opponent's goal post.

What I witnessed next was unbelievable. I saw two player from the two teams started punching each other. O yeah, the fight begun. The most cheerful moment of the game. The referee was not stopping them, because it was legal to fight on the field. I enjoyed this !!!

The Oklahoma City won the match and end result was 5-3. Here you can see some more pictures of the event.




Recreation during the break.


Some beautiful Fans :).

Aha... CEO Saab !! (The Great CEO)

Bachho yeh kahani humare pyaare dost CEO saab ke baare mein hai (I won't reveal the name ...hihihi).

Background (Bhoomika):

We three gangsters stay together in a 3 BHK flat in salt lake, Kolkata, India. Among the three, one is Ankur and other is our great CEO saab, and next I am of course not going to ask a million dollar question that "ab bachon batao, teesra kaun ! Anyways, Ankur and I work at a same place, while CEO is a CEO of a different company. Don't panic! He is not an old man; he is just too enthusiastic and real shrewd man and already is a founder of a company at our age. No!! You guessed it wrong! This is not an article written to praise our CEO Saab’s achievements! It’s just a story a real story.

Chapter 1 (The Lady in Yellow)

On a fine day I returned back from a party, slightly drunk. Ankur and I watched a cricket match; I didn't ask where CEO Saab is? Because he usually comes back home when our Chaukikaar (the security guard) takes a good slumber after delegating all his work to monstrous street dogs. I instead got into my room and slept calmly. I got up next morning when our kaamwali (the maid worker) was shouting and cleaning around. I don't know why, and I usually don't but I straight went into CEO Saab’s room scratching my head. Scared! Surprised! Amazed! Confused or whatever could happen; happened to me, when I was just about to enter his room, I saw a beautiful young lady in yellow dress was laying half awaken on his bed, he was not there ! I quickly took a U-turn and got back to my room. Still confused ! I saw CEO Saab dressing up for office, and I didn't ask him anything, just gave a naughty smile, but millions of questions were popping up in my head. But I preferred not to ask any, he might feel embarrassed. I thought she was his girlfriend, so it was his personal matter. I got ready and left for office. But who could stop me asking Ankur whether he knew any details. Here came the real U-turn. Ankur came back from office last evening and found our door locked from inside, it was very unlikely that CEO Saab would have been in that early, he pressed the calling bell. Ankur fell from 7th sky when he saw a girl opening the door! What a situation!! Had I been there I would have asked is this my home or I am lost? Anyways, Ankur talks very cautiously, as if someone is right behind him ticking a bill for every word he says (Remember the MTNL's ad? Mummy bolti hai jyada baat karne se bill jyada aata hai! :)) So he didn't say anything, but just got happy with an opened door and got in. He didn't tell me either when I come back last evening. As I have not employed anyone for ticking a bill when I talk, I do talk a lot. We later asked CEO Saab, he said she was just a friend, was not his girl friend. The fish still remains in the net! ;) ;) ;) !

Chapter 2 (The Sting Operation)

It was a normal afternoon and we were busy scanning emails, writing scraps and surfing internet in office. Though we are not daily life Star News sting operation crazy journalists, but yet who doesn't love to explore the truth, so Ankur and I started our bike and headed towards our flat. It was quite unusual for us to go back home in the mid of a day while CEO Saab use to give a routine visit to the place and enjoys sumptuous lunch with his girlfriend. No dude this time I am serious, I have heard serious rumors going rounds that this particular lady is his girlfriend. We reached our place and as we expected it was locked from inside. Oh! Excitement building up, high, high, we pressed the bell. One, two, three ... after a considerable time CEO Saab got some mercy on us and the door opened. He was not expecting us, not even remotely. We didn't say anything but he looked puzzled. Ankur is too shy and a good boy, not of my kind of notorious. Ankur was doing something in his room, but I somehow wanted to hear something from CEO Saab. So I was kind of trying to move towards his room, hehe sometimes I behave like the perfect notorious! CEO Saab was left with no choice but to come to me and tell into my ears that someone is there in his room. She was his girlfriend. Though I insisted for sometime to lets go to your room and let’s get introduced, but I was only acting notorious, I didn’t want to disturb my friend. Then we wished him good luck and came back office. The sting operation was successful.

Hope you all enjoyed the stuffs, but CEO saab ko mat batana [Don't tell this to CEO please :)] ... heehee heeee :D:D