Some Random Thoughts. Part:2

This is the continuation of the initial Some Random Thoughts post that I had started some time back.

Well.......currently these are my random thoughts:-

1) I need to clean my room.
2) Domino's Pizza was delicious.
3) Love is eating Biryani after having eaten a truckload of Golgappas.(Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi)
4) Red is my favourite colour.
5) Finance is not my cup of tea.
6) I miss my home.
7) Manchester united is the world's best team.
8) I enjoy living life.
9) Hyderabad Rocks!!!!!
10) I love Saturdays.
11) I have completed the rough draft of my next novel.
12) I have HP's laptop.
13) HP's brand ambassador is Shah Rukh Khan.
14) I hate winters.
15) Never regret anything that made you smile.
16) Few things in life are more difficult than accepting a mistake.
17) Suspicion has no treatment.
18) 'Maa ke haath ka khana' is better than Domino's Pizza.
19) Shilpa Shetty is awesome.
20) Hum Hain rahi Pyaar ke Phir Milenge Chalte Chalte.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To my MOM because of whom I am what I am.

With lots of LOVE, RESPECT, CARE and REGARDS,
Ahmed

What is Nothing???

Nothing.



Shunya!



The absence of anything. Not a thing. What could be simpler and more straightforward? Actually, it's pretty complicated. Nothing is seldom really nothing.





For a totally pessimist guy, this nature is nothing. But for the nature that person is something because the nature gives him air to breathe in so that he remains alive.





Nothing is not something that actually is never nothing, but it is individual perceptions that make it to be nothing. Nothing is the best form of non-committal reply that seldom catches you on the wrong foot.



Nothing is nothing until you view it as nothing because this nothing could be something to someone and absolutely nothing to some others and nothing is always nothing if you want that to remain nothing. If you could understand something about the nothing I have just written.



Zero is often mistaken as nothing. But this nothing suddenly becomes everything when it is attached at the ens of any number increasing its value many times and this zero could still be nothing if it is used before a number.



You would think that they could at least get it straight in mathematics. One of the first things they teach you is that zero is nothing. Right? But as soon as you grasp that concept, they tell you that you can have less than nothing. Huh! So "nothing" must really be something, simply because it's greater than less than nothing. Still gives me a headache trying to figure it out.



And forget about physics. Physicists, in attempting to calculate the mass of the universe, are quite determined to prove that "nothing" must really be something, since they can't find enough "something" to add up to what they consider to be everything. Confusing? Irrational? Just remember that these are the same folks who say that nothing can exist in a vacuum. Guess they never emptied one.



The Nihilist considers everything to be nothing, while many Buddhists think that achieving nothing is everything.



If you're religious, you believe that God created everything out of nothing. If you're a taxpayer, you are constantly amazed at the ability of our politicians and bureaucrats to create "nothing" out everything you worked so hard to earn.



And isn't it odd that where you have your "nothing" is important?



If you have nothing on your mind, that's a good thing. If you have nothing in mind…well, you're undecided and probably open to suggestions…and that's not bad. If, however, you have nothing in your heads, that's not so good at all, in fact, you probably won't understand a word I've written.



Folks who have nothing up their sleeves are honest. But if they have nothing in their pockets, they're broke. If you have nothing on your plate, you're not hungry; you're just not busy.



Not busy? More confusion. Doing nothing is quite restful, while having nothing to do is downright boring. Go figure that one out.



When someone offers you something for nothing, beware. You'll find that nothing can be very expensive, indeed. And when you buy something on the installment plan, "nothing down" usually means a heck of a lot later.



Perhaps the most confusing thing about "nothing" is its use in normal conversation with the people who are closest to us. To fully grasp it's meaning you need to be part psychiatrist and part mind-reader.



Ask a teenager what he or she did during the day and they'll typically respond, "Nothing." That innocent "nothing" could mean anything from accidentally blowing up the chemistry lab, getting a perfect zero in his exam, or knocking over the neighborhood kids.



And "nothing" means different things to different sexes. When the woman in your life seems angry or depressed and you ask what's bothering her and she responds, "Nothing," you can safely assume that she really means that it's everything…about you. And when she tells you that she wants "nothing" for her birthday, you can be sure that the "nothing" she wants had better be made out of gold and be encrusted with diamonds.

HOW HYPOCRITICAL?????????

(Clark Kent and Superman) & (Surinder Sahni and Raj Kapoor). What do these two JODIS have in common? Well.........The Spectacles???

Superman is a world renowned movie and the title role is played by the same person differentiated just by a pair of spectacles. Still Superman is widely enjoyed the world over. The accusation of how can people not recognise that Superman himself is Clark Kent are never made. Louis Lane is all the time with both Superman and Clark Kent never ever had a doubt that both the persons are same and for that matter the audiences worldwide too never had a problem either. They just went in enjoyed and came out happily rather than pondering over how can Superman masquerade as Clark Kent so easily?

Now cut back to Bollywood. Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi has just released to a flying start. In this movie too Surinder Sahni and Raj Kapoor are the same person, but many people still have a doubt how can Taani not recognize her husband? Now cut the crap guys. Taani hardly knew Surinder and was seldom with him. While Louis Lane is all the time with either Superman or Clark Kent, she fails to recognize them, then how do you expect Taani who has hardly been with her husband to recognize Surinder or Raj?

Movies are the cheapest form of entertainment and should be enjoyed in the right spirit. When the world never had problems with Superman, then why have problems with Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi? Doesn't this reek of hypocrisy on the part of those self styled critics who are paid just to rip apart Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi?

In Superman there is no justification as to how louis Lane doesn't recognize Clark kent. But in RNBDJ, justification is provided. Its because RAB didn't want Taani to recognize Raj and RAB is all powerful and can do anything.

P.S:- There is a certain DEDH FOOTIYA, who is working overtime just to belittle RNBDJ by talking all crap against the King Khan. I am surprised as to how much a person can be jealous of the other person. C'Mon accept the fact man. Presently King Khan is at a place where you can never be for the rest of your life, no matter how hard you try.

You can't afford a house like MANNAT(SRK's Home) in Mumbai's prime spot like Bandra and still live in an apartment even after being in the industry for 20 years. And King Khan lives life KING SIZE and he doesn't even have to pass himself off as a farmer just to get a land at a cheaper rate, just as you did sometime ago and was caught trying to cheat the officials.

So, DEDH FOOTIYA, you can never be like King Khan. So stop living in your Ivory Tower and accept the reality.

Nipping The Flowers In The Bud!!!!!!

Every time I visit the Brigade Road of Bangalore, I always find innumerable flower sellers, selling red and yellow roses. Be it scorching heat or chilling cold or piercing rain, these flower sellers are always present there.


What is more appalling is that none of these flower sellers are more than 10 years of age. The time when they should be in the serene environment of classrooms, they are amidst the hustling and bustling of the metropolitan Bangalore crowd. And we are hypocritical enough to talk about the eradication of child labour. When such an activity can exist in the most hip place where 'educated' people frequent, then only RAB (the word RAB is back in vogue. Thanks to King Khan and Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi) can tell the plight of these innocent toddlers in rural India. And again we are hypocritical enough to talk about increasing literacy rate.

Another surprising aspect is that these sellers carry red and yellow roses and they know whom to offer a red rose and whom to offer a yellow rose. The intelligence which they should be putting in studying something worthwhile is being wasted in doing things that in no way benefits them.

There are seldom any people who would buy those roses but these sellers never give up hope and try looking for alternate buyers. It could be direct selling as you would be putting it in the marketing language and these sellers have begun doing that from a tender age. If their energies are utilized in a correct channel then who knows, they could be the future entrepreneurs of India.

This is something which we need to act upon and act upon fast before precious lives of these toddlers are wasted and before these blooming flowers are nipped in the bud.

Rab Ne Bana Di 'SUPERHIT'

1st March 2008, was when it was announced that Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi would be releasing on 12th December 2008. I had been waiting for this movie ever since.

Today I had gone to watch this movie with 3 of my best friends and all three of them were anti-SRK. Before watching the movie they were very skeptical about it, but once the movie got over, they came out smiling. This is the effect that RNBDJ has on everyone. All said and done RNBDJ is a winner all the way.

The movie starts off with the unexpected marriage of Surinder Sahni(nerdy SRK) with Taani(Anushka). She doesn't like her boring husband but loves dancing instead. Surinder masquerades as the slick Raj and becomes Taani's dance partner without her realizing that he is her actual husband. The rest of the story is about how she finds out the truth.

Well.......You could'nt have imagined anyone else in SRK's role. He carries off both the diverse roles with awesome elan. He makes you jump up laughing and also makes you to slump down feeling sad. SRK single-handedly carries the film on his shoulders. Anushka also matches King Khan scene by scene.

There are a few scenes that stood out in the movie:-

1) The Dhoom spoof

2) The way Raj proposes Taani

3) The Gol Gappa sequence

4) The 5 heroine song

5) The climax

RNBDJ is a sweet simple movie about an extraordinary love story of an ordinary Jodi. The movie had come up with zero marketing and zero hype owing to the Mumbai Attacks, but it was the immense star power of King Khan that RNBDJ is off to a flying start. As usual the critics have hated the movie, but the paying Janta has lapped up the movie with both hands.

A Sure shot Superhit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

P.S:- Somewhere in a small apartment in Mumbai, a certain DEDH FOOTIYA might be having goosebumps seeing the enormous craze of RNBDJ, because he had pulled out all the dirty tricks in his repertoire to belittle RNBDJ, but RAB was with RNBDJ and the result is for everyone to see. Hope the success of RNBDJ doesn't send him into a tizzy and he actually starts experiencing short term memory losses.

EID MUBARAK!!!!!

May Allah accept all our prayers and make this world a more peaceful place to live in.

ONLY SRK IS KING!!!!!!!!!!

Today morning as I was reading the Times of India, I stumbled upon an article which said 'Who is the King?' and I was surprised to see the biasness of TOI towards Akshay Kumar when comparing him to King Khan.

I would like to reveal their biasness in the same manner as they put it in their article.

BIG SCREEN BATTLE:-
TOI View:- In the year 2007 Akshay had 4 hits and King Khan had 2, so naturally $ hits outweigh 2.
Rational View:- Akshay Kumar no doubt had 4 hits and its total collections excluding the taxes were to the tune of 290 crores including Indian and overseas collections, which means that on an average an Akshay Kumar film grosses 72.5 crores.
King Khan had 2 hits and its total collections excluding taxes were around 196 crores including Indian and overseas collections, which means that on am average, a King Khan film grosses 98 crores.

SO WHO IS THE KING?

SHOW THEM:-
TOI View:- It compared the TV shows of King Khan(Paanchvi Paas) and Akshay Kumar(Khatron Ka Khiladi). It said that while AKshay was perfect for Khatron Ka Khiladi but even Saif Ali Khan would have pulled off Paanchvi Paas.(Even Saif Ali Khan would also be smiling at this pathetic nonsense).

Rational View:- Akshay kumar was suited to do Khatron Ke Khiladi, because he is the only actor who had done films with 'Khiladi' and that would be on the minds of the public.
If Saif Ali Khan could have pulled off Paanchvi Paas, then the Star people could well have roped in Saif for a much lower price in the wake of the ever increasing inflation. But the question is not about pulling off the show. The question is about pulling the public to watch the show and nobody can ever compete with King Khan on that front. Not even Akshay Kumar because whatever King Khan tells India believes.

SO WHO IS THE KING?

Yehi hai right choice, baby?
TOI View:- King Khan endorses more brands than Akshay Kumar, so that reduces King Khan's credibility and increases Akshay Kumar's credibility.

Rational View:- The reason why Akshay Kumar endorses fewer brands is that the corporates don't find Akshay Kumar saleable enough. As simple as that.
King Khan endorses the most brands because all the corporates are aware of the immense saleability power of King Khan.
1) When Nokia ran through a rough phase amidst bursting of mobiles, it had to look to King Khan to boost up its dwindling fortunes.
2) When ICICI was flooded with rumours of bankruptcy, it went to King Khan to salvage them.
3) Even TOI had appointed King Khan as its Ambasador for the 'LEAD INDIA' campaign to give it a global appeal. Why did'nt it take in Akshay Kumar?
4) Hyundai took King Khan's help to compete its Santro with Maruti in the small car segment of the Indian market.
5) Kolkata Knight Riders was the only team that made profit in the inaugural IPL, because of King Khan's amazing marketing skills.
6) SRK was the only India offered Knightship(DATUK) by Malaysia.
The list is endless.......................................

SO WHO IS THE KING?

P.S:- Mark Twain had correctly said:- "If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you are misinformed." Well.....after reading today's TOI, I am forced to believe it.

A Simple Boy From Basti

BIJLEEE
Kahela tensun hai
Bhakh peeche se maar diya(In Counter Strike) etc etc etc......

All these phrases leave me in continuous splits for at least an hour daily. Well I am gonna write about a simple boy from Basti.

A computer Engineer by profession, this boy is a total kid at heart. At times you would be surprised by his sheer innocence. He is a very straight forward kind of guy and indulges in full on masti.

I am him are always at loggerheads as to whether Basti(the place where he hails from is a village or a city). All my friends fondly call him BABA, but its only me who calls him by some other name. I am sure if he reads this post, he will surely understand what I am talking about. But I would not write all that here.

He sets his alarm to 7:15 AM, but finally wakes up at 8:00 AM to catch the 8:30 AM class. One of the few guys who accept me the way I am. His knowledge in computers is unparalleled. He is also a web designer. His website www.mba10.com is well known among the college fraternity.

I always tell him that you are too innocent to be living in Bangalore and that too I sometimes wonder how he survived in Bangalore for the past 4 years. He is a Computer Engineer grad from Ramaiah College-one of the best engineering colleges in India.

His favourite game at Amoeba is the dancing equipment on the second floor and now he has developed immense liking for bowling. He celebrates all his victories whole-heartedly no matter how big or how small his victories are.

He calls his antique bike his DULHAN. I always tease him that his bike is fit for museums and he retaliates, but its all fun and done in the right spirit.

Well...... I have talked a lot about this simple boy from Basti. But who is he?

He is my roomie-HARSHIT AGRAWAL-The best roomie anybody can expect.

The Real Minority In India Are The Indians

“Mujhe Na koi states ke naam sunayee dete hai na dikhayee dete hain,
Mujhe sirf ek mulk ka naam sunayee deta hai…..INDIA"

This is the dialogue that Shah Rukh Khan tells in Chak De India- one of my favorite films. Probably the above line would give an insight into what I am going to write.

India is the country having the maximum diversity in terms of religion, culture, creed, languages etc. But the paradox here is that whether these diversities come under a common umbrella called INDIA?

I have come across many people who crib about the corruption in India, the pollution, the population, the lack of traffic sense etc. What I fail to understand is why these people don’t realize that India is because of the Indians. If the Indians are good, so is India and vice versa. Here there are different lines drawn on the lines of culture, creed, religion, languages etc. What people should realize is that the nation that stays together stays stronger.

Unity is the essence of success, the backbone of a nation’s strength and a power that builds up an international personality to a country. Unity itself presents to the individual and groups as a method of combining diversities and combining them in such a way that the prosperity of each becomes the enrichment of all and the strengthening of all becomes the reinforcement of each.

We can make wonders by working against communalism, casteism, linguism etc for the sake of national unity, emotional integration and becoming united Indians. We must be united because without unity nation in the world can prosper today. It is due to unity alone that a country like Japan is powerful today.

The major hurdle that comes in India’s path to success is the communal disharmony. We should develop and promote the spirit of INDIAN FIRST & INDIAN LAST rather than thinking in terms of Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christian etc. Communal harmony is often destroyed by vested interests because its existence would deal a death blow to them. They instigate the poor and the illiterate people into killing their own brothers and sisters.

India is already on its way to success and this journey can be accelerated to a greater extent by overcoming these trivial hurdles of communalism, linguism, casteism etc. People prefer to be known as Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christian, Jat, Marathi, Tamilian, Delhite etc, rather than be known as Indians. And here lies the biggest problem. Since people prefer being identified by their religion, language etc, they lose the sense of belonging and empathy towards their fellow citizens. Once the people start identifying themselves as Indians, all these problems would be over.

There is a famous saying that no Indian can tolerate two things:-
‘Desh pe waar aur Cricket mein haar’

But then the feeling of Indianness ends there itself. If we are to apply this feeling into various other walks of life, then the dream of United India can be realized.

I feel that language is the best medium in bringing citizens of a country closer. Hindi is India’s national language. If a person can’t understand or talk Hindi, he becomes a stranger to the person who can talk and understand Hindi. I feel that Hindi should be taught as a compulsory language across India to instigate a sense of being Indian amongst the citizens as they would have a common platform in the form of language.

Today let us resolve to redouble our all out efforts to build India into a mighty nation, mighty in thought, mighty in action and mighty in its peaceful service to the humanity.

FEEL INDIAN-BE INDIAN

Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi