Give an Idea Sir ji!

A very funny sms that I received yesterday...it goes like this..."Government says save water, Abhishek says save paper....toh bechara aam aadmi potty kaise saaf karega?mobile se?(How will the common man wipe his a** off?!! With a mobile phone?!!)...give an idea sir ji..."

Incredibly enough,I started pondering over the possible alternatives...what?No, not of wiping a** of course!

Yeah of saving water and paper....Some of them...

1.Stop playing Holi...Why to get all coloured and messed up only to scrub yourself like a gazillion year old utensil later on! Plus a large majority of junta has very 'noble' motives behind this 'rang lagao' scheme...let's 'wash out' their plans!! :)

2.Stop using greeting cards...use e-cards...use sms...or u can do one more thing...ACTUALLY MEET and TALK!(Best communication minus any expense!! What else can you ask for??)

3.Colleges should allow students to bring laptops to class....I believe an entire Amazonian rain forest could be saved if students of India(>10000000 and counting) would stop using notebooks and start using 'notebooks'!

4.Scrap exams! Take orals..or if taking a 'rote-memory-only-no-practical-application' written exam becomes a matter of life and death(which it never will),go online...(would be so 'hi-tech' to cheat via GTalk and Google out formulae..will increase the typing skills too!!)

5.Ask your mom to let you wear that jeans for another week...tell her you are being 'socially responsible'(That's parent's only version of "I wear dirty denim because it looks cool \m/")

6.Stop buying tickets! Movie tickets,bus,train,plane,parking....any and every ticket....just don't! If someone confronts you,tell them you have boycotted paper products and give them a lecture on environment and blah blah blah....

7.Government should do away with paper currency(read 'give it to me because its MY IDEA'!!)... introduce Barter all over again...I would love to trade useless gifts( yeah GREETING CARDS n all) from my exes for that pair of shades! ;)

Thought of many more...will keep 'educating' the masses with my 'noble and innovative' methods! ;)

You can also add...after all it's everyone's a** that is at stake!! :p

PS- Wiping off an a** with an iPhone won't be that bad,right?(It would be millions of times smoother than any toilet paper produced in the history of mankind!!)

The moment!

Success doesn't come to you,you go to it.

It's 2 am as I write...

Have you ever felt how one moment can change your entire life ahead?for better?for worse?

No,I am not writing because I just experienced that moment....I am writing this because I just realized what a big fool I am!

That moment of my life came long back...and I was dumb enough to miss out on it!

Moreover,since I missed out on it, everything that happened from then until this very moment was beyond my understanding.Every action looked  like a mistake,and every consequence looked like a disaster.

Every Plan A failed...and so did plan B,C,D......till there were no more plans left. What I forgot was that "Life goes by as we are busy planning it"...

My attempts at avoiding failure were futile.Why?Because it wasn't failure,it was the lack of recognizing success.

My chase for success seemed never ending.Why?Because I was always running in a circle unable to realize that success lay within,not without.

I was frustrated, confused, desperate, dissatisfied....even rebellious! Kept wondering-"What the hell went wrong?"

NOTHING....nothing went wrong....

I  failed to realize that things were meant to be so...you can call it fate,destiny,God's wish...anything....for me it is too trivial a thing to ponder upon right now...I am thinking about something totally different and much bigger!

Now everything is fitting in its place.....the jigsaw is starting to take shape...a good shape...a shape that I didn't initially planned upon,or desired,or even thought of...but I guess this is why life is so interesting! If we always knew what we'll get,the joy of receiving would simply vanish,wouldn't it???

It's good to see things going back to normal,I mean they were always normal,the correct perception just went missing! :)

I missed my old self a lot...it's been a long time Varun Tyagi...glad we meet again!

PS-Talking about 'life changing moment'....is it happening for the second time right now??!!  ;)

Blast from the past-Part 1:The warning signs

Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

Friedrick Nietzsche 

“Train number 2329 Kalka mail has arrived on platform number 2”.

Some journeys begin on a positive note. Most others don’t. My arrival in Dhanbad fell, according to me, in the second category.

“All India Rank 5752”-These four words were the worst four words of my life. They still are, for they had shattered my world of dreams then, and they continue to do so even today.

People around me were congratulating me. Why? What was there to congratulate? I thought they were actually mocking me and my so called success (or the lack of it!).

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“Papa lets find an auto for ISM”, I called out to my father.”Excuse me, are you going to ISM?”, a boy of about my age called out from behind. ”Yes”, my father replied.

“Namastey Uncle, I am from ISM.I am a second year student.”, the guy said. Senior, eh,I thought. And coupled with that thought were thoughts of ragging. A shiver down the spine was natural.

“Name, place, branch yaar”, the senior said.

“Huh,what?”, I thought for a moment.

“Name, place, branch yaar”, the senior, this time sternly, said.

“Varun Tyagi, Ghaziabad,B.Tech Mineral Engineering” was my slow and hesitated reply.

“Ghaziabad,huh?,he said.”Listen, don’t tell Ghaziabad as your place anymore, it’s complicated, but for now, just say Meerut.”

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“Congratulations!” the neighborhood uncle said. It felt like a pinch. Damn you, uncle! “So what do you plan to take up?”

“I’ll see,I have not decided anything yet.”

“Maybe you can get some mining wagerah in that college, what’s its name….”

“Its ISM uncle and I said I have not decided yet”, I said and tried to walk away. But I think uncle was in no mood to leave that day.”You took coaching in FIITJEE, right? Then what happened? My nephew got AIR 624”, the epitome of mockery boasted.

“So what? Should I go and kiss him?” I thought.

“Hmm… maybe I didn’t prepare that well, uncle” was all that came out of my mouth.

Un nuevo comienzo

A beginning of one thing is an end to some other thing,right?

So here I am,after months of procrastination and a series of unfortunate events(a la Lemony Snicket's!!)...finally blogging again and happy to be doing so!

About this blog..well all I can say is...it's going to be random...it's going to be fun...absurd...thought provoking...and ultimately it is gonna be what a blog is supposed to be-CONCISE! (What's the point in writing gigantic essays that no one reads?)

And I am thinking about being more regular on this one...unlike my previous attempts!(Although it is too early to say anything!)

Look out for my next blog...I'll be telling you about those unfortunate events I mentioned above!
(Today Delhi Daredevils lost yet another game,friends made my IPL time more miserable!)


PS-Expectation is a bitch! I hope you get the point ;)