Happy New Year 2007 !!

Wish you all a very very happy new year 2007 !!

Happy Diwali !

Wish you all a very happy and prosperous Diwali !! Enjoy !!

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Sad story of life !!

A piece from a typical conversation between two bachelors (say A and B) in US who've met after a long long time :

A : Whassup dude ?
B : Hey man ! Whats up ?
A : nothing man .. u tell me !
B : oh .. just same old man ... life goes on .. whats new on your side ?
A : dude .. we are in US... nothing new happens here man ! Its the same life everyday !
B : I know ! We are meeting after what ? 6 months ?
A: must be ! in fact, more than that ! 8 months I guess ..
B : come on dude .. kuchh to naya hua hoga na yaar tere life mein ..
A : well, let see .. nayaaaa...... nayaaaa .. haan well I dunno if this counts but I got a speeding ticket the other day ... I was on 80 in 65 zone ...
B : poor you ... anyway, shaadi waadi ke kya haal hai ?
A : Abe, itni jaldi kahan .. I am sure you are ahead in line !!
B : I think the next India trip will be for marriage ... I have shortlisted a few girls .. lets see how it goes ... I am telling you ... learn from me and start looking for girls early man ! Its become so
tough these days !
A : yeah dude .. I know ! I am gonna start soon as well !! :)
B : aur bol ...
A : aur bas kuchh nahi yaar .. chal raha hai !


and this goes on ... someone just pops in some incident from somewhere and you talk about it for 10 minutes and then the same lines ' aur bol' - ' aur kuchh nahi yaar - same old ' keep repeating ...

Its strange but if you decide to tap telephone lines in US .. this is what you will hear between two bachelor guys most of the times even on phone ... somehow in US, there are very less topics to talk about ... ghoom phir ke, you come back to the same topics as if there is nothing else to talk about ...

I think here are the common topics for discussion in the order of precedence (commonality)

1. Marriage & seeing girls
2. India trips - past & future
3. Who (friends) recently got married, who broke up with his'her gf/bf, whos where (geographically) now ...
4. Work related stuff
5. Weather
6. Girlfriends - how to get one !! :) ..
7. Friday nights, Weekends & monday blues
8. Movies - recently seen movies & reviews
9. Cellphone plan, carrier or any other deals found / shopping
10. gas prices, house prices, car prices - how everything is going up, taxes etc ...

Words, language, emotions might change but the topics overall remain the same !! Believe it or not ... its true ... sad but true !

To The President of Nabisco

Aniruddha Daptardar
ChipsAhoyVille, Apt $C1
Chewy, Cookies - 425.

To
President,
Chips Ahoy - Chewy cookies Division,
Nabisco Biscuit Company,
US.


Dear Sir,

This letter is to bring to your attention that your 'Chips Ahoy! Chewy Cookies' are solely responsible for increase in fat content in my body ... If I had not been eating these cookies, right now I would probably be carrying washboard abs and 'Arnold' muscles !

The taste is so divine that its impossible for me to stop eating them after 1 or 2 cookies like a normal person would do .. I am just going crazy behind these cookies .. the softness adds to the taste and the cookies just melt in the mouth ...I can not stop before I see that either half (or sometime the whole packet esp when I am watching a movie) is over .. There were times when I finished the whole pack and started with another and ended up finishing 50- 60 cookies in one sitting .. Though most of the credit goes to the 3 hr boring hindi movies, Chips Ahoy is also at fault ... In case, you do not remember the calorie content in these cookies, here is a chart just to refresh your memory ..


So from any angle, its not the best thing to eat ... why do you make such fatty things so good in taste ? Dont you think you are responsible for making people fat ? If at all, you have to make such fatty cookie, make it with a mediocre taste so that we try only one cookie at a time and not the whole box of 30 -40 cookies. Many times I make them my lunch and sometimes dinner. I have tried not buying the chips ahoy cookies for quite some time but then life suddenly feels too sour and in desparate need of cookies ... I end up more than making up for the lost time ...

Moreover you make them in the snack'n seal box so that the box is resealable to maintain its freshness and softness ... this makes them fresh & soft to eat everytime ! So you see, you have blocked all my ways to stop eating these cookies. Hence, I would kindly like to request you to either stop making these cookies or make them bitter or sour or some other really bad in taste so that people like dont overeat them !

As I am writing this letter, I have already finished one pack. I need to end this letter fast so that I stop eating them sooner ...

Thank you very much for your time !

Your sincerely,
A complete fan of Chips Ahoy Chewy cookies.

p.s. All your other products such as Oreo cookies , Ritz etc are also making people go mad. I know quite a few friends who just can not stop at one or two of those cookies. So I would suggest that you apply the same strategy to those products as well !

Happy Birthday to me !

Things I did & wish hadnt done them

Here are a few things just off the top of my head, I did in the last week or two and really felt hadnt done them ... This also triggered things which I did NOT do and wish I had done them .. but thats next post .. :) or not ..

1. Put coffee in the microwave for 1.5 minutes this morning... I knew its gonna spill .. but still .. dunno why I did it .. (reminds me of that sardar joke (no offense please) where he sees the same movie 20 times expecting a different ending each time :) )

2. Crossed the yellow signal (it turned red while I was crossing ..) and repented it .. got a ticket for running red light .. *sigh*

3. Shouted at my mom for no reason .. I do this quite a lot of times .. she is just like a friend now .. I take her for granted .. bad thing to do, I know ..

4. Cancelled the Amazon interview .. dont want to talk about this one ...

5. Just for fun took up a challenge to drink 4 mexican martini shakers (4 !, they dont even allow more than 2 per person at Trudys !) with my friends - I did drink 4 but then the end wasnt too good :( I am not into drinking at all anyway but then that night something got into me .. really wish hadnt done that ... I should have known where to draw the line ..

6. Cricket - Slow & short ball outside off stump .. deserved six runs .. pulled it over to the legside ... caught out ... I always do this .. Always get out on the lollypop balls which deserve at least 4 runs ..

7. Went out for dinner for last 4 / 5 consecutive days .. I really want to cook .. but cooking for just one person is sooo boring .. I ended up calling up a few friends and going out everytime ..

8. In the MS interview, during lunch interview with an Indian interviewer, while nodding at one of his comments, at an unconscious moment said "Accha" !! Can you believe it ? I suck man !