Organic Growth

Several years after it was first mooted by the Narcotics Promotion and Research, India’s plan to legalize marijuana throughout the country is taking a new shape. The board has decided to collaborate with Afghanistani producers in making the country alcohol free and legalize the ancient drug. The decision follows a new legalization placing marijuana under similar federal oversight as alcohol and tobacco by the US government.

Following up on the new development, an auto driver from New Delhi Railway station, Chandu concurs “the legalization will not only help us improve our concentration on roads but help us remain calm while serving hot babes in the city, thanks to the initiative”. However, alcohol lovers have a different take on it. Some of them have protested against the new proposal on various grounds, the most notable being that it doesn’t trigger sexual desire and will make us impotent”. Citing the need to resolve this issue, the board has decided to put up a research centre near Dharamashala (Himachal Pradesh) dedicated to develop marijuana mixed with Viagra.

Although the proposal is still under the scanner of the Ministry, which is yet to approve it, the plan will kick off with a (NPR) and Ministry meeting shortly. The board, however, has begun work on incorporating a chillum factory in Jaisalmer (Rajasthan) after smoking pot continuously for three days in a row. Still under the trance, Chintu (name changed), a member of the board said “we have never experienced such a nice feeling before, we will definitely work towards the development, my four year old kid has now started listening to me now with red eyes, after I mixed marijuana in his kit kat and he has been hearing pink floyd since then and has stopped coming to have a hair cut”.

Asian Umbrella

We always need a shoulder to lean on when we go through a bad phase in life. But when the situation is equally disconsolate, we tend to rely on the strongest pillar of the house. It exactly came true when the recessionary wave from the US and Europe impeded our growth and seen them counting on us for their survival, and even we needed support. However, the prognosis of Asian economy was much better than other developed countries in times when the whole world was under the tantrums of global financial slowdown.

By September 2009, it was clear that India and China would be the first countries to emerge out of the financial slump, considering a strong domestic banking system, government initiatives to boost foreign direct investment with a low-cost advantage, which was once underestimated. This kind of growth, at times when the prospects for the North American and European economies remain ambiguous, offers immense opportunities for the Asian marketplace.

When the recession was at the peak, smart corporations found their way out from the traditional investment destinations such as US and Europe to Asia. As a result, the shift of global economic activity to Asia is accelerating. This supports the survey carried out by KPMG which predicts India to be the world leader in manufacturing investment in the next five years. Now, I don’t want to play with data and statistics to come up with my own conclusion but it’s like an ace in the hole situation for India.

However, this calls for an urgent need to get prepared for the development in terms of infrastructure. Research, Energy, transportation, water, education and other essential things require a solid attention. We should be in a position to adapt to leading-edge technologies in order to monetize this opportunity. Although, India has a potential to play a significant role in the flow of capital, the success totally depends on an excellent economic and fiscal climate, supportive government policies and a passion to win. Let’s get ready to go that extra mile…

cheers!

Engineered

Porxyology: The best subject I have ever learned from my seniors, no matter how long they kept me full Monty and how many blood clots and fractures i have acknowledged during ragging. I believe this kind of ragging is no more active. But i still love them. Believe me, anti ragging committee is the biggest ragging group in the college.

Topology: The best method to copy an engineering drawing sheet, no drafters, no roller scales, no calculators and no brain usage. Just a bucket, a lamp and a plane mirror. Who the hell derived E=MC2, let me topo it.

Vital Stats: Arrange last ten years question papers before examination. Apply all the permutations and combinations to arrive at your own strategic examination paper, else go ahead and read the entire syllabus, check out how many cigarettes you are left with in case of a night out. Alarm clock comes into picture then.

Zero or Hundred (No random variables): I still believe in this funda…Either I want to be at the pinnacle of something or at the bottom watching the next door sexy girl with voluptuous figure…Let me teach her the figure zero mantra.

Revolutions Per Joint (RPJ): If you are fond of reading books, just throw them right away, roll up a joint and tune in floyd or Jim Morrison… now measure the torque experienced by your charged brain. No calci, no regression or correlation, no Java, .net or SPSS…where the fuck is my flying machine…:)

Combo Tech: Have you ever seen hardcore drunkards swilling alcohol like anything or a big time doper, tell me?? Now tell me have you ever seen an extremely studious guy, a branch topper, you must be saying, yes, of course man what’s new in that. But you will never expect a fusion of these two qualities in a single person; yes they do exist. I still wonder how they managed it.

Disco: The disciplinary committee is always a pain in the ass when you want to do something meaningful and creative. Five to six old asses teaching you how to behave in this shrewd world…but they do have a frustration of not enjoyed life during their college days… poor guys...

Disclaimer: Any views or opinions presented in this post are solely those of the college trends and do not necessarily represent those of the author. The post contains a random load of nonsense and is not intended to apply in your personal life…:) Copyright by Thoughts and Me…The last person who copied my stuff now walks with a limp and speaks with a lisp… Kidding..:)

Analog Nostalgia

As a child i used to watch old Hindi movies where the hero would be the driver’s son, whose life is eclipsed with the clouds of poverty, but still he would wear good clothes , don’t know how. At some point of time, may be in the first half of the movie he comes across his father’s employer’s sexy daughter while helping his dad at work. Then what, he gets his mission in life. He does all sort of nautanki to amuse, flirt and attract the heroine. The heroine would have one more Aashik who will then prevent her from the hero’s intension and serve the screen as the villain.

Before the interval, things will be pretty smooth; love birds will chase each other on hills, parks and boats. But in the second half some tragedy or the other reared its ugly ass as the heroine would come to know about the hero’s economic status, she would then apply all the 4P’s of marketing to convince her dad to accept the hero. Slow version of a happy song will be played in the background. And the best part is that when they make love, the camera will be focused on the sunrise, now it’s our imagination or you may call it sleaziness to understand how they ended their intensive lust. But now the times have changed, so the Indian film industry….But I still get nostalgic when I watch an old movie on the television. Movies like Akhiyo ke zharokhe se, Aashiqui, Kabhi Haan Kabhi Na and Khalnayak (I am a die hard fan of Sanju Baba) are still remembered today no matter how many item songs rakhi sawat does to grab public attention.

With this i remember a song from Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman. It starts with lines “Tu mere sath sath Aasman ke age chal”.“Husn se bhi haseen hai kwab meri jindagi ke, Is khusi se pare hai mod aur bhi khushi ke. Mein dekhta nahi kabhi idhar udhar, bas apni manzilo pe hai meri nazar, dekh mujhko mere Humsufar…”

just love it man…Old is always gold or may be I am turning old. Hahhhaaaa:D

Cheers!

Bin Tere Sanam

It’s been almost 8 hours that I have not touched a cigarette, now; you must be thinking what is so great in that. But people who try to give up smoking know what it takes to drag that felling away, at least for me it’s awful, it’s too much now. Damn it, I still feel like having a fag. I am still confused which song to hear, Cold turkey or Cigarettes and Alcohol, cool cool cool otherwise, Noel and Liam will start smacking each other again :D

Award..!

I am extremely happy to receive one more award from Gautam, i cannot express my happiness. Thanks a lot man.

So going with the rules, i have to pass this award to more friends, which is as follows,

Komal
Niveditha

Rules:
The award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person who has granted the award, and his or her blog link.Pass the award to other blogs that you’ve newly discovered.Remember to contact the bloggers to let them know they have been chosen for this award.
Cheers!

Vision 2010

Where is that ego and attitude when we puffed up with pride about India as a super power by 2010. Do you remember the BRIC report formulated by Goldman Sachs, which predicted that India and three others (Brazil, Russia and China) would rule the global economic pie chart in the coming years? Has the global financial meltdown eclipsed the growth or we just enjoy boasting our low price haggling skills.

India dreamt of the “Vision 2010” to make the country a global force and one of the largest contributors of technology, exports and manufacturing in the world. The key element in achieving this significant success highlights the importance of an economic freedom, education to ensure sustained productivity, shelter to preserve the human dignity, managing population and creating a competitive infrastructure.

Small and medium-sized enterprises are the backbone of the Indian economy. It is a major source of revenue which plays an important role in enabling India to compete in the world markets. The information and communication technologies (ICT) have witnessed a rapid growth in the past, which still makes India proud. But the industry is still insecure with the feasibility of technology and ERP implementations in the production processes, lack of government incentives and investment opportunities. Just developing business parks and special economic zones will not internationalize India.

Is this all a castle in the air? Remember that 2010 is just a few months away and the biggest challenge which lay in front of us now is to overcome the current recessionary force. An elixir to such situation is to develop a knowledge-centered society that creates new opportunities, developing a safety net which will safeguard employees from loosing jobs through reforms, restructuring of business organizations and up gradation of core infrastructure in all spheres of the economy. Else wait for China to bombard India with more toys and watches :)

September

I was high in my dream with my libido until I heard a loud knock on my door that jolted me awake, I woke up drowsy with the late night beer romp. A friend of mine barged into my room as soon as I opened the door. “Holi hai”, two more friends followed him to greet me with colors. I smacked one of them hard for being so abrupt and not giving me enough time to resist myself from their stupid behavior. Chalo chalo bahar chalte hai lets gulp a few glasses of bhang before we decide where to head. I opted out of the plan pretending that I have to meet my girlfriend and decided to go off to sleep and continue with the interrupted dream. I hated playing Holi and meticulously fooled them and dragged myself to the bed. But I could not save my old Nike t-shirt which Sameer managed to put on before leaving my room. Fucker, I cursed and banged my hand hard on bed.

I was sleeping peacefully till I heard loud voices, screaming the names of the friends who wanted me to accompany them to celebrate Holi. Then some one screamed call warden, fast, do it fast guys, please don’t inform lets talk to his father first. I supposed these guys have done something miserable and went ouside my room to solve the matter. I was late. Very late. Someone informed me that Sameer drowned in the dam with one more guy. I tried to concentrate again what I was hearing that time. I asked some more guys about it. I will not be able to describe you how I felt that moment. I loved them, it was my gang, we dreamt of girls, life, family and everything that made us happy. In the evening they brought their bodies to the hostel, I saw Sameer in my t-shirt that proclaimed “just do it”. My heart still bleeds when I remember it. I wish I had pulled you back. I love you Sameer, I miss you a lot dear. Happy Birthday!

Guns and Guts

A major partition, two deadly wars and the threat of terrorism still haunts India even after celebrating sixty-two years of democratic freedom, a few days back. Ever since the partition in 1947, India and Pakistan have been arch rivals over the long-running issue of Jammu and Kashmir. There seems no end but slaughtering millions of innocent people, satisfying geographical ego.

India spends millions of rupees on developing new technologies to stay ahead in the global-competitive race. On the contrary, Pakistan incurs millions on importing cheap arms and ammunition and modifying their third grade technology to echo optimism. One country is marching ahead with a brunt of terrorism, while the other keeps no coin unturned in pulling it back by spitting fire and destruction.

Nations have edged up their education system, geographic collaborations are visible in science and technology, but these two countries have still the same mindset when it comes to religion and history. Still behaving like kids fighting over a doll and threatening with mera paas ye hai-tere paas kya hai mentality. It will continue hampering economic development of both the countries, if the diplomatic curtain is not raised at this alarming stage. Accepting the LOC as the actual border in Kashmir would be the kick start to a meaningful discussion, else wait for the bomb to sabotage you through hell.

Amen!

Honoured Again

I am kind of overwhelmed with the awards i have been receiving from my friends. This time i have bagged two more from Niveditha. Thanks, Thanks and Thanks for liking my blog.

Now I would like to pass on this award to the following blogger friends. Here is the list,

1. Anwin
2. Akash
3. Komal
4. Kiran
5. Tabitha
6. Sugandha
7. Archana

Thanks once again to all of you guys. you deserve it.

Award

It’s my honour to be in the master list of members in the international bloggers community. Thanks to Anwin, who awarded me with this and I am sure I will maintain the same spirit to express my ideas and experience in this space.

Going with the rules, I will have to do the following things,

* Link the person who tagged you
* Copy the image above, the rules and the questionnaire in this post
* Post this in one or all of your blogs
* Answer the four questions following these Rules
* Recruit at least seven (7) friends on your Blog Roll by sharing this with them
* Come back to BLoGGiSTa iNFo CoRNeR (PLEASE DO NOT CHANGE THIS LINK) at http://bloggistame.blogspot.com and leave the URL of your Post in order for you/your Blog to be added to the Master List
* Have Fun!

Questions & Your Answers:

1. The person who tagged you: Anwin
2. His/her site's title and URL: http://anw.in
3. Date when you were tagged: 8 Aug 2009
4. Persons I tagged:

I would now like to pass on this award to the some more active writers on this blogosphere.

• Sugandha
• Komal
• Akash
• Khushi
• Gautam
• Jigar
• Niveditha

Cheers!

Face

Sketch

After a long hiatus, I finally got around to my favorite hobby, sketching. I still remember as a kid, may be around 12 years old, I sketched a couple smooching each other, and I exceptionally did it well. When I showed it to my cousin, he was so amused that he showed it to each and every member of our family. I was so embarrassed that I dint touch brush and colors for a month. But then I had a knack for painting and sketching, which kept me busy at home. It was so intense that I screwed up other subjects.

With this I remember an incident during my school days. There was a drawing competition announcement and it required 40 rupees registration fee as the competition was going to be held at a place where children from other schools were also participating. I finally managed to convince my mom and registered myself there. On the day of the competition I forgot to bring water colors and my house was about 20 km from the school. I just had a pencil and an ink pen and no one was ready to borrow me colors. I went straight to my drawing teacher who arranged me colors and a brush. And then I reached the hall, man it was already occupied with more than 500 guys and girls. We were given a sheet and announced the beginning of the competition. I don’t remember what I painted there, but in the end, the coordinators announced that the winners will be notified personally.

Days passed by and I got my half yearly results, I screwed up Maths,Chemistry and English. On the day of the results I had a fight with the next bench guy in my class. He scratched my forehead with his nails because we used to call him “Tantrik”( a person who does black magic). I went home and my parents were anxiously waiting for the results, when they saw my report, my mom came up with the thickest "Belan" on the earth to greet me. In the evening Tantrik’s mom made her arrival scolding and complaining. Exactly half an hour later, the door bell again rang. I opened the door and saw a middle aged man; I misunderstood him with Tantrik’s father and zipped away from home as fast as I can.

I went to my cousin’s place which was a Km distance from my house. After some time my father came down to take me home. I was really afraid, although my dad had never beaten me for my destructive behavior that time. In the meantime, he didn’t tell me anything about that man, and I didn’t ask him either. When I reached home I saw the ambience was totally different. My mom smiled at me and that man congratulated me. I stood second in the drawing competition, and the prize ceremony was going to take place in a few days. A sudden wave of happiness spread across my home and neutralized those bad events. Now when I look back and remember those days I really get nostalgic. But now I want to spend some time painting and sketching. Let’s see how it pans out. Yesterday I tried to draw something on a paper, which I am presenting it with this post, hope u would like it.

Maska

The art of buttering/ flattering someone is the most profitable activity I have ever seen in my life. Though I am awfully bad at it, I have seen guys going to such a pathetic level where you would feel respecting a beggar than getting along with these people. This kiss-feet phenomenon is most common in schools and colleges where you will encounter guys waiting for the class to finish and then make their way out behind teachers interrupting and impressing them with all their framed up, nonsense ideas and questions to get recognition, all at the stake of ones dignity.

The history of this activity should date back to Raja-Maharaja era. There must have been guys laden with astra and shashtra, trying with their best to persuade the King to build a swimming pool in order to fulfill their lust at that time, when it would been a herculean task to sneak a peek at Queen’s voluptuous figure. Poor guys! This is also seen nowadays in movies where the villain would have a couple of supporting gunda’s influencing him to endanger heroine’s life, giving the hero a mission in his bored life and providing us with a three hours of entertainment.

This old trend has caught on everywhere, starting from schools and colleges to offices and formal gatherings. This ridiculous art (Kuch to ijjazt karni hi padegi) is also synonym to road side Tom-dick-and harry act where guys would talk rubbish and crap to impress girls, their main aim is to become sweety-tweety kanayahhia’s with gopi’s revolving around them holding a bunch of grapes. Although I am not against these guys, but I can’t even stand this. I still wonder how these people might be feeling from inside when they get around to themselves spiritually at some point of time.

……smaerD

OMG what a topic i am trying to fathom in the middle of this lonely night, I am again confused with it. There have been times when i rehashed my dreams, crossed out my plans and tried to pretend that i am on the right track. But my god every time i think about it, I travel and trip myself through the euphoria of confused mind. I don’t know what i want out of my life, but i am pretty sure that i have not reached even the starting point of the road which i wanted to travel. Nowhere near the road…but i am definitely watching the traffic with my goggles on….