Blood is thicker than water

If there's one truth of life that comes in the top ten it is this. Well mostly.

I might've think that I had the worst ever quarrel with my wife or my mother or my sister. But after we have cooled down, we get back together. Not because we have to. But, because we feel it our right to open discussion lines with them, because we don't feel ashamed in saying sorry to them, because we know they won't bitch about us outside of the circle. I don't restrain myself from approaching my mother when she's not talking to me because it's my right. I know I will talk to her freely again.

Moral of the story? It is too late in the night and I must stop thinking :)

This is a true incident

Rachna and I were on our home mac downloading the pictures I had taken on my mobile. I had connected my mobile to the mac with the USB cable to download all the pictures I had taken on my mobile during the vacation. After downloading all my pictures onto the computer, I right-clicked on the drive icon that was my mobile and selected the "Eject" key, so that I can unplug my mobile safely.

At this point, Rachna jumps out of her seat and looks under the table at the drive bay of the mac and asks me "How did you put the phone into the cd drive?" To the puzzlement of my wife, I couldn't stop my laughter for a few minutes.

It's our 9th anniversary today..

..aur baar baar mere zehen mein ek hi gana aa raha hai:
"Nau saal pehele mujhe tumse pyaar tha...aaj bhi hain aur kal bhi rahega"
Toh kya hua agar Sau ko Nau banaya...gana toh theek baith raha hai na?

It's been a heck of a journey, these nine years and more. Here's how we met against pretty strong odds: http://rachnasays.blogspot.com/2009/11/my-knight-in-shining-armor.html
I mean what are the odds for two people to meet, one from mumbai and one from hyderabad, studied in different B-schools and worked at different places. Imagine, had I met her before the ad in Jeevansathi and told her that "u, yes U will be marrying me. So I am going to put arm around your waist like this" what would her reaction be? I'd be getting a resounding slap, right? So, what's the way to be able to do this rightly? It goes through Jeevansathi.com :)

What can you say about a simple cosmopolitan Mumbaiite girl who loves her family unconditionally with the same fervor as she loves her alu-badiya dishes :) She is a UPite but she has the sophistication and polish of a British royal. In my 9 years of marriage I must've heard her fart(more of a whimper, if u ask me, which needed to be confirmed that it was a fart), maybe, 3 times. I haven't seen her pick her nose ever. English and hindi are probably the only languages she know but her knowledge of them are impeccable. I still discover new hindi words from her even to this day :) She might not know why the 3 pin plug is not going into a two pin socket but she knows how and why our body functions. She is a walking-talking human encyclopeadia but she also admits that she discovered a lot of amazing human features only after marriage, which she feels is super-human ;)

She always know what is the right thing to do in any given scenario. No wonder that she has never had any problems with her in-laws ever! That doesn't mean that we haven't had our share of tiffs. But that is only because I am the most stuck up, boorish and tactless person in an area 50 kms around me. She's the kind of tension difuser the sorts which I haven't seen before her. She'll be the one to open up conversation lines with me even if she's mad at me, of course for bad things said/done by her due to my misbehavior(read above) ;) She's the darling of the kids because she's the best mom that is ever possible, unless, of course, if they step on her nerves on a wrong day.

I do injustice to her beauty by taunting her with my innumerous-virtual-hot-girlfriends :) But somebody has to be there to do the clowning around and keeping up the giggles in the marriage, right? Jokes aside, I take this day to tell her that she's the most beautiful woman I know inside and outside and I can't imagine life without her. This must the be the most romantic thing I have ever said even secretly ;)

Formula to get your own state

Very nice! KCR has evolved a Do-it-Yourself-at-Home formula to get your own state. Following is the formula:

1. Purchase student leaders in the major cities with promises that they'll get leadership positions when their state forms. The destructive..er...disruptive force that students wield during protests can never be too underestimated. Police cen't use excessive force against them too for the fear of escalating tensions into a civil war.
2. Make the regional leader go on a fast-unto-death amidst a sprinkling of violence/arson/loot from the students you have purchased. All the while escalating the protests cum violence levels a notch more everyday.
   
3. Nearing the 6th day of the fast put the region on a complete halt with our well-known protest called Bandh.
4. Use our 24X7 media as a catalyst in the whole process by showing the ever increasing protests on TV and the regional politicians unleash venom on the government.
5. As soon as the doctors attending the fast-unto-death politician declare that he is in mortal danger of slipping into coma/death the center will blink and say "Yes" to the new state.
6. There is going to be a lot of rejoicing and also demands for pardon to the "patriotic" students who had indulged in arson/loot during protests.
7. Profit!!!!

Already Gorkha Jagran Morcha(GJM) has stepped up its demand for a separate state using the above formula. Waiting for Vidarbh, Poorvanchal, Bodoland,etc to go on similar paths soon.

People, I am going positive

Just the other day I was reflecting on my online history and I discovered that I only write negative things!!! Negative about our President, Prime Minister, Heroes, Heroines and almost everyone. For a bystander it may seem that I no longer seem to have anything positive to say about anyone. I know it's not the case. The actual case is this. I take the effort to write only if it is anything negative about anything! And I pass it off in the garb of humor. I don't know from where I have took that inspiration or when it began, but it looks like I was emulating a columnist or an editorial. Nobody writes a column on positives of anything unless it is about spirituality, right? Look at Shobha De, Khushwant Singh, Vir Sanghvi, etc.

I am putting an end to it now, on the records. Even if I have to write something negative I am going to force myself to write 2 things positive about the person or thing. If I don't do it flog me publicly, people :)

As a first step I've deleted some immensely negative sounding articles from my blog. Please point me any article that still needs to be removed. Thanks!

My second rant on Big Boss 3

Ah! Yesterday's BB was an episode nobody will forget in a hurry. BB opened the session for nominations and we were on the edge of our seats to know who the new guys will nominate and whether Bakhtiyar is still in the cross-eye of the evil-five(Vindu, Rohit, Raju, Poonam, Claudia). We were also eager to see how BB deals with the way Vindu, Rohit and Raju discuss nominations so freely. And an edge-seater the episode turned out to be.

BB let Poonam, Pravesh, Vinod, Bakhtiyar, Aditi and Claudia cast their nominations. And the killer blow - Vindu, Rohit and Raju, basically, lost their previlige to cast their nominations. And the other killer-killer blow: All six who got to nominate got nominated - Bakhtiyar, Pravesh and Aditi with 3 votes each and Claudia, Vinod and Poonam with one vote each. The damndest thing of these nominations is gonna be that a person with one vote is going to leave BB this week(my hunch is Claudia). Then the Killerest blow - BB showed all the contestants a prolonged video of how Vindu, Rohit and Raju discuss nominations. All the while Vindu(the scum of the earth) and Rohit(the sni-bitch of the world) were laughing at eachother. And Raju later clarifies with Vinod that he was just lending an ear to the planner and that he could not alight out of a moving train. Later in the evening Rohit has a nervous break-down when the magnitude of the event dawns on him/her. But he has shown such drama before. So can't tell if his "evilness" has reduced.

Poonam Dhillon got to talk to her children on the gift that Tanaaz gave her before she left BB. I was surprised that her children were telling her that they were proud of the way she is playing. Thankfully, she showed that she still has some human element in her by not nominating Bakhtiyar. But this woman is still the weirdest woman in BB3. She never displays strong feelings even after seeing her supposed allies bitch and plan about her. I, personally, detest people who do not show their true emotions and slyly indulge in the game.

Pravesh - I had high hopes on this guy. But turned out to be a damp squib. He nominated Bakhtiyar and Aditi, in alliance with the evil-axis, and without displaying any tangible reason.

Bakhtiyar - as if you haven't guessed by now, I love this guy. He has until now played a clean game and is extremely emotional(this is not the reason i like him). I like him because he shows his true emotions. But he sure can work on the amount of crying he does.

Claudia - The dumb-bimbo of the show does her nominations for petty things and things that she doesn't understand and most of all because of opinions formed by things told to her by others. I'd be glad to see her go out this week.

Another guy who has played cleanly is Vinod Kambli. Surprisingly, I hated him when he came in. So, I tell myself again, not to judge a book from its cover.

Just when I was planning to quit watching BB because of it's similarities with the daily soaps where everyone is scheming against everyone else, comes a redeemer of an episode. I am hoping to see a new alliance forming with a few misunderstandings clearing up and the evil-axis shutting their trap and leaving the BB mansion one by one.

My first rant on Big Boss 3

My first post on the happenings of BB3 after week 4, or is it 5? Finally, it seems like all the characters are unravelling.

Yesterday was nominations. I thought Vindu would be the person who’d get maximum votes in it. But came to a conclusion that you can never tell how a woman thinks! You would think that after how Vindu behaved with Sherlyn before she left BB3 house all right minded women would first vote for him. But I was wrong to think in that way. Apparently, there is a bigger concern for women than utter disrespect to womankind. And what is that? Somebody bitching about them behind their backs. Two out of every five women are more concerned with bitching behind their backs.

Shamita, oh how i hate such over-sugary treats. She is a one sickeningly sweet personality who’d be okay if she kept her mouth shut. Every week she’ll nominate her two housemates with loads of sorries and they are actually very good people syrups. This woman lacks conviction. She lacks a vent for her pent-up feelings. Oh wait! Are her tears her vents? If so then she is venting fine :)

Raju Srivastav, this person was in the reckoning for the title. But he had to play politics. Like they say, you can’t keep politics out of a UPite or a Bihari. I am hardly a person who would spend Rs.3 to save a person. But I had thought that I’d save him if he ever was nominated. But this week he lost that privilege from me and the wifey.

Rohit Verma, the weirdo in the house. Every season BB tries to put in a weirdo like this. And mostly they are lucky if they survive two weeks in the house amidst the intensely hostile housemates. This one is a eunuch. First few weeks our sympathies were with him/her. But he has turned out to be the most potent snitch in the world. Now, how I wish Kamal was back to get a piece of his ass :)

Vindu, an example of a failure son of a famous actor. He is the motor-mouth, rambler, mentalcase, empty-head of the house. The whole of India is wondering why this loser is in Big Boss. Nobody is even vaguely aware of his anticidents to merit a berth in BB, except that he is a son of a Famous Shwarzneggeriesh Indian actor. BTW, BB fared miserably in selecting it’s contestants. Jaya, Vindu, Claudia, Kamal, Rohit – we hardly knew them. The trash of BB3. I’ll be glad to see Vindu leaving from the house.

Yesterday, BB made the nominations an open affair because most of the participants were planning nominations with eachother. This was fair to the people who planned their nominations b4 hand but it seemed unfair to those who didn’t. But what to do…aisa hain toh hain. Everyone came to know the true colors of each other. The planners couldn’t change their plans lest they’d be thought of as cheats in front of those who they planned with. Tanaaz and Bakhtiyar were together nominated with overwhelming majority with 6 votes each. Next in number of votes were Vindu and Ismail with 4 each. When everybody was thinking that only Tanaaz and Bakhtiyar were the only two who’d get nominated BB played the trump by nominating Vindu and Ismail too. I think it makes commercial sense to the channel as people would hardly vote to save one of the couple. Who’d they vote for? But now they’d get overwhelming number of votes. They’ve already got 4 votes from our house. 2 to tanaaz and 2 to bakhtiyar, one from each one of us. Yes, we voted for the first time yesterday. I guess, we are trapped into the charm of what is BB :) As far as what we’ve seen BB3 and we think we’ve seen 95% of that stuff :) we think Bakhtiyar and Tanaaz have been true to their self. Even Raju has fallen by the roadside.

Does it mean that BB will try to get them nominated to drawn in huge votes? Let’s see what the coming days bring us.