Nostalgia & Pepsi Cola

Hmmm....Now if i say Pepsi cola it doesnt mean the PEPSI which we drink today. It was a flavoured & Coloured liquid frozen in a plastic tube which we used to suck til the end...only to get our tongues painted in vivid colours. The most famous brand(U see thats wat education teaches u....BRANDS) those days, when i was a young boy aged 10 was LABELLA. It was for sure a royal treat when we used to get one of those. Irrespective of what our parents said about the ill effects of having one.....infact we never used to believe them.
25 Paise.....thats wat it used to cost...a princely sum for we small kids at that time...Cleverly used to take 50 Piase from mom...use one half to buy a samll pepsi cola....then save the other half as a treasure.
Today pepsi cola has almost died out.....has become the symbol of unhygiene.....kids dont have it anymore.....Still remember those day when we used to walk back from school to home sucking a pepsi cola....one in each hand.....hmmmmm...thats Pepsi cola....i wonder how it got its name.
It could have been coca cola also.....i think Pepsi had the upper hand those days.........
adios
viks

Quarter Life Crisis

For those in their twenty-something's...

They call it the "Quarter-life Crisis."

It is when you stop going along with the crowd and start realizing that there are a lot of things about yourself that you didn't know and may or may not like.

You start feeling insecure and wonder where you will be in a year or two, but then get scared because you barely know where you are now.

You start realizing that people are selfish and that, maybe, those friends that you thought you were so close to aren't exactly the greatest people you have ever met and the people you have lost touch with are some of the most important ones.

What you do not realize is that they are realizing that too and are not really cold or catty or mean or unsincere, but that they are as confused as you.

You look at your job. It is not even close to what you thought you would be doing or maybe you are looking for one and realizing that you are going to have to start at the bottom and are scared.

You miss the comforts of college, of groups, of socializing with the same people on a constant basis. But then you realize that maybe they weren't so great after all.

You are beginning to understand yourself and what you want and do not want.

Your opinions have gotten stronger. You see whatothers are doing and find yourself judging a bit more than usual because suddenly you realize that you have certain boundaries in your life and add things to your list of what is acceptable and what is not.

You are insecure and then secure.

You laugh and cry with the greatest force of your life.

You feel alone and scared and confused.

Suddenly change is the enemy and you try and cling on to the past with dear life but soon realize that the past is drifting further and further away and there is nothing to do but stay where you are or move forward.

You get your heart broken and wonder how someone you loved could do such damage to you or you lay in bed and wonder why you can't meet anyone decent
enough to get to know better.

You love someone but maybe love someone else too and cannot figure out why you are doing this because you are not a bad person.

You go through the same emotions and questions over and over and talk with your friends about the same topics because you cannot seem to make a decision.

You worry about loans and money and the future and making a life for yourself and while winning the race would be great, right now you'd just like to be a contender!

What you may not realize is that everyone reading this relates to it.

We are in our best of times and our worst of times, trying as hard as we can to figure this whole thing out.
......ENDS

Me Myself and My Oneliners

Life has always been a maze for me....and so many time it happens that i do find myself in situation...which can be est expressed in some one liners....

some go like this....

I like to walk in the rains ...coz then nobody would get to know i am crying.......

When u think u know someone....then soething happens...and changes everything....

U think about a person.....like that person.....only to know.....that was a waste of time....

A likes B...... B likes C...... but B never likes A and C never likes B....teehee...thats logic.

ahh...enough of it.....anyways lifes always a maze....And wat i learnt about it is to keep ur calm...it will get sorted on its own......adios.
viks

Burnout revenge

Bought this new game for my PS2..man this ones cool...a good upgrade from it predecessor....loved it....good one.

After Long time

Well Well Well.....i hadnt blogged for so many days....just realized this.....no time now.....hehehe

59

wondering wats 59....thats our 59th independence days today....so celebrating 59 years of happy and independent india..
adios
viki

Maze.......

Its really getting tough now......i am not able to recognize wat i am upto.....where am i leading.....am i going forward or backward.....i have lost my senses to gravity of situations in my life.

These labyrinths in my life are getting deeper, tougher, harder to get out....its like getting stuck in something which you cant see, feel or think about it....hmmm ...maybe its just a phase.....god knows....rest later.....
adios viki

UB40 Reasons

Listening to reggae is like walking in heaven......

anyways...just got across this beautiful song by UB40...named aptly " Reasons".....try to get that song from some one ....the kyrics are also very cool....here it goes....

Reasons
by UB 40
album: Who You Fighting For? (2005),
Who You Fighting For? (2005)

Reasons why I love you - One,
You light my day, you are my sun
Reasons why I love you - Two,
I cannot get enough of you
Reasons why I love you - three,
I know that you'll be true to me
The reason I will stay with you,
I know you love me too

(CHORUS)
The reason I will stay with you
I know that you love me too!
Meno tere bina chain nah aveh
Oh soniyeh

Reasons why I love you - Four,
You keep me coming back for more
Reasons why I love you - Five,
You make my world come alive
Reasons why I love you - Six,
I'm addicted, you're my fix
The reason I will stay with you,
I know that you love me too

CHORUS

Reasons why I love you - Seven,
You are here and I'm in heaven
Reasons why I love you - Eight,
When it's good, you make it great
Reasons why I love you - Nine,
You turn my water into wine
The reason I will stay with you,
I know that you love me too

CHORUS



Happy listening.......
viks

effect of rains

I have been forced to stay at my friends place due to these rains....hmmm....PS@ time.....yipeeee
viks

Blog of Vivek Kiranji

hmmm.....

varsha ne kranti se dosti karli and shanti kahi nazar nahi aarahi hain...just penned down while chatting with my enemy..... :-)))

adios
viki

24 Hrs

Right now i am wondering how i should start this blog....so many things going in my mind. To start with i will just give the overview of wat had happened here in Mumbai.
Mumbai.....was struck by heavy showers on tuesday...so heavy heavy that it was a record breaking 94.4 cm rain.....never recorded before in indian history.....mumbai broke cherrapunji record of 83 cm. mumbai was bought to a complete standstill....no trains...no buses....no phone working....not even cell phones...no electricity...and to add that mumbai was flooded completely.....
as i stay in dombivli ...a distant suburb near mubai...and i work in andheri...reaching home was a big adventure....nothing short of a decathlon......after spending half of night in the office i decided to walk to my boss's House along with him as there was nothing in the office...no food no electricity....with a brave heart we...ventured into the torrential rains which was hitting he streets of mumbai.....as soon as i reached on the roads...i felt as if somebody is throwing buckets of water over my head.....its wrong to call it a shower......it was fun for some and worse for others ...but for me...this rain i would rate as at its worst best.....anyways after reaching my boss's place...prepared some food in the dark at about 2 in the night and then slept till the sun rose...it was still raining...i would say this was showers this time.....then just wondered wat i had seen while coming to this house from office...waist high waters ...cars floating all around...which were abandonded....long queues of buses standing with ppl sleeping in it....some the cars were right into the big gutter.....wat a loss that was....some how we had reached here wading through strong currents......
but this was not the end...the second innings was remaining.....10 o clock in the morning..i left that place so that i can reach dombivli....i was at marol.....then walked till saki vihar road....a 2 km walk....luuckily got a rick who took me to mulund...from there i some how got to Thane station.....then went to the station...only to know fron station master that there is no chance of trains starting till next morning.....but i was determined to reach home...i had two options walk from tahne to dombivli...thats another cool 25 km...or take a rick to kalyan....than walk for 10 km to reach home......i took the second option as it had less amount of walking....was a good as well bad decision......before reaching kalyan we came to a spot where the water was like 10 feet above the road level....trucks remained submerged......so i started walking backwards,....as i remembered i had seen some railway tracks some...few km back...so aftera walk of 45 min...i reached the tracks....om enquiry i found that these train tracks go to wards diva.....a city next to dombivli.....so i started my marathon walk....after walking for nearly 2hr i reached outskirts of dombivli......on my way over the tracks...i saw cows and Buffalo's floating and being swept away in water.........whole villages submergerd...thanks to the engg whoever had designed the track.....kept it elevated almost 5m above the land.....which really helped......reached home at about 6 in the evening.........its thursday....today...ppl have still not reached home as there is no road connecting dombivli and other part of the town..........theres lot more to write....but no time.....in my lifetime....this was the most adventurous 24 hrs of my life.....
viki

Nokia N series

Just checked the latest nokia N series....cool phones.

Nokia N series

Just checked the latest nokia N series....cool phones.

Memories from Down South.

Recently had been Banglore, the Garden city as they say. It was much cooler than Mumbai...and that was a relief.
It raines heavily the day we arrived, as if the city welcomed us, had to sleep with blankets in the month of may...the hottest month...wow that was an expirience.
Also had some close call with the city buses.....i could have easily succumbed to them...thanks to Honda activa....which i was fully utilizing to the max.
Will go again there on 14 of this month....

Yahoo Groups.....

Well i have subscribed to lots of yahoo groups...the most active among them now a days is my school group by the name mes_1995.
lots of ppl asking lots of funny questions like " why do u need a pet dog for" lemme know...hehe...wonder why do we need a dog for?...i am confused...anyways...theres freedom of speech.

hmmm...lets come on Phones....theres this Sony ericsson k750i...read the review of it...found pretty cool...with is 2 mp camera and an inbuilt mp3 player...also it supports mmc cards upto 2 gb....wow..simply coll at this point of time....

well thats for today.....adios

and jago roan and belly....from ur hibernation

Return of the Jedi

Well ......i return from Hibernation.......

NK....and a bit of Motorola.

Lucky is the word which NK must have truly understoofd today. rain gods were more than helpful to NK today. first day of his racing and he finished above 7 times world champ MS...wow...we call it dream start....but its just the first phase of quallifying. he looked good can do wonders if hew maintains his cool....best of luck NK.

Motorola recently launched its Moto slvr....its sequel to razr.....man its one hell of a phone ...straight from the heavens....ppl should ask ...what not there in this phone?
check it out at some site u will understand wat i am talking about.
adios

PAGE 3..................

i just watched this movie....."page 3"....makes u think ....about lots of things in life....its all about mumbai and the life it has under its veil. people playing games...all types of them....i just walked out of the theater and was listening to a FM channel...suddenly there,s this song...."Bholi surat dil ke khote...naam bade aur darshan chote"....well this could have easily qualified as the title sound track of the movie. Anyways life keep on flowing.......
adios

TSUNAMI.................................


Recently the most of south asia and some part of india was hit by a tsunami....which had a devastating effect on the lies of people.
here in india....ppl contributed whole heartedly....lots of donations came ....in less than a month, The Prime ministers fund had accumulated 430 crores...forget the rest...so huge money came in.....but was it actually spent on the victims.......god knows....but we got some counter views on that also. what i am mentionong below....is just a view....not mine exactly....but can be given a thought........
read on.

I am well placed and I earn well. But I will not contribute a single rupee to benefit the victims of the Tsunami.

Am I selfish? Am I inhuman? Not so at all.

I love my country, and I love my people. And that is
why I won't contribute.

A quick recapitulation of "disasters":


2004: Tsunami


2001: Bhuj Earthquake


1999: Orissa Cyclone


1993: Latur


1988: Darbhanga


1984: Bhopal



About every 3 years disaster on a massive scale
strikes our country.

Every time the world wants to donate a few million dollars. Every time the We, the People are jerked into sudden action and we donate our clothes, some food, a few days pay and assume our duty done, and get on with our lives.

Every time our dear Government of India resolves to erect disaster warning systems, evacuation procedures and necessary safeguards so that devastation on such massive scales can be avoided. Every time the news moves gradually from the Front Page to the Nation page to the State page to the Editorial where it finally rests and where the intelligentsia wakes up on every anniversary and indulges in some good measure of intellectual masturbation.

Every time our compassion begins with moist eyes and lumpy throats, and quite quickly melts away as our assigned or chosen duty beckons. And perhaps that is how it should be. As they say, life must go on. You cannot weep forever.

But are we not guilty of something somewhere?

And what about our beloved government, what about our media? For them too, must the show continue to go on,the same show? Every time?

Ladies and gentlemen, we are confronted by the worst calamity in recent history. And the story is playing itself to script more than Bollywood films stick to their established formulas. Less than a week down, the news is already the second bullet in the news
channels.

People all over the country are suffering severe compassion for the victims and donating generously ? New Year will be here tonight and they will party away the sadness.

The magnitude of loss is immeasurable ? it runs into millions, and not counting the value of lives lost. But we, children of India Shining,
find it below our dignity to accept foreign aid. But we are not ashamed of ourselves that these people who died lived in abject poverty on the margins of existence, living unworthy lives. No, that is okay with us.

Just a digression ? just a thought: Are we refusing help from other humans in other countries who feel compassionately for those who died just to prove a point, or is it because foreign aid comes with controls that ensure that the ultimate targets benefit and there is lesser scope for someone distributing those funds to line their pockets?

Years have passed. The victims of the Bhopal gas continue to suffer,Latur still has insufficient water or sanitation, Orissa was
never rebuilt, we don't even know what happened to the Darbhanga victims.

Have you ever considered who are these people who died in all these disasters?

When the earth shakes, shanties collapse sooner. When the waves swallow,the hutments on beaches are swept away.

These people who die are not people like you and me writing and reading emails in air conditioned offices, rooms and halls.They are people who
live on the fringe of life. They are the filthy scum who beg outside our rolled up air-conditioned car windows, and are ignored. They are the dirty

kids who try to sell sea shells for 5 rupees each, and are shooed away. They are the homeless girls and children who live under the bridges where they sell themselves every night to arrange for the next day's breakfast.We, who never questioned our government for not providing food, shelter
and opportunity to these people when they lived, are falling over each other to contribute now that they are gone.

You and I are more culpable than our beloved government and we will continue be the worst culprits ? till the day we become the victims and are written about.We are to blame because we forgive the failures of our government and our administration so easily. We are the people who have the collective power to change things, but don't care to. We are the people who feel the most for our country, but just that ? we feel; we do nothing. We are eunuchs (as a figure of speech and nothing against them) who talk, and just that? we don't act. Lord! We don't even think it worth our
while to vote. It is because of us, that such governments rule us, and fail us. Repeatedly.We are the biggest insult to those who lost their lives and to our own selves.

I resolve not to be party to this insult. I will not give alms to people who deserved and had the right to a meaningful life and a more respectful death. I will not give dole to people who wanted to live with self-respect, but couldn't. I will not weep for survivors from the family of people who had the right to clean bathrooms and safe water, but who we denied the same when they lived.

I will not donate to comfort my conscience because I know that giving away a day's salary is no atonement for how I continue to deceive my ountry,
my people, myself. I love my people more than that. I am more human than that.

And that is why I will not contribute

Amchi Mumbai.............

A couple of incidents i would like to share with u all.

1) This incident happened today morning in the 8:00 local.
the train had just left dombivli. one aunty in the adjoining compartment took out a book and started worshipping the sun god...and mind it...she finished the whole ritual in exactly five min...thats exactly the same time the train takes time to reach Diva....later i noticed that this lady performs this act of spirituality on a daily basis....wat a place to worship the sun god....on a moving train....i could have only imagine chaiya chaiya...Mera Bharat Mahan.

2) Time was 6:50 in the evening at Thane station. i had just boarded 6:48 Dombivli Local........i happened to eavesdrop on two middle aged men....they were discussing wat i felt ....if every body thought that way...india will go places........the point of discussion "PEANUTS"...literally....

1st man says " Yaaar main to sirf station platform pe se hi shenga(peanuts) kharidta hoon"
2nd man says " kyon"
1st man : Yaar, maine gina (counted) woh do rupya mein 70 dane deta hain.....our train mein liya to do rupya ka sirf 52 dana milta hain....18 dana kam.
2nd man : saale public ko loot te hain ye log.

At this point of time...i thought to leave them alone or else i would have learnt some more ways how public are looted.

rumbazzk............

KEYHOLE.

Keyhole.com..............................visit it...........download the exe file...the lite version would be prefferred ............install..........sit back and enjoy the trail for seven days...............loved it .........
Kudos to the ppl who developed this....and thanks to google.
adios
viki

Philosophy of Ignorance


I came across this piece of literature few months back.....i think it has lot to tell. Its called "Philosophy of Ignorance" and was penned by Richard Feynman. And it goes like this.

When the scientist tells you he does not know the answer, he is an ignorant man. When he tells you he has a hunch about how it is going to work, he is uncertain about it. When he is pretty sure of how it is going to work, and he tells you, "This is the way it is going to work, I'll bet," he still is in some doubt. And it is of paramount importance, in order to make progress, that we recognize this ignorance and this doubt. Because we have the doubt, we then propose looking in new directions for new ideas. The rate of the development of science is not the rate at which you make observations alone but, much more important, the rate at which you create new things to test.
If we were not able or did not desire to look in any new direction, if we did not have a doubt or recognize ignorance, we would not get any new ideas. There would be nothing worth checking, because we would know what is true. So what we call scientific knowledge today is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty. Some of them are most unsure; some of them are nearly sure; but none is absolutely certain. Scientists are used to this. We know that it is consistent to be able to live and not know. Some people say, "How can you live without knowing?" I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know.
This freedom of doubt is an important matter in the sciences and, I believe, in other fields. It was born of a struggle. It was a struggle to be permitted to doubt, to be unsure. And I do not want us to forget the importance of the struggle and, by default, to let the thing fall away. I feel a responsibility as a scientist who knows the great value of a satisfactory philosophy of ignorance, and the progress made possible by such a philosophy, progress which is the fruit of freedom of thought. I feel a responsibility to proclaim the value of this freedom and to teach that doubt is not to be feared, but that it is to be welcomed as the possibility of a new potential for human beings. If you know that you are not sure, you have a chance to improve the situation. I want to demand this freedom for future generations."

WOW WOW WOW.......................
Thats how i discribe my experience at the recently concluded Mumbai Marathon.
Half Marathon : 3 Hrs ......Phew....and it was exhausting......but the experience was amazing.
A small boy, A blind Man, A dog, Dabah wala and everybody from different aspects of life were present.
time to leave
adios
viki

And the list goes on........
Hetal
Apeksha
Aparna
Nitin
Nilesh
Deven
Bablu
Ramesh
Sandeep
Vaidehi
Amey
Nidhi
Neeta
Nisha
Vinu
the overseas list

Vishal
Kaustubh
Vipul
And And the mystery person.
and many many more......thanks

Phew........25 years on this planet.
The technology is so slow.....when i am gonna move on to a new one......
Any ways thanks to all those who wished me.....
Ved
Prachal
Nitin T
Neeta
Nisha
Sandeep
indrajeet
Manoj
Arpita.....and all the rest...the list goes on....but these were the early birds
adios
viki

THis is a serious question i always wanted to ask......How many ppl actually read this Blog?
I think its only TWO...........i know the blog is lousy......but will take time.....its still a child.

wat say? any body out there apart from belly and roan......give feed back....bcoz i feed on that.
adios

Hmmm........ Well its a long time since i am actually blogging...
well to start off .....one of my friend got married....well i had actuallty forgotten about this whole marriage, thanks to belly for uploading the pics...belly has become the goody goody boy of this group, always pumping the group up.

And And And....welcome ghiv to dombivli.
adios
viki

Doctrine of Karma
1. Any cause will produce an effect in future
2. An effect in present must have a cause in future
3. An effect returns to the source of cause
4. Like cause like effect
5. Every cause will produce its own effect and there is no mutual cancellation.

NOw thats why i love the word Karma................karmaa@gmail.com
viki