My Pagalguy Interview

An Interview I gave on Pagalguy.com
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Here I go. Have tried to be as honest and non-diplomatic as possible
Thanks for the questions Abhi. Really made me think.

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If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?

Depends upon the perspective. For me, if the final result benefits me, its a success

Why do people pay to go up tall buildings and then put money in binoculars to look at things on the ground?

Maybe coz they want to laugh at the people at ground! Like others did at them .

Or maybe they are aiming to throw a water balloon.

Worst injury you've ever had?

Physical or Emotional?

Physical - have had my right forefinger cut-off partially. (As a result of my own naughtiness though )

How will you define yourself in your childhood days? Naughty..innocent..or smthng else

Very Naughty. I was known as the terrorist of the family

Your favorite puy -male n female

Male - I don't have a single favorite one. So, can't really write. And am not being diplomatic here BTW

Female -

Special/unique about you

I can walk on water .
Nah, just joking. I am a fairly normal person. May be the specialty is my simplicity.

What is the strangest/funniest experience you've had here at PG?

Funniest would be when rani_das used to be around on Shout Box. Miss her there.

What did you want to be when you were 10 years old?

I wanted to be a police officer at 3. Don't really remember what i wanted to be at 10. I guess it was - a geeky,nerdy computer engineer.

Your list of songs, that you play, everytime you get a chance.

Papa Kehte Hain - QSQT
Here Without You - 3 Doors Down
Pehli Nazar Main - Race
Stairway to Heaven - Led. Zepplin
November Rain - G n R
Don't Cry - G n R

Most valuable thing to you is..

My dear ones. Oh well, they are not "things" . So, its my bike, cellphone and laptop - in that order.

What would be your first question to the people of Antarctica?

So, when do we start the Air-Conditioning Business?

What is something that not a lot of people know about you but you WISH more people COULD know?

That I am very sensitive.

What was the funniest incident in your college life?

Well, we were playing this game of truth and dare in our final year sitting at a ice-cream parlor. (A huge group of about 30 people). So, one girl was given the dare to climb the road divider of a very busy road and shout - "main pagal hoon", 3 times. She did that. A really funny sight it was.

If someone wrote a biography about you, what do you think the title should be?

Doesn't matter what I think, right. Am not the one writing it. Well, let me think of one now. How about this -

"The colors and hues of a common man"

What is your first memory of "True friendship"?

During my engineering days, i used to travel to my college from my home on a Kinetic. (A distance of 18 KM). Now mid-way, it got punctured and I had to leave it at a secluded place as I had an exam that day. After the exam, I requested a friend to drop me to that place. When I reached there, i saw that the back tyre was completely deflated and the vehicle wasn't budging even an inch. The puncture repair shop was about 1.5 KM far. We had no option but to lift the vehicle partially and move it in some way. Dragging, pulling, we made our way to the shop by which time we were completely drained out. I felt a great sense of gratitude for my friend. The reasons for that are:

1. We had another exam the very next day. Spending his preparation time for my task was amazing.
2. My friend had acute back pain even before the pulling. It only got intensified after that. It truly showed what friendship stood for.

Whenever you feel enervated, low, or sad...what kept you going..or let me put it as your source of inspiration...

My parents and the kind of sacrifices they have made for us (Me and my brother).

OK, so what's the speed of dark?

- (Negative) 299,792,458 metres/second

Your definition, MBA

An exaggerated phenomenon - furthered by people like us at PG

Why do you think Charles Chaplin is famous?

Coz he dared to do something different and yet made people laugh - one of the most difficult things to do even with your mouth open.

How do you tackle stress and define stress?

Stress is when you feel frustrated. I generally shout out at someone sometimes. (I know pretty bad :( ) I cool down after that.

What's your pet phobia? Do you have more than one? Name all of them

Cats - They are sinister. . Am not too big a fan of pets anyway.

What would you do when you have learnt that your boat is out of oil?

Run it on coal.

Your Retirement Plans.

Buy a villa on beach-side and live life like a king. Will have to find some insurance good enough to support this

If u r arrested on account of crime ,what it wud be.

Threatening TV News Channel Heads to show "news".

How do you celebrate your happiness..

By having something chocolate first. Sharing the happiness with my family and friends. Going out on a quiet dinner and giving them all a treat.

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All the above answers are true to the best of my knowledge. In case of any discrepancies, you are free to sue yourself.

Dilemma!!!

The last couple of weeks have been a hotbed of ferocious activity for me. There have many instances and occurrences which have left me at a crossroad of many options.

I now know what it is to mess your lifetime dream, what it is to achieve something which you only dreamt of - sometime back; and now looking at it as a tasteless victory which you have no mood to exult over. Of unknown frontiers to be conquered, of self-doubting anxieties, of guilt-ridden sentiments, of indecision, of...

I really don't know why some people have it so easy? Why some people are never satisfied? Ah well, I wish I could just look into the future.

The effect of Mobile's Mobilizing the world

How important is a cell-phone to our everyday existence? Ever wondered about it? Well, rather important if you may think a bit about it. A case in point would be the example of last week where i forgot to carry my cell-phone with me to office. By the time i reached home late in the evening, there were about 10 missed calls and 15-16 messages to be responded to. (I may be exaggerating a little, but :P). So this brings us to the pertinent topic at hand. Mobile evolution has revolutionized communications so much that even the most unexpected of people have cell-phones. Imagine my surprise when the other day the vegetable stall owner offered her cell phone number to my mom so that my mom could place orders through that. (Truly astonishing). So, availability of mobile phones with everyone now brings us to the matter of Mobile phone users which I have particularly observed over the past few days. They can be classified into the following categories:

The Sabzi Wali(wala): - The type I have already talked about. :P They are those people whose new found sense of connectivity keeps them on cloud no. 9. Although, they rarely make any calls from their phones themselves :).

The Student: - They are typically youngsters barely in their teens, continuously typing out SMS's. (Speaking doesn't give that pleasure mate :P. And yeah, Messaging is very cheap ;))

The High-Flying Executive: - Investment Bankers, (some) IT professionals, Suave Businessmen fall in this category (I apologize if i have missed out someone). They generally own very expensive PDAs which are used for business purposes too. They carry a very important looking attitude and continuous keep fiddling with their Styluses.

The middle-Class: - They, as their name signifies, have the Middle end cell phones, which they are fiercely protective about. Hell, i even saw a person actually keeping his phone packed inside a plastic cover. He had to remove the cover every time he attended a call :O.

And if u don't fall in any of these categories, then you do fall in my category. :P

One special thing i would like to mention is that, contrary to expectations, its not the Lower-Class or the Students who are poor at cell phone etiquettes. It is mostly the educated Indian class which is so poorly literate about Cell-phone manners that it sometimes makes me cringe. Some of the examples would include keeping the phone in loud ringer mode during important meetings, in cinema halls; speaking loudly in Public spaces causing inconvenience to others. I feel we need to learn manners before we are allowed to carry cell-phones. And a fine be imposed on people behaving irresponsibly with respect to cell-phone etiquettes.

Hope i made some sense :P.

Am i growing old?

Well, the other day i was trying to call up my friend for some urgent important task. I dialed the number as i was calling from my landline. The first time the line was engage. I re-dialed after 10 minutes. It was again engage. I tried again after 20 minutes. Again, the same response. :O. I then got highly irritated and started hurling the choicest of expletives at whomsoever/ whatever came to my mind from the telephone exchange to the government to the friend in question.

I later went to my room to cool myself down with a glass of cold water and some music. Just when i was turning on the music player, I realized that i had been dialing my own landline number since long. :O.

God save me :D

Why haven't i posted for the last two months? DUH

Well well well... A realization finally dawned upon my peanut sized stupid brain - I have a blog which i am supposed to post on regularly. However, it too seems to be, like many other things/ people, an object of my complete sense of ignorance which well and truly signifies my current attitude towards life. Why have i been so insensitive and detached? (From my Mom to my blog to my friends) Well, the only answer i can come up with is... I am preparing for CAT (Whoa... CAT - supposed to be a monster of an exam). Well, that indeed cannot be considered as a valid reason my behavior in recent times. It is almost as though i am living in a world of fantasy where nothing else exists except for my preparation for CAT. Oh c'mon, whom am i kidding... CAT... I haven't even been scoring decent enough in the Mocks. What will i do on the actual C-Day? And come to think of it, why am i spoiling my life for one exam. It might have the power to alter the course of my life forever; however does my current behavior justify so? I don't think so...

Anyways feels great to be posting after a long silence. (I just hope not many lambs were slaughtered in the meanwhile ;) ).

Randomness in life.

Just the other day while i was waiting for a signal to turn green, observing many people going about their business, a weird thought hit me:

We are all birth relatives by some way or the other. Coz the ancestors to all the human race are the same. We are all siblings as we have common root nodes to our family tree. And now we don't even care about anyone except for our nearest family.

- Weird...