random thoughts....

random thoughts from jst another guy...

people are sayin dat raghav has grown fat....m not fat...m jus expanding due to the heat....

yeah its too hot.... im planning to go to antartica jus to cool off a bit....it shld be pretty pleasant over there....(if its still made of ice i.e.)

5 more years of this heat n we can call boiling water "icy cool"....

screw global warming!!! im switching on the AC at full blast!!!

dunno how my frnds in baroda are puttin up with this heat.... (yeah....keep makin me happy n ill have ur names in my next post!!! :P )

i come out from a bath.....soaking....i stand in front of the mirror and try to differentiate the droplets of water from the droplets of sweat.... and no....i dont taste em!!!


my dreams....

ragz wants to go to philladelphia one day..... and wants to do a full fledged jog to the top of the stairs and kiss rocky's feet...

ragz wants to do be a part of rechauffement once more....

ragz wants to kick his internet wala's arse for not giving good service....

ragz wants to have a daughter after he gets married.....if he duznt get married ragz will adopt a girl.....

ragz will keep her away from michael jackson for sure.....

ragz wants to see rahul gandhi become prime minister sum day

ragz wants omar abdullah to become PM too

ragz wants to meet sylvester stallone one day and take his autograph....ragz envies kareena kapoor....

ragz wants his frnds to understand that he misses them when they dont give him time....

ragz wants to warn those darn 20 fidayeens who just entered India .... better finish what u came here for.....finish us all off.....coz if u dont....jus remember...we're still pissed abt 26\11....n all those female pilots.... m not worried abt u....girls make stupid drivers anyways.... pilot to door ki baat..... yeah jus make sure u dont bang into the wrong building.....

ragz duznt want laloo and advani and mayavati and sorts to become pm....ragz will leave India in that case....ragz cant see India in ruins....

ragz always types his country's name with capital I....its a sign of respect....he even writes it that way....

ragz is very hapy with his n73.....but still luvs his SEk550i

ragz feels sorry for all those pandits in ekta kapoor soaps....the ones that do the weddings n stuff.....they havent completed a single marriage....coz everytime its time to tie the mangalsutra n stuff.....a guy\gal cums up n says "NAHI!!! YEH SHAADI NAHI HOSAKTI!!! "

ragz is waiting for DeshDrohi 2....it seems its about the Mumbai attacks.... and ragz thot Ram Gopal Verma was gonna make a shitty muvi and have nisha kothari or antra mali playing the terrorist's love interest..... ragz cant wait to see King Khan II (KRK) play an NSG commando....

ragz shows the fingy to each n evryone who argues with him.... ajay parmar...ur the first one....

ragz wishes all the SY students all the very best for their exams....

thats all for now....bye....tata.....toodles or sumthin like that......(it means bye in spanish....spaniards are funny people....cant imagine nadal or alonso sayin toodles.....its so bludy gay!!!)

the ant v\s the mammoth

I was watching 300 the other day….now for those who haven seen the movie or have no idea about it…..300 is based on the mythical battle of sum odd greek place with a similar odd greek name.

Its about 300 spartan soldiers , led by king leonidas, holding off over a million Persian soldiers led by king xerxes the 1^st.

The movie, though exaggerated to a great extent, was shot with absolutely generosity.

Generosity in terms of money, blood and gore.

But I don’t know why, I felt as though it resembled a very much real incident in Indian history. Approximately 40 years back an Indian contingent at the rajasthan border held off a mammoth Pakistani battalion. Yes, I am talking about the Battle at Longewala. When a handful of Indian soldiers were facing a full fledged tank battalion, history was to be made and glory was certain to be achieved.

The Spartans were given a choice. The option to surrender and fall back. The Indians too were given a choice. To fall back. Both armies had the choice to meekly surrender at the hands of tyranny and obvious destruction or to hold fort and fight to their last breath. To fight till every muscle in their body said enough!! To fight for their countries! To fight for their people. To fight for their mothers and sisters back home! To fight till each and every inch of their bodies were slashed and butchered by swords and bullets! To fight for glory! Both armies chose the latter.

The Persians had elephants. The Pakistanis had tanks. They could have trampled the enemy. But the Spartans and the Indians would have none of it.

It is surprising, how even a small surge of patriotism allows a man to muster up enough courage to take on the mightiest of enemies.

Major Kuldeep Singh could have been braindead by just the mere sight of the hell that was approaching from across the border. Fear could have taken over.

Leonidas could have kneeled down to Xerxes and begged for life and mercycfrom the salughter.

But these two brave men dared. The dared to defy the odds placed against them. They dared to change the course of history that was to be written.

The patriot in them awakened. The patriot in every soldier awakened.

They were in the line of fire.

Though the 300 did not make it…it was enough to make 10000 spartans back home spit fire. The Persians were trounced.

Closer home, the Pakistanis were crushed. India suffered 3 losses out of 100. 40 pakistani tanks were destroyed. They suffered innumerable human losses.

In the wake of recent terror attacks…..can we afford to go down easily?? Can we quit to tyranny?? Can we surrender to the wrong?? NO WE CANT!!!

Can we fight??? Can we prevail???? Can we still belive in satyameva jayate??? YES WE CAN!!!

Indian….wear your flag on your sleeve….. nevermind the curious gaze of an onlooker….its the gaze of admiration.

Jai ho!!

sorry!!!

let me do a danny boyle now!!!

i would also like to thank Mythily,Deep,Swarali and Swarad for also turning up on my birthday!!

i forgot to thank them in the original post but id like to make it up the way good ol' danny did for longines....

thank you guys.....i love you all!!!

And the Award goes to!!!!

Big time congo to the cast and crew of slumdog millionaire. Great job guys!!! And a big time congrats to myself for clearing my exams!!!

Its oscar fever all around the world and thankyou speeches are the talk of the town. Moving ahead with the trend I kinda prepared my own little thankyou speech. Here is how it goes.

“ahem ahem. After a span of two years, I have finally cleared my exams with an all clear marksheet. After huffing and puffing and scraping through the first two years of my graduation, it feels good to clear the final hurdle without any glitches. Two years (filled with nonsense) and 5  K.T.’s later, here I am, an all clear student who behaves as though he has just shook hands with world leaders and nobel awardees. And for this very reason, there are many people whom id like to thank before I go haywire with excitement. ( I have been goin through this horrible mood-swing offlate)

1)      To start with, a big thank you to the guy who set my Financial Reporting and Analysis paper. He probably dozed off half way through and screwed up the questions. The rest is history!!! A very pleasant one!!! I sincerely pray that you don’t lose your job!!!

2)      Thank you to the guy who invented the two golden words…. “Grace Marks”. I love u man!!!

3)      Thank you to Shruthi,Sneha, Bada Sneha, Ram, Rohit and Bhagu for giving me that great surprise on my birthday (16^th november)….one day before my exam. It cheered me up!

4)      Thank you to all my professors for having the faith in me and not bumping me off in the first tow years and after my extra-ordinary performance in the prelimnary exams! Hey wait a minute!!! Were those papers even checked!?!?! You RASCALZ!!!!!

5)      Thank you to the sweetest people I have in this world. My Grandparents. They let me stay with them for 5 years and put up with me no matter what tantrums I threw. Just bear with me for 3 more months guys!!!

6)      A big, bigger, biggest thank you to mom, dad and my sister for making sure dat I never ran out of…..er…..well…..anything!

7)      A big thankyou to chandu,denzil,jinal,aleekiya,vivek,soni,shruthi, and the entire team of Rechauffement 2k9! Meet you guys at Rechauffement 2010!

8)      Also a big thankyou to the guy who printed my marksheet. That was for screwing up whte only one I would have been proud of!! I hate you for for “PASSES” when it should have been PASSED!!!!

Thank you to all of you again. This feels great!!!!

when i was being named....

i had a function at my place today. and for those who dont knw i come from a typical middle-class south indian family. now the first thing that strikes another non-southindian is that we southies hav tongue-twisters for names - betty bought some blah blah - those sorts. what also strikes them is dat we guys are heavily tanned...no matter where we stay. we can tan even in the dark if we wanted to.
u will also observe that we southies have pet-names or nicknames apart from are official name which are as...ya knw....wtv!
and we dont have surnames...for what good reason...i dont knw....but the bottomline is we dont. i was filling up my 6th semester form the other day and there was this place where i had to fill in my surname.i dint knw what to write over there n promptly left the place blank.
so, I on my birth certificate am Triprayar Ramachandran Sheshadri. i will not blame you for painfully trying to guess my name in there. ill make it a lot more easier for u. Triprayar is my native place's name , Ramachandran is my dad's name and Sheshadri is my name. Also Known As Raghav. oh n by the way...dats just the revised version of my name. I was supposed to be Triprayar Ramachandran Sheshadri-nathan. Till my mom decided to show mercy on me. imagine if i had to write that thing on my exam answer sheets!!!. or my examination forms!!! killer!
God Bless my grandmother for giving me another name to be called at home...Raghav.
so as i said... i had a function at my place today and had to wake up for that. my mom came into the room - raghavaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa get up!! (yeah we southies have this habit of extending the person's name whom we are calling...it puts in the emotions).
Hearing that an aunt of mine said - you children have been given such good names! each one of you has a God's name. there is lakshmi..then there is vijaylakshmy...there is padmavati....there is balasubramaniam....there is venkateshwaran...then there is you sheshadri!!and you also have pet names!!! you are Raghav...she is kavita...she is padma...he is balaji!!
i was like....yeah right!! its jus coz its a lot more easier for you guys to wake us up!!
imagine my mom going "triprayar Ramachandran Sheshadri-nathan!!! its time to wake up!!!"
Spare a thought for VVS Laxman's mum. He is Vangipurrappu Venkata Sai Laxman. phew! By the time shes done with his name...good ol' Lax must have finished breakfast!
then we have ace Sri Lankan Pacer - Chaminda Vass - who incidently is W.P.U.J.C. Vass!
heres how the name goes...Warnakulasuriya Patabendige Ushantha Joseph Chaminda Vaas
i pity his mom when he was a kid!
i respect my name though. i respect it for the fact that i got it frm One of The greatest human beings i have heard off. i say "heard off" coz i dun remember seeing him coz he passed away when i was a year or so. He is my Grandfather. I consider it an honour to be named after him and can only hope that someday, somewhr i can be like him or even a fraction like him! I love you Tatha and i miss you!

thud!

someone said, the higher you go...the harder you fall. whoever said it 

must have suffered one helluva set back. i faced one to..... a very 

minor one though. but it did teach me a lot. i had it in my grasp. 

maybe i closed my fists a bit too quickly. just enough for it to slip 

out of my hands. the pain that surges through your spine is not 

something that can be measured. all i can do now is move on n wait for 

it to come back.....

the aftermath

the aftermath....

it doesnt need a rocket scientist to try and analyse what this blogpost is gonna be about.
yes, its about the recent terror attacks that our beloved city of Bombay had to go through. property was damaged....lives were lost...lives were taken...lives were sacrificed.
Hieght of Audacity - thats how i'll describe this horrendous attack, not on bombay,not on India, nor on the citizens of India....but an attack on humanity as a whole. we all can go on and on about the security lapses dat our country has country has faced over the past decade and a half. we all can go on and on about the sacrifices dat were made over the years and lakhs of innocent human lives lost to terror. n we may never find an end to all of this. we may always face the "risk" - as the IRDA has now termed it as...of a bomb exploding in our train or a plane crashing on our heads or armed maniacs crossing national boundries as though they were crossing garden fences.
but these attacks have been instrumental in doing 1 good thing for a change. gradually awakening a sleeping giant.
the recent attacks on few of the most famous landmarks in Bombay, brought about a change in the way people were looking at de Indian political scene , terrorism and secularism.
what could have been brushed under the carpet became a nationwide cause for a full-fledged rebellion against the system and the people who were running the show. finally the police force which was usually mocked at, became the pearl of every Indian's eye.for years we have blamed our security forces for not being efficient without considering the fact that they are running errands for us with tied-up hands. hands that have been tied up by corrupt politicians.
now, im a sucker when it comes to politics. but i do know for a fact that India is the largest DEMOCRACY in the world. and as far as my knowledge goes a democracy is based on 9 words which go like this "of the people, by the people, for the people"
for ages we have been watchin politicians slug it out in the lok sabha, at election rallies and taking pot-shots at de opposite camp. i personally always believed dat our so called leaders were good people and deserved a chance to prove themselves. but recently a few statements by some idiotic, ridiculous and erratic personalities boiled my blood.
Mr.Naqvi said dat women wearin makeup and a pair of jeans were the ones behind the conspiracy. no hard feelings but all the offence meant and straight from my heart....sir....were u drunk when u made such a statement??? what on planet earth were you thinking when u made such a stupid statement whcih had me atleast in splits for almost two hours at a stretch. on a more serious note...mr.naqvi....jus watch it....ur not the only one around who can make racist comments....we are Indians too and we are pretty good at being racists too!
mr.achut-watever-i dont care...... you had de B**** to insult the family of a national hero. here's my reply to u.... id rather let a dog pee inside my house rahter than let u anywhere near it. id rather be bitten by a sick dog than have the honour of speakin to you. u look like a criminal who should have been hanged to death as soon as you were born and u have the audacity to turn up at Sandeep's place and offer your politically inclined condolences. maybe u were thinkin that de nation was miffed at sandeep's dad for throwin u out of his crib and made such a statement jus to invite sum support. ill tell u what u invited.....our wrath. u rubbed against our worng side and dun be surprised if ur never elected in ur life again. consider voluntary retirement A"chyut**"nadan....
mr. R.R. Patil....ur first comment surprised me....ur second comment dat ur hindi language is a bit too weak for comfort made me laugh. maybe blurtin out a SRK dialogue(badi badi shehron mein choti choti baatein hoti rehti hain) wasnt such a good idea afterall...that too at a time like this...n before u knew it...u were chucked out.
mr.deshmukh - sorry sir u got it all wrong this time....maybe u dint get the message from all the uproar ur collegues caused before sayin dat u did no wrong by inviting ur son and dat ass-of-a-director RGV for the tour...what exactly did u think it was?? a picnic??

that was my message coz i dint get an opportunity to come on tv and voice my opinions...but i do have a few ideas which our leaders can consider...if they'd like to...

1)now we citizens have the right to elect the candidate of our choice rite?? why not give us the right to "select" those people whom we would like to see standing for the election...as in...a shortlisting of candidates...
2) when we do elect a person....arrange for a mid-term performance appraisal programme where we citizens decide whether our elected candidate has done a satisfactory job. if hes clean..he stays...but if his hands are dirty we show him the door. this will keep the bum on his feet coz he'll knw at de back of his head dat if he fails he'll be chucked out for good.
3)now this one is point-blank silly...history exams for our so called leaders...lets see what they knw about India and its century old heritage which they boast of during their rallies. if not India's languages...are u listening mr.patil???

some people might object to my ideas by sayin that all these things are impossible. let me tell u what impossible is.... hijackin american planes and ramming them into the WTC...dats impossible...but osama did it dint he??
hijackin a trawler and sailin all the way to india frm pakistan and holdin a metropolitan hostage for 60 hours...dats impossible....but a 4th-grade dropout and his bunch of loosers were able to do it. why cant we citizens do our bit to ensure dat we get good people to lead us. we can do it... we have woken up now. and i would like to thank Qasav and his merry men for waking up a country dat was sleeping for the last 15 years. i have full faith in my country and my appeal to the nation is, lets not divide ourselves on the basis of religion and classes. lets fight a common enemy.
UP IN ARMS INDIA!!!
oh n yeah...i would also like to thank a certain raj for nt showin up....