I had been waiting for this for a few months, the fact that people often mistake the wait as inertia was well known to me, sometimes no matter how hard we try, there is a wait time to everything. I had been anticipating Arun's comeback for two months now, and as I sat at the waiting lounge of the airport, my phone rang, it was Arun, he was running late by 15 minutes, "damn, the slacker," he...
Sunday, 30 June 2013
Saturday, 29 June 2013
King of Good Times
I lay down on the bed dreaming, it was my birthday today, I had turned 40 this summer, four decades "incredible how over rated birthdays are," it was just another day for me, I was thinking to myself, I didn't have a job, my savings were dwindling, "the cash registers had stopped making a noise," friends were gone, "thank God for that, the Leeches !", apart from a few that had stayed through my bad...
Friday, 28 June 2013
Superman Wears a Skirt
Isn't it strange how the weather affects us, "I need an umbrella," today there a million things to do and yet the weather, its hot and humid, like it wants to rain, and then "here comes the sun," strangely enough it mimics my moods these day, "as moody as the five minute downpour," it swings between blissful unawareness to a grouchiness, I am just beginning to fathom. I got up this morning...
Watching People
So here I was sitting at McDonald's all alone and sipping my hot cup of coffee, "don't do this often," and she walked in, alone too and took the table alongside mine. The man that I am, and lonely that I was, and hungry that I was, "literally hmmm?" decided to steal a few side ways glances. She was nicely dressed,"like most women aren't these days ?," and wore large earrings. I...
Wednesday, 26 June 2013
Dating and Marriage
The more I think of it, the more I come to believe that relationships are two dimensional, you are either in them, "I can't believe it," or your not, "Its way too complicated." There is no third way of looking at them, and if there were, "Einstein be damned," it must be as complicated as e=mc2. Well, I am certainly no Einstein, "as if anybody would care," but do have a theory on how to...
What Did I Touch
I have been vaguely mystified by the mobile phone for a while, my article on the missed call bears testimony to that, another mystifying feature of this, "god forsaken contraption," the touch screen. So here I am at the mobile store and the salesman seemed to be particularly keen on selling me the Blackberry Storm, the touchscreen hot seller. Now I am not a phone enthusiast, "they...
Tuesday, 25 June 2013
Daddy's Day Out
I had gone to the mechanics with an ailing car, "my kid doesn't particularly care for me to take her to the docs", so the car was my only source of sporadic entertainment, this mid life crisis wasn't helping me one bit, I was lost between jobs and a personal life that favoured "dark and ominous". In any case, since Sanjana wouldn't let me take her to the doctors, I had to make do with my Tata...
Sunday, 23 June 2013
Don't Think Twice
On the couch I sat waiting for Anjali, it was leather upholstered and had that "hey ! don't touch me" look on it, but I had sat on it nonetheless, and now glared at her as she cantered into the coffee shop, she was late. She had offered to meet me at the coffee shop and it had been a troubled decision for me, "I know this gal, and yet she is so snooted up," I couldn't believe I had agreed....
Saturday, 22 June 2013
The Curry Of Life
Last night a fabulous thing happen, as I waited for dinner to cook, and I am a decent cook, "Balderdash !," my wife would say. "Don't you believe her though," she just lives by her cappuccino and cookies. So here I was in the kitchen, looking to make some chicken, a friend of mine she had spent some two hours making an exotic variety of it. "What ? exotic ? Chickens are as bland as they...
Friday, 21 June 2013
No Strings Attached
I just love watching movies, the other day, at the cinema I told them, "Discount ?". "What for ?" they asked back, and I burst out laughing, I was with a girl friend, note, I put a space between "Girl and Friend", and they weren't going to stop me from impressing her. Didn't they understand, the ushers knew me by face, the ticket dispensers knew me, even the manager had been sounded of...
A Matter Of The Heart
A Medical Emergency requires immediate attention but what is forgotten is the patient, people are so busy doing their bit for their jobs and profiles, that the actual subject of their attention takes a back seat. I had this accident when I was riding a bicycle on the wrong side of the road, and by my own admission, I didn't realise I was on the wrong side, "What me?", it was the car that was...
Wednesday, 19 June 2013
The Missed Call
A Telephone Call used to mean pressing a green button on my Motorola, my first mobile phone, and then the various contraptions that defined the term satellite communication would move the juggernaut towards a pleasant conversation with an inmate of planet earth before the red button ended the interaction. That was until I lost all my money and had to wait for people to call me, you see, incoming...
Tuesday, 18 June 2013
The Bitter Coffee
This morning she had got up with a very clear head, unusually for somebody who normally wakes up in a real grouchy mood and forever cribbing about the morning. It was a cold winter morning, the Sun was barely creeping out to dissipate the fog over the New York sky. In her apartment on the 10th floor she could barely see the sights that were normally so crisp and clear, the cars moving...
Rags to Riches
As she stood looking over the bridge in Mumbai, there was this deep sense of anxiety running through her head, her eyes were brimming with tears. She had left her home with a little bit of money, all that she had had, and come to Mumbai in search of a job with Anuj. Standing today at the bridge she wasn't sure she had done the right thing, had only this premonition that something big was to...
Monday, 17 June 2013
Social Media
As these projects get more popular and gain more publicity, in the
process of developing dream makers we will start to promote more and more
entrepreneurs that are struggling to get their products moving. In order
to achieve that, we would have to promote the entrepreneurs on the social media
and here lies our vision of becoming a Social Media Specialists in the near
future.
There are these...
Market Mode
While we are an Internet Marketing Firm, we also our product
to the physical market, if required work in Market Mode, we sell Sustainable
Energy products in this mode, which
include Solar, Wind and Waste to Energy
Projects. We have 4 years of
experience in doing these projects, and our client list includes prestigious
clients in the Delhi/NCR region, including the Delhi State Cancer...
Internet
Fresh Energy Co is an Internet Marketing Firm, primarily
formed to source from entrepreneurs who have great ideas and products and need
help in marketing it on the internet. It
has been observed from research that there exist a large number of people with
a great thought process going who need help with figuring out sales
methodologies for their product. We help
people co-brand their...
Of Pretense and Presumptions
Mubassira was despondent, she was lonely and downright sad, she was in love and and heading nowhere. Salman and Mubassira had been together for over five years, they had met when Mubassira was in college, Salman being ten years older than her. Those were heady days of romance, she fell in love with him straight away but they knew it was a dead end street, Salman was married with...
Sunday, 16 June 2013
Social Media and Promotion
Last night I hit the 10,000 hit mark on my blog, not much, and yet satisfying, there was a time I was struggling to get the blog moving and suddenly it did move. Don't think there is anything more satisfying than writing and getting read, and I thought to myself, what did I do correct and what did I do wrong, I must evaluate it, this was the right time. So here in this post, I write the...
Back To School
Theories and theorems, we had them all in school, and the students had always been a heady mix of dedicated students and back benchers to crazy quirky Teachers. Last month Parineeta started her IT classes with a training institute in Delhi, a little nervous and a whole lot excited. As she walked into the classroom and took her seat in the middle rows, she thought, that would keep her clear...
Saturday, 15 June 2013
A Penny For Your Dreams
It rained again today, Sanjana couldn't believe it would get this damp and lonely inside the house, the clothes had no place to dry on the balcony which was wet, the only place safe on it was the umbrella that hung loosely from its anchors. She thought and thought, it would be a great idea to sit under the umbrella in this cold grey morning and sip a cup of coffee. She was a coffee lover...
Thursday, 13 June 2013
Musings of a Rainbow
Incredibly, the world woke up to a bright sunny morning today, it was a bright day, the winged creatures chirping and people on their morning walks and runs. Sunny days are fantastic, they bring out the best in people, the thoughts revived and the coldness and dampness of the night tempered into the mornings blaze. Then the rains come and each morning the rain drops glisten on the leaflets...
From Suspects to Prospects
The meeting went alright on Wednesday.
It had begun with the four of us at the office of this large conglomerate, it was a large spacious room with 5 chairs, and the four of us were waiting for the Director of this large company to come in. The LG Air con was running at 24 degrees, churning out cold air, cooling all of us on this hot afternoon. Delhi and the NCR does get to be very hot...
Wednesday, 12 June 2013
The Carrot Philosophy
Last night I had this feeling, a very imposing feeling that I could not ignore, it wouldn't go away and kept knocking on the door to my mind. Thoughts there are many this morning and I am convinced that last night I was just beginning to fathom the depths of reality. I feel free today, unencumbered by the bonds of yesterday, there is bliss within me, till yesterday I was shackled by the...
Hot Potatoes !
There is this old friend of mine, she is a top class judge of personalities, and an immense source of advice to me every time I need help with people. Kalpana has been around in my life for years, though she went missing for some years, and her talent for gauging people remains the same till date. The other day I was looking out of the window and dreaming and a thought came to my mind...
Tuesday, 11 June 2013
Sequel to ... Renewables Are Not Only Electricity
We all take decisions relating to our life based on the parameters we are subject to, sometimes these parameters may include our Environment, other times it may just be our own Values and other times they include people like our Friends. When I took up Renewables as a profession it was my values that created the vision, and I do believe Values to be the best source for decision making, I knew...
Sunday, 9 June 2013
From Chaos to Understanding
My life as the Solar Guy can be frustrating to say the least and lonely too, I have been treading this path for over 4 years now, lost most of my friends along the way, found new people and retrieved a few old ones as well. I can't believe I have given up my life for this to achieve a way and...
Friday, 7 June 2013
The Magic Wand
I will write a book, I will write a book, I will write a book
Does repeating a phrase three times guarantee that it will happen. Saw Harry Potter today, it is a fantastic movie, whatever happens from the beginning to the end, there is magic in the air, from the magic wand that his dad bequeaths to him, to the scroll that tells the location of each and every inhabitant of Hogwarts castle in...
A Touch Of Class
I have been thinking of writing content for days now, been writing it and then giving up on it, my blog posts have been keeping me busy in the meanwhile, though there has been a neglect on the content side. I finally found a very busy person who was ideal for the job, but it would be no mean...
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