Chicken Soup for the Soul..!!

Recenty read about Chicken soup for the Soul series of books.These consist of short inspirational stories and motivational essays.The first book had about 101 stories.Plus there are some 106 titles.

They are called Chicken Soup as chicken soup is used as a home remedy for the sick.They have been edied by motivational speakers Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen(never heard about them).But yes,motivational stories seem to be a good read.I mean human beings look for sources of inspiration and motivation all the time.If you have ever noticed,if you do any good or are successful one question people ask is "who is your source of inspiration?"

Well I have gone through Paulo Coelhos most of the books and I simply admire them.After reading The Alchemist,I remember that I made a time-table and followed it religiously for a week.Can you imagine..?If one fine day an award is being announced for the most indisciplined,most irregular student,I am sure that I will be nominated(nah..I dont claim I will win).So such a student making a routine and following it not for a day but a week??Hmmm..Good work Mr Coelho.Remember Alchemist said to follow your dreams.I did that too.Slept for 10 hours daily just to have dreams.(All I had was nightmares in which I was put behind bars and a bowl of Rasgullas kept out of my reach..!!)

So the point is I will like to read some of these chicken soul books.Whats intresting is that most of these books are directed at specific groups of people like Chicken Soup for The Prisoner's Soul,Chicken Soup for The Mother's Soul..Intresting.

So if you are encountering losses in business,if you have been dumped by your lover,if your son just ran away, just to come back after a week married,if you fought with your best friend,if your maths teacher threw you out of your class for not doing homework and if the new pair of jeans you bought last week doesn't fit you any more,its time to get some motivation.So grab your copy.

Waise on a more serious note,I won't be reading Chicken Soup for the soul to get motivation.If I ever feel low,I go and have a full plate of Chicken tandoori.That puts me in Seventh heaven. Sorry Peta India,I have no plans to turn vegetarian.

Finally few smiles...!!

After the bomb blasts,the past few days have brought about changes.People smiling and hopes rekindled..its like after so many days of black dark clouds even the sun was frustrated and decided enuf was enuf,it had to shine.While America received its first black president with open arms,there are talks that team Australia doesn't deserve the world champs title anymore,thanks to the beating it received from apna India.Saying anything conclusive on my part would be utter foolishness,coz australians have shown that they are true champs.They have in the past defied critics and have come back stronger and sharper whenever they have been put into such a situation.That's a different story that their bowling doesn't seem lethal anymore with the likes of McGrath and Warnie taking a bow and batting too looks lacklusture.So as of now lets play the waiting game!!

Coming to Chandrayan-1,credit is due to ISRO for its fantastic work.Where countries like USA and Russia could not make it to the moon in 1st attempt,we did.That too,by taking just 1/3rd the price taken by those countries.Talks are that ISRO is planning a trip to studying the outer surface of Sun as well.Plus the manned mission to moon.WoW...Hamara Hindustan Rocks bhai!!

Arre oh Obama Bhaiya..Mubarack ho.Thinking about a Black President in America,say about a decade before was like thinking of Madonna singing Bhajans and Jagjit Singh trying his hand at Qawwali.But then here we are..the 44th US president is a black.So as billions of hope rests on his shoulders,i sincerely hope that people dont get impatient and give him ample time to prove his worth.Policies can't be implemented in a day.

Waise when will Madonna sing Bhajans then??

Mumbai......when do you sleep???

Well,I will be frank...!!!When I came to Mumbai from Bangalore this weekend to celebrate deepawali with parents,I expected that this city which is one of the most rocking cities of India(please keep Raj thackarey out of your minds) will not be celebrating diwali with the usual pomp and show.Cmon...how can it??How can the financial capital of India celebrate when the Rupee is tumbling down,when sensex is dropping every day like team australia's form,when pink slips are the order of the day..??And add to the fact that a guy from patna was recently killed in an encounter when he decided to hop on to BEST bus no 332 with a revolver to kill raj thackaray.(well this will be discussed later).
But I was proved wrong.Mumbai celebrated and I would tell the truth that this has been one of the most fantaboulous diwali's of my life.The grandiose way in which the streets were lighted and people bursted crackers,i wondered whether there was any news of sensex regaining points.
But true to it's spirit..aamchi mumbai just rocked.Arre..kal ki kal sochenge..aaj diwali hain..patakhe phodenge...!!
I had decided not to burst crackers and would limit myself to only 3 gulab jamoons today.Someone with brains has aptly remarked"Never make resolutions which you can't fulfill."
The limit of 3 gulabjamoons had to be extended to 13 and I lighted few rockets and bombs.
Guess you just can't stay away from this festival.
Coming back to Mr. Rahul Raj Singh,who had come to mumbai to get a job maybe but was highly inspired by the movie Wednesday.But while there Naseeruddin Shah was supported with ample technology and planning,this guy decided a revolver would be enuf.Although I strongly oppose the fact that he was killed,am equally surprised at the guy's behaviour.I guess frustration has it's limits.
Anyways,this diwali was a tiring one..(eating 13 gulab jamoons is no mean feat)..so feeling sleepy.
Gud nite..Mumbai..oops I forgot..this city never sleeps..!!

Some people have all the free time in this world

* Harbhajan Singh and Mona get court notices for playing Ravana and Sita in a reality dance show.How the hell can they do so..??Aren't they Sikhs??So they have to pay.Someone probably sipping a cup of coffee in his palatial bunglow, made out of black money, decided that it has been a while since he had been in limelight so he decided to take them to court.
* MNS chief Raj Thackarey wants all north Indians out of Maharashtra.So he now gets the support of die hard marathi fanatics who believe Maharashtra's their land and belongs to no one else.Indian Constitution's article to live freely anywhere in India and earn a living for every Indian can go for a ride.So while he gets arrested these so called protectors of maharashtrian culture start burning their own homeland and killling innocent people.

* Mamta Bannerjee tries hard to become the Chief Minister.When she fails,she now wants to stay in the lime light or else "yeh junta hain Bhai...inki memory bahut kharab hoti hain".So she takes the cause of poor farmers in Singur."Give us land or else we won't allow you to run your nano factory.So helpless Ratan Tata says tata to W.B and Gujarat takes over.That's a different story that soon after Tata went,there was a strike saying that this was Tata's strategy.They never wanted a plant in Bengal.Wow after investing 1500 Crore he never wanted a plant in Bengal.Good one..

There are several more instances of media hungry people trying desperately to do something or the other to get a piece of print and the television media.We won't allow this or that,coz people's sentiments have been hurt.Who Goddamn are they to decide when our sentiments are hurt is a question better left unanswered?Sania should stop wearing such clothes coz Islam doesn't allow this.I guess a Burqa clad sania would look quite funny facing her competitor.
That's one side of India for you.That's the masala one eagerly awaits for in the daily newspapers.
Now does this irritate you??And if it does who's to blame?Now before we all start taking sides and start pointing fingers at the media stating that they do nothing except making catchy headlines,let us all be little realistic.So you can't clap with one hand and neither can I sir,so while you point fingers at media,politicians etc,mind you 3 fingers are towards you...(or shall I say us the so called aam aadmi..!!)
Now let's start the debate??What can we do,except reading the morning newspapers with some hot tea and marie biscuits and then hopelessly commenting that nothing's going the way it should be..??
Now let me take you to recent past..Jessica Lall case!!Remember how so called Manu Sharma who was earlier freed from the clutches of the law was later taken back just because we,the aam aadmi decided to start a nation wide campaign.There are more but then this post is becoming unnecesarily long.All I want to state is that ,these RajThackeray's and Mamta Banerjee's are into the limelight because of us.We have put them there.So why not take few corrrective steps..??
It's time for India to unite.Is someone listening??Let's get our asses moving..

It's two in the morning and am not feeling sleepy.Well I feel if you are too tired you feel like sleeping but once you close your eyes you feel you cannot sleep.(Dunno about others this happens to me..!!)Added to the fact that my routine does not allow me to sleep before 3.
I am tired.Had gone to a dhaba to have dinner and so had to walk for around 6Kms.For some one as lazy as me that's a hell lot of a distance.
A very peculiar thought came across me.Well there are so many females who are victims of molestation or eve teasing..many who do not even complain so the number is large.I just thought what would have happened if God would have decided to change the rules just for a day.That is on that day all this teasing business would be undertaken by girls. That is we guys would be molested.
Now I must clarify here that I simply hate such heinous crimes and the pain which is being bared by females is unthinkable.I am just taking this in a more lighter note so all you Women centric organizations or so called Mahila Samities may please forgive me.
Coming back what happens if we are molested.I mean a guy walking down the road and 3 to 4 females after him shouting"Kya item hain"? I mean how will we feel.Now hey I have changed the rules here so all you guys thinking that it would be fun can forget that because God has changed the rules.So we would feel bad.Imagine a guy running into the police station complaining that he was molested.
Cutting the crap..What I do not understand is all those bastards(pardon the language nothing else coming in mind) doing these forget that they have sisters at home,they forget that he's living because his mother was kind enough to bring him into this world.
Ah enuf of this senti stuff(or serious stuff whatever you want to say).Need to sleep.Signing out!!

OBLIVION

I am fading into oblivion
My identity is lost...
Yes! No one knows me here
Friends..No I don't have any.
I was once famous and talked about
Am now in self doubt!!

I was once the golden catch
but now have to start from scratch
Am losing it day by day
And there's nothing I can do...
Pain is unbearable,word's intolerable
I am fading into oblivion
My identity is lost!!

I want to quit,want to go back
Have many questions but answers are few
Everybody's unknown,everything's new
Depressed,disheartened,defeated,dejected
Was stoical once in life
Am now being hypochondriac
Am in darkness,not a soul to be found
Not even a flicker of light can be seen around
People shouting pointing fingers at me
And am helpless,can someone hear my plea??
I am fading into oblivion
My identity is lost!!

ALONE

Alone, alone
This lonely life beckons
No friends, no buddies
Only me, myself and I;

Alone, alone
This lonely life awaken
One sliced bosom to lament
One dented pride to defend;

Alone, alone
A lonely life to reckon
Chemo cocktail – a must-have menu
Chemo hangover – a physique transformed;

My heart – it tremble
My lips – they mumble
Hands of plea outstretched
To walk not,
To travel not,
This demented path – ALONE!

Janet Tai

BANG..!!(Desperate for a Gandhi!)

BLASTS MAIM DELHI....The Times Of India had a cheeky caption ready for today's newspaper.I wonder when will they run out of words to describe these cowardly acts.I mean they could have used Bang..instead,to the point and conveying emotions too.
Coming to the point the Indian Mujahideen took a considerable part of today's print and television media as they were successful in eradicating few more innocent lives by planting few more bombs and luckily for them this time unlike Surat there was no malfunction either.(Who knows even that malfunction was a deliberate one)
And like a routine our politicians were out.Half playing blame games that the party having the power cannot do anything so please do not vote for them and the other half pleading that we should live our normal lives.Few even congratulated us for our spirits that we have shown."please don't be bogged down by these attacks.we should live normal lives!They want to disturb social harmony"! As if we are living such harmonious lives!!
So get ready India! Our newspapers for the next one week will bring different articles showing why we are helpless in front of every organization which wants to come here and have a blast(literally!!)Every news channel will have opinion polls and every reader will have some suggestion to give.
Ah!For God's sake wake up India!I pledge to every Indian today.Please be bogged down.Please do not maintain social harmony,because as it is terrorists have had an upper hand.If mamta bannerjee can keep on irritating Ratan Tata when he wants to do some good to Bengal,even we can irritate our politicians through Dharnas,Hartals and stuffs.!!
My suggestion to every terrorist out there is if it has to be delhi,why not the politicians! I mean there are so many there man!!Plus it does a lot of good for our country!
Help us..!!We need Independence!!Gandhi needed badly now!!

Crap...!!

Well this blog was supposed to be a continuation of my previous blog describing our trip to Jog falls and then to few beaches in Karnataka but then here I am never to be bound by plans or routine.Well I went to Bangalore today(I stay at a nearby place called tumkur). As expected Bangalore never dissapoints.We had a blast there.I noticed the happening crowd .One thing which I noticed was the way couples were hanging out.Hey,before you get me wrong am not a part of Shiv Sena or RSS so relax am not against this public display of affection.I am a typical college going spoilt brat, so here I am SIR! Writing about that 4 letter word which made Romeo and Juliet,Heer Ranjha and so on.You are right..LOVE!!
I write this maybe out of frustration because my story resembles a one straight out of Hindi Films. I like a girl but don't have the guts to say this to her.Add to the fact that she is a close friend and all you Majnu's out there can realize how difficult it is?
Well I have a simple question to all you so called hooked up people!I have seen my friends talking endlessly,hours after hours on the phone.I asked one of my friends,"Yaar! What is that you keep on talking?"Now hey I agree that's totally personal but the intuitive me couldn't wait.
My friend had a simple reply"Just fall in Love man! You would come to know"
Well even if I find all this love thing as crap(yes you can say out of frustration now),you will have to believe me that I have seen DDLJ 25 times.
I personally believe we Indians have this mental setup that if a story has to end it should end on a good note.Or else what reasons do you give of DDLJ making history and SLB's Saawariya being a disaster.
So all I want to convey to all you guys out there is Man..!!there's nothing as tomorrow so if you like a girl go ahead.She can't have a better partner than you.And if you are rejected,start hating that female from that point or else your life's going to be hell.But hey no Devdas business please!
Devdas was an idiot.!While I believe his love for Paro can't be matched,he should have moved on.Instead that guy wasted money and time on alcohol,eventually losing life.Total loser!
And hey all you Girls!If a guy likes you and you don't,think of a different rejection line and not that we are just friends coz then there's no friendship left!
Ah...enuf of this crap stuff.All you love hungry people out there, Go get a life!!

Jog falls people say,is the largest falls in India.So a visit to those falls was obviously a topic of hot discussion amongst all my friends who couldn't be a part of that trip.We, a group of 35 guys suddenly decided that it will be shameful on our parts if after staying in Karnataka for more than 3 years now,we do not visit the famous Jog. So one fine morning we packed our bags and that night boarded the bus. It took about 8 hours so that when we finally had a glimpse of Jog falls,the early morning sun was playing hide and seek with a tiny piece of cloud.

The view,well to just describe it as majestic will be waste of space here coz it was much more than that.When we left the bus and had to walk for about 10mts we could see nothing. The Jog was covered completely by fog but even that looked fantaboulous.
Then we decided to take a closer look and so all of us started a descent .Luckily the water wasn't at its best and so we could easily take a shower in nature's lap.But the journey isn't that easy. As we kept on moving we realized that the stairs that were helping us go down,after a while suddenly vanished and we had to move through rocky terrain.

After a while the going got difficult as rocks became wet due to the splashes coming from the falls and they were slippery. One slip and you go down by atleast 10 feets into the water.But as they say.when the going gets tough,the tough get going .Finally we were standing 1000 feet below from where we were about an hour ago.Yes! It took about 1 hour.But the risk was worth it.We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.
Finally it was time to go back.If coming down was risky,going up was damn tiring.But we found stalls selling lime soda and stuffs like that an we gulped down everything as if we were released from prison where water was a precious quantity.
The trip to Jog was a memorable one and i seriously want to be a part of such trips.But the trip did not end here.
We guys then moved to a beach.But that will be in the next post.

Name is all I have!!

I consider myself to be a proud owner of a unique name.Well lets admit that Nilay isn't a very unique name( I myself have met an individual having the same name as mine but look at this NILAY KANJILAL ..and you will have to admit that such a name isn't very common.
But then there are problems if you aren't a Ramesh, Suresh or Rahul. The main problem is when I have to introduce myself to someone.
"Hey son! what is your name"? "Sir! Nilay Kanjilal..!!"
MILAN whaat?? Ah..and then I have to go through the trouble of spelling it.."Sir not milan!! It's N..I..L..A..Y Nilay K..A..N..J..I..L..A..L kanjilal!! Luckily that discussion on my name did not last that long. But am not very lucky all the time.I am used to listen to milan,nila, even nilesh.(Cmon how can someone's name be Nila??) Once traveling I met a fellow passenger who to kill time was after my name in a big bad way. After going through the trouble of spelling my name for him(am used to it now) he pondered that Kanjilal's are usually Gujarati! How come I was a Bengali?? Now that's an answer my father would be in a better position to give.Then there are few who are hell bent on asking the meaning of Nilay??
But the advantages of having such a name are uncountable.One you are easily remembered. Two your name initiates such a discussion that you are never in loss of topics while you come across people. Three(this is a common one) starting with a N my roll number's in the middle.So am not the first one facing the wrath of my teacher for not answering her viva questions nor is it at the end so that sir or madam is not completely frustrated at the hopeless condition of the class. So all in all am sure all of us are proud of our names but I consider that am special.

Here's a confession,,coming straight from the heart!! I do not know the basics of blogging but yes I do want to know..!! Not many of my friends are into blogging and I will admit that I chose this because it kills time.That is after I am free from counter strike(am still a novice there as well) and watching movies there has to be something which can keep me occupied.
Not many will read my blog because am not a film star (Well I don't even have a pet to give it a funky name!!)
Am a college going kid and besides watching movies and playing counter strike I do sometimes attend classes as well (when teachers start threatening)..
I will keep my first blog sweet and simple and will hope that I get at least one view.
Signing out and hoping to be regular..!!