Sunday, November 30, 2008

A Date with Tess !!!




Nov 29th, 2008 - Why could this be a special Day???

It is a story of three musketeers - Boney, Adarsh & Lalith. What seemed to be an inseparable friendship, long carrying the motto of "One for all and All for one" had encountered a rude awakening. Now there is treachery, jealousy and spite !!!

Tired of the brotherhood and worried about his marketability if delayed any longer, one dreadful day Boney realised that he needs to be more than just a musketeer, he decided to marry a princess! The decision though seemed to have dawned upon him but it had hit the other two musketeers hard in the stomach. Instead of being very happy for him, one thought of the encroaching vacuum of free ride to work and the other was growing green in jealous of Boney's ease in finding a princess.

Boney found the princess and he found her with an envious ease. He was content, happy and from the day he met her, Boney seem to have found the secret door to Neverland. The rooms now are locked for the rest (other two musketeers), as Boney started to love his privacy.

Just as "Misery loves company" is true, "Misery hates being left out" should also be true. One musketeer is not able to get into neverland as the price he needs to pay is very expensive (ISD calls) and the other musketeer lives in a paradoxical world where he encounters too many princesses and his best friend "confusion" keeps him single and away from his Neverland.

Besides being the only musketeer who inhabited neverland, everytime he goes to meet The Princess he comes back with bag full of gifts. As a cascading effect there is more jealously, more spite more bad blood. While one musketeer publishes blogs in protest the other (adarsh) kicks, punches and squeezes the daylight out of Boney for no reason (Ooops, he indeed gave one reson "I am just flexing and you came in between");

If this was not enough Boney has disowned his brotherhood completely. The other two musketeers have not met his princess for a loooong loooong time whilst every other accomplice of Boney had met her.

All this and much more made The Princess the most awaited and anticipated guest in town; Boney finally fights his demons within and invites the other two musketeers to meet her on 29th Nov 2008 at Diera City Center, Food Court!!!

Because of the high anticipation on the D Day, both Adarsh and Lalith though feeling little out of comfort hopped in our partner in crime Honda Civic. The way towards City Center seemed more treacherous than usual aided by Adarsh's sense of direction. With fewer ghastly mistakes Adarsh seemed to pull off an unthinkable he found the perfect place for parking the car.

Magnum Opus!
Food Court in Diera City Center was its usual busy self with over 1000 ppl making it difficult for us to spot the couple. Just when we seemed to have lost in crowd "Lo Behold!!! The Princess a.ka. TESS arrives amidst the crowd gracefully walking alongside Boney (who was having an expression filled with pride on his face which can be interpretted by the desolate souls as "I have THE princess") "; Finally we get to see her and we get a chance to judge her (He Ha Ha --- Evil Laugh).

With a brief introduction we moved to TGIF for lunch; The lunch went well with a menu of Lamb Shank, Grilled Chicken with Cheese, Margarita, Summer Salad, UAE Economy, Office Gossip. It ended with Lalith playing a fool when he recollected his first flight experience and the horrible coffee he managed to make. We let the couple do some more shopping and we were on our way back.

Overawed by Tess' Date, all we could muster out after the lunch was "Boney is a Lucky Basket!!!"

Now you know why 29th November 2008, featured in my blog !!!

Friday, November 28, 2008

Mumbai!


Described as a land of dreams Mumbai has by far lured people all over the country to realize their dreams. With over 19 million people living in mumbai they proclaim to be of being proud "Mumbaikars". With all past and glory mumbai has been an irony of fate in many ways.

Yes it is a land of dreams, it is the commerce capital of India. it is one of the costliest metropolitans in the world, it has been tagged as the "rudest city", it is among the top 25 most dirtiest places in the world and yes, it is the city which has been attacked by both extremists (within) and terrorists alike a countless number of times. Yet the spirit of the common mumbaikar is not broken and he seems to live the next day as any other day.

48 hrs and still counting: India's 9/11, Attack on Mumbai, Warzone Mumbai the highlights in every news channel flashed continuously with an ongoing live coverage giving us update of the situation every minute. Unidentified number of terrorists swarmed three hotels and took the guests hostage and engaged in firing Ak-47 at will. What word can describe an attack where terrorists aim and fire at innocent people just to prove a point and what point ??!! Carnage!!! Barbarian culture with a motive to spread fear in a nation because that nation "INDIA" had been stubborn in keeping what rightfully belonged to it.

Why?? Why?? Why?? the questions we face everytime we see, hear, experience such horrific acts. We question faith we question existence and we question reason, with growing insecurity on safety there is no easy answer to console and even confront.

Over 150 people killed in what I describe as an attack when we were sleeping! I am still not convinced and I might voice out the concerns of millions in India if we are doing enough to fight terror. The frequency at which these attacks have been happening only justifies my statement "being attacked while sleeping".

Having said that after, 48 hrs of intense battle India's elite Task force "the Black Cat commandos" are now close to end this horrific attack. Their act of bravery has ensured safety of hundreds of hostages and capture/execution of the terrorists. In carrying out this exercise they had lost some of their men and I am sure everyone will pay homage to their sacrifice. They remain as heroes in millions of hearts.

Mumbai - A Land of dreams, will continue to nurture everyone's dreams like no other city does. With mumbai we stand together and along with us a spirited mumbaikar will stand to prove to the world that it is hard to defeat his spirit.

Jai Hind!