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He seemed troubled... Having ordered his favourite drink,I finally asked  "something wrong??" no reply... I was with an old friend...having shared the good,bad and the ugly of life through school,we are the types people term  ' chuddy-buddies'  With him finally making the move to pune...I finally had a schoolmate in my adopted city... A smile played on my lips as I remembered the pledge we had taken on the last day of school  "till spouses and careers do us part"... # the irony had made me smile.... Our busy schedules not permitting an earlier meeting,it was a relief when we both finally found time for a meeting one friday evening... However,his rather strange mood was threatening to ruin the whole evening... I knew I had to ask him...doing it the right way seemed the immediate challenge... the drinks arrived and I knew that was the moment... "whats troubling you??"... no reply still "come on...you can tell me"... ...

A long hiatus it has been ....part lazy,part busy,part distressed…its all been happening in the previous month or so…what you are about to read was started a month ago during vacations and lying unfinished ever since…so what made me finally take it up??..Time??..nah!!..I’ve always had enough time to scribble...Just that I needed to write this time to get some peace,a feeling which nothing but writing gives me … _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ Mood-thoughtful / confused….okkay!!..I’ll go with ‘confused’ Whats on??- 6 monthly 15 day vacations…. With AFMC choosing to close for vacations when every other university/college has exams,there isn’t much scope of hanging out with like-minded people of a similar age-group,leave alone buddies from school ..sigh!! Add the unbearable heat to the equation and you have an almost impossible situation... This usually happens to me during vacations….I run out of ideas as to how to ...

First things first. ...I'm not a big fan of KOFEE with KARAN.....frankly speaking,I found CHAI with CHARAN (a spoof with CYRUS SAHUKAR doing the funny job ) much more watchable.... However,this episode of KwK caught my attention out of the blue.... Exams were on ....with a practical exam to give the next day,I was all set for a night-out... 12:30 a.m....I was sleepy,yet itching for a break and somewhere I heard a girlish giggle on someone's speakers...sounded familiar...and lo!!...it was PIGGY CHOPS ... well!!!..I could harp for ages as to why I find her so irresistible...but I'll stop with a small ' beauty+witty' tag....and of course,the fact that she reminds me of something... . yeah!!...something,something.... well!!..now the relevant part...if ever you end up having a girl in your life and you are confused about the exact status of your relationship....< 'just-good-friends' type or you really have something working between the two of you......

There was a time when I thought I couldn't possibly be any happier....But then you left.

one of the cheekiest dialouges from a 2010 movie was from the movie UDAAN "main beta hoon,koi________ nahin".. After much thought,I filled in the blank as 'koi naajayaz aulaad nahin'... I was at the Pune edition of THE LANDMARK QUIZ-2011.. Much to my amusement and anguish alike,the answer turned out to be 'fixed deposit'. Cheeky it was,but the movie was much more than what this scene depicts of it..A superb storyline coupled with some brilliant performances made it one of the finest movies of the year. These are things u'd get to know only after having watched the movie...However,I had been waiting eagerly for UDAAN to release ever since I first read of it in the papers (an unspoken rule about TV viewing in hostel=only sports..hence,not on tv)... The primary reason,of course,was that the movie was almost entirely shot in my home city...the UN GLOBAL COMPACT CITY/THE STEEL CITY/ CITY OF THE TATAS-TATANAGAR/JAMSHEDPUR ... (the author attributes...

pre-post ::this is a conversation that took place over a year ago..when a bunch of 'would-be-docs', ( disillusioned at being reminded time and again that they were and still are the ' cream of the nation' even when they believed the cream(read,gals)had been delivered elsewhere),had gathered over a round of some malt based drinks and ' triple-filtered-clear fluid from Russia' ;) the author vividly remembers his friends shooting one gem after the other and breaking into peals of laughter which could have sent a chill down the spine of the coldest of vampires.... (the author stumbled upon it while trying to clear his inbox of some old time clutter) with exams on and no time to actually post something substantial,hope this one provides u with some 'cheap humour'(all puns intended) ..... caution :-this post isn't supposed to make sense....so if you are of the rational,thinking variety....try something else on the blog....and if it does make sen...

'Serendipity' -I remember it as a definition I learnt in 11th,viz, 'a good discovery made by chance' ... a movie by the same name made me realize even love could have a touch of serendipity....and of course , the wiki definition .... Having lost count of the number of times  serendipity has rubbed him the right way,the author's decided to dedicate this post to this very phenomenon which touches each of our lives but still goes unnoticed rarely getting its due,ie,an acknowledgement.... But for serendipity,this blog, which incidentally has been one of the best things  to have happened to me ever, would never have existed.... So,on the first anniversary   (I'm late by a good 10 days, sigh )of THE BLOG OF (SM)ALL THINGS ,sit back and enjoy (hopefully) the story of its creation (if you can call it one) ... Caution -it ain't no Zuckerburg-facebook story if you are expecting one....:D After that rather lame attempt at humour,here we go...... April,2010 ha...

Picture this :- small town India,a respectable family with good values and the hero of our story,a guy who's a 'good boy',or better put,a boy who's been conditioned to become good,someone who's socially accepted and respected as a 'decent' guy..... Now,you might ask for an elaboration on the word 'decent' . ... To put it bluntly,most of us use it to describe a guy in relation to his behaviour with the fairer sex.. So,our hero,the ' decent' guy is quintessentially someone who'd not ogle at girls,rarely engage in cheap talk about girls or more aptly,rarely engage in talks to girls altogether,try not to watch certain tv channels at home and of course( it's the clincher ),marry the girl his parents choose for him.... (at least thats how its done in the so called small-towns)  In this post,the author would like to concentrate on the first and the last attributes mentioned above.... Zoom into 2011 ,our hero has reached marriageabl...

For those of u who know me,you'd know I'm a passionate quizzer....and for those of you who don't ,well!now you do....;) Enjoyed quizzing only as a hobby back in school ...did win those really huge prizes in the school circuit once or twice but more or less,it was the joy of quizzing which made me stick to it.....that quizzing can be rewarding struck me only after I came to Pune...well,prizes ranging from anywhere between 10k to 25k can certainly turn on a few tubelights(and I certainly am one).... Jokes apart,as a medical student who quizzes,it's easy to push it to the backburner if u've really been digging into your textbooks....but me being the quintessential ' come-what-may-i'll-study-only-b4-an-exam'   guy...lack of time was never a problem...but the transition from school to college level quizzing is easier said than done.....the first year saw TEAM STETHOSCOPES ( weird??....we got it after a law school student suggested it to us in jest) atte...

When was the last time you saw such a notice in a college??..... can't recall??.... okkay....I'll make it easier 4 u.. When was the last time you saw students riding bicycles in a college??...and just to be a little precise....read 'students' as 'undergraduate medical students'..... . . . . give up...its the toughest exercise u can give to ur grey cells.....

It was one  in the morning when his phone beeped...it was a message... Back after a long day at college,he had been to bed early,only to be disturbed at that odd hour.... The name onscreen evoked mixed reactions... It was 'her'.... Surprised at the timing of the message and happy at the prospect of finally being remembered,he pressed the 'read' button... It had been almost a year since they first met...at a college fest.... Some hard-fought Debates had seen him take everything on offer..including her heart,or so he felt...the lady finishing second best everytime... "you come to every event and win everything " her tone hinted at complaint,her flirty smile suggesting otherwise.. " what to do??..its a habit with me..I WAS BORN TO WIN  " his answer had an air of nonchalance...and why not??...he had the results to back that... Cheeky and witty,that answer had led to loud cheering from his friends and an appreciative smile from the ladies... M...

the crimson red silhouette of a setting sun… the shimmering of sunrays on a lake … trees swaying in gentle breeze … a path through the wild grass…. not many souls in sight…. and a mountain in the background…rising like an apparition….. NATURE AT ITS VERY BEST…… PLACE-PAWNA LAKE…..60 KM from PUNE…….RATING-9/10 P.S.-there’s something mystical about water-bodies in the lap of nature…. THEY BRING OUT THE PHILOSOPHER IN ME….

A sneak peek at something ‘clueless’ has some clue about……. JAN 2010-A STREET PLAY.. JAN 2011-A MIME from a ‘dark-skinned groom whose bride refuses to marry him’ to a rapist…. from a temple pillar to a river…… from a murderer to the bearer of the Indian flag…. from a statue to a goat…. been there,done that….. LIFE’S A STAGE….WE LIVE IT,WE LOVE IT…. THE RESULT??? CHAMPIONS FOR 2 YEARS RUNNING NOW…..CHEERS U-2 P.S.-its easy to be graceful when you win…grace in defeat is what separates the true champions from the rest….

we all have someone in our lives who can elicit that elusive smile which seems gone forever in times of despair... There aren't many in mine but the ones present are absolute sweethearts,of that I'm assured... the above pic  has two proofs....my 7 year old twin cousins-Dimpy and Monty.... my fb status update dated 5th jan,2010- 'Damn u discovery..damn u animal planet...courtesy u two,my 7 yr old niece thinks i'm a 'crocodile' jst bcoz I laze around in the sun...nd the naughty girl that she is,she's christened me 'croco bhaiyya' ..nd guess wat??..I'm lovin every bit f it ;).... I needn't tell you who the naughty girl was...do I?? thats not all-she's also taught me the importance of colors  and has given me a chance to understand human psychology better through this .... an absolute angel for Monty,I'm his best bro just bcoz I brought him some PC games....the peck on the cheek was the first I've had in a long,long time...(n...

WINTERS!!…. I absolutely adore winters…..reasons??…definitely more than one…. As a child winter was an excuse to be away from school for long periods,courtesy,vacations which got extended almost everytime due to the chill….a chance for those family get-togethers which have become a rarity now…a chance to wear those colourful,fluffy sweaters ‘mommy dearest’ used to knit….but the biggest one;trivial as it may seem;was a chance to fly kites …. the buzzing sound a kite makes when in full flight managing to set my heart aflutter everytime…. yup…winter’s the season when you can still see colourful paper kites adorning the skyline in India;athough the plastic ones seem to be the more popular choice nowadays…..                                      coming to the story…. even though kite-flying is a very common wi...

I may bitch thrice daily about how difficult it is to become - and be - a doctor, but when some old lady on a train asks, 'What are you studying in Pune, Engineering? ' like it's the most natural thing to do, and I say 'No ma'am, Medicine, ' the expression on her face when she says 'Good,' is priceless....... Courtesy-Kishore Sir's FB status update....