THE BLOG OF (sm)all THINGS.........

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...