I have a habit of reading.....just about anything apart from those dreaded Romance novels. I have worked in press and while going through the checklist the most hilarious bit was going through the titles of these books, would really want to know who comes up with those and what is going through the persons mind at that time. This however is not what the point of this piece is though, but then I never have a point to prove anyways. Coming back to reading, well reading is considered good but sometimes it has its drawbacks too, especially if your work involves magazines and the majority of them being the good ol' women's gossip ones. There is no way you can not know what the latest is about say,Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton to name a few, what they have been up to or into or even onto!! Now I am not complaining because it does keep you entertained at work and it can help you talk to the ladies now and then, mind you some do look at you in a queer (no pun intended) way.
So now that you have a clue what a chronic reader I can be, yes I also read sane stuff as non fiction and not just about Britney and her oops I did it for the nth time again cover title.....yes I get bored right after reading the cover titles of those "stupid people pay money to buy this crap" magazines. So coming back to reading, one of the things I always enjoy reading, well most of the times anyways, is those reader's comment on the articles which almost every article on the net has these days. People slug it out at one another post after post trying to prove a point which in almost 99% cases don't even relate to the article. Just an hour back I was reading this article about the agonizingly annoying (you may also replace that with irritating if you want) Himesh trying to get the abs allegedly duplicating SRK, like no one else ever had 6 packs, am sure my friend John usually prefers cartons to the six packs but then those are beers and these are abs and abs involve lots of hard work and give a better look than the beer belly john sports(sorry john but you're the only fictional real man who could fit the scenario, the others were too real to reveal and avoid a lawsuit) but then that another story. So going back to Himesh, even though it is tormenting, the article was all about him and when I got to the comments after the article that was where there was real battle going on, some guy posted a comment about "Saanwariya" (this post is so full of pain and torture now, I am actually beginning to feel bad for the people reading it!) made so much money....yeah right.....for the innocent and nice people, that was me being sarcastic with those two words, and then a chic went on to praise SRK and that was it.......the whole thing turned into a battleground with the war of words touching everything from lack of English skills to being a modern day snobby bitch (sic) with an army of boyfriends looking down at others to being so hit down with inferiority complex that they think those things about others and not look at themselves, all while some real losers and I mean real life losers filled in the space with some out of place swearing which would cost them a little more than they think if they were in jail!! All in all it was about 15 minutes of pure nonsensical (if that is a word...if not I just created one!!) entertainment which killed some of my not so precious time and gave me some more insanity to live with! So until next time keep reading and keep trying your luck with a bit of insanity!

Now we all know that whatever happens the good side always wins over the bad side, but what is it about the bad side that they always lose? I mean they are the hefty mean guys and sometimes gals and all those good ones are those little geeky, push them with a finger and they'll fly kind of characters yet when it comes to the last encounter there's always some trick up the good characters sleeves. Now if you ask me someone who tricks someone surely does not fight fair.......yeah there you go I've said it, the good ones only win coz they cheat!! Now don't take me wrong I ain't a big fan of those nasty bad and evil characters but once in a while we should humour them also. The big bad wolf is the big bad wolf because he ate up the Grandma and then wanted to eat Red Riding Hood also, but has anyone ever given two thoughts about his situation? It's not like he could go to a McDonald's and order a burger meal, think about it, would you serve a big wolf when he comes there? No, you call for help and the poor creature is going to be a sitting target (I was going to say duck but then it might have confused some people) for the animal control to take out. His actions were still not correct because he had already eaten one person he should have just gone his way but he got greedy and again if someone is really hungry then they tend to want to over eat and this is what might have been the case. Although I still think he should have eaten Red Riding Hood coz not only was she very annoyingly irritating she was dumb too, she had just met the wolf sometime back and had known her Grandma for however many years yet when she saw the wolf in her costume she couldn't make out who was who! Anyways that was one story but there are others too.......like say Goldilocks, anyone would want to lay their hands on a thief who only eats their supper but has the audacity to sleep in their bed! So the bears were pissed off, that doesn't make them the villain it's really harsh that we even think that for breaking in is still a crime and hence that makes dear darling Goldilocks a criminal.
So see all these good characters aren't exactly good and all them poor baddies are probably not as bad as projected. So next time you see a wolf in your local take away do him and yourself a favour and let him just buy some food for him and his family.

So are we men really sexist? Not to start anything here but a few interactions with a few old acquaintances showed me an inner sight about myself, a sight that I can be very proud about, that whatever may happen I do and always will view the other sex as being equal to me. I know most of us respect women but I have also come to know that while the respect is there they still stress on the point that both men and women are not equals, a thought which really is disturbing especially in this era. Gone are the days when a husband came home and the wife took his shoes off and made him rest and hushed away to put the dinner on the table. Today you'd be lucky if the dinner is even ready by the time you come home, no your wife has not been lazing around its because she has probably stepped in the house with you and you both are looking at each other thinking "Let's have take-away".......yet again!! Times have changed and so has the roles in the household, to expect that you get a girl who while rakes in the money will also cook and clean and take care of you is probably a little far fetched yet there are girls out there who really do most of those chores with an efficiency we guys might never have or well would really never like to show either. For all those ignorant fools out there who really think they are superior than their female counterparts, if not for them we would not be here so show some respect and come back to reality!

I come back an year older......no please don't measure it from the time of the last post, that's not what I meant!! Anyways, am a bit full with the idea in my head to what to write today that I am confused. That ever happened to you?? Sure it has.....its the same as when you have to do a task and suddenly there all these other things that need to be completed and you are in a dilemma as to what you should do next and this my friend is the same things with my thoughts. So I hope you had a very good Diwali those that celebrate it and the ones who don't know what it means well Google it, coz i can't be bothered writing about things which I am literally gonna copy paste from Wikipedia anyways(two sources in one line, I know I am amazing!!). Anyways I spent my Diwali watching the two most awaited movies of the year ---- yes you're right, Saanwariya and Om Shanti Om (for those who are now totally lost, well looks like you'll be closing this page so I really hope you do really open up to the world!! :P ) and in that order.
Saanwariya, produced by Sony launching two more star kids, was supposed to kill OSO (Om Shanti Om for the ignorant) and well ensure that SRK (Shah Rukh Khan for the ignorant) did not deliver this Diwali. But so wrong they were, Saanwariya with its USD backed script, set and director could not even make any sense to the people let alone compete with OSO.
I haven't read the novel which the screenplay was conceived from but I am sure it would not have been as gloomy and depressing as the sets made you feel. The entire set was Blue and although Sanjay Leela Bhansali's sets are famed to be amazing this one like this movie should just be forgotten, the quicker the better. It seems that SLB was quite inspired by the video of the song "Blue", by Eiffel 65, while making this fairytale movie. The actors had nothing much to really prove if they can be the next biggest sensation in Bollywood. Ranbir at times seemed a bit irritating to me but then it could be due to the fact that his character was a bit instable in the head. Sonam has something about her which is inexplainable, she has the charm Kajol has is the best way to put it. Salman had a very brief appearance and as always Rocks. Rani was the most irritating of the lot and lets not even talk about her acting. While feeling depressed with all the blue(s) thrown at you from the screen, the only thing you could do was wonder if OSO was going to be this bad!
So next day we thought that we should check if OSO could really match up with the torture called Saanwariya. So all prepared we marched into the cinemas and somehow ended up in the second row from front thinking that the worst had started. Well I don't know if it was because we saw Saanwariya the day before or that we were prepared for this movie or if the movie really was as good as we think it is, I can say i would want to watch OSO anytime over Saanwariya!! OSO is a proof that SRK really is the King of Bollywood and however much we may hate him, me included, he always comes up and gives us something amazing and this time its this movie. The movie has very little of a story if any but then the way the movie is made no one cares about the story. Its a total masala film which takes the piss off on most of the 70's actors. It has this scene where SRK or OK, as he is called in the movie, is nominated for the Filmfare award and he competes with Abhishek and Akshay and the whole skit is soo comical you could just play it over again n again and laugh yourself crazy.
All in all, Saanwariya----DUD!! OSO-----Rocks!!!

Hear Ye Hear Ye!! All of you first bow down to the King........which would be me!!! Why you ask?? Well coz I said so that's why!! Now that I have all y'er attention.......I..... er.... I.... umm......well I really have nothing to say do I. That's because I spent the last 2 hours having a in house karaoke type stint with my flatmate....well he started it and I just joined in and all in all it was good fun! Now normally we ought to be doing this thing called karaoke with songs which we can keep up with but no.....that would be too easy now won't it?? So in order to make it interesting we did the gig on plain 'ol rap songs. Yes you heard.....erm....read it right rap songs and not the sissy Akon shit the real gangsta ones!! Ever tried to sing along with Twista on his worst? Well it ain't easy keeping up with him when he does his slow jam forget even trying to do it when he's going at it normally. But forget Twista and lets move on to Sean Paul.....try singing his "Get Busy".....yeah it ain't that easy is it?? I mean for a song that has words like "percolate" and "oscillate" and "electricity" it has to be rocking! Although I would just like to know what the term "Crunked up" means! I mean is it actually a word or is it one of those things people do and confuse some million people around the world in believing it really did exist when we all were happily oblivious to something that sounds so rude.
I have to say it is good fun and you all should try your hands at it......you don't even need a karaoke machine....if you have a PS2/3 you can just use that or you can just go on youtube and search the song and then go on Google and search the lyrics and sing out aloud!!
So keep singing and keep enjoying!!

The "King" has just left the building!

What is life but a dish......no no I am not on marijuana.....well at least not now!! Although if you look at it more closely you will realise I am not really that off the mark. Dishes require recipes and these recipes consists of different substance (again not referring to the banned ones!! I would;ve used the word ingredients but then it would have that effect :P) like well for starters the vegetables and/or meat; which could be either white, red or smelly...the smelly being fish; spices and herbs, oil of course and whatever else you would feel like adding. So now that your hungry its time to eat.....no no come back!! So now you ask me why in the good world am I comparing this to life...well for starters life too is a recipe which has lots of flavours!! Yes you did read it right I did say life and flavours in one sentence. What are these flavours one asks....well the answer to that is very very simple, it is nothing but the emotions! Now before you go away with a thought that goes very much like, "Yes I knew you weren't on Marijuana........it has to be more stronger than that.....what is it.....ecstasy or ice??", I would like to say that...well first I have to object on me taking any of those abusive substance (and folks my word of the day has officially become the word "substance"...now all rise and give me a big applause!!) and then I will go on and describe how I can compare these two together. See the main ingredient (see i didn't use the other word) is life itself and then we get all the spices and herbs in the form of emotions.....the happy one being the sweet ones the painful ones being the sour ones (no pun intended) and then we have some middle ground emotions where its neither happy nor is it sad and that friends is very much like an avocado, which has no taste whatsoever although if you eat lots of it you are bound to get fat again very much like if you stay in that emotionless state for a little longer than normal then very disturbing results follow suit.
Now if we were to believe what "The Whitlams" sang in their song "No Aphrodisiac" its not only foods like oysters, strawberry and so on which are aphrodisiacs but also loneliness which can apparently beat all these foods hands down.
So next time when you are cooking do give a though about what you would add to your life to make it that bit tastier. All this mambo jambo has just made me feel pretty hungry and I am off to make me self a snack......so until next time, keep cooking!! :)

A lot of emphasis is being made by many countries like England and Australia to ensure that the immigrant communities start integrating with the local people. Now my focus here is Australia as I live here and well I am sure most of what I write here would hold true for England too.
Now I am all for this process except for the fact that I get confused when they totally divide us into groups and then ask us to assimilate.
The other confusing aspect to this is, and well I might be talking from an Indian point of view here, I don't see how it would be hard for us to integrate with the locals when approximately 50% of them are....well Indians. Yes we have a bit of an issue with the other 50% but I think we do get along fine with the Asian communities as well (please note, I know India is a part of Asia but then somehow we are Indians and the rest Asians for the local people......its all about integrating see!!).
Now coming to cultures, well from where we come from taking in more culture isn't a problem as we have a mixture of lots of them anyways and Anglo culture again is not new to us as we...well we did have to suffer the pommies for a long long time. Not that we mind because if it wasn't for them we wouldn't be marching off to our Motherland.....England and demand we be taken care of after making sure we did a brilliant job for 300 years! Its not like when the English arrived on their boats.....yes boats...how ironic as isn't that the favourite mode of all the refugees coming to Australia. So as I was stating that when the English arrived on their boats to the coasts of India, the then Kings and Princes didn't make a hue and cry about them lot integrating with the local masses, although a few of them did and well we have an interesting collection from that still, it wasn't like "listen Simon, here's the deal either you and your lot start learning Hindi and eating curries and for god's sake start using your hands to do things or I may have to arrange for a boat and send you to Sri Lanka." Imagine if that would have happened.....it would be us who would be sitting on our bottom and enjoying the benefits of government assistance while our fairer brothers and sisters would be working hard to contribute the well deserved taxes meant for us!
It would be us talking about our queen saying stuff like, "Its about time that cow gave back the power to the people and started working for her money!" That said and done we would still be the world champions in IT because well whatever said and done the nerd in the most of us (excluding me of course) would still live!!
So coming back to the actual subject which I started writing about (its not as if you care, if you are reading this you're probably bored out of your wits and don't have anything better to do :P)
integrating people with the local masses is really an essential need but we should make sure that we don't pick on certain communities to implement this.