2009 gives way to 2010....coming up!!!

Year 2009...the year that was...
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P.S. I guess an ideal time to publish it when we complete 1 year of Satyam Resurgence on 7th Jan :)

Bas itna yaad rahe...

Its been almost 6 months that I'v blogged...thou i tried to or atleast was tryin to contemplate an event, a reason or just somethng which wud trigger the writer's psyche inside me... & my blog initiator, Rammy was a constant reminder to me that it was TIME...

Many topics thought upon, drafts prepared...sometimes on paper, sometimes on the volatile human RAM, the mind...but the ink gotta have the density & intensity of blood to flow down the fingers & leave impressions forever...

Forever...nice word naa...signifying longevity...ever existence..across the time zones...eternal...But does anything last forever??? Reminds me of Gunz n Roses song "November Rain"..."Nothin lasts forever...even the cold november rain..." Nothing!!!!!!!!

And as I was whiling away my time, in an uneasy state of fever, fiddling with the TV channels, all of a sudden i realized that it was July 26...10 long years to Operation Vijay, 10 long years to our brave mens' victory at Kargil...10 years!!!!! How quickly have these years passed, for us...the countrymen of India, who were well protected by & given a chance to live, by the Brave, who stepped forward to lay down their lives for the protection of our motherland....how quickly!

With the images from 1999 conflict on, as Barkha Dutt took me thru a journey back into the times, everything was refreshed in my RAM...as if my Cache memory had jst received a surge of power...a reminder of the summer of 1999, when i was a std X young boy, fuming & busting with anger...with plans to strengthen the internal security of the nation, to face any eventuality with the enemy, floating in my eyes...a passion to support the armed forces in whatsoever capacity... I was taken back to the time when I had passionately written essays on Kargil conflict...the time when my eyes wud fill up with tears of pain, seeing every coffin being offloaded from army trucks...a summer probably which shud have been unforgettable...

Capt. Vikram Batra, Major Ajay Singh Jasrotia, Capt. Anuj Nayyar...the list goes on(http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/KARGIL/Page1.php)...the pics of those men of honour float in my eyes...most of them immortalized by the most popular method to remember them...Bollywood & movies...LOC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOC_Kargil)

wow...10 years huh...& then what happened??? did i lose touch...or is it alzheimer...what happened....thts the question I'm asking myself today...hasn't the Kargil war, or many such countless acts of sacrifice & valour, become just another event in our lives...these come & go...shake us for a minute, an hour, a day or two, max a month...we speak passionately about our duties towards the nation, the fellow countrymen, we feel united...we feel the adrenaline rushin thru the "patriotic" version of ours..."I'm an Indian...bla bla" & all tht stuff.....thtts it? And after tht, the life goes on...we come back to our same routines, with the same behavior & attitude towards the country (what man...the country & the system rott)...duties (huh...think of urself man...make big in life....), responsibilities (establish urself in life & earnmoney yaar....go abroad...I dont wanna settle here)...& mind u all, its no finger pointing...i'm equally to blame for & accept this.....

The same thing happened with me last year when the Mumbai terror attacks happened on Nov 26...i was charged & mad with anger....i cudnt take it anymore...i wanted to screw the ppl behind such attacks..."shit man...we the youth gotta do something...."I had even started a community on Orkut "India's 9/11:...."inviting the "thinkers" & the youth to do something for this nation...& thn...i fizzed out...fizzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzeddddddddddddddddddddd out...........lost in my own life & issues like Onsite (now i dont care a damn abt it), money etc...

The occurance of these unfortunate incidents acts as a reminder from Almighty to all of us...to see how small the life is....on the time horizon....it gives us a reason to connect with each other, not as ppl from a religion or country, but as humans...a reason to do something worth doing in this otherwise "wasted" human life....Do we realize that these events are thr to make us humble, show us tht death is the real truth of life...but more importantly, realize our duty towards the armed forces as well, who are also humans....who spend their lives for others...when they also have their families..kids ....just like ours....wt makes them more than a human....its their grit to walk a fine line of wht is personal & wt counts more...tht tooo wid the highest class of pride & honor...

Have u realized it ever....i kno it sounds great today coz i've watched a couple of patriotic programs today...so, i'll remember it for another day or so....but the day i do my bit for the armed forces, my life will be made....& i'll realize the higher meaning of my life........

"Shahidon ki mazaaron pe har baras lagte rahenge mele....

watan pe mar mittne waalon ka baaki yahin nishaan hoga..."

wishin tht we never forget what these men of honor did for us....I bow my head in full respect & salute the martyrs of Operation Vijay....

Frm Emosanal Atyachaar to Dil Chahte Hai :P

Haaaaa...finally after a really longggggggggggggg time, I got a chance to hang out with ma frends...Life in Hyd has been more than hectic for me...but i guess, its much better to hv tht regular/monotonous/boring schedule than to be livin under the Axe effect(read bench n thus, corporate trimming:P)
The weekend started on a very +ve note...I reachd home frm office at 10:30 pm (it was a longgggg day for meeeeee)...but finally friday nite was here:)
I caught up with ma PG mates over dinner, had the usual bakar (non sense...lena/dena types ;)...the nite was gettin charged up!! Finally we decided to catch up a movie on 1 of the lappies...browsin thru the available stuff, we zeroed on MP3...yep "Mera Pehla Pehla Pyaar"...
MP3 transported me back in times...to ma school/college days...wen life was not jst abt gettin dressed up every morning, ironin the clothes, finishin the bfast in bleady 5 min (can u believe...i eat up 3 chapati in 5 min flat), gettin onto a sprint to catch 09:43 ki meri local ( yes i run to station in 4.5 min...ma only source of phy. fitness:P)...aur fir wohi kaam...

Anywz, MP3 reminded me of ma young (i mean relatively young n free days)..the couple was damn cute yaar...(felt like fallin in love...bla bla bla...nahiiiiiiiiiiii,...its momentry effect..he he he) n the gang of guys pullin legs of our 12th std hero...its wat we do wen we catch any of us red handed (read with a girl)..its fun...So, finally, i finished the movie at 2 am, had quick glances of Dostana (:P)..n dozed off!

Finally..it was time for emosanal atyachaar...as soon as i got up this morning, we dudes decided to catch up "Dev D" in our very own IMAX...(man..not doin anything on weekends ...will i waste ma life this way...no ways!!!)...it was 1:30 pm..decision on to go for show at 4pm....all set the dudes were on the way now...
Not expecting, the show was house ful (aaarghh)...but we the IT guys dont fret...but look out for jugaad (i mean Work around...tumne kya sochaa..???)...we zeroed on watchin "The Pink Panther 2" featurin Steve Martin (I had seen a coiuple of his movies...so i thot it was worth a deal)...The movie rocked!!!!!!! Amazingly funny & all 4 of us (Code names: DJ, AJ, BM n me) had a blast...(we were also doin the regular guys thjings (u kno wat i mean;)) n to ma surprise, the movie featured our very own Ash :) arey bhaiya...she lookd astonishin in some places...as we wre goin thru the movie, we decided to go for Dev D tomoro...(2 votes in favor, 1 OK, 1 naaa)...uske baad to ...gaali galoch...laatein..(#$@$@@^&*&%%#^*(E#@)... due to no clear majority, we had to drop the plan :(

Anywz...the day wrapped up with a serene walk along Necklace road (Hussain Sagar Lake) n 2 plates of paani puri @ Sindhi Colony...this weekend has pumped in the same ol' days of youthfullness n carefree attitude..wen we chose to forget all our professional worries n to do wat we wanna...The life is here :)

Keep Rockin...Viks ;)