Not Today-but tomorrow

It was 11 pm and usual after the dinner scene when my mom was upto keeping things back into place and stuff. I was watching t.v apparently with my brother actually none of us were watching it seriously as he was busy texting and I was ear-plugged to my favourite tracks and I appeared a moron that time to my mother. I guess it was the show Aap ki Adalat on India TV where Digvijay Singh was the guest of honour and was replying to Rajat Sharma's questions in the talk show. I hardly paid much heed as I was in some other world.

I was tapping feets and enjoying the music and suddenly had the urge to go outside and walk on the streets or may be go for a long long drive only to stop at the road side tea stalls for my favourite drink chai or coffee probably and enjoy the rain that is blessing us these days all over the country or dance continuoulsy for quite some time or worse... singing loud enough to let everyone know about it...I think these are the after-effects of having been lived in kharagpur that you become energised only in late-hours. Its 12 and I feel now the time starts but everyone around me is off to bed..uhmm..!

I just saw my mom irritated on some thing, must be a very simple common thing and sharing it with papa, bhai busy with the texting..I notice him using phone more than required frequency now-a-days, guess he's a girlfriend..Well talking on same line, I would like to show my disgust for those who go mobile-crazy and always busy with phone when they have people (as in girl friend/boy-friend whatever the case may be) in their life..Anyways...

I m still enjoying my music unaffected of things at home. Back at kgp I went dull during my last few months there but now again I m full of lists..I wanna learn dance..I wanna go for long long drives..I wanna explore places..I wanna ride a bike or at least sit on a bike :P..wanna work really well and earn good amount..hmm...!

I have my own set of things to do..a different sphere of understanding and not many would understand though..including guys at my home. They think I am from Venus, I guess I am....

I wanna stay myself! Just myself.

~Full of Life~

Nothing is better than something

The difference that comes.. makes things take for granted..
The things that were, the time that was...for all transformed into a memory of past..
Still it exist..atleast somewhere definitly..
Hope it emerges one day...

Shan-e-Ghalib

Aa gayii yaad sham dhalte hii
bujh gayaa dil chiraagh jalte hii

khul gaye shahr-e-Gham ke darvaaze
ek zaraa sii havaa ke chalte hii...


kaun thaa tuu ke phir na dekhaa tujhe
mit gayaa Khvaab aankh malte hii

tuu bhii jaise badal saa jaataa hai
aks-e-diivaar ke badalte hii

Idiot

Yes,I am one big idiot. Messing up with everything. Professional and personal,both the lives. Seems its the height,till when I will be sheltering behind saying I m not mature.

Ki holo? Kemon achis? B-E-N-G-A-L!

My stay is going to get over very soon here and I would sum it up in one line as "Unusual but refreshing". I travelled to many states in India because of the transferable job of my father, I have experienced the aura of many places but this time it was different and worth explaining. As correctly pointed by Poulomi my friend from Delhi and in Bengal too in the last post, there are really some exclusive and intriguing facts about this place,on the other hand some things are li'l depressing.

Here, I would like to list some common practices prevalent in my hostel-workplace-kharagpur-West Bengal-Bengal!

1. People are Lazy!
2. Marketing skills are poor, they dont like to work hard (Hard? big word!!)
3. Bargaining is a strictly prohibited act!
4. Vegetarian, please turn Non-veg else Die!!
5. Eating habits are pathetic!
6. Working hours are very short.
7. Gain weight upto 5kgs in 5 days.
8. Bengali is the international language.

Lazy people- Now why I say this,well, it seems people here do not like to work, they rather like spending their time talking or eating rasogullas or just doing nothing. For instance, I once went to a bank for some work, the person in-charge was moving his pen so slowly that even ants could crawl faster..They walk slowly,They eat slowly,They work slowly...

Bargaining-an unpunishable offence: I remember my initial days at kgp, when I went to tech market to buy some thing, Out of my usual habit of bargaining that my friends and I used to indulge in back at our places or u can say at other parts of India, bargaining here doesn't exist. To my surprise,I got such a cold response that I stopped doing this practice [which was so enjoyable :( ) When I left the shop to move steps further in hope that the shopkeeper would call me again as it used to be at other places,the shopkeeper dada never called me up :P

'Dada' : Dada is a common term used to call an elder brother here,initially it seemed quite weird to call a young person say a rickshawallah as dada, because people like me understand that dada only meant grand father to us. Once, I called a young man (a rickshawalla) as dada back in Delhi and he turned back at me making an ugly face and said "didi,aapko hum dada lagte hain?"

Veg/Non Veg 1:100 : Yeah, this is the terrible ratio of vegetarians out here so by default at all the places, the vegetarians are least taken care of. Drumstick-sounds like a weapon of mass destruction is a kind of green vegetable that was served in my hostel every other day only to feel pathetic about it.

Table sense : Not at all,I have seen people eating using both of their hands. I think I can better enact but seriously the view is terrible. In a way, it also gives you a good laugh :P

Wanna Gain weight?? Come here : Blame it to the irresistable mouth watering rasgullas(Rashogullas-as they call it!) that you will get in almost all the meals even in the breakfast. Believe me, its irresistible so much so that when you realise u have gained series of tires in your waist seems its too late to be doing something. The usual scene of a sweet shop is line of men taking home bags full of rasogullas every day. Do in our homes we take sweets in such quantity and frequency? I do not remember my papa ever rought sweets just for the desert purpose. The sweets in our home are there in few cases, when some guests bring it or we bring for the guests.

Bong-The International lingo : wtf! you really gonna have tough time if you are a non-bong. I mean, they wont pay heed u getting anything at all or aint. The height sometimes is that even if you are replying in eng/hindi, they continue in Bengali!!! And you go confused whats going on.

Although I have cited some curt truths that may not look nice, but I must appreciate following:

Eve-teasing : eve-teasing cases in Bengal are less. Seems men here are more cultured and well mannered than other places specially of metropolitans. I experience a drastic change of men's attitude towards women when I used to shift from kgp-to-home or home-to-kgp.

Culturally rich: Historically Bengal has a very rich cultural heritage. Bengal is, indeed, noted for its rich culture in songs, music, drama, dances and language. We all know Rabindra Nath Tagore was the first person from India to bag a Nobel Prize in Litreature for "Geetanjali" ( :) )
Bengal has a rich tradition of classical music of the subcontinent. Indeed, Bengal has produced many musicians and maestros of international repute like Ustad Alauddin Khan, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan and Pandit Ravi Shankar who have successfully made sitar and sarode popular all over the world.

• Life expectancy is around 63 years, and are almost same for the men and women.
• West Bengal leads with 69.22% literacy rate.
• Kolkatta Metro was the first underground railway to be built in India, with the first operations commencing in October, 1984.

P.S though it seems I have depicted a bad picture of this state, but I really dont want to offend anybody and if I hurt anybody's feelings I apologise for it.

I know the bong friends of mine would boil up after reading this, but this is purely my personal opinion and blog ;)

My two years @ Bengal

I daily experience many things about this place, about its people, their behaviour,their style, their manners,their lifestyle and what not...I have ample experience to share..most of them if not all are bitter. These days I think I have become li'l frust as the lingo here goes and li'l busy too.. So I am leaving now to promise that soon I will be coming with my new post wherein I will be sharing some facts,secrets and gossip about The Great Bengal..

Till then..take great care of yourself :)
Peace

FIFA, rain & bla bla

Hai peene ka mausam

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Current mood : Contemplative

The latest song "Pee loo" from the movie "Once upon a time in Mumbai" is a beautiful song.Its been romantically picturised so much so that even Emran Hashmi looked a better man. This I realised while sitting cosily in front of the t.v during my short stay at home in Delhi. Adding to my mood, Rain God is on the DUTY. Its raining gracefully. Earlier I used to be one big nuisance who used to curse and scamper for cover when it used to rain but,Now it feels great to go for a walk or look with awe and admiration as droplets of rain hits the face. .Wow..I can spend my whole day just sitting near the window seeing those fresh droplets meeting their end on my hands and leaving a nice simper on my face.. Coming back to the song,the lyrics somehow confuse me..How can one do "Pee loo during peene ka mausam" . Idont understand, Can anyone Throw light?

Honestly telling the lyrics say something else if u concentrate.I mean, "Pee" "Loo".. ? :P

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Does that happen to you?

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The next thing that I m goin to share is something very unfortunate and is silly. Let me do..

See I dont intend to do this but it happens somehow and trust me ther's no fault of mine. Let me explain, it happens at times that if suppose, I m at home; and watching television alone(in the room)..believe me; it could be any music channels or bollywood movies or even english movie channels,everything comes clean. But as soon as somebody enters especially mom, dad OR di..immediately out of nowhere explicit scenes starts playing. They make me feel embarrased and angry that how when I was alone nothing of such sort was there and all hell broke now. why? [ Hey Dont think that I wait for them when I m alone :P (there are many options and not just home's T.v for if somebody really wants to see those) Phew!!! ] I just keep thinking what mom thinks when she turns her face after having a glimpse :P

God ji!! Help..!

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Germany vs Spain

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Last night was some fun. :)

Honestly telling I never saw Spain playing footer before though I have heard it won many matches recently like the Euro cup and etc. And beause Germany is my favourite so I was vouching for it. But dude..got a surprise Spain..O my Gawdd!! The minute they started the game took almost 85% possesion of the ball and played smartly and effortlessly. Short passes,header's,Villa,Iniesta,Xavi,Xabi made German fans chew their nails!! What a team!!

Germany was just a decent defender in the match.The latest global celebrity Mr. Paul's,the Octopus; predictions are also proving to be true. I dont believe but now even Germans are forced to believe who are generally not an ordinary superstitions.

Now I m all for the sunday match between Dutch & Spainards. Hoping this time the Oracle Octopus is wrong.

Yo FIFA..!