grrrrrrrrrr

Its 1:41pm and I just finished my so-called lunch. Food served in my company cafeteria is pathetic. You can never make out what curry is served as all gravies taste the same. I think they don't want to discriminate one day with other or one curry with other. So eat the same thing 5 days a week. Keval naam hi badlta hai. Daily I almost skip my lunch and rely on evening snacks or fruit juices for the day supply of energy. I guess it is all a conspiracy for reducing the cholesterol levels in the employees here.

I am having a stiff neck since yesterday. I feel as if I am a robot now. I hope I was not abducted, and then converted into a machine, by aliens the previous night.
I cannot turn my head freely. I can not participate in Ekta Kapoor's latest soap's screen test so. All my chances of fame gone now. :(
It's just too irritating to move half your body to see a girl passing by. Worst it is when you realize that girl was not even worth a single look. Alas, you don't have a sixth sense so bear the pain.

And then there is this work. I have to verify a bug in the latest build. Now the bug is from the customer side, so expecting details with it is like asking Viveik Oberai to act. What more, the previous tester for this bug played a safe game and did not leave any trace of what he did. People are watching spy movies a lot these days, I guess. My mentor is enjoying a Free Pizza lunch right now. Who said there is no such thing as free lunch. So now I will have to wait for him so that I can put my next step forward to verify the bug.

Enough of cribbing I suppose.
Sometimes it is real fun to crib.

Deccan Sunset

My best shot from the recent trip to Kemmengundi.
I titled it Deccan Sunset.

This picture was taken at sunset time on top of z-point. We reached this point after a walk/trek of more than 3.5 km. Everyone was sitting and enjoung the beauty of this place. The serenity and calmness there can not be explained in words.

The setting sun was looking very beautiful. I knew these were the moments to be captured. Ananwita was coming in the frame. I requested her for the pose and gladely she agreed.

And the result is in front of you. Since the time I took this picture, I knew it was going to one of my best shot.

Hello and Welcome

Hello...
And Welcome...
To my world...
In next few minutes you will get to explore my world. So just relax, take a deep breath and and free your mind.
[Please keep all the lose objects away from your hands so that you don't throw them at your computer monitor after reading my crap]

This is PritS Zen (aka Pritesh Jain) and this is my life.

So What Am I Doing These Days?
After the sad curtain down from the dream theatre, I am trying to gather my life again. For now, some more inertia before the possible rush of events. Tufan ke pahle ki shanti, I guess.
I am just back from a very nice trip to Kemmengundi. Less of a trek, more of walking. With some of the most amazing and enthu souls to have you around.
Me and my camera. And the music.
It was Heaven spelt in a different way.

What Am I Listening to These Days?
Music is the thing which has kept me going all these while. Off late you must have seen lots of entries centered around music. So that continues. Right now, I am getting fueled on Enigma. Another very recent entry to my play list is Oliver Shanti and Friends. Spiritual music, new age with Buddhist touch. Nice peaceful sounds. More about it soon.

What Am I Watching These Days?
Lots of movies. No Cricket. Have to watch Crash and Godfather again. Then there is a list in place. Any suggestions are welcome as usual. Have to start with plays again. This week there are some screenings in Rangashanakra. Anyone intereseted, please buzz me.

What Am I Eating These Days?
Just a week left before my parents come here. So then it will be the great home food. For now I am continuing with the regular stuff at home. My cook desperately needs a break. Or I need a break from him.

Anything else?
Hmm.. nothing that I can recall now...

So signing off now. Catch you people soon here.

The Kemmengundi Experience

A sneak preview...

Random Thoughts

Read this one at Sucharita's blog.
Never put someone as a priority for someone who puts you as an option.

Couldn't resist copying it. And here is my version to it.
Never Put someone or something as a priority for someone or something who/which puts you as an option.

Priority - One thing that takes an important place in your life and one which you always end up mixing. Monotonous life never necessitates prioritizing process while an adventurer always needs to chose one thing over other. This discrimination is a compulsion.

Somethings are meant to let go.
Don't be afraid.

Jogi

Check out this song Jogi by Punjabi MC.
A Panjabi dance number with real funky tune. The sarod (or veena or whatever it is) portion is just too catchy.
Enjoy...

a dream... doomed

Sometimes back I wrote about a dream.
A dream, I wanted to live for. A dream for which I could do everything possible.
I finally woke up from the deep sleep and realized that that dream is doomed. I could not bring it to reality. I could not make it possible.

Did I try my best to achieve it? Yes, I did. But I guess my best, today, was not sufficient for it. Thats the only consolation I have today.

I shall try again.
And again.
And again.
Till I succeed.

But for now, I am sad. Coz I know I missed something which could have made me the happiest person in my world.

No words, please. I want to be alone for sometime.

dress circle

I watched The Devil Wears Prada last night. My rating: 3/5.
Nice movie. Some inspiration for writing today's post came from that movie.

In the IT industry there are two types of people. One who dress well and those who do not dress well (or rather say they do it shabbily). And then there are people like me, who do it casually. People like me do not belong to any of the above cast or creed or whatever you want to call it. There are days when I am dressed to kill, just to be followed by days where I want to kill myself. But this post is not about just me. So read on.

Dressing sense of people changes with time and experience. So when people like me are just out of college, our wardrobes are filled with faded jeans, low rises, boot-cuts. Tees or casual shirts that can go over anything makes the other half. One or two pair of floaters or sports shoes. And there you are, all set to work. Now if I was a rock lover, I would surely want to flaunt my Metallica t-shirt collection at work. All the footballers showoff their jerseys and boots (studs, as they are called) the same way. Casual to the core.

People up the ladder (corporate ladder I mean), are mostly in the better dressed category. It's demand of their job to be like that. So all set in formals they are one of the picture-perfect employees for any company. They hold the grace of their experience and position on their face and surely live up to it.

People in middle of hierarchy are the ones who delve into one or the other category. From my experience I can make a comment that people who are into too technical side (or whom we call individual contributors) always belong to the shabbily dressed group. They don't bother about anything. For them its just they and their work. So beard grown like a jungle, same shirt for a week (or may be they have 5 piece of it, i don't know), chappals - its their trademark style. Their work speaks for their smartness.

Interestingly, most of the managers and leads are well dressed. It really speaks how important is to dress properly. They are the most smart and cunning lot and surely have learnt from their experience. They are there to set examples. Their team looks up to them for inspiration. And with my experience I can surely vouch that a guy who is well dressed and well behaved is much more effective than anyone else.

Another interesting thing in companies which have no dress-code policies, is the trend of wearing company tshirts. I see tshirts of at least 6 companies at my work place. Add to it team tshirts and then the ones designed for special occasions. The bevda (boozers) group in my company has come up with a tshirt of their own too. They can always make a style statement in them.

And for the people like me, I am nowhere. My identity is in the fact that I dress casually. So I can be seen in a kurta over a jeans on a day which is not Friday. In my previous company, my manager used to come in shorts on Friday, I tried 3/4ths and khadi there. It was fun. Don't forget my jhola. My manager had actually asked me if I was doing any part time journalist job.
Today when I dressed in formal attire, everyone was looking at me in surprise. :)

Yeh Mera Deewanapan Hain

Nitin Sawhney rocks.

He simply rocks.

I had heard some of his songs in past. They were inpressive but not that cant-get-out-of-your-mind types. But when I heard this song Yeh Mera Deewanapan Hain for the soundtrack of Meera Nair's Namesake , I know I have found one such. The funky lounge version would surely make Mukesh lovers sad but it is really nice. The song, sung by SushilaRaman in a very husky or rather say sensual voice is really catchy.
I am really lovin it...

These Brit DJs know what remixing actually means.

Next Assignment: Get hold of some more Nitin Sawhney work. This guy is surely going to grab some more space here in my blog soon.

Rangashankara April Schedule

Click on the image to enlarge it.

WRONG SIDE OF THE TRACK

Read this nice story in todays Metro Plus.

"A train was coming into a railway station. The train was supposed to take track one when the driver of the train noticed that there were 20 children playing on it. He decided to take track two, but unfortunately there were children on that track too - but only two of them. He decided to take track two - the one with two children, his logic being that it was better to kill two children than 20. So, the children who had taken care that they were not on the track on which the train would come, paid the ultimate price."

link to the full article.

That I am silent, does not mean anything

- shadows in silence by Enigma
Another brilliant song by Enigma. From the album Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi!
Its an instrumental song with an amazing theme. The beats just takes you away from everything. No Psychedelic stuff it is, but it sooths the soul like it is one.

addiction

Thanks to Chandu. :)

PMDB

PMDB: PritS's Movie Data Base.

I am feeling that the old hostel days are coming back. Movies at late nights, sometime Maggi in the break, chocolates (it was kitkat that time, now thanks to Chandu we have loads of US made chocolate :) )
Movies, movies and more movies.
Here are some of the shows that run in our home theatre:

1. Nishabd (3.5/5) - read my review here.
2. Apocalypto (4/5)
3. Little Miss Sunshine (4/5)
4. Happy Feet (4.5/5)
5. Bewitched (3/5)

Add to it two more that I watched in theatre:
1. The Pursuit of Happyness (3.5/5)
2. The Namesake (4/5)

Thanks Gautam for the DVD player. :) You made it possible dude.

ps: Please suggest me movies which you would rate good. I would need that coz very soon my list of movies-to-be-watched will exhaust.

sunday morning tp

Its a lazy sunday morning. Time 10:00 am.

Why am I awake then?
Bachpan se ek hi gandi aadat hai mujhe - jaldi uthna. Ab yeh lat ek baar lag gayi to chutne ka naam hi nahi leti.
Anyways...
So What to do??
Let me finish off with the tag game which J pointed me to.

So here you go my lord!!!

Q1. One thing you are very much afraid of? [2 marks]

Ans: Silence.

Q2: Two incidents you can never forget in your life? [2+2 marks]
Ans: To recall two specific incidents which I will never forget in my whole life is a very difficult answer. Kya bhuloon kya yaad karoon!! Still here are two which came to my mind first -
1. Surprising my parents with news about my new job at 5 in morning. I had kept this news secret for more than 2 days and told them only when I reached home. I will never forget the happiness on their face at that moment.
2. My trip to Goa last January. Every moment of it.

Q3: Three books you would love reading again and again? [2x3 marks]
Ans: No text book for sure. Actually I am not a avid reader so can not really have answer to this question. Still I will list three books which I liked the most.
1. The Kite Runner
2. How to be creative
3. cant remember now. :)

Q4: Four women who are most beautiful? [2x4 marks]
Ans: Hmm.. tricky one. I don't know name of most of them. Saw them on road yesterday. :) Other then them, here are four that you would know:
1. Meg Ryan
2. Ziah Khan
3. Angelina Jolie
4. Deepika Padukone

Q5: Five of you favorite food items? [2x5 marks]
Ans: This one is pretty simple. No faltu bakwas; here is the answer:
1. Pav Bhaji
2. Aloo Paratha
3. Paani Poori
4. Pizza
5. Maan ke haath se bana khana

Q6: Six words you use very often oral/written? [2x6 marks]
Ans: Another simple one. I am going to top this test. :)
1. Hellos
2. Whatsup!!
3. Take Care
4. Basically
5. Obvisouly
6. Whatever!!

Q7: Seven things you like about yourself? [2x7 makrs]
Ans: Tricky one this. I think I will flunk because of this question. :(
1. My short term memory
2. My attitude
3. My punctuality
4. My loyalty
5. My dependability
6. My open-ness
7. My Enthusiasm
Oh I finally listed all. So now I am surely going to top.

Q8: Eight film personalities who are your all time favorites? [2x8 marks]
Ans: Hehe. I can see myself at top already. :)
1. BigB
2. Amir Khan
3. Kishor Kumar
4. Priety Zinta
5. Kaykay Menon
6. Rahul Bose
7. Konkana Sen Sharma
8. Arshad Varsi

Q9: Nine movies you wont mind watching again and again? [2x9 marks]
Hihihuhuhaha... This question I had prepared recently. So no mistake possible here. :)
in no particular order
1. Sarkar
2. Gangajal
3. RDB
4. Iceage
5. DCH
6. School Of Rock
7. Khosla Ka Ghosla
8. Remember the Titans
9. Behind Enemy Lines

Q10: Ten songs you would like to listen to everyday? [2x10 maks]
Ans: All my playlists have this songs. Actually there are more than 10 such songs. Still listing 10 which came to mind first.
1. The child in us - Enigma
2. Coming back to life - Pink flyod
3. The day we met over coffee - Osunlade
4. Return to innocence - Enigma
5. I am ready - Bryan Adams
6. Out from the deep - Enigma
7. Bandeh - Black Friday (Indian Ocean)
8. Nothing else matters - Metallica
9. Saltwater - Chicane
10. Punjab -Karunesh

Ooof.. it was a long paper. Finally over.

I scored 108/110. I am too good naa.. :)
Now here is the deal. If you are in timepass mood then ater reading the post, try and match your answers to mine. And take the total. Let me know how much you scored.

I am not passing the tag to anyone. If you are interested in such TP, please take it with you. And inform the world when you are done with your post.

As usual, comments are always welcome.