the 3 mistakes of my life

Finished this book and want to write few thing immediately about it.

A quote - " A 'very good freind' is a dangerous category with indian girls. From here you can either make fast progress. Or, if you do it wrong you go down to the lowest category invented by Indian women ever - rakhi brother. Rakhi brother really means you can talk to me, but dont even freaking tink about anything else you bore..." Page 170.

I really like the fun in it, have seen many guys becoming rakhi-brothers in my school and college days. And I am tempted to write this one too, at page 185 "I looked at her. She is too beautiful to study maths. Maths is for losers ...."

The book is "the 3 Mistakes of my life" by Chetan Bhagat (needs no introduction). The guys three mistakes were 1)being too pressed by a business idea, 2)getting involved with best friend's sister, and 3)not jumping quickly to save a boy under attack. The backdrop is Gujrat in early 2000s so you have stories related to Bhuj earthquake, WTO attack, Guarat riots and there is flavor of politics, cricket and yes! love and exuberance.

Well I wrote it down for you, even though Chetan summarises it at the end. As usual the flow is fantastic, I finished it soon as I started it. The text and presentaion is better than the second book, more like 'Five point someone' this time. And again it is very cheap.

Kolkata wrap up

"I'd write a lot about Kolkata", I dreamt it when I was there. Schedules were so tightly packed that I never found time. But I certainly have one word for the city - Fantastic. Leave the climate and it is great place to live. The first thing that came to mind was, when I entered Kolkata from Howrah was - this is an old city, capital of british. I was already thinking about british moving in lanes, looking at old buildings thinking who'd have lived there 200 years before.

People suggested a lot of places/things to see, but I covered just three - Park Street, Esplanade and Metro. No kali temples, no victoria, no math and no museum.

First Day in Kolkata

ladkiyan dekhti to hain party!! (girls do look at you dude!!). May be bongoli girls are much better in finding out right boy :).
City center/Inox/Mall types is just 15 minutes walk from the place where I stay in Kolkata. It is a place where all GDI reports fail, all fheminists come to a stop and suddenly you start looking at a world with equity - gender and human, (all of it changes when you come out of that world though!!). So, what happens there? There are plenty of girls, outnumbering boys; who said sex ratio is less than unity, it seems to be more. Women look more decisive than male counterparts, they look more dominating.

At a place with such character(istic)s it is no big deal if a gorgeous girl looks at you , but apan to Up wale bahiya hain, to yahi bahut hai... (am from UP, so this is like a big deal). Well, before you start thinking this guy is getting more frustu day by day, let me tell you it is not the boy, it is the AGE.

While coming out of howrah station I was scared you know, crowds of Kolkata, but was relieved when I saw none and usual day traffic in anyother Indian city. It occured later that today is a sunday and now I think - if this is the rush on Sunday what about weekdays..!!

There are various places to be explored in Kolkata and I'll see how successful I am in coming days.

Orkuting blues

I have just realized that my orkut community list has increased to 42... and I never subscribed to more than 12 or 15. The funny thing is they are like - salman khan's fan club, teenagers... I have never been salman's fan, how do they know i just liked him in 'jab pyar kisi se hota hai'. I am not a teenager and never susbscribed that group. The list is endless and am still to figure out how it happened.

Childhood days of orkut (read when it started) were very good, you didnt have much things to do, you could see pictures, write scraps and testis... then came videos and javascripts. Those javascripts would bring roses to your screen, though it looked like a pshyco has developed that, it was ok .... tolerable. Gradually roses shifted to monkeys.

A change came with more innovations in javascript, now when you paste a javascript in the address bar, it runs a worm or like a worm. It adds you to bullshit communities, it scraps to your friends (randomly) and you never know you scrapped. It happened with me some days before, I felt very bad and sent a message to everyone.

If you receive a scrap saying - i have changed my id....., you were looking fine....., or combination of javascript i would suggest you not to open or try it.

There were few good changes like the local language that you can use now, much more security, people now block scraps and pics and videos from general public. But what if you just broke up with your girlfriend and she blocked you from orkut and you had all those lovely scraps and photos at her account only!!!