Scribble

I always felt to be an amateur blogger. Well it’s fascinating to call oneself a blogger but extremely difficult to come out to be witty and interesting stuff again and again.

I mean I did my research most of the successful personal bloggers do for living is ..book critic..restaurant critic..journalist or same more hep sounding careers..may be bartenders, scuba diving instructor the list is endless. But irony is I am a boring MBA (very run of a mill ) with specialization in finance( means zero coolness quotient) and working in a pharma company (well if you ve read earlier posts u wd ve knwn the tragedy of the same also).

So when you don’t meet celebrities..nor visit the hippest places on the planet and don’t read and thread bare novels with your pen your are left with dearth of exciting stuff to write and attract more traffic on your blog..:).

But yeah hell I care

Reasons for being nonchalant

• Total turnout of comments on my blog has been abysmally low
• Google adsense has refused to add me
• No, blog does not teaches nebody nethin
• Reader discreation is not required.

So with all these different mosaic of emotions I have decided to keep writing . I just got to know a few minutes back from a old friend that the supposed godforsaken blog of mine actually qualifies as a copyrighted entity. So in the name of the Holy Law. Write On

Over and out from 4 BHK

Its a story of 5 people. Once upon a time they were thrown together with time. Funny designs of fate. All of them were actually of different genre.

Characterization :

Sukh-mark : Loves the word strategy. Still somehow makes all strategies in excel not in word. Believes in making everybody happy and does that to perfection. Can crack jokes on all occasions but you can count on him as he`ll never back out. Have only 2 passions in life.Steam iron and cooking with masters in backchodi from IIFT makes a good baker tag team with me.

JD: no particular.hes true to his name…happy soul of the world

Very True Very True : His animosity with living chicken and intense passionate love for Pizza is uncomparable. Likes yesteryears forgotten rock and Only atif aslam and ya “tera sarafa”. The topper of the batch,first to get ready in the morning and always game for PU.

JD: Carry the bag to office which means I don’t ve to carry nething J.extremely responsible with his food reco`s.

Doc-IPL : Well ugh IPL is over now.Cricket and spicy food is all he has sustained himself on.Has excellent collection of 1 liners have had us in splits. Loves newspaper, television. rest of the world he can live without.

Saket : The revolutionary HR would be manager. Who wants to change perceptions and I am sure he will one day.He keeps reminding that there is still ethics and ethos which stand as the governing light for simple living. Uncomplicated and extremely hardworking.

JD : the jogging mate.loves stairs and inspire for healthy living.

Me : isn’t the whole blog about me already J

The stay at memorable party destination of 4BHK is over. Special thanks to Vinod (aaieyyy na siiir) who has been cook/caretaker/informer/key maker /pseudo broker and pretty much 1 man army.

Other characters who deserve mention :

Uncle Mohol

Kancha

Top less dude from Goa

Platinum

Part I: Ideating

11 trainees as many credit card companies. So we were the chosen ones. (So as we thought).Hence we applied. PLATINUM. Before the salary account is opened our platinum card application is ready for processing.

Part II: Conceptualization

After the strategic decision about the business development. The follow up act commenced.Gaurav started his Kismet Konnection wd ICICI...Abhishek with Standard Chartered, Sukhad with Kotak. Vishal Wd Barclays.

Part III: Discoveries

Jaiswal realized he lives in a non service area, Gaurav discovered that he had applied earlier ( ugh he din knew dt ) and cannot apply any more. I have been telephonically verified so many times that even telecom providers would wonder. After tracking the ever absconding prabhaker (the Sales guy who filled d form for us) we made the greatest discovery – most of the application hasn’t even reached. Howzzat for starters

Part IV: Fire Fighting

Calling and recalling the bank. Calling and recalling prabhakar.attending verification calls. Finally writing to our buddy KV KAMATH and top honchos of all major banks to the effect that I am sure in the next quarterly meet of banks this topic will surely be raised. And all this for the elusive sight of a silvery black pass to hell (read platinum)

Part V: Aftermaths

Platinuuummmm finally happened after 2 months of rigorous and focused action.1 out of 11 did manage to get the card. Our single minded ambition paid fruits and will be termed as great victory of teamwork and collective effort.

Poker face

It’s the greatest game of the time
Can also be called as the fav actuary past time ( certified by Akash and tanay).but then nevatheless smething nu I learned so has right to be on the blog J
A 5-card poker game and specifically the Texas Holdem . This is now crazily played by the people in the UK and US, so every other night you switched on the TV, you will see 6 people playing against each other on this.
The game is basically like this 5 best from the 7 cards that you have and the order of the 5 cards are in the following sequence:

Defining S as Spade, D as Diamond, H as Heart and C as Clubs
Here is a sequence from the strongest hand to the weakest

1)Straight Flush (sequence, colored)
e.g. 6S 7S 8S 9S 10S

2) Four of a kind
e.g. 4S 4H 4C 4D 7S

3) Full House ( Trio and a pair)
e.g. 9S 9H 9C 3S 3D

4) Flush ( Coloured)
e.g. 5C 10C JC QC 2C

5) Sequence ( Straight)
5C 6H 7H 8D 9C

6) Three of a kind ( Trio)
QH QC QD 4S 7H

7) Two Pairs
6S 6H KS K C 5D

8) One pair
7S 7C JC AH Qd

9) One Card High
KS JC 8H 7C 5S

Probably as you already know the sequence are just sorted in a way of probability, the hardest to get is ranked stronger……So all the actuaries and MBA finance , maybe you can work out those probabilities and don’t forget to let me know! There are a few websites where you can play Texas Holdem, where you can register and then you will be given 1million pounds……….play money. The registration is for free. The more you practice the better your skills will be rewarded ;)

http://www.pokerroom.com/
http://www.partypoker.com/

One More travelogue

I think I should apply to lonely planet. I mean I travel so much and don’t get paid for it .Actually I m happy in my job which is mostly no contribution to company or the society.I wish all jobs are like these with complete autonomy and creativity. Neways this forum is not to brag about the complete wastage of my professional life but about the travel escapades..which also are funny coz I am a funny man. Actually sad reasoning but can be justified when you haven’t slept from 3 nights straight.

So we all started for a small little place called DAMAN. We had a special powai idli`s but that is a different story. Our overambitious plans were to leave at 6 am. So I got up at 7 and sme 4 women came and picked us up from the flat. Of course the start was wonderful and I was super-enthu about the trip already.

So we left the Sakinaka hotspot and moved lured with the faraway beaches in the fantasy land. So we went and went and kept on going coz suddenly it has already been some 4-5 hours and we were yet to reach 193 kms.

And there it was right in front of our eyes. The beautiful (rather ornamented with garbage) the black sand beach smeared with muddy water. I suddenly started feeling sorry for my beachwear. But then beach is beach and I am from Rajasthan so cannot disgrace any waterbody.

Daman: It’s a beautiful portugese colony (portugese is my nu favourites) close to a dry state with least taxes on liquer so we found more wine stores than STD PCO`s and since the time I have left drinking these “fortunate” instance have increased manifolds. So wine ..respective women with respective men and high tides.Not a bad combination to sum it up.

But then it was a assortment of finance superbrains so all the actuaries (atlest all of whom I knw) indulged in their favourite pastime of sipping beer and playing poker went on till wee hours. In all the mayhem the firang actuary who wanted to visit the Indian countryside also wanted to see the sunrise on the beach soon realized that on this side of Arabian sea sun only sets not rises J.(And I thot only Indians are oversmart.)

Don’t worry the writer wasn’t the part of either the poker or of sun sighting project. i era ocupado noutro local.:)

Sunday mornings and we were at the sea. All dressed up and undressed up. Fighting muddy waves..rocks at the seabed and Frisbee/slippers. Saw the church cum fort ..Lighthouse cum sky scrapper. But all in all the serenity after madhouse in Mumbai was priceless, just to sit there by the sea side and introspecting (sometime not introspecting also).All this while njoin the calm and listening atif aslam for the 100^th time( I was made to listen….).

As good as it gets was achieved so we came back leaving all our gujju brethren in the alcohol oasis. We met our share of traffic jams on the way but the rise to the place was worth the trip. Despite a single CD we sang , danced and made all feel glad about the adventure. Actually I realized how insignificant is the place when you are with friends and really wanted to have a blast.

Thanks people it was a terrific weeknd getaways in every sense of the word.