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Aniee - my latest crush

Yes, this young lady is a terrific singer. She sings flawlessly with the most most under-matured voice, which is really very sexy to hear. Hear it yourself and tell me whether I am correct or not. She is a young Pakistani singer currently rocking the world.

I also love her Jhatkas and Matkas. She is being compared to Shakira. I would like to say that she is much sweeter than Shakira. She is Annie.



See the video yourself and tell me.

When should I study?

What a noise pollution it was this time, during my MBA Examination in the month of May, 2007, around my house? I was not at all surprised by the amount of commotion that occured here as it is a common phenomenon in this part of the world. The probability of occurence varies each day. But the worst part is, the probability of occurence was 1 (at its peak) each day out of the all 13 days before my Exam.

1) A baby took birth about a year ago in the house that is just behind my room and my room faces their room. Suddenly this time, during my Exams, the voice of the baby became louder and louder and he started shouting at the top of his voice everyday, just like the way Sanjeev Kumar had shouted when Amjad Khan chooped of his both hands in Sholay.

2) Ours is a very religious para (locality) and the month of May is the festive season in our para. Two major Pujas (Jagathdhatri and Annapurna) are held. Dhaks and dhols are a must in these pujas. During my Exams this time, they were again played loudly like all other years. These Pujas are very nice and a wonderful event to participate in, but the sound of dhaks cannot be tolerated during Exams.

3) With full respect for the Rabinrasangeet lovers (even though I am one of them), on 9th May, 2007 on the birthday of Kabiguru Rabindranath Tagore, a major function was held in our locality and all famous Rabindrasangeet Artistes came here to render these beautiful songs, through their experienced voice. But I had Exam during that time, so although I missed the event but had quite an amount of concentration lapse as I could hear all these songs from my room.

4) Jatra (Plays/Dramas) is a common feature in our area during the month of May every year. As usual a Jatra event was held with males playing the roles of females by wearing female dresses. It is something very funny and at every instant some drums and a disc is played after each dialogue. I continues from 7pm till 3am the next day. It strongly affected my studies.

5) Crows at our locality are very fond of me. They like to caw on me. Whenever they see me, they start cawing. This increases more during my Exams. During my Exams even if by chance the crows of my area, see me through a pin hole, they start cawing at me like as if they had just learnt to caw and they had never seen me before. They caw at the top of their voice. I get irritated and disturbed at this, but there is no other way out for me.

6) There is a dida (a granny type lady) on the next house, and she is very lean and weak but I dont know how, her voice like the crows and the baby, becomes louder and louder and she screams at her domestic help everytime in the morning of my Exams.

7) In our neighour, stays two brothers (Anondo and Niranondo, their code names given by me) who have divided their fathers house in to two and living with their families. Previously these two families used to shout at each other, using slangs. There was a ceasefire for about 5 years but suddenly this year, from nowhere during my exams the wives of these two brothers and the children started using slangs at the top of their voice ( I dont know the reason) , but they were so horrible in their languages, that I felt like strangling them to death. Even the people on the road do not use so much harsh phrases. I was really out of my brains.

8) The people in the house just behind ours had always linked their party time with my Exams all throughout my life. They used to have parties during my exams while at school, college and even now they are having Marriage Parties, Birthday Parties during my exams. They play loudspeakers with the most recent numbers. This time they had Annaprashan Ceremony of their less than 1 year old baby, just before my exams. This time thay played Himesh Reshamiya numbers. I felt very irritated.

9) There is another character called Pakhi-aunty (a lady of about 28, has many birds and cats as pets, who looks like Pakhi (acutally Rakhi) Sawant) who plays with the cats on her roof which is at a very close proximity from my study. This lady starts caressing her cats as loudly as she can so that the whole locality knows that she has cats. I feel like tying chocolate bombs on the tails of these cats along with their mistress so that they do not do so, while others Exams are going on.

10) There are 5 - 6 cats who start crying at the top of their shrill voices, at the backyard of Pakhi-aunty and they do so the whole night. It was again very intense during my Exams this year.

Sometimes I think, that how much tolerant I am that I keep on tolerating these nuisances around my house. I do not utter a word. I dont know what kind of enemity they have with my and my Exams that they always create loud noises some way or other during these crucial period. So tell me, my dear readers, when should I study?

Tongue tied

People carry out many jobs by the help of their tongues. Kissing is one of the prime functions in which we involve our tongue.

I have seen people using thier tongue much more that it is required while talking. Yeah, I've noticed that there are people whose tongue come out of their lips while speaking.

One of them is Kangana Ranaut, the skinny beauty ruling the Bollywood with films like, Gangster and Woh Lamhe.

Another is the famous Chef and TV Anchor of recipe shows, Sanjeev Kapoor.

Third is a man who is welknown in our area. His name is Shondev-da. He too speaks like that.

The fourth person who speaks or rather sings like that is our dear singer from Kolkata, who is known as Rupankar. He too takes out his tongue whenever he says the letter "S" and many such letters while speaking/singing.

There are several others. I will add them to the list once I remember them. [:)]

Alphabets & Numbers

We know that the alphabets A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z are arranged as it is shown here. Can anyone tell me why they are not arranged the other way i.e. from Z to A? Why are they not arranged in any other manner other than these?

Also why is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0 arranged in this manner an not in any other way?

Any guess?

Chitragupta Vaijayanta

I hope my MBA friends at IISWBM are having a gala time with the Class Notes that I have prepared for them (like Chitragupta) in the last few months. Hope they are all liked the font, size, presentation, material and my attitude.

I wish all of them "ALL THE BEST FOR MBA EXAMS".

All your comments are warmly welcome.

Keep in touch, stay well and take care,

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Rani and Preity - isssshhhhhhhhhhh

I simply don't understand how can Shah Rukh tolerate Rani Mukerji (where has the 'h' gone in between 'k' and 'e' in her name?) and Preity (what is wrong with Preety) Zinta. They two look like another male actor along with Shah Rukh. Rani Mukerji looks like the next door doodhwala (yes it is doodhwala and not doodhwali) and Preity looks like another clean shaven guy in the nearby locality who resembles a fair girl.

In my opinion Rani and Preity has no better screen presence than Suniel Shetty when it comes to impressing the audiences. Suniel Shetty would make a better heroine if made to be one. A heroine should have some sex-appeal which they have none. Their over exposed faces repels audiences instead of attracting them. They should be moms of young heroine or rather step down from their job if they have nothing great to offer other than those monotonous roles with SRK. They really suck. Watch KANK if you don't believe me.

Whenever I hear SRK making his next film with either Rani or Preity, I feel like banging my head on the floor till the memories of the two male-ish heroines disappear from my mind. God knows what ShahRukh finds in those two ladies and what made him invite them to KBC. Kajol was far better than these two in every aspect.

BOOK FAIR 2007

This year's Book Fair was not looking like one. It seemed like a normal fair that was unable to draw people to it. I had the opportunity to visit Book Fair 2007 with Gaurav and stayed there from 2.00pm till 9.00pm on Sunday the 18th of Feb, 2007.

The poor infrastructure at Salt Lake Stadium made the fair look lean. Maidan, where the book fair is held every year has its own charm. No other fair grounds can ever have the same charm or copy the charm from maidan. People travel by Metro Rail to visit the book fair at maidan each year which was something people missed a lot this year.

Even the collection of books were less compared to the previous years. Leading publishers were also not seen this year.

Firstly, a fishy stinking smell was coming out from the mud and the sand that was laid before the stalls. The lanes between the stalls were narrow, that made it difficult for the crowd to pass during peak hours. Only one good thing was that there was no puddles here and there that is a common site in Maidan.

Another thing that draws praise is the paper-pickers who picked the papers lying here and ther on the ground. The collected the papers to keep the place clean. They were sponsored by a leading FM Station. (I don't remember the name) . Those paper-pickers did a great job.

The toilet facilities were good for the males, but I saw a great queue in front of the female toilet. Only the authorities knows the actual reason.

The price of food items touched the sky. Cost of any food items was charged twice their normal price. This is a common phenomenon seen in Kolkata nowadays. The food items have become really costly. It is really difficult for the middle class people to afford them. The quality was also lacking.

There were only about 900 book stalls but most of the book stalls were extended around the stadium making most of the people unaware of the stalls there. So many remained aloof of the stalls around the stadium. All the people concentrated on the stalls that were erected behind the Hyatt Regency Hotel.

There was a grass field where couples and lovers haad the good opportunity to sit together and chat their heart out. This grass field was behind the stadium and was secluded from the main fair which made the couples have a good time.

While returning there were absolutely no transport facilities by the transport department and most of the people has to return to the next more (crossing) by walking and catch a bus or a cab from there. As for our case, we had to walk till Beliaghata CIT More to catch an auto to Sealdah. Others had to walk till Phoolbagan or Ultadanga or Chingrighata to catch a bus or auto to their home. The inadequate transport facilities disappointed the enthusiastic crowd.

Next day, I saw on the newspaper that there were about 90,000 footfalls at the book fair on Sunday the 18th of Feb, 2007., which was about 1/9th compared to the normal footfall at the Maidan. Hats off to Rani Rashmoni for gifting the people of Kolkata the Maidan which is both culturally rich and filled with heritage.

3 TYPES OF BOYS

Boys can be classified into 3 types, when their Love towards a girl in taken into account.

They are: -

B1) Who has never Loved a girl in his life.
B2) Who had Loved a girl but somehow it got terminated.
B3) Who had Loved a girl and later married that girl.

While writing the above 3 types of boys, I haven't drawn lines to whether it was fortunate or unfortunate for a boy to have been classified among the above 3 categories.

It is just my way of thinking.

Pain-y Rain at Eden Gardens

I came to know that I will be a part of the washed away match just the night before India took Sri Lanka at the Eden Gardens Stadium, Kolkata on 8th February, 2007. My daddy offered me two tickets and asked me to take my friend Gaurav to see the match. My sixth sense said the night before that the match will be washed away by rain the next day and so it did.

So before going to the match, I wrote a short message in my orkut about me area. I wrote, "Today all eyes are on Eden Gardens, Kolkata. I will be there with Gaurav. Hope you all see me on television supporting India and DADA. Whenever the camera focuses towards the crowd, search for me." I had even sms-ed my special friends to see me on television cheering for India and DADA.

Frankly speaking I went there to see DADA (Sourav Ganguly) score his first century at Eden Gardens. I personally have no faith for Greg Chappell and Rahul Dravid and have no interest in seeing a cricket match which has these two so called great people. But the Weather Gods had a different story to tell.

I was there by 1.30pm and sat on the gallery when the giant screen read "WELCOME TO EDEN GARDENS". All the players were practicing before the match. I saw almost all the Indian players and some of the Sri Lankan players whom I could identify.

The match started, and all were enjoying the match. Suddenly after the 18.3 overs when Sri Lanka was 102 for 3 wickets, it began to rain and it continued for 1 hour and a half. The field was turned into a big swimming pool. Some of the people left the stadium but most of the people stayed back till the last decision of the authorities was declared. Few minutes before the rain our Honourable Chief Minister, Shri Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee arrived and he was warmly welcomed on the giant screen.

It took the field workers 3 to 4 hours to dry the field, using only one super sopper machine and a dozed sponges, but unfortunately the match was called off disappointing the 1 lakh cricket lovers present there.

It was a shame that the authorities kept us waiting till 8.30pm by writing a message on the giant screen saying "Match suspended due to rain" and "Next inspection at 8.30pm". The enthusiastic spectators (aroung 70,000 people) remained there till 8.30pm when the last message came that "Match called off".

Seeing this the crown got furious and started booing Prasun Mukherjee (the new CAB President and Police Commissioner, Kolkata) and his team for inadequate match infrastructure and for keeping them waiting till 8.30pm from 4.00pm. The match started at 2.30pm. Some said that the wait was deliberately done so that people do not charge their money back from the CAB.

There were boos for Rahul Dravid too, for not letting India bat after winning the toss. Else, the people could have watched DADA score at least a half century.

Even the prices of food was comparable to the best restaurants and the quality and quantity was comparable to the food in a famine struck state. Packets of chips were 40 rupees, egg roll was around 26 rupees, which made the middle class people raise their eye-brows. Tea was served 15 rupees per cup.

I saw a man getting angry with the authorities for serving water pouch packs that were made in Orissa. He wanted to say that, "Was the condition of the people of Bengal so poor that they have to import water from Orissa?"People had to spend 15 rupees for a single pouch of water.

Our gallery had shade over us, but the rain was so intense and the shade was too weak to hold the rain that poured making all the people present there get wet in no time.

I personally felt that if China could build big indoor stadiums for their 2010 Olympics, then why can't India do the same for our cricket loving people at Eden and elsewhere in India? At present BCCI and CAB should gift the people of Kolkata by upgrading Eden Gardens to an Indoor Stadium.

My 10th sense tells me that it will take over 2 decades to understand the need and implement them, by the authorities. By then it would be too late for people of my age to watch a cricket match as live at Eden Gardens, may be.