A scary thought..

Hi Everone,
I am sure, everyone is busy planning their Christmas vacation, enjoying winter.. Well I am in mumbai, where average temperature is around 35 degrees Celsius. So no blankets, no roasted peanuts while sitting in front of heater, but whatever I am in Mumbai, and that’s my home rite now. Good thing is that my Mom is visiting me, so I am enjoying Maa-ke-haath-ka-khana (Food cooked by Mom) now-a-days, 100% sure to gain couple of kilos by next week. And icing on the cake is that I haven’t fought with her once, since she has come, trust me, it’s a miracle.. :-) Well, don’t take it in wrong way, it’s just I am bit loose-tempered, spoiled (Mom is definitely the reason for sure), and the huge generation gap among us. But still she is the Best mom one can dream of and most precious person for me.

Now moving away from the senti talk, let’s talk abt something crap, something weird, something which describes my likes.. :p
So I want to talk about this particular movie, which I saw recently “Knowing”, starring Nicholas Cage. This movie is a bit scary, though in the end, ghosts are nothing but some Aliens from other world, and for a change are on Earth to save Humanity (rather than killing it) before they get extinct. Now one thing about this movie which forced me to write this blog was a thought which came to my mind, while watching this movie. We all have heard about so many incidents, where some UFOs were sighted, some aliens kidnapping humans, animals, n god knows what,( why cant they simply kidnap Rakhi Sawant, Vindoo, Ekta Kapoor, and so many like them, so that we can get some breather on our TV sets).. But whatever, the thought of having another world excited me.. I was just wondering how far these planets will be and keeping, the current speed of us killing our planet and our speed of research, in mind, can we predict if we will be able to save Human race (doesn’t matter which race, religion, etc, just human as species) by moving on to some new planet and live there..
I know, it might sound another waste blog like my previous ones, but I got this thought, and wanted to share it with all of you.. Just give it a thought, what will happen, if we are late in discovering a way to move to other planet and adjust to its atmosphere before the Armageddon or end-of-world, which kills all living things on this earth.. There will be no life after that, no history, no1 will ever know, if once there lived Lucky, the gr8 blogger.. :p or abt you n yr loved ones.. Isn’t it something worth to give it a thought.. Or may be another mystery, which we can't solve, at least not for now.

Well, that’s it. That was a thought in my mind, wanted to share it with all for sometime and finally I did it.. Well, enough for this time..

Keep reading my blog.. Doesn’t matter for what reason, just do it..
Take care, Bye..

Yours truly, :p
Manish “Lucky” Awasthi

Chasing Dreams at 3:30 AM

Hi All,

Wazp, howz it going. Not sure how to start today, as I don't have anything to write about, Its just that its 3:30 am here, I am still in office waiting for a call at 4:30 am, (Yup, that's my life) I guess don't have anything better to do than this..So whatever, here is another of my blog..

Ok, I've got a thought, let me try that.. What could be better than talking about some1's dream at 3:30 am..So, let's talk about my dreams...

I've been hearing a lot that people should chase their dreams, and even have been giving the same advise to others lately as well, but maybe I can try to do some introspection here using Today's blog.. I sincerely believe that one should chase their dreams, there is nothing else in the world, which can give you more satisfaction and pleasure then realizing your dreams, but (god knows why "But, if, etc" words were discovered) the main point to note here is that success of all that, entirely depends on how accurately you were able to identify your dreams. It shouldn't be the case that you did everything you could in fulfilling your desire, just to find that this was not your dream.. It was just a 'good-to-have' thing/feeling, and then you feel more miserable that you have not only screwed your life's golden moments in achieving what you never wanted, but you have also missed those small but b'ful moments, which got neglected in your chase after nothing....

Enough of philosophy there and let me try to talk about my dreams.. As usual, I am not sure, if I really know what is my ultimate dream or whats the priorities of several dreams I have. But let me start by noting down few of my desires which, I want to believe, are my dreams:
a. Backpack across Europe
b. Buy a digital SLR camera and take some photography lessons
c. Learn German & French language
\\ I wanted to do so much things, but when I want to note them down, i just can't come up with anything, I guess this is the intensity of my dreams.. :-(

I guess that's it, I can't think of anything else.. and thats strange, there is no mention of either buying a car or home, OR getting married n have kids.. nothing of such sort.. So I guess, this proves one more thing, that this is not the time for me to get married.. :-) But, I'll not divert from the topic here, and lets see what is it that stopping me to realize these 3 dreams..
All of them requires time and money for sure.. and I am always short of one thing out of 2 for each of my dream.. for 1st & 3rd, main problem is Time.. Asking for couple of months break for backpacking is like asking to be fired.. Can learn language, but every time i decide to join some institute, I get some Onsite trip or some important RFP with bad timelines, or go home, postponing it for so long.. that I am not sure, if I ever will be able to do it.. The last thing to buy a DSLR, which is the easiest one to do. but just not able to get such big heart to make equally big hole (read `30 - 35 k) in my Bank balance.. :-( So someone help me how to achieve what I want...

Well these are couple of other mysteries of my life... god knows when I'll be able to solve any of them..

And Its getting close to my meeting time, So, I'll end this blog here. Well time to get back to Work and fight my sleep.. And Time for you all to wake up as well.. and get to some meaningful task in your life.. Don't waste it the way I am doing..

Enjoy your life, follow your dreams.. :-)
Bye..
Lucky..

Marriage Vs Lucky

Hi Everyone,

Guess what, Back in India, in (once aamchi) Mumbai, same shitty routine has started.. non-stop work, no relief, no-one to chat with.. God my life is simply rocking… :-( but I am still able to find some time out to write another blog and bore you with my another crappy piece of creativity. :p At least you should say thanx for that.. :-)

Ok, So today I am going to talk about my fucked-up life.. I am 26 today, and I guess this is the worst phase in your life to be Single at 25+ especially in India, where you see half of your friends / colleagues either married or desperately looking for one... And here I am with pretty messy life, and with no intentions to screw it more by getting married.. And to make it worst, I get these On-site opportunities where I literally enjoy my bachelor-hood and freedom, but the moment you are back and you face the world around, you get such a reality kick between your legs, that your balls come to your mouth, and you just don’t understand, WHY me??. Suddenly, you have all your friends either married or bachelor, advising you to get married or start looking for girls, like that’s the sole aim of my life.

I just don’t understand why Marriage is such a hyped-up thing in our country. I mean what marriage has to do with your age or salary or any other damn thing. Everyone gets a time in their life, when they need some emotional support, then they meet some1 who can provide that support and you feel like you have an understanding among you two, you can live rest of your life looking at the same face everyday and not getting bored, you start to like her stupidity, her mistakes.. And that’s the time when you should get MARRIED… (God they were some real cool senti lines… nt sure romantic or philosophical, bt I think I can bet my a**, they were good).. So, coming back, its YOU who get all those beautiful scary feelings, but then why the he** others have to come and advice you on something with which they’ll have no concern??

Maybe another mystery created by God, to make our life worse. You get one problem, and God sends 15 ppl with different solutions and your mind gets so much screwed in evaluating those 15 solutions that you forget that you have also been gifted a brain by the same god, which is better than others. THANKS to you GOD for all this confusion.. You are simply best at playing with us..

I guess, that’s all for Today.. Will haunt u again.. keep checking..

Bye n tc.
Lucky.

Lucky travelling and wondering..

Hi Guys,

I know its been some time since I bored you last with my blog. The reason is that I was travelling for some time recently. Finally, have just got a chance to sit down and write something and thats what exactly I am going to do now.

So let me tell or boast about what I was doing recently. I was on an official trip to Australia.. toured Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. And rite now I am sitting at Emirate's Lounge in Dubai sipping Diet Pepsi (yeah getting health concious after eating anything I could lay my hands on during the whole trip :p ), and wondering how life moves so fast.. I mean one day u travel in mumbai's Best Bus, other day in Australia, next day who knows..

So lets consider this as topic for Today's boring session.

So, just one year back, after graduating from so called one of the Best B-Schools in India and after working for almost 1 & 1/2 year for again one of the Biggest Indian IT Companies, Ardh-Satyam, I was thinking what went wrong with my choices/decisions/life/career. A time when my engg batchmates were touring across the world, all i used to get was a once a quarter trip to Chennai.. And today after one company switch and four Onsite trips later, I am just trying to realize what has changed. Or if anything has changed at all.
I mean I do have multiple visa and immigaration stamps on my Passport, which earlier used to be blank as my life, I've visited few places which used to be in my dreams/movies earlier, but do they really matter.
I want to take pictures of everywhere I go.. I cursed myself for an hour for not taking camera on my trip to Bondi Beach (god knows why they don't officially declare it as a nude beach :p).. But later on, i was thinking, does having these pictures will really take me back to the moments which I enjoyed there.. Or are these pictures just to be uploaded on Orkut & Facebook and show-off to my friends that I went to all these places. Or is it a way to fight / shield myself against the inferiority complex, which I used to get earlier while talking to those friends who are settled abroad.

Have been able to find multiple possible reasons, but as ever, again not sure which one is correct. God knows if this Sher-e-Lucky holmes will ever be able to solve these mysteries. Maybe this is the time for you all Dr. Watson-type ppl, come and help me.. (if you dont know who is Dr. Watson, go and read Sherlock Holmes) or at least put your comments so that I get the feeling, that at least there is some1 who is reading this. And in meantime, I'll upload the recent snaps on Orkut soon.. :-)

Ok ppl, leaving you all to critisize me again with your sarcastic comments, I am signing out. Any how I dont want to spend my time in front of this system anymore, instead of checking hot babes in dubai and do some shopping. So, here is lucky signing out finally.

Will catch you again from mumbai. Keep visiting. You can always take 10 minutes out of your amazingly boring and sadist life for my blog.

Bye n Tc..
Lucky

My inspiration for Blogging

Hi friends, I tried real hard to find out the real reason why I’ve initiated this blog, but I just couldn’t get it right. But suddenly, it struck me that I am writing this blog to impress girls, mentioning my new hobby or interest as Blogging.. It sounds cool, isn’t it? So finally after so much brain-storming and giving one minute to an evil thought, I am able to solve First mystery on this blog. :-)..

While I was giving so much though to understand why I am blogging, it also helped me to unravel another mystery, as in who inspired me for this. Well, I was checking blog of ‘Girlfriend’ turned ‘Wifey’ of my Colleague cum Best Friend (Yeah you losers, Colleagues can be good friends as well, even in an IT industry). So, the point is, whenever I spoke to her, I found her a very shy, reserved girl, exactly opposite of my Best friend, our Mai-ka-lal Jordan. But her blogs were so expressive that I understood this is one of the ways to express what you can’t in hundred different ways.
So be ready, you B*t*c*s n A*sh*l*s, Its payback time. I am gonna use this blog to show your real face to the world, to tell all what sh*t you are.
Ok so let me start with talking about this Desi Jordan. A south-Indian guy who is a rock star, could have easily gone into modeling n other glamorous world, but now is on its way to star in Indian reality version of “17 Again” movie.. Well I just wish he gets his priorities set up right. I guess enough of crap. So let me end this blog here.

Thanks a lot to all of you again to take some precious time out of your busy schedule (like you were meeting Bill Gates to discuss the AIDS solution or how to stop Windows 7 pirated copies or meeting Hamid Karzai and trying to help him restructure Afghanistan… :-) )…

Keep Visiting.
Lucky

P.S.: Sorry guys, you have to bear a bit more, need to thank my Prem bro, who gave me my first comment, though his comment was as cunning as his ever smile. But first comment is special. Thanks Bro, and keep it going. Your sarcastic comments will not break my will this time… Sher-e-Lucky is here to stay.. ;)

My first Blog.. trying to find out why I wrote this..

Hi..

Not sure, why am I writing this? But I guess this is the best & safest way to kill time and still show to your Boss that you are working :-)..

So as this is my First blog (with lots of hope for more to come..), let me start by introducing myself.
Friends and family call me Lucky, you can use it too, though yet to discover if I am Lucky to anyone, but that should be part of another blog. (just trying to save topics for more blogs). So I am 26 Yrs old, a Punjabi from Delhi, Currently working in Mumbai as Solution Consultant, obviously in an IT company, that’s why have got time to write this blog in daytime..
I love traveling, reading, and watching movies. I am a chatterbox, am sure, you’ll know abt that If you survive this blog.. I think enough of introduction here, so lets get to some serious blogging..

Lets try to find out the main objective for writing this blog.. Well I hope to get the next Dream Job (Caretaker of a tropical island on Australia's Great Barrier Reef, refer http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/01/12/Australia-offers-tropical-dream-job/UPI-38961231801412/ for more details)

Don’t worry, I know my communication skills are too over-qualified for such post.. :-)
So frankly speaking (that’s my Takia Kalam), I think I am writing this blog just to put my spare time into some creative work.. God this sounds so artistic, I am not this type of guy..

let me try again. I am writing this blog to tell the world what I think of others, but do I really think if any1 ever will read this crap, Naaaaa, so this one is also not valid..

Or may be I believe this is the best way to impress my profile visitors, and lure them in friendship, so that I can take them to some Hostel in a remote area, where I can sell them and few rich b******s can kill them for pleasure.. this sounds gr8, bt an idea stolen from Hollywood flick, I am at least original, nt like our Bollywood Directors.. so this one is gud bt not true,

So what could be it, ?????? Guess need more time to think about it..

God, I’ve just realized, I am pretty much done with my First blog, though I am yet to find a reason to write this blog. So maybe will do brain storming some other time, now need to get back to work..

If by mistake, some1 has really read this, then I apologize to you for wasting your time. And I hope next time I am able to come up with some better stuff which contains at least some meaning..

Lost in Thoughts..
Lucky