Bangalored !! The Reality !

This is a post especially for 3 kinds of people:
1. The IT Crowd
2. People who have never visited Bangalore and imagine it to be the most developed and awesome city of India.
3. People who are Bangalored!!

What does Bangalored means?
It means a lot of things, little good and little more bad.
When a person says he is bangalored, it means at least one of the following:

1. He is happy if he gets a decent lunch in a restaurant for 200 bucks per head.
2. He has become habitual of travelling at least 2 hours a day in bus and/or he has accepted that a day in his life is now 22 hours long only.
3. He considers himself lucky if he is able to cover 8 kms in an hour during office hours.
4. He considers himself a middle class person even after earning Rs. 80,000 per month.
5. He forgets that people in this world do something other than software development also.
6. He goes to office either to eat free food or drink loads of coffee/tea.
7. He forgets that people once used to live in bungalows also.
8. He spends Rs. 250 to attend gigs of those bands whom he had never ever heard about before.
9. He has developed interest in theatre and plays and 200 seems a less price to pay for it.
10. Rs. 300 seems an ok price to pay for a movie on weekends.
11. He is love with the Bangalore weather even when dust due to construction is blowing on his face.

This is the reality of Bangalore. I hope it will clear your doubts about Bangalore, if you had any.

Yes there are good things also, but they are not worth mentioning apart from the fact that I live here :)

A request

You can learn something every moment in your life, only if you know the perfect song for the moment :)

I believe this and If you also do, Please suggest some songs which will help people experience this phenomenon.

Thanks in advance :)

Don't Ask Me !! Not in a state for such creativity!!

Have you ever experienced a state in which you sat for hours and wonder what productive things you could do with this very time that you are wasting?
I'm in that state right now. Fucked up state and hence cannot write sense. Don't blame me afterwards.
So if you irritated already, you are free to get the hell out of here and read some sensible post by Mahatma Gandhi maybe.
Things I learned in recent days and I feel everyone should know this:
1. VGA sucks, use HDMI only for watching movies, video etc.
2. TV Series are only fun in college. At Job everything sucks.
3. You cannot force yourself to read a bestseller novel just because it's a bestseller and you spent 700 bucks for it.
4. Don't plan to eat out for the whole Practice School. Keep something at home that you can cook and eat fresh.
5. Don't think you'll be able to use your BOSS processor with batteries for your whole fucking life. You need an adapter at the end of the day.
6. Don't think that you'll be happy with a brand name with less pay and facilities just because the name is good. In the end what matters is money and benefits. 
7. Money is not everything but somehow it makes you feel much better (if you have it) and worse (if you don't).
8. Don't go out for lunch with your team on a Friday specially if you are a vegetarian. You might feel robbed at the end of it.
9. Contra Jungle Jam on guitar is not that hard. 
9. Solving crossword at Crosswords can be fun.
10. KFC is the 2nd best thing that could have happened to this planet. 1st is KFC at a cheaper price.
11. Don't go to a musical instruments shop and play a guitar for hours just because you will buy it later. In the end shopkeeper might not sell it to you. 
12. Finally,  I realized I want to go back in time as far as possible and end up in a better position in present.
But the fact that I don't know what wrongs I did, will lead me to same place again. Here sitting in Marathalli, Bangalore writing a blog post at 2:30 AM on 15th of April 2012. But still I want to live it all again. Just for the sake of living.

10 years down the line when I'll read this, I will laugh on it more than anybody else. I know. But when you are in this state you can't help it much.

It's 3:00 AM already. Will I sleep or will I live?

Didn't you expect this?? Its My love :)

For those who know me even a little would know that my first love is music :)
What can I say about music...


It is the purest form of expression, purest form of every emotion.


For me Music is something which talks with me when there's no one else. Something that makes me feel complete. Something which makes me experience emotions which I would never experience otherwise. Something which makes me high., makes me low, sometimes both at the same time. Sometimes it lets me feel what others might be feeling.

It has the power to make you cry for a person that you don't even know.

There are times in life when you want to be alone but you don't get a lonely place to be, when you want to be with everyone but everybody is busy, when you want to be with someone and everyone is there but him/her. Music completes you at those times.

It has the magic of touching the soul exactly where it wants to get touched.

People listen to music...
I listen to the emotion...
People get high to make music..
I get high making music...
People listen/play to music to enjoy..
I listen/play to music to live..

Music is what keeps me alive. It surprises me every time.

P.S. Dedicated to Ankur Saxena, Vaibhavi Rangarajan, Piyush Pathak, Samagra Singh, Krithika Shekhar, Anurag Tiwari, Siddharth Joshi, Shilpa Ramamurthy and Jaskaran Singh :) 

High?? Low?? Up?? Down?? Heard these?? Lets talk.

"Life is not a competition" Easy to say huh??
I guess it's just a philosophy to keep you satisfied. You don't have enough, you don't have as much as your friend, Just say to yourself "Life is not a competition". It's like the all is well thing from 3 idiots.
But no one is happy with less than what he thinks he deserves, at least I won't be.
You know work hard, have patience, you'll get what you deserve..all this might be true. But when you don't have it, it doesn't feel right.

Actually leaving everything out. I feel, the pressure from the surroundings is responsible for all this competition.

Hypothetical situation:

Take 2 guys, one from IIT Delhi and other one from SRM Chennai. Both get a same job of 6.5 lacs in same company but there is a hell lot of difference in their attitude after the selection. The SRM guy is extremely happy, on the top of the world and the IIT guy just sad...plain sad.
Reason??
This was the best company that visited SRM Chennai and amongst the very lower rated companies that visited IIT.
Now both are equally valued but the surroundings were different.
SRM guy thinking: Yes man!! I did it. Best job in the campus. I'm the dude. Family happy, girlfriend happy. Life's great
IIT guy thinking: Lite yaar!! I couldn't even make a 10 lac job when my friends are making 60 lacs job. What happened?? 4 years ago we all(IITians) started at the same place. Then why am I so behind?? Family saying: "I read in the newspaper, IITians got job offers of up to 60 lacs...Why so less for you??"
And finally he says to himself "Life is a competition, and I'm losing"

Now who am I to say what's wrong and what's right. Probably it was his bad luck and he will get better as time progresses. Maybe he will get better than that 60 lac guy some day (with a 0.0000001% probability or even less obviously). But for now, it's not easy. Not at all.

So, for me: "LIFE IS A COMPETITION AND YOU HAVE TO RUN HARD ALL THE TIME. JUST HAVE PATIENCE AND HOPE" 
Nothing can make you happier but being at the top.
And I hope if seen positively, this will be your success story.

P.S :  I'm sorry if I haven't been able to convey my point clearly. Not a good writer you know :)

Illegal ?? Decisions?? Right?? Wrong?? Let's talk about it

Ever did something you're not proud of?? Something that you believe if you hadn't done it, life would have been easier??
No I'm not talking about emotional/personal/relationship/principles stuff...
I'm talking about illegal stuff...
Now and then everyone in his life of about 20 years has done some illegal stuff....Cheating is one of them if you think you haven't :P
Good people say you should not do any illegal stuff but I say
"DO ILLEGAL STUFF ONLY IF YOU'RE READY TO FACE ITS CONSEQUENCES"
Cheat only if you're ready to accept a -5 on your answer script.
Drive over 60 km/hour only if you are ready to pay 500 bucks to police officer.
Park your car in NO PARKING only if you have registry and driver's license.
Steal only if you're ready to stay in jail for one night at least.

Actually If you'll not do illegal stuff just imagine what would the police do?? So much unemployment :P

What I'm saying is just one of way of looking at it. Don't take the inspiration please.
Also if you're smart enough to fool the authorities, you should fool them I guess :P

Also I would like to mention here that life isn't fair to everyone. Sometimes you get accused of false charges and some rarer times are proven to be guilty also. But I guess whatever life does to you, it does only enough for you to handle it. And makes you a better person given you handle it the right way.
Actually One good thing it does is not let you have BLIND faith in GOD as most of Indians do or for that matter Hindus do.
But Whatever GOD does, he always give you an option(s) which people really, I guess, don't see. An option for a better path.
So If you feel GOD isn't fair to you, believe me there's a better life waiting for you. You just have to make the decision. And THE RIGHT ONE.

And Yes, Faith is always the option. Faith for a better tomorrow. 
Have faith In YOURSELF that you'll do good today and will learn from your mistakes, improve and have a better tomorrow.
Because it's you who is gonna lead your life, the one who is going to give it directions, the one, as GOD SwamiNarayan said, who has to carve it out of the rock with your mind and body.
GOD will not take care of you, you'll have to do that for yourself, he will just support.

THANK YOU.

P.S. Am I a preacher or something ??? :P :P
     This wasn't supposed to come out this way, really.
     I truly need some better topics :(

If you're not good enough then nobody is !!

I often come across the term "confidence" rather than over-confidence or under-confidence. Probably the better term would be over-estimating and under-estimating because what we do or how we behave is a reflection of what we think of ourselves. Do we think more or do we think less of ourselves than what we actually are. It's not easy to estimate your capabilities but then if you don't know, don't try to. Because whatever/whoever you are, one day you'll figure it out yourself.

You never know what life will bring to you the very next moment. It might be joy, sadness, heart break, surprise, shock, anger or maybe worse than what you can imagine. But whatever be the case there's one thing you can promise to yourself i.e. Regardless of what happens this very next moment I will be a better person than what I am right now.

There will always be people who will try to hold you back or if not that, there will be failures (always) that will tend to do the same. People who once used to look like a loser to you might now be at a better position than you, a position where you once dreamt to be. Is he/she better than you ?? Maybe he is and probably that is the reason he is up there. Or maybe he is not and he is just fortunate to have reached there. The fact is no one knows and will never know. So just keep trying to improve and create something new out of each and every moment. 

P.S. I say it once again: "The start to this might not have been great but the ending will be legendary. I know it."