Big Bazaar yani Big Zatka..

Big Bazaar to me literally means a big amount of inane marketing :-)

On a sunday today and was really amazed at how dad had the patience.. :D but looked like he did.. went to the Great India Place ( The largest mall in Noida).. its hugeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee... Insanely huge.. cannot possibly do it in a day.. i havent seen a mall as big as this one.. in anycase we were out on a hunt for a bed for me and a book shelf as well.. along with shoes for me.. i did buy a shoe.. though the rest is history...

I realised one thing for sure today when we entered Big bazaar.. the idea being actually to go to Home town which is also a future group vernture for home furnitures, furnishings and blah blah..You just end up picking stupid stuff, all kinds of stuff.. maybe useful but not necessarily required at the moment... Big bazaar says they ensure you save.. but do you? because you enter , you see schemes.. you buy shit loads of stuff which u dont really need.. and wuallah.. there u r out of that place with empty pockets and trollies of stuff loaded into your car..there is just so much stuff.. and all kinds of stuff that anyone is bound to go mad..and u just go oh this one and this one too and oh this as well.. pick it all up..i want this whole place... They have become a sort of one stop shop..

i liked what dad said.. he was like nowadays living is so expensive..not because u cant afford it but unlike 10 years ago places like big bazaar ensure u over spend on things most of the times u dont need.. and other way he says to look at it is all the rich buggers who have so much money.. they find an outlet to use that money as well..

one more thing which i have always noticed with big bazaar and i think its a damn neat strategy is the fact that they place a lot of stuff next to the cash counter.. while u are waiting and u definitely wait for 10 minutes on an average in a big bazaar.. u tend to pick up half the stuff that u see in those trollies next to cash counter..

I was loving a lot of stuff in there .. like Hometown.. beautifully done bedroom setting and kiddy bunk beds.. but man they are expensive or what.. i saw this fridge which cost 2 lakhs some thousands.. leather sofa's 1 lakh some shit....dude all your dreams down the drain.. its too much.. n u say its middle class.. is it really?? i feel its crazy..

Finally one show from the entire mall and crazy amount of people and therefore run out of that place.. and then go to sector 9 where a huge amount of carpenters sit selling the same stuff at half the rate... i went there.. finally ordered a nice customised bookshelf and also ordered a nice low bed..and now i m ready to get a nice floor arrangement done once its ready..

I bought Clay :-)

Yes i am talking about the clay we used to play with as kids in school.. making faces and vegetables and loads of other mad things out of our own dear imagination..

Wondering why i bought it?? well my nephew came over today.. and happened to gift him a whole set of stuff like jigsaw puzzles, clay, crayons, colouring book et all.. man i wanted to play with it as much as he wanted to..

So couldn't resist myself and went and bought myself some clay as well.. :-) though dunno if i will manage to do the really cool stuff i see a lot of people doing out of it.. i still am very 3 yr old at it.. but its fun none the less.. colouring and sketching and using colours has always excited me.. i have a set of these things in b'by always and whenever i feel the need to go back to the drawing board.. :-) i always do.. its a good time pass and a very very good engagement.. rather than the same old adult crap that i do ... man i want to be a kid again.. it was so much fun :-) .. the gifts were so much more interesting than the clothes and stuff now..

i still get more excited when someone buys me colours and stickers and colouring books than any thing else.. i remember this one time my friend bhinee having seen my obsession with these things had got me this set of colouring books from her college trip to khandala.. man that was probably the best gift anyone got me in college.. :-)

Status Quo !!

I always have fun Reading people's status msg's... They can be quite innovative..Anything from finding dogs.. to loactions to life miseries to state of mind.. it can be just anything..


Here are a few i found :

• Rajkot, GUJ: Su che? / Engg offsite: Murdeshwar, KA - a friend who is travelling and her status changes with her new destination every few days...
• If winter comes, can spring be far behind??
  
• When life hands you lemons, ask for tequila and salt... - This ones one of my favourites :-)
• Snoozilicious Maximus - A friend on leave from work back home
• taxes..taxes..taxes and more taxes. Its that time of the year again.. he he
• Mesmerised by Zakir Hussain’s performance at ‘Blue Frog’ last night - Blue Frog seems to be the most happening hang out these days..
• -= a brand new day =
  
• हाथी घोडा पालखी... जय कन्हैयालाल की!...
  
• Desperately looking for Golden Retriever puppies. Any kind of help is welcome...
  
• Still trying to like Client Servicing ... Aren't we all.. ha ha..


• Yeah. i AM dreamin AWAY to glorY
  
• I am starting with the beats I hear within my cold gone chest. For I ask of it to love some more, and love with all its zest.
• Busy except for girlfriend
  
• I must be strong and carry on 'cos i know i don't belong here in heaven...
  
• I am most diplomatic when I dont speak!!.
  
• workin-urgent 1's only
  
• .... and then there are days when the pit seems endless.
  
• You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus
  
• zzzleep is takin over
  
• Jaded
  
• Pink Pandey strikes back - and that ones another addition to my never ending list of names.. :-)

Do add in few u guys liked.. :-) i love to read more..

Book Worm

Well Don't know if i qualify as one but i think i am wormish enough in terms of being addicted with the idea of collecting books.. it's like.. books have a magnetic affect on me.. a lot of my hard earned money does go in buying truckloads of books.. Though i must admit that i am pretty slow with them.. As of now my collection is big enough for me to be opening a library since i have been collecting books since i was a child.. but i guess i have to be a member first of my own library since there are loads of them which i still have to read..I guess its time to buck up..



Therez a World BOOK FAIR going on in Delhi's pragati maidan and on my way back from mum's Hospi visit i just couldn't resist but enter.. its madness... The book fair is distributed in 12 halls of pragati maidan and i could by the end of it manage only 2. It's too tiring.. Did buy some books namely..

1. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
2. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
3. Ulysses - James Joyce
4. Anton Chehov's collection of Plays
5. Madam Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
6. Collection of Stories by Nobel Prize winners like - Pasternak, Faulkner, Hesse, Mann, Yeats, Shaw, Camus and others..
7. Last but not the least a set of some 5, 6 hindi books.. novels and short story collections of famous Hindi writers for my Grand mother.. :-)

Have bought over 20 books in the last one month and managed to read only 3 out of them.. I guess i seriously need to buck up now :-)

Alag naam magar problem same same..

People from the state of Bihar and U.P. seem to be facing the same problem yet again in and this time in Maharashtra. Fondly or not so fondly called the BHAIYA'S in Maharshtra.. DESWALI's in Northeast specifically assam seem to be wanted out always.. and these are the two states i know about.. I guess they face the same demarcation across the country..

Well is there an end to the Bihari Bhagao Andolan across the country..i atleast seem to see no end to it.. I was born and brought up in Assam.. where regionality is imbibed in every assamese's mind and bihari's (as well as Bengali's) seem to be their greatest threats .. wonder why?? inane number of attacks on migrants specially bihari's and bengali's have been a trend in Assam over innumerable number of years now.. I remember in school telling my dad how i felt like an NRI would feel in the USA maybe.. i did not belong.. to the point where even my closest friends till date dont shy away from commenting on my origin inspite of the fact that to me my origin has been assam..

And now it seems to be a trend in Mumbai as well.. In either of these states don't quiet get the rationality behind kicking these poor souls out because a majority of the population or maybe almost all are actually the labour class.. now thats maybe an added advantage for these states.. Yes bihari's are supposed to be taking on to the UPSC and all those seats as well but what i dont understand is its a free society.. whoever works hard for it gets it.. Assam has always been the Quota loving state and even amongst my own friends i hardly know any who have managed to venture out of the state on merit.. its either hard core donation or the grand ASSAM QUOTA (and that's a back up they always know they have therefore pushing them all the more to not bother puting in their 100%)..

Even with Mumbai.. the city is ruled by the rich gujarati business community above any other community but they add to the economy monetarily for maharashtra therefore they are never targetted..why isnt an Ambani targetted for building his great refinery in jamnagar and adding to gujarat rather than maharashtra.. the service class or the poor ones are always the soft target because maybe their contribution is too puny for any great importance to anyone..

how does people coming from outside have to do anything with your capabilities.. i m sure marathi's can also read and write as much as any one else can.. therefore something called geting a job with one's own merit seems to have gone out of everyone's head.. what do poor taxi walla's have to do in this.. if they are kicked out today i think 90% of mumbai transport in terms of cabs will be a full stop creating an even more confusion in the city.. they aren't any harm infact they are just an added help in the city infrastructure..

Well there never was any logic behind the raj thakeray's of every state in this country.. be it the ulfa in assam or anywhere else.. it's few people who want their agenda for political or monetary purposes and its the common man and in this case biggies like Amitabh Bacchan who have to suffer this nuisance..

Wedding Mania

And like my friend Shivani says "the Wedding Mania continues".. i m really amazed at the number of wedding news that i have got in the last few months.. it's inane.. everybody around me just seems to be getting married.. be it school friends, college friends or office mates or just any friend.. :-) just everyone is getting married..

and the best part is that everyone's wedding news just seems to be such a sudden event.. everybody suddenly seems to be deciding over night that dude time to get married and there goes out the Shocking alert on ofcourse now the most advanced way of letting the world know.. Albums on Orkut and Facebook..

Wonderful i say... maybe its finally reaching that age in life where i guess its but natural to hear people getting married but man this has been an overdose.. seriously.. and i dont see an end to it.. lol!

breaking newz

This one came again from the capsule show of mtv called MTV it sucks (not very sure of the name)..hosted by cyrus sahukar.. he was on the bit about breaking news..

how the real breaking newz item was actually an important earth shattering or country shattering newz which was of that importance.. had to be telecast asap putting a full stop to all other daily usual routine news.. Gandhi's death was a breaking newz because it was the country's loss.. war times were the greatest breaking news periods for radio channels as well as tv..

but ofcourse offlate with the influx of uncountable number of news channels.. breaking news is salman khan makes 40 calls to vivek oberoi.. breaking news is abhisekh and aishwarya's wedding for 2 continuous days on all channels.. for the mere trp's the news channels are willing to make anything a news.. sometimes wen i watch zee news and the likes then i wonder whether i m watching travel or living or a news channel..the hindi news channels are the worse.. they put to shame such a beautiful language wen they start yelling and screaming and making everything sansanikhej khabar... and there is still no end to newer news channels making its entry..

just the other day .. the meterological dept predicted that delhi was going to go down to ZERO degrees on friday.. very first thing in the morning you see aaj tak yelling in their trademark hindi "Dilli jum gayi" .. they get someone online from the met dept.. and the guy outrightly denies it ans says some channels are broadcasting that its zero degrees but the real temp is 4. some degrees.. the channels seem to have measured temp under the grass which is not correct.. temp measured in open air.. and ofcourse aaj tak not leting him speak any further and diverting his attention to something else... but it was hilarious how they make a mountain out of a mole hill and don't think twice about the dishonesty that they have brought to this once upon a time prestigious and important profession..

like sahukar says until next time you screwed up news channels STOP SUCKING!!