Friday, January 30, 2009

Donut without the hole :P

So am in mood of writing today...
Maybe that's because I somehow got to talk a lot at office today. :) :)

Anyways, so a few days back we had our famous "Donut Party" at office, which happens to be my first donut party... or I thought it was a "Donut" party... until I discussed it with a friend.

The party turned out to be educating for me.. While eating the "Donut" I wondered why there wasn't any hole in it and when I reached the middle why did I find butter??

I confronted one of my colleagues with this query
"Is mein hole kyun nahi hai?"
It sounded more like "Polo mein hole kyun hota hai?" (or something like that)
and he said "Pata nahi, hota to hai"

And then just for the sake of discussing all foolish stuff with friends, I told one of them in an email that I got to eat a Donut which amazingly enough didn't have a hole, instead it had butter in between. And she replied:

"Agar us mein hole nahi tha aur beech mein butter bhi tha to beta woh Donut hee nahi tha, usay Eclairs kehtay hain." :P :P

And hence my stupidity is proved yet again. :) :P

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Those moments...

Ever had that moment in life when disappointment reaches the peak point.. or shall I say reaches the pit.. when you think you can't be more disappointed with yourself.
Ever had that moment in life when you are depressed...
Ever had that moment in life when you don't understand how you ended up being like this, how you ended up where you ended up, when you stop for a moment and consider whether what you've got is what you wanted from your life.
The moment when relationships betray.
The moment when you think no one would understand you.
The moment when you realize that the way you've been your entire life isn't the way to live life. When you realize that it's high time you change yourself. When you decide everyday that this would be the day when you'll change yourself, and be like what you want to be and not like what you are by nature and then by the end of every day you realize that you can't change yourself.
The phase when you are exhausted, thoroughly exhausted and you don't understand why you are tired.
The time when you are not tired because you got no rest all day long, but when you are tired of yourself.
The moment when you think about where you'll be one year from now, and you don't know..
The moment when someone asks you what are your plans.. and you don't have any answer for that. This is the moment when you start dreading such questions.

And the moment when you start wondering 'at what point did all the things start going wrong....'

Saturday, December 27, 2008

How to spend time at office



Received these in email....

The Chat Mania!!!

I have always been a chat fanatic.. I had written a few posts on that too. But it has been a few days since I realized that we all have become so addicted to chatting, and how this is not a positive aspect.

Now let me prove my point.. (I'll just keep myself the target.. :) )

  • To talk to my supervisor (who happens to sit right next to me), I find him on the chat network and send him a message. All I have to do really is to push my seat a little away from my desk and start talking to him, or I can just stand up look over the partition and start talking. But I don't do any of the above two and I send him a message.
  • When my class fellow, who is in my team, is having fun with our colleagues, and as I can't barge in but do like to comment on my friend, I do the same thing, I find him on chat and send him a message.
  • Whenever I am bored at office, and wanna have some fun, instead of getting up and going to a friend's seat, I chat with them. I don't get up, I don't budge, I just sit at the same seat I had been sitting on since morning, staring at the same screen and I chat. Whereas, leaving my seat vacant for a while won't let the business go down, would it? It would just be good for me if I could go and stand on someone's head for a while, and chat, chatting that includes talking NOT typing. But no matter how much I hate sitting all day long, I still don't go and stand and talk to someone.
  • At client side, two people from the same company, (one of them is obviously me), sitting right next to each other, and still... chatting.. not talking but typing. Even if the discussion is purely professional, we still chat.

They invented chat, they invented emails for God knows what reasons, but one of that must have been close to;
"to bring people closer to each other"

With chatting and emailing, even if your sister lives in another country, you can still know her day-to-day life, you can still have long chat sessions with her, you can still be close to each other. Distances have shrunk because of this technology.

Let's go a little beyond chatting now. We have emails and text messages too. Now friends make email groups so that they can keep in touch with each other. That's all fine. Pretty good. But whatever the hell happened to picking up your phone once in a while and calling them up. Of course you can't call everyone and through email groups you don't have to do that. But still.....
And what happened to having regular lunch with your friends just so that you can meet each other.

And text messages... uff.. I hate being wished "Happy Birthday" through sms. On my last birthday a lot of people wished but through sms only, and I have gotten so much accustomed to this that even I messaged my friend on her birthday rather than calling her.
I even get invitations to weddings now over sms.

(People may think that I have a very weak circle of friends, who don't like hearing each other's voice and thus, restrict themselves only to written conversations. But this is not so, if you think about it, the above applies to most of us, not all may apply to everyone, but some would apply to each. I have just collected them all at one place so it seems a little depressing.)

Another aspect of chatting; the emoticons. They have become a total replacement of emotions. We use emoticons when we don't have emotions.

And maybe we use chatting so much because it's easier to express oneself over a written conversation... Anyways, we have indulged into this activity so much that we keep ourselves from getting up and talking to each other as much as we can..
They call it "The Advent of Technology".
I say "There is something wrong with the human race".


Author's Note:
By the way, I intended this post to be humorous. Highlighting my laziness of not getting up to talk but sitting comfortably at my seat and chatting.
But as I am a very serious person, I turned this into a debate rather than a humorous and
tanziya (couldn't come up with English for tanz) piece on chatting.
My readers (if there are any) don't mind; the joke's surely on me.
And yeah.. I have nothing against technology. I earn my living sitting 9 or so hours in front of the computer screen and even spend my weekends doing the same. :) :)

Monday, December 22, 2008

Kahan aa kay ruknay thay rastay, by Amjad Islam Amjad

Kahan aa kay ruknay thay rastay, kahan mor tha usay bhool ja
wo jo mil gaya usay yaad rakh, jo nahin mila usay bhool ja

wo tere naseeb ki barshain kisi aur chat pe baras gayain
dil-e be khaber mari baat sun usay bhol ja, usay bhul ja

main to gum tha tere dhyan main teri aas tere guman main
saba keh gai mere kaan main, mere saath aa usay bhol ja

tujhay chand ban kay mila tha jo tere sahilon pe khila tha jo
wo tha aik darya visal ka, so utar gaya usay bhol ja

Kaheen Chak-e-Jaan Ka rafoo Nahee, Kisse Asteen Pay Lahoo Nahee
Keh Shaheed-e-Rah-e-Millal Ka Nahee Khun Baha, Ussay Bhool Ja

Kyun Atta Howa Hai Ghubar Main, Gham-e-Zindagee Kay Fishaar Main
Woh Joo Darj Tha Tairay Bakhat Main Soo woh Hoo Giya, Ussay Bhool Ja

Na Woh Ankh Tairee Ankh Thee, Na Woh Khawab Hee Taira Khawab Tha
Dil-e-Muntazir Too Yeh Kis Liay Taira Jagna, Ussay Bhool Ja

Yeh Joo Raat Din Hai Khel Sa, Issay Dekh, Iss Par Yaqeen Na Kar
Nahee Aks Koi Bhee Mustaqil Sar-e-Aieena, Ussay Bhool Ja

Joo Bisat-e-Jaan Hee Ulat Giya, Woh Joo Rastay Say Palat Giya
Ussay Rooknay Say Hasool Kiya, Ussay Mut Bulla, Ussay Bhool Ja

Sunday, December 21, 2008

Qurani suraton kee khasosiyat..

Sur-e-Fatiha Allah ke azab se bachati hai.
Sur-e-Yaseen Qayamat ke din pyas se bachati hai.
Sur-e-Waqia fikar-o-faqay se bachati hai,
Sur-e-Mulk azab-e-qabar se bachati hai,
Sur-e-Kausar dushmanon se bachati hai,
Sur-e-Kafron maut k waqt kufar se bachati hai,
Sur-e-Ikhlas munafaqat se bachati hai,
Sur-e-Falaq haadson se bachati hai,
Sur-e-Naas waswasoon se bachati hai.

Saturday, December 20, 2008

Life style of our beloved Prophet Hazrat Mohammad (S.A.W);
Talk softly,
Walk humbly,
Eat sensibly,
Breathe deeply,
Sleep sufficiently,
Dress properly,
Act fearlessly,
Work patiently,
Think truthfully,
Believe correctly,
Behave decently,
Learn practically,
Plan orderly,
Earn honestly,
Spend intelligently.