I cant believe it!Bloody pseudo delhiiites...dont understand a thing abt football. But crowding places like hell. Hope we get to see the game at a nice place. Be it buzz or geoffreys or kake da hotel! I dont care....fingers crossed the jinx of the blog doesnt strike again!

I guess ppl with superior IQs are quicker...so you hear it from them first...but it seems both the blogs got uploaded at the same time:-)

Plans for tonight

Pplz...have booked a table for 7 at Geoffery's. Tried Pebble Street as well, they're showing the match, have two big screens but couldn't confirm our reservation as they are over booked already...but unlike Buzz this manager said they'll allow entry.

Geoffery's has two big screens, 3 TV screens and they won't play any music during the match(that's what I was told by the manager...have requested some people with superior IQs to check again as they feel I won't know the diff b/w big screen and TV screen!!). Hope the venue is ok with all.

Newaz..this was just to confirm the plan..hope everyone's coming. Anubhav i'll just check with gullu babes if she's comin or not.... you just might have the special privilege of enjoying our company(Gullu & mine:-) on your way to Del.
See u all in the eve..adios!

Ranikhet as an option

Since we are on the topic of weekend getaway with every1 bored at work,W-Day approaching for the 1st couple and uncle going semi NRI....I just did thoda inquiring around office and a bit of googling on where we could go....Ranikhet seems to be a good place...its about 9 hrs drive from delhi and the round trip will be some 850 kms....Laluji is also on our side as there is a train that leaves at 10 pm and reaches at 6 am....the fare for 3A is 390 one way....for the boarding and lodging....there are lots of options...starting from 4000 for three rooms to 5200 for a duplex suite to 1400 per room, depending upon the luxury we need or the money we want to spend ;)....Lots of places to go around Ranikhet like Sheetlakhet, Chaubatia gardens, Jageshwar, Almora etc....can we have some tghts on this from every1....12-15th Aug could be a good option....as we'll need just 1 day's chutti...and its mid of the mth so the "sailu" junta can get off too....

Coming back to the present....sorry 1st couple could not meet u guys yest as we were out with the family....but tonite lets meet up for "the" match...m thinking of supp germany, 'coz I want them to lose ;)....

Nice to c the 1st couple write on the blog...and both of them have made very valid points....with so much crowd at the engagement I think v'll just be taking pics standing in one corner...and deva will point out to us from the stage...those 3 DFP's (read Desi's from Punjab) are my friends....maybe the acronym will help bhaujaai remember us ;).....

As far as jokes on uncle go....I spoke to him yest and he said the same....ki tum log toh mera mazaak hi udaate rahoge...but being the "good" friend I have assured him that jokes will not go out of our circle....so he stays the TDH dude until......his luck runs out I guess ;).....but chill uncle we will try and maintain the decorum...if there is any, with the hawaai fires going on and people eating 70 rasgullas at a time ;)

But all said and done...m toh looking forward to this trip big time....and as far as the l'now trip goes....had disc it with Nidhi and Kosal...and both of them thght if v r gng out lets go to a thanda place....but since Divya has work there and we need a brk so l'now is also fine....lets deci quickly but....

Chalo another day begins...2 more days to go to patna :)

Good to know that there would be atleast some representation of Deva's desi jingbang. Accha hai...let our NRI bhaujaai get introduced to the dehati clan gradually...hum sabse ek saath milti to shyaad too much ho jata.
Anywaz on a more serious note, would have loved to come for the grand event but me off to Cal next week and with less than 3 months to go for our own D day, every weekend the only thing my parents want to do is to shop till we drop.
Mamu & I are were planning to go to lucknow towards the end of July and wanted to check with you guys on the same. I need to meet my bro there and pick up a few things for the shaadi. Since Gullu talked about the trip just wanted to know if the rest of the junta would be keen on going to Lucknow...Its definitely not as exotic as Kinnaur but could do for a weekend trip nonetheless. Do let me know so that we can make plans accordingly(will need to book train tickets I guess) Uncle can obviously play the perfect host and show us around the happening
town :-)
For the ones who finally go to Patna this weekend apart from the pics etc...make sure you have enough anecdotes to bring back and narrate to us lesser mortals who couldn't make it for this big day.
Deva...sorry for not being able to come this time but will definitely make it for the wedding..koi baat nahi agar ekdum interiors mein bhi ho!!
None of the bosses are in office today...after a really long time my day at work doesn't seem all that bad any more!Gotta go now..catch you all later..Ciao.

trip

i second the fact that we need to go for a trip.. divya n mamu let us know wen u guys are free.. will the last weekend of July be fine with every one... that is 29 and 30th july else we can go 1st weekend of Aug..ie 5th and 6th Aug....
vidya was suggesting kinnaur.. else kahin pe bhi chalo... but chalo.. please guys all of u atleast put ure thoughts to this...

and kosal, aabhas n anubhav.. enjoy the trip and take some snaps and post them on the blog once ure back...

In addition to the breaking news by my journo bro, uncle has been informed that we are landing at 9.15 on sunday. His reply was "cab will be there to pick up. will take u to the hotel"....and obv I asked "will it be a lancer? will it take us to the radisson" :)......but srsly it wud have been a lot more fun if all of us cud have gone....like my bro put, us desi ppl will find it very diffi....esp with the NRI bhaujaai....both I and bro toh will be useless....yes kosal can make a conversation defi...

Mota is as usually doing goli baazi....but the biggest ditch came from the HS people....as in she had all the creds to represent us in front of the NRI's...but what to say....maybe travelling in the bus was sthg that put her off...or she wud have been 2 embarrassed with us....jo bhi hai....hum toh patna ja raha hoon....

Btw are we thinking for a wkend break....ab toh one more wicket down hai...v shud do sthg jaldi...kya pata aur kaun kab kat jaaye....

We are going to Patna!!

As of now me, bro and kaushal are going to patna on Sunday to attend the big day. We will be catching the first bus to Patna (and by bus I mean the Air Deccan early morning flight). Have already told my mom to pack paranthas and achar for the journey!Its a blooody three hour long flight!!

As Uncle clearly mentioned the other day that the wedding is gonna be held even in more interiors of Bihar, we should at least make it for this event.

Motu too has said that he will try to make it via Ranchi and all that. But looks dicey for him. Would have been good fun if all of us would have been able to make it. Chalo at least we will have some "desi" ( and by that I mean bhai and me!) representatives at the NRI meets Bihari liasion.

Looking forward to it eagerly.

Congratulations

Well..after almost two-three years of meeting girl's chachas, mamas, brothers, uncles and warming Haldiram's chairs, breaking glasses...eating sambar vadas and chhola bhaturas..Uncle has finally been tied down. Congratulations uncle!I am sure you will be equally relieved and happy.

While I am sure most of us will be keen to go, the kind of shrt notice Uncle has given will be a bit tough to manage, though it will be an event to remember. There will be a 21-topon ki salaami types ka jashan in the Deva household.

Chalo if the Indo-Pak dispute is still going on, a dispute of a similar magnitude has been solved at least. While foreign returned wife is good news for uncle, I do agree with Mamu that we mite be considered a bit Desi for her standards. The only one who can strike a conversation with her has to be Mr Kaushal. With his "Can u talk English, walk english, eat English (without grammatical mistakes)" routine.

Mufti has given the best remark on this event. He said something on these lines ,"Yaar, devaji ka toh bhediye wali kahani hai....itni baar announce kar chuka thha pehle, ki iss baar yakeen nahin ho raha"

Congrats once again!

WHOA!!!

What a day it already has turned out to be!!!! the hottest catch is out of the marriage market!!!! the only value add i can gv to previous two posts is that the marriage is in dec...i guess next in line is Kosal and his mysterious girlfriend......But great news and defi calls for celibrations.. me and Nidhi were planning to meet in saket for da vinci (I will nvr be able to see that movie!!!!!!!) but that can be scrapped if yall intend to come that side.... or anywhr else in delhi for that matter.. chalo me goes...

Chat Mangni Pat Byaah

Yes thats what uncle is doing...altho I dont know the date of byaah but the mangni is a huge surprise....my first reaction was that uncle is doing a "mota" on us...all of us remember how many times he has got a date for his shaadi ;)....but this time it looks pakka...the girl as mamu has put has done her MBA from the UK....worked for HSBC chennai for about 3 mths then quit to chill till her marriage....and bhaujai's name is Aastha....sounds familiar ;)...uncle hasnt met her but has been talking to her etc...as in thats what he says ;)...but one thing that I am sure every1 who spoke to uncle must have noticed....he sounded very happy, touchwood :)....finally the wait is over, uncle is actually getting married....yaaayyyyyyy!!!!!!

Patna is the venue and the date is 2nd July...dont know how we'l manage to reach....M sure every1 will be loaded with work...but lets meet today, if possi so that we can deci on the travel plans :).....

Incidentally this post is the 100th on our blog...so thats our 1st century....from May 8th to June 26th....not bad, eh :)...neways Gotta go....have a conf in del today...so will be that side in the eveng...if we plan to meet....chow :)

Apologies to Divya

Hey....divya cleared the air about the whole phone thingy..some issue i guess with message sending..she never recieved any of my msgs.....apologies dear for posting tht on the blog...got the phone...so all's well that ends well!

Amazing article must say...but b4 nethg, my bro has bot the V3i....sexed out fone it is....too kool.....coming back to the article....and honestly I dont think ne1 else apart from Rohit Brijnath cud have written....that guy is amazing....u can actually be moved....awesome it was....

Uncle ne toh posts ki bahaar laga di....very good uncle...but R Kipling thoda too much ho gaya na...as in what was the connect...it's a very nice piece but still....forgive us lesser mortals for the ignorance ;)...but ur conv with the gaswallah has been very accurately captured I guess...and the inzy one....hmmm, dint have so many the's actually....

Mota ke baare mein kya kaha jaaye....but I dont think we shud undermine the achievement...how he wud have gone to his dad and got this done is no small feat....bravo motu...too bad the it wasnt punjab's cm or maybe he cud have put in a word to dharmender also ;)....

Kosal is as usual missing....mayank is going back to mumbai today and will be back only around oct I think....

Baaki toh kaam as usual....chow :)

carry on uncle

Well...i actually got choked with emotions reading this article:

Absolute masterpiece......mamu, no need to guess the writer!;)


In a sporting world of swollen egos, pouting stars, silly belligerence on the field, artless sledging, he has never undignified the adulation he has been given.
Somehow through it all, his riches, his deification, his life turned into an unending episode of reality TV, Tendulkar has maintained a sense of proportion. Except now some of us are losing ours.

Judgement of Tendulkar in recent times in some places has been hurried, harsh and disquietingly rude. He failed in the Test series against Pakistan and he was Endulkar, he scored a century in the first one-dayer and he was Tondulkar, a grand career glibly reduced to a slick headline.

But then this is the age of provocation, where some pundits confuse volume with wisdom, and cricket is turned from game into tamasha (commotion).

Mocking ability

Reasonable observers like Gavaskar and Shastri remain, but they are in danger of being drowned out by more strident voices. Moin Khan, hardly the most chaste of cricketers, is giving us hysterical lessons in sportsmanship, while some former Indian players make a loud living offering bold and often banal pronouncements. Not that any of this means that Tendulkar is immune to criticism, or that he is above scrutiny. He is the man in the arena and must be judged, like others, not on reputation but performance.

He does not ask for favours, but only to be accorded the same dignity he has brought to the game. We need not swoon over him, neither must we revile him.

But to blithely dismiss him as had been done recently, to mock his ability as some do, to say he is afraid of fast bowling as others contend, is painful and unedifying.

Tendulkar was always a reluctant God and perhaps it is just that we have become impatient worshippers. His decline may eventually be more revealing about us than about him. Perhaps we have spent a lifetime perceiving Tendulkar as a batting superman and are unsure how to deal with him as a man, a human batsman who fails, who makes mistakes.

But after 17 years even the machine, and so many saw him as one, has to wear down, its mechanics occasionally faulty, and for some this is a revelation. What did we expect, that he would never grow up, that he be 16 forever? Are we?

When Tendulkar scored his 35th Test century recently it was said quickly, here and there, that he was back to his best. Of course, he wasn't, he cannot be.

But this is no surprise; what is a surprise, and thus a tribute to Tendulkar, is that his career stayed so brilliant so long, his embrace of discipline so constant that it stands unmatched in recent times and perhaps not just in cricket.

Sure his consistency has been somewhat amputated, but this is a natural progression; he is no longer the all-time great practitioner of the batting arts, but he remains a very good one. His 95 in the third one-dayer in Pakistan, on a pitch that was alive, had his captain, Dravid, in raptures.

Suggestions that his career is done with are laughable, for it is not as if India's bench is littered with superior talents who are being denied an opportunity. Men must earn their place, Tendulkar still is earning his. Over the hill he may be, but he is still more accomplished than other men at the top of their mountains.

Evident struggle

Roger Federer remarked recently that despite the apparent ease with which he dominates, some days tennis is hard work for him and he must labour.

For Tendulkar, it was the same, so fluently did he play once that we did not see nor appreciate his struggle, his singular focus of mind, which ensured that bad days or good, he found a way to produce his best for India.

Now his struggles are more evident, and yet there is a particular pleasure in watching Tendulkar past his prime, it is moving yet instructive to watch a champion return from injury and grapple with his game, propelled by a desperate, undying belief that even now, so many years later, he is still, dammit, good enough.

Tendulkar is a proud man, always has been, and if his instinctive genius has slowed then it is educational to watch a batsman remake himself, to find a new style that suits him, to stay relevant as a player even now.

He has defied everything for nearly two decades, bowlers, pitches, expectations, and now he is challenging time. He will face it head on; he always does.

One of these days it will end, maybe next year after the World Cup, maybe later, and this will be interesting, too, for modern sportsmen are loath to admit their moment has passed, taken kicking and pleading from their field of play. Retirement is a final admission of failed skills, it is these days an expensive decision as well.

Tendulkar, when he goes, must go of his own hand, it would be the only honourable departure. But that can wait. For now let's lock away the cheap criticism and the sweeping judgements, and enjoy the final chapters of a decent man and superior batsman. The season of Tendulkar is not yet over.

carry on uncle

One of the favorite Mastrmind answers

Guys....we have guessed the name so often now for u in full.......
If
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or, being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster And treat those two imposters just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to broken, And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run - Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!

--Rudyard Kipling

Guess jyada ho gaya ek din ke liye

Inzy Bhai

Hi fellas....found this somewhere.....sounds pretty much like gulia...except for the its is...
Inzamam's interview after Pakistan's lossInzy's interview - One man who entertains wen cricket matches r over.Rameez: So Inzy, disappointed with your performance today?Inzy: Bismilla-e-rehman-e-rahim. Thank you allah.ya the indian batsman is play very good today. we is try very hard but is not win the game.Rameez: Any words for Dhoni?Inzy: Ya dhoni is play very well. He is hit his shot very hard in our gaps. In start, we is protect our gaps very well. the grass is also thick.. but dhoni is split our gaps with his bat.Rameez: Another ordinary bowling performance?Inzy: Ya our balls is loose. the bowler is went for many run. Asif is bowled well. Also, after some shots the ball is out of shape. umpire is not give another ball.. it is tough to play with one ball.Rameez: Dropped catches.. did that prove costly?Inzy: ya the ball is not stick to our hands. we is practice a lot sticking our bat in our hands.. but now we is more practice sticking balls in our hands.Rameez: Any plans for the next match?Inzy: ya India is on top but we is try to bounce on our back. Insha allah we is play better.Rameez: All the best InzyInzy: Thank is you.

Brand Logos...Mamu+Deva+Google=89....

Anubhav....thoda effort maar pata kar saale.

Some really bad thgs happng to adidas people...nidzz stay away from ur office for a while!or get some jhaad phoonk done....seriously man its frightening!

anyways whats up with u divya?whenever i msg u for some fone related thing..u ignore it completely!!neways as i said in my msg earlier...no need to maaro too much efforts for the phone....if its done easily then do it..otherwise rehne do!although 500 rupees on 22nd of a month are too much for me..but still if its a hassle then rehne de!

the conversation between uncle ji and gas wallah would have gone something like this:

Uncle: Kya yaar bhai saab...ek gas hi toh hai!
Gaswallah: Nahin sir..itne mein toh nahin ho paayega
Uncle: Aap lagao toh...baaki apan dekh lenge!
Gaswallah: 500 rupees dene padenge
Uncle: kya yaar...achha chalo 400 mein kar do!400 mein full and final..nahin toh rehne do!
Gaswallah (reluctantly says): Thhekh hai
Uncle has a triumphant look on his face and is thinking "Kaat diya saale ka" Koi aur hota toh 500 de deta!

Bhaiya hum toh 80 logo hi kar paaye...and some of them were right but the logo showed a sad smiley only!

news from raipur: Motu has used daddy's connexxions once again to impress top bosses at BPCL. He personally arranged a meeting for his GM with the Chhattisgarh CM. It apparently was a big crisis BPCL was facing which Motu has helped in solving. Now everyone is happy. The bosses for utilising Mufti's core competency and Motu ne apni ek saal ki haraamkhori ke paap dho diye!

And he has shown once again..."when in doubt...goto Daddy"

Ek gaana yaad aa gaya....

"Noton ki gaddi...Daddy ne di
Andar ki chaddi...daddy ne di!(though i doubt that...prince and dixcy only u can buy)"

mujhe sona hai!!!!

The minute i step into office..neend aane lagti hai!!!!!! anyways...good to see everyone contribute... and Deva i was doing this story on placement agency guys who kidnap children from bihar and jharkhand and sell them in Delhi for commercial sexual exploitation... rishwat toh mujhe mil hi gayi hai.. ab tumhara naam main kal parson mein chaap doongi.. .. and ur welcome :) BTW i hope u have subscribed to HT there

Srsly yr.. lets plij get the hell outta delhi.... BTW me gng to b'lore from 28 to 2 july.. so tab mat kuch plan kar lena!!!!! chalo main phir kuch thoosne jaa rahi hun.. bye