My 25!!

This has been doing the rounds on FB. Make way, my turn -

1. I always look at the worst case outcome first. But my philosophy since Day 1 of summer placements at IIML has been that the worst case outcome is never bad enough. Life still goes on.
   
2. At the risk of sounding Model Town macho, I do best when circumstances are not in my favour. Not because I do best under pressure blah di blah. But coz there are no expectations.
   
3. I am invariably running late for morning meetings. I hate them.
   
4. This is going to sound weird. Somewhere deep down I kinda like it when my flight gets delayed. Its coz I am stranded there but it is not my fault. So, I can just sit there not doing anything particularly - reading a book, chatting up with people sitting around me, just watching people go by.
   
5. It is amazing that there are people I never talked to while studying with them in the same class at college for 2-3 years. Picked it up with them after a gap and am goood friends with them now.
   
6. I can't suck up and I hate ppl who even give an appearance of doing so. So much so that in my previous job, I had a great rapport with my boss but used to be very restricted in my interaction in the office. He actually asked me why I was avoiding him in the office and if there was problem.
   
7. If I say something, it never happens. So, I refrain from saying a lot of stuff out loud.
   
8. I hate the civic sense people have in delhi. I think I have mentioned it multiple times but I am just not able to get used to it.
   
9. I am a stickler for not using the sms languageand find people who use it quite frivolous.
   
10. I can consume copious amount of alcohol straight up but give me 1 beer after 3 drinks and you are in for a fun show
    
11. I always always always get post purchase dissonance. Be it a shirt, a car, a tv, job - anything
    
12. I used to think a lot about what others think abt me. That has gone down quite a lot
    
13. I am a senti emotional ass.
    
14. I find it much easier to forgive now but very hard to forget
    
15. That said, am really really forgetful in my day to day life. By the way, Where's my tie
    
16. I am the most un-virgo virgo ever when it comes to being organised et al. Exhibit A, B, C – my room at college, my drawers, my financials. I am organised inside my head though.
    
17. I haven't discovered my real talent yet. I am beginning to worry about it a little bit. There might be nothing there. Does faffing qualify as a talent.
    
18. I donot lie. I just oversell
    
19. I have a lopsided grin. You would think how can someone miss that. Well, for 27 years – most people including me did. I got out found out in my wedding pictures though
    
20. When I start working on something, I start with good planning, lots of energy. As the end seems near, I slack off. I hate it afterwards but at that time – a cricket match, time pass on FB etc becomes of utmost importance. Its beginning to happen here as well.
    
21. People say, be focussed. I have done a lot of diverse stuff – from PR to Wealth management to Apparel to Retail to Equity research to PE. Can you be more unfocussed than that. But truly, everything in the above list has made me a better person, added to my persona and I don't regret it. Cut me some slack for post purchase dissonance though.
    
22. When I am trying to recall something, there is a vision of someone lying on a moving conveyer belt. End of the conveyer belt is the steep fall. It is like an internal timer. If I cant recollect it until the person on the belt falls, I lose it. It hits me at weird times like in the loo or bathing or in the middle of some arbit unrelated meeting
    
23. I am a trivia nut case
    
24. I love lists (a virgo trait finally!)
    
25. End of the list, I am slacking off. Cant think of anything. The person on the conveyer belt has reappeared and ……………………. Disappeared. Curtains!
    

cheers

Random Rants

I am back. So what if it is with a set of random rants. But I am. Hopefully, things would become less random after this post and we would start seeing some semblance of non randomness on this blog. Pardon me but I am reading Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy right now and the effects.. err side effects of that are visible. So, back to the rants –

1. I am running massively behind on my movies. I haven’t seen Slumdog Millionaire, Luck by chance and Dev.D yet. Heck, who am I kidding. I haven’t even seen Oye Lucky, Lucky oye as well. Yes, you heard it right. On the other hand, I have seen Rab ne bana di Jodi, Ghajini and Chandni Chowk to China and I am not proud of it. I still cant believe Ghajini is the biggest grosser of all times. The world went once (fools like me), twice and sometimes even thrice (all macho boys of Model Town) to see a forgetful ass with an 8 pack. What is the world coming to?

2. While on movies, can’t wait to watch Delhi – 6. I am sure, Abhishek will redeem himself and prove that there is some truth to genetics. ROPM after Rang de and ARR after a gazillion and one movies are already gods and don’t need to prove anything. Do have huge expectations from Sonam. Genetics again! Another crib, if I may. It should have been called Dilli-6 instead of Delhi-6. I think the effect would have been more.

3. Settling in Delhi has been not as easy as it seemed. Staying with family after living your own way for 3 years takes a bit of getting used to. Especially, the crazy house parties that we hosted. Am sure, my well used bar set and the bottles with leftovers are taking a well deserved break. Well, rest on guys. Dilli abhi door hai! I still miss Bombay sometimes – the energy of the city, the independence of life, our apartment, lazy weekends, impromptu plans, chai break and more with pals at my old office. That said, Delhi has its upsides. Quality of life is great. Driving 25 kms does not take 250 mins like Mumbai. I am not paying the GDP of Zimbabwe as my monthly rent and I do have a lot of friends here. If only we had the sea side here.

4. I wish I could sing like Shankar Mahadevan, write like Amit and play cricket like Sachin. Unfortunately, I sing like Sachin, write like Shankar and play like Amit. While we are on wishes – I wish I could fly, become invisible and cook well. Ok ok, the first two I wanted when I was five and the last one is what my wife wants. I ain’t going beyond tea and omelettes.

5. I think civility has shifted lock stock and barrel from Delhi to a more civil city. Don’t ask me where. People in Delhi cut lanes while driving, queues while queuing and cake while cutting (Sorry, couldn’t resist that). People drive on high beam, come late for meetings and sometimes don’t even turn up (and donot apologise)

6. There is this tag of “25 things about me” doing the rounds on facebook. Its bizarre but I am actually enjoying reading that note about people I barely know

7. There are about 8 unfinished blog drafts on my blogger homepage. Somehow, I start writing them with a lot of zest and midway get completely off it and leave them unfinished. I don’t have the heart to delete them, so they just sit there mocking me.

8. I have a lot of random stuff to say

9. I really want to start exercising but I am just not able to build them into my daily schedule.

10. I am lousy when it come to getting up early in the morning. I don’t like it.

11. I seem to have hit a writers block. I used to write poems (well, I am being a little generous to myself by calling them poems. They are more like Hum and Tum’s experiences, life put said out in rhyme). Haven’t done one in a while.

12. Everytime I say that I will do this – circumstances turn such that I do that and that and even that but never this. Exhibit A, B and C on this blog itself. Everytime I have ended a blog by saying that I will follow up with something – I somehow never do.

13. I am obsessed with lists and writing stuff down

14. I wish I was more confident than I am. Was discussing with Tum and she feels that I am. It does not matter if I don’t feel it from inside. As long as I appear so, it is fine. She says that the person I was referring to as super confident might also feel the same about himself. I kinda agreed with her

15. Somehow, Tum always makes sense. I should listen to her more

Thats it.