MISSION ONE - M.R.P - Rs. 5 crore only

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YZR M1

One of the best bikes in the whole universe needs no introduction though. And all I can say is that “ITZ worth 5 CRORES”...thats it.

It a bike for every single college goer, for every single bike lover, for every human who loves speed.

M1 stands for 'MISSION ONE'. The bike achieves its massive popularity for not only its speed but also because of its charismatic looks. On any day, this debonair spiffy bike can overtake other lecherous bikes for looks.

I know, you surely will adore this shapely shape...actually if you dump a small tiny piece of brain + some breathing + some living capabilities into M1...might be better looking than your girlfriend... ;)

some WORTH-IT stuff :
1) LOOK at every single part/piece/bolt/nut of which M1 is made up (link)
2) Some very basics of M1 (top speed, weight, brakes, clutch type, etc..)

(The majestic snapshots of M1 :- courtesy Vishal Pipraiya, Auto-Xpo '06, New Delhi)

NO "Republic Day" Parade "LiVE"

(Well Well Well!! its 12 @ midnight...its 26th 2007...another indispencible day marking our Freedom Struggle...so here is my first hand unfortunate experience about our previous year's Republic Day...26th Jan of the past year (2006)...a day as important as this)

Republic Day Parade LIVE

NO! NO! NO! Please don’t go by the title. The title of this article ‘Republic Day Parade LIVE’ looks like the heading of an essay (which used to come in our primary classes and also used to carry quite a considerable marks-weight-age); however the sentiments attached to it are much more important.

Wednesday 25th Jan 2006, as I reached my home, I got some really shocky stuff lying on my bed. That shocky stuff was nothing but the so called INVITATIONS from Ministry of Defense to see the parade. On opening the invitation, it read (in italic English111VivaceBT fonts):-

SEE THE PHOTOGRAPH ABOVE

Bottommost there was an inclusion in brackets which read in the same fonts but smaller size, that: - Please be seated by 9.30 a.m. In addition to this invitation, was a VIP parking pass, a non-understandable map of the uncountable parking lots ( see the photograph above adacent to our 'TRICOLOUR') and some more papers…all sufficient to get you that feeling of being a VIP Indian. So! Why was this shocky? Easy guess - because I don’t know anybody in my whole parivar who could have arranged these VIP passes. Seeing that VIP pass started the process of un-practical dreaming within my head (I started dreaming that I would be sitting next to VVIPs getting a clear view of the whole parade especially the various manoeuvres of our advanced Sukohi MKI 30s …simply class-apart...which thanks to Doordarshan, we common Indians can’t see most of the time).

Next day, 26th Jan 2006 morning, when most of my friends were residing in their dreams, I was on my feet early morning. Accompanying me to the parade, were my younger brother and my cousin (both of them didn’t want to go but somehow got convinced …thanks to my lecture titled Once-In-A-Lifetime-Opportunity which I delivered to them…though my sincere apologies to them now).

Our pilgrimage to Rajpath from Safdarjung Madarssa on foot was actually quite unique. How often do you find yourself with a VIP pass (your feet on road and not in a deluxe car…which would be a more appropriate option) among a crowd, 90% of them carrying a ticket of denomination not exceeding Rs. 50.0? While going towards our destination we encountered quite a lot of people asking us for extra passes…first symptom of being a VIP. All the way we kept asking the policewallas bout the VIP stall; the only answer we received: aage chalo aage...(move ahead)

That’s the end of the good part of the story (if at all it was good!). Our smooth walk (the process of walking was executing at a speed of 3 km/hr) was stalled near UPSC (Union Public Service Commission). The scene totally changed here. My misconception about the number of people who witness the Parade changed; yes, today also guys came to see Parade in uncountable numbers. The disappointment slowly started appearing as the stall near UPSE suddenly invented a problem (as told to us by policewallas)…how can a stall develop a problem hours before the commencement of Parade? God knows why they do rehearsals? Then we were asked to move to our new destination located near Vigyan Sadan.

This was the moment! The moment of disappointment! every dream of seeing The Parade soiled amidst a sea of common Humans (& not just Indians). Entry to all the stalls was stopped at sharp 9:19:35 IST…reason given: stalls were full…how could anybody sit on somebody else’s seat on The Republic Day’s dawn? Multiple barricades welcomed all the visitors, who were either V.I.P. pass holders or legal ticket holders. But a unique thing which you don’t often see in India - equal behavior with an Indian and a hot phirang. Yes! At least something to say …after all; it was our Republic Day.

About the impression on phirangies – well; there was a group of hot phirang girls (carrying a bisleri bottle and their 500 Rs. tickets) in front of us shouting ‘BULLSHIT RASCALS’ (referring to policemen). To control the public, a loudspeaker was introduced which kept shouting “move towards the India Gate stand”. How many of you know that nowdays loudspeakers also have ringtones embedded in them? By the way the default tone in this loudspeaker was “aage chaalo aage…” (sung by an unknown policeman).

This was enough for my cousin and my younger brother, but I forced them to move towards the India Gate stall (thanks to my affection towards IAF fighter jets...Su MKI 30s...again great machines). On reaching our new destination…again the same…& THIS TIME - it was enough.

THIS WAS IT! with no means of road transport available, we again had to take help from our respective two legs. This time the journey was from India Gate to Dilli Haat bus stand. While going back, actually three souls were walking – Sardar Patel (embedded in me), Gandhi (in my cousin) and Shaheed Bhagat Singh (in my 15 yr old brother). For the first time in my life I thought mouth is a more sensible organ than our limbs…I concluded this after seeing (sorry! It should be hearing) the bashing of policemen, politicians and bureaucrats and many more… done by my brother …with the help of words…thankfully.

While going back we saw young lads on their Hero cycles, who also wished us Happy Republic Day (this line is written JUST to console our true patriots).

Well! You always have to pay for your sins. As compensation to my two companions, I had to pay out their tickets for the movie Rang De Basanti; another inspirational movie which will come and go.
HOPE U R NJOYING UR FREEDOM!!

JAI
HIND

TV news + Xxxxxxxxxxxtreme Entertainment

After the implementation of CAS, almost all watchable channels have vanished and now you are forced to watch some really absurd stuff. On 5 Jan 2007, at 9:00 p.m., I was watching * NEWS (free-to-air channel) for a round-up of daily news, but at 9:30 p.m., I came across a special half hour bulletin on current India-SA series titled “Hum Kissi Se Kam Nahi” (Mathematically speaking, they believed that they can’t lie on left side of the symbol ‘<’). It was actually a special episode enchasing our Indian cricket team performance on the 4th day of the Cape Town test against SA. The anchor was in the mood of bashing the Indian Cricket Team…and he did that too…they virtually slaughtered Sehwag. The channel broadcasted clips of Sehwag’s reckless shot _____ times (actually lost the count). The language used to describe him had super-shocking sarcasm in it and boye! the facial expressions of the anchor was borrowed directly from those “I will kill you” movie lines.

One more day, one more bad result, one more match lost, one more series lost…

AND This time, I landed at Pakau Tak (it claims to be India’s best news channel) at 9:30 p.m.. They aired a show namely “Hum Nahi Sudhenge” (We won’t change). Pakau Tak is famous for its cricket serials and innovative names like “Dada ki Dadagiri” (big brother in big bad mood), “Jaffar ka Jalwa” (Jaffar’s heroics), etc. Its sometimes gives you an impression that somebody in the Pakau Tak team is doing a PhD on cricket and is researching through the Pakau Tak shows. Also, in the channel are two brave man, who have dedicated their life to cricket reporting – Chikrant Gupt and Fundeep Rajguru.
Coming back to the show, the host this time around was Chikrant Gupt. Others in the eminent panels of analyzers included Yashpal Sharma, Shunya-Dishum Bajpee and Fundeep Rajguru (live from SA). Missing humans included names of former Indian cricketers like Madan Lal, Saba Karim, etc. The discussion started and simultaneously Yashpal Sharma went into ultra criticizing mode. He wanted a investigation about playing of unfit Munaf Patel and exclusion of Harbhajan Singh (which is a damn valid point).
But our reporters went one step ahead. They started a really hot discussion within themselves about the Indian cricket team performance…Chikrant got the better job of "asking" while this partner reporter, Fundeep Rajguru (live from SA) got the job of "answering"…both mingled and complemented well with each other and the end-product they created was worth watching…seriously not many comedy shows can generate that amount of excitement which they managed. so0O...
Watch these channels…Superb time pass entertainment all around.

guru

Gurubhai…gurubhai…aave re, Gurubhai..gurubhai..chhave re!

The first major release of 2007 won’t cull your expectations. Also, this will be the first time when Abhishek Bachaan will be tested as a ‘solo-crowd-puller’ after establishing himself as an actor. His earlier FAMOUS hits (Buffmaster, KANK, Sarkar, Dhoom, etc) always had some good supporting actors, but this time; he is individual.

In ‘Guru’, Abhishek is paired with Ashwariya Rai, who previously gave a dud act in Dhoom 2. A lot of speculation is made about their pairing up for life…so, in that sense too, a lot is on stake for both of them (esp. after the miserable showing of Umraoo Jaan). The Ash-Abhishek duo has also acted together in movies like Kuch Na Kaho & Dhaaii Akshar Prem Ke, which turned out to be super-flops.
So…is it worth it?
...READ FURTHER

Book Review : Anything for you, ma'am - Tushar Raheja

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“Highly recommended for all veterans of campus life in India…one of the funniest books in recent times…” - The Hindu

This line mentioned at the top of the book + the fantasy of 5.someone, attracted me to this book. Also, since I am too slogging out my engineering life, I had enough curiosity in me to read about an engineer’s love story (the book’s tag line).

Ratings – lets rate this one on a normalized scale of 10 (10 being the maximum assigned to 5.someone while 0 being the minimum assigned to ON@TCC; both authored by Chetan Bhagat). On this scale I would rate it as 2.75 /10.

The standard of English used by the author (Tushar Raheja) is more formal compared to Chetan Bhagat’s style of English narration. But I guess, this back fired on him as usage of formal language cuts out the extent of comicness in the lines (that’s what I noticed esp. in the first 100 pages of the book).

All the twists (majority of them) amidst the first 194 pages does not contain that suspense which binds the interests of the readers (with few exception esp. when Prof. wants to call the protagonist’s parents, etc). One more big disappointed was, the manner in which the suspense is ended, even in plots where the author has managed to create good suspense, the revealing is too easily done.

The author employs Mr. Fate (basically his luck) for getting into numerous damnedest situations (which do feel realistic, nothing wrong in that) but, immediately after getting into trouble, again Mr. Fate comes out to help…which keeps on happening every often. Bottom-line : most of times, he creates a trouble-plot, the story behind how he comes out of that plot won’t make you more-read-binding. Also, one big feature which I would like to see in his future books is usage of good clear sub-headings. “(the last Oct), (Dec, the year before), (Dec, this year)” type headings do puzzle sometimes.

Post page no. 194 contains the best of the book. Good trouble-plots created with some interesting ends (some were really unimaginable, some were guessable, a few of them were written to improper proportions esp. that Bandits-Railway Police encounter...he could have made it more interesting)…

Good Points –
The author is young (a year older than me engineering wise). Narrating skills were well-written throughout the book. Plus I like way, he has marketed the book – that CL tag will inspire everybody for sure…good marketing management skills.
Its not easy to find publishers, who are ready to publish your art at such age (that’s what I have heard)…a good effort tho……

Its no match for 5.sum1, but I rate this book better than ON@TCC where ‘GOD calls’…irrational work…

Some lines from the book –

“…Biobull. Imagine serving the world by sitting on the potty. You’d be a millionaire brother with your current excreting abilities,”…

“One can not stop crossing roads honking that the next truck will smash him to pulp.”

“Anything for you, ma’am,” I said and hung up. I pushed the hundred rupee note in the stall owner’s hand and ran with Rajit, shouting, “Keep the change…”
The call was priceless.

Bhagam Bhag...prey of faulty promotion

Jump, Run, Hop, Pop, Pounce, Caper with full energy and a make a mess all around…that’s all one anticipate when one riffle through the title. Sorry to disappoint you but that isn’t the case all the time.

The movie’s plot is somewhat similar to Nassuruddin Shah starred Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron. Bhagam Bhag is a murder mystery…(and since it is directed by comedy creator Priyadarshan…expectations of comedy embedded in the movie are all vice). The cast of movie includes Akshay Kumar, Paresh Rawal, Govinda, Lara Dutta, Arbaaz Khan, Jackie Shroff, while for incorporating hilarious smiles, director Priyadarshan has once again included his regulars like Rajpal Yadav, Shaki Kapoor, Manoj Joshi, Sharat Saxena and many more....READ FURTHER