Hum Tum

A cartoon post after a very long period (18 months) and what a way to arise to the occasion; back with the two indelible cartoons idols – Hum and Tum. Salute to the man who created these. Meanwhile, two lines for each from this cartoonist -

Master HUM - a cool customer, his debonair reflects naughtiness and the best thing about him; he always manages to wear those tension-free smiles.

Miss TUM – Always in ‘pink’ and her looks radiates harmful ultra-attitude waves….

Hopefully more cartoons coming soon (an optimist’s view)…

If you take any view/angle about anything (about the topic, some improvements which you can point out, characters/personalities whom you wish to cartoonize(see) through me in future, etc…) please lend your words to my ears through comments…

bricks & bouquets, criticism & compliments…..ALWAYS WELCOME

The Making of Minor Report

...in moments of madness

We all are creators since we all have some really interesting creations to our credit. You and I have made tons of interesting rubbish (like assignments and notes and files and registers and slides and ……add thesis too) in our past and most of us will continue to do the same to make the economy stronger. Dunno why I inserted economy into this…anyways here goes my tale…

One day left before my minor project and I received an extraordinary idea…”why not submit a report along with the project, it looks nice”. Well it was unusual for me to get these types of ‘extra-burden’ ideas. So, what got me that idea? I took a dip into my memory blocks and got the answer….teachers aur kaun (who else)??

I with my project-partner ‘Money G’ started drafting the ‘report-to-be-submitted-after-one-day’ around 10 pm. Then we realized, ohh we haven’t done our project yet (FINGERPRINT RECOGNITION). We called up friends and techies and non-techies and … (infact we called everybody except police, ambulance and fire-brigade). Indians know their juggad and bingo! we too got the problem sorted out in style (esp. thanks to JeetS).

Around 2 am something happened. Everything was going smooth. The report was in vicinity to completion. But then, suddenly I saw some indentation errors and the next moment, I was glaring at a rapidshare link for downloading Foxit (software for editing pdf! Yeah PDFs can also be edited). I generally don’t use Windows for downloading from non-trusted sites, but my greed for sleep compelled me towards downloading from rapidshare and before I closed my eyes; my computer did, with some ugly unfavorable unwanted and unusual signals. When I restarted, I could read my night’s fate…

“picture abhi baaki hai mere dost”
(movie is extended by a few more hours)

Those moments of madness took away my sleep that night. But thanks to Linux (Fc6), I was able to make backups for all the work and simultaneously, a phoenix rose within me thanks to the trio of (Die Hard 4 + Fc6 Dvd + a Centre-Fresh)…and…

I DECIDED TO FORMAT

Though it wasn’t necessary since I had Linux as the life-saving OS, but without ado I went ahead with my momentary decision.

Installing Windows is great time-pass. The jokes which appear on that pale-blue monitor keeps the smile on your face intact during that 39 min setup wait. Some of my favourites :-



1) Work anywhere, anytime (it was 3:15 am by my watch, the time when I read this)
2) The most dependable Windows (not without an anti-virus…that too UPDATED)
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n) Your computer will be faster and more reliable (but this becomes obvious once you format your Windows drive! don’t you think the same??)

Soon I was able to see the clean face of windows and immediately set the priority of updating my anti-virus from last to first. What I wasn’t able to understand why we take momentary decisions? Why do we listen to voices of madness? On restoring my net connection, I tried Googling for an answer. Google gave me many examples (such as AIDS cases, road accidents, etc) but didn’t return any satisfactory reasons. I am still pondering on why I went for that link and then why I went ahead with the format decision…
Humans have brains but they have to recharge with sleeps to run them. So, I went into my heaven for a nice resting period. But still the questions remained unanswered…

Watch out what’s on your Greasy Spoon…

…a reality check on Delhi’s Out(Eat)aries

The pictures which are used in this ‘eye-opener’ belongs to a road side eatery namely ‘Sindhi Dhaba’, located outside a south Delhi cineplex - Sangam (the one near DPS RK Puram). It is NO hot place to eat (and neither meant to be), but for some it may act as a stopover eatery.
I went for a movie few days back and while waiting for the tickets, snapped some pictures which were….hmmm!! dunno how to describe them but all I can say is that they weren’t hygienic…

Take 1:
An innocent worker following one of the very old ‘foxing’ marketing methods i.e. “old shirt in a new packet”. Imagine sweetened royal ‘asian-paint’ inside that kerosene container served in the name tomato ketchup...yaik, vaqq thu…can’t even think of the taste!!


Take 2:
Just try to read the dejected waiter’s expressions. He looks towards the chiefs with a body language symbolizing a complain, saying – “Its all MCD’s (Municipal Corporation of Delhi) fault. They should have provided us with clean drinking water. Why should I purify it?”



Take 3:
(Disclaimer to all esp. animal rights fighters: the animal wasn’t forced for this pose, some things just come so naturally).


Hope you all got the idea of hygiene conditions of our road-side stalls/vendors/etc :P But then, our bodies are so immune now, that we can take anything…
McD, CCD, Barista and all other dhabas of foreign origin are heaven in comparison to these. And, haan hostel mess and college canteens too :)