bubble breaker

there's this game called bubble breaker that I've been playing on my phone for the past two days.. and the most i managed to score was 342.Today I got happily drunk and randomly pressed whatever buttons I was capable of in my situation... and I got the highest f***ing score than I'd ever had when I'd tried to apply my brains.just goes to show...viva la alcohol!

movie reviews

so now that my 'other' life outside of work exists only on weekends, I discover that it a slave to another kind of addiction - movies. Good ones, crappy ones, any ones. That's the easiest option when you are faced with boredom, a sense of urgency to do something because its the weekend and you don't want to be a loser sitting at home and a general incapacity to think of better/healthier/funner options.
So ranting over - now for the reviews
The blue umbrella - Definite recommendation for people who would appreciate the kind of movie that's really about nothing but beautifully made all the same. Its great acting, great cinematography and a treat to watch. I wouldn't recommend it for anyone who's looking for entertainment. yes it's arty-farty.
Heyy Baby - let's just say I watched it in a theatre where I could see an odd cat or two darting in and out of the aisles. Horrors. To add to that, the movie is essentially ... crap.
more later when I see more crappy movies

why I wouldn't want to drive to work...

People have been trying to convince me that I really need a car in Pune. Sure, it would be nice having one but if I were to buy a car it would be when I feel the need to drive to work. And as for that, I have a sackful of reason of why I would really NOT want to drive to work, like

• I'd rather sleep in the bus for the twenty minutes it takes me to get to work. Yes I have become immune to incessant honking, more potholes & speedbumps than road and the like
• Considering how most people in Pune drive I'd probably be arrested for road rage before I ever reached office
• The ever present possibility of me running over cats, dogs, little kids, people on bikes, thelas of fruits and vegetables etc would give me a nervous breakdown eventually
• I would never reach work before noon
• I would have to give rides to innumerable no. of people. I wouldn't mind that but the above conditions become worse when there is company
• I'd have to keep a watch on when the gas is running low in the car. I'd obviously forget that and one fine day be stranded in the middle of the road with buses screeching all around me. This would definitely happen more than once.
• There is a very high chance I would lock my car keys inside the car and be stranded at work

April fooled!

I got April Fooled today. Royally.
So what if I KNEW my cousin couldn't have twins.
so what if I KNEW the delivery date was about two weeks later.
so what if I KNEW I'm the most gullible idiot there ever lived
so what if I KNEW someone or the other would try pulling a fast one on April 1st
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so forgive me for forgetting there are better ways than online jokes
for forgetting that my siste sometimes has a sense of humour
for forgetting that it IS April st after all
and most of all...
for forgetting to play one on others before they could play one on me!

slightly confused...

My MBA's over. Time for everyone to pack up... most of my friends have left the hostel. I leave tomorrow and I am in the middle of packing up. I can't decide whether I'm sad about the whole 'everone leaving' bit or making myself nostalgic just because its the appropriate thing to do and don't actually give a shit.

wednesday musings..

i always had these noble ideas when I saw suffering people, poverty, children at traffic signal begging for food, which were to this effect - "If I had time in my hands I would definitely do something to help these people, I would change things, I would work so much, I wouldn't let stuff like this happen".
I got placed in December. Jan to March I am completely .. or mostly, free. I have tons of time on my hand. I am also attached to an NGO working for all or most of the above mentioned categories. I didn't do that by choice. Ironically it's part of our MBA . That same MBA that prepares you for a cut throat corporate career and to be selfish, money minded and to only look how to utilize u'r time in ways that will enable you to make even MORE money than you currently are.
So anyway I am supposed to work for this NGO and do whatever they feel like making me do.My noble ideas have disappeared, I don't feel like getting up in the morning and dragging myself to this NGO and it only feels like a burden, like a course Im taking for credit.
I can only decipher that I'm horribly shallow or something and it reminds me of that cliched statement -"the person who changes the world is not the one who says the pond is dirty but the one who cleans up the pond"
so excuse my moral post. I've been feeling just a tad guilty about this whole thing. Quite unlike what my MBA degree prepares me for!

forms...

have you ever filled out those forms for companies that want u'r whole life history? They also want examples of when you displayed exemplary heroics, leaderships skills, innovation and basically displayed the early signs of being the next Bill Gates, Mahatma Gandhi and Sachin Tendulkar all rolled in one.
My roomie is filling out tons of these forms almost everyday. She's a mild mannered and gentlefor most part but filling the forms has turned her into a raving lunatic for the larger part of the day. She abuses the company, despairs that she has to write pure bullshit and then is usually at the brink of giving up on the whole deal halfway through it.
I wonder which idiot thought of these types of forms as a good way to judge potential employees. Actually they should be used as a way to judge potential fiction authors.Even worse are those psychometric or psychoanalytic tests.... but more on that later...!