Enter + Space + Shift + Home...

guys...

first and foremost, an open confession - even as predecided, couldnt write a blog a day. but nevertheless, there are reasons for that. Now coming to the title of this post. You must be wondering, now what is this guy upto?

Wait, lemme explain. This entire week has been quite of a "Mover" for me and others at office. The reason - we are moving to a new, big place in Mahim itself. Things to be moved from old office to new office have been all through our minds, hands, shoulders. thankfully our heads have yet been spared. Leave aside the things to be carried, there is so much to be thrown away - waste papers, files, electric equipment... ooof..!! we had built up a junkyard all these years. Now all that is coming out and pricking us in the eye... cant wait to see everything sold off in raddi and we hope to build a fortune out of the proceeds. then there are files to be sent to back storage (thats what the partners say, but dont really know where that is located..)

Now in the new office. The things that we mercilessly removed from the old place are to be rearranged carefully and beautifully in the new place. Hell of a task. but no respite, has to be done. Check the connections, check the telephones, check the printers - God.. thats bad..

But the horryfying task is yet to commence - remembering all the new things. New cupboards, new cabins, new seating place, new telephone numbers, new address. but thankfully, the people are the same.

So hopefully you have understood the meaning of the title.

"Enter" the new place, Find some "Space", "Shift" the files and go "Home" after a tiring day...

Sorryfully, cant "Esc" this situation, someone please F1...

Hope to write soon without a "Pause" or getting "Del"...

RJ

A Reminiscence...

guys...

something amazing flashed across my mind this morning - the feeling of appearing for CA exams once again. now naturally one would ask, why such a dangerous feeling now? and that too 3 years after clearing CA final and 2 years after becoming an Associate Chartered Accountant.

This morning most of my young colleagues had come to office to take signatures of their principals (deemed God) on their exam forms, an absolutely necessary formality that will finalise their appearance in the forthcoming exam. There also was this absolutely necessary and regular feature of MDR asking for some "favours" to sign the forms and finally the always effervescent MDR giving away chocolates himself to all the kids. A special part of the entire "event" was that two of them took my signature on their forms.

3 years have cheerfully passed since I cleared my CA final. However such memories are etched forever in ones mind. I could feel every moment with the kids today. Feelings of joy and nervousness cluttered my mind together. Joy because I could see the kids growing, coming one step closer to becoming a CA and nervous because as they filled the forms, the feeling that the exam was closing in filled in... Only a CA can understand the tensions of the leave period.

As you all come closer to the exam, keep your determination to the peak. Study hard because success comes only by hard work. Keep your mind fresh and active. Any difficulty contact your seniors / friends.

Best of luck guys... Success will be all yours.

RJ

The addiction called Facebook...

guys...
as i sit to write this blog, i am worried... 5-10 mins of chatting / playing / roaming / surfing /doing nothing on facebook will go up in ashes....!!! Nooooo... I cant think about it also.

I am constantly worried... My crops will wither in farmville, who will feed my chickens. What to do, where to search for a collectable...?? oh my god, I am an addict!!! (while writing just these 5 lines, i have already pressed Alt+Tab 22 times...) I know nothing productive in it, but still I have to visit FB atleast once a day. I cant live without it.

Shittttt... somehow I have started feeling very very ill, just like an addict who has been kept away from his source of addiction. I cant see, typew propoehrly, I dnt knoe wht i mn mwriituing.. i thiunk oi will fainint... OH GOD... that little Alt+Tab really saved me this time. Gosh, I just realised addicts often die of their addiction, but also just experienced (Alt+Tab) that addicts die if kept away from the (Alt+Tab) source of addiction too.

So no more shitty, crappy posts on this blog. Logging on to facebook, I have to save a life... my own.. (Alt+Tab)

RJ

A blast again....

Again the same photos on news channels, same news in the newspapers today. "Terror hits Pune" was being shown everywhere. the good old city of Pune was bombed by some stupid idiotic bastards. somehow the chronology seems to be mind boggling. just have a look at this

Attack on Parliament - 13th December 2001.

Blasts near Gateway - 25th August 2003.

Blasts in Mumbai trains - 11th July 2006

Blast in Hyderabad - 25th August 2007.

Blast in Jaipur - 13th May 2008.

Blast in Bangalore - 25th July 2008.

Blast in Ahmedabad - 26th July 2008.

Blasts in Delhi - 13th September 2008.

Terror attacks in Mumbai - 26th November 2008.

Blast in Pune - 13th February 2010.

though this list is by no means exhaustive, it raises some questions. why are the dates always 13th or 26th. are these days specially chosen? think guys... just do a simple google search on blasts in india and the list will go on...

seems to me that somehow we have got accustomed to such incidents. All that is said later is we are investigating, people should show courage and solidarity. even though we have enough evidence against our friendly neighbour, we never fight back. was the attack on the parliament or the 26/11 in mumbai anyway less than a war?? for 4 days, we all were living with our lives on fire. but still we dont know whether war is the only option... but surely we can boycott them in all other ways. No cross-border dialogue is required. we are ourselves to blame if we continue to expect fruitful dialogue even though hundreds of our innocent people are killed everyday. on a strictly personal note - we must stop all exchange between India and Pakistan. aman ki aasha is a crap. we will simply burn some candles and return home and thts the end of the story. another bomb blast and few more candles will be burnt, homages will be paid and everything will be forgotten until another blast occurs.

just think abt it guys - what do we want?? real peace for our future generations or simply a never ending hope for peace (aman ki aasha). if peace is what we want, then its time to act. show the enemy what we can do. is our military power only to be displayed on 15/08 or 26/01. Has the time come to use it and vanquish the enemy?

Peace is something that comes for a cost,

Act India act, before all is lost...

I am waiting for your comments. scratch your heads guys...

RJ

My name is.....????

The blanks in the title might seem quite obvious. But beware... look to your left, look to your right, look up, if possible look down too. if you see any S***Sai***... (the stars are obvious too) simply keep your mouth shut. Thts wht probably some insane people thought they would achieve today. But to their utter disgrace, people flocked and flocked again to watch the much awaited and hyped "My name is KHAN". No doubt the movie got its much required attention and the film stars their part of the moolah...

It seems that the love of the star studded party referred above for their very dear "Marathi manoos" has withered off. Or it is now the domain of the other brother. but not to worry, our dear ones are never short of issues (issues created out of non-issues). Just two days more to go. Valentines day is a big occassion for them to celebrate their so called love for our tradition. once again they can go on a rampage in the city. Sometimes I really wonder that love for tradition is only the prerogative of these guys. Just to give them a suggestion - Why dont you guys try wearing a dhoti-kurta, pagdi in your everyday life?? thts a part of our tradition, isnt it? I Really pity the young guys in their families.

Nevertheless, why to waste writing space for stupid posts. now that the movie has released lets join the entire "KHAN"daan and have some entertainment...

Just to share a lighter moment - I got this sms yesterday - "BREAKING NEWS - the controversy over the movie MNIK has ended. It will be renamed... now it will be called "My name is Khandekar"...!!! haha..

RJ

Market woes....

There's me back to the blog again. y'days request for topics got a big response.. someone suggested that ppl generally write their heart out on a blog. so here i am

a thing close to my heart is the share market. but nowadays this very close thing of mine has become a bit reluctant to move. quite boring these days. 9 am to 3.30 pm is no longer an interesting time. really dont know how the brokers manage to look at their screens all day long. really wish i cud get back to those days when we had 100-150 pts gain almost daily. but now its quite range bound. no big movements. the last week really saw some "tragic" movements. wealth deterioration took place on a massive scale. i never knew that losing money could also be an occupation, and that too for me....!! but yes.. i was really occupied last week with losing money. not really but notionally though. now again the wait continues - till the prices reach my cost, and probably higher. Happiness comes from small things, u see... yes, very much true, this time its the profits that are small and the happiness is of atleast recovering the principal.

Seems that 9 to 3.30 can be better used to develop blogging skills rather than the "close to the heart" thing..

See u again soon... probably at 9 am..!!

RJ

Welcome me...

Hey guys,

someone just suggested, "Why dont u start blogging?" for a moment I thought, "did he say, why dont u start blocking....!!" Couldn't make any meaning out of it. I m pretty new to this concept, u see.. thts why this ignorance. but nevertheless, considering tht ignorance is bliss, i hv stepped into this blissful world of "BLOGGING". seems tht i got it correctly this time.

to make me comfortable and used to blogging i need ur help. now to make things worse for readers here, i m proposing a scheme... every reader suggests a topic for my blog.. and every selected topic wins a prize... now u'll obviously ask whts the prize...??? (normal human tendency to inquire abt free stuff.) but dont be in a hurry, wait till my next post to know what u'll get.

see u soon...

RJ