The MNS thing:'They' have a say

People who know me well know that I love Pune. Also I love travelling to Pune. So I was all set for a pleasant train journey last week after a particularly tiring day. Now, I couldn't get a reserved berth for myself and that meant I needed to stand for the next for the next 3 hours.Suddenly the scenic mountains were gone and in came visions of an aching body. And then out of the blues I decided to do something I had never done because it was 'cheap' but secretly I always wanted to. So here I was sitting at the doorsteps of the coach. To my surprise,nobody bothered to notice me.
An hour and half passed and I was joined by a guy not more than say 23-24, smelled of crude jasmine oil,with a 6600 in one hand and a carry on bag in the other. He looked at me gazing at him. I withdrew and went back to examining a blank tunnel wall, wee-bit embarrassed. Then without warning he pulled one of my legs up!! I saw a fast approaching platform, pulled back and had a narrow escape. Before I could thank him he said " Arre bhhaiya abhi tang chali jaati ". It must be the whole controversy surrounding north Indians or it just might be my narrow mindedness, but the first thing that I noticed was that he was one of 'them'....To be continued soon

My Ecological footprint

Wikipedia defines one's ecological footprint as-
The ecological footprint is a measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems. It compares human demand with planet Earth's ecological capacity to regenerate it.

To put it in simpler terms... It tells you ki tu dharti pe kitna bada bojh hai.
That's because it gives you the ecological footprints in terms of earths. So if you have, say a footprint of 2.71 earths, we'd require 2.71 times the resources on the planet if everybody started leading a lifestyle same as yours. Which means you need to change certain aspects of your living. So go for the test and post your scores here. Mine was a meagre 0.41 earths :))

The link to the test is : http://www.myfootprint.org/

Top 7 reasons why I HATE North Indians

I hate North Indians. Yeah! The very sight of them sends hate waves down my spine...
But my reasons for such levels of despise are rather... should we say ... umm unconventional. Here's the top 7 in my list :
1)Those guys have Priyanka Chopra,Preity Zinta, Minisha Lamba, Neha Dhupia, Esha Deol and other goddesses ... All we have is Urmila Matondkar!! Wow!! That really excites me! REALLY!!
2) Their leaders find innovative ways to stay in the news like sting operations, chalisas on their names, memorials at parks... All we can manage to find are leaders who have no creativity as far as PR is concerned. Damn!!
3) North Indians get a large chunk of India... I mean, they get an ENTIRE DIRECTION to themselves!! All we get is a pea-sized state and an illusionary title MAHArashtra.
4)North India is to the North i.e. it is closer to the North Pole, this means that taking the annual pattern of the earth solar rotation and revolution into consideration, the cumulative amount of sunlight that North India receives is more than what we do.. And then we go about wondering about the cause of the power crisis... Brains, people, BRAINS!!
5) North India has been ruled in the past by the Mughals, Ashoka etc... It was the battleground for the Mahabharata, Ramayana, The Annual UP parliament Wrestling Championship, etc. Amcha Bollywood makes movies on all this futile issues and people. But I don’t see a film on Shivaji Maharaj or 'VT station at 6' any time in the near future. Let justice befall upon our souls!
6) Ok now here's one that I'm really concerned about: You see North India, as I have already informed you, is to the North. Ok? Good. So it’s closer to Pakistan. Now whenever Pakistan will attack us, they will know that we will assume that they will attack through the north. But that is where they beat us! Instead they shall fool us by starting from our own Maharashtra. Don't you understand the gravity of the situation?
7) You know, North Indians have this ugly habit of hard work. I tell you what it’s a scam. As Phoebe Buffay had hinted in FRIENDS, when the Ant People attack our civilisation, they’ll be looking for good slaves and they'd kill the rest with their acidic anti-people venom. North Indians know about this controversy since they are part-descendants of the LION-people (Singh, you see). All they are doing by driving our taxis, building our houses, selling awesome panipuri is just a preparation for Armageddon.

I told you my reasons were unconventional. Some might even find them impractical. But which seer didn't have critiques? My claims are sound. They are at least much, much saner than a certain Thakerey.

Wierd Name, Awesome Place

Well, just got a mail from my bro who is at this place in Canada doing his PhD. The place is called.. ok .. hold your breath : Saskatchewan. Add to the wierd name a climate that's presently scaring polar bears at a chilling -20 degree Celsius and a population size equal to that of Chunabhatti. Why on earth would someone be so insane to stay there? Here's your answer:Thanks Aditya for the pics