4. New York.

What is terrorism? This is something which I believe each one of us would know. Why does it happen? This is also something which more or less each one of do judge and understand.

Kabir Khan goes one step ahead and does some Root Cause Analysis on ‘making of a terrorist out of a common man’. How a frivolous university dude is detained by FBI and persecuted for nine long months with absolutely no fault on his part and going further, this engulfed guy decides to come back with a vengeance by spreading terror and as a result of that he makes a brutal plan. This is all about Aditya Chopra produced intense fare titled New York.

Although Kabul Express was a better flick in my opinion, this one doesn’t stand far either. The casting would have required a profound thinking. John is not that bad but either he could have done better or some one else could have given better justice as a protagonist. He is redundantly loud in some scenes. Neil, who is a potentially sound artiste, somehow fails here – mainly because of the weak portrayal. Katrina has acted well but her on-screen contribution is relatively less. Irrfan who takes the maximum footage, excels in the role of a suavely diplomatic FBI officer. He certainly deserves applaud for his performance. Nawazzudin shines is his small but significant role as Zilgai.

The music and background score by Pritam Chakraborty, Pankaj Awasthi and Julius Packiam is not-too-bad. “Yaaron” is nice, while “Mere sang” (minus appalling lyrics) is also decent. Aseem Mishra has handled the cinematography department quite well but still he deserves 8 on 10. Rameshwar Bhagat should have used more sharp scissors on the editing front which seems to be a bit overlooked. Kabir, as quoted above has handled the subject in a matured manner.

Overall, an excellent but not-so-exceptional fare. My verdict 7/10.

PS: Kabir, just in case if you are reading this - After making movies on terrorism with Afgan and USA backdrop, please do attempt a movie on desi terrorism aka politics in India. You may want to choose name of any city you like (as you have done with both your flicks).

3. Purpose.

All my life, I have strived
to turn in pink, that was blue
First, I tore my life apart
And then I attempted to sew

In the midst of all, I failed
To live those moments few
Which were rare and precious
Couldn’t be bargained in Lieu

Time to live up will come later,
That will be way different & new
All that mattered was running hard
dreaming of pink & making it true

Alas! Running came to an end
The only conclusion I then drew
blue or pink didn’t matter
until I realized Why did I live?

2. Money.

Paise ki daud mein zindagi khatam ho jaayegi and before you realize ki zindagi khatam ho jaayegi, zindagi already khatam ho chuki hogi

The above line quoted by a very dear friend of mine literally mean – During the money-race, life will come to an end and before you realized that life is coming to an end, it would have already ended.

Probably or rather most definitely, each one of us know this. What is the thing that makes me run after money? This is a very clichéd question I would have asked myself and others umpteen times.

The only 3 words that come to my mind are Love, Longing and Belonging. I feel these are the 3 precise things which make me run after anything and everything. It’s not always that I don’t want to live life or I forget to live life. If the feeling of Love, Longing and Belonging is more inclined towards living life, then that is it.

I don’t say that I need not long for money but of course my focus should be on longing towards the reason for which I am making money. Also, to live a “quality” life, I need to have money i.e. there should be some amount of money that belongs to me. Rather than money belonging to me, I start belonging to money and just love and long for it till the close of play.

Sincere gratitude towards Jimit who made such a pragmatic statement which put me in shatters but on the other hand rejoiced me too thinking I have still a long way to go even if I start living life today. :)

1. Opportunity.

Opportunity is a noun defined in dictionary as a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances.

I want to ask myself – What if the circumstances are not favorable. Does the possibility diminish? Is there no opportunity left?

Can I not create one albeit the circumstances are unfavorable or less favorable? The immediate answer would be – It’s difficult. I mean, it’s difficult to turn the adverse conditions into constructive.

Having said that, I would also simultaneously focus on the quote – Opportunities don’t just always happen. They are created. If I need to create something, at the first stance, I should refrain from judging it to be easy or hard.

The key is to consider the current situation as zero – rather than positive or negative and start orchestrating the way forward steps and come up with a Project Plan for any sort of opportunity I need to explore. Further, there are a lot of more steps involved towards research and implementation which is not the intention of writing this composition.

The purpose is to think about creating an opportunity and not waiting for the opportunity to arrive; neither waiting for the circumstances to be favorable.

Since almost 3 weeks, I was waiting for an opportunity and it was - "A very strong topic need to click my mind for composing the century blog of my life"

4. Excerpts.

These are not any great excerpts. They might not be worth your time. Still you may want to go ahead and risk it.

These days I am attending a training course and I just happened to note down some lines while I was feeling sleepy during the post-lunch session. Here we go.

We can add new table to the given structure. In the tables list, you have a provision of adding new records.

You cannot add a new table. You can add an extended or extension or explosive table

Ideal scenario is you copy and then succeed. You use the existing template file and bingo. There you are.

Modification is the key. Creation from scratch is Foolish. Fine?

You should go from Top to Down, not Bottom.

How do you create a development environment? Simple – Cut & Paste some one else’s environment.

Develop an local repository first. Use master repository and work on it come on. Don’t ask more now.

Go for a simple and better choice. It works in IT. Use Siebel something mechanism to do all work. How and Why is immaterial here. We have to have to have to have a separate developer. He is not merely an employee. He has to has to has to be a back end user. This is must. All needs to be done at the server side.

Initialize and Populate. Only 2 steps to be followed.

Odbc data source. Install. Ok? All data based yes, data based activities need to be taken care off.

When you install Siebel it creates obdc data base connection. How do we create a data base connection? Good question but then google it. Google helps.

What is mobile client? For this, google merely won’t help. Use Google Mobile

Look at the screen. It is very clumsy. Still you got to understand it. No choice. All the access is given to you.

There is certain routing model to help the user who is disconnected. The other option is to use a GPS which helps in directing the lost user.

Ideally you will be login in as penguin. Just a user name. You human properties don’t change. Not to worry.

You will get a list of tables. Not all data will be extracted. Only migrated data will be visible, that too after the immigration checks done.

First check out and once the work is done, check in. It’s free. It’s ok if you don’t have a credit card.

There is a lab exercise for it but not sure if you will be interested. If you like, please do else take a tea break. Do come if you wish and if you have finished 8 hours, you may want to go home.

3. 30.

Turning 30 today doesn’t make me feel happy. So What? It’s still my day and I want to enjoy it to the fullest with more and more life to encounter each day, each moment. Quite contradictory, huh! Nothing strange about it, I am such and have always been making contradictory statements over three decades of my life. Here is one more.

Nevertheless, on one hand I don’t feel that past 3 decades have been significant but on the other, they were neither trivial as well. It’s all relative.

Especially, when I start comparing my self with peers, the very first thought of staying behind in the rat-race makes me feel dejected. Still, I see myself way ahead of others for the reasons that are considered to be quite neglected – be it happiness, love, entertainment, luxury, spending (some may say, wasting) money, illogical decisions, strong craving for Merc C220 CDI in these tough times, etc. Well, I don’t intend to say that people don’t crave for happiness or love or luxury. Neither do I say that there are no other people who are ahead of me in that. It’s just a thought that passes through my mind today.

Unaware of my goal, Ignorant about the purpose of life, I am just letting the time flow and living it to the extent I feel the best. Hence, I don’t feel like making any resolutions and doing any analysis about the past, present and future.

Just wanna wish my self a very happy birthday :-)

2. Dincharya (Daily Routine).

Subah uthte ki Aaj Tak pe dhamaal
Aur phir Red FM pe Malishka ka kamaal

Sho-sha kartey hue bike pe 6 km ka safar
Tez raftaar se, 15 minute pe office me enter

Bombay times pe gossip ki bahaar
Chai tapri pe IT Industry ke samachaar

Waha se lautke ke karo mail-a-maili khoob
Kaam ke sivaa har cheez me jaao doob

Itne me bajti pet me bhookh ki ghanti tin-tin
Lunch ke liye sidhe pahuchna canteen

Post-lunch karna aankhen khol ke aaram
Kuch hi der me bajta 4 baje ka Tea-Alarm

Chai pe samay phir wahi chatar-patar
Aur plans banana, kya karege jaake ghar

Kuch plan naa bhi bane to doston se milna
Idhar-udhar ki baatein aur sadko pe khaana peena

Phir ghar aake TV Phone aur Internet me khona
Late night tak jaagke, complete thak se sona