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A very good friend of mine just shared with us his very interesting point of view on automobile racing. He says, “Gallons of fuel is burnt during car and bike racing competitions, just to whet the egos of automobile majors.” Being a huge fan and an arduous follower of both F1 and MotoGP, I couldn’t stop myself from pondering over the thought. For  a moment I thought, ‘Is it really so? The

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    Now that I've decided to take the plunge… Conversations I have with one and all somehow, in spite of my best efforts, tend to veer towards the dreaded ‘C’ word. This includes parents, relatives, friends, neighbors, family friends, friends’ friends, dad’s friends, mom’s friends, colleagues, colleagues’ friends, classmates at coaching and their friends, people at the gym (yes,them

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Travelling singers in India (the ones who sing in trains as they ask for alms) should be delighted. Their messiah/Indian idol/biggest song contributor is back in a new/rediscovered avatar- a fresh crop of "hair", a slightly trimmed beard (could someone hand him a razor please!), a voice "he" thinks is not in the "teraaaan teraaaan teraaaaaaaan surrrooooorrrrr" mode, and as an "actor"(ouch,

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I’ve been going to this gym for 3 weeks now. Its near my home, cheaper than other “high-society” gyms around, not much crowded, and has a good enough trainer. So its been well worth the money. I haven’t been to a gym in almost 2 years so I'm still getting “in the groove”. Yesterday was just like another day. I entered the gym at around 7 pm, stretched a bit, sipped some water, plugged in the

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I was glued to the idiot box this evening and while channel hopping i came across VH1 airing the video of the very popular Daniel Powter song “Bad Day”. I’ve been listening to this song for quite some time now, in fact almost since 2005 when it was released and went on to top a few charts. But i confess to  having watched the music video for the first time this evening  on TV (don’t know how

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Imagine driving down a highway in your new gleaming black Porsche 911 doing some 220 kmph, feeling like you’re the king of the road. You keep smirking at other ‘lesser mortals’ (read-people with cars that cant go faster than 200!) as you overtake them. You’re having the time of your life, enjoying every bit of it, when you glance at the rear view mirror for a moment. You see a red blob ,somewhere

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Poor Barack Obama just couldn’t help it this one time, as Nicolas Sarkozy smirks on…hahahahahaha…well i forgive him…its completely understandable, isn’t it ??!! The bum in question here belongs to a 16 year old Brazilian lady named Mayora Tavares who was at the G8 summit in Italy as part of a group of people, aged between 14 and 17, there to discuss how the lives of young people around the

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Topping my bucket list is a place i know many were and still would be amazed to find on my list. Kailash Mansarovar, as i earlier wrote (and erased!), is a place that’s amazingly calm and serene. The hardships that one has to face to reach the place make the breathtaking views of Mt. Kailash and the Mansarovar lake even more worthwhile. And i’ve confessed to being an evildoer, so the added

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‘Is it too early to be making such a wish list?’, i ask myself. Wasn’t Jack Nicholson a cancer patient in his seventies and about to die in 3 months when he decided to make his list in The Bucket List.Maybe. Maybe not. There are moments, usually before i go to sleep at night, when i lay down and think…I’ve lived a quarter of a century already, completed 2 degrees, worked for 2 years, made

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Everyone might have read this one somewhere sometime. I just  wanted to reiterate the importance of good health… Q: I've heard that cardiovascular exercise can prolong life; is this true? A: Your heart is only good for so many beats, and that's it.. don't waste them on exercise. Everything wears out eventually Speeding up your heart will not make you live longer; that's like saying

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Last week I had to spend almost 4000 bucks to get myself 2 new pairs of spectacles because I had just broken the 8th pair in my life. And this is the first time I got 2 at a time as I seem to have become prone to losing/breaking my spectacles with an alarming regularity of late. So I just want to have a backup pair ready in case another such mishap takes place in the future. I know most of my

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(I'm back to writing about something I like best - Driving!) I say consequences because my reasoning might not actually make it clear in the end if it's good or bad to drive slow, although it's purely a matter of choice. And by slow, I mean slow by MY standards, considering that I usually drive in the 70-100kph speed range even in the city. So slow here means in the 50-60kph range, or putting

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It was mommy dear's birthday recently. I was in the city of (kill)joy so I couldn't be there with her to celebrate. But then I had to send her a gift somehow. Daddy dear suggested I arrange to send her flowers at least. Living in the age of the Internet and telecom revolution helped a lot this time!! So I managed to get the no. of a florist in Noida and called him up. After taking down the

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Its been a long standing association. Not that I've enjoyed any of it but it has been there for so long that I can't ignore it. The problem starts with the fact that mommy dear has been born and brought up in and around the city (she's not a Bengali!). There were days I was dragged along to my grandparents' place every summer vacation. So while other kids looked forward to enjoying their

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Well, here I am in Kolkata spending a major part of Sweet November, all set to miss mommy dear's birthday and a few weddings, feeling really low, eating some trashy and lot of junk food, the worst part being, I don't even know what exactly I am here for !!! At least I have family and a few friends here so not feeling as bored as I initially thought I would.So, last evening I called up good friend

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  People compile lists of all time best movies, songs, guitar solos, music videos, cricket innings etc etc. I decided to compile a list of my own as well. Its about something I've been almost obsessed with since we first got a proper internet connection on our own computers (around BE 3rd yr). Its about CHICS !!! Yes, about movie stars, models, sportspersons, musicians who happen to be female,

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    Recently me, mommy dear and daddy dear took a trip to Saharanpur to visit our relatives over the weekend. On the way, somewhere near Meerut, we passed this place called Khatoli. It was our average Indian small town bustling with bazaars and roadside chaat thelas and more rickshaws and cycles on the road than bikes or cars. As daddy dear was wrestling his car through the traffic, I was

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Just another thought...only a thought...if there could be TGIF dedicated to Fridays(Thank God It's Friday, for those who don't know what it stands for)...why couldn't there be FDIM?FDIM as in Fuck Doode Its Monday !!!I guess guys our age are more terrified of Mondays than they are excited for Fridays. The idea of going back to that wormhole where every other person is out on a mission to crucify

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My beloved bike recently achieved the 30k milestone without any major glitches. I got the timing chain replaced once and so were the front shocks and rim after an accident. But that’s about the only major repair the bike underwent apart from some cosmetic ones like the front fairing and side panels. My bike has been running exceptionally well of late, the engine having become used to my riding

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This has been an age old saying which has withstood the test of times and still holds true. Boys keep saying girls can do this, girls can’t do that and in turn girls keep saying the same to boys. I won’t go into much detail here coz we are all quite familiar with things each of them are good at and things they are not.I’m here to tell you my own part of the story. This is an incidence which took

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Hello friends and fellow bloggers...I got this idea for a poll while biking from office to home today. When exactly do you get most of the ideas for your blog?I've voted (co-incidentally!) for the 2nd option. You could of course have in mind other places and times. Please feel free to throw any brickbats (as i like to call "comments") at me.Enjoy...and keep voting!!

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Pocket tanks was the one thing i used to be really good at while at college. Used to score points by thousands and beat every other person in the hostel. And now i'm back !! With a vengeance.Downloaded the full 210 bomb pack version recently and i've been bitten by the PT bug since. Every spare minute is now fully utilized by playing a quick game of PT deluxe. Although i haven't been able to

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Not less than 6 women’s tennis players were in contention for the top spot in the rankings at the start of the US Open. 2 of them have fallen on the way, 4 still remain in the hunt by reaching the semi-finals. I don’t know what to call this - solid competition between the ladies, or simply the lack of consistency in any of them!!I’ve been a keen follower of tennis since the days of Michael Chang,

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Recently i downloaded the IE 8 using my good old trusted BSNL "broadband" ADSL connection at home. An average download speed of 194KBps is what i got. Not bad for a home user in India i guess...And judging by the feedback friends using other private operators' connection gave to me, i must say BSNL is doing pretty well at least in this department. I have been able to download at least 3-3.5GB

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I recently got a new cell phone for myself after much pestering from friends and family. So in comes the Nokia 5310 Xpress Music phone and out goes the good for mostly nothing Sony Ericsson (referred to as SE henceforth) T610. Initially I was in favor of buying the SE (again!) W580i Walkman phone. But I gave the Nokia brand an edge over SE although I liked the W580i more. Both phones have similar

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Another post courtesy of TopGear...Girish Karkera reviews The Lamborrrgeeeeniiiii Gallardo LP560-4...It makes you sit up and damn yourself for having driven everything non-glorious all your life.There are always heated discussions in the office when it comes to dividing the world. You could divide them as man and woman, or rich and poor, or intelligent and stupid or more ridiculous bits like

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I was out in the market one evening to get the latest issue of Overdrive. Just as I was flipping through the magazine’s pages after paying for it, this strange looking green colored “3000 bhp issue” of TopGear lying on the stands caught my attention. Being a fan of Jeremy Clarkson already, I couldn’t resist shelling out another 60 bucks for this issue which promised Veyron vs. Koenigsegg and

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This happens to right be up there on my "happiest moments of my life" list...One fine day me and my friend JK were on our way to some company in Noida sector 63 for a presentation. As it was raining, i took out my car and gave our bikes some rest.As we neared the office, there was some waterlogging on the two lane road such that one lane was immersed in water while the other lane was a little

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Turn radio on…Pehli nazar mein kaisa jaadu kar diya...NEXT...bas deewangi deewangi deewangi hai...NEXT...masha allah masha allah...NEXT...aankhon mein teri ajab si...NEXT...tum si hi din hota hai...NEXT...mauja hi mauja...NEXT...race saanson ki...NEXT…teri aankhen bhul bhulaiyya…SHUT THE FUCK UPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP...Turn radio OFF !!!This is how my day begins...I’m fed up of these Delhi radio stations

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Beijing 2008 has been witness to some amazing feats of sporting excellence that one can only dream of. The Chinese, after displaying their engineering prowess in setting up what is being hailed as the most spectacular Olympics ever, seem all set to top the medals tally as well. But had it not been for some super humans, the event might have not been as lip-smacking as they are now...Consider

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This Friday, it so happened that my mommy dear decided to use my excellent (and free of cost) chauffeur services to go for rakhi shopping. Having already well spent the first half of the day lazing around and eating and sleeping, i thought it would be nice to get some fresh air as well. So off we were to the nearby Sec-34 market. As we reached there, the mad rush of last minute rakhi buyers like

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I was watching MTV this afternoon and suddenly this strange looking music video started playing. I thought the music sounded a bit familiar as if I had heard it sometime somewhere but couldn’t recall. I kept listening for a few seconds. And then it dawned upon me… the realization that this bunch of “rock stars” with drums and guitars was actually playing the national anthem. I mean how worse it

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(Note: I decided to split this post in 2 parts coz it was getting a bit too long)For all you patriots out there, this might come as shocking news. This morning Mother India woke up to celebrate its 61st birthday. But in slight contrast to my countrymen’s zeal to celebrate the occasion, I decided not wake to up at all. I thought wouldn’t it be nice to reclaim my own azaadi too?? My life has been

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Indian Senior Cricket Team after defeating Australia in the finals of the CB Series. India U-19 Cricket Team after winning the World Cup.Indian Hockey team after defeating Austria 7-3 in the Olympic qualifiers. Congrats to the Indian Senior and U-19 cricket teams as well as the Hockey team for putting up some brave performances in recent days. You’ve really done us all proud and as I said, given

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An advertisement for Aviva Life Insurance has been on air for quite some time now. There's this guy who keeps saying on each of his birthday, “I want to open my own bookshop”, “ I want have my own restaurant”, and so on... and his friend, who by the way happens to be none other than Sachin Tendulkar, asks him one such day… “Kab karoge ye sab? Jab cake pe 60 candles hongi?” Now one day, I

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Here’s collection of quotes from two movies I watched recently. Into The Wild and Lord of War. Both of these were real good ones and I thoroughly enjoyed watching them. The movies were provided free of cost courtesy IMT Ghaziabad’s local network. And the quotes I looked up on wikiquote and a few other sites. So here they go… From Lord of War… They say, "Evil prevails when good men

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I'd like to add a little more to the previous post... A little consideration for the pedestrians is certainly needed. Drivers have to be taught what a zebra crossing is. If you ask 100 Indians what those white lines are, chances are you’ll get an “I have no clue” response from at least 95 of them. No one seems to know what “stop-look-go” is and most people would run over

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Why do I ride fast? Heck, ask them why do they drive slow? That’s what makes me crazy. What for do people pay taxes? Isn’t it for the government to make good roads so that you can reach office on time without getting stuck up in a traffic jam? People keep cuss about bad roads and poor traffic management in their city. But when the government does make good roads, people drive slow for some inane,

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