Back in action :) ..Am I??!

Mark Zuckerberg is the main reason why thousands of us stopped writing. He made sure we are all hooked on to that one website, which made us forget we had other areas of interest too on the Internet! However this blog post is not about Facebook nor about Mark. They have both received enough mileage through the movie. This blog post is about hangover! Again, not the movie, but the state of mind which I am unable to get out off!
The term usually associated with alcohol actually does have more things to relate with than just alcohol. In my case, its one of my recent outings which I am unable to come out of. People have asked, "tell me, how was it? What did you see?". I am not sure what to tell them. To be honest, if i try to put it in words, I can say - we saw mountains. Some green ones and then some white ones. Some snow, some ice and some lakes, streams and rivers. Just the sorta stuff we always see when we take a walk in the wild. Words were never meant to describe these things. Right now while I write this, I wonder, how do I give you a perspective of what we saw or what we ve been through!? If I say we saw three 8km high peaks, you might ask me - Did you climb any!?(i ve been asked too many times now!!). Now that i ve told you that I saw 8km high peaks, the fact that I went 5416mts high sounds 3kms short of target. Numbers and facts seem irrelevant. They don't count for much when you look ahead to find a white patch of mountain staring down, standing atleast 5Km higher than you. The giant that she was, intimidation still remained one of the skills she was yet to aquire. 7931mts tall, she makes you go down on your knees, not out of fear by out of sheer awe and respect. An agnostic like me had all his doubts cleared. People traveled thousands of miles into the Himalayas to find God. I had just understood why. You see, most people kneel in front of God because they ve been taught to do so. Here you learn how that practice could have started. In my case though I could not close my eyes and pray, as I was too busy looking at her. However repercussions of seeing her are being felt now! She now does not let me sleep too well, haunts my dreams and also gave me an illness called day dreaming! Every morning(I mean, evening for the rest u!) I wake up hoping I ll see a huge window in front of me, outside which clear skies and the Majestic sight of Annapurna II will wait for me. Sadly its always my blue wall and dirty room that greets me to reality everyday. Reality bites harder when you need to go to work everyday and act like you enjoy what you do in front of your computer(Work on improving the world of illusion called Internet created by us for God knows what reason! How do I start enjoying this!?) . Different things have inspired me to write before, but this is the first time that I am doing the cliche - What's in your mind kinda writing! Hope you enjoyed it.
To those whom this read did not make sense, I care a damn(Dash Off! :P ) and to those whom it made some sense(?!!?), I recommend a trip/trek/expedition in Nepal. Its one helluva country filled with a lifetime worth to explore and experience. If you ve been there already, go there again. If you haven't, please go there atleast once. Unless you are going there for a honeymoon with your wife(or someone else's wife or girlfriend!!), please do invite me, i will most definitely want to be a part of the experience again.
Picture Courtesy: P V Srikant :)

On a different note, though Rafa has had a great season with 3 slams, Roger had the final laugh at London. A year that looked dismal with just 1 grandslam and 4 other titles(yes that's not a great year to his standards) got a great boost with him beating Nadal in the season ending final ATP tournament in London. Look forward to more of these in 2011. Go Roger!

LMT :)

LMT (Final Episode)


This should be short and crisp I said to myself. This should make everyone remember LMT atleast for a moment and say "hmmmmmm :(" i told myself. This should be the best I have done till date I thought to myself. Then I just thought, if I could recreate that, I would win the Booker for this!!!!...Cannot put the end in words...it goes beyond it!! .
The story went on from where I left and took more turns and twists. By the end of it we managed to keep up the tradition of losing the last competitive performance. We also managed to add a few more $ in the kitty. But what mattered most was the end. We were all looking forward to it. We were all looking forward for it to not come. Tears rolled down at the end of it all. People stood up and applauded the effort. 4years of continuous attempts to bring smiles on those thousands of faces in the audience and at the end those thousands faces made us cry. Tears rolled down and words and actions took a back seat for a while. It was when Avinash had to introduce us at the end, and we had all collapsed on stage as part of the last joke. Avinash came ahead and we stood up, the audience stood there and applauded. We were back on our feet somehow and the audience applauded more. Avinash started to introduce us and the audience applauded more. He tried to get to the first name but the applause did not stop. The applause did not die until actually Avinash started for the 3rd time to introduce the first person. The ardent fans in the first few rows screamed our names. Every name was welcomed with more applause and more scream. That was it. That would be the end of a glorious era in mad ads. Tomorrow there will be someone else crying, someone else performing for the last time. someone else crying in the back stage but that wont be me, wont be an LMT again, wont be the same..... ever again!!!....Its been an honor trying to make you all laugh. Thank you for being a great audience....This is where we say....

la la la la.....hey hey hey hey...na na na na.....Good Bye........




I believe i have missed the introduction to the characters in the previous episodes....so here they go....
1. Avinash M V: A nerd, the dancing narrator
2. Devaiah P B: Mr Hello Daddy
3. Aditya Hegde: Mr Controversial French beard
4. Rohan Shetty: Mr Greatest hijda ever
5. Rahul Sainath: Mr Drunken Manager, a drunkard
6. Manish Achutha: Mr NPS passout
7. Rohit Atri: Mr Repeated jokes, Mr Despo
8. Rajiv B G: Mr Serious Theatre, an idiot
9: Franz Mendonza: Mr Wat does that mean!?
10: Bharat A: me:)

LMT :)

Episode 2

Winning is a habit we never took to. We are a team which believed in making come backs(Like Saurav Ganguly ;) ) But to come back, we first had to come. And come we did when we went to a fest in a college of which none of us had heard off. Fest was a small scale with a hall full of audience who loved our performance. But then, they loved our seniors too. Competition was fierce but no prizes for guessing who came out strong. It was them :P. But then they won by a point...just 1 point. Now we had our target in sight. Everyday Mr Hello daddy, Mr Controversial French beard, Mr NPS passout met up in the afternoon to dish out some new jokes. Mr Repeated jokes came once in a while with the same joke every time(If anybody could refresh me with that joke again!?.) Mr Dancing narrator took time off on the phone(?!?) once a week to discuss the week's progress. Mr Greatest Hijda ever and Mr Wat does that joke mean? had almost forgotten they were part of a mad ads team! Mr Serious Theatre made himself free once in a while to hear all the jokes and pass a comment or two. Best was Mr Drunken Manager (who self appointed himself!) who never managed to manage anything(Not even himself when drunk :D ). For 2 weeks the meetings went on with Mr Hello Daddy coming up with some amazing starts(remember Neil Armstrong?!) but not one joke was finished! Not that we were so worried about winning. The issue here was that the biggest cash prize heard off for mad ads till now was on offer. This time again a hall packed with people (with most being our own college mad ads teams) and fierce competition with 5 different teams from BMS! Celebrations broke out even before results were announced, we knew which college team had won! When the results were actually announced, WE(LMT) HAD WON! LMT registered its first victory after 13 performances. Many would argue that it took rather long to get there, but when we got there we got there big. We had beaten the senior teams and the best part was they were happy about it.(They forgot there was 5k!:P) This happened once more at their last show (exactly where they had taken over from their senior team) in the most convincing fashion. The tradition of mad ads in BMSCE would now continue in us!!. The torch had been very gracefully passed on. What we didn't know was that this torch needed very highly charged up batteries to keep it glowing! Then we had NO IDEA wat hit us! No Idea btw was the name of our rival mad ads team from our own college. They also claimed to have charged up batteries, so they wanted to carry the torch for a short while. So they did and how! Thrice in a row they beat us. This was so frustrating that Mr Drunken Manager finally took things in his own hands(with some help from Mr Hello Daddy off course!!) and came up with a joke which henceforth became one of the main reasons for our victories. I had to drink 4 red bulls and crack a really bad joke on it finally to actually come back against NO IDEA! Once that happened, NO IDEA was out of ideas and later nobody had any idea about where they had disappeared. At the same time, building up was the legendary rivalry between us and Complete Chaos, one that would be remembered for years to come. For 2 years there were only 2 teams which controlled all mad ads events all over the city. The rest of the teams got so fed up that it would be just the 2 of us in the competition and the other teams would stand as audience and applaud. Our biggest high ever though came in the absence of all our competitors. This time we ventured so far that no other teams were ready to follow us so far(It was around 25kms from college :P). There were only 2 teams in the competition and I don't remember which college the other team was from(anybody?)! Firstly the organisers are pissed with the fact that we were late, and then over that we didn't have a team briefing before entering the stage so none of us really knew wat we were going to do. Mr Dancer Narrator had all to do by himself this time.Rest of us just had to pick up the cue from where ever he picks it up. Somehow we managed a decent show and the crowd laughed continuously throughout the performance. What happened after the performance is something I am not sure I can put it in words. The whole crowd(about 300 people) stood up from their seats and gave us a STANDING OVATION! First time ever and this felt on top of the world, we didn't care if we had spent more on petrol than the cash prize they gave. This is a day I will never be able to forget, when the audience stood up and continued clapping for 5 mins without a stop and we stood there on stage not knowing wat to do!!! Though we told everyone that we beat 6 teams into it, the truth was that we were so happy to just be there on that day in front of that audience that we did not care a dash to wat the results were(we knew we had won!...:P). From the biggest highs to the biggest lows, the team believed in the lie that we were good and now they even started to lie that we were the best ever, so the temptation to believe that was too high, so we kept believing in it!!! :D. At the end of the third year, we had conquered most of the fests we went to. We had hoisted our Flag(though we never really had a flag....we had a baniyan once...and some sports wear:P) in all corners of the city. Then came the dreadful last year, which reminds me this one has gone toooo long already!!! Last phase will be covered in the last episode along with the stories of us getting disqualified, till then keep guessing who's who?? and do keep those comments pouring with your views and some more interesting things which I might have missed! Until next time, keep laughing :-)

LMT:)

Episode 1

A nerd, an NPS passout, a despo, a drunkard and an idiot....the only way humor was associated with them was when people laughed at them for their stupidity! These fools somehow thought they would start a mad ads team in a college which was known around the state mainly for its mad ads teams. And the best part is they got some fools around them to say they could be better than the teams that had already made a huge mark. Best was when these 5 fools gave their first show;)! The seniors sitting in the room laughed out loud at the courage of these guys to put up that script for a mad ads show!!! and even better these guys thought they were laughing at the so called jokes!!! That got them serious about this whole thing and they started hunting for team mates. In search of another 3 people they ended up having 5 or 6. Then a few dropped out. One of them got caught in controversy and we were left with the 9 of us. First show at KSIT with a make shift narrator and a script that would have taken away the smile even from laughing Buddha's face!!! Best thing was the team name!...U wont be able to guess this.....NAVAGRAHAS.....9 planets...wat a funny sounding name!!!!:P..Still there were these seniors who kept given us wrong ideas that we were improving!!! Improving so well that we went went around with the senior teams to all fests they went to and saw them win and cheered them and celebrated their victory...and still they kept saying we were improving.....we kept on taking that seriously!!!!(cant believe all of us were buying that lie continuously-not one of us saw through it!!)Then came a day when the whole college joined the lie. Stage is called Antarmukhi where in some special talents from college perform just for the college crowd. That was the day of complete blunders. First I got late, by then there was this going to be bad judge who lectured the newly crowned dancer narrator so much that by the time they went on stage, the going to be bad judge's voice was echoing in his eardrums! He couldn't have screwed up the show after that!!! This was the first time we were performing for the home crowd and we innocent souls had no clue wat that meant. The crowd cheers for the worst of jokes there and we took that so seriously that we went onto believe that we were as good as anyone at mad ads!! Until the day arrived when there was a fest in college and we signed in as usual with all other senior teams. There were some new jokes and some punches lined up. By then the name had changed as there was an addition into the team from another team. Now that we were 10, Mr controversial French Beard who was the new addition into the team came up with LAST MINUTE TEN-SION after some brain storming with the dancer narrator. That sounded like a good name and since he had given us our most popular joke ever, we decided to import him from the senior team and go for the TEN thing!!! Cale-faction was the name of the fest and for the first time LMT(as we are popularly called :D) had given a tough fight to a senior team. Fight was so tough that many said we had to win it hands down but somehow the judge didn't think so. Accidentally the same thing happened 2 years later in the same fest where except the judge everybody thought we were the winners. Even the rival team said they didn't deserve it that day but they took the money anyway!!!:P ....So anyway coming back to the first episode...That is the fest that changed the way we looked at mad ads. We actually started taking the joke too seriously!! This was probably our 12th mad ads show without a win. Come back to read the next episode where more stories about Mr Wat does that mean!?, Mr Hello Daddy! and Mr Greatest hijda ever and the rest of the team and how they came up from the ashes will be disclosed!!..:)

DASH, the story!

I knew I would do this someday. Just didnt know it was today. People who know me will associate Dash quite immediately with me.Its part of my lingo and now a part of many others too. So...DASH,,!,,....what is DASH?...?

Dash is used as part of a sentence in place of just anything. Not that tough to understand actually! Dash is dash__________......as in just a blank space.....just like fill in the blanks that we all had back in school!!!...remember?.... Just that here its not bound by answers. Here the answer unlike in school is not there is the last few pages of the text book. The answer is in the mind of the interpreter. Dash could mean one thing from the speaker and could be interpreted as anything by the listener. This way speaker can be happy that he has successfully abused the listener and the listener could just interpret is as praising and feel proud about it. Let me explain with the help of an example(VTU students are quite used to this) :
Let us say donkey wants to abuse monkey...but again donkey doesnt want to be too explicit about this...Hence he says..." You are such a big dash that even dash's dash would look small in comparison!!!!." What donkey actually intended to say was this -'You are such a big asshole that even Big Bang theory's black hole would look small in comparison!!!!'... but monkey interprets the same as -'You are such a big performer that even Amitabh Bachan's performance would look small in comparison!!!!'. So you see how the same sentence gets interpreted in 2 different ways and both the speaker and the listener are happy after the episode. This is what a DASH actually stands for. First I though I ll copyright it but then realized the piracy rates these days are so high that I wouldn't achieve much by copyrighting. Hence I have decided to share it with you myself. Use it well and come up with some better instance where the dash could mean more than one thing. If there is something really interesting do share it with me!...:)

Yes they can!!!....Y cant we????

Firstly congratulations Mr Barack Obama, President of US of A! What a ceremony to inaugurate the beginning of your term! Mighty impressed! The fat opera singer sure was a treat to the ears and was the star of the show for me!!!! :P...lol!!!...And the poet said such wonderful things in praise of the American land! I almost fell asleep....But the best was yet to come. The show stopper as expected was the speech by the President! What emotions! What feeling! It almost got me stand up and say.....'I could never mug up a speech so well back in school! How on earth did he mug all that up??'...I say this from the bottom of my heart Mr Obama....I am a fan of your mugging skills already! And some of the lines there in that speech were so inspiring! I quote "Greatness in never given..its earned".....like a BOURNVILLE CHOCOLATE!!!.....now he wants to "remake America".....and he says the reason why the markets crashed in America was because there was nobody watching them...so from now on he's going to watch CNBC Business news for an hour everyday..."We need to watch the markets"!!!...lolz!...."We are a friend of all countries".....dont we know that!!!!!!!.....and...."We are yet again ready to lead"....who ever asked them to do so?......Bleedy Democ-RATS and Re-PUBIC-ans (last line courtesy: Nikhil Bhagat:) )
But the whole idea behind the event was magnificient! If nothing else every kid in America now knows who their President is! Unlike India where in the young generation finds it cool not to care about all that anymore!! A reality show called Roadies once had a quiz competition where they discovered that the contestants dont even know the name of the president of India (psst: they now host a show on MTV...lolz!) I dont blame them really...If at all the swearing ceremony of the President of India was like what Obama got with 2 million people attending the ceremony....then I bet nobody would not know Pratibha Patil's name(btw all those wondering...she is the President these days!). I dont say do what ever they do but sure do something atleast!!! Other than scolding Pakistan that is....this is one thing all Indians do well!!!


Btw Australian open has started and Roger has made a decent start!...I hope he wins this slam!!!....:)

Luck by chance!

Well this is the story of a narrator and a wannabe narrator. The narrator of a very popular mad ads team was in hell lot of demand after securing the best narrator award at various college fests. Hence he was on cloud nine ever since. Once a debutant director after shooting a short film came up to the wannabe narrator and asked him for the narrator's phone number. Helpful wannabe gave it without hesitation, even after realizing that it was for the voice over of the director's debut movie! Director calls the narrator only to realize that cloud nine is too far and he cant afford his travel fares and hence settles for the wannabe instead! Thanks to the peanut butter and chocolate pastry and some dialogues by a friend, the wannabe does the voice over just in time. The time allotted was one night btw!:D. In a night's time the 2 friends finish scripting and recording, much to the pleasure of the director. Needless to say the director won accolades and some prize for that video he shot. The treat for which is still pending!
So when the new movie was shot, the wannabe was again considered a natural choice. This time in local language Kannada for an All India competition online. Job happens again in the last minute(I am used to that now after being part of last minute tension!) And now see where that landed the wannabe. THE VIDEO WON THE NATIONAL LEVEL COMPETITION. WE ACTUALLY GOT THE BLEEDY NATIONAL AWARD. Accolades and praises are coming down quite heavily!
No prizes for guessing the characters right! Narrator played by Avinash M V(narrator of my mad ads team LAST MINUTE TENSION!)
Wannabe played by MEEEEEEEEEEE!
Director played by Sandeep V (aka Sandy or Bandli :) )
Friend played by Harsha Kudoor
thank you
Please do watch the video and tell me how it is!
:)

Link below will guide you to the page where the winners of the competition are announced

Senses of an Incense by Sandeep.V | PFCOne 2008 Competitive Section
Link below is the link to the video on Youtube
Video by sandy
Thank You once again
:)