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
:)

A day at VTU

Everyday in our life brings us a new challenge. One such great challenge was posed to me on 18th December 2008. The challenge began when my dear friend, who had promised to come with me, suddenly resigned. So I had to make this journey to the far land all alone. Destination was VTU, Belgaum. VTU btw is Vishveshwaraya Technological University. The name which most of us have seen on our exam papers or on the results website, but none of us really know who or what or where this is!!. So I set out to look for VTU!
On reaching Belgaum, I was quite amazed to learn that Belgaum is after all not a small town at all! Its quite a big place with a few shopping malls to boast off! I always had a picture of Belgaum with VTU at the centre and a few houses other than the university campus. But Belgaum has more than just VTU in it! Anyway, moving on, I got a companion at Belgaum bus stand itself. Guy from Kashmir apparently but studied in Gulbarga and was in Mumbai on the 26th of Nov near Nariman point. So passing time wasnt a problem initially atleast. Stories flew from Kashmir to Mumbai to politics to apples to more politics and finally VTU. Once I reached the campus, I was awstruck by the sheer size of the VTU campus. After all how much space does the admin office of VTU really need!! But then V have all been paying a lot of fees. They need to be used up somewhere!. So VTU people have been building good looking buildings far away from people's view in Belgaum.! They have an amphi theatre which can accomodate atleast a thousand people if not more.... and all that in a place where there are not more than 100 people at any given point of time. Out of these hundred 10 are from various colleges who have come there to collect their degree certificates, like me!!!And the rest are the office people who have no reason to visit the amphi theatre! They also have a huge gym, quite well equipped and new. For whom, I donot know!!!!Coz its closed for the visitors! Also there is a indoor stadium kinda thing which also is closed for public. There also are a few scaled models of GSLV, ISRO models. Y?...I donot know!!!! The person who was incharge of getting the certificates done was very understanding. He collects our details at 10 am and askes us to come back at 4 30 in the evening. Thats what he does everyday so thats what he will do to us as well. Y such a thing when it can be done in an hour easily!!!?...I donot know!!!!..And if i failed to mention earlier, VTU campus is 15 kms from the city and there are a very few buses which come and go from this place. Hence I couldnt have gone out for a while and come back, coz I am not sure if I ll be able to come back once I leave the campus and move out! So I am forced to sit there with my Kashmiri friend and a few others like me, on the lawns of VTU and discuss Mumbai attacks! How interesting! Thank God I found a bunch of idiots like me there to give me company. Also there was a girl!!! Yes, a GIRL!! But then with her was her dad too. So no chance of flirting either. Just plain talk and smile. Y did she need her dad there with her! Didnt she know that she was the sole source of entertainment for a few young gentlemen like me out there !!! Didnt she anticipate that! I am guessing she did, but so did her dad!!!! Thats y he was there! Another dad was even smarter. He was wearing a wig I can tell U and had come alone even without his daughter! How convinient for the daughter!!!! So thanks to all these wonderful facts that I just mentioned above, I spent a day at VTU doing nothing! Nothing also might be an understatement coz I really did nothing at all!!!!!!!!! Sat through the day to finally get my cert at 5 30 and then back home next morning! An absolutely uneventful day of my life spent at VTU. I ll remember this day, until next time I go through a day where in I dont even travel and it goes this un eventful! Until then this ranks as the most boring day of my life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!God knows Y i wrote this, but its gud to have record of my most boring day. Might come handy to compare it with another day in the future!;)

Responsible, Who is?....

Sad, what ever is happening in Mumbai. A city they say never stops came to a complete stand still as 10 or so terrorists do their duties to perfection. Just 15 people in a country of a billion population managed to rule a city for more than 24hrs and nobody could do anything about it. Well I would just say they were doing their job. Not that we could not have done much about it but we always say things once an event like this has occured. The point that struck me most was not what the terrorists did. Watching a news channel early in the morning, I saw a video shot at Mumbai central apparently, there was a police jeep that was hijacked by the terrorists and they open fired on the press standing in the area to cover the big news. When this incident happened, there is this one person shown in the video, who hurts his hand in the shooting. Now there are press people all over this place. I donot know if this person was from the press or just an onlooker. When he gets shot in the hand there are a few gearnalists standing very close to him and they rush to seize his hand. Well as I see it anybody in that stage would have tried to do some kind of first aid or even just hold the hand to make the person feel better. But instead this cameraman who seizes his hand actually puts it down and starts taking a video of the same. I was a little stunned seeing that. And not a single sole has said anything about it the whole day on these news channels. They are going on about the barbarism of the attacks and continuing to show the same visuals. Seemed a little strange to me.
And on a lighter note, I for the first time saw a really stylish looking terrorist who wore VERSACHE t shirt and was walking around so coolly on th eroads of Mumbai city as though he owned the place. As Arnob Mukharjee said,"The audasity of these terrorists is really something to take note off"!! And hey btw our PM and his lady incharge and off course our opposition leaders arrived in Mumbai just in the nick of time to make sure that they do the last bit of job left by the NSG. Dont they have any sense at all!. When the police has to worry about these terrorists and are having to work continuosly for 24hrs, the least these Bastards could do was to have their big show off back there in Delhi itself. It still would have counted as a 'Untied We Stand' show! Why do they care! All they need is the sympathy vote bank which they are trying to capture even in a situation like this! BASTARDS!!!!!!!

MY FIRST EVER DECISION

Well this is not what you really might think it is. This is different. This is different because its not the most obvious thing. If I say that my first ever decision was to join BMS College of Engineering, it becomes a very trivial fact. A very expected thing. People wouldn't take much notice of it really. And my first decision is something that you just cannot really think of. My first decision wasn't such an obvious thing. When I made the decision, I never really thought that its the first time I am doing something big! To ascertain the importance behind it, I would have to give a little bit of insight into why I actually talk about TAKING A DECISION!
Till the age of 10 most of us are not even aware of what really is happening in our lives. Parents form such an integral part of our life in that stage! Imagining what goes through an orphan at that stage of life is really disturbing. From 10 till 10th standard, my life was quite occupied by the competitions that haunt the students of today! Studies and sports were my personal favourites at that time. There was no time really to take a decision back then. Was more than happy to let my parents and teachers take the decisions of my life. Decisions included what to study, how to study, when to study, where to study, which sport to be part off and what best works for me?!. Since all these were happily done by others I never took up the burden of taking any decision at all. I simply focussed all my attention at the mad bull race of that age. Then came a time when we entered Pu college. Easily the best time for kids like me to get spoilt and take some false decisions. But then, thanks to the kind of friends I had and the kind of college that I was in, I was kept so busy with studies in those days that I hardly had the time to even think what I was doing. Never really had the option of choosing Science or Arts. Science was like the most obvious choice according to my marks they said. Had I even mentioned Arts or Commerce to anybody even as a joke they would catch me by my throat and strangle me to death. Science was written on my forehead and thus I managed to get into the most nerdy college of our city. Couldn't have asked for better environment to live my so called dreams. So 2 more years went by without a single decision of my life taken by me. This time it wa sthe turn of my parents again along with college lecturers and off course tution teachers. As though CET and board exam weren't enough, I was being inspired to take up JEE. JEE stands for Joint Entrance Test which is the selection exam for the IIT's. The college atmosphere was filled with questions from H C Verma and Khanna and Khanna, that my folks decided that I need not really take up the burden of thinking for myself also. So they took that up and let me fighting the great war of 2nd PUC. Henceforth no decisions were taken by me yet again in these 2 whole years.
After getting the desired result or may I say living up to the expectations of the world around, now I was ready for a new battle. Battle of Engineering. Again against expectations, the decision to get into BMS College of Engineering was taken mainly by my father. One of his friend's daughter had apparently done very well in this college and so had another son of my dad's brother's son's wife's cousin. So I was quite pushed into BMS College without much of a choice since they all said it was the best. So if getting into engineering wasn't my first decision, then what was it?
Engineering students from VTU will be very familiar with the system of Internals or internal assessment. In first semister I wrote them with such dedication. Something that people never associated me with, since second semister. But sincerity isn't what I am getting to. In VTU, scores of these internals are scored based on average of 2 best among 3 internals. That gave us the option of missing an internals. YES! Missing an exam till now was never really a choice! Every exam was treated like a battle which had to be won, no matter how ever good the army is! Now suddenly came the new choice of skipping the battle itself if the army isn't well prepared. A choice which led me to taking my first ever big decision of my life. A decision which would change the definition of the word exam in my dictionary. A decision that would solely be mine since telling it at home would lead to my mom taking a decision of throwing me out of the house. And yes I for the first time ever in my life decided to SKIP AN EXAM. Just an internal you might say, but to me it never was a choice before. For the first time ever I made a choice on my own, without parents, teachers, leacturers, friends involved in making the decision. I and I alone decided for the first time that I WILL NOT WRITE AN EXAM!
Bold move it proved to be later on though. Marks in internals were hard to come by. But i still am very proud of that day when I DECIDED to do so. Later I even decided to write internals as externals but thats a different story altogether. My first decision ever was made. I suddenly had the time to think for myself. What, where, when, how were now in my control. I now finally had grown up, matured enough, big enough to make mistakes and learn. Now its my turn to face the wheres, whens, whats, hows! Where, when, how will anyone remember me is now completely in my hands. What I do to the world is now my choice alone!:)

Judge me or Me judge???!!!

Back in those days when I was in school, I always thought I would come back a few years later as the chief guest of some event! Never imagined that such a thing would come down to reality so soon! I was invited back to Carmel High School to judge the mad ads event in the annual inter school fest called 'DRAPED THOUGHTS'. YES!..I received a formal invitation from them..
On reaching there it actually sunk in that I was suddenly an important person out there! The kind of welcome i received is beyond words. I was first taken to the principal's chamber. I have some fond memories of going in there back in school days to take whippings from her very famous CANE! It was as though I was ready to put my hand in front again to take one of those whippings, when she held my hand and shook it. It was as though my 10th standard self was standing right there and feeling proud at what I had just achieved! I was completely lost in the nostalgic moments from those days! I was easily one of the naughtiest students to ever study in that school, so most of my teachers and the school staff remember my face. Everyone in school gave me a hero's welcome as though they all had forgotten what had happened a few years ago. Chances are that they have but to my surprise they hadn't forgotten everything! There still were a few people who remembered me for some of my great heroics from back then. Most people remembered me because I was the best friend of the most famous kid in school ever! He still is! Anyway this blog is about me and not him so getting back to me, judging the event was fairly simple. 5 teams and 3 prizes. Did that with relative ease! The toughest part was standing there on stage and reflecting back on myself few years ago. From the most naughty student to being the judge, the journey has not been easy but WHAT THE HELL!!! nothing about me has changed! I still continue to be naughty, only that they don't know about it anymore!..;)