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
:)

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!!!!!!!