Cool Drinks - served HOT!!!

WOW!! I always wondered why they spend so much on advertising but, I saw it, and I FELL for it!!! Thank God, they don't use all these stars and models to advertise booze and weed (not any that I know)!!! :P

STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN...

Its more than just another good old classic rock song from two Gods of Good-Old-Rock. Every time I read the words 'Stairway to Heaven' I can't help humming the tune, "Ooh, it makes me wonder,Ooh, it makes me wonder". This song to me is definitely larger than life!!

Stairway To Heaven
(J.Page, R.Plant)
There's a lady who's sure
All that glitters is gold
And she's buying a stairway to heaven.
When she gets there she knows
If the stores are all closed
With a word she can get what she came for.
Ooh, ooh, and she's buying a stairway to heaven.

There's a sign on the wall
But she wants to be sure
'Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
In a tree by the brook
There's a songbird who sings,
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven.
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it makes me wonder.

There's a feeling I get
When I look to the west,
And my spirit is crying for leaving.
In my thoughts I have seen
Rings of smoke through the trees,
And the voices of those who standing looking.
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it really makes me wonder.

And it's whispered that soon
If we all call the tune
Then the piper will lead us to reason.
And a new day will dawn
For those who stand long
And the forests will echo with laughter.

If there's a bustle in your hedgerow
Don't be alarmed now,
It's just a spring clean for the May queen.
Yes, there are two paths you can go by
But in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on.
And it makes me wonder.

Your head is humming and it won't go
In case you don't know,
The piper's calling you to join him,
Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow,
And did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind.

And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our soul.
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How everything still turns to gold.
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last.
When all are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll.

And she's buying a stairway to heaven.

...SIHT DAER

!!!era yllaer UOY ohw tuo dnif ot yad rehtona evil uoy !!!snoitalutargnoc ,uoy dnuora s'tahw fo esnes ekam llits dna siht daer nac uoy fI

DOWN...DOWN...DOWN...

SENSEX - down 1070 points, closes at 8701, lowest since November, 2005.

All this, despite the Finance Minister reassuring the investors of the nation. So I guess its time for Chidambaram to make calls to some recording studios. After all, his speeches don't seem to be making any impact any time, so he might as well just play the tape every time the markets go down!!! (Chopra predicted it would go below 10K - 8K some five months back, well now I agree dude!!!)

OIL - down to less than $64 a barrel

Rupee vs. Dollar - Rupee, down to 50 against $ (I mean weaker)

and lastly,

PK - down with Acute viral nasopharyngitis :P

Lead INDIA

There are two meanings to this phrase,
1. 'you' LEAD INDIA...
2. INDIA LEADS 'you'...

Both of which make sense, only, when they come together.

When there is so much talk about an economic meltdown, a crisis and we, yes we, Indians, talk about, "well, that is that. So, what are we going to do about that??" and lots of questions being asked about that, I can't help the flashes of the visuals of a certain something most of us saw a couple of years back. All of us saw it, some of us felt it, even fewer are living it...



What beats me even more is when people say and agree that its mainly speculations that drive our markets, when did we ever take the easier path and why do we keep looking back and falling down, again and again and again?? I know it for a fact, we will rise, like we always have, but, its just that is it going to be a little late this time around??

There's only one answer to all the questions... like my team always says,

STOP WONDERING...
...START WORKING

P.S. This one's a response to http://storyboardinc.blogspot.com/2008/10/i-owe-i-owe-so-i-go-to-work.html (thought a comment would be too long over there!!)

"If anything can go wrong, it will."

One very famous statement of Murphy's Law - "if anything can go wrong, it will."

If there's something you don't want but yet know it HAS to come your way, ask for it to happen RIGHT NOW. Because, now is always a better time than the future... Life just gets too complicated as we slide along the timeline.

There's some hidden talent everywhere, in everyone, in some aspect...its just a matter of time...
That time will come, as the clock keeps ticking, when that moment you've always had nightmares about, will come. You would be frozen in time. Of course, in due course of time, you will realize that it actually continued to tick on and it will do so, for as long as the time to come, will come. So, what do we do about those nightmares?? MOVE ON MAN!!!

P.S. For those who've been following me for a while, they know why this had to come at THIS time. And I'm just glad it came anyway. And now, I just hope its gone, forever and ever...

BUSTED!!!!!

It had to happen... and it did... The worst part is, it had to be Vishy and even bad, it had to be ME!!!

October 17, Thu, 2008... a day that'll only go down in history as one of the eclipsed days for PK... Sitting right under Vishy's nose and taking the liberty to peek into my own record did prove to be a little heavy. Well heavy enough to get myself out of the lab.




But, it was an experience I had to have, sometime or the other. Glad I'm done with it and glad it had to be Vishy!!! But as I said, the experience is one that'll last a lifetime. Me facing Vishy, 'his' hands trembling(!!), me standing in front of him.

V: "see... let me tell you.. I cannot tolerate this.. no..no.." (trembling hand rolls over the forehead)
PK: "Ok, what's done is done. I'll do it all over again, on my own..."

... a lot more happens for the next 3.5 mins or so (mostly the emotional demeanor of Vishy)... and concludes something like this...

V: (shivering harder) "Jayendra... you tell him.. this is not tolerable... no"
J: "you leave, I'll take care..." (of what??!!)
PK: "whatever!!!" (and walks out of the lab)

And finally, hope we've learnt a lesson here, the hard way though!!!