Dream Work Schedule

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This one crossed my mind when I was hearing Dipshika’s Monday morning blues.

Monday – First Half Holiday – Second Half Working
Tuesday - Full day Working
Wednesday – Holiday! Mid week stress buster.
Thursday – Full day Working
Friday – First Half Working – Second Half Holiday!
Saturday Sunday Off!!

Well that is a dream schedule. No business is gonna run on that unless you are in the business of minting money

Cheers!
Novin

Tolerant or Submissive?

I used to show up those raging hormones and boiling blood whenever I found something stupid happening around me, I used clench my fist in rage on issues like people honking behind me, people not following traffic rules, manner-less people, corruption, animals on roads, unprofessional complacent colleagues, waiters at restaurants, shopkeepers who didn’t attend me in time etc etc etc… This can be anything that I come across in my daily life.

I used to vent it out on some of them, rest were abused in my mind, some were given that unruly looks, some were abused aloud within the safety of my car, ah! I remember hurdling abuses at people who created stupid situations when I was busy managing a cousins’ wedding in Kerala 2 years back.

Something that was prevalent on all occasions was the stress induced on me, increased heart beat, headaches etc were the aftereffects. Having realized that these issues wont change them much I have developed sort of tolerance to them, I am not sure if I have submitted to them.

The best part of it is that I tend to get less angry! No more abuses etc… and now more of looking at the funnier side of it (I hope I am not making fun of me because of this) For instance… When I got out of my office in Powai yesterday, Instead of arguing with auto-wallahs about why they don’t want to Vikhroli, I simply put an open question to them “Who is going to Vikhroli!” and then they did the rest of the job for me, they shouted to others in the queue and so on for a couple of autowallahs… But this doesn’t mean that I got the auto… After a couple of auto wallahs I was back to my self abusing the Backchods for not going where I wanna go!

Looks like I have still a long way to go before I can call myself “Officially tolerant”! Till then I’ll live in the dilemma controlling my anger under the pretext of deciding weather I am being tolerant or submissive

By the way… Yesterday, by the time I walked down to Powai D-Mart I asked on lone autowallah if he is “willing” to go to Vikhroli and Bingo! He was going! I got my ride!

Cheers!

Novin

Doubious Decibels

Our folks are so good at creating noises to make them heard and our media is equally good at reverberating those noises through our idiot boxes into our living rooms and heads!

Some of the Dubious Decibels:

SRK: Cried foul for IPL ignoring Paki players during bidding, invited wrath from Tiger, Saffron brigade and others for anti-national comments. Then he went ahead and created more noises on his Twitter page and elsewhere.

RahulGandhi: Addressed a rally in Bihar and screamed “Bhaiyya, its our kids from Bihar and UP who were the NSG commandos who saved Mumbai“. Also cried foul over Mumbai’s ownership. Then he arrived in Mumbai and toured in a local train with his security cover, attended meetings with college kids and slum dwellers. Garlanded statue of Dr. Ambedkar wooing more votes.

ShivSena: Dared SRK to release his upcoming movie! Dared Rahul Gandhi to step in Mumbai. Whipped Ambani, SRK and Rahul Gandhi with their mouthpiece. Dared The later two to step into Mumbai. When Rahul scheduled his trip, they decided to hoist black flags to express their non-cooperation. Before all this the tore My Name is Khans posters and dared the screening of the movie in Mumbai.

Now what resulted from all this? Who benefited?

• SRK for letting everyone know about My Name is Khan!
• Rahul Gandhi for painting the common man picture and earning the name for daring SS in Mumbai.
• SS for scoring some brownie points over MNS and re-growling!!
• The Maha Govt for watching Rahuls back for the few hours he was here. Sonia-ji would be pleased with them.
• Media for getting new pseudo names for Rahul Gandhi from Tiger. Congress ka Yuvraj! Italian Putra, Rome Putra, etc etc
• Uddhav Thackrey for getting coverage on various news channels.
• A bunch of bollywood stars and starlets who extended their support to SRK to make up with the past tiffs or future benefits.
• TV channels with their share of noise for the content they found to fill the airtime which they would have filled with stories of ghosts appearing in buildings, punarjanam (re-births) stories and other useless shit.
• Telcos and ISPs who fed all those Support SMS and #MumbaiForAll Tweets to people who wouldn’t give a shit about these very senders if they were in a mess.
• Some media mouguls who stretched their vocal chords in their Channels being arm chair critics.
• Other political parties who made their presence felt with the ruckus they created by airing their opinions.
• The guys who rented their cars, and Pawan Hans for renting the chopper for Rahul Gandhi’s commute.
• And don’t know who else… O yea people like me who write blogs (equally nice armchair critics!).

Rahul did his job and was gone in a few hours. He’ll expect to gain the mileage of all this in the elections.

SRK and Tiger have patched up after they accomplished the mission of spreading awareness of their current affairs!

And you and me were glued to TV sets, Blogs, Twitter etc to observe all this!

The media went overboard with irresponsible comments like “Uttar Bharatiya hokar Rahul ne Mumbai ke Dadar, jahaan Shiv Sena ka kaaryalay hai, wahaan local train me yaatra karke unko lalkaara“. “Mumbai mein shiv sena ke mansoobon pe paani phera” That was bloody cheap tactics to evoke more violence and get more content to flash as Breaking News.

I appreciate ShivSena’s decision to hoist black flags to express their political non-cooperation because for a change they went non violent. We have our freedom for speech still securely in place in our constitution as one of our fundamental rights as long as it is not anti-national.

All this noise has died now, SRK is talking about meeting Bal Thackrey! Rahul is chilling back home reaping the results of his acts in Mumbai. All these folks are gonna take a break till Valentines Day arrives and then Bang! They’ll be back to save the Great Indian Culture from Western Influences!

Someday these people who have the power to make their voice heard would concentrate on issues more closer to national interests instead of raising decibel levels in this country with their dubious interest.

Thank You

Novin

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