Thank god you are a man

Got this from Rohit. Awesome funny stuff. Original source: here

2 x Booze

Whew!..wat a day..wat a night! We had our last working day yesterday and there was a small office party at one of the conference rooms (for which I paid 1000 Yen). Anyways so I was working at a frantic pace yesterday when my Business Development Manager - Samir san came to my seat to invite me to a party to be held at the JV's office. That was at 5:00 pm. There was a huge smile on my face (as per sumit). Two parties meant 2wice the booze and 2wice to eat :D . Also drunk japanese are really fun ppl to hang out wid. They laugh at your sickest jokes...and really hard too (and am full of sick jokes :D). Anyways so we reached there..opened up a few beers..some wine..came back to beer..sushi..and repeat. Samir san tried his hand at magic and failed miserably ..it was soo funny. Ppl actually walked off (maybe that was just me) from where he was showing his thing. He asked permission to practise and then come back! He finally did it .. and it was kinda cool. Phew! at 6:30 we rushed from that building to our own. I was feeling the excitement build up in me. The last time we had a party..I sang a song at a Karaoke!! .. u never know what you are getting into! Anyways we reached there to find things had already started . My client Wakabayashi san offered me some beer..I happily lapped it up..had champagne..sake .. back to beer..more sushi .. yah sushi is cool! There were some biscuits for sumit...ohh and juice! Japan is mean towards vegetarians! Anyways ppl started leaving but me, Wakabayashi san, Iguchi san and Sumit talked away till like 9 pm. Thats when the building guys told us to get out! :D .. we had to shut down our machines and all. I was sooo drunk by that time. We 3 were dangling with every step. Sumit was laughing right till we reached back home! I reached back at like 9:45..slept at 10:45 ..really early..but cudnt help it. Phew!..wat a night!..had the best time. It was not only the booze (tho I agree it played an important part) but the conversations with these guys which was sooo interesting. Wakabayashi san is like a world renowned person and an expert in High Level Synthesis. That guy is a visiting professor in Stanford and often the "general chair" of many IEEE conferences. So me and sumit were in awe of that guy and we really had a nice time chatting with him..about everything. Iguchi-san is like 28 and already a PhD in Physics! It was like 4 friends getting drunk (ok..3) and talking like crazy! I never laughed soo much! Whew!..big thumbs up to last night! a big f*ckin 10 fingered thumbs up!!

Let the good times roll

After finishing up making paranthas (yah I make paranthas now..and awesome ones too)...me and sumit started our dinner at 12:15 am...ohh merry christmas to all btw. Thats when sumit had an awesome idea. Ideas like these are kinda expected from him since he has more head than me and all (literally..he's balding away like theres no tomorrow :D) . Anyways so he goes like "lets watch tom and jerry". And I was like ..f*ck yah..why dint we think of that before. And damn..the next hour was spent laughing..laughing like there's no tomorrow...2 grown men literally squealing like li'l kids...tears in our eyes..tummies aching ..phew!..wat a nice time. We watched the old ones..the Fred Quimby ones..Trap Happy..The Flying Cat..Jerry's cousin! Whew!..needless to say it got me reminiscing about my childhood. The time when I used to get up at 5:30 in the morning to watch Tom and Jerry on Doordarshan every weekend. I remember the days when I used to miss it (due to some reason or other) my dad used to get a Tom and Jerry video cassette from the nearby shop. Those were the days man! Continuing with the madness I just put "The Jungle Book" on the download. I dont remember loving anything more than cartoons. I am just addicted to them. Due to this I am constantly "exampled" as a "bad example" (or as my bro puts it .. social embarassment) by my relatives :D . On being constantly ridiculed that my li'l cuzin (in 8th) is too big for video games..he takes my example as his counter-attack. But its all good..infact I look forward to spend some quality time with my li'l cuzins watching cartoons and playing video games all day. One of the reasons I am the coolest bro among all my bros :D . Anyways had a really cool time..nice way to start off christmas..however things are gonna get rough...have to go to the office in another 9 hours...gatta get some sleep.

My guitar lies bleeding in my arms

I was practicing a full tone string bend on the guitar..and suddenly it went "plukpp". I finally had bent it to a full tone but then it gave way. I guess I tried too hard and got sooo far..but in the end it doesnt even matter :D. Damn!..how true. I can soo relate to that song by LP right now.

Anyways thank god its a holiday today. I hope the stores are open..I might as well get a guitar cover cuz I am planning to take it back to India. Although the cover might cost more than the guitar itself but wat the heck..got no other choice..unless I buy the cover from a second hand shop..hmm..interesting.

Blitzkrieg

Kinda stuff which inspires you to get the guitar and start practising scales!!

My new old washing machine

Getting second hand stuff in Japan is pretty easy. Mainly this is because you cant dispose off things for free. You have to pay (yes...pay!!) the junk yard guy for whatever stuff you need to throw out. So people rather sell their stuff using the internet. There's a huge forum for foreigners to sell/buy stuff. Some get soo desperate that they sell their stuff for free! If there are no buyers for the amount they are selling..and they really need to dispose things, they sell it for free. Its any day better to throw away stuff for free rather than paying for it (doh). Anyways so if people are selling stuff for free..guys like me are always on the lookout. So, after spending 3 weeks washing our clothes at the laundary, we finally found a guy in Kawasaki living barely a kilometer away from our place selling his washing machine..and yep .. more importantly..for free! So we got in touch..used our people skills and hence me and sumit became proud owners of an old Hitachi Washing Machine..a Sharp Vacuum Cleaner and a Bookshelf..for as low as....as my friend Barney says..wait for it!!....2000 Yen. Thats like a 1000 bucks in India!! Damn! .. we had to pay a li'l more for the transportation and stuff but its all good. Our next lookout is a fridge. Since the weather is pretty cold here .. we are managing it pretty well..but we have to consume whatever we make instantly. Although I dont mind even that..but heck..we really need some ice for whisky!

Sunday Bloody Sunday

We went to Tokyo yesterday for sightseeing. We had booked a sky bus .. the open double decker bus. It was really cool..the tour lasted for 1 hour and covered quite a number of places. The best one was the Imperial Palace. It was awesome! .. we had planned to go there again today with Sumit (he couldn't join us yesterday courtesy queasy stomach). But we woke up to a rainy sunday morning which literally (and philosophically), dampened our spirits. I stayed in the bed till like 11:00 in the morning! Infact the first meal of the day was our lunch. The temperature is a cold 5 degrees outside. Infact we are still left to do our laundry...and we also gatta collect the mails that we had missed from the post office. But there's still some time left before monday..and I am really looking forward for dinner at Anwarul's and Syam's place.

The Breakup song

There's always a song after a breakup ryt? Its been 7 months since mine. I came across this song by Junkyard Groove and its awesome! Its all I can listen to these days..its been like 2 weeks since my heavy metal playlist went bust (cuz of this one song!). Anyways its a really cool song. Its called "Say Goodbye". Really cool lyrics and a nice solo .. and yah it does bring back all those cool memories.

Metal of Honor

Metallica just got nominated for 4 grammy awards. "Death Magnetic" has been nominated in the Best Rock Album and Best Recording Package categories. "Suicide and Redemption" gets the nod in the Best Rock Instrumental Performance and "My Apocalypse" goes up for Best Metal Performance. Rick Rubin, was also nominated for Producer of the Year. Phew!..I pray they win all 4! Apart from that, they released their video for my favourite track on the album - All Nightmare Long. Its a nice mix of sci-fi , war and human tendencies..it can be got from here

Breaking the barrier

Highly impressed with my friend Rohit (as always), I started jogging a few weeks back. I started off with doing 15 minutes everyday. Then I raised it to 30 minutes. I stayed there for a loong time. In fact I used to get totally wiped after running for 30 minutes. But today as I walked towards my gym..I felt like jogging. Maybe it was the cold. It was 7 degrees and I was in my T-Shirt and Shorts! Anyways when I reached the gym..I just didn't feel like stopping. So I dint go to the gym and went right by it. It was weird..I just kept running..my feet dint feel heavy or anything..in fact I wanted to run faster. Maybe it was the music cuz my player was on a roll today. Never have I heard such an awesome playlist on the "random" mode. When I looked down at my watch it had been 50 minutes. Although I was feeling short of breath but I could not stop now! I finally crossed the 1 hour barrier. I am soo proud of myself today..its another thing I cant feel my legs right now!

Lazy sundays

I remember how my Sundays used to be
so careless and so carefree
No waking up early
and the breakfast was always free
No worries about the laundry
or clearing out the mess from the night before
No dishes to wash,
the TV was oh-soo much fun to watch.
But the times have changed for the better or worse
I dont know.
But damn it I miss those lazy sunday mornings
Gatta get 'em back somehow!

Ohh how I miss those Sundays that used to be
so careless and so carefree!

These wounds go deep

I have been out from the web for almost a month. I had to get a new internet connection. Anyways my modem's here and loads of stuff happened in between but the most shocking news was but obvious the mumbai massacre .. the embarrassing story of how 10 guys came into our homes , took us hostage and literally brought us to our knees. Since I did not have the internet at home...I used to spend considerable amount of time at the office catching up on the news. I cudnt help feel helpless at the entire situation..the 3 long days of horror. I am glad its over now. Kudos to our commandos. But the feeling of embarassment still exists. I mean my japanese colleagues were all soo surprised as to how could some guys just take over a building and like start firing everyone in sight. I had a hard time explaining what a "siege" is and what a "hostage situation" meant. For them it was the stuff they saw in the movies. Anyways but I hope the entire thing brings a radical change..we should learn from our mistakes and do everything we can to avoid such things in the future. I just hope we dont get affected internally. Cuz if we do then that really means these motherfuckers have won...and we should not and I hope would not let them win!
During these difficult times, we often search for a source of strength and nothing makes me feel powerful than music. So I am listening to this song "Say Goodbye" by one of my favourite Indian Band - Junkyard Groove. There's a live version of it here.