Hurry to Pimp You WorkStation !!!

This post brought to you by Contest Factory. All opinions are 100% mine.

No one really likes to call their work station pathetic especially in front of people they don't know. But,  now you got a reason and can take your hated against your work station in public and what's best about it is that if you work station proves to be the most pathetic, noisy and an unbearable cubicle / workstation to work at, your workstation can win a facelift worth $1200. Now that's a lot of money. You can get all the latest high end computer systems stuffed with features, way better furniture and even entertainment packages with stereo's etcerta. 

 

This is a beautiful contest organized by Contest Factory is called Pimp My Cube Contest. It's very easy to enter the contest. You would need to click pictures or even video's with webcam or phone's camera, and upload them to Contest Factory and if the CF judges hates your workstation the most and name it the worst station to work at, you would with the face lift.

 

To win the contest you can surely ask your friends, family and colleagues to help, and by voting and commenting and referring others to enter, you get the sweepstakes points.  The contest ends by 1/31/2012 at 12:00 PM which means you just got the right amount of time to enter the contest.

 

I would certainly recommend this content to all as there's nothing to loose and even, if there's a one in a hundred chance of winning....... take it. You never know if it's your lucky day.   :)

 

Bachpan After Pachpan

Childhood - "Bachpan" is said to be the best part of your life. You don't know what fear is, you don't have to be responsible for anything or better, other people are held responsible for your deeds. It is the carelessness which I miss the most. When there wasn't any hesitation. You don't really mind people watching while you were   throwing tantrums at your parents. It was the damn "maturity" which ruined everything.

Any who, I'm way past my childhood and into the maturity zone, though, I do feel I'm kind of stuck in transition  which is the worst, believe me.

I have also learned that old age better than childhood. The carelessness comes back to you. Responsibilities goes down the flush as the new generation takes over. Same was my thought when I saw these children come out and enjoy themselves in the middle of a huge crowd.

The event was organized under the name of " Bachpan after Pachpan " by High Street Phoenix, Mumbai. This flash mob of people aged 55+ rocked the place. They stood tall and presented an example for the people around them. It's hard to get those small little happy moments in this busy life and many of us loose them while regretting over the bad ones. This is one of those moments.

Watching these people on video induces an energy into me, though, I don't prefer to dance - not as child or even as an adult - and don't even planning to do something like it in the future, but yea, it did something to me. I do to have a spirit like this when I reach this age.

Any who, I wanted to take this spirit to as many people as possible and that's is the reason, I've shared this video with you all. Kindly, take an minute and I know a minute would be enough.

The Day and Night - Amritsar

The trip to Amritsar was not a well planned or thought trip. Just a back up plan which was taken up after PLAN A didn't work out. Even though, this was an ad-hoc kind of trip, it went pretty well. I hated the travelling part which, I admit, I hate a lot, always.

The trip started with an early morning in Delhi Railway Station. It was a hazy morning, however, as if the somebody knew that we're about to leave and cleared all the fog by the time we left home. We reached the station on time and so did the train. Cause we had to catch the train early - it was a 6:00 AM - so, I took the blanket out and slept through the journey - wasn't in the sight seeing mood @ 6 in the morning.

Any who, we reached Amritsar on time, no matter how unbelievable it felt to me but it was true. After hearing so much about Indian trains, I had such a bad perception of trains reaching in time but at least, for a day though, it proved wrong.

First thing, we did was to check in and eat and eat a lot, as we haven't had since morning and won't be for a long time. Then, we went in to re-visit the history and the remains of carnage which took place @ Jallianwala bagh (Search wikipedia for information about Jallianwala bagh). Being there, made me felt that how badly was the remains were maintained. The Martyr's well for full of coins and many more things which people threw in. There was a tall red monument which was build in the middle of the Bagh with no information about it. I didn't know what to even call it.

We went on to visit Darbar Sahib - better known as The Golden Temple in English and Swarn Mandir in Hindi (Search Wikipedia again for more), which felt a bit strange to me as Darbar Sahib is a Gurudwara, however, when I read more about it, Darbar Sahib is originally called Harmandir Sahib. So, I thought may be that is the reason about calling Darbar Sahib a Temple. Anyway, all the questions were rested as I entered the premise. I could see The Darbar Sahib, shining in the in the middle of the holy Sarovar, even though, the Sun was a bit dim and the weather was murky. I clicked and clicked a lot. We had wait in the line for at least an hour and half which gave me the chance on watching The Darbar Sahib while the sun set and in the lights too. As this was my elder brother's second trip to The Darbar Sahib, so we had a good tour of the Gurudwara. We went to see where The Guru Granth Sahib have been placed and experienced the peace in every corner of Darbar Sahib. We came out of Darbar Sahib with a lot of peace. Then, walked around the Sarovar a couple of times and back to the inn.

We didn't had much time to visit the Wagah Border, however, we did have enough time to a renowned Dhaba - place to eat - in Amritsar, called Kesar Da Dhaba. I had seen the place on TV during an episode of  "Zayaka India Ka" (Flavor of India) and yea, was excited about being there. Everything they serve was drenched in Desi Ghee which may have not enticed a lot of people but it did to me and my family. I stuffed myself so much that it wasn't easy for me to get up and thinking of reaching back to the inn felt wasting a lot of time. However, to digest all of heavily fried and drenched in butter food, we decided to walk to the inn. Well, it felt as of this was the exciting thing we did in Amritsar, but, there was still a small trip we had to make - to reach the station @5 in the morning. Dilli's chill was good to us but it wasn't the same in Amritsar. It was cold, really cold. I believe it was less than 2 degree's at time. I was shivering like never before.

So, in the end it proved to a COOL trip. I know, this was bad but I can't help it. Any who, you see a couple of the pics below, however, to see all of the pics, you can CLICK HERE.

My first KFC Fiery Chicken

Here's a small, tiny, little, short incident which happened a few weeks back. This may not matter a lot but I did for me. This was not a life changing incident though, it did change a bit of my perspective. Any let me draw you a picture first.

Voucher received from KFC with help from Indiblogger

I had register for KFC's bucket of Fiery Grilled chicken via Indiblogger on Monday and received my coupon by Saturday. If you remember that a couple of Saturday back, we had a Lunar Eclipse. Though my mom, believes too much into the eclipse affecting our lives, I insisted on getting the voucher redeemed the same day. I had to, well, not convince but persuade her which was successful. So, it was fixed that it will a KFC's Fiery Grilled dinner at home.

Me and bro drove to the KFC and presented the voucher and one which was surprising that the girl behind the counter didn't ask any question. She took the order and we waited. My mom being a vegan, we had to pick some veggie food which was not a big fuss. We asked the people at KFC to hold on to our order by the time we come back. When I offered to pay for the order, they suggested to do that when the order is completed. Good for me.

We went out and bought the shudh-shakahaari food. We came back to KFC, payed the bill and took the hot, grilled chicken to home. When at home, I took out my wallet and phone to keep it on the table, I realized that my phone was missing. And just like you see it in the movies, a string of events flashed, at the end of which i realized that I forgot picking it up after the payment. Because late hours - 9:00 or 9:30 - there was no one to tell me to pick it up plus the guy who took the order went behind while i was collecting the "chillar".

I drove back to KFC with my heart in my mouth cause I love my phone and it is a hard earned phone of my own blogging money, as don't get much writing opportunities. I went into the KFC and thanks to that guy who held the phone with himself and showed me as I entered. At that very moment, it felt it as if I have opened the gate to Heaven and there was this angel with wings and halo, extending his hands towards me with phone.

Okay, it wasn't that filmy but if you know me, I'm a big movie buff and if, I had shot that scene, it would have been exactly the way I described above.

I suck at ending or climax or closing, so I think i'll leave this at -- Today, I had my second Fiery Grilled.

Pimp My Workstation

This post brought to you by Contest Factory. All opinions are 100% mine.

I believe everyone wants it - to get their workstation / cubical pimped and pimped good. I would surely love to get one. I have so many things i can get rid of or make them look different. My machine needs a technical pimp for sure. In an era of the second generation Intel processors, I'm still using the old Dual Core processors. Then , may be few more hundreds of GB to my hard disk would be a great help. Some, I don't know what or which things, however, things which can make it look like a smart cubical.

 

To get my cubical pimped, I'll be participating in the "Pimp My Cubical" contest held by Contest Factory. I'm already registered with them and working on the video nowadays. You can check the Pimp My Cube Contest and roll in to be part of the contest. Then, you can call your buddies in as I'm and increase your chances of winning. Plus shoot a video of your cubical, make it look as pathetic as it can be, so that the judges at CF can rate them as the worst video and hence, rating it the winner and taking on the tough task of pimping your cubical.

 

Still didn't get the things I tried desperately to make you understand, then, try the video which tells you each and everything, again.

 

The day which could have been

This day could have been another of those hundreds of days when I would just lay back, watch a movie or talk to someone on phone or chat the hour out. But don't know why and where got this energy to sit down and try to post an update on my BLOG............. sometimes, it just seems delusional that I'm a blogger. There have been pretty few event in past couple of months which can support that hypothesis.

Believe me, I'm not at all busy, though, I think I have found someone to spend this time and somewhere to spend this time at. In the meanwhile, I have doing a few things. Such as, getting excited for Indiblogger meet this coming Sunday, getting over the dismal loss of my team against the rivals at work in a game of Cricket for which was kinda my fault but it's good that not everyone I knew was watching me perform. Well, when I think about it again, I believe it was the best thing about that Game.

I have also been keeping up with my movies. Some of the recent movies I'm proud of being seen are The Adventures of Tintin - The secret of the Unicorn and Rockstar. Both being directed by people I admire for their work. Tintin is being presented by Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson and Rockstar is directed by Imtiaz Ali.

Event though, I have few more things to share but need to get on with my daily routine. So, until next.......... 

Lately It Has Been

May be, its about time. It have been pretty long time, since, I have updated my page. I have been keeping up with my blog and I know it does take some toll of me too. I like writing or, say, updating my blog because this is the only instance where I try my creative mind and try to type. This keeps me in the habit of learning new words and better way of expressing my self. This was the mojo which was keeping my typing consistently last year. Though, I think i have lost it now. Its not like i have busy with work or life. My life and work still sucks the same way as were last year, if not more.

May be Naah, It's surely me. I have been lazy. I have been doing nothing more these lately, then ever. Lying around and just thinking of any and everything. Don't know why, but i have a hunch that one day the lying around will help me. God knows what will that day be like.

May be someday, my life won't be like my inbox with only spam mails and nothing meaningful.