…Clueless

Aaaaaaaaarrghhhhhhhh…. it is so fucking hot!! I am sitting and sweating. Delhi enjoys rain while Chandigarh gets none!!!!

Boo-hoo…. mother nature !!

Portugal vs Netherlands…. what a game!

Its 2.30AM, I just finished watching this extraordinary game. If you missed it, don’t dare to miss the highlights.

Fights, roughing up, kicks, elbows…… 4 red cards!!!!!

The game ended with I think about 15 yellow cards (not sure).

Easily the best game I have ever seen. I just wanted the Dutch to equalize but they failed. Portugal now face England with two main players definitely out of their team.

Six minutes extra time added on in the second half…. every second was worth it!!!

Beckham with his blue boots scored a seemingly impossible goal to end Equador’s world cup journey.
The England skipper still has it in him. Victoria Beckham, alias Posh “Anorexic” Spice was delighted.

Now I switched the channels to see the IIFA Awards. Javed Akhtar is on the stage to present the award to O.P. Dutta. I can’t understand a word… he needs to see a speech therapist!!

So everybody knows about Boot Camp… WTF!!!

I saw this advertisement on Yahoo! Seems like Apple is directly targeting Microsoft customers.

Can’t get a Mac for myself… seems like I’ll have to settle with SUSE 10.1 on my PC…. sigh!! Long live KDE!!

I’m back…
I was away… away… sitting in a luxurious resort in the Lesser Himalayas (I think). I was in Himachal Pradesh. If I had it my way, I would’ve gone to Kashmir. Par chalo… Himachal Pradesh ain’t that bad.

Since I reside in Chandigarh, its not much of a hassle. I packed my bags at around 1 PM last Thursday and by 1.30 PM we were off. Kalka was jam packed with traffic as usual. I wanted to eat those tasty Kulfis but the frggin traffic…

Monkeys welcomed us into HP and begged for food. But this time, the HP govt. had installed big hoardings urging people not to feed the monkeys. Initially, we had planned that we would stay at Jabli that day. But we found that KK Trams was closed. We moved on. We stopped at Dharampur.

I was like….WTF… Dharampur is no more the old Dharampur. Cafe Coffee Day… oh yes… we stopped at CCD and munched on some delicious pasteries. Just adjacent to CCD is Hot Millions and then there is Golfer’s. I was particularly surprised to see Golfer’s there: “Golfer’s - Dhaba & Inn“. They have the usual foodstuff plus rooms. And they have Khanna’s fav Sheesha’s. Yes Hookas in the mountains. We resumed our journey after filling our tummies.

Our ultimate destination was Fagu. Actually, Galleu. Galleu is a village ahead of Kufri. As I have stated before, the initial plan was to stay a day at Jabli and then move to Fagu the next day. But we didn’t stop at Jabli. We stopped at a very fancy resort called The Destination at Kandaghat. The resort looked sexy… huge lawns, cordial staff. The rooms sucked though!! So we skipped that resort too and moved further. It was already evening. But we kept moving. My cousin is very particular about the places he stays. So he did not want to stay at any sidey resort. We moved on and now there was no natural light. We were nearing Shimla and it was already around 9 PM. We were hungry and had no hotel bookings. Yes, you can call us over-adventurous. Shimla was dead. Yes dead. There was no one in sight. Cars were parked on the road. We went inside Shimla and asked a couple of cops for directions. The fuckin bastards were tunn…. I mean drunk. So we ignored them. Even the so-called sidey lodges had no vacant rooms.

Now we were forced to move on. We moved to Galleu and started the ascent towards Snow King Retreat (formerly Star Resort). This resort is is right on top of a hill and you have to drive up a dirty path to reach it. Fortunately, they had rooms. Just three and that too only for two nights. In any case, we were to come to this resort. So two days or three days didn’t matter. We booked the rooms and then ate the leftovers (it was 3 AM!!!).

Another group from Delhi comprising of some 70 people was also there and those bastards had booked all the log huts, cottages and villas. Our room was a duplex room. A double bed downstairs and two bed upstairs - all in one room!!!! The upper portion of the room had a seperate toilet too.

The next morning we woke up late. The breakfast as usual was a buffet. The delhi group (MMC - Mauj Masti Club) had some nice looking babes and all of them were ready. We were the only ones who had just brushed their teeth and had hurried down for breakfast. I was the last one to enter the dining room. I was wearing a 3/4 and a normal white shirt. As soon as I entered, everybody started staring at me. Dunno why!!! The girls, the aunties… everyone. I sat down and some girls started passing smiles. I was like…. OK… this resort is really cool (hope you guys got what I wanted to say)!!

The great thing about Galleu is that it rains there everyday. We were going towards a Temple (had to walk 400 steps!!!) when it started to drizzle. As soon as we were beginning our downward journey, it started to rain. I came down slowly, clicking some pictures on the way.

We reached our resort. The weather had suddenly turned cold. We stepped inside our car and went towards Chini Bangla in Kufri. I ate some garam garam pakodas and chhalis (bhutta) there. The combination of rain, chilly weather and hot eatables was perfect. We came back to our resort. By that time, I was down….!! I felt uncomfortable and jumped into the quilt and ordered a Tandoori Chicken (yummy!!!!!!!!!!!) for myself. After that, I went with my sister and cousin for mountain biking. We biked downhill, all alone in the evening. The only people roaming the mountains were some cows and us. It was a lot of fun…. biking downhill in the potato farms without applying brakes… awesome!!!

Another strange thing happened that night. While we were in the restaurant, there was another newly-wed couple from Punjab. The girl was a stunner. Again, like in the morning, I was the last one to enter. As soon as I entered, the girl started staring at me and she kept turning back and looking at me. Everytime she looked back, she smiled.

The next day, we had to check-out. So we packed our bags again and decided to head off to Tattapani. When I went to the car, I saw that newly-wed girl. She stopped just in front of me. She stared hard and smiled again. Tharki aunty!!! On the way, we stopped at the Naldehra Golf Course (the highest golf course in the world) and pissed on the hills!! We reached Tattapani and the weather was awesome. I had already been to Tattapani before and this time the HP govt. had constructed a massive concrete bridge over the Sutlej and we did not have to cross over to Tattapni on the old rickety steel bridge. We reached the resort which was no more a resort. Floods has destroyed the HP govt.’s resort and the other resort adjoining it housed some foreigners (hippies!!!). Tattapani is famous for its sulphur springs. The most amazing thing is that boiling hot water and icy water flow together. The Sutlej river flows with icy water. Now the interesting thing is that when you dig the river basin with your feet, within two seconds, boiling water will start flowing. Its like a layer of ice and underneath it resides fire. Even though the river water was icy cold our feet were inside boiling hot water while we stood inside the river. Remarkable, isn’t it??!!

We stayed there for 3 hours or so and then rode back to Naldehra and stayed at The Woodstock Resort for the night. The next day, we started our return journey to Chandigarh. We stopped at Dharampur again and then finally reached Chandigarh in the evening.

Some things I noticed this time :

1. A Barog by-pass has been constructed. It starts from Kumarhatti. Now you don’t need to first climb up to Barog and then go down to Solan. Solan can be reached directly.
2. Even after visiting Fagu for the fourth time, I am still not bored of the place.
3. Tattapani is more exciting without resorts… looks like a village now.
4. There were less monkeys on the highway.
5. Sexy babes make a trip all the more enjoyable.
6. The trip was fucking cool…………………

Pics coming soon.

Have we lost our basic values? Well they’re not even moral values but basic manners.

I went to my friends house the other day and I was shocked to learn
that the guy does not even posses the basic manners. His housemaid
forgot to bring me a glass of water I had asked her to. The guy went
crazy and started shouting at her. He abused her and threatened to fire
her. I was stunned for a moment. Who the hell talks like that? I agree
she’s the “servant” of the house but it does not give my friend the
right to shout at her. She is his mother’s age. He calls her by her
name. It not only shows that the person has no respect for elders but
also reflects badly on his family and puts a question mark on his
upbringing.

From the start, I was given strict orders by my father to address the
domestic helpers in a respectful manner. I was forbidden to talk rudely
to them or even shout at them. My father said that he emplyed them and
small kids like myself had no right to disrespect or order the servants
who were all elder to me. I have always addressed them as XXX Ji, YYY aunty etc. but never called them by their name. It looks cheap…

Now when I look at people my age, shouting at their servants and
threatening to fire them, I just feel like giving them a piece of my
mind.

Its strange. When they don’t like talking rudely to their own parents
or somebody abusing or threatening them, why the hell do they speak in
such a derogatory manner with the domestic help??

Lack of manners or of basic moral values?? Beats me!

• Cross-posted at TMP

I finally installed Ubuntu 6.06 LTS. The distro now comes on a single CD (Live CD + Install), just like Linspire. Pop the disc into your CD-ROM and boot. The Live CD boots the Ubuntu system where you take the OS for a spin. If you wish to install it on your PC, just click on install on the desktop while inside the OS environment.

The installation was easy and the GUI rocked because it was the GNOME desktop only. The only thing that actually troubled me was the partitioner. I could not format the partition of my choice. The partition on which I was to install Ubuntu was originally NTFS. I had thought that I would use the partitioner in the installer to reformat it to ext3. But that was not quite possible (or I was dumb to figure it out). So, I had to boot to WinXP and format the required partition.

After that, the installation went fine with just some initial problems with setting my Time Zone and Time. It hardly took 20 minutes and Ubuntu was installed. Visibly, there is not much difference. The difference is in the speed because of the new version of GNOME. I still had to go through the boring process of downloading and installing w32codecs and some essential software. Opera runs a little choppy inside Ubuntu specially if some Flash content is displayed. amaroK now comes with the xine engine by default. You still have to do some extra digging to get the mp3’s to play. The sound was a little distorted but lowering of the PCM level in the sound mixer fixed the problem.

I still find SUSE better than Ubuntu. But SUSE has its own disadvantages. You have to download 5 ISO’s whereas in Ubuntu its just one. SUSE is a bit slow whereas the GNOME environment in Ubuntu is quite fast. You still have to use the command line in Ubuntu whereas in SUSE its use is minimal. The YaST Manager in SUSE is super advanced. There is absolutely no driver problem in SUSE. SUSE plays mp3 files and the CD’s are loaded with useful software. Best of all, it runs KDE. But then, if you want KDE, you can download Kubuntu.

So if its a light OS that you require, which can perform basic tasks with a few holes, then go in for Ubuntu. You’ll need a working net connection to make Ubuntu a little more useful and powerful.

On the other hand, SUSE, although is big, contained in 5 CD’s, performs all tasks that you could expect out of your Windows box. But its a little heavy on the system resources. Net connection is not required initially. All the software is there on the CD’s.

The first match between Germany and Costa Rica was amazing. The Germans led the attack with exquisite passing. Miroslav Klose was pretty impressive and scored 2 goals on his birthday. But the person who caught my eye during that game was Paulo Wanchope. The 6′5″ tall guy just ran casually on the field scoring two magnificent goals. He kicked the ball late, just at the right time, defeating the goalkeeper as well as the defence. The scorcher by Frings too was beautiful.

The next match that I saw was the one between England and Paraguay. Nothing exciting. Just an average game. The cheeky passing between Beckham to Lampard was something to see. England won because of an own goal.

The match between Sweden and Trinidad & Tobago has been my favourite till now. Even though good football wasn’t played, the game kept me glued to my seat. T&T defended marvellously with one man short. Sweden played a disasterous game.

The match between Argentina and Ivory Coast was good in terms of the football played. It was fast but I was too sleepy to watch it past half-time.

Conclusion : In all the matches, the underdogs are the ones who have played a better game because they had nothing to lose and everything to gain. Germany, Sweden & England all had a tough time just because of their over-confidence. This whole month will be filled with excitement.

So Rakhi Sawant now claims that Mika molested her. In her own words, “Mika kissed her in front of everybody and it was a lip-to-lip kiss“!!! For God’s sake, is she retarted? Lip-to-lip kiss!!!??? What the fuck is that??

Its just another cheap publicity stunt. It was the breaking news on all Indian News Channels. Star News got both Rakhi and Mika on the phone and made them talk on national television. Their conversation was hilarious!! Rakhi made a fool out of herself by crying and telling the reporters that Mika pulled her forcefully and she was hurt and her earings were damaged !!

The police lodged an FIR against her earlier and now Rakhi lodged an FIR against Mika. Woman…. you need help!!

Ummmm…. why am I even wasting my time writing this shit !!!???????

UPDATE:
I thought I should mention this too. Does anybody remember that last year Star News carried out a special report RED ALERT about some sex scandals in bollywood?? Well, the girl they caught was Rakhi Sawant. Although they blurred her face and never told her name but some cool guy managed to capture a blurred close-up clearly showing that it was Rakhi only. Bloody slut!!

Search the net for more on that story. You can easily find the video on DesiTorrents.