Diwali Greeting

liv da romance of ma lyf .. wit mi
so madam, along with three of her colleagues, steps in to the lift..
two stand in the two corners, madam is standing right opp to the switch panel and there are some 2 more unknown people in the lift.
the door is about to close, wen this guy who is suposed to get in, doesn't get in to the lift.. and we hav to struggle around and get the lift to stop so that he can enter.. But I think something was wrong with him, he didn't understand the works of a lift, maybe. So I almost shout on him askin him to get in..
He manages to walk in, hurting himself in the automatic doors of the lift.
While the lift gets going, I check the stops on my way to the 6th floor. The lift is supposed to stop on floor 4 as well, and I almost felt I knew who pressed the button..
Thin, lean and tiny, I'm barely visible in the crowd of 3 fat men and 2 tall ladies.
Makin the most of this situation, I kinda whisper - "Everyone will have to come out of the lift cus this guy in front of me has just pressed for number 4."
Floor Number 4, and that dumb fellow is out of the lift, expecting someone to get out... Well, there was no one who wanted to get out on #4 and it seemed like someone pressed the button by mistake.. I get the stares.. And I am almost trying to control my laughter..
The Dumb Guy again forgets that he has to get in before the lift door closes and we somehow manage to stop the doors for closing. I shout at him and ask him to walk inside the lift.
well.. floor 6 comes.. immediately after the door opens, I run out of the lift.. and start laughing, obnoxiously loud enough to shake the entire building.. err.. exxaggeration..
i run into the office, laughin like a Mad woman and two more follow..
The Story repeats and now.. 10 of us are jus sitting and laughing in the office..
My first Start-up Job and my last set of colleagues in Mumbai..
Miss you Guys..
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Its final... I'm going..
The fourth edition of Proto awaits..
I will try and live blog and tweet from the venue...
and as always, its an all expense paid trip... VoooHoo...
the schedule looks like this...
18th July, 2008
9:30 am - Delhi Airport
10:00 am - IITD
stick around for the event all thru the day...
6:00 pm - close...
trying to put up a twitter meet up on the 18th, with the junta who come to Proto.in..
Incase you are coming for Proto and are also on Twitter, please confirm your presence by sending in a Direct Msg to aDeSe
I don't want a Friday Night which ends up at like 10:00 PM.. ! and I am hoping it doesn't..
19th July, 2008
wake up late.. :) and then head for the Proto.in Showcase at IITD.
3:30 pm - head to the railway station and take a train to Kanpur..
Yay... more than Proto, I think I am looking forward to trip to my Granny's home.. its been 3 years since i've been to Kanpur.. So much must have changed... Havn't met grampa since so long.. damn.. and its like raining bad there.. will be awesome fun.. I jus hope it doesn't stop raining the moment I reach there..
I was brought up here.. i was born here.. my home awaits..
22nd July, 2008
7:00 am - Car to Lucknow
9:00 am - flight to Mumbai... My monthly visit beckons.. !
Mumbai is gonna be much more personally professional this time.. meeting up with a couple of people to push up the concept of my Startup.. And also putting up a new Service.
Will launch it here, once everything is in place..
23rd July, 2008
7:00 am - train to Amdabad.. I am so not lookin forward to the 23rd ! yeah, even before the trip has started...
Abhi ke liye bas itna hi..
18th ko milte hai.. Seedhe Dilli se...
See ya..
Aditi
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so this was yet another flattering experience..
a colleague.. and now a friend - Ritesh, who was working with us at CIIE sent in the english translation of the song, which was apparently picked up from Vicky's post.
The English Lyrics for the song... for yours truly.. from Ritesh... Now for all my readers.. right here... :P
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Now... Calvinised Pet, is something which I don't mind owning for the rest of ma LyF !
Too good to be true ???
May be ! :)
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Most of my readers have been complaining of the feed not working properly.
So meez deleted the previous one and re-configured my feeds to the following URL -
http://feeds.feedburner.com/aditigupta
And its up and running...
The previous one http://feeds.feedburner.com/aditi-gupta has been discarded from today !!
The Icon on the top right corner also has the updated feed.
Guys please direct your readers to this feed link, and keep hooked on to Ma LyF... Ma StYLe !
Cheerzz
Addyy
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Before you start thinking that i have decided to get married, lemme clarify..
This post is gonna be more of my thoughts about marriage, than anything else.
Considering that I am of a "marriage-able" age and also pretty much popular cus of my latest stint, people are actually waiting for me to say a “yes” to marriage and there will be a hordes of men who wud want to
marry someone. Who cares who she is ! Atleast, this is what I'd LyK to believe.
Mum has already talked to me 2 times in the last one yr abt marriage. I think she has also visited an astrologer and found out that my LyF will be much better after marriage and that I will make a good Gharelu Aurat !!
Aunts, uncles, Grampas and Grammas are waiting to kill the Bakri by getting her married to someone they knw will be an "ideal" husband.
I think they already hav proposals in place, I just need to say "yes" !
this whole thing is so funny. Which is why it is up on my blog…
So one fine day at the
Aunt 1 : Ab toh iski shaadi karwa deni chahiye. Ab toh yeh ghar par bhi aagayi. Ab isse nahin jaane denge !
I was LyK, woah, someone's so bothered abt my marriage. How caring and nice.
I simply replied, chhote bachhon ki shaadi nahin karwani chahiye buaji, Lawyer aapko pakad ke le jayega. :P
Aunt 2 : itni sundar sushil ho gayi ho, kisi ka ghar bana do.
Guys don't realise I am deceptive.
u know, cutest kittens hav the sharpest claws !
unfortunately I am one of them with the sharpest claws !
Or so I'd like to believe :D
nonetheless, i got so bored after the stupid discussion, that I stopped bothering about what they were trying to say and make me do during the entire marriage procession in
to while away our time, cousin and I kept oogling at the men on the airport wen they saw us we started laughin out loud !! i like the oriental looks ye... so cudn't resist the oogling.
After reaching Amdabad I got a nice lecture from mum..
"tell me if u want us to look for a man for u.
tell us if u have already found someone. Who is that guy u used to talk to.. wat is he doin now.. "
I was bombarded with questions and too many suggestions... and i kept ignoring her.
all the men she ever knew i knew were the useless ones.
She doesn't still knw whom I was datin etc etc. why does she need to knw anyways..
i ended the conversation by sayin.. mum, dont be so bothered. take care of urself and your another kid. I am fine the way I am and enjoyin my LyF. If I find a Man worth marryin ever in my LyF, I will get married. I might be 30 - 40 or whatever age, if i feel LyK then, I am sure I'l get married.
But I have "no", and lemme repeat, absolutely "no" intentions of gettin married what-so-ever.
oooof.... and yes, thats the truth and will be the truth.
my dream man is a lil too unbelievably exceptional :P. I doubt if i will find someone LyK him in this LyF atleast.
I did find one, but cudn't keep him for too long. feel sad for him now and for myself as well .. But thats past, now I don't want re-create the past again :)
I have had my share of men, and have had varied experiences, but never felt the need to get into a formal relationship called Marriage and spoil the entire fun of being with LuV.
the concept seems so out-dated to me. Still can't come to terms with the word. And I still wonder why people get married.
So thats my take on marriage !!
Adios till i decide on gettin married and write a post on those feelings too..
Cheers
Adi
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"Painstakingly Complicated" is the word for my LyF !!
i just took a U-Turn !!
Came back to Amdabad..
from Mumbai.. of all the things, from Mumbai..
I still remember the day I moved to Mumbai.. 30th of May it was... and the moment I entered the city, Mumbai saw its first showers of the yr 2006.. :)
Nice na..
Tat was a 'nice' U - Turn.
Unfortunately, the city was dry wen i left it.. The poor thing must been bored of me.. 18 months u see..
If you think, this post is going to have something nice to it, please don't stick around... I havn't even organised my thoughts before writing this post.
anyways... so yes, the second U - Turn happened on the 12th of Feb, wen i got this offer from the IIMA.. to work with them as a full-time employee... jus signed the offer letter and got back home..
It should be fun.. it is the asia's number one insti after all.. :P ! but i dislike the city.. !
oh yeah, so in the train i had a fight with a ummmm (tryin to hide things) family.. kinduv lost my brains.. started shouting and all of it.. and then realised how brainless people cud be... :P !
two men and a woman can't take care of their luggage and have to trouble a poor kid like me..
the TT came in and both of us were smiling at these guys stupidity..
and yes, i won the battle... :P
and then i typed in this message on my phone...
"Bye Bye Mumbai for one last time. Feeling wierd, wierd for a fact tat the obsession has ended. Nah... Not really.. The obsession with Mumbai can nevah end. To do justice to my emotions, the obsession with IIMA continues"
he he he ... in a sleepy state of affairs, missing things and people, high on emotions and mood swings, Miss PaGLi writes such things...
CriBBr PagLi !!
And another message to a fren:
"I want to so f***in get off at dadar and meet u again. You've been a darling and one thing I'm gonna miss in Amdabad are friends like you. Thank you so much for being here with me tonite. Good bye and good luck wit everythin. I'm already waitin for the next trip to Mumbai"
I was in two minds till the last minute.. thanks to the folks in mumbai, who almost convinced me to stay on the train and not get off.. If I'd been alone there, for sure, this post wud have been something else.. this day would have been somethin else.. !
Mumbai will keep happenin.. will try and put up the updates of travels to the city so that people can track me. :)
and as for the news.. I have signed the Offer letter and my new job starts from the 17th of March.. !
a lil excited... a lil sad.. for Madness and Amdabad are not supplementary.. or shud it be complementary.. yeah, Madness and Amdabad are not Complementary..
for the moment, its the north east calling... pics will go up soon..
till then enjoy.. I will try to..
I definitely do !! :)
And well, this one's going to be more about the Facebook Application recently developed by Minekey Professionals.
iThink is an application on Facebook, which was launched recently in the Month of November by a group of 7 professionals from the Minekey team.
It is a social application through which you can share opinions with the entire FB community about anything. Ranging from Politics, Sports, Relationships, Home, Gardens, Food, Pets, Entertainment, Dating and what not.
I'm already addicted to this Smart App and iThink it is one of the best Apps so far on the FB Community that I've come across.
The deal here is that, you get to voice your opinions, get a vote from the others on the Social network, reviews/Comments from like-minded people and helping you thus to analyze things and put things in perspective..
Wanted a suggestion on something, just put up a question on iThink and wait for the audience to respond to it. You can then easily analyze the problem / situation and then go ahead with the solutions (which can come from a user on the site)
There is a Similarity Test, which helps you analyze your similarity with your friends based on the opinions shared through the application.
Would have been amazing if this little app could actually generate graphs from the Opinions casted by the users, as it would make it easier for people to analyze and generate conclusions from the votes.
In addition, a service which could combine similar issues /problems / statements and generate a summary of sorts from the votes casted by the users.
I am completely, completely in LuV with this App..
And here's the link to my iThink profile.
mmmm and iThink.... chocolate is the best thing Human being ever discovered ! :)
~Adi~
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i managed to get two pics from my first school in Pune..
these are class photographs from Nursery and Second Standard..
have a dekko..
This one's from the Nursery class..
i remember is that i was the Silent Lamb in the class.. And Swati.. second row, second from left and Allan.. top row, first from rite.. we'd be in the same bus.. Swati and I used to fite while Allan used to have a fun teasin us. !
Another one
and the Second standard pic.. this teacher was my fav teacher.. though i'm missing her name !
can recognise quite a few people from this class.. and i'm in touch with quite a few of them on orkut.. lets c.. most of them will be delighted to see this pic..
let me now enjoy the NoSTaLgia... !
cheers
Aditi
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ok, for all those of you who really really know the real PaGLi, also knw that me has had a nice experiences with this institute..
this one's abt this another wierd, funny, nice experience, the one i currently share wit this institute..
Met Rajarshee, who was in the second yr then, because of common interests in art.. thru orkut obviously..
Nov 12, 11:14 PM to be precise we started talkin abt "Interestin Blogs", wen this dude's blog - http://sleepless-in-iima.blogspot.com is mentioned..
and apparently, this blog was on my bookmark list even before Rajarshee mentioned about it.. i think i was followin this one since around 2 yrs or so..
and well.. more than the blog, Rajashree and myself are talkin abt Mr K.. the author of the blog..
m editin the chat and puttin it up here.. so jus read thru this very interestin thingy.. like i also say "Romance in ma Lyf" ;-)
11:14 PM Supernova :u like readin other intng blogs ??
me: yeah.. i do..
Supernova: read this .... max funny
http://sleepless-in-iima.blogspot.com/
me: do u use feeds..
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(and some talks about RSS feeds and random banter.. before we get talkin abt "the" man !! )
Supernova:
11:25 PM BTW ... u know what the guy who wrote the sleepless stuff scraped u recently .... u deleted that
:)))
me:
wat.. really..
who ?
Supernova: yeah .... i made royal fun of him on that !!!
me: i'm laughin too..
Supernova: a guy called karthik laxman
11:26 PM me: ok.. really..
f*** .. wat did he write..
Supernova: "hi" :)
LOL
me : IIMA passout.. and he writes a hi.. ??
i can't stop laughin..
Supernova : what to write .. hey sexy .. u know what m a IIMA grad
11:27 PM me: he hehe ..
nt like tat..
i mean.. a more decent thing..
hi.. is like so very not IIMA types ya
wat is his screen name ?
Supernova: ok ... then i shud be more careful next time :)
karthik
11:28 PM well will tell u the whole thing
me: karthik !!
i deleted it.. u sure..
tel me..
m still laughin..
11:29 PM
Supernova: this bugger is one of my close frnd ... he scraps me and one day saw ur scrap ... a typical guy .. went to ur album ... saw ur b/w pic of the choco thingy ..... got intd ... scraped u .. told me ... i checked next day and saw it deleted !!!
and then he was like ... "well i guess the girl saw my album :("
me: hehehheh ...
11:30 PM f***in awesome conversation..
m still laughin
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(then some banter abt entrepreneurship, while i'm browsing thru "the" man's profile on Orkut.. aankhein chamki budday ki date dekh kar.. aur yeah chamka dimmaag..
aagey padho sir !!)
11:54 PM sexy wala idea aya..
11:55 PM karthik ka birthday aa raha hai na..
give me some nice idea
Supernova: LOL
err ..... this has to be sumthing smashing
11:56 PM wait have to think abt it
also he's in ahd :)
me: like wat.. sorry for deletin ur scrap or sthin.. and i'm coverin up for my mistake by featurin u on my blog..
:-P
Supernova: so u may also think of sumthing
me: ok..
like wat.. sorry for deletin ur scrap or sthin.. and i'm coverin up for my mistake by featurin u on my blog..
:-P
and then put the whole conversation on the blog
Supernova : well not bad idea
11:57 PM me: mean types..
Supernova: only that for 1 day i'll have to keep my gtalk and cell off to prevent his choicest of words for me
me: hehe
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thats where the conversation doesn't end..
but m not puttin the rest of it..
So Mr. K's budday gift has been decided.. and delivered too, with the publish button and an e-mail to Sir..
F*** i'm growin meaner day by day.. (Baby, i'm gonna thank u for this :-P)
well, one more nice experience.. but hillarious.. actually, get to the root of the conversation, talk to me, and then we can laugh together :-D !! All over again..
only one place where i've found and continue to find life and experiences which last longer than anythin else in this world..
cherished it.. and still cherishin..
i can actually go on abt the whole IIMA and life thing.. ! but enuf to bore u guys.. may be a new post, sometime else..
Luv..
~A~
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Have been following John Jantsch's blog for quite sometime now.. it is called the Duct Tape Marketing..
amazingly well written posts.. and very very interesting..
You would want to come back and read up the latest on his blog..
The last post, was something about the Thanksgiving drive and Live Blogging.. where he shares this amazing amazing thought about how people show different emotions on different things.. He specifically talks about laughing and giggling..
Quoting from the post:
"I wonder how many people visit our web sites, read our sales copy and listen to our pitches and, effectively, laugh at different parts, and maybe not the parts we thought they would laugh or not at.
Test, test, test everything. It’s a amazing how different the same web page can appear to different people. Know what you want people to do when you make a point, create a web page, write a sales letter and then get some people together to see if they get it. You are probably too close to know what the funny parts are anymore."
and yes, i know how it is.. because I giggle at things, people don't find funny at all.. and well, its wierd to some extent.. but most of things I giggle at are actually funny :)Aditi
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google your name with the name of the city to get some interesting results..
i just tried it right now, and found some interesting websites i'm part of...
these places were kinda forgotten.. for obvious reasons.. !!
anyways...
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