An Interesting Tryst... (Kannada Barodilla)

This is the first time I am blogging on this new blog after returning from a place away from the comfort of my home. In fact, this time I am blogging about an IT hub of India capital of Karnataka and a Mall City of South India. Yes, you guessed it right I am talking about Bangalore.

Well as am a bit sick right now so, all the while I am writing this piece, some of my simultaneous actions are: trying to stop my sweat drops from falling on the keyboard, sipping a very hot cup of tea (I have an addiction, humidity of rainy season doesnt matter :p).. and of course trying hard to concentrate amidst chaotic workers who are basically destructing my home in the name of RENOVATION.

For all those who don't know me personally, Well, being a Management student I went to Bangalore aka Bengaluru for my summer internship at one of the (so called) IT firm Religare Technologies.

Although, I don't travel too often, this was the first time I visited this place. Also this was by far the longest distance I traveled ever. But somehow I felt, this trip was very interesting. The fact was that after struggling a lot I found a very good place to live,  with an internet connection and all luxuries of life which actually changed the whole experience. I don't know how I became so fortunate  because I didn't expect this whileI was leaving home. And that too I usually can live on minimals even though I'll get disconnected from the rest of the world, but I suppose in an IT city you can found access to internet, even when you don't get a Samosa (North Indian Dish)

I am here again, blogging about the same city.

All this time while I was there, I had some interesting encounters, the ones I'd have hardly faced at my hometown. The main distinction and the main factor being one thing, language. I won't term it as a "language barrier", here. Cuz, it's the soul reason for my enjoyment there. Whenever you're in a city with people speaking a different language, to survive, you need to know just one thing: How to convey that you don't know their language in their own language... Confused..?? It's like saying "I don't know English" in English or "Malaa marathi bolaayla yet naahi" in Marathi (which was told to me by my brother, Rahul Singh who was senior software developer at TCS Pune). So, here, in Karnataka I had learnt to speak just two words: "Kannada Barodilla" - I can't speak Kannada (this I learnt from my bhaiya cum roommate Anshul Bhaiya along with numbers from 1-20, which eventually faded from my mind). Next time around I will make sure to implement my short learnings. and those two magical words made my trip, literally!

I remember, a day before leaving, I was on bike with my Boss. I don't know why he always wants to run as he was in extreme hurry might be because he was doing SALES could be the best reason for the same.So he was  driving fast and it eventually cut the way of an elderly person on bike, but bad luck, just moments after we had to stop coz the Metro construction work won't let us pass :(  So, that elderly person made his way till our bike and told us something, we didn't understand and we didn't speak anything. When my boss didn't answer him, he thought boss was ignoring him and he started abusing me (you immediately come to know when someone is abusing u by his tone). So, after he finished his lexicon, my boss told him "Kannada Barodilla". He stared at us (firstly my boss then me) for a moment and then burst out laughing. Then again, he started saying something in Kannada, this time in a cheerful way. My boss then told him "sorry" in Hindi  "Sorry, galti se ho gaya". I wonder if he got any of that, but that saved me.. :) He told us in Hindi "theek.. chaltya" (Fine, that's OK).. Even the Hindi they speak is of a completely different kind. I then moved ahead..

I would like to keep this post short. I plan to publish some more interesting experiences in my future posts.

After this, whenever I met someone Kannada, I usually reply by saying "Kannada Barodilla", and then it leads to an interesting conversation.

I hope I did not hurt feelings of any staunch Kannada-speaking-person. If my other roommate Hemant Bhaiya came to know I have written all this and published on the blog, he will chew me out raw.. :D as he speaks Kannada fluently.

Lost My ad-sense account - found my blogging senses back

Fuck, this was the first word came out of my mouth when I saw that my google adsense account has been disabled. I have been blogging for almost 2 years now and had quite some money in my adsense account but the google team disabled my account and ate all my money. I was actually planning to buy samsung salaxy S2 with all that money but now my galaxy s2 has vanished overnight.

This incident made me think a little and I got a chance to introspect about my blog page. Since I started making money from my blog I was actually not blogging, I was just putting junk from all the web in my blog hoping to get more visitors and more revenues. I think it is a very good what google did to me cos now I will return back to "blogging".

Yesterday I deleted my earlier blog and exported all my actual "blogs" and created a new blog page. this time I have decided to put only my blogs and some of my friends and families' blogs on this page and most importantly, I WILL NOT MONETIZE IT.

I lot has changed since I put in some real blogs on my page so I am planning to put all that on this page now. I will tell about my experiences with friends, colleagues and students. I will share my ideas for work. I will also tell the story of how my grandpa got murdered last year (YA ITS TRUE AND SHOCKING AS HELL). I also have some ideas for creating some free softwares mostly in multimedia and gaming domain. In short I will really blog on this page and not just push junk onto this.

I guess loosing galaxy S2 and gaining back my senses is not that bad as I first thought. goodbye adsense, welcome originality. (60% blogs today are crap anyways, cos of adsense).

My Digital Artworks

Hello! This is Megha Singh. I am a computer professional. I am into Graphic Designing. Here I am displaying some of my artworks (here .jpeg only). Have a look and if you like to, send your feedback to me as comments.

Image Editing

This was an old, b/w, scratched, discoloured picture which I found somewhere. I scanned it and then corrected, cleaned and coloured.

This was a picture of a old building and chair, I corrected it completely to make it look new.

This was an print ad in a magazine, when I scanned it, it got distorted. Then corrected it's tone, colour balance etc and gave it a matt look.

These 2 pictures were so unclear and quite dark, like taken in insufficient sunlight, so I just corrected them to make them a clear and bright sunny day pictures.

In this picture, girl's skin was rough and bit wrinkly, I made some skin corrections in it. I made her skin look smooth, supple, glowing and wrinkle free.

This is a Matt Painting. It was a normal picture, I added some more picutres(sky, birds, road and grassland) to it.

Digital Painting

"Peter Pan"

"Night Sky"

"Kids Bike"

"Jasmine"

"Snow Night"

"Pinki"

"Nagraj"

"River in Night"

"Jeans Texture"

"Backyard"

"Karishma"

"Tom & Jerry in Room"

"The Fall"

"Tom & Jerry in Park"

Web Designing

"Relook"

A beauty products and beauty consultancey services website.

"Fun Chapter 1.0"

A website for kids, including both amusement and education.

"Fun Chapter 2.0"

Another version of fun chapter kids website.

"Empower Solutions"

A software solution company

"Virtuoso Computers"

Computers and Laptops manufacturing company.

"Real Fregnance"

An online Flower and Gift shop.

Book Covers

Keep your eyes open, but you still cant see anything

So someone told me that movies are banned and i am (like all other children) not allowed to see the adult movies, so just imagine i will not be able to see those sexy babes any more. i will not be able to see those ........ whatever. but do u really think that blocking these channels are really helping the younger generation.Common yaar how many of you guys, ok ok i am also the culprit, how many of us have seen the adult contents on our television and how many we have seen elsewhere. This is internet age, plethora of such dirty stuffs are available on internet. even every bookstall is secretly selling the copies of playboy to young people, and not at all to my surprise the majority of readers are of age 10 to 15.I am not saying that i have not seen or read this stuff nor i am saying that these things are good for health or anything else but if we think about it in a rational way we will see that being a child is not the only creteria that one should be kept away from such stuff. i mean a person or a child should be wise enough to jugde what is right and what is wrong. if we think about the mattre in this way that what if a child desperately wants accesss to such stuff (dont ask me why, coz u know as u were chil urself sometime back) what is right thing for him/her to do, watching a little something on TV and satisfy self or try to get something at his/her disposal ( as now TVs will not be showing anything) and eventually might get into some dangerous or unwanted situation.I say watching Adult stuff is not that big a deal in childhood, coz even when they are watching it, thay have nothing else at their disposal to try anything, who knows in absence of such facilities on TV they will try to try some practical and the result of which can be disastrous.Actually watching or not watching such stuff dont decide that the chil will become innocent or horny. it just was a little something that we (and most of the children) used to watch not for enjoyment but to solve some of our curiosities. and banning such channels will not cause any good or bad in any way but the only thing is that when people are talking of sexual awareness and sex education these days how banning such channels is supporting it, is it ?

About Me

This guy is the greatest prcrastinator of the world. Right now this guy is plannning to take a presentation on "How to postpone things always", but dont know why he keeps on postponing the dates of presentation.he is also planning to make some serious eforts for his career but waiting for right time to come. This guy will also write a book on "Punctuality" as soon as he is done with the presentation.The biggest challange for this guy is the technology. you see technology is not upto the mark so that he can make a presentation. His laptop wants him to type for writting, but he want something like he thinks and it writes. His friends actually want him to go to the field for playing football, what the heck, why to go to the field if u have to play football. His boss want him to work, i mean common yaar there are so many other works to do other than work.So in short its not this guys problem that he turned out to be a prcrastinator. it is the system and todays poor technology that made him so.and Undoubtetly this guy is ME. and if i ever post this blog, which by the way i am writting and planning from, i dont know, may be a decade.anyways the only thing i want to say about me is that I WILL leave postponing thing some day. and i promise i will after some time.

Bloody Me

It seems like ages back i was in school, but school time was really a difficult time for me and i know most of you guys had the same experience. It was exactly like a plot of Indian movie when the hero was lallu panju(having height of foolishness) in his school days, except for the fact that something tragic happens to him and he will eventually grow as the smartest shyana of the world. So I think for still being an average person, I think I should blame destiny, coz nothing tragic happened to me otherwise I would also have been one of the smartest guys.
Anyways not deviating from my line, I was telling you that school time was a very difficult time for me, but having a feeling of heroness all inside me, I continued to believed that I am a hero and within this state of illusions I fallen for a girl. I liked that girl coz that girl didn’t like me or any other boy or actually the male community as a matter of fact. I don’t know why I started liking her. So I started watching her for all the time, following her knowing her. Even I started going to same coaching class she was going. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr oops sorry for the disturbance. This disturbance is caused by my other personality, as I am suffering from a split personality but I will talk to you about that sometime later. My other personality interrupted coz I was again deviating from my script. Actually I am not at all talking about my crush or my split personality. I want to tell about an incident. This incident is about an argument between me and me.

Surprised, as I told you I am suffering from split personality, actually everyone is. No matter whatever you do there is some part of you contradicting you. So lets talk about an argument between Me and Me in my school times, when I was a loser, but believed that I am a hero and madly fallen for a girl.
So that day I was sitting in my coaching class (same I mentioned above) alone and the girl I like ( i don’t like her now but since I am talking as first person in past) came and sat down. It appears that the sir is not in mood of teaching and luckily (as I thought) we were the only two people came that day. So I thought great lets talk to her and try to Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr opps actually the conversation went like this.

Me: I think today is a good time to talk to her.
Me 2: hey, stop thinking like that, she is gona kill you if u talk to her.
Me: shut the F*** up. I am definitely going to talk to her today and make her fall in love with me.
Me 2: ok go ahead, prove it that u r a fool. By the way she already knows u r, but go ahead and prove it. Go go go.
Me: I will, u just keep quite, [To Her: It seems sir is not in mood of teaching today]
She: hmm
Me 2: I told you, u r a fool.
Me: you were right I should have not said anything.
Me 2: you idiot no u have started a conversation, now continue.
Me: but…………
Me 2: {Smash} talk, talk now.
Me: [To her: It seems no one else is coming today]
She: Hmmmmmmmmm
Me 2: F*** man you r screwed.
Me: shut up and stop saying F***, you F***er
Me: [To her: So how r studies going ]
She: OK
Me: [so r u prepared for exams.]
She: Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Me 2: ha ha ha ha ha ha I told ya not to talk on the first place, now go on, go on.
Me: ************* you.

I began to feel a little restless and looked at a book nearby and pointing no a random picture said

Me: what is that think.

She: Oh that is actually the picture of a RNA and you know the difference between RNA and DNA is ……………………………………………………………………………
………………………………………………………………………………………………
Me 2: man what the hell she is talking about we don’t even looked the picture and she is telling these damn stories about it. Tell her to stop.
Me: you stop, look how enthusiastically she is telling it.
Me 2: but you have no idea what she is talking about.
Me: who knows……….. she thinks I am listening and you keep quite and let me pretend I am listening. Atleast I can see in her eyes all the time she is talking.
Me 2: you A** ****.
Me: F***

And so she talked about a lot of thing about I don’t know some RNA or BNA or KNA. I have no idea. The conversation ended and now there is pin drop silent.

Me: [To her: good, I learnt a lot.]
Me 2: hu ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, liar.

Me: [to her: so what is this]
She {staring at me ………………………………………..}
Me: why the hell is she staring at me.
Me: man u r screwed look the picture you pointed to………..

And when I told you that nothing tragic happen to me, I was not fully right coz this is a tragedy and what I did was a great blunder. I know this is gonna take all my chances away. Actually I blindly pointed out a picture of a male reproduction system clearly showing the THING in it.

Me: damn damn damn, you should have told me what it is.
Me 2: you should have looked at the picture sir ji.

Me: [to her: oh sorry actually I didn’t mean that, I mean I didn’t mean this, actually I didn’t mean anything, I actually didn’t looked at the picture]
She: Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm {silently )
Me 2: you r dead, and now we are not gonna get her at any cost.

So by the time she left she found her fiend and before parting they oth gave me a strange look. And we ( me and me ) stayed there alone. We are still sorry for that mistake we did. Me 2: F*** u, I have not done anything. You did everything and she left me too……… bu huh u huh u hu (actually he is weeping )

So as I told you this was the first conversation between me and me or say this was the first time I noticed it, and since then this BLOODY ME is bugging me in all my affairs, personal or professional.

My Bad Luck

UNBELIAVABLE, this was the first reaction of everyone who read the conversation between me and me, and not because the story was very moving or because of my way I wrote it, but it is unbelievable because people think that I am not good enough for even getting dumped by a girl.
The first reaction was from my friend AT. He said man it was humorous but it cant be true you don’t have guts to talk to a girl by your self. I mean common yaar I can talk to a girl by my self.
Second reaction I got is from AB. He asked me if it is true or not and I said it is and he believed me, thank god someone still believes me. I told him about the incident in a little details after that.
Then some of my distant friend like RM, HS, GG read it and said various things about it. But to my surprise the greatest tragedy of my life ( I mean one of the greatest) appears amusing to all of them.

Why all this fuss

Have a look at this picture. And what is the first thing that comes to your mind. Imagine whatever you can think I bet you are not at thinking what I want you to think.

So just for a change what if I tell you that this is a photograph of a Pakistani girl. Now what about your thoughts and idea. Are they same. Even though some of you might say that your thoughts are the same but they are not. So what is it that changed do you know. I don’t think so. So my whole point try to figure out why your thoughts changed. Coz in general people just say that the whole reason of the nuisance I this world are ………. But please think twice. Coz as you being a rational human being changed your thoughts about an innocent child just because she is ………. How can you blame them.
The thing is that we all should analyze ourselves first and try to improve our own thoughts and then start pointing towards others coz maybe there is something wrong from this side of camp too (or may be that was in past) but I have seen many people (educated ones too) talking like fools. Why is it that in all the countries ………. are seen with suspicious eyes. I remember that someone I know didn’t get work permit in a country just because of this reason. So how will such process help in improving the current scenario.
So anyone reading this please think that how you are thinking, reacting and behaving and then start pointing toward others.
Those who find this article objectionable, please look at the picture once again, yes right now. ………………………. So what do you think now. Can we all not just rise above all this and be humans.
I guess not, I don’t know why, and I am not writing this with these hopes. This is just what I think.
But do remember to look at the picture before you close the page.

Foot of the statue

Everything on the road is bright and full of light and in the middle of the road standing a statue hidden under the curtain and to be inaugurated tomorrow. Hundred of workers worked days and night and worked very hard for its completion. Tomorrow is the big day tomorrow it will be inaugurated.

A little distance away from the statue a little, old, dirty woman is standing. She is one of the workers involved in the construction of statue. She used to live in a hut build by bricks nearby, she was living in that hut from past ten months. It used to be her home. Her only child used to play near the statue. This place was there home for all these days and now she was told to move away in a days notice as tomorrow the statue is to be inaugurated. The women was standing with her son and have no idea where to go, she was looking lost. The watchman, appointed today only and for today only was watching her from a long time. He saw the woman approaching close towards the foot of the statue.

The watchman said "hello you dirty lady what are you doing here, go away."

"But where am I supposed to go I was living here from a long time and now I have nowhere to go till the contractor put me on other job, where can I go" said the woman.

"But Amma I was told to look after the statue so please go away else I will be fired."

"I was doing this job from last ten months so please let me stay here for the last day. I wont be of any trouble, my son is sleepy and hungry so let me stay please."

"Ok amma but get a little away from the statue as no one is allowed to come near this today."

The old lady gently moved a little away from the statue and sat on the footpath. Her son asked "Ma why are we not sleeping in our home tonight."

"We have no home son, see there is no hut where we used to sleep."

"Why mother, are we not allowed to sleep in our hut anymore."

"We will be given a new place to live and we will go there ok now sleep."

"Mother, I am hungry are you not giving me anything to eat. Where are you going to cook. Will I be getting no food today."

The mother had no answer. The contractor had given her no money saying that "I am busy in other things I will pay you tomorrow or so, can you not tolerate a little delay, how good I used to be to you people and you people always indecently asking for money, cant you see I am busy in inauguration work, go away come back later."

She found two rupees left in her savings. She bought a little bread from it and gave it to her son. She don’t know what she is going to do tomorrow since she has no money left and no work for tomorrow.

Next morning there is a huge public gathered to see the ceremony. People everywhere, that woman is standing very far from that place and was hoping to get paid from the contractor. She saw people dying to see the ceremony, some people climbed on the nearby trees to see the glimpse of the statue. Somebody said you know this statue worth rupees ten lakhs and monthly expenditure of two thousand rupees on lights.The ceremony took around four hours for its completion with all the VIPs telling there views about something related and something not related to the occasion.

After the ceremony is over the women reached to the contractor and asked him for money. The contractor got annoyed "Why are you bothering me for your money, cant you see how important this function is, I don’t think your ten rupees are more important than the ceremony, go away or I will fire you, go away." Then two of the men took her away from there.

In the evening everything is looking very beautiful, lights everywhere and the statue shining in the bright light. The watchman reached to the lady and said "Amma you are still here."

The woman said "I am going, I am not going to bother you any more. I am here just for the last glimpse of the place I lived for so many days"

"No problem amma I am going myself, my job is done now there is no restriction you can even sit on the foot of the statue." The watchman said and left.

The woman sat on the ground and looked her hungry son as today she had no money for food. She started crying, her son come near her and said "Come mother, don’t cry please, let us sleep I am not hungry don’t worry I am ok."

Someone passing by said "Beautiful, how beautiful this statue is, there must be at least ten more statues should be build like this. really how beautiful it is, isn’t it."