Random one-liners from my FB status/emails

Most of these are from FB status updates, emails I have sent to friends

1.) Someone asked me my birthday but you know, in this era of gender equality, if I can twist that one-liner , I would say "Never ask a man about his age and a woman about her salary":-)

2.) Finally started cleaning the room...whenever used to be fed up with the room's bad state in the last 3.5 months here , I used to go for long nap , wishing things would be a little different when I get up...but now have accepted the finality of Newton's First Law of Motion, "Things at rest remain at rest unless acted upon by external unbalanced force" and NO! mental force doesn't count :-)

3.) A joke from my Macro Economics notebook (Credit to Sir) "What is the politically correct term which Economists employ when they want to call someone 'kanjoos'? His Marginal Propensity to Save (MPS) is higher than others" :-)

4.) Contexual joke KGP 1st year

Miss World competition or something like that was there..and models were getting scores of 9.3, 9.2, 9.8 out of 10 ...
"Inka CGPA hai kya yeh" :-)

5.) On slowdown/recession, from one of my email

I thought this slowdown has not touched my company until they started giving us bananas instead of apples in the morning canteen :-)

My article in IIMK magazine

BYOMEE’S CORNER

Sometimes it takes just one knock on your door to change your life. 30th October 2009 11:30 PM Yes..That was it..I open the door; “We are from Tadka”.I couldn’t believe my ears. The day I was waiting from my childhood had come. I grew up on stories of my father telling about an IIM which will come in the sylvan surroundings of God’ Own Country and how its students will get into uncomfortable situations, get scolded from Professors, make interesting pairs with members of opposite sex, will plant imaginary escapades to fuel the rumour-mills just to get featured in that magazine which will become the lodestone of every budding and hidden writer of that campus-Tadka.
The next day mandate was given, "You have to give Gyaan". I said, “Did you say I have to give Gas or Gyaan?””Ek hi baat hai..Just stick to 300 word limit. You See, we have sharper scissors than Indian Censor Board and any attempt to exceed this 300 will result in complete removal of all the vowels from your article.”

“Main Apni Favourite Huun”

The biggest problem in life happens when we start comparing ourselves with others. Always remember, If you are not as smart as XYZ, probably he thinks that he is not as dynamic or jovial as you are. If you are not as handsome as Amir Khan, may be Amir Khan thinks he is not as handsome as Tom Cruise. The crux of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity as given in the seminal research paper “Separating Wheat From Chaff: Relativity Revisited” by Byomkesh Kumar is just this, “Benchmark yourself against your past. Relative grading means “You have to always do better in your next endeavor than in your past.””

Singing Pink’s song “Don’t Let Me Get Me” with lines which run “Don't wanna be my friend no more, I wanna be somebody else. Don't let me get me, I'm my own worst enemy” was cool in the Stone Age. This FB-Twitter generation’s buzz word is what Kareena says in Jab We Met when Shahid asks, “Tum apne aap ko bahut pasand karati ho na.” “Bahut, Main apni Favorite huun”. But how do you become your favourite?...(Snip Snip...Scissors at work)

Song in My Mind

Euphoria's Sone De Maa

Indian Pop

My lines on this song from the above post---

Before Kya Itna Buraa Huun Maan(TZP) and Lukka Chuppi(from RDB) by Prasoon Joshi , these were some of the best lines written on that atavistic wish which everyone feels after frustrations, struggles of adult life to get back to his childhood, to let someone else care for "aanta, daal ka bhaav", to keep doing what one likes, to just sleep at leisure without the rude alarm clocks waking you up and deadlines to be taken care of, to be simple again, to be a child again, to let the Pleasure Principle of Id rule you without being quietened either by the realities of Ego or ethics/morals of Super-Ego, neither to feel pressurized to catch up with workaholics in weekdays nor succumbing to peer pressure of "having to do the in-things" on weekends

Id, Ego, Super-Ego on wiki

When it was used in the soundtrack of Shootout at Lokhandwala, the lines were something like this

lyrics of Sone De Maa

Ho Maa, Ho Maa, Ho Maa
Teri Kahaani Mein Jita Tha Beta Tera
Tu Hi Bata Maa Kya Jhuta Tha Kissa Tera
Aansu Baha Na Maa, Ik Din Yeh Hona Hi Tha
Lamha Lamha Jita Jahaan, Ladate Ladate Main Thak Gaya
Sone De Maa Main Nahi Jeena - 3
Sone De Maa, Sone De Maa

Kabse Hai Tumane Maa Aawaaz Di Na Koyi
Kabse Andheron Mein Ghar Mera Khoya Kahin
Sadiya Huyi Tere Aanchal Mein Soya Nahin
Lori Koyi Phir Se Suna
Chalate Chalate Main Thak Gaya
Sone De Maa Main Nahi Jeena - 2
Sone De Maa Nayyo Jeena
Sone De Maa

Aakhari Angadaayi, Nind Mujhe Aayi
Dheere Dheere Dhundala Sama
Hasate Hasate Abb Kar Vida
Sone De Maa Main Nahi Jeena - 2
Sone De Maa Nayyo Jeena
Sone De Maa

Sone De Maa Main Nahi Jeena
Sone De Maa Nayyo Jeena
Sone De Maa



Teri kahaani mein sacchayee jeeti sada,
Tu hi bata maa kya jhootha wo wishwaas tha,
Bikhri kyon maa mere sapna ka sansaar tha,
Lamha-lamha dhokha naya,
Tanha-tanha main thak gaya.

Sone de maa ab na jeena * 4

Sapna jo toota bhi, dekho main roya nahin,
Saaya jo toota bhi, khud ko main bhoola nahin,
Sadiyaan hui tere aanchal mein soya nahi.
Lamha-lamha jeeta jahaan,
Tanha-tanha main thak gaya.