Just because I am quiet

Just because I am quiet doesn't mean...

I am looking for your help
Thanks but no thanks. Would typically result in drawing a fake appreciation (read very)

I lack social skills
Could not care less.

I lack confidence
Debatable? No it is not. I just don't show off when not needed. Why should you, even when it is just about needed. Show it in times of dire need. Philosophy works.

I like to be left alone
Yup sometimes I love and deserve attention but I can live without that too. Considering I have done pretty well being left alone, I don't see why I need company to survive.

I am mad at you
Sometimes true. Most of the times- NOT TRUE. Yes now it needs a little boolean algebra to decipher the sentence.

I am smarter than you
Oh definitely I am not just smarter. I am much smarter. You would have been writing this and not giggling or making perceptions about me if you were just as smart. 

Days that have mattered in my life - #5 to #1

#5 The day I went to photograph the spot where I survived an accident with 3 broken bones 

This was the day before Kimi became the world champion. My excitement was cut short with an accident that left me with a few broken bones. More painful was the thought that I could not see the best race of the season. That was a Saturday. 

Alright come Monday. I am at home at 10AM. Full plaster and slings and this and that. But the fun was going to the spot where I fell to see how long the drag was. 5 meters maybe. Insane it was. Nevertheless fun. I still rue missing the 4 way shootout of 2007 

#4 The day I went to Ruby's Tuesday 

Couple of things. Eventful. And a priceless memory.  

#3 The day my parents decided to introduce me to computers 

They would be regretting this day. 1999 should be the year when they gave me a 133MHz P-II, 32MB RAM, 0.98 GB spec desktop. Without multimedia of course. 

Law of diminishing marginal utility did not hold good. And I burnt out the processor of my next P4 machine. Good 40 grands during the days of recession (2001). I was officially tagged as brash and a spendthrift for this act. 

#2 The day I drove a four wheeler 

July 7th - 2001. Written in bold. Etched in my memory. My cousin would just let me get to the drivers seat because it was raining heavily and there was no traffic. And rest as they say is history. 

#1 The day I went for the Formula One GP of India 

I would not care if I died tomorrow. I have seen it all. My life is redeemed :) 

So, as a matter of fact, the best times in life come when you are with yourself. Noteworthy mentions would be my stay in Mumbai. And of course undergrad days. I used to be my new best friend. And I want that back now. For this is one life to live. And I want to make myself happy. So meet my new best friend. Myself

Days that have mattered in my life - #10 to #6

#10 The day I realized I could talk on the phone for 8 hours 


When I look back I wonder how I could pull this one off. My telephonic conversations barely extend beyond a couple of minutes at present. The very fact that I could talk at a stretch on the phone about nothing except books and songs, gives me the right to give myself a pat on the back. Yes! it was in early 2001 and No I wasn't too much interested in the fairer sex then. Neither was the person on the other side of the phone. The record that we held was broken by my friend when he "obviously" started talking to his girlfriend.


#9 The day 'we' stalked a girl and ultimately became objects of ridicule for the next few months 


Oh I could never forget this hot, sweltering day of summer 2001. Incessant phone calls of my friend with claims that he had fallen in love with some girl in our tuition classes. It being my first class, I was advised by my friend to block the entrance gate(with him) so that he could evoke a coveted Excuse me! from her. Apparently, he had done his homework. Apparently!! Neither did we get an excuse me. Nor any  form of humanely conversation. She blew her horn to get past us. And my friend who had already confidently assured other friends of a possible success was red faced. That was not the end. My friend managed to perform a full 85 degree standing wheelie in front of the full audience. Audience who was laughing uncontrollably. No that was not a wheelie. That was classical demonstration of how not to release the clutch of a scooter.


#8 The day I beat my friend on my 70cc gear-less scooter in a dash-to-home race from tuition classes 


Some time in 2003 there was this group of friends, which still retort to believing that the roads of Rourkela is no less than a race tarmac. So, on a rainy evening, there was this challenge of dash-to-home. As it is who would be interested on a Friday evening Math tuition class. My friend on his overpowered 125cc Vespa had challenged my minuscule 70cc scooter. I consider the power to weight ratio, for my friend must have weighed about 40 kilos then.
I won. Period. Still a talking point during gatherings. Definitely a to-remember moment. Some say I cheated. I don't see how :P

#7 The day I did a power slide, bang in the middle of the road risking the life of 3 co-passengers 

God save the souls of the 3 friends who decided to risk their lives. It happened so fast at more than 100 Km/hr during peak traffic hours. All I could hear in the next 10 seconds that followed were groans and plentiful of expletives. Nevertheless, I would like to call that an elaborate power slide. My friends were in good hands. I wish somebody could have videotaped the moment. Or my friends would have been good enough to go back and have a look at the tire marks.


#6 The day(rather night) Rahul lost his baggage in Pune  

Enough of days. This was a night to remember. My first outing to night clubs and pubs and night life. Yes I did have soup in a pub, but that is the way it is. So, with 4 friends too drunk to walk, we had to receive Rahul from the Pune railway station. While the 4 friends again got back to drinking near the station I went on to do receive Rahul. After the customary hugs and gali-galoch we head our way back home.
Nobody, till late next morning.. call that afternoon, realized that Rahuls baggage was missing. Reason? As fate would have it, he had his luggage in the auto rickshaw which held 3 drunk people.
What makes the day memorable? Rahul carried about 200 bucks with him. He lost 3 new shirts. And my hung over friends were trying to remember how the auto driver looked like.