Sanscurry

Oil ministry calls for help!

2009-09-04T02:19:00.001-07:00

Peepay Public Toilet

2009-09-02T08:17:00.000-07:00

Swine Flu

2009-08-15T10:43:00.000-07:00

Happy Elephant's Day!

2009-08-01T15:28:00.000-07:00

"This time instead of party members, it seems the elephant herself asked to promote the day in view of public interest and requested Madamji to be on her side in every card to protect it from anti-social elements"

Dedicated to commuters of Mumbai!

2009-07-05T13:30:00.000-07:00

Inspired by the trapeze artists in our own Gemini circus, Pillai strongly recommends this green way of commuting!

Pillai launches Justpee.com!

2009-06-19T12:38:00.000-07:00

"Our USP: You can call us and tell ur exact location. We will tell you the nearest clean residential toilet where you can pee under 'familiar' home environment! "

Pillai plays chess with an Aussie

2009-06-07T12:31:00.000-07:00

Mamtaji asked for it !!!

2009-05-24T09:20:00.000-07:00

" !@#$%!@#$% Someone misunderstood when MAMTA JI said she wanna HUMAN FACE to Indian Railways !!!! "

Pillai takes over Santy

2009-05-21T12:45:00.000-07:00

Since Santy is busy getting screwed, Mr Pillai, wud take over this blog. ( Santy wud come occassionally to vent his frustration out). A small brief abt Mr Pillai - He too is good at frowns and till the day a non-Gandhi family member doesnt participate in the parliamentary proceeding (either Singhing or non-Singhing.... in ruling or opposition party), he doesn't have any intention of smiling at anyone in this life. Mr Pillai understand that it is more like that Hindu demon praying for no-death boon under various permutations and combinations. But Pillai sincerely hopes that it will happen one day (Needless to say now Pillai beats his thigh like Thala Rajnikanth, applies three sacred lines on his forehead, blabla... a red dot appears over them out of villan's blood . . .)

Cost Cutting in IPL

2009-05-13T13:20:00.000-07:00

"Due to economic recession, we need to part ways with our first umpires. The umpiring would be done centrally by TV umpires only" - ICC

Shoe Politics !!!

2009-05-09T14:37:00.000-07:00

" Niek has tied up with Con-Grass party on a million $ election sponsorship. Only 'Niek' shoes would be allowed to be thrown at their party members during their press meets . . . "

New financial year calendar

2009-04-11T16:27:00.000-07:00

"this is the calendar sent by terrorists for the bomb blasts for this year & have requested us not to schedule IPL match, Bandh & ELECTIONs on those days . . . ."

To L.E.T.

2009-01-25T10:58:00.000-08:00

Mumbai Traffic - Auto Expo

2009-01-16T10:37:00.001-08:00

Raju bros & sons

2009-01-10T11:04:00.000-08:00

Hey bro! tht's one hell of a logo for our company! Can't imagine you had such a vision!

A blog after a looooooooooong time... Happy New year

2009-01-01T04:38:00.001-08:00

Influenced by Mr Sanjay Singhania . . .

Jus a minute. Mr Shastri!

2008-05-27T01:39:00.000-07:00

No. This is not about Mr Suresh Shastri and his runouts controversies. Its actually about the person commenting on, literally, everything under the floodlights, Mr Ravi Shastri.

In spite of kerchief-clad-cheer-leaders controversies, a 'balle balle' punju slapping the 'youngistan' punju and Mum Indians (to be read sachin) making Mukesh Ambi's belly dancing to their last-ball-losses, IPL, indeed, seemed to score over mom's serials.

May 27th 2008.
A critical match was going on between Mumbai Indians and Rajasthan Royals. I am sure Viru & Co wud have chewed his whole finger by the time the MI royally lost to RR.

During the match, Mr Shastri was busy 'blabla'ing something as commentary to the viewers. Now there was a clip of some pretty gal (which in turn shows the MCPism in cameramen. Cant you guys show some handsome guys for our 'sisters' momentary pleasures?) shown in the screen. Mr Shastri, in his usual self, said "The crowd seems to have come in large numbers".

If you think it was a impromptu statement. Well its not. Its almost the Pavlovian conditioning for Mr Shastri to say this sentence (or something similar) whenever there is a sight of a glam gal in the screen.

Mr Shastri, you are a natural eloquent speaker. Agreed. But it is also natural for a guy, whatever be his age, to go speechless for microsecond on seeing 'things'. No one is going to mind if you are going to ogle for a second and do some justice to your job by shutting your mouth.

So when next time someone is shown on TV, please shut up and ogle. Or let others do.

A biriyani wedding

2008-05-25T10:44:00.000-07:00

Two days back, I happened to attend a wedding of one of our family friend @ my fake-native - Trichirapalli (a.k.a) Trichy. Since mom and dad were away for some other marriage, I was sent along with my bro - dhamu - as some kind of representative.

My mom has this strange habit of attending each and every wedding in town just in anticipation of getting sufficient crowd for her sons wedding to happen in near future. Yea. Heights of proactiveness, indeed! They should have done their MBA instead of pushing me to get one for registering at shaadi.coms. Again, she thinks ahead of me.

Living outside the city in a serene township has half a dozen benefits. But it wasn't the case now. For a marriage @ 10 am, you need to get up @ 8 which is close to hanging himself for a guy who is supposed to be in vacation. After smelling some tea , 15 kms no-helmet-biking and a quick tanning, we reached the church.

Apart from me, my bro, few fords( and an equal number of dogs busy beside their tyres), there was no evidence of some marriage to happen. Not even the smell of biriyani which the bride's dad promised when he invited us. Soon after the band started playing some songs which it seems is a signal for all those who are standing outside to go in.

I was able to notice a tinge of ergonomics in the church seats. I am not sure if that was intentional. The seats were designed so small and compact that even half of my back wont fit in forget abt resting my whole body. If thats the case with me (fyki ... someone mistook me for first year btech guy and tried to rag when i was coming back from kharagpur after completing my MBA), I wonder what would the aunty and uncles who are having much bigger circumference would do. Thought it was made so to make people kneel at the temple. But I still fitted my a** in that piece of wood.

Mostly I ll ask mom to mention the exact time when the biriyani session starts if she wants me to come - Yea. Japenese JIT. But since I was given higher responsibility this time than my usual self and since it was my first christian wedding @ church, I was sitting ceremoniously and watching the sacrifices at altar.

As priest started the process, a lady's voice jerked me from my morning siesta. After a couple of minutes hunt, I was able to find the source (ie) the playback singer for the church. There was something about those songs. All are religious of course. Apart from that, all the songs appear to end in each and every paragraph. All songs were sung with the same tune and the lady was master in it. I couldnt help avoding a thought of Harris (Minnale/RHTDM fame) composing for them.

For attending a Christian marriage, either you should be a real close friend of the bride/groom or a die-hard music aficionado (whatever be the quality). Again the higher responsibility entrusted in me (and the biriyani of course), kept me under control.

The usually patient placid human being I had ever seen, my bro, finally lost it. he turned first smiled which was expected of him. So I reciprocated. Then he again turned and asked if we can go for a tea.

Then after some pleasantries from marriage-specific uncles/aunties whom i regularly smile at (and they regularly ask me to identify them though they know for sure that i wont), I was sitting b4 banana-leaf disposable plates. Then came the best-shocking-moment of the day. No Veg biriyani !!!! BOMB! "Only sambar rice, thambi". (thambi - brother)

Do you think I came all the way abandoning my 10 hr nap, getting tanned and never-ending performance of the church-bg-singer for this bloody sambar rice ??? Though I wanted to walk off, my leg glance of desserts in the corner of room made me continue the belly-filling.

Tribute to the world's favorite sports ;)

2008-04-02T01:11:00.000-07:00

iPhone

2007-12-01T19:01:00.000-08:00

Guess the only ad which is close to professionalism till now :P

Mouse Trapped......

2007-10-27T13:01:00.000-07:00

City of Joy(deeps) .......

2007-10-27T12:31:00.000-07:00

4 more days ........

to mouth watering and self watering gol gappas.........
to three hour patient rath yatra to spencers.........
to samar's weekly darshan (and galis ;P ).........
to white bong rosogullas (no i dint mean nything feminine here).........
to boating when hoogly makes a summersault on kolkatan roads.........
to pan-painted-walls (the origin of communist red in WB ;P ).........
to the city which averages the weight of Indian women from the higher side........
to the drenching days (Blame it on sun or rain gods, when u r in kol, u drench nyways)....
to the girls who can scream more than you when u r bitten by them........
to the six monthdumb charades between me and my maid ;P.........
to "Green" bathing (bathing oneself and the road or platform or whatever).....

'TRI' bute to Indian bank ;)

2007-09-02T07:59:00.000-07:00

Munnabhai 4 - Munnabhai Chale Jail

2007-08-02T13:45:00.000-07:00

A break from doodling

2007-07-13T10:00:00.000-07:00

Well what would happen when you work all day calling/mailing companies for A&P (Advertising and Promotion) recovery and final placements .....

S* : hi ms.pol
N* : ?

S : Greetings from Flat no.4, DL129
N : :)

S : Is it a good time to talk to you
N : bolo

S : Further to our conversation today, can u please temme what happened with those two cos?
N : Will tell you tomorrow

S : Fine ma'am. looking forward to have a long lasting relationship with u. Thanks n regards. Santhosh kumar S. Flat no.4, DL129
N: Bye

*The N used in the conversation doesnt refer to any current member of placecomm. (Well this message is needed to ensure that I dont become a victim of Bhaigiri here in the city of joy.)

Silence plzzzz......

2007-07-01T02:01:00.000-07:00

well . . . the only Hari Potter i liked. . .

Nothing against saffrons . . .

Dalal streets gyan . . .

Fifa fever . . .

Kudos to rakhi sawant's marketing skills . . .

India's defly growing... but in wrong places :P