Small Pleasures

Sanjay Rajoura.. 2011

2011-07-05T16:12:00.002+05:30

One of my older posts of July 2009 was on how sanjay went for the show in Pune .. one of his early ones .. and look at him now. In the national newspaper and far more successful. Talent really finds a way and with hard work it just becomes quicker. I am proud of you Sanjay :-)

when friends come visiting in a lonely place..

2011-05-26T21:07:00.000+05:30

Sanjay Rajoura..

2009-07-20T22:38:00.005+05:30

.. now isn't everyone who knows Sanjay feeling proud of our star :)

The show..

Before the show..

And, After the show..

I am writing after a long long time.. Actually have been quite sluggish with my own blog but I kept wondering what to put in Small Pleasures to mark a glorious start.. Well, I think I was unknowingly waiting for this.

Our very own Sanjay Rajoura, infact, fondly called 'The Rajoura' has made it.. He is doing what he is best at.. Actually he is good in many other things.. But okay, we are satisfied with this for now. :) Cheers!!

Its Archie's bday today..

2008-12-22T22:23:00.004+05:30

.. and we got him his favorite food .. cake .. I know its not good for him, but everyone should indulge in what he/she likes the most -- atleast sometimes :) Ohh.. BTW he is 6 yrs old now :)

Bye and see you again!

2008-09-23T11:10:00.002+05:30

Now that I am very near in closing my Mumbai chapter, I am meeting up with all my friends and visiting all the places I loved to visit and even though it feels a bit bad, but nevertheless, it also feels nice. It reminds me of the times I have spent in this city -- periodic highs and periodic lows -- but all in all a lovely and memorable experience. Mumbai has helped me grow, has helped me persue my ignored wishes of painting, writing, teaching and everything else. I will miss this city, I will miss my solitary existence, I will miss the 7am door bell of sakku bai, I will miss the Maggie dinners....
Its been two long years of numerous small pleasures, and I thank everyone who touched my life. Small pleasures would continue..

Vacation

2008-08-25T15:34:00.002+05:30

Nothing like a short vacation with friends, especially if it means getting away from the hustle-bustle of city life right into the lush green misty valleys of the picturesque Shivalik ranges of Uttaranchal..

Kitty koo kleopatra

2008-07-21T17:32:00.002+05:30

Was cat sitting entire of last week.. My friends cat.. She went back to her family yesterday, and the house is all quiet now.. :( But when she was there, it was fun and she left behind lovely memories :) ..

I always had dogs, this is the first time I had a cat at home.. That too a real dainty one.. What do you prefer, cats or dogs.. or, like me, you like both??

Chapet padegi!

2008-06-18T10:43:00.001+05:30

Stealing

2008-06-10T10:58:00.004+05:30

Ever felt like laying your hands on the song you heard on radio? What if you found it in a dingy website??
Heard 'Kabhi kabhi Aditi' -- AR Rehmans latest composition today over radio on my auto ride to office this rainy morning. And now I have it with me.. yayyyy..

Let me put the song up for you all to listen:

Ps. I know piracy is a crime and i generally dont indulge in it. Buttt its nice to break rules kabhi kabhi.. ;)

Natures patterns

2008-05-12T12:56:00.002+05:30

Can you even try and not smile at this one?

2008-04-16T17:40:00.001+05:30

Home Coming

2008-03-15T17:35:00.002+05:30

Its almost time that I start packing my bags.. Coming back on April fools day... Now is the pleasure time.. A feeling that you just have 15 more days to go -- so you can enjoy here and then enjoy there.. :)

Mumbai/Delhi -- I am coming baaaaackkk.. :)

Women - small pleasures.

2008-02-17T22:56:00.004+05:30

Am in this place -- away from home, initially trying to find a home away from home, but that did not work, so I thought of living homeless -- in zone 'unknown' .. and, going is a bit easy.
Much of my time goes by watching videos on You Tube.
I love to see women doing 'macho' stuff, like racing bikes and playing the drums. Wow, women playing drums look nice.
I did not know that there is a woman drummer in Corrs. I discovered. And it is a pleasure watching her play.
Check it out:

HaPpY bIrThDaY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2008-01-04T01:49:00.000+05:30

Happy birthday to you

Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to dearest deepu
Happy birthday to you :)

*hugs*

Life is good.......

2007-12-28T04:25:00.000+05:30

Hi my friends, buddies!

After sometime of absence, I’m coming back with some news and a little story happening to me last week. Hopefully, I will have some feedbacks.

As you know, after my come back to France, I was looking for a job for 1 month (it was not holidayL, spending half of my week, far from my home and having interviews 1 or 2 by days (sometimes of course) it was preparation to the life in Paris.) Fortunately, I’ve found a job in a quite good company (Sogeti, competitor of Tech Mahindra J ) and I have started the 5^th of November. You can imagine how I was happy. A lot of things were going to change. I’m working as exploitation’s analyst for BNP Paribas and I have a very good team.

Ajay, Saggi and I said: “What life we lead when we lead the life we want???” Well, it’s quite a good expression for my situation. I mean, I’m completely free, I have responsibilities, salary, I stay in a big city with a lot of people, I can meet new people every day (I do sometimes). My work is very interesting, my flat is big, my roommate’s cat is very peaceful J and he is also, even if he is 31 yo and it doesn’t have the sense of responsibilities. Explanation: he didn’t know how to do the housework, he was not used to do something with sense, but now, it becomes better. Anyway, I start my own life without other people to say if something is good or not. I guess, I don’t do so much bad things because I had a good education J

Something happened to me last Saturday. 2:00 in the morning, -4°C outside of the Ephemere Pub, in front of the canal Saint Martin, where a thin ice’s patch is staying. I was speaking with new friends about different things (I don’t remember, I was drunk) when a girl, too drunk to think by herself, came to us, avoiding a sticky guy. So she complained to us about him and we tried to separate them but it didn’t work. So, she came back to her friends and with the chewing gum. After 10 minutes, she couldn’t stay standing up so she went to the edge of the canal. A friend, Etienne went to sit down close to her to try by resounding her about the risk and, of course, the other guy was there. I don’t know what happened but she fell down into the canal. The two guys tried to rescue her by taking her by her arms. I didn’t realize I came close to this scene and took her hand and helped her unconsciously. She was completely wet but she was fine. The pub opened there doors to welcome her in a warm and dry place. I didn’t see her again, but I will go back to this place, and, hopefully, I will receive thanks and many free drinks in this pub. J

After that, how can’t be happy? I was waiting to write on this blog and I think, it was better to wait by trying to write a good article. And it was a good pleasure, which other place can I write this story somewhere else than Small pleasure????

Attached, some pictures of my house

The entrance

My messy room

Yeah !

A lovely Saturday

2007-12-26T12:45:00.001+05:30

A lovely party with equally lovely people ..
Read more here.

Before December is ..

2007-12-17T14:39:00.001+05:30

.. declared to be a dry month, let me post this video. I had been told by a fellow co-author of this blog that I should give up on it and this blog is not working, but I somehow could not accept that. If you understand me, even this blog like a child -- not really a brain child, but something that I got into existence and now it feels bad to ignore it. Hehehe.. I hope you are not imagining me to be this nerdy weirdo :) So I shall ensure that I have atleast one post up every month in this blogspace as well .. This one is for December .. a cute video..

Let me try blogging...

2007-11-23T09:37:00.000+05:30

Alright...so I am also officially party to the global blog rage...I really couldn't think of reasons of why one would indulge in such a time killing exercise...but now it occurs to me...it's a way to reach out to friends..and you know so many other reasons..so i thought let me also try something out here...

So my first blog is going to be..about....ME :) Utterly selfish...must say..anways...So just last week I moved to my new house in Juhu...with my old time friend as my flat mate...its been only 5 days I've moved there. Let me give you a snapshot of my typical day...on the 5th day itself...Got up at 7...naaah...7.20 or so...daily ablutions...by the time I am out of the shower..there is a Hot cup of tea..Omlette, Toast and Juice served on the dining table...I finish that quickly...grab the news paper..light a cig..n off to catch a ric.. about 10 minutes and 25 bucks later...I reach Andheri west flyover..from where I am ferried to Chandivali office in about 20 minutes!! So Iam resting my ass on my seat by 9 AM!!!! anyways..do my official time pass...and then I am back to catch the bus at around 5.40...reach home at around 6.30...Prachi was already there...so we chilled at home for sometime...and by 9.30 PM..all of us were at the dining table with Bhindi, Dal, egg Bhurji..and sexy har ki roties...I had some 6 of those...

The point is..in only 5 days...I feel like I have settled in life like for 50 years...and this scheduled is giving me a sarkari karamchari feeling...n i HATE it...i mean of course i love the convenience...but the predictability is killing...anyways..now its time for the week end...and we plan to catch up some plays...jazz n sufi music...n in between I gotta find a Bed!! We are trying to make this nice house from what we have..it'll get there soon...and then there'll be the house warming party....

And I'll end this first blog with a pic from andamans...trying to squeese in most I can in this post!

Now ain;t that pretty....

Chak diya India ne....

2007-10-05T17:56:00.000+05:30

"Urban Indians have one of the most exciting sex life in the world and are also the most open lovers in the world when it comes to talking to partners about sex" says the Durex ‘Sexual Wellbeing Global Survey’.

Read More here and here.

Nerd wrestling

2007-09-20T17:08:00.000+05:30

Did a google on "timid looking IT guy who wrestles" - didn't get any relevent results. So looked up "Nerd wrestling" and look what I found.

http://www.amazon.com/Kapoo-Nerd-Wrestling-Featherweight-Division/dp/B000PIUTPS/ref=sr_1_18/002-4739291-9016068?ie=UTF8&s=apparel&qid=1190288590&sr=1-18

Heh! But - do nerds really need XXL size?

Sanjay, again

2007-09-20T07:59:00.000+05:30

and the last one was written in haste...so pardon my abuse of language!

Sanjay

2007-09-20T05:57:00.001+05:30

Present please! I always believed that writing is a tough job, and writing every day without compromising the quality is impossible for a marginal mind like mine. Another thing I strongly believed was the adage "because I think, so I write" but I guess with the blog culture being such a smash hit, people like me often find themselves in a situation which can be best described as "because I have to write, so I need to think". Call it mental bankrupcy, if you want to use a fancy expression or just plain lack of talent but writing everyday is tough. Kudos to you Deepshikha. I see you writing everyday. I just wish instead of teaching me how to pin an opponent in a wrestling match, my dad had encouraged me to read books and write when I was a kid. You cant blame him though. He was wrestler and that too from a Jat village of western UP. He often had to salvage family's pride by wrestling.As people know I did not succeed in pinning any one down in wrestling, instead I grew up to be a timid looking IT guy.Will try to write more.

Roll Call

2007-09-19T16:42:00.000+05:30

Please echo your name in the comment section - No proxys please!

Osho on Copyright! Hilarious!

2007-09-18T15:55:00.001+05:30

"Things can be copyrighted, thoughts cannot be copyrighted, and certainly meditation cannot be copyrighted. They are not things of the marketplace. "Nobody can monopolize anything. But perhaps the West cannot understand the difference between an objective commodity and an inner experience.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi has copyrighted transcendental meditation and just underneath in a small circle you will find written TM � that means trademark! For ten thousand years the East has been meditating and nobody has put trademarks upon meditations. And above all, that transcendental meditation is neither transcendental nor meditation... just a trademark.
I have told Neelam to reply to these people, "You don't understand what meditation is. It is nobody's belonging, possession. You cannot have any copyright. Perhaps if your country gives you trademarks and copyrights on things like meditation, then it will be good to have a copyright on stupidity. That will help the whole world to be relieved... Only you will be stupid and nobody else can be stupid; it will be illegal."

Life is a box of Chocolates..

2007-09-10T17:24:00.000+05:30

Aurangabad calling..

Sometimes weird things happen - like for instance today. To read more, click here.

Ram Gopal Verma Ki - - Aag

2007-09-07T13:47:00.000+05:30

A kickarse review here. Check this out for the official promos. And hey, if you are wondering why I have put the two dashes after 'Ram Gopal Verma Ki' in the title of this post, then you must read the review and thy shall know.

Not to miss!!!

2007-09-06T16:49:00.001+05:30

This one is really helluva entertainment, courtesy one of my favorite blogger. A must read and a must watch.

Muzik

2007-09-06T15:46:00.001+05:30

Was listening to some old time music from the bygone years - Air Supply, BeeGees, Betals, Bob Dylan, Cliff Richards, Billy Joel . Felt great :) .. I wish I could upload a few here. Looks like the 'video upload' option does no good for music :(. Strange ... Can anyone tell me a way of doing it ??

Tip Tip Rain

2007-09-05T18:29:00.000+05:30

Was sipping chai and fagging in the little open space outside office - the little pleasure breaks - and just then it started to drizzle. I yelled out at a buddy who was busy on a call not realizing the 'tip tip' natural shower, to come under the shed... And I don’t know why, but I started singing that awful song 'Tip Tip barsa paani, paani ne aag lagai' – from the film Mohra -- the one in which Raveena Tandon is seductively dancing with Akshaye Kumar.. And since that time, almost 3hrs now, me, and now Ajay, are humming this number.. Sh..!!!!

Phew.. Does he need to go to the gym too?

2007-09-05T18:17:00.000+05:30

Had actually put this post in my other blog as well, but its so kool that I thought this one should also have it ;). A quick 'what is it' - well, i wont describe :P .. Check it out here.

RTI Repository

2007-09-05T17:03:00.000+05:30

Using this blog for some pushing an agenda - apologies.

Amit Verma had an excellent article - http://indiauncut.com/iublog/article/turbocharging-rti/
Read the follow up post here
So CSS is planning to come up with this content repository. My first reaction to reading this article was that this should be open source as a content management system.
If anyone out there is interested, let me know and we can get in touch with Partha of CSS.

Gay pulp fiction

2007-09-04T23:09:00.000+05:30

Go click on:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Midtown_queen.jpg

Now would Britannia Encyclopedia have this - Wikipedia rules.
The other aspect to note are the thongs, and this is the 50's - is there a logical progression to, um., female thongs - the pleasure is in ruminating these sociological aspects of thong progression. Heh

Rat Haiku

2007-09-04T22:02:00.000+05:30

The rat is in, this season, a rat haiku.

Walking on dishes
the rat's feet make the music
of shivering cold

-buson

Dual pleasures here, trying to find a rat haiku and then actually finding one that did give pleasure. Nope I ain't posting that link - heh!

Small Pleasures@work

2007-08-31T15:06:00.001+05:30

Here's an oft visited blog that I go to - http://www.overheardinnewyork.com//

Please do share some of yours.

Much pleasure comes.

The Ant

2007-08-31T14:58:00.000+05:30

The ant has made himself illustrious
Through constant industry industrious.
So what?Would you be calm and placid
If you were full of formic acid?

-Odgen Nash

Small pleasure comes

Whoa

2007-08-31T14:17:00.000+05:30

Honey Bunny: [about to rob a diner] I love you, Pumpkin.
Pumpkin: I love you, Honey Bunny.
Pumpkin: [Standing up with a gun] All right, everybody be cool, this is a robbery!
Honey Bunny: Any of you fucking pricks move, and I'll execute every motherfucking last one of ya!

- Pulp fiction

Friday Night, Gulp Puff and Chomp with buddies

2007-08-30T18:38:00.000+05:30

2007-08-29T23:18:00.000+05:30

ra-ta-TOO-ee

2007-08-29T17:55:00.000+05:30

Definitely, most definitely - watching Ratatouille.

Here's the review
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/cinema/2007/07/23/070723crci_cinema_denby?currentPage=2
and here's some info.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratatouille

If you can brush up on some knowledge of a restaurant's kitchen, will help in catching the gags. You could start with Anthony Bourdain's "Kitchen confidential". Is quite a ride.

Stars of the earth :-)

2007-08-23T16:47:00.000+05:30

There are times when you start feeling that the whole world is your enemy and everyone is trying to hurt you but then you get something (like this bunch of flowers :-D) from someone special which brightens up your day and life....And this proves that "Life is good and beautiful”, just like these beautiful and fresh flowers :-)

What a desolate place would be a world without a flower!
It would be a face without a smile, a feast without a welcome.
Are not flowers the stars of the earth, and are not our starts
the flowers of the heaven.
- A.J. Balfour

Beautiful thought, isn't it?

Sheer Bliss

2007-08-23T02:34:00.000+05:30

Last June in Delhi was exceptionally hot. On one Sunday, I had a game of cricket at Venkateshwara College. We were flogged all over the place by the opposition while the mercury threatened to touch 50 degrees. I had a good game though and was fairly satisfied by the day’s hard work. Once the game was over and the angry sun still screaming over Delhi’s head, guess what…the first gulp from a bottle of chilled to perfection Kingfisher….yeah man...sheer bliss! Dictionary describes bliss as: utter joy of contentment, the joy of heaven! Thats what I am talking about. Small Pleasures with big chilled bottles.

That first sip

2007-08-22T23:39:00.000+05:30

of that draught beer from a tall cold glass. Amen!

Saturday and Sunday

2007-08-22T23:04:00.000+05:30

No emails, no conferance calls, morning coffee - a book, lunch and seista.

The day stretches out like a big fat margin of a writing page, you can scribble all you want and then doodle some.

So, What do you think? :)

2007-08-22T18:20:00.002+05:30

Mrinal his Juliet and the road to Saputara

2007-08-21T13:23:00.000+05:30

Well, I read this post in Mrinal's blog. Just reading it made me feel nice. Thought you should take a look at it too.
Ps. Mrinal, hope you are ok with me siting your posts here :)

Feel Approachable

2007-08-16T16:33:00.001+05:30

A couple of days back the night watchman of my building called me up on the intercom at around 10.30pm. He said that another watchman who was new to our building had to stay for the night duty and he hadn’t brought his dinner with himself. So he, on behalf of the old watchman requested me to give him some grub. This made me feel nice. I had cooked soyabean chunk curry that day and some of it was still left. So I cooked some rice and called the watchman. I gave him rice, curry, curd and salad for his dinner. When he took that plate from my hand, he had a blank look on his face, he started to mumble why he could not get his dinner – I interrupted and smiled and said, its ok. Great satisfaction and joy I felt – not just because I could give a meal to someone who was hungry, but also because it felt nice that out of 72 flats in my building, that man thought he could ask me to help. Its nice to know that you are approachable to the less privileged people like him.

Tip Toeing at Bandstand

2007-08-16T12:56:00.000+05:30

Walking carefullly over moist and slippery rocks, and licking on a kaala khatta chuski..

Aloo Paratha and a great Movie

2007-08-16T11:11:00.000+05:30

Was eating Aloo Paratha and watching "The cook, The thief his wife and her lover" at Desai's lovely home.. Fun in solitude.

Chai at Nariman Point

2007-08-16T11:05:00.000+05:30

Perching on the pavement at Nariman Point, gazing at the vastness of the sea in front of you with a cup of tea and a smoke.. Peace..

Someone making the early morning cuppa

2007-08-16T09:18:00.000+05:30

A rainy morning, you snuggle out of bed and look around with sleepy eyes.. Just then someone smiles at you and gingerly hands you a steaming hot cup of wonderful tea.