Illusional story part 2

Dear Reader,

It took me so long to write this illusional story part 2. Better late than never.

Till now:
Bandeep has just joined in college and looking for a girl friend...tried some of the seniors in the batch...no luck...

Now:

Proposal :
Bandeep now decides to target his batch...There is no other option as our MBA is only two year :-). So he looks out for an extrovert girl so that, he doesn't have to wait for 2 years to go out with her. 2 years...Really? Ya this happens in southern states. They talk for 2 years in phone(11p.m to 2 a.m) and only during the graduation ceremony, they introduce each other to their parents as friends. Only after parents saying that, 'This girl/boy seems pretty and smart', they start going out. ;-) Culture.

So Bandeep finalizes on a Delhi girl...She is not only outgoing but also non-stop chatter box. When someone asks her why do you talk so much she replies by saying 'I am naturally high without alcohol'. How lucky is she? :-) Bandeep our hero, now decides on how to approach her. Filmy way or normal way? Normal way seems too low class..so he chooses filmy style...Saathiya style...Hey Benjali, I don't like you, I am not in love with you, I don't think you are beautiful..but I am scared that all this might change soon...Please let me know if you feel the same...(Not sure this is the exact translation but should do) She replies by saying..I don't like you and I don't think I am going to change my mind. ;-)..But you are crazy and lets be friend...She is not finished yet..What you like in me so much to fall in love so quickly? (Remember she is from Delhi, Naturally high, Chatter Box) Bandeep pretends to be serious and says  "fine, friends then".{ Mind voice: Yay..Yahooo...she accepted my friends request..(Real life and not in facebook).First level complete..}

Second Level plan:

Bandeep invites Banjeli to go out with him as a friend...She refuses to go out with him alone..Alas...What will Bandeep do now?
Then he comes out with a master plan. Get some dummy friends along with her and arrange a trip to nearby holiday destination.

Did she agree to go with him and his dummy friends? Did love blossom? You will find out soon...

Stop looking at women as a Sex Object

Rating: Readers please rate.

Call me hypocrite, but I would speak to women and not think about her in bed. To few guys, women are just a Sex object without any emotions. We cannot blame guys alone for this issue. Women who fall for charming men without knowing the were-about  of the guy are also to blame. This bad sample of women make it possible for all the perverted men believe that it is possible to 'bang' every chick they see.(That's how they say it.)
Girls and Ladies out there, you see men and start taking about his charm, biceps and ...., without even talking to him, get ready to get exploited. Complaining after everything, is not going to help. If you choose, looks over substance, be ready to live with a meat ball with a IQ of a dog.(Not always though but probability is high.)
Same applies to men too. If you had chosen a girl because she looks like a barbie doll,I don't have to tell you. You know what you will get.
How is last paragraph relevant to my subject. There is relevance. When Eve's tend to get mesmerized by good looks, they tend to overlook the objective of Adam. They forget the fact that Adam's mostly want forbidden apple. (Adam in this case would be the guys who look to exploit women for pleasure.)

Note: This post doesn't try to insult all the good men and women out there.

I

Rating :- Reader's need to rate..not me

I am not sure why I am writing this post. But I still want to write it. There are lot of times you will feel that the world treats you like a sh*t. Most of the times truth would be, we are full of ourselves that we assume that way. Take the word "I", "Me","My" from any issue. Problem solved.
I am not being a philosopher here. As a matter of fact, in this post I have already mentioned "I" 6 times. It is not a word which can be avoided at all times rather we can reduce thinking only from our point of view many a times. That should solve so many difficulties you face.
Let me narrate an incident that really happened. We, five friends had gone to Goa for holidays. We were all having good time. Suddenly one friend decided to share his old sad memory. Then he started crying. He was making another friend of mine cry too. We were suppose to be enjoying. After that incident people making joking were considered not sensitive. Two days out of 3 days of holidays gone without even a laughter. Sad that people some time over rate their problem. They care about themselves and no others. In fact the guy who was crying seemed like he wanted attention more than anything.
Sulking, crying, cribbing are not bad. Though these are done mostly to emotionally torture somebody else, if it is done occasionally people will understand. Please don't over-do it and torture others often. 

Love not to See you cry,
Keep smiling,
Basto

She couldn't take her eyes from him

Rating: 3

It was 8 o clock in the morning. I was running to catch the train. The people standing next to me said " let it go". Before I could see who was saying this, the train gained speed. No way I am going to catch this train. "Damn not again". I said to myself. Next train was only after 1 hour.

I bought a news paper and sat down in the waiting bench. Though I was trying to focus on the negative stories like market crash, see saw trade, 'will India be downgraded too?'etc. , I couldn't ignore a group of 5 people standing next to me. The group had 4 girls and a guy wearing blue t-shirt. They were all teenagers. Not sure what the conversation was about, but they all seemed happy.

Then came a girl with train tickets in her hand. She was pretty. The smile in her face will remain in my mind for a long time. Let me name her so it will be easy to differentiate her. "Smiley". :-) . Smiley walked into the group and handed over the tickets to other girls in the group. Then she went to the guy in Blue t-shirt and started a conversation. He couldn't look into her eyes while talking to her. She couldn't take her eyes away from him.

The guy in blue T shirt was able to look at everyone else in the group while talking to them but not at "smiley" while smiley looked only at him irrespective of whoever she was talking to in the group. :-). This doesn't mean that the girl alone liked him. I found out that the feelings were the same as they boarded the same train, same compartment. The way they expressed themselves to each other was completely different. We all have different means of expressing our feelings. If you are smart enough you will enjoy the happy moment. If you are a dumb guy or a girl, you will get frustrated thinking that your feelings are not reciprocated.

Illusional Love Part 1

Rating:

Happy New year to all the readers.

"Coming soon" tag for this story was there in Pandoras Box for a while. At last I have found some time to write it. Before that let me give some updates about 2008-10 batch people.

Latest - Deepti Thomas is getting married soon. You will get her invitation in groups soon.(Hope so). Christoper's wedding is on 19th Jan 2011.(Just checked in groups). Christoper has arranged for a huge party for all the visiting people from our batch.(Star hotel accommodation and a free Thailand trip for all the non married couples who are attending the wedding). ;) 

Cini is also getting married soon in Ernakulam. Vivek Thomas, Janet,Deepti and Rajiv are the potential candidates to attend her wedding from our batch.

Virgin Mobile loses its virginity as it is taken over by Tata. Ravi and Asit are working for 'Tata' now. Ravi got engaged. He will soon lose.............



his single status. (Dirty mind...:) )


Congratulations to all the above.

Gossip Factory: (May or May not be true)
Shocking news from Delhi, the Asha Niwas trio were not allowed to enter "Hard rock Cafe" because they are too old to enter the place. Apparently one of the member was wearing a monkey cap to a pub which showed the trio much more older than they really are.  

The two PJ couples of our batch had a great experience in some good locations in Karnataka during the new year eve.

Indo-Srilankan Pair are all set for the wedding in the beautiful Island.

For one of the Tata employees picking up "Female Models" is a part of his job. How cool it sounds isn't it. But of course for ad films and not for any other purposes.

Real incident:

It was a sunny day..some say everyday in Chennai is sunny and few say there is only one season in chennai.."Summer". Leave all this thoughts for now. Let me go to the story. So the story..wait...this is not a story but a real incident.

Even I have been trying hard to find time to write this story. Finally... before starting the story let me give a one liner about the "Illusion-al love story". "Time pass love comes true - You wish". You don't seem to understand anything out of this one liner right..So please read the story now.

The name of the protagonist is Bandeep. The lead female is Benjali. What happened between them?
It was the first day of 2008-10 LIBA batch in college.Many were trying to get to know few of their bath mates. Some wanted to get stuff for their rooms(Hostelers). Some were trying to find whether some hot gals/guys have joined in the batch. But Bandeep was trying to get only one thing. Girl friend. It looked like he has come from some boys college and was so excited to see girls in the campus.

In few modern love stories you will find social networking sites playing a vital part in their initial phases. Same happened in this case. Bandeep joined a 2008-10 LIBA batch group in a social networking site. He was closely watching all the new members in the group. Finally after much of research and tough rounds of short listing he short listed few profiles. Quickly he noted down all the names. He wanted to put signature campaign to of some good use to get to know these people. "Ting"---> (Considered to be innovation if you are part of the any corporate group.) 

Hold on---"Doubt".....What is signature campaign in LIBA? Some believe that it is a modified version of ragging.(Not ragging) Ragging is banned in campus. But not signature campaign. The objective of signature campaign is to get maximum signatures from the seniors by doing all the tasks that they gave. Innovation. :). Truth is that it is a very effective tool to get to know all the seniors in a short span of time. I believe all LIBAites are matured enough to use it in right way.

Lets get back to the story. So Bandeep decided to use this signature campaign to get to the know all the short listed candidates. Both seniors and batch mates were part of the list. First he wanted to target low hanging fruit. Seniors. Signature campaign gives an opportunity to talk to any senior. He approached all the seniors in the list. None fitted his criteria. Criteria?

Ya the eligibility criteria he had was:
1. Candidate should be a girl and should also sound like a girl. ;)
2. She should speak one of the language he can understand/Speak.( He knows five languages)
3.  Pretty or not, she should stick with him like a leech for at least next two years. (This is not in his criteria though. I just made up.)
4. As first and second criteria mentioned above fits most of the girls in the campus the only main criteria is that she should accept his proposal to be girl friend when he proposed.

This means that he really wasn't looking at anything other than some girl to roam around with. He wanted to boast of to his friends that he has a girl friend. Cool guy image in campus is all he was thinking.

Thought to Ponder on:
Guys and girls if you have a boy friend/Girl friend who socializes a lot find out whether you are a "show piece" for him/her.


No luck for him as all his proposal was rejected by senior girls as it was considered as a task and not a real expression of a desperate guy. In other words he hasn't found his victim yet.

To be continued....




 

Convocation + Renu's Wedding + Facebook Controversy

Rating: 4

Story:
Convocation

It was 14th morning and I reached LIBA  campus around 10 a.m. I couldn't see many people in the campus. I got down from Anish's bike and saw the love birds walking opposite to us. Indo-lanka pair walked towards us(me and anish) and said 'Hi'. Before replying the Indo-lankan pair asked Anish can I have your bike? The two birds flew some were in the bike. Then I slowly entered the canteen. There I saw few familiar faces. Juniors. I was happy to see them again. After all the 'how are you? Where r u?' conversations I met Alister who reminded me to collect   the library deposit amount. We both went and collected the money.

When I came back many other 2008-10 batch people  had gathered there. After Chatting with few of them I took 'Saint's bike and went to the hotel where I was staying. I came back around two o clock. Oh! I saw the head office staff standing in the way to the convocation hall and showing the watch to me(Why u  didn't come 5 minutes earlier?). I was telling myself "Even today?". But that was nothing when compared with what happened after that. As I took my seat I saw few others batch mates which include ma[But Papa got his Award..What a surprise ;) ], Jka, bhada bhaiya and few others tried to get in and was stopped by "Strict Prof". "Strict Prof" said to those who came late.."What is the time? No no no...I can't allow you guys to get your degree certificates on the stage. Those students weren't allowed to enter the hall. :( What the heck?..Few parents who came to see their children get a degree were denied that opportunity in the name of discipline...Now if college people call them saying "Alumi" I am sure all they will hear is abuses. These students are the face of LIBA and treating them this way is not going to help LIBA in future.

Otherwise the function went on fine. Convocation Address was by "N.Chandrasekaran", CEO & MD of TCS. Everything was planned and function ended without long speeches. Thank God. Lizette did the M.C.  "Subbu" was named the best outgoing student of the batch and Thejas grabbed the topper award. Renu, Khusbhoo, Karthikeyan, Surjith , Boniface,Rini, Venkat, John Paulose and few others got awards for their achievements.

After the function many people who came for convocation went to Mahabalipuram and enjoyed the night. Few of them passed out even before the party started.:) This include Consi_ girl and the architect boy. Some were sharing their sorrows and some were discussing some serious stuff during the gathering. A new "Babe" was discovered during the Mahabalipuram trip. The 'dancing pro' from TCS wanted to be called "Babe" from now on.
NEWS:
Renu's Wedding:
I was lucky to go for Renu's wedding reception. It happened in Le Royal Meridian. Five star hotel. Ufff...It was filled with Celebrities which include Stalin(Deputy Chief minister), Harris Jeyaraj, Prabhu, Senthil, Pakiyaraj, Nakeeran and many others...The wedding was one of the best I have ever seen.

Secret reporter has founded out about two other engagement which are going to happen this year. Both are HR girls . One HR girl is supposedly moving outside India after marriage.  Best Wishes to both of them.

Facebook Controversy:

Hunter is back in the news. This time for some strange reason. His comments in facebook about the LIBA's vital committee's activity had  made a huge controversy. Few current batch students who 'liked' his post are summoned by the Vital Committee. Don't know what is going to be the consequence of their action.

Missing Pages in the Yearbook 2008-2010

Rating: 4

 Announcement:

Pandoras Box 2(http://newpandorasbox.blogspot.com/) is now accessible to all. It will have exclusive news about the 2008-10 / 2009-2011 batch while Pandoras Box(http://bastocollins.blogspot.com/) will continue to have stories about the current batches of LIBA. 

Disclaimer: This blog is meant for fun purpose and so all that is written in both the blogs are not neccessarily true.

STORY:

This story involves a 'Major' and his troops. I am sure everyone knows who is called 'Major' in our batch.

It was the during the final days of 2008-10 batch in LIBA. Everyone wanted to make a year book for the batch. Few people like "The saint", "Dexter" and "No.7" took the responsibility of making the year book supported staff like "Hunter", "Bebo" etc. The idea to make a digit year book came up and most of them agreed to it. I should say that the team did a wonderful innovative yearbook. In the process of making this digital year book few interesting incident happened. 

Everyone was asked to write about their friends for the year book. Lot of them did. After submitting their testimonials about the batch people, Major and one of his troop requested the techincal crew(Dexter and co) to delete only one testimonial written to a girl. Technical committee refused to do so as they had almost reached the last phase of writing the content in DVD. This created a conflict and Major and his troops wanted their page deleted in the year book if that testimonail to the girl is not deleted. What was in that testimonial that created so much ruckus. According to one of our secret reporters, that testimonial had a indirect proposal of love. Was it written by Major or one of his troops? If it was written by one of his troops then why he wanted his testimonial also deleted? Who was the girl who got this testimonial? Questions remain unanswered. 

Major had and still has a huge reputation in our college and even I admire his intellectual capability and maturity. But in this issue what I heard was shocking. The major couldn't let it go. He was on a mission to delete his and one of his troops page in the year book. Dexter and even "The saint" opposed this idea firmly. I think in the mission "Delete Pages" major did not anticipate resistance from "The Saint". Even it was suprise for many how "The Saint" stood firmly against the man of that stature. It looked like Major is going to lose in this mission. But he did not give up the fight yet. He kept insisting and finally they all reached a common ground. The technical crew after serious discussion and war of words decided to publish major's and his troop's troops profile alone without posting any of their testimonials.

Dear Reader,

If you are from 2008-10 batch then check your copy of year book for more clarity .:)    

News:

2008-10 batch convocation is on 14th August. Hope to see everyone there.

Somani entered into marriage agreement without announcing about this exiting news to the batch. 

It was surprising for many as guys(Somani,Silent Assasin & Bada Bhai) are getting married before girls in our batch. Congratulations to these guys for choosing a comparitively difficult life this early.  Sonal got engaged. She is in Goa and seriously looking for some friends there. All the best. There was also a news that first and best couple of the "Happily family" of our batch got engaged. Yet to confirm this news.

Our people working in Deloitte was given laptop and they are quite sad about it. This is because they are asked to work even on holidays apart from their regular working hours.

Johnny Boy joined Wipro in Bangalore and has invited all of us to visit him whenever we go to bangalore. PJ is in chennai and there is no news about her and her best friend.

Verzweifelt Verliebt got his posting in coimbatore and will be joining BoI in the begining of next month.

2008-10 batch vital committe asst. head got mumbai as his final location.[Home town itself].

Crazy laugher and Anish are going to be roomates in Hydrebad. Our CR who related with only seniors and juniors in 2 years has reportedly refused the proposal of crazy laugher to stay with him.

Ok this is enough...Will update more about who is where in the next post....too much info already....