The valedictory post

Hi guys,

By the word guys I mean all of you (guys as well as girls). The world seems to be coming to an end and this might be my valedictory post. I really want the world to last longer so that all of you could fulfill all your dreams in your respective bucket lists.

I would just try to limit it here to few sentences.
If you are student, you r living your best life right now and I hope you are not wasting your time reading this post of mine. These are your last days of freedom before being thrown into the wheel of life to become another spoke, to be taken away to the distant land of sweat and the grind. Those days of hang-overs, watching sunrise before calling it a “night”, Sunset at 4 to Sunset at 11..I miss it and you would too.

If you work, I know each and every job sucks. But try to make the best of it. Dont carry the shitty work out to home. Enjoy. If in Mumbai, go and sit in the Marine Drive,its really beautiful. My three favourite places are Marine Drive (next to my office), Prithvi Theater and Andheri Sports Complex (both next to my house), u see none of them are bars or pubs.

Avoid falling in love, it comes with too many side effects. Coelho says it takes you either to heaven or to hell and he ain't any liar. Yeah experience of being in love is ok. But dont hang on. I mean dont 'fall'.

Lastly for all you gypsies, keep traveling. Be the incessant traveler. The best feeling is to be alone but not lonely. I donno but I prefer the trains. I love the glimpses of lit up bogeys, people playing cards, children wandering about. So many lives crossing my backyard every day and every night. Rich, poor, famous, oblivious of my existence, I of theirs. A mutual oblivion that can never be resolved.

Thats it. I will make this as my last post of 2010. A general one although. I am happy that this year is coming to an end. It was an year where my life changed to the maximum. I learnt most about life, the intricacies of it. All i know is growing up is no fun,man.

With love and wishing you a happy new year!
-vC

PS: Please do comment after reading this. Thats how I know that U read it and being read is obviously a nice feeling!

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Folk songs vs Dylan

Well, seriously I am dreading going home. Just because of this festival named "Chhath" which is the most pompous festival in the state of Bihar.

Last time I was there, the entire family was there to greet me "Arre Vikas, itna bada ho gaya?".. As if I had an option not to grow.

And then you go to the ghaats ( lake side) where all the functions take place. There, the ladies sing some folk songs, after hearing which I believe even Bob Dylan would jump into the lake.

If u try to put an iPod in your ears, the ladies would look at you, as if u committed an act of dishonor.

Further. the girls around would try to dress at the best, putting powder(may be dermi cool) on their face, trying to look fair-skinned and ending up looking obnoxious. The worst would be relatives would try to fix you up with them.

The festival is a 3 day affair. So last tym on the second day, I acted as if I was unwell and avoided all the proceeding at the ghaat. So all the relatives are like "shahar ke bacche weak hote hain"

The only good part is that the local people would smoke high quality weed and u just pay them a little to keep all this a secret and then even all the cacophony sounds like Dylan...


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PS: This is fiction. On a contrary, I am a well-behaved Mama's boy.


"And then he changed the month card on his workstation calendar and wondered in amazement how the past 6 months zoomed by… His tenure at Bombay has been really good and yet it brought him the worst. He had lost some investments, mostly emotional and has spent most of this time, trying to keep the sanity of it all, together…"

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Recommendations!!

I recommend:
1. Each person should once live in the city of Mumbai. This is one mini-world in its own. You get to see all and sundry here. It can fascinate you and at the same time choke you. One city which has a soul!

2. Each person should one have suffered heartbreak. Thats wat will make you complete.

"Loves are like that. Your heart starts to feel like an overcrowded lifeboat. You throw your pride out to keep it afloat, and your self-respect and independence. After a while, you started throwing people out - your friends and everyone you used to know. And it's still not enough. The lifeboat is still sinking, and you know it's going to take you down with it."

3.Travel to an unknown direction and travel in solitude completely. Take a train, a ticket to anywhere, a set of books, some snacks, a big rucksack of necessities and a clear sky above. Just travel.

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Filthy Rich

Hi this is a summary of an autobiography from one of the "filthy rich" girls of Mumbai.

Hey,
I am Ayesha, and my dad is a Managing Director of Ayesha Private Limited which he inherited from my grand dad and just changed the name by hiring some lawyers. I love to party, get drunk and just scream.

Yesterday, my uncle gifted me a Mercedes Car and I just imagined what if I was poor. I am sure a poor uncle's girl must be gifting her a Honda City. Oh how can one drive in that Honda City. Thank God, I am not poor.

You know, all my friends went for rafting and I had to paddle the raft and my arms started paining. So I asked all the guys to paddle for we girls. Isn't it cool?

Well I met this guy named Vikas while coming back from the rafting tour and he had a cheap Nokia phone and he said he had passed out from some IIM. I am sure he was lying and trying to impress me by his IIM bullshit. He should have hidden his cheap Nokia phone first.LOL.

I cant take movies like Blood Diamond and Hotel Rwanda. Its so gross. I start puking watching these Africans. Why can't all directors make movies like Mean Girls?

Hey u guys know- Hungry is name of a country!! Funny naa..

OK I will leave then. Need to get this pedicure thingy done. Have a party tonight and need to go shopping too. Such busy schedule.


Muaaaaaaaaah
-Ayesha

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RE: A letter

Dear friend,

Thanks for replying back. Deep down, I knew you would. Thats what friends are for, to stand beside you at the testing times. It definitely did loads to me than mere feeling-good. And you see that now I am writing more about my life here.

1. Well I am yet to discover the Bombay you are very fond of, except for the sea mist- which i daily enjoy. Yeah thats the best part of my entire day-sitting around the sea. I am yet to discover watever you mentioned in the letter-the fish stink in Colaba, Muchhad’s paan,the tonga ride which you loved, strawberries and cream at “Batchelors”(though I am not at all a strawberry lover)..

2. Yeah I have downloaded the movie Big Fish. I will definitely watch it and tell you my reviews after I have watched it in the next letter.

3. I did not understand why you quoted Carrie Bradshaw (Sex and the City)at the end of your letter. "I'm looking for love," gushes Carrie, "real love, ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can't-live-without-each-other love. And I don't think that love is here in this expensive suite in this lovely hotel in Paris." You always did that in your previous letters, is it like your permanent signature??

4. You know last night I drank alone. 2 kingfisher strongs. Played 'chingadi koi bhadke'-kishore kumar in the play-again mode. And slept to it. Also woke up to it!!Living alone is awesome. But sometimes it scares me like what if I suffer a heart-attack, no one around.

5. Ever since I am in Mumbai, my arms must have increased in length. When you hang in local train twice for about 45 minutes, the arm length is gonna increase. And yeah I have one video of our first dwelling in Mumbai. Its one of the most motivational video of the shit we lived in. Next tym u r in Mumbai we can sit and watch it together.

6.Well I will end the letter now. Oh yes, I was going thru some old photographs and I still possess the one where u are twirling in that hippie skirt of yours.

-vC

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A letter

Dear friend,

You always knew how ancient a person I was. In this era of mobile phones and e-mails, I indulge myself in letter writing and that too I am writing to you, you of all the people.

1. Well, its been 4 months in Mumbai and probably each day I learn a new lesson. Lessons about life, all the realities (cruelties) it carries along. Its been so much that at times I feel my mind will burst out.

2. You know , during my early days in Mumbai, while travelling in the local train, I used to clutch my wallet and keep it close to me. But now I don't care. Having lost so much here, I am not scared to lose anymore.

3. All the time, I wish to go underground. Its not just work alone. These wishes are an after-thought of many factors. Personal/ professional. Nothing wrong per say, but going underground would definitely help me get back to square one. But every time I want to go out of this city, things dont materialise. My boss cancels my leave and when I argue, he threatens to fire me.

4. Definitely.. I am looking for something I don't have. Sitting in my office I always wonder if the 4 yrs of engineering and 2 years of MBA was to end up as a clerk.I guess I am just an aimless meandering soul, confused like all others.

5. There is a window in my office. If I am not working, I stand there all the time. I get a view of the local trains, the cars running on the marine drive and the sea. It really helps- standing there. Sea changes its colors as per the sky and it gives a great feeling. The trains and the cars are also very relaxing. They signify that its very important in life to move on. Now I fully understand why they say that the greatest invention in man-kind was the wheel!!

I want to write so much. But I will have to restrain myself..I will wait for your reply and then further aware u of my life. btw I daily read your diary which u gifted to me. It gives me great courage and trust me now I understand the words better.

-vC

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Hope, nostalgia and that hollow-waala-stud!!

When he sat by the sea and watched people smile at him, a sudden wave of nostalgia hit him. He was reminded of the first girl he kissed..A kiss at 4AM in the morning in a car parked by the Delhi roads...Yeah it was not at all a good kiss by any measure bcoz it was the first time for both of them..But isn't it that most mess-ups make for fonder memories than most of the victories?

Well she was the girl who gave him the identity, made him the person he was..She gave him the confidence to kick-ass and smile..That don't-care attitude was all hers transferred very well to him..He even borrowed her quotes...Her favourite being " The very definition of a stud is hollow" and later she used to add " and u r not that hollow-waala-stud"..He used to smile every time.

Both have loads in common but the most common thing they believed was in happy ending..Now that she was gone to some foreign country pursuing her Masters and the void and the vacuum of his seemingly infallible life had enveloped him, he looked at the sea to gain that strength back...

Not that he regrets having lost her , lost her in time, lost her in space,lost her in translation... Lost because sometimes he made good choices,but mostly he made silly ones and later sat and wondered why.....

-vC

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New Religion

Dear human beings,

I am going to a start a new religion. The name shall be told to you in the very next post. The God is there as it always was, but u got a new messenger in me..

Dont laugh, I am serious...

Well I shall not preach wat others have been preaching- shits like love and all.
I cant help you in seeking happiness.. Happiness is just a lame concept.rather a creation of human mind..

U, human beings think that u r better than animals but trust me its not..>Go back to animal-ism..Stop thinking...Ok u humans dont know much about psychic of animals so I tell u- Be a machine...I hope u know wat a machine is..Don't think..be neutral to this world..emotionally, psychologically.

Its just the beginning so I wud end the formal announcement of the religion here..


But my last advise wud b - dont tell anybody abt this new religion because they wud not be able to understand it and mock at u..You can utter that a new religion is formed but no telling the details..

Thats it. Now u may proceed to your usual facebooking or tweeting. May the world survive beyond 2012.

-vC


“It was true that I didn’t have much ambition, but there ought to be a place for people without ambition, I mean a better place than the one usually reserved. How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?”
—Charles Bukowski, Factotum, Black Sparrow Press, 1975

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God loves us all.

OK So this is called pain.. Which asshole said "its beautiful". Its bloody crappy..

Friends leave you not because they stop being friends but because you become crappy enough to be bore by them...

Time becomes so slow, so fucking slow....

The boss asks you to resign and leave. You feel like quitting but then u stay to pay your debts and not hurt your family, you stay on...

So many people console you for good but nothing goes in...

You are the sad man...

All of them give you that shit of all jobs being cranky and me being new, feeling might be worse. Please know that a guy at my position committed suicide and only I can surely understand what must he have been driven to....

Tears fail to fall because even your lachrymal glands are also bored of it...

Probably u will end up hating this post of mine but this post is a tight slap to those big authors who wrote that "Pain is beautiful" bullshit...

God loves us all. Hahahahahahhahahahahahahaha.
-vC

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Marine Drive

1. Well job sucks!!! I agree that you know all of this but it sucks more when the people you work along with are major psychos..Being a psycho is not wrong but man u gotta be aware that you are one psycho..Here people confirm from each other.. "Why are you laughing, you think I am mad?"

2. Have you ever thought why was Forrest Gump running all along the length and breadth for no reason?? Things like that are happening to me..I walk from one end of the Marine Drive to the other end for no reason...I just feel like walking...These days I return to the local train all drenched in rain but I cant help but walk..

3.Almost all of the couples sitting by the Marine Drive indulge in PDA's(Public Display of Affection) but the rest of them indulge in palmistry...A guy named John would try to locate the letter J in his girl's hands and show her the very reason of them sitting by the sea because the palmistry says so... I am sure that the loser John wud have located the alphabet in several other hands too..

4.Many a times I feel like renouncing watever little I have and going underground, untraceable...I wud like to sit in a train and run to an unknown direction.. far from this crowded city and selfish souls....(Sorry for the word selfish being used here)

5.Though I dont believe in the very idea of friendship day but yeah I have been bestowed with most lovely bunch of friends.. Though I dont have plenty of them but they are scattered all around the globe making me feel how big this world is...I miss them all the time..
Lives do change(and change it must) and U cant just sit and u cant just plainly live the tough life ahead thru those memories..They come handy when U feel alone and bogged down....It feels great to read thru those "I will always remember .." moments but life has to advance...U got to reach a stage where people are curious what went into making of U..

HAPPY FRIENDSHIP DAY
-vC

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Three love stories

Three love stories
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Characters:
A: The guy
B: the girl
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A loves B but B loves someone else because that someone else approached before and expressed his love..so just because now B loves that someone else..for no fault of his, A suffers


A loves B but does not tell her, waiting for the right time. B thinks A is just a friend rather a best friend. Someone else comes and wooes B. Who suffers-A.

A was a spoilt brat who changed for the girl B(love changes all u see) but B checks thru the history and hates this guy's past and shuts the door.

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Anyways Mumbai is pinching me badly..Its suffocating me and I feel choked..
probably its not this place but when it comes to the dirty game of Heart vs Mind, I am the worst.


PS: I just felt like writing it and the stories have no resemblance to any real life characters.
PPS: I know its a sad, non-contextual post and that too after such a big pause.

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Mumbai opined

Its been 10 days in Mumbai and I donno how much damage has it done to my creative skills (assuming it existed).

Well this post wud b just my honest opinion on this city which probably deserves the share of the hype it gets..

Bombay is exhilarating, smelly, crowded and dirty yet it is beautiful, formidable, honest, peppy and extremely fair. Bombay never lets the lonely down. The loneliness is always ephemeral and then the crowd takes over. This city exists to take away as much it exists to give.

I donno if i m being too early to judge this city.

Anyways the places I have been here have been an amalgamation of hard rock, lust, sea, speed, crime, tequila and much more.

I rate lust above all because I went to a dance bar where I saw men lusting on the bar girls sipping that costly alcohol and showering the pretty girls with that black money of theirs with the background playing those cheap bollywood tracks.

Next was crime because the Mumbai Police made me visit three police stations(Lamington Road, Mumbai Central and finally Churchgate) to get an FIR done over a lost blackberry of my friend. I nearly fought with the police officer over the fact that FIR can be noted at any place irrespective of the jurisdiction. But I fought less harder for the fear of being put behind the bars. Finally they all refused and I had to get that noted in Churchgate station.Luckily we found the cellphone back(although police had no role in it).

Hard rock came from hard rock cafe , sea from the marine drive(adjacent to my office), speed from the Go-karting this saturday and finally the tequila which made me have the worst hang-over this Monday. And yeah i had to leave the hall in between for the first movie I saw in Mumbai was pathetic. I wont say the name of the movie because Mr. Aditya Chopra may hunt me down for de-publicising his movie.

Anyways life in Mumbai goes on..for i am reminded of this ghazal which says
"kyon darein zindagi mein kya hoga
kuch na hoga toh tazurba hoga"

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PS: keep looking for pics at http://photoblogofvc.blogspot.com/..Mumbai pics are on the way..it may arrive anytym soon.

PPS: I would like to thank Rachita Bansal for playing the Muse for this post

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Hahahahahahaaahahaha

I am gonna write one of my craziest post I ever wrote. Out of all of you who try reading this, few will be able to comprehend, few will not be able to while rest will pretend to have understood it.

Anyways this is about a dead body lying around Mumbai local tracks ,from whose pockets there was one cellphone recovered. There were no contacts in that cell ..only one sent message and one received message.

The received message was "its lyrics"
The sent message was " what do u prefer in a song- its music or its lyrics?"

The reason for his death was obviously some paranormal activity...


Regards,
Vikas Chandra

PS: In mumbai either u choose 2 b crazy or it makes u one.
PPS: If you read this, please comment.

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Testimonials!!

Well wen I left college, the last hue and cry raised was abt testimonials..a section where we praise each other lavishly..wat was meant to be a true testimony of the time spent together turns out to b a collection of false praises..

Today wen I was quite down with the heat and a bit of nostalgia, I went thru them and was quite happy...people have written with such an effort and wow they played with the words so nicely..u really feel good after that.

Well while few of those lies really lifted my morale but some of those ended tickling me to the fullest..

Now I mention some of the hilarious parts ....

1. Vikas and me are brothers from different mothers. He is a real dude. He........( praise kar raha hai yeah gaali de raha hai)

2. Dude, u are an iconoclastic guy. You can drink loads of beers and talk endlessly. I will ......(i cant see any relationship here-iconoclastic and load of beers)

3. Wen other VCs stood for Victoria Cross, Vice Chancellor, Venture Capitalist, this guy meant something different....(wow this VC was Vikas Chandra)

4. When I think of this guy, he reminds me of Forrest Gump...(Forrest Gump???)

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PS: Few of u guys who wrote it might end up reading this.So please don't have that double thought that u did a blunder by writing my testimonial on zamorin.

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In a bored state of mind

Pardon this post as its being written in a bored state of mind..

1. I took my cycle and crossed the river to come to a cyber cafe to write this post which i dunno will even be submitted or not.

2. Now I know the filmy side of me comes from my mom...wen i returned home after my MBA , my mom did an aarti (waali nautanki)...I asked "MOM WHY ALL THIS?".. my mom said " beta Jaya Bacchan did that to shahrukh in Kabhi-khushi-kabhi-gam after he returned home completing his MBA!!"

3. One of my frens found a girl on Orkut,saw her on a webcam, chatted to her for hours, talked to her on phone...later their kundalis matched and marriage fixed(I was invited too)..but the guy saw her first tym on the mandap(place of marriage) and then he whispered in my ears-" dude she is not the same webcam one" !!!!

4. One of the places where Indians are treated as heroes or superiors is Bhutan..I realized it wen I was in Thimpu's disco wen many girls wud come to our face( we were four of us) and start giggling and trying to initiate conversation..Finally one of us four was able to score!!Well me??
I am not interested!!!

5. Lastly wat is the full form of KKR?? They say KKR won...I am still not able to get wats that!!!
Shit before I cud get wat KKR was they say dada scored...now who is this dada??


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Sabbatical

'Swan Song'- He begs to differ. But yeah he agrees to the word 'sabbatical'. Sabbatical from the blogging world and he refuses to budge to all those sentimental and emotional run he had blogging on the link which meant contrary to wat he wrote.

He believes he is going to bombay. He will fall down the local train and people will trample all over him and hence he will end up writing even crazier blogs. He believes in a city where no one cares about anyone he will enjoy being in the 'womb of anonymity'.

The new life was there for him! With its multitude promises and scares in equal measures, he wondered what lied ahead.

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So I guess I'll remain the same.
Gud Luck.
I am done.

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He and her

He had few but intimate friends
She had many friends, many!
He was modest
But she she was her own favourite.
The two , guy and the girl reacted towards each other.

One day he was fed up of her and her so many friends.
she did not have tym for him but only the praises showered on her.

She also could not help
she was used to so many praises
by so many people around her.
She was happy to be in her owns pradise
however fools it may accommodate.

He got bored because he had nothing to do
She was all the same because for her life was the same
Nothing changed
She was the queen bee
but He was a loner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Who will save Balbir Pasha?

Balbir Pasha the protagonist of our story was a perfect loner. He claimed to be a victim of this system. A system where he was forced to do wat the crowd wanted him to. He cribbed about being a rat in the rat-race.

Now what our Balbir Pasha does all the times is spectate, criticise and regret.Now some of the quotes direct from Balbir Pasha are:
How much so ever Barney Stenson says, I hate to wear suits.
If you are not the master of your destiny or the captain of your own soul, try alcohol.Its better late than never.
Grass on other side is marijuana
Hope is the most fooling word u guys heard of
Now u chase the money, later money will chase you but never you and the money will be together.


Blabir Pasha is now going thru a grind..Obviously for wat he shud have been than wat he is..

***The reader is free to interpret this classic piece of writing to watever (s)he wishes.

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Angel

It had been just two days after I had lost to her in the quiz competition that we met again. I was in my favorite cafe reading the book "My name is Red".Not able to decipher wat writer(translator) wanted to convey, I looked up and I saw her with her two friends smiling. With the loss in my mind that smile seemed to be a smirk targetted on the vanquished- me.

I left the cafe paying my bills hiding glances at her. When out of the cafe, I felt a tug on my shoulder and the same girl was standing. I thought she was there to torment me but still asked her the reason for stalking me. She gave me my book(my name is red) which I had left in the cafe .And before I could thank her. She went away. There was note inside-"You were better(in the quiz) but I was lucky".

Today when I came to know about her from our common friend, she said the girl had died of a road accident.This post is dedicated to her.

Moral of the story: If u don't believe in angels, start believing!

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2010

1.My resume is a disaster. I have not done much in life except making it to IIMs.Trust me that even seems hollow here.It has left me in such huge debts.

2. I write and u read. Some of you say its kick ass stuff. Some of you get pissed off because u expect something here.haha

3. I am crazy and I am random. I do watever I wish .No ambitions.But many a times I feel I have no control over myself. I am driven by a force. Might be peer-pressure, social pressure.

4.The best compliment I ever got was that " This guy(me) will surely do something marvelous in his lyf" Quite an optimistic comment.

5. anyways I will stop cribbing. Happy new year . 2009 aggrevated my confusion and 2010 is expected to ease it a bit.

Take care.

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