Post Recession Post and Viva Al Vida

Caution: This post might not be easily understood to those who are new to this blog. And even the text might not be flowing in correct direction.

Usually it goes like this,

You will read this slog post when I will be gone. Gone far away. Will you miss me? I hope you will. Goodbye.

But here it will go like this,

Finally… the call has come back to where it belonged! Boys and babes, I am finally leaving Jaipur to work as an Engineer. This blog has been a witness to my journey as an Engineering student, started with placements and it’s the placements again which will end it. This blog’s first post was about an Article in TOI about growing percentages of women in IT companies. I wrote what I saw. I don’t have any hatred against any womenfolk. I had slight dissatisfaction against the way campus placements work. This blog also had few posts about sports mainly Cricket. The name is Slog, Y2A Slog. It had some sad and some funny posts. Some CCPs (cut copy paste) posts as some great ‘woman’ has said, “Life hai waste, without Cut Copy Paste”. And lastly some expert comments which were as important as the economic condition of the Garland maker who makes Garlands of currency notes.

Although this blog was started to get money. :D but I am yet to receive any Adsense money. Hehe, no issues, I am going to buy Google one day anyways. Through this blog I have made friends. Serious friends. I might have made some enemies as well. Who can bear the unjustified nonsense for 3 years?

Importantly, it has some posts which dealt with The Recession era. It has finally ended for me. You might not realize but Recession is still going on for a lot of people like me who got placements in 2007-2008. I finally came out of it. Hehe, funnily, even I have bribed the God to do it for me. You might believe in Fate, janam kundalis, kismat and all, when they matter they matter. When they don’t they don’t.. I don’t have any experience or right to become a Guru and give lectures and gyan but if things are not going your way, it simply means that either you are in the wrong lane or you FAIL to get things on the right track. And you don’t even know it. For an over-confidence, arrogant and egoistic idiot like me, I believed that no matter how low you may be, if you keep your confidence in yourself, you will come out of all your lows and fuck de chatte! But in actuality, confidence is the thing you start losing the day you start failing. I was supposed to be the Bright kid in school and college. Fact is I am the last one from my college’s class to actually start working the way I should have. I know how it feels when the people who sit with you, in front of you, behind you,  for those damn 4 years, start disappearing, start earning, and changing their lives. It makes you feel jealous. It makes you feel illiterate,  small and untouchable. Failure, (and even without failing wala failure) is very hard to digest. People commit suicide bhayee just because of the fear of answering thousand mouths! I has started working in a small company after 1 month of college. People were yawning at that time. But their yawns changed into emplo-yawn-ment into better companies and I stayed at the place I was. Hehe, once my job was even termed as ‘Chai-paani’ job by some relative.

So folks, now I am going to leave my city to work in a decent company. I don’t know what the future holds for me. My confidence levels are still at 35% and 33% is the breaking point. They used to be 125% when the college had ended. I will work now. Work as hard as I can. I was never in a bad financial condition, touchwood, ever but I will be able to do a lot for the people I love, for my family and friends and for those who have stood by me in these tough times.

I want to thank (and sorry if I dumped you) all the readers of this blog. Even to those Japanese ones. Thanks to the bloggers whose blog I have read these past years. Fuuny ones, dark ones, and more importantly the real ones. I have gained a lot from you people. Not going to name you individually because you know what you mean for me. And yeah, since this blog contains a lot of things which I will not want to share with this world, I am no longer writing here. Arey, don’t be senti baby, I am not stopping blogging but I will be back soon, whenever I get ample time, with a new name, with a new blog and those who actually follow this blog will get to know about it soon. My non working brain has still got a few incomplete posts which I am going to share it somewhere else.

So friends, time for me to go now. I have to work bhayee! :)
Oh my eyes are getting moist. I should run.

Bye. Love you a lot. Give my regards to your parents. :p

P.S.: I might be back here as well. Who knows! LOL (but chances are pretty less.)

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India’s National Game

So as you all know Indian Hockey Team is almost out of the World Cup 2010. And you should also know, Cricket hasn’t beaten Indian Hockey Team. They got beaten by Australia and Spain. Oh, but you still think that it’s cricket because of which Indian Hockey is suffering this fate. Sorry ladies, this isn’t the truth. Let me explain you how through this post.

It’s often said that all other sports in India other Cricket don’t get the attention they deserve. It’s only Cricket which gets away with all the money, has dedicated TV Channels running Cricket all day, moreover, this blog is Y2A Slog and not some Y2A Penalty Corner or Y2A Yellow Card (Yellow card sound so lame!). Let me tell you something. Cricket, whatever today is, has earned the right. Hockey might be an official sport of India but seriously nobody cares about it being a National Sport. Only 1411 left. Even Tiger is the National Animal of India but how many actually care this other than following the Aircel Sponsored Propaganda on Facebook or Twitter. You won’t donate money to any strengthen government in curbing poaching. Hockey today is in serious trouble because of 2 things and two things only.

Firstly, Hockey needs some good infrastructure. We Indians kept on playing with wooden sticks in barren fields while the whole world was playing with super solid lightweight graphite sticks on Astroturf. 22 players need hockey sticks to play Hockey. On the other hand, for cricket, you just need 1 Bat and 1 Ball and no space at all, to be frank. Some smart reader might comment saying Football needs just 1 Ball and it can be played in confined spaces. Sir, you are right but Football never grew in India. Except the Durand Cup, which happens to be one of the earliest Organized Club Tournament in the world, it never kicked off in India. Even EPL started in last few decades of 1900. Indian players preferred or may be they lacked economic resources, they wanted to play and run barefooted.

Secondly, the last time India won anything worth in Hockey was in 1998. It was Asian Cup. Top teams in Hockey are not Asian anymore. Before that we had won 1980’s Olympic Gold Medal. We did played good hockey in those years but these 4-5 years marked the way on which our sporting generations would move forward. We won Cricket World Cup in 1983 which means Hockey and Cricket were on level grounds in 1980s. So? So it is just the survival of the fittest.

Even if Cricket was slow, took 5 days to complete, had boring white clothes and stopped during rains, Cricket did beat Hockey during the time it mattered. I am sure that at that time, the players playing Hockey and the players playing Cricket were equally poor but the fact is Cricket touched the hearts of every Indian. Struck the right cord. As Harsha Bhogle (watch the Video below)  puts it, Cricket was apt for the pace of Indian lives.

Kathak Maestro Birju Maharaj pointed out that Cricket players get huge amounts of money so they don’t actually deserve any Bharat Ratna when he was asked whether Sachin Tendulkar be awarded the highest Indian Award. BS. Would this generation of ours prefer watching Sachin Tendulkar in full flow or by watching a man dancing in feminine style?

Cricket has earned all its right to be the number one sport in India. We kept winning at right intervals and we kept losing at the right intervals. Even a dead rat on the road has an opinion about Dhoni’s wicket keeping compared to his batting skills. Cricket is the National Sport in India and rather than criticizing Government about paying less attention to other minnow sports, we should understand that just by making a women’s hockey team winning in a movie, our fortunes in Hockey will not change. Hockey main chakke nahi hote honge but Cricket main bhi Chakke maare jaate hain. Don’t know if it fits here.

IPL is going to start soon. Let’s see how many of us who crib that Hockey deserves to be our National Game will miss IPL. Evolution it is. You should understand!

 

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Sachin a.k.a. God : Revealed/Thanked

So did you see the innings or not? Shamefully, I switched on my TV when Sachin Tendulkar was on 199. At least I got to see the history being made. Now I can tell my grandkids that I saw the magic moment. Actually, I was watching ‘Ishqiya’ whole afternoon. Well, Ishqiya is not a bad movie. Nice performances. Hehe… sorry before you write me off as an insult to the nation, this post is about 2 things. Speed and Sachin. If you are an Indian and don’t watch or follow cricket, I really can’t comment on you. Go read Grahshobha or watch Splitsvilla. If you care about Cricket and sanity, stay.

First talk about Sachin. Awesome, Brilliant, Genius, Great, etc. I feel so minute to comment on him. No adjective can match the sheer talent the guy has. Now how he does it. How the best players do it? How does Roger Federer hit a shot no player can confront? Why was Pele a great footballer? What makes these greats great? No, it’s not drugs, its speed. Speed of looking at things. We shall explain this by using the example of the man of the moment, Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar and yours truly. Incomparable but still.

Some people in the world believe I speak fast. Few have complained that I walk fast. I write fast. (Psst, I just run at a normal speed). Am I an alien? Threat to humanity? My brother is slow. Writes slowly. Walks slowly. Nature balances everything. Should he be dropped into a well? Should he be fitted with rocket boosters? No. Even Einstein has said, everything is relative. I agree. My hypothesis is this:

Sachin is best because he can grasp the movement, the speed, the direction of the ball right when Bowler is about to let the ball go out of his hand. Quick eye movement. Brilliant comprehending skills. He adjusts himself within nanoseconds to play almost any shot possible for that very ball. You name it, ball hasn’t been delivered yet, it is still in bowler’s hand but Sachin has devised 5-10 different ways to place that ball in the gap. He knows hitting the square cut left to Gibbs is more effective than hitting it to its right, Gibbs being a right hander. The one who is best or great can see it coming. Not foretelling but prediction based upon the view. Making decisions at the right time. Losers don’t lose. They just think slower. Sachin does it. Just awesome brilliance. What else? But. Yes. But, is he God?

Well, I hate to believe that no he is not. I say sorry before I say that if India had been batting second and chasing 400 odd, had Sachin made 200? Firstly, you should be clear that I never mean to say that his integrity or intention is wrong. No way. I just mean that it has happened in the past that while India is inching closer to a near impossible victory, Sachin takes us at the end but gets out just before winning. Now you would say that it’s not always his responsibility to see us through, what are the rest 10 doing? But, for me he is so that I get disgustingly furious when he gets out and India loses the match eventually. I can remember 2-3 instances that he stayed till the end but mostly, he got out before we won. And actually we lost all those matches. We all know he carries the expectation of 1 billion lives. He has spent more years of his life playing cricket than doing anything else. He started International Cricket at 16. He is 36 now. But why does he get out before seeing us through? When he can think of 20 ways to hit a ball over the fence, how can he get out? How can he get out ever? I just need someone to explain to me that why Sachin fails sometimes? I am not a cricket fanatic or may be I am. I just cannot digest him getting out ever. Why can’t he play every time like this?

Yes, I would believe if you say God makes mistake. Only then I would believe he is God.

P.S.: I also think colors are different for everyone. Some hate brown but some love it. We’ll talk about it later.

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Marathon Post

On 24th January 2010, Jaipur had its first ever Marathon. Half Marathon i.e. with a Dream run of 6 km for rookies like me. I completed it. Almost. Salman Khan was there so 90% of the junta had come to see him and not me. I ran for my city but couldn’t complete because the ending.

My first ever web comic. Lets see how you play it.

If you are not down with the text and the images, I’ve got 2 words for you.

Download it!

Download the separate pics from here.

1. http://imgur.com/f4cZc.jpg

2. http://imgur.com/uNEpb.jpg

3. http://imgur.com/SHkSw.jpg

4. http://imgur.com/Fmu8z.jpg

5. http://imgur.com/0Avji.jpg

Inspired from: http://www.flyyoufools.com

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Killing Y2A

In the darkest hour of the night…
Right is the moment to end the decade long fight,

It is the time when even the newlyweds go to sleep…
This act surely, will not leave the world in a weep,

Go to your kitchen but don’t turn on the lights…
When blinds get to know the right places; they never need the very sights,

You should just know what you are looking for…
Pick up the sharpest knife as it now demands a little more,

Get hold of a revolver as it helps you to quickly get the job done over…
1 bullet is enough but take few more incase the end becomes slower,

Grab some tablets, drugs and bottles of acids basically…
Just make sure the tablets have crossed their expiry dates medically,

Rehearse a little; it is not going to be a piece of cake…
Life is not a romantic movie; there are risks that one needs to take,

Go back to your room now; switch on your computer…
Don’t sweat, don’t panic, this will not shoot up the hooter,

Turn on the Internet now, oh, obviously you have already done it…
Keep aside the stuff as later it might become your safety/hangover kit,

Open up your browser, avoid Internet Explorer’s nonsense plethora…
Murder needs fire or a fox, or a metal but act like hunter prowling in an Opera,

Don’t make random clicking noises; you later might need to save your say…
You whispered it right; it is time to kill Y.2.A,

It’s been a decade, I am dead bored of this wannabe unjustified Y2A nonsense…
It is crappy and bogus now; you know it, no need to look at it with high power lens,

Don’t worry much; your favorite lad will not be dead…
It’s just a much needed name makeover, better be happy than act sad,

I am killing the screen name Y2A; it will now not be used…
But by keeping the URLs same, I will keep getting it abused,

Pick a dustbin now, dump the deadly crap, and take a sigh of relief…
What is the fun in writing poetry which doesn’t shake your belief?

It’s the end of the weirdly created unjustified fear…
Chill, I wrote this way only as it’s the first post of the Happy New Year,

May the time ahead be the most happy and you get best entertainment…
This is life changing year for me as well; also I’ll be 1/4th of a cent,

Have fun dear friends, but do not forget the crux that is main…
Y2A is dead now, it’s back to be AB again,

Slam the screen name, now be a man…
Break some rules this year, this is two thousand and ten,

Like it or hate it, the slogs will not be banned…
Life can be stagnated, it cannot be canned,

Those who reached the end directly, boos and shame on them…
Go back to the line you flew from, every excuse here will look lame!

P.S.: Y2A Slog is alternatively available as http://slog.abhinavbhatt.com

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