The Lunch Table

Panda, Danda, Sen, Nike, Prabhu

Danda:(Looking at Sen's plate)Man , you are not going to waste food today ?
Panda: Its already a waste when he is eating it .
Nike: (Makes a shit face)The food is again horrible.The oil in the curry looks like the oil fields in Iraq..
Sen: Yes, actually I am thinking how the galz will eat this food.
Prabhu:Dont behave like kids.Respect your food.
Panda:Man you saw mayawati's rally ? wat a waste of public money man..
Danda:Behenji ne sab ki ma behen kardi..sale 200 crore..abe apni company ka turnover bhi utna nahin hoga..
Prabhu:Guyz..I condemn the way Mayawati spent 200 crores mindlessly .It could have been used for a lot of good work.Schools , hospitals..These politicians..I am seriously worried about India's future ..and ..again.. #$%%^&$#$

Sen Interrupts ::

Sen: hey guyz, look ..a new chick that side..she looks good man..
All heads turn..
Panda: you mf, thats an aunty..For God's sake..spare the aunties man
Sen: is it..ok.I din't knw..these days you cant guess a female's age
Nike: (Makes a zombie face) Guyz you know I fixed all cisco reported bugs
Danda: Abe I am yet to start on them. Btw prabhuji is going to treat us in Taj.
Prabhu: (Suddenly stopped eating )And when was that decided ? When did i say so..
Panda: hey..leave it..Its decided now..prabhu will treat us in sheraton..I think he is ok with it
Prabhu:What the heck..You guyz are impossible
Sen:Hey there will be a lot of chicks there..yes yes..we want in sheraton..(Looks around for response)

Nobody responds..again all 5 eating quietly for next 5 mins..

(Suddenly)
Danda:hey sen..chhota ba*** ..its we who need galz..you already have 2 gfs in hitech city
Sen:If you guyz are talking abt S and R , then mind you..They are just frens..nothing else
Nike: yes..they don't deserve to be galz..they can only be frens
Panda: Sen ko sab chalta hai..bf ..gf..everything :)..(grins)
Prabhu: Stop these things..you guyz have anything else to discuss..
Danda: Hey there is one joke i just remembered..its a hilarious one..Once a guy was there..then..
Panda:(Trying to distract him)danda, what time is the faluknama express ?
Danda: main kya railway enquiry hun ? fuck man..i forgot the joke.. (Everyone laughs)

Panda: (After some deep thinking) I am thinking of leaving early today..
Danda: abe tu aya kab be ? sale 12 baje to aaya..aur jaldi bhi jana hai..office tere sasur ka hai kya..
Sen: I wish the MD had a girl of my age..He couldn't hav found a more suitable guy than me.
Nike: he got a new merc yesterday man..I heard its 51 L..extravagent life
(All 5 made big shit faces listening to this)
Panda: yes man..and we are still in Autos and buses..Prabhuji..buy a car man
Prabhu:No need..public transport is the best medium ..it saves fuel and creates less pollution
panda: ooh god..hey bhagwan..ya allah..jesus..OK agreed..

Silence for next 2 minutes..

Sen: Guyz..I think we guyz are getting old..and still none of has a valid gf till now..we are a shame to software community yaar
Panda: yes man..I also think the same..Danda promised to introduce us to some of his beautiful frens..but he never did..disgusting..really
Danda:(Makes the shittiest face) Do I look like a pimp to you ?
Nike: Accha prabhu..U never told us about NB ? She is ur gal right ?..(Hints at Panda to give cover fire )
Panda:yes man..even we want to know..u never speak about her..where is she..how is she..etc etc..
Prabhu: Get your facts right ..Guyz don't create imaginary figures and associate me with them..I am saying..I dont know any such girl..
Nike:Abe prabhu to sharma gaye be..panda you say..how must be NB looking like ?
Panda:(Closed his eyes..thinking deeply..)Taking my vast experience and prabhuji's taste in to account . I think she must be a true blue bong..with a pair of thick spects .communist supporter..jhola bag..and she must be doing MA in english from calcutta university
Sen:bong chicks man..awesome..all sens..ria ,raima,nandana..super hot..I am proud to be a sen..
Danda: you are a fake bong u mf..1971 ke war time me Bangladesh se migrate karke aa gaya tha ye..
Sen: and you proxy gulti..chiranjeevi ki aulaad..chapu chapu..sale..
Prabhu: Guyz stop talking regionalism here..we are all indians first ..and we shouldn't indulge ourselves in petty things like..

Panda interrupts..

Panda:I am feeling sleepy now..They should allow 2 hours sleep break after lunch..
Nike:How many hours a day you sleep man ?
Sen: Your wife will be very unhappy and unsatisfied..
Danda:Abe tu apni biwi ke bare me soch..btw chhotu..Dont worry..We will be all there to help you :) (440 volts demonic smile on his niga' face)
Prabhu:You guyz started again..No personal attacks please.. Guyz I think we are done with our lunch..we should get up now..
Sen: wait for me..i am yet to finish..
Panda: fuck off you ba*** ..nobody is going to wait for you..anyways you are going to throw half of your plate again as usual..you know in Ethiopia..they would have hanged u daily for wasting food..
Danda:usko bol ke kuch fayeda nahin hai..btw..its a friday..wat plans tonight guyz ?
Nike:(gives one of his rare smiles) Panda..romanov or smirnoff ?? Hey lets have antiquity today.
panda:yes man ..sure man..Prabhu..u game for the party ?
Prabhu: Why the hell you ask when you know that I will say NO..btw wat are we waiting for ? Sen's lunch is over..lets go..
all: Hmmm..

At the washers:
Sen: (In a low voice) Abe panda,,jo bhi bol..wo aunty maal hai be..
Panda: Even I think the same man..but who will risk talking about her in front of Prabhu ?..again Prabhu bani sunna padta..
sen: he he..true true..

And the lunch is over.

MOHAA - reborn

Cometh the War ..cometh the man and then cometh MOHAA.


Who can forget that lovely year 2005 when all the 5thBlockersUnited used to go crazy after this one word .It was like a war cry .Be it 2 am in the morning or be it just the previous day of end sem exams.Those were days of guns and snipers.Of grenades and bazookas.Of destroyed village ,stalingrad and remagen . Of allied and axis . The cult figures "killmeesh"(Saxena) , "chhamiya"(Anurag) ,"lord"(Chandan) ,"chikki"(Rahul) , "miyan"(Majid) ,"Arnold" (Dharni) , "Mcube" (Murthy) and "sun_zey" (Verma). The gang of MMPO .The battle between 2nd years and baap-log . The screams and the slangs :).

Times have been changed a lot since then.People are distant and busy. But the spirit is still the same . In a quest to re-ignite that passion for gaming we initiated the magic again .So ,welcome the new players "balatkari"(panda), "Maverick"(danda) , "chhotu_on_fire"(sen) ,"Typhoon" (Bhusan)and "Pralay Nath"(Neeraj) [:)]. Hope this small start will again give the same real-time gaming adrenalin we experienced long back.

After some 4 long years I had my hands again on MOHAA today .Played for 6 long hours . Recollected all those old wonderful flashback moments and felt really amazing.There has been many modern versions of the same game released aftr 2005 , but whenever any 5thBlocker will remember any war game he really got addicted to ,it will be the classic Allied Assault for sure. It was not the game , it was the madness and bond that this game created makes it so special .

So this is an open invitation to any of you guys who wants to join the forces on weekends in Hyderabad , just contact me and be ready with ur laptop.Lets recreate that magic,team up and start afresh for a kill.

Miss u all 5thBlockers,2005. Long live the Honor , Long live MOHAAAAA..

A pair of broken spects , Four half slept guys in office , A bedazzled sardar & A very frightened cat (MISRIP)

Now try to connect them :D !!! strange..it all happened last night only . MISRIP stands for "May its soul rest in peace "

Time: 4 AM in the morning.
I was sailing happily in my dreams with keira knightley. Nike must be dreaming about the vlan kernel module & danda ofcourse about a platter of pure south indian thali. ( About Sen , i am unsure. Even God doesn't know what runs in his mind). All were happy happy in their dreams.

Suddenly...i felt like keira was screaming..no..no..its a male voice..& keira disappeared . I could hear someone screaming in the other room. Was too lazy to open my eyes. The scream got louder and lo!!..finally when i opened my eyes with great difficulty , with my blurry vision i could see someone coming running towards me. Even i got frightened. Is this the ghost i saw in the last movie ? I don't even remember hanuman chalisa. GOD save me .and i got up in fear.

Trying to gain my conscious, i saw it was danda who was screaming at something and pushing sen out of bed. And the guy who came running was nike who is now standing on the sofa. I could see him jumping over it . It seemed like he din't knw wat was happening & was just afraid of danda's "cannibal holocaust" screams. And then i discovered my seconday vision ( my pair of spects which i left on the sofa before going to bed) has already been crushed nicely under his feet.

In side the other room , it seemed like danda calmed down slowly and sen's life was saved. We all rushed in to find out what has happened actually.

And to the greatest discovery ..it was all due to an unruly cat. It got inside through the open window and CATapulted a CATastrophe in our small house. While going back after stealing its food from the house , the stupid cat thought of having some fun with sen and danda & went inside the bed room. It went over the CATaphobic danda and jolted him . ( poor cat..little did it knew that it has to spend rest of its life in coma after it :P ) .

Add to that the sardar in the other room... God knows what was he doing the time it happened . But I could hear him saying the next morning "Abe tum log billi se dar gaye ???/ abe billi se dargaye.....abe sach me dargaye ??". I was too lazy to tell him to F@#$%&* that time.

So that was it..we four still in our sleeps and me half blind in addition to that , started for office as usual . Hope the entire cat community of the region has red marked our house after the shocking and horrific incident that one of their fellow brother witnessed. Amen ! :D

10 things I do / would love to do

1- Read a book with that tedious archaic language which I had kept off until I got the opportunity to avoid an even more disagreeable activity.

2-Wash clothes which I would have otherwise cast into that comfortable corner under the bed where it would remain unobtrusive except for the slight hint of odour which I consider acceptable .

3-Watch movies

4-Finish that last level in MOHAA that has been evading me for quite some time.

5-Cleaning my room of cobwebs and taking my time marveling at nature's powers of adaptation and how it enables so many living things to survive in my room.

6-Plan on how I will squeeze the most out of my remaining time, the task becoming tougher as each day passes by- the planning that is.

7-Downloading Umpteen episodes of "Mind Your Language", taking pains to resume broken downloads, starting over each time.( If I had that kind of patience with books I would be Dangerous!)

8-Learning song lyrics and listen to all those songs in my comp which I copied from LAN and to which I never ever listen to!

9-Plan my future and think about all the good things I am gonna do to make the world a better place, all the money I have coming, all the girls I am gonna meet, all the places I am gonna go to....

10-Write senseless posts on the blog

A series of unfortunate events

It was morning 7...Sunday 13th jan...and i realized 13th is always an unlucky number

" maaeri galaaN o kardi maaeri akhaaN naal laDadi
maaeri yaad vo yaad vo aaeri
bhul gayee meraa pyaar, maaein bas lage mahine chaar
maaeri yaad vo yaad vo aaeri"

was the background music going inside my head...me ,tiwari and ravi at Kazipet station..i came even with out brushing my teeth..trembling in cold and holding each a coffee cup we fellas were waiting fr the train to hyd.

the last 24 hrs i had no food , no sleep and a lot of "blah" in my life b4 it..was feeling very hungry..thought we cud make it to hyd by 10 and will have a good lunch and then ll go fr FMS entrance.

So the mishaps started..

The lady with the charming voice announced " the train is running 1 hr late"..we looked at each other..tiwari from the very beginning was insisting ki "by bus" would be a better option..but i told to go by train ...now still we thought we cud make it..

8.30...train arrived..and till 9 20 no problem...but at some odd place near some deserted field the train stopped and dint move..we got know coz of some derailment in the track it will take the train 2 3 hrs to leave from there..

It was just the first shock..we had to reach hyd anyhow by 1 .So the "amazing race " started.
3 guys ..no food , no water , enough money and the spirit ki " we will do it". walked fr a mile through a country road till we we saw the main road. took some arbit bus and went to the nearest bus stand "jangaon" by 10 15. Anxiety was on top..if we cud make it..we looked at each others face and smiled...

caught a bus to "uppal" from there .And by God's grace we cud reach there by 1 .hastily we headed fr the exam venue by an auto and rest 3 hrs went well.

So we thought its over now..went to "haveli" ..had our first food of the day..it was the first chunk of food that went in to my mouth in last 36 hrs..i was madly hungry and finished a big bowl of biriyani.

Now we called it a day and started to head back to our beloved college. the last super fast to kazipet was still there..we 3 young guys cud manage to secure at least space fr our feet to stand.
but rush began to grow more and more..some 400 odd public in a single compartment..we felt like suffocated .as number of ppl began to rise..we decided to get off the train and wait fr the next.
i was near the door..i alighted..and just then train started..
tiwari and ravi still inside and my all belongings with him ..if i were lost then i dint hav a single rupee to even call somebody ( as my cell balance was zero)..but tiwari and ravi were trying hard to get out of the train.train was taking pace and ppl were chocked in like hell..
and final the both gave a try and jumped from the running train..oohh god..the most terrifying moment i was watching..by all good luck they landed (crash landed ) on ground..and we again looked at each other and grinned..

This was not the end though..the next train we thought of catching had even more rush..so finally left the hope of returning by train..it was not our day..So went to MG bus stand ..got a bus to warangal and finally at midnight 12 arrived at the college..

hufffff...it was a day ..but an adventurous one...

and still the song rings

" ab kyaa karooN kaase kahooN, ey maaeri "...