Thought of the day

Men disgust me. At work. On the streets. AND in personal life.

They're selfish bastards, assholes, chauvinists, retards. God knows why they think the world of themselves when they were not even born with basic sense. Fuckin' burdens on woman-kind! Yes, they DISGUST ME!

Don't come in your defense in my comments space. I bite.

Did I forget to mention that half of them have emotional capacity the size of a peanut? Rest of them think they're superman and the corporate world will collapse without them. Bastards!

The DMRC Bubble

It's time for some DMRC bashing today. In the last five years, I have never heard anything negative about it. In fact, it's always been a lot of praise about their way of functioning. Now my opinion shall differ since I am seeing and experiencing things first hand. The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation is carrying out its construction work not more than 100 metres away from my home. Even though there have been quite a few inconveniences in the past year, I have been patient about them because they are all temporary. I need to walk ten extra minutes to reach the market that was literally two minutes away, I have to sleep on a bed that vibrates through the night (and nothing fun in this vibration, so hold that thought.), and in general, live with a lot of chaos and noise. But it's all fine. What is not fine is this - to carry out their work, they have blocked all drains leading out of this locality. In some parts, they still unblock them once a week/ten days, and let the system clean up. But on my side of the world, they don't believe in taking the trouble. It has been three months. Of course, first we thought that it is something wrong with the drains leading out of our house. So we contacted the concerned authority - CPWD in this case. Turned out that the drain for the entire lane is blocked. So it was now NDMC's work. NDMC is one government organisation that I LOVE. In the last 11 years, they have never given a reason to complain. And mind you, maintenance of houses that were built during the British times is not easy! So, people from NDMC visited the area every single day for about two weeks. Every day they tried their best to clean up the place. Finally they told us to directly get in touch with senior Metro officials. Well, the Metro people have to live by a certain image built over time, so they are polite every time you talk to them. But, they seem to be only talking. Officer 1, officer 2, officer 3 - they are all the same. When no. 3 was approached, no. 1 was sitting with him and recognised us as the ones who came with the same problem earlier too. Some guts I must say! To not do someone's work and still recognise them. Unique they are for sure.
My house has obviously become a shelter for mosquitoes. Air fresheners obviously do not work. Neither do requests. I hope, like a lot of my posts, this reaches the top of Google's results when someone comes looking for DMRC. And in case they come ego-surfing, I live near the under-construction INA station. Thank you very much! Bloody @#$%^&*!!

Disappointments

Even though I'm kinda judgmental, I like to believe that I am not very judgmental because it is something that I am consciously working upon. But there are times when one comes across things/issues/people where you don't want to be without an opinion. And a strong one at that.

I just saw a couple of pictures clicked by a gentleman who had recently visited Chandni Chowk for the first time. His profile suggests that he is very much Indian, so I want to assume that he knows that the country has certain areas that need to be worked upon - by educated people. The reason why I say this is that his pictures upset me. I do not see a reason why one may want to click bhook, gareebi, pain, garbage, people sleeping on the streets, if the motive is not to do anything about it. The people who are seeing those pictures can only be Indians or non-Indians. I don't believe there is any other category. The Indians must definitely have seen those things, and the non-Indians (a lot of them) must have believed those things about India ever since they first heard about the country. He seems to have a story that he is building with those shots, I would have been happier to see him attempting to de-build that story. And why on earth would you want to post those pictures on a thread where people are showcasing the best that they clicked in that place?!
I am not suggesting that we turn our faces away from the reality, or project ourselves as something that we are not, but won't you rather click the colour present in the lives of the people in this country than the colour you see in a faded coke disposable glass floating in garbage? That's not much to ask if you don't think you can help any of those people who don't have a home. If you're clicking a human, if not ANYthing else, at least you can make him/her happy by showing them the pictures that you're clicking. But could this man show a mother her half-naked crying child's photo and give her the feel-good factor?

I know I am nobody to pass comments, but I want to. And I do not even want to direct any traffic to those pictures.

And then there are those who are appreciating the work.

Ugh!

P.S. Sometimes one is warned that the pictures may be disturbing, but these did not even have any sense of emotion attached to them. Plain disappointing!

XLRI n all that jazz!

As most of you know, I am in my second consecutive season of writing MBA entrances. So there has been a series of out-of-the-way exam venues that I have been to in the last two years, but nothing could beat where XLRI sent me today. I live in south Delhi, and I have been to places like Nimri Colony, Ashok Vihar, Keshav Puram, Prasad Nagar and so forth without really complaining too much because I accept the fact that no institute takes into consideration where you live. But today XLRI beat everybody! They sent me to a school called Kamal Model Senior Secondary School in Mohun Garden. This place is anyway quite far from my place, but when I reached there, I could not even allow myself to compare it to a village. It was worse. I know Delhi is huge, and not all areas are as nice as the south, but that does not allow an institute like XLRI to save costs in this manner. Cars could barely manage to go in to the galis that led to the school. And I will really not blame any of the people who reached there half an hour after the commencement of the exam. It took the expertise of my father who's lived here for 40 years AND Google Maps for me to locate that school. And it didn't end there. I think the school has been designed for the ideal stampede, if there is any such thing that exists. Apparently there was only one staircase (OR I think they were saving more costs by not deploying another person at some other entrance to guide people) which would have hardly been one metre wide.
So whatever nice things I was saying about them yesterday because they SMSd, emailed, AND called me to inform me of the last minute change in the test centre (unlike what I heard Symbiosis did last year) got negated because of this beautiful experience I had.
And mine was not an isolated one. I really think they saved money by under-staffing all venues, because Army Public School (which was a fairly decent experience last year for the same exam) was in quite a pathetic state too. Apparently, there were hardly any directions given, and people were running all over the school looking for their seats. One might pass off my centre as a small under-equipped school, but APS is supposed to be a good public school, and there is no reason why such things should happen there.

XLRI is supposed to be one of the best B-Schools of our country, one really does not expect such sub-standard stuff from it!

@#$%^&!

I thought politicians love being politically correct! But the BMC commissioner doesn't even believe in doing that (apart from still struggling with flooding problems in Mumbai every year!). If the solution to a problem is killing, then why can't we just kill all these assholes that sit in the parliament and other such places. Why the fuck do we have to see their faces on TV every day. Solution to a nuisance is killing ALL the LAKHS of stray dogs in the city?! These men are such an illiterate pain in the ass that I feel like going and single-handedly killing all of them!

They want to compare themselves to Singapore and Shanghai! Why don't they take care of the water flooding first? Why don't they improve the condition of their locals first? Why don't they be NORMAL first??? Wow, and he had the balls to say that maybe people even eat dogs in Shanghai! Yeah man, way to go! We love your sense of humour! We love your sense of strategising! You are our God!