Evergreen Fandom

Are you a fan of me??!! If yes then this one's about you, else this one's is typically about those very few fans of mine. By the time you finish reading this I hope you will also realize about the fandom you are having.

In the recent past I have been counting the number of people who will be in my fan-base when someone (You don't know who) recently told me that she is my first ever fan. Since then I have been thinking hardly to identify the people who have been my fans in the past 22 years and the situations that have made them be my fan. To be frank these people have also been fluctuating between the extremes of hating me and being my fan once in a while. It is those situations and those few people that we will further explore now.

The first situation that I can remember is the scene at a hospital 22 years ago when everyone was curious to find what baby the woman delivered. Then there was me, sent to the earth, I believe they sent me down because the people above can't bear me anymore (So now you know I am a theist). Obviously my parents were happy, but they were a bit disappointed too, as I heard it 18 years later that they were expecting me to be a girl. Then I realized that I gave the first shocker to my parents few moments after I was born. Since then my journey continues till date. The first fans of me are obviously my parents. Do you wonder how one can make his parents fluctuate from being a fan?!! Be my guest.

Being the youngest in the house must give you lot of privileges, to be lazy, to get more sweets/chocolates.. But I didn't get to enjoy many of those privileges. There is a homegrown villain to all the food supplies - Big Bro!!! :-o .. You only get the biscuits in the cream biscuits while your bro licks clean all the cream, you have to eat only the chocolate stuck to the wrapper, that is if at all I get the wrapper from him. Finally you get to be the one who always has to bowl first while playing cricket and has to go fetch the ball if it goes out of play..!! Needless to say that the biggest rivalry for anyone is the one with his bro in the home.

Leaving aside the food shortage I suffered from I also had to go the shop to purchase groceries because only then my bro will allow me to watch Cartoon network, else I have to end up seeing ESPN all day, obviously I didn't have enough manpower to get the remote from him. Sometimes I used to tag team with my mom and get the remote from him, but I would have to reap the consequences for that when my parents leave me with him while they have to attend any function. So I agree and go purchase the groceries. Every time I go to the shop and purchase groceries I used to take two to three chocolates or sweets that were kept in the front and I would add up that 2-3 Rs in the price of tomatoes or onions. Also the shop was at about 100 meters from my home, so I had to walk slowly or wait and eat them up fully without a trace in my mouth, so that my mother doesn't find out. Every dog has it's day (in this case judgement day) and so did I. One day I added the three rupees to the price of eggs, without knowing the fact that my mom had purchased a few eggs earlier that day. She was astounded by how the price of eggs fluctuated that much in within 6 hours..!!! And that astonishment was of course shown on my cheeks also..!!! However from that day I got to be the guy staying happily at home while my brother gets to go and purchase from the grocery shops.

 I got used to it and now when there are rare occasions that she asks me to go to the shops, I ask her for a bribe of 20-30 Rupees to purchase the biggest chocolate available at the shop and she gives it to me and also says that she is waiting to see how I react when a situation arises where I am being asked by my wife to purchase home supplies. ( I heard from my friends that this is easily one of the standard dialogues from any mother). Needless to say now, when it comes to purchasing department my mother is not a big fan of me.

Now having seen about the "she", it is now time to see about the "he"!! There is a saying about how the dad is every guys first hero..!!  I also reiterate that here for the record ( Just in case my father comes across this blog post ). The biggest horror day for any boy during the school days is the PT Meeting, where the people whom you have given the most miserable times meet and complain about you to the people who can give you the most miserable times. However I have always wondered how girls can look so happy when it comes to PT Meetings "Sigh". The most hardest times in school days is the time after 4.30 PM when  the classes get over and the PT meeting is at 5 but you still don't know whether your parents will be coming or not. At the end of the day the guy whose parents have missed the show is the happiest to leave the school. My school followed a strange principle of sending letters to the home whenever there was a PT meet scheduled and it was harder to escape. But being students we must find ways to evade any such hurdles in our paths. Mostly my dad comes home by 5.30 and my school gets over by 4.30, so if I reach the home before him I will be the one taking the posts from the post box as my mom doesn't usually check the post boxes. But all this had to be done right from the first PT meet, so that your parents don't know the point that the school sends letters to home regarding the PT meets else there are possibilities for suspicions.

This is what I do when I smell that the school has sent out letters to the home, I reach there faster than my dad before 5.30 and take the letter and keep it in my bag. Go to school next day and dispose it there. Else if I tear it and dispose it in my home there are possibilities that my parents can find out. I kept doing this for the first few months. Then as usual every dog has it's day, remember??!! having disposed the letter for PTM after the quarterly exams I came home happily on the day of PTM to no one. Right then I had a mild suspicion but I thought that the letter being the only source, it was improbable for them to have found out. Then one of my friends called me and said "Sorry machi!!" . I asked, for what he was apologizing. Then he narrated me the ultimate horror movie of my life. This is what has happened. My mom has met his mom in some friend's place of hers that morning and they got introduced to each other and found out that their sons were studying in the same class. Later my friend's mom has asked my mom " So when are you coming to the school today??!!" and the rest I leave it to your imagination. You can understand the reaction of your mom when she comes to know about your PTM from someone else's mother and not you. Also I heard from my other friends at school that both my parents were there. So I hope you know the fact that you are screwed when both your parents attend the PTM. And the feeling when your dad gets half a day leave from the office just to attend your PTM??!! Priceless. I don't need to say about my thought process the next 1 hour when I was eagerly!! awaiting their arrival..

Later that day a palm reader came to me and asked me to show my back, when I asked why he said my Dad was too busy to show the palm reader his palms and sent the guy to me!!! And that was the day I thanked god for saving me the embarrassment by not having someone called a foot reader on Earth, else he would have come and asked me to show my chest!!! When it comes to PT Meets or results day, my fan-base gets reduced by two..!!  

There is one biggest fan of me who doesn't care of what marks I score, what money I take from here she just never leaves my fan-base- My grand-mom. But still I remember times when I had got a few slaps on my back from her- One being the situation of pouring water into the retro-style green telephone to find whether it reaches the person at the other end. That day I realized that the job of a researcher is one that I must not take up.!! Then my fandom has a few kids from my relatives, who have grown up hearing good stories about me??!! and it increases occasionally when a few guys join the Gym...!!! Gym has been my place to gain fans. So I never miss hitting the gym.


That's mostly about all the fans I've had from my birth and I believe you'll be there one day too :). So whats your fandom count??!! Start counting.

-Until next time- Your blogger

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M-Mind's Zenith

Starting off with Zenith, meaning the highest point, as the choice of my maiden web post.

I always think that when I am writing something in my blog I am using my mind at it's highest point. But the case in reality is that, when I don't have any other work to do, I write.. in most cases my mind will be bored, but I have to drag my lazy brain and compel it to chuck out something so that I can write and make my fellow students read it..!! So pretty much it has always been on a low state while writing. When I mean low I don't mean shallow, but real low. If you want me to explain it in the words of Brad Pitt, "Well, there's my mind in good state, then there's my mind in bad mood , then there's 50 feet of cr*p and then there's my mind when writing blog posts."  What do you write when you are below 50 feet of cr*p??!! I leave that to you to imagine about my blog posts.

Thinking about these things that my brain does to me, I have always made it think really very hard to find out about even what I am going to write next. The probability that it turns out with a kick-ass topic is very very low. Now you might have come to a fair idea about my brain, in personification he looks like that one little ugly, not-confident, weird looking, aged guy with a really long beard??!!. There you are where I wanted, now I will explain to you when that ugly little old man turns out into a hot looking young guy that most AXE ads show to us with girls falling from heaven as if the odor of AXE crossed a 100 light years in a fraction of second overcoming all the "awesomatic" smells of food they have in heaven. In most instances I get bored with the old man all day, he never gives me an idea about anything. But when I try to go to bed, somehow this AXE guy gets activated , "I mean ONLY in the brain". He starts giving me all sorts of great ideas that Einstein seems to have missed while researching and my finance staffs seem to have forgotten while teaching. It's already 2 in the morning and I have this AXE guy Axing my brain, not allowing me to sleep. But whenever he comes, he comes with a disclaimer "The ideas I say to you are just to make you more brisk and prevent you from sleeping. If you try to get up and pen down any ideas I give, then you shall forget all the things that I said and will end up looking like a fool with a pen and paper at 2 AM" 

Right from the moment that I identified that this kind of an AXE guy exists in my brain, I have tried many a times to activate him and make the ugly old guy go away during class hours.With the desire that if as per the ads his odor can cross a 100 light years, the it can sure leak out from my brain and reach at least the girls in my next benches. After all they knew that I am stuck with an ugly old guy in my brain and there must be something as dramatic as the AXE effect to make them fall for me. With a Multiple personality Disordered (At-least a Dual Personality Disordered mind until now), I have always wondered if there's
anyway that I could activate which brain I would want at a particular time. I also thought that we could have a three person meeting with the old guy, AXE guy and then there's me about how I could give both of them equal time as Brains and make them sign a contract. But then I thought, what if they breached the contract??!! How would I punish them?? By putting a gun to my head and shooting the brain that disobeyed me??!! After all even after I am dead I couldn't be sure that I shot the guy that breached the contract, then i would roaming around as a unsatisfied soul in the campus haunting my friends.(That would be one kind of fun though).

Then I closed down this treaty idea and switched to power of the mind philosophy, where I would myself try harder and activate the other personality. But the harder I tried the more harder it became, I have often been flabbergasted by the way the ugly old guy fights, I always thought I could at-least win over the old man. After a long while of thinking, I found that I not only had two guys but a third one, that is the original me.!! Then I tried being the original me, it is when I found out that the chances where the same as that of  the person in Final Destination staying alive. Still I have tried a few methods like trying to fool them , but often I forget the fact that they are my brain guys and they know what I am thinking. I have also compalined  to GOD that he has given an undue advantage to those two guys over me.

The saddest part being that, they their other two friends Jim Carrey and Kristen Stewart once in a while. While they have a chat with Jim Carrey when I am at a funeral or at a salon, they bring Kristen Stewart in my exam halls and ask her to enact my answers and they also claim that it's the only means for me to find out the answers. later that day they also have a chat whether I couldn't answer the questions because of Kristen Stewart's acting skills or that I didn't prepare well for the exams..!!



So while I still struggle with these two guys in my mind, I hope you enjoyed reading a piece of my mind. Hope you had a real good look of what's going on in my mind.

-Until next time - Your Blogger

The PORT between two Ss' , Surrender and Success

SPORTS - It doesn't teach you to win or lose, but what it does is the courage to continue and complete the game even when you have lost the game for sure. 

- One of my most favorite quote about the word that itself inspires a trillion lives everyday, I dont know who said it or it may even be myself who framed it somewhere & somehow, yet it carries one the biggest learning everyone must have. sPORTs is the port I was referring to which helps us move from one S to the other. How often have we seen a team or a player comeback from almost losing to winning ??!! Even if the team loses it is the comeback that teaches us a life long lesson - Never Back Down. I am just going to give a few of the best quotes, the greatest have ever said about the word that has taught me my greatest lessons of life - Sport.

Be a sport dude!!! Thats the spirit of sportsmanship... He is a sport..!! Well these words are fairly easy to say, but to gain even one of these, then there is a need to have a lot of patience, passion to the sport, perseverance and determination. These words are easy to teach but to practice this is the toughest.

One man practicing sportsmantship is far better than 50 preaching it 

-Knute Rockne

That's the difficulty I am speaking about, there are a lot of things that are easy to teach but the better way to make someone learn is by showing how to do it. If you are a person who is a sportsman, when I mean sportsman I speak for the never give up, be passionate kid of guy, then you can take a minute everyday(even a little extra time) and praise yourself that you have taught at least a few people. 

Right from the moment as a kid when you start practicing a sport, you learn the lessons for a lifetime - The hardwork, the taste of success and numerous failures, the effect of continuous practice and above all team work. 

 The five S's of Sports training are Stamina, speed, strength, skill and spirit. But the greatest of them is the Spirit. - Ken Doherty

Winning- may be the word that many people have in mind when they start to play or watch a sport. But a true sports guy sees the spirit of the game rather than the result itself. As I say what comes easy is what that's not deserved.Well if you don't believe me then here's the words of the Football legend of Brazil for you:

The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning - Pele

Since I've come to football, there are a few more of it that I remember:

The team is larger than any player, but the sport is greater than any team itslef. - Unknown

That one's for the few people who think that the sport exists only because of a few players, who they believe to be greater than the sport itself. The recent happenings in the football world has already taught a good lesson for many people that Love,hardwork and passion for a sport can defeat the strength and skill. the greatest enemy for any team or a person is what that lies between their two ears. When you take success to the heart - You become a legend but when you take the success to your brains and nerves - You are a forgotten hero. Any victorious team or player when asked will definitely tell you that treating your opponent equally and understanding their potential will only lead to victory, while getting complacent and having a egoistic approach will lead to upsets. The other major lesson that sports teaches you is that - Every opponent is harder and tougher in his own ways.

Now it's been a fairly long post, and there is one great saying about Football that deserves a mention:

Playing football with your foot is one thing , but playing football with your heart is a completely different thing.

And that my friends is not only for football but for any sport, any situation of life - Its a word that must be inscribed in your hearts. take up anything and do it with your heart towards it, success or failure learn the lessons that the game teaches you..!! After all no one won their game always.!!

I's missed more than 9000 shots in my life. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and I've missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that's why I've succeeded.

 - Michael Jordan

Until next time - Your blogger :)