Speeding to 30 !!!!

It's 20th Jan today and my birthday is on 6th Feb.....Worst thing about it is count down of age 30 will start.....i feel like 18 was the best age to be in...you get you license, you can vote, people stop treating you like a kid, 30 would be the worst age to get in ....especially when you don't have a girl friend and you are unmarried. No one leaves a chance to irritate me asking you are nearing 30 and yet unmarried???.....right from friends, relatives, colleageus, managers. There's a inner person within me shouting "hello give me a break, stop irritating me, leave me alone". Now i know why salman khan gets so irritated when someone asks him about his marriage....haha...he is at a total different level and his marriage has become a national issue....My roomies with whom i stay at my mumbai home, most of them are north indians and in north india marriages happen by 25-26 max....so even they keep on asking boss when is your marriage?....Ok some of common answers i have given once this marriage question being asked to me are "Goa ke log aaram se shaadi karte hai", "I want to enjoy life for more 2 years"( i have friends asking me on this, Isn't that same thing what you said 2 years back???...hahaha), "find a decent girl for me to marry "(This one closes most of the mouth's :P .....Although some people just ask for the sake of asking what are your criterias of a decent girl), One more thing also saves me by diverting attention to someone else who is elder than me and not married :P...

Frankly speaking i was not so conscious about marriage, but with these growing pressure i have actually started looking out for a girl to whom i can get married to....created a ID on shaadi.com, asked a few friends to look out for a girl and let me know if they come across anyone decent. Mom dad also says sometimes we are searching a decent girl for you huh...i feel they try to make me feel secure and also let me know that they have not forgotten about my marriage and future....and i am like ok mom dad i know that but is it necessary to say it again and again....next time anyone asks me about my marriage i would like to see my face in mirror....hahaha...my elder bro also says start searching now itself don't delay more, you will get someone or other by a year's time....I also remember by bhabhi's dialogue "dude you have crossed the age where in u make gf's, at your age people are father of 1 or 2 kids :(" that was rude mumma...

One funny incident which i can remember is one girl asking me what's your age....and i say 29 running heading towards 30.....and next question she asks so aun't you married???.....and she said it in such a way as if i had committed a crime...and the girl does not stop here....next question she asks what's your salary.....i was like madam it's not a good thing to ask someone's salary...but the girl still insists and i told her a rough figure 7.5 and immediately she says "fek mat"....hahaha....i said i am senior engineer in IBM so i might be capable of earning that much...itna toh barosa kar...then finally she says toh fir problem kidhar hai??? shaadi kyun nahi hui teri???....thank god the girl stopped here or i thought her next questions would be "kuch problem toh nahi hai na tere main??? or hope you are not gay???.....lol

Having said all these things i feel choosing life partner is one of the toughest decision of life, i feel more tougher then choosing type of career you want to get in :D :D :D.....

1$t J@nu@ry 2013

1st day of year 2013, so you must be thinking what's so great about it, it would be just like any other new year's 1st day.....if you think so, you are wrong, this year's 1st day was special, angarika had come......and it was a tuesday too, which is a day dedicated to ganapati bappa....it was like cherry on a cake or "sone pe suhaga"..........:-)......my cousin had told me about this wonderful combo and moment I heard about it I decided to visit siddhi vinayak temple and take blessings of ganapati bappa......what could be a better way to start new year than this?......

What do you think i was the only person who thought all this?.....There were lakhs of people who had this mutual feeling and flocked together to take blessings of everyone's favorite diety.....we reached dadar and saw this long line extending km's away from the temple....moment i saw that long line I started estimating time it will take to get a glimpse of bappa....thought it should not take more than 4 hours.....but it actually took 9 hours to get darshan.....And guess what considering the length and breadth of the crowd the volunteers were behaving very rudely with people.....moment i touched my head to ganapati's singhasan volunteers caught hold of me and pulled me out.....

Had a big list in mind to ask for, but asked just one thing, something very special......sorry can't reveal what I asked for but promise I will let u know if I get it...........:-).....9 hours in line without eating anything and without sitting anywhere looks like this should be enough to impress bappa.....what say guys...............:-P......It's 20th Jan today and believe me got 2 good news by today, got 1 rating and declared as a top performer......secondly, my people manager changed......Hahahaha Bahut pareshan kia saale ne.......but still waiting for the only thing I asked for, without that everything else looks so incomplete.......... ....:-)..........Have faith in him will surely get it, by the way bappa has not disappointed me before this....:-).....

Regards,
Jayesh

GOA!!!!!!!!!

If it's Ganesh chaturthi, Diwali, X'mas, New year time you can see me packing my bags....roomies asking "where to bro"......and me replying where else, to to place i belong "GOA". God i miss GOA like anything....Is it really the place GOA or family and friends i miss more, dont really know. After staying in a place like Mumbai which is so damn crowded, whenever i reach GOA i feel i have reached Heaven...So less people, kind of empty roads, trees around, less noise, beaches, lovely food, fresh air, roaming with bike and lately by car....It just feels awesome.

Whoever said "If there is heaven anywhere on earth, it is in Kashmir"....i seriously doubt did that person ever come to GOA...:-P.....I miss speaking in Konkani so much....sometimes i do hear people talking in Konkani in Mumbai....feels so good..."amcho goykar mare" comes to my mind......

Whenever anyone here in Mumbai asks me from where are you?....I usually United States of Goa..moment they hear GOA...kind of reactions that i get....10 seconds silence...Wow! did i hear GOA?...Really u from GOA?...haha some people cannot believe why did he leave GOA and come in first place...Ok! one more common observation is they ask, Jayesh GOA main kuch khaneka, pineka, rehneka jugad ho jayega kya?....Secondly! can you bring some liquor while coming please...haha...

Hey found a cool full form for GOA....God's Own Area....Mythology says GOA was created by Lord Parshuram by throwing his weapon parshu into river and forced Sea to evacuate some area and free some land which became GOA...

Hoping for the IT Park to come in GOA, then no second thoughts....will go back....:).......

Mr god do u really exist???

Hi Everyone,


"Mr god do u really exist".....This was gtalk status sometime back in December 2011.....i set this status and all my chat friends, regular once, non regular once, people who never spoke for ages poured in asking what went wrong boss???.....

Good things happen, bad things happen, but things get worsened sometimes....I am a person who thanks god for anything good happening in my life, looking up to the sky for a moment, right hand on my heart and a "thanks bappa" coming out from my mouth...thats my way of thanking Bappa......When i thank him for good things happening in my life how could he skip the bad ones???......

I usually say its Ok, when bad things happen to me, things cannot be good all the times....but when some worse things happen in my life, and i seriously feel i did not deserve it.....thats the time i ask why did you do this bappa....

To be frank God has been kind to me....Nothing worse has happened to me yet....But the time i doubted god's existense was when cousin's dad got a serious brain Hemorrhage....he is just a kid, his mom got arthritis and lost power of her legs since he was born....all his life he has been alone, no siblings....and then this unfair incident happened to his dad....it was not even possible for us to be there always as they stay in a different state all together....

When i got this news i felt God does not exists....and even if he exists how can he be so unfair to this poor guy...
his dad was in hospital for 3-4 days, i would not lie if i say i dint want him to survive anymore as doctors had said he had lost all his senses...he will not be able to move his body anymore....i thought for a moment how would this poor kid manage all this with his dad and mom both lying on bed helpless...what about his studies, hundreds of such questions ran through my mind....finally, he died and all responsibilities of his mom, his career, and many more things fell on this kids tender shoulders....

Having said all these things.....somewhere in the corner of my heart i still feel god exists....whenever i see a pic or a statue of Lord Ganesha, my hands automatically fold in respect.....and words fall out "Love u bappa...Krupadrushti asu tuzhi mazher"......


Regards,
Jayesh

Mumbai - Land of dreams

20th October 2010, it was Wednesday, early in the morning my bus reached the land of dreams, it was drizzling slightly....like millions of individuals who come to fulfill their dreams, one more to add to the count was me ....My elder bro accompanied me to Mumbai as he was well aware of Mumbai....full night i dint get proper sleep, was it the thought that "now what and how Jayesh?" or was it the moving bus because of which i dint get sleep i don't know.....One thought would give me a li'l relief was my MAUSHI and cousins stay in Mumbai.....

It was a tough decision for me to leave place like Goa, and more importantly my family, to be more specific my mom, god she was in all tears....for a moment i felt i can't be leaving her and going....but the selfish career guy inside me forced me to take that step....

This was the 1st time i went away from my family, when i came to Mumbai i only knew to prepare 2 things tea and Maggie....:-P....now u will think by now i must learned to cook everything.....i m still stuck with that tea and Maggie....lolz.....only difference is now you i can do it a li'l better.....:-p.....

Moment i reached Mumbai, crowd, dirtiness, noise, beggars....for a moment i thought what have i done???....where have i reached???....Today I have completed 1 and a half year here and believe me i have seen all kinds of people here , black, white, brown, rich, super rich, bad, ugly, all caste, all religion, people from all parts of India....."Yeh hai Mumbai meri jaan"....home of all kinds of people....lot of beggars here....i would give change in my pocket to beggars i see, my change would get over but not the beggars....

You must be thinking why did i choose Mumbai???.....actually Mumbai chose me....i got a job in Mumbai that's the reason i am here.....and how i got this job is yet another funny story.....Seeing the overloaded trains and buses i decided to stay nearby my work location....walking to office was 10 - 15 minutes but that too was tough for me.....don't be shocked, as soon i took up my 1st job i dint go anywhere without my bike.....i could hardly walk when i was new here....but today i do walk, actually i have to travel now, client changed i go all the way to Malad by bus from Andheri....1 hour distance one way......

Mumbai has given me a great boost to my career, got a few friends, met different and interesting people here, but today's date i don't think of staying in Mumbai anymore....Nah! Mumbai ain't bad....everything is affordable here and available readily except home sweet home....today one cannot even think of buying a 1 RK in a good area....I would have written this blog long back actually the day i stepped in Mumbai but i started blogging this year itself...thts the reason for delay.....

Keep rocking n blogging people!!!


Regards,
Jayesh

What boosts me up???

Today when i look back at my life and try to figure out what are the things that encouraged, boosted me, helped me to acheive something.....answers were strange.....most of people get encouraged by parents, teachers, then beating by parents or bribing like if u score so much marks i'll buy you a cycle.....during my time, cycle sounded so good but i dont think 2days kids would settle for less than a bike....haha

Well getting back to things that power me up are pressure, embarassment, pride, someone taking me granted and saying you can't do this.....when saying all these things i mean some sensible stuff only.....not something like someone saying i cant run faster than bus or car i will accept it, am not superman or rajnikanth....:-).....

To support above factors i would narrate a few incidents in my life, as a kid i was not interested in studies, only thing i would think about studies is, studies are important and i have to just pass through and get to next standard....parents saying, that one's son got distinction, he came 1st, why can't you??? nothing mattered to me at all....listen from one ear n leave from other stuff i used to do....To narrate about pressure i felt it when me and my friend sam(name changed) went to visit darshan(name changed) during 12th preliminary exams....both started discussing about papers....i couldn't understand so much of stuff what they were talking about, to my suprise i dint even hear about most of things.....darshan's mom noticed my face going blank and she consoled me you will make it son dont worry, while sam and darshan laughing seeing at my face....that was the time i felt the pressure and studied hard and was able to achieve passing marks in prelims exams, failing in one....Chemistry paper i scored 39 and 40 was passing marks....i found a place where i could earn that one mark....once my Chemistry teacher gave me that one mark she said "people like you can't do better than this"......Now to prove myself i studied very hard for those 20-30 days gap between preliminary and board exams and scored PCM of 77%.....I managed to get admission in 2nd best engineering college in Goa, now you will say wow! 2nd best....nothing great in that 2nd best, there are just 3 degree colleges in Goa...:-P....I met that same Chemistry teacher on one of my juniors football tournament....Smilingly, she asked so what are you doing now???.....Moment i said engineering in PCC,she was like what???....hahaha her expressions were priceless.....

Speaking about embarassment, during my school days teachers forced me to participate in a seminar after which there was a debate infront of almost whole school.....just imagine what would happen to a student who would hide his face even when teacher asked any question in a class and teacher trying to find a student to ans it, when he was forced to enter a debate that too infront of whole school.....that scared the hell out of me.....before that i had faced stage just once when i was in 1st standard, i had to go on stage and say "I am Mr. Nobody"....seeing such a big crowd i forgot that also....haha....after around 20 seconds i remembered that sentence....i was like thank god.....Ok now coming back to debate after seminar i was assigned a topic "education should be compulsory".....i wrote a speech on my own, rehearsed it well but seminar person dint find its contents good enough....so now when 2 hrs were left for seminar to start he changed my speech and i had to memorise it......it was a disaster......when seminar started, seeing the crowd i was half scared and my throat got all dried up, no water was there on stage....moment my turn came i couldn't speak well, voice started kind of cracking....it was like an old cassette being played....haha....i was a stock of laughter for entire school......You ask me about my mot embarassing moment....here it is.....But that did not give me stage fear like it would do to most, instead it boosted up my confidence levels so much that i could talk infront of crowds in future....what i would think of was how much more bad can happen to me than that stage incident....

Finally let me brief you guys about pride.....Slow cycling event happened to be most popular event during my higher secondary school days, i could slow cycle very well, infact i could balance my cycle at one place for lot of time.....i won my 11th standard competition with ease.....my friends had lot of expectations from me for slow cycling event in 12th also....but by 12th lot of my peers practised slow cycling and could balance cycle just the way i could.....there were 2 practice sessions in which i came 2nd and 3rd.....when my friends asked me wht the hell i was doing....i lied saying that i allowed them to win practice sessions....:-P......day before finals i practised the hell out of me, i could not even sleep properly night before that since my pride was on the line....boss then results were satisfying, i won it again.....what a relief it was!......

Regards,
Jayesh :-)

Happy Birthday

6th February 1984, yes i know nothing great happened this day, its my date of birth......my mom was telling me when i was born i was a little weak, with less weight then normal baby......Moment my dad saw me, he said "he is not born properly, not healthy".....my granny heard that and she started scolding him for saying that...."dont say anything to him"......When my mom told me about this incident i could not control my laughter.......

Yesterday was my b'day, it feels so good on the day of birthday......u get so much of importance.....so much of love......all my near and dear one's called me.......except few who claim to be my best friends and just forgot to wish me......Should i feel bad about it???......When i asked this question to myself and i was expecting some cool answer from myself......haha strange thought but it is true........cool dude inside me said "Grow up Jayesh, u r not a kid to keep such things in mind"........But to be frank bura toh lagta hain boss.....zyada bura isliye bhi lagta kyunki when even your banks n shopping mall's like shopper's stop can send you these automated sms and emails wishing you happy b'day how can close ones forget.......hahaha

There have been lot of special birthday's.....cousins and close frnds waiting for 12:00 on clock and then sms and calls start raining in.....call busy and call waiting stuff.....It's like who will wish me 1st.....even i feel the same when its b'day of my close one's, i wake them up if they are not awake.....boss i want to be 1st one to wish.......:-)........

When i say special b'days how can i forget the most disastrous one.......no one in my family remembered it was my b'day and even i din't bother to remind anyone.....i was feeling so unimportant :-( ......until it was 6 pm in the evening and my mom suddenly remembered that its my b'day.......and she came running, sorry sorry how could i forget she said.......fir celebrate ho gaya b'day......haha

You people must have googled sometime or other for any celebrity born on same day as ur's???......If not i am sure you will do it after reading my blog.....haha. By the way i share my birth date with great Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician "BOB MARLEY"....Yeah yeah i know i took singer songwriter and musician thing from wikipedia.....

Neways thanks for reading my post.....Let me know if you liked it.....


Regards,
Jayesh