IPL - The Saga Continues...

IPL...Indian Premier League
Indian brand in the world of cricket.
50 years back no one had imagined that the India would rule the business of cricket.
Richest cricket board is making the world dance on its feet.


In India, Cricket sells better than anything else.
1st edition of IPL was a hit and people were desperately waiting for the 2nd edition. But this time IPL faces a date clash with one of the biggest event of the country in terms of size as well as money involved...Elections 2009.
Government said no to IPL & Mr. Modi (Chairman, IPL) moved the event out of India.
So finally an Indian league is happening outside India...strange!!! ... paisa bolta hai :)
IPL started in South Africa and it started with a bang!


If we look at the response, the excitement is there but the spark is missing....but at least something is there to smile :)
IPL is full of glamour both from the Bollywood as well as business.


I think now it is more of a battle of ego's rather than a cricket match. People turns up to watch their local team win with more interest than for the national team and that's what adds spice to the game and make it more interesting.
Every team owner wants his team to win in order to recover the cost they had incurred. Bangalore team owner Mr. Mallya spent $1.55 Million for auctioning of Peterson and is hopeful to recover his cost from team's performance. Last year Dhoni was the most expensive player of IPL but this time a non Indian player has taken that place too.
The players get paid for absolutely everything. Hitting a six or four, man of the match or just by appearing on the screen once. We've seen player auction in football but not in cricket, IPL made it happen in cricket too. I believe from next time it would be ... 'better you perform bigger price tag you get'. Hope this would help junior level players who got the chance to show up their talent. BCCI and specially Mr. Lalit Modi will find more ways to make this event bigger and better every year.
Hopefully we will see the 3rd edition in India with the same excitement and with the magic 'spark'.

SRK vs Aamir

I've always wanted to write something about Shahrukh Khan as I like him as an actor and as a person. Incidentally everyone is talking about SRK and Aamir these days and comparing them on different scales so I thought this is a good time to write about them specially Shahrukh which I wanted to for a long time. This is my perception about Shahrukh Khan as a big admirer of his work.

Recently I watched two big movies which released in December 2008. First I watched SRK's Rab ne Bana di Jodi (obviously u must be thinking ki jo movie pehle release hogi wahi dekhenge na...) and then I watched Aamir Khan's Ghajini. These two stars are amongst few in bollywood which attracts lot of people. Aamir is hard worker who puts his 100 percent in his every film. But I believe the two stars are totally different from each other. This I am saying because I have watched them and read about them. I always liked Aamir Khan and Shahrukh Khan as actors but after reading and seeing so many things... as a person he (Aamir) is far below than Shahrukh and even lot of people.

I remember I was watching the Documentary of Shahrukh (The inner world of Shahrukh Khan)in which he said that he still remember the first time someone looked at him in Delhi and said 'hey...he is Shahrukh who comes in Fauji(Fauji was the TV serial from which Shahrukh started his career as a Actor). After the release of Ghajini Aamir Khan in an interview said that for publicity of the film we made people of a multiplex to have their haircut like What Aamir has in the film. (Aamir ne to Ganja karwa diya becharo ko....woh bhi kya karte paise jo mile ...) No Doubt Shahrukh is the most successful actor in bollywood and Aamir Khan is the most Talented one. Shahrukh won so many awards in past years in the leading category and even Aamit too have won...woh baat aur hai ko woh aata nahi hai lene ke liye...I heard that he thinks that awards are just fake and manipulated...I always think ki if its fake then baki janta kyon ati hai bhai (then why everyone else from bollywood comes to those awards …brother). Aamir always says on TV that He always make sure before the start of every film he himself decides who is going to be the heroine, music composer etc etc... After the release oj Rab ne Bana di Jodi...Shahrukh and Anushka Sharma(Actress) was in a talk show interviewing each other. Anushka asked Shahrukh that which is the most special thing about this film...I thought he would say Aditya Chopra...Yash Chopra and all that stuff....But to my surprise he bent down on his knees and took the hand of Anushka in his hand and said "the most special thing about this film is You and I feel very special that I worked with someone like you who is talented, beautiful and a wonderful actress... "

The most shocking event which I and most of the people came across was when Aamir wrote a blog in which he made a very Contemptible comment on Shahrukh and at the same time I watched the Shahrukh's response on channel ‘Times Now’ in which he said that “Aamir aur main hum umer hain, acchhe dost hain...sath mein kaam karte hain and kabhi kabhi isse bhi ajeeb ajeeb batein ek doosr se kar lete hain(we are of the same age, we are friend and we talk to each other strange things like this) and I have taken this thing as a humour”. I always think that How could a person react so cool and compose (as Shahrukh did) to these things but then I think that maybe he is like that only and that's why he is number one.

My Trip To Goa

23rd November 2008,
Started on a Sunday morning, we reached Dadar station at 5AM. Our train was at 5.45.
We boarded the train and the journey was as beautiful as we imagined.

So after our little unplanned excursion to Goa we reached at Madgaon Railway station in South Goa.We had a booking in a guest house so the owner came to receive us at the station.
It all started with a 12 km ride to the guest house in a open gypsy in the green beauty of Goa. we went to Majorda Beach that evening near the guest house.


Next day was planned for North Goa in the same Open Gypsy. first we went to St. Francis Church in Old Goa and it was the first day of the series of celebration of St. Francis birthday.
One more Church and from there we went to Calangute Beach and believe me it was awesome.
Calangute is a happening place in Goa with elegant crowd, shopping streets and night clubs. We enjoyed some water sports and shopping. We went for a motor boat ride to see some dolphins in deep sea and during that ride we visited the Chapora fort where the famous 'Dil Chahta Hai' Scenes were shot.Then we proceeded towards a hilly point from where one can have a view of Goa.

Next destination was one more beach located near Miramar road Goa.
Now the best part of our trip came when we went to a Cruise in the evening.
We reached there at 7.00 PM and 7.45 was the scheduled time. We board the cruise with excitement and energy.


It was a 1 hour ride including some folk dances and DJ. It was a complete 1 hr fun and we enjoyed it to the fullest.
It was 8.45 PM we came back and started towards the guest house.
10.30 Pm we went to a resort for the dinner and enjoyed spending time there.
Day 2 was full of excitement, adventure and fun.
Day 3, our train to Mumbai was at 6 in the evening so we started our day visiting the beach in the morning and then we had our lunch in a resort cum restaurant. It was 2.30 PM still some time was there to leave for the station. so after taking the bath we again went to Majorda beach and spent time there roaming around.
At 4.30 PM we were ready to proceed to Madgaon station.

After a ride of half an hour in the same Gypsy ... 5.15 PM we were at the station...we took a round there for sometime and board our train at 6.PM
Soon we found ourselves in front of our flat and I had a long thought in my mind about the trip.
As every journey comes to an end so was ours but was a memorable one indeed :)

Time Pass - Really a difficult Job!

"Don't pass the time my dear ... pass something else"

These are the words of our Prof. M.H. Verma every time he listen to these words 'chal time pass karte hain'(lets do Timepass...)...Prof. Verma ...a different kind of personality altogether, it requires another blog to describe Prof. Verma...

Time pass is the word that is the topic of discussion in my flat...as almost everyone got placed.
I have ample amount of time to do nothing as such...no college for a week, every one who got placed ran away to home...we roommates are doing real hard work chitchatting even when nothing is there to discuss.
I lacked my leisure for UNREAL TOURNAMENT, in fact not only me but we all enjoy playing UT on LAN in our flat. These days this is the most happening thing in our schedule.


There are lot of game modes in UT but most enjoyable is the Death match...it's all about killing your opponents and the person who kills maximum within time limit set wins the game and when the competition is with roommates then the enthusiasm is maximum to win the game at any cost.

Believe me once you start playing this game...time would run like anything...
It is a real Time pass.
But One thing I must say...
'Sometime ... it's really difficult to do Timepass'

First Year of My MBA

This is all about first year of my MBA...
Before coming to the decision of taking admission in IBS, Mumbai I came here on 20th Feb 2007.
I came with my friend Mahesh who was working in Mumbai. First impression was not good because the campus was not that great and big. I talked to some of the students about the college and all that. Later after a long thought, I decided to go for it.
29th April I reached here (Mumbai), my friend Ajay came at the station to pick me up.
1st May 2007, our preparatory classes started.
Exactly after 1 month they reshuffled the whole batch and new sections were formed.
Then started the real MBA with assignments and presentations to be given everyday.
Accounts was one of the subject which every engineer was scared of !
But luckily I managed to clear the subject with decent marks.
First 2 semesters were really hectic in terms of subjects and also there was one important thing which made those 2 semesters so challenging.....Scholarship.
I had scholarship program in both 1st and 2nd semesters of my MBA...so everyone wants a piece of it in order to offload the course fee which was huge.
I managed to grab the scholarship in both the semesters...ek kaam to achha hua aur paise bache :) (at least one good thing happened with me).
During my 2nd semester, we shifted to our new campus at Hiranandani. The campus is awesome.
First year was interesting in terms of masti (woh sabse pehle hona chahiye...), in terms of work pressure and most important... learning.
I found MBA better from Graduation...no doubt graduation was important phase of my life...sabka hota hai shayad (its important for everyone I guess)...
MBA is more practical in all aspects...I learned a lot in 1st year of my MBA.
Its my 2nd year which is going on...now after placement I am a bit relaxed as hard work gets payed off I believe...
After 6 months or so I would be again going back to the same professional world...but with a different personality.