Tuesday, June 28, 2005
DEMOCRACY :(
Today i got this mail as a forward from one of my friends. This scared a **** out of me... just have a look at it.
Salary & Govt. Concessions for a Member of Parliament (MP)
Monthly Salary : 12,000
Expense for Constitution per month : 10,000 Office expenditure per month : 14,000
Traveling concession (Rs. 8 per km) : 48,000 (For a visit to Delhi & return: 6000 km)
Daily BETA during parliament meets : 500
Charge for 1 class (A/C) in train : Free (For any number of times) (All over India)
Charge for Business Class in flights : Free for 40 trips / year (With wife or P.A.)
Rent for MP hostel at Delhi : Free
Electricity costs at home : Free up to 50,000 units
Local phone call charge : Free up to 1,70,000 calls.
TOTAL expense for a MP per year : 32,00,000
TOTAL expense for 5 years : 1,60,00,000
For 534 MPs, the expense for 5 years : 8,54,40,00,000 (nearly 855 cores) And they are elected by THE PEOPLE OF INDIA, by the largest democratic process in the world, not intruded into the parliament on their own or by any qualification.
This is how all our tax money is been swallowed and price hike on our regular commodities.......
Think of the great democracy we have............. The figures here may be slightly exaggeratted, but its so scary to see that figure..
855 crores. Something to ponder over as an Indian.
If this is a case of
LEGAL money spent on the MPs, what about the
ILLEGAL paisa??!!!
--Raju PP at 10:54 PM
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Monday, June 27, 2005
Duelling Proverbs!!
I was just going through the blog of
Sonali and came across a proverb
" Pen is mightier than the sword ". This reminded me about an SMS i got few weeks back about duelling proverbs... Just like to share it here :
1. You're never too old to learn
BUT You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
2. Pen is mightier than the sword
BUT action speaks louder than words.
3. Clothes make the man
BUT Never judge a book by it's cover.
4. The best things come in small packages
BUT its bigger the better.
Please feel free to add any more duelling proverbs which comes to ur mind ;)
--Raju PP at 10:34 PM
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Sunday, June 26, 2005
New Template!!!
I am thrilled to see the new template for my blog!!! May be its lil tough to get adjusted with 2 scroll bars, but its just a matter of time...
Thank u
SONU for the help in choosing a skin.
I request all u friends to comment on the new skin [even if u didnt like it :( ]
Just for the info, it wasnt that easy to make adjustments to the new template so that it suits my requirement. But it was fun all the way though ;)
--Raju PP at 10:11 PM
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Friday, June 24, 2005
Tagged again!!!
Srini has tagged me around this time n this tag is about my Passion - MUSIC. Well, lemme make 2 things clear before i proceed :
1. A R Rahman is God
2. I dont like Rock (tho i like to listen to FEW tracks)
Both, i had made it clear in my previous posts. But somehow i feel, this wont give u any indication about my taste of music & the passion i share about music.Still lemme start off with this thing.
Last album I bought
Mystique!!!!
Next album(s) I want to buy
Mystique - Part 2
Last song I downloaded
3 Songs from parineeta
Last song I heard before this post
Ghumsum - Shaan
All time favorite bands
Euphoria
Strings
All time favorite songs (Not in any particular order)
Maeri - Euphoria
Tanha Dil - Shaan
Aankhon ki - HDDCS
Pal - KK
Piya Basanti - Chitra
all songs - Roja
whatever i do - ??
Hoshwaalon - Jagjit Singh
All time favorite (lead) singers
Kishore da
Rafi
Udit Narayan
Chitra
SPB
All time favorite lead guitarists
!!!!
Total Songs(mp3s) I have on my office comp
around 350
Total songs(mp3s) I have on my home comp
1268
Total Music CDs I've burned
0
People who have to take this up
Art
Bhatta
Akshay
and anyone whoz going thru this post...:)
--Raju PP at 11:54 AM
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Tuesday, June 21, 2005
I ve been tagged!!!
Know Me As I Know Myself
Akshay has pinned me in this time around. My first tag though :)
Names You Go By:
Rajendra
PP
Raju
Raja
Raju mama
Raj
Rajumayi
Many more to go...
Three Screen Names You Have Had:
Rajendra
pandu_james_pandu
arienraj
Three Physical Things You Like About Yourself:
Broad Shoulders
catchy eyes ;)
Strong Forearms
Three Physical Things You Don't Like About Yourself:
My hair (which doesnt have a fixed style)
lil too much of fat :|
Ears... kinda too big (actually i dont regret it though)
Three Parts Of Your Heritage:
Locational
Namma Bengaluru
Devarayandurga (Narasimha temple)
Characteristic heritage
Simple
Optimism
Cheerfullness
Three Things That Scare You:
Usage of petrol
Steep loss of ethics among younger gen
Remixes!!!!
Three Of Your Everyday Essentials:
3 buckets of water !!
my cell phone
atleast some of my beloveds to be with me
Three Things You Are Wearing Right Now:
Full Sleeves Shirt
Cotton pants
ID card
Three Things You Want In A Relationship:
Trust
Love for the person I am
Understanding
Three statements that are not all true or all false:
I will stick to what i say always
I trust all my friends
I like to be funny n make ppl around me smile always
Three Physical Things About the Opposite Sex That Appeal To You:
Truthfullness and being very open and clear about anything
Liveliness
sweet voice :)
Three Things You Want To Do Really Badly Right Now:
Have my lunch
Understand my new assignment outright
get drench in rain
Three Places You Want To Go On Vacation:
Goa... (may be going in aug)
Kashmir.. (not only for honeymoon :-p)
Lohgad .. (near pune)
Three Kids Name You Like:
Shamita
Anjali
Vedant
Three Things You Want To Do Before You Die:
i dont believe in disclosing them, sorry
Three People Who Have To Take The Quiz Now:
ARTSRINIKARTHIKPS: Anyone reading this and are interested, can freely do it!
--Raju PP at 11:49 PM
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Monday, June 20, 2005
Is it true???!!!
I got to read an article on Indiatimes & just thought of putting it on the blog... I dunno how true or how false is this!!!
LINK :
IndiatimesCourtesy : Bhatta
Women suck at keeping secrets and that's no secret! I and my guy friends strongly believe that the only way to spread the word around is to tell a woman something and ask her to keep it a secret.
If a secret stays with a woman for too long it will tear her up from the inside. It's basically unfair to ask a woman to keep a secret, for women are sociable and emotional beings who like to bond with people at very intimate levels. So, by sharing a secret they create a deeper level of intimacy, the only problem in the picture being that they get emotionally intimate with a lot of people in the same manner.
Moreover, it is very easy for a woman to coax secrets out of people using the power of their maternal warmth and once they get their hands on it they wouldn't let go of a chance to use it against you.
Possessing a good memory, especially when it comes to secrets, doesn't help things either. You tell a man a secret, he'd most probably forget about it in no time. Do the same with a woman and she'd remember it for the rest of her life.
--Raju PP at 11:50 PM
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Thursday, June 16, 2005
Mystery!!!
This week has been lil too hectic at work for me, but i am not complaining too much either :)
Well, this post is inspired by the post of my friend Arpit.
Boy n Girl, Men n Women,Guys n Gals Mr n Mrs, Hum n Tum.... The world is truely divided into TWO... TWO completely different from each other, having their own characteristics, their own pros n cons, but adorable in their own rights.
Guys are (traditionally) rough, macho, jingoist, superior, humorous, smart and Girls are (traditionally) sweet, pretty, beautiful, mushy, romantic, dazzling, adorable.
TWO, completely unlike, yet they get madly in love with each other. Only the theory can atleast try to give an explaination to this "OPPOSITES ATTRACT".
As Arpit says
"What makes these girls so special, so spectacular, that love and madness share the same room. How do they manage to have the guys thinking only about them day in, day out, their mere silence but one cute smile makes a day memorable".This is what i got to read from the internet :
why guys like girls:
1. They will always smell good even if its just shampoo
2. The way their heads always find the right spot on our shoulder
3. How cute they look when they sleep
4. The ease in which they fit into our arms
5. The way they kiss you and all of a sudden everything is right in the world
6. How cute they are when they eat
7. The way they take hours to get dressed but in the end it makes it all worth while
8. Because they are always warm even when its minus 30 outside
9. The way they look good no matter what they wear
10. The way they fish for compliments even though you both know that you think she's the most beautiful thing on this earth
11. How cute they are when they argue
12. The way her hand always finds yours
13. The way they smile
14. The way you feel when you see their name on the call ID after you just had a big fight
15. The way she says "lets not fight anymore" even though you know that an hour later....
16. The way they kiss when you do something nice for them
17. The way they kiss you when you say "I love you"
18. Actually ... just the way they kiss you...
19. The way they fall into your arms when they cry
20. Then the way they apologize for crying over something that silly
21. The way they hit you and expect it to hurt
22. Then the way they apologize when it does hurt. (even though we don't admit it)!
23. The way they say "I miss you"
24. The way you miss them
25. The way their tears make you want to change the world so that it doesn't hurt her anymore..... Yet regardless if you love them, hate them, wish they would die or know that you would die without them ... it matters not. Because once in your life,
whatever they were to the world they become everything to you. When you look them in the eyes, traveling to the depths of their souls and you say a million things without trace of a sound, you know that your own life is inevitable consumed within
the rhythmic beatings of her very heart. We love them for a million reasons, No paper would do it justice. It is a thing not of the mind but of the heart. A feeling. Only felt.
This was sent to us as chain letter and warned that if you dont send to 5 more you will burn in the hells :)
Whatever, all of them are so so so true!!!
Hatz off to u GIRLS :)
--Raju PP at 11:31 PM
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Wednesday, June 08, 2005
Friends!!!
I was going through someone's blog the other day & i came across one thought
"we come across so many friends in different phases of our life... but only a few stay on..."Its so unfortunate but its so true. I, myself have had share of some good friendships which gradually faded out for eternity. Some others are still hanging around on the tip of the branch, dunno when even they break away. But the consoling part is few others have grown so large that either of us cant even to think about breaking apart :)
Well, coming back to the topic, losing out the friends whom we never thought we would lose them in due course, hurts sometime. But life blesses us with many others & again we proceed hoping the friendship is eternal.
I would like to thank God for blessing me with all these wonderful friends & i pray him to bless me with more n more beautiful frz n make all these relationships eternal!
I just like to share a sms i got long back ...
I may not be the most important person in your LIFE... But i just hope that one day when u hear my name, u would just SMILE n say " Hey!! thats my friend!!!""
--Raju PP at 9:45 PM
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Thursday, June 02, 2005
101 things about me!!!
1. I am simple n i love simplicity
2. I have black eyes.
3. I hate to read.
4. Music is my passion.
5. I am a cricket fanatic.
6. I dont like to have a mous·tache.
7. I love AR Rahman.
8. I hate the Shiv Sena and communal people.
9. I love bhajjis.
10. I hate rock.
11. I once played Flute (for 10 years).
12. I like to be seriously funny.But funnily I look serious.
13. I love to love.
14. I live to love.
15. I can speak three languages .
16. I love all seasons, winter the best.
17. Nowadays, TV bores me alot.
18. I am not crazy about cars/bikes.
19. I love history.
20. I am too complex.
21. Noone has understood me even 50% as yet.
22. I dont like my name.
23. I love to speak kannada.
24. I think i can type kannada as fast as anyone in this world.
25. I have never taken a wrong decision in my life as yet.
26. Im not impulsive, its more about instinct.
27. I dont remember anything of my 2 years in Pre-University.
28. Most people think I am reserved kinda guy, i am not.
29. I had jaundice when i was in 7th std.
30. I love to cycle.
31. I wish I could write poetry/shayari.
32. I hate people who hate my forwards.
33. I never forward sms with a distribution list.
34. I feel most girls have attitude problem.
35. I find most girls in film industry beautiful.
36. I love to go abroad atleast once in my life.
37. I dont wanna stay abroad for more than 2 years.
38. I dont want to be rich.
39. I want to make my parents, happiest people on earth.
40. I dont know to dance & i dont regret that.
41. I hate coffee, the smell pukes me.
42. I can sit at a computer all day and all night.
43. I have a void in my head when it comes to writing…its simply pain in the ass.
44. College is a better experience than school.
45. I love getting wet in the rain.
46. I love Bangalore.
47. I have never gone out of Karnataka
48. I hate lalloo and Sonia.
49. Im good at advice ..maybe I should take it up as a profession.
50. I am spiritual but not religious.
51. I dont have an ambition n i dont think its sad.
52. I havent walked through the whole of MG Road even once.
53. I love to freak out with my friends.
54. I love to eat dosas.
55. I wanted to be taller and have a dimple.
56. I love Blogging.
57. I am very shy n people hardly recognise that.
58. I wish i was bolder.
59. I wish i could sing better.
60. Films and music can make my cry.
61. I love to make new friends.
62. Forget the nightmares, i hardly dream.
63. I dont like wearing any accessories (gold/silver/diamond).
64. I hate anklets which makes sound.
65. Playing with kids can make me forget this world.
66. My birthday never excites me.
67. I regret not having studied psychology.
68. I am a vegetarian by choice.
69. I am terrified of disappointing people.
70. I am a tee-totaler by choice, not by chance.
71. I hate people who smoke n drink.
72. Cigga smoke suffocates me.
73. I want all girls on the earth to ve vegetarians.
74. I believe in Love marraiges.
75. I support inter- caste/religion marraiges.
76. I do believe these marraiges will be successful if all .
77. My room is the messier than Bangladesh.
78. I have got my head stitched 3 times till now.
79. I have not seen any complete bf.
80. Nothing can satisfy me more than curd rice.
81. I can never define Music..it’s a huge part of me.. something which will amaze me forever.
82. I should learn to live for myself.
83. I dont know what an headache actually is.
84. I was very very cute till i was in primary school.
85. I dont like to cover myself with a blanket while sleeping.
86. I am not dress conscious.
87. I do wierd things when my exams are nearing.
88. I used to sketch n write lyrics.
89. I had wierdest hobbies like maintaining cricket statistics n maintaining bdays of cricketers.
90. I feel most of the politicians are corrupt, rest are toothless.
91. I have a special talent in killing time.
92. I prefer juice over ice-creams.
93. I am slightly necrophobic.
94. I have mixed opinion on rebirth.
95. Nothing eases me more, than a smile .
96. I feel i am good in analysing people.
97. Love is blind.
98. I do lie at times
99. I don’t get inspired easily, the only person who can inspire me is too lazy and that is me.
100. Phew!! is it over??? i have more i think.
101. DELETED DELIBERATELY :|:|:| ;)
--Raju PP at 11:07 PM
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