HarryFication

Mood: Outraged Song: Salaam BOMBAY 'Mumbai ka don kaun?' growled Biku Mhatre in the movie Satya. But sometimes the problem is that, an ant living in a mountain hole forgets what it really is – a tiny ant. When people give it undue importance, the ant starts growing in arrogance and mistakenly assumes that it can represent the whole mountain itself.. Komal Johar recently apologized to me and other residents of Mumbai because he agreed it was criminal to call my city ‘Bombay’. KJo showed the world that even he can be ‘straight’ sometimes by saying “I have genuinely committed a mistake. I apologize for it.” Bravo KJo, it indeed takes courage to stoop like this. Being straight was never his/her (still confused) cuppa tea. Dobby Barling recently suffered a broken heart. No, it was not coz Akshay Kumar refused to star opposite him/her, but coz his/her new found love interest was not returning his/her calls and messages. Who? Munaf Patel. All doubts about Love being blind are clea...

Mood: Into Dumbledore's Pensieve Music: Shadow Of The Day December 21, 2000. It was 9pm. A little girl was crying. But she did not understand why she was supposed to cry. Her mother was unconscious, lying next to her. That was probably why. There was a small crowd in her chawl today. Most were talking in low murmuring voices. The girl clung on to her mother. She had always been told by her that if she did not eat properly she would hand her over to the cops. And today there had been lots of them in her little house. In a high rise flat not far away, another girl was laughing merrily. Even she did not know why. She was being made to feel special today. Her mother had cried and hugged her in the evening. Her grandmother had said something about her father now resting in peace. Her aunts and uncles, neighbours, everyone from her jewelry shop had been flocking to their place since evening. Her innocence did not allow her to understand much. But she was smart to sense the happiness in...

New Year's here, finally we kicked 2008 out of our lives. Err..actually it kicked itself out (??) Hold on now, we have a BREAKING NEWS..Another gaint step for mankind!! We required forty years after 1969 to take the second step?? :O Scroll down to enter the new world. Yes, and finally I have a blog of my own. Hope this one is indeed final, I have created and crapped away three such attempts in the past few years!!! It has been an ordeal in itself. Spent Six hours arriving at this idiotic blog name from a self created list of twenty odd ones. Thanks to a few friends of mine, onebyteofme.blogspot was vetoed out, albeit against my wishes, and this it how it ended - Harryfication, 'Inspired' by Californication!! A Harryfied flash back of 2008 awaits you below: OneByteOfMe: Got the all important desired posting location. Pune seemed a decent enough place to spend one year of your life. Having done that, is it worth anything more? Probably not, but hey, my boss says he won't ...