My Days

It was Ajay’s birthday yesterday and we were at Gallops Mall in Ahmadabad. Area around this place is full of malls and all kind of mini and big shopping complexes where people come for food and roaming only. 90 percent of the visitors in the mall never buy anything or they don’t want to buy the same thing at higher prices inside the mall. Though malls in Ahmadabad are not a very costly affair still general tendency is not to buy anything from a mall. In Ahmadabad there are more than 100 malls, small and big and for all kind of buyers, now and they offer stuff at very much discounted rates. Still I see more buyers on the window outside than they actually go inside and buy anything.

Most of buyers out there who pretend as if they are there for actually shopping can not fool others around them who also belong to the same species. They are there only for outing and food and they enjoy it more than ever now. In 70s’ and 80s’ India, public gardens and parks was the in-thing for Indians of the bourgeois. Now malls have malls have replaced those Parks successfully. They are past now almost everywhere in India except in small cities and towns where mall culture not penetrated yet. Parks are now for all those who are ugly and old and can not tolerate noise inside shopping centers or malls.

I was very much busy enjoying subway’s chicken teriyaki and was least bothered about the socio-economic impact of malls on Indian culture and what the ‘blah-blah’ economist so worried about. Food was good and we were there for one hour more just chatting and doing nothing but watching all the deadly plane crashes on national geographic channel.

Ahmadabad is less polluted now than it was before 2 years time. CNG buses and auto rickshaws have improved things a lot and I feel more comfortable on my bike when I drive around Ahmadabad. I usually don’t enjoy riding bikes in such noisy conditions with so much traffic in the labyrinth of Ahmadabad but now as I don’t have any other option I do it half heartedly.

We have planned to meet again today after 5 in the evening. We first will go to IIM and be there till the evening lasts and than we will go to ISRO and will make all kinds of noise there. We play music there as if we are in some discotheque and not in ISRO scientists’ residential colony. Still I enjoy company of Ajay and Nikhil and Sinha and Midhun here in Ahmadabad more than anywhere else. Not in phursatgunj, that is the place for those who are Old not for Zorbas full of energy.

Today we are going to do the same things again. Monotony and stagnancy is life for me in Ahmadabad. I surf till the wee hours and than go to the bed. I wake up late in the afternoon and than enjoy my food and go to bed again. I listen to music and online internet radios. I just enjoy life slowly and deeply and even have reduced my reading a lot. Now I don’t read as much as I used to when I was in Baroda but soon I shall be back to normal and back to Baroda too. There is nothing to do in Phursatgunj but to read books so I think that is one habit or hobby I am going to keep for the life time.

Nikhil called me at 1:30 in the afternoon and plans are not clear yet. It is almost four and still we are not in contact with each other and I think my younger brother is not yet home. Until he will be here it is impossible for me to go out anywhere as I have to rely upon his bike for the movement in Ahmadabad. My phone is out of balance and I can not call anyone so until they call me I am going to enjoy sleep.

Journey to the North

My journey to the north was very exciting and funny. Now I am in north, yes I am in Ahmadabad. Early in the morning yesterday we shifted from our new winter palace to our summer palace. Now we have this facility here, in winter we can go upstairs and in summer we can come downstairs to stay on the ground floor. It was a yet another lazy Sunday for me and I was still fast asleep when Nikhil had started shifting few things from up to the room on the ground. It took us two full hours to shift everything from top to bottom from up to down. It was a roller coaster ride for us. Moving our old pillows and bad bed sheets and dirty beds themselves was a massive task ahead of us but we never ever even gave it a thought of surrender. I was so tired after all this exercise that I enjoyed full one hour of rest and reading magazines inside my toilet there. Masi’s food is easy to digest and light on both my tummy and my pocket. Now early summer days are here and it is time to enjoy chach everyday. I have reduced my smoking a lot and now at home I am not going to smoke at least for next few days I think. These are the preparations before my summer hibernation. But how all this began?

After enjoying masi’s food at one o’clock in the after noon we, I and Nikhil, went to hostel to meet Uttar. He was our companion for the journey up to the entry at express highway, a place known by name borrowed form near by residential society, Amitnagar. From there we got a taxi (Tata Sumo) and were on the express way within next 15 minutes. It was 3:30 in the after noon and sun was high. Though it was not very hot outside, we kept windows closed as the car was flying at almost 100 kilometer per hour speed. That is something supersonic for the people of Phursatgunj and I was in no mood to argue with the driver as I knew it would have not made any difference to him. He was in hurry. It was Sunday yesterday and he was in no mood to come back to Baroda while his boss insisted to go on one more “Chakkar” between Baroda and Ahmadabad while he was talking to him on phone. I was rather lost looking outside the scratchy windows. There are all kinds of and colors of flowers on the express way. Everyone except I and driver was in the midst of their regular afternoon nap when we were about to reach Ahmadabad. Express highway no.1 is really beautiful but not in the sense people say or look at it. to be continued . . . .

#up and Down.

3:30 pm
Amdavad

i am moving to baroda again. in last 2 months or so i have moved a lot between amdavad and baroda and that is very unusual for me. i am now again moving back to the most laziest place on the face of the earth. phursatgunj. now even the holy month of ramaddhan is also started so we have two night festivals now, and i will be forced to stay back at my place during the night time. but i will somehow manage to move around and enjoy during last few days of this navratri-natak. even sitting silently outside polytechnic can also do the great miracles as now garba grounds are moved to the open spaces behind our MBA faculty. i think kalubhai will be there till late hours so that we can enjoy tea till late. police will not be a big problem outside polytechnic campus but i think at the station it could be a big problem.

now i am getting late and can not afford to miss my beloved train - MEMU. i will write a book on this great gift that western railway has given to the junta of gujarat. Tracks on Fire - by saboo. i think even one book is not enough to discribe all funny incidents that happen all around the train in MEMUs. i will try to call my friends as soon as my phone will be live again. now i dont even have money to recharge my phone so that i have to satisfy myself only with in-comming messages. i think it is a bliss, a good break after a few months of telephonic communication with my friends all around the gujarat and india. now none can contact me and i can not contact anyone through my phone. in short i am isolated from the rest of the world if i want to remain that way. sometimes without communication communion happens and these are that times when you can really try things. i will try to contact my friends through telepathy. can you listen to me pehalwan. are you watching me baba? ha ha, i think practice makes a man perfect and sooner or later i will be able to contact everyone throught telepathy and there wont be any phone bills. now i dont have the luxury of internet at phursatgunj so i think this is my last post for next few days now and i will be back with more spice of phursatgunj next time. till than good bye my lazy friends and beloved netizens.

long live laziness. long live brotherhood.

Back 2 Business

my hot and humid room in ahmedabad
5:23 in the morning.

today i again changed the template for our blog because no one liked the previous one i glued. how things are going there baba? now my phone is dead so i won't be able to call you and also won't be able to receive any call from anybody. how this happened is a big story and my room partner nikhil is also involved so i don't want to reveal the comedy secrets here. for last three days i am in amdavad and i tell you amdavad is hot for most of the year. i think except the months of dec. and jan. amdavad is like a big boiler. i am very tired now and have to go to sleep but before that i want to tell you people that i have uploaded all the photos on the internet and now they are available at this address: http://sindhrout.blogspot.com

i have been reading holy quran for last one month now and still it is not finished and now i think i have to stop reading other stuff and should first finish the holy quran. i also am preparing for CCNA. so now my days in baroda will be full of work and reading. navratri is on in gujarat and i am off for few nights now. i will not prefer to go out in the dark when the whole world is out there dancing like fools in the darkness. for 10 days i feel like i am still a 'Gulam' trying to force whitemen to leave this country. quit india non-movement. i feel like that coz i can not go out of my room during the night time and i can not live without tea at the mid night and than at 3 and than at 5 in the morning. anyway two days have passed and i am still in amdavad and will be here till evening and than will leave for baroda. so i think now i have to live a life of a slave for 7 days only. i dont know why but i hate navratri a lot. i think night should be reserved for people like us and why these fools are around during the night when they are all together. why they dont roam around alone in the darkness of the night during the month of january. i dont understand what they want to prove, or even if they dont want to prove anything than why do they exercise so much. (they call if raas-garba, dancing. but i think it is nothing more than pehalwani.) only fools can dance whole night.

Oh god give us strength so that we can resist this natak of navratri and be at peace.
amen.

long live laziness. long live brotherhood.

The Wanderer

after a week of rest i am back with the business. what do i do here? i dont know but i know one thing that whatever it is, it is funny. i have all the time in the world to waste on me and my friends. last few days i am thinking about uploading images friom our sindhrout visit to this blog but i think it is a mammoth task for a man like me. lazyness prevent me from doing anything which involves somekind of movement physical or mental. i dont think when i type here.
anyway how are you my dear old age friends? i have heard..... once upon a time in mumbai there were two teen ager boys with dreams in there eyes and ........... to be cont.
i travel a lot these days. right now i am again in amdavad and why i am here. god knows i dont know, will tell you soon. . . .
today again i traveled on MEMU. one of the miracles of western railway. you rarely find someone with ticket or season pass on board and you dont need to worry about that. bomb blasts and riots dont make any difference here, this places are like temples of hindu-muslim ekta. i will tell you people about this hindu-muslim unity story of MEMU soon. till than good bye.
long live lazyness. long live brotherhood.

2 days in Amdavad

my visit to amdavad is a yo-yo. i dont go out of my house very often except when somebody calls me and in extreme case when i feel like smoke. if the craveing is not strong enough to move my ass go out and smoke i avoid it. i supress my desires to smoke. my laziness is and good food at my house prevent me to go outside. i eat like anything when i am at home. i store food like polar bears because when i am in baroda there is no guarantee that i will get the dinner or not. ha ha. that is the story of cheap aristocracy.

most of the time i avoid to go outside. i dont even move out of my room very often. i just keep me inside my abode on the top floor of my old house. i love this room. everything is messy here. you can not find a single thing at proper place. but i enjoy the way my room is. most of the time i surf the net and do all kind of nonsense things and meditations in my room and read a lot of books which my father has collected. i dont have any collection of my own except few thousand ebooks which i regularly read. this time i didnt try even to go for a bicycle ride in the morning. that is my favourite time-pass at home and i also get a chance to smoke in the fresh air of the early morning. but now i think i am too old and can not afford such kind of exercises like jogging and cycling. i play chess and that too very badly these days. i dont know what happened but i think my game is now worse than the worst. there is something in my mind which rules my body and my actions. sometimes i play as if i will beat the grandmasters and the next moment a kid like software beats me and i feel as if i dont have any memory left. i dont remeber things now. sometimes i forget to lock my room when i go to kalubhai. there is nothing inside the room which is of the great importance. i will go to kalubhai in the evening. it is 8 30 in the morning and i am in amdavad but very soon with in few hours i will be there in baroda and you can see how fast we can travel now. i dont like traveling very much but if i am on the go i enjoy the local trains and people of india on board. they can discuss anything and everything from neuro-psychology to laluprasad yadav. i dont talk a lot now when i travel but still somehow they drag me into their mindless discussions and i also give my valueable inputs to kill my time while i travel. today again i will travel on the great MEMU and will again find all kind of funny and crazy people on the train. i really appreciate the way lalluyadav handled railway ministry and i see a potential prime minister in him. people will laugh at me if i utter such arrogant statements, but the same public on railways will be amazed when they will see the lallubhai taking oath as the prime minister of india very soon. even in that case i dont have to worry or hurry to catch the trains because i can see vision in laluyadavbhai's eyes.

i am hungry now and have to go downstairs to stuff my tummy with all kind of edible and non-edible food available at my place. i want to move out now as i really feel suffocated in the 12 by 12 room without any doors or windows. but i love my room. will be back soon. bye now.

long live laziness. long live brotherhood.

Local Trains.

yaah i am here in amdavad again within a month. it is saturday and i am here for two days. monday evening i again will be back in baroda. i hope that there will not be any rains so i can go out of my house. why i am here in amdavad. for nothing. everyone in my family is sick this days. half of them are on bed-rest and half of them need rest badly.

i and nikhil came to amdavad today morning. it was a beautiful journey from baroda to amdavad. plains between anand and nadiad are now darker than the national flag of pakistan. green is the color of the season now. MEMUs are life line of those who travel through it everyday and i really enjoy my journeys on this most crowded local trains of gujarat. i will write about my experiences in the train today at length, but not right now. i am having all kind of problems with this pc at my home. every few seconds some error occurs and i dont know what to do about it. i dont have anyother choice now so i have to use this computer.

will tell you about the things that happened today and yesterday and how i killed more time with my friends, books, and a psycho serial middle-aged lady killer. i also should tell you people a story untold about a friend of mine. he is really great. i call him my knight. he is a gone-case. and may be that is why i attract him the most. but anyway i will have to part ways with this psycho as soon as possible and should start living with harmony again. baba only knows whom i am talking about and pathetic friends also can guess if they try to remember old things that happened in phursatgunj few months back. anyway will be back soon after some time, till then good bye.

long live laziness. long live brotherhood.

Lazicopedia - Sleep and Laziness

today was a longday.

first time i was out of the house since last friday when i reached ahmedabad. nothing unusual when i am at home.

even my craving for cigarattes wont let my flat-ass move an inch. that too in the heat and traffic of ahmedabad, never, i rather would die starving even if dont have any food at home.life is really difficult out there, when i go downstairs it is even more difficult. below 3rd floor out of my room my den everything is very hostile.

just now baba moved to have some food and i am also thinking about going downstairs to get some groundnuts. today i ate few out there on the gates of iim-ahmedabad. i never ever will be able to go inside( though i was once inside there too pee) as a student, i love that building. a good work of architecture. sometimes i enjoy sitting out there and smoking cigarettes.

how i reached there today is a long story, it is just 7 kilometers away from my house but today it was like 7 lightyears away. traffic in ahmedabad is deadly and today,a holiday, was even worse. everybody around gathered on the bridges to watch overflowing sabarmati river. river front project is a distant dream now, every thing is washed and modi's hopes too. it took me a good part of one full hour just to cross the bridge from one end to another.new amdavad is no better than the old walled city. it is even worse i think as far as traffic is concerned. was a very painful day really.

no movement is the best movement.

now for last 3 hours i have been preparing all the links for lazicopedia, and few of them are here for you today.how sleep is related to laziness? how important it is too sleep till noon? what are sleep disorders and myths? how can we improve our sleeping habits and laziness? all articles i have found at wikipedia and google-scholars suggest that it is good and interlinked with laziness.all the articles can tell you tonns about sleep, laziness and meditation. just check them out. full articles will be available soon on lazicopedia.

++Important key words to use for further research and googling. good luck.
+ Hypersomnia
+ Upper Airway Resistance Syndrome (UARS)
+ Actigraphy+ Narcolepsy
+ Sleep apnea

++now the wikipedia links:

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazy_evaluation
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloth
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep#Anthropology_of_sleep
4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep#Footnotes
5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excessive_sleeping
6. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_
7. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Airway_Resistance_Syndrome_(UARS)
8. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcolepsy
9. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_apnea

+findings:
1. in computer programming lazy evaluation is a technique that attempts to delay computation of expressions until the results of the computation are known to be needed.
2. Sloths have made extraordinary adaptations to an arboreal browsing lifestyle. Leaves, their main food source, provide very little energy or nutrition and do not digest easily: sloths have very large, specialized, slow-acting stomachs with multiple compartments in which symbiotic bacteria break down the tough leaves.
3. Recent research suggests that sleep patterns vary significantly across cultures. [1] The most striking differences are between societies that have plentiful sources of artificial light and ones that do not.
4. Footnotes 1. ^ Toward a Comparative Developmental Ecology of Human Sleep Foldvary-Schaefer N. Grigg-Damberger M. Sleep and epilepsy: what we know, don't know, and need to know. [Review] [242 refs] [Historical Article. Journal Article. Review] Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology. 23(1):4-20, 2006 Feb.
5. Hypersomnia is an excessive amount of sleepiness, resulting in an inability to stay awake. Even though people with hypersomnia sleep for more hours at night than is considered necessary (or even healthy), they may still need to take frequent naps in order to remain awake and alert during the day.
6. Upper Airway Resistance Syndrome ("UARS") is a condition in which patients complain about excessive daytime sleepiness and there are symptoms of airway resistance.
7. Actigraphy is a method of activity and sleep study achieved by mounting a small actigraph unit on a patient for an extended period of time. The unit itself typically includes a small accelerometer and continually records the movements it undergoes.
8. Narcolepsy is a neurological condition most characterized by Excessive Daytime Sleepiness (EDS), episodes of sleep and disorder of REM or rapid eye movement sleep. It is a kind of dyssomnia.
9. Sleep apnea (alternatively sleep apnoea) is a sleep disorder characterized by pauses in breathing during sleep. These episodes, called apneas (literally, "without breath"), each last long enough so one or more breaths are missed, and occur repeatedly throughout sleep.

>> this are the links and relative findings and articles available on them. knowing the importance of sleep in our lives i have further searched about the topics and now have few links available on sleep and orders/disorders. will post all the links here for general benefit of lazy community. as google-scholar says, stand on the shoulders of the giants. a brief about the links are ther below them.

>http://neurology.org/cgi/content/abstract/46/2/393
The clinical spectrum of narcolepsy and idiopathic hypersomnia

>http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/hypersomnia/
hypersomnia.htm
ha ha, baba they think that hypersomnia is a neuro-psychological disorder. i think we can easily prove those scientist wrong in a flicker. be ready with your hammer but let the iron be red.

> http://www.psychnet-uk.com/dsm_iv/hypersomnia.htm
Hypersomnia is excessive sleepiness. It is an excessively deep or prolonged major sleep period. It may be associated with difficulty in awakening. It is believed to be caused by the central nervous system and can be associated with a normal or prolonged major sleep episode and excessive sleepiness consisting of prolonged (1-2 hours) sleep episodes of non-REM sleep and is characterized by....

>http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcArticles.nsf/pages/
http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcArticles.nsf/pages/Hypersomnia?OpenDocument
what do they talk about sleep and hypersomnia? find it out here on talkaboutsleep official website. good luck.

>http://www.talkaboutsleep.com/conference/
2006 National Patient Sleep Conference
Overview
TalkAboutSleep is pleased to announce that we are hosting the Inaugural National Patient Sleep Conference. ha ha ha, they are having conference about sleep where they think everyone will be awake to listen to them. god bless those americans.

>http://content.karger.com/ProdukteDB/produkte.asp?
The Role of Actigraphy in the Evaluation of Sleep Disorders

>http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=1519002&dopt=Citation
To assess the use of actigraphy in evaluating insomnia, 36 patients with a serious complaint of insomnia slept 3 nights each in the laboratory, where the usual polysomnograms (PSGs) were obtain ...

>http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid
=185826&tools=bot
Sympathetic neural mechanisms in obstructive sleep apnea.

>http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?
cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?
Sleep Apnea and Hypertension: A Population-based Study

all this are medical, neurological and psychological journals and they are backing what we think. this is really feel good factor for all lazy people around the world and especially who enjoy to sleep. even they think that those are disorders i think we are in perfect order, rhythem and harmony with nature. sleep till noon.

enough of searches and dogpiles today. now i think i am really running out of the gas. my tank is both empty and full. upper tank is now empty and lower one is full. so i finally have to move my ass as baba also logged out and now may be thinking about how painful it is to work at this hour. we always used to smoke and read newpapers at this hour near samrat. now i think all that is a distant past.i alone sometimes go to THE STATION early in the morning and enjoy smoke and newspapers their but now no one is their to discuss those very important topics and headlines. haha. enough for today i think. will again strike back tomorrow with more links and laziness. amen.

Site will be launched soon renamed as: www.lazicopedia.co.nr

long live brotherhood. long live laziness.

the war is over

war is over and i am here in ahmedabad, for last four hours i tried to post something on the blog but links with the blogspot was down. now finally i got connected to blogspot but now i dont remember why i am connected to blogspot. because may be i wanted to post something on the blog, but what exactly i wanted to post on the blog?? anyway it is still very hot and humid here in ahmedabad eventhou it is 5 in the morning. war left me injured and sleepless. tomorrow i am moving to surat and may be, will go to mumbai also. there is no news about pehalwan and also no news from mumbai. josh without josh also didnot tried to post anything new and ranjit singh XVII never posted anything because he knows all this things are meaningless exercise. war was hillarious and funny, there were riots inbetween the war and that is a funny thing. last time when i won the war there were riots before the war and this time during the time of the war. today i played moneybhai game and lost 3000 virtual rupees. ( will never be able to loose real money, you know why. . . ha ha ha.) india also lost to westindies, today no positive thing happened. it is written somewhere in the polytechnique campus ( i dont remember where..) : this world is a failure my friend, somebody somewhere has made a great mistake. and i think our fathers made that great mistake and we were there. nowadays most of the time i speak, write, listen and watch rubbish, but that is the only way i feel comfortable. i started reading glimpses of world history but that book was a real joke. in my dreams sometimes fat girls try to rape me and i feel helpless, (HA HA) the same way that book also tries to rape me with boring stuff but since we all have academic interest (by default) i am ready to go through the pain. for few days i shall be only man standing in baroda. (i am the last man sleeping in baroda.) so many things happened during last two months and i dont remember anything now. great kharchoo was here in baroda and hitesh patel was also here in baroda. i slept on the vasad highway ( highspirits). there was few raindrops. hear was on. we were at EME temple. sadali laries were there. mornings were beautiful asusual. bridge preached me. tree at sadali lari is of the highest form of jiva. baroda is a very beautiful city, very very beautiful. There is nothing to do at baroda. most of the time you will find all lazy people at various lari joints all around the city. that is why i love this city, this is a negative city, no growth no money no job no fun. but still this is the place..... when i was young i had a dream that i will conquere this world and then will come back to baroda and will enjoy sadali khari and chai under the bridge. just the way alexender had a dream, i had a dream. but now i have a dream to dream, to sleep and dream. god gave us so many options and the best is to dream. day dreaming is good for our health. now for last one hour i am typing and now i feel as if for last 1000 years i am working so hard. i dont know why we are so lazy but i have a good reason to celebrate our laziness, but now i dont remember the reason but still we will celebrate laziness. hail bistar.

nothing has happened,

and nothing will happen.

what is there is there.....

we dont waste our hours,

always

chewing the kharis and,

smoking the cigarettes.

they are always there,

under the bridge.

lazy among the laziest.

kings among the mamas,

see for your self.

Enough for today.