Monopoly - Business

I know everyone, at some point of time in his or her life, has played this game. It is the first exposure a child gets to a simulation of a real life business world. The fun that one can have while playing this board game is only bound by the creativity involved in the game.... Like Donald Trump says in the Apprentice - It's nothing personal, It's just Business!

Life is at a stand-still for me as of now. Out of the 7 days in a week, I spend 5 days in the office working or playing carrom (:D) and then going home and watching some TV show on my lappy. The weekend is the best part. Friday night onwards I spend two days at my friend Varun's place in Pune. That place is home outside home for me. Kindly allow me to elaborate...

That apartment falls outside any time zone that we know of- literally! We do not know when we sleep, when we wake up, when we eat or take a bath (:P). BEER flows like water 24/7 and there's always some or the other game going on. It can be Playstation 3 or RISK or the "latest" old sensation- Business! Varun, Farooqi and I played it for the first time last weekend(after alcohol became legal for us :) ). In a word- AWESOMENESS!!! My friends Uru, Chi and Alay in Ahmedabad innovated a new way of playing the game. In the beginning, you have a tender system to buy all the cards in the game. For every card, every player quotes a bid price on a piece of paper. The card goes to the highest bidder. This way every player has an initial cap using which he/she has to buy places and save money for construction and paying rents. We have also added few new rules but those you can decide on your own. Someone has rightly said- innovation is the spice of life! I highly recommend this game to any board gamer... Feel free to call me a dumbass in the comments if you find this game boring.

My friends are playing at "Not Just" Jazz by the Bay on 29th Aug. 2008... Their band's name is - HOURGLASS. The next post will be dedicated to them.

Cheers...
~KP

Waddup??

I am back! Just filled in details about me in my profile. So my profile is up now.

News highlights for today: Dr. Manmohan Singh- the sleeping Punjabi tiger has finally awoken!!! The nuke-deal might become a reality. And even more surprising is the fact that Laluji now starts making statements to support it. Where the hell are their guts when the country really needs them?

Well a normal day in office is going on- work load is less, people are relaxed... too relaxed in fact. Some might find it scary. You know the silence you experience before a massive storm or earthquake is gonna rock your world and shatter it into bits and pieces? Yeah.. Well this is absolutely nothing like that :). This is proper hardcore relaxation. However, all of us have a feeling that we are gonna be flooded with work within 2 hours 17 min and 23 sec. Our client always emails us the work details when we are about to leave for the day :P. It is a motivating kick on your a** to tell you - "Hey lazy bumm, go back and do some serious significant work before you go home and relax some more with your online RISK gaming".

The important highlight of today is that it is the last day before I go to my hometown for the weekend. This is an interesting observation that I have made. The day before you go home is the day when you are the most excited about the weekend. Allow me to elaborate... Today you know that you are going home tomorrow and you are going to enjoy => excited and happy . Tomorrow (Friday) you feel that "Man.. I have to travel 14 long hours alone :( in an uncomfortable bus that hardly lets you sleep"=> the excitment subsides. And on Saturday you feel that "Today is the only day I can enjoy because tomorrow I have to travel again :(" => the excitment gets nullified.

Anyway, I know I have not put up anything substantial on my blog yet but give it time. Like a great man named Barney Stinson (from the TV show "How I met your mother"... great show btw) once said- It's gonna be LEGEN - wait for it - DARY!!

This is KP signing off...
CHEERS!!

Building the Blogging Aura around me for the first time

Aditya and Suvarna (my friends and colleagues) are finally leaving me alone and letting me create the required aura for blogging around me... Thanks :). For the first time in my life I will be the author rather than the reader.

I have no idea, at all, why I just created my own blog. All we can do is wait for the mystery to unfold with time. To be honest, I still do not know what the word "blog" means. Please wait... Wikipedia to the rescue once again!!

This is what I found on Wiki:
A blog (an abridgment of the term web log) is a website, usually maintained by an individual, with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

Well, that is kinda scary. I guess I can try to implement the above given description (maybe partly). However, I apologize to people whose sentiments I might hurt through this blog as it is going to be an honest outlet or record for my views on various topics and debates that I encounter in my center-of-the-Gaussian-curve life (for those who did not get it- it means a very average life). That's all for now.

This is Kushal Patel, Sasken Comm. Tech., Pune signing off... CHEERS!!!