Trance after an STP

ive heard of people getting into a trance and all but dint know what it meant untill this happened....

couple of weeks back (to be precise the day when HDFC came for placement) i and Surya went to grab a bite at leiden in kmall....we were talking and he was telling me something about the STP (Segmentation,targeting and positioning) of thats Y food....well if you are  surprised at what we were talking i'm sorry, 2 yrs of Mba has made a paradigm shift to the way my head works when i see stuff...... the moment i step into a restaurant or for that matter any retail outlet subconsciously my head does an STP analysis (btw even though 's' is not a vowel it ''an'' stp and not ''a'' stp as taught in elementary school...

Bcos they wrongly taught us that 'an' should be used before a vowel....they should have taught us to use 'an' before a vowel sound and not a vowel....example its 'a' university and not 'an' university bcos its spelt yuni-ver-sity and y is not a vowel and similarly like in the above case its Es-tee-pee where 'e' is a vowel, oh i'm getting carried away)

haan so where were we , yes were talking or rather he was talking and i was keenly listening....infact not only listening but also trying to figure out if what he said was making logical sense and i dint agree to something and i was doing my own analysis at the back of my head......so there's like a lot off things happening in my head...i'm listening, analyzing, trying to make my own conclusion and also

eating chips and enjoying the taste....
i take the sauce in my left hand......
take out the bun from my burger and aim the nozzle of the sauce bottle to the centre of the burger and i go round round making a jilebi like pattern with the sauce but i realize ive apllied lot of sauce and some get on to my right hand and my right hand starts sticking.....this is when i realize i was in a trance while doing the sauce stuff because what i was pouring was not sauce but actually MAAZA....yes gentlemen and ladies i poured maaza into the burger patty instead of sauce......if ure not laughing ure ass out there could only be three reasons....

a) i might have already told u this story

b) you might be a too serious person like Mr......lol.....i wont say the name....some faculty might be reading....so guess ureself...

or

c)pure failure on my part to narrate a story to u on my blog...

      whatever it is at the end of it i asked surya why he dint stop me from pouring maaza into the burger instead of the sauce.....and his reaction was..."oye damn it, i thot i was in a trance bcos y shuld my eyes see some1 pouring maaza into his burger"......

and if ure wondering how it tasted visualize sczhezwan chicken tasting like butter chicken....lol i was juz kidiing....it wasnt that bad cos the bun had soaked up all the maaza....hehe....

      talking about bun reminds me of this new place called coffee woods....well address is take right after hopes (towards singanallur) .... 20 meters and u will see it on the right side......if i can see it you can and you will because if u cant then u probably couldn't read this ....... its a nice place,decent interiors.....air conditioned.....sofas....bean bags....magazines......pizza.....burgers....sandwich......coffee etc......say a normal burger for 5o or 60 and a jumbo for 70......and the chicken inside the burger is the golden yellow brown patty not the one u get at burger hub or Leiden .......well talking about their long term feasibility they should be able to pull off the trick once GRD is back in action.....i guess they are having leave or something after exams......bcos for some1 in GRD there is no decent place to shell out dads money in the vicinity......the closest is CCD in peelamaedu i guess.....correct me if ive missed out any on the way......so i feel their targer audience will be majorly GRD.....rich spoilt brats......i seriously don't expect much sale from Psg Cas cos i'm an alumni and i know...

Back to blogging.....after one trime

hmmmm....Its been long....I must say I’ve lost touch.....like hell I’ve lost touch.....I'm not even getting what to type.....OMG....I feel blank.....blank as ever.....in a mood to blog but thoughts not flowing....samething that happens in an exam.....I know I have to write lots to fill the pages but things juz refuse to flow from the pen....in laymans language I say I don’t have the ability to bullshit in the paper.....I know u won’t agree with that fact because you can BS and in your eyes since u can Bs any1 and every1 should be able to BS because u don’t find it difficult or u describe it as a survival instinct cos u don’t have to be good at it....its a survival instinct because u know if u don’t bs u wont fill the papers....hmmm....ok don’t wanna get into an arguement with u now....

Placements have started and I see a change in ppls attitude...when initially we joined we were like we expect this much $ nd all but now when hiring is less we are like we juz want a decent job in a decent company with a decent salary.....talking abt me I always wanted to be a pilot as a child.....I know that’s the most preferred

choice among boys when they are small....other common ones could be police officers etc....later after I grew up a little I wanted to be a forklift operator for some odd reason....after couple of years I wanted to be a salesman at sony world or any other shop which sells electronic items or gadgets/gizmos......off late the last thing I remember before my present wish is I wanted to be a salesman at titan watches....yes titan not ROLEX....well mainly because the product portfolio caters to all income groups....you could get one for less than thousand as well as 40k also.....I also love the diversity they have in their collections viz

· Orion

· Fastrack

· Raga diva

· Raga flora

· Zoop

· Nebula

· Octane

· Heritae

· Edge

· etc

I mean the distinctness between the ranges are very clear and each collection is precisely targeted....I mean for example a person buying a gift for a wedding directly asks for Raga and a college/teenager asks for a fastrack......I'm not very sure how many watch makers do it this grandly....now coming back to the point......so the reason I wanted to be a salesman is not only because of the love towards watches but also because of the lack of knowledge that some salesman selling watches have which I’ve seen in various shops.....I mean its not a vegetable shop damn it....at least try to learn the basics....I'm sometimes very confused regarding my long term vision.....I tell people when they ask that I want to be a restaurateur with outlets all over india.....but I’ve never said this out to any1...nd this is the first time I'm saying that I also wouldn’t mind having a chain of watch shops across India.....mind you not the normal watch shop that you got to or have been till now but something radically different from the present ones.....say the guy showing the watch would be wearing black suit and white gloves to show the watch and say after the experience you will say next time I'm gonna buy a watch it will be here only.....not even remotely sure if any of these will be remotely plausible atleast....it sure is difficult but not impossible.....god willing I will be having one of

those 2 dreams a reality.....hmmm....so what else about watches....lemmee think....I love watches....lol....I guess I said that already once......hehhe....I have such a bond with my watches that 99% of the times when I go out ill wear and make sure three things I don’t forget to take while going out are cell, wallet and a watch......the oly times I don’t wear my watch are when I’ve forgotten it or else when I'm very depressed I purposefully don’t wear it as a sign of anger/protest.....but the same watch is also the first thing I get ridoff the moment I enter home......I’ve also lost 2 watches....cut from watches, its getting too boring...hmmm what else....

ya got it....today went to a restaurant to have lunch....the kitchen was visible...as in there was juz a see thru glass separating the seating area and the kitchen.....I mean that needs confidence on the part of the any restaurateur to show his kitchen to you....I mean how gud ever the restaurant, maintaining a clean kitchen is not that easy especially at busy places....I did this small project/assignment kind of thing at Taj Residency Calicut for 18 days ( not the way we ppl do it over here, was actual 8hrs per day)....and I had the opportunity to see their kitchen and I saw this chef doing the icing on a cake....and I couldn’t believe the number of flies that were sitting on the other cakes yet to be iced....there are a lot of thing I learnt from my very very short time there....I remember seeing this board near the register where u sign your attendance mornings.....it said “whatever happens, the guest is always righ

t” ( btw in hospitality industry people are never referred to as customers but guests).....I donno why but that one single board that you see every day morning has such a big impact because that’s the first thing u read every day morning when u enter for work.....the other things I learnt of their practices were there's a telephone etiquette they are supposed to strictly follow.....the guidelines were written on the notice board....it read....

The phone should be picked within three rings

• Never say hello
• Instead with the following format
• Greeting+ your department+ your name+how may I help u or any similar line

For example: Good morning..Front office...this is fazin.....how may I help you sir....

oh btw this format actually reminds me of a small incident that happened to my UG roommate Rohit....he was doing his 6month internship at The Park Hyatt, Goa and his work kept rotating every month and he was once working in bakery or something and next day he gets transferred to market grill and when the phone rings....he says....gud evening bakery, rohit here..May I help you....and unfortunately it was the executive chef (executive chef is the highest position in the organisational chart inside the food and beverages production department) that had called and chef was like.. "rohit, please look around".......ok you might not find that funny because you don’t know him....Lol......oh btw why have I shifted to this topic suddenly.....where was I.....

haan.....got it.....I was talking about ho dirty/unhygienic the kitchens can be.....oh talking about hygiene reminds me of a funny situation that happened to me involving womans’ hygiene product......this was like way back in 2007......I was shopping in medium sized shop called Anona in Calicut and I had gone for buying stuff and specifically for a particular note book also....when I picked the book the whole lot of 10 books fell on the ground.....so me being a good boy sat down(yes literally) and started putting the books back and arranging it......any1 who saw me could mistaken be for being a salesman/(sales boy rather at that time without a moustache and all).....so this is what happens.....I'm arranging the books and a lady comes behind me and

• lady: excuse me?
• Me: yes
• L: can u take for me whisper ultra max with wings or some crap.....
• M:(gulp)(not wanting to embarrass the woman, trying to hold my laughter back )please come....
• L: ok

I took it and gave it to her from the rack and she was like not regular....I searched and I got it for her.....after 5 mins I got my stuff and was standing in the counter and she was standing in the other counter.....oh my god.....I cannot explain the look she had on her face.....it was priceless and not explainable in words in a blog......oh god we again off tracked as usual from titan to kitchens to what not.....

I donno why but I don’t have a sense of confidence to go more normal....maybe it’s because it’s been long since I’ve blogged......but then some genius or rather genie-ass said to me y do u bother about the reader, juz write what u feel like writing.....never restrain yourself and hinder your thought-typing process by filtering.....talking about filtering my content......if I start typing what I really feel like typing then I will get an "A" rating for my blog because as of now I feel like blogging about alcohol and about PSGIM......

talking about alcohol.....I remember some1 asking me what Drink Responsibly mean? I said its without troubling others and without troubling yourself.....heheh.....There are lot of excuses than reasons for one to drink, once my friend X said, I just drink two days in a year, the day when it rains and the day when it

is not raining. When will he end his bachelor life? Because in our community girls are very much concerned about Alcohol, they don’t want to spoil their life by marrying someone who drowns his life in Alcohol......at end I would like to end by a famous quote

If drinking is interfering with your work, you're probably a heavy drinker. If work is interfering with your drinking, you're probably an alcoholic.

cheers.....happy blogging

take care

Ahlan Wasahlan-....err....i mean Welcome

Hello every one…not a normal hello…but a hello from the land of the Sheikhs…THE KINGDOM Of SAUDI ARABIA

where petrol’s cheaper than water….no not kidding…one litre of drinking water is 12Rs and one litre of petrol is around 8 Rs (btw in case u wondering how cheap Diesel is..it’s 3.36 Rs,don’t ask me about aviation fuel now, go find out ureself..)….wow isn’t it??…it’s when I come here that I understand how lucky these Arabs are cos of cheap petrol..if u notice the car advertisements here there’s one thing u’ll notice u won’t see the mileage written anywhere…I’ve stayed here for 15 odd years and never in my life seen the word mileage in any car advertisement let it be print or Tv etc..instead every company boasts about the number of horse power it generates or the number of cylinders it has….in fact Chevrolet has certain car models especially tailored for the middle eastern market produced which u don’t get in even the US of A bcos they are normal family cars with 8 and 12 cylinders and are not feasible to sell in other markets bcos of bad mileage…

But there’s a flip side to this place which I don’t like….u don’t get things in loose quantities here like India…I mean u can’t buy one pencil or one A4 paper or one cigarette…U’ll have to buy the entire box of 12 pencils or entire box of 20 cigs from the shop…..and sad thing is they don’t have all these trial packs that’s available back in the Great Sovereign Democratic Republic of INDIA..trial packs like shampoo sachets, 5rs dairy milk or 2rs chota tiger biscuits….oh btw talking abt high prices here, I forgot my tablets (if ure wondering which tablets read my old post abt my mumbo jumbo with the Doc)…so ya I forgot to pack my omaprazole tablets and since I dint want to break the course I bought it from here….now what’s great in that right?? I’m coming to it….i bought 30 tabs for 100Rs in India and that thing when I buy from here (locally manufactured in SA) it cost me 80 Saudi riyals which is close to 900/Rs…..what the &*%$!!!...I need a calci to compute the percentage increase but I know it’s a 3 digit figure so not calculating…..

ok now let’s rewind a little bit and restart the story from India….I flew to Saudi via Emirates airlines which took off at around 9.40 pm from Calicut…the announcement on board by the crew advised us to switch off the cell phones as it supposedly would hinder with navigational aid….since me being a obedient passenger I switched off the cell after sending one final text to one of my friends..then after we took off like say after 30 mins when the flight was cruising at 887kmph and at a mind boggling 11,200 feet I switched on my cell and I was shocked….

bcos immediately after I switched on there was full tower and showing AIRTEL/aerospace and then I got an SMS….i was like what the bull?? A text message at 11,200 feet…..when I slowly opened and read it…..it read….“nice post…have commented on ure blog”…..(it was a text message from one of my loyal blog readers)….I still haven’t got over that incident where I get full range on my cell and receive a text message at that altitude when I was maybe over the Arabian Sea……but there’s more to it….when I touched down at Dubai international airport my phone switched from AIRTEL/aerospace to normal Airtel which meant that Airtel had pre-activated international roaming on its numbers….which is like awesome cos I don’t remember the last time when I came here me having it…

Now cut from airport and into one of my favourite topics which uncharacteristically I’ve never spoken abt it in my blog….and I feel ashamed….cos fazinically speaking I’m not me if I haven’t talked abt food and photography…..food ive already talked abt in a earlier post (restaurants) but still I’m tempted to talk again…..photography can wait now….talking abt air travel and food there’s one thing that comes to my mind immediately..that’s great food….

u get great food on board most of the flights be it for breakfast lunch or dinner but the sad part is u wont enjoy it as much as u’ll enjoy it while at sea level or at least on 20^th floor of any hotel for that matter….the reason being ure TASTE BUDS in ure tongue are not at its best or at its full potential at 10,000ft altitude which means what u taste at that height is not what it actually tastes like….it tastes way better at ground level….sad…can’t help it…..now cut….and action to other topic photography….if u aren’t interested skip and go to next paragraph….I’m least interested in lecturing to an uninterested person…ok this is an article I read somewhere on national geographic….

it’s something abt MEGAPIXELS in cameras…..how many megapixels is gud enuf?…..the reason they did this study was bcos of the increasing megapixel war among the different makers like Canon, Nikon, Olympus, Pentax ,Kodak etc…(don’t ask me y I dint include Sony Cybershot in the list, I dint cos I think Sony, Samsung et all should make what they make best that’s TV and shut their mouth when it comes to diversification….i mean I don’t see a day far in which Britannia will make cameras and LG making bottled drinking water and Jk tyres making underwears….i mean y u laughing…..did u know that Raymonds who makes suiting materials also makes contraceptives..…don’t believe me….go to the raymond’s website(http://www.raymondindia.com/off_pc_ks.asp)

(oh btw talking abt raymond’s, u have any idea what’s the costliest products they have?? it’s actually a suit cloth, that also not stitched just the material….it costs a mind boggling or rather wallet swallowing 6 lakh rupees….don’t believe me??go to the any big raymonds showroom like Mumbai or B’lore and ask for suit with count “SUPER 240”…that’s the thing u shuld look for,the count..) So what I was saying is diversification has gone to such an extent that companies have started making everything and anything regardless related or not, another funny example is ITC making cigarettes and also Classmate notebooks….no way related right…..talking abt related I’m talking something not related to photography cos I got carried away so lemme continue….)

Ok so what national geographic did was they took a photo of a child sitting on a sofa in three qualities…..viz 6 megapixel ,10 and 14…..and they took big prints of this and stuck it on a wall in the busy times square in New York and asked all the passerby’s to identify which was from a 6,10 and 14 mp shots……

99.9% of ppl couldn’t identify….only 1 could….that too cos he was a photography doctorate holder and a professor teaching photography in the university…….no one else could……so what am I trying to say here…..??.....I’m not saying more mp does not account to more quality…..of course it does but beyond 6 or 7 mp it’s not of any perceivable difference unless it’s printed to a very large size like a banner or a big A1 size poster……for normal prints that u take up to even A3 size it doesn’t make a hell or heaven lot of difference…..another area where more mp’s make a difference is when u zoom into a pic to see more detail….so pics taken with more mp’s u can zoom in further with decent quality viewable…..and the last application of more mp’s is when u do lot of tight cropping or when ure too bad at composing pics that u always take a long shot and then crop a small part of it to print or use…..ill explain that with an example….say u take a shot of a family pic with say 14 members in it and after u put the pic on ure PC u see the baby’s smile so cute that u want to cut it and print it as a separate stand alone photo then it’s nothing but technically zooming in or taking a very huge print…so in such situations extra mp’s count and 10 mp 12 mp and 14 mp’s make a difference…..if ure confused after reading this paragraph I’m sorry…..I tried my best to convey what I had in mind abt this issue….

Over the last 2 days I read some random blogs of various people (includes u tiger) and after I read I felt so ashamed I even thought of stopping blogging forever…the content they speak, the usage of words, the vocabulary, writing style is so awesomely awesome that i got such a bad inferiority complex reading other blogs that I’m be tempted of divorcing from my blog…..it’s not a decision taken, just a thought that had come across my mind….i might do it if I come across more such good blogs……in fact I’m jealous of those people who have lot of readers and around 30 odd comments for each post where as I’m stuck here stuck here with 8 people reading(yes I counted)….and that too I have to call and force some of them to read my blog…and god know how many of them simply say nice post bcos they can’t bluntly say on my face “ehh ya it was ok,I dint understand anything and nothing great…all crap only..it’s not ure cup of coffee….don’t waste u’re time on this Fazin ”….are there really people existing like that who can actually tell like that on others face?....i mean if u call me and say I’ve updated my blog pls read….obviously I’ll read and I’ll comment that it was good….come on man he/she’s my friend, how can I say it was bad…..oh ya I cannot leave a comment itself if I dint like it….hmmm…..but then I still insist u better leave a comment on mine regardless u like it or not….what u write is ure wish constructive criticism or blunt brickbats I don’t mind….bcos as long as comments come it’s a testimony that u are writing for an audience not for oneself…well I don’t know if 8 people can be called an audience….. bcos if it’s for oneself I could rather write a Diary instead of a blog…..what else??....oh btw I’m burning here cos the temperature here in the day time is 48C….and if u don’t know how

much that is make water boil and put ure hand in it….the pain and heat u’ll suffer is 100c….so 48c is like half the pain, scream, doctors fee, burn spray etc….ok I know that was a pathetic way of describing 48C…

Oh I read a funny thing on the newspaper here….it showed a pic of a lady who’ll be the first lady pilot in the kingdom….the irony is women aren’t allowed to drive here but they can fly an airplane….lol…..thats ultra funny…..now from funny to something not so funny….ive been out of the country for the past 15 days when I type this line and these 15days I felt the importance or rather I must say influence of internet on me…for the past 2 weeks I dint have access to internet

nor the mind boggling 65 channels on cable or the extravaganza of 10p calls on airtel…was real trying days these..felt like as if I was under some house arrest or rather living in north korea (FYI google abt life in north korea, I can’t sit here and explain everything)…I mean life was tough bcos my normal daily routine comprised of at least 2 hours on orkut , facebook ,yahoo mail and you tube and occasionally some sports sites…the only reprieve I had in this boredom was my camera with which I used to eat sleep and drink but there also a problem occurred as I thought of clicking flowers and the only one’s I could find were cactus, lol….okey juz kidding, middle east is not that bad…we do have vegetation here…in fact Saudi Arabia is the largest producer of pomegranate also not only petrol….oh guess what I did a small study about impact of global recession here and the facts that people said were startling….they said its affected a in UAE but not much in Saudi…its seems turnover had increased in most of the sectors and very very few sectors have been hit by recession….most of them laughed when I asked about recession here….they were like “whats that dude?”…..my friends who works in company here said they are not able to supply to their buyers even after being at full capacity and he was saying Nestle has started construction a new factory in dubai….even on the roads when I noticed there was no shortage of luxury and ultra premium segment cars released this year,roads were filled with top of the line cars as has been the case even before recession era….even banking sector has not been affected testified by numerous new branches opening in various parts of the city,I fact there are more bank branches scattered lavishly than normal shops..hehe…..another thing I noticed over here this time around which has significant importance to make its way on to this blog is about their increasing coffee drinking habits…the number of coffee shops

I saw was beyond my counting capabilities…..i’m not only referring to big chains like starbucks having lot of outlets I’m also reffering to a hell lot of independent coffee shops as lavish and splendid as the MNC’s….talking abt coffee….lemme go have my coffee….ciao….and ya pls leave ure comments..

I Hate Projects and Breakfasts BUT..........

Sheesh…..donno y this always happens to me that I only blog when its raining outside….I guess perfect recipe for me to get typing a new post on the blog is rainfall,no show on tv and low balance on cell and loads of boredom….was juz thinking what’ll happen after rainy season is over…

Ok so welcome back to another HOPEFULLY info-taining post at myblahz…..its been long since last post….got a lot of ideas but dint have a personal secretary like obama to type it for me…..talking abt obama pls check this link if ure free…  http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/

Back to blogging….where do I start….ill talk something about what’s happening in my life now and then go to some other crap….talking of crap reminds me of an AD that I saw yesterday….a reliance communications AD with hrithik and a kid….now whats crap in that u’ll be thinking…..well…next time juz notice the cell he’s using…..he’s using a NOKIA where as supposedly hrithik is a sony ericsson(had to google to get ericssons spelling rite…lol) brand ambassador……

 

 year or two back there was some other ad on somewhat same lines…..it was an American express Ad featuring Abhi-ShaKE bachan but the ad looked like it was a Moto RAZR Ad cos majority of screen space was occupied by his phone and not the card…..lol…that’s old news and ive already started deviating from the main point I was about to say…

haah….where was i??yes summer project….that itself can be an entire new post but 

will include in this…..initially I went to a company X for enquiring if they gave summer project and they were like yes please have a seat and I was almost sure of doing it there till this happened…they told me the project….he said there is a thing called “Softner” which is used in bakeries….they are used while making puffs bread and cakes…..i was like OK, and…..he was like I have to go to 100 bakeries and find out what softner each baker was using……I told him I’ll come there the next day…..there was never a next day….come on yaar 100 bakeries u think I can juz go and ask them about their ingredients and they’ll co-operate…..i’ll get kicked out the next moment thinking I’m some food inspector or some thief or some competitor bakery owners son….before I continue I’ll recommend some suggested readings…..its déjà Moo’s blog http://kingpin-yadayada.blogspot.com/

Getting back to summer project……so then after rejecting that offer I settle with a better sounding project with a Construction company who makes flats and I was supposed to 

 a questionnaire on customer satisfaction and get it filled by the tenants…….dont ask what happened next cos getting questionnaires filled by people was not like what I thought it was……of course I dint expect red carpet welcome with army parade and band but still expected decent response….this is what happens…..i ring the bell and the tenant or technically speaking my interviewee looks through the door hole and see’s a boy in his 20’s with a sling bag and a bunch of papers in his hand and a pen open and ready for writing and an anxious nervous face….oh btw that too in formals with polished shoe tucked in shirt and belt….(well the last time I was in this setup was during admission procedure of TOLEDO students new batch, ahem for obvious reasons…..but that is all together another tragedy which will form backbone of another post some day)….so where was i…..yes…my prey opens the door very slowly and has a beaming smile on his face but doesn’t open the door full….say juz enuf for his head to pop out….then I introduce myself saying I’m coming from so and so company and we are doing a small survey on customer satisfaction…..the moment they hear survey the smile which was :-D becomes :-| and door closes even more say enuf juz for his one eye to pop out……

so I say my dialogue “

sir,you don’t need to fill it now….take your time and I’ll come tomorrow same time to get it back or else leave it with the security pls”

the moment they hear that its back to :-D and the door is fully open…..we’ll I’m not saying all are like that…..there was this particular person called joshi who actually allowed me inside and offered me ehhh not tea but a chair to sit..lol….how I wish every1 was like him……I was juz wondering if this was tuff how wuld the bakery experience have turned out to be…

Talking abt experience reminds me of what happened to me yesterday with the doctor

• Doctor: you have to stop spicy food
  
• Fazin:huh!!!!!!!!! Forever…..impossible doctor….
  
• Doc:no juz for a couple of months…
  
• Faz:ok ill try,but I don’t think it will happen… 
  
• Doc:no problem for me, u’ll keep coming back to me…
  
• Faz:oh ladatt then no probs ill try to reduce..( btw what reduce I went to restaurant at night straight after that and ordered Dragon chicken and I told the waiter please make it extra spicy…..lol..)
  
• Doc:what did u have for breakfast?
  
• Faz:ehhh…Tea!
  
• Doc:and..?
  
• Faz:and nothing!
  
• Doc:what abt yesterday?
  
• Faz:well,doc…..i don’t have breakfast…..haven’t had it in years…
  
• Doc: ( turning into daddy and mummy mode) no wonder ure having all this nausea and acidity and gastro problems…….juz have breakfast every day and ull be totally fine…..
  

So moral of story is fazin has learnt it the hard way so I advice all my million blog readers…..eh…million???ok juz kidding….Eat breakfast like a king,lunch like a commoner and dinner like a pauper else u mite end with the doctor like me……..

Oh shit its stopped raining…..bbye gotta go…..and another thing going to Saudi tomorrow evening…..i juz hope something bloggable happens on the trip so that I can post…..lol….till we meet again happy blogging, happy eating and drive safely and ya drink responsibly if at all u are! 

Hey where u going??? Leave ure comments then go….

Rains and Restaurantz!

Hmmm…lets see..not typing this new post cos I’m jobless but just because it’s raining outside heavily and can’t go out because of that…damn…either ways at least because of that i become jobless and end up typing now…..what do I talk about today that might keep u interested till the end of the post….mmm….lemme see…..shit…..i’m not getting any……its sad cos when I have topics I don’t feel like typing and when I feel like typing I don’t get topics…..ok ill tell something about some peculiar customers who comes at my dad’s restaurant.

There is this one gentleman who comes every Thursday nights and the unique thing about him is not that that he comes regularly every Thursday but that he orders the same stuff every time he comes….in fact after couple of Thursdays he doesn’t need to order because the waiter knows by heart what soup, appetizer side dish and main course he needs….i feel its kindoff odd or should I say funny to have such a customer who eats same thing every Thursday nite…lol !!

Then there is another family who comes regularly, it’s a husband wife and a kid…..a small brat I must say….ok now these people are not monotonous like the above guy….it’s not what they order that leaves an impact but something else…we donno why or how this happens but it so happens that everytime this family comes their kid breaks the drinking glass….hmmm…sad that we can’t charge for that glass….so everytime they come 1 glass is raam raam sathya hain….cant help that!!

Ok the third unique category of customers is a bunch of girls/ladies…..hmm…they don’t come to the restaurant to enjoy the food….they come for some other reason….they view the restaurant as some bunker or some veil from outside world…the thing is we got family section and as is the case in Saudi Arabia the family section is normally in a cabin like structure giving good privacy….so what do they come for…..any guesses…they come to SMOKE…..hehe…..yup….they just order some side dish or dessert just for formality so that they can sit there for enough time to finish their Marlboro’s ….

Talking about restaurants what differentiate Arab customers from we Indians is that taste of the food is not of supreme importance to them in a family restaurant…as in yes it is important but not as important as their top priority that is ambiance…..they give too much weightage to ambience….if the ambience which includes the lighting, the paint colors, decoration, layout ,size, furniture, fixtures etc is good they’ll come back for sure even if food is not extraordinary.

I’m sorry if this post was not entertaining or infotaining but none the less its stopped raining outside so I gotta go……keep blogging and happy eating and ya of course leave your comments pls….

Cheers

whats common between Pepsi and Trains......find out urself.....

Ok here we go again…I’m sure this is not gona be as hyper as my the first post…..first 1 is always hyper hyper cos u got no idea what your typing and u juz wanna stuff as much stuff as possible….but now i guess the fizz is gone, so will be little more restrained now….

talking abt fizz I remember reading some article couple of years back when pepsi or coke not sure who, did a blind test and found out that most of them couldn’t differentiate between Pepsi and coke in a blind test…but I kinda don’t agree cos I can tell pepsi out of coke bcos I prefer pepsi over coke not cos sreesanth comes and does a dance in the ads ,but juz cos it tastes better….

now talking abt coke and pepsi…..if u recollect then u will know that srk was a pespi endorser but pepsi threw him out cos he dint fit inside the ‘youngisthaan’ thingy…they probably thought he was too old and pepsi was a young thing now and blah blah…..but overnight coke went and bought him and now he stars in the sprite ad which means technically he endorses coke now…..

now I guess pespi bosses will be regretting and shitting in their diapers cos if at all coke comes out with an ad with srk and aamir and y not even hrithik in one single ad…..wow..that wuld be awesome…

talking abt aamir who now is an ardent coke fan,was initially a pepsi endorser…..u culd actually do a utube search and find out an old TVC of pepsi featuring aamir ash and I guess mahima….lol…..so I don’t see anything wrong in srk jumping from pepsi to coke overnight…

talking abt endorsements, I love akshay for that…..he juz endorses what he believes in or only those products which he actually likes……I guess the only brands he has ever endorsed is ruf n tuf,Grasim suitings ,thumbs up and maybe one more….thats a small list in relatively long career…..

talking abt career I wanted to do Company secreteryship after my 12th and not BBM but somehow ended up doing bbm and I don’t regret also…..

talking abt regretting I’m on the brink of regretting me taking marketing as my specialization….i was confused between Hr and Mktg…..confused cos I love to study marketing as a subject but don’t exactly like the work and for Hr it was juz the opposite…I kinda like the work but don’t like to study the subjects coming under Hr specialization….infact I don’t like most of the subjects….lol….not exactly….it depends on which subject it is and is being handled by whom…cos there are lot of subjets I don’t like but juz bcos the person teaching is awesome I end up liking the subject….that holds true for subjects like Quantitative techniques, geography, economics etc…..the other way round also happens when u like a subject but the faculty doesn’t teach it properly and u end up hating it…

talking abt hate ,I hate the climate now a days….its freaking hot and humid and taking a bath also doesn’t make sense cos the moment u step out of the house u melt and find urself in a pool of sweat….god knows if those deodorants actually work….they claim 24hrs active protection and blah but I don’t think it last more than 24mins…lol……

oh talking abt 24 i remember reading a couple of years back that a typical cricket match is broadcasted using 24 cameras….but that is like an old information, now I’m sure they got more….

talking abt more….now a days they got so much technology in cameras for cricket like hawkeye ultra slow motion ,hot spots etc etc but when it comes with regard to run outs they don’t have a proper cam and its occasionally a controversy cos they can’t get the frame they wanted..i mean in a way that’s nice….keeps the drama alive….

talking abt drama reminds me of dharna….i donno y kerala is called gods own country it should be call strikes own country….talking abt country…..ppl say there is lot of unemployment in india and blah….we’ve been searching for a driver and watchman from the past couple of months and there’s none to do that job…..dont tell me every’1 doing mba and can’t work as a watchman……

oh btw I heard there’s a new movie called watchman running in my friendly neighborhood theatre the crown….i think the best time to go to crown is on sat or Sundays evening show cos we get to see lot of ppl who u don’t see on a normal basis in Calicut….most of them from the IIM or Rec…..btw heard REC’s renamed into something else long time back but I juz don’t remember what….talking about remembrance I don’t remember peoples faces if I’ve met them only once and its really awkward cos sometimes u see some1 on the road and they smile at u cos they’ve met u once before and I’m like what the fish u looking at me and smiling u fool, is my postoffice open or what….

talking abt postoffice my house is juz behind the head post office…..ive gone there juz once don’t remember for what…..i guess to buy stamps or something….

talking about stamps I collect stamps as in I used to collect and still have them but don’t collect nymore, I also collect currencies and coins also…..it was fun then in those days at school…..now not actually collecting anything other than bills/receipts…..that’s my new hobby….i mean some ppl collect perfume bottle others collect lighters and I collect bills…say for example I’ve a huge collection of almost all the train tickets I’ve travelled in the last 3 or 4 years….i know that’s kinda dumb but I juz collect…..but now I feel I should have collected those tickets in a different way….as in I should have used it as a small diary as in every time i travel i should have written what happened interesting on that journey on the back of that ticket….shit…shit…shit….y dint I do that….if I had done that it would have been cool to see it after some years where u recollect those funny moments on train…..i have a lot of memories while going on train….a lot as in a lot….will tell them in future posts…..1 i can say now is that I got ragged in the train when I was going home for the first time after joining college…..so dint take any more risk after that and I ended up travelling in the state KSRTC bus for the next 5months….so like whole 1st semester of bbm I used to travel by bus and not train…..i used to hate the bus journeys mainly cos I used to get a back pain after every travel of 5 odd hours in the same position….but they are more reliable than train most of the times……

talking about trains they occasionally stop at stations and this blog like a train stops for a break here….

Cheers

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ok....so...hmmm...lemme see....first blog......first entry......hmmmm....ahem.....blah....hmmm...i think thats enuf for the day.........lol.......what to do....ppl call me lazy....nd i realize that what they said was true........juz typed two lines and already saygn thats enuf for the day......oh btw too lazy that dont even have the mood to move my cursor and correct the spelling mistake in the above line where i typed saygn instead of saying.......

lol......btw y am i typing a lot of "....."....is it like a stress buster.....lol.....i mean how can that reduce stress.........but i remember arthur saying to me.......adding "..." in text messages to his gal reduced a lot of stress and cooled things down....i dunno how that can actually affect things bcos technically i dont see the usage of a couple of dots....hey wait a minute....i juz said technically speaking........claps....claps......wow.....that means im enjoying this....cos the oly time i say that is when i'm enjoying what i'm saying or talking.....btw i sometimes simply use or even overuse it also when talking to some1 to show them i know a lot abt that subject and make them feel like they are a looser in that topic bu juz saying see technically the dash of the dash when mixed results in the dash of the dash.....juz use some jargon's and couple of hifi words and make him feel ure a guru in that subject....lol....btw i shouldn't be saying that here......giving away my trade sectretz.......either ways who cares.....whos gonna read this blog unless i put a double barrel in his head and force him to read....talking about double barrels....i love guns.....me and rohit had a goood time discussing abt guns etc......wooo.....that was one time.....but he's gone now........gone as in he's not dead but gone to australia.....big deal its the same thing......if at all any1 has the patience to read till here he/she will be like y cant u stick to one topic and type in paragraphs......well i cant do that cos i'm too lazy to hit enter button and make paragraphs.....and abt topics i cant help it......cos even though its late night my head'z having a confusion of what topic to type and talking abt typing i'm getting lazy again.....eitherways im actually seeing a TVC on utube and juz thot ill type something while that buffers cos im not on some bloody highspeed broadband.....this is juz a makeshift internet conection im getting bcos of the magnanimity(i know the spellingz wrong)of airtel cos i took a 1 week net on phone and its 1week over.....so i cant like call airtel and say my speeds slow....lol....

wow...wow....wow......i dint think ill type this much....when i started typing i thot ill juz type pink is not my favourite color but black....talking abt favourite....it comes as a spelling mistake i guess in MS word.....i guess their spelling is favorite....they also have others like color etc....talking about colors,,,,,,ohhh.....here we go again..... i juz thot of stopping and cant stop typing...its as if im getting more money by typing more.....talking abt money.....i'm broke now cos i did a 222 top up today....shit.....ok i think i shuld stop....talking abt stop reminds me of signalz......i like the signalz in Bahrain cos they show orange not only before red but also before green....lol...i like that part of bahrain.....no that ive gone there.....newer been to Bahrain.....but technically yes cos i fly from calicut to bahrain and from there take a bus to Dammam......talking abt dammam...what i like abt dammam is that......oh shit i typed and not getting anything.....oh god what do i like.....y am i getting worried as if its typewriter and doesnt have a backspace....lol.....oh and talking abt typewriters i used to love the typewriter in my dads office cos it was not that chunky click click one but state of the art compact one which had a keyboard like a normal pc and also had a backspace....i doono on what principle it erased the alphabets......oh and talking abt alphabets "Z" is my favourite one...........talking abt one my favourite number is 13 cos my name has that many characters.........sad....i dont even wanna read the post......its full of speling mistakes............dhit ...i mean shit.......lol.......luckily dots dont have spelling mistakes...its always.... or .......hehe..

ok fazin control...

control fazin control

ps-the two reasons y i made a blog and typed this blog are

1: anju asked me to give it a try

and 2: neelz is gonna have a ball tomorrow cos boss is out of station and asked me for suggestions of what to do on the net and i said utube......she was like cant use earphones in office.....have to look like ure reading something serious......so i said read blogs....so shes like whos....so im gonna text her now saying...MINE.....

i hope job well done...wooooooooh.