The Good Life

I Inspired

2010-02-06T02:21:00.000-08:00

It gives a real good feeling to see that what you do is at times liked and adored by people around you. It is liked by them so much that they go to the extent of saying - 'you inspire me'. And such is a story about a friend of mine who had 6 first loves and 2 true loves(thats what he Claims - at which i exClaim). He doesn't drink, he doesn't smoke, he has no such "bad habits", and girls dig him. I wonder how. But thats not what I am writing about. I a writing about how what inspired him and how.

He went through mine and Sid's blogs when we both were wasted and lying half dead on my bed. He followed a few more links to check out more blogs, and found that we actually write good stuff without ever intending to do so. We just write what comes to our head right... and not a literary masterpiece - well not always at least. And this is what he liked. The thought of being able to document what's on top of your mind so that later on when you are in all your senses, you can retrace and enjoy all those moments once again. Over and over again. As many times as you want. Like I still enjoy reading my post about earning money and the one with ghosts in it. I cherish those moments. They are an intricate part of my elaborately ugly past, which is as of now lost somewhere, at times intentionally oblivious to me. But I still cherish them.

And Sattu was sold on this idea. He started his own blog which you can find here. Hope this turns out to be a good experience for him. I am sure it will be. After all, he was inspired by me(too :P).

The night that was

2010-02-05T18:27:00.000-08:00

Yet again, I got drunk, spoke crap, did a whole lot of 'harkat' but at the end of the day, for the first time ever, didnt sleep. Been awake since yesterday 8am. That like 24 hours now(WOW!!) but it was good, enriching and fun with all the different kinds of people i was with. Not one had similarities with the other. 3 totally different characters, different types, likes, dislikes, motives, relations blah blah blah.

I am awake not because i was doing something, but just that my bed was occupied along with my blanket. So couldnt sleep in the chill. now that its morning again, i am wondering if i should go to sleep. I chatted with total strangers all night. Most were weird. So was I, I guess. And what else do you expect from a guy who was almost half asleep but didnt sleep just because he wasnt allowed in his own house?

Sweet sleep sacrificed for friendship... the night that was.

Earn Earn Earn

2010-01-23T14:54:00.000-08:00

The internet seems an endless ocean to earn - be it money reputation, fame or maybe something else that I haven't experienced yet. Lets talk about earning money. Lately i had this craze to earn as much extra cash as possible. So I stared to look for sites that would give me job to do. Fortunately I found one and also made a few dollars. But then it struck me, if I am making so much money from a middle man, how much is the middle man making and more so, how much is the person giving out these kind of jobs making!!! I started searching the net like mad. Didnt get any answer. Searched harder, landed somewhere. Got a few answers that clarified the air a bit, but created new confusions. And now, today, I think I finally solved the confusions and I think I am on the right track to earn some decent money. What remains to be seen is if I really at all make any money.

PS: Whoever reads this, please wish me luck :)

Just let off some steam

2010-01-17T05:04:00.000-08:00

feel bad... lonely, broken... dont worry - just read on

call me, i'll be online,

saying its gonna be fine,

dont you worry bout a thing

Go on... Just let off some steam...

- Outlandish

Feel good now?

Gang of Girls... correction - GHOSTS!!!

2008-02-29T07:56:00.000-08:00

This happened... yesterday, i was out at SDF at 2 in the morn, loitering with a colleague. and guess what... we bumped on 3 gorgeous chinkis. One in a sari and the others in formals. We couldnt get our eyes away from them, and kept staring. The typical bollywood thing happened.. bhai saab... time kya ho raha hai? Mike was very eager to answer and so he did....
Discissung the incident in a tea stall at around 6.30 am, the cha dokaner mashi stared at us, and exclaimed. I didnt understand why she was hiding her face. She suddenly enquired about the girls, and confirmed their looks as if she had seen them herself... all she
could say was... bhai, tomra may na, bhoot dekhecho!! (brothers, u hv not seen girls, u saw ghosts!!)
mike is still traumatised...

One Night at my JOB!!!

2008-02-25T16:55:00.000-08:00

huh!! its one of those days(actually nights) again, when im sitting with the phone in my hand, and trying to get the figures goin up. The job's same, but one thing thats good is that its not a call center. Im a BUSINESS DEVELOPER.... wooooooow!! jargons, jargons... man!! these ppl come up with new ways to attract good skills at low rates. And then there are these mentally frustrated bongs, whose girls earn more than them. Is dat a shame! cm on dude! get a life... no comments on that. Hws my job u ask!! well i guess, i wouldnt have been writing this crap, if it was sooooooo exciting. But it sure pays well... literally! Its 6am and time for a stroll at SDF and a garam cha and biskut... good life!!

Getting a job is sooooooo easy!!

2008-02-24T19:57:00.000-08:00

Yup! u heard that right. Its damn easy - atleast in the IT. Dont bother if the US dollar is goin down, and hence the bulk chucking. If that were the case, probably all the bpo should have been shut down by now, as they are fully dependent on the US market. No matter what happens to the americunts, we Indians will never feel the shortage of jobs atleast for a few years to come. Just get a sales job(read a call center job), as a stop gap, and fill the greens in ur pocket. Dude, u'll play with 5 figure sal, in just 3 months... if ur good enough. Sector 5 in Kolkata is a gr8 place to start from... Good Life ;)

Me, Job and Books...

2008-02-24T11:16:00.000-08:00

hoodi baba!! thats a tough one. At the dead of the night, when the whole world is sleeping, only a few people are awake... the night watchmen, goons, gangsters, theives and ofcourse - us, the call center guys. In office, u put up a lot of faces to talk to the americunts(sorry for that), to get business and earn perks, but is all that worth it? There are different perspectives to look at it. Yes, its exhausting, frustrating, pressurising, overloading and all other 'ing' in the world. U have ur target or meet etc. but you get paid for that, and a handsome amount at that! Take ur girl out, go to the restaurant that she always wanted to go to, see all the movies, go to the pub as many times as you want, have lots of beer and still have something to give to your parents, so they feel, what a responsible child they got. And what do you have at the end of the day??? satisfaction for all the hard work that went into the entire process.
As for books... what are they??

Black as in Beauty or Black as in Black Outs

2008-02-24T10:59:00.000-08:00

You guys must be pondering, why in the world did I choose black of all the colors in the world... the answer is simple my friends... the color code for black is 000h, ie it requires least intensity of red, green and blue lights, so requires less charge, so requires less power, so consumes less electricity, so saves energy, so that i can prove myself to be a conservationist, so i can set an example for all my peers to be so. Come on guys.. its true - we are the future, atleast for the next 40 odd years, and i surely dont wanna live in the dark amid all the pollution. So get the message, and start saving.

PS: The electricity that we waste by putting our electronic gadgets on standby in a day, if saved, could light a house in an Indian village for a day.

Welcome to the GOOD LIFE...

2008-02-23T19:03:00.000-08:00

Hi all! This is Vivek aka Vincent. Out of Kolkata, me doing B.Tech, as well as working to meet my sansarik needs. I donno what to write in my first blog, so please forgive me if you dont find anything interesting. As for the name of the blogspot, me thinks it is evident... he he he. Look out for more, as me just ordered a truck full of materials which is on its way... good life!