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Apr 07 2008

People ashamed in speaking their mother tounge

Published by Gaurav Mishra under hindi, life

Imagine a scene of a person on bike stopping and asking some people, “Boss yaha se Gr. Noida ka rasta kya hai”, These people are old factory workers who are working  in babu positions now , You can tell in a look that whole day they are communicating in Hindi with their colleagues.

But when a young new age boy stop and ask some way , How can they  answer  in Hindi ? . So here comes Hinglish words which sounds so awkward that you feel like pulling your hairs.

Now why ? Why do people get ashamed while speaking in Hindi ? I simply don`t get it. :(

Digged out a old picture from my collection. Have a look, DO READ THE INFORMATION IN PICTURE

Just look at ourselves and ask yourself

“What we are ?”


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Apr 06 2008

Number changing ceremony

Published by Gaurav Mishra under life, mobile

Why do i change my mobile number ?

This question is asked to me hundred times by different peoples, Some people suspect me as a terrirorist even :P

Well i can`t explain but i am not able to retain same mobile number not more than 2-3 months maximum, Anyway here i am with my new mobile number (this time trying out IDEA)

+919990674146

Happy calling


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Apr 05 2008

Dehradun to Delhi — 2 People , One bike , Lots of fun!!

Published by Gaurav Mishra under biking, life

From my college days itself i just love getting myself to limit, As people know i am not a very efficient rider , but still loves biking. Saumya decided to take a huge risk with her life and we decided to ride from Dehradun valley to Delhi Metro. On the top of that we were having a 7 years old bike which was not even ready to take this ride, this all added up to a lot of uncertainties exactly the way i loved.

After a lot yes , no we gave our all luggage to a Bus conductor hoping we get them on reaching delhi and Mr sanjeev (the conductor) helped and assured us , Nice guy

We started off at 1:30 Pm from Dehradun and first 80Km was cakewalk non-stop, Me as usual back to racing at full throttle and we covered the distance faster we expected, Our first stoppage was a dhaba for taking chips and Cold-drink( A short one of 5 minutes, I was in no mood stopping), Next 40 km was pretty slow in driving as we were discussing and driving(saumz was eating alongwith :P)

Our next stoppage was this really nice cool kid “Sachin” helmet shop were we stopped to get my helmet fixed. This kid knows so much about helmets at this age that jus by seeing my helmet he told me the exact price of helmet, Also he got decent selling skills, I am impressed.

Here is the pic of saumya and sachin

Saumya trying hard to get me look good on pics :P

After stretching ourselves we started again and now at a better speed :), Saumya was brave enough to only beat me from behind to go at such a rash speed :D

We took a shot stretch this time of covering only 30 km and feeling hard to sit. So stopped for having the lunch , Which happened to be the “Fauji ka dabha” along the way, a perfect dabha place with naan and kaali daal(the defacto standard food in dabhas), We had tea, food and nice handpipe fresh water.

We had covered 150 km by now and last 100 km was left, It was easy smooth road till now. So we were sailing smooth and i was patting myself, unaware of the meerut area jam :P

We took from there at nice speed and non-stop zoomed till meerut, Stopping at meerut highway for two reasons, one my legs and hands were stiffing and second i was looking to take more pics. Since i was mostly behind cameras for my most of life, here again i am not in pictures :P

Our hamsfar old splendor (did i told somebody i finally got my own **Second hand** Bike)

From here the sawaari zoomed towards Meerut highway, We were getting late due to our breaks and we zoomed at nice peed from there , I was tired enough so was not going above 80.

But if you are with saumya and you are not stopping at a nice food joint , It`s a CRIME. So we stopped again at Nathu`s and had various stuff including Rasmalai, raj kachori, Shake etc. Now Gaurav needed to ride again with fully stuffed.

After eating i suddenly realized we are very short of time and thus zoomed at final speed only to find nice stuffed roads from modinagar :P, Saumya till now so tired that she barely can sit asked me never to try this adventure again :P

Finally reaching at mohannagar we called up our conductor sanjay to find he is in delhi , Agh now we have to go all along delhi. Again making faces i joined stuffed road to delh to ISBT. I nearly thought we lost our bag , But there are still good people in the world and we finally got our bag.

From there we moved again to one more food joint Macdonalds and finally home, I slept like a child after this wonderful journey , Guys if you need happiness get out of couch and get tired after work :)


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Apr 04 2008

Two new resolutions

Published by Gaurav Mishra under life

It`s not new year but making resolutions is a nice idea.

  • Will never be again late for any meeting, That`s a very very bad habit of mine
  • Will make less promises and will  make sure  i complete every one of them

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Apr 02 2008

Why people don`t raise voices ? Now i know why :)

Published by Gaurav Mishra under life

I was at Nizzamudin station this morning to say good bye to one of my wonderful friend Saumya to pune. After returning from there i decided to take a short route going round via nizammudin crossing and slums near nizammudin, On reaching the crossing i found it closed so decided to wait for gates to open.

After 5 minutes i realized that no bikers are stopping and were leaning and taking there bike from crossing gates, I decided to wait and count the number of bikes that break rules of not waiting at crossings. In next 20 minutes 78 bikes have passed by (No one stopped and asked the reason of closed gates).

After 25 minutes i was bored and tired seeing all robots just walking, So i decided to go and ask the person handling the gate. The man just frowned at my question and said this is the way it is and didn`t even tried entertainng me (I never know if even he would have heard about customer service , lolz).

I came back and stood near my bike for 2 minutes and then my evil mind decided to take another risk, This railway department stops normal routine of people, How about trying other way round, Let me stop trains that are crossing :D

I took my bike and placed bang in the middle of the track and stood far from my bike and waited for another train to come , with my luck it came in another 2 minutes. I smiled and start remembering my ADM uncle number :)

The train horned and stopped cursing the person, I found the man in charge of gates rushing and putting my bike off track (smashing my side lights) . I arrived at scene and took my bike claiming i have put it there, Suddenly the man is full of energy , the guard is full of energy abusing me and telling me about “kanooni karwahi” :P, I gladly gave them my bike number , my name and told them of two politicians name who happen to be my friends from the day of Y4E , Which made the guy slow . I asked him to lodge complaign , I wish he do it . Because if he didn`t i would be very very disappointed.

Do these guys really care for law ? I saw law enforcement when you disturb wrong doing of government, or when cops want to hurt people, I haven`t saw the world much , But more i am exploring , More i am dissapointed.

Your comments are invited , What would you have done if this would have happened with you ? , Will the world will go this way for ever ? . Sigh.

Back to work, Writing codes is far far better thing ,

Atleast they have a logic !

Update: Here is one story that is coming in my mind, A must read http://karatetraining.org/weblog/?p=867


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Mar 03 2008

Taare Zameen Par

Published by Gaurav Mishra under education, life

Last sunday i met some college students , since i was in no mood of doing work i decided making them victim of my Philosophical Talks, here is the conversation we had

Me: Hi

Students: Hi

Me: So watched any new movie which you all liked ?

Students:Yeah, Saw taarre zameen par , Amazing movie . Capturing real problems and emoion of Students and Young people.

( My thoughts:- Hmm , Nice intellectual Audience, Wootz that will be fun)

Me: Cool, Can you give me some insights of problems and Emotions captured ?

Students: Yeah of course, It truly tells the pressure and burden today students are into, We need to be free and then we can achive something. The World is giving us Wrong Eductaion !

(My thoughts: Jaw dropped, I left speechless for a minute)

Me : Hmm, Argh…, Well i think other way, Can i express my opinion ?

Students: Sure (Covered themselves and their mind before i spoke, As i am going to mark them as Fool :P )

Me: Ok, what i think is this movie indeed talked about problems in education , But in a different way. The problem is not the wrong education , the problem is monotonus education without giving any insight of children abilities, We need to highly improvise education system if we really want it to mean anything in future, I am largely seeing students studying without knowing purpose of education. I grow up with a slight belief that education is for gaining knowledge which seems to die in current education scenario,So give more of your time on learning rather than passing exams.

Students: Sure, Sir you are inspirng.

Me: Call me gaurav :) (I started hating this “Sir” syndrome )

This reminds me of a very motivating views of a person whom i respect a lot Mr. Gora Mohanty , You can read them here


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Feb 04 2008

Love Insights :)

Published by Gaurav Mishra under life

Well for a change let`s forget about marketing , let`s forget about technology…..

Focus on Love…:)

I was always trying hard to understand semantics and dynamics of love (if there is any), It seems stupid but being a very good motivator and public speaker, I am never able to speak my heart out in front of loved ones, Which always left me confused :D
So, What is Love ?, I started realizing that in nowadays (Yep, I mean metro life), Love is majorly meant Fear and insecurity. The world around you is moving so fast, People are running to be successful and  they are forgetting the essence. It`s not were you reach, it`s the path which gives you the essence and meaning.

I find myself be among one of them :), Bad yaar…

Well for a change, I am giving more importance to people around me from nowadays, Stop playing online games and chill times…..

In the end, A nice quote by Henry

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

……..Henry Ford


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Jan 19 2008

New Addition in Family

Published by Gaurav Mishra under life

Computers were always like family to me :P
Here is another one, New Lenovo 3000 G400. Black Sleek and Sexy.

Lenovo Laptop

Currently running good old Windows and ubuntu (fiesty)

Congtaz me , lolz


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