Frogsaresexy!!??!?

I think it’s high time I answered that question….

It has all to do with the timing I started the blog actually. We had 6 days of holidays around Dussera last year, if I remember correctly. 2 days into it, I was freakin bored. Everyone either went out of station or were busy with placements and things like that. Frustrated with the boredom, hungry for some excitement and craze, I thought of starting with a blog and while I was thinking of  a name for it… have no clue what I was thinking but the first thing that came to mind was frogs. At first I had frogsarecrazy in mind…but whats more crazy than making frogs crazy?…making them sexy… : p

When you start being crazy and start getting cheap thrills out of it, craziness itself will then take over you… and  I opened a blog with the name frogsaresexy and then went on to write my first posts about underwears and visiting the boys’ toilet…. : p

well to be honest, it did work, the response was better than expected….

few freaked out, few laughed like crazy, few were like “YACKKKKK”. Listing out a few verbal reactions about the term:

“frogs??!!….pj man….I knew there was something unworldly about you.”
“….fine….but why frogs??!?! and why sexy??!!”.
“…no normal guy will have such a blog name macha….something seriously wrong with him….”
“…you find frogs sexy!!??!!!!”.

to some of them I told frogs were going extinct and I was supporting the cause of protecting them, and guess what….some of them actually thought it was true….few others  argued that I could not be right as they found loads of frogs around their own house,well, I did enjoy every point they made to prove me wrong….

After all the nonsense I guess its time to be ‘normal’….or atleast behave normal….:p…so starting over with a new blog name….see you there….

Paintball 2

screen shot of epaper

Our paintball picture came out in the paper- DNA,After hours, jan 2oth, pg 4 (I was told we would have made it to pg.3 if it wasn’t for NC’s bad behavior on the battleground) as far I remember there was this only one time I wore a mask for a snap and that is the one which makes it to the newspaper : p. Anyways…thanks a lot to Rashmi (my journalist friend)…

P.S: will surely put up a better picture of the article in some time.

Paint Ball

The Red Team

VK had once mentioned about it when i was in 3rd sem sometime. Having watched it on discovery kids…I had thought it was kiddish and ignored it. I don’t know how it all worked out but suddenly  one fine day 12 of us ended up going to play paintball. Though I still haven’t been able to make out whether it was kiddish or not, it was a lot of fun….

location: Bannergatta Rd.
occasion: semester vacation (jan 2009)
headcount: 12 of us
cost:500/- per head

The Event:

split into 2 teams (6 each). 3 rounds of play 1st one: the team losing all its players first loses, 2nd and 3rd was something to do with posting flags in the opponent team’s base., 20 bullets per round. My team won…nothing great actually…the other team sucked.

We had ammo left so we could make our own 4th round- whoever hit NC the most number of times wins. In the excitement everyone lost count…so wonder who won.

@ the end of the day:

Felt 3 rounds were too short, but it was total fun. And oh ya… the pellets really hurt.

All of us

Hitting Bull’s Eye

When Arjuna told  prof. Dronacharya that all he could see was the eye of  the bird and noting else, did he mean it literally..??!!…or is the answer to that…’obviously not…’?!!….hmmmm….

Technically speaking, after all, what does it take to hit bull’s eye. Just raise your arm to the level of the eye, align the sight of the gun, your eye and the bull’s eye to be in one straight line and then take your shot….’that’s all…’??!!…does the simplicity in stating the way to execute  make the goal any easier?. All those who have tried it will surely know that, this ease is just an illusion. Our brain is the only physical part of our body that can do all these math, unfortunately our brain can hardly do anything by itself….

Before starting to cook let us first have a look at the key ingredients. Or in other words, prerequisites to hit Bull’s eye:
1> intent
2>mental strength,perseverance: getting over the demotivating factor of the possibility of  you not getting there at all, while you’re aiming. It might only be  mature to be practical in your approach and think about for what you’re doing it?, do you really want it?, will you really get there?, but when you have taken stance to aim, it’s not the time for all these thoughts .
3>physical fitness!!?…yep…try holding up a book or something like you would hold a gun and see for how long you can keep it steady, you’ll know what I’m talking about.

All the three mentioned above work together to achieve one common goal….to attain a state of concentration. The human mind is much faster, smarter, intelligent and clever than the human himself, its the seat of the human skill. Concentrating is all about freeing the mind from everything else but for the purpose you want to use it for and giving over the control of  your complete body to it….how much conscious effort does it take to get attain  concentration??!!…i don’t really know…

With all this said, can we now hit bull’s eye??!!… Then how is it that we actually get there… the answer is trivial. Practice, practice, practice….. practice till you can strike at will with the least of efforts…

So there’s no way anyone can do it at first shot??… I would say “impossible”. Just in case anyone happens to do it….while he stands there raising his gun in triumph and so filled with pride, while all the people watching are amazed, I would say “you moron….you never hit bull’s eye….the bullet did….you haven’t got it till you worked for it….you fool…”.

So where does the factor of inherit skill come in??..so anybody can do it..??!!…well…skill just makes you get there faster, also, it is the inherited instincts that gives the drive to keep going. As far as the second question is concerned I don’t have an answer…

After all the work comes the time for deliverance/performance. He is given 4 shots to hit, having missed the 1st 2 times he takes center stage again. He takes his stance and holds up his gun to strike .He then takes time…time just enough to get over all thoughts, to get over the complacency, to overcome fear but still less enough to avoid mental and physical fatigue, till the time when ‘all that he can see is the bull’s eye’ and then taking his final breath before the shot, he pulls the trigger….

There is the moment he hits the target, that is the moment he conquers the world, that is the moment he conquers himself, that is the moment he punches the air and says “BULLSEYE”….

P.S: I’m no shooter neither am i any sports psychologist myself, so just in case any of these qualified people happen to read this post please to comment if I have, technically, made any blunders. After all even I would want to know, in my efforts of expressing thoughts metaphorically, in the process of using bull’s eye, how much bullshit have I written in reality.

Heroes

My  salutations and great respects to all mentioned below, you are our true Heroes….

Mukesh B Jadhav – Home guard constable
Jayanth Patil – constable
Yogesh Patil – constable
Ambadas Pawar – constable
M C Choudhary – railway police
Gajendra Singh – NSG commando
Shashank Shinde – inspector
Prakash More – sub inspector
A R Chitte – constable
Rahul S Shinde – SRPF constable
Tukaram G Omble – asst. sub inspector
Balasaheb Bhonsale – sub inspector
Bapusaheb Durgude – sub inspector
Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan – NSG commando
Vijay Salaskar – sr. police inspector
Ashok Kamthe – additional cp
Hemanth Karkare – ATS chief

and most importantly to THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER…..

and also…

I’m sorry I don’t remember his name….but I bow in honour to the constable at the railway station who stood guard at the gate…. ran inside to face the terrorists with the AK47s himself having  just a laathi while the entire mob was running out in fear…..  unaware of the cctv which was capturing his valour….

it is a shame that all we can do is salute them….but let us atleast do that sincerely and with a sense of nationalism….