The CAT RACE!!!

The CAT Race!!!
Its that time of the year again. The time when branches of UTI bank start seeing a huge rush outside their usually not so crowded bank. The time when people start realising there is not much time left to fulfill their Dollar Dreams. (Oops!! I shouln't refer it that way). The time when people starts taking note of their percentiles in the not so important mock RACE. Yes you got it right. Its the time when hundreds and thousands of young and old, guys and girls start buying their set of bell. And with these Bell the day dreaming of making full use of it starts. Yes they all want to BELL the CAT.


Are you in the RAT RACE?

The Rats wanted to Bell the Cat so that they can eat the cheese easily sans any fear.

What's the cheese here?

The winners gets it all. Big Money, Huge Responsibilties,Fame, Cover Photo in various magazines, And if you're lucky enough then may be chance to show-off yourself at the Prime Time on the idiot-box.

Why do YOU want CHEESE??? Why are you the RAT???

Just few years back there was a huge respect for Engineers and IT guys (Like me!!!). But now in a city like Bangalore where people say if you throw a stone it'll either hit a dog or will hit a software engineer you are just a part of the huge crowd. You're no longer different. There are so many YOU.You want to be different from the crowd. The problem is again there are so many YOU. There are so many YOU who want to be different. So all of YOU start fighting for that CHEESE. YOU have to somehow BELL the CAT. YOU're the RAT now.

You hate your master and you start wondering how will it feel to be in his position.You realise few years back your master was just like you and then he had some CHEESE which made him very powerful and your bloody MASTER. Getting that cheese wouldn't have been difficult but the problem is everyone is like YOU. All of YOU start wondering about the same thing. They all want to eat the CHEESE.So all of YOU start fighting for that CHEESE. YOU have to somehow BELL the CAT. YOU're the RAT now.

You just acquired your bachelor's degree . You don't want a regular 9 to 5 work. You don't want to sit at the same place all your life. You want to travel all around the world. Some one said you have to have some cheese for that extra punch in your life. You decide to have some cheese now.There are so many YOU. All of YOu wants that punch in their life.They all want to eat the CHEESE.So all of YOU start fighting for that CHEESE. YOU have to somehow BELL the CAT. YOU're the RAT now.

You saw in television that Mr X is going to be a rich man. He has just been hired by a bank who have shown a dream of making money at an astonishing rate to millions of people and Mr X will be working towards that dream. Mr X has to fulfill the dreams of millions. Millions want to be a millionaire. The bank thinks Mr X is the right man to do it. So they make him a millionaire. Mr X dream is fulfilled and now its upto him to make others a millionaire. You dont want to be the part of others group. You dont want anyone like Mr X to make millions for you. You want to be Mr. X, make millions for youself and in a process if possible make millions for others also. Mr X had cheese. You have to have the same cheese. The problem is there are so many YOU who don't need Mr. X but wants to be Mr. X. There are so many YOU.They all want to eat the CHEESE. So all of YOU start fighting for that CHEESE. YOU have to somehow BELL the CAT. YOU're the RAT now.

You had a girl-friend. You wanted to spend the rest of your life with her. She also wanted the same. But her parents didn't. They thought that love is not important. Cheese is all that counts. So she is married to a person having cheese. You want your revenge. You want the cheese. There are so many YOU. So many you, who have been betrayed by the girl or the parent just because they think love is not important. It is the cheese that counts.There are so many YOU.They all want to eat the CHEESE.So all of YOU start fighting for that CHEESE. YOU have to somehow BELL the CAT. YOU're the RAT now.


Welcome to the world of RATS. May you get your share of CHEESE.


Vatsy says he doesn't need the cheese. He doesn't want to be a RAT. He doesn't want to be the part of the RAT race or rather the CAT race.

He's different and he doesn't need the cheese to prove that he's different. He's the part of the crowd yet he stands out, he doesn't hate his master and he knows neither his subordinates hate him. He doesn't want to be a Mr X. He's not the part of the others group.He believes that there are somethings money can't buy and no cheese can get you that. And he doesn't want to take revenge just because somebody thought CHEESE is more important than LOVE.


Vatsy-Speaks!!!

Names People Have!!!

Names People Have!!!

Talking about names I told Aditya Tumul and Vivek Vatsal as names are so cool[They are cool otherwise also :)].
What if our names were in karnataka tradition. P A Aditya (For those who don't know its Patna Anil Aditya), It sounds as if we're talking about some P.A. (Personal Assistant) and not a software engineer.
For me it will be B B Vivek( Begusarai Balraj Vivek). It would have been so confusing for me , thinking whether people are calling me or my wife (B B).

Thank God I was not born in Karnataka (No offences to anyone!!!) South Indian names are long and generally very so difficult to pronounce.

Welcome to the world of names... Just think if people are given names according to their traits.

P K Gire and P K Dhutt will be the names for all the drunkards who have habit of falling down after few rounds of drinks

If marriages are done after matching names instead of horoscopes, guess with whom the famous writer Shoba De be married to. The BCCI chief Jaywant LeLe
Shobha De & Jaywant Lele

The Talwars and The Katarias will be arch business rivals.

Puneet Khare and Durga Khote will be the Bunty-Babli of the names world.
People with surname Kalra will be given a permanent bed in the hospital.

People in search of happiness will go to Anand Karade.. who i'm sure will make anyone happy.
Mitra's will be your best friends
And everyone who gets drowned will be called Dubey after death.

There was this one guy in my batch with his surname as prusty, and people replaced the letter U with O. No wonder he had a tough time dealing with all the sex Crazy Maniacs of the hostel.

My room-mate has his surname as Dusre, I'm sure his son will be called Teesre and grandson Chauthe and so on...
Another room-mate's surname is Sarkar, am still waiting for him to join politics.

More to Come... wait till

Vatsy-Speaks

The Name Game

Pilavullakandi Thekkeparambil Usha.

Does that ring any bell? Well its the full name of the famous Indian Athlete P T Usha. As a kid in a quiz contest I was asked if I know the full name of P T Usha (Prior to that I used to think her name was Petee Usha and not P T Usha.. How stupid of me). That day I came to know about the P T being her initials and not the name Petee.
Anyways I didn't get any points for that question and lost the quiz contest (FYI-There were many other questions also which were responsible for my loss). Then it was Quiz Master's turn to answer the unanswered questions. Pilavullakandi Thekkeparambil Usha, how did he pronounce that, I asked myself. I still cannot pronounce it and to be very frank I still don't remember it. This time the unanswered question was answered by the Best when it comes to answering the questions. GOOGLE.

Google also told me what does P T Usha's name actually signifies. Well her name has three parts, the IP Address, Subnet Mask and the Default Gateway. Figure out which one is which as per the explanation below.
The first name Pilavullakandi indicates the geographical origin, The Second name Thekkeparambil is the name of her "house" and finally the final part Usha is her Name.

One fine day a friend [I'm not going to take her name :)] asked me why do you all Biharis have two names. She was obviously referring to my two bihari classmates Aditya Tumul, Anshu Pratik and myself. I said, Good question.. I'll ask my GrandPa and will let you know.

But it really made me think. What if my name was something like that of P T Usha, B P Vivek or B P Vatsal. Or what if my GrandPa had known that I'll be studying and working in karnataka and named me according to karanataka tradition as B B Vivek or B B Vatsal or what I was named in the common north Indian way as Vivek Poddar.
All of it sounds so UnCool!!! (No offences to anyone!!!)

Vivek Vatsal or for that Aditya Tumul sounds so Cool and so Unique. Its so easy to get a mail-id with your full name (You never want your id to be Pilavullakandi_Thekkeparambil_Usha@gmail.com ... Nobody will ever mail you. Even the spammers and You will never get a message saying abhishek_sinha@gmail.com is not available. would you like to have ur id as abhishek_sinha_2232_36273@gmail.com)

Anyways I thought and thought and then thought some more. Why did my grandpa wanted to hide my family name. Why is my name not Vivek Poddar. (Though i dont have any regrets.. I am so much in love with my name )
Why does most of the biharis don't have their family name like other north Indians. Why is Kumar and Kumari most preferred second name in bihar (Thank God my name was not Vivek Kumar..or something more common like Abhishek Kumar. Whichever School I went to had Abhishek Kumar 1 Abhishek Kumar 2, Abhishek Kumar 3.. As if there is a 47% reservation for people with name Abhishek Kumar.)

I didn't have any answer to it. And I was not to keen on doing a Google on it, so i asked the person who knows it all. The Bond himself, Aditya Tumul. Abe why is your name Aditya Tumul and not Aditya Srivastava (Aditya Srivastava sounds so filmy. I kind of remember a movie with Abhishek Bachchan as Aditya Srivastava ). The Bond had an answer.
In Bihar the caste system is very prominent and people try not to reveal their caste as much as possible. He may be correct but I don't think it is very convincing.
I still don't have any concrete explanation for it. And I welcome if anyone having two names (People with second name Kumar are also welcome ) can drop in with their comments and the reason.


More about names.. coming soon..
Wait till


Vatsy-Speaks


JUST FYI
Wat google says about surnames....

Indian surnames, where formalized, fall into seven general types.
Patronymics and Ancestry, where the father's name or an ancester's given name is used in its original form or in a derived form (e.g. Aggarwal or Agrawal or Agrawala derived from the ancestor Agrasen).
Occupations ( Chaudhury, Patel or Patil meaning Village Headman, Gandhi, Kulkarni, Kapadia, Nadkarni, Patwardhan, Patwari, Chamar) and priestly distinctions (Trivedi, Chaturvedi, Twivedi, Purohit, Bhattar, Mukhopadhyay.) In addition many Parsi, Bohra and Gujarati families have used English trade names as last names since the 18th and 19th centuries (Contractor, Engineer, Builder).
Caste or clan names (Gaudar, Vaish, Parmar, Kamma, Sindhi).
Place names or names derived from places of ancestral origin (Marwari, Gawaskar, Mangeshkar, Kapoor, Karnad).
Muslim surnames, generally following the same rules used in Pakistan. Khan among the most popular, often signifying Afghan/Central Asian descent.
Bestowed titles or other honorifics (titles bestowed by Kings, Nawabs and other nobles before British Raj (Wali, Rai, Rao) and those bestowed by the British (Rai, Bahadur). In Bengal, it is also common custom to create hybrid surnames based on the previous last names and new titles (Raichoudhury)
Names indicating nobility or feudal associations or honorifics (Varma, Singh, Burman, Raja, Tagore, Thakur)
Colonial Surnames forced on natives based on tax or after religious conversion, particularly in Goa which was under Portuguese control (DeCruz, Pinto). Often, surnames of Portugene noble families were used as the surnames of the converted.
The convention is to write the first name followed by middle names and surname. It is common to use the father's first name as the middle name even though it is not universal. In some Indian states like Maharashtra, official documents list the family name first, followed by a comma and the given names.
It is customary for wives to take the surname of their husband after marriage. In modern times, in urban areas at least, this practice is not universal. In some rural areas, particularly in North India, wives may also take a new first name after their nupitals. Children inherit their surnames from their father.
In some parts of Southern India, no formal Surname is used, either because none is designated or because the family has decided to forgo its existing clan name. This practice is prevalent in Kerala where someone who belongs to the Nair (a corruption of "Nyakar" pointing to a warrior past) clan for example, could forgo its usage completely in modern times, preferring just to use the initials of the father, ancestral village or "house" instead. An example of this usage is the name of olympian P. T. Usha (Pilavullakandi Thekkeparambil Usha, where the first name indicates the geographical origin and the second is the name of her "house"). Wife or child takes the given name of the husband or father (Usha married Satish, and may therefore be called Usha Satish or simply S. Usha).
Sikhs generally use the words Singh ("lion") and Kaur ("princess") as surnames added to the otherwise unisex first names of men and women, respectively. It is also common to use a different surname after Singh in which case Singh or Kaur are used as middle names (Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Surinder Kaur Badal). In modern times, many Sikh women also use "Singh" as their last name following the western concept of patronymic or marital inheritance (Surinder K. Singh). Other middle names or honorifics that are sometimes used as surnames include Kumar, Dev, Lal, and Chand.
The modern day spellings of names originated when families translated their surnames to English, with no standardization across the country. Variations are regional, based on how the name was translated from the local language to English in the 18th, 19th or 20th centuries during British rule. Therefore, it is understood in the local traditions that Agrawal and Aggarwal represent the same name derived from Uttar Pradesh and Punjab respectively. Similarly, Tagore derives from Bengal while Thakur is from Hindi-speaking areas. The officially-recorded spellings tended to become the standard for that family. In the modern times, some states have attempted at standardization, particularly where the surnames were corrupted because of the early British insistence of shortening them for convinience. Thus Bandopadhyay became Banerji, Mukhopadhay became Mukherji, Chattopadhyay became Chatterji etc. This coupled with various other spelling variations created several surnames based on the original surnames. The West Bengal Government now insists on re-converting all the variations to their original form when the child is enrolled in school.
Some parts of Sri Lanka, Thailand, Myanmar, and Indonesia have similar patronymic customs as that of India.



Reference : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surname

Finally..... Vatsy Speaks!!!

After 5 unsuccessful attempts spread over last 15 days I've finally arrived in the world of bloggers.
They say(Don't ask me who.. Even I don't know ) if you cross the first hurdle then eventually at some point of time you'll reach the last hurdle.
For me the problem was at the first hurdle. To think of something creative as my profile-id was a tough task. I did do a lot of research but couldn't come up with anything creative so finally settled with Vatsy-Speaks. Though it's not the best of the ideas that came up in my mind but this one is certainly the simplest of them all.

So what is Vatsy going to speak about. Is it going to be personal experiences, or about individuals, or topics like why is Bangalore so crowded or may be why do Terrorists have to do a blast in local train in Mumbai at peak time or something philosophical like why don't you get everything you want in Life?

Well its gonna be little bit of everything (That's what I've thought of till now) depending on my mood. And for those who don't know my status messages on Yahoo! and G-Talk are a general indication of my mood. So if I do happen to make an entry in the blog its generally going to be the description of the status message on that day.

More to come... Till then...

Wait for Vatsy to Speak!!!!