my fav beer quotes

"A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her."

"Everybody has to believe in something.....I believe I'll have another drink."

"I drink to make other people interesting."

"He was a wise man who invented beer."

"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day."

"Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world."

Who does not love beer, wine, women and song remains a fool his whole life long."

"When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading."

24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence?

"When we drink, we get drunk. When we get drunk, we fall asleep. When we fall asleep, we commit no sin. When we commit no sin, we go to heaven. Sooooo, let's all get drunk and go to heaven!"

"Beer: Helping ugly people have sex since 1862!"

"Beer that is not drunk had missed its vocation."

I work until beer o’clock."

"If beer and women aren't the answer, then you're asking the wrong questions."

"Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me."

“The mouth of a perfectly happy man is filled with beer.”

“Pretty women make us BUY beer. Ugly women make us DRINK beer.”

I never met a pub I didn't like.

Time is never wasted when you're wasted all the time.

finally the best reason to drink beer...too good....


"Well ya see, Norm, it's like this... A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members. In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Excessive intake of alcohol, as we know, kills brain cells. But naturally, it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine. That's why you always feel smarter after a few beers."

salaam mumbai

its a city where pple are fond of running around(at least they give this impression).....
stale smell all around......crumbling infrastructure......irrational real estate prices.....nothing seems good about this city....
the endless comparisions between delhi and mumbai will never end.....
best part of 1st yr in mumbai was spent cribbin bout the city.....nvr endin traffic jams.....peculiar way of mumbaikars to call others with a cheap kiss-like act.....mumbai way of talkin.....everything...
but mumbai grows on u with time....though all wrong things bout mumbai will stay...but still mumbai makes u wanna stay back
2 yrs spent in mumbai surely were special...
rains at band stand....
sizzlers at carter road....
train journeys to colaba....
beer and cheese toast at mondy's..... egg naan and panner bhurji at bade miyan....
karaoke at tunga....
killin hours at ccd powai...
taking a leak at hilton...
jumbo king vada pao...
cutting and vada pao outside nitie gate....
poison and enigma....
smokin joe's pizzas
happy hours at pop tates.... :)
late nite rides to bandra...
bewdaa nite outs....
hiranandani....

the beer diaries:

i am in the business of spreading happyness.....my work is to make sure more and more pple drink beer....responsibly as we proudly say....but frankly we wont mind any one gettin sloshed by gulping 3-4 bottles of foster's/haywards 5000/royal challenge/haywards black/knock out/castle lager.
i work for SABMiller...the largest beer company in the world today. we want to make sure indians drink more and we want government to allow us to achieve this noble aim by easing the policies. our country still lags way behind in consumption of beer....per capita consumption of 1 ltr per yr compared to global avg of 22.....czech republicans consume 156 ltr beer per yr per person....must be a very happy nation....
our vision....to take india higher
our mission....not leave anyone sober

till the time inbev acquires budweiser, SAbMiller will continue to be the largest beer company in the world....not a bad place to start a career in sales and marketing after completing mba from premier b-school of country. i had dreamt of this....a top notch mnc....lots of travel.....staying at best places.....flying all across the nation with those fancy travel bags and wearing business suits.

honeymoon started wen we joined in bangalore...stay at a lavish guest house....chauffer driven cab at disposal....welcome party at a hep place with unlimited foster's. for quite a while we were the big blue eyed boys....back to back ppts from all the big shots discussing strategies for all brands and business development..
the first tryst with reality happened wen company made travel arrangements to send us to delhi for regional induction....the blue eyed boys that are paid about 1600 bucks a day travelled in a train that took only 42 hrs to reach delhi....
dreadful policy num 1....no air travel allowed....ofcourse we can spend and travel if we want to...
royal treatment continued in delhi durin regional induction.....thought of delectable north indian food for heavy lunch is still mouth watering...one more party...this time at 'club saphire' in gurgaon....needless to mention bout unlimited foster's again...bakra halal karne se pehle party
4 of us were sent for brewery visit to god forsaken place called neemrana in rajasthan...we were supposed to learn how beer is made....the highlight of the visit was tasting the chilled freshest draught beer ever... 3 days in neemrana...had it been more than that then maybe boredom would have claimed some lives...
thank god we came back to gurgaon for 2-3 days before i and one more MT were sent to jaipur for a one month sales stint... august in jaipur.....september in delhi......oct-dec in bangalore.....jan in hyd...feb in delhi/bangalore.....march in aurangabad.....this is gonna be my life in coming 9 mnths... dreadful policy no 2.....we have to arrange for our accomodation at every place from the day of arrival onwards....use our hra for our stay....our company firmly believes that gettin a place to live fr a mnth is like a walk in park....we have been adviced to stay with frnds :)
so here we are...2 of us in jaipur... the royal treatment is over.....for the past one week we have been travelling to daru ka thekas in burning heat and hot sun laughing down at us....someday the salesmen take us separately on bike, someday on the extinct bajaj chetak.... theka( wine shop) is not the best place to spend bulk of your day when passing by ladies look at u as if u r the social evil personified.... neways...past one week has been very similar.....dust...sun....wineshops.....daily sales report....drinking ghat ghat ka pani....eatin at roadside dhabas....this is just the beginning...

cricket----an emotional affair

India won the world cup in 1983 about a month before I was born. That means I have witnessed only one Indian world cup victory in my life so far. It happened in 20-20, the format which we had not been dreaming of winning but a world cup is a world cup after all.

Cricket is more than a game for most of the people in this country. Some define it as a religion here. For me it’s the greatest passion I have had. There have been many unforgettable memories that this wonderful passion has given me. One unpleasant occasion that I will never forget is that I flunked for the first time in my life in biology in std 9 becoz I cud nt stop myself from watching the India-pakistan match during the independence cup.

My relation with cricket goes back to as far as I can remember. I still remember mcgrath splitting the helmet of the young sachin tendulkar with a hostile bouncer in the 1992 world cup. How I thought we were going to be the first team to beat newzealand in that tournament which we didn’t. I remember following five world cups from 1992 to 2007, not to mention all the cricket I followed between those world cups. Like most of the Indians I also consoled myself with the brilliant performance my sachin to be the top scorer in 1996 and 2003 and the fact that we have always defeated Pakistan whenever we have played against them in the world cups. After the 20-20 quest we can say that we never lost to them as one match ended in a nail biting tie.

What has been happening in cricket is very comparable to how we have been growing as a nation in this world. We have for long been the nation that tend to overlook the failure of team and enjoy the records that some outstanding individuals hold. We people are not much bothered about loosing to aussies but we are really concerned about sachin’s record for most test centuries that is under threat from ricky ponting. What could be the reason for this attitude. Why the hell are we too docile to just accept the defeats and just feel happy with some sparkling individual performances? Maybe it has something to do with the history of our country. Maybe becoz of the lack of self belief.

Is all of this going to change. Will the young and vibrant India make its mark in cricket also like it has been doing in the world economy. We are being recognized as the emerging power in the world. The people responsible for that are the youngsters who are not afraid to spread their wings. Its such a delightful sight to see an aggressive sreeshant sledging hayden on the cricket field. He epitomises the attitude of today’s India. The future lies in the hand of these youngsters who have the appetite for success. They certainly need guidance from the stalwarts like sachin, saurav, rahul and anil but they need the freedom to play. The seniors should be willing to hand over the reigns to the future performers. I had a diary in which I wrote down all the scores of sachin for 4 continuous years. I worried about the time when he would have to retire. It will still be very sad to see him depart but there is no fear about the future after his departure.

Nobody missed the three biggies after we won the 20-20 world cup. Success is very sweet and the game is always bigger than the players. Indian fans wont complain about departure of their heroes if team India delights them with the taste of success more often. More importantly players like sachin and rahul deserve to leave like warnie and mcgrath did, at the top of their game. Let the question being asked at the time of their exit be why rather than why not……

MBA------Movies Bakar Aaram

staying up all nite for finishing the never ending assignments............giving presentations throughout the week........if u get to sleep more 5-6 hours in a day it would be luxury......this was supposed to be the mba in the coveted b-schools across the world i guess.....this is how i imagined the lifestyle is goin to be like when i entered NITIE bout 15 mnths before........
the experience thankfully however has been quite the opposite......except for the first module it has been like a vacation..........an idyllic campus surrounded by lakes.....greenery all around.......(this place could have been a resort instead).......cozy single rooms.....all these things make the stay here very comfortable indeed.....
unlike all the articles that the outer world reads about the grilling day in the life of an mba grad.....most of us spend the day sleepin for bout 9-10 hours.........if u hav large apetite for movies then u have plenty of time to see atleast 2 in a day(i guess thats y laptops are considered so vital for completing mba).......and most of the nite outs happen by the virtue of the great bakar sessions.....well it wud be unfair to say that there is nothin really to study here......pple who are really fond of studying can achieve a lot with the resources available.........but for the ones like me(believe me thr are plenty around here) there is no excuse to waste this precious time by studying......the best part is that the 75 % attendance rule only exists on paper........u can enjoy those morning sleeps after missing the lectures and at worse u end up doin an extra assignment at the end of the module.......not a bad trade off at all considering that the learning in that morning class is not worth the effort.....
5 mnths still left for this honeymoon to get over........and after that office will be back to haunt the life once again and this time that demon is goin to stay........