Limerickin' for life's sake

I've given up on writing meaningful posts. Or maybe I was never capable of writing them in the first place. Or maybe I am just suffering from a severe complex as closet poets and writers continue to amaze me with some really good works. Either way Limericking is something no one can take away from me :P

There was once a boy named Swinburn

He dreamt of building a monster contraption

Bhangale, Gaurav, Nikhil, Ankit and the remaining six

For 60 hours they did not shit or sleep, leaving everyone in a fix

Crowd's cheers and appreciation meant only one thing-they were the stars of Nirmaan

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There was a bored man

He liked sitting under the fan

The last hairs on his head stood tall

He went to a lady with a crystal ball

She said he was a descendant of the Ku-klux clan

_______ X________

The boy down the street stole a mango

He strutted down the street like the cowboy in Django

Lust and desire gleaming from his eyes

He went to Mc Donalds and picked up french fries

The idiot wouldn't go to bed, after all it takes two to tango

_______ X________

The dhobi's wife wore a blue saree

She cooked world famous gajjar ka halwa in godrej tomato puree

Babloo, her offspring had just one thing on his mind

Getting intimate with his neighbour's daughter,oh, she was so kind

As he tried, he got an injection on his butt, she was afterall the ghost of Madam Curie

_______ X________

The entire kingdom of Babylon lay in mourning

Pratap Kaul was their newly anointed King

About his subjects he didn't give a fuck

Throughout his life he never killed a duck

The madman persecuted all those who wore a wedding ring :P

_______ X________

Rishkul da is a mighty intelligent chap

If you don't give him logic and reason, be sure he'll snap

He is simple and humble and hardly ever mumbles,

But when he does, everyone laughs and tumbles

I'm pretty sure when he gets a dog, he'll name it NMAP (technical joke :P. For those who don't get the joke try engineering while you are alive!)

_______ X________

Hitesh is a handsome young boy from Udaipur

His heart lies with a girl in Jodhpur

At Jaisalmer their wedding date was set

Jaipur, was the town where they first met

He can't wait to get her into bed in Jaunpur

_______ X________

There we are done for now. Disclaimer: Any resemblance to any living person is totally incidental and intentional :)

Peace

An Update

Passing this semester seems a long shot :)

Irony is a beautiful concept :)

Limericking is still the way to while time :)

I hope SO(A)Ping helps me earn good karma :)

Passing this semester still seems a long shot :)

Stop and Think

We have bigger houses but smaller families;
more conveniences, but less time.
We have more degrees but less sense;
more knowledge but less judgment;
more experts, but more problems;
more medicines but less healthiness.
We’ve been all the way to the moon and back,
but have trouble in crossing the street to meet our new neighbour.
We built more computers to hold more copies than ever,
But have less real communication;
We have become long on quantity,
but short on quality.
These are times of fast foods but slow digestion;
Tall men but short characters;
Steep profits but shallow relationships.
It’s a time when there is much in the window
But nothing in the room.

— His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama

Dylan - God ?

How can one man be so gifted (*scratch my head day in day out). Poet, musician, and now a bloody Artist. BHENCHOD!

Click here to have your brains blown out...

Limerickin'

My fascination with Limericks officially began the day I picked up a Rs. 15/- (only) hardback from Strand Book Stall, one of my favourite places in Bombay. I started Limerickin ' with a couple of friends, and was instantly drawn to the simple pleasure and instant gratification it provided. Lectures are dull no more. So for the remaining engineer friends who still have some time to while in college and think lectures are hell, here is something you'll could occupy yourself with :) Where were you O limerick gods for twenty years of my life?

For those who want to read more :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limerick_(poetry)

I have tried hard to stick to the structure but Limericks are supposed to be nonsensically sensible, so there are no rules :P

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonsense_verse )

Here are some of my select works and collaborative works thus far :P

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Life is life, they say

It's alright in a way

Don't think too much

Onto thoughts, don't you clutch

Cause after night, there shall be day.

_______ X________

There lives a black boy in Malad

Who thinks he is fat and eats salad

He rides a stupid bike

But that is what he really likes

So he has moved on from being a dud to a cool black stud.

_______ X________

In America we have a friend named Randy

Who chugs down barrels of brandy

He loves wearing bras

And going to aroma therapy spas

Next, he'll try on a panty.

_______ X________

My best friend is leaving for Amrika

After all it is sawaal money ka

The pansy never got laid

And the loser didn't get paid

He ended up doing his makan-malik's harmonica.

_______ X________

One of my friends lives in Powai

I would rather call it Love-ai

This friend is getting a scalp disorder

There are(is) no hair round or border

The lice from the hair has gone on a Himalayan holiday.

_______ X________

My friend is getting married

In his pocket a condom he carried

On his wedding night he was horny as hell

At midnight someone rang the bell

'Twas his father-in-law demanding dowry and weed.

_______ X________

There was a young boy from Goregaon

His girfriend lived in Mazagaon

They went to college in Wadala

And they liked hanging out at Chakala

Their child is in a foster home in Asangaon.

_______ X________

There is a naked hairy bloke in Mahim

He never really liked hitting the gym

The cranky bugger was a head banger

He didn't know hangar from hang-her

And his head is a psychedelic bin.

_______ X________

In walks the bearer of light

She knows wrong from right

Hope and happyness she does radiate

Travelling the world eradicating hate

She is bright, come day come night.

_______ X________

A girl named Juno walked the streets

Virtually, she existed through her tweets

In her prime she was a sight to behold

She got many whistles, then she grew old

She then killed Bruno, her tropical parakeet.

_______ X________

A guy named Gaurav is a guitar playing dude

His new fetish is cooking good food

He writes prose in complicated metaphors

Sketching and cartooning, fulfilling everyone's favours

All this in the pursuit of a girl and getting nude.

_______ X________

Gurtej is an intelligent brilliant surd

He likes eating his paneer parathas with curd

Girls throng him like a swarm of bees

His mischievous smile makes them go weak in their knees

All guys envy him, all girls worship him, he is one gabru Punjabi mard.

_______ X________

Ashwathi Nambiar is never in time

To me, only murder is a more serious crime

She is in love with a much older George Clooney

She dances anywhere like a stoned drunk looney

Ashwathi Nambiar, is a serial heartbreaker and shaa she can't even rhyme.

_______ X________

Abhijeet Badrike is a tall thin bloke

Ten thousand chickens, in his lifetime he did fork

He has an answer to everone's question

Getting an ass-whooping from time to time is his part time profession

He is tired of birds and is moving on to pork.

_______ X________

Rishkul Kulkarni is a lazy person

Plays a guitar and calls it Gibson

He writes on a blog called Suburban Sounds

The smell from his tabela makes his girfriend go round and round

His face is always serene, he is a man for all seasons.

_______ X________

There goes Mr. Rollercoaster Rumble

Down the hill, he took a tumble

And up a loop he went again

Trying hard to strangle the pain

And at the same time solving a crossword jumble.

_______ X________

We are in our final year

the exit to the big bad world draws near

We leave behind people and memories

The two entities are not very different from chalk and cheese

We would rather smile than shed a tear

_______ X________ _______ X________

There we are. first set of limericks :) Hope you like them. Towards the end I have taken the freedom to mention a few names (for the first time on my blog, I must add) So it is only right I end with a disclaimer

"Any resemblance to any person, living or dead is purely co-incidental and unintentional " :)

Cheers!

(p.s: limericks 2,4,5 and the last one are in collaboration with mr. yugandhar garde !)

Rollercoaster Rumble

The journey so far has been an enthralling ride,

Satisfying everyone involved, massaging the young man's pride,

The course less travelled he decided to take,

To this he was repeatedly told, " You are making a big mistake. "

The young man was surrounded by people who cared,

"We are telling you the right thing ", hold this in good stead,

But what about the things he held right?

The turmoil was just beginning, he was in for a rough long night.

Inner strife, disdain, dislike,

Playing the cards wrong was the easier choice,

This is what the young man had been brought up to believe,

A programmed life brings joy,brings glee.

Maybe the path oft taken is better,

Getting to Xanadu that much simpler,a lot more safer,

Money and shelter isn't even a relevant question,

But what about Happyness? , the young man doesn't want to head down this road to perdition.

The young man doesn't know what he wants (yet),

But he knows what he doesn't,

Carpe diem is what he tells all and sundry,

The cacophony of laughs modulates his sweet melancholy.

Soon, feelings of anger and frustration take flight,

The young man wants to rebel, he won't go down without a fight,

"I was educated to let me think on my own"

"You are still a long way from done, young man", is what he was curtly told.

Happyness is what his heart seeks,

Making people unhappy isn't, he weeps,

He asks himself, "Why is happyness so hard to get?"

"It is the pursuit of it which is hard", he tells himself, "and in the end it's worth much more than money can get"

Hmm, life is a rollercoaster he rightly concludes,

The highs and lows are part and parcel, mere interludes,

"The rollercoaster can never stop rumbling" , he assures himself,

It may be riding low now, but it will surely rise again.

-Pratap Kaul

(Happiness is spelt happyness, because for me the movie has changed the spelling of the word for good. The 'education' line is inspired from The Dead Poets Society.

Wrote this last night after limericking all day with a couple of friends. Any resemblance to any person living or dead is coincidental :) )

Education

"I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself "

- John Keating

(Robin Williams in The Dead Poets Society)

Good News: Placements Happening Soon!

Spotted this at Mahim Station. So all f-r-a-s-e-r-s are invited to take up " a pleasure position job" eh ? Why do we even mull over placements when we have such kind people offering us pleasing jobs. Any takers? Have cropped out the number on purpose. If anyone is interested in "pleasure postion job" get in touch with me. I shall hook you up with the gifted business person! * pun intended :)

Cheers to Shah Piles Clinic and Balbir Pasha and Call centres who keep us company on train journeys and always bring a smile to our faces !

p.s : came across this somewhere else. priceless !

:)

The Anything Quiz

My first attempt at being Quizmaster. (for those who missed it and wanted to see it, here it is!)

The Anything Quiz

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Cheers! :)

My first Quiz :)

I conducted my first quiz with SPQC today. Had spend a lot of time over the vacation making the quiz. The main objectives of the quiz were :

1. High Scoring (it feels good to be in triple digits. Ego boosting :D)

2. Plenty of easy ones (for the quizzers who feel they don't/didn't belong, I think they would feel a lot more at home now! )

3. More visuals (always feels good to see rather than read )

4. Basic General Knowledge, Trivia ('trivia'l/useless knowledge according to badri :D), the kind of questions we were asked in our History-Civics exams. It aint that trivial!

5. Minimising negatives. Encouraging shameless guessing.

6. Introducing new kind of connect questions.

7. The "ooh-aah" factor. Always very important to satisfy the audience and quizmaster alike :)

8. A lot of smiles...

So considering all the above factors I think I did alright. And judging by people's response, the ooh-aah's, applause and appreciation, all the effort was worth it :)

Would love to do it all over again. Good fun. And I encourage everyone who thinks they can't make a quiz to try their hand at it. It is a thoroughly satisfying and enjoyable process!

Cheers to the Sardar Patel Quiz Club and its honourable founders :D !