Missing dog (Day 56)

I got 2 (Popi & Rooney) dogs. Both of them are kinda wild (not biting ppl wild) and very very naughty. My uncle brought them from his fren 5yrs ago, they were so cute and small back then. Today around evening we found out that Popi didn't return home. We search around the house but he's still missing. Here, if a dog didn't return home for a day in winter will mean only one thing, he's got eaten by dog eater :( hope he return home soon. Day 56.

Pride of Manipur (Day 55)

Today Suranjoy & Mary Kom lost their respective weight category (Boxing) Semi-Final against China opposition and settle for Bronze medal @ Asian Games. They are the pride of Manipur who do well in almost all the competition they took part. This time around they did well too but since this year asian games were held in China, they got the advantages of home crowd. Best wishes to both player :) Day 55.

Delay illness (Day 54)

7:00pm (sharp), 3:00pm (sharp), 10:00am (sharp). . . . . Almost all of the invitation, ticket for some event in Manipur will all bear the word "sharp" after the time of the event, and my question is why would they put it there ?? There's no way any organiser will honour the meaning of the word. I've been to numerous event, and almost every event will start atleast 1hr after the actually timing. About 8yrs back there was this event near our place, on ticket the start timing was 7:00pm (sharp) but they won't start the event till midnight so i went home pissed with the organiser. That delay illness is so contagious that even when we (among frens) organised a lunch party or something, we end up postponing the event to next day cuz of delaying things around. I'm not saying i'm perfect, i also do some delaying on things too but i can see that this delaying illness that are spreading among the youth of today is dangerous. Hope we don't make this not so good habit ruin our lives. Day 54.

Bryan Adams !! here i come :) (Day 53)

Who would believe me if i say i'm going to a Bryan Adams concert to my friends here? no one would. That is cuz i have never travel outside our state. Yes, i'm 23 but haven't sit on an airplane before. Lets get to the point, so 3 days back i heard about Bryan Adams coming to India in Feb next year and playing some gig. He's one of my fav artist and this visit might become his last or whatever. So, this is my one chance to see him !! I told my friend's bro about the concert jokingly and he was like "lets watch it, i'm going to Delhi anyway to buy some toys for my shop". That small talk gonna take a giant leap on my life :P Today, i have bought the ticket for the gig online. It cost 4270 (Indian Rupee) for 2 tickets. Cannot believe i'm gonna travel out of my state for the first time to see a concert, i'm so cool :D "Delhi Khongchat" is on. Day 53.

Asian Games is on ?? (Day 52)

Oi, i just found out today that Asian Games is already started. This is so not cool, i was suppose to follow the games religiously but i completely forgot about it. Upto now India got 6 Gold, 11 Silver and 16 Bronze medal, with China leading the lot. I should start watching the games from tomorrow. Now i'm off to sleep :) Come on India !! Day 52.

Rock vs HipHop (Day 51)

Rock vs HipHop !! Sounds cool right ?? Yes, it is cool. Whats more cooler than that is police commando beating up the audience. Maybe a canceled concert is way more cooler than both. *full of sarcasm* Like Rockfest, i have been planning to see this concert for months. Even that Manipuri song concert were a trail run for me, to see how it feels to attend a gig @ B.O.A.T. (yes, i have never been to B.O.A.T. before). We reach late at the venue and they have already canceled the gig saying police commando start beating some of the audience and they stopped the concert too. I don't know the exact situation but i think some drunk audience start fighting and to control the crowd police stopped the concert. My last concert for the year goes down the drain. Good night. Day 51.

Pottermania (Day 50)

Every Potter mania have been waiting for this day, the release day of Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows (Part 1). As always i won't be able to see the movies until they release it on dvd but as everyone i'm super excited. This is the 1st installment of Harry Potter last book, 2nd installment will release on 2011 and i'm planning to watch first day first show that time. When i first start reading Harry Potter series, i wasn't really a kid. I must be around 18yrs old. To be honest, i thought itz a kid book earlier but when start reading out of curiousity i got hooked to it and the good thing is i start reading it right before "Half Blood Prince" (book) were about to get release which catapult my interest to the series even higher. Upto now i have read the complete series 5/6 times. when i first started, 50 seems big number but today i'm writing my 50th blog post. I'm proud of me ;) Day 50.

(un)creative (Day 49)

Ahhh, it is one of those days when nothing seems good to write. Maybe i'm just not inspired enough to write but the thing is there's nothing to inspired i write here on my blog, it should be just something which i saw or heard about it during the day. It just not my day. Sayonara :) Day 49.

Amazing Dan (Day 48)

I have read all of Dan Brown books except his latest work "The Lost Symbol". I wanted to buy it when it first came out to book stores but it was out of reach for me (you know, kinda pricey) but today i'm holding one in my hands (yup, i borrow it from a fren). Soon i'll drown my thoughts in Symbol, conspiracy theories, secret society and everything that Robert Langdon says. This is his 3rd book with Robert Langdon in it (The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons and The Lost Symbol). Without his controversial book "The Da Vinci Code", i'd never know who Dan Brown is. Well thanks to a fren who let me borrow it ;)

off to read.

Day 48.

Ningol Khudol (Day 47)

We got some ticket for a Manipuri song concert 'Ningol Khudol' @ B.O.A.T. and since we got the ticket for free, me and some of my buddies went there. Itz my first, i have never seen a Manipuri song concert (for real !!). We thought it would be fun but we thought wrong. This concert were organised by 'Global Wing' (networking business) who forgot to invite some of the best singer of our state, the concert were so lame that even some random member of the organiser started singing some oldies. 4 member sing the same song again n again, so we return home after spendin just 30min at the concert. I solemnly swear i'd never watch Manipuri song concert ever again. Btw Mandakini's 'waka waka' did light up the audience ;)

This Time for Manipur.

Day 47.

Mobile Service (Day 46)

I have bought 5 sim card of different service provider in past months in search of an ideal provider who can provide me with faster and reliable GPRS connection. Airtel, Aircel, Vodafone, Idea, B.S.N.L, Reliance.

Airtel: faster net connection but signal lost around midnight and since i'm a night owl, itz kinda frustrating.

Aircel: net medium speed, no signal lost at night time but net regularly cut off in matter of minutes. Not ideal for downloads.

Vodafone: very good for surfing, i do fb-ing, orkuting, tweeting using their internet pack. The low point about vodafone is that i can't surf web base site, i can only surf the wap version.

Idea: itz new in market so lots of problem in activating GPRS pack and all. The other day i activate their 10rs pack and surf like i also do and at the end of day i spend all of my balance from my main balance. They charge for the pack and never activate.

BSNL: its the fastest of all with 3G connection, even their GPRS is best of all but since its a government run provider, it lacks something. I found that they are always low on signal.

Reliance: lets not talk about reliance. They still did their account on paper. customer service is shit. Not interested.


Day 46.

The day that wasn't (Day 45)

I'm thinking today is the darkest (sporting) day of my life. It was suppose to be a joyous day but my fav F1 team "Ferrari" driver Fernando Alonso finished 7th at the final race (Abu Dhabi) and lost the championship to Sebastien Vettel (Red Bull) by 4points. Only Chelsea could have pull me up on a day like this but what can i say, i don't even want to remember the match. Both of my fav team let me down today. To finish off the bad day on high note i could only say that next season Alonso & Massa will make me proud and on Chelsea all i can say is there's many matches to play and i know we will do good. Day 45.

TWLOHA (Day 44)

Today is TWLOHA's day. It stands for "To Write LOVE On Her Arm", its an American Non-Profit organisation with a sole purpose to help present hope for people struggling with addiction, depression, self injury and thought of suicide. The small idea to help one person by Jamie Tworkowski turns into an inspiration for many to help live. Its been a yr since i first came to know about this org. I saw a fren -who were good to me when i was a bit depressed and was into self injury and having a thought of suicide- upload a pic on her twitpic account, Love written on her arm. I google it and found out about TWLOHA and how some of the famous musician were supporting it. for pete's sake it was an org. who helps people like myself (back then) so, itz kinda normal for me to like it and I even posted a pic with "Love" written on my arms to support the TWLOHA movement. If you are depressed and are kinda get thoughts of suicide, then talk with your frens or someone who is close to you. There's lots of people who are willing to listen and give comforting words. Suicide is not the solution. LOVE IS THE MOVEMENT !! Day 44.

Sonia visit (Day 43)

Chairperson of the U.P.A (Ruling government of India) Sonia Gandhi visited Manipur today and inaugurate our new 3 women's market (Ema/Nupi Keithel) and sanction 75crore of rupees to construct 3 more new women's market here. All for the good cause, with corruption on sky high most of the money will go to someone's personal account. Ibobi's goverment is becoming the most corrupted goverment of our time but i got a soft spot for him. He may be corrupted in some way but i see a lot of changes (infrastructure wise) in Manipur which is good. Atleast when some uncorrupted party take over the office, they don't have to focus on infrastructure. And speaking of Sonia Gandhi, if a leader from Delhi visit Manipur every 6months our Imphal city will become the cleanest city of India. Amen. Day 43.

I didn't see anything (Day 42)

I saw a funny thing in News today. Sonia Gandhi will visit our state tomorrow, cuz of that our state government is doing everything to clean up the city. Fresh paint of walls, road divider, traffic point and government buildings. Frisking by police doubled and places that Sonia will visit are off limit to civilian. The really funny part is they planted some new fully grown plants around the city for temporary. Yes, you heard it right. The plants roots are still wraped by plastic bag, they dig some soil put the plants with the plastic still wraped and cover it with some soil. I know Sonia visit is important to our state and they will do everything to impressed her but don't ya think this kinda temporary thingy for her is a bit insulting to us?? The government literally selling us in front of our fellow countrymen. Day 42.

Day 2 of Rockfest (Day 41)

Rockfest day 2 were suppose to be fun with guest artist, the winner of Rockfest 09 "Cleave" and the assurance from the organiser that the sound will be much better this time around but as we enjoyed a bit too much on last night gig we all are dead tired today. So, with heavy heart we had to let go of the Rockfest day 2 gig. All day didn't go to waste though, right now i'm on my bed listening to "Cleave" performance !! A+ for living near the gig venue ;) btw winner of this yr gig will be known tomorrow as i'm off to sleep now. Day 41.

Manipur Rockfest 2010 (Day 40)

There i was, head banging to some random heavy metal songs on a park -live performance- and suddenly i realized it is my first ever concert. So, itz really worth remember the day. We have been planning to attend this "Manipur Rockfest 2010" for a month now cuz my fren's little bro is taking part in it. Today earlier i bailed out of it and they were pissed but i thought 'what the hell' and joined them. We managed to buy 3ticket (yes, my fren's bro is a participant but no extra ticket for us) and we (6) manage to get in, undetected. Uttam were rocking the house when we went inside soon after that all the contestant played 3/4songs with an original number. In my view 'Kanglasha' & 'Chem weed FM' played really well and my fren's bro's band (dark distortion) were very unlucky to face a technical failure during the play and their vocal were a low point of for them but their original song were very good even with some technical failure again. Over all the Rockfest Day 1 rocks but i hope they fix the technical issues in day 2 and the sounds too. Over and out. Day 40.

Ningol Chakouba (Day 39)

To all women out there i wish you all a happy 'Ningol Chakouba'. It is the biggest festival of Manipur and it celebrates women. On this day our family with our married sisters will have a lunch together and will send them home with gifts. When our sisters get married and become parts of another family, this festival 'ningol chakouba' of Manipur will strengthen the bonds of our family. Btw with all the eating today, i'm off to sleep :P Day 39.

Chelsea vs Liverpool (Day 38)

Today in Barclays Premier League, we (Chelsea) played a super sunday fixture against Liverpool. Liverpool were struggling near the bottom of the table and Chelsea were 2 points clear at the top with a game in hand but this game was not an easy game for us as Liverpool are looking to start afresh and got nothing to lose at the moment and Chelsea got everythin to lose. Well we play like shit on 1st half and let Fernando Torres regain his form, a vital mistake as even though we played good at 2nd half it wasn't enough besides luck wasn't on our side. I'm little pissed that we lost but it feels little good that we helped Liverpool get the confidence that they should have in their fight from relegation. Day 38.

Diwali (Day 37)

HAPPY DIWALI to you all !! For those of you who doesn't know, it is one of the biggest festival in India. We called it the "festival of lights". And the best part of it is we don't even had a loadshedding today, itz a win-win situation. ;) So, as always we all went out drive around the city to see the lights and people and some fireworks (best view of fireworks - my place, upstairs) but this year, it wasn't that fun like last year. We didn't even use fireworks last year. Is it just me or the world just getting bored year by year :P Namaste. Day 37.

Everything Chelsea FC (Day 36)

Chelsea Football Club, what can i say about the club? Itz the champion of English Football and soon will conquer the European Champions League. when deciding which team you wanna support from English Premier League, 96% of fan living outside England will choose it from top 4 team of the league. So, when my time came to choose my team from Premier League (that was in 2003) i choose two teams - Liverpool (cuz of Gerrard) and Chelsea (cuz blue is my fav colour) - from the top 4 team. My support for Chelsea was cement when my fav footballer "Michael Ballack" moved to Chelsea from Bayern Munich in 2006, thats after 2 back to back title and i was proud enough to say i followed the best Football Club of the world before they win their 2nd Premier League title in 50yrs. We have already won 3 title in 6 season, we haven't won a league title for 50yrs and won 3 after i start followin the team. Just coincidence ?? Nope, i'm Chelsea FC's lucky charm ;) My dream is to watch Chelsea's match at the Bridge singing 'Blue is the colour' but since i live in India, the nearest i could be with ChelseaFC is the merchandise but since there's no Chelsea megastore in India (it would be nice if ChelseaFC gives something back to India's fan too) so, today i was searching for some wrist band and found a store which sell club merchandise (YES !!). There wasn't much of Chelsea's product, i bought 3 wrist band, 1 id card holder and some stickers. you know there's a lot of things of Manure United so i was little pissed and ask the owner of the shop why he didn't keep more chelsea's product and he told me that itz cuz Chelsea things are sold out faster. I was kinda happy that there's many of us than manure's ;) Keep the Blue flag flying high !! Day 36.

(un)whiz kid (Day 35)

There was a time when my computer crashed and i went all tense cuz i had no idea how to fix it. I'd run here and there, took my pc to this pc store. They will fixed it but after charging me 500rs for just formating my PC with a pirated copy of WindowsXP. Since then i have learned everything about computer, you won't believe but i even build a running website (my group website, yeah yeah we were kinda cool back then) and do all kinda things those whiz kid do at their computer. Somewhere along my computer whiz kid moment someone told me to choose computer as a career line, that freak me out cuz i wasn't planning that and i wanted to do something else. Fast forwarding to 7yrs, here i am unable to fix my old pc and without that something else. . . . . If only. Day 35.

Not in a mood (Day 34)

When it rains on winter season there's nothing that i wanted to say, i'd rather stay inside a blanket (i'm now) instead of writin a blog that nobody read but i just can't stop writing my blog. Oh God !! I'm actually writing of me not wanting to write a blog. Sweet !! I'm off to warmderland :D Day 34.

Miss Kut (Day 33)

Holy Moly !! Miss Kut (that was held last night) winner for this year gets 1 lakh rupees as a prize money. I think last year winner get about 50k rupees so its a huge jump in prize money (2lakh 25k rupees in total for top 3). I'm not saying that we are wasting money on this, all i'm saying is that Kut festival's Miss Kut is a big crowd puller and if the organiser contact and try to affiliate the contest with some top fashion school of India and give out scholarship to the winners then "Miss Kut" will become more meaningful, it could be a launchpad for this girls. Day 33.

Petrolllll ?? (Day 32)

Happy Kut !! What do you do to buy some fuel for your vehicle ?? I figure you drive to the pump give money to the attendent and they will filled up ur vehicle. Thats how normally we buy fuel for our vehicle. On other hand here in Manipur - since Naga organisation blocked national highway (our lifeline) to boycott Manipur's economic, it hit us pretty bad with food shortage and other utilities with that all the price were raise to double the amount we usually pay - we have to stand in a queue for hours, that too just to buy a mere 5 litres of fuel. I once wait 24hrs and got 5litres, sleep inside a car but today was different, we bought 40litres in 2hrs, standing in short queue for 4 times. I think its getting normal day by day, in about a month time the service will resume completely. I hope. Day 32.