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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Yeah, right !!! (Day 30)

I saw an announcement some days back that they are organising a Asian Cine week and will show some of the award winning Japanese documentary film. So as i'm very interested in foreign movies i planned to watch it with some friends but something always come up at last minute and we always cancel the visit. Today was no different either, heard it will be over by tomorrow. Hope i could go, will wait and see. Day 30.

Winter+dust season (Day 29)

Well, it is just me or everything in around Imphal city looks dull and dusty ?? And itz one of the top 100 cleaniest city of India. I wonder how clean that top city is. If our dirty city is in 100 top city then that top city must not be like a heaven in cleaning department (just saying). Our city are in ruin cuz of all repairing things so, itz kinda a bit messy and as winter comes its even messier. Its dry in winter here so dust flying everywhere and making the road all fog up in evening. Well, if i got out for a drive outside then i should definitely wash my hair. :P having a great time here :) Day 29.

Are Korean movies a bad influence to our youth ?? (Day 28)

I came across a topic called "is (south) korean film good for youth (of Manipur) ?" on Kangla Online (Manipur leading online news portal), the author's view is that since Korean film were introduced in Manipur, today's youth are abandoning their identity imitating the Korean style and learning to speak in Korean instead. The author think its not good to watch Korean movie. Well, my view is that since Korean movies were introduce to Manipur's youth, we are getting more independent and a lot better on fashion sense. Now when we go out of the state we doesn't look like a people from far away rural places. We get respect that we deserve from our country man frm other state. So, my view is it doesn't harm our youth but makes a better person. We dress like them but we never lose our identity or our culture by it. All i wanted to say is that its not wise to blame other's culture just because some of our youth turn into badass kid. FYI Korea are one of the leading producer of world changing technology and preserve their culture. Thats all. . . . Day 28.

Some problem (Day 27)

When i started this '1 post a day' thing, i know i'd face lots of deadline problem (i'm not comfortable with deadline) but have never thought my pc would break down, not just that i'm facing another problem cuz of frequent power cut. Well you all know i'm posting my blog from my cellphone and cuz of power cut i'm having 'battery low' crisis now, and at certain time of day mobile signal gets all time low, this kinda incident proves that nothing really works in Manipur, hope i get to see the change soon. P.S. I'm writing 1 post a day but i'm having problem in posting the blog and posting 2 post at same day doesn't look good so, even if i post the blog a day late i'd tweak a bit to show the actual date of writing. Thank You. :) Day 27.

Scam awareness (Day 19)

Are we that dumb ?? Rs. 30crore duped by pyramid scheme fraud in Manipur. If this is the first time, i won't use the word 'dumb' but this must be 5/6 time people were duped by this - looks legit - business know as Pyramid Scheme. As the name suggest its a pyramid based business, you have to recruit 2/3 people under you and they will recruit some under them so on making a pyramid. Its a fact that 99% of the people who join this scam will loss their money and that 1% will make money out of that 99% people who lost. That 1% are people who were on top of pyramid and they are just a fancy ad that the business work (it isn't, don't be dumb) and those 1% of people doesn't gain anything. Latest scam in Manipur duped Rs30crore from 2000 people, on average 1 person lost about rs 4lakh thats a lifetime saving for some. Just think what will you do if someone duped all of your saving ?? Yes, thats exactly what those 2000 people try to do at that 1%. Just days after that situation another "that kinda business" organised a seminar saying nothing like that would ever happen to their company (looks legit right ?? I also think the same), we will see. All i can say to people of Manipur is that, don't be dumb and be aware about this kinda scam and watch out >>>you don't want to lose your hard earn saving and most importantly your family and friends<<< BEWARE ;) Day 19.

Candle (Day 11)

Its that time of year again. We cleaned up the work place, oiled the machines and bought plates of wax. Yes, Deepawali (festival of light) is nearing so we are making some colourful candles !! Making candles used to be year long business for many but with market of local made candle dying it became once a year business. The thing is the cost of production rise and getting a wax became really difficult so we stop making candles for a while and people needed the candle, thats when people of Manipur were introduced to Burma candle. It was cheap and doesn't leave any wax when burned means not messy, in short better quality than local made one. And since they doesn't make coloured candle we got Deepawali market. The beauty of making candle is that the factory is operate by all of the family member. One do the making, another packing and selling. They all chip in helping each other making it to run the factory for just 2 weeks time and all will be normal again waiting for next year season when we all start the same process again. . . Making, Packing and Selling. Day 11.

Developed country?? (Day 10)

24hrs of rain and most of the places, in and around Imphal are flooded. For a year the Manipur Government closed down the most of the road in Imphal City for building a new drainage system. The drainage system which will fix all of the water clogging problem we suffered during monsoon. With this heavy rainfall we finally tested our newly build drainage system but it seems to me the water are still clogging somewhere. We suffered for a year for nothing, and we thought it will be all worth it. Actually I'm not suprised with all of this, what can we expect from the government who spend crores of rupees to build National Institute of Technology (NIT) which lacks a state of art lab and faculty. Our's is the state which is the driving force for India's vision of being a developed country by 2020. Day 10