The so-called "CHANGE"

Yet another general election, within few days we will see a mixture of new and old faces, who will dictate the terms and condition for the coming five years. But one thing for sure, like the Americans we Indians don’t expect a Change, when we peep in to those voting machine no name will be convincing enough to bring a change, different from what the Americans saw, "Barack Hussein Obama",

Whether Obama is capable enough to bring the so-called CHANGE still remains a million dollar question. Today is the 100th day for Mr. Obama, in the white house. I know it’s too early to write a killer review on his days at work. But still lets look back, what this change maker have changed.

Well not that bad, he has switched his army from Iraq to Afghanistan; He shook hands with age-old enemies like Russia, Vietnam, and Iran. Now he doesn’t need any Osama to create panic in his cities, that’s taken care by his Air Force One. His G-Summit trip to London was a whole bunch of changes. Starting from the route he took from the guesthouse to Westminster, keeping the Germans away from the summit.
The first lady didn’t step an inch back when it came to supporting her husband, she managed to change the portfolio of Buckingham palace by hugging the queen and breaking the dress code.

At times I feel its better, not to have a name with a rock star image while going to the polling station, as my friend, Hashim’s IM status message says “Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be least disappointing”
So without the so called “CHANGE” Mantra in their mind, I am sure majority of the neutral voters in India, like me will do something, that we have been doing for ages, don’t cast our votes in favor of a political party but cast them against a party.

Pissed Off in London

Sunday 12th April 2009 in London around 17:34 GMT:
That was a dread full decision of mine to go to the London Victoria Coach Station loo, As I moved ahead in the queue.. I was stopped by a wonderful looking machine which said 50 pens to move further. I reached my pocket and put a 50 Pens coin (as cool as I put a 50 Paisa coin anywhere in India) and I went ahead

As in when I started the process, suddenly the Currency Conversion calculator inside my brain ( something that always gets activated automatically when an Indian lands in any forgien sand) started giving me High alerts like a fire brigade and the following calculations started flashing in front of my eyes

50 Pens = Half a Pound
1 Pound = 76 Indian Rupees
so 50 Pens = 76/2 = 38 Indian Rupees

38 RS ! ! ! ! ! ! Rs for a pee, @##$$**
And this was haunting me through out my journey back from london to manchester until I got my share of smile when I told myself "Good, I did this in UK not in Kuwait"