<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1013066970168278885</id><updated>2011-05-08T08:29:31.777-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Anurag Unplugged 001</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://catchanurag001.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1013066970168278885/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://catchanurag001.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>AS</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1013066970168278885.post-7527863025674316864</id><published>2008-04-27T22:38:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-08T21:18:22.762-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Her smile kills.....</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_znk5QwY6fsU/SBhFLVKy2eI/AAAAAAAAACA/3v3FQ88f-H8/s1600-h/smile+kills.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_znk5QwY6fsU/SBhFLVKy2eI/AAAAAAAAACA/3v3FQ88f-H8/s320/smile+kills.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5194978231135164898" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To IMPRESS a WOMAN&lt;br /&gt;Compliment her&lt;br /&gt;Respect her&lt;br /&gt;Honor her,&lt;br /&gt;Cuddle her,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Caress her,&lt;br /&gt;Love her,&lt;br /&gt;Comfort her,&lt;br /&gt;Protect her,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hold her,&lt;br /&gt;Spend money on her,&lt;br /&gt;Wine and dine her,&lt;br /&gt;Buy things for her,&lt;br /&gt;Listen to her,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Care for her,&lt;br /&gt;Stand by her,&lt;br /&gt;Support her,&lt;br /&gt;Hold her,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Go to the ends of the Earth for her.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- How to IMPRESS a MAN -&lt;br /&gt;\&lt;br /&gt;\&lt;br /&gt;\&lt;br /&gt;\&lt;br /&gt;\&lt;br /&gt;\&lt;br /&gt;\&lt;br /&gt;\&lt;br /&gt;\&lt;br /&gt;\&lt;br /&gt;\&lt;br /&gt;\&lt;br /&gt;\&lt;br /&gt;\&lt;br /&gt;\&lt;br /&gt;\&lt;br /&gt;\&lt;br /&gt;\&lt;br /&gt;\&lt;br /&gt;\&lt;br /&gt;\&lt;br /&gt;\&lt;br /&gt;\&lt;br /&gt;\&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;JUST SMILE ONCE AND HE'S IMPRESSED&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well folks sorry for digressing and dealing with this smile !!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So here comes this cute , angelic , too good to be true girl in your life , someone you've always dreamt of , someone with a smile that kills .............&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and you scramble to get hold of common threads that could work wonders.....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Are you pursuing CA???&lt;br /&gt;Have you read Da Vinci Code???&lt;br /&gt;Are you a member of the same youth group in college as I am?&lt;br /&gt;Do you also stay in the same place as i do???&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A "yes" from her side heralds a volley of questions&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The focus is all on the smile ,the sparkle in the eye.....you are least bothered about her reply to these incessant questions ....often the ecstacy makes you talk stupid... but as long as she smiles ...why bother!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are times when accompanying her while travelling&lt;br /&gt;you do not seem to mind missing the Metro by a fraction of a second&lt;br /&gt;OR&lt;br /&gt;actually do not get bugged by those red-lights at each crossing , those traffic snarls at loggerheads with the crowded bus rearing to march down Strand Road&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the heaven sent extra time...the most opportune moment to carve a niche for yourself in her heart / mind to begin with&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kal Ho Naa Ho .........&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maybe the cruel reality of tomorrow would quash all your high-hopes..."Hi ....Meet Shekhar ...my best friend...we've been friends since childhood !!!" she would blurt out with the excitement in her eye at its usual crest&lt;br /&gt;And you would actually shake hands with this stranger...whom whom you'd actually wanna kick at the rear end&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In school we were taught to share all the good things we posessed with others....&lt;br /&gt;"Shouldn't Shekhar do the same?" ....&lt;br /&gt;Comes a terse reply "No"...&lt;br /&gt;Shekhar refuses to oblige!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;But don't trouble trouble before trouble troubles you...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Let's for the time being assume that Shekhar is not in the picture&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We continue with the smiles ...the smiles that make life's miles seem a cinch&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The warm "Hi... How Are You ?" on the phone in the evening that reduces to nought all the weariness that those long ,endless hours on MS Excel worksheets bring!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Suddenly ll the "Dil To Pagal Hai "s and the "Kuch Kuch Hota Hai"s come alive.....there is a rush of these memeories that grip you persistently&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Bholi si surat&lt;br /&gt;aankhon mein masti&lt;br /&gt;dur khadi sharmaye&lt;br /&gt;aaye hai"&lt;br /&gt;is what you humm continuously to yourself!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Suddenly the &lt;em&gt;miser of the misers&lt;/em&gt; prefers to fork out thirty odd rupees a month for a caller tune " Pehla Nasha Pehla Khuma..Naya Pyaar hai Naya Intezaar" on his cell-phone !!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Suddendly the &lt;em&gt;I-will- not- take-any-favour-from-anyone&lt;/em&gt; is found cajoling &lt;em&gt;didis&lt;/em&gt; into forwarding amazing shayaris sms to his cell phone so that he in turn can do the same&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Ek Din Humari Muskaan Humse Pooch Bhaithi&lt;br /&gt;Humein Roz Roz Kyun Bulati Ho&lt;br /&gt;Hum Bole&lt;br /&gt;Hum Yaad Apne Khaas Dost Ko Karte hain&lt;br /&gt;Tum Yun Hi Chali Aati Ho "&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Suddenly there's an awareness that looks do matter...and so facials , scrubs , Emami "Fair&amp; Handsome" creams&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The smile is wreaking havoc....&lt;br /&gt;Nothing can be done about it&lt;br /&gt;"It's all  biology at play ...hormonal influences " Quoteth  Ajay Devgan in "Yuva"&lt;br /&gt;Cupid has struck...&lt;br /&gt;As I say the smile KILLS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Disclaimer &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This particular piece is purely a figment of my imagination ...already stifled by 13 years in a boys-only school followed by those desolate 3 years in a boys-only college&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Symptoms may vary across those affected by this strange virus&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's unlikely that such a girl actually exists ...and even if she does I'll prefer life to death..the smile kills naa...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So any resemblance to a person living or dead is highly improbable &amp;amp; purely co-incidental !!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;All litigations are subject to Kolkata High Court only&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1013066970168278885-7527863025674316864?l=catchanurag001.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://catchanurag001.blogspot.com/feeds/7527863025674316864/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1013066970168278885&amp;postID=7527863025674316864' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1013066970168278885/posts/default/7527863025674316864'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1013066970168278885/posts/default/7527863025674316864'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://catchanurag001.blogspot.com/2008/04/her-smile-kills_27.html' title='Her smile kills.....'/><author><name>AS</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_znk5QwY6fsU/SBhFLVKy2eI/AAAAAAAAACA/3v3FQ88f-H8/s72-c/smile+kills.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry></feed>
