Adios 2014 !!

Shall come up with a new Spanish synonym by next year #kthnxbye

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Like all fellow mortals had to succumb to social pressure to put this lousy pic with an optimistic message to give you yet another reason to vomit all over the club in the New Year's bash

WHY? HOW? WTF? I have not even met half of my annual weight loss target.

Incase these are the kind of questions popping up in your mind. Worry not, we're here to help you. It's that time of the year when columnists shall advise their readers on one of the following topics-

a) How to spend the holidays with your loved ones?

b) How to give indirect signals to your loved ones that the 52 piece cutlery set gifted by them for your home is too lavish for its inhabitants namely you & your pomerian.

c) How to gun down the 'we were just passing by your place, so thought we will drop in' kinda guests ?

d) How to camouflage yourself in the numerous facebook status updates & check ins popping up every milliseconds while not celebrating anything.

Pardon me I shall not be able to offer any scholarly responses on the above.

This happens to be that time of the year where you are bombarded with posters all around you like-  

'NEW YRZ  BASH AT TRILOGY CLUB WITH DJ NOTORIOUS AKA BABLOO. UNLIMITED BOOZE & THARKIS.FREE FISTFIGHTS & 1 LONELY ABDUCTED FIRANG FOR 'INTERNATIONAL FEEL'. BOOK YOUR PASSES NOW. CALL 1800-AUNTYPOLICEBULALEGI '
 

December is also the month where homo sapiens use their collective intellectual energies to reminiscence & remind each other of  the cat videos they missed on YouTube during the year.

Guy 1 -"Hey did you see that video of that dog pushing a cat in the bathtub video.Fuckin awesome bro!"

Guy 2 -  "Nope, but I did see the one of a cat under a shower.So awwwww worthy it was, I tell you."

Guy 1- "Chal ,chal. Let's catch up on cat videos on my laptop. Oh & that Sardar Naagin dance video too."

Now 2014 was a year filled with optimism. Husbands got to watch Modiji's receding hairline more than their wife's facial wrinkles. Which is really not a bad deal if you ask me. This was all thanks to a brilliant media campaign. India got a new charismatic prime minister while Rahul Gandhi was busy chest bumping Arnab Goswami.

Bollywood gave us many profound films this year,

Jai Ho- A douchebag on a mission to save mankind from peril by forming a multi level chain of good deed doers. Before you know it they start selling Sandhi Sudha door to door to bring about social change in a country where no social gathering is complete without aunties boasting about their body pains to each other with immense competitive spirit.

A candid pic of Lord SRK & the gorgeous Deepika Padukone hanging around with some struggling actors in the Bollywood flick 'Happy New Year'

Now that I have covered both SRK's & Bhai's film I shall be saved from hate mails unless Jacky Bhagnani is your demi god, in which case you might as well make love to a cactus & die of blood loss consequently.

Speaking of  world events, many lives were lost as people got affected with the deadly Ebola virus thereby putting all countries on high alert. So much so that when India's first Ebola case hit Delhi, as a nation we were busy passionately speculating the no of starters at Arpita Khan's wedding.

ALS Ice bucket challenge.Water conservation? WTF does that even mean?

A global trend known as 'ALS Ice bucket challenge' hit social media by storm. This was the time where hypocrites protesting against the Tomatina festival food waste joint hands together to waste other precious resources ie water.         

"How can you waste rotten tomatoes man? Make Sev Tamatar subzi bro"

Definition-  'Sev Tamatar '- An authentic gujju recipe invented by visionaries in their quest to find some meaning to life in a world void of Tandoori chicken & Reshami kebabs owing to religious concerns.

In other news, little did scientists know that their state of the art US army drones would one day serve humanity in vital ways such as capturing ISIS fighters raping goats red handed.  #true story

Please do maintain safe distance from people whose main New Year plan is pretty much asking other people about their New Year plans.

This is a unique breed of species which goes from cubicle to cubicle within the office proudly proclaiming they have already booked tickets to Seychelles for the holidays while you are still waiting for your grumpy boss to approve your leave. Social protocol demands that you must reply to these guys with an equally exotic destination.

#ProTip- Machu Picchu is a good reply to shut their mouths & prevent any further interrogation by them considering the prevailing low geographical skills amongst the masses.

That's all for now. Till we meet again next year I shall eagerly wait to reunite with my grand total of  2.5 readers & by Valentine's day 2015 might even develop a long distance relationship with them. Beware  :P 

Salman Khan fans trend hashtag #illrideonyou to express their solidarity with drunken driving offenders

(Article featured on FirstPost -Click Here .My humble dedication to the douchebag that Bhai truly is :P No offense.)

#BhaiRoxx

Shortly after the Sydney hostage siege,  in an inspirational show of religious tolerance Australians started trending the hashtag #illridewithyou over twitter globally, thereby declaring their solidarity with Muslims and other religions who maybe worried that they might be targeted because of their religious attire.  

Motivated by this online movement, Salman Khan fans across India resorted to tweeting their own version of it  '#illrideonyou'. Everything looked nice & beautiful till the nation realized they meant it quite literally.

"It was a very logical thing to do, if you ask me.As Indians we seek to make our mark globally. Be it films, sports or business. A hashtag dedicated to spread the message of goodness, peace & drunken driving escapades was the least we could do for him" said Ramesh, a diehard Sallu fan fondly known as @Chinkaras4LyfBitches on Twitter.

Hashtags have often served as a reliable

 medium of social change.The hashtag  #illrideonyou came as a refreshing change to the current trending topics. Since the last few days the nation was busy passionately tweeting  

#3daysforLingaa,#2daysforLingaa  & #1dayforLingaa #JesusDiedForYourSinsIWillDieForMyThalaiva.

The nation wholeheartedly agrees Salman has always taken very active interest in enabling social change through various mediums be it his NGO Being Human or for that matter 'Jai Ho' film in which Bhaiiiii singlehandedly solved more social evils than 3 seasons of Satyamev Jayate put together.

''You tell me the Big Bang explosion was a lie. I'll believe you. You tell me Advani is the only surviving soul who actually saw the dinosaurs getting extinct.I'll still believe you. But never ever ever dare to call Sallu anti social. Bet you didn't get an invite to Arpita Khan's wedding. No wonder you're bitching about him '' said Amit before jumping into an impromptu 'Jumme ki raat hai' dance sequence.

Even though such positive vibes were generated with this pro Sallu campaign, there were certain sections of society who strongly opposed it.Blueline bus owners association which got banned from operating their buses on Delhi's roads few years back were strongly optimistic that the hashtag #illrideonyou should have been used to relaunch their deadly bus services.

In an alternate universe where even Dino Morea is looking forward to relaunch his film career as witnessed in his 'Happy New Year' film cameo, are equally optimistic of the Blueline buses coming back in business in 2015.

Disclaimer : The above work is completely fictitious pretty much like the Parsi population in India. In which case do allow me to crack a few #YoDikraSoFat  jokes. Any resemblance to anyone, living or dead is purely coincidental just like how blonde babes seem to pop up out of thin air in Punjabi music videos.