The new girl part 2

I guess trying to meet the new girl and getting to know her is still very possible. But of course, the way I am, I would still make it as difficult for myself as possible. On par with climbing a mountain.

Now the new group I have moved into, I was very wary of at first. From what I had seen of them, they would mess about so much and throw things, swear a lot etc, I wasn't very happy with it. The manager seemed like a lovely lady, though the supervisor I thought at first was disgusting. I was proved right about that. Work wise, he is very good, I cannot deny that. But the guy is a perverted freak. He would constantly feel up the dolly bird from this post up all the time:-

http://muksblogaboutstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/ignorance-is-stupidity.html

With the dolly bird of course liking it but telling him not to do it. Not telling him in a way that would actually stop him doing it but rather in a way where he would do it even more and then she would get a banana out and start peeling and eating it.

Right. OK.

But the way he talks and acts about and around ladies isn't the kind of thing I like. The kind of douche-bag that I have wrote about in my previous post. The kind of guy girls seem to go for. Even if he does refer to girls as "bitches" and says things like "I wanna smash that". Oh and not to mention that he actually has a girlfriend already. THIS is the kind of guy that the girls go for. 99% of them anyway. So let's talk hypothetically if that really is the case. There are about 200 people on my floor at work so working on average if we said that 100 of them were girls, that would leave me one girl. So on my endless search in finding that elusive 1% who isn't a friend, who is a genuinely nice girl who likes me for myself and who (I'm sorry but I really do not want to come across as shallow) is pretty, has a great personality and who doesn't like douche-bags is difficult to find. Now I do want to state again, that I am not shallow or narrow minded and people who are reading this may think that. But the majority of the ladies in our office look and act like they belong in The only way is Essex or one of those awful Jeremy Kyle type talk shows.

As this new girl seems to make me sweat more, makes me weak at the knees and makes my heart skip so many beats that I do think it might pop out and splatter someone over the face with, I kind of think I NEED to get to know her. If she isn't going to be someone who likes me, or even if I end up not liking her, at least then I would know.

Today, just before lunchtime, the douche-bag wants a drink of water and decides to tell us all he is going to get one. A girl in our group who has been working there a year and who CLEARLY likes him asks him if he could get her a cup of water.

"As if I am gonna get you some water. Fuck that."

Bearing in mind that he was going to the water machine anyway, bearing in mind how I wrote on my last post about how I went across the other side of the whole office to get some cups for the new girl. Bear in mind I would probably do that for any girl as I believe that it is the gentlemanly thing to do. But unlike with the new girl, with anyone else, I would probably strike up a conversation. Bear this all in mind for what's coming next.

So at lunch time, my group were all sat around a table eating really unhealthy food when the subject of relationships came up. Now I do get this a lot "Don't worry, we'll find you a lady". But that really isn't the point. I want to be happy. That is the main thing. I have to focus on making my life better for myself. Now I do believe that people can be happy, sometimes they choose not to be for whatever reason. Anyway, in comes the new girl with her group which was my former group who all seem to have forgotten who I was. They all sit a couple of tables away from me with the new girl facing me. Be cool Mukesh. You can do it. You can be cool.

But the problem is, I CAN'T be cool. That is always the problem. So then I start becoming really self conscious in the way I was eating. The way I looked. The sweat. The knees going weak and being so glad that I was sat down. Was my heart actually going to burst through my chest and splatter the guy sat opposite me who was stuffing his face with pizza? Was this the moment it was actually going to happen? What a way to go. The thing was that she did catch my eye a few times. Shit.

Anyway, the douche-bag supervisor then asks me:-

"So, you want me to get you some faj or what? I can get you pussy no problem."

I tried in vain to explain to him how he shouldn't talk like this and that it was a problem with a lot of the guys today in the attitude and behaviour like this. So he then asks me:-

"OK so is there anyone you wanna do?"

Not really wanting to get into a conversation with a sleazy douche-bag about this I said no there wasn't. Luckily our lunchtime was over and being careful to look cool whilst I was getting up from my seat, making sure my knees didn't go so weak I would fall in the middle of the canteen and making sure I didn't look back to see if the new girl even noticed me leaving. I did it. I remained calm. I was cool. Mission accomplished. Me and the douche-bag headed off back to our part of the office. Unfortunately, the conversation still wasn't over.

"Come on, I can get you the faj. There's gotta be someone you wanna smash."

Again, I tried in vain to explain to him why he shouldn't speak like that and just to shut him up, I told him about the new girl and the response I got was this:-

"Oh. Yeah. Her. I've 'ad her."

"Excuse me?"

"I said I 'ad her innit."

An all too familiar wave of nausea swept over me "What do you mean?"

"I mean I 'ad her. Went to her house other night, she ended up wanking me off whilst I sucked her tits.
Fucking fit as she is. Dirty bitch though. In my car and everything."

Even though I have said over a million times that this is the kind of thing that happens, I was still in disbelief.

"What?? Why did she go near you?? And you have a girlfriend anyway. Are you being serious??"

"Yeah it's just on and off with me and my girlfriend. We were off then, we're back on now. Ha ha. My girlfriend is well fit. Not told her. Ha ha."

I realised that he was indeed telling the truth.
I also then realised that this is the kind of thing I should really expect.
It is ALL there in black and white. It is ALL there already in my mind.
But when this kind of thing does happen again, why am I surprised?

Again-the universe really does know how to annoy me. What a fucked up sense of humour the universe has.

The new girl

It's amazing how crazy and loopy a girl can drive a guy.

I have been working at my job for about 2 months now and it is one of those really mundane jobs. But it was a mundane job that I actually wanted. One of those jobs where you can just go in, do the work and go home. I sell home insurance over the phone. Normally it's a case of:-

"I believe that your home insurance is coming up for renewal."
"No it isn't."

I have actually "majorly breached" twice. Not intentionally but on one call I entered the wrong date of birth and on another call I didn't read out a lot of stuff that I was supposed to. After both occasions I was "investigated" by 2 people who would put Sherlock Holmes and Colombo to shame. Now these breaches can be quite common for new starters. They made sure that I understood how the world might actually end if I breached again.

Fair enough.  

Now although I wanted a mundane job, somebody like me can't really stay in a job like this without being bored. I know there are a lot of people who are happy with jobs like these. But I need some kind of excitement. Something to make the meaningless days that are actually passing by worthwhile.

So we have a new girl starting.

Now this to me is exciting. Mainly because the new girl is probably the prettiest girl in the whole of the building nevermind just the office. The fact that she was put in my group is even more exciting. I tend to do this thing where if I do come across a girl like, I would think of about 16,000 scenarios of how to start a conversation with her but then just never end up talking to her at all. I have had a crush on a girl for about 5 years now and we have probably spoken about 5 times (not including the times when I order a drink from her) This is classic Mukesh.

So halfway through my shift today I went to fill my bottle of water up from the water machine. She follows me. This was totally unexpected. I wasn't prepared. She then says:-

"Are there any cups"?

This was my chance to turn on the charm. Come on Mukesh:-

"Nup, erm, if you go over there near that other....across...I'll go and get you one."

"OK thanks but I need two"

"........"

I then walk across the floor and go to the other side of the whole office and grab 2 cups. I still had a chance to turn this around. Go Mukesh. I return to where she was standing and say:-

"........"

"Thanks."

Now OK fine, things didn't work out then. No worries. She is in my group. Tomorrow is another day. The one advantage that I do have over a lot of other guys it seems is that I would consider myself a gentleman. I didn't used to a few years ago but when I see how the majority of guys treat ladies, I do think that I am compared to what I have seen, a nice guy and it does make me think that I must have someone totally amazing coming for me in life. Even though I find that most girls like guys that are total douche-bags (I have stated this many times) that there will be a lovely girl out there who likes me for me and doesn't like douche-bags. I HAVE to tell myself that this is the case. So like I said, there will be more chances to get to know her.

So anyway, since my 2 breaches, I have made sure that the past 2 weeks, I read EVERYTHING I was supposed to and I have actually been one of the best in the whole of the department (of about 40 people). If I carry on like this, my commission will be amazing and with this new girl starting things could get really exciting.

So at the end of my shift today one of the managers wants to speak to me. I was assuming he was going to tell me how amazing I have been the past 14 days or so. Instead he says:-

"We're going to move you to another department. You've done really well the past 2 weeks but because of your breaches last month, we're going to move you somewhere else. It's in your best interests as you are still in your probation period."

Now it will be a case of:-

"I believe your car insurance is up for renewal."
"You're too expensive, get lost."

So I won't be anywhere near the new girl.
I get moved JUST when I am starting to do really well.
The universe really does know how to annoy me.  

The anti-Muslim film

It is something that I watched out of pure curiosity after watching the news this evening and from the reaction it has got, I decided that I should give an opinion. I watched it once-I do not intend to watch it again.

Some guy has made this film then that makes The Prophet Muhammad and his followers look like power hungry looters and murderers and much worse. In one bit someone says that Muhammad is gay and another bit where someone said that he is a pedophile. It takes the mickey out of everything to do with Islam.

The reaction it has got from the Islamic community has been all over the news and I think 24 people so far have died. 24 people have died because of a film that was made. Unfortunately, I think that there are going to be many more deaths.I really hope I am wrong.

Now I know that in The USA where the movie was made, there is always a massive thing about "The freedom of speech" and that is fair enough. But the problem is that freedom of speech can a lot of the time cause offence and in this case, causes innocent people to be harmed or killed.

I have said before that this is what religion does. It creates wars, hatred between people and death. Even though my family are Hindu, I really don't follow religion too much or at all.

Now people can believe what they want to believe-that is fair enough. Nobody actually fully KNOWS anything about what is going to happen after death. Or even if there is a God or not. Nobody actually knows-it is all just belief.

But I understand people being offended if their beliefs are being taken the mickey out of. It isn't nice to say the least. But I think that by reacting in violent ways the situation is going to make everything horribly worse. According to the news, there is already talk of "revenge against the west". Now by the look of the film, it was probably made by a very small group of people and now the whole of the west has to suffer? It isn't right.

I think that most of the people who do watch this film would have to agree on how pathetic it actually looks and being angry about it and causing violence is just going to escalate an already bad situation from such a stupid, ridiculous film.

Imagine if all the protestors just decided to protest in a non violent way. People would then believe EVEN MORE that this film is wrong whereas at the minute, the idiot creators of the film are going to be saying to themselves that their point is being proven and that Islam is a violent religion. People of Islam, you now have a chance to prove them wrong and stop the violence.

Ignorance is stupidity

It's not really related to this post that I have written a while ago, but the title made me think of it:-

http://muksblogaboutstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/ignorance-is-bliss-or-knowledge-is.html

And also this post which I wrote a while ago which is a classic:-

http://muksblogaboutstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/02/30-of-stupidest-things-people-have-said.html

Unfortunately, it does seem that people around me just seem to become more ignorant.

I currently work in a job that could be considered mundane. It has it's good points and bad points I guess. In my group, there is a girl. A dolly-bird. A fake tanned, too much make-up waring dolly-bird. Now I have mentioned before that I am far too professional to name names. It is not what I do. But the girl checks her make up every 5 minutes, checks her Facebook ever 10 minutes (I only see here in work and yes, she does this whilst in work) and asks someone whether she "looks alright" every 20 minutes. During the course of last week, a guy farted in her face and she giggled. A couple of other guys joked about raping her and she giggled. A guy called her a "wench" and she giggled. Now I hate seeing or hearing any kind of this absolutely disgusting behaviour and I really would have been happy to smash these guys faces in because I believe that is what they deserved. If that was my girlfriend, a friend or a relative or even someone who I knew, I would want to smash their faces in but when a girl giggles at this kind of lewd behaviour-it really just boggles the mind. What, she LIKES being spoken to like this? She LIKES being treated like this? Does she think that this will make people LIKE her??

Anyway, today I was eating lunch which consisted of being ham sandwiches (which I made in 30 seconds the night before) and I was reading my book in the canteen at work. She sits next to me "what you reading? And what are you having for lunch?"

I'm always up for a conversation "The prisoner of Heaven and ham sandwiches".

Then came the words "How come you're eating ham? You're Muslim."

Now I understand that some people can be through no fault of their own, very ignorant. But that can be rectified-maybe they just haven't met any Indian people. Maybe the only Asian people they have met have been Muslim. OK, I can just about accept that. JUST ABOUT. So I told her that "Just because I am brown, doesn't mean to say I am Muslim. Try opening your mind a bit".

She took offence to this and eventually stormed off and then bad mouthed me to people.

Now this is a girl who giggles when her face gets farted in, a girl who giggles when people say they are going to rape her, a girl who giggles when she gets called a "wench". A girl who is also brown but purely through fake tan-does this mean that she can't eat ham too? People who are her friends say disgusting things to her and it is fine. I say what I did and it causes offence? Maybe I should fart in her face next time? No I could never bring myself to ever do that. I would never even think about saying or doing things that some people probably have to her, I couldn't to ANYONE.

I fail to understand as to why people are like this. I have wrote before on my blog how it seems like most women like to be treated like shit. I do not get it. Do women like this think it is the only way they are liked?? What makes them be want to be treated like this?? It is something I just don't understand. It is something I guess in some ways that I never want to understand to be fair. It is messed up.

The other night I was walking home at about 2am and there was a group of people of around 6 guys and 2 girls on the other side of the road. I walked past them on my side of the road and after about 10 metres one of them then shouted "Oi Ghandi. Fucking Ghandi innit". The 2 girls started laughing and then that same guy shouted "Yeah you, you fucking Paki". Then the other guys and girls joined in shouting "Ghandi" and "Paki" and I just carried on walking. Of course, part of me wanted to find a plank of wood and absolutely knock the little sense out of them that they had. Part of me wanted to turn around and give them an educational lesson of how Mahatma Karamchand Ghandi was Indian who led India to independence and led movements for non violent civil rights and they were shouting "Paki"to me?? Who do they think Ghandi was?? What did they think he did? Would it have been really ironic if I did happen to get a plank of wood and beat these morons with it whilst educating them that Mahatma Karamchand Ghandi employed a non violent disobedience??

I know people keep telling me things like "Yeah there are some ignorant idiots in the world, just ignore them". But how is that possible? Why are people like this? 

Andy Murray finally wins a slam

It was one of the greatest tennis matches I have ever seen.

I have used Andy Murray as an example in one of my previous blog posts as someone whose mind stops him getting to the top. It was never his actual stamina, his talent or his ability but it was always like a mental block that he seemed to have in being his own worst enemy. Whatever was going through his mind, I also said that maybe, as ridiculous as this might sound that subconsciously, there might be even a little part of him that didn't want to reach the top. For whatever reason. This does happen to people and I think that maybe like him, this happens to me too.

I am not saying I'm a great a tennis player, I am not adored by millions, I don't have an unbelievably gorgeous girlfriend (I don't have a girlfriend full stop), but what I am trying to say is that some people do have a natural, or so it seems could be natural, a tendency to self-destruct. It is just in some peoples' nature to do this.

It almost happened in this tennis match too. Murray was 2 sets up and then lost the next 2 where you could start seeing signs that he might just self destruct there and then but then he stormed the final set. Well deserved and it was quite inspirational to watch.

It just goes to show that you CAN reach the top no matter whatever is going on in your mind that you might think is stopping you from doing that.

I know some people might say that it was just a tennis match. But to me and probably to a lot of other people, it was always much more than that.

Olympic Games 2012

I had to write a post on this as I thought that the games were frigging amazing.

I'm going to post my favourite/worst moments. Let me know if you agree or not!

Best moment:-

There were a lot of amazing moments-Jessica Ennis winning the Heptathlon, Usain Bolt being Usain Bolt, the world record being broken in the 800m by David Rudiha, Andy Murray winning a gold medal, Michael Phelps winning lots of medals, Mo Farah winning and then winning again, Sir Chris Hoy winning a gold medal and then crying, the womens' beach volleyball. Lots. There were frigging LOTS.

But I am going to give my best moment to Gemma Gibbons in the Judo. She didn't win gold but won a silver but unbelievably getting to the final. She was amazing and also for the fact that I only ever watch Judo when it is The Olympics but never really caring about it until this year. I was glued to the screen and really wanted her to go all the way. Her punching the air when she made the final was awesome. And looking up and mouthing "I love you" to her mother who had passed away through leukaemia was beautiful. 

Worst moment:-

Not that many at all. Someone called Nadzeya Ostapchuk from Belarus-she failed a drug test and had her Shot Put gold medal stripped. The 2 teams from South Korea, 1 from China and 1 from Indonesia in the Badminton who lost their matches on purpose so they might have had easier opponents in the next round was just pathetic to watch.

But the winner is One Direction, Jesse J AND Russell Brand at the closing ceremony. What the hell were they even doing there?

Most controversial moment:-

This was unbelievable. See for yourself how Shin A Lam got robbed in The Fencing semi-final. Keep your eye on the clock when there is one second to go. Copy and paste:-

http://www.buzzfeed.com/ktlincoln/an-olympic-fencer-refuses-to-leave-the-floor-after

Best celebration:-

Amazing celebration from Robert Harting after winning The Mens' Discus event. Copy and paste:-

http://bostinno.com/2012/08/08/video-robert-harting-hulk-celebration-discus-gold-germany/#ss__199315_1_0__ss


Best Football game:-

For any Americans that read this, I am not too sure what "Soccer" is but I do know that Football is Football because it is played with your feet. The best game goes to The American ladies who beat Canada 4-3 in The Womens' semi-final. What a game.

Biggest let down:-

Apart from the horrific One Direction, the awful Russel Brand and the gross Jesse J, also Victoria Pendleton on 2 things, one being disqualified from her first event and secondly after The Olympics finished, saying "I want to try Strictly Come Dancing".

But the winner has to be India on not winning a single gold medal! Darn it! 2 silvers and 4 bronze-well at least that is 6 more medals than Pakistan.

Best picture:-

No, the winner isn't Mo Farah after winning either of his races. Or Usian Bolt after winning either of his races. Or Mo Farah doing a Usain Bolt pose. Or Usain Bolt doing a Mo Farah pose.

It is Sally Pearson after winning the 100m Womens' Hurdles:-

But I have to put in a 2nd. It is the beautiful, graceful Natalya Antyukh from Russia winning the 400m Womens' Hurdles:-

And the bronze medal for the best picture goes to the silver medallist Gemma Gibbons:-

and the last one that I had to put in is of Annalisa Harju from Finland after she and her friends brought tickets online which never arrived:-

Best quotes:-

I couldn't really pick just one. So here are a few:-

"My mother used to tell us in the mornings, 'Carl put on your shoes, Oscar you put on your prosthetic legs...' so I grew up not really thinking I had a disability. I grew up thinking I had different shoes."
- Oscar Pistorius

"I hope that this medal (silver in the Mens' 20 km race walk. Guatemalas' first-ever Olympic medal) inspires the kids at home to put down knives and guns and pick up a pair of trainers instead."
- Erick Barrondo

A presenter to Beth Tweddles' parents after she won a bronze medal on The Uneven Bars-"Just tell me what you've been going through this past week."

"I've been laying a patio."
- Mr Tweddle 

"There were moments when you began to wonder if The Olympics were the only thing we had to hand over to Rio: Could The Brazilians not be coerced into taking Russell Brand off our hands while they were about it?"
- Alexis Petridis (Pop and Rock critic)

"The female body is a masterpiece. Everyone likes to look at the female body, especially in dynamic, athletic sport." - Natalie Cook

"Of course it is an amazing feeling to represent your country and I hope there will be many more occasions to come, because I really love the tune of our national anthem."
- Sandra Raluca Izbasa

"About a year ago I was not sure I would be alive. It's winning just being here, speaking to you guys."
- Petr Koukal

"Sometimes it's just the beer and bikinis that get people to come to watch, but it's the competition that's keeping them there."
- Kerri Walsh Jennings

"We've won The Olympics"
- Katherine Copeland

And that's it. The best (and worst) moments from The Olympic Games 2012. Well done London, well done to all the athletes, organisers and volunteers (my cousin and his wife being 2 of them). It was an amazing Olympic games.






  

Get rid of the guns.

A few years ago I was working in a certain retail store. I remember one particular shift when I was absolutely exhausted and it was one of those work places where it was just a few people of the many staff there who carried the store. A LOT of lazy staff who weren't needed would walk about with clipboards or notepads trying their damned hardest to look professional whilst actually not doing anything useful.

Anyway, on that day, I had done a stupid amount of hours already and at the time, I had 2 jobs and was working crazy hours during the whole week I remember that I was at my evening job too later and really wanted to just sleep forever.

A customer came to the counter. The store was busy and I was dead on my feet. The customer had a watch he wanted to return. No box. No receipt. No proof of purchase whatsoever. When I politely, repeatedly, for about 20 minutes told this customer that we couldn't do a refund as he had no proof of purchase, he argued a lot with me demanding for what he said was his. He then threatened to shoot me with "the gun in his pocket" and then went around the store showing apparently what was a gun to the other customers who seemed to get frightened. Did this bozo really actually have a gun? I wasn't sure. I radioed to our security guard who informed me that he "was on his way". The security guard was about 247 years old so him being on his way from wherever he was (outside smoking) would take at least 2 weeks. So I decided to ring the police who probably would have taken just as long anyway. But before I could, the customer advanced towards me. He was a big, brutish oaf with a slightly unbalanced walk due to him being overweight and also had drool coming down from his mouth to his double chin. "You gonna give me back my money or do you want a bullet in your face". Defiant, stubborn, stupid (whatever you want to call it) and me being the completely opposite to big, brutish oaf-like overweight and completely drool-less and double-chinless , it wasn't easy for me to clear my throat and reply "No proof of purchase, no refund. If you're going to shoot me then do it. I've had a long week."

The brute, who now had his hand in his inside pocket which from the look of it, definitely had SOMETHING in it, glared at me for about 30 seconds but it actually seemed like 3 hours. Then he grabbed the box-less, receipt-less watch from the counter and stormed out of the store.

The security guard then decided to spring into action and came out of nowhere demanding to know where this brute was.
"He left 5 minutes ago." I said.
"I would have showed him." said the security guard.
Of course you would have.
 
It was only after the incident happened when some customers from outside the store came rushing in to say that they had seen a man with a gun. The managers after hearing what had happened came out of their hibernation to see if I was OK. Not really sure what they were doing whilst the incident was happening. "He could have shot you", "What if he shot you?" "Did he really have a gun?" were things mostly said to me then. And also I got a "Next time, do whatever he wants." My shift had finished and I just wanted to go home-oh but wait, I had to go to my other job where I got more of the same. I couldn't explain to people that if I wasn't so tired, then I would have been scared. But I was alive then. That was the main thing.

Recently some dickhead shot dead 12 people and wounded 58 others in a mass shooting outside a cinema in Colorado which was showing the new Batman film. He claimed he was "The Joker" but then also said that he "doesn't remember anything and doesn't understand why he is in prison." Strangely, he used to study neuroscience.

Anyway, he spent $15,000 which is about £9500 on guns and ammunition. He bought them online.
How fucked up is it that you can buy GUNS and AMMUNITION online?? I couldn't even believe it when I had heard that. I know you can buy just about ANYTHING online but surely there should be some kind of thing to see what is going to what kind of person it is that is buying??

In a world where a 30 year old like me sometimes gets asked for I.D when I go to buy a bottle of wine, for someone can go online and purchase guns so freely and so easily to kill people is sickening. Didn't the online stores where he bought them for even question what he needed them for? What he needed ALL THAT MUCH of it for?

To cause harm and kill people and nothing else.

Why are guns even available to buy in places like The United States of America? Countless times, some maniac has been on a mass killing spree shooting people in schools, colleges and now at a cinema. Yet all that happens is the same thing that happens every time. The police will say how sorry they are for the families and friends of the victims, The President will talk some BOLLOCKS about how "in times like these people need to come together" and some other crap about "the human spirit triumphing above adversity". Just because people like to hear about that kind of shit.

But that shit isn't good enough anymore. Too many people-innocent people-have died but nothing really gets done about it.

What would happen if ALL firearms were banned? Or better still, as well as being banned, stopped being produced in the first place. Oh but then too much money is spent on firearms and money still has to be made so I guess that is out of the question. Money is more important than innocent lives so it seems.

To me, when things like this happen (and they will happen again and again) people who are supposed to be strong and powerful like The President, just end up looking weak and pathetic.

Get rid of the guns. I might have made the choice to be defiant, stubborn and stupid but there are a lot of innocent people out there who don't even get a chance to make a decision before they are killed and it is such a waste of life. Not to mention the pain, suffering and helplessness their family and friends have to go through.

It is not right.