Thanks!

Ladies and Gentlemen we have successfully travelled through March. The responses to our posts were vivid but yet very encouraging. Before we tell you some common male fantasies or before we tell you how to live your life or before we help you realize that your boyfriend is a two timer,we would like to thank you for taking time and supporting us in this.

We would like to thank the following people:

Amit/Varun: For being Candid and giving us timely feedbacks.

Divya: For taking us seriously for a change.

Emon: For going through the pain or reading all our posts not once but thrice a day (too bad he sits next to Rajesh). Even though he is working on a critical project he still was kind enough to leave us comment. Doesnt matter if the comment for "core values" was on "about us". Its the feeling that count.

Haran: For blindly supporting us. For copying the idea of blogging and starting his own blog.

Pawan: Who promised us a comment after each post. And for always telling us "Its Awesome" everytime we asked for a feedback and For making us wonder if he was actually reading our post or some one else's or was that a message that he saved and pinged us everytime we were online.

Ragu: For keeping the tradition of orkutting and blogging in office alive.

Sharma Ji: For being kind enough to compare us to Chetan Bhagat.

Sigma/Shilpi: For still not using the "Log in invisible" feature of Gtalk and replying to our pings despite knowing that we will force them to read the new posts.

Srujith/Vikas : For supporting us by reading posts and giving us regular feedback eventhough they had a serious doubts on our english speaking and writing skills

and last but not the least to all those people who are lurking in the background and who follow our blog regularly. So much so that they call us and give us suggestions about it.

Btw Happy April Fools Day :-P

3pinhole Team

Jai Ho(e)!!!!

A lazy sunday hung-over afternoon.

A time when I didnt wanted to do anything and probably was wishing today wasnt sunday......wasnt sunday cuz this would mean that I gotta get back to work tommorrow *sigh*.

What do i do. Lie down and put on some music. Didnt wanted no heavy rock or house playing on my ipod(or on my mind). Didnt wanted no romantic hindi songs either. So i created a quick "on-the-go" playlist and played it on my Ipod dock.

After coupla songs came the song "Jai Ho". Im sure everyone would have heard this song. For how could you miss the oscar-winning tunes of ARR.

But i was pleasently surprised when i realized that this was "Jai Ho (Feat PussyCat Dolls)". They gave a new twist to the song. Like resang the whole song except for the 2 words "Jai Ho".

While Indian Politicians have used the song for their political campaigning, Americans on the other hand were making money from the song by picking on the popularity of the song.

So I was wondering how would this song sound, if PCD would have sing "Jai Ho" as well. It would have came out like "Jai HOE" ...the sheer thought of it cracked me up. And i was rolling on the floor when i realized what the lyrics were. This could easily become the song for all the stripclubs..with all the recession going on, i wont be surprised if any of the stripclubs uses this song for its promotion..ROFL!!!!!

In case you dont have the song, feel free to ask or maybe see it on youtube.

The song goes like this:

Jai Ho(2x)I got (I got) shivers (shivers),

When you touch my face,

I'll make you hot,

Get all you got,

I'll make you wanna say (Jai Ho)

Jai Ho (2x)

I got (I got) fever (fever),

Running like a fire,

For you I will go all the way,

I wanna take you higher (Jai Ho)

I keep it steady uh-steady,

That's how I do it.

Jai Ho

This beat is heavy, so heavy,

You gonna feel it.(Jai Ho)

You are the reason that I breathe, (Jai Ho)

You are the reason that I still believe, (Jai Ho)

You are my destiny, Jai Oh! Oh-oh-oh-oh! Jai Ho

PS: I dont know if its me or if anyone of you would see the thing too. In case you dont see any humor in this, you either should go and google the word HOE/HOES or you should excuse me and give me some sympathy for my hung-over early sunday morning.

*Pervert mind Smiles*

Read On!!!

As a preface, if the following jumble of words sound like a SUNDAY TIMES or HYDERABAD TIMES article, it is purely coincidental. But again, this is not a work of fiction. This quantum of knowledge was acquired through generations of male survivors who have gone through these five stages we mentioned before. Some of them cracked the code, came out with flying colors and even enjoyed each of those phases. Some of them never returned.(Scary!!!)
This is a list of DO's and DONT's that could help you in your way. Again, this is a list that gets updated on a daily basis. The authors don't guarantee any results because it depends on how the individual implements these time tested formulae (You can work with that peanut sized thing above your medulla oblongata called 'The Brain' or you can be a jackass). So the Fountain of Knowledge speaks thus:

DO:
1. then revel in your own world, being single, unlimited porn movies, spiritual freedom, financial freedom and what not,if you don't want to get involved with all those complicated things (“Bouncers” in layman term).
2.Switch to TATA Indicom, they provide this scheme where you can select a favorite number and you can talk non-stop on your mobile on....hmmm.....anything. Also the mobile comes with preset text messages like “What are you doing?”, “I am in a Meeting”,”LOL” (yeah! Sometimes you are supposed to laugh), “I am having a bad day” et al.
3.Understand that you are talking to a girl, not just another human being. Treat em royally. (Moral: You need to be a good pacifier).
4.Not say it straightforward, if you are really serious. If you do, you are losing the magic. It's always advisable to twist it ,but you are supposed to know what you just told.
5.Not think about the lost chance that you had when the cute girl in your school had crush on you and you acted like you always do and ruined the whole thing up. Everyone have their “Lost chances”. Be proud of it.
6.You still think there is anything sensible being discussed here?


DON'T:
1.Think that any of the following is going to help you. We are all men. Fallible.
2.Judge the book by it's cover, but it certainly helps.
3.Think about a girl who is writing CAT(For beginners, it is the exam that you have to pass to get into IIMs. This is where you meet your office colleague, just next to you and realize that whenever he said he wanted to go 'Meet his/her friends', they were actually attending a coaching class), especially if you are writing the same exam. If you don't know what I am trying to say here, talk to me.
4.Ever ….. ever ….ever...try the “Chinaman move”.
5.Be selfish. Sometimes, it helps.
6.You think you should stop reading this crap?

At the end of it all, there is nothing to learn here. If things are supposed to happen, it happens. Just enjoy the ride. You die only once.

Vicious Circle of life

Our First post got us contrasting reviews. Apparently we’ve stepped on the wrong nerve. While our female friends trashed it outrightly the male population enjoyed the post…and in a chorus they sang “the truth yet we need to hide it”. (Told to us by Pavan who wanted us to change his name as he didn’t wanted his GF to see his true colors..All the best dude..remember I’m just a call away and more importantly I’ve got an extra room @ my apartment).

So this makes me wonder as to How big the divide is ?!?!?!?!? And where does it start!!???

We 3 are no counselors and are definitely not trying to tell you how to live your life. But its just that we have seen enough life and have been in and out of many relationships. (Don’t know if it’s a good thing or bad thing) But like everyone we have learnt and moved on. We have learnt from our mistakes, we have learnt from others mistakes and we have learnt from movies..so here is what I would like to share with you. To Agree or To Disagree is up to you.

Like any other thing in life, any relation too is based on physics & chemistry (P&C) of life(Not mentioning biology explicitly cuz we got under-age audience too). So just like P&C you have phases in life too.

Now based on personal experiences(most of them “first hand”), we have classified life into 5 Phases. Not everyone gets to see all the phases and not everyone can handle the phases(but the ones who do survive write blogs?????!????!??? LOL!).

Phase1 : My Favorite. I guess its everybody favorite. It’s the phase when you are trying to learn things about each other. It’s the time when you literally turn into a freak, cuz u actually finish ur work in a supersonic way. It’s the time when you give up all ur passions. Passions like sports, TV, porn movies...everything cuz all you want to do is talk to each other. It’s the time when you always carry gum and rubber with you. It’s the time when you don’t mind getting up in the middle of night and certainly don’t mind listening “Can you stay connected with me, cuz I just heard some noise in the other room” . It’s the time when you introduce the new person in your life as “a very good friend” and deny any linkups :). It’s the time when your parents start complaining that you have changed and don’t listen to them anymore. It’s the time when you wish you had more than 24hours in a day. It’s the time which you wish could last forever.

Too bad....just like everything this too comes to an end. Personally I call it a PRETENTIOUS phase where in both the parties want to put their right foot forward and at times(not all the times) they pretend to be someone who they arent. Its like testing the ground, where you want to talk about almost everything. But there are some taboo topics too. SEX is one. Family/Hygiene is another. You don’t want to tell each other how experienced you are? Or what do you fantasize. You definitely don’t want to tell for how many days you haven’t brushed or had a shower(what are gums and Deo’s for).

Generally people don’t want to talk about these topics but even if you have, no need to worry my friend, for we have 2 golden words with us “JUST KIDDING”

While some (a small portion) people get disheartened and consider this the end of their journey, thereby going directly to phase5, some others (most of them) dare to venture into phase2.

They don’t say “Love is blind” for nothing, do they????

Phase2 : In case everything went fine in phase1 for you, you probably wont get to know the arrival of phase2. It’s actually an extension of Phase1. So much so that its difficult for you to know that you are in phase2. But this is the phase that you would curse urself if you sit and think of the questions who have answered.(obviously after this phase has gone). This is the phase when you actually open up and talk realistically. This is the phase where you give each other nick names. Nick names like chweetu/chweeti, shona baby, Jaanu or even Raj ;). This is the phase where you actually WANT to ask questions like "Khaana Khaya???" or "Dawai khaai time pe??". This is the phase where you don’t care about anything and announce your relation to everyone. This is where u turn down invites from your friends for a party/movie/outing cuz all you want to do is spend time with each other. This is the phase when you exchange email pwd’s ( cuz u want to show that U don’t want to keep any secrets from each other). This is the phase where most of the guys strike gold(read between the lines) and this is when girls know that they r safe with the guy in question.

Phase3 : Phase3, the Testing times. This is the where you start getting out of the imaginary world you have been living in all this while and start getting a reality check. This is where you start “wishing”. You wish things were different. You wish you hadn’t “gone with the flow”. This is where you wish life wasn’t monotonous and wish it was lil more adventurous. This is where you start missing your friends. This is where you call your friends and start going out in “groups” again. This is where you will initially hear the everfamous line "You dont care about me anymore". But this is not it. Its a phase which puts you in lot of jeopardy. The question starts coming to your mind. The question which you thought will never arise with him/her. "To stay or not to stay??!?!?!". Welcome to Phase4- The Begining of the End

Phase4: This is the worst of them all. Cuz this is when the "showdown" begins. This is where the daggers come out. And fortunately or unfortunately the catalyst in this phase is often a 3rd party. A person(him/her) with whom you start sharing some of your life. The sharing part actually begins in stage3 and then it spills over to stage4, but on a more prominent side. This is the phase which again differs between men/women. While guys choose a rather LOUD way of expressing Remorse/Betrayal/Pain, girls go for a subtle but effective approach. For guys it goes anywhere between Cutting the wrists to getting drunk and calling(read abusing) her to writting blood soaked letter, its generally sleeping pills to secluding oneself from the society for girls. You change your phone numbers. You even change your email id's. You want to change everything about you. Everything that reminds you of his/her. Did i say it was the worst of them all??!?!???

Phase 5: Everything has fallen apart. You ARE devastated. Nobody likes you anymore(Well, thats what you start thinking at that point of time). Suddenly you become your biggest critic. Your friends still like you, they want to be with you but "I-dont-want-any-sympathy" wont let you socialize with people. The only person you talk to is the so called "3rd party", cuz u feel that she/he has seen you through thick and thin. And thats when you realize that you have to grab life with both hands and make the most out of it. So you dare to venture out again...so you start hanging out with people. Your friends try to hook you up but the problem is you try to find similarities in the new him/her. Especially if this was your first breakup. Maybe cuz you genuinly miss them or maybe cuz every body is the same.

Its a vicious circle, just when you thought it was over, things will come to haunt you again. The bible says "What goes around, comes around".

Curtains Down!!!!

Core Values

Houston,TEXAS!!! A place not famous of its achitecture, but definitely for its characters. And thats what i wanted to meet. Characters!!! So i was hanging out at a bar in downtown, in the hope that i will get to see some characters, and was having a good time with my beer. After couple of rounds, i came out for a light and thats when i bumped into a very old friend of mine, Shweta. She works as an Investment banker and hails from a small town in India. Investment banker with a job!?!?!?!? Must be pretty good at whatever she does!!!!. I was thinking to myself. .

It feels good to see a known face and feels even better when you get to see them outside of India. You get reminiscal..or maybe it was just me or maybe it was the beer!!?!?!?!!.

We had lot of catching up to do, so we decided to goto this place called "Flying Saucer". After our first rounds AND professional talks were over we divulged into more generic topics. or should i say SHE divulged into generic topics..I had just one topic in mind. Her status! Cuz last time i spoke to her, she was seeing some Indian guy(another friend of mine). So after we got done with the generics i.e. Indian Climate, impact-of-recession-on-India, Satyam-Saga, cricket I asked her about the guy. Being a True Indian, i didnt mind asking the most personal of the questions.

Dont trust me!!?!?!? Thats what the way it happens in India Boss!! We consider it a birth right to poke our noses into others lives. Thats the only thing that has no society divide. Anybody can ask anyone anything!!!?!?!?! You use a public transport, talk to the driver for a minute and he will probably end up asking you what is your salary , what are your marriage plans and he may probably advice you about whom to get married ..neways all that in the next blog.

So i asked her about the guy! To which she told me that they had broken up. From the way she was answering anyone could have sensed that it was still FRESH for her and obviously she didnt wanted to talk about it.

But who cares!!!? I wanted to talk about it! I wanted to know that details!and thats what matters to me...ME, I, MOI... So i persisted!! Obviously with a caring undertone.

To this she replied "I dont want to marry anybody who will go against my core values or who wont respect my core values".

I had no clue as to what these CORE VALUES of hers were. But it wasnt the first time i had heard that word. I have been given lot of this shit before too but everyother time i was the "Accused" and therefore had not counter-questioned. We just want to get it done with!!!!! The Argument i.e. ;)

But this time things were different, i was a friend. So i could have asked her lot many questions...and to top it all...I was @ my profound best..This was getting interesting... I had a smirk on my face and wanted to ask more on this...BUT she got a call from someone and had to leave...so we finished our drinks, fought for coupla minutes over the bills (another Indian thing). I let her pay but only after she had promised that we will meet again and next time she will let me pay. ( I have another chance!!!!yayyy)

On the way back home i was thinking about what she had said. And still couldnt found out what she had meant by "Core Values". And different questions that could make "Core Values" were going through my head. Like

Was that guy telling her not to work after marriage????
Was he making her sleep with his clients????
Was he beating her up after getting drunk ???
Did he wanted to shoot a porn video with her????

..But knowing my other friend..i knew he wont do anything of that sort ..It was just my pervert mind...

After i got home, fixed myself a drink, lit a light , i started thinking seriously about that shit. "CORE VALUES".

So i decided to ran a flashback on all the times i had heard of this word. And thats when i realized that its was a "convinient" word. A word thats been used by almost all the girls all the time. From matters of not working together, to not spending time together, to not spending time alone over the weekend, to a guy talking to his friends more than he talks to her or her friends, to a guy not being a party animal, to not picking her call cuz u were in a meeting, to not telling her that u had a meeting, to every lamest of thing u can think of.

This made me wonder

If we make our lives more complicated by bringing these kind of things into our life.

Does a work location matter more than a loving partner????!?!???!

Isnt just the spirit and hope to make a relationship enough for both the partners to sail through ..

Or Maybe I just dont have any values left to write about this topic

About us!

All the events that will be recorded in this blog will be true and will be based on somebody's life. The names of characters might be changed to protect the identity ..wait a sec...wherez the fun in that..hell..lets bring the skeletons out of the closet.

We dont intend to preach you. Our sole purpose is to help you realize that no matter what the situation is, you can always find humor in it. Reading or following this blog might help u to learn important and values lessons of life without getting your hands burnt.

Note: If you find any of the profound stuff please dont blame us...for the "spirits" would have taken over the soul ;)

Why 3pinhole?

Well just like a 3 pin socket which has LIVE or HOT wire, a NEUTRAL wire and an EARTH wire, we three too are different when it comes to personalities.

Amit chawla aka Zoraver, probably will be the one who can be called HOT (and we r not talking about physical apperances *ahem ahem*). HOT because he is the one whoz short-tempered and gets over-aggresive at times. Being from Punjab helped him inherit 2 things. Stand up for friends and to stay in "high spirits".

Rajesh aka The Architect aka Guru aka Nautanki aka Fraud Mallu fits the bills of EARTH wire. He is the brain behind 3pinhole. A real "Been there, Done that" guy, has his way with words and is said to be a confidant. A person who has witt, charm and is a smooth talker. He's got everything but looks. Well like they say "Kisi Ko Zameen To Kisi Ko Asman Nahi Milta Kabhi Kisi Ko Mukamal Jahan Nahi Milta " :).

Krishna Prasad aka KP aka silent killer is the true NEUTRAL wire. Not the one to get into any kind of trouble, he is the one who epitomizes the words "PLAY SAFE". A mallu comrade who is introvert with a group of strangers and boy o boy what an extrovert when with friends and lovers ;). And according to him, he likes "listening" to people.

So Ladies and Gentlemen sit back and enjoy the ride cuz the fun is about to Begin