Rajat Mishra > Quotes

“Girls, well, when God was coding their speech pattern, he deliberately left out the brevity parameter. He probably had a good laugh, and did the needful to the other kind to maintain the balance.”
― Rajat Mishra, Can I Have a Chocolate Milkshake?

“Life is iffy. We never know when it might pull the plug (we don’t know opponent’s strategy), so we should live and enjoy every moment to its fullest (minimize losses.
Enjoy this moment—this, this very moment. Live today, as if there’s no tomorrow.”
― Rajat Mishra, Can I Have a Chocolate Milkshake?

“Alright, we’ll have 20 ‘Foxtrot’ pushups,” the SCC roared, “are you ready?” “Yes sir,” the Squadron shouted. “1,” he said, and bent down for a pushup. “Foxtrot,” we hollered, and did a pushup. “2,” he shouted and this continued with everyone being their loudest in the end. This was a kind of energy instilling act, which kept up the morale of the Squadron.”
― Rajat Mishra, Can I Have a Chocolate Milkshake?

“N-D-A spelt else wise is to be in our D-N-A, was a thought reaffirmed.”
― Rajat Mishra, Can I Have a Chocolate Milkshake?

“when God is there to look out for you, what’s there’s to worry about?”
― Rajat Mishra, Can I Have a Chocolate Milkshake?

“Life is an iffy sine curve; in the climb on the hill, I might yet again fall down;
What will take any of us “there” is—do we sit with regret, or get up and move on.”
― Rajat Mishra, Can I Have a Chocolate Milkshake?

“Life was groovy, it was fun; it couldn’t change in a jiffy.
It dawned upon me that Life is a Sine Curve, and it is nothing but iffy.”
― Rajat Mishra, Can I Have a Chocolate Milkshake?

“Still much better off Sid, things could have been much worse.
The ‘Sky’ is only the ‘lower’ limit, to thee is the Universe.”
― Rajat Mishra, Can I Have a Chocolate Milkshake?

“Yeah, the world here is full of rules and most of them need to be followed. Some can be bent,” I said, and continued with a smile, “and others can be broken.”
― Rajat Mishra, Can I Have a Chocolate Milkshake?

“Cadets saavdhan,” our Squadron drill instructor shouted at us, and we all came to attention. “Saab, inka drill accha nahi hai. Poora 102 course kaamchor hai, inko khub ragda do,” he said (their drill movements are pathetic, entire 102 course is a shammer, roger them nicely). Then moving towards one of us in the second file, he shouted, “Ye tumhaari belt hai ki ghaagre ka naada?” Apparently, one of us had a loose belt. In fact, it was probably just fine but ideally, the belt was supposed to be as tight as physically possible. “Saab,” D-Lo said to our Squadron instructor, grabbing the cadet from his belt from the front and shaking his entire body from the middle. “Poora ka poora Squadron, to Zero-point,” he said angrily (send the entire Squadron to Zero-point). Saying that, he moved ahead to attack the next Squadron. “Zero-point poora course,” our Squadron instructor screamed at all of us, and we sprinted towards this not-so-coveted place, with him following us.”
― Rajat Mishra, Can I Have a Chocolate Milkshake?

“I wanted to continue the course, continue on what "we" had, and wanted life to be the same. However, the Titanic had hit the iceberg, the "done" couldn’t be changed now.”
― Rajat Mishra, Can I Have a Chocolate Milkshake?

“I wish functions of MS Office suite worked on Life, and things were as simple as pressing “Ctrl + Z” to undo the accident that changed everything”
― Rajat Mishra, Can I Have a Chocolate Milkshake?

“The respect one gets in the forces by virtue of the ‘rank’ is not absolute. 'True respect’ is the one that is earned by virtue of actions, experience, knowledge and demeanor.”
― Rajat Mishra, Can I Have a Chocolate Milkshake?