Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Undisclosed Incomes


This is a song by the British alternative rock band, Muse.

I came up with a CA-related parody of the song. Sing-along and enjoy.

PS: AO here is the Assessing Officer.

 
You've got a notice
But I don't want you to hide
AO's seen the deduction
He will ensure it is denied.

Show me... show me your balance sheet
Tell me... all the income you've concealed

Chorus:
I want to reconcile the profits and the cost
I want to recognize the expense you can charge
I want to exercise the provisions of Law
I want to penalize the concealment of income on your part.

You may trick the AO
By your pleading & your cryin'
But he knows the income you've hidden
Is actually not mine.

Teach me... show me how it's done
Spare me... I don't wanna be the one

Chorus:
I want to reconcile the profits and the cost
I want to recognize the expense you can charge
I want to exercise the provisions of Law
I want to penalize the concealment of income on your part.


 

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Poignant Musings...

The wounds of yesterday still fresh in my mind,
The pain, the agony, I cannot hide.
As they take your name, my scars seethe,
Why is it so difficult to breathe?

All my life I have only tried,
Desired, convinced, fought, strived.
I cannot conspire, not can I connive,
Just thankful to Him that I can survive.

The world is with you in fair weather,
As misery strikes it won't know you from a feather.
The winner is one who is steady and slow,
But all I get is the afterglow.

 - NP.

Monday, July 26, 2010

The CA Student's Playlist

So, I should be up all night and all day with my geeky-glasses perched up my nose and read, read, read... And read what? Fiction. Yes. Authored by dudes like Agarwal, Bhandari, Gupta and the likes. They don't sound as cool as Archer, Brown or Grisham, but come quite close. Oh yes, they do.. They make for some interesting fiction in the fields of Auditing, Law, Taxation etc.

Anyway, so, here I am, getting myself to enjoy the lovely novellas by M/s. A,B,G.. but I suffer from Dismoodification and all I can think of is:
"(We've got) All the right books and all the right pages, so, yeah, we're goin' down" (OneRepublic).

Soon enough I gathered some concentration, and started to focus on those books. But I realized I had forgotten everything taught in class and wished if someone could "Teach me baby one more time" (Britney Spears).

Come 19th July, 2010, and we were faced with judgement day of our predecessors.. looking at which, all I could sing was,
"Even the best fall down sometimes..."
and
"... I FINALly find, you and I, collide.."
(Howie Day).

Thus the frustration begins, and all I want to tell the ICAI is:

"I'm tired of being what you want me to be
Feeling so faithless, lost under the surface
I don't know what you're expecting of me
Put under the pressure of walking in your shoes"


Studying so much, that,
"I've become so numb I can't feel you there
Become so tired so much more aware
I'm becoming this all I want to do
Is be more like me and be less like you"


But no matter how much effort I put in, there's no point stressing 'coz
"I know I may end up failing too
But I know you were just like me
With someone disappointed in you
" (Linkin Park)

Well, so I took the night off and snoozed away to glory. The next day, I woke up to a new beginning and told myself that,
"I walk a lonely road
The only one that I have ever known
Don't know where it goes
But it's home to me and I walk alone"
(Green Day)

But sometime during the day, I spoke to a couple of friends and they all just had one thing to say,
"Follow through
Make your dreams come true
Don't give up the fight
You will be alright"


This really gave me some courage, and i concluded that,
"During the struggle, they will pull us down
But please, please, let's use this chance to turn things around
And tonight we can truly say
Together we're invincible!"
(Muse)


So, now I stand up with the courage and face the books, the November Pain (G 'n R),and sing out loud,
"I've got all my life to live
I've got all my love to give
and I'll survive
I will survive!"
(Gloria Gaynor)

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Reflections

As the years fly by,
I sit back and reflect
The life I live,
striving to make it perfect.

A childhood full of love and care,
nurtured with joy and happiness
Taught me virtues of honesty,
dedication, patience and kindness.

As I entered my teenage years,
the rose-tint began to wear away.
Of love and hate, truth and deceit,
I had to choose a path that before me lay.

Growing up, stepping into the big, bad world,
Not knowing if I would survive,
Convictions and conscience was all I had,
My biggest teacher was life.

People, like seasons, come and go
As my life's story unfolds.
Some stayed back in my heart,
With feelings still untold.

My strife for Utopia,
A life that's oh-so-perfect..
An endless struggle it shall be,
As I sit back and reflect.

- NP

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Treasured Memories


As we celebrate the festival of joy and colour,
I sit down with all memories I treasure.
Happiness, love, laughter galore,
Beneath which lie emotions some more.
As I venture deeper into my mind,
My heart feels the pain of scars left behind.
“How?”, “Why?”, questions abound,
Answers to many I have never found.
The luminance of joy brightens the realms of darkness
Brought about by remorse, pain and sadness.
I wonder if the wounds will ever heal..
Time may caress, but can the heart ever stop to feel?

– NP