Tuesday, November 14, 2006

People especially Men never change

Looking at many people around me in School of Management made me write this post :

All students look extremely busy.
Although they are so busy, they still have plenty of time for women/Men. {Remember Einstein's quote}
Although they have time for women/men, they don't really care for most of them. {Gut feeling }
This results in a situation that they always manage to have one Around.
Inspite of having one always around them, they always try their Luck with others.
Although they try their luck with others, they get really pissed off If the women leaves them. {A man never leaves ... hehehehe }
Although the women leaves them they still don't learn from their Mistakes and still try their luck with others. { This is real and applicable to Men only .....}

Friday, October 27, 2006

Time Tested Universal Truths

I thought of getting my blog world back and hence the reason for two back to back posts ...

In the college i studied, i found these universal truth applicable and these truths were verified from time to time by different students coming in from different places:-

1) Every person after cracking the exam says "I got screwed in it" ... After looking at the grades I seem to wonder as to who screwed whom ?

2) After Ogling at a girl fully, a person says "She's not my type da .." although he wouldn't mind a second bit in looking at her again.

3) The night before an exam, everyone says " Hey !! I haven't studied at all .... ".. Next day you find them debating over an answer .. Wow !! Real pick up dude !!

4) People claim " I don't know how i passed engineering ?" but knew when to study, when to take notes and when to attend classes ... Are'nt all these activities supposed help you in passing the engineering exams.

5) Everybody claims to write blog for their own personal sake, but always jump with excitement at the sight of the first comment.

6) Nobody ever likes the females of their classes .. Always females from other classes/batches attract people. (Don't blame me for this ... My class is really like that !!!) And the best part is that you can directly compare such females to "www" internet domain names .. the ones you like have already been taken !!

7) The person giving you advice on major problems in life would have never encountered one . ...

Finally Poetry Writing : People love to do it or people do it to love ??

The Art of Being Busy

I have been struggling for quite sometime to keep myself busy .... Reading books, jogging around, attending conferences . Inspite of all these, i was always accessible to others.. Somehow i always found my batchmates a lot busier than me.

This led to a very meticulous excercise in observing my batchmates over the past one-week and finally found certain points through which i guess i can really give a perception of being busy to others

1. Through Mobiles:
  • Put Mobiles on silent mode and give others a perception of attending meeting.
  • Keep watching your mobile periodically on pretext of date / Balance Check.
  • Pick up wrong-number calls during classes / meetings.
2. Through Emails:
  • Shoot 50 mails a day especially Tim-lak-laks.
  • Keep asking for every small thing by email something lik Hey Guys !! What do u suggest ? ..... Hey Guys !! Please form groups Please mail this me ASAP and so on .....
3. Have daily meetings at night at a predecided location for any damn agenda .. Some of spicy ones which i observed are : ------------------------------------------------------------
Don't you get it .. There is no agenda at all for most of the times ....

4. Involve a lot of females in the group. Kafi timepass ho jata hai ;) . If i comment more, i will start getting bumps from my batchmates..

5. Always keep walking from one wing to another. On being asked, just don't reply but smile and move on. People really think that there is some agenda or the other .....
If you really have to reply then say ... " OH !! Lots of work yaar .. I have to do this .. I am handling .... I am responsible for ...... " Always works !!!! :)

6. Put nose in front for the smallest of the things. "Come-on Guys !! Chief - Guest ko pastry mat do ... unko samosey sey kaam chala lo " .... That way .. you designate yourself as an important person in the meeting

7. Never Be in your room ... Always be in someone else's room.. Breakfast+Lunch + dinner .. at times even for sleep

8. Always stay away from orkut, yahoo, skype .. reply to orkut scraps after 3 days .... some ppl reply even if u don't scrap them .. it forms a routine

9. Set fancy status message on yahoo (@Work, @ college, @Be right back, @Exams ... )


The Biggest one ...

10. Try sleeping in lectures .... Ppl get the impression that you are really busy the previous night ...

Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Aur Batao Syndrome

People have forgotten to talk on phone with each other and have started using internet chat in a big way. But the worst part of it is that now the conversations have started getting worse ....
Here's a sample:

Conversation between 2 software engg. Friends:

SW1 -> Software/Management Professional #1
SW2 -> Software/Management Professional #2
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Sw1---hello
SW2---hi


Sw1---hey h r u???
SW2---me fine!!! Wht abt u???
{ not d sms style n writin eng lang.}

SW1---me fine too.
SW2---cool


SW1--- Hey !! so howz life???
SW2-- gud .. as of now ....


SW1--hmmmm ”aur batao" ? Ki haal hai ?? ( passing the ball to the other side)

SW2--hmmm everything as usual...


SW2-- Gr8 !! so wht else???
SW1-- nothin much


SW2-- k
SW2-- aur batao? ( passing the ball to the other side)


And it goes on like this until they give up....

Are u also having such conversations with your friends....
then I guess u r also suffering from "aur batao" syndrome...

It means ur life is all screwed up following the usual monotonous routine.
Probably u need a change in ur life...something which is exciting...
something which is adventurous...something which really makes u feel good...

Tuesday, August 01, 2006

My Life Rated as on Date

This Is My Life, Rated
Life:
6.9
Mind:
7.8
Body:
8.2
Spirit:
9.2
Friends/Family:
5.6
Love:
0.8
Finance:
5.2
Take the Rate My Life Quiz



Can't comment on much ..... But you all can definitely take a try and see ....

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

GARFIELD RELOADED !!!!




After spending hours of writing ... my mind stumbled upon a thought : "A picture is worth a thousand words " .... I just visited kunal's place for some work and got instantly impressed by his pet-cat ..... I nicknamed him garfield ..... for it's uncanny match with the cartoon garfield ......

Hence, i am launching my own cartoon scrip . This post is dedicated to Garfield ofcourse . I have loved this lazy cat and treasured it's cartoons for over years .. I just could not find a suitable boy to team up with garfield . Hence the experimentation continues.

For those of you who want to figure out with garfield just send me ur pic ... But yes i get to write the appropriate joke though ;)


Just read it and enjoy ... More to follow soon as soon i as sign up an exclusive marketing rights contract with Kunal :)

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Hai Koi Desh Aisa

DELHI is famous for it's Beauty,
Jammu Kashmir for it's Scenery,

Punjab for it's aggresiveness and Fighting, (for a good cause though)
Bengal is known for it's writing,

Rajasthan is known for it's Richness & History,
Maharashtra is known for it's Courage and Victory,

Karnataka is known for it's Silk,
Haryana is known for it's Milk,

Kerala is known for it's Brains,
Uttar Pradesh is known for it's Grains,

Himachal Pradesh is known for it's Apples,
Madhya Pradesh is known for it's Tribals,

Orrisa is Known for it's Temples,
North east is known for Green Jungles,

Bihar is known for it's Eduation, (Biharis are really Intelligent !! )
Andhra Pradesh is known for it's Tradition,

Tamil nadu is known for it's ancient rich poems & Literature,
I hope i have completed a very nice Caricature ............

We thus know all States for it's Unity,
Because India is famous in the world for it's Integrity ....

Let us all be togethar friends !!! Be proud to be an INDIAN ....

Reading all this ... An American asked his fellow indian employee -- "Oh Jolly Gosh !! God has given everything to India ..... Everything that a country aspires... What's holding this country back?"

The Indian curtly replied - " Just look at our neighours " :)

Friday, June 16, 2006

Salaam Middle Class !!!

My tenure of about 22 days in the country of Bangladesh, has given me a lot of solutions whereby i can visualize as to why this country being similar to that of India is finding it difficult to progress ahead. This country has people of the same culture and fabric as that of India. But there's one striking noticeable thing in this country. This country does not possess a MIDDLE CLASS ...

For many of my friends, who despise being the middle class, think again !!! The middle class is one of the most important elements in the demographics of the country. It bridges the gap between the rich and poor and thus minimizes friction between the two. Bangladesh, is divided into two distinct classes, the top 10% are the elite who are rich than most indians and the bottom 90% are poor who are even poorer than most indians. Now this big gap brings with it it's own set of problems.

First of all even though bangladesh has the population and the numbers, it does not have a class that simulates demand. That is only possible with the middle class which has a disposable income. Secondly, the population does not have a tendency to save as a whole. The rich do not want to save as they feel they have plenty of money and the poor want to spend the money on luxuries, which they feel are rare and hence must be enjoyed whenever possible.

The middle class on the other hand start saving the day they are born. I need not elaborate on this as most of the readers must have had a good first hand experience in this regard.

The second most striking feature in Bangladesh and in most countries is that it lacks diversity ...... Only two countries have diversity in them and are hence on top one is USA and the other is our very own INDIA ...... With diversity you have people of varied abilities contributing to the country .... Bangladesh lacks the wily MARWARI/GUJARATI Businessman, The Sharp & quick TAM, The beautiful MARATHIS & MALLUS , The Brave Sikh Sardars & the hard-working Behari bhaiyas and many many more .... Probably as my friend rightly commented... All it takes is to put two Marwari Businessmen into Bangladesh and a middle class will soon rise to bridge the gap ...

I salute again to this great Indian Middle Class :)

Wednesday, May 24, 2006

When Democracy is worse than Dictatorship

The recent ruling on reservation issue has drawn a lot of flak from the student community. People have gone for blackout night protest (check www.youth4equality.org) to candle light walks and what not? All inspired by movie Rang De basanti i guess. Some of my friends who in practical life I know are never capable of even coming inches close to bravery write extremely motivating mails. My principle is simple, practice what you preach !! If you want people to come to a protest march or something, be the first to reach there and motivate by meeting people FACE-TO-FACE and make this cause as your cause ... Anyway, avuthu-pottu today is not directed at such people as there is no point in wasting key-strokes on this hypocrisy issue ....

Today avuthu-pottu is directed at DEMOCRACY itself .... It is very difficult to bend a DEMOCRACTIC government. You can easily twist a DICTATORIAL regime. It is in fact more flexible than a Democractic regime.. You just need to flex a single person and your policies fall in place... Now i received a lot of mails from people stripping ARJUN SINGH and making him responsible for this... No ARJUN SINGH has on date the backing of all VOTE-DRIVEN POLITICIANS including the support of the Opposition(Don't let the saffron party of the hook next time) .

Whenever a democractic government decides to do something, IT DOES ... COME WHAT MAY.. Because a democractic government is people driven and not person-driven... I request all students to look at reality and see that 70% of India comes from Backward castes. These castes form the big VOTE BANK and these are the category of people who REALLY VOTE UNLIKE US... They brave the heat,rain,cold to vote for their choice of candidate something which we really don't do often... Anyway, it is a different thing that these people are not realizing that reservation is not really helping them ... If they realized this, they really woudn't be backward and needy as on date.... But who cares ???

Thus, you do whatever protest march or something, a democractic government is very strong.... Be it strikes during INDIRA-GANDHI TIME, JAYA-LALITHA TIME or anything else... Sorry to say!!! I LAUD YOUR TIRELESS EFFORT IN this regard .... but sadly it is a case of MAJORITY KILLING THE MINORITY.... which is the problem of a democractic government ......... people talk about IIT'ans floating a party for people's governance ... Please see that our Prime Minister is more Intellectual and wise than most IIT'ans but he too is unable to do anything in this regard ...... Corporates like NARAYANAMURTHY, RATAN TATA are not even giving a statement in the press on this....

THE POLICY IS LIKE A DRAUPADI BEING UNDRESSED IN PUBLIC BUT UNFORTUNATELY ALL WISE MEN ARE SEEING THIS SCENE MUTELY LEAVING OTHERS TO DIE IN GRACE..... The second biggest problem is THERE IS NO LORD KRISHNA HERE TO RESCUE ALL OF US...

Thus, all those who are praising and lauding democracy to the last mile ..... PLEASE THINK Again ................

Wednesday, May 10, 2006

The Southern film Industry

After taking care of reservations & family planning, Avuthu-pottu is now back to analyze the southern film industry.

Couple of months ago, when Thespian RAJKUMAR died a natural death, a lot of hue and cry happened in Karnataka. Buses were torched, vandalization of property, riots in all places, stone-pelting in some pockets and what not !! It is as if the entire Karnataka wanted to protest Yamadeva's action of taking the thespian's life.

I more or less felt that the action was purely to show to entire world that there existed a Kannada film industry in India. When Veerapan kidnapped RAJKUMAR, India came to know that there existed a hero in this part of world (at an age of 60+ is still remarkable). Then Kannada industry went a step further and banned new hindi films from being released in Bangalore citing protection of local industry. The local industry still did not do well with this protectionist measure as there is simply a lack of quality in their movies. Now let me explain you how ....

The Malayali film industry like the Bengali one had an excellent lot of script-writers. Now a film is not complete by just writing a script. You need actors/actresses to completely do justice to that script. Actresses were bounty of the range of Meera Jasmine, Asin & Shakeela. These actresses covered a wide gamut of scripts and made movies which even rule the Mallu land today.

But in case of actors, they did not have a new face after Mamooty and MohanLal... The Tamil industry came to the rescue in the form of providing faces like VIJAY, AJITH, SURYA, DHANUSH, VIKRAM & even the good-ol THALAIVAR (RAJNI-KANTH) ... The partnership took the industry by storm and even today Tamil film industry has a better revenue than the Bollywood. Actors like VIKRAM, THALAIVAR are better payed than Amitabh or Shahrukh today.

The Telugu film industry had been languishing all these years. It's only face N.T RAMA RAO made upteen number of movies potraying himself as "LORD KRISHNA" and winning elections. The Telugu film industry saw this booming opportunity in their southern neighbours. Now, ideally all Gults are good at mugging (hard-work). You can see the amount of marks they score in exams purely by mugging formulaes ... 100/100 in the english paper is child's play here ....
They simply started dubbing the Tamil films in Telugu. The people enjoyed good,fresh new faces on screen as well as savoured on the histrionic skills of tamil actors. You can safely the entire industry rode on the success of Tamil films in Tamil Nadu.

Now the Kannada film industry felt that it was left behind. It could not copy the movies made by Tamil film industry as there were lot of ego problems created between the two states by a river dispute. So Kannada film industry started borrowing from Telugu film industry (That lead to their demise as they started borrowing ORIGINAL scripts of the Telugu industry).
Now these scripts and movies are typical. You have a hero who will dance in extremely gaudy clothes (yellow shirt on orange pant types)around trees with a hands on a 42 inch belly swerving around a comparable heroine ... Andavaa!! Even my hands shudder when i have to describe such a scene in detail.

The movies have the same set of story-line with a unrelated rape scenes & obscene dances thrown in between so as to capture the attention of audience for the entire span of 3 hours. And this is how most films came to be characterized. The people of Karnataka initially enjoyed but then became mature as a result of mingling with outsiders pouring in karnataka. To this date, a single Kannada film has not been described a nation-wide hit either due to superior script or due to it's star-cast.
And what even irritates me to the point is the very persons who support the spread of Kannada language by such goosy measures send their sons to work in companies abroad or put them in the best english medium schools across india.

I do not have many kannada friends as of date, but i heard that these people are very passionate about their film industry. I would like to hear their views on this........

Friday, May 05, 2006

Myths of Reservations

A brief story:

4 men were staying togethar in a hut namely A,B,C,D ... A said i'll go to find some food .. Maybe even hunt .. I can't stay hungry ... the remaining three agreed .. They waited for a long time ... A didn't turn up .. so B said .. I better take this grass with me and look for some hungry animal which can give me something in exchange ..
When A & B went out ... C said to D ... instead of waiting for them let us do something... The hut is dirty so C said to D why don't you clean around .. meanwhile i'll attempt to light this hut with minimal resources which we have around ...

Finally A&B returned and C& D completed their respective JOBS .... and the day ended.
This soon extended and rules were made in which duties were fixed for a person without exchange .... son of A did A's job .. son of B did B's job and so on .. This absolute division of labour resulted in what we call as the great indian divide for the next 2000 years .... A,B,C prospered whereas poor D was made to suffer throughout .. he remained poor and soon became used to taking orders ....... A,B,C thus continued to relish their prosperity ... D did not bother to retaliate ...

Note: essentially all these were similar type of persons in the beginning ... (99% gene pool was same ... only 1% differed)


Modern world teaches you a lot many things .... In body ..when people say the most important part is not the brain,heart or lungs ... but the garbage clearing mechanisms ... D realized this that he was made to dirty work all along and ....

Cut to 2006:

A lot of Hue and cry is being made in the name of reservations these days.. People in India really love to form communities on orkut these days condemning reservations but when it really comes for a peaceful protest on the grounds of mumbai .. you find that people rarely turn up ... Leave that apart !! I have a few questions to ask all these protestors :

1) For the so called hard core reservation opposers i have a question : Why do you all fill the minority form when you go to united states ? why do you all claim benefits of US affirmative action programs ?

2) Why do you oppose reservation in all forms ? Do you think the best things in life happen by merit ? Do you believe that being able to score marks in such a skewed one dimensional entrance test makes you worthy ? Why don't you design entrance test capable of testing multiple qualities in a person ?

3) Why don't you proactively support and push through a petition supporting income-based reservation ? Why don't you attempt and use your surplus to help atleast one needy student in your life ?

4) Your ancestors have broken the circle of poverty by providence. Why are you not giving others a chance to break their circle of poverty by this scheme ?

5) You all give motivating lectures of team-work .. about how to help weaker team members .. Where is this implementation of this concept in practical life ?

The problem is accentuated by acute supply side problem where there no attempt to raise the number of seats of engineering colleges .... It is always the fear of commoditizing the entire structure .. but remember the situation is not good now either ... you throw a stone .. most likely it will hit an engineer ...

I agree that reservation in it's present form is helping a very narrow range of people to fulfill their selfish short-term motives ..... Let us beat it down and design a more acceptable form of reservation by not haggling in terms of percentages but going down to more systemic level ... Using reservations for helping the general population as a whole .... and bring that person D described earlier into an equivalent person.

Iyer - Iyengars are not alone

The motivation to write this comes from the fact that people always tend to view Iyer and Iyengar as separate .Several attempts have been made to break the ice between them. For Eg:- some of close iyengar friends are after iyer girls these days and not to forget vica-versa ... :)

It is an accepted fact that Iyengar girls have more sharper features and are beautiful but yes that's because Iyer boys are more beautiful than Iyengar boys ... (See God always creates a balance between his creations) ... The population of Iyengars is less than that of Iyers (rougly 1:8) which loosely translates as that one Iyengar is sufficient and equivalent to about 8 Iyers ....

Now there are many more statements like these which can extend the argument and are beyond the scope of my writing in English .... What i want to say that such things are healthy and promote overall growth .... See we all should never think alike .. Napolean once said " if all of them are thinking alike then only one of them is thinking " .....

Which brings me to the central point ... divisions are common in the society ... there are splits all around you (PUN UNINTENDED) and it is natural ... Where there is positive there is always negative .. People always question the natural order of things ... Look around you ...

1) Jains are split into Shwetambar and Digambar.
2) Maharashtrians are split into Kokanastha and Deshastha.
- For observing this simply watch them in action ... Their actions would speak
louder than my words.
3) Marwaris are split into Maheshwari's and Agarwals.
- equivalent of iyengars and iyers in marwari community.
4) Muslims are split into Shia's and Sunni's.
- shia's believe that successors of muhammad are as good as the man himself
sunni's believe that muhammad was the sole god and refused dynastic rights to
religious authority.
5) Christians are split into Catholic and Protestants.
- The cause of Protestant movement originated as a direct protest to the actions
of roman Catholic church.

Divisions have brought in healthy growth overall in the world ....
1)they questioned as to why assumptions were made in the particular place
2)why things were done in one particular way
3)questioned earlier heresies in the society... offlate religions are both reviewing themselves looking at each other .....

Anyway, just a passing thought ......

Sunday, April 30, 2006

Ham Do - Hamare Do

I was extremely tempted to write one more blog before vacations. This habit has caught up recently and i view it as healthy as blogging has prompted me to think in diverse directions, something which i was not doing at all before ... After an analysis of my own institution, indian team spirit, nudity, internet users ... "avuthu pottu" is now directed towards "number of siblings" . Hence, one more from the stable ...

Over the years, i have observed families with single, two or more than two children. One of my conclusions is that 2 kids is the best scenario which parents can have.

1) When parents have just one child, He becomes what is popularly called in China as "The Little Emperor" of the house. Right from the birth to teenage you will find that he would have been vaccinated for all sorts of unknown diseases ... fed all sorts of dietary supplements and food stuffs .... Sent to the most expensive school. He gets the best clothes picked up for him... People come,move,act and do all things at this fella's beck and call. He becomes the only object of attention in the house. Parents shover their entire love and affection on this child. They tend to hold on a lot to their only hope in old-age and display such a possessive attitude with the child that in most cases such kind parental love tends to spoil the child. The child is not taught on aspects of sharing and on most cases you will find such children irascible, OBESE, rebellious, maverick, Intelligent, talented, egoistic. Now in no way i am viewing these qualities as negative please ... you need some of them to survive in Kaliyug.

2) When parents have more than two children: Now one thing is sure, more than two children is simply a desire of parents to have child of a desired sex (especially male child some 20-30 years back). Parents always wish: "Oh !! this time i must have a male/female child" .. As it is said, Man proposes God disposes and hence the result you get double the pleasure (twins !! you dirty mind !!) ....

In case of 3 children : In this case children are never close in age to each other (obviously, mother can't go into labour for 3 consequtive times in say about 3 years) ... A generation gap is created (most cases a gap of 15 years between eldest and younget) ...
The youngest child is as a result of parents being satisfied by their effort to have a child of their desired sex ;) . This child the most doted one in the family. The youngest child finds that he has more than two parents (The eldest doubles up as parent in case .....). He acts like a rebel and the extra love confered upon him/her makes this case similar to one-child case which i have described in detail earlier.

The middle one is the most confused and his situation i personally empathize with ... He doesn't get special love/attention for neither being the youngest nor the eldest. In most cases, he acts like a non-descript member and is often left to fend for himself/herself. Being close in age to the elder one, the middle is made to use "Second-hand" stuff passed from the elder siblings. It's as if his growing years would never be either remembered by parents nor an effort would be made to record his growing years. Efforts put in middle child case are considered at best a formality. (Procreation effort not included here !!)
The eldest one in due course becomes a grandfather to the youngest one by the age of 30 ......

In case of four children or more which seldom happens these days, the house becomes a mini-playground with sounds from all corners .... In house "CHAOS RULES" but often there is "Order in Chaos" ... The parents better have plenty of money to give the best to their children and Oh Boy !! I salute to the MOTHERS who have 4 children or more ......

3) Having children in the house is anyday better than having none ... so don't be too proud about your blood & lineage and adopt a child so as to make your life as well as some needy's child's life better .....

4) Which brings me to the best case left that is (My case !!!!) 2 children ..... Ideal combination, good/proper sibling fights , sharing qualities inculcated at early age, proper maturity and development of appropriate responsible attitude and many many more . enough stuff to write another blog i guess.....

Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Why India sucks in football & hockey !!

Being a true football and hockey fan, this question often engages me the most. Why a nation which is by the far the best in Cricket (a team game) fails to match with the same effort in other team games like Football and Hockey. True !! Physically we are not as superior as the Europeans, but countries like china, south korea and japan have showed that Asians too are good in football.

Then, An Ayn Rand Quote comes to mind: "Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong"
I questioned myself whether cricket is really a team game as football or Hockey !! Then i realized that individual has more scope to perform here than the team and often teams are known by the individuals who represent them. The living testimony of this fact is people naming teams like Gavaskar XI or Border XI.. Offlate ! People after looking at Australians have realized that cricket has to be won by a team and not by an individual.

Now coming back to football and hockey. We, Indians, have rarely put up superlative efforts when it came to perform as a team. We look more for individual than collective glory. Psychologically, if you see, any aspirant in these two games always aspires to be a striker first. Being a defender or mid-fielder is just a chance. This is because we perceive as the one who finishes is the one who is the best (Primarily this was the reason why Hrishikesh Kanitkar was retained in the team for two years after hitting a boundary off the penultimate ball to finish the match). Hence we see Dhanraj and Baichung getting fame whereas one does not remember a certain Tirkey !!

Reflect on this: Wayne Rooney, a striker of Manchester United(my fav team) passed the ball at the right moment to Park Si Jung(his team-mate) to score the goal. He could have scored it himself but had a 50-50 chance, but gave it to Park Si Jung who finished cleanly to give United a 2-0 lead. Jung after scoring, congratulated Rooney for the pass without any delay. Professional !! Which is why good players like Terry, Ferdinand, Lampard, Gerrard, Neville are all recognized there !!

Locally, While i was playing football along with IIT boys in campus, I found that people tended to shoot even when they had 1% chance on scoring goal and for every goal scored people congratulated the striker (who obviously went into wild celebration) without bothering about the people who set his goal up for him ....

Saturday, April 22, 2006

Online Hunk - Offline Junk

It is said that only few in the world suffer from split personalities. But i categorically state that almost all of us suffer from split personalities. Yes !! Evey human has two different personalities: One what he really is and one what he projects. For a few set of people this difference is not there .... To help you digest this statement, I bring you a case where the difference is extremely prominent: An Online Surfer.

My experience has with such people has made me conclude that what you perceive of such people when you interact with them online is a much different picture when you interact with them offline ....

People might disagree with me and say that "I am the sum of what i write " .. but this statement is really not true. There are certain people who write and interact well online ... They will display extremely fancy status messages ... Some of the funny ones which i encountered :-

a) Exams ---> Now, i have never seen this guy studying or doing anything but his online profile shows that he is extremely busy throughout the day
b) Dead .. will be back on **** ---> Even i get confused at the real intent of this message ... You scrap him once and you get a reply within the next 30 secs..
c) Aha !! My home i miss you so much ---> Now if he loves his home so much, then why don't i see him going home often inspite of getting chances ....
d) All sorts of philosophical thoughts which have absolutely no real connection with them in real life ......

They will reply to all your mails, scraps, pings but real life ..... I bet a $100 that they will be much much different ... They will be extremely silent, introvert fellows who have lost all the drive to take part in real physical activities ....... You can very well say that this person has two different personalities .....

The internet has really changed the way we view relationship. People have started talking with keyboards instead of the god-gifted mouth. The live example is my college hostel where neighbours chat more on the net than in each others rooms. The touch and feel relationship is slowly going down ... The net may bring in sympathy( i know what you feel!) to you .... but the empathy part is not there (I feel what you feel!) ... One of prime reasons for a suicide at my institution

People take a lot of initiatives on the net by forming communities ranging from Jessica Lal petition to protest reservation petition to what not !! but when it comes to deliver in real life by physcially working for a good cause you seldom find takers .... which i why i say chances of a revolution or an upheavel for any good cause is very feeble !!!! Pretty disturbing ..........

Wednesday, April 19, 2006

The importance of being Naked

There are people who have thrashed Nakedness in the following way :-

1) Every time a woman loses something, she looks better, but every time a man loses something he looks worse
2) To act with clothes on is performance, with clothes off it is documentary - Julia Roberts
3) If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.
4) Pornography tells lies about women, but it really tells the truth about men ;)
and many many more which is enough to fill countless blogs ...

Ages people have always been confused from being Nude and being Naked.
Which is what makes me punch keystrokes in dispelling all doubts.

Nudity is more a physical phenomenon ... Nakedness is more of a mental kind .... the most fearless person on this earth is a Naked person. Which is why i feel in cricket minnows like kenya,bangladesh, Pakistan (i really consider them minnows against us at all times) at times get better of their rivals when they play fearlessly .....

when you make yourself naked and see a particular dimension/object , you will realize the beauty of things which you have never experienced or felt before . The impression of clothes merely acts like a haze which deprives you of enjoying the true worth, the true beauty for which it was created in first place.
You become fearless,objective,composed in your thoughts and actions ....

A naked man sees nobody as superior and nobody as inferior - As it is rightly said "We are by nature all as one, all alike, if you see us naked" .. A naked person comes above successes and failures, above pleasures and sorrows, above friends and foes ... to him all is the same ...... He will never waver,wander,muse in life ... To him life is a path, a road, to his destination ... which brings me to the point .. Nakedness is revolutionary .....

After reading all this, just take this two question test :

Q1. Have you at all necessary junctures in your life told your best friend/parents/siblings point-blank that a particular action which they did is wrong ? (obviously according to your point of view !!)

Q2. Have you at any point of time confronted a misdeed happening around you and worked to make it right ???

Remember be truthful to yourself while answering ....

I guess this free-gospel is enough to get your thought process stirring .... My detailed writing on this issue is still under editing .... :)

Please pass me your views and be truthful in your comments - A Naked Truth is anyday better than a well dressed lie

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

The Orphanage

I am feeling like i am studying in an orphanage. You may ask me why:-

1) In a orphanage, the patron visits the place once in a year. he just looks at smiling kids without realizing that these innocent cherubic ones, are just trained to smile at visitors. He would obviously smile back with sympathy at these poor souls.... similar is the case happening at my place.. Our founder visits our college once in year and asks those same materialistic questions about the happenings in and around the college .. He doesn't even bother to evaluate these kides little realizing that these are no longer kids of an orphanage but well performing youngsters who just need a big break in life .....

2) There are some people who are you can say less worse than previous one ... These people just dole out some small pity offerings like sponsoring a shirt, a mid-day meal to the most bright boy in the anath-alay and so on .. Companies in my college sponsor scholarships which seem like pittances in such an expensive world .. When it comes to employment, they do not even bother to consider such students for whom they are giving money to groom ..... obviously, just because i work for some NGO/organization (some ppl take pride in doing that !!) doesn't mean that i will bring this kids home .... NGo work is my professional life .... rest is private .....

3) The teacher's teach as if they are teaching to a deprived/impoverished lot which is different from the others in league... "By the same particular token" in one of the lectures, a teacher makes it a point to make whip my college's ass at each juncture ....

I would have loved to reveal names ... but then "Avuthu-pottu" is all about stripping events and reveal the hidden/naked truth .. the same should be applied to person's only in special cases ......

But yes Finally !!! Just like an orphanage, we all kids sit and smile in posh-blazers and crispy borrowed shirts when some rich deprived fella comes to college for placement ..... why i say this is because, they ask questions in interviews, to which we answer like kids !!

Sunday, March 26, 2006

This is my first post into the blog world ...

This blog aims to uncover truths in the most simple aspects of human life