spiralling down the rabbit hole

Change is summoned

2008-09-09T09:06:00.000-07:00

Yeah, My itchy feet.
Even in the virutal web world, my wanderlust took the better of me.

So this awesome blog will be followed up on another awesome blog at Wordpress

So please continue your awing ovet there.

The Room was filled with her absense

The next level

2008-08-17T13:51:00.000-07:00

The ultimate movie experience people.
The following trailers give a glimpse into the next level in movies, where graphic novles are met on big screens.If Sin city is any indicator these flms must be quality entertainment. Do recognize the prominent names like Alan Moore, Frank Miller *YAY*

WATCHMEN

THE SPIRIT ????

part 2

2008-08-17T12:51:00.000-07:00

"You are lost"
"I am not",taking a sharp right
"So when is the next turn?"
Takes a left and another, the Kid hits his blonde furry head on the window "Ouch"
"The next turn is when you feel like having another OUCH ", For a moment there the kid looks like he would love to take a swing.I mean he is a kid and all but he would have loved to use his forearm on this bulk of leather on his side.Who wears so much brown anyways??

Bindra's Gold

2008-08-10T22:29:00.000-07:00

Finally Olympic gold for India

Lets all thank Mr.Abhinav Bindra for finally giving us the chance to celebrate....gold people gold!!!

Eternal sunshine

2008-08-06T14:39:00.001-07:00

Every thought absolved, every breath excused
One little moment to remember
Every other time ,erased
Where one can see only a bit
and picture is blinded by the eternal sunshine
Of the clear bright large
blank brain

I like the old DD

2008-07-24T01:55:00.000-07:00

I am all in for globalization, I do get to see stuff like PB,Lost,Bones,Chuck but I seriously wish DD was back to its old form.I liked it!
I remember a fine saturday afternoon where I was trying desperately to get out of an extra class,again.This one was however memorable because the reason I gave was-Dad,I want to watch that Bengali Subtitle film.And parents actually considered it.Unfortunately I can't recollect the name but it was a Suchitra Sen flick.
Thanks to DD's National Awards winning films slot ,i ended watching awesome-I mean awesome-Movies from Bengali,Malayam,Marathi and even Assamese (Raag Biraag)
But then again,DD wasn't just into reginal flicks.There was this one night I was detained in my room because my parents were watching a PG movie-The Silence of the Lambs*.Yes ,it was on DD.
Talking of international,my first brush with Bryan Adams was also courtesy of DD's hour long special.

Its highly unfortunate that DD has to be scrapped to pave way for these unbelievably dumb tv series that airs nowadays.Here are few stuff that DD churned out

Bharat Ek Khoj-It was shot so beautifully too!
Tamas- Heart Wrenching!!!!! (Tamas and Gram Hawa are the best of the lot about partition)
Mirza Ghalib - Such a fine potrayal
Surabhi - Common,we all knew how good they were
I forgot the name of the weekly science show
Adaptations of various acclaimed novels like-Veyi padagalu (Hazaar Pan),Chekov's short stories
Byomkesh Bakshi -The charming Rajat
Dekh Bhai Dekh was rofl stuff
I am pretty sure I am forgotting good stuff starring likes of Pankaj Kapoor,Raghuvir Yadav,Zohra Sehgal,Mita Vashisth

Now I look at all the 50 odd channels available to me and don't see a single show measuring up to these! Its highly unfortunate .

Few things I associate the 90's with
Mile Sur mera Tumhara
Hamara Bajaj
Rashtriya Sakhsharata Mission
Ek Chidiya

*I took me another 6 years to finally watch the movie.I went and hugged my dad for not letting me watch as a kid,i would have named my boogeyman as Lecter.

Unbearable lightness?

2008-07-19T00:31:00.000-07:00

The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one..

If every second of our lives recurs an infinite number of times, we are nailed to eternity as Jesus Christ was nailed to the cross. It is a terrifying prospect. In the world of eternal return the weight of unbearable responsibility lies heavy on every move we make. That is why Nietzsche called the idea of eternal return the heaviest of burdens (das schwerste Gewicht).
If eternal return is the heaviest of burdens, then our lives can stand out against it in all their splendid lightness.
But is heaviness truly deplorable and lightness splendid?

The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. But in the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body. The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life's most intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become.
Conversely, the absolute absence of a burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into the heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant.
What then shall we choose? Weight or lightness?

~MILAN KUNDERA

Bohemia

2008-07-05T10:20:00.000-07:00

Legs crossed,a grey suit sat on the pavement,
The hair wasn't allowed by the forehead and the dark eyer,were
well,dark.
This looked like the place we could find them,
this other end of the town,
the mighty river here,don't people drown?

The town square formed a impressive canvas for him,
the hawkers of erstwhile kingdoms,
the old ladies on their chairs,
the gypsies spelling fortune,
and then them

I was told its this part where i could find them now,
only here,
"where",I said,"where exactly you think i should be?"

A pony tailed teen walked over,not a single tatoo on him
but the friendly smile suggested a nice pierce
This part it is,
jobs that pay you enough to get the beer for your girl on saturday,
where a can beer on the door suggests the party,
and you live in the night,
this night.

Here i should find them,so i clutched some exotic air and shouted
"Can I ge some writers?"

Grey ism:On Desire

2008-06-29T02:36:00.000-07:00

There's something to be said about a glass half full. About knowing when to say when. I think it's a floating line. A barometer of need and desire. It's entirely up to the individual. And depends on what's being poured. Sometimes all we want is a taste. Other times there's no such thing as enough, the glass is bottomless. And all we want, is more.

Chapter 1-Fish ,Vodka ,wind drums and Me in the end

2008-06-25T02:43:00.000-07:00

Then I slowly opened my eyes.The sounds of an distant wind reached my ears,wiping out the beats i heard till now.The wind seemed angry,it cursed at the trees,the bushes and even at the lake.And a few moments ago it seemed like those animal skin drum ,beat in a tune.Sigh.A lot can change in few minutes,one patchTom got his name in a moment then again that big nosed punk got 2 patched.Hehe.One patch Tom,he and his pink patch,his gold chains and satin suit.That man spent it all well.And spent it fine on vodka.What did he say A lil vodka can save anyone kid.

My eyes started to hurt again,i slowly closed them and dropped my head all the way till the cold slab touched my neck.It seemed to lighten bumps a little.SO yeah where was I?Vodka and One patch.I met 'Thomas Baker' one afternoon on the willow street.It was those days where i used to do my little pea-and-3 cup act at the docks.Mr.militarycut,t shirt and boots seemed like any other excited bloke me and Fish like to find at docks.We started the usual routine ,me the performer and Fish the college kid with his books ,just stopping for a glance.As the 2 rounds proceeded and MrT and Boots seemed excited enough we made our move.How was me to know just like the sweet college kid was a junkie,Mr.Thomas was The Man on Willow corners.

I shifted my feet a little,the small pea sized pebbles in my shoe are giving a bitch of a fight to stay stuck.Damn it.Few rolled into the cuts.I went possum as i heard the footboard creak.Then it hit me.Possum?Whats that gonna do know Kid?The foot steps stopped.Great.Just what i needed,a fright night,friggin halloween in here.If Fish were here he would have said something smart,he did that at times ,when he wasn't doind something stupid.Never have aspirina nd vodka,they really dont cure your head ache and proceed to get you high.Thats what Fish said.He also said Read a book ,read this book.He pick one from the Irish smely hawker and thrust at me one time.And just like spent all our weekday booze money.Fish was crazy that way ,all other times he was just high.,Not many got that,they called him stupid when he was high and when he wasn't they called him high..people are funny that way.I moved my hands to turn ot the right,slowly opened my eyes.The wind was having fun with dried grass,few leaves and a lot of dumb dry dirt.And apparently some old soiled newspaper.Fish would have wanted to read that too..Me ...

I just wanted Vodka.

To Be Continued..

Wishing and hoping and....

2008-06-23T03:55:00.000-07:00

You know the gypsies,they were smart people-may be a little eccentric and unclean and illiterate and may be even a brief stint as conmen but(And a big BUT -FACE is made by the narrator) smart they were.Apparently they cursed by saying "May you get what you wished for"...ooh yeah ,they were the Firsts to recognize the sense of sarcasm the God person possess(besides the power to live forvever,do anything,be anywhere and play a little -collect the souls-with 666 till 'the End').
Not that one should complain to be at the recieving end of such a well worded cursing,but we humans who are made as the cheap pirated pop up version of God can't be smart enough to handle the granted wishes.And it would be so God-like to expect us to handle that,i mean we were sitting of tree tops ,warding fleas and eating bananas not that long ago...we just evolved from literally going -for-bananas to the figurative going bananas(For those of you who are dissappointed at the way life worked out for humans, you can always console in Darwins Evolution theory -Thinking Genesis to be responsible for speaking apes ,not that comforting,we wouldn't want that!we can blissfully blame the science).So as we seem handle everything else in the manner beffitting the most evolved life form on planet Earth(the 3rd rock from that big star with 8 or 9 or 10 rocks around it...for all ya outsiders) ,i expect nothing less while handling wishes that came true.May the moronity continue its path till the End

*For those of you who don't see a point in the blog----good observation skills
**For those who actually see a theme...i promise i will work even harded to write about nothing the next time...its a work in progress

*For those of you who know i do exist in the real world (the non-matrix one you geeks),i am now ready to spread the whack at XIMB*

Now it is such a bizarrely impossible coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the nonexistence of God. The arguement goes something like this:
"I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," say Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED."
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't though of that" and promply vanishes in a puff of logic.
--THGTG

World Movies

2008-05-29T06:18:00.000-07:00

Never in my life i thought i would be indebted to some media house but then plans of men and mice!!In come UTV with its assortment of movies needing subtitles and i seldom need the assistance of remote off late...hail the reading channel-UTV world movies...some of the amazing movies on air ,i recommend are
Heaven (Eng/French)-Directed by the legendary Kiewslowski,starting Cate Blanchett and that kid bro from 'gone in 60 seconds',this is one movie that brings together the visual sense and story together,beautifully

NOBODYs Perfect-Spanish-Comedy-A story of 3 handicap friends over on nite of fun

Monday-Japanese,2000-Black comedy-Rating 4.5/5....thats how good it is

A short film about Love:An interesting take on love

Three colors:BLUE,WHITE,RED:One of my favorite trilogy is on air,it always advisable to watch them in that order-you won't regret it

PS-All of them can be googled or on imdb..have fun

Grey ism:Whats Time!

2008-03-16T12:43:00.000-07:00

Time takes pleasure in kicking our asses. For even the strongest of us it seems to play tricks. Slowing down... hovering... until it freezes. Leaving us stuck in a moment — unable to move in one direction or the other.
Time flies.
Time waits for no man.
Time heals all wounds.
All any of us wants is more time.
Time to stand up. Time to grow up. Time to let go.

Time.

Great new series-DAMAGES

2008-03-13T12:40:00.000-07:00

Show:Damages
Genre:legal Drama/dark psychological thriller
Channel: AXN-Thursdays 11pm;season 1
Cast:Glenn Close(Patty Hewes), Rose Byrne (Ellen Parson),Ted Danson(Arthur Frobisher)
Tag Line:Trust no one

Trivia:-Its a mini series,13 episodes-high adrenalin rush.
Golden Globes - Best Actress Drama Series - Glenn Close
Australian Film Institute - International Award for Best Actress - Rose Byrne
Writers Guild of America - Best New Series

USP:The show is set in the legal world of mass action suits-litigations,hence the "Damages" As the show proceeds we realize exactly not to trust anyone because each is pushing his own agenda forward.Usually that shouldn't be interesting,but since the stakes include billions and bloated ego of powerful men(and women),its really damaging!

Story:The whole series runs in two timelines.One where a bloody Ellen is running through the early morning streets of Manhattan,bloody and half-naked;only to be arrested from her apartment where her fiance(David) is found murdered-violently
The other time line is where fresh out of school Ellen rejects a good paycheck to take an interview with Hewes and Associates-for which her mentor of sorts takes her autograph and writes above it (consider myself warned)
The show proceeds to see how the mind games are played to Win,which ultimately leads to Ellen being charged with the murder of the moon she was madly in love with in the beginning!

Review:The first episode was 55 minute nail biting episode with no advertisement breaks! The pace continues.The characters fall into the grey area,Patty's character has a Machiavellian feel to it-a immense need to control nd manipulate thats frankly,sinisterThe fun part is when we try to figure out who is speaking truth and who is backstabbing whom..its awesome,the kind of mind games and manipulations the story brings up amazes you.A definite lie as easily detectable as a truth,but when lies and truths are mixed and told-thats where the real puzzle is!
Glenn Close totally excels as the ruthless Patty Hewes. Rose Byrne (Anger in Placid lake,Troy,Just Buried)slowly grows on you,transforming from decent person to someone forced to fight tooth and nail to survive.

Word of advice-Be agile enough to catch up with multiple twists,otherwise you might feel its a lot confusing and pointless

Is this story well?

2008-03-11T07:03:00.000-07:00

I read Kite Runner some time back,loved the narrative element of the novel but laughed to death at the accommodating ending.Its sad to see a book hold so much promise and then fall into the clutches of cliched easy-way-out plot.I do wish the writer didn't bargain a reality for closure.sad.

Makes me wonder if bestsellers often play out on the miserable elements of life to gather fan base rather than portray the whole scenario.Its like all things happy are not desirable when playing on roots and ethnic characters.I am not sure i can say a "God of small things" or any other flavored book is an fair insight.There is something about the success of tragedy that makes people hold it as a more true account of the state of affairs, thats tragedy enough!Few Romanians were complaining on imdb forum how the movie - 4 Months,3 Weeks and 2 Days-gave a crooked account of the current situation.I have to agree that the creative individuals are falling prey to a new form of conformism,they find focusing on the dirt specific to a society increasing its authenticity and ethnicity.It just makes me feel they aren't putting the effort to see beyond the bling bling tragedies! I might be completely out of line here,but i am a little confused global viewer-the news channels have agendas and the movies or books are letting us down.May be we need to be shown better understanding of WHY they exist or HOW it can be changed rather than just reporting the tragic heart wrenching stories.Conformism ,which isn't the primary motive ,is hard to be pointed out.

There was a discussion earlier on a forum as whether to call Oscar Wilde a "free thinker" or not. Just completed "Picture of Dorian Gray",Oscar Wilde's only novel.On the face of it the book seems to be rebellious with its homosexual undertones and pursuit of senses,but the cynic in me wonders whether disguising the sexual implications was an act of conformism by Wilde! Then again i can't make a stand unless we weigh this in relation to the society during Mr.Wilde's time,because he might have broken a taboo for those times!All this discussion leads to the ultimate question on the definition of free thinker and conformist.How much importance should be attached to these labels to begin with? Granted that our societies are imperfect,to say the less, and a man should apply his discretion in his actions.There is this speck of good in the society and does conforming to those aspects be tabooed by the radicals?May be thats where a free thinkers part ways with the radicals and rebels of the world!

In the end...

2008-03-04T20:42:00.000-08:00

In the end, Mr. Cole...
...we all get cured of our sentiments.
Those whom life doesn't cure...
...death will.

~All the pretty horses

x files sequel

2008-02-28T06:51:00.000-08:00

I know its a promo,that too from the camcording @WonderCon,but its the first look at xfiles 2-so if you are anything like me you are totally psyched out!

Good news - David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson will be playing Mulder and Scully (respectively ).

Bad news- We have to wait till July 25th to watch the movie

Good news -July 25th we get to watch another episode of the immensely popular xfiles series.

Amanda Peet is also joining this cast.Thankfully,we won't have Agents Dogget and Reyes back.Never liked the replacements much.

The preview is 40 seconds long and show some FBI agents encircling in some frozen ice lake(middle of no where obviously).The leaders keeps shouting "Its Here!"There is some dragging too-of a bloody body(human) and then some dragging of a plastic sheet on ice(alien?).I the end a brief glimpse of "what's there" under the ice.
phew!
All i can say is,its amazing first look-the end of which i was cheering like hell,just like the cheer recorded at the screening

What i don't understand why the promo wasn't released internationally few days after the convention,considering that it will be recorded one way or other!Now we have to wait for the original trailer to take breath away,again.I mean x files ran for 10 years and has a loyal sci-fi base too ,how did they expect to keep it under wraps?And why?
For those of you who want to catch the trailer,its somewhere on youtube-its been moved thrice in a week (The last time it was called the wearwolf is back ).Good luck!

The promo is here for now
Few hours and it will be gone,make use

Are you on the list?

2008-02-25T02:12:00.000-08:00

Are you on the list?
No?Don't worry that just means that either "I have taken care of you" or "We didn't move in the same circles"
(There is a third,worse end-"I righteously avoided you each and every time you our your emissaries were around")
And In my defense i was the offspring of 80's . To add to the woes i wasn't active till the 90's...so I do have a lot of catching up to do.

The House of sand and fog
History of world in 10 1/2 chapters
Kafka on the shore
The book thief
End-Game
Like Birds,Like Fishes
The master and Magarita
Portnoy’s complaint
Consider the lobster
River of fire
The myth of Sisyphus
Girl,Interrupted
Who is afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Look back in anger
A woman of no importance
All poems of Pablo Neruda,T.S.Eliot,W.B.yeats
The New York Trilogy
Longitudes and Attitudes
From Beirut to Jerusalem
O Jerusalem
The Bell Jar
A million little pieces
Vernon God Little
Anna Karenina
The Idiot
The Trail
Moth Smoke
The Joke-Milan Kundera
Ignorance -Milan Kundera
The unbearable lightness of being-Milan Kundera
One flew over the cuckoo’s nest
Counter culture through the ages
All the Kings men
Atonement
On the Road
Death in Venice
Sandman series
Watchmen series
Clockwork orange
still life with woodpecker
Travels with Charlie in search of America

PS-This my To Be Read list if it wasn't obvious yet from the length *sigh*.All i need now is Time and Finances..any philanthropists around?

New Slang

2008-02-20T23:44:00.000-08:00

Apparently i have missed the teen train to slangworld.All i can hope is to come across "those" world in my ever-land,serendipitously. And as chance and hope smiled down,i ended up gathering a few of them in a short period.Heres me-the philanthropist-sharing these wisdoms with you all.

Guestimate - Yeah more logical than a guess but no proof to call estimate.This come in handy much*
Honest to blog - True,swear true are soo last season.
Crushing-No man not grinding types, its like Romeo has a crush is obsolete..its Romeo is crushing
Zeppo-That carpet person of the gang who gets walked over or plainly ignored.
UDI-Not DUI mates,this is all the injuries caused after getting drunk.Now the bump on your head you got while you slipped on the floor assuming there were steps is called UDI-Unidentified Drunken Injury
...

blah,blah,blah,ginger!!

2008-02-15T02:32:00.000-08:00

I talk, I think I'm being clear, and all she hears is 'Blah, blah, blah, Ginger.'

Ah,Finally some solitude in the food court.Me and my sandwich-oh yeah ketchup.Cool breeze makes Life look good.*munch*

Moron Boy:Hi,Nice Sandwich?!
*MB,of all people.The one person who has the capability of single handedly making it all stupid turns up.IQ ka nemsis.Good one God.Wait till you have your snacks*
Me:Are you a nice Sandwich?Sitting silent MB,must be!
Moron Boy:What?!??!!
Me:I said Hi,it is a nice sandwich,the best of the day
Moron Boy:I heard you read a lot of books
Me: *suspiciously* Who have you been talking to?*mumbling*sandwich did you do talking?
Moron Boy:*impatiently*What sandwich?Anyways,I heard for that Biridie.So what you reading?
Me:Just read Da Vinci Code,started on Brothers Karmazov-Doest...
Moron Boy:Ah,Da Vinci,you got good taste
Me:..*vosky*.Thanks for validating my preferences.*tries to dodge popular discussion*So what you reading?
Moron Boy:Da Vinci Code...ah, me-alchemist,i think Alchemist is life changing!Such a good book
Me:*shit-Dan or Paul-which is worse?*
Me:*silent*
Moron Boy:I mean don't you get so much insight?Don't you?
Me: *fumbling* err,guess so
Moron Boy:Cmon,ain't it like the best short book
Me:*keep thy mouth shut*
Moron Boy:No wonder its so popular
Me:Yeah no wonder
Moron Boy:So what did you like about the book?
Me:*Don't push it*Actually i didn't like it that much
Moron Boy,Me:*shit*
Moron Boy:No way,you sure you read Paul Cohelo's Alchemist
Me:It said so on the cover.
Moron Boy:The one about the kid
Me:yeah yeah,i read it MB,i just didn't like it
*Now MB looks like he is struck by electric eel and paralyzed neck above,May i should have broken the news slowly*
Moron Boy:How could you not like it?
*Thanks God he found words,i don't want to be responsible for the collateral damage*
Me:Sorry MB,but some people didn't like it.It happens.With humans
Moron Boy:I don't know anyone who didn't like it,they ReveR it!!!You..
Me:..not the only one,there are people on orkut who think its an over-rated book
Moron Boy:Crazy,You do read books ,don't you?
*stuffing the huge sandwich in my mouth fast*
Me:My sandwich is done,me gonna move now
Moron Boy:I can lend it to you,you know
Me:Lend what?
*trying hard to gulp the food,darn what else a girl got to do*
Moron Boy:Alchemist,i have a copy,take your time.
Me:MB,I have read it!
Moron Boy:Tell you what,will bring it around dinner time here,is that good
*No kidding,ME stuck by the Eel*
Me:MB,Have you read the book-"How to LET GO"?
Moron Boy:What? no.So what time..
Me:You should really try it
Moron Boy:Around 8,*confused*Try what?
Me:"How to LET GO",sure 8 is fine
Moron Boy:Good,so who is the author of the book?
Me:I really got to go now
Moron Boy:Tell me about the book at dinner,also how you liked alchemist,can't believe you read so many books
Me:Neither can I MB,Neither can I

Prologue:
Hide and seek for months
And then came One night @call centre

SHIT

Grey ism: On Adulthood

2008-01-25T09:41:00.000-08:00

After careful consideration and many sleepless nights, here’s what I've decided. There's no such thing as a grown-up. We move on, we move out, we move away from our families and form our own. But the basic insecurities, the basic fears and all those old wounds just grow up with us. And just when we think life and circumstances have forced us truly to become an adult, your mother says something like that. Or worse, something like that. We get bigger, we get taller, we get older. But, for the most part, we're still a bunch of kids, running around the playground, trying desperately to fit in.

I've heard that it’s possible to grow up, I've just never met anyone who’s actually done it. Without parents to defy, we break the rules we make for ourselves. We throw tantrums when things don’t go our way. We whisper secrets with our best friend, in the dark. We look for comfort where we can find it. And we hope against all logic, against all experience, like children, we never give up hope.

Atlas Srugged -the movie

2008-01-07T11:31:00.000-08:00

Ayn Rand's book is once again being attempted to be made into a motion picture!
If anyone has read the book,irrespective of one liking it or hating it (Somehow her work always seems to attract the extremes) one can reach an agreement that this isn't a book that can be easily adapted.Besides the length of the book and the evident monologues that are integral of the philosophy,the challenge is going to be making people view world the way the protagonists saw it.I really don't think how the awe of the steel factory working in the night or the torch of oil burning at the end of the railway track ,can be captured visually!

Considering the fact that Atlas Shrugged was the first book of Rand I read and at an impressionable age,I am a little biased towards the subject. I was filled with awe,wonder and a sense of mystique at the way Dagny looked at the rails or Rearden at his Steel.Some People eh!

THE Movie
Vadim Perelman would be directing the movie. Considering he had experience with adaptations with his "House of Sand and Fog" (Which didn't bring disgrace to the original novel!),I am beginning to believe,this just might work!

Angelina Jolie is going to play Dagny Taggart, but considering its too early in production,it might change.
*I am glad that Ms.Jolie also feels that this is one those rare books that if not made right shouldn't be made at all!
The Important Question
Who is John Galt?

So who would play the leader that would sweep everyone away?
As of now i can't think of a single name that could play him (Or Reardon for that matter).I am sure the Professionals would come up with good names though!

God is like Ashton Kutcher!

2008-01-03T11:14:00.000-08:00

In the end,the very end;Not those whole scale Armageddon end mate but me talks about reaper in the rear- end! One has all these questions about what your life was worth*,what will happen "After", and boom you are dead.
There are floodlights all over ,shining with mighty glory,you are wondering whats going on and in enters Ashton Kutcher saying something.But the word that is important to you is "punk'd"
Thats pretty much "The Truth" is, we are all part of a huge cosmic joke of punk and punk'd.

*Except for those with the genetic make up on lines of Homer Simpson.

Party?Why does it happen to me!

2008-01-01T05:44:00.000-08:00

"Akka, My birthday on 1st.Do come"
So its official.The Gods,angels and the bouncers above have made me a regular in their private joke feature.Thank you,i feel privileged.Now i am gonna drag my bored ass to a party on the first day of a new 200. A party for 1st grader. Lucky me. All i had to do was give a gift,clap while the candle blows off and then mumble to a rendition of Happy Birthday which would go like "Happy Birthday to you...*mouthing Nirvana's Lithium* ...HappY-Birthday-TOO-Youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!".So how bad can it be,right?
Then i gave it a few moments of thought.*Not a smart choice if you have no exit strategy*
What if the mommie and daddy lovingly plan a real party with things like-games,clowns and dinner.Now i am in a soup.Common once you are over the wet-tee-aint-so-cool phase,does any party game under PG-13 make you not feel stupid???. The only fun thing one can do with clowns is to make them sweat so their make up looks like that of evil witch,which,my friends,many have tried and failed at!
Now with minutes to face the fiesta of balloons,baby cries,ribbons and other stuff that used to be amusing in another age,i sit typing this memoir,while I Can.All i can do is face it with guns blazing!
Amen!

LIFE!

2007-12-30T01:15:00.000-08:00

Life is like a blackman’s left butt-its neither fair nor right

Fools paradise

2007-12-26T11:29:00.000-08:00

On days like these,
when wind blows west,
towards the hard sun that shall rest
I look up to the sky
For a a leaf,a ray,a speck of dust
That had come from the times past
I might chance upon a tune that once i hummed

On days like these,
When the summer earth cools down to the stars,
I wish you would wonder like me,
I wish for you to be a fool like me

I want bread

2007-12-24T08:09:00.000-08:00

Apparently finding good bread in my neighbourhood call for the IMF, ah well i am a pretty good agent and the day was saved! (Though it took a full 3 hours of me going to every other store that stocked food and asked for fresh ,nice,brown bread),making it official
Brown Bread - Holy grail number 5

I finally paid visit to the friendly neighbourhood makeshift Video rental .Its amazing how they pack these cd's these days in plastic bags,to be hiked at the moments notice of attack of the lawful brigade *grins*. I didn't find the movies i wanted but still ended up with 3 ,its like kids at Disneyland,everything seems fantabulous with enough clowns and costume guys! Gonna make Will Smith woo me for the 4th time killing zombies(Though my favorite was when he played the smart cop accusing robots of murder,the aliens punching wasn't bad either).

PS - On the subject of zombies, best friends shoot their friend when he turns into a zombie.period.

MY Criterion

2007-12-22T10:20:00.000-08:00

MY Criterion numero Uno
Buffy Haters and Bush Supporters won't be considered for anything

Wishlist-My condo 'needs',

2007-12-21T09:51:00.000-08:00

In the spirit of Christmas,which is pretty synonymous with gifts under a tree in this wonderfully vain life of the new century, i am going to describe a wish list of mine.No obligation for the flying Reindeer postal service to make this delivery,its going to be my hard earned money from working at a modern age sweat shop (albeit sweat is non-existent with the A/c's) thats gonna complete my dream bunk.
Over the years i have made a clear picture of what i want to settle down in though the accessories started coming to me quite recently. Here is the list of a few must-haves i would savor in the glory of my own flat

karaoke Machine - With befitting speakers

Skateboard ramp - I just got to have one for the heck of it.

A vending Machine

A paintball gun - What can be more fun that shooting someone with red paint? (may be shooting them with Green )

One soda maker and one Expresso machine - They look so good with each other,the perfect couple!

Yeah those should do for now

PS- Santa is welcome to have Oreo and Milk anytime at my place, you know.

Adaptations,Inspirations and the Likes

2007-12-19T04:59:00.000-08:00

Movies nowadays seem to be all about adaptation. All the creativity is being put into picking up the form to adapt into a movie. It does take a lot of effort to pick the right biography, anecdotes, books or even graphic novels! Gone are days where people came up with intelligent puzzles to make thrillers or wrote ‘fictional’ characters that seemed so real. Now we just leave it to Time, someone somewhere will do something seemingly impressive and Viola we got a movie. So writer some where breaks his skull to blissfully form a new protagonist and Bingo we go a movie! Pardon me for being so excited by this new way of making movies, can’t help since the impressive list I made of good movies in the past years looks somewhat like this

(Most of the Oscar 2006)
Brokeback mountain
Munich
Capote
Walk the Line
Elizabeth
North Country
The Constant Gardener
Memoirs of a Geisha
(Now 2007)
The Queen
Last King of Scotland
Departed (though from another movie, adaptation nevertheless)

The Dark Knight
Wanted
Atonement
300

I too like good movies and definitely think the ones named deserve their recognition but hell I would like to see a healthy percentage of original fiction characters, events, stories that I can relate to!

Perhaps, a web

2007-12-17T01:57:00.000-08:00

To be asking these questions all around the time and to be able to try to ask with a face that I would wake up to, without an escape, every passing of that time is a dare .A dare to look inside, not with a peek, not in a hood but with the light of all the worlds covering it, hovering to watch the play of deeds done past, deeds that would taunt and haunt the fickle lanes of memory and yet! AND yet would want a piece, a pound of the flesh for the deeds weren’t committed in the insides of the thought dungeons where the dark receives acquiescence for the space, no Sir; these were performed unto the tissues of flesh and blood and bones, scarring them for the times to come. I do sense a tinge of mockery towards the acts of pursuing the abstract for the markings were pretty materialistic by my earlier claim, perhaps one might forget that after all the flesh, blood and bones were merely the shield that withered from every marking made and finally left the lonesome warrior vulnerable, the final touch left an impression that would be beyond the Passage-and that Mark is what one would be left with, one would remember and one would define the rest of the course with! To hunt these back to the beginning is the Dare that began and would end at the final act of realizing the all the acts that lead to it, all the marks that I would ever incur and all those that I willingly or unconsciously brought to existence,all lead to this one moment where I can finally see who it was that made the very first ripple. If I can just ask the way to the very first defining act perhaps some sense would be established in this utter chaos, laying a final stamp on my role in the play I have been performing for so long; perhaps I a final vote would be cast to define my fate of the past and the future that has to arrive for sure and perhaps I finally, finally can have a closure to all the debate of playing both the sides of the light.

snippets

2007-12-16T06:38:00.000-08:00

I think two most dangerous words used nowadays are -GREATER GOOD!
If someone uses that to persuade you,slap him and run fast the other way.Period
There is no great or less good in Greater Good...all it means is "Hi, You have to do something,it seems insane,evil and corrupt but trust me it will do good in future..Okay?"..No shit
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X:why ,offlate You look at the glass HALF -EMPTY always
M:I deny vehemently ,I look at the galss FULL-EMPTY!
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I once had a surrogate fish i called Survivor, for the obvious reasons that i didnt eat or got eaten by the other fishes in the bowl. One day it jumped out and no one noticed
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List of extremely WTF ,stupid movies i watched
Rest Stop
Final Destination 3
Stay Alive

Special Thanks to HBO and please do check them out when you have Cable!

places to visit!!--part 2

2007-12-12T06:22:00.000-08:00

Adding few more places on The Earth to the LIST

13> Santorini (Just look a picture and the night life)
14> Tuscany (I will need a convertible for this trip :P)
15> Paris (The cafes,Art,The tower-My digi cam will be busy here)

16> Egypt

(Pyramids Ofcourse!!)
17> The Grand Canyon (Its unbelievable it exists)
18> Venice (cheesy romance)
19> Bora Bora (The water ,the water,the water!)
20> Galapagos Islands (And Ecuador on a broad range)
21> Petra (Just amazing architecture)
22> Beirut (I just have to be there)
23> Prague (Ah Czech)
24> Vienna (All the spy fiction really made an impresiion :D )
24> …I am not done yet!

Movie crap alert!

2007-12-10T21:55:00.000-08:00

Just watched the promo of a new Eros movie- Sunday
For the first few seconds it felt like a worthy rental ,boom!, i realized it a remake,not of a flashy Hollywood but a Telugu film! If you watch Telugu films you probably would have heard of Anukokunda Oka Roju- a personal favorite of mine. It was a well made (i mean really well made) thriller with a good sense of humor! All the characters thankfully possess the minimum level of common sense that uplifts them from moron ground. I am pretty sure the remake would be a mockery of all the good aspects of the film..yikes!

Anyway here are few spoilers taht won't spoil the fun :P
Ayesha Takia - Lead Protagonist (Charmee's role)
Ajay Devgan - The usual real life cop (Jagapathi)
*EDIT Arshad- the taxi driver (The dude from Aithe)
Tusshar-May be one of the friends of Ayesha from the buliding
Irfan Khan - Guessing is the nautanki wala (we loved him rite!)

Special song Isha Deol my guess is for the version of I wanna sing

PS- Its a audio- visual massacre i would love to spare myself of!
I remember watching a "children's movie" named sunday as a kid...all i remember is the kid travels to weird places in a sunday and eggs sunnyside up!

Book review!

2007-12-10T09:44:00.000-08:00

Bachelor Brothers' Bed and Breakfast by Bill Richardson

This 150 odd pages book starts off by describing how the writer first got acquainted with the B n B ,pretty much the same way i came across the book personally - "If you get there,it will be in your own time and way".

The twins Hector and Virgil run this place where "reading will not be a possible distraction or subsidiary activity but the entire thrust of my excursion".The whole book has 4-5 pages of stories from the lives of the twins and the boarders told with quirky humor. The subject can vary from the love of the life to the household cat!(Thankfully :mg:). The theme of books and good reads does play out in the background in a pleasant fashion,to my liking. The whole style of tasteful humor,not-over the top nor deliberate, used to tell short tales is addictive. You start identifying with the scene or wondering about the persons involved, over the due course their thoughts grow over you. Its like those conversation over cup of tea,munching muffins,taking break from the chores of the world...delightful,pleasant and a welcome change!

My first acquaintance of a B and B was formed by the Gilmore Girls ,i thought the experiences usually involve overtly flowery rooms,uneasy prodding into personal life by over friendly boarders,nature watching activities and muffin baking!I am happy this book presented the other hopeful face of B and B.(Though i still consider Lorelai's opinion in most matters)
I would definitely call it a good read and as my well-informed cover informs me,it had been awarded the Stephen Leacock Award for Humor..so its official :D
check out the extract ,it will be worth the effort(the only one i found readily available on net-to avoid pain of typing :P)

PS- I can't believe i got a perfectly good original copy of the book for as low as 10 rupees in the used books market...i also got the nanny diaries for 20 bucks!!(My first chiclit!)

Hold on to the gasp!

2007-12-09T06:03:00.000-08:00

I was once in college.I was trying to label a flavor to my time at the altar of education,graduate brotherhood following around PHD priests.It takes time to recollect,for my adept brain should have repressed lot of hours spent.Hours accounted by the ceremonies handed down from generation of founding morons which the brothers follow with devotion or apathy,hours of embarrassing blank faces on pop quizzes, hours of operation Time Fly Away looking at the grazing cows(or was it Bull?) from the bars of the class room.As those hours became clear 1024 pixel pictures in my head,I realized it wasn't that horrid,but definitely stupid and fun,my kind of life (In retrospect life dangerously looks, rosy)

Granted I had my fair and long share of vehement effort to be useless,achieved by years of experienced blind eyeing, but the moments of brilliance flickered periodically!It wasn't as pretty as those teen movies with b rating from critics that collect MTV awards but it was my one and only shot and it hit some bull mouth!

The brilliance of the period is illustrated in these short tales

Let the sleeping dogs lie
Our one and only surrogate stray dog had made it a habit over years to bask under the concrete and electrical buzzing of the classrooms. It had even proceeded to shun the social activities of shitting,barking and wagging fleas once a week to rest in the spa. It was admired for sticking to its routine even in face of uncooperative environment created by lecturers, wielding sarcasm,notes checks, pushing us to front rows--all the regular sore! It had inspired us to be a log through all the ebbs and lows of eccentricity from the other end!
But one particular professor was known to have excelled in the art and had made generations hear,fear and finally doze dear..such was his power. His reputation was greeted with the mockery so characteristic of naive youth,as we prepared for his class. As he proceeded towards the blackboard ,our dog turned his head,as if acknowledging the new presence. He went forward with the ceremony called teaching and our dog lowered its head,hmm guess appraisal was done! IF the dog can be the log so can we...after a few minutes a cloud of uneasiness spread through the class, to our astonishment we were hearing and the words and the pace hurt the head! The mundane and the obvious bit through our sense. It was the attack of THE Dumb but we had our dog,our log of strength to look up to.
In a flash of the light, he rose, fired a look in the direction of the prof and walked out. He elegantly walked out! He who probably doesn't even understand what was being said,he who CAN't even be bothered by that,made a choice to exit. I was still hanging around with the -chicken-with-its-head-chopped-off- face when my prof proceeded to layout the time line for the whole sem!Why they have to make dogs leave and students sleep?In retrospect,How!!!!!

To be continued with the tale of-A service for Buffy Summers(1997-2002)

need to change!

2007-12-06T10:48:00.000-08:00

Big glass bottle on the sink,
Violet greasy ink,
Blotted paper fell victim,
White cotton shirt and plaited skirt skid from,
One yikes in the air,
Two elbows clashed,
Slippery floor and white tiles contrived,
6 pairs of legs fell victim

Few little drops under the sink,
Busy girls rest room for the next 1800 ticks!

Grey ism: On Growing up

2007-12-03T10:50:00.000-08:00

"There comes a point in your life when you're officially an adult. Suddenly, you're old enough to vote, drink, and engage in other adult activities. Suddenly, people expect you to be repsonsible, serious... a grown up. We get taller, we get older. But do we ever really grow up?

In some ways we grow up. We have families, we get married, divorced, but for the most part, we still have the same problems that we did when we were fifteen. No matter how much we grow taller, grow older, we are still forever stumbling, forever wondering, forever young."

could feet lie ,as the heart longs?

2007-12-01T12:40:00.000-08:00

I once had a dream
Of a bright vast land under the summer sky,
There was a wooden bench ,old , torn and inviting
Grains of sand were seated there departing from the wind

I once had a dream,
Of a me on a wooden bench, watching the sand go by,
Few grains danced and teased the last leaf on a bark,
I am sure these games they played well before a last leaf was said,
Few grains would touch my eye and tease goodbye

I once had a dream,
Of land barren, cracked and hills of the dry,
I sat on a bench drowsed by the smell of the hot wind,
Marked by the miles of the land my feet sore to see,
Wander dust told my eyes tales of the cracked land and wood past,

I once had a dream,
Of a splendid day, so bright that my eyes would hide from the sky,
The land so brown and bare that my presence felt unwarranted,
The lone tree stood firm after the last leaf freed itself to the wind,
Oh the sand so majestic that I saw the truth through its eyes

Winds of the past played a song of the lost,
The specks of black and brown danced to the tunes of the wild traveler,
It told tales, of lands that died, of places that time couldn’t touch,
Of lives that waited for dawn and others that lied to the truth
I listened till the dusk cracked,my sun sadly will go down
As I lifted me from the bench,pulled my overcoat to the ears
For I paid my debt to the story teller by adding one tear drop
One tear down the dusty cheeks into the warm wind that now belongs to the stories

HUSH

2007-11-30T11:07:00.000-08:00

Can't even shout, can't even cry.
: The gentlemen are coming by.
: Looking in windows, knocking on doors.
: They need to take seven, and they might take yours.
: Can't call to Mom, can't say a word.
: You're gonna die-a-screaming, but you won't be heard.

PS-Just love the rhyme *smirks*

well said my friend!

2007-11-27T10:52:00.000-08:00

"The world is grown so bad, that wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch".

"If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?".

"As he was valiant, I honor him; but, as he was ambitious, I slew him"

"Everyone can master a grief but he that has it".

"He kill'd my father, and for that,
I, his sole son, send him to heaven.
Why this is reward, not revenge. "

"O, from this time forth,
My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth."

on lemons

2007-11-21T13:31:00.000-08:00

"If life gives you lemons make lemonades"

The thing is, i don't like lemons anymore.I want grapes to make wine.
Lemons were good as a kid but now that i have crossed the legal under age limit,became more exposed to the way of the world and corrupted by it, i cant take any more lemons.no sweetheart lemonades are a no-sale!

*When was the last time some kid sold 1c lemonade on his front lawn?See even they want their ps3's!

indian politics

2007-11-15T18:45:00.000-08:00

I read an entry from the online site of channel V's My India report about politics.

In the end he raises the following questions:

what do you think about India’s political scenario??
Do old politicians understand young India?
Are there specific policies/politicians you admire/detest??
Can the system change?? If yes, how? If not, why not??

The question Do old politicians understand young India? caught my attention since its the easiest of all to address

I think the above question is irrelevant to begin with!There exists no accountability in India hence the politicians need not care to understand. Hence the question of are they is ridiculous.

Its just the way the people couldn’t care less about politics.The only difference is that people actually are at loss by this apathy unlike politicians who gain from the ignorance.In simple terms...not caring is WIN- WIN for political business and LOSE- LOSE for citizens*

Until and unless there is an incentive for them to work for the benefit of the country they never will take the initiative.In general,Human actions are determined by the reward of the action( even philanthropist is looking for the reward of satisfaction or righteousness) . Given the current scenario the politicians are heavily rewarded in personal gain if they care about their profit as compared to the duty they job dictates. Like any normal Human,he chooses the path more rewarding, so its about time to make the betterment of country profitable and lucrative for the people who are assigned to it!

Part of solution is of course minimum school education and population control which have been.Education means improving the supply( better lives) and population means controlling the demand to suit the supply. But this still doesn't make the politicians do their job.

I read somewhere that Aristotle(or was it Socrates,pardon my blasphemy) thought Politics should be left to people who have enough leisure to pursue it! Not a perfect idea but definitely identifies the conflict of personal gain and duty to society one gains it from! Either make it impossible to have a choice and/or we can make it profitable for them .

The first option means greater transparency and legal accountability of individuals and regimes. People should treat the country like their organization and politicians like their employees.Once a transparent system is in operation there should be periodic appraisals at the local level (may be a panchayat or town all assembly) .These outcomes/reports should be acted upon by applying grades or probation and eventual ban/termination from political scene. I am not saying this system cannot be corrupted but with sufficient vigilance **from the public ,corruption and misuse can be curtailed to a large extent.

The other major part should be played by the judiciary.The regime and the individual should both be held accountable for and be prosecuted for any illegal acts.Right now the legal system has has a poor infrastructure and resources(especially human resources are scarce).Law should be encouraged under the education system and more importantly people must be aware of the options. I am not an expert at law but i do think most of them should be revisited.

The other part of solution is to make job of politicians attractive, for all the right reasons. I believe that international recognition,investment options in public sector undertakings and perks in salary and media coverage of satisfactory performance at appraisals(as discussed earlier) might be a step to make doing- the -right- thing lucrative.

Concluding by answering the questions at the beginning of the article

what do you think about India’s political scenario??

- Its not a dictatorship,that a pro.On cons side,its far from being ideal democracy,way far

Do old politicians understand young India?

-They understand they don't have to!

Are there specific policies/politicians you admire/detest??

-Pretty much all of those who can make a change are not going to do it.

Can the system change?? If yes, how? If not, why not??

-As i have discussed through most of my article,it can improve a little but will never reach the optimal (idealistic definitions are just that,non realistic)

Bottom line no incentive no need for politicians to behave!YET

*All citizens barring the ones who profit by having the political system corrupted ,to rig the system.
**I don't consider sting operations as responsible vigilance since they driven solely by TRP ratings translated into income for the publication.

filler!

2007-11-15T09:10:00.000-08:00

Its been a busy week
Busy and crazy
probably lazy too
To do proper justice to the week let me call it the frigging week

So i have 3 more days of tfw to survive, wish me luck people...sunday is a big day( ..i am in stage 2..jabberring..plan to keep mum till sunday)...cant type.................,
...right words..nomore
...bie!

Grey ism: On Addiction

2007-11-12T11:30:00.000-08:00

"It's shocking how many kinds of addiction exist. It would be too easy if it were just drugs and booze and cigarettes. I think the hardest part of kicking a habit is wanting to kick it. I mean, we get addicted for a reason, right? Often, too often, things that start out as just a normal part of your life at some point cross the line to obsessive, compulsive, out of control. It's the high we're chasing, the high that makes everything else fade away.
The thing about addiction is it never ends well, because eventually, whatever it is that was getting us high stops feeling good and starts to hurt. Still, they say you don’t kick the habit until you hit rock bottom, but how do you know when you’re there? Because no matter how badly a thing is hurting us, sometimes letting it go hurts even worse."

good ole times

2007-11-11T09:22:00.000-08:00

We hosted lunch for our maama today.Its some traditional brother-sister ritual! Since mom was planning a relatively extensive menu for lunch,i ended up having breakfast @ local dosa center. Barring the unfortunate incident of a missing chutney packet,the takeaway was tasty.

Noon came and as this lazy bones was trying to shake off the drowsiness, maama,maami and bhayya arrived,dot on time or a little early.Heck. And then began the best sound of my life six voices all talking at once ,possibly about 4 different topics. I love this part where everyones trying to figure out who is talking to them and about what! Since we still had an hour to spend before lunch,gup chup began to flourish!With a little aid from the cable network, everything from Diwali cracker local black market to the cultural diversity of Paris was discussed. After a healthy number of reviews were exchanged about the latest movies,eateries and e-shopping all eyes were on the idiot box.Poor thing under the pressure of expectation ended up showing only repeat telecasts!!..ah the pressure to perform is damaging. We had the ask of choosing between watching POTC-2again or tolerating Mi3, Jack sparrow won! (Tom Cruise+ Repetitive style* of JJ had to lose one a sunday!). Captain Jack and the rest of crew (including the mutant octopus) provided a comforting background score.

The meet was going great, i got know of good places to but pirated dvd's and finally a place to have royal faluda (I badly miss faluda at shalimar!). We got to share the diwali rangoli pics and tales from work.Yeah the usual. It starts with my cousin "my boss is crazy",me going "wait till you hear of mine "and then my dad,maama saying you kids think you have to complain..."we have war wounds"

The lunch was accompanied by a new wave of queries about food and discount on retail...well we got to cash in on diwali ..who doesn't? "Is the non-stick pan's 20% discount better than getting free Kadai?" or "how the hell your milk don't get spilt while making the sweet?"
Thankfully we had this wonderful movie on air, which amazingly all the parents present seem to admire like hell (and for once me and my cousin had to shut up since we were clueless)

Apparently come september is a big hit with our folks. We can't talk at the start because the music accompanying the titles is a hit (and it only comes that once).After that we voluntarily waived our rights to talk, the movie was lovely! Man i found a worthwhile company to Gregory Pck,Rock Hudson.*

Hudson is beyond good looking,he is charming .Add to that his splendid voice! The commercial breaks brought with it
me"I cant believe i havent seen this guy till now."
Couz"Movie is so funny"
maama:"Is it paris"
me dad"italy?"
mom"what a track"
maami "big hit""
Me"i cant believe you folks never mentioned this ,we talked about roman holiday all the time"
Couz"thats a great movie"
All" ah peck and hepburn :sigh:"
Me"I still cant believe.."
dad cuts it to say "Don't be ridiculous, we introduced him to you ,ice station zebra"
Me"that was him, in my defense i was not even 10 and all i remember of it is i loved it and ice and submarine"
....
And so dined the families in the ambiance of great food,movies and chat *grins*

*If anyone watched even a single episode of alias you would have expected MI3,man Hunt could have been Bristow easily!
** Planning to watch few others of my new "rock"star..any suggestions(Besides come September and ice station zebra)

What better way to end the day than with a plate of chole batura and Corr's Lough Erin Shore *bliss*

The Dark knight

2007-11-10T04:36:00.000-08:00

The cast is finalized, the posters are out,the debates have begun!! Lets join in the fun!*

Being a Batman fan, i must say i was delighted when Bale was scheduled to play the part.He fit the part of troubled Bruce Wayne perfectly in Batman Begins! And the movie itself was well made,true to its name,it told how it Began! the villains played their part just like the allies.I liked the touch where they didn't turn Rachel gal into love interest.All this success ensured i have credible expectations from the next in line.

Here is what we know
Heath Ledger is cast as Joker(hinted at the end of the first movie)
He is gonna be accompanied by Two Face,played by aaron eckhart
Katie Holmes wont be back as Rachel Dawes,its gonna be Maggie Gyllenhaal
Christopher Nolan,Morgan freeman,Michael Caine,Gary Oldman are back.

I have my doubts about Ledger, what can i say Jack act is tough to beat("Gentlemen,broaden our minds"-lol).My bet is he pull another Grim'm' performance...argh!..Tommy was crazy two face but i think Aaron might do something good(i rather hope)...coming to katie declining a pay increase ,ah well..she got the Tom bug (the expert on psychology) Maggie was great in Monalisa smiling,but somehow i don't prefer her as Rachel.

There are numerous speculation that Rachel's arc will end in hands of one of our new bad boys!(most say Dent).A fair shot i think,i actually like the idea too!Fits into the Dark Knight transformation!

I always wondered why they didn't call at least one movie dark knight in that whole Batman Movie franchise, since Nolan did it i am not going to complain about him *grins*Just keep the fingers crossed and hope Bale looks even more irresistible(he had great talent since he was just a kid in japan) and the movie fantabulous..amen to that

*One check out the still sand posters on warner bros site and google images!

places to visit!!--part 1

2007-11-09T10:10:00.000-08:00

Hey I am back with the lists, saw a great episode about Sao Paula and man was i mad or what!! My passport doesn't have a single stamping!! The purpose of the paper's existence is to have something written on it!!An my passportz lying there,going no where!! Here to all the stamps i wished i had!

Places i would love to leave my footprints on
1>Sao Paulo (the caipirinha's,samba,street food)
2>Rio De Janerio (all those and the beaches!!)
3>Rome (all that History)
4>Athens (Greece was always special)
5>Istanbul (ah the culture!)
6>Barcelona (:D)
7>Tokyo(susie?)
8>Dublin(pubs)
9>London (Pop culture,pubs)
10>New York(life)
11>Moscow(city of palaces?)
12>Florence (all the street architecture)
13>..part 2

quotes

2007-11-08T18:28:00.001-08:00

"Love is.It just is."

"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."

“MAN GROWS USED TO EVERYTHING, THE SCOUNDREL”

"42"

"A plague on both your houses"

Songs About Drinks-1

2007-11-07T13:43:00.001-08:00

One Tequila
Two Tequila
Three Tequila

Floor!

Five Tequila
Six Tequila
Seven Tequila

Morgue!

Insulting with elegance!

2007-11-06T10:56:00.000-08:00

Hippopotamus-T.S.Eliot


THE broad-backed hippopotamus
Rests on his belly in the mud;
Although he seems so firm to us
He is merely flesh and blood.

Flesh-and-blood is weak and frail,
Susceptible to nervous shock;
While the True Church can never fail
For it is based upon a rock.

The hippo's feeble steps may err
In compassing material ends,
While the True Church need never stir
To gather in its dividends.

The 'potamus can never reach
The mango on the mango-tree;
But fruits of pomegranate and peach
Refresh the Church from over sea.

At mating time the hippo's voice
Betrays inflexions hoarse and odd,
But every week we hear rejoice
The Church, at being one with God.

The hippopotamus's day
Is passed in sleep; at night he hunts;
God works in a mysterious way--
The Church can sleep and feed at once.

I saw the 'potamus take wing
Ascending from the damp savannas,
And quiring angels round him sing
The praise of God, in loud hosannas.

Blood of the Lamb shall wash him clean
And him shall heavenly arms enfold,
Among the saints he shall be seen
Performing on a harp of gold.

He shall be washed as white as snow,
By all the martyr'd virgins kist,
While the True Church remains below
Wrapt in the old miasmal mist.

LOL

I HEARTILY ACCEPT the motto,

2007-11-02T14:57:00.000-07:00

I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

The above paragraph is from the final chapter of Walden, Conclusion.
I can never tread the path chosen by Thoreau ,at the same time can't help but be mystified by his passion. To adopt his thoughts ,even for a few hours is a delight in itself.

The first few hours succeeding my encounter with Civil Disobedience, were blissfully spent on examining one single man's freedom. Strange as it may seem, more than his beliefs it was his freedom from uncertainty that haunted me. There lived a man who was certain, certain enough to perform an experiment of his life. Even more intriguing is the aspect of conclusion ,he actually understood the ends of his experiment. I would be lying if i said i haven't envied Thoreau for This Freedom!

In my idealistic vision, Thoreau went ahead and found answer to his doubts.His passion had led him to his way as desolate as it might have been, and in the end he had answers. How i wish i can be so sure,not of my beliefs but at least the paths on which i can find them! I do not wish to categorize his character, its his end not mine.A glimpse of his peace would be just fine though :)

I am sure over time i will disagree with Thoreau on various aspects and i am looking forward to that time. For that would mean i have experimented with rules and lived a life of my definition.For that would have meant a moment of freedom!

LINKS
WALDEN
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE

PS- This whole contemplation was triggered by the wonderful Into the Wild and the song "hard sun"!

Where have all the slashers gone?

2007-11-01T14:57:00.000-07:00

I was bored for sometime.Ok I was really bored. So what did “really bored me “do?
Well, found a slasher movie on HBO,
Watched a lot of blood and gore for sometime,
Swapped channel for the commercials,
Missed the ending of a crappy movie!

Now what is more sinful than watching a stupid horror film?
Not watching the ending of the stupid horror film!
So went online to fin spoiler alerts,
And man did they discuss the film or what!
In short either the film was pseudo-intellectual or really stupid!

Moral of the story: Stupid slasher films are more fun when you start debating the ambiguous ending!!

We did have our fair share of good slasher movies.
Man SCREAM was damn good (especially since I filed to guess the killer),
I know what you did…was OK but created a cult against death pacts,
THE HITCHER(the 80’s one) and UL were good with popcorn,
SAW was a frigging great jigsaw puzzle,
SCREAM 2 is refreshing as it actually develops the character (yeah remember character –unicorn of slasher films :D)

They don’t make Scream’s any more…Wes now makes Red eyes with its pathetic endings!! Whats up with Hollywood,Just look at the Oscar list of past 3 years amongst others…they are either making Biographical movies or movies based on real events (walk the line,Ray,Capote,zodiac,Elizabeth 2,American Gangster?) or remakes of tv series,novel adaptations or mythologies(Transformers, Assassination of jesse james…)

SoI Ask Where have all the slashers gone?..Yoo Hoo directors bring back to the desolated buildings,deserted gas stations, teenage schools, wide freeways on Screen!

Until then,its looks like Rental is our savior!

PS- This post and 2 hours prior to this post are dedicated to the movie “Rest stop”. Do participate in the poll if you were bored enough to watch it

So what exactly happened?

They were ALL dead,(it’s a purgatory moron)
All dead except our girl (Yeah the cop,the 71 gal were ghost puppets”
Girl is definitely crazy (like our director?)
All dead and she is caught in the crazy circle for all eternity
Mission :get truth out of John Shiban (well we can go to Hollywood, held him for ransom-the actual plot of the story!)

- + -

2007-10-30T17:57:00.000-07:00

When a good person dies, there should be an impact on the world.

Somebody should notice.

Somebody should be upset.

Trivia

2007-10-27T12:37:00.000-07:00

Albert Einstein was offered to be the President of Israel in 1948

One of the pig leaders in Orwell’s classic “Animal Farm” is named Napoleon

FCUK stands for the company French Connection ,the company

Niels Bohr was given the assumed name Nicholas Baker while working on Manhattan Project

The Peanuts character “Woodstock” was named after the rock festival by Charles Schulz

The Dream

2007-10-26T14:38:00.000-07:00

I once dreamed of a nights sleep though an fleeing eternity.Ages of wisdom and life fled across me,a numb creature in a sabbatical for existence. When it was broken and consciousness regained, I became aware of the new world. A world i was part of yet isolated from in sense and purpose. I was a stranger amidst anew conscious of the world that vaguely resembled my entire life.There was a fresh estrangement that hung in the air for i was struggling to recognize the loss.

The very thought that i had even felt the loss began the process of indulgence in the neo-life.Even though i was a stranger with no threads to trace back to any life,over time the world of Present engulfed me. That struck to me as inevitability playing its most prominent trick,with sheer elegance. I acquiesced to the forces and started to pick the trinkets and pieces that formed a definition and proceeded to weave a new fabric. The fabric that would ease my transformation ,to accept the old forgone (till then nonexistent) Common Past and to define my part in the Present.

The Creature slowly revisited all the ideas of any world and learned the rules of the new game.It proceeded to become the part of a geography it was evidently a part of and created the new Myth. Here is how it was told - There was once a creature who wanted to be lost in the time and escape all threads so it can find the perfect view of it all.It was so perplexed by the new view that it forgot the view would be lost at the precise moment of its realization!

and the world is a stage

2007-10-25T13:03:00.001-07:00

“Excuse me Sir, Are you an actor?”

“Aren’t we all?”

Playlist

2007-10-24T15:06:00.000-07:00

Sufjan stevens – Chicago, For widows in paradise

Imogen Heap – Hide and seek

Frou Frou – Let Go

Snow Patrol – Chasing cars, open your eyes

The Shins – New slang

RENT – Tango Maureen, Light my candle, Seasons of love, No day but today,One song Glory

Phantom Planet – California

Mandy Moore – Someday we’ll know, Only hope, Its gotta be love

Switchfoot – Dare you to move, learning to Breathe

Anna Nallick – Breathe, wreck of day

Life house- Hanging my the moment

Honey and Moon

Dandy Warhols- We used to be friends

The Fray - How to save a life

Molly smiles (Uptown girls OST)

PS- all of the above were collected from soundtracks of movies and tv series, awesome songs

Ridikulus!

2007-10-22T11:52:00.000-07:00

According to Dilbert Principle (highly revered in the working peoples circle)- All people are stupid!

And ladies ,Gentleman and all else watching this race, I present to you few specimens that highlight our extreme stupidity

Evidence #1*
Last Thursday, Illinois lawmakers passed legislation that requires all public schools to provide students with a moment of silence at the beginning of the school day.
The bill’s sponsor, Rep. Will Davis, alluded that tragedies like the recent school shooting in Cleveland could have been averted if “that student had an opportunity maybe to sit and reflect.” The bill’s other chief sponsor, Rep. Monique Davis, added the silence will allow students “to listen to the rustling of leaves, to listen to the chirping of a bird.’

Yes our mind is so skilled that REFLECTION solves it all, child abuse,drugs,divorce everything......may be USA should implement mandatory reflection period in IRAQ,that should do it...and hen proceed to Moscow ,Jerusalem,Afghanistan...WHY HAVEN'T we THOUGHT OF THIS BEFORE???We should give him the NOBEL prize

Evidence #2**
AL GORE is awarded the Nobel Peace prize for year 2007

For all those who aren't on their asses laughing of,here is something better
So he makes a documentary while burning fossil fuels with his jet and using loads of electricity for his mansion-he is the neo-champion of Earth rights!!!. And we thought a worldwide concert using all that power to raise awareness was the joke of the year concerning Global warming...who knew all that is now officially labeled!

Evidence #3***

GEORGE.W.BUSH (yeah the best for the last) said this regarding his policy towards heath care
"No one goes without health care in America. After all, you just go to an emergency room.''

Guess ER is popular with BUSH cronies too!! So if you have leukemia or your heart valve ruptures, you have ER! Unbelievable, this guy actually won a second term, what does that say about human in general-Extremely stupid and superbly ignorant

*http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/15/disguised-silence/index.html?ref=opinion
**http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Report_Gore_Nobel_could_increase_chance_1010.html
***http://www.huffingtonpost.com/margaret-carlson/spendthrift-bush-draws-li_b_66100.html
ER is a TV show set in the Emergency room of an hospital

PS- This list is no way comprehensive to gauge our stupidity,just those on the top of my head

gilmored!

2007-10-18T12:30:00.000-07:00

[Richard hears from his mother at Friday night dinner.]
Emily: [So] you were on the phone…
Richard: Long distance.
Lorelai: God?
Richard: London.
Lorelai: God lives in London?
Richard: My mother lives in London.
Lorelai: Your mother is God?
Richard: Lorelai…
Lorelai: So, God is a woman.
Richard: Lorelai…
Lorelai: And a relative! That's so cool. I am gonna totally ask for favors.
Richard: Make her stop.
Rory: Oh, if I could.
Lorelai: I still can't get over that I'm related to God. It's gonna make getting Madonna tickets so much easier.

Lorelai: I hate when I'm an idiot and I don't know it. I like to be aware of my idiocy, to really revel in it, to take pictures. I missed a prime Christmas card opportunity.

Lorelai: This is amazing chicken, Mom. I mean it, really great.
Emily: Thank you, Lorelai.
Lorelai: It's like super-chicken. I bet it could fly. Have you tried tossing it out the window?

Lorelai: I'll be in in a minute.
Luke: Who are you talking to?
Lorelai: My other two personalities.

Lorelai: Hey, I should bring steak sauce, right?
Rory: For what?
Lorelai: Pizza.
Rory: I just got back from Italy.
Lorelai: So?
Rory: So they'd shoot you in Italy for that.
Lorelai: But this is America, where we unapologetically bastardize other countries' cultures in a gross quest for moral and military supremacy.
Rory: I forgot. Bring on the imperialistic condiments.

Rory: I have never seen Grandma so singularly obsessed about a piece of clothing.
Lorelai: Not since I wore my "Gas, Grass, Or Ass — No One Rides For Free" T-shirt to the Junior League spring tea.

Lorelai: Ok we gotta make sure we got everything on the list. Rory read out the list.
Rory: Beer.
Girl: Check.
Rory: More beer.
Lorelai: Check.
Rory: Pretzels and beer.
Girl: Check.
Rory: Various chocolately treats. Alternative alcohol for those who don't like beer, and beer.
Girl: Check.

Green eggs and ham?

2007-10-16T10:10:00.000-07:00

Would you like green eggs and ham?
Would you like it with a goat?
Would you like it in a boat?
Would you?

Among the series of unfortunate events (I was fortunate enough to experience) that occurred with me playing the part,is the incident involving Dr.Suess and me as a kid.Here is what happened

Dr.Suess wrote a book called green eggs and ham.Every kid read it.I was a kid who read books.

Oh i should have mentioned the event was highly unfortunate because it didn't happen, I never got to read it.Then allegedly i grew up.Dr.Suess was replaced by Rands,Hellers and Becketts of the world.

Now as a grown up,i finally came across sam-i-am.
So would i like green eggs and ham?Exactly at what point i would have been persuaded to have the green eggs..the boat the goat??Or would i just give up and go nuts like our guy???

After much though i realized that all i needed to get persuaded for green eggs and ham is to say its not harmful!!! Yes, it wouldn't matter much if it were green or violet or crimson red...as long as it was fit for human consumption!Come to think of it i would acually go "oooh green eggs and ham"...

Would you like green eggs and ham?*

*Apparently this question can also determine few aspects of our personality it seems, seems right to me :)

Why Epitaph?

2007-10-05T12:57:00.000-07:00

The writings on the stone were duly made
Sometimes by those who cared other times by those who read
I for one wondered if they stared from below and read
Am sure a bloke or two wished that the amateur writers drop dead

Ain’t it funny that we can’t reveal ourselves in life
And our near and dear carry the legacy with our death
Ah how now we wish atleast death help the living see the truth
But seriously
Its just a stone and bone ,for what its worth

Hey don’t curse me for pointing out the humour
Who won’t laugh when the dead virgin has a stone
Saying “here lies our girl who did the world many a kind acts”
So if you are like me,you don’t want to die with your lies
You make sure to do the writing for I intend to sleep in my grave :)

ALIAS- The ultimate answer

2007-09-09T12:46:00.000-07:00

I am not sure which is more frustrating, the fact that you can't put a finger on the Why's or that you are incapable of finding the HOW's!!
Consider you woke up one morning and you suddenly felt like punching someone!Before you know all these inquries and thrwon upon you by super excited brain(probably happy being useful after long vacation)----Why Do i feel like bashing the wall?How will i be back to normal?Will it help if I just knock someone off the road?How can i think of committing the horrid??Am i always this good with english in mornings?ANd why the heck am i talking to myself?Hmm coffeee!

Just look at the pile of clutter choking you to find a solution and find did I!!!!

ALIAS

The solution is so simple,straight and succint that it amazes me to point of celebrating its orgin.Heres the idea!
Take one charector you have come to know over the course of your life and assume their identity! Since you are acquainted with the tastes,prejudices,eccentricites et all of the person you are playing, all the answers are pre defined!!!!!!!

The next time you wake up and think you know its because you are an incurable romantic or a incorrigible screw up or a sociopath!! Each to his own!
Thats that simple my friend!

They earned it!!!-LIST 1

2007-09-04T12:52:00.000-07:00

There are more than 2 ways to get lost...I mean one need not be obnoxious to be asked to get lost nor the event be forgettable...one vanishes from memory unintentionally, titles buried under piling information, and simply therez apathy!!
I have periods of paranoia at times.This is not one of those.But this is when i get skeptical about human race and do my part by reclaiming the place of few worthy ones...its more like reassuring myself to optimism!!
And since i am penning this after a 48 hour wake up (of course it took naps of 4 hrs in between..i can't do drugs)....i starting with my first list of worthy titles

OF all the trash bollywood manages to churn out each year, few actually stick their way out of the crap...here's a blog to those contemporary movies

Hazaaron Khwaeisein Aisi- Dir:Sudhir Mishra....An awesome film about Love, Ideals,Pragmatism,Power and Bravery (Indeed)...Three characters evolve ,mature and find themselves during the emergency era (That's rite , then on-mythical era which people seldom mention nowadays!!!)
Kal-Yesterday and tomorrow - A finely made drama/suspense. The best part are again the people in the film,real,grey and raising up to the task in spite of their vanities.
Morning Raaga - This actually can be called a well paced entertainer.Amazing soundtrack and Shabana Azmi are few of the strengths of the film about strangers united in common grief and finding Closure!!
Khosla ka Ghosla - This is a real entertainer , novel script, funky filming (same goes for tracks-Chakde pattay for example), and engaging (rangeen) characters!! Addressing the turmoils of the middle class Kher trying to figure out the Khabja of his land...A real good catch this one is
Ek Chaalis ki last local-- This is the best dark satire i have seen in quite a while!! Amazingly original story, dark characters with the local flavor (the tamilian cop) and a quite few double crossings makes this a very engaging film!!

This list is no way definitive of the last 4-5 years but definitely the films are!!!

TBC,

Chapter 4

2007-07-13T06:41:00.000-07:00

Hung over the bloody marshes of "NoKarzees land" was a solitary sign.If one have observed the sign ,one would have noticed that there was nothing particularly distinctive about it. It was made from a low grade tree bark and the dust used to inscribe the words was equally low grade and could have been easily obtained from the nearest factory dump. Neither was the meaning of the words was a Royal stopper* ,all it said was
"A karnivorrous Tweed" (the author impying his utter contempt of meat by inserting the 'r')
And yet a lonely figure stood there.Not swaying,not moving just looking magnetically at the space beyond the sign.Looking. In his right arm was leave-bag and in his left was a saw.He wore the uinform of a factory low-stair worker.All details unimpressive except for his long stare.
After it has been a while (My zarkon reprter friend helpfully mentioned that in this while a battalion of zarkons had manufactured a magnificient ship, used it as a pawn for their-shoot a ship- game and moved on to build a raft from the shreds of the ex-magnificient ship),yes after a while the lone figure utter single sentence
"Am I supposed to tame a creamfly?"
At the same time a tweed wondered in a suburban backyard ,why so many flowers were under his ass!

Both the tweed and Sevene moved on eventually.

*The Royal statstician notes that a Royal usually stops once every three steps and exclaims "OOzE waz iz dat?" and proceeds to ooze the bottle

united states of madhatter

2007-07-06T06:07:00.000-07:00

You want a why. Well, maybe there isn't one. Maybe... Maybe this is just something that happened

Its pretty fascinating to look back at our past from the first person and third person's point of views running in parallel.
Once in my teens my bike gave away and i was gifted the view the front tyre of the truck ,spinning, passing just a few centimeteres from me.It was black and I recollect there was no background score,may be it was the tar road,but it was spinning real good,Big Black Spin.heh. All I could remember is I felt excited as it approached as i never seen a tyre in that light and motion....watched it till it went off ,till the rear one bid adieu.
I bet if there was an onlooker (can't rule in the truck driver as he is second person)..the third person, he would have observed a teen ,with a bike on her paralysing any immediate movement of legs, ont he road.He probably would also definetely note the fact that as the truck approched at a "dangerously"close distance, the moron didn't cover her head with instinct!
It was not that I severed ties with instinct, especially on life threatining situations.Not that I have whole journal of them,but i do have survival instincts like covering my head when i feel my friend is tilting the soda in my direction.But at that moment , I am not sure what was I.
Playing the part of a impartial critic might tell me i was plain stupid....but who wants to play that part right?I mean all the critic would have done at that moment was yell the crap out of his smoking/non smoking lungs..and may be eventually help me up and talk...right! But he would never had thought the same things i have while watching the tyres roll!

Its not even that i had a deathwish of sorts and felt some approching Angel of Mercy on wheels was that, though I must admit I didn't give out a cry to HIs Grace exactly. All I could think of ,after chuckling at the rare vison of tyres, was to think of a acquaintance near the breath stopping scene.Which wasn't exactly a Mensa test, it was followed by waiting around when phone calls were made, dads came and painfuls needles were poked!

Thats all I can recollect.

Not the threat,not the pain,not the luck.May be thats Ok.

When I say I don't remember that day, I'm not lying. I wish I did, but I just don't. Sometimes the most important stuff goes away. Goes away so bad it's like it was never there to begin with.

Hu....muh...ah..ruh..!!!!

2007-04-19T22:07:00.000-07:00

Is it a void or an absence of matter???
Though seemingly another utterly useless doubt hurled towards unassuming soul, one who might actually been diving towards life endless tunnels without posing anything to me. But then to call a spade just that, I assume that if one stops and observes the question in the beginning (not THE BEGINNING, thats a tricky one),it might make sense to spend some effort in the quest of an answer.
I sure did lent some to the puzzle, as usless as it might be percieved can nothingness exist???

I assure you my friends over a few moments on this and one would be pacing fast towards more engulfing doubts regarding the definition of existence, identitiy ,defintions as relative to each other, life and our perception in general.For a entusiast there are no bounds to the terrotories he might ponder on to from a semmingly usless thought!!!

...TBC

hamlet spoketh

2007-03-23T14:49:00.000-07:00

For the life of me i would have hated to quote a chunk of someone else's work but this earned the respect and highly relevant for my ramblings that follow. Totally.

To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?—To die,—to sleep,—
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to,—’tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish’d. To die,—to sleep;—
To sleep: perchance to dream:—ay, there’s the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there’s the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely,
The pangs of despis’d love, the law’s delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would these fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,—
The undiscover’d country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns,—puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought;
And enterprises of great pith and moment,
With this regard, their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.

Though I am not exactly in a fragile position like the doomed Hamlet but I say, there are these conflicts that ought to be resolved ,paths that need to be chosen, purposes needed to be sought...would I rather seek the solace of well established Religion( teamed up with philosophy) to define the virtues or would I rather pursue the ideas equipped with logical dissection??

And more importantly would either of them bring peace to the troubled heart??? Hamlet though didn't find much peace I believe!!!

Dostoevsky ,wise man, once said "If there is no immortality, there is no virtue"*

Makes me wonder if it the absence of certainty of our actions that refrains us from committing them.May be the sense of virtue actually springs up from the rewards promised for the path one treads. Sadly when we don't see what our actions reap a logical conclusion will lead us from pursuing the obscure actions and one is persuaded to accept the path which one would have died to avoid.**
Should it be such a tortuous way that lead us to our choices??? Why no man is a island?? Thats where absolutism was ripped off! And what a logical choice we made in doing so!!!! Blessed is a ignorant man who is absolved of all the turmoils of the conscious heart, for he cannot see beyond the only path he takes.The rest of us have to bear the dread of choices, even a fleeting conscience would tantalize the soul till the choices are made.And deep inside the probing one might actually feel the conscious choice is nurtured by the sense of the end that it leads us to.Had it been uncertain one would resort to the way of life that might actually make us bear a long dreadful path,murdering our will ,burying the sense of comfort, for noman would tread the road that sheds no light on the path.No logical reasoning was what i meant.Heavens have mercy if the irrational man was trusted by such a crisis.
Well this would ensure a little predictions about the turn on events in the only world we have!!!
*Though this quotation is debated upon,I believe Dostoevsky would have agreed to it indeed.

**Ironically for Hamlet it is literally true.

Chapter 3

2007-03-07T18:48:00.000-08:00

Twoke* proceeded to warm up his machines, the usual adding of the glue in shafts, tuning the screws apart, burning few roots. This episode of his ritual service would take to halting break when Sevene arrives, daily. Sevene was a jolly chap who had enough brains to come up with ideas but just enough to fall short of practical realm. Sevene’s ritual service started when he initiated Twoke to his new club, everyday. Hadn’t Twoke been busy overcoming the setback caused by dust-spitting blue crabs in the chains, he would have realized that his routine has taken a turn in one more way, Sevene hasn’t dropped in yet. “The time didn’t stop”, glancing at the big bell “Where the heck is Sevene?” .Twoke proceeded to the in pipe from which Sevene usually dropped in. Though Twoke didn’t like to acknowledge the fact that he considers Sevene part of his routine, he couldn’t help look out for him.” The idiot where is he now, hope he left the new idea of his alone. Why in the karzi would he want to tame an carnivorous tweed???”
Right at the very moment when Twoke said those words aloud –That is establishing that we accept the existence of time and all other theories will be mildly rebuked for the sake of convenience-That very moment, gigantic carnivorous tweed came into existence in the backyard of the Heeyay family mansion,right where Heeyay The senior was standing overlooking his oven.

A special plunge into the thoughts of the mundane Heeyay and the terrified Tweed in the initial moments of their fateful introduction
Mr.Heeyay:Hmmm
Mr.Heeyay: Coals are hot time to burn..WTF
Tweed:What, who said what, what is who said what
Mr Heeyay:WTF I cant see the coals ,damn the breeze
Tweed:Ok Its me,What is me?Why I am asking?Asking right ?What I am doing is asking?
Mr.Heeyay:some itch in my hand
Tweed:Ok OK…I am something,I can move, I know something …who is that?
Mr.Heeyay:Oh its not the breeze,my vison is blocked,what is…
Tweed:BURP
Tweed:Hmmmm

The earlier instance can be considered to corroborate the theory on why we are being evolved into stupids, though that wouldnot be liked by the group against offensive terms

TBC

remind me again-whats humane?

2007-02-09T02:56:00.000-08:00

I would lie if I said I haven’t spent at least few minutes looking at pictures of Iraq or Kuwait or Rwanda in a mere calculative sense. Like I was upgrading my database on the Horrors of Humanity.These moments would usually transform into feeling of contempt and disgust eventually.But it’s those brief pauses in my emotions that got me thinking today!!

Most of our thoughts after registering such atrocities would be on the lines of WHY!!Why did that happen?Why did we inflict such pain and misery upon our brothers??Why didn’t anyone take a stand for them??Then we try to gather the reasons that made few individuals choose such extreme acts as a favorable means for their end.
Power, Money, Revenge

All these arguments emerge from a mind which is capable of coherent thinking in the full awareness of the traditionally defined sense of Right and Wrong. We base our premise conforming to societies Rights and the taboos defined. Most of these qualities expected from us are Utopian. It’s like the unicorn we would want to find!!What if for a second we forgot that we need to conform to this set of virtues or taboos.

What if we begin by being part of society where the rules are yet to be defined, the players are yet to role their dice, the horrors are yet to be witnessed.Will our stomachs be still filled with such nausea and revolt towards the pictures I mentioned??

It would be hard to discredit this scenario, right after I personally experienced few moments of numbness while reacting to the visuals of atrocities. If such a premise is placed and the human nature explored we might reach a conclusion which we have feared for long. It wouldn’t be hard to presume that Humans have an innate thirst for maliciousness. It would quite possible that we have never totally abandoned our predator instincts. May be we were meant to be hunters all along. That would establish that these atrocities are not abnormalities in behavior but the resurfacing of our true nature. And those entire Why’s which we previously couldn’t answer would instantly disappear. We wouldn’t have to build heavy financial and economical theories to accept the human factor. We wouldn’t have to build a complex cause-effect relationship to explain these deviations. Once we establish the premise of our lack of “humanity”, the deviations would cease to exist. Isn’t that how any theory is supposed to be? Corroborated by facts and devoid of abnormalities, the theory would be totally justifiable.

All along, we were worried that how humans can commit such acts??
If we just recognize the presence of the predator instincts that are a part of our evolution, we would have to think very differently. May be this is why the ideal human behavior has just been the fascination of all and never a reality. May be we were never meant to be so caring and HUMAN.May be that is why it’s difficult to be that person and easy to comment from the sidewalk. May be all our hue and cry over these atrocities is prompted by our desire to conform to that ideal Human behavior. May be the leash of ideals is worn out and all that ugliness of human nature is finally surfacing.

If my maybes are true, I really don’t like it.I realy wouldn’t want to be human.

Then again may be I am afraid of being labeled evil and hence unconsciously train my houghts to think this way!!

PROLOGUE
We can always try :D

Chapter 2

2007-02-01T03:05:00.000-08:00

CHAPTER 2

Example of self negation:
All words are believed to be illusions.

To gain more perspective on the historical significance of this theory one can always refer to the "100+2 theories to be kicked hard".
To gain a personal account from the hachooh-(the sound) civilization about the theories history kindly visit there planet.
Free Tip: The laymans 3 day get dumb sign by Silent Layman will come quite handy

And he swings again

2007-01-30T19:19:00.000-08:00

Just an observation from Washington Post

President Bush's statements on global warming:
NOW"America's on the verge of technological breakthroughs that will enable us to live our lives less dependent on oil. And these technologies will help us become better stewards of the environment, and they will help us to confront the serious challenge of global climate change."- Jan. 23, 2007

FIRST TERM"We must also act in a serious and responsible way, given the scientific uncertainties. While these uncertainties remain, we can begin now to address the human factors that contribute to climate change. Wise action now is an insurance policy against future risks."- Feb. 14, 2002

CAMPAIGN"Global warming needs to be taken very seriously, and I take it seriously. But science, there's a lot -- there's differing opinions. And before we react, I think it's best to have the full accounting, full understanding of what's taking place."- Oct. 11, 2000

Tribute

2007-01-23T03:25:00.000-08:00

They wanted to applaud it
They wanted to revere its Art forever
They wanted to pay a monumental tribute to it
They wanted to acknowledge its influence
They wanted to act on their gratitude
They wanted all Humanity to bask in their faith

They thought it everyday

Chapter 1

2007-01-22T19:22:00.000-08:00

It was a fine day at karzee. The sun was displaying its might in style, adding a shine to all that its rays touched. The last of the greens bid adieu marking the conquest of Karzee by fall. The breeze was playing a sonata among the bamboo shoots, dancing the yellow and the orange to its tunes.
Like any other karzeeike, karzee Twoke looked at the finest pieces of nature for a whole minute. It was a yearly affair at Karzee, the dawn of fall led to the finest of 4 art pieces sketched on their landscape.Twoke had seen this every year of his life spent on Karzee and every year he said the same thing that any karzeeike fondly says to nature” Holy Cracks Back!!!It’s the bloody fall again” (For the uneducated reader Holy Cracks back is a traditional way of swearing at Karzee.Though the history of this expression is not known, its widely believed that it evolved in the times when the first cracks developed on soil and the puff –away plant stopped bearing flowers. The ancestors then believed Nature puffed it all and went cracks creating the vivid effects all through the non-hop years-that’s 4 of every 5 years).
Coming back to swearing at Fall by our Twoke, let me establish that he was being the conformist here .Though the picturesque locale is a widely appreciated by our reader a typical Karzeeike is not used to appreciating vulgar display of orange and green on a nude brown thin barks. A typical Karzeeike isn’t used to appreciation at all. You would have anticipated it if you had heard the rhyme
“Give the spatnike an orangutan and in a decade he will create army of deadly Apes
Give the martyfe a gum and in a year he will give celestial tapes
Give the brodestu a pin and in a month he will take a hike
Give the karzeeike a global-trans premium user map and he will light his pipe”
Twoke proceeded to his work station, now that his duty towards the nature has been done, shoving and scuffling through the leaves. The leaves didn’t interest him, he has seen it all his life, besides everyone knows leaves mean nothing as they can’t be sawed. He was looking forward to his 10 pack shift like always, wondering if he will see the firing of the can today. That was what interested him, the Firing of the CAN. That was his secret desire, the one thing he swore no one would ever know

TBC

to begin at the beginning

2007-01-06T02:51:00.000-08:00

The one moment to begin
Or the ripples of the moment
I care not less to feign
For the start was at the end

Everything has a beginning and an end.But its the story stuck in the middle that is amusing to all.Though i believe if the end involved an Englishman,cow and a baseball it would be funny too,but then i havent seen that yet.
The middle goes something like this
Sweat Flight dreams Blood Pain Hate Blind Smiles Music eyes Paints Tears movies gums bikes cold drool paper ink body baskets dirt detentions degrees conscience desires light broken bones thunping hearts morons slaps red ears scotch skates band aids bands code crap people dogs opera dull job lady drenched rain thunder and yeah petrified bolt shock
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