Lot of people kept telling me that i am writing too many posts related to my married life ( its actually just 2....... so now i know how boring those posts are :) ) .......... so i thought let me write something about myself....
I picked up the below list of 50 questions and thought it would be fun to answer them.... PS: Beware you are about to read more about a person who is really boring and hence the answers about himself should be boring as well.....
1. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE?
Tough lot of people think i was named after the dancing Jeetendra with white shoes, i was actually named after a mantra.... can you beleive it..... u must think i am kidding... its supposedly another name for Hanuman....
2. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED?
really dont know the last time i did....
3. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING?
Absolutely........ i am the only one able to understand it....
4. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LUNCH MEAT?
Dont eat meat..... i am kind to animals.... i just like fur and animal tested products... ( why would you want to test products on humans first ? :) )
5. DO YOU HAVE KIDS?
No Kids..... no tension as of now...
6. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON, WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU?
Definately....... i will always have a person who would be loyal and calm you down when you are irritated and angry....
7. DO YOU USE SARCASM?
Of course...... how else will people get the point ? .
8. DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR TONSILS?
I have no idea....
9. WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP?
Yup..... did the worlds highest bunjee jump in Macau.... not sure if i would do it again.... heights share the shit out of me.....
10. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CEREAL
Cereal with dry fruits in it...... dont know what is called actually....
11. DO YOU UNTIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF?
No way...... just too much effort...... i never tie or untie my laces....i just wear and remove my shoes as slip ons.....
12. IF YOU WERE TO PICK YOU OWN FIRST NAME, WHAT WOULD IT BE?
No idea
13. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM?
Death by choclate by Corner House... easily the most fav ice cream in bangalore.
14. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE?
for some weird reason....i see if they are arrogant or not..... arrogance turns me off.....
15. RED OR PINK?
Everything for myself would be red....... everything for my wife would be pink... easily the most amazing color on women....
16. WHAT IS YOUR LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF?
I guess i am too boring..... not agressive enough i guess....
17. WHOM DO YOU MISS THE MOST?
actually dont miss anyone as of now.
18. DO YOU WANT EVERYONE TO COMPLETE THIS LIST?
Yup.......... u get to know people the way they think abt themselves
19. WHAT COLOR PANTS AND SHOES ARE YOU WEARING?
Blue jeans.... with reebok shoes which are white and blue.........
21. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW?
Listening to my collague talk abt stuff which i dont understand...
22. IF YOU WERE A CRAYON, WHAT COLOR WOULD YOU BE?
Black
23. FAVORITE SMELLS?
Dosa smells :)
24. WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE PHONE?
Wife
25. HOW DO YOU KNOW THE PERSON WHO SENT THIS TO YOU?
Got it through a friends - friends blog...
26. FAVORITE SPORTS TO WATCH?
Cricket....wait... Tennis... wait.. F1...
27. HAIR COLOR?
Black....
28. EYE COLOR?
Very dark brown.
29. DO YOU WEAR CONTACTS?
No
30. FAVORITE FOODS?
All food that does not contain meat... or paneer ...... u can see i am limiting myself to very small range of food....
31. SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDINGS?
Both
32. LAST MOVIE YOU WATCHED?
GULAAL - loved it....
33. WHAT COLOR SHIRT ARE YOU WEARING?
White checked shirt........ larger than my size of shirt...
34. SUMMER OR WINTER?
Winter- summers are just too hot.....
35. HUGS OR KISSES?
Kisses during a hug :)
36. DESCRIBE YOUR PENCIL CUP.
NITIE cup... from Incredible India
38. FAVORITE ARTIST(s)?
Rahman music....
39. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING NOW?
The Dilbert Principle - Scott Adams
40. WHAT IS ON YOUR MOUSE PAD?
No mouse pad.... any clean desk would do
41. WHAT DID YOU WATCH ON TV LAST NIGHT?
Cricket - NZ against India
42. FAVORITE SOUND(S).
Complete silence.....
43. ROLLING STONES OR BEATLES?
Beatles
44. WHAT IS THE FARTHEST YOU HAVE BEEN FROM HOME?
Europe
45. DO YOU HAVE A SPECIAL TALENT?
Nope......... average on all counts
46. WHERE WERE U BORN?
Pollachi
47. FAVORITE PIECE OF JEWELRY?
My wedding ring....
48. HOW DID YOU MEET YOUR SPOUSE/SIGNIFICANT OTHER?
Tough we studied in the same college... we met later through family...
49. FAVORITE SONG?
Roja Janeman - Roja.
50.Favorite Musical?
Sound Of Music.
Friday, March 20, 2009
What does being happy mean ?
"What makes you happy? " - This is a status message that i was reading ..... i began to wonder what really makes me happy ?
I then started to wonder what does being happy mean ?
does happy mean being satisfied ?
does happy mean happy your loved ones next to you ?
does happy mean being content with the things that you have ?
or does happy mean the delight that you feel when you go ahead and achieve something ?
So I am throwing this question open to anyone who can answer it.... What does being happy mean ?
I then started to wonder what does being happy mean ?
does happy mean being satisfied ?
does happy mean happy your loved ones next to you ?
does happy mean being content with the things that you have ?
or does happy mean the delight that you feel when you go ahead and achieve something ?
So I am throwing this question open to anyone who can answer it.... What does being happy mean ?
Thursday, March 05, 2009
1 year of marriage continued ....
this is in continuation to the post of marriage and its learning....... apart from learning all those wonderful things that are mentioned in the below post, we have been travelling a lot as well... i dont think anyone with a stable working job would have been able to travel as much as me....
Places travelled...
February
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1. We kicked started our marriage with travelling to the holy land - Nanjungud near mysore was our first stop... we stayed three days there to seek the God's blessings to keep our marriage solid as a rock...
2. Masinagudi - This was our mini HM ..... we stayed at this fabulous place called "The Wild at Northen Bay" in Masinagudi which was essentially a big bungalow converted a get away resort... this place just houses 6 rooms with a tree house as well.... we stayed in a tree house !!!
3. Tirupathi - there is a saying down south - " No marriage is ever complete, without the couple seeking the blessing of Lord Venkteshwara at Tirupathi "... so we were off to fulifill the saying and also go for a cousin's son hair removing ceremony.... More than the visit, i enjoyed the drive back from tirupathi where i was dragging with a Sumo at 160 KMPH...... thats another story anyways
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April
4. Our officail HM - Maldives - Paradise Island is easily one of the most fabulous resorts that i have ever been to... with cottages next to the water and water bungalows it was truly an amazing place to enjoy and spend some quality time with your loved one....
5. Pune and Mumbai - went back to mumbai for official work.... Godrej sent me to check out Old Age Homes and Serviced apartments in that area... Celebrated holi as well went one of the best Lounge bars in india - "Hawian Shack" - its actually listed in the top 50 lounge bars in the world !!!!
6. Pollachi - a small town near coimbatore is where my mom is from.... we had gone to visit my grand parents as well as my uncle and aunt... it is always nice to go there... it always gives me a warm feeling of meeting my grandparents and spend some time with them ......
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MAY
7. Mumbai - Back to college for my presentations -- a joke where people actually thought that i had worked a lot during my winter project-- i guess the above now would have clearly told you on how much i had actually worked.... but it was nice to spend time with guys, i still remember the time when "MAARO GROUP" got drunk in U turn and ran a bill of 10k for kust booze....
8. Pondicherry - Went down south to visit my cousins wedding... spent a couple of days there..... saw auroville and just enjoyed the whole trip with family...
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JUNE
Nothing much happend in June... i joined Cypress in June and was just chilling the first month in training and all....
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JULY
9. Macau - We were off to celebrate the 25th anniversary of my in laws in Hong Kong and Macau.... We stayed at an amazing place in Macau called Venetian which had a golf course of the 5 th floor..... Now you can imagine how big it was... we did the worlds highest bunjee jump from the Macau tower, cost me a bomb :( 7k per person... but the experience was easily worth it....
10. Hong Kong - we spent a couple of days in Macau and were back in HK for nights stay at Disney.... since i had never been to disney before i was easily fasinated there... it was a great expereience tough i am sure i would enjoyed it a lot more if i had been there 10 years ago...
We then moved to main HK where we stayed at Intercontinental Grand, the shopping in Ladies market was quite an experience, it was in this trip that most of my training happed listed in the post below :)
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AUGUST
nothing much happend in august as well, most of the time was spent in preparing for the trip to Belgium ...
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SEPTEMBER
11- 26. EUROPE : The trip was eseentially for me to get "trained" in my head office in Belgium located in a small town called Mechelen... What it turned out was to be one hell of an experience of europe, the european way - Backpacking...
Some of the places visited : The whole of Netherlands, Belgium ( Antwerp, Brussels, Mechelen, Han, Luxemborg), Italy( Rome, Pisa and Venice) and Paris....
The trip actually consisted of us going to a total of 16 places which included a number of small places like Waterloo etc....
To explain more about the trip, i guess i would need to write another psot long enough as this...
All i would like to say is that we spent nearly 35 days in europe, exploring as much as possible... i dont think i would be able to forget the time we spent there....My sincere advice for anyone going to europe, please go backpacking without agendas :)
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OCTOBER
27 - 30. I landed in India on October 10th and cypress shut down for diwali from Oct 27th to November 4th ... I took this time to go to delhi .... Stayed a couple of days in delhi and went to Pilani in Rajsthan to meet my brother in law... came back to delhi and was off to Rishikesh to do white water rafting... White water rafting in the ganges was easily one off the most amazing things i have done... truly amazing experience on the ganges.... It is said that the white water rafting on the ganges is supposedly the best in the world...
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NOVEMBER
31. Pollachi - back to pollachi to see my uncles kid... visited pollachi and coimbatore and spent time there....
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DECEMBER
32-33. Masinagudi and Ooty - Cypress gave me winter holidays this time which i used to the full extent... I had two family trips this time, one was to Masinagudi and ooty and the other was to tirchundhur and kanyakumari
the ooty trip was just fabulous... i was back at masinagudi for the river side lunches, the night safari etc and then to ooty to just chill by the fire place and go to the amazing botanical gardens....
34-37 . This was a trip with my folks, my sister and bro in law and their kids... all 8 of us left for a piligrammage tour to the holy land of madurai, tirchudur and kanyakumari...
we started our journey to madurai where we vistied the madurai meenaxi temple and then went to tirchundur and then to kanyakumari and then back to bangalore....
The intense heat in kanyakumari made me fall ill :(
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January
38,39 . two short trips to Mysore and Pollachi back....
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FEBRUARY
40. Chikamangalur - We were off to clebrate our first year anniversary to Chikamagalur....... we stayed at an amazing 7 star resort called "The Serai".....each of the rooms had its own private pool or jacuzzi..... truly an amazing place for a getaway for couples :)
41. Delhi - back to delhi for nikhil wedding ..... last minute decision and i was off to have a great time at nikhil wedding.....Nikhil finally tied the knot :P .... it was good fun pulling his leg in his wedding ...... it was nice to meet friends and spend some quality time with them
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There were other places that the misses has visited without me being Srinagar, Hyderabad etc..... I had initally counted a list of 46 places but seems to have forgotten 5 of them :) ..... will update the post once i remember them.....
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The journey continues
There are already plans in palce for going to Gokarna and Calcutta..... in the next few weeks.......
Like my friend puts it, We seem to be living the lives of gypsies :)
Places travelled...
February
____________________________________________________________________________
1. We kicked started our marriage with travelling to the holy land - Nanjungud near mysore was our first stop... we stayed three days there to seek the God's blessings to keep our marriage solid as a rock...
2. Masinagudi - This was our mini HM ..... we stayed at this fabulous place called "The Wild at Northen Bay" in Masinagudi which was essentially a big bungalow converted a get away resort... this place just houses 6 rooms with a tree house as well.... we stayed in a tree house !!!
3. Tirupathi - there is a saying down south - " No marriage is ever complete, without the couple seeking the blessing of Lord Venkteshwara at Tirupathi "... so we were off to fulifill the saying and also go for a cousin's son hair removing ceremony.... More than the visit, i enjoyed the drive back from tirupathi where i was dragging with a Sumo at 160 KMPH...... thats another story anyways
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April
4. Our officail HM - Maldives - Paradise Island is easily one of the most fabulous resorts that i have ever been to... with cottages next to the water and water bungalows it was truly an amazing place to enjoy and spend some quality time with your loved one....
5. Pune and Mumbai - went back to mumbai for official work.... Godrej sent me to check out Old Age Homes and Serviced apartments in that area... Celebrated holi as well went one of the best Lounge bars in india - "Hawian Shack" - its actually listed in the top 50 lounge bars in the world !!!!
6. Pollachi - a small town near coimbatore is where my mom is from.... we had gone to visit my grand parents as well as my uncle and aunt... it is always nice to go there... it always gives me a warm feeling of meeting my grandparents and spend some time with them ......
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MAY
7. Mumbai - Back to college for my presentations -- a joke where people actually thought that i had worked a lot during my winter project-- i guess the above now would have clearly told you on how much i had actually worked.... but it was nice to spend time with guys, i still remember the time when "MAARO GROUP" got drunk in U turn and ran a bill of 10k for kust booze....
8. Pondicherry - Went down south to visit my cousins wedding... spent a couple of days there..... saw auroville and just enjoyed the whole trip with family...
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JUNE
Nothing much happend in June... i joined Cypress in June and was just chilling the first month in training and all....
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JULY
9. Macau - We were off to celebrate the 25th anniversary of my in laws in Hong Kong and Macau.... We stayed at an amazing place in Macau called Venetian which had a golf course of the 5 th floor..... Now you can imagine how big it was... we did the worlds highest bunjee jump from the Macau tower, cost me a bomb :( 7k per person... but the experience was easily worth it....
10. Hong Kong - we spent a couple of days in Macau and were back in HK for nights stay at Disney.... since i had never been to disney before i was easily fasinated there... it was a great expereience tough i am sure i would enjoyed it a lot more if i had been there 10 years ago...
We then moved to main HK where we stayed at Intercontinental Grand, the shopping in Ladies market was quite an experience, it was in this trip that most of my training happed listed in the post below :)
___________________________________________________________________________________
AUGUST
nothing much happend in august as well, most of the time was spent in preparing for the trip to Belgium ...
__________________________________________________________________________________
SEPTEMBER
11- 26. EUROPE : The trip was eseentially for me to get "trained" in my head office in Belgium located in a small town called Mechelen... What it turned out was to be one hell of an experience of europe, the european way - Backpacking...
Some of the places visited : The whole of Netherlands, Belgium ( Antwerp, Brussels, Mechelen, Han, Luxemborg), Italy( Rome, Pisa and Venice) and Paris....
The trip actually consisted of us going to a total of 16 places which included a number of small places like Waterloo etc....
To explain more about the trip, i guess i would need to write another psot long enough as this...
All i would like to say is that we spent nearly 35 days in europe, exploring as much as possible... i dont think i would be able to forget the time we spent there....My sincere advice for anyone going to europe, please go backpacking without agendas :)
__________________________________________________________________________________
OCTOBER
27 - 30. I landed in India on October 10th and cypress shut down for diwali from Oct 27th to November 4th ... I took this time to go to delhi .... Stayed a couple of days in delhi and went to Pilani in Rajsthan to meet my brother in law... came back to delhi and was off to Rishikesh to do white water rafting... White water rafting in the ganges was easily one off the most amazing things i have done... truly amazing experience on the ganges.... It is said that the white water rafting on the ganges is supposedly the best in the world...
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NOVEMBER
31. Pollachi - back to pollachi to see my uncles kid... visited pollachi and coimbatore and spent time there....
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DECEMBER
32-33. Masinagudi and Ooty - Cypress gave me winter holidays this time which i used to the full extent... I had two family trips this time, one was to Masinagudi and ooty and the other was to tirchundhur and kanyakumari
the ooty trip was just fabulous... i was back at masinagudi for the river side lunches, the night safari etc and then to ooty to just chill by the fire place and go to the amazing botanical gardens....
34-37 . This was a trip with my folks, my sister and bro in law and their kids... all 8 of us left for a piligrammage tour to the holy land of madurai, tirchudur and kanyakumari...
we started our journey to madurai where we vistied the madurai meenaxi temple and then went to tirchundur and then to kanyakumari and then back to bangalore....
The intense heat in kanyakumari made me fall ill :(
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January
38,39 . two short trips to Mysore and Pollachi back....
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FEBRUARY
40. Chikamangalur - We were off to clebrate our first year anniversary to Chikamagalur....... we stayed at an amazing 7 star resort called "The Serai".....each of the rooms had its own private pool or jacuzzi..... truly an amazing place for a getaway for couples :)
41. Delhi - back to delhi for nikhil wedding ..... last minute decision and i was off to have a great time at nikhil wedding.....Nikhil finally tied the knot :P .... it was good fun pulling his leg in his wedding ...... it was nice to meet friends and spend some quality time with them
___________________________________________________________________________________
There were other places that the misses has visited without me being Srinagar, Hyderabad etc..... I had initally counted a list of 46 places but seems to have forgotten 5 of them :) ..... will update the post once i remember them.....
____________________________________________________________________________________
The journey continues
There are already plans in palce for going to Gokarna and Calcutta..... in the next few weeks.......
Like my friend puts it, We seem to be living the lives of gypsies :)
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
a failed state.....
Sri lankan cricters attacked near Gaddafi stadium in Lahore...... i couldnt beleive what i was hearing... its one thing to spread terror across the border but a whole new dimension to spread terror within, attacking people who have come to help Pakistan regain status of a safe test playing nation...
Its shocking as well as depressing, how a certain section of people can go about ruining the lives of others and still be not accountable... Pakistan internal problems are affecting India... IPL to be cancelled and soon the commonwealth games may be cancelled as well... I dont think any western country would ever come to India for playing cricket for the next few years...
Pakistan itself is going to be split in a number of differnt ways...... the pact in Swat valley for imposition of Shariat law is easily going to spell doom for all the women in that state... people instead of moving forward, will easily be going back to the stone ages... Tough it may sound inconceivable, US and other countries should take over Pakistan to help it come back to life... An IRAQ type mission is far more appropriate in Pakistan than it did in IRAQ beacuse of the simple reason, that activities in Pakistan are affecting not only itself but also the countries around it...
The real problem is that Pakistan democracy has set up in such a way that nobody at any time has a clear manadate to power... The army can take over Pakistan as and when it feels like...maybe the army taking pakistan back in its hands may help in curbing such activities...
I write this in sorrow and depression and i hope that things would change for the better for all of us...
Its shocking as well as depressing, how a certain section of people can go about ruining the lives of others and still be not accountable... Pakistan internal problems are affecting India... IPL to be cancelled and soon the commonwealth games may be cancelled as well... I dont think any western country would ever come to India for playing cricket for the next few years...
Pakistan itself is going to be split in a number of differnt ways...... the pact in Swat valley for imposition of Shariat law is easily going to spell doom for all the women in that state... people instead of moving forward, will easily be going back to the stone ages... Tough it may sound inconceivable, US and other countries should take over Pakistan to help it come back to life... An IRAQ type mission is far more appropriate in Pakistan than it did in IRAQ beacuse of the simple reason, that activities in Pakistan are affecting not only itself but also the countries around it...
The real problem is that Pakistan democracy has set up in such a way that nobody at any time has a clear manadate to power... The army can take over Pakistan as and when it feels like...maybe the army taking pakistan back in its hands may help in curbing such activities...
I write this in sorrow and depression and i hope that things would change for the better for all of us...
Thursday, February 26, 2009
marriage and its learning :)
the last time i wrote a post was when the mumbai terror attacks took place........ it has been 3 months and for some reason i have not been able to push myself to write another one.... a number of things happend after that ....
1. It has been 1 year since i have been married..... dont know what has changed and what hasnt.... but i certainly know i much more aware of brands now :)
2. i know to cook and help out a little......
3. i know most of the differnt types of clothes women wear........ i still think i know the names of only half of them ...... but i am getting there
4. i now know how much moody women can be and how much little they show of it...
5. i know that you have to drive slower when a woman sits next to you and faster when a guy sits next to you in the car....
6. a small stuble - means that you are unshaved, even tough it would been just yesterday since you last shaved...
7. i no longer have a say in what clothes i wear....
8. orkut and facebook are meant not only for communication...
9. you have to be chivalrous even to girl friends whom you have know for a long time...
10. you need to take some sweets or gifts when you go to your friends places .... i mean when i go to a guys friends place...
11. women are "more happy" when you buy them stuff that they dont ask for(even if they wouldnt need it)...and they are just "happy" when you buy them stuff that they ask for(things that they actually would need)....
12. its okay for a handbag to be worth 50k... its not that okay for a music system to be 50k
13. footwear will have a minimum of 5 different types of categories.... bags i think is 10... but i am still learning...
those are the ones i can think of as of now... been a great experience over the last year... i dont mind doing all the things above :) .... i am still learning... and will update this post again next year...
for all the married men out there.... i am sure you will be able to appreciate the things above :)
1. It has been 1 year since i have been married..... dont know what has changed and what hasnt.... but i certainly know i much more aware of brands now :)
2. i know to cook and help out a little......
3. i know most of the differnt types of clothes women wear........ i still think i know the names of only half of them ...... but i am getting there
4. i now know how much moody women can be and how much little they show of it...
5. i know that you have to drive slower when a woman sits next to you and faster when a guy sits next to you in the car....
6. a small stuble - means that you are unshaved, even tough it would been just yesterday since you last shaved...
7. i no longer have a say in what clothes i wear....
8. orkut and facebook are meant not only for communication...
9. you have to be chivalrous even to girl friends whom you have know for a long time...
10. you need to take some sweets or gifts when you go to your friends places .... i mean when i go to a guys friends place...
11. women are "more happy" when you buy them stuff that they dont ask for(even if they wouldnt need it)...and they are just "happy" when you buy them stuff that they ask for(things that they actually would need)....
12. its okay for a handbag to be worth 50k... its not that okay for a music system to be 50k
13. footwear will have a minimum of 5 different types of categories.... bags i think is 10... but i am still learning...
those are the ones i can think of as of now... been a great experience over the last year... i dont mind doing all the things above :) .... i am still learning... and will update this post again next year...
for all the married men out there.... i am sure you will be able to appreciate the things above :)
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Fucked Up.....
I went to sleep yesterday night seeing that the Indians were making mincemeat of the English bowlers... Seeing Sehwag and Sachin in full flow was so pleasing to the eye....
I wake up today to news that bought tears to my eyes... It never happend before.... Not when people were killed in local trains, bombs planted in plain sight outside malls and multiplexes...
This time its different... This time its more than some anonymous terrorist placing bombs all over the place... Targetting the main hot spots of mumbai... Some how this time its personal...
18 hours and ongoing... 100 people dead and 300 injured... I can just sit back and watch the news ... I feel helpless... I dont know what to do....
Today is a day to mourn... Today is a day to sit back and ponder...Maybe the terrorist have won at the end of the day... They finally got people like me sitting in A/C offices to think... To feel sorrow... To feel helpless...
Congragulations.... You have won... You have shown you can do anything you want...
I hope tommorow will not be like yesterday... Not just another day... I hope to see some oppurtunity where i can contribute to bring all this to an end..
Till then i sit and mourn in my desk...
I wake up today to news that bought tears to my eyes... It never happend before.... Not when people were killed in local trains, bombs planted in plain sight outside malls and multiplexes...
This time its different... This time its more than some anonymous terrorist placing bombs all over the place... Targetting the main hot spots of mumbai... Some how this time its personal...
18 hours and ongoing... 100 people dead and 300 injured... I can just sit back and watch the news ... I feel helpless... I dont know what to do....
Today is a day to mourn... Today is a day to sit back and ponder...Maybe the terrorist have won at the end of the day... They finally got people like me sitting in A/C offices to think... To feel sorrow... To feel helpless...
Congragulations.... You have won... You have shown you can do anything you want...
I hope tommorow will not be like yesterday... Not just another day... I hope to see some oppurtunity where i can contribute to bring all this to an end..
Till then i sit and mourn in my desk...
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Who are we kidding ?
The Olympics has come and gone........ The Chinese have shown their might in not only hosting an amazing games but also being the highest medal getter in the event.....
There has been so much talk of India hosting the 2020 Olympics ....... that you would actually start to think that it could be possible...... i know we have to hope to do big things...... but are we really in a position to host an olympics in india ????
We need to ask ourselves the following questions...... what is it that we are really good at ??? Planning - a big no, Infrastructure - in shambles all across the country, Finances - do we really have 50 billion dollars just for one event(in todays value) ??? Can we probably do half as well as China - the answer maybe a sounding no........
Then why is there so much hope and hype for hosting an olympics....... even if we do get an oppurtunity to do so...... is it going to be good for us........ with the present level of corruption in the country, it is anohter oppurtunity for our politians, beaurcrats etc to walk away with loads of money...... while the reason for it being spent would still be in shambles.....
i do know that a lot of this would depend on how well we would host the 2010 commonwealth games, the prepration for which is going on ( again muddled with corruption and confusion) ...... and i am sure that the commonwealth games would be nowhere in comparison to any other international event..... leave alone the chinese olympics.....
I just hope that if we do get a chance to host the Olympics, we are ready to take on such an oppurtunity and host the event in such a way that would make us proud....
There has been so much talk of India hosting the 2020 Olympics ....... that you would actually start to think that it could be possible...... i know we have to hope to do big things...... but are we really in a position to host an olympics in india ????
We need to ask ourselves the following questions...... what is it that we are really good at ??? Planning - a big no, Infrastructure - in shambles all across the country, Finances - do we really have 50 billion dollars just for one event(in todays value) ??? Can we probably do half as well as China - the answer maybe a sounding no........
Then why is there so much hope and hype for hosting an olympics....... even if we do get an oppurtunity to do so...... is it going to be good for us........ with the present level of corruption in the country, it is anohter oppurtunity for our politians, beaurcrats etc to walk away with loads of money...... while the reason for it being spent would still be in shambles.....
i do know that a lot of this would depend on how well we would host the 2010 commonwealth games, the prepration for which is going on ( again muddled with corruption and confusion) ...... and i am sure that the commonwealth games would be nowhere in comparison to any other international event..... leave alone the chinese olympics.....
I just hope that if we do get a chance to host the Olympics, we are ready to take on such an oppurtunity and host the event in such a way that would make us proud....
Tuesday, August 05, 2008
How can you think of killing a child ?
I write this post in regard to the case of Harsh and Niketa Mehta who want to abort their 25 week old feotus..... The feotus in question is "supposedly" diagnosed with congenetial heart problems which could affect the way it would live......
So now you ask the question " Should the parents abort ? " ....... On the face of it, the answer should be pretty simple - "Yes"........ why would you want a child to suffer ? The chance of not having a normal life is strong.... So lets go ahead and not give the child a chance to live.... ( It would add to ours and the child's problems you see ) ....
Bull shit........ Who are we to decide wether the child would have a normal life or not.... Shouldnt we at least give a chance to the child for a normal life ( Medically a 25 week old feotus is actually living ) ....... Shouldnt you be trying to do everything possible in this age of modern sceince to cure the child of its problems....
As the high court put it....... How is it different from mercy killing..... so if some one has problems of health, we should have a right to go ahead and kill them ( could it not be extended to that ) ....... Have people thought of the more serious consequences later.... Medical science improves...... Kids are diagnosed that they would suffer from lets Diabetes, Obescity, etc........ So the child should not suffer right ?? Lets abort it then.....
There are innumerous kids born with congential heart diseases or various other type of diseases.... And quite of few of them do make it.... We should encourage everyone to at least take that chance...... Instead of actually encouraging people to abort kids.... When you take a decision to have kids, you should be ready for all possible scenarios.....
I am pretty sure that not a lot of people would agree with me ( even my wife doesnt ) .......... but i just encourage you to look at the larger picture and i am sure you too would feel the same way and be glad that the High Court did not upload the plea.....
So now you ask the question " Should the parents abort ? " ....... On the face of it, the answer should be pretty simple - "Yes"........ why would you want a child to suffer ? The chance of not having a normal life is strong.... So lets go ahead and not give the child a chance to live.... ( It would add to ours and the child's problems you see ) ....
Bull shit........ Who are we to decide wether the child would have a normal life or not.... Shouldnt we at least give a chance to the child for a normal life ( Medically a 25 week old feotus is actually living ) ....... Shouldnt you be trying to do everything possible in this age of modern sceince to cure the child of its problems....
As the high court put it....... How is it different from mercy killing..... so if some one has problems of health, we should have a right to go ahead and kill them ( could it not be extended to that ) ....... Have people thought of the more serious consequences later.... Medical science improves...... Kids are diagnosed that they would suffer from lets Diabetes, Obescity, etc........ So the child should not suffer right ?? Lets abort it then.....
There are innumerous kids born with congential heart diseases or various other type of diseases.... And quite of few of them do make it.... We should encourage everyone to at least take that chance...... Instead of actually encouraging people to abort kids.... When you take a decision to have kids, you should be ready for all possible scenarios.....
I am pretty sure that not a lot of people would agree with me ( even my wife doesnt ) .......... but i just encourage you to look at the larger picture and i am sure you too would feel the same way and be glad that the High Court did not upload the plea.....
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