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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
7:21 pm	Hate becomes love Of course, it's possible to change a society and to drag it into the global economic monoculture. Mrs. Thatcher showed how: Break up collectives and make people feel a little bit more alone in the world. Cut a few holes in the social safety net. Raise the status of money-making, and lower the status of every other activity. Stop giving knighthoods to artists and start giving them to department-store moguls. Stop listening to intellectuals and start listening to entrepreneurs and financiers. Don't mind that artists and intellectuals hate you -- or even that, for a time, the entire society seems to hate you. Stick to the plan long enough and the people who are good at making money acquire huge sums and, along with them, power. In time, they become the culture's dominant voice. And they love you for it. -ML Current Mood: working (Comment on this)
Monday, October 1st, 2007
1:43 pm	Intelligent Design To proponents of intelligent design, saying that evolution alone accounts for the wonders of biology is like proposing sandstorms created the pyramids of Egypt. An intricate organ like eye relies on specialized parts, none of which work without the others. It's hard to imagine, they say, such a system evolving by natural selection (although the work of scientists like Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Dawkins provides some ideas on how it might happen). Their preferred explanation: an "intelligent designer" who drafted the blueprint for life. Naysayers, including most of the scientific community, say the term - popularized by the 1989 school textbook of Pandas and People - is just a way of dressing up religion in the argo of science. And since it can't be tested, they add, it's not a theory after all. Current Mood: working (Comment on this)
Thursday, September 20th, 2007
9:35 pm	The bottom line The U.S. economy and its currency as an instrument of world trade has suffered a series of major setbacks in recent months and the Federal Reserve's attempts at damage control may be a case of "too little, too late" according to analysts around the world. Today, Saudi officials refused to cut interest rates in lockstep with the US Federal Reserve for the first time in decades. According to Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, International Business Editor for Telegraph.co.uk, "it's a signal that the oil-rich Gulf kingdom is preparing to break the dollar currency peg in a move that risks setting off a stampede out of the dollar across the Middle East." The Currency Chief at BNP Paribas, Hans Redeker also stated today that Saudi Arabia's move to not adjust their own interest rates in sync with the Fed's cuts is a very dangerous situation for the dollar. On September 18, the Federal Reserve made a dramatic intervention in financial markets by cutting rates to 4.75% from 5.25%. Mr. Redeker also said, "Saudi Arabia has $800bn (£400bn) in their future generation fund, and the entire region has $3,500bn under management. They face an inflationary threat and do not want to import an interest rate policy set for the recessionary conditions in the United States." Saudi central bank officials said that "appropriate measures" would be taken to stop the massive capital inflows into the country. However, analysts say this policy can't be sustained and will eventually lead to the collapse of the U.S. dollar as the world's reserve currency. The Fed's significant half point cut to 4.75% two days ago has already caused a plunge in the world dollar index to a fifteen year low, reaching the weakest level ever against the healthy Euro at just under $1.40. The Fed hopes that by making it cheaper to borrow, people will start spending and investing more again. However, some analysts are worried that the cuts could stoke up inflation, make it harder to get personal loans, and further decrease confidence in the dollar around the world. There's already signs that global investors have started rejecting U.S. Bonds and recent U.S. government data on foreign holdings indicate a collapse in purchases of US bonds from $97bn to just $19bn in July. Today, in response to Ben Bernanke's statements today about a potential mortgage and housing market crisis, CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer said, "If adjustable mortgage rates go up, people may not be able to afford their mortgage payments." Jim Rogers, the commodity king and former partner of George Soros, said the Federal Reserve was playing with fire by cutting rates so aggressively at a time when the dollar was already under pressure. Further, former Fed chief Alan Greenspan said this week that house prices may fall by "double digits" as the subprime crisis bites harder, prompting households to cut back sharply on spending. Rogers also said, "If Ben Bernanke starts running those printing presses even faster than he's already doing, we are going to have a serious recession. The dollar's going to collapse, the bond market's going to collapse. There's going to be a lot of problems." In recent months, the U.S. dollar has taken several other significant hits including Kuwait's decision in May to also break its dollar peg, and threats by China to interfere with the U.S. economy calling it their nation's "nuclear option". According to public sources, the Chinese government has begun a concerted campaign of economic threats against the United States, hinting that it may liquidate its vast holding of US treasuries if Washington imposes trade sanctions that would force a Yuan revaluation. -wikipedia news Current Mood: drained (Comment on this)
Thursday, April 12th, 2007
12:58 pm	Hope It saddens me with the burden of knowledge of things that I cannot change... Current Mood: hopeful (Comment on this)
Sunday, March 25th, 2007
9:34 pm	Are they serious!! Though I have always wondered, the recent spate of political campaigns have sort-of given me this impetus to make a written note of it.... Really!! either these campaigners take their targeted audience to be totally dumb - in which case, I suppose it makes sense (that it never made sense - the whole electoral process is a joke anyways) - if not, which is what I am more inclined to believe, then the joke is really on these candidates (or the campaign designers) for thinking that these mind-numbing, opaque, transparently non-sensical campaigns, with all these spins on them, really make anyone sane enough to gauge these on any scale of credibility. What will it take to distill the legitimate dialogue from this mis-leading, but usually in-effective, spin!!.. and to bring credible and deserving candidacy forward which otherwise lies crushed under this good-for-nothing pile of lacerating honesty. Current Mood: cheerful (Comment on this)
Thursday, March 1st, 2007
7:22 pm	Democracy is the second worst form of Government....behind all others. Or is it? A recent thread was posted to me by a friend. I thought it fitted well with my belief that democracy is fundametally flawed. Really!! The idea of a 60 year old = 18 year old = rich = poor = ignorance = literacy... I find to be quite ludicrous. Instead of me vocalizing my thoughts, which I do tend to enjoy every now and then, I thought the article below summed up what I wanted to say quite nicely. OLD VERSION… The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant's a fool and laughs & dances & plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter so he dies out in the cold. MODERN VERSION The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant's a fool and laughs & dances & plays the summer away. Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving. NDTV, BBC, CNN show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. The World is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be that this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so? Arundhati Roy stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house. Medha Patkar goes on a fast along with other grasshoppers demanding that grasshoppers be relocated to warmer climates during winter. Amnesty International and Koffi Annan criticize the Indian Government for not upholding the fundamental rights of the grasshopper. The Internet is flooded with online petitions seeking support to the grasshopper (many promising Heaven and Everlasting Peace for prompt support as against the wrath of God for non-compliance) . Opposition MPs stage a walkout. Left parties call for "Bharat Bandh" in West Bengal and Kerala demanding a Judicial Enquiry. CPM in Kerala immediately passes a law preventing Ants from working hard in the heat so as to bring about equality of poverty among ants and grasshoppers. Lalu Prasad allocates one free coach to Grasshoppers on all Indian Railway Trains, aptly named as the 'Grasshopper Rath'. Finally, the Judicial Committee drafts the Prevention of Terrorism Against Grasshoppers Act [POTAGA]", with effect from the beginning of the winter. Arjun Singh makes Special Reservation for Grass Hopper in educational Institutions & in Govt Services. The ant is fined for failing to comply with POTAGA and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government and handed over to the grasshopper in a ceremony covered by NDTV. Arundhati Roy calls it "a triumph of justice". Lalu calls it 'Socialistic Justice'. CPM calls it the 'revolutionary resurgence of the downtrodden' Koffi Annan invites the grasshopper to address the UN General Assembly. Many years later...The ant has since migrated to the US and set up a multi billion dollar company in silicon valley.100s of grasshoppers still die of starvation despite reservation somewhere in India ...As a result of losing a lot of hard working ants and feeding the grasshoppers, India is still a developing country..... . Current Mood: pensive (Comment on this)
Thursday, February 15th, 2007
6:43 pm	Wisdom Many people might have attained to wisdom had they not assumed that they already possessed it. Current Mood: okay (Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 13th, 2006
6:30 pm	Consensus Collective thinking can be dangerous. Unlike the wisdom of crowds, which stems from the pooling of diverse views, consensus can – as Margaret Thatcher put it – just be something in which no one believes and to which no one objects. -ft Current Mood: Myself (Comment on this)
Saturday, October 28th, 2006
8:19 pm	Cricket Forget the pitch: If possible, then our team should only play with subs. It is a good catch-all excuse for not winning most of the times….or even half the times. A historical win-loss of under 50 percent when playing with a full team is perhaps a little too painful when you rationalize it. Especially when it is the only sport we play. It is not surprising..and we should not remain hopeful in the short turn. This hope is misleading.. An occasional victory is not gratifying and nor does it have any glory associated with it. Not in us as Indians and certainly not globally. A country of 1.1 billion proud of churning out 11 players…Playing one sport with the money and the exposure un-matched!! The function of cricket in our country serves only as entertainment. We falter the moment we begin associating cricket as an outlet of global recognition. I find it amusing: how little it takes to keep us hopeful. Why?? We really have so little to be proud of…. Do a unit of notional-accomplishment / unit of populace.. what do we get? I don’t think the problem is with BCCI. Replacing BCCI may give us the impression of filling holes. The reality is that we have only exchanged holes with newer issues. The problem is much more deep rooted and much more ingrained. We have to treat the game as a sport and not as a podium to gain visibility. Cricket is not treated as a sport. It is much more personal. We don’t root for other teams..and we quickly dismiss foreign accomplishments. Maybe “sports” is not where our competency lies. We still lack the mental stamina ..the sporting mind. And for the short run, at least, we must accept reality while other (ongoing) secular changes take effect. Does India deserve more sporting heroes? Of course it does. The sad reality is that we already have several sporting heroes. They are just lost in the 1.1 Billion. If they are not too worried about long term economic stability…or even if they are inured against the social cost…they just might be walking the forced road doing things they can not understand themselves... Survivors : They make it in the team we see playing…But this is not what it should take for people to make it so far. Should it really be that hard? It is certainly not like this in the west….or down under if you please.. Hell, I wanted to play sports for a career when I was young. But it is also a one way road. Do the risk-and-reward. If you don’t make it in the top 20, you have walked too far ALONE to go back. Current Mood: bitchy (Comment on this)
Sunday, October 15th, 2006
8:35 pm	Test1 Test2 Current Mood: test3 (Comment on this)
Saturday, December 3rd, 2005
10:30 pm	Can we all say yes together? Yeah….about taking it easy!! I'm listening to the ancient Indian philosophy. I just hope someone recommends that to the people over at the It-works-like-this institute : No pain No gain. But you see the thing about ancient Indian philosophy is that it is ancient. We as humans have out-evolved our mind and the social convolutions more than our growth has been able to keep up with. So perhaps our forefathers were not prepared for what their offspring's had planned. And how conveniently they could get away with the simple philosophical mandates. It's these complications we choose to live with and fuel and then complain about the obvious repercussions. Pollution (chemical mutation), homosexuality (social mutation), sects within religion (religious mutation), the innumerable imperfections within well intended political intentions (political mutations), and coming full circle even cancer (biological …you guessed it) and etc etc. The Gods clearly bestowed the human body with the acumen and the resources to wade off unwanted predators.. But the fact that we are so susceptible to AIDS is just another testament that we have chosen a path not entirely obvious to the creator…and thus not naturally prepared for. Gandhi said that there are several reasons in the world worth dying for but not a single one killing for….we all agree. and yet we see famine, religious, political warfare and of course the still remembered holocaust. Why I say? What's wrong with a backpack, a companion and the good-will to guide our life…Too idealistic? But if we insist on listening to the really really honest and the un-afraid past, all that it had really taught us is that we have learned nothing in spite of learning a lot…. Who are we? Rephrased: What are we? A creation, pawns in the game between the good and the bad, a chemical experiment??? All of these have equal substantial corroborations...if we choose to look at it that way. But go back a year, go back a 100 or maybe back into the several many millions. I guess the one thing science/religion/economics can really agree on is the change-from-inertia, path-of-least-resistance, evolution .a.k.a a natural path of procreation … But beyond this cynicism we are often shown hope in variety or refreshing newness, if you may.. and maybe life really is that simple..and it realy had no all-supreme meaning which some us pretend to be on an quest for…....and then you are reminded of the bomb. Anyways…we live in a vast universe and the eternal question preempting all theories or beliefs is that where does it all end. Where is the boundry? And what's really beyond it??? Presence of life outside is too obvious to even warrant a thought in its challenge. And don't listen to the space time continuum crap..Or the grandfather paradox….The irony of all of this is…that really if you look at it, the mind it self is no less than universe. Things look to us as empty and compassed at the same time. A thought - how it can be viewed from close and really far…how transient and temperamental it really is. Choice…or is it really an illusion under a cloak of survival…the world really bursts at the seams with a purpose and knowledge. And yet amongst its incongruity and synergy we often see NO. Can it possibly evolve enough to say YES?!!! Current Mood: rejuvenated (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, June 12th, 2005
9:24 am	Free will and Fate According to Vedic philosophy every living being transmigrating in material world from one body to another, is given a free will to act according to its desires, ideas and thoughts. When Shri Krishna narrated Bhagavad-gita to Arjuna, in one of the last verses (18.63) He said: "Thus I have explained to you knowledge still more confidential. Deliberate on this fully, and then do what you wish to do." Vedic scriptures say that desire is a father of thought and thought is a father of action. Desire originally comes from the soul, thought from the mind (subtle body) and actions from working sense organs of gross body. Living being has, due to free will, a certain, although limited field of activity. Vedic philosophy teaches that free will and predestination or fate are parallel to each other. By our present actions, performed out of our free will, we create our future karmic reactions. At the same time we reap reaction of our previous actions. Fate is not, therefore, any punishment from above striking on innocent ones (and which God does not want to or cannot stop). Law of karma is very strict because it must assure fulfillment of desires of all living beings in the whole material world in such a way that they do not contradict but complement themselves and that even one injustice does not go unpunished. American Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) describes it in this way (Lectures and Biographical Sketches, 1868): "If you love people and serve them, you will be rewarded. Hidden rewards continue to reinstate balance of divine justice. This law cannot be changed. All tyrants, owners and monopolists of this world try in vain to disrupt this balance. Equator still keeps its place and people as well as insects, sun and planets must obey it or be destroyed by backlash reaction." Universe is ruled by strict and generally operative laws - like rules of a great game of life - which coordinate desires and mutual relationships among individual living beings. Thus each of them gets exactly as much as it deserves - neither more, nor less. According to Bhagavad-gita (2.70) the continuous stream of desires coming from the mind of each living being is like innumerable rivers which all enter one vast ocean. In this way originates endlessly complex, multidimensional web of actions and reaction which a man cannot understand. Here is apparent the influence of invisible hand of God who in His aspect of omnipresent Supersoul (paramatma) is accompanying all individual soul during their transmigration through various bodily forms. Bhagavad-gita (13.23) describes this aspect of God: "Yet in this body there is another, a transcendental enjoyer, who is the Lord, the supreme proprietor, who exists as the overseer and permitter, and who is known as the Supersoul." Function of Supersoul is therefore to record innumerable desires of each living being and arrange for their fulfillment as well as observe activities of living beings and grant them corresponding reactions. This directing hand of God is called a law of karma. Current Mood: accomplished (Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 18th, 2005
11:45 am	Humanized Be nice, spread love and warmth not so that you are reciprocated in return. But so that this spirit is spread around in others ...with others. For humanity. Current Mood: loved (Comment on this)
Sunday, April 3rd, 2005
1:01 am	Explore A recent discussion with a philosophical mind made me think what "explore" really meant.....and continuing on this philosophical thread... The topic of exploration..and strictly in figurative sense while being contrary to it’s definition, I think the word "explore" when applied to the human psyche is really about redefining the existing boundaries. Mental, physical, spiritual and I guess all that lies in-between and around. Thinking about it: Curiosity and the instinct of survival are perhaps the two rudimentary determinants of life.....exploration permeates from curiosity and I like to think that this instinct is at parity in all at birth before sociology takes over - after which we are on our own. Our choices riding on our supposedly unfettered will, and with time playing its impressionist role eventually making each one of us US. US with our memories and how we apply our thoughts around them..eventually drawing all other emotions that we are so familiar with. Actions can only follow- and hence our nature our character. Phew!! And this makes me wonder if there is a purpose. Are we really walking the road walked before?? I firmly believe that Life is not a coincidence.. and I know that I keep saying it. Really!! if you look the statistics and the odds, whether in-terms of the universe or molecular biology, life very simply put is-engineered. The sheer complexity or something as evolutionary as Life to be attributed to co-incidence is simply dwarfed by the opposing indirect evidence. People affiliated with medicine, mathematics and astronomy would likely agree.. So this is a road (sorry for the cliché) and the journey is on. And through this perpetual contention between morals (socially created norms)/pure-natural-greed (curiosity)/and-available-choices that all of us are battling. Some more aware of it than the rest and some deliberately ignorant- and probably some who’re under the illusion (arguable) of figuring it all out and constantly attempting to better their odds of survival or success in this journey we call life. As far as to the kind of an extent that I am an explorer- I say, try-it-all..and give it your all. Life is good and life is beautiful. One chance-so be thankful- so, embrace it with the subtle nuances of its intricacies. And for people: I quote "art of life". And boy! what an art it is. if we only allow our selves to rise above our conceit to devote a few introspective moments to ourselves and how similar, yet different, we are to all others. If you believe in the above, then with an agnostic thought you tend to question or wonder from where and how God comes in. His/Her/Its existence: in US or around US? is you call!! Meanwhile : respect-for-all and have faith-in-good-karma. Current Mood: curious (Comment on this)
Sunday, February 27th, 2005
1:09 am	An intersting read: The Tortoise and The Hare Once upon a time a tortoise and a hare had an argument about who was faster. They decided to settle the argument with a race. They agreed on a route and started off the race. The hare shot ahead and ran briskly for some time. Then seeing that he was far ahead of the tortoise, he thought he'd sit under a tree for some time and relax before continuing the race. He sat under the tree and soon fell asleep. The tortoise plodding on overtook him and soon finished the race, emerging as the undisputed champ. The hare woke up and realized that he'd lost the race. The moral of the story is that slow and steady wins the race. This is the version of the story that we've all grown up with. But then recently, someone told me a more interesting version of this story. It continues. The hare was disappointed at losing the race and he did some Defect Prevention (Root Cause Analysis). He realized that he'd lost the race only because he had been overconfident, careless and lax. If he had not taken things for granted, there's no way the tortoise could have beaten him. So he challenged the tortoise to another race. The tortoise agreed. This time, the hare went all out and ran without stopping from start to finish. He won by several miles. The moral of the story? Fast and consistent will always beat the slow and steady. If you have two people in your organization, one slow, methodical and reliable, and the other fast and still reliable at what he does, the fast and reliable chap will consistently climb the organizational ladder faster than the slow, methodical chap. It's good to be slow and steady; but it's better to be fast and reliable. But the story doesn't end here. The tortoise did some thinking this time, and realized that there's no way he can beat the hare in a race the way it was currently formatted. He thought for a while, and then challenged the hare to another race, but on a slightly different route. The hare agreed. They started off. In keeping with his self-made commitment to be consistently fast, the hare took off and ran at top speed until he came to a broad river. The finishing line was a couple of kilometers on the other side of the river.The hare sat there wondering what to do. In the meantime the tortoise trundled along, got into the river, swam to the opposite bank, continued walking and finished the race. The moral of the story? First identify your core competency and then change the playing field to suit your core competency. In an organization, if you are a good speaker, make sure you create opportunities to give presentations that enable the senior management to notice you. If your strength is analysis, make sure you do some sort of research, make a report and send it upstairs. Working to your strengths will not only get you noticed but will also create opportunities for growth and advancement. The story still hasn't ended. The hare and the tortoise, by this time, had become pretty good friends and they did some thinking together. Both realized that the last race could have been run much better. So they decided to do the last race again, but to run as a team this time. They started off, and this time the hare carried the tortoise till the riverbank. There, the tortoise took over and swam across with the hare on his back. On the opposite bank, the hare again carried the tortoise and they reached the finishing line together. They both felt a greater sense of satisfaction than they'd felt earlier. The moral of the story? It's good to be individually brilliant and to have strong core competencies; but unless you're able to work in a team and harness each other's core competencies, you'll always perform below par because there will always be situations at which you'll do poorly and someone else does well. Teamwork is mainly about situational leadership, letting the person with the relevant core competency for a situation take leadership. There are more lessons to be learnt from this story. Note that neither the hare nor the tortoise gave up after failures. The hare decided to work harder and put in more effort after his failure. The tortoise changed his strategy because he was already working as hard as he could. In life, when faced with failure, sometimes it is appropriate to work harder and put in more effort. Sometimes it is appropriate to change strategy and try something different. And sometimes it is appropriate to do both. The hare and the tortoise also learnt another vital lesson. When we stop competing against a rival and instead start competing against the situation, we perform far better. When Roberto Goizueta took over as CEO of Coca-Cola in the 1980s, he was faced with intense competition from Pepsi that was eating into Coke's growth. His executives were Pepsi-focused and intent on increasing market share 0.1 per cent a time. Goizueta decided to stop competing against Pepsi and instead compete against the situation of 0.1 per cent growth. He asked his executives what was the average fluid intake of an American per day? The answer was 14 ounces. What was Coke's share of that? Two ounces. Goizueta said Coke needed a larger share of that market. The competition wasn't Pepsi. It was the water, tea, coffee, milk and fruit juices that went into the remaining 12 ounces. The public should reach for a Coke whenever they felt like drinking something. To this end, Coke put up vending machines at every street corner. Sales took a quantum jump and Pepsi has never quite caught up since. To sum up, the story of the hare and tortoise teaches us many things.Important lessons are: that fast and consistent will always beat slow and steady; work to your competencies; pooling resources and working as a team will always beat individual performers; never give up when faced with failure; and finally, compete against the situation. Not against a rival. By Michael Bodson Current Mood: geeky (Comment on this)
Thursday, February 10th, 2005
10:31 pm	A geographically distant friend asked me: What's up!! Though I was hesitant in publishing this entry..I feel this gives somewhat an idea of exactly what's up!!! Response(edited): Yeah, this fashion part is fun indeed. Handling the irrationality of trends and prices and trying to make sense from it somehow in an attempt to retain my sanity...Everyday is a story telling, being sued or suing some one...very common for this part of the world. As they say, someday you are the hydrant and someday you are the dog :) ... Being an Aquarian and ordained by the zodiacs to be defined by the 4 I's. Intense, Imaginative, Intuitive and Intellectual..Trying to stay inspired and active..which I have been...and also on a quest to find a writer in me. Most of my thoughts revolve around the polemical perception of thought and reality ..and in a justification to explain our existence. And hence my appeal towards the universe and the theories of space and time. Allah is indeed up there and smiling at us, testing us in every moment of our sentience, in our soul and around our conscience, and yet so transparent to leave us with the unfettered will to direct our words and actions. Needless to say, I am fascinated by the outer-space, the inner-space and in terms of evolution what the future holds in store for us. Living every moment anew, rationalled by constant introspection and the circumspection of the world around and with the try-it-all disposition, this pretty much sums up the individual that I have become. So yes!! bushy bush is bushing the country and my mind. and being the very 'blue' person my self, I don't know whether to take pity on these amreekan souls for their blissful ignorance and impervience to reality and their lack of vision (or) to adopt the philosophy with pessimism that in the 21st century it is all a fair game and it is ok-to-do what you-can-do just because you-can-do. The world is very forgiving and understanding, especially when that's the only illusion of choice that they have. And also, I might add, very proactive in their collective efforts in the race to see who gets to destroy this nice green and innocently blue ball in space first. Isn't it confusing, to have laws protecting the animals against cruelty and slaughterhouses co-existing???? yeah! Current Mood: awake (Comment on this)
Saturday, August 21st, 2004
12:58 am	Light Human psychology cannot me more than the contention between the natural, the spitual and the artificial. If does brew an impetuous mind and thus an imperfect psyche. And so is the world we live in. What is perfect? We change .....and the environment around us is marked by impermanence. Our emotions, our hopes and our motives and our goals...it is never permanent what we aim for ..is it? The happiness and the sorrows , they just go by..eroded by the effect of time. I say that suffering is just the attachment to these impermanent transient things, and bliss is the ignorance of their off. And for this we get 80-90 odd years to comprehend. We cannot be alone. There has to be a bigger motive. Life is JUST NOT a coincidence. Current Mood: touched (Comment on this)
Wednesday, June 16th, 2004
10:15 pm	As I sit, and I contemplate on the past...in passively argumentative imbroglio of thoughts... reminiscing on the possibility and the choices that lied infront of me then! The anxiousness that surrounded the expectation of those decisions other than the ones that I made...a lot has changed... more than ever or it might just be that I am concious of them more than I have ever been. I want to thank that special someone, "she" knows who. It has been without her presence that I thrive to find my self. I challenge my self and strive in becoming that human being who in my own opinion does and feel what makes me complete. It is on a mental level that change has been. It gets better, it always does. It's conquering the 99 factor. It is re-descovering yourself. As someone said: Not in the plaudits of the throng or the clambor of the street but it is in ourselfs that lies victory and defeat. Fear is human, and so is anger, impatience, lust, jealousy and greed. Introspection is important and so it drawing the line..as we are not supposed to know when we are tested. I am thankful for this relevation and the incitement. Stemming from mental independence and proferring the counterweight to the listless supine tendency of indolence. It has been an lo-ong and an eventful past and I am thankful for it. Feel as if I have survived a lot and also feel as if I have aged a lot. It was a needed wakeup call. And there is a lot to look up to and a lot to live up to....thus the journey goes on. Current Mood: artistic (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, April 7th, 2003
10:15 pm	Here it come again. A solitary sentence in a world of months...Though much has been happening (as always), the time has been moving briskly along with it. Was in Ann Arbor over the weekend, paid a admiring salute to Mr. A.R Rahman and lived nostaglia during one of the shortest weekends in a lo-ong time. Met a FRIEND to sum it up. Prof. Bishof and I have been active of late. Good to see a direction on leading my thoughts. If only I could perpetuate this. Trying none the less :) On a more fogettable note, India's WIN in the WC2003 and weekends full of decadence Current Mood: apathetic (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, March 3rd, 2003
10:56 pm	I feel inspired and expressive. Have been thinking a lot lately and good things have been happening around me. I could also be the attitude change that I have been experiencing on a personal level. I tend to beleive that inspiration comes from the enviroment but the direction comes from within. Introspect and be human. On more moral issues, as said by MK Gandhi, something to contemplate on Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Knowledge without character Commerce (business) without morality (ethics) Science without humanity Religion without sacrifice Politics without principle Implies? Current Mood: determined (1 Comment |Comment on this)