Moved in or moving in

It's a new place. Yes I have been out of writing for a long long time and it was pure laziness on my part. I cannot make any other excuse to justify that.

Anyhow I have a story-- making a house and moving into it. Little does any one know how things will pan out. It is a highly emotional experience wringing the best and the worst out of a person. I am sure this pure emotional roller coaster is the only reason why saints prefer not to have their own homes.
Like I have mentioned to many people I know, the first scratch to your car and the first dent/stain etc in the house leaves an indelible impression on One's mind and somehow, we forget objectivity and take it way too personally. I have these personal grudges against the carpenters who were working in the house.
Another fact (I have arrived to this after talking with a lot of people), 'You never get a a carpenter who is good enough for you'. It is not only difficult, it is impossible. If it is not work, then it will be time. If it is not that then it will be cost. If that is not the thing then it will be quality of work. something always remains amiss !!(Accept it. Don't try like I did "Hopelessly trying to break the mold"). This is for today. Next post will chronicle other travails...

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So long

It's been a long time since I have written anything or felt like writing.

But after half a ride round the sun( half a year) I feel it is time again to start. Lets see how long do I stick to this.

I just saw a movie-Gattaca.

It is an interesting piece of imagination of what could become of today's possibilities if they became the world and working method of tomorrow.

It is really interesting to see that if uncontrolled what could today's theories, if proclaimed as laws would become tomorrow.

We are after all people who given a choice, want the best for ourselves and there is nothing wrong with it except how far we are willing to go in that desire.

The movie is all about a boy, who was born the natural way and not genetically selected with the best possible attributes. He is termed godchild, in a world where all children are selected genetically and these children have everything predetermined. Their lives are charted out and so are their fatalities, and frailnesses. Fate is not entertained.

Much like a syndicate. This boy has a desire of being an astronaut and the syndicated world has dictated that genetically he cannot be an astronaut. So he begins his search and lives a lie, in order to reach a potential he has been denied on the basis of his genes or genetic code.

But think of it, is not today, too syndicated to an extent?

You have to be so and so, educated in so and so to be able to work, achieve blah and blah. Who gives a care about the inherent propensities that one has, the inherent desires, interests, passions and gifts. Apart from art, no field values inherent gifts a care. Even when the chances are given they are hard won.

So yes, here is to a syndicated world that we are not aware of at times only when we are at the opposite end of the syndicate. We can see this same, in societies, norms and cultures. But there is no way that a non- syndicated world would do. We love the order of a syndicated world.

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Picture this

Picture this.

It is about 6:30 or 7 in the evening. It is raining. The light is dim and the weather is perfect. A little cool and an evening with nothing pressing to do. A veranda with sheets on top with the rain pattering on it and running its own drumbeat. There are plants and greens around me all getting wet. I am sitting on a lounge chair with a table on it. I am sitting with a warm bowl of Maggie in my hands. This is what I call a perfect evening with the perfect end to it. A hot bowl of Maggie noodles, a rainy evening with greens surrounding me and nothing pressing to make me get up from whiling away my time. I wish I could just preserve this memory in an old book for years to come by .

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Refrigerator

I just came across an article yesterday which actually impressed me. It was outlining the change in the Middle class Indian, circling around just the refrigerator. It pointed to a time 10 years back when a 165 L refrigerator was enough for a household of 4 and more than sufficient. In the 10 years, we have graduated to a 300 L capacity fridge and along with it a horde of lifestyle and shopping changes.

Where now veggie shopping is once or max twice a week in urban India. Where semi processed food, like shelled peas, chopped veggies also take up space in that refrigerator. Also most of us have also started subscribing to the poly pack milk and at times buying for 2-3 days at a time.

Then enter juices, getting a glass of orange juice used to be an ultra luxury seen only in advertisement covers and all.

Not the least we have ice creams nearly all round th year in our freezer space. Then also enter some so called exotic ingredients like, pasta sauces, mushrooms, baby corn and tofu which also take some of the space. So do tomato puree, ginger garlic paste, coconut milk which make cooking possible in like 20 mins. So the good ol' refrigerator has recorded a change in our buying patterns and eating patterns. Like I mentioned earlier, this is not my observations but that of the author in Brand Equity but all the same, it is a point worth sharing.

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Read something Hilarious

Sometimes when one read the lines/news flash of the bygone years, one does get a shock!!!

Well guess what kind of laugh I got when I read the following"

emember Freddie Mercury of Queebelting out these lyrics, "Don't stop me now, I'm having a good time, I'm having a ball"? Well, that seems the Sensex's song at the moment.

The Sensex, which has crossed the 6,000 mark, seems unstoppable."

Also I will let you know the relevant date!! (Down below)

decide for yourselves!!!

Last updated on: December 10, 2002 15:47 IST

hehe

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It's hard to leave a...

Just a month or two back, my neighbor bought a pup (Labrador). He would play along in the porch with my plants and stuff.

I see him today (he is 3 months already); he seems so large , can't believe he was tiny just some months back.

On our night walk we encountered him today, and he went berserk.

All high pent up energy and running to and from me to D and back to me.

So now we played with him for a sometime and then were to leave him to complete his business(Ahem! he is big boy he needs his privacy too!!) and he was literally yelping for us not to go.

It is difficult to leave then!!! So back to my heading it's hard to leave a pleading dog (canine; with eyes beseeching you, ears flopped down and trying to run towards you as you turn away).!!

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If you have been watching this

then you must be also viewing all the advertisements.

Knowing that I am crazy about those I will give my take on them. I generally like zoozoo's so Vodaphone tops (this time favorite till now is the one about paying electricity bills).

Also Airtel did good this time with Sharman Joshi and also they came up with the same concept as that of Vodaphone, one message per advertisement. Not bombarding viewers with only one kind of message.

Bingo with its normally stupid advertisements, did do a little better and manage to elicit some laughter due to the adsurdity of the advertisement.

Rest I still have to see. Off the top of my head, I can recall these specially.

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