Saturday, July 22, 2006

y i dont have time

According to my friend :

Either I am overloaded with work or I am plain inefficient

The jury is still out

Thursday, July 20, 2006

Hindi Novels

In last 1 month read these:

Karambhoomi - Munshi Premchand (ok)
Goonjte Swar - Prathibha Johri (shallow - tragic love story)
Aaine akele hai - Krisna (too shallow love story with pretentions of intellectual stuff)


From now on I will stick with only the tried & tested books

Reading Now ..

on my commute to/from work -
Three men in a boat - Jerome K Jerome .

Started to read this because the instant I saw this book in the local library, I remembered that one of its excerpt was included in our English Literature book for Class 4 at SEM. So picked it up out of curiosity .. supposed to be a good humorous book.

Dissaponting read - maybe I have lost my interest in such books. Parth comments - "Ab umar nikal gayi hai aisi books padni ki "

"more on reality"

You only have the luxury of thinking about Philosophical stuff (such as Reality, Time, Illusion ) when you have the luxury of lots of free time.. and this seems to me the Reality

Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Ritesh Dahiya ki kashti.....

Taking the liberty of posting the complete posting made by Dhaiya - This has now been deleted .. dont know why.

After reading this parth & me discussed this for 2 hours at night - causing me to be late at work next day morning..

We discussed the following -

haath wali pencil - this was a pencil that was 2 Ft long - costed 2 Rs & the owners of this became the stud boys of the class ( 1979-83)

Name Chits - available in 2 forms - Chipkane wali (5-10 paise each) & chipakane wali - (1 paise each) { Papa got a rubber stamp made for me so I did not get to use these ones }

Which was better - mine favourite - Camlin Flora, pink phool wali OR Path's favourite - Nataraj phir champion

Which Khusboo wala rubber was better - we never got around to call it a Eraser

Which ink was good - Chelpark / Camel .. Parth did not know about tikia wali ink and I did not know abt Bitto Ink ..

Birthday celebration with friends in Rs 10 - get loads of bun-tikki or bun-samosa for class-mates during lunch hours


Guess we can say stmts like - "Hamare jamane mai .... "


Ritesh Dahiya: Woh kagaaz ki kashti.....: "Woh kagaaz ki kashti.....






Lets go back in time...
When gulli-danda and kanche (marbles) were more popular than cricket...
When we always had friends to play aais-paais (I Spy), chhupan-chhepai and pitthoo anytime...
When we desperately waited for 'yeh jo hai jindagi'
When chitrahaar, vikram-baitaal, dada daadi ki kahaniyaan were so fulfilling... When there was just one TV in every five houses

When bisleris were not sold in the trains and we were worrying if Papa will get back into the train in time or not when he was getting down at stations to fill up the water bottle...

When we were going to bed by 9.00pm sharp except for the 'yeh jo hai jindagi' day...
When Holis & Diwalis meant mostly hand-made pakwaans and sweets and moms seeking our help while preparing them ...
When Maths teachers were not worried of our mummys and papas while slapping/beating us...
When we were exchanging comics and stamps and chacha-chaudaris and billus were our heroes...
When we were in nanihaals every summer and loved flying kites and plucking and eating unripe mangoes and leechis...
When one movie every Sunday evening on television was more than asked for and 'ek do teen chaar' and 'Rajni' inspired us ...

When 50 paisa meant at least 10 toffees...
When left over pages of the last year's notebooks were used for rough work or even fair work...
When 'chelpark' and 'natraaj' were encouraged against 'Reynolds and family'...
When the first rain meant getting drenched and playing in water and mud and making 'kaagaz ki kashtis'...
When there were no phones to tell friends that we will be at their homes at six in the evening...

When our parents always had 15 paise blue colored 'antardesis' and 5 paise machli wale stamps at home ...
When we were not seeing patakhes on Diwalis and gulaals on Holis as air and noise polluting or allergic agents...
The list can be endless...

When we were using our hearts more than our brains, even for scientifically brainy activities like 'thinking' and 'deciding'...
When we were crying and laughing more often, more openly and more sincerely...

When we were enjoying our present more than worrying about our future...
When being emotional was not synonymous to being weak ...
When sharing worries and happinesses didnt mean getting vulnerable to the listener...
When blacks and whites were the favourite colors instead of greys...

When journeys also were important and not just the destinations...
When life was a passenger's sleeper giving enough time and opportunity to enjoy the sceneries from its open and transparent glass windows instead of some superfast's second ac with its curtained, closed and dark windows...

I really miss ... do u? ""

Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Reality

Manas wtites about Reality

Reminds me of this wonderful Quote (not sure which translation is more correct)

"I was dreaming that I was a butterfly fluttering happily...
Suddenly, I awoke... Now, I wonder who I am ...
a man who dreamed he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming it is a man
."

"Once upon a time I dreamed I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of following my fancies as a butterfly, and was unconscious of my individuality as a man. Suddenly I woke, and there I lay, myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man."

Chinese writer Chuang Tzu, fourth century B.C

Becoming Vegetarian

Some changes .... in my life that have happened is that I have become a vegetarian since last 2 months.

Not really surely of why but some of the reasons are that I was fed of seeing meat in almost all food content here in the super-stores and our food-canteen and eating it almost everyday. in some form or the other.

(Living with 2 vegetarian room-mates in Chennai for 2 years had aleady lowered my appetite for meat)


Plus the usual Religious/Spiritual/Moral/Health arguments.


Lets see how long this continues but I am taking one day at a time.

Non-Fictions

http://www.question911.com/links.php

This is a great page with loads of anti-establishment types of documentary. If u have some patience and more importantly some band-width then you must watch the documentaty - The Corporation. It is quite a brialliant piece of critisicism of the gloabal corporations. Even Economist had to admit the following -

"Unlike much of the soggy thinking peddled by too many anti-globalisers, 'The Corporation' is a surprisingly rational and coherent attack on capitalism's most important institution."

I think instead of having those meaningless discussion in the ethics course at MBA's it would be better if students were to see this doumentary and then voice their opinion

last movie seen

Havent had the time and the patience to see any movies in the last few months.
Now I find it difficult to sit through for a few hours infront of a tv

Only 1 good movie seen during this time - No man's Land

This is a Brilliant movie and most impressively does not boast of a big budget

Last read

Conversations with God ( book I & II)
by Neale Donald Walsch

Monday, July 03, 2006

nothing

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weekend

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