Well...I have been thinking about this for sometime now. The world is too small. Recent incidents have proved it to me and add to that technology and online communities like Orkut and Facebox where you run into people, who you might never again would have wanted to meet in your life and you end up scrapping them!! you run into friends of your friends who had met you at some point of time in their life and still manage to remember you at quite the most inopportune moment!!
Globalisation has also ensured that people and places are not actually that very far off.
Imagine what will happen if a telecaller for some product or service rings up when you are busy or sleeping (much to your obvious irritation and mental agony) is or was your friend in school or college or at present or is your son or daughter or niece or nephew or your neighbour who you love to hate from the bottom of your heart and where each call is monitored!!
Technological disasters(!!) like the cell phone can make one feel secure...but when you want to be left alone and need some privacy and some silence, (god forbade the person who calls or messages), can make one go wild with anger or irritation or even pity.
To make matters worse, the worst possible invention by mankind(oops!! i can explain....:) ) ..the internet has ensured that people are connected easily, but also terrorists and other anti-social people use the medium to create havoc and torture. While the world has become small (smmaalll worldd...should rhyme when you say it..like Kamal Hasan in the movie..i forgot the name...will get back on that), divorces, break ups and marriages also are happening technologically. Marriages happen through the telephone and internet.Certain countries allow divorces through telephone. So in case, you are thinking of a divorce, just make a search of the country that allows telephone divorce, go there and get it done, free from all the legal hassles that are there. You will atleast get to see a foreign country than go and sit in one dull, drab courtroom and hear orders being read out and seeing people being herded in and out like a pack of sheep!!
As you meet people in your life everyday through some medium...directly (eye to eye), telephone(ear to ear), internet, telephathy... elepathy,sympathy, empathy(just to rhyme with telepathy!!, your world starts to shrink in size. Each one brings in new thoughts, new ideas, new experiences(there are no good or bad experiences..i read in a book somewhere..don remember the name tho).The world starts to shrink, but experiences grow.
Soon, the world will be one big democracy. And the internet with its unrestricted capabilities will show the way to it.
Sunday, February 25, 2007
Everything happens for a reason
Everything happens for a reason. Those who believe in destiny think so..Paulo Coelho says so in most of his books and it does seem true. Paulo Coelho says go with the natural flow of things..everything happens as it has to. May be I am writing this post because I am supposed to? Well I do not know. But then, the Alchemist is one damn good book that I have read in my life.
Coelho's theory does seem to be true, atleast to me.
And there is this email doing the rounds that says..some people come into ur life for a reason, some for a season and some for a lifetime.
Isn't that true? Because, each person and each situation is so perfectly placed for us to learn something or unlearn something, do or not to do something, fight or let go, become strong and face our fears or just succumb to pressure, reassess ourselves and see if we are heading in the right direction.
Well ...see the theory works out properly. Because, if somebody had not invented the internet, someone wouldn't have invented the blog and I wouldn't be spending my time jotting down my thoughts on the topic here rather than be sleeping.
I actually cannot figure out a reason for my blogging this..but then everything happens for a reason and may be I will get to know what that is!!
Coelho's theory does seem to be true, atleast to me.
And there is this email doing the rounds that says..some people come into ur life for a reason, some for a season and some for a lifetime.
Isn't that true? Because, each person and each situation is so perfectly placed for us to learn something or unlearn something, do or not to do something, fight or let go, become strong and face our fears or just succumb to pressure, reassess ourselves and see if we are heading in the right direction.
Well ...see the theory works out properly. Because, if somebody had not invented the internet, someone wouldn't have invented the blog and I wouldn't be spending my time jotting down my thoughts on the topic here rather than be sleeping.
I actually cannot figure out a reason for my blogging this..but then everything happens for a reason and may be I will get to know what that is!!
Friday, February 16, 2007
To B or Not to B
About 5 months left for the hot seat. The man who is occupying it now says he wants to go back to teaching and ignite the young minds. Rocket science is better and easier than the hot seat, he feels. So wat do u do next...put the man who quizzed other ppl on the hot seat sometime back as a candidate for the real hot seat..ya we are talking about the race for the post of the President of India..the hot seat at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
The so-called third front(SP,TDP and AIADMK plus other fringe parties...as if the country has already not been destroyed by these ppl...atleast the states they have ruled) says they ll put up the Big B or rather Amitabh Bachchan as a candidate for the post.
So currently the Big A is keen to go back to teaching. Since the A(Dr Abdul Kalam, by the way, in case I have confused you) is leaving ..its only logical for the B to follow(alphabetical order!!). But then he has got both the first two alphabets in his name Amitabh Bachchan ( A and B). Numerologists might be able to give an answer to this while astrologers might have a different point of view and what about asking vaastu shastra experts?
By the way Mr Amar Singh, can you explain wat happened to that poor souls at Nithari and why the Police force and ur government do not take responsibility for the incidents? Or how and why did ur govt give away arms to people? (This ain't America Mr Amar Singh)
With due credits to Amitabh, I believe he is better off acting and entertaining people than put in a cage of presidency and hear mercy pleas, arguments on quota, women's reservation bill apart from other political idiocy. He would surely make a wonderful 'role' model for people.
However, Amar Singh must be credited for making the media go ga-ga over this announcement. They got two days of wonderful bytes from people, smses, calls over whether he should contest for the post or not. Well, Amitabh himself 'dumbed' them down saying he was not worthy of such a post.
Well said, Mr Bachchan. I think people would like to see you on the silver screen almost every month, entertaining them than reading out vision statements on the eve of Independence Day and Republic Day, which nobody ever bothers to watch, thanks to the entertainment revolution.
The so-called third front(SP,TDP and AIADMK plus other fringe parties...as if the country has already not been destroyed by these ppl...atleast the states they have ruled) says they ll put up the Big B or rather Amitabh Bachchan as a candidate for the post.
So currently the Big A is keen to go back to teaching. Since the A(Dr Abdul Kalam, by the way, in case I have confused you) is leaving ..its only logical for the B to follow(alphabetical order!!). But then he has got both the first two alphabets in his name Amitabh Bachchan ( A and B). Numerologists might be able to give an answer to this while astrologers might have a different point of view and what about asking vaastu shastra experts?
By the way Mr Amar Singh, can you explain wat happened to that poor souls at Nithari and why the Police force and ur government do not take responsibility for the incidents? Or how and why did ur govt give away arms to people? (This ain't America Mr Amar Singh)
With due credits to Amitabh, I believe he is better off acting and entertaining people than put in a cage of presidency and hear mercy pleas, arguments on quota, women's reservation bill apart from other political idiocy. He would surely make a wonderful 'role' model for people.
However, Amar Singh must be credited for making the media go ga-ga over this announcement. They got two days of wonderful bytes from people, smses, calls over whether he should contest for the post or not. Well, Amitabh himself 'dumbed' them down saying he was not worthy of such a post.
Well said, Mr Bachchan. I think people would like to see you on the silver screen almost every month, entertaining them than reading out vision statements on the eve of Independence Day and Republic Day, which nobody ever bothers to watch, thanks to the entertainment revolution.
Sunday, February 11, 2007
My own funeral!!
Well this happened quite some time ago..sadly one of my colleagues committed suicide.hearing the news at about 11 pm in the night..we were spreading word to those who knew him..well..to my surprise one of my former colleagues called me up on my number and asked me if i had committed suicide..(he was extremely serious!!) probably he was mistaken cos both our names had sort of rhymed to this person and eventually he was shocked nevertheless.
Talk about arranging your own funeral!!
Talk about arranging your own funeral!!
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