Braves

What does it feel like being brave?

Well I am not sure if I have had that moment in life when I can definitively say I was brave to do this, or I was the bravest amongst the lot to have done this....

I saw two visions of Braveness in a spam of 10 minutes yesterday in the most unsuspecting, unexpected forms of all. The first vision, all though led by vanity, was a cool moment whereas the second one was slightly disheartening and demanded to question the superior authority of its judgment.

As I waited outside Claire's yesterday while my Ma and Wife were shopping for earrings... honestly how long should that take?... long enough for me to be able see these two events.

One girl maybe 3 years or smaller than that, asked for her ears to be pierced. This may not seem an event to be classified as brave, but this little lady had an audience of her ma, brother, dad, uncle, aunt, 1 awed indian husband of a lady who was showing her ma in law different earring designs... and the two ladies assisting with the piercing. She was all prepared and told about the procedure and she was strong with a smile and gave the go ahead. I shuddered and had goose bumps as I saw the two sales people one on each side punch holes in those little ears. The moment they clicked the little girl was shocked and slightly jerked but then again she just stared as if nothing happened. I thought the shock would settle in, in about 5 - 10 mins and she would start crying .. wailing rather...but she was just fine.... That confidence in a small kid to me was so brave....

At that same moment as she walked out with her family...I decided that the store had nothing interesting for me and walked out of the store and there I saw the second child. On the ramp in the center of the walkway I saw this kid pushing himself fast on a wheelchair. His Dad was right behind him and didnt even thought of pushing him up the ramp. The kid didnt even ask his dad to be pushed. They both were just fine and walked by in the crowd as if nothing ever happened.

That was the second brave thing I saw. These two sights may not be that significant or important in someones life, but to me there was the proof that life continues...

Hmm

What it's Like - Everlast.

Then you really might know what its like.

Love the guitar strumming in this song.

On the other hand. Had Chicken Biryani, Aloo Paratha, Mutton Kheema, Ragda Pattice and Chicken Curry, Kheema Pattice and all this in a matter of 2 meals and a Breakfast and oh all this was cooked at home !!!! Also not to forget the Home made Nankathai biscuits that I had with Tea. I love my friends here.... Any doubt about that??? :) (read as evil grin)

I think the evening of tennis at the court justifies the sinful meals...

But then again we also went out in the evening to eat Gobi Manchurian, Chicken Kadhai, Seek Kabob and Chicken Kurma.... now gotta find some chores that would justify this.

Beautiful weekend. All my prayers to the one person I know who has a doctors appointment.

And now a Coke n Scotch (yeah i know but I dont care) in my hand while I watch a Movie..(Race)

Later

Morning Revelation

So I always called my laptop my computer and a couple of people had an issue with me calling it a computer when its "actually a Laptop"...I did'nt think about it for long called it a laptop to stop the cat's whinning.

But .. it just struck me today.... You dont go and say .. wait here while I go get my SUV or wait here while I go get my Coupe....you just call it a car!

Laptop's a classification for a thing. the thing is a computer.

Its 6 in the morning and this is the best I could come up with???

Oh yeah .. still listening to stop and stare

Sometimes...

Stop and stare
I think I'm moving, but I go nowhere
Yeah, I know that everyone gets scared
But I've become what I can't be
Ohhh

Stop and stare
You start to wonder why you're here not there
And you'd give anything to get what's fair
But fair ain't what you really need
Oh, can you see what I see

I have a liking towards songs like these. this ones One Republic

white stripes/simpsons/talk box

Thanks to a GEICO advt recently, I was introduced to that pipe that they had in their mouth while making thoses whoawhoa sounds in the song Its my life by Bon Jovi. I had at that time told a lot of people that those were sounds by the mouth due to the pipe and all.. never really figured it out until Peter Frampton sold car insurance to me using the contraption that was gifted to him.

Yes the talk box. I just learnt something new today!

Also loved the intro to the song "the hardest button to button" by the White Stripes. Its a whole load of passion and anger, i feel the song could have been stronger than what it is. But hey Im just a critic sitting in front of his lame computer with no talent but a criticizing attitude.

Whats all that got to do with the simpsons?

The geico ad? while watching simpsons; the white stripes? featured in todays episode of the simpsons; the amazing intro? when bart takes on music as child counselling and gets hooked on to it.

Gotta love the simpsons,
Gotta spread the joy!

Vengeance at 25:17

For a while I always thought of vengeance as a means to an end. An end to the hatred in you for whatever the reasons it be. A calming soothing thing that sets the sociopath mind at ease. The heart eases and pacifies itself. The end of a rush.

And when you really master your lust for vengeance will you actually get yours. There, I just created my own catch-22isque phrase. The real vengeance is when your get over your lust for vengeance.

Why is it that this word so stuck on me brain for so long?

The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee

Thats why.

If God, being God, desires Vengeance and takes it on those that do not follow him, isnt God a communist? And you know it todays world, for all you know, God may actually be a communist, what with China doing so well these days. I know its not a big deal, money is here today gone somewhere else, superpowers rise, rule and fade into a black hole sucking everything around it until eventually it meets another superpower, so strong that the black hole has no effect on it.

Just the routine, as Bartimaeus might have said.

This is the red (now why in the hell do they want such a bold color? why not a dull gray to symbolize equality and no disparity?) communists' vengeance. They have finally got their chance to wink their eyes as furiously as they can and say "up yours" to the rest of the world.

But coming back to the topic, which so far as aptly stated in this discussion somewhere, that my digressive brain has totally lost track off. Is it really God's job to seek vengeance? And in what manner? sending you to hell? That would be the devils job right? in that case how else? By turning you into an ant in your next birth? you may end up being at the gates in the next 5 mins. Then how else? Aha, by making you stand in the line of an NC plate and license line for hours with just 2 old ladies helping each person in the line.

Time to sleep.
ramblings continue further.

Main Jahan Rahoon

Keheny ko sath apney yeh duniya chalti hai
Par chupkey is dil mei tanhaai palti hai

The whole world is "always" by your side
Yet theres a loneliness in your heart.

Was listening to this song, Main Jahan Rahoon from the movie Namaste London. Ok movie. Pretty girl. But I kinda liked the punjab da puttar Akshay Kumar in it. The guy has shown stupendous amounts of improvements in terms of an image as a hero from his churakey dil mera days.

On the brighter side of things to look out for this year:
- Will try to make my money make me more money
- Hoping not the same in terms of body fat.
- Bring back all the ambitions from the past. (includes getting more out of life)

Kind of a slow start, but hoping this year will really kick it off for me.

brilliant youtube video of the week:

- Guy showing how a stupid plastic bottle stashed somewhere in his engine, generates 3 months worth of HHO gas to be used in your car as a hydrogen fuel for greater mileage.

No no wait, HHO gas is actually a great gas!!! Indeed, its steam! But the guy, the site and so on goes on to say how HHO gas is combusted to form water (H2O) hmm strange, your put a gallon of water in a bottle add Soda Bicarb, and you get HHO...

If you read the whole site I guess the only mileage that went up was my LOL. or maybe L2O or maybe LLO ..

Things the world can come up with...

Later

Happy Diwali!

The first diwali !

Happy Diwali all !

A-Town

There are so many things I miss about A-town!!!
the people
the kids of all my colleagues
the action
the desi scene
the weekends
the house where i could not bother whose beneath or whos above
the roads!!!
the 85mph on a 55mph crowd!
the bert show on All the hits q100

Yup life almost sinks in perfect and then u have to shake it off as things may not be as rosy as they seem! So off one packs off everything that he just built and goes in search of greener pastures!

Nomad!

BOM-CMX-GSP-CMX-DTW-ATL-CLT-???

But here we are in the greener and "lake"y lands of NC in Davidson NC. setting up new homes, new relations and a new life!

Exciting new season ahead!

Happy Halloween

Wassup World

Listening to Entity Paradigm after ages, Irtiqa was by far a well planned out album with music that sounded mature for a band with a the first album release.

Jal the group that came out with the Aadat song also gave a similar performance.

One thing to note about these two groups is that they are Pakistani. And they go to prove that music has no boundaries. I am a huge music lover. Got tonnes of song varying from sri lankan artists to chinese artists to hip hop and white people behaving like black and to british bands that rule the world. I dont remember one itty bitty peice of the lyrics of the songs I love, I love the music. Not that I am good at making the music either. I just have the ear for it. Although saner people like my roomie tend to think otherwise.

So be it, I just enjoyed the thrill I got from the 5 minutes of listening to Irtiqa. Anyone with an open ear wanting to try out new music, do listen to this album.

Hmmm thinking, what happened to my collection of trashy british songs...

To the girl who thinks being into Goth means you love rock, you've got a long way to go.
You cant club Nirvana, Linkin Park, Metallica, Marlyn Manson into one and say thats goth.
Thats just crunk ! ;)

Tea n Silk?

I wish I could make my font default to trebuchet.
The disadvantages of going with a slightly modified blog is that you have to find your own solutions to your own whims. So as random as my cup of tea or the tea leaves in my cup (zilch) I thought of penning down some thoughts in the subliminal form of words.

I know Im just using words because I feel like using them at this moment. So many thoughts are coming to the mind...

I made myself a cup of tea today. Read a few lines about Bartimaeus and Nathaniel. Chopped a few uber roots (Potatoes, Garlic, Onions). Uploaded my current favorite song on the ipod.

Ha ! They have a self help book on "THE iPod" pronounces "Ze iPod" with a fantabulistic ulterior class sophistication. Dont know if you have one of those books, does that qualify you as a real oaf of the highest level or a real Dumb Socialite, hmmm guess both are the same. But still I thought to myself, I can make a self help book on how to use Plastic Bags, but I doubt if the people on the streets would really be able to buy my book and then use a Plastic Bag to carry the book in.

Hmm My current fav song."Chak De Phatte" by Kailash Kher. Yeh duniya mast kalandar....
Cool song. Cool Movie.

Another Movie I saw these days... Ek Chalis ki Last Local. nice. innovative. I thought it was inspired from pulp fiction. But I think not right.

Anyways. Time to doze.

Tea n Silk you ask? You should've guessed it by now. China!

Lately

The memorial day weekend was spent lazing at my aunts place in Lansing, MI.
Had some wild cracks at cousins and enjoyed the "rain in denver"!!

Pirates of the Caribbeans at Worlds End was okaaayyyyyy .... with a very dull tone !!!
Had to watch it to complete the mystery from part 2.

Played a lot of NCAA and whooped Saleel 5 times!!!

So I figured the blog is turning into a personal diary!!! Aint that what its sposed to be???

I turned one more year old last week !

listening yo'

Lately the best stations that I get to listen are all the hip-hop stations.
Had a cousin over, then a friend and got them all hooked on to one or the other hip-hop songs.

Cousin got hooked onto "this is why Im hot"
Pal got hooked onto Akons Dont Matter

Now Im hooked on to
Tpain - Buy you a drink
Party Like a Rockstar
500 Dollars
Nelly Furtado-Give it to me

The list is a long one ..... the drive is a short one.

Trying to... trying to...

Been trying to and wanting to write, but times one element thats been eluding me to the core. Not that I dont have time at all, but writing comes out of a chain of thoughts, it needs to be followed and noted down. Just havent been getting that kind of a continuity for a long time. Even to finish a book, which ideally would have taken me a couple of days, I had to take considerable time and effort and sometimes even disappoint S so much so that I can capture the essence of that particular twist in the tale.

Wish I had a 48 hour day. Wish I could be fast at things to work out everything and yet get me the time to catch up on me.

Had a nice weekend, friends over, did some trail walking, some partying, some dinning, some fun. Lets see what happens next.

My sympathies to the people who had their dreams, their wish come true moments, their happiness and joys pinned on the one little aspect called visa, many were sure it was going to be a piece of cake, but not anymore. Wish you guys the best of luck...

New Speeding Idea

I want to drive without ever being caught by a cop.

For people like me, the cops should come up with a security device, A device that will block the engine revs and determine the speed of the car based on the road type. The cops install that device on my car and I drive it to the max everywhere.

For example speed limit on a freeway is 65 mph. With this device on my car, I assure the cops the cops that my car will not be able to do crazy speeds, the cops fix a peak steady speed of 73 mph on my car. So now, even if the road is free for me, I wont be able to do more than 73 on the road, thereby never to bother about being caught by a cop.

People might argue, whats the purpose of this, the purpose of this is to assure the law that the car cannot go above a certain speed, if all the cars provide that assurance, the average safe speed on the road can be increased to a newer limit. Im sure everyone will want to use this facility as it is the average speed on the freeway isnt really more than 65 - 70 mphs accounting for traffic, braking and everything.

3D Data?

Maybe Matlab lets us do this. I hope people in MS or OpenSource try to come up with something that can manipulate 3D data. that would be really time saving.

Knotted!!!

So lately I knotted the knot a couple of months back now am stayin wid my better half... previous i was whole now i have a better half... (the engineer in me starts questioning what happened to the other half ??? or was I always half .. in which case does my weight actually equals to a gross 400 lbs?????)

So i get to see stores I never knew existed... Ikea.. and I get to know that the white doors and the white shade in my apartment are in fact actually a theme ... ;) ...

Lifes been a ball lately. I hope she stays happy .. specially when I pulled her out of her comfort area and brought her into this strange land.

To be seen and blogged a lot... more talks to post .. specially bout my new roomie/wifey :)

So I missed out a deal

This thanxgivin I was up all night ... reached Best Buy at 2 and saw a huge line...and thus I missed out on my deal.

But the best deal of my life is just around the corner. Brings out a lot of different moods in me. I guess All I have to do is follow the heart. :)

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