gARruLoUs GRaFfiTi

Lost for words?!

2007-02-07T21:07:00.000+05:30

When you look at the world through the fog of your own worries, your anger, your frustration and impatience, many valuable things will just pass you by, completely unnoticed. Imagine driving through town while someone is holding a gun to your head. Are you gong to notice the new flower shop on the corner? Probably not. Your focus will be on that gun.

Are you holding a gun to your own head, by constantly focusing on what’s wrong with your life? Are you so obsessed with your own problems that you don’t see the opportunities all around you? Your attention can be effectively focused on only one thing at a time. Sure you have problems and challenges. Yet what is the point, what is the value of agonizing over them? Pay attention to what’s good about your life. Rather than worrying about what you don’t have, seek to make the best of all the good things you do have. There are a lot of things right with your life. Give your attention to them and they will grow.

- RALPH S. MARSTON, JR.

I "Possess" it !

2006-08-08T10:24:00.000+05:30

Oh What a phone! what a phone! what a phone :)

"Though I know he is the man who committed the crime, I acquit him, giving him the benefit of the doubt"

2006-07-11T13:20:00.000+05:30

When such a statement is made by a Judge, it kinda makes you lose your belief (or what's left of it) in the sytem! I wonder how the retrial is going to be any better than the actual Priyadarshini trial.

My Slogan !

2006-07-03T12:56:00.000+05:30

Lipsmackin' Thirstquenchin' Acetastin' Motivatin' Goodbuzzin' Cooltalkin' Highwalkin' Fastlivin' Evergivin' Coolfizzin' Vitruviusman.

...this is what 'The Automatic Slogan Generator' dished out for me. I kinda like it :)

link via nanopolitan

PM dozes off...er..flags off Bangalore Highway Project

2006-06-27T10:01:00.000+05:30

If this is how the projects starts.....then i cannot help but wonder how it's going to get completed, or worse, IF it's going to get completed!

A R Rahman's claim to Fame

2006-06-26T17:37:00.000+05:30

Now, no matter how the movie is...i can be sure that it atleast starts off well. A Fantastic alternative to the otherwise sober clip of the 'high flying National Flag'.

A Train missed ?!

2006-06-26T09:51:00.000+05:30

She: I'm getting married.

He: Wow. Congrats.

She: Congrats? Is that what you want to say?

He: well...what else did you expect me to say?

She: .......

He: ????

She: Goodbye.

My first attempt at nanofiction :)

2006-06-20T14:45:00.000+05:30

she's taking her time making up the reasons
to justify all the hurt inside
guess she knows from the smiles and the look in their eyes
everyone's got a theory about the bitter one

they're saying, mamma never loved her much
and, daddy never keeps in touch
that's why she shies away from human affection

but somewhere in a private place
she packs her bag for outer space
and now she's waiting for the right kind of pilot to come

Reading right now....

2006-06-14T12:33:00.000+05:30

VM's Original Thought : Residual Religionism

2006-06-12T15:43:00.000+05:30

This is something I have discussed with couple of my friends and have been meaning to write about for quite sometime. This has also been the fruitions of one of those countless introspective sessions that I have.

What lead me to this concept was just plain observation. I call myself an agnostic! For most of the time it holds true, except during certain circumstances: when i lay my foot on some paper, or my leg happens to fall on some person, whereupon i automatically do: touch the person as if asking for forgiveness. Although when i think about it later, i find the act unnecessary bordering on ridiculousness,but it's a spontaneous involuntary action. And surprisingly, I have seen this happen not just to me but countless other people.

This is what led me to coining the term 'Residual Religionism'. This is not religion as is followed but it is what that has been acquired. Right from our childhood, most of us are being brought up in an environment surrounding godliness. The inquisitive child is lambasted left right and centre with rituals, be it visiting temples, or during festivals or even day to day praying, that somewhere along the line inquisitiveness gives way to discipline and blind faith. So even when the child grows and eventually decides to pour out the religion out of his system, the rituals which are as much an integral part of the person as his flesh and bones is left behind as residue.

Google launches Online Spreadsheet and Word processor

2006-06-09T09:42:00.001+05:30

Being a self confessed Google Follower, Iam obviously overjoyed with the launch of Google online Spreadsheets and online worprocessor (Google having acquired Writely). Going through the sneakpeek, I was really impressed with the features available. No more worries of disk crashes and lost data. Moreover, One can share the documents anywhere across the web and people in geographically remote locations can access and modify the documents simultaneously. I have got the invitation for testing out the beta version of Google Spreadsheet and i'm reallt geared up to get the first taste of what it has to offer.

Chaar Laloo Dena Please !

2006-06-09T09:42:00.000+05:30

Laloo seems to be quite popular among kids in Bihar, but for reasons probably no one would have ever imagined of: Lalu ka Khazana

Food for thought

2006-06-06T09:59:00.011+05:30

Sometimes one of the hardest things of all is seeing things as they really are. Could have beens, should have beens, ought to bes, can't believe it isn'ts - all these cloud our vision of the world around us. But seeing through these various illusions is the first step toward accepting things as they are. It could also be the most difficult. And why is it important to accept things as they are? Only then can you engage with the real world, which is the only way to really make any necessary changes.

link via here

06/06/06

2006-06-06T09:59:00.006+05:30

Beware of what you do today
for the day belongs to the devil
things might not go your way
'cos everything today has a shadow of evil

Prodigal Blogger Returns

2006-05-16T16:21:00.000+05:30

This is a weak attempt to clean up the cobwebs and dust that have gathered over this small and forgotten part of the 'Blog World'. The spontaneous questions that might arise, if at all, would be 'What happened?' , 'Where were you?', 'Why no blogging?' can all be answered with one single word: Laziness.

I'm supposed to feel guilty about it, but surprisingly, I am not. It may be so, because, laziness has become so common and accepted to the extent of almost becoming a virtue (at least that's what I tell myself).

Well, now that I have taken a genuinely big step (mind you, i am speaking relatively) to take this blog somewhere, I have decided to be consistent. This would realistically mean that i would make an honest attempt to post atleast once a month and then things can be taken foward from there.

However, to what extent the thoughts gets translated to action is something that remains to be seen.

Calvin & Hobbes

2005-10-08T11:34:00.000+05:30

Have been reading Calvin & Hobbes comics lately. They are absolutely hilarious, especially his adventures as 'Spaceman Spiff' and 'Stupendous Man'. For more go here

Google Reader

2005-10-08T10:57:00.000+05:30

Google has now come up with it's own RSS feed reader. You can serach for feeds, subscribe for it , categorize it under your own labels and do a lot more. Check it out here

Just when you thought it couldn't get any lower?

2005-09-30T21:18:00.000+05:30

Headline: 'Woman runs away with Lover, leaving husband and two kids'

Headline: 'Drunken man rapes five-year old'

Headline: 'Elderly woman murdered during robbery'

First they sold us films, then violence, rapes and they kept going lower and lower to sell their paper and when you just thought that it coudn't get any worse, they come up with this. Calling it disgusting is being kind on it. And what Crass Language! Reading the article, one gets the feeling that the author is not criticizing the society, but just venting his frustration at his own impotency(pun intended).

Grow Up !!!

Well said Sudhish!

Shyam Schindler or Bill Sundar ?!

2005-09-23T12:05:00.000+05:30

I found this test while browsing thru Suderman's Blog . I answered 45 q's and i got this:

What Classic Movie Are You?
personality tests by similarminds.com

And then driven by my inquisitiveness, i tried this another test "Which Leader are you?". Now I am not sure if I am happy or sad with the results.

What Famous Leader Are You?
personality tests by similarminds.com

The Water Boy

2005-08-25T12:03:00.000+05:30

I was sitting in Café, in Matunga, having a nice lunch. And I see the water boy again.

I have noticed this water boy, roaming around with a jug filled with water in his hands and an intense look in his eyes. He is so focussed and looks like a man on a mission(which he is). As he prowls across the tables, his only focus of attention are the glasses on the tables, all the other things: the food, the table, the people, all fading into oblivion. All that he wants to look at are the water glasses. And when he sees that all the glasses still contain water that are well above the secret threshold mark known only to him, he gloats with a sense of achievement of having maintained order in a rather chaotic world.

As soon as he notices a single glass, where the water level has gone down, all his senses are in full alert and he is pulled towards the glass as if the glasses can communicate with the 'water bearer' and automatically draw him to it. He then dutifully pours the water with a flair that has been perfected through countless repetitions, scaring the person sitting at the table into believing that the water is going to spill over, and at the very last microsecond, draws back the jug , leaving the the glass exactly filled to the brim, a stunt matched only by the 'Coffee mixing' style of the roadside chaiwala. He then smiles self contentedly and resumes his beat around the tables.

The waterboy does face some very trying moments. A case at hand would be when TPATT(the person at the table) stops him with a simple gesture of his hand. Now TPATT probably doesn't realise the damage that he has done. It is as if the waterboy has been hit by a water jug in the head. He is shaken, the earth which was a momoment ago under his feet having suddenly vanished,his very purpose destroyed and his very existence questioned. He then rallies himself, ready to tackle the situation. He roams around the vicinity of the table, never leaving the empty glass out of sight, sizing up the opponent and the odds stacked against him: the TPATT, the distance between himself and the glass, the amount of water required to reach the safety levels. He waits for the opportune moment and the instant TPATT looks the other way to speak to the waiter the waterboy strikes immediately. All it takes is another swing of the water jug and there, in a moment, the glass is filled and the waterboy saunters off trumphantly, like a hooded hero, who does not crave attention, but is satisfied by the peace and goodness that his acts have brought unto this world.

GTalk is here!

2005-08-24T12:37:00.000+05:30

Finally, putting an end to all the speculations about a new product launch by Google this week, Google has Launched it's IM software, Google Talk. A superficial glance through the product leaves a lot to be desired. t is currently, by no means a match to it's contenders, viz., Yahoo! or MSN. But knowing Google, I am very much sure that they will come up with something more innovative to lure the users away from the competitors just as they did it with GMail.

I am doing my personal bit of help by inviting all those who i know to join GTalk.

Book List

2005-08-23T17:30:00.000+05:30

I was looking for a way to add those booklist to my blog, and guess what? peristence pays. I have finally triumphed(can't believe i am actually gloating so much over this, but please don't rob me off my fifteen seconds of pure, unadulterated ego-boosting).Anyway, all i needed to do was go here, sign up for an account, add the books, get the java script code and put it into my template and voila! there is my booklist!

The Big Shout !

2005-08-20T20:30:00.000+05:30

Surfing thru' the channels, i suddenly saw well dressed men and a woman in the midst of caocphony and mayhem. I assumed that it was a scene from the 'Diet', the Japanese parliament. Turns out it's just another episode of 'The Big Fight' in NDTV. It's been a while since i watched this programme, so i just settled down for some enjoyable debating.But i was thoroughly disappointed, not just the shouting and fighting(though i must admit that it made for some enjoyable viewing), but by the general degradation in the quality of the programme.

The topic of today's fight(?!) was "In this materialistic society of today, has socialism become Irrelevant?" and was fought about by Vijay Mallya, the Kingfisher Casanova, Atul Kumar Anjan, General Secy, CPI, and the other two, their names i cannot recollect, though I should mention that the woman had joined the fight via video conference from Chennai. The 'Fight' started off with Mallya giving 'The First Punch'(believe me, that's what they call it!)Then it slowly degenerated to what any debate ultimately circles down, to one question : Is capitalism better or communism good? and one reason for all the problems of this world: Big Bad Brother US.

It makes you wonder if these programmes are telecasted just to showcase the oratorical skills of the host, who apparently gets to talk most of the time and doesn't let the speakers complete a single sentence, armed with the bell which goes 'bing' as soon as the host realises that the speaker is starting to make sense.

I have decided, instead, to watch 'PKS'(being telecast in SUN TV, the old faithful) for a welcome change. Now here is a movie that is absolutely illogical, but i am thoroughly enjoying it. I guess i am suffering from PTSD

Lucky me

2005-08-16T15:46:00.000+05:30

Today, I received a Laptop backpack from my bank. I had not participated in any contest, nor had i filled any kind of form. Moreover, i have this history of succesfully managing to screw up anything which has the element of luck attached to it. So you can imagine my surprise, when i get this parcel at my office. Looks like lady luck's smilling on me.

I am going right away to bet my money on the prancing princess in today's derby.

"In the beginning God created ..."

2005-08-13T18:46:00.000+05:30

How to Begin?

The Greats have walked this path before me, leaving me spellbound and scared about one thing: How to begin? .Many might snicker, "what's in a beginning?", well, hold on to that thought right there, because beginning IS a big thing, especially for a guy like me who has nothing short of a malseizure and froths at the mouth at the mere thought of putting pen on paper(or finger on keyboard) and writing something meaningful.

Well, this blogmania (did i just a coin a new word?!) is such that it shook me out of this graphophobia and i decided to make my contibution to the already existing alphabetical gibberish in the cyberspace. But, then again I was once again stalked by the same problem. How to begin?

Deciding to write a blog was the easy part. But getting it actually done is really somethng (I salute all those who are doing a great bloggers who have laid out the path for us underdogs !). Coming back to my blog, i set out exploring to find out what bloggin was all about, what made it so popular that magazines have started printing articles from the blogs (which is what initially piqued my interest in blogs). I was expecting some kind of a chatroom where you have blogging rules where in you cannot call other person names, you have to respect others' opinions, or else you get chucked out of some moderator who keeps a watch (I often wonder what a lousy job this moderator has: To keenly watch at every conversation that transpires, no matter how boring between people, who are basically jobless and whom he/she doesn't even know or hasn't even seen, sheesh!! ).

What I found out was quite contrary. Blogging is easy. you just go there and type whatever it is that you think of and that's it. No rules , No moderator, Nobody to answer to. This is already sounding great! So, here I am blogging my fingers away, for whatever it's worth. It nothing, it has atleast solved one of my problems.

How to Begin?