Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Hello World :)

I'll be back soon. Right now I am soaking in pure joy which was distant to me for years. The joy of being in the company of my parents, of seeing love in their eyes, of savoring mum's cooking, of watching dad relax carefree, of being relieved of homely chores and finally feel contented to see them happy.

Work has been busy, super busy. Surprisingly I havent felt the monotony yet. Guess its a sign, I may adhere to this company longer than my expectations.

Travelling has been on the cards. 3 weekends 4 cities - Ontario, London, Boston, Burlington and there's more to follow. Unpacking my backpack sounds like a bad idea. Memorial day weekend around the corner has already snapped up sweet deals. I plan to save bucks by travelling regular weekends/weekdays when its less crowded and more affordable.

Mother Nature is dishing out the winds and downpours making the summer feel like fall. I yearn for warm sunny days without having to be loaded with jackets or sweaters. Oh, but the blasting AC in my office hardly differentiates seasons. I have no riddance from my beloved sweaters. We always stick together.

That's pretty much for now. Asta la vista!

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Friday, April 28, 2006

Rising Gas Prices

Gasoline is a commodity, a great smelling liquid, turning expensive. I have ranted and whined in the past. Now I am so tired of people complaining about the soaring gas prices. I know it’s a pinch to our wallets, but I've come to realize its really is a good thing. High prices open up the market for alternative and cleaner sources of energy. If we start using the alternate sources of energy we lessen our dependency on Middle East, and less dependency means less meddling, less terrorism and less threat.

Also high gas will hopefully encourage people to walk more. I recently read an article which said an average American walks only 1.5 miles a week. That’s awfully pathetic. No wonder we have serious issues with obesity. I implore every American reader to put down their car keys and walk.

I admire Brazil for gaining independance by completely converting to ethanol. We must commit to do the same and realize that oil is a non renewable resource, meaning our long term supply will never go up, the demand will always be there, crippling us as a country. We will never win the war on oil.

So people save gas and your money, stop idling your engine, use AC only when necessary, carpool, use public transportation, cut down several road trips and moreover walk.

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Thursday, April 27, 2006

Take Our Daughters & Sons To Work Day

Kids seen on the commute, kids seen running amuk on elevators, kids seen playing nick at workstations, kid voices being heard in hallways, kids seen around on streets at lunch. Such preety faces, such dashing smiles. Corporate environ turning casual. What fun!

Today is "Take Our Daughters & Sons To Work Day", a nationwide event helping girls and boys, age 8 to 13 stay focused on their futures during adolescence. An awesome opportunity for kids to experience a day at the office with their Mom or Dad. Most kids go to their parents workplace on summer Fridays and such, but this is a different kind of event. It exposes kids to what adults do during the work day, shows them the value of their education, and gives them an opportunity to meet new peers, talk to a diverse group of people and share how they envision their future.

We had an agenda for kids to follow today. And I enjoyed this half day event.

A good time spent with kids feels exceptionally rewarding!

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Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Name the New York Way

Here in New York, cool and hip neighborhoods are al about trendy names. Why, you ask? Because a cool and trendy name helps in boosting real estate values. Ask New Yorkers where they come from and you hear fancy stuff like RAMBO (Right After the Manhattan Bridge Overpass). Huh? You know, right before DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass)!

Since, space is NYC is always an issue, we simply like renaming locales to make them sound hip.

Manhattan has long had regions like SoHo and NoHo (South and North of Houston Street), NoLiTa and SoLiTa (North and South of Little Italy). But what if you go west? Will you discover an over developed LoLiTa? Or will you just run into under developed TriBeCa? Manhattanites have learned to take such cool neighborhood acronyms in their stride.

While the B train rides you through the exotic lands of BoCoCa (Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens), may I humbly suggest names for humdrum places like Flushing as FLOMO? and Borough Park as BOPA? And how about a special neighborhood called ARTSY (area restricted to the single and young)?

Per recent real estate news, South Bronx in Manhattan is one of the best places to buy investment properties in the US. Oops, did I say the South Bronx? You know I really meant SoBro :P

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Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Yin and Yang

There’s somebody else around me who has a magnificent idea. First, I was jealous, now I’m being supportive. Optimist that I am, I think together we’ll be even more powerful

I was involved in a project, which seemed beyond my expertise. Gradually I started feeling somewhat confident and raised to the challenge. Meanwhile, my boredom vanished.

I looked here and I looked there. The answer I was seeking wasn’t in either place. It was all over the place.

I was being tested to see if I could do what I had promised. I’ve been thrifty with promises, I could!

I tried answering all the questions coming to me like machine gunfire. Guess this is what all those years of training and learning have been for.

Discussions about shared money are confusing, but a hope for happy ending prevails

Upsetting information at first causes a problem. I felt unprepared but was not dismayed. The truth had set me free.

To let the nay sayers slow me down is so unreassuring. Endeavors that I’ve begun now are favored to succeed, but there are rocky moments

I must decide now to better the best I’ve done before. I must go farther, faster, higher or whatever it takes to renew my faith.

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Friday, March 31, 2006

Ramblings of an effusive mind

Memories are relative. People change, situations change, and sometimes, you can't change them back. Sometimes, you have to let go and consider yourself lucky that you even have memories that you consider to be perfect, that there have been moments in your life that have been so beautiful. Slowly, I am learning, accepting and moving on, but this does not mean that I am forgetting. I will never forget, because you never completely get over some things.

I have no reason to be sad, but I am. I know that tomorrow is going to be different and the new opportunities will be amazing, but I feel like I don't have the energy to feel or care about anything anymore.

Is this really what I want to do? I find myself wondering. Most of the time I don’t know what I want to do, or where I am going. I think I see a deeper meaning behind the phrase Taking the plunge. I have thrown myself into the sea called life and am waiting to see where it will take me.

With this, I leap forward to the new beginings ahead of me. Until we meet again, be well and God bless :)

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Wednesday, March 29, 2006

The end is nearing - II

We’ve been hearing it throughout history, that the world will soon end. The world never ended. But in this age, almost everyone seems to have figured out that the end is actually nearing.

Why do you think the world will soon end? I made my point in this re:, couple months ago. If you are too lazy to check Part I, I’d point some popular guesses. Nuclear war, environmental disease or catastrophes, but I think these are all quite unlikely. Nuclear war, for instance, relies on the actions of a notoriously unreliable group. Chances are that when its time for turning the nuclear launch keys on, at least one soldier will realize that he's forgotten his keys home. By the time he gets home, digging for them, the world's composures will be cooled, and the war will be called off. I suppose this must have already happened a few times.

Likewise, global warming seems unrealistic. With the increase of oil and gas usage, pollution will increase too, thus destroying the atmosphere, causing global warming, which will melt the polar ice caps, and raise the sea levels, which then.... Heck, this scenario is ridiculously complicated :P End of the world due to plague? That’s quite simple as to be incomprehensively obvious it hasn't accomplished much besides making people hate rats, once the most beloved of domestic pets. The bird flu will probably just repeat the same pattern, turning people against chickens, replacing their place on plate with porcupines.

So these aren't viable means for ending the world, but we know the world will end soon. How, you ask? Simple. Boredom and lack of interest. Most people, including you and I, have become bored with life and its mundanity (adventure, love, mcDonalds). Eventually, we'll get so bored that we'll simply decide to do something besides living. Only the most enthusiastic people will stick around, like the cult members and folks who paint their faces at football games. But such people are not enough to keep the world going. The world will become so dull and dispirited that it will finally just stop rotating and fall out of space.

This is a highly distressing vision of the future, but don't forsake your hopes yet. Excitement may still be revived in humanity, only if some genius somewhere would invent something so amazing, that it would re-energize the entire universe. Something which would bring pleasure in all mankind denied us by the smothers of the modern world, and remind us what makes the strife for our existence truly worthy. Any guesses? How about a 'glowing coke' ? Wouldnt that be a coolest invention? :D

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Monday, March 27, 2006

Hello, a beautiful day

For most times I could rename Monday as Mon dooms day cos that’s the negative feeling that overwhelms me as the day begins. But not today. Today I want to start my week feeling perky and positive and let go ALL the negative feelings about people whom I resent, yes even that one creep down the hall who rightfully deserves my wrath, don’t ask me why :P

Forgiveness is indeed a logical act of self interest. Hatred is the poison we swallow hoping the other person will die. When we hate someone, we give the person control of our emotions. When we react with resentment to resentment, blame to blame and rage to rage, we improbably become a part of the problem. When someone has behaved badly with us, instead of counteracting, we should forgive the person and send a prayer their way so they can see the clarity in their errors. Nothings is more powerful than being at peace with ourselves.

On that boosting and positive note, I start off my week with a smile.

Happy Monday, people!

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Thursday, March 23, 2006

Whats in a name?

Killing an eminent personality makes you an assassinator. Killing an ordinary person makes you a murderer.

Shooting someone wearing a uniform makes you a hero. Shooting in a gang makes you a criminal.

Hiring a lawyer to find tax loopholes makes you a good businessman. Making few bucks off the books makes you a tax cheat.

Prnting the country's state press releases verbatim makes you a respected investigative journalist. Digging up the truth makes you a zine editor.

Selling alcohol, cigarettes, and lotto tickets makes you an entrepreneur. Smoking and betting with bookies, makes you a menace to the society.

Revealing skin for a magazine makes you a pornographer. Unveiling flesh in the middle of a busy street makes you a Ralph Lauren ad.

Since the rich dont ride on public transport, instituting regressive tax on city’s poor residents, makes it a transit fare hike

Invading Kuwait makes Saddam the next Hitler. Invading Iraq makes Bush the leader of free world.

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Wednesday, March 22, 2006

A trite note

Back from my mini 12 days hibernation :) I missed this place, just like I miss being in my teens sometimes. No matter how broke or lonely I was, I had a potential and having a potential is so much easier than being actual.

Oh, I didnt elope with any house-husband, they are a rarity I believe :P

The computers here are down again. Wonder what good are they anyway? They never do what they say they're gonna do. They're completely unreliable and constantly letting you down.

Its really happened - They've made humans obsolete!!

Thanks all, for your insightful comments on my previous post, and give me some time, I am slowly crawling to your beautiful blogs :)

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Friday, March 10, 2006

A lingering thought

A woman who stays home while her man works is considered "traditional,” while a man who stays home, whose woman works, is considered a “loser.”

Is this a sign that years of progress toward gender equality has gone down the drains?

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Tuesday, March 07, 2006

A rude encounter

One cold and dark evening, as I was walking down the street, a hawker with his pushcart came darting across my way. For an instant, we were at an impasse, and the mutual abhorrence was perceptible. The sidewalk belonged to us, both. There was no reason why any of us should have yielded it to the other. We could’ve remained there indefinitely, forever neither moving an inch east nor west. Well, I had to hurry, so I submitted. But it disturbed me how easily I’d become embroiled in such needlessly uncongenial encounter. Both of us behaved utterly ungraciously, even though it would’ve cost us nothing. It highlighted something - rude human attitude.

Perhaps it was the rush of a chaotic city where the streets are crowded and people are busy. Or maybe it was something to do with the weather. Yes, I bet it was the weather. People are cold and bitter because the weather is such. We seem to waste heat on hate, because we pretty much always know the reaction we’re going to get when we give it. But when we’re nice, half the time we still get hate back. So, why risk it? There’s also the ‘misery loves company’ theory to consider. Nasty weather, a nasty mood, and nasty language all seem to go together. Everybody’s rude for some reason or none at all.

The funny thing about rudeness is that, most people assert total innocence. It’s always someone else’s fault. How many times have you made or seen someone make an obscene gesture at another person while driving a car? And how many times have you or someone you’ve seen use their cell phone in a loud annoying manner in public? And how many times have you or someone you’ve known acted racist? or prejudiced against homosexuals?

Some grins? Never? Yeah, right. The first step in altering the culture of rudeness is to accept it. The rudeness tag passes from one person to the other, and like the flu, it appears to be more common in colder climes.

As for me, next winter Im migrating away to warmer places like Miami or Mumbai.

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Wednesday, March 01, 2006

Just me

I sometimes wonder whether my life adds up to anything at all. And just then an inner voice tells me - It sure does.

Your entire life leads up to this moment

Right now is your chance to transform every failure, every painful, wretching, humiliating experience into lessons that can help you meet your challenges, overcome your flaws and live the life you’ve always dreamed about.

Just don’t blow it.

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