Things We Know..!!

Have a look at this link and read on...

http://ia.rediff.com/movies/2006/aug/29kareena.htm

Ohh...Humm!!

So we see that even kareena kapoor gets "Smita Patil" award for her OUTSTANDING contribution to hindi cinema. Don't know hat that means but only thing i could think of when i read this feature was that ...

"There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unkowns. That is to say, there are things we know we don't know. But, there are also unknown unknowns. These are things we don't know we don't know. " -Donald Rumsfield

This is life....!!

Enjoy

Life with Girlfriend

Hey all

in one of my earlier post we discussed life without girlfriend. I thought over it again and again and finally discovered something different ideology.

1. You cant stare at anyother girl bcos u don't need to..( wise ppl understand it)

2. You don't spend money on her you invest money in her..(thank god i went to mgmt school to learn all this)

3. You may get boring results in ur board papers/ performance appraisals and you always have a shoulder to lean upon..:)

4. With her you need to bear emotional blackmailing anyway what is life without a pinch of emotions

5. No need to care about her dumping you, you can always have another better prospect. Keep exploring ..!

6. A mix of hot and cold (with and without respectively)may make your life cocktail...That's really 'hot n cool'

7. Never have wait for her phone call, try new ideas to talk to her

8. Someone else can decide 'right' and 'wrong' for you so you don't have to waste time on petty things

9. If girlfriend gets possessive it means she really loves you and that is pretty rare in this cruel world so you can feel lucky

10. You can ask her to buy gifts for your mom and dad and she will be happy to do that (ideally she should )

11. No need to waste paper to write love letter..grow up guys and just use IM or Gtalk instead

12. You have less friends so you can effectively utilize your limited (24 hrs) time

13. You don't have to see boring love stories, instead you can see her (not a bad idea after all)

14. You wont have anybody else to tell lies to, you can say it all to her only and she will always forgive you and finally u still go to heaven to be with beautiful angels there

15. You will feel proud to have a special friend and enjoy envy of major chunk of population

16. You can have good night dream, she being there with you ..pretty romantic..Isn't it?

17. Sometimes you love her nonstop nonsense

18. You better try to drown in her pool of tears, atleast you get to learn swimming..hahaha

19. No tension of not having girlfriend

20. you can be urself with her

21. You don't have to make cold call to search for a girlfriend so infact you save money..(makes economic sense..!!)

So go and try to find one...!!!

Gud Luck

The FountainHead

This is the title of the book i m presently reading. i am such an otiose creature to say sthg abt this classic but even then i felt like writing abt the few pages i have gone through.

Such an engrossing book right from the first page where our protagonist thinks over. I personally like the character of Howard Roark who follows himself and not what other tell him to do and what traditions have been. But is it really possible, i mean practical or realistic existence of such character.

Take our own lives for example, our careers are more or less forced upon us. Something that our parents want us to be or result of peer pressure or sthg else. How many of us can actually boast of careers that they love? Exceptions apart, count will be very few.

Will definitely talk about the book more when i am done with it.

Movie Time

Sunday evening was as usual movie time and on this occassion it was " The FASt and the Furious: Tokyo Drift".

Zooming machines, hot girls, some action, thrill and thats about this movie. But there are moments when you experience the thrill of speed and it works. Nice watchable movie. Light dialogues gell with the script and tight editing.

Best line i liked was when Han says "Life's simple, you make choices and you don't look back".

Also loved beautiful lady "Nathalie Kelley" . Man....!! She has got a killer smile. watch her!

Lucas black is not bad as Shwan. You can feel his passion for cars. Probably in i wont ever see such cars so can just enjoy them in movies as of now. That is some solace but also adds to the aspiration/ desperation to get to see such life. Plz god just once in my life i want to live like that. Just like following conversation between the leading pair of the movie.

Shawn Boswell: The day I got my license is the day I got my first speeding ticket. Day after that I won my first race, I beat this rich kid by three lengths. I got to admit it felt good. It felt like
Neela: Like everything else just disappears
Shawn Boswell: No past and no future
Neela: No problems just the moment

Just give me a chance god.!!!

Living Alone: Life without Girlfriend

This must be of interest for LA community. Received it in my mailbox and sharing it with all bcos it is beautiful expression of feelings strengthning the assumptions behind formation of LA community.

How is Life without Girlfriend!

1. You can stare at any Girl.......

2. You don't have to spend money on her.

3. You won't get boring result in ur board papers/ performance appraisals.

4. No girlfriend, no emotional blackmailing.

5. If u don't have a girlfriend, she can't dump u.

6. Having a girlfriend is hot, not having a girlfriend is automatically cool, and every one loves to be a cool guy.

7. This can be more to life than just waiting for the bloody phone to ring.

8. You won't have to tolerate someone else defining, "right" and "wrong" for u.

9. Girlfriend can get so possessive that you can't do anything according ur wishes anymore.

10. You can buy gifts for mom, dad, sis or grandpa instead of a girlfriend and have a happier family life.

11. You won't have to waste paper writing love letters. No more endless waiting for ur date to arrive at some weird shop place.

12. You can have more friends, as u will have more time for them.

13. You wont have to see boring love stories instead of sports.

14. You wont have to tell lie to anybody and, therefore, u'll sin less (finally going to heaven to see angels).

15. You can have good night's sleep-no need to dream about her.

16. You wont have to fight over having a 'special' friend with ur folks.

17. No nonstop nonsense (typical girlish crap).

18. You wont have drown in the pool of her tears (a tool for Emotional Blackmailing).

19. No tension.

20. You can be "urself"

21. You wont have to hide your telephone bills (Makes economic sense as well)....

Cheers

Surya LA

Living Life King Size..!!

After three long months in this city, i feel life is getting back to normal.

Got net connection at my flat just today and its great to be back in the "round the clock online" community. Now readers dont need to wait for too long to get my posts. Will keep updating every day and night and more then once a day..!!!

Days will be better with friends and night with online friends and my comp....

Feels like Heaven..!!!1

Rare Outing : Part 1

Date: 20 August 2006

Place: Sardar Sarovar Dam. Popularly known as Narmada Dam famous for many things including court cases pending regarding the increase in height of dam, aamir khan's role and subsequent banning of his films in gujarat, medha patkar's struggle to get proper rehabilitation for people relocated and many more things.

I also got a chance to see the place myself, thanks to the visit organized my company. Begin a creature with unusual inclination towards wandering (sometimes I feel why I wasn't born a Siberian bird who travels to different part of globe depending on the season). Any way cant do anything about that now so I usually look for any opportunity that may satisfy my unfulfilled aspiration to wander.

Just for information, I wear spectacles ( as you don't see them in my pic). and they say that I look good in them. But for long I had a hidden desire to get rid of specs and do promotional shoot for Fastrack eye wear just like John Abraham ( no need to laugh, I know my limits).

So as the things stand today, second wish cant be realized but science & technology has given ample opportunity to people like me. We can wear contact lenses. But for me the case is little more complicated, I look good in everything I wear and even without wearing anything (don't assume anything wild, here I am referring to specs and goggles) and I have got a proof of my argument, count the number of girls who like me with specs and without them.

So finally I decided to wear lenses and goggles on the day of our visit to Narmada Dam. Again twist in the tail, the wilder side of my character kept on goading me to be my usual self. Give up formal wear and put on something that reflects your true character. So respecting my inner voice, I did just that and got a T and non matching denim jeans.

As I stepped on the bus, I could see the questioning eyes of my colleagues after seeing me in my new avatar(for them new). I could feel them saying that you looks such an idiot in that and without your specs you look a different creature. That's why people say that beauty lies in the eyes of beholder.

More about the trip in next post..

Keep reading...!!!

It happens more often in India!!

This picture was taken on 24 August, 2006 near supreme court of India when some medical students were protesting against the proposed unlawful, cast based reservation. What does this picture tells you?

For me it reminds that i am living in a country where my cast decides about my future. i may be a brilliant minded student but another person by the virtue of his so called reserved cast will be getting all the privileges. I have to fight for my right to live but my fellow indian will be given preference because he belongs to a particular cast.

Isnt it ridiculous? For me it is !!!

There should not be any hard feelings about the things this blog talks. They are just personal opinions on a particular subject matter under consideration.

What do you call the ruling people who doesnt even hesitate opening water cannons or firing tear gas shells on students protesting against the proposed breach of their fundamental right to play on a fair ground. No political party will say a single word against this "quota thing". Reason is that they will lose votes of that "Particular Community" and the ruling party sponsoring this bill will get all the votes.

This vote based politics is leading our beautiful country to a situation of worst despair, where your birth in a particular community is enough to gurantee a successful career.

I dont want to argue against the basic objective of reservation to some deserving classes but the point here is "who is deserving". A family whose last three generations are IAS, does that deserve reservation. A sane common sense should say NO. But our respected politicians will say YES.

Hell....!!!!

Makers of constitution introduced this reservation system for greater good of society but now it is merely a tool in the hands of few blood sucking paracites who survive on others lives and in the end give some ridiculous baseless arguments for their selfish deeds.

Day is not far when you will have reservation in sports, may be army, may be even some day you find few white clad people sponsoring a bill to make certain percentage marriages in one community with another community...after all it is for common good.!!!

Things get obnoxiously ugly when i see the front page of newspaper and find pictures of water cannon being used on students..


May god help me this country!!!

KANK

Hey guys

Have you seen KANK yet? if not then just an advice please prepare in advance to see this one. Remember that it is a four hour long typical melodramatic ride and you will feel losing some part of your life.

• Take with you somethings to wipe your tears if you like KJ brand of movies.
• Take a break after one hour else your backbone will fight with you later when u reach home.
• You will also need something to eat atleast twice in between and
• If you are gonna married in recent future then this one is highly unrecommended
• Finally if you are a coffee addict then be prepared you are gonna see SRK sipping from starbucks cup all the time.

Watching movie alone is an experience in itself. You can concentrate more on the movie then your girlfriend sitting besides you (it is debateable as some like to look around more for better options when watching movie alone). Anyway back to the movie, i found it very different (dont want to use exact negative word as it may hurt the business of movie considering the number of viewers i have on my blog..:) hey stop laughing)

Movie has some good cinematography and i dont mean that is the only good thing about movie. It also has some very melkodious music ( one song resmebles one from sufi band, again its my observation). Junior B looks good and i found both the actresses laden with fair glow cosmetic products. I dont knwo may be its the trend now a days. SRk is decent and overall it was a long enriching expereince watching KANK. One thing i was looking for during entire four hours was the story and consistency and i found some hugh vallies (sorry just used in place of gaps) in the script.

I feel like i am older after watching the movie anyway happy viewing..!!

Right to Information Act

There are my personal views and i don't expect any expert comments about them!

The day when RTI act was passed i was pleasantly surprised. Reason is very simple "How can any sane politician give up its privilege to do anything and get away with it?". "How can any babu (government employee) give up its privilege to no to do anything and get away with it?"
RTI act, if at all used and allowed to be used, does the same. It will make politicians accountable for their deeds by being asked about virtually everything relevant and they have to do that. Just imagine that you can ask any babu, why your file didn't move? or why your task took too much time? Or simply imagine a politician giving information about a government contract being given in past.

I imagined all this and felt happy that finally we may be approaching true democracy. But alas..!!!

My happiness was short lived and my apprehensions were correct. No sane politician can allow this to happen. No sane babu will allow this happen. Finally they will do the same with RTI act what they did to "Office of Profit" bill. Mutilate it to suit their own requirements and still be under the garb of being alleging to the law.

Recent actions of this government has further strengthened my opinion that we are living in a pseudo-democracy, where u don't have any access to virtually anything.

Let this time government not do what it intends to !
Let for once be together and fight for a just cause !
Lets do something about it....We wont let our right been taken away by a few white clad humans..!!

Let the truth prevail.....

Dreams

I want to ask a very genuine simple question. What is a Dream?

No need for Googling. I have already done that and it says (from wikipedia.com reference)

“Dreaming is the subjective experience of imaginary images, sounds/voices, words, thoughts or sensations during sleep, usually involuntarily. Dreaming is associated with rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, a lighter form of sleep that occurs during the later portion of the sleep cycle, characterized by rapid horizontal eye movements, stimulation of the pons, increased respiratory and heart rate, and temporary paralysis of the body…!!!”

God!!! Temporary paralysis of body… I swear not to dream again in my life… But on a serious note, is it the dream all about?

I tried hard for the answer and came up with following two self-explanatory ideas about dreams.

Idea # 1

Deadly
Reality
Entering
A
Mind

Thanks for appreciating above innovation of mine but people say that whatever we do in real life it reflects in our dreams. There is direct correlation between our real life and dream life. I always thought that dreams could take me away from horrible reality for some time at least.

Look at this now…

Idea # 2

Diminishing
Realism &
Enterprising
Adventurous
Masque

No need to praise me again for my creativity, I do it more often then not. Come back to our original question…about dream. Which one of above two will you prefer?

I want to discuss more on this issue in my next post. Till then ….

Happy Oneirism!!!

Living Alone Syndrome

Hey guys

This is new sundrome discoverd by none other then the great Me. Actually i discovered this syndrome during my recent 'Living Alone' experience at the current location.

Probable causes of this syndrome are:

• Being Young yet
• Single and
• Also most importntly being Available.
  

I know most will be thinking "What a Loser". But believe me this is hell of an experience 'Living Alone'. More so when some one is a smart and handsome like me (see the pic for more info).

Symptoms of this syndrome are

• Not shaving regularly ( no one to show off)
• Getting better at time management ( counting minutes as nothing else to do)
• World (to be precise Girls) looks more beautiful (something is always better then nothing
• Develop better taste for food ( eat whatever you get)
  

These are some of the most prominent symptoms found in people suffering from this syndrome. Now going forward, the blog will discuss issues related to this syndrome and later will also take questions from readers to provide customized solutions (looking for busines opportunity....old habbit).

Guys, keep visiting the site for more updates and information regarding this ever spreading contagious syndrome.

Privileged members of this syndrome community will suffix there name with LA (Living Alone) to signify the importance of this syndrome in state of affairs.

Happy Living Alone

Blasts!!

The barbarci act of voilence yesterday in Mumbai once again proved that we are vulnerable and those responsible are doing it time and again at their will.

Will it stop some day??

I also want to highlight the role of media in all this and to be true..it was insane. Can any body tell me what is the logic of showing disintegrated bodies on national channels?

Plz for god sake take some idea from London Blast Tv Coverage. They showed policemen trying to bring life to narmalicy not showing body parts lying around.

What the hell people think when they use their "Hi Tech" Mobile Phones to take photos of those who are lying their and are in desperate need of help. Is this humanity? Can u help those ppl instead of taking photos and showing it on TV?

Media has a role to play and that should be positive. What impact does it make on child\'s mind when he sees this sort of mindless coverage? He will think we are helpless and dont ahve vigour to face the devil.

Plz people (Specially Media) show some concern and accountability..Stop sensationalising the things and give ur constructive contribution in facing this challenge rather then thinking about TRP rating...God Bless !!!

I Hate...!

I hate

• lies
• smoking
• alcohol
• ogling at girls
• communalism
• reservation in education
• being spendthrift
• cheating
• wasting time
• watching mallika in "murder"
• copying in exams
• match fixing
• night outs with friends
• late night movies
• junk food
• carbonated drinks
• politics
• living alone
• working to earn money
• designer wear
• staying in five star hotels

But man....!

This is life and one (including me without exceptions) has to do the things one always hates.................!!!!!!

Sorry about doing it all...!!!!

Exploring the City

Hello All

You must be irritated by my "living alone" stuff, dont worry. Here is something good abt the city. My free weekends provide me ample opportunity to explore the city specially for food. This Sunday i had lunch at a cafeteria in Alkapuri. To my surprise the interiors were neat and impressive. Air Conditioner was installed and was used only if customers were present, nice way to control utility costs. It has pastries, cakes, snacks and mocktails (my favourite..) apecially when u r living in a DRY state. First thing i ordered was mocktail prepared with Cranberry Juice. and another one named "Mit Summer Queen". Then some pastries followed by some sncaks and obviously cream roll in the end. Pretty impressive...isn't it? But guys i had to shell out a good 200 bucks for all that...! i know that impressive as well..!

Now come to Dinner..i had it at "Machu Picchu"..interesting name...well this name is the first reason i decided to try that place. But i loved the place for its interesting interiors and ambience. Reminded me of my college days when i used to hang out with friends and had blast. But as "Living Alone" thing continues those days are not to be found.
I ordered chinese (usually i dont like but some how i could convince myself for experimenting) and by the time food came i enjoyed Cricket match on big television screen put up there. But main attraction was a young, tall, beautiful ( like anything), gorgeous and S*** girl sitting right next to my table. I know u r jealous but same was i as she was already escorted by a Huge Fellow ( no comments abt him as i dont know the relationship but his manouvers but not favourable for my aspirations) . Never mind i m used to consoling myself on such occassions ( u cant do anything else though).
But believe me the food was S***, infact better then the girl i just described, Pl dont ask how can i compare food with a girl.

So i was there till 10 PM and this is the usual time for me to go to bed ( In mumbai day atarted at 10 PM ...) But for a change i didnt have to waste my time exploring my past, sitting in my flat and did sthg better..

Hopefully i will visit that place someday again with that lady with me next time...

Wish me luck guys...

Philanthropy

I was amazed to see the news two days back that Mr. Warren Buffet has decided to donate around USD $37b to Gates Foundation.

Just tried to estimate how much is this amount, around 25% of indian Foreign Currency reserves, around 30% of market capitalization of BSE and so on. So we get that the sum donated by Mr. Buffet is pretty huge. Now i hear that Mr. Jackie Chan has decided to donate half of of his wealth that works out to be around 500m HongKong Dollars.

What is the reason that a person decides to donate his hard earned wealth? and why such spurt now?Answers to these questions may be with the donars only, we may just do some guess work.
Are they following the Maslow's theory of Motivation taht everybody seeks next level of needs and finally Self-actualization?

Interesting thing is that the announcement came right after Mr. Gates's announcement of retirement from day to day activities of Microsoft within two years. What ever be the reason i just want to laud the gesture as the Foundation will use this money to try and eradicate top 20 deceases from the world. Top priority is AIDS, which has brought down life expectancy in South Africa to aroud 40 years.
These people may have just staarted a trend and many will follow soon. These initiatives will go long way in making sure that the world's worst problems get the proper attention and proper resources.
Just hope that there are more of Mr. Buffet and Mr. Gates who have some concern for the poor and under privileged childern of God...!

Life with Football

As the whole world is gripped in football fever, a thought comes to my mind and should come to mind of every indian.

Why a country of more then 1 Billion ( still going strong) doesnt have a team competitng at the biggest sporting spectacle on this earth?

There have been lot of notice that Cricket is given undue preference over other sports. But is it really the game that overshadows or the people attached to it? What has made cricket so popular in india? Is infrastructure the issue? What can government do to make other sports wide spread?

All these questions are raised very often and they die down soon enough. Lets compare the two games in terms of what you need to play them. Cricket needs a cricket ball, a bat and six stumps(often that is also not a pre requisite, u can make do with ur own arrangement like some sticks of bricks in place of stumps). Football requires "football". Is the cost of these basic things so different...i bet not much. Then what is the matter?

Lets go to other aspect..'laying field'. As far as cricket is concerned.. one can play it in streets, on the roof literally anywhere u need minimun of two people. Football....hmmm u can also try it in street but wont be good enought if you have less number of people to play.

So where does the difference lies?

Will discuss more on that later...gotta go

Happy Reading

Surya

Life and Times of Surya

This is just for information of people who dont know me. I have recently joined a company at Vadodara. Being new to this place i dont know anybody. Living here for one month have taught me why 'Man is called a Social Animal'. This is specially true when u have five day week and for weekend you are left with nothing to do.

But this one month i spent productively. Trying to dwell in past and finding out what i did my whole life. In management language doing "Cost- Benefit" analysis of my life. Did i gain anything by spending 26 years of my life? (i dont have problem in revealing my age....:))

This analysis proved to be helpful as i came to know what i did in past so many years, yearning for something and following something. Was i sure of my destination or just follwoing what others wanted me to?

Finally i concluded that my life has been a "Break-Even" game. I have spent so many years and got back just equivalent ( no +ve gain though).

Result is now to make some sense out of my life i have to work more and more so that "cost-
Benefit" analysis is in my favour before we disslove this partnership with life.

These are my deep and dark secrets, which i share only with few people and you are the chosen one..!

Surya

First One

Hello Everybody!

This day will be marked in the history (i dont know in golden letters or what) as an auspicious day when some one with such intelligence ( mind you, there is no adjective used for intelligence) started his own blog.
The purpose of this blog is

• To bring "World Peace"
• To help in bringing countries together.
• To help in saving our culture from extreme 'Westernization'

This Blog will discuss topics ranging from politics to music, astrology to nano-technology, war strategies to honeymoon plans.

This Blog will contain only non-vulgar, authentic and non-pirated stuff.

Please dont ask me 'how' all this is possible in a world where 'Atomic Energy/ Nuclear plans are more highlighted then any 'Peace' initiative, Where people are looking for a excuse to kill each other (sorry guys this line is taken from movie "Rang de Basanti"). So please dont ask how this blog will succeed in meeting its purpose bcos i want to leave something for readers imagination.

Finally comments of the readers (if there are any) will be appreciated.

Please log on to this blog more often then regularly.

Happy Reading

Surya