What is it about perfection that makes one cringe?
Perfect relationships are surely in denial mode, with muted volume, politely formal, distantly polite, stuffy, don't touch any sensitive spots, coat everything well and keep it sugary and bottle up the rest! It is one thing to be nice and another to be purrfectly nice. Aspirants of this are better off staying away from other human kind....not only are they setting the wrong standards and showing the "in-your-face" healthy ones in bad light...they are extremely harmful to themselves. When the bubble bursts and all the bottled-up hell breaks lose, they wonder what they did wrong....incapable of believing that since they are so bloody sweet and all, and cannot hurt or tick off anyone. "Why is the world so mean to me? I only strive to please all and sundry around me and keep "ME" in everyone's gooood books!! How can "I" be considered wrong?" Puhleease get off your high horse and be yourself and do not blame me for keeping my face the way it is....that is how it will be thanks to your insensitivity (yeah...hard to believe??) and I cannot screw it up into a smile to make things nice and perfect so you can get back into your pretentious hunky dory world. Learn to face facts and deal with problems...not sweep it out of sight.
Let us all strive to be perfect and nice and sweet...but let us not get carried away with it!!!
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Deathly and hallows?
What's deathly about hallows? Deathly veneration? deathly saints? JK does not explain the meaning afraid that it'll give away a clue to the story....but as the countdown goes on cant think of much else these days....it's damn frustrating to be a muggle and be content with reading it with the rest of the world!
Awaiting eagerly...here's a toast to bringing magic into millions of lives!
Awaiting eagerly...here's a toast to bringing magic into millions of lives!
Sunday, April 08, 2007
Cricket and some feminism!
Well...this is a post that I have really been avoiding. Another kb of space dedicated to this??? But now I am forced to pen this small bit down...
India's debacle in world cup 2007 has invited the wrath, criticism, angst, sympathy even from all quarters...and then there are some of us who prefer to remain indifferent...utmost get irritated by the constant attention this debacle has been getting. Come to think of it, I don't think the analysis and publicity would have made it to so much of first page/headline news(usurping Vishwanathan Anand's moment of world #1 glory) had they actually brought home the cup!!!
So there I was this Sunday reading the times of India's glossy sheets trying to avoid anything that my brain would google upon as crick..but unknowingly ended up reading this hilarious piece by Suhel Seth (the happy bachelor as he calls himself)...where he is really livid with the 11 jokers for spoiling the month long lazy existence of the Indian Man! How the Man will have to now put up with the nagging from his wife or MIL and how he cannot rot in front of the TV eating/drinking and living in his own world and how he is going to be missing the much awaited male bonding...etc etc. Mr. Seth the male equivalent of the feminist made me see the lighter side of it all and I have never read a funny feminist before who could drive home her point while providing so much entertainment! I now keep an open mind while reading cricket news for I might chance upon a Suhel Seth like piece....
On the other hand (this has nothing to do with cricket, just something the feminist in me wants to express;))...in the same main sheet of the paper Mr. Shashi Tharoor writes an apology article for last week's debacle piece which criticised the Indian woman's neglect of the sari!! Apparently the author has received a whole lot of brickbats (which he calls "feedback") and writes a full article of the same damned length which is actually a stupid apology! c'mon buddy, he knew it was coming...especially since he went pointing fingers in his all western business suit...and mind you I did read that bit about how someone ridiculed him for wearing a kurta pyjama to an international meeting and so was forced to "follow" the dress code....for someone so worried about the sari culture going to the dogs, stand up and fight for your country's kurta/khadi culture!! My dad has been to many international conferences and dosent give a damn about any criticism flaunting his bandhgalas and khadi kurtas while shunning the "soot"...not that he's bothered about Indian clothes and all that...he is just not into dressing up for someone else and I have seen his international colleagues respect him for that! So that's where I stand...I am not into dressing up for someone else...Indian culture or not! I wear what I want to wear and sometimes it turns out to be a sari...no sweat! whaoh!! see? I said feminists cant be funny once they get going!!:D
Just wanted to conclude on a lighter note that today I read 2 very funny articles...one a truly admirable one from a masculinist!!?? and the other a silly and funny apology from a sexist!!!
India's debacle in world cup 2007 has invited the wrath, criticism, angst, sympathy even from all quarters...and then there are some of us who prefer to remain indifferent...utmost get irritated by the constant attention this debacle has been getting. Come to think of it, I don't think the analysis and publicity would have made it to so much of first page/headline news(usurping Vishwanathan Anand's moment of world #1 glory) had they actually brought home the cup!!!
So there I was this Sunday reading the times of India's glossy sheets trying to avoid anything that my brain would google upon as crick..but unknowingly ended up reading this hilarious piece by Suhel Seth (the happy bachelor as he calls himself)...where he is really livid with the 11 jokers for spoiling the month long lazy existence of the Indian Man! How the Man will have to now put up with the nagging from his wife or MIL and how he cannot rot in front of the TV eating/drinking and living in his own world and how he is going to be missing the much awaited male bonding...etc etc. Mr. Seth the male equivalent of the feminist made me see the lighter side of it all and I have never read a funny feminist before who could drive home her point while providing so much entertainment! I now keep an open mind while reading cricket news for I might chance upon a Suhel Seth like piece....
On the other hand (this has nothing to do with cricket, just something the feminist in me wants to express;))...in the same main sheet of the paper Mr. Shashi Tharoor writes an apology article for last week's debacle piece which criticised the Indian woman's neglect of the sari!! Apparently the author has received a whole lot of brickbats (which he calls "feedback") and writes a full article of the same damned length which is actually a stupid apology! c'mon buddy, he knew it was coming...especially since he went pointing fingers in his all western business suit...and mind you I did read that bit about how someone ridiculed him for wearing a kurta pyjama to an international meeting and so was forced to "follow" the dress code....for someone so worried about the sari culture going to the dogs, stand up and fight for your country's kurta/khadi culture!! My dad has been to many international conferences and dosent give a damn about any criticism flaunting his bandhgalas and khadi kurtas while shunning the "soot"...not that he's bothered about Indian clothes and all that...he is just not into dressing up for someone else and I have seen his international colleagues respect him for that! So that's where I stand...I am not into dressing up for someone else...Indian culture or not! I wear what I want to wear and sometimes it turns out to be a sari...no sweat! whaoh!! see? I said feminists cant be funny once they get going!!:D
Just wanted to conclude on a lighter note that today I read 2 very funny articles...one a truly admirable one from a masculinist!!?? and the other a silly and funny apology from a sexist!!!
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
Blog of the day?
Just saw the email from the guys at the 'blog of the day' thingy for Feb 05, 2007. Next went to my traffic update...and whoah! I had visitors from all the networks of the world....(psst - mostly for 0 seconds long visits;)) but whatever....Hey!!...maybe I should go ahead and add Google's adsense and make some moolah (read big bucks) for the next few days ;) On a more serious note this sure does feels encouraging to write more. If I had any hangups on my casual writing style...all's well now and life's good on the internet!!:)))
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
The fine line...
There is always talk of the fine line between 2 conflicting ideas....here is one more of my recent personal experiences:
Give a man a fish and you feed him for 1 day
Teach him fishing and you feed him for a lifetime...
Goes something like that.
I always believed that the 2nd line is true...always...without a doubt, even when I was the one seeking the 'fish'. But of late I have been witness to expectations that have nothing to do with teaching or learning, like all your rantings about teaching falls on deaf ears....it breaks one's heart to tell someone..."go work hard and learn life's lessons...don't expect me to give it to you on a platter", the situation 'appears' to be sad, tragic even and yet there is no effort visible to make life better by working on it, all the effort is concentrated on creating the sympathy. Almost reminds me of the traffic signal begging scenarios...like life's mission...like the right to beg is mine, the duty to give is yours...like a profession, so used to the art, have been doing this for so many years that there doesn't seem to be any self-respect, no ego left...."as long as I get it out of your sympathy I will keep at it, why do I even have to try anything else. You have always been giving, how dare you not give now?". But again, despite it all, how can one be hard hearted to turn away someone in need...do it this last time? will it ever be the last time?
Give a man a fish and you feed him for 1 day
Teach him fishing and you feed him for a lifetime...
Goes something like that.
I always believed that the 2nd line is true...always...without a doubt, even when I was the one seeking the 'fish'. But of late I have been witness to expectations that have nothing to do with teaching or learning, like all your rantings about teaching falls on deaf ears....it breaks one's heart to tell someone..."go work hard and learn life's lessons...don't expect me to give it to you on a platter", the situation 'appears' to be sad, tragic even and yet there is no effort visible to make life better by working on it, all the effort is concentrated on creating the sympathy. Almost reminds me of the traffic signal begging scenarios...like life's mission...like the right to beg is mine, the duty to give is yours...like a profession, so used to the art, have been doing this for so many years that there doesn't seem to be any self-respect, no ego left...."as long as I get it out of your sympathy I will keep at it, why do I even have to try anything else. You have always been giving, how dare you not give now?". But again, despite it all, how can one be hard hearted to turn away someone in need...do it this last time? will it ever be the last time?
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
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