The Concept of Existential Aloneness

You need to read this section from the book -Pulling your own strings by Dr Wayne W Dyer.The concept of exisential aloneness simply says that human existence is predicated on one being alone with your unique feelings and thoughts. and that life can be simpler if one accepts this reality.

Searching for a cell phone

My nokia 5610 is screwed up with hardware issues - it was a really good deal that time ( my sister and bro in law gifted it to me) .Nonetheless it worked well - 3.2 mp phone camera was worth it and for the very little amount of music I listen to the loudspeaker quality was decent.
Anyways, now with the memory card not being read by the phone, the slider acting cranky affecting the screen display its time for me to look around for a new one. And man its proving to be a tough !!
For the budget in mind there are no good phones - either they are slider ones or dont have a decent camera.I have gone to google and did recee the stores , the nokia e 63 looks good so far . My room mate has picked up the same and it does look good- wat does add up in the end is that its time for me to move up the value chain

Masinagudi

It was after a long time that I had a road trip weekend .Went to masinagudi with office colleagues and man it was an awesome place to stay at the homestay- Mountain Mist . It was my responsibility to make sure that the place we stay be a good one - after all I had called up my pal in Mysore to find out somebody to arrange this. And everything fell beautifully into place. The homestay was just nestled under the foothills of the Nilgiris and man it was so silent that talking in loud voices there made one feel guilty.

It made me doubly happy and proud when such things fell in place for rarely have I got a chance to do things single handedly esp when one is the youngest in the family and most of the time made to sit on the fence.. It showed that I could do things on my own and that too smartly - that I can pull it off when the time came .

Finally on facebook !

Sometime ago I commented on a cartoon strip that appeared in Sunday Times - about a woman not being on Facebook and how she did not want to succumb to conforming to the world around her.
I tried my best to hold out and not be on that networking site - the entire world was there and that was exactly the reason I held out but finally succumbed. Another reason I held out was the concept of being on a networking site is bit oxymoron - if u want to stay connected- pick up the phone and call why be on a virtual network ?

I poked my brother in law and added a few friends - lets see how things work out ....

Comic Strips

I have been reading the e paper version of Times of India these days and yesterdays Bangalore Times supplement had two wonderful and the most beautiful cartoons under Calvin & Hobbes and Between Friends.
Calvin complains how time has flown quickly and that he does not want to go to school and that he wants to hoard his freedom and have more fun

In Between Friends. Susan tells Maeve that she did not find her in Facebook.Maeve replies saying that she is not on facebook. Why ? asks a surprised Susan one should be on Facebook so as to stay in the loop. Maeve replies that does not make any sense to her and Susan wonders when did being relevant ever make sense to anybody !!

I wish I could post the cartoons on the blog I do not know how. Try reading them and you would realise that sometimes things that are meant to be laughed at teach you the most relevant lessons about life itself.

Obsoletely Male

I borrowed the heading from Sunday Times of India ( 12 july 2009) article titled WATER COOLER moment - it was supposed to be a pun on the news that scientists have invented a procedure to create sperm cells from stem cells and that would mean the men would not be needed anymore.

Almost all the articles that I have come across on this topic laments this fact or rather grumbles on this fact but not this one.
The article- pun in cheek -writes that women traits are happening - better EQ so better team players ,better listeners so better managers and even better shoppers and then suddenly the article counter argues that a girl cannot choose all the lovable features of a particular man from stem cells and eventually we all need love .

The article is brilliantly written with everything so subtly put into a single precise column - hats off to the thought process and the editing !!

India after Gandhi

I have finally finished reading this book - it took me more than two months to finish it though. The book is a good read especially if one wants to know how India shaped up after Independence .Beginning with Nehru to 2003 the author Ramachandra Guha captures everything- the Partiton the Kashmir issue, secessionary tendencies in North East , war with China, Indira Gandhi and the war of 1971 with Pakistan. It touches on even movies and even the evolution of All India Radio
The book ends with something a very interesting insight - "so long as Hindi movies are watched and their songs sung,India will survive."