The failed state of Pakistan

I cant help but comment on this topic. Have u ever thot why Pakistan has become the way it is today ,despite having achieved Independence along with India.
Come what may we Indians religiously go to the polls every five years ( how muchever Godhra type events happen , we go ) .We have some how stuck to the Constitution that the founding fathers had envisoned .But look at Pakistan - tumultous history and not a wink of peaceful sleep for its citizens ............. what went wrong ?

Big question in my mind - discussion with friend

There ocurred a big question in my mind which ended up in a big discussion with one of my friends ..
The point here was why does life end up chasing ideals ,of chasing aspirations and the struggle to achieve them.One tends to move on from one desire to another and the ensuing struggle for that.

I am sure we are meant to do something in our life rather than this "pursuit of happyness" thing

How do we get to the answers? They do say that life is all meant to be a struggle and there is no meaning to it without the struggle - but then why are we falling into the trap in the first place ? To learn what ? And for what higher purpose ?

Slumdog Millionaire

The movie won the Oscars and yet there are some people who are still skeptical about it. This is typical crab mentality- neither do u u go up nor do u let others move forward .

PS- read my take for the movie in an earlier post

In the presence of greats !!

Abraham Lincoln was born on Feb 12th and George Washington on 22nd Feb - and I was born right inbetween the two dates !! ( WOW)

The World is not a nice to place live !

Recent events have been making the world a not so nice to live. First it was the slowdown followed by recession which meant job losses . Swaminathan S Ankelswaria Aiyer in todays TOI says that the recession was brought about b y Asian economies holding on to surplus foreign reserves.He says that the Americans have generally used their future income to consume more ( there is no other economy that spends more and only when this country spends does the world economy run !!) and on top of that when Asian economies pumped in their dollar reserves to buy American assests and stocks it made US domestic interest rates much more lower which in turn encouraged Americans to borrow more and spend more and finally when the bubble burst - we all came tumbling down. (Wow ! that was the most simplistic version I could have come up for any economic article)
Meanwhile Paris Hilton says that she will spend more to help the world economy but the problem is she would be buying only from the elite brands/companies and how does this " magnamious act" of hers help things .
Obama has come to power and I am still not sure how he is going to bring the change he has been promising.

Closer home some really jobless people have taken up to define whats good and bad for us ( I am referring to the Sri Ram Sene) and V day celebrations seem to look bad this year. Intellectuals will only talk and cannot act do what they propose for they are intellectuals and their job is to think .

Why cant women organise a Sree Durga Sene and go on a rampage ?

Closer to me I have joined a gym finally and enjoying every bit of it ,after all those sessions are all about me and me alone !

Where have I been ?

I was not in town for the past two weeks - was at home for 5 days ( ah that was heaven !!) Best part of the home trip was I did not have a single official call or escalation and that was pretty much of an achievement.
Yesterday I was back from Tirupati - it was good I guess.
Now here I am writing this blog and the biggest worry for today is have I outlasted my utility to the people around me ? I guess and I strongly feel that I have. Somehow I need to get back to my feet all over again not sure how .

HNY 2009

HNY 2009 to all. its 15 days post new year that I m writing this post.
New year party was good - eating icecream at Baskin Robbins at 130 am was indeed worth it.
Life is pretty much the same- the weekends come and go and you are left wondering what happened to the good old days.Too many things to do and too little time in hand- all I wish is I get loads of it and in short it means prioritisation at every level.