Sunday, August 23, 2009

EGO

Fucking FUCKING fucking fucking fucking ego!!! (I've found that I like that word when I'm angry)

The ugly side of a man/woman's ego rares up and blinds the crap out of the person...When you're trying to make a point and win a war, you've to lose a battle. And if you've had time to prepare for the war, you should see who your opponent he is and when you've to concede. And most of all, you've to FUCKIN Listen! LISTEN to what the other party is saying cos not only may the other party be making valid points but may also be making mistakes, on which you can capitalize by out thinking the opponent and offering the RIGHT point of view, politely (a quality which I'm grossly lacking in this post...I see it yes, thank you)

Back to the ugly side of ego...It is, one of the ugliest and most evil things I have seen on this planet so far...This is primarily because:

1. It successfully renders a person blind to "the big picture/the right thing/the truth" (sometimes "what is the truth/the right thing" is debatable...I concede)
2. Not only the point above, but it also provides the person that is under its control, a passion and a fallacy to continue to remain under its influence and ignore the truth. A strong personal viewpoint transcends true and correct reason. A massacre also occurs in the process.

BAH!

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Lonely as you

"It gets terribly lonely man, don't ask" said Dilip, as he rested non-chalantly on the circular slab of stone jutting out of the ground, the ones you commonly see at the entrances of parks/playgrounds.

"Uh huh?" Karthik nodded solemnly, trying to be mature but unable to hide the inquisitiveness from his eyes. His ears were on full alert, soaking in every word of his illustrious, enigmatic, cool cousin. This was one topic which he'd like some hindsight about!

"Its that phase when you're no longer just a teen, but aren't married yet?" went on Dilip, taking a deep, melancholic puff. "It gets pretty damn lonely man...That craving that you get...Its unbelievably strong...makes you long for somebody...terribly lonely u start feeling"

At this point, Karthik's mind was like K R Market on a day before a festival...swarming with questions...Is he talking about the craving that I think he's talking about?? And why that period, for one to feel terribly lonely anyways? And how terrible can it get after all? You've your friends, your family, your workplace, your relatives, your neighbors etc etc. Won't work keep you busy and occupied most of the time? And...

"Wanna take a drag at this?" was what broke Karthik's reverie at 7.50 pm near the bus stand there. Dilip was offering him the King! Giving him equal status almost! But wait....was he just testing me? Should I say no cos I'm too young? But it'd make me cool if I DID take it...Oh but dad n ma...Oh no...DAMMIT!

"Uh no...I don't smoke any more...it was a long time ago and I didn't like it much so I stopped" said Karthik, to avoid sounding lame...He felt lame after completing the sentence though...

"Oh ok...sure" said Dilip with a smirk as he finished it off, and popped the minty into his mouth, starting to walk back towards home...

Karthik felt annoyed at having been so immature...One bloody puff! You could've walked home with him, with the victorious minty in your mouth matching strides with Dilip, the cool one!

As he rounded the corner, the angel donned a lawyer's robe at the same time and started saying "why's it so cool to smoke anyways? what's the big deal? It hurts anyways...And whats this loneliness that he was talkin about? the craving and the longing? and why...................

Monday, August 17, 2009

SP Road

So we went to this shop to buy some computer supplies (nothing much...the usual quad core processor, 4 GB of RAM and a Terabyte hard disk) and we were recommended Bangalore Computers by him and that other guy, so we did walk in to the shop after sweating for a while in another bustling shop.

This guy wasn't just a shrewd Marwadi with a keen eye on konning people. He was an outright charmer. And to his eyes fell Griz...err Griz' phone. The E90 has a "figure" of 132 x 57 x 20 and is all of 210 gms. And the Marwadi is caressing it like he would caress...uh anyways, eventually he raises an eye and an eyebrow and asks Griz:
"Chenagidya phoneu?" (We both realize oh he knows Kannada too) followed by "Eshtu idakke?" and then a "Idralli emailu kaLsi togobahuda??" and then a "Nokia henge sir? Chenagide alva?" and of course the cliched "Yenu neevu software a? Software engineer a?" and ends it with a hearty chuckle and a "Yen sir hinge tegondi bittideeri...Fullu laptop e thoghond hangeh aithu bidi"

Being the owner of the shop leaves him with very little, but bossing over his subordinates and making/answering phone calls. But when there's a lull in both, the mind needs to be engaged and he spends time (I quote him) "taking something from the customer, some or the other gyaan"...Well now thats perfectly acceptable, as long as he's not GIVING the gyaan...For instance, when he tried to defend the unavailability of a particular model of DVD Writer by saying that "Nenne republic day sir...all shops close", he got chided rather unabashedly and patriotically by another customer, who with that mistake probably lost all chance at a discount n shit.
Mr Marwadi also, in the heat of passion, took out his Visiting Card and handing it to a customer, said "Nodi sir naaLe bandbidi namm Debit Card mele guarantee haaki barkodteevi , full Government seal ella haaki kodteevi"

Oh we came back and assembled a PC out of all the boxes btw! Here's my mobo connected to the monitor :D





Tuesday, August 04, 2009

Friends will be friends

Was reading Readers Digest today, and stumbled across this quote...

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families -- Anonymous

Got me thinking...Dug up a few more...Enjoy!

The only way to have a friend is to be one. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One who looks for a friend without faults will have none. -- Hasidic Saying
"Friendship is Love without his wings!" -- Lord Byron (1806) (hmmm?!)
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost" -- Charles Caleb Colton (1825) (nodding our heads readin this one, are we?? :)
"There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom." -- William Penn
"An honest answer is the sign of true friendship." -- Proverbs 24:26
"Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen." --Samuel Paterson (I like these comparative quotes! :D )
"I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street." -- Virginia Woolf (deep wolf)

Saved the best for the last:

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.-Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) (STUNNING)

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton (And saying "ok fuck off" doesn't count here I guess...)