Grrowwlll....
"Yeah, tiger. I am coming". I finally get out of my house and get into the cab. Grroowwlll...I tell the cab driver to drop me at the ariport.We travel all through the crowded city and finally arrive at the airport.Grwl..I get out, take the luggage from the trunk and feed the tiger driving the vehicle a piece of raw steak and ask him to drive the vehicle back to the house and wait until next week for me to return. Grawl...Good enough answer.
Imagine if we could control the animals through telipathy, getting into their heads and commanding them to do anything that we want them to do. A tiger as a cheaffuer, a chimp as a cook and a dog as a guard(yeah, i know thats what it does already). Well, the mythologies of most cultures are rife with stories of men controlling animals, truly willing them to do the human's bidding. Even scientists claim that some of these are not as far fetched as we all think it is. The ability to will someone to do something or atleast to get a thought through without saying a single word or any similar abilities are not entirely discounted by scientists. Magicians are one such example, they cloud our perception to the extent that we believe what they want us to believe. Of course, they can't control us, but atleast they make us believe what they want us to. I have recently read a theory that if a woman can will herself and prevent the breakup of her egg or ovam and in the event, stop meiosis in her own eggs, would result in a self fertilized egg. Why does the egg in the normal process need a sperm cell to fertilize it? Its to complete the dna structure and to produce a proper egg. Why does it have to go for this process, which is so risky, why can't human eggs not undergo meiosis in the first place? This is where the age old evolution comes into play. A hybrid of male and female is much more stronger than a copy of the female itself. Thats why man is still so predomiant and resistant against diseases among a host of other things. There are certain insects, which when senses the unavailability of male species, starts reproducing asexually as a species survival mechanism, which is again mind control.But yeah, i wouldnt want our female species to reproduce asexually, that would make us obsolete.THANK GOD. But coming to the mind matter, its really fascinating what the human mind is capable of. Countless movies have been released to illustrate the point even in bizzarre impossible ways. Well, i still have a lot of work to do today, wish i could will myself to do it, rather than push it to the next day or I wish i could get some animal to do it, like my pesky cousin.Growl....
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Pity for the chicken
Its again one of those days when i have again started to wander deep into the "human psyche" jungle. 2 things have pushed me to write this entry, first, i saw a HEN getting murdered yesterday. Yeah, i did pay for the hit job, but thats another thing. Secondly, i watched "I am legend" for the second time. What do these things have in common, you ask. Nothing much outwardly. But i tried placing myself in the 2 situations in slightly altered roles. I imagined myself as the hen in the first case and as the vampire things in the second. Odd thought process, i know but i couldnt help thinking so. I went to the butchers shop yesterday and just like most times, i ordered for a kilo of chicken. I have always watched with no emotion watsoever when a hen would be taken out of a cage of similar ones, its neck severed and finally, cut into pieces which comes out nice when cooked. I normally dont pay attention to the process, let alone feel any emotion. But yesterday was different. I watched the creatures, puck-pucking their entire day in that cramped cage awaiting the inevitable. Do they even feel anything, fear, happiness etc. They must be but these emotions would be limited compared to what we bigger animals feel. But even then looking into their eyes, i felt odd, like we are the invincible predators and accordingly we should be more feared than anything they would have encountered in their natural lives. But yet they seem so calm.Just imagine having to eat bird seed all day. shitting all around the cage and finally, ending up in the stomach of another creature. YUCK.I normally dont think this way, but watching the movie got the wheels turning. In the movie, the condition of humans is the same as the one the hen was in. Will smith in the movie,in the current context, is what i call the intelligent chicken. He knows he is gonna die someday and is fearful of it, but hopes on that he will live long enough to find a cure. He feels that the vamps are a group of unintelligent, unsocialised and stupid THINGS. But he gets proven otherwise on a lot of occassions. The humans felt that the vamps had a brain similar to the one the hens have. If the CHICKEN would turn murderous, it would probably have done the same thing.But since the vamps did prove otherise, so can the chicken. So what are they thinking when we cage them and butcher them, do they think like the humans in the movie does. If they do, can we expect them to find a way to get rid of us.Oh boy, now i have gone really far. But honestly speaking, i feel really good and at the same time, very fearful of the fact that we are still at the top of the foodchain and hope to god, some such virus never dethrones us from that formidable position. Still, I pity the chicken, but umm, mama's chicken stew does taste good. To hell with morality, let the army of chicken come.
Its again one of those days when i have again started to wander deep into the "human psyche" jungle. 2 things have pushed me to write this entry, first, i saw a HEN getting murdered yesterday. Yeah, i did pay for the hit job, but thats another thing. Secondly, i watched "I am legend" for the second time. What do these things have in common, you ask. Nothing much outwardly. But i tried placing myself in the 2 situations in slightly altered roles. I imagined myself as the hen in the first case and as the vampire things in the second. Odd thought process, i know but i couldnt help thinking so. I went to the butchers shop yesterday and just like most times, i ordered for a kilo of chicken. I have always watched with no emotion watsoever when a hen would be taken out of a cage of similar ones, its neck severed and finally, cut into pieces which comes out nice when cooked. I normally dont pay attention to the process, let alone feel any emotion. But yesterday was different. I watched the creatures, puck-pucking their entire day in that cramped cage awaiting the inevitable. Do they even feel anything, fear, happiness etc. They must be but these emotions would be limited compared to what we bigger animals feel. But even then looking into their eyes, i felt odd, like we are the invincible predators and accordingly we should be more feared than anything they would have encountered in their natural lives. But yet they seem so calm.Just imagine having to eat bird seed all day. shitting all around the cage and finally, ending up in the stomach of another creature. YUCK.I normally dont think this way, but watching the movie got the wheels turning. In the movie, the condition of humans is the same as the one the hen was in. Will smith in the movie,in the current context, is what i call the intelligent chicken. He knows he is gonna die someday and is fearful of it, but hopes on that he will live long enough to find a cure. He feels that the vamps are a group of unintelligent, unsocialised and stupid THINGS. But he gets proven otherwise on a lot of occassions. The humans felt that the vamps had a brain similar to the one the hens have. If the CHICKEN would turn murderous, it would probably have done the same thing.But since the vamps did prove otherise, so can the chicken. So what are they thinking when we cage them and butcher them, do they think like the humans in the movie does. If they do, can we expect them to find a way to get rid of us.Oh boy, now i have gone really far. But honestly speaking, i feel really good and at the same time, very fearful of the fact that we are still at the top of the foodchain and hope to god, some such virus never dethrones us from that formidable position. Still, I pity the chicken, but umm, mama's chicken stew does taste good. To hell with morality, let the army of chicken come.
Monday, June 9, 2008
Ignorance is bliss, yeah right.
My uncle told me about a recent trip of his to China, particularly one incident. He and his friend went into a nice Chinese restaurant for dinner. They ordered a few dishes, but since the menu was in Chinese, they had to rely on the waiter to help them select. They finally selected dishes that were cheap and delicious,well that's what the waiter told them. The dinner went on fine and when finally, they asked another waiter as to what meat was used in one of the dishes. He told them that it was pigs intestines. They wished they had not asked and known, but learn't one lesson, never trust the Chinese waiters, no matter how cheap or tasty the dish is. These are times when you know and feel that ignorance is indeed bliss. But its not always so. I have been recently admitted into one really good univ in the uk. When some of my neighbors came over, i told them this. The univ being one of the top and that too in the uk, I expected some favorable reaction from the lot. Instead, they tell me that nowadays who goes to the uk to study and all, and say "Son, now the trend/fashion is to study in mumbai where some of the best colleges in the world are". My jaw dropped and i couldn't even blurt out the "What"!! that was forming in my throat.It would be too much to expect them to know the name of the univ and all, but to compare the univ with a tonne of low grade univs in mumbai, kind of put me off. That was when they told me that their son was studying in mumbai, thats when I realized that they were ardent followers of the fact that ignorance is indeed bliss. They didn't know much about uk or even MBA, but they did know was the univ their son was studying in was quite good and thats all they wanted to know and refused to hear my defense on why the uk univ is really good. I gave up and realized one thing, that i wished they hadn't told me about the so called trend now. Ignorance is bliss.
My uncle told me about a recent trip of his to China, particularly one incident. He and his friend went into a nice Chinese restaurant for dinner. They ordered a few dishes, but since the menu was in Chinese, they had to rely on the waiter to help them select. They finally selected dishes that were cheap and delicious,well that's what the waiter told them. The dinner went on fine and when finally, they asked another waiter as to what meat was used in one of the dishes. He told them that it was pigs intestines. They wished they had not asked and known, but learn't one lesson, never trust the Chinese waiters, no matter how cheap or tasty the dish is. These are times when you know and feel that ignorance is indeed bliss. But its not always so. I have been recently admitted into one really good univ in the uk. When some of my neighbors came over, i told them this. The univ being one of the top and that too in the uk, I expected some favorable reaction from the lot. Instead, they tell me that nowadays who goes to the uk to study and all, and say "Son, now the trend/fashion is to study in mumbai where some of the best colleges in the world are". My jaw dropped and i couldn't even blurt out the "What"!! that was forming in my throat.It would be too much to expect them to know the name of the univ and all, but to compare the univ with a tonne of low grade univs in mumbai, kind of put me off. That was when they told me that their son was studying in mumbai, thats when I realized that they were ardent followers of the fact that ignorance is indeed bliss. They didn't know much about uk or even MBA, but they did know was the univ their son was studying in was quite good and thats all they wanted to know and refused to hear my defense on why the uk univ is really good. I gave up and realized one thing, that i wished they hadn't told me about the so called trend now. Ignorance is bliss.
Hillary Obama
Well, finally, Hillary Clinton gives in, as if we didn't know it was coming. Even then, Obama must have heaved a sigh of relief at this finally being announced and finally, being declared the first Black president. Hillary's speech yesterday would have definitely married her to Barak Obama and probably she could be called Hillary Obama and not Hillary clinton. Well, atleast the speech was mired in such a light. The way she asked all her supporters to rally behind Obama, telling them that it was the matters of state that was important and that what she promised to her supporters would be dealt with fairly by the new man. Yeah, right. She didn't have a choice but to give in and I am pretty damn sure that none of her demands would be met or even heard by Barak Obama. But yet, in ways I kinda feel pity for her, after all she did give him a fight to the last, it still was a last ball finish, so to say.And now being shoved to the waste basket isn't definitely my idea of a good presidential campaign. But i guess the game was fun, nevertheless.United states and her funny political games.
Well, finally, Hillary Clinton gives in, as if we didn't know it was coming. Even then, Obama must have heaved a sigh of relief at this finally being announced and finally, being declared the first Black president. Hillary's speech yesterday would have definitely married her to Barak Obama and probably she could be called Hillary Obama and not Hillary clinton. Well, atleast the speech was mired in such a light. The way she asked all her supporters to rally behind Obama, telling them that it was the matters of state that was important and that what she promised to her supporters would be dealt with fairly by the new man. Yeah, right. She didn't have a choice but to give in and I am pretty damn sure that none of her demands would be met or even heard by Barak Obama. But yet, in ways I kinda feel pity for her, after all she did give him a fight to the last, it still was a last ball finish, so to say.And now being shoved to the waste basket isn't definitely my idea of a good presidential campaign. But i guess the game was fun, nevertheless.United states and her funny political games.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
In the footsteps of a giant
"Tj, You know its a bit risky. We are just normal people, do what we small people do". How often have we heard of something like this all our lives, from our friends, family and relatives.Books, stories and lives of famous people teach us to be fearless in our quests ever since we were kids, but these only apply to studies in schools and colleges and finally securing a job. From then be 'fearless' and explore your job. But in actuality there is no fearlessness here, if you study hard you get a good degree and if that happens you get a good job. There is no amount of risk involved.Hence, no need to fear. But this is not the 'fearlessness' that the success stories of people talk about. From business men to actors, most people who have achieved and got someplace have done so by being fearless in their lives and their work. By breaking away from their pack and travelling the lone path. Any person who has taken such a risk, even if it is a small one, deserves some applause.Our lives, atleast that of the common people, has been ridden with doubts ever since we were kids. Doubts on whether we can do something,probably something that has never been done by our folks ever. We have been bread with the fear that if we dont go with the flow, we might end up far behind the rest. Come to think of it, this fear is some sort of control that people impose on others, parents on their kids, government on their people, the like. Without this fear, every tom dick and harry would be pursuing what they like and may succeed.Without the common people and their struggles, how can the rich stay rich. The owners, broadcasters, players etc of the ipl are examples of this fact. While millions watch the matches, the people behind the venture are making millions. Without the millions of common people watching from their flats, houses and jhopad pattis, there is no dough for anyone who makes money from the ipl.
Residing, living and working with such a group of commons would make you only just another passerby but getting yourself ahead of this group, to stand apart requires real courage and fearlessness to take the risk and stand by it even if it fails. There will be thousands to tell you that 'you shouldnt have done that' or 'told you so' if your plan fails, but atleast you tried and that has to count for something. I remember when an investment of mine went bad, people were telling me that you did a stupid thing, you shouldnt have done that. Probably I shouldnt, but I would have never known it would have worked or not. Atleast now, apart from the other things about the investment, i wouldn't feel bad that I should have invested.
Countless movies emphasizing the human spirit, but very few take inspiration from them and run ahead of the rest. Probably I have realised all this albeit a little late, but they say its better late than never. Not just for me but for all.Kudos to all those men and women, or rather GIANTS, who have made it big out of sheer perserverence and hard work, and not just talent and influential godfathers.
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