Copenhagen..

For the first time in the history of civilization, man's incapability to attend to nature before himself was exhibited in plain view in the Copenhagen summit of 2009. Delegates and ministers sat through grueling hours of talks and debates which left them mentally and physically drained. But a lot more than their strength is going to be drained, this time in a permanent fashion, thanks to their hardheadedness and their refusal to compromise on any of their selfish demands.

Agreed, the world is facing an economic crisis. many millions are unemployed, many thousands have lost all their assets, but isn't money, like energy, indestructible? It can only be transferred from one account to another. The amount of money in the market today is the same, or rather more than the amount of money that was in the market an year ago. By money in the market i mean the number of people who are willing to invest in the market. Money still exists, but possibly in the wrong hands and being used for the wrong purposes.

If president Obama can give 50 billion dollars worth aid to Pakistan albeit a place from where nothing comes back to him, can he not spare a fraction of that amount for the welfare of humankind? Its not as if the USA is a saint. Statistics show that the average consumption of energy per person is the highest in the USA rather than in any country. So it becomes their primary duty to do something about this issue. The other developed countries are happily blaming the developed countries, but wasn't the bulk of the pollution done during the gunpowder age and the industrial revolution when they were the developing countries?

The absolute bullshit attitude of many Indians trying to think on the lines of the developed world disgusts me. The question i ask you guys is... Do you think the developed world ever thinks on our lines, do they think about our problems, our limitations and our efforts in trying to solve heir problems and cleaning their turd?

NO THEY DON"T.

And why don't they? because they don't have anything to gain from them.

If a nation is so bothered about this climate issue then i would love to see them invest in the ecological sector.

P.S. I pity the hundreds of delegates who went to copenhagen and could not even get to do some sight seeing and were all the time sitting in comference halls without participating in the discussions.. God sure gave them strong knees.

Chance gone begging...

Yesterday I was taking a casual stroll (sniff, one of my last till may next year.. :( ) and my eyes fell on a couple of girls, one of whom happened to be staring in my direction. As is my way, I politely ignored the stare and was walking when I heard her remark "CGA 180" to her friend... A harmless enough comment for someone who has never heard it before, but me being a good listener had heard in college just the previous day that CGA stands for Cute Guy Alert and the 180 is actually the angle through which the other girl had to turn in order to see him.

So i acted dumb and turned around to look at whomever she was referring to... But there was nobody behind me and then I understood that her comment was for me. Being the charming gentleman that I am, I faced her with a broad smile and said "I'm flattered. Thank you".

Their fair faces went completely beetroot red after I said that and that expression on their faces was something to savour. ( Poor things... I kind of pity them :P )

Anyway I am sure they would have given me their phone numbers if I had asked them but I really did not have enough currency to be able to talk to them. So i just laughed and walked away leaving them to their blushes.

So a chance gone begging..

I'm proud of myself.. :) It's not everyday that someone thinks I am cute. After all its me.

ciao

IPTV

We recently subscribed for the BSNL IPTV( Internet Protocol Television). For all of you who do not know what IPTV is, don't bother trying it out. Why? Because it sucks.... With a capital S.

The receptionist, or the term they give for it... customer coordinator is a lady with a sweet voice and as dumb as she's sweet. She will not know half the things you want to ask her, but the half that she does know will be explained with such enthusiasm that you don't get what she's saying anyway. So if you want to waste time and have got nothing to do then by all means call up this number 18602669929 and enjoy talking until you are unable to take it any longer.

Coming to its features, there is hardly anything to rave about. It has all the usual channels( most of them useless as always) and the few channels which you actually want have to be bought and when you actually buy all the channels you want then you will end up paying more than you would pay for your monthly cable connection. But one advantage is that it will not be prone to the vagaries of the Hathway cable and the clarity is quite good. It does get stuck occasionally due to the fluctuations in the internet connections.

Final Verdict.. NOT worth your money.. try TATA SKY or something else.

Ground nuts and the Middle Finger Salute.

Hahaha

Ground nuts and The middle finger salute..

Why am i going delirious? because I have an exam tomorrow and Im happily blogging..

The ground nut carnival just got over. It did have the feel of a proper carnival and the many quintals of ground nuts bought and sold gave joy to many a dentist, as people like me just realized that they have some tooth cavities that require some urgent attention as the ground nut that gets stuck in them is really hard to remove with your tongue and hardcore ground nut fans will agree with me that the desire to pop just one more of those small nuts in your mouth is very very powerful.

That's all about the groundnuts excluding all the dirt, dust, smoke, cheap buyables, pickpockets, smoke, smell, mini versions of giant wheel and columbus, etc, etc, etc..

The highlight of this year's ground nut festival was the 3 hour stand to see the God in the temple at sajjan rao circle. All the wait and the prayers for the wait to get over quickly went in vain as i could only get one glimpse of the God as we were whisked away by fanatic devotees who took all the waiting in the queue as a mortal insult and took out all their anger when they reached the final stretch of the queue by trying to bulldoze past as many people as possible. Half of them were proably unwilling companions of the devotees so their anger is quite understandable. My 76 year old grandma completely exceeded all my expectations and now has a lot of respect from me as she managed to stand for 3 hours without one grumble or ever feeling the desire to go sit down.. Kudos to you.

Coming to the middle finger salute.. It is for all the members of the MNS and the Shiv Sena who think they are bigger and better than Sachin Tendulkar. Or for the complete molestation of democracy and the blatant misuse of the Fourth Estate by such political parties. Who does not agree with me when I say that newspapers like "Saamna" are complete bullshit? every Indian feels so including many Maharashtrians But we do need one symbol to rally under and what better than the middle finger. The purest most blaring form of protest that anybody can come up with. A middle finger shown to you conveys more meaning and irritates someone more than any amount of words said against him.

Can see echoes of the Sri Ram Sena's much hyped and utterly idiotic activities. Do these people really think they can misuse the name of God to such an extent that they can commit heinous crimes in the name of God? A long thick hairy middle finger salute to all the people who have some soft corner for these crazed half-wits.

Finally a BWAHAHAHA to the Sri Lankan Cricket Team. Mr. Sangakkara, talking is only a part of the job done. Try to play some passable cricket in future.

A BIG MIDDLE FINGER TO BASE... ( completely unnecessary.. but could not resist the temptation :P )

P.S. The concept of Middle Finger salute was borrowed from Brunzo's blog http://fingerofprotest.blogspot.com . Sorry dude.

Reflections

Excelsior just happened.

Now you may ask.. WTF is excelsior. The answer is Excelsior is the annual intra school quiz of Little Flower Public School conducted by the Old Students Association LFPS. And what's so great about that.. you might ask. The answer is nothing. Yeah it was pretty good going back to school and all that, but the answer to "Did it serve any purpose?" is NO.

What is the point of working your ass off to complete a quiz which as sure as hell will be ripped apart, spit on, mauled and molested to death by any decent quizzing team. Im sure that the school team that made it to the finals in F.Y.I. Winter open would have correctly demonstrated what the abbreviation roflmao means looking at the quiz. ( for the sake of my pride i will willingly endorse my quiz but it is always better to walk on the hard ground rather than fly high in the sky and then come crashing down.)

Coming to some of the brighter aspects of the quiz.. THOSE GUYS ACTUALLY MANAGED TO ANSWER MANY QUESTIONS. I was really impressed by some of the answers they gave and it was a definite improvement from last year. The hardest part of setting up a quiz for morons is the amount of thinking you actually have to do. You really dont want all of your questions going uncracked in your quiz. So what do you do? Simple. You pick up the atlas and come to a map of India and ask them capitals of Nepal and Bhutan. And you will not understand the difficulty in deciding between Nepal and Bhutan when you are shit scared trhat they might not know either. Well this year it was really not that bad, it infact exceeded some of our expectations so im looking forward to conducting some even tougher quizzes in school in future.

The best thing about the whole day probably was Gautam's treat at Mc.Donald's. Meeting some people after a long time was pretty refreshing especially when you have two pretty girls sitting next to you.

All in all a pretty hectic phase coming up. The Base people are forever trying advanced and modified versions of Ancient Chinese Torture methods. and are more than happy to employ them and test their effectiveness on us, their willing test subjects, and what more with the whole hearted permission of the whole parent community it seems. Pay and get fucked.

None of the students in Base seem to know anything other than PCM nowadays and its so pissing off not being able to find some intelligent banter. Who wants to keep talking about glycine and double sulphur bridges in insulin and anomers of glucose and other such stuff. But i guess i will have to endure it for another 8 months. A full gestation period!!! A life can grow as many others' lives can perish in these 8 months.

Oh and btw I have a test tomorrow... If anybody manages to read this blog within the next 12 hours please be considerate enough to pray for me. ( leave a comment if you need a return favour.. :P)

tata for now...

P.S. Sorry for all the btw's and the gn's and the sd's creeping into my blogs. Its the result of some excessive overenthusiastic child like curiosity which completely takes over you when you are newly addicted to something. In my case its my mobile. :(

Mobile

I just realized that my mobile is a month and 6 days old and shares its birthday with none other than the great Mahatma Gandhi. That's right, I bought my cell phone, a Nokia 2700 Classic phone on the second of October and I have become kind of addicted to it. Not so much so as to cause any drastic change in my academics as was believed by the majority of people, but still quite a lot.

Its amazing how be becomes slaves to technology. Right from waking up to the polyphonic sound of the alarm in the mobile to frantically checking and rechecking the mobile for non existent messages and missed calls.

Anyways, im falling asleep and have college from tomorrow and I have to watch the Manchester United vs Chelsea match. Caio

GO MAN U

Back again!!

Back after a long time. All thanks to the unforgiving schedule and the faintly incredulous ideas by BASE in making us stay back and study right under their noses. After surviving all that, I actually seem to have improved a bit in my academics. Life is so monotonous and boring that a recluse and a drive around the city looks like an exotic getaway. But no such luck till april next year.

Finished reading the latest Dan Brown- The Lost Symbol and Chetan Bhagat's new book- 2 States. Both were read hurriedly and in hiding so really could not enjoy the experience of reading them thoroughly. Dan Brown as usual was ingenious in his story telling. As most of his works are, Robert Langdon's latest adventure is a one night affair and gets over in a matter of hours. But it is a good read.

Chetan Bhagat's latest is a must read. It has the usual slapstick humour along with all the extra mirch masala that is becoming his trademark. The concept of an interstate marriage in India is a very appealing and quite a funny affair. All in all a very entertaining read.

Attended the Josephs fest Equinox and participated in the quiz which quite frankly sucked to the core. Looking forward to the F.Y.I Quiz tomorrow and i am sure that is going to be a much better quiz than Equinox.

Nothing interesting going on unless you can count falling sick and missing class for a week interesting. Stood second for the whole of BASE in the AIEEE exam which is quite a boost to my morale. The mid term exams also went pretty well.

Things are starting to get serious in all fronts. Our noses are pretty much pressed against the grinding wheel and the grinding will start any time soon. Havent had time to write any more poetry and if I do write any, however woeful they might be, it will be posted on the blog.

So tata and see ya until next time.

P.S. this is the only year im starting to hate all festivals as all of them are falling on sundays denying us of well deserved holidays.