well.. hollywood is never short of movies where everyones dying from earthquakes, or the coming of a another ice age... and sometimes a meteor crashing into the planet... the calendar runs out of pages :D (hey mebbe the mayan paper factories went on strike)...
why are we humans so obsessed with Armageddon... hmmm
no one wants to die alone... i think its easier for people to accept death when everyone dies...
I think its the most basic human instinct speaking out loud and clear...
"if I m goin, i m takin everyone with me dammit!!"
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Friday, July 31, 2009
Every dog has had his day.....
So I am in this cab heading back to my hotel room. And following the norm these days, I strike a conversation with the cab driver. The starting point of the conversation was his cellphone ringtone, which happened to be that of a kid crying. At first I thought he was talking to a kid and the kid was crying, but when the same sound repeated itself, I realized it was not a live voice, but more like a recording. He very proudly claimed that the voice was his daughters and recorded when she was 3 months old and now she is older by 14 more months. From ringtone the conversation shifted toward driving cabs and the money you can make to recession affecting cab drivers life. Two lights before my destination he asked if I lived in Sydney. I then went into the usual spiel and bored him with the details. He quickly remarked - oh, US, I have been there. I was in Atlanta in 96.
Well, Atlanta 96 - should have rung a bell. But it didn't. So I continued and asked him if he was visiting Atlanta. No, I was there for the Olympics, he replied! I thought that was pretty cool. Flying all the way from his home country - Tunisia to Atlanta to support his country in the Olympics. And I did express my appreciation of this fact to him. He then replied - well, I was actually participating in the Olympics - representing Tunisia in Boxing!!!!
He has subsequently represented Tunisia at the Sydney Olympics as well after which he has decided to take on a lesser aggressive and more stable jobs of cab driving and construction work.
Thinking about it, I can't help but feel grateful and glad for all the things I have, the comfort and luxury I am able to afford and yet not have acheived anything even a fraction significant of what a cab driver has done, who is fighting hard to make things meet.
Such is life!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamel_Chater
(The guy travelling in the cab is my friend, who had a completely different take on this. I seem to feel that everyone gets their 20 mins, where they are the Star... and thats about it... u ll have to carry on with life cherishing those 20 mins)
Well, Atlanta 96 - should have rung a bell. But it didn't. So I continued and asked him if he was visiting Atlanta. No, I was there for the Olympics, he replied! I thought that was pretty cool. Flying all the way from his home country - Tunisia to Atlanta to support his country in the Olympics. And I did express my appreciation of this fact to him. He then replied - well, I was actually participating in the Olympics - representing Tunisia in Boxing!!!!
He has subsequently represented Tunisia at the Sydney Olympics as well after which he has decided to take on a lesser aggressive and more stable jobs of cab driving and construction work.
Thinking about it, I can't help but feel grateful and glad for all the things I have, the comfort and luxury I am able to afford and yet not have acheived anything even a fraction significant of what a cab driver has done, who is fighting hard to make things meet.
Such is life!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamel_Chater
(The guy travelling in the cab is my friend, who had a completely different take on this. I seem to feel that everyone gets their 20 mins, where they are the Star... and thats about it... u ll have to carry on with life cherishing those 20 mins)
Tick... Tock... Tick... Tock.... - (Act 1 Scene 1)
beep... beep.... Beeb.. BEEP... , the alarm blares into the emptiness of the morning.... the sunlight has started its slow creep into the dark room....
the room is still... the only noise u can hear is the hum of the air conditioner...
"is it time already", he thinks to himself... he looks at the time, and more importantly, the date.... "GOD, let today not be the day..." he thought to himself....
Slowly, he tosses, and turns, and through the rustling of the bedsheets, he manages to get out of Bed...
his face is pensive... he slowly makes his way through the clutter of objects on the floor of his room... the laptop, books, headphones, overdue laundry.... and he slowly lumbers into the restroom...
"brushing your teeth can be so laborious... especially when you have something weighing down ur thought process...."
"Thank god for coffee...."
Although the thought of coffee does help... it still was not going to put him at complete ease... just a minor distraction for the time being....
"Dunkin donuts it is!"....
he quickly went to his room.. put on a sweatshirt... pulled on some dirty jeans... picked up his cellphone, his wallet... and he stares at the object, which is proving to be the bane of his very existence...
"Do i really have to take that too..."
He was caught in a dillemma...
"its 8 am on a weekend... do i really need to carry this along??... "
"Crap!!..." reluctantly he slips it into his back pocket...
He walks across to the living room... quickly, he forages through all the unread mails on his coffee table, looking for unpaid bills... Finding nothing but coupons for free tire rotations, he grabs his jacket, and heads out of the house...
He slams the door closed, and fumbles through his key bunch...
"I should stop carrying so many keys!"... finally he finds the door-key and locks it... and from habit, he checks the lock by turning the door knob and giving the door a firm push.
Slowly he makes his way to the parking lot... a gush of wind blows fallen leaves and dust toward him.... squinting and shading his eyes with his palm, he looks around for his car... the glare from his car's wind-shield catches his eye, and leads him toward the car....
He quickly hops into his car... with nothing but coffee on his mind..
"..and mebbe a chocolate frosted donut..."
all through this while, his back pocket ticks away....
tick... tick... tick....
the room is still... the only noise u can hear is the hum of the air conditioner...
"is it time already", he thinks to himself... he looks at the time, and more importantly, the date.... "GOD, let today not be the day..." he thought to himself....
Slowly, he tosses, and turns, and through the rustling of the bedsheets, he manages to get out of Bed...
his face is pensive... he slowly makes his way through the clutter of objects on the floor of his room... the laptop, books, headphones, overdue laundry.... and he slowly lumbers into the restroom...
"brushing your teeth can be so laborious... especially when you have something weighing down ur thought process...."
"Thank god for coffee...."
Although the thought of coffee does help... it still was not going to put him at complete ease... just a minor distraction for the time being....
"Dunkin donuts it is!"....
he quickly went to his room.. put on a sweatshirt... pulled on some dirty jeans... picked up his cellphone, his wallet... and he stares at the object, which is proving to be the bane of his very existence...
"Do i really have to take that too..."
He was caught in a dillemma...
"its 8 am on a weekend... do i really need to carry this along??... "
"Crap!!..." reluctantly he slips it into his back pocket...
He walks across to the living room... quickly, he forages through all the unread mails on his coffee table, looking for unpaid bills... Finding nothing but coupons for free tire rotations, he grabs his jacket, and heads out of the house...
He slams the door closed, and fumbles through his key bunch...
"I should stop carrying so many keys!"... finally he finds the door-key and locks it... and from habit, he checks the lock by turning the door knob and giving the door a firm push.
Slowly he makes his way to the parking lot... a gush of wind blows fallen leaves and dust toward him.... squinting and shading his eyes with his palm, he looks around for his car... the glare from his car's wind-shield catches his eye, and leads him toward the car....
He quickly hops into his car... with nothing but coffee on his mind..
"..and mebbe a chocolate frosted donut..."
all through this while, his back pocket ticks away....
tick... tick... tick....
Monday, March 09, 2009
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
This is a post so that you wont be dissapointed having come all this way to hear me say something interesting or not...
Oscar 'O Oscar... where arte thou!??
who is this oscar guy any way? if you look it up on wiki, you would realise all these people are competing to win a tiny naked statue
of a mexican dude... hmmmm .,... that doesnt sound all that interesting....
hmmm... they should make an oscarette or oscarita or oscarene.... that should make better prime time material... (wink! wink!)
who is this oscar guy any way? if you look it up on wiki, you would realise all these people are competing to win a tiny naked statue
of a mexican dude... hmmmm .,... that doesnt sound all that interesting....
hmmm... they should make an oscarette or oscarita or oscarene.... that should make better prime time material... (wink! wink!)
Tuesday, December 02, 2008
Friday, November 07, 2008
A rant from a Friend....
[This is from an e-mail, which came out from no where at 9 am... i wonder if he got up in the morning thinking about it :P ...]
One of my greatest pet peeve is when people end their sentences with 'only'!! Not only is it grammatically very wrong, but also really really annoying to hear! I am no guru in grammar, but
'Only' can be used as an
Adjective,
adverb,
conjunction
and even an Idiom. But that's it!!!
I do agree it is correct to use in some sentences like, "This information is for your eyes only", but for the LOVE OF GOD not in every other sentence!!
"I went to the grocery store only"
"I had one beer only"
"Just watching TV only"
No offense, but I see a lot of #### do this and people hanging out with them slowly develop the same habit...It is equivalent to "Junoon Tamil", but as funny as that is, the 'only' stuff is irritating, ignorant and stupid!!
Sorry, just a rant only!
[I certainly hope he doesnt mean me... but i think i m the guilty one ONLY!]
One of my greatest pet peeve is when people end their sentences with 'only'!! Not only is it grammatically very wrong, but also really really annoying to hear! I am no guru in grammar, but
'Only' can be used as an
Adjective,
adverb,
conjunction
and even an Idiom. But that's it!!!
I do agree it is correct to use in some sentences like, "This information is for your eyes only", but for the LOVE OF GOD not in every other sentence!!
"I went to the grocery store only"
"I had one beer only"
"Just watching TV only"
No offense, but I see a lot of #### do this and people hanging out with them slowly develop the same habit...It is equivalent to "Junoon Tamil", but as funny as that is, the 'only' stuff is irritating, ignorant and stupid!!
Sorry, just a rant only!
[I certainly hope he doesnt mean me... but i think i m the guilty one ONLY!]
Friday, October 17, 2008
Work From Home... BAH!! total nonsense...
There are 2 kindsa people in this world... those who really love to work... and those who dont want to do work... (yeah!... there are really people who want to work :D)
I had theorized that, people who want to work, will do work, even if they didnt have to do it to earn money... (Ex: This Dude)
So to cater to these workers, who seem so attached to the work place, I have come up with a new concept of life... HOME from WORK... yep... you telecommute to your house every evening... you will chat with your children on the messenger, and teleconference with your wives... Constant updates on blackberries...
I know some of u are already salivating at the thought of this eutopia.... :D
I had theorized that, people who want to work, will do work, even if they didnt have to do it to earn money... (Ex: This Dude)
So to cater to these workers, who seem so attached to the work place, I have come up with a new concept of life... HOME from WORK... yep... you telecommute to your house every evening... you will chat with your children on the messenger, and teleconference with your wives... Constant updates on blackberries...
I know some of u are already salivating at the thought of this eutopia.... :D
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