Some passing thoughts

It is always about being sad or happy- why isin't there a middle ground? And does one have to be either sad or happy all the time, can't we be just in a transitionary mode as in with no sense of feelings or what ever the hell that is.

Some Ramblings...

Many of us including me, are often found mulling over the failures in life. That the lines we were sent with on earth, make us struggle more than others. And that some of us invariably have a tougher time striving for the same things, than some others. What is ironical here is that all of us think so.

It holds most true of all that fear can hold you prisoner, and hope can set you free. There is too much bad luck flying around, and it has to fall on someone. But the dire-est of the circumstances can be taken care of, with a right attitude towards life.

Keep the bird called 'Hope' flying. Destiny will give in sooner or later. No dream, however big, is unachievable.

Terminator: Salvation

The trailer of Public Enemies was the best part of the movie and boy am I excited about this movie. With Johnny depp & Christian Bale in it and Michael Mann at the helm you can be sure of getting your moneys worth at least from one movie this summer. Get down to the movies near you on july 1'st because this is going to be the movie of the summer, and the feeling only gets stronger with the initial reviews being promising.

Anyway what is with this summer and big name movies? Al most every movie is turning out to be crap. It is as if everyone in hollywood has suddenly had a brain freeze.

It's really disappointing, specially after a great summer last year where finally the movie makers seem to have found the fine balance between the substance and wow factor. You had great movies like Ironman, Wall-E & The Dark Knight last year while this year you are stuck with Terminator Salvation, Transformers 2 & Ice Age 3 with only the exception being UP, again it's from Pixar and that had to be good. The point being that this summer has been really bad, one of the worst movies wise.

I wanted to write about Terminator Salvation but seriously there is nothing much to write about the movie other than mindless action sequences that never seem to end and to make things worse, one of the worst background scores that I've come across in such an iconic movie for a long time.

It's really not worth watching even on a DVD, better still get the T2:Judgment day and watch it all over again if you feel nostalgic about the series.

Academy has gone bonkers!!

Academy Awards to expand to TEN Best Picture nominees!!

Seriously man al ready the thing is such a drag and with two fold increase it'll only increase the run-time. You gotta love the buffons who come up with these crazy ideas. Still wonder what good is it if the old foggies who cast the vote won't give the mainstream movies their due?

The Brangelina industry

Each week celebrity magazines breathlessly report yet another twist in the Jen-Brad-Angelina love triangle. But where do the stories come from? Are they ever true? And does that even matter?

Never did care much for this stuff but gotta say that I once had a crush on Jennifer but that has passed long time back. Anyway feel so lazy today so reading anything and everything that comes my way. Pretty interesting peek in to the world of tabloids.

Ignore everybody.

The more original your idea is, the less good advice other people will be able to give you. When I first started with the cartoon-on-back-of-bizcard format, people thought I was nuts. Why wasn't I trying to do something more easy for markets to digest i.e. cutey-pie greeting cards or whatever?You don't know if your idea is any good the moment it's created. Neither does anyone else. The most you can hope for is a strong gut feeling that it is. And trusting your feelings is not as easy as the optimists say it is. There's a reason why feelings scare us.

And asking close friends never works quite as well as you hope, either. It's not that they deliberately want to be unhelpful. It's just they don't know your world one millionth as well as you know your world, no matter how hard they try, no matter how hard you try to explain.

Plus a big idea will change you. Your friends may love you, but they don't want you to change. If you change, then their dynamic with you also changes. They like things the way they are, that's how they love you- the way you are, not the way you may become.

Ergo, they have no incentive to see you change. And they will be resistant to anything that catalyzes it. That's human nature. And you would do the same, if the shoe was on the other foot.

With business colleagues it's even worse. They're used to dealing with you in a certain way. They're used to having a certain level of control over the relationship. And they want whatever makes them more prosperous. Sure, they might prefer it if you prosper as well, but that's not their top priority.

If your idea is so good that it changes your dynamic enough to where you need them less, or God forbid, THE MARKET needs them less, then they're going to resist your idea every chance they can.

Again, that's human nature.

GOOD IDEAS ALTER THE POWER BALANCE IN RELATIONSHIPS, THAT IS WHY GOOD IDEAS ARE ALWAYS INITIALLY RESISTED.

Good ideas come with a heavy burden. Which is why so few people have them. So few people can handle it.

A long read but well worth spending time. Now just if I can get hold of the book in India.

Still puzzling?

Some 3.9 billion years ago, a shift in the orbit of the Sun’s outer planets sent a surge of large comets and asteroids careening into the inner solar system. Their violent impacts gouged out the large craters still visible on the Moon’s face, heated Earth’s surface into molten rock and boiled off its oceans into an incandescent mist.

Maybe somethings are never meant to be understood.

'Millionth English word' declared

Is Web 2.0 though personally would have liked it had it been N00b.

Thank God that it ain't 'Jai ho' or 'Slumdog.'

Team India

For winning you need to play, just by turning up for the matches won't cut it. Now that you are out of the world cup maybe it's about time you learned how to play the short ball.

Dhoni, mate you are in for hell and the media won't let you easy. In normal times I would have stood by you but you have really run out of excuses with some idiotic calls that you have taken in a couple of games neither has your style of playing like a drunken sailor out of rum really suited this format.

Oh well! DC won, India lost. Sort of balanced so I'm not that bummed as I was during WC 2007. From here on I don't really care who wins the cup but do hope that it is either South Africa or Sri lanka that go on to win it this time.

P.S: It really hurts losing to England of all the teams, losing to any team is fine as long as it's not the queens team. And what do these dick heads do, go and just do that.

P.P.S: Reasons are aplenty for the loss but it doesn't change the result so I'm not big into analyzing but lets just say that 10 wides that bajji bowled or the decision to field on winning the toss or sending Jadeja at 4 when all & sundry know that he is not capable of big hits or even Yuvraj's fielding which was the reason why India gave away 3 extra runs, the margin of loss and many more like how can you get ambushed by the short stuff after the game against WI etc etc... But the cold fact is that India is out of the tournament.

The masterpiece that killed George Orwell

1984. Enough said and it's almost like we are living in the world he wrote about in the book.

In other news, heard that Karnataka tourism Minister Mr. Janardhan Reddy, ertswhile son of a police constable has donated a 45 crore diamond studded crown to Lord Balaji of Tirumala. Now if only 10% of that money was earmarked for the destitute of his constituency. Why don't people believe in service to the mankind is service to GOD as told by their own Lord Krishna ?

Problems are solved by sleeping

Sleeping on a problem really can help solve it say scientists who found a dreamy nap boosts creative powers.

MITTAL-MIKATI Marriage

What does the CEO of a company do when its best growth years are behind him, when the recessionary times fear even the greatest of the visionaries? If you're Sunil Mittal, who runs giant Bharti Airtel, in the world's fastest growing telecom market, you go shopping.

MTN would have been a significant acquisition target for many Telecom players as it is present in many developing countries and showing an impressive revenue growth of almost 40%, even higher than Bharti Airtel.

The deal if happens will provide long term benefits to Bharti Airtel as it would be able to ride the emerging market bullishness with the help of MTN, and creat a telecom powerhouse for the economies in making. The overall efficiency of Bharti would come in handy while managing the global behemoth operations and thus taking its India growth story forward to the whole world.

The deal came at right time for Bharti when after recently acquiring its 100 millionth subscriber, it could see that next 100 million customers would be far more difficult for Bharti to bring in.

Oprah Fans Out there..

This is just the beginning... How I feel vindicated after all those arguments I've had with so many people. Seriously I still wonder why it took so long for someone to call her out. But man this feels so good.

P.S: Cover story that was published in Newsweek.

Racism in Australia?

Oh! please Indians should be the last people to say that, probably before preaching they can practice that right here by going easy on the students who come from African countries. Also showing respect for those students coming from north-eastern part of India would do too.

While I'm sorry for that dude who is in coma right now but what was he expecting when he threw a brick at them? And coupled with it you were playing some stupid desi music at inanely high volume. World is a rotten place people, and everyone gets mugged no matter who they are if they are stupid enough to leave caution to wind and venture into the no-go areas.

Go easy on the whining and stop going to foreign countries for further studies or better still get our politicians to set-up facilities right here in India so that you can be protected by our own police. Scary ain't it now?

Bing goes live

As usual MS is way behind the pack, sometimes wonder why do they even try. Google is the King of search, leave it al ready and get your OS working properly.

Just give it a try and see for yourself about what I am getting at.