DUALITY POST

This post being the 50th post I'm going to try and make it a post that is a little special, it will talk about two things.

Firstly, the fact that it is the 50th post yay :D and how I never thought I'd actually have a blog in the first place and have 50 posts was not even a dream.

Secondly, I’ll talk about Rock On, the movie the song and the fact that the music of the same is inspired by the music of another Hindi movie.

It was a very long time ago when Voix introduced me to the concept of blogging, initially I thought it was weird, an opening into your own head, your thoughts out on the internet for everyone to see and interpret and analyze you to be someone you may or may not be. I did not blog. Then one fine Sunday, I’m not sure what prompted me I decided that hey what the hell lets post something, that was 49 posts earlier, and a long time ago. Since the time when my blog was open to only a select few readers (which were only 3 of which only 2 ever read it), to allowing everyone to read but only moderated comments were entertained to now un moderated comments I think I can safely say that I’m comfortable with the concept of blogging, and as a lateral shift I think the very fact that my heart jumps with joy every time I receive a comment, shows me that I actually want people to read my thoughts. Well what can I say; my yesterday thinks my today is insane.

The rock on bit, the reason I introduced it in the beginning was to keep you interested in the whole stuff about me blogging and all that. I’ll keep this simple.

Movie: Lakshya

Inspired from: Rock climbing scene back ground music

Ta ta ..tann…..tan tan ….. ta ta .. tann…..

Ps: Thanks Voix

The Meaning of 'Interesting'

I have always maintained that the word interesting is a very interesting word. I have also always wondered what the word actually means, and what is the concept of interest? Well here goes an attempt to answer the questions that I have just conjured.

The proposition:

“Some thing is interesting when you don’t know everything about the specific thing but you do know enough to know that you want to know more”

The explanation:

Things are not interesting when we know nothing about them; say if we were to talk about some weird abstract string theory concept of physics with a student of arts. The guy has never heard about it, he knows nothing it is boring. On the other had, going by the principle laid down if you know everything about something there are no questions and therefore no interest. So in order to be interested in something it is not only important to know a little bit about it but also important to have the want to know much more.

The same thing also applies to people, people are interesting when they are intriguing, and you believe that there is a lot to them than meets the eye. Using the same concept on a much lighter note, if you want someone to be interested in you, you should be interested in them let them know something about you but only enough to want to know more, which is probably why the girls like the bad boys ;-)

Obama and the almighty

A while back someone asked me to write something about what if Obama were to become the president of USA, so i thought lets make this interesting and radical and this is what the outcome was.

The election of Barack Obama as the president of the most powerful country in the world will naturally have several impacts. While US foreign, trade and military policy would not be affected at all, as there is little difference between Bush, McCain and Obama on these, there would be several that are more far reaching. The biggest interest in the election is clearly Obama’s color.

Never before in the last 234 years of the American democracy has a non-white become President. Given US’s self proclaimed leadership of the world, this should inspire Christians around the world to review the ethnic profile of Jesus. History tells us that Christ was born in the Middle East, a Jew by race and a West Asian or Palestine Arab by ethnicity. However in most portraits of Christ, he is represented with Nordic features - fair skinned, blue eyes, brown haired, very unlike his Asian self. This, the oldest form of racism, is also the most widely propagated. With the US people shouting their preference loud and clear, the dark skinned will no longer be the backward race. With Christ regaining his true color, mankind will be lead by two powerful role models that will change the color of the world.

Paradigm shifts will be seen in various fields like illustrations in school books and nursery rhymes.[1] There would be a change in color in fashion magazines, advertisements and beauty contests. All these will show the beauty of the dark skin and pale beauties would be accepted only to prove the liberal credentials of the organisers. Fair and Lovely would be replaced by Brown and Beautiful and matrimonial advertisements in India would praise the bride’s darker values.

Steven Spielberg would struggle with white humor and Afro-Americans will proudly call themselves black instead of colored euphemisms. Idioms like ‘colored view’ would change to ‘whitened view’ or ‘pale outlook’. Sports writers would bemoan white dominance of swimming or fencing as unnatural and emerging from some longer muscle fiber the whites have.

Michel Jackson will decide that black is the new white and go for another plastic surgery to regain his original skin colour, causing a stir among his fans and media that would elevate him for being a carbon copy of Christ. There would be a mass appeal from the Caucasian, ‘white’ would of course be politically incorrect, world to Nelson Mandela that he was not being fair (dark ?) by focusing his activities to the part of the world privileged to be born black.

Black magic would have to be renamed and so also the dark arts and black humor. Being fair in dealings would not be a complement and unfair trade practices not such a pejorative. Would judges discard their black robes for white gowns and nurses and the Pope don black uniforms ? I wonder if this would carry to changing hair dye colors too.

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[1] Curly hair, very fair,

eyes are blue, lovely too

Chasing the car

I was having a rather random conversation with a rather random conservationist nothing too serious nothing sincere either. When suddenly the question of relationships cropped up, started with this rather random conversationalist telling me about crushes were not people that this rather random conversationalist liked. Which got me thinking what is the difference between a crush and infatuation and say liking and then going on to really really liking and finally the coveted love.

This rather random conversationalist asked me what the difference was and of the top of my head I answered with an example that in retrospect I think was quite interesting.

A Crush is like a dog chasing a car that it knows it can never catch and even if by some stroke of divine intervention he does catch it the dog will have no idea what to do with it.

An infatuation is a man that neither knows how to drive nor affords a car is running behind one, so he still doesn’t know what to do with it if by luck he somehow manages to catch it, but apart from catch it he has no chance anyway cos he definitely cant buy one.

Liking, is a little more complex, it’s a man that can afford a car and knows how to drive sitting at home researching on the internet about what the car is like and if or not the car will suit him and will he suit the car.

Then comes the next stage or the post homework stage where you have kinda decided on 2-3 of your top choices and you go around to the show rooms looking at them, ask people who own cars what owning a car like that one will be all about, but you know that your car will be different, people who give u bad opinions about that car you really like are either crapping cos they couldn’t have it or cos they don’t know how to drive it right.

Dating, another interesting concept, it’s very simply the test drive.

Finally love is going to that showroom with your check book in the pocket and being ready to sign that check and after the test drive the only thing that can come in the way of you and the car you so badly want now is un availability.

Of course if the car is available and the check is signed congratulations you are now officially going out. ;-)