I am bach

After so many months of procrastination, revitalizing this blog of mine which nobody else reads! Exactly this is why I can blog away my random thoughts.

Pub Quiz 2.0

Pub Quiz 2.0 on 18th Feb, Xrong Place, 7-15 PM

One Idea

I was reading an article today which talks about what a great move it was to bring democracy to this country. Giving the right to vote to the masses who were different in every way different from each other was a monuental effort, wasn't it?

I beg to differ.

I believe people should "earn" the right to vote and reaching the age of 18 shouldn't be the only criteria. There should be a comprehensive screening mechanism to find out the people who would vote for an idea or principle and not biriyani and desi tharra

Am I advocating inequality? I don't know. I don't care. I know I am advocating merit. That's what the country needs the most now.

Relay Shun Ships

Are they overhyped?

Are they merely viral behaviour?

Or tools to echo someone's ego?

Hullabaloo

These days the media has so much to chew on! From Amjad Ali Khan's broken sarod to Rakhi Sawant's latest music video. Gone are the days when I used to wait all week for "The World this Week". Now it's all about pseudo intellectuals who are too busy trying to blow up every triviality. Some how I hated watching Amjad Ali Khan's interviews on TV where he laments over his sarod. While this might help to keep hopeless entities like Air India on the alert, on the other hand, it looks like too much of footage to an accident.
Damn! I am not sure whether to hate the coverage or to like it.
On a side note: Currently reading John Irving's The Imaginary Girlfriend. Loving every bit of it. Contrary to what the title suggests, it's about his experience at being mediocre at what he loved the most - wrestling. I can connect with every thought pattern of his. Being a good-for-nothing at even the things I love, I find his attitude as a guiding light!
Looking forward to reading yet another Nrisimha Prasad after this one.
Oh and yes, to hell with purists - Sherlock Holmes is not that bad.

I am Bach

...packing a bigger punch than Arnie. In the ever ongoing fight with lazyness, let this be an emphatic (though might-be temporary) victory.

For four years I have been mentally visualizing this state of my life. The state of transition when I wouldn't have any work commitments; knowledge transition would be over and I can lie back and breathe deeply, take a look at the surroundings and be amazed at how the same old place would start looking less-frustration-inducing. But when I am finally here, I don't feel anything. Nothing feels different. May be I am still not mentally detached or may be the last one and a half years have already made me acclimatized to this freedom.

Whetver the case is, it is always good to overcome inertia and to move. Be it out of an organization or into the cyberspace via this entry.

PPT for Love

Love and hurt are as inseparable as roads and pollution, beer and beer belly, cell-phones and promotional calls and code and bugs. No matter how hard guys try, the answer to that all important question as to what women want always seems elusive. Well, even Freud didn’t know. Even if he did, he didn’t tell us, probably under threat or coercion from the different publications who make a living out of running personal-help columns. Through the ages, we have had billions of people spending sleepless nights and doze-less afternoons, lost in their relationship equations with almost a thousand variables (comprising cards, cakes, movies, fights, differences, preferences, parental guidance and so on…).

So, if you think your love life can be much more challenging and confusing to debug than a million lines of badly documented code, think again. Here’s presenting the latest revolutionary philosophy which solves your problems even before they might appear. Lovingly referred to as the Predictive Problem-solving Technique or PPT, this should be your key to sublime happiness. You’d never ever need to write to those agony columns again.

PPT has involved painstaking research on terabytes of data over many love and life cycles, hours of doodling, fiddling around with pencils and dozens of sandwiches. As the old Martian saying goes: every problem can either be solved or dissolved; PPT predicts that all the relationship equations can be reduced to two basic inequations, and all relationship queries or problems can be grouped into two basic questions:
1. I am in love with (some-girly-name) but I am scared that if I come clean about my feelings, she might say “No” and I might lose her friendship. What should I do?
2. I was in love with (some/same-girly-name) but everything that she liked about me before the relationship started, now gets her mad at me. What should I do?
The answers are simple
1. Don’t get scared as long she doesn’t say “Yes”.
2. Refer to Answer 1. We told you so.
So there you are, all your present/future problems are encapsulated and solved even before they appear. Stop bothering about relationships heading to heaven or hell and just enjoy the ride. And about PPT, Agony Uncle urges all to keep it a secret till it is patented and Uncle moves on to more critically important research on a statistical tool to predict and deal with sudden urges to break into laughter during grave teleconferences or group meetings.