Stuff

So where was I? Yes. Back to blogspot. This following post was supposed to be posted a few days back ending my big exile from blogging, but due to obvious reasons, it’s getting posted today.
It’s said that time is like a flowing river and all what we have is the present moment and also that it doesn’t wait for anyone. Time is always constant. It’s not random. I don’t know what will happen to me in the next twenty minutes, but I know one thing for sure. The next twenty minutes will surely come and it will be lasting for twenty minutes (unless I travel at half the speed of light)! I may feel that the time is moving very slowly or very swiftly, but it’s not the time which is moving slowly, it’s your life.
All these days, I mean my no-blogging days, time played it’s trick on me too. I had days which went just like that, and of course there were days which never seemed to end. There were a lot of things I would’ve blogged about and here’s some of them.
- I couldn’t play for my college in this year’s zonals, and as usual our team flunked at the match. As usual we will play well in practice matches but lose in the match itself. Kinda like deccan chargers!
- I watched a movie called “10 items or less” starring Morgan Freeman and Paz Vega. I dunno why, but I liked it very much maybe because Morgan Freeman did a wonderful job which he does in almost every movie, or maybe because Paz Vega’s ‘Spanglishly’ accent was ‘cute’, or maybe because Paz Vega was cute :), or maybe because it’s the first movie to be released on theatres and online for free download at the same time or maybe because it’s just an one of a kind movie. It’s not the greatest movie, but it was nice! If you like Freeman then it’s a must watch!
- It’s a band called tool, suggested by shrey, on my playlist now. There are some good songs like ‘the pot’, ‘Ænema’, ‘stinkfist’, ‘prison …’, but they are simply not porcupine tree! Steven Wilson rules!
- Dark knight, Dark knight, Dark knight. Everywhere it’s Dark knight. The new Godfather, I would say. It has everything in it, from great screenplay to great dialogues, from great direction to great acting, from great stunts to great ‘jokes’, it has everything. It’s amazing that so much could be done with a ‘comic book movie’ and it’s even amazing that many people does not see it as a superhero movie. Though, the only face you remember when you come out of the theatre is the paint-covered face of Heath Ledger, the movie has a lot of memorable moments and memorable dialogues. Nobody would’ve done the job better than Bale and there is Freeman and Caine as usual with their excellent acting . Dark knight, proof that only action and amazing visual effects is not needed to create a superhero movie and proof that even ‘comic book movies’ can be a masterpiece rather than stupid movies like the ‘superman returns’ :|
- This year GCT hosted the 13th brainstrain, and unfortunately I couldn’t be a part of it :( and it was my very own school which came first!
- A committee from “National Board of Accreditation” visited our college for the renewal of accreditation status. Meh.
- Pixar proves that animation movie is not only meant for kids with it’s latest and undoubtedly it’s best so far, WALL-E. So much values and so much satires, not an unusual in Pixar movies.
- Prison break has become more predictable, or maybe they should stop it with this season.
- 5 semesters have passed by and I still don’t know why I am learning so much things, writing them in a piece of paper for three hours and calling myself an engineer!!

United We stand

Finally, a horde of inhuman 'man look-alikes' were slaughtered in a more humane way, I would say, considering their acts, at the end of the third day. The media are calling this the 'India 9/11', but what I feel is that we should forget this and bring back Mumbai the way it was on November 26th morning. This is not a big win for Indian cricket team over the Australians to remember. It's not dear ones who stabbed our mother India's heart, but it's the darkness trying to cast a shadow over her footprints.
It's good to see many angry bloggers expressing their disgust towards these 'schizophrenics', aptly put by my friend, it's good to see people joining hands and praying for the souls which unwillingly departed, and it’s good to see some good hearts really weeping for the departed. Let the departed rest in peace.
Let us all try to forget the terror and remember the innocent young souls like sandeep unnikrishnan, one of the most valiant, selfless, real heroes of our nation.

guns, bombs, blood - The Happening

It's that familiar feeling! The feeling I've been missing all these days! The kind of feeling you get when you sit in front of your computer, hearing a playlist that you created spending a lot of time, and letting your thoughts and imaginations flow through your finger tips (literally).
It's wonderful to be back, BlogSpot!

A rather sad welcome I would say after reading the papers today morning. The front page of “THE HINDU” read “RASH OF TERROR ATTACKS IN MUMBAI” with a photograph of an injured man being carried in a trolley used to carry freight in railway stations! The paper went on to say “A.K. Sharma, Railway Police Commissioner, said two or three persons, carrying AK 47 rifles and grenades entered the Chattrapati Shivaji Terminus with AK 47 rifles at 8.35 p.m. and opened fire indiscriminately and the panic-struck people rushed out.” The first thing that came to my mind was, apart from the fact that AK 47 is mentioned twice in the sentence, “is this a dream?”
The death toll is over a 100 now and still there are hostages with a gun pointed at their face. Now I am convinced and very pissed off that it is NOT a dream.
General Manager, Taj hotels, the dream job for many people. Not from today! Taj hotel GM’s wife and three children butchered by these insensate, inhuman living things who are, in their own way, sane! I remember reading a quote “We are sane in our own crazy ways” from my friend's blog, only this time I prefer not to grin.
I have been to railway stations a lot of time in my life. I haven’t seen a single man with a Kalashnikov in his hand, emptying his rounds at innocent people, all in the name of God? Or because of the fact that he lost hope in human life and he had no other option but to join a terrorist organization? It’s a highly impossible event, that too in India, or that’s what I thought! These things are happening right now as I type these words with an extra force on the keys, maybe because I am very angry to see this nation like this!
The England cricket team have left, the champions trophy has been postponed by an year, Mumbai stock exchange-closed, a man with gun and grenades at railway station, foreigners held as hostages at hotels which stood majestically over a century, terrorists stealing police patrol cars and roaming around the city shooting at people, bombing in major cities, and not to mention, I am sitting in a city where more than 10 bombs took the life of many souls. I wouldn’t be surprised if I see a guy walking over to me and asking for me to kneel not with a knife or switchblade in his hand, but a .45 or even a Kalashnikov! Is this where India is heading? Will India be a superpower in the year 2020 or will Indian schools announce Kevlar as the uniform?
Why do these ‘animals’ do this? What are they trying to prove by killing innocent people? Are they going to rule a world where there is nobody left to rule? Let them blow up a building, we can rebuilt it. Why hotel managers, why people in railway stations?
I don’t know whether to be happy that I didn’t happen to be in these places when it happened or sad that the country I am in is on fire. Whatever maybe the case, the hard thing is “we humans are destroying this world with this civilised life, more than saving it!”