Wonder drug!!!

Here I was sittin pretty on a Sunday evening watching some television, and on comes some ad about detoxifying your body… now I am not the type who would believe such “miracle” claims unless someone was to sit down and explain to me the nitty-gritty details of how the darn thing actually works… this was an advertisement about some “kinoki pads” for detoxifying your body… hmmm… I figured if they really work then they r prob worth the money… specially coz I’d considered following the path of detoxification several times, but given the current lifestyle just find it impossible to implement… now I always get suspicious when someone claims about having a way to do something that normally takes like a gazillion times more of an effort to accomplish… but figured would give it a “researching” shot anyway… so the first thing I do (or for that matter any member of generation Y would have done), is I go punch “kinoki pads” in google… the first two hits I get… well why don’t you check em out…

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Kinoki_detox_foot_pads_do_they_work

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Do_kinoki_pads_really_work

gave me some reassurance that I was not the only paranoid one on the face of this planet… ppl still have brains to question such “miracle” works… but seriously if anyone knows of a simple way of detox dat works, wud love to hear about it… I think it’s about time I got all the metals, second hand smoke, pollutants and what not out of my system…

Five Finger Death Punch... :-)

lyrics to "The Bleeding"...

The fine line between money and life

Agreed that money is what spins the world today (Though I would like to think it is the electromagnetic fields generated by earth's molten core :-p). Everything one requires for leading a “comfortable” life needs money.

But I for one have started to believe that there exists such a thing as a fine line between the amount of money needed to lead a comfortable life and the amount of money one ideally wants to possess. Given the basic human nature of hoarding and selfishness, no-one is ever satisfied with the amount of money he or she has.

Result? Well consequently people end up spending their lives running after moolah and coming up with new ways and means of making more moolah. But I say what is the use of that money if you burn out the best years of your life (read 20s and 30s) making that money and when you finally do manage to find time to enjoy the money (say 50s???) you are not in a shape or state of mind to undertake a lot of activities that you would have been able or wanted to a decade or two earlier.

Mind you I was of the same opinion as everyone else, that making more and more money is all that matters in this materialistic world, but of late have started to realize that today comes only once. So yes while I continue to work hard to make some good money, I also plan on making sure that I devote a certain chunk of time of my life to myself for enjoying the things that I love to do and spending time with people I care about, because the time passed never returns.

I mean, isn’t it kind of like selling your soul to the devil? Yeah you get immortality when you sell your soul, but to what end?

Again, that might just be me talking, but then doesn’t everyone have a right to his or her own thoughts!

Pulse of the Maggots

Couldn't find anything better to represent the state of affairs...

Pulse of the Maggots - The Subliminal Verses by SlipKnot

This is the year where hope fails you

The test subjects run the experiments
And the bastard you know, is the hero you hate
But coexisting is possible if we strive
Theres no reason, theres no lesson
No time like the present, tell me right now
What have you got to lose, what have you got to lose
Except your soul... Who's with us?!

I fight for the unconventional
My right, and its unconditional
I can only, be as real as i can
The disadvantage is
I never knew the plan
This isn't just the way to be a martyr
I cant, walk alone any longer
I fight, for the ones who cant fight
And if I lose, at least I tried

We-we are the new diabolic
We-we are the bitter bucolic
If I have to give my life you can have it
We-we are the pulse of the maggots

I won't-be the inconsequential
I won't-be the wasted potential
I can make it-as severe as I can
Until you realize
You'll never take a stand
It isn't, just a one-sided version
We've dealt, with a manic subversion
I won't, let the truth be perverted
And I won't leave another victim deserted

We-we are the new diabolic
We-we are the bitter bucolic
If I have to give my life you can have it
We-we are the pulse of the maggots

Do you understand? (yes)

Say it again say it again (we won't die)

We fight until no one can fight us
We live, and no one can stop us
We pull when we're pushed too far
And the advantages is
The bottom line is
We never, had to fight in the first place
We only, had to spit back at their face
We won't, walk alone any longer
What doesn't kill us only makes us stronger

We-we are the new diabolic
We-we are the bitter bucolic
If I have to give my life you can have it
We-we are the pulse of the maggots

Do you understand (yes)

Say it again say it again (we won't die)

Assumptions and Presumptions

It's funny how these two words that sound so similar almost tend you give an impression that they mean the same although there exists a subtle enough difference between the two to change one's entire perspective of things. I for one often tend to use them interchangeably.

When one “assumes” things he is doing so at his own risk, fully understanding that assumptions he or she is making might be incorrect.

HOWEVER, when one “presumes” there is a certain level of arrogance involved, which tends to make the person oblivious to the fact that this is still an assumption and that no matter what one believes the things can be otherwise. He or she might almost start to believe whatever their presumptions are, to be the absolute truth. This in turn would probably lead a person to fail to listen to "reason" or "logic”. Consequently, the chances of the person hurting himself or herself when faced with the harsh realities (as opposed to the presumptions) which bring him/her to a rude awakening that the presumptuous world in which one resided didn’t even exist.

Why do I bring this point up? Well like most people (although am sure that a very few would like to admit), I have fallen a prey to this myself. And it's funny how we as human beings fail to learn our lessons and keep on making presumptions and hurting ourselves over and over again. However, for me this time the lesson learned was real hard and I think I have been hurt enough that next time I'll at least stop for a moment and do a critical review of presumptions lest I get hurt again.

what does this have to do anything with anything... go figure!

when someone asks you, “are you excited to visit a place”… what does dat mean…

i dunno… this is a question dat has been posed to me over and over again for the past couple of weeks by various ppl I know… to provide background on that… well it’s been four years since I’ve been to “homeland”… and yes m embarkin on dat trip in less than 24 hrs… so which brings me back to the original question… m I excited???

excited yes… but m not so sure if I cud say dat coz I was visitin the place or meeting ppl… somehow of late it has dawned on me, that the importance of a place loses most of its value if the “people” associated with the place that you have in your memory no longer reside there… I mean try going back to your hometown when none of your high school buddies are around there anymore…what would u do… who wud u hang out with… yes u’ll prob b happy for a day or two or maybe a week dependin on ur personality, but sooner or later u r bound 2 realize that if the ppl r not there that place really doesn’t mean a whole lot anymore… in my mind the place then becomes nothing more than a tourist place, which a person is always excited to visit but would not want to spend the rest of life in…

I guess no matter how deeply one loves a place, the mind always moves on after a while… for some it takes days for some years, but for sure it moves on… if that were not true, we probably wouldn’t be seeing the flux of humans criss-crossing the globe today…

they know something

This is the year where hope fails you
The test subjects run the experiments

Such are the words of a song by one of the groups that raise extremist sentiments… u either love this guys or hate em… there is no middle path on this one… yep em talking about slipknot… granted that they r peculiar to the extent where u might actually feel like calling from galaxy alpha rather than planet earth… but I find solace in the music they make…

nyways… after 13 months I decided to scribble something here… basically more out of the need to get myself registered on blogger.com in addition to blogspot.com… and then I had something else to add as always… not that it means anything to anyone, but doesn’t hurt blabbering anyway ;-)… this was more of a response to someone else’s email rather than my own mumblings…

lemme begin this way... the world is an insane place... and it is crazier today than it has probably ever been in it’s entire some four and a half billion year long history... mortality rates reaching all time lows and the percentage of centenarians reaching all time highs... governments of the "developed" world looking for immigrants in the younger age bracket to get taxes for supporting the older populace... governments of the "developing" world trying to reach "urbanization" levels and become “developed” which is resulting in soaring energy usages in the eastern hemisphere and rising crude prices... and funnily enough now that i think about it, for some reason i think i can attribute all this insanity to be an outcome (fortunate or unfortunate is left up to the individual) of the GATT or something like dat which was apparently a big issues when I used 2 be in high school... globalization is pushing economies with more than a billion mouths to feed into the forefront of the energy and soon to be food hungry world... and m thinkin in a couple of decades a thirsty world... quite honestly a doomsday scenario mite suggest buyin property in canada or along one of the great lakes, given that they hold a fifth of the entire world's fresh water content...

and yes of course... last but not the least the 49.8 odd freakin Rs i paid for every darned greenback back in '02 now at sub-40 levels... not necessarily helping the loan repayments ;-)... and gone are the bloody globalization. .. well maybe or maybe not... again it is in the "eye of the beholder" as one of my favs wud scream at ya... :-D

as far uncle ben goes... although m so glad dat he did wat he did (maybe my trip to the canadas did pay off ;-)... i just hope that it does not bring the insane liquidity back into the market... or else this time around the downturn will b so bad dat even a point rate cut will prob not b able 2 help... from wat m hearing the worst of sub-prime is not over yet... ppl seem to think that over the next few months as many as a million houses will be forfeited for non-payment. .. not good given that this is a country of three hundred million only... and i already m hearin the pricing on houses being struck down 25-30% for "clearance" purposes...

nother thing... fallin dollar against rupee can only mean bad things for poor guys busting theirs butts back home... m guessing their 12 hr workdays r now gonna b strechted to 14 hrs, so dat the corporates can make the same profit despite the appreciating rupee and keep the dalal street and in infy/wipro/tcs case wall street also happy... i just hope (probably hoping against hope) that it doesnt head in dat direction...

dat shud do it for now… will b back 2 ramble more… don’t know when… but will b back…