Random Rants

Why do the film celebrities glamorizes sex and violence and claim that its just "art" and it doesn't influences people? They claim that they are mere "actors" and they don't influence people. People should know better and they should not copy what they see on TV and movies. The same celebrities then do PSAs about various "cool" issues like safe sex and non violence. Why? Aren't they trying to influence gullible people?

Why do celebrities pretend to be cool ... by aping whatever their western counterparts are doing? They "tweet"every second of their lives and then cry about their privacy being ruined. They wear leather jackets/winter clothes in Mumbai weather ... wear dark sunglasses indoors ... talk in funny accents even though they were born and bought up in India !!!

Why people constantly try to shove their opinion about something? Expressing your opinions is not an issue ... but shoving it down my throat is uncool. All this does is one thing ... not giving a fuck about their opinion even more.

Why do people try to rationalize everything ... try to find reasons ... try to analyze things. Cant they simply accept the fact that something are just the way they are. Just like universe ... something just doesn't make sense but its the ultimate truth. Not all questions have answers ... and why care at all?

Why do we need to follow ... conform? Would it kill you if you simply ask why or just say no. I see media try to push few agendas and they are very successful at altering realities and brainwashing people. How many times did you question their agendas? How many times did you try to look beyond the headlines? How many times did you say ... shit doesn't make any sense?

Why do people try to demarcate rights and wrongs ... good and evil? Why don't we do things just because we wanted to? Why do we have to care about doing the "right" things all the time? Who made the rules? Not me. They why care?

People asks me why I don't believe in God or any in supreme being. Before I answer that ... why can't they take a moment and think why I have a different opinion? I don't "believe" in anything just because I'm told to do so ... but only because I know so. Can't they fathom the simple fact that this all could be a mere coincidence? There is no purpose of human life on Earth? We are just here because we just are here? Why do we have to make our existence so important? Can't we just be an anomaly in the grand scheme of the universe? I hope that someday I'm proven wrong ... but that will not change the world. But what if ... the other 99% ... how about if they are proven wrong? What then?

Colorful weeks

Couple of pretty horrible weeks and hence no posts for some time now ...

Most of the pain was due to office where one particular person is being a real pain in the you know what. Let me paint you a picture ... you go to office, do whatever you gotta do on time and with somewhat sincerity, your boss is not complaining, you go home. Isn’t this a nice picture? Dull but hassle free ... but wait a minute ... let me add some color to it. Picture this ... someone is not too happy with this. He just can’t digest the fact that you can work in isolation and work well. He comes over to your place and start asking you questions which frankly is none of his business. You try to dodge them to save the confrontation ... but noooo ... he gets on your nerve and ultimately you lose your cool and all hell breaks loose. Let me now really mess this shit up ... it turns out that this “color adder” guy is also your manager (you obviously don’t had any idea about that ... yet). So you work for two guys now and you didn’t know about it. Later on, you are made aware of the new “color” and you realize that what you did now turned out to be a big bad mistake. You swallow your pride (better than being hungry staying at home) ... and take the full responsibility of the mess. So you see what kind of shit I am in ...

Anyways ... these last couple of weeks ended well ... last Friday, met Sonla and Horny (opps Sonal and Honey ... ehehehe) ... had couple of drinkies ... and this weekend met Gauri and Ganji (opps again ... Gaurav and Vihan ... cause he is hair deficient ... ahahahahahaha ... BURNNNNNN) and had couple of more drinkies ... some sanity in this insanity.

I’m not normally a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me, Superman!

Being Vegetarian

While coming to office I saw this horrendous act of “humanity”. A total WTF!!!
I am a hardcore vegetarian and cruelty towards animals hurts me physically ... emotionally ... physiologically ... any other ally one can think of. Couple of moths back I was watching a show where they showed how meat is obtained. Firstly, they showed the old fashioned way to cut an animal into meat pieces. The cow/pigs are butchered live ... one of the most shocking things that I have ever seen. Then they showed how “modern” ways ... whereby a pig is given an electric shock so that he becomes numb and then the pig is hung on a hook and a butcher slits the throat. I get nightmares just by imagining that sight. Oh how have the humanity progressed ... we even kill an innocent animal in a civilized manner. Stuff like this makes me even more determined to never eat any meat.

Whenever I go abroad ... the first question that people asks me that what you eat to survive. I always say that if you look for it ... vegetarian food is not that hard to find. The choices may be limited ... but enough to keep you honest. Many of my friends enjoys meat (couple of them are born to eat meat only ... ahahaha ... yall know who you are). I distinctly remember that once ... I and a very good friend of mine (Verma) ... were hanging around and suddenly he saw a meat shop. He went inside ... ordered some pork slices ... and ate it. I was ... like OMFG ... that was wrong on so many levels. I don’t know what got into me ... but I was totally shocked and pissed off. I scolded him like a school teacher ... gave him a serious talk down. Couple of weeks after that, he told me that he quit eating meat. Don’t think that he did it because of my outburst ... but he did quit and he is a veggie till date. NICEEE !!!

Being born in Marwari family, I was raised a vegetarian. I did try to dabble with non-veg but I could not go beyond eggs. I would be honest ... it tasted good but the feeling of guilt was so strong that I could not try it again. This is perhaps the only rule that I have followed throughout my life (so far ... so good). Would I be tempted to eat meat ... hell yeah ... that darn thing looks so delicious ... but would I be able to eat it ... I don’t (and hope) think so.

Dreams and Aims

Yesterday, while going back home ... I bumped into couple of my colleagues (Vidhi and Amit) in Metro. During our conversation, a question popped up that what is the aim of life. Hmm ... got me thinking. Vidhi said that her aim of life is not much ... she has a decent job ... earning decent salary ... and down the line she would get married and settle down. Don’t get me wrong ... I am not being a sexist ... but this is usually the typical answer of most Indian girls ... or at least most of the girls that I have talked to. Either ways, this seems kinda ... ummm ... what do you say ... you know what I mean ... not very enthralling (to say the least). I said to her that this cannot be the aim of life ... it is a routine of life ... but cannot be aim of life. She said that what else is there ... you would also get married ... have kids ... and that is basically IT. I said NOOOO ... not it. But then when I was brainstorming ... I realized that I too do not have any/many aim(s) of life. I have many dreams but don’t think I can call them aims. Or can I ... lemme think ... hmmm

Growing up, I had a dream of making it big (I mean be stinking rich ... so stinking that Armani produces a scent with my name on it). When I was young(er), I know what I have to become but did not had a clue about the means. As I got wiser, I was fascinated with the idea of having my own chain of pubs. I would call that an aim of life ... but I haven’t made any effort towards achieving it ... so it’s still a pipedream. So what next ...

I’ve been to NYC and I loved that city. If there is any place on earth that I really (reallllyyy!!!) wanna live, it has to be NY. Although it doesn’t seem like much ... but it is an immediate aim of mine. And I am working towards it ... its just that I had the worse luck in the world ... it might take a while before I visit my dream city. So yeah ... a short term aim of life is getting back there.

Kewl ... so I have the ball rolling ... what else ... what else ...

Another aim of my life is to bring joy in people’s lives ... specially my family and near and dear ones. More specifically ... when I be rolling in dough (sooner the better ... ahahahaha) ... I would like to adopt my ancestral village and transform it for betterment. It’s a small village with no real amenities. I remember as a kid I use to hate visiting that place because there were no proper roads ... no telephones ... no electricity (I don’t count 2 hours of electricity as electricity) ... no education ... and above all no TV (c'mon a kid needs to see his cartoon shows). But my father loved that place ... I always wondered why. He use to go to the chaupal (an area where prominent villagers gather) ... talk to elders ... play cards ... have cuppas ... conversations after conversations ... fun. Now that I have grown older (a little) I can see why. Like every village, the comradery among fellow villagers is very heart warming ... everyone knows each other ... basically an extended family. Its hard to find the love and affection inside the city walls. So I would like to bring a change in their lives ...

There are plenty of other small and big things which I have in my mind ... I know a lifetime may be too short to achieve all of them. But I would try ...