Those twenty minutes...

Those twenty minutes...



… of fun we had in the lift… on auspicious Tuesday 17th April… three groups taking the infamous lift 6a1 from 9th floor… with the initial jerks before going down… jaise diya bhujne se pahle jor se phad phadata hai… lucky for group#1 who got down at 4th floor… and again with closing of lift doors… more jerks… resetting all the configuration on the lift.   Lift boots up coolly as if nothing happened… aur Sandeep ne haste hue 2nd floor ka button dabaya… firse jerks, socha nahi tha ki yeh lift ki aakhri pal the….

… lift boots but is dead… leaving we two groups hanging in the middle of the building… aasman se tapka aur khajoor pe atka…  aur upar se RGA lift company proudly advertising their software.

… lift toh mar chuka, magar hamari kahani yehi se shuru hota hai doston :)… ek group tension mein chup, aur dusre group ko chup hone ka tension… well our group is the second one… miliye kalakar Sandeep, Puneet aur hum… duniya toh najhdeek hai magar hum usse doooor.  Making jokes and having fun, trying all the combinations lift has given… alarm works fine, but the lift phone is on cloud 9…. Worried with our group’s joyous mood, the other group dials emergency number for good… security guys can’t hear properly… not because of hearing impaired or phone problem… but because of the better design of the lift to not allow radiowaves or microwaves… that’s good because microwaves are not good for health!!… and hence the other group hands over the phone to us… security still doesn’t understand and makes us a dead lock proposition… security wants us to come outside and talk and we can’t talk outside… Finally hamari cheekne chillane se security samajh jata hai… not sure if it was voice frequency or radio frequency which reached the security gaurds!!…  chalo hamara kaam toh inform karna tha aur kardiya… we are now free again to have fun…. I ask Sandeep and Puneet if they have seen movie Shaft; Sandeep and Puneet say Final destination… we all recollect these movies and then in next couple of minutes security arrives and ends the fun.

… |close curtain|

One liners!

Man made Rules, God Followed - God never made rules for what we believe the rules are made by us in the name of God. Rules are meant to exist to bring peace and harmony in the human life, however at times these same rules bring havoc in human life. Moreover these rules are even bent by the illiterate high humans for their individual benefits which adds more pain to already agonized human. In this Godless yug, God follows all the rules made by a man, as we no more fear God, but the Man..

October 2

Today a tremendous force on my soul is making me write this post. Time ticks as usual, life goes on as usual, however 2 jewels appeared on October 2, which makes this day highly special. And both Mahatma Gandhi and Lal Bahadur Shastri worked for common cause nation building, building a 'Rama Rajya'.

Gandhiji's fight for equality in South Africa gave hope not only to people of South Africa but as well to India with the able leader who can fight for his people fearlessly. The mantra Raghupati Raghava Raja Raam... eased him to bring much needed unity among the nation. I believe just the truth and non violence are not the key attributes defining him, but the love and fearlessness made him stronger. Looking at today's state of our country, I feel the much needed Gandhi in us is missing. It is a pity that people go to the temple to beg God (not pray) and for only selfish benefits, donate money not belonging to his, and even politicize the temple environment.

On the other hand, Lal Bahadur Shastri not only brought us the food self sufficiency with green revolution, but also identified the need for nation security with this mantra 'Jai Jawan Jai Kisan'. Inspired by Mahatma Gandhi and Bal Gangadhar Tilak, he dedicated his life for this nation.

I hope we recognize their efforts really from our hearts one day, but putting their values in our daily life, and not just in the speaches. The day will be a real enlightening of human values in us.

Be eccentric!! But be good!!

MAN O Mystic ANimal!!

Sometimes, we wonder what makes man so special that he is beyond animals. Then we wonder what makes few men so special that he is beyond other men.

We all live in a society. Society based on country, society based on caste and religion, society based on the class and color, society based on our activities and so on. Even animals live in society. We have not understood the plants behavior yet, however they too live in groups, may be we call them as society? Basically what I mean to say here is that all of us live in a society. Society, which defines the common goals, rules, what to do and what not to...

With time, every one are completely obsessed with these rules and society. Many a times we are so much bound by the rules of society that we don't really see the other side of the truth. We are so much engulfed by these rules and bindings that we keep ourselves limited. We even stop or oppose the person going out of this box.

But if we read few pages in the past, we see many successful minds have come outside of this mindset, many broke the rules and many have even gone one step further by fighting against the rules of society. Their intention is good, but their thinking and actions are very different from what others do. We call them eccentric... out of mind! But It is this eccentricity which allows them to do what they want to do!!

Movie "3 idiots" is a very good example of this.

Slumdog Millionaire sweep Oscars!!

Good news!! Today "Slumdog Millionaire" - a story of poor boy's rise from slum dwelling to the victory in the game show has made it successfully at Oscars with 8 wins of 10 nominations. Below are the categories against which the movie made its fame.

Category                      Person
Best Picture                  Christian Colson(Producer) & film crew
Directing                     Danny Boyle
Music (Song)                  A R Rahman
Music (Score)                 A R Rahman
Film Editing                  Chris Dickens
Sound Mixing                  Resul Pookutty
Cinematography                Anthony Dod Mantle
Writing (Adapted Screenplay)  Simon Beaufoy

Though there are many questions raised with so many Oscar wins, the welcoming news is that it recognized the much overlooked Indian talent. For instance, though this was not Rahman's best music score, his well deserved win in a way has opened the International platform for him and others.

Photography - Few flicks

Evening Sun at Lumbini Garden.

One liners!

Few one liners which I thought of...

LIFE - Live In Fired Enigma Meaning this world is itself a puzzle. Something very difficult to understand and is a mystery. Our birth has fired or started our journey in this world where we live without understanding the mystery(birth) in a mystery(world). We go through different phases of life each having its own flavor. Choices and Decisions, Truths and Lies, Rights and Wrongs, Beliefs and Actions, and many other things we try to understand and keep correcting our definition as and when we move to higher stages. This underlines an old and well known adage "Change is the only Constant thing". In these stages, our actions are mainly based on what we find correct, but wait that's just only one view we see and what we perceive, whereas world is multi-dimensional. So the ultimate truth i.e., universe or world is a mystery and we are here living in this mystery.