The Root of it All..!

Plunging stock prices, the highest rate of unemployment, forecasts of deepening depression, massive layoffs blah blah blah. What the heck is all this. Been seeing the same shit for over an year now and it sure doesn't look like it's gonna get better. So under a massive amount of stress and frustrated with the fact that me and my friends have to bear the brunt of someone else's mistakes I started thinking about the actual root cause of this all.

Yes, we all know the reasons for the crash and what lead up to it. But what could have prevented this other than government regulation or less-greedy bankers or "smart" American people...? We could always do with more Meredith Whitneys but that would have to be a huge number and they have to be a forceful community on Wall street and in the government.

How about the Americans minding their own business or be less cocky about how they go about trying to acquire resources outside the US. Would have saved them tons and tons of money spent on defense, offense, counter-that, counter-this blah blah blah.... No, they had to go around the world and poke everyone in their asses.

Anyways, thinking about it all, during one of those Eureka moments I realized what really went wrong and why we all landed up in such a pickle. Its the Native Americans I tell you!!. Yes it is entirely their fault. If only they had evolved faster than they did, if only they had used the tremendous amounts of resources in the North American sub-continent they would have had at least a chance to defend themselves against the early invaders and sealed the freaking country off from further intrusions. Nah. they took their own sweet time and look what the world has come to because of that.

Arey, the least they could have done is have more sex and densely populate the country. Numbers would have won in the end over the British, Portuguese and all the people from that other continent who could not mind their own business and are clearly the winners in the who-pokes-more-worldwide-ass competition. Huh.

Kanulu Terichina Kanulu Musina

3rd year of college, waking up and walking out in to a lovely spring day on the front wing located upstairs of Budh bhawan(my dorm/hostel) listening to the song Kanulu therichina Kanulu moosina from the movie Anandam I saw my girlfriend ride on her bike across the road in front of my hostel towards the insti(BITSian slang for college). At that time I was hopelessly, hopelessly in love with this girl. Too happy to see her I just watched her ride by from one end of the hostel to the other. Did not feel like calling out to her. The song was playing on my PC, I woke up a little early than usual. None of wingies were up at. The sun was shining right on to me. It was beautiful. It was magical. It was a moment to treasure. That is why I shall never forget what this song reminds me of.

(The song is about two lovers who just realized they are in love and cannot stop thinking about one another.. The video is hilarious though!)

By slightly they meant lightly..!

I had been sleeping close to or on the floor for an year or so now. So I decided enough is enough I shall get myself a really comfortable huge mattress.

I started searching online seriously, I mean seriously, for deals on mattresses in and around my zip code. After a couple of sites I landed up at a local site which had postings from different sources at a single place.

I started my process of elimination on the list and somewhere down the line I see this posting:
"Full-sized mattress. 20-year warranty. Like new. Slight urine smell...!"

Man I just couldn't stop laughing after that. I was so immersed in the search that that posting really got to me. Damn, it still makes me laugh. :)) Slight urine smell. hehehe..:))

Intrigued about it I copied it over and searched for the text in google and it turned out that some one had copied it from a jokes site. :)

I should say that joke made my otherwise boring day. The picture above is indeed of my really comfortable huge new mattress.

While I was on that jokes site I stumbled upon the following one which I wanted to share with you all.

Clinton, Bush and Washington... Sinking Ship

""Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and George Washington are on a sinking ship.

As the boat sinks, George Washington heroically shouts, "Save the women!"

George W. Bush hysterically hollers, "Screw the women!"

Bill Clinton's asks excitedly, "Do we have time?""

Oh..How I Wish...

I wish I could write the most romantic of poems
to describe those beautiful eyes of yours

I wish I could write the most romantic of poems
to describe that sensuous smile of yours

I wish I could write the most romantic of poems
to describe that stunning body of yours

I wish I could write the most romantic of poems
to describe that generous heart of yours

I wish I could write the most romantic of poems
to describe my ever lasting love for you

But all I can do is
close my eyes
think about you
and feel Heaven...

I want a ticket to anywhere!

November of 2003. I was working as an intern at Honeywell in Bangalore. My mentor just set my ass on fire and took off. I had a deadline to complete this super-crazy code by tomorrow. I had a big fight with my g/f the evening before. She was complaining about how insensitive I've become during my internship since I was spending more time at work and less time on the phone with her.

So I was sitting in front my computer in this lonely corner on the 5th floor of the Uranus building thinking about what to do. I wear my headphones and the music settles in the back of my head helping my brain come up with the right code for the algorithm I had to implement. And that's when "Fast car" by Tracy Chapman came on... I couldn't remember seriously listening to this song before but that day it just took out everything off my head.

"Fast Car" kept me going straight until I finished my work at 3am in the morning the next day. Tired and exhausted but very happy with what I achieved I left for home. Unfortunately I had to walk back home since I could not find any public transportation at that time. But it didn't matter. I was a Fast Car heading in to neverland..! Oh yeah my mentor and my other teammate patented our algorithm after I left Honeywell for College..! :) And the fight with my g/f....Er..that's another story..!

Between the first and second quarter..!

"I love french fries mommy!" said the 5-year-old standing alongside his mom in the queue at McDonald's.

"Sure honey. Do you also want nuggets dear?" asked his mom.

"Yes. I like chicken nuggets too" replied the little master.

She got what he wanted and food for herself.

She then walked out with the take-out bag, tucked him in his seat, seat belt and all, opened up his nuggets and french fries for him, got into the driver's seat and started driving. He started eating his fries. He was loving it.

She drove out the parking lot, got on to Parmer lane and went west. After a block she took the left only lane to get on to Metric Blvd. The light was red. So they waited.

At that light there was a homeless guy dressed in rags holding a placard saying "Anything will help. Very hungry".

The kid looked at the homeless guy, asked his mom what was written on the placard. His mom told him.

After about 30 seconds or so, he said to his mom "Mommy, can I give that homeless guy my fries and nuggets..please?"

His mom did not know what to say. She saw that he barely touched his nuggets and had eaten only a few fries.

He then said "I am not hungry anymore. He can have it."

She said "OK honey", took the bag, lowered her window and called the bum over to give him the food.

As she was giving the bag the kid wanted her to give the guy his drink too. She did as he wanted. The homeless guy thanked her and the kid again and again and started eating and drinking right away.

Overwhelmed with pride she pulled her son closer and gave him a kiss on his forehead.

And that was when I reached out for my wallet looking for dollar bills.

--Happened between the first and second quarter of the Super Bowl XLIII