Mind… A Beautiful Sin!!!

Mind - "Refers to the aspects of intellect and consciousness manifested as combinations of thought, perception, memory, emotion, will and imagination," that's what Wiki says.

I too accept it as a beautiful yet an incredibly complex system of interweaving thoughts and feelings ever existed in the Universe that influences us and the ones around us and it all boils down to one fairly simple fact: Shit Happens!!

Unquestionably, mind possess the capacity to do things beyond the expectations of the living creature, but then, why can't it respond to just a simple question - "How not to think about something?"
Why can't it behave mechanically and disconnect the biological connection of interweaving thoughts that any how posses threat to normal function of one's life.

I always tried to maintain the co-ordeal relationship with my eyes; Never ever forced myself to bed until my eyes said yes and so did throw myself immediately to bed once I felt my eyes can't hold on any more. But, unethically, this complex interweaving thoughts have been ruining relationship with my own eyes.

There are the moments in life you don't want to forget ever and the moments you wish never did happen and then everything else in between. While 2^nd one is merely a fraction of the memory you want to cherish for, it still pains like anything and overshadows the count of blessing you wish to move with.

Reason remains fucking simple - "can't disconnect the biological connection of interweaving thoughts"

During your lifetime, you meet a bunch of people, some of them stick with you through thick and thin and while with others you just walk a few miles on the street called Life and then when they take a different turn and you still want to hold on to things. But, there is certain case where holding does not help; as with famous adage – water stays @ your palm until you try to close it.

Philosophically, life looks like a book with each page having different colours and text, but you don’t have option to tear out the pages you don’t like.

Now, looking at the visuals thesaurus above, curiosity with a smile crossed my mind, how is Forget conceptually different for Mind? Or to be specific why at all Forget is differently treated by Mind?
Apparently, I'm forced into a situation to believe: "Mind does not have capacity to deal with every situation".

There comes the Murphy's Law - "If anything can go wrong, it will"

That technically summarizes the basis of frustration for everything mentioned above. Whatever I do, somehow it’s going to mean differently at this time. So let the mind does whatever it want to and wait for time which is the only solution to interweaving thoughts.

Kyonki yeh Asian Paints to hain nahin jo "Salon Saal Chamke, Jamke".  It got to fade with times.
 

Today, Tomorrow & Yesterday

I became fan of the author once I read the novel. My interests in such geeky acts were not new, rather I spent many nights discussing and arguing such facts among friends. Later I realized that I partially spoiled those nights..

“A Brief History of Time”; yeah that’s where Stephen Hawking demonstrated/shared his perception for Black holes, Big Bang(its really clean if you think straight), quantum theory and much more…

If a person starts thinking about the origin of any living object or may be the creation of the very first initial blocks that brought current things into existence then it may take him/her at least couple of its ages.. and believe me, if a person wants to explain some of his logic, then he can justify and may also convince others to that ultimate solution..

But now I feel that why should I bang my head anymore  in this philosophy when Floyd’s already did…  Well Quoted:

Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but its sinking
And racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in the relative way, but youre older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

Time is gonna exists till this Universe does(without altering its own definition); only thing that changes are folks defining it in their own way..

Fw: Careful! Don’t open in Public!!!

Today, I forgot to carry my smart card and can't say how insane the day went after. From kitchen area to restroom to meeting room, you feel the need of it. Of course, lucky was me that I did not get into situation where intensity of the condition could have made it worse.
When thought the reason, I realized, I never actually bother for it as I assume it to be in the same pocket of my bag.

Then, @ lunch during a typical casual discussion, one of my colleague refused to accept that there is any room for monotonic in his life and he does everything perfectly to keep himself away from this word. Seconds later he became quiet and started searching something.

"Here it is," I handed him his water bottle which he had forgotten at other table.

"Sorry," he said graciously.

"No need to be. You do it every day, since I came here," I replied with a monotonous smile.

Perhaps, no one can define the monotonous word better than an IT professional, who lives it every hours of the day.

Still if, you too have any different version, close your eyes and think Monday till today as different file and use Alt-Tab. I bet, most of the time you would feel as if you did not press the combination key properly.

It's not what different things we do each day; rather it’s about the mind set which work like a pre-set algorithm. Every day, you make sure to park the car at same place, put the bag/purse in the same corner of your cubicle, open the Mail-Box and application in a pre-defined order and then look for something which I feel as the best part of IT life - Forwarded Mails.

Most of the times it set the mood for rest of the day, until you face some insane business or funny issues (yeah, these days I am facing the second one). Though it looks as customary stuff for the day, it defines more than we can envisage in our banal IT life.

I have no idea as to how it all started and became a universal means of communication to share interesting News, inspirational articles or the deadly jokes with our friends, family members, and even co-workers with a few ethical guidelines.

Almost everyone follows a pattern for Fwd-mail. No need to say that people maintain the different set of mailing list for different category of mails depending whether it is intended for Family members, college friends, same sex friends, colleagues or your close friends. Also, if required keeping Bcc too helps here.

If it is from your college friends, chances are that it will have suffix like – Careful! Don’t open in Public!!!
Or some innovative warning suffixes. Few times, the deadly jokes force you to rofl.
And if someone happens to take the suffix seriously, they fwd the mail to their private ID’s to hit it as soon as they find a nook. But, every time it does not turn out to be sleazy or Non-Veg jokes and later you feel lucky that you did not open it in office as it was about none other than your Dear Boss.

Further, as it moves from one mail box to another, people start adding prefix/suffix to make subject line deserving for at least one click.

I am not sure, if you ever have bothered to observe the typecast association of a mail with a sender and I feel it’s no way a blunder to judge a person by the kind of FW-Mails you receive from them. As I continue to write this, I assume you would definitely have some perception from the kind of blog I write.

Despite all the craps in the monotonous life of IT, Fwd’ed mails are the blessed phenomenon I feel. So, use it wisely, frequently and be sure that your Fwd’ed mail brings the first smile of the day on someone face.

Dil Se Re......

Tum pe itna marte hai hum,
Aur tumpe hi ummed rakhte hai hum,
Khuda kare hamare beech kuch ho jaye,
Isi baat ko apne zehen me liye jiyan karte hai hum.

Mujh ko maafi mil jaye ,
Aur Mera gam mit jaye ,
kahi koi aisa karishma ho,
Aur Hamari takdeer mein bas khushi ghul jaye.

Mango People…………..

Probably you would already have seen many reviews on TV/News-paper and Google-d whenever found free minutes in office, which I assume is not hard. However, If that's not enough, mouth publicity does work wonder these days.

With couple of recommendations, I too decided to watch metamorphosis of Love from KAL to AAJ.

Being, Imtiaz Ali's movie, I found no risk for $10 but was curious to see who would share the confused space this time. "Socha Na Tha" had mystified Viren...... "Jab We Met" had confused Geet.
And this time he goes by the “Law of Equality” – apparently, both Meera and Jai sounds confused for most part of the movie, which seems pragmatically in sync with the Love-Aaj of contemporary Indian society.

However, unlike the Karan Johar’s droning Love story and like Imitiaz’s earlier project, this one take a closer look through a realistic approach on the subject of the confused youth. Nonetheless, a complex yet comprehensive direction keeps the audience hooked to screen.

Based on the technical concept of LDR (Long Distance Relationship), story moves through many cities including London – Delhi – City from Punjab – kolkata– SFO. At one point of time, I even felt jet-lagged.

Moving forward, despite of various means of communication used in movie, Love-Kal chased on bicycle brings smile on the face; where Veer follows Harleen, and she immaculately carry the demure smile with downcast eyes.

I definitely missed funny scenes like there were in “Jab We Met” – “Kyon dekhun Main Ganne Ke Khete… Kya Khaas Baat Hai Ganne Ke Khet Mein…… Nahin Dekhna Mujhe Ganne Ke Khet….”

But then, it has enough one-liners and lighter moments to bring smile, including Veer Singh’s Love @ first sight and soon after his confession - “Iss Janam Mein Aur Har Janam Mein... Yehin Meri Votti Banegi…"

On the other hand, many times, lackadaisical expression of Meera, make the Love-Aaj taste like black coffee without sugar. Wish! She spends part of remuneration on some Crash Course to improve her facial expression. Apart from this, you gonna love the way each and every song carry the story forward.

Having said that, if you watch Love-Aaj-Kal without burden of expectations, it’s worth for 2 Hrs and whatever money you spend on it.

 
Last, but not the least, external factors does matter – like with whom you are watching, your mood and temperature of the theatre.

 

Disclaimer:  Title may not be digested easily by Aam Janta
 

Friendship Day !!!

I don’t know why people expect so much; when I say expectations, it means a belief that is derivative of past and centered on the future which may or may not sound realistic.

Having said that, anything less than your expectation results in instant disappointment. Somewhere, those expectations have a nature of request or even an order.

Same way, I too expected few things from my friends on a day like this and to be specific - it’s been a complete disappointment, when I didn’t receive any call from my college friends (Pune ppl).

Yesterday night, I was awake till late expecting my phone to ring couple of times. But to my dismay, all my excitement turned into disappointment. Again, first thing I did after opening my eyes this morning at 9AM was to check the cell phone, if I had missed any call or even messages.

The result was more frustrating and now I can’t stop concluding – “no one really missed and bothered to remember me.”

In order to suppress the entire feeling deep inside my heart I again slept with the hope of living those moments in my virtual world. I did see all of them in my dream enjoying the friendship day and there I felt so happy realizing - they still remember me. This is really something, I appreciate all the time - your mind can simulate your feeling in the best possible way. Isn’t that amazing?

Having lived those virtual moments, I left the bed feeling so fresh and then I almost forgot that the morning behind was so disappointing and logged into system to scan the inbox as part of usual week-end in US.

I thought I am fine for the day, but damn expectations knocked the door, making me more frustrated than before.

Dude! Expectations tear your feeling like anything, if things do not work accordingly.

Leaving this matter aside, I thought to wake Amar (roomie) up for an obvious reason, I badly needed someone to talk to, but he was already up thinking about occupying restroom.

I saw outside the window and smiled at the weather. It’s been raining exactly like I witnessed in Mumbai and Pune.

Stupid mind was again dragging me down the memory lane. To get rid of it, I stepped towards kitchen and prepared ginger tea. Perhaps, I could not have expected better Tea than this, which changed my mood exactly the way I wanted.

Right after that, I called Ajit (my Bluetooth bro... don’t ask about this concept, for this I am thanking God all the time). Although we had many things to discuss, but we discussed the stupid gizmos like I-pod Nano and the Blackberry.

While we were on call, my phone beeped twice; I checked to see it was our sweet friend Rashmi and took her into conference call (Thanks to AT&T n/w for the usual long call support lasting up to 1-2 hours between Me , Ajit and Ashish).

For the next few minutes, we discussed, linguistically, how her name sounds different in different language, Bangaluru version was the best we agreed.

Few minutes later, we also took Ashish in conf and there after it became usual battleground ( full of noise) , we giggled a lot , laughs , punches and moreover on top of it the greatest or you can say the best ever PJ’s from our two undisputed masters ( Ashish and Rashmi).

After that, we disconnected. Not sure about Rashmi and Ashish but I guess Ajit went for cooking lunch (courtesy, Bluetooth tech). I too prepared lunch and got busy with normal routine. Hours later, Tuned the song “Tune jo Na Kaha…… (from New York) and started writing this.

Now, I am not feeling as sad as I was in the morning, but still having regretted that even though my friends forgot me why the hell, I didn’t feel like calling them up and wish them.

This is still making me feel a bit low. But then, I surely know I will suppress this too and delete the bad feeling from my mind and heart and would be busy with something that will surely take me in the world of happiness.

At the end of day, I am happy that this way I remembered everyone I know… and on top of it there are lots of people I know as a friend and that makes me feel as I am one of the richest man in the world.

For the benefit of the Global reader - its 5:00 AM IST, 7:30 PM EST, 6:30 PM CST, 5.30 PM MST, 4.30 PM PST and 12:30 AM GMT.