Me Myself and I

The word “ busy ” is a great savior for this mortal human world. It can get one out of many tricky and not so comfortable situations with tremendous ease. Did you intentionally or unintentionally forget to keep an appointment? No problem ma’am/sir. Promptly announce you were busy with loads of work. You can slip away like sand from all the troubles you brought upon yourself. Believe me, it works like miracle. The frustrated soul who has been waiting for you to turn up and whose frustrations have now transformed into F16 bombers to blast you gets immediately pacified like an infant who has been shoved with a rubber nipple or pacifier.  The other person’s anger melts like ice and you will be pardoned from definite death penalty and a good thing about this is you don’t even have to apologize.  If you are lucky and your nemesis is low on IQ and high on EQ, you may end up profiting his/her sympathies. If you are too lazy to tidy your house up or if you can’t make your mind to c...

Folks in our office are slaves to a strange culture. I prefer to call it “Sweet Culture”. We frequently get a blank email with subject “Sweets at my desk”. What the heck? I will be busy waging a loosing battle against all powerful and mighty siesta after hogging generous volume of free lunch. I will be desperately waiting for an email with some entertainment value so that I could save myself from embarrassment of being caught snoring with mouth wide open.  During such trying times I get this dead as wood blank email with a sweet subject line. Such mails bring tremendous fury and frustration in me and greatly disturb my internal peace for many reasons. Firstly, after gobbling up to dangerously high "neck level", mention of the word food can cause eruption of undigested lava from my protruding belly.  This surely degrades hygiene level in the work environment and results in loss of productivity of my colleagues. Unmindful of such a risk, some spamster crook...

I love this word oxymoron . Oxymoron is a Greek term which can be translated literally as "sharp-witted absurdity". In present day English, it is a short phrase that appears self-contradictory in a context. Some of the interesting examples are Deafning silence Act naturally Cold sweat Fuzzy logic Friendly fire Agree to disagree Another word which is similar to this is paradox . Paradox is an apparently true statement that seems to lead to a logical self-contradiction, or to a situation that contradicts common intuition. The identification of a paradox based on seemingly simple and reasonable concepts has often led to significant advances in science, philosophy and mathematics. Following are some interesting examples. When you increase your knowledge, you see how little you know. You see how much you still have to learn. God is not all-powerful as he cannot build a wall he cannot jump My personal view is that the truths of this world are not absolute, but ar...

I had a great weekend as I got to watch three movies and much to my luck all of them were good in their own right. Fluid Friday night was gulped down watching “Lost in Translation”, Saturday night was killed watching “Troy” and the weekend was ended well watching inimitable Satyajit Ray’s “Shataranj ke Khiladi” on Sunday night. “Lost in Translation”. A good film by Sofia Copola (Yup, She is the same girl who played Michael Corleone’s daughter Mary in Godfather Part III). I am sure she has inherited some of her father’s genes. This film explores a relationship that blossoms in a week between two bored individuals who happen to be in much happening capital of Japan. One is a middle aged Actor who has come to endorse a whisky brand and other a young lady married to busy fashion photographer. Brilliant performance by lead actor Bill Murray, who portrays the role of middle aged Hollywood star. “Troy”. The latest Hollywood block buster, with spectacular visuals and effects is a must...

Internet always amazes me. Whenever I think of internet’s contribution to my personal growth, internet occurs to me as a guru or a guiding light. I have got so many enlightening facts, ideas, knowledge and happiness from it. Any day I prefer internet to TV. Just like the mobile phones have become sort of extensions of our physical bodies, Internet too has become a necessity. Day by day my dependence on internet is growing. Right now text entered through key board is the most effective way to search for information on web. A day may come when we’ll be able to input voice data by singing an obscure tune and search for songs that match it. If internet not had been there, I can imagine how though it would have been for someone to gather knowledge. Probably one had to procure many books (pretty though job), read those books, collate the information, process it, contact many people, discuss with them and get their views, and then form a thorough understanding. Probably it would’ve taken ag...