Yes...i've gotten to a stage where i honestly wish we humans could scoop our brains and keep them aside for a defined period time..No thinking..the brain is simply kept idle for that time period and can then be put back again, functioning as before..
Nuts i am, you may say..u bet!almost...i've been driven crazy by this problem i need to resolve..there's too many issues to be handled...a complex problem which needs me to take into consideration umpteen relevant issues.....and my lil brain is is the one bearing most of the burden..and i therefore think it could do with a lil break...absolutely no thinkin for a few minutes..but alas...that's not happenin...so i better get back to finding alternatives to avoid or better still, solve the problem..the uber-complicated problem!!!!
No! i aint thinkin of how to convince my parents to lemme marry the guy i want to nor am i figurin out a way to elope and get hitched if they disagree...m just tryin to assist in resolving a technical problem at work...And they guy with whom i need to work, happens works in another country..which makes things even more complicated...
All through the last 2 days, my attention was totally devoted to solving the problem...but alas, my brain is surely not too happy...the number of sub-problems involved, the fact that I am unable to get a clear picture of the process leading to the problem(thanks to the distance between us)..and the fact that my repeated, clear instructions to collect required information for problem solving is in vain, makes me wanna just barge away from my workstation, pull my brain out and let it sit idle for a few minutes...and i know for sure, my dear brain would love me for that..but too bad that it's not possible...so i have to continue workin even though i'm inchin closer to the saturation point...
One person who seems to be bearing the brunt of me in this state is surely PlanetM. Poor guy, he has to hear all i crib about...i tell him i wanna beat up someone and end up punching him a lot....Luckily i didnt beat him up as i said i wanted to....i had a better way to relax ..i took a short, well deserved break and got watching 'Kung Fu Panda'...that's the latest cartoon movie that has absolutley grabbed my attention ..I'm simply amazed at this movie's pure awesomeness ;-) ..the movie makers surely gave it an apt Tag line : 'Prepare for awesomeness' ....it's an awesome animated comedy and I've watched it twice at the theater...Now its time to watch it on my notebook...
Feel a lot better and revived after watching a few scenes of the movie..pity that i can't watch the entire movie..work needs to be completed you see...so there i go, back to my work..happy workin!
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Simply delicious..the Prawn Gassi at Signature...
It's been a long time since i've had really good seafood....My friend Debug suggested that we have dinner at some restaurant. I agreed on the condition that he'd decide the place. Couldn't take that task that drains so much of my thinking power. Had quite some other things to bother about..and deciding the dining place wasn't something i wanted to add to the list..
Thankfully Debug is quick in giving me 2 options..Both sound good..We call Bad-Car to see if he wants to have dinner..but, Bad-Car has an upset stomach and so opts out...So we decide to go to Signature..I've been wanting to have seafood since long, so Signature was the best bet, being tried and tested by Debug and Bad-Car...
We order a chicken starter, something to drink and are just hopin we get our food sooner..both of us are pretty hungry, and the wait until the food arrives only seems increasing...the starter was good, though i'd have preferred it with lesser chilli...I'm not so much of a chiili/spice person..frankly speakin i'm prefer very lil spice in my food..i'd rather the chilli stay in the fridge than get into my food unnecessarily....
Main-course time..We decide on Prawn Gassi with Neer Dosa and Appam...Debug gives special instructions to the person takin our order .. the chef better make the Prawn Gassi with fresh prawns cooked well enough so that there's no raw prawn smell..esle Debug would rather give the Gassi a miss..
The food takes some time to reach our table..but once it on the table, i'm so relieved..finally i get my food..Prawn gassi with neer dosa/appam...i cringe a lil seeing the gravy color though..looks like it may be a lil spicy for my taste...but i'm being an optimist thinking the curry is gonna be just fine and the prawns are gonna be superb...and what do ya know??? I'm partially correct...though the gravy was a lil spicy for my tastebuds..the prawns were just so tender and tasty..besides the prawns my mom cooks at home, these come only a second...never had such fresh and well cooked tender prawns anywhere in Pune before...
You may think i'm just exaggerating a tad too much..but lemme tell ya...Even Debug who is a very finicky eater when it comes to fish/seafood couldnt stop sayin that the Gassi was awesome....he's one person who would skip the fish preparation if it smells of fish even a wee bit..so sensitive is he to fish smell...both of us were really happy that our dinner was simply delicious... Debug was very generous and let me have most of the Prawns....
We made sure we informed the Captain and our attendant , about how much we loved the Prawn Gassi...All in all, it was a wonderful dinner...Signature surely rocks!
Thankfully Debug is quick in giving me 2 options..Both sound good..We call Bad-Car to see if he wants to have dinner..but, Bad-Car has an upset stomach and so opts out...So we decide to go to Signature..I've been wanting to have seafood since long, so Signature was the best bet, being tried and tested by Debug and Bad-Car...
We order a chicken starter, something to drink and are just hopin we get our food sooner..both of us are pretty hungry, and the wait until the food arrives only seems increasing...the starter was good, though i'd have preferred it with lesser chilli...I'm not so much of a chiili/spice person..frankly speakin i'm prefer very lil spice in my food..i'd rather the chilli stay in the fridge than get into my food unnecessarily....
Main-course time..We decide on Prawn Gassi with Neer Dosa and Appam...Debug gives special instructions to the person takin our order .. the chef better make the Prawn Gassi with fresh prawns cooked well enough so that there's no raw prawn smell..esle Debug would rather give the Gassi a miss..
The food takes some time to reach our table..but once it on the table, i'm so relieved..finally i get my food..Prawn gassi with neer dosa/appam...i cringe a lil seeing the gravy color though..looks like it may be a lil spicy for my taste...but i'm being an optimist thinking the curry is gonna be just fine and the prawns are gonna be superb...and what do ya know??? I'm partially correct...though the gravy was a lil spicy for my tastebuds..the prawns were just so tender and tasty..besides the prawns my mom cooks at home, these come only a second...never had such fresh and well cooked tender prawns anywhere in Pune before...
You may think i'm just exaggerating a tad too much..but lemme tell ya...Even Debug who is a very finicky eater when it comes to fish/seafood couldnt stop sayin that the Gassi was awesome....he's one person who would skip the fish preparation if it smells of fish even a wee bit..so sensitive is he to fish smell...both of us were really happy that our dinner was simply delicious... Debug was very generous and let me have most of the Prawns....
We made sure we informed the Captain and our attendant , about how much we loved the Prawn Gassi...All in all, it was a wonderful dinner...Signature surely rocks!
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
The creepy creature...
What can make my Flatmate scream helplessly? A Lizard...and she's not the only one who is scared by this creature...None of the household pests creep me as much as the Lizard does..
Both of us are equally horrified of it...it so happens that she spotted one making it's way towards her room..she screamed so loud that it was enough to scare the Lizard away....That wasn't enough to calm her down, that's what i learnt the following day...
The following mornin she tells me that she's been up, the whole night, thanks to the lizard...
Lizards scare me so much, that my lil sister couldnt stop laughin when she saw me afraid of a tiny one...I had to request her to drive it outta the window...Big sister is so terrified of Lizards, that she can't even shoo away one!
Why dont these icky creatures just stop occupying space in my apartment..I know it might just be a single small Lizard, but that's fearful enough to handle....i'd like to avoid thinkin that the Lizard would multiply and get more babies to share my apartment along with me and my Flatmate...just hopin against hope that is Lizard is sterile and can't lay no eggs...
Just the other mornin my roommate had to request the maid, to see if the Lizard is hiding somewhere near the pile of newspaper sheets..the maid did as instructed, but the Lizard rushed behind the Cupboard....and me and my roommate were hopin so bad that it would find its way outta the window..but in vain....
All the while the maid tried to drive the creature away, me and my roommate locked the doors of our rooms and stayed inside. That is until the maid signaled that the Lizard was outta sight...She was laughing at how scared we were and asked us, how such a small creature could possibly scare us...she tried to convince us that the Lizard would do no harm..but we could only tell her how horrified we are, even at the sight of a Lizard who may be far away from us...
For now, me and my roommate are just prayin that the pesky creature finds a better home someplace else and leaves us in peace....
Both of us are equally horrified of it...it so happens that she spotted one making it's way towards her room..she screamed so loud that it was enough to scare the Lizard away....That wasn't enough to calm her down, that's what i learnt the following day...
The following mornin she tells me that she's been up, the whole night, thanks to the lizard...
Lizards scare me so much, that my lil sister couldnt stop laughin when she saw me afraid of a tiny one...I had to request her to drive it outta the window...Big sister is so terrified of Lizards, that she can't even shoo away one!
Why dont these icky creatures just stop occupying space in my apartment..I know it might just be a single small Lizard, but that's fearful enough to handle....i'd like to avoid thinkin that the Lizard would multiply and get more babies to share my apartment along with me and my Flatmate...just hopin against hope that is Lizard is sterile and can't lay no eggs...
Just the other mornin my roommate had to request the maid, to see if the Lizard is hiding somewhere near the pile of newspaper sheets..the maid did as instructed, but the Lizard rushed behind the Cupboard....and me and my roommate were hopin so bad that it would find its way outta the window..but in vain....
All the while the maid tried to drive the creature away, me and my roommate locked the doors of our rooms and stayed inside. That is until the maid signaled that the Lizard was outta sight...She was laughing at how scared we were and asked us, how such a small creature could possibly scare us...she tried to convince us that the Lizard would do no harm..but we could only tell her how horrified we are, even at the sight of a Lizard who may be far away from us...
For now, me and my roommate are just prayin that the pesky creature finds a better home someplace else and leaves us in peace....
Monday, July 7, 2008
Desire is (not) the root cause of all sufferings...
This was a topic we were debating on, at office...
I know that ur first reaction to this would be ' pretty philosophical ha!'..but no, i ain't givin any philosophy here....am just gonna point out the stark reality, and tell u why I don't think that desire i the root cause of all suffering..my perspective would be something on the lines of 'Necessity is the mother of invention'. Or better put this way 'Desire is the road to success'.
Now most of you would say, desire = want, but desire is not equal to need...But i can so surely tell you , that today, its difficult to draw a line between needs and wants..we're almost clubbing our wants with our needs and labeling them as needs...
If you totally disagree with me, just look around you..just look at yourself..Why do you need a mobile phone? Can't you make do with the good ol telephone.. Do you need to have a laptop with you at all times??? If you say yes, I'd ask, weren't we able to live life with a desktop a few years ago? I think we did.. Do you need that car or mobike? There's public transport available..why the car/bike for personal use then???
For all these questions, I know most of you would have an answer...and to sum em all in one word, it would be 'convenience'..So the bottom line is we all yearn and earn for comfort and convenience...for our 'wants', which are no distinct than our 'needs'.
From time immemorial man has always been struggling to survive in hostile conditions....From finding shelter against the scorching sun and the pouring rain, to hunting or gathering food...from finding cures for ailments to preserving food for later use...from curing diseases to finding preventive methods for other ghastly ailments...and last but not the least, the quest for comfort and ease in life...all these things have sparked man's interest and led him to find solutions to the multitude of problems...and we haven't stopped there.. Man still works for his food, shelter and spends money on the doctor..but he hasn't stopped there...there's still ample research being done, lotsa money being spent on making lifestyle simpler and convenient...just count the number gadgets occupying shelf and carpet space in your house and you know just what i mean... Man would still work gratifying his never ending needs...And we should think it is good...else today we wouldn't be flashing mobiles and working on the go on our laptops....
So simply put, the desire to solve daily problems, the desire to keep diseases at bay, the desire to make food available(without going food gathering or hunting), the desire to protect you from the rain or storm, all of these have only helped man progress and reach the stage we are at...and it doesn't end here..man still works on improving the current situation....
So isn't it a good thing that the desire to improve conditions led man to improvise his life step by step..Do you still think desire was the root cause of suffering.. i for one would strongly be to disagree..if not for desire, today we'd still be like our ancestors'...truly at the mercy of nature's elements..worst case, maybe we would be an extinct species by now....or maybe keeping the worst case aside, if not for our desires, needs if you will, we'd never be seeing so much progress..so much improvements...of course, I wouldn't disagree, that with our life changed so much, we still have concerns/problems to deal with..but that's life..there's always goin to be problems we have to deal with..
Even in our personal lives, our desires, ambitions drive us to work hard and achieve what we want to...The desire to get good grades makes you study..if you want to get that job, you need to have done the groundwork...you want to get a good increment, work hard or work smart..simply put..our desires provide the much need impetus...take the desire out and without it, there's not much determination to do anything great, or to achieve anything extraordinary...
Though I'm not here to justify why there is suffering, i can only say that humans suffer when they don't get what they want or when they see the unwanted happening...
But for sure desire cannot be blamed to be the root cause of suffering!
I know that ur first reaction to this would be ' pretty philosophical ha!'..but no, i ain't givin any philosophy here....am just gonna point out the stark reality, and tell u why I don't think that desire i the root cause of all suffering..my perspective would be something on the lines of 'Necessity is the mother of invention'. Or better put this way 'Desire is the road to success'.
Now most of you would say, desire = want, but desire is not equal to need...But i can so surely tell you , that today, its difficult to draw a line between needs and wants..we're almost clubbing our wants with our needs and labeling them as needs...
If you totally disagree with me, just look around you..just look at yourself..Why do you need a mobile phone? Can't you make do with the good ol telephone.. Do you need to have a laptop with you at all times??? If you say yes, I'd ask, weren't we able to live life with a desktop a few years ago? I think we did.. Do you need that car or mobike? There's public transport available..why the car/bike for personal use then???
For all these questions, I know most of you would have an answer...and to sum em all in one word, it would be 'convenience'..So the bottom line is we all yearn and earn for comfort and convenience...for our 'wants', which are no distinct than our 'needs'.
From time immemorial man has always been struggling to survive in hostile conditions....From finding shelter against the scorching sun and the pouring rain, to hunting or gathering food...from finding cures for ailments to preserving food for later use...from curing diseases to finding preventive methods for other ghastly ailments...and last but not the least, the quest for comfort and ease in life...all these things have sparked man's interest and led him to find solutions to the multitude of problems...and we haven't stopped there.. Man still works for his food, shelter and spends money on the doctor..but he hasn't stopped there...there's still ample research being done, lotsa money being spent on making lifestyle simpler and convenient...just count the number gadgets occupying shelf and carpet space in your house and you know just what i mean... Man would still work gratifying his never ending needs...And we should think it is good...else today we wouldn't be flashing mobiles and working on the go on our laptops....
So simply put, the desire to solve daily problems, the desire to keep diseases at bay, the desire to make food available(without going food gathering or hunting), the desire to protect you from the rain or storm, all of these have only helped man progress and reach the stage we are at...and it doesn't end here..man still works on improving the current situation....
So isn't it a good thing that the desire to improve conditions led man to improvise his life step by step..Do you still think desire was the root cause of suffering.. i for one would strongly be to disagree..if not for desire, today we'd still be like our ancestors'...truly at the mercy of nature's elements..worst case, maybe we would be an extinct species by now....or maybe keeping the worst case aside, if not for our desires, needs if you will, we'd never be seeing so much progress..so much improvements...of course, I wouldn't disagree, that with our life changed so much, we still have concerns/problems to deal with..but that's life..there's always goin to be problems we have to deal with..
Even in our personal lives, our desires, ambitions drive us to work hard and achieve what we want to...The desire to get good grades makes you study..if you want to get that job, you need to have done the groundwork...you want to get a good increment, work hard or work smart..simply put..our desires provide the much need impetus...take the desire out and without it, there's not much determination to do anything great, or to achieve anything extraordinary...
Though I'm not here to justify why there is suffering, i can only say that humans suffer when they don't get what they want or when they see the unwanted happening...
But for sure desire cannot be blamed to be the root cause of suffering!
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