If the street you are in is stinking

Run as fast as you can and reach your destination.
Be mama's boy, cover your nose, walk the full distance & cry your heart's content in the privacy of your home.
Think about our politics, surely there can no greater stench than that.
Play cricket, you will forget the environment or too tired to notice.
Get hooked onto Temple Run !!
Converse with your friend, chances are he may say, "Stench this !, come to my town - I will show you stench". Some relief that ?!.
Pretend there is no stench, recite "Supress short term gains for long term success" or any of the inspirational Band-Aids.
Write the book, "Positive effects of stench on body's immunity system" and sell it for $0.99. Believe me this is what sells.
Develop a software that captures the analog aroma into digital signals and feed it into an a weather forecasting android app.
Have a contest with your friends, "Who can collect the maximum pebbles on the street ?". The winner gets Rs.10 for 4 pebbles.
Jump over the wall to the next street, and start a Dosa shop with the money you earned in the pebble contest
(make sure others don't have the same idea)

Choose any strategy but for heavens sake, "Don't BEAT yourself up because the street is STINKING."

Hare & Tortoise - remastered

The HARE & THE TORTOISE story (modern version)

A hare and a tortoise met and decided to race for success. The hare was determined to put the millennium's worst insult to the their community inflicted with the "THE SLOW AND STEADY WINS THE RACE" technique.

The hare rushed from the starting point and after an hour he could not even see the tortoise with a binocular. Excitedly he ran as fast as he could and after 4 hours reached the finishing spot and SHOCKERS - the tortoise was already there waiting for him. The referee declared the tortoise winner.

Hare:"But this is impossible.. !??"
Tortoise smiled, "Well in case you didn't notice this is a giant circular track !! - You are in the finishing point even if you don't move a step"

The new moral: "THE WINNERS WIN THE RIGHT RACE" - slow, steady, fast, furious comes later and varies from situation to situation.
Success means and should mean progress - don't waste time and effort if your path brings you back to the starting point.

Explanation: We frequently indulge in activities that are counter-productive and bring us down physically, mentally and morally. Any wonder that you were a better person last year than you are this year. Is what you do improving you to become a statesman of sorts or Are you in a wild goose chase that will leave you with a juvenile personality when you reach a mature age.?

Entertainment conspiracy

The film industry dons create the brand image
Background singer sings the songs.
Choreographer shows the moves.
Artist creates the sets.
Cinematographer sets the view.
Fashions artists create the clothes, makeup.
Hair stylists - the hair.
The directors create the story, screenplay, jokes.
The producers shell out the moolah.
The distributor liaison with theater owners.
The theater owners screen the movie.
The audience invest time, patience(lots of it) and money.
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What about the heroes, the heroines, the comedians & the villains. ? What is that you have paid for ?

Well actually they are a figment of your imagination. You pay for what you visualize.

Because if you take away all the above, you are left with thoughts. +ve, -ve, neutral.

All entertainment is about conjuring an emotion/image in your mind.

Familiarity, Cleverness, Bizarre, Cuteness, Beauty, Mischief, Passion, Vengeance - If you knew nothing about all these feelings - Entertainment would be meaningless.

A emotive person reacts more fervently than a blunted one. That is the reason for the vast difference in receptiveness across an audience.

An ode to Sachin Tendulkar

 Staying Power:
 Boeing 747 on high octane rocket fuel,
 Mohammed Ali's fiercest boxing duel.

 Stroke play:
 Angelina Jolie's at her seductive best,
 King Kong's strength when he beats his chest.

 Humility,
 Gandhi during his South African stay,
 Churchill when his hair turned grey.

 Mentor-ship,
 Mother hen over its dear eggs,
 Banyan tree with young and frail under its legs.

 Speed,
 Usain Bolt in the 100m sprint.
 Bill Gates when he is emptying the mint.

 Agility,
 Nadia Comaneci displaying calisthenics,
 European pyrotechnics.

 Dependability,
 The Great Wall of China,
 Is enough to describe Sachin's Arena.

 Religion,
 To entertain himself, When God decides to descend on Earth,
 He usually orders a divine warrior called Sachin to take birth !!

What makes the real difference ?

What makes the REAL difference?

 It is not the rice; it is the homemade lemon pickle.

 It is not the biryani; it is the nutmeg, cloves & cinnamon.

 It is not the milk; it is the cocoa & coffee seeds.

 It is not the idly/dosa, it is the chutney & sambar

 It is not the fabric, it is the design.

 It is not the diamond, it is the cut.

 It is not the expensive ship that sunk in the movie Titanic, it is the poignant romance well narrated.

 It is not the IPhone, it is Angry Birds & Temple Run.

 It is not the 2 Lakh Plasma TV, it is Cable TV & it is IPL.

 It is not the marriage, it is the trust.

 It is not the PC; it is Microsoft Office & Photoshop

 It is not the World Wide Web, it is Facebook & Gmail

 It is not the prestigious college; it is the unforgettable hostel life.

 It is not the party, it is the jokes.

 It is not the cruise; it is the dolphin dive in the sea.

 It is not the million dollars home, it is seeing your baby crawl in it.

 Understand what makes the REAL difference.

 Only then you can give and get real VALUE. More importantly you will know where the life in your life is?

Random Musings

Random Musings

If you are angry with birds throw expensive CDs at them. Not that they care nor would you especially since the CD collection belongs to your neighbor.

If Aliens challenge the earthlings to a chess match, a good idea is to have the world's gorillas to play with them. If the aliens win the gorillas are going to mighty mad. If they lose, they must be really stupid and we dont need to bother with such silly aliens.

A great person spreads his ideas who in turn spread the ideas to other people. Finally all will have the same idea. A bacteria does very much the same thing.

A seasoned dog is one which does circus tricks.
But for a Korean, a seasoned dog is something that tastes good with ketchup.

Ever heard of the book titled "How to eat a giant moth?", the book was in the store so long that the moths ate it.

The "Height of charity" - asking tax exemption receipts from beggars.

I always wondered why mosquitoes have to bite me for blood. Would'nt it be a better design if we keep some blood in a plate and they can soak in it all day long.

If you are a guy and your blind date turns out to a foot taller than you, a good opening line could be "Hi, your altitude measures my attitude!"

Learn it from the ants. Do you think you are doing them a favour if you carry a crystal of sugar and place it where they want. For ants carrying it - doing a task, is more important than eating it.

I knew a scientist who wanted to test emotions in things by discriminating one against other. He watered one plant more than the other, concluded plants do not have emotions. He gave some food to one dog, no food to the other, concluded dogs do not have emotion. He constructed a house with concrete on one side and no concrete on other. Well he did not live to find out but looks like his house had emotion.

Wrestling with a crocodile is a mutually satisfying pastime. It gives you thrill. It saves the crocodile the food bill.

Random Musings 2

Random Musings

Just because you won the rat race doesn't mean you have accomplished anything, it means you are a fast rat.

Being in a bathtub is good practice. If the city went under water you are just in a

bigger bathtub.

In front of me were two roads A and B.

As per the great leaders, I walked the road less traveled, which was the road B and after some

time there were two more roads. Once again I took the road less traveled by and after

some time it joined road A

Board outside a television service center.

"Ask not what the TV did for you. Ask yourself what you did for the TV.

Foreign guests In a hotel electrified in throng,

Listening to the music from the room all day long.

Such a sad song,

The guest never realized something was wrong,

The music was just the sound of 2 idiots playing ping pong.

 Do dogs wish that their bark was that of a tree. Not every dog but certainly the

Korean dog hiding from the gourmet chef.

 Why doesnt man dissolve in the acid generated by his digestive system.

Actually he does, but the food you eat creates him back.

Moral: Eat food.

 The cannibals caught hold of a foreigner and said,

"You eat a raw sewage pig"

and we will..."

The foreigner happily ate the sewage pig expecting to be freed.

The cannibal said "I had not completed my sentence"

"eat you after you eat a raw sewage pig"

 The next time you are feeling bitter because someone demeaned you or let you down, remember this : Mosquitoes bite people for blood, they cannot survive if they find honey instead.

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 I called up the customer service agent.

 He said "Grrrrr!!"

 I thought maybe he was in a bad mood, so called again after an hour,

 He said "Grunttt"

 I said "Mr.Agent , you have no idea who I am, please conduct yourself or I will report this to your superior".

 He said "Brrrrrrr, ummhhh"

 I said "I will report this to media, you bloody scum", I continued to scream at the top of my voice for about 30 minutes.

 Just then, my son entered , "Dad, you know what I called the zoo this morning, it seems the gorillas went wild"

 Moral: Never redial

How are you scoring on this ?

This is what you want ! Really ?

Points to ponder - Would knowing this change some of your priorities ?

The bravest person is the first to get shot in a battle.
The most delicious fruits are generally eaten by birds and insects in the orchard.
The most sophisticated books are never read, they get eaten by moths.
The most expensive and beautiful car never goes out of the showroom.
The richest people are often the most lonely.
The... most nutritious food never gets around to being eaten and eventually dumped.
The best advice and quotes are only posted in FB/Website but nobody heeds it.
The greatest inventions have no practical application.
The most intelligent person is also the most avoided.
The most expensive meal you had in a star restaurant is also the most forgettable.

Whose version of how life is led, are you LIVING ?

Are you living for yourself or for others ?

 

If companies had a upper limit on IQ points for hiring, would you still consider developing intelligence important. ?
If acquiring knowledge no longer fetches you a job, will you stop education ?
If being ugly is "in fashion", will you dress like a beggar. ?
If being unfit is considered more "cool", will you stop gym visits ?
If stealing is made legal, will you rip your neighbour ?

The truth is much of what we do or decide to do is determined by specifications of the society.

So what percentage of what you do is because "you enjoy it, you benefit from it" vs. "someone said you should enjoy or benefit from it."

So what percentage of what you do is because "you see value, you see truth" vs. "world sees value, world sees truth"

 Whose version of how life should be led are you LIVING ?

Who created consciousness ?

Consciousness is possible only when we label or recognize. It could be a person, an object, a process or an idea.

But the act of labeling is a guided by group thinking. The biological process of accepting a visual or auditary thing and translating
into an tangible thing can happen if my thalamus and memory have previously registered and mapped that thing.

A and B could be seeing something but whence comes the agreement that they have seen the same thing. Who decides and how ?
Fundamentally persons A and B are not cognizant of each others existence. How do they recognize each other ?
For that they need to communicate but how do they recognize that communication and come to an agreement. What each person says and hears is agnostic of one another.

In the absence of an externally accepted mapping that both can look up to, there is no communication, no recognition or consciousness whatsoever.

There are clues from studying how children learn, their basic learning is driven by mapping their crucial needs to tangibles.
When a child gets internal food pangs and starts crying as an instinctive reaction, its mother feeds milk. The child maps the hunger instinct to a tangible called "milk" and initiates that substitution. When the father slaps the child when it randomly touches the remote, it maps pain signal to the instinct of arbitrary play. Observe that all its basic leanings are mapped to its instincts.

Determining how early man obtained his consciousness would be considerably more complex. Assuming all men were at the same intellectual level at one point the act of feeding milk to a baby could logically trigger the substitution of milk to hunger.
Problem is in the present day that substitution is validated by the intelligence of the parents but the early baby can neither validate nor communicate its findings to other babies, since there is no universally accepted form of communication that all early men recognize.
The mappings or findings remain unique to each experience holder.

In the absence of such a global mapping how did consciousness evolve is a complex question.

It is not easily explained or validated but the solution lies in the extrapolation. If the father or mother is mapping the child's instincts to tangibles because the person who maps is already out of chrysalis. Assuming all early men were at onetime in chrysalis the instinct to perceivable should have been created by someone who was already out of it.


Who is that agent ? How did that form of self-introspective self-knowledge come upon him ? The billion dollar question !!!

Animal Wisdom

Lion:

Character: The king does not worry, about getting food every day.

 
Learning: The truly confident person understands his worth, knows his potential.
Don’t be plagued by concerns & worries, if you are capable, success and happiness is bound to follow.
Increase your sense of self-worth.
 
Ant:
Character: Ants give full attention to what they are doing, lifting. They don't care about the environment. As long as they
are not physically blown away, their focus is on the task at hand. You can never disturb an ant.
 
Learning: When you want to be productive or need to give your best adopt the ant's behavior. The environment or external factors
should not divert your attention. It is all about giving 100% whatever maybe the task.
 
Elephant:
Character: When an elephant walks, every step it takes makes the ground tremble. The elephant is an high impact animal.
 
Learning: It is important to cut down on trivial activities that do not amount to anything.
Every action you take should have high impact for everyone concerned.
 
Bee:
Character: Collecting nectar from flowers, ignore ones that have nothing to offer. Bees in return fertilize the flower, hence making
it mutually beneficial.
 
Learning: See the best in everyone, the highest most exalted trait,
Learn only that trait, learn to ignore shortcomings in others. When you learn something, make sure you are in a
position to give something equally valuable to that person.
 
Flamingo/Pelican:
Character: Wait for the most optimally sized fish.
 
Learning: Don’t bother with small opportunities, wait not for ever but for the most optimal opportunity that life can offer at that time
 
Turtle:
Character: Thick skinned, Physically fit (very solid swimmer)
 
Learning: Be indifferent to opinions and judgments. To be mentally/physically very agile.
 
Rhino:
Character: Kills a provoker in one blow.
 
Learning: Never tolerate mischief, if someone is a wrong person, provoking, and may harm you: Take 1 firm decisive action.
 
Horse:
Character: Most useful when a really trained person rides it. He can make it jump, or run at top speed.
 
Learning: Teamwork & Synergy. 1 + 1 > 2.
 
Camel:
Character: Stores water before a long journey.
 
Learning: Use any lean time to and learn new things/skills that will help you be more effective in the next project or phase of life.
 
Monkey:
Character: Behaves very weird and very unpredictable.
 
Learning: Be unpredictable to your enemies. Confuse your opponents and make them wonder your next move.
If you can be mapped down and your strategies understood, you can be defeated.
 
Hippo:
Character: Lazy, slow, doesn't care about appearance.
 
Learning: Take time to unwind.
Don't worry too much about your shortcomings.
 

Peacock:

Character: Always graceful and gives a feel good to those around.
 
Learning: Try to be maintain dignity and grace
 

Donkey:

Character: Does the "donkey" work.

Learning: Don’t shy from raw hard work or routine tasks.
 

Birds:

Character: Building nests layering raw materials one on another.
 
Learning: Planning out building a complex task by layering one on top of another and making sure each layer is built in the best possible manner at that point.
 
Giraffe:

Character: Giraffe acquired the long neck as an evolutionary enhancement over millions of years.
 
Learning: Constant stretching or practice will over a period of time permanently enhance your abilities.
 
Spider:

Character: Spider takes about 100 attempts to build a web and another 100 attempts to make it strong.
Learning: Learn perseverance from the spider. It will help you to keep trying till you succeed or do it right.
 
Kangaroo:

Character: The adult kangaroo raises its kid for 4 years in its pouch.
Learning: Make sure you give the protection the young, weak need. There are people who need your strength to come up in life, give yourself to them completely.