Week-ling

Monday is Blue
Tuesday, barely there
Wednesday is Gray
Thursday is hopeful
Friday, Neon
Saturday, Disco Ball
Sunday is Bed, Brunch, Book, Bed
Crap! Monday is here again!

Another Tissue Please...

What is with common cold? Why do I catch it so soon? A person in proximity so much so sneezes, in few hours I have a running nose. Why is to so contagious? When I'm with someone who has real talent at making money, why cant some of that rub off on me? Why isn't money making skill as contagious? Some one sits in a meeting room, talks something that nobody can actually decipher, he just points his finger in all directions and says something that sounds really intelligent and voila! people are listening to him and think he is really smart. The minute I open my mouth people are half deaf. Why cant I catch that talent when I'm in the same room just like I catch this God damned cold? In a concert my favorite band threw autographed T-shirts and cricket balls, why couldn't I catch one of them? I'm in a conversation with a bunch of new people and this really cute guy says something that was supposedly funny. Why didn't I catch it? Everybody else laughed except for me! If only he had sneezed.

The ideology of 'do as your parents say' has made the Indian youth respectful, smarter and commit fewer mistakes than most of their counterparts in other countries, but this has taken away freedom of thinking on their own. Maybe this lead Indians to become submissive.

In an ideal world the caste system would have worked if it was just based on the kind of work people do and everybody respects all sections of people. It still would work if discrimination was part of life. But nothing inhuman can survive for long. The line of division hasnt blurred but many have crossed over.

Women are always considered as the weaker sex. A man in a woman's life always has an upper hand. The woman should always adjust, bear with any trauma she is facing only because as a wife its her duty. The society may never except a women who walked out of a failed marriage but the ideology has started to fail.

India would have double the current population if most of the people wouldnt follow 'mate after marriage' ideology. But at the same time the ideology of every person must marry and bear a child with his/her partner has led India to be the second most populated country in the world.

I Got Tagged! : 8 Random Things

Kannu tagged me, I wish I read his blog earlier. Other than the world famous fact that you will never find me having a good hair day, here are some random stuff about me.

• Though I'm a self confessed chocoholic and everybody knows it, I'm secretively more addicted to coffee. If I dont have atleast a dose of strong filter coffee a day, I'll go insane. People say I make amazing hot cuppa. I also love food. Soon after my stomach forgives me for eating a roadside chaat, I'm back devouring something spicy and unhygienic.

• I'm a very lazy person. I totally dislike my profession but I dont do anything to switch careers. I just crib all the time. I love the flute but didnt continue my classes. I love to learn how to play the guitar, I have an expensive guitar which was left behind by my friend, there is a music class 10 feet away from home but I havent done anything about it.

• When I was in college I once tried bleaching my face for a friend's wedding. I put some bleach cream on few strands of my hair. I thought that would give me the hot chick streaked hair look. I only got weird looks from others and sound verbal thrashing from my mother, she threatened to disown me.

• I cant lie without getting caught. I make very funny faces when I'm lying.

• I cant be too straight or blunt when I talk to people. This causes great deal of agony when there are money matters.

• Hold your breath for this. I dont like shopping. It tires me. I dont like the idea of hopping stores and trying on things. My feet are too long. 99% of the footwear stores I visit will have a size less than mine as the largest size available. I have the worst footwear collection compared to all the people I know, including my maid.

• I have saved a life by talking my friend out of suicide. She was very upset over her breakup. She wouldnt have gone ahead anyway but I like to think that I once did a good deed.

• I'm sometimes paranoid that people are around me just to judge me. If some one just looks at me I imagine that person with a writing pad making notes about me. Surprizingly this has never made me change my ways.

This was fun! I tag Ranjani, Pooja & Rachana. I bet they will be more interesting.

What is India Shining?

An entire Dalit family is brutally abused and murdered by upper caste people from the same village. We say, "Bloody British, they made racists comments against Shilpa Shetty, that poor girl!"


Jobs from the US are outsourced to India, providing opportunities to the youth of Indian middle class society. We say, "These undeserving SC,ST,OBC people, they get reservations in educational institutions".

Kids from a minority community, playing inside a Hindu temple premises were physically abused & hot dal was thrown at their mothers by the Hindus. We say, " Wow! We Indians are so proud that NRIs have built beautiful Hindu temples in the US".

Oops!

Scene 1: A snap of a woman (older with gray hair) feeding some kind of a sweet to a girl. The girl is showing the snap & I say, "Awww... your granny is so full of love!". She says, "Thats my mother", with a blank expression on her face.

Scene 2: My colleague is showing me snaps of his kid. One snap has a woman holding the kid. I ask, "Your mother? " . He says "Actually thats my wife, we visited this temple...".

Scene 3: Me, "How can somebody agree to marry some person who she has met only once & hardly knows anything about him? I mean, come on! Doesn't she even worry that he can be a pervert or crazy or annoyingly possesive?" The girl I'm talking to had gotten engaged to this guy she met a day before her engagement through a marriage broker.

Scene 4: Me, "The last time he got drunk my uncle kept him out of the house whole night!", to my cousin's fiance who believed that he is a teetotaller.

I'm so totally nuts I say!

You Should Be Dancing...Yeah!

I was listening to this very interesting conversation between two people I know. I was sitting in the same room but had nothing to contribute. Person A was very excited about the recent trip to a city, how that person had partied every night & what "cool" places were visited. Person B was talking about his visit to a very exotic city, cruising around in luxury cars & partied at all the happening places. Both of them were competing to show the other two (in the room there was another hapless chap from the US who too might have thought its silly) what kind of party animals they are. After some hundreds of silly points thrown around both party animals decided that nobody knows how to live unless they party at the right places. They also concluded that nobody knows the true Bengalooru unless they have visited all the best Lounge bars & Dance Floors in the city. I am honoured to be in the worthless lot. The battle continued with none accepting that he/she was any less, I lost interest & wandered along my thoughts. I really wish some people grow up & see that a lifestyle is to entertain ourselves but life is not just that.