i am on the outside,
i am looking in,
i can see through you,
see your true colors,
coz inside you're ugly,
ugly like me,
i can see through you,
see the real you.
----powerplay---
pacific rim - ramin djawadi
the team went for a shoot in the grasslands. the main objective of the documentary being wolves. the final edited video showcased wolves in packs. what went unnoticed was the lone wolf. surrounded by the pack during hunts, company was easy to come by. otherwise the wolf walked alone. it lacked the courage to move with someone. to care for someone. when company did come by, the wolf's life revolved around it. it was a emotion that it craved. which was precious. scared to lose it. while other wolves moved around with someone, the ease of it was alien to the wolf. it coudnt be with someone coz the feeling scared him, the feeling of hurting or being hurt. selfish and not selfish at the same time. it had no courage to admit its own loneliness. had no courage to be with someone. the more you want something, the harder you fall. its something that the wolf had learnt. it would have laid the world at someones feet. but what if it was kicked away. being perenially devoid of someone , it was habitually jealous. the lone wolf never gathers attention. the name attracts loneliness. and it only grows.
the new pinnochio themed avengers trailor is simply epic. ultron gatecrashes the avengers party simply stating you have strings on you. and the trailor ends with him saying i have no strings on me. the new movie is something different because it moves to a new level of dark. no cheeky lines by stark this time around. instead he is seen fighting hulk and being held by thor. finally glad the movies are moving away from the feel good disney theme towards the actual comics. a more realistic potrayal of the heroes. everyone is against ultron but there are significant cracks in the thoughts and beliefs of the individual members. and also we have scarlet witch and quicksilver. will be interesting to see how they add up into the story.
after the recent amazing guardians of the galaxy, thor releases building upto the infinity stones story avengers is a refreshing change. with marvels phase 3 giving captain marvel a individual movie, in the coming few years there is going to be no dearth of awesomeness.
heavy metal wish list - ultron takes over decepticons. stark and jarvis take over jaegers.
fight ensues.
cue music.
You'll never take the heart that beats inside of me
You don't have what it takes
It's safe to say there's gonna be a price to pay
When our worlds collide
The disguise you hide behind won't save you now
So let's fuel the fire and burn it to the ground
As our worlds collide
Trip the wire, the sky comes crashing down
When our worlds collide
short sighted idiots with a conscience are the ones to avoid. coz most of the times they are just gunning it along. fall in line with them and you wont even notice something is wrong until its too late. coz they then develop a plausible sounding logic and a conscience around it. makes you wonder for a moment. doubt. while they are still doing what they do the best. gunning it along. the sudden bout of emotions and guilt will leave you guil ridden for a while. but look at the bigger picture and the fog clears. some would argue that maybe thats what we are all doing. but the fallacy in this argument lies in the word maybe. i could attach any point to the word maybe and make it a valid point. the truth is everyone is just trying to warp reality according to how they want it to be. how they feel it should be. and they start to perceive it as that. the difference here is that the smart ones think and act.
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there are only so many times you can take it. only so many times you can forgive. you can forgive but not forget. if a slave does not realise that he is being inhumanly treated, that does not make it right. just coz you have made up solid reasons in your mind to clear your conscience, does not mean you are right.
angst is the rich kids alternative to real problems.
in a nation where the youth is bawling out about freedom and more progressive rights, its amazing to see how their actions reflect otherwise. herd mentality. they complain about how regressive the society structure is. yet they lack the courage to go against it in their very homes. the society is not gonna change becasue you have suddenly realised that something is wrong. the society is you. you have to change. they have found very easy outlets for all these problems. a visit to any social media site reveals this. you will see an average person who has suddenly comprehended something way too advanced. and decides to share it with the world. the average world again appreciates this. and the person revels in this newfound self pride. and so grows the collection of confident and progressive individuals. which eventually turns to words for everything. action recedes to the background. and one fine day they all wake up. and cry out asking why things are still as they were. why hasnt anything changed. change is an action. not a thought. what is worse is these very individuals are so into themselves, justifyng what they do is progressive, that they start to believe they are above the crowd. that they have these high principles which puts then above the average tom dick and harry. that the way they think is so progressive that maybe humanity is too amateur to think that way, much less comprehend it. fools never realise their foolishness. its easy to blame the people around you. that you are ready to go that extra mile. but people around are so stupid that they wont get up. that you are all whats right with the world. they are whats wrong. and in a condescending moment you declare that there is no hope for these "backward" people .
they crave ratification of their views. justification of their actions. not above the crowd. a part of the crowd after all.
to have bared your self, bared your very soul. and then to realise that for them, it was nothing but a spicy story.
thats the thing with keeping people close . you can never know what you are too them. coz people are self centered by nature. while you may consider them to be the center piece of your symphony, you are but a filler for them.lies and deception all the way. hiding the truth in itself is a lie. you are not smart if you deceive people. its just that they trust you. trust you to be better. trust you to rise above the crowd.
knowledge is power, but knowledge is also dangerous. coz when the deception comes to light, trust is washed away in the flood.
kaisi ye judai hain,
aankh bhar meri aayi hain,
mera dil doob raha,
isse bas ab doobne do,
ye pehli baar hua,
ye kyun ahsaas hua,
mera dil tut raha,
isse bas ab tutne do.
establishment scene-
a female(called as female1) has been working hard the whole day. overburdened with work and after get yelled at by the boss, her patience runs thin. irritation is the general mood. no crap is the way to go. she finally leaves office in the evening. catches a train. and lands up at a bus stop.
another female(called as female2) has been working the whole day at a construction site the whole day. and in between during breaks, she takes care of her child as well. patience runs thin once again. with an added disregard for rules. after toiling for the day she too lands up at the bus stop.
showdown-
female1 gets into the line at the bus stop. after waiting for an hour , a bus finally arrives. by the time she can get into it , the bus is already full. and once again she has to wait in the line. enter female2 carrying the child. she luks at the line and decides no one would notice if she just stands at the front of the line. female1 notices. actually everyone at the stop notices but who wants to tell that to a female carrying a child.
female1- excuse me, line idhar se hain
female2-*looks at her. looks away*
female1- *at a loss for words. looks around at people with the expression is she for real?.gets no response.* hello. aapko bol rahi hun. line peeche se hain.
female2-*same expression. nods.says nothing. looks away. but does not move*
female1-*this cannot be happening. people are watching. i cannot back out now.* line peeche se hain suna nai kya!!!?
female2- *looks again with an expression that says ok*
in this time a bus arrives.
female2 looks at female1.
female2- *with a condescendin tone and a expression sayin main tumpe bahut ahsaan kar rahi hun* jaa jaa teri bus aayi. jaa chad.
female1- *bewildered* hum pagal nai hain jo line main khaede hain.
female2- jaa jaa bus le tu apni.
female2 waits for female1 to get in and gets in after her. yes after cutting the line.
there is only one god. and that god is the client. and what do we tell him when he wants to go live. NOT TODAY.
the deadline is coming.
there is only one rule when fighting with the client. stick them with the documentation.
a programmer always hides his bugs.
people in support are the nights watch. sworn to protect the realm from the client.
in IT there is -
a khaleesi. suddenly cracks something difficult by luck. has no clue what to do next.
a tyrion. smartass who doesnt do any work.
a ned. given everything and somehow ends up fuckin it up.
a cersei. sleeps around to move up.
a jamie. can do the work but acts smart.
a varys. gossip mongerer.knows all about the team.
a baelish. tries to do everything.
a pycelle. reports all team gossip to the lead.
a viserys. reveals that his aim is to only go onsite too soon. gets fucked.
a tywin. knows everything but is heady with power.
a theon. suddenly forgets his role in the team. gets fucked.
a stannis. suddenly change their skillset.
a bran. smart guy who catches the lead in the act. gets kicked out. plays it cool awaiting his time.
a catelyn. has no idea what to do. just plays along.
a arya. gets ridiculed. gets into a kickass skillset. kicks ass.
a sansa. realises too late its the wrong project.
a drogon. some small time startup that burts onto the scene and kicks some ass.
a rob. hard worker who is given reponsibilty and messes it up.
a shae. silently moves up from testing into dev.
a hodor. hodor.
a bron. does the work, gets money.
a robert. pokes the management and gets fucked.
a jon snow. knows nothing.
deception is the key to happiness. as long as you are orchestrating it. realising that you have been the subject of deception isnt exactly pleasant. the power to mould people and actions around you as you want. its a heady feeling. the feeling of superiority. hiding facts is also deception. propagating honorable principles is also deception. people are in general very good at deception. and are always on the guard. which brings us to the conclusion that if someone does become a subject of your deception, they trust you.
people have high principles about life. it becomes fun when they are actually put into situations. the perfect theory falls apart. they fall apart. there is a bridge between thoughts and actions. people dont even realise it. its easy to stand on the thought side and spew out numerous perfect theories. but its also important to realise that the bridge needs to be crossed when the time comes to act on the theory. and while crossing this bridge into action, the theory will change. it will reflect your actions. but fools dont realise this. put them into a situation and they forget abt the bridge and they jump. the theory falls into nothingness. basic primal emotions take over. all logic is lost. the understanding of this reality is what makes a person great.
we are all pseudo-intellectuals - Anonymous (seriously anonymous)
people consider themselves to be intellectuals if they can form a view about something put forward to them. Something which is logical does not have to be practical. they measure their intellect by the ability to come up with a counter-argument to something that is said. that is not intellect. true intellect enables you to take in all all that is possible and come up with a conclusion. you cannot put forth your point first and then give counter-arguments to any point put against it. that is idiotic at the least. lying to yourself. for example if someone puts forth a point that they do not like studying, a counter argument that even teachers don't like teaching is flawed. because you have completely missed the crux of the statement. the point of the statement was that it was the person's personal preference. you cannot simply generalize it and put forward a point against it. its stupidity.this is one such example. its very easy to identify pseudo-intellectuals. they will have a point about everything under the sun. give them a topic. and they will rant about it so passionately like they have indeed given this years of thought. let alone years they wouldn't even have given it a minutes thought. also they will tend to weave all their points around one single thought/concept that is going around in their mind, for eg.freedom. they are actors, who put forward a face, that is just a projection of how they want the world to perceive them as. Empty words. fickle minded.
"i want the world to see me as the most kickass person alive. hence i will put forward a apt face and act for them."
RIP Robin Williams.
and yes there are a lot of pseudo-intellectual thoughts going around about Robin Williams. I can bet most of the people only remember him as that guy in Jumanji.
A study was conducted on a wide non-existent population. below is the result of the same.
participants: Generation X (hereinafter referred to as X) Generation Y (hereinafter referred to as Y) Generation Z (hereinafter referred to as Z, comprises the alpha generation as well)
*roll up curtains* Enter Morgan Freeman "only generation Z will be able to see to completion of widespread and cheap space travel." Exeunt Morgan Freeman *curtains down*
Firstly there is no consensus on which generation qualifies as being being born in which year. Accordingly we shall roughly say that Y are the ones born during the 90's (+-2 yrs). Accordingly we can conclude that X precedes Y and Y precedes Z. after this complex piece of logic we shall in earnest, try to keep such complexity at the minimum.
>> X was a generation born in the so called dark ages. they were brought up in an environment where the threat of war loomed realistically.
>>Y was a generation born to these X gen people. even though there was no such danger, X ensured that Y was brought up in a way that they were always prepared for the worst.
>>Z was born and brought up in and age where war was history.
>>X had to fight and work for basic necessities. poverty was widespread and innovation was the need of the hour. Hence almost all the technological innovations happened during that age. X was ambitious, realistic and prepared to go that extra mile. Failure was an option to them. internet was a dream.
>>Y already had the necessities in place. they had to work for the luxuries now. ideally they should have had an option. but no. Since X brought them up, they ensured that Y is always prepared. in doing so what eventually happened is that Y faced a very constricted environment. the passing time taught them to be more open but the upbringing ensured that they always had a fear at the back of their mind. this is the generation that is sexually frustrated. and lonely. instead of focusing their energy in innovation they lean more towards procreation. they do have the intellect to think but they are weak in resisting the pleasures of the flesh. a materialistic lot. internet became a necessity. social life involves lots of messaging and social sites.
>>The luxuries of Y have now become the necessities of Z.they live in a liberated world where survival is a concept that is alien to them.sex is not a luxury. they live in a highly connected world.
hence this is the generation that is most likely to innovate. to come up with new things. to act on their dreams. on their ambition. to achieve what they think.
Disclaimer
gender neutrality & species neutrality is advised and intended.
must watch: 40min to 46 min30secs
epic dialogues: "kya tumhara naam damodar hain?"
epic moments: saif's expressions
most people miss the point behind humour and resort to mockery laden with sarcasm. what these idiots dont realise is that -what they do is obvious. they feel happy about themselves that they have skillfully put the other person down by trying to mask mockery with humour. and we choose not to respond to these idiots because first and foremost we dont care. there is a clear defining trait about such people. they try to hide their own jealousy and ambition. the spirit of competition is quite lost on them. coz they are sore losers, any attempt to retort is taken as an offense and then you are blamed for it. obviously the same tactic can be employed on them, but there is no point even talking ,since fools will bring you down to their level. and quite frankly you cannot win on their level since they are very confident and assured in their own foolishness.
a meadow filled with sunshine,
yet cold bore down from mountains,
estatic were the butterflies,
so was the breeze,
hummingbirds were plenty,
and so were mockingjays,
there in the glade grew,
a bunch of flowers,
the apple of their eye,
a rose in their midst,
tulip loved her,
so did the orchid,
she moved with a ease,
they moved with her,
happy for the attention,
they were happy coz of her,
unknown to them,
a pebble lay in their midst,
rooting the rose,
always there,
its love unconditional,
the pebble wasnt a part,
of rose's universe,
for the pebble,
rose was its universe.
she was his light at the end of the tunnel. she was everything he could not be. she was at peace with herself. she had hope. she was happy.
he was at war with himself.
he wanted her. but he could not. she was the angel of his eyes. he was sure he would bring his own war into her mind. contaminate her. tears welled up when he thought about her. he didnt have the courage to let her go. he didnt have the courage to let her know. he knew she deserved better. she deserved happiness. she would be his strength. he would end up being her weakness. he was happy when he was with her. he wanted to change the world for her. he wanted to be the reason for her smile.
Scene I - office. a cubicle. enter le employee and le manager. le employee: what were you trying to prove, that deep down everyone wants wealth like you do? you're alone le manager: Can't rely
on anyone these days.
You gotta do everything yourself. Don't we? That's okay. I came prepared. It's a
funny world we live in. Speaking of which, you know how I got these cars? le employee: No, but I know how you got these. le manager: Oh, you. You just couldn't let
me go, could you? This is what happens when an unstoppable
force...meets an immovable object. You truly are incorruptible, aren't you? Huh?
You won't turn me in...out of some misplaced sense of self-righteousness. And I
won't sack you...because you're just too much fun. I think you and I are
destined to do this forever. le employee: You'll be in this cubicle forever. le manager: Maybe we could share one. You know, they'll be doubling up... the rate these employees are losing their minds. le employee: This company just showed you...that it's full of people ready to believe
in good. le manager: Until their spirit breaks completely. Until they get a good look at
the real CEO...and all the heroic things he's done. You didn't think I'd
risk losing the battle for Company's soul...in an esacalation with you? No. You need an
ace in the hole. Mine's CEO. le employee: What did you do? le manager: I took Company's white knight...and I brought him down to our level. It
wasn't hard. See, madness, as you know...is like gravity. All it takes is a
little push. le manager(with a flourish): main tujhe chod du ye ho nahi sakta, aur tu mujhe chod de ye main hone nahi dunga. exeunt
Scene II - Cafeteria enter le employee, le employee1 and sweeper le employee1: le manager won. All of CEO's work, everything he fought for...undone. Whatever chance you gave us of fixing our Company dies with CEO's reputation. We bet it all on him. le manager took the best of us and tore him down. People will lose hope. le employee: They won't. They must never know what he did. le employee1: Five cars, two of them jaguar's...you can't sweep that up. le employee: But le manager cannot win. Company needs its true hero. le employee1: [understanding immediately] No! le employee: You either get a promotion, or you live long enough to see yourself become inconspicuous. I can do those things, because I'm not a hero, not like CEO. I got those cars, that's what I can be. le employee1: No, you can't! You're not! le employee: I'm whatever Company needs me to be. Call it in.
*A scene of le employee1 speaking at CEO's funeral, saying he was "a CEO. Not the one we deserved, but the one we needed. Nothing less than a knight, shining"*
le employee1: They'll hunt you. le employee: You'll hunt me. You'll condemn me, set the code on me. Because that's what needs to happen. Because sometimes... the truth isn't good enough. Sometimes people deserve more. Sometimes people deserve to have their faith rewarded. (runs) sweeper: le employee? le employee! Why is he running, le employee1? le employee1: Because we have to chase him. sweeper: He didn't do anything wrong. le employee1: Because he's the hero the company deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So, we'll hunt him, because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian. A watchful protector. A Dark Knight.
exeunt
Scene III. New office cubicle
enter le employee, le newManager le employee:Why didn't you just sack me? le NewManager:You don't fear the pink slip. You welcome it. Your punishment is to be more severe. le employee:You're a torturer... le newManager:Yes. But not of your body. Of your soul. le employee:Where am I? le newManager: Home.Where I learned the truth about despair. As will you.There is a reason that this prison is the worst hell on earth...Hope. Every man who has rotted here over the centuries has looked at the light and imagined coming to freedom. So simple. So easy. And, like shipwrecked men turning to sea water from uncontrollable thirst, many have died trying. I learned that there can be no true despair without hope. So as I terrorize the company, I will feed its employees hope to poison their souls. I will let them believe they can survive so that you can watch them clamber over each other to stay in the sun... le newManager points to a laptop, in the cubicle You will watch as I torture an entire company to cause you pain you thought you could never feel again. Then, when you have truly understood the depths of your failure, we will fulfill le boss's destiny. We will destroy the compnay. And when it is done...when Company is ashes...then you have my permission to leave. exeunt
Social message:
le shakespeare lifted this modern age play from dark knight for all benched le employees.
note: benched should be read as a transitive verb and not otherwise.
le Black Herring prospectus
all le employees are subject to bench. please read the offer letter carefully before joining.
its a sin to dream. because what you always dream of is something that you cannot have. by the very definition of it being impossible, it is a given fact that it wil shatter. its not so much as the shattering as it is the after effects. picking up the pieces . a feeling of hollowness. all this philosophy is also something which can be classified as a first world problem. but the law of the universe dictates that it not be considred such.to ancient cave men not having fire would have been a first world problem equivalent. but gradually it has become indespensible. any thing you want apart from basic survival does not qualify as a first world problem. we can always go back to forests, hunt and live. afterall what is the purpose to life. in the forest theres plenty to eat and oppurtunities to procreate. but we live in a world which is constantly evolving. this year we have something which we did not have last year. each generation is brought up with things that are indispensible to them. phones being a case in point now.we can always play around with the hunour quotient in first world problems. luxuries are as much a part of life, we believe it or not. the added effort we put in to analyse each situation is vexing. we seem to be on a plateau of sorts in technological growth. all tech has now evolved in terms of social interactions. social media being a big player here. every stream of study has been permeated with out social habits. long distance space missions are planned keeping in mind how the people on board will interact with each other. on a more personal note i am waiting for the first baby with an intergalactic citizenship. the point is we have theories for anything that happens.and most of these theories are assumptions. these theories are still ok when applied on large groups under controlled conditions. what is worse is how individual people have started applying it on their experiences. every tom dick harry is a agony aunt. and the worst justification to all this is that its my life and i am free to pass judgements with finality. what people dont realise is empathy is understanding the point of view. not analysing it. pointing out faults. criticism is something that comes easily. this criticism is on the false assumptions that every parameter has been considered. and any logic that follows this criticism obviously makes sense. but the whole theory is based on vague understanding. even thsi could be a first world problem. the scary part is when it stops being a first world problem. things are gonna go really crazy then. evolution calls for a change. but this change seems to be going on a tangentm woudnt it be better had we started developing wings to fly. or perhaps an in built particle accelerator allowing us to move around in time or maybe teleport. now that would be much more fun. partly because - obviously who wouldnt want that. partly because its very tangible. changes in the behavioural and social patterns on the other hand are very intangible.
a person is smart, people are idiots. the very validity of this is proved by a very ignored announcement at the railway station -"please let others deboard before you board". this is something that should be an innate reflex born as a part of growing up. but some people just dont get the concept. like shakespeare says: a mob is fickle minded. one person starts shouting "get in !get in!" , and people suddenly loose all common sense and try to board as people are getting down. this idioticity has no excuse. some will say we are getting late. but these are just excuses. what a developing country lacks is the sense of individuality. agreed that people as a whole need a cause to relate to each other which is manifested in terms of religion or maybe regions. the basic binding has to be in place beacuse without it humanity looses meaning but beyond that decisions should be directed keeping self in mind.some might argue that this is selfish or maybe a nuisance to other people in the community. that is why i meantioned a overall cause like religion, region or nation has to be in place. but for more individual life choices like education, career or even social life , a society is only a dictatorship. what anyone does with their life is not under the purview of the society. it is only when such restrictions are lifted does the brilliance of a nation emerge.
people are so full of themselves. and non chalant that too. it just amazes me to no end. after millenia of evolution majority of them still think that the world revolves around them. every action is somehow related to them. the omnispresent theme of self in the causality of everything is amusing and irritating at the same time. the crucial fact here is for them to realise that - "yes, your world does revolve around you. but everyone else has their own world, which for certain does not revolve around you". there is something important to understand here. only your own actions are aimed towards yourself. only you care about yourself. others might be appearing to do so but they will doing so to serve their own purpose. so try not to be so full of yourself. deflate a little. coz if you pump yourself with self importance, its gnna cone out through a particularly smelly route some day. whats more frustrating is that such people tend to gather around them patronizers. and even fools. and this is a dangerous concoction. it gives sane people nausea.
the elder wand seemed to have held together the wizarding fabric so to speak. in his enthusiasm to destroy the wand , harry had made a grave mistake. In the years to come fewer people would be born with magic in their blood. though hogwarts saw a drop in the number of students somewhat late; other schools had started noticing a drop much earlier. years later, other schools were shut down.
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the potter family lived a pretty happy life. when ginny died she gave the ring to snape. and when snape died, he gave it to lupin. on a particularly hot day, lupin accidentally dropped the ring into the fire, beneath a cauldron. when he retrieved it, he noticed strange markings on the ring. as the ring cooled down the markings slowly faded.but from that day onwards, the ring had lingering aura of heaviness around it. remus stopped wearing it, and the ring found its way into a vault in gringotts.
thoughts start off as a drop, become a rill, then turn into a river and end up as the ocean. there is a very singular, unique, skill that's missing in quite a few people ; that is how to keep thoughts to yourself. what might be a unspoken understanding amongst everyone, becomes stupid when you voice it. whats dangerous is that stupidity can be forgiven, but giving voice to that thought has already done the damage. it has unconsciously ratified what others were only thinking. this very event causes their thoughts to coalesce , and human mind by design veers towards the worse. try as you may the damage has been done. in an effort to voice out thoughts and experiences, you forget the basic rule - think before you speak.
the year voldemort died was very eventful. particularly happy were the elves. After a particular request from harry; and continuous pressure from S.P.E.W(now headed by Hermoine with a particularly strong following) - the Ministry and warlocks agreed to free the house elves of their slavery. 13 wizards and witches were assembled that winter and an ancient ritual invoked. the magical bond between elves and humans severed. what happened next was unxpected. it seemed that the particular link had kept the elves growth in check - both physically and magically. elvish colonies were established. and the elves soon towered over the humans.
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Hogwarts was never the same after voldemort's death. Everyone assumed that the final fight had brought about deep wounds into hogwarts itself. wounds that would only worsen with time. in time to come, the forbidden forest slowly receded. eventually leaving a barren wasteland in its wake. hogwarts itself was diseased. the plague spread through its walls. to the very foundation. but strangely, the gryffindor tower was largely unaffected. A lightning storm during the autumn of tiger had destroyed a part of the tower, leaving a concave shaped cave in its blast.
before walking into the forbidden forest, harry had to meet ginny. she held on to him for what seemed like ages, crying. harry could not get words out of his mouth, he held her and gave her the golden ring he had bought in diagon alley. harry knew the time had come to face voldemort.
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The day voldemort died something unexpected occurred. Unknown to all. had dumbledore been alive, he would have sensed sonething amiss. but alas, jubiliant in their celebration no one sensed anything. voldemort had created another horcrux. voldemort knew he would drown in this vicious thirst for power, and unknown to all he had already acted.
holding those cards,
the hand was his to win,
but he cudnt move,
held back, teary eyed,
his own thoughts lay heavy,
happiness draining out,
the realisation of it,
drowning in the deluge,
he had lost the trust,
he had lost the hope,
accepted unconditionally,
his actions were but empty,
dissapointment followed them,
an empty shell was what remained,
the tide echoing in the hollow.
tuta hua saaz hun main,
khudse hi naaraz hun main
seene pe jo dabi hain,
aisi koi awaaz hun main.
after being drenched in the rains, he trawled through the whole day; redefining boredom. that is when the teacher proclaimed that we would be writing an essay today. his inner devil gave a sarcastic whoops. he gave a rats ass. forgetting everything except the rains outside, he absentmindedly picked up his weapons - pen and paper, wreaking havoc on the very idea of an essay. after writing something he dint quite remember, much less understood, he handed over the paper. and now he could go home for that hot cup of coffee and endless hours of NFS.
In contrast to the previous day, the next day turned out to be quite eventful. the teacher declared that his essay would be read out in the class. instant thoughts flashed in his mind. he first looked towards his friends. what were they gonna think about him. him a nerd? he could already feel ostracized in their gaze. abandoned. then he looked towards his crush. she was actually looking at him!. his inner devil broke out into a dance. but then a look of disgust broke out on her face. whoops. nerd zone alert!!!!!. even the nerd was giving him looks.in one single moment of boredom he had elevated himself to a pedestal where he wudnt wanna be outta choice. he could feel all that he had built being drained away...wait did i actually hear a flush? maybe i didnt...time to put things on track. so he tore up a piece of paper. and threw it at one friend he knew who just cudnt resist it. what ensued was a full blown paper ball fight. total pandemonium. in one single stroke his friends were back on his side. his crush was smiling again. the nerd, well not that it mattered, was still giving him looks. the whole episode earned him a week in detention. but well he had made a wise decision. he had all his crazy friends back. the teacher, inspite of recognizing his brilliance, would never again dare to say it front of the class. coz what kind of a precedence that would set right!!!...
brilliance is but that rare combination of boredom and craziness.
imagine you are having dinner in "civilized" company and you accidentally drop food on your clothes. the first reaction is to look around. *hope someone dint see*. if not then you get hold of a tissue with sleight of hands that would put a pickpocket to shame. then with the same skill and dexterity proceed to minimize the damage. then there would be this one person who did see you drop your food and looks at you, sympathizes. within a nano-second they ooze all the empathy of a millenia and an understanding passes between you two. they luk away and leave you to your own devices. if you are really unlucky the person you detest the most in the group will have observed you dropped your food. and out of sheer bloody panic you blurt ouy loudly "how clumsy of me".
what if ghosts were aliens.
our concept of aliens is very tangible. we are absolutely certain that life on other planet would have evolved in a way similar to us, limited by its environment. and this life form would be visible to us, coz well again, our concept of visibilty is limted to light and our senses. but what if every life form is supremely unique to each other. what if there are no aliens as structually and socially limited like us. well then one thing is for sure, all our dreams of an intergalactic green peace corps are but dreams.
one should pause to wonder that why are we so limited in our thinking about aliens. which brings me to ghosts. what if there is nothing supernatural about ghosts. maybe they exist throughout the space, invisible to us coz we are very bound in our ways. the random sightings hence can be easily explained. maybe we are visible to them. and they being a far more advanced civilization have agreed to let our antics be unto ourselves. and now we are nothing but a source of entertainment to them.
what if wishes were sheep
well we would be unable to sleep. coz counting horses in itself is okay, but the hooves would cause enough clatter to wake up the neighbors.
also if wishes came true we would be left with a lot of sheep. a lot of leftover wool in this summer would be unwelcome.
the recent godzilla movie fails to leave a lasting impression. with a run time of around two hours, there are hardly any shots of godzilla himself. the scenes that he does manage to show up in, are thoroughly smokey and shakey. and this kinda kills the point of a movie on godzilla. the creature himself looks vaguely out of proportion and wierd, almost like as if a jaeger out of pacific rim forgot which muvie he was supposed to star in. add to this the potrayal of a rivalry between an "apex" hunter and other insects - which ends in godzilla killing them and walking away, one does tend to wonder what was the point of it. if indeed godzilla was hunting them then shudnt the hunter be eating his kill?. whats the point of showing up, killing and walking away - one should point out its godzilla and not james bond.all in all its riddled with holes and is not upto the mark. the old godzilla still remains a favorite.
which brings us to xmen-days of the future past. for me what sorely lacked in the movie was the absence of gambit. a crowd favorite, he should be included in all movies by default. but in a way quicksilver does make up for it. the calm and confident potrayal, puts barry allen at the start line ,while quicksilver is already doing victory laps. and a surprise addition to the movie was blink. reminded me of the game portal. her display of powers is simply amazing to watch. but again a flaw arises why doesnt she portal the sentinels far away when they are flying towards them in a fight. additionally putting mystique as a vital ingredient to mutation sounds flawed since she can only change her appearance. what sentinels are potrayed to be doing is more in the realm of darwin or rogue.discrepancies aside the movie has its funny moments and the young charles is just over the top.
guarded heavily the elf stayed,
an eye out for strangers,
he always kept,
after centuries in this mortal world,
all he learnt was to be,
beware of strangers.
time and again they proved it to him,
trust in them was a mortal sin,
for strangers care naught abt others,
justified in their selfishness they are,
for the elf is also but a,
stranger to them,
a stranger or a friend,
only time will tell,
for the diff between them is one,
a stranger will use u,
not a friend.
self absorbed are strangers so,
they use the elf very thorough,
their goals met,
their happiness set,
the elf is left to his guarded burrow.
Kyun mujhse khafa, tu hai mere khuda
Deewane se tere, kya ho gayi khata
Jo ho gaya juda...
Ho jaaunga tabah
a sea of peace,
mountains of happiness,
valleys flooding with her light,
plains rolling in her shadow,
a lake of calm,
streams twisting with her smile,
aise kabhi pehle,
hui na thi kabhi khwaishein,
uljhan meri suljha de,
chahun main ya na,
aankhon aankhon main jata de,
chahun main ya na,
the dream too good to live,
the reality too harsh to live,
she asked do u never want to see me?,
he looked away, walked on,
whispering- on the contrary,
i want just the opposite.
gliding down the calm river,
the journey was beautiful,
control of the tiller,
a heady feeling in the head,
with nature as companion,
no need for anyone else ,
twas then that a diversion came,
brimming with confidence,
swung one way,
mistake apparent as waters turned choppy,
companion turned against oneself,
no time for regret.
in a land far away,
the princess held the sway,
a nautanki at heart,
but she was very smart,
she walked in like the spring,
like jingle bells ring.
he was eagerly anticipating summer. the winter had been cold and harsh. the chill had settled down in his bones. extended hours in front of the fireplace did not help. because his heart craved the warmth of summer.
she was prancing around like a deer,
with nothing to fear,
the glades had already thawed,
like gods hand had clawed,
she hopped on like the sun,
she was too much fun.
he felt a shadow watching him from the window. but he coudnt think. holed up in his cottage, he despised the world outside. wait for summer had turned into agony and now despair.
she saw in the distance a shack,
the insides were fully black,
she peeped in through the window,
n saw him sittin at the fireplace,
like a flamingo,
to see him so she was shocked,
so she went to the door and knocked.
he felt the shadow move. but the chill had taken over him. he could not rationalize anymore. the cold did no harm to him physically. it just left his rational abilities frozen. he could fight thw world. but he could not fight his emptiness. his train of thoughts was broken by a knock on the door.
the door creaked open,
and it was a sight to behold,
he felt a sudden warmth ,
which he hadnt known for ages,
she was lost in his eyes,
he looked ever so wise.
they stepped towards each other. his hand brushed against hers. all the cold vaporized outbof his being. suddenly life had a meaning. it was all clear at once. she was the cure to his emptyness in life.
they embraced each other with joy,
could not have been more coy,
they wandered many a places,
hand in hand,
filling in the beauty, of each other,
and the land,
travelled together under the moon and sun,
another winter was neva gnna come.
the moon was full and bright. swimming through a sky glittering with stars. small cottony tufts of clouds crashing into the moon and passing by. heaven itself reflected in a lake of calm water. gentle waves lapping the shores. the moonlight surfing these waves. it was midnight, cindrella time, but still bright as day. near the shore sat a solitary hollow birch tree. the grass all around dancing in the breeze. each blade of grass goin wheeeee. nearby two solitary figures sat by the shore. dark silhouettes against d bright sky. one held a guitar, playin a tune so ethreal, that the heavens themselves sang with joy. the tune itself amplified in the hollow birch. blades of grass hittin each other as the heavens clapped in joy. a smile flitted through the other figure.
not many people know that the moon is moving away from the earth gradually. approximately at a rate of 3.8 cm per year. this is mainly due to the gravitational pull of the sun. since people have already formed theories of what might happen we will delve into something irrational. the day will come when the moon will be pulled away from the earth and we will have to steal a moon. yes you heard it right, we will have to steal a moon. now firstly to pull of a galactic heist of this scale we need to make sure that moon comes from a planet which is not inhabited. the closest match that comes close to earths moon size is Io. we could do multiple things to steal it.
1.> launch spaceships from the earth with huge lassos. the crew shud consist of a particularly high number of cowboys.
2.>launch a huge number of spaceships from earth. they will prompty go and push the moon towards us. crew shud consists of managers from various domains.
3.>launch huge sails from earth to Io. these sails will deploy around the moon catching the suns rays and guiding the moon.
4.>we could build a huge ice slide from jupiter to earth. then one lucky person gets to go wheee with the moon on the slide.
5.>send a huge baseball bat into space to promptly knock Io out of orbit towards the earth.
6.>build two huge magnets. keep one on earth. one on Io. and we wil let nature do the rest.
we could also try n keep the moon we already have, but where is the fun in that.
is dil ke jharoke se ghurta hun tujhe,
mil jaaye kisi din tu, ye puchta hun usse,
apni khushi ka haar banake tujhe pehna du,
tere ghum ka kafan odh, tujhe khud main basa lu,
gurur nahi mujhe ki tujhe itna chahta hun,
par yakeen ye hain ki tujhe sabse jyaada chahta hun,
tere bataye kisi kone main reh lunga main,
har ghum har dard seh lunga main,
bekhabar hain tu, anjaan hain tu,
bata du tujhe par darr lagta hain,
main tere liye maut bhi seh lunga,
par tera ek aansun....
walking alone, dunno y i felt alone,
oppurtunities came knocking,
i just ended up walking,
a blindfold over my eye,
im the catcher in the rye,
walking alone, dunno y i felt alone,
walking away from the din,
sad but with a grin,
running from what i want the most,
a shadow of my own ghost,
walking alone, dunno y i felt alone,
mayb coz im ur horcrux, but ur not mine.
after years of struggling with the problem of governance why dont we have a viable alternative to either democracy or dictatorship. the inherent fallacies of dictatorship is quite apparent. human ambition tends to rule over common sense and the result is always bloodshed. democracy though better in this aspect has revealed another sinister fallacy in human nature-greed. while not many would be willing to bend everyone to accept their supremacy, almost everyone is willing to dress up as greedy dog if people allow so. so with the problems right in front of us, why can we not have a viable alternative. our diversity as a species while not that apparent in looks, runs rather deep in thoughts. if all human babies were to be shifted to a new planet maybe we could have a world government, a government that does not have to deal with localized ambitions. ambition while a major driving factor for all development turns quite destructive when it drowns all logic and turns in an never lasting thirst for power.
what we could do is have a governance mechanism in place where everthing is logged. all transactions be it buying a candy, or spending money on highways. the basic idea being clarity. for example if some money is spent on building highways that money would be sent to some contractor who would then pay his workers and for raw materials.all this has to be logged end to end in digital bytes. there are many inherent flaws in this. the introduction of dummy workers , organisations could easily bypass the system. but we would still have a track of that money- earning to spending. or maybe a calamity that makes us lose all that data. or maybe educated hackers siphoning off money. but this system would have accountability. instead of uneducated thieves siphoning of money with no rhyme or reason acting unpredictably we will have educated thieves who act predictably. its a sysem that will have conscience, transparency. its not a system that is above corruption, that is basic human nature, but its a system that has an active deterrent that does not consist of empty words and false promises.
like three suns combined you ride forth in blazing glory,
your brightness blinding to your foes,
your brightness for believers ever more,
you are the reason for my morning smile,
you are the reason that i am beguiled,
you hide behind the clouds, my heart skips a beat,
you hide behind that smile, my heart skips a beat,
the gentle morning rays turn harsher with time,
the warmth that you spread is nothing but sublime,
at noon when people hide outta fear,
i embrace you as if nothing else is clear,
at the closing hour you retreat to your home,
i quiver with cold like a solitary gnome,
there are some things that words cannot explain,
to ask for an explaination brings only disdain,
for empires rise and empires fall,
your brightness still remains with us all.
prisoner of its own mind. victim of its own intelligence.
all animals have a basic set of emotions- anger and lust. humans have evolved beyond this and we can comprehend something more complex as love. its a powerful driving force , and a destructive one too. can you ever love someone so much that word are simply too ineffective to communicate?. its funny how you only realise the power of it only when you see the destruction causes. when things are falling apart right in front of you. when you know the reason behind all of it, when you know what you can do to stop it , still a prisoner of your own mind, you cannot act. for that one person who cudnt care less, ruining everthing around you. and still you are happy for the ruins, coz these very ruins are your hideout, your secret place. step by step you can see things going wrong, your hand twitching to act, when your heart is heavy over your mind. the point where your own mind makes you fearful, the point where you realise your heart is flowing with a emotion so strong that any logic your mind throws at it, is simply washed away in the deluge.
there is funny mathematics going on here. there is no point of inflexion, you gradually reach a point where the graph frightens your mind, but brings joy to your heart. it is then that all your actions are only a result of love. in your own twisted way, it is completely logical that your own life be wasted, but that one single person stays happy.
intelligence can be a bane. maybe there is a point in intelligence where your intellect grows so much that you can finally comprehend all this, act beyond it. or maybe there is a point where you realise all that you have lost, and what passes for depression is actually your reality. the question is which of these points comes first, which is frankly frightening.
so many abstract thgts...all making sense sumhow...anyways these are ravings of an idle mind...an idle mind is a devils workshop...life is all about experiences...and anything you run away from is an oppurtunity lost...so it is this same intelligence that drives you forward to live your life...making you enjoy the finer things in life...so beat it!!!!!!!!!!
before you go through this post you better go watch this
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUUy6Kdn1Rw
its a fantastic ad full of pathos and ethos. An actor walks up the streets of cuba, come hell or rain, power or pain, revealing the trying times bacardi has gone through.the ad iteslf is visually stunning but what adds to the party is the soundtrack - Do i wanna know by the artic monkeys. If there was any visual amd soundtrack so made for each other, it would lose to only the dark knight.what is particularly interesting is the character of the ad itself. it brings the untameable concept to life. which makes me remember bean from enders series. for those who don't know bean better read up on the series. bean is a character who is so methodical and observant, that his fart is smarter than your talking.
