My Ode to elephants

Jokes … are the best way to lighten up your heart and perk up any moment. A good joke is always good .. it doesn’t need to be dirty .. So here I was almost finishing up with the day when I stumbled upon some joke .. and he goes the theory about it … this is not my stuff and all credit goes to whomsoever penned it … good laugh is always appreciated…. A couple of my ongoing posts will wander around jokes .. especially mr Elephant…

“There are two types of joke which are called "elephant jokes": the elephant joke proper, and the joke which merely drags a poor elephant in by its tail against its wishes, generally because it is very big and for no other reason. Many jokes of the latter sort involve sexual themes and are often just not very funny. Proper elephant jokes, however, are of a different sort altogether. The elephants do not have to be dragged in, kicking and screaming, but they cooperate nicely because it suits their natural sense of humor. A true elephant joke does not depend on the size of the elephant for its laughs, but rather on a completely different logic which demands that the hearer either submit to the peculiar rules of the world of elephant jokes, or suffer the consequences of not "getting it". True elephant jokes are, therefore, very much like the Gospel itself. When judged by the normal rules of earthly logic, it makes no sense at all. Only the one who is willing to submerge him- or herself in it completely, who can experience and accept its totally alien assumptions about reality, is really going to get the fullness of the humor, the wisdom, and the splendor of the Good News of our redemption. Same with elephant jokes. Enjoy!”

And here goes a few of them …

 

Why do elephants wear blue tennis shoes?

Because the white ones always get dirty.

Why do elephants float in the river upside-down?

To keep their blue tennis shoes from getting wet.

How do you get an elephant up an oak tree?

Sit it down on an acorn and wait 50 years.

How do you get an elephant out of an oak tree?

Just wait till the leaves start to drop.

Why do ducks have flat feet?

For stamping out forest fires.

Why do elephants have flat feet?

For stamping out flaming ducks.

Why do giraffes have long necks?

For spitting on burning elephants.

Art of Talking

The art of talking is best learnt by talking to your better half.

I was desperately searching for a better word than “better half” but couldn’t find any.

Yes, you sweet talk, bad mouth, make peace and wage a war (repeated several times) in a single conversation… Gawd

dil jo bhi kahe

I was listening to this song this night . Suddenly it reminded me of my first few days in mumbai tcs. I was put up in a rest house in adheri east. just a few paces from the station. I had got my new nokia 6680 and had put in some songs just to feel hwo good it sounds. Office was a chillled out place since we werent allocated to any project. The Best bus used to drop me at andheri station and from there i used to walk to the rest house, about a few kilometer. And in that walk i used to listen to this song. Every night the same set of songs and this song specially used to prep up my pace like anything. Totally carefree and unaware of the mumbai habits, those were really golden days. Empty street and walking at your own pace is something which i lacked ever since i mingled with mumbai.  This  song suddenly brought upon me that same old feeling of careless joy :) ................................ somehow i am missing mumbai !! :(

the case of disappearing toilet paper

The title itself is so disgusting but yeah this case has been irking my mind at the most important time of the days (the loo).  Well the thought itself is so funny cause an year ago i found it so hard to even think of using paper to wipe off my bum and here i am now, all dependent on  rolls of 4*4 inch soft and absorbant piece of paper. But it is really using a lot of my creative times. Every time I go in for meditation(read as loo) i see my roll been skinned. Its disheartening to see this happening as my mind sways on to think of a possibility when I just dont notice the empty roll and then I would be F***d up.  Oh yeah the mighty paper has become so significant. That is why I always check for the extra rolls of tissue paper(Just in case !! ). This routine has become as regular as i used to check my bathroom's tap water before disposing of my waste back in indian stylos or ( indian-converted-english-stylos). Cause thats the worst f***d up situation that you wouldnt want to go through anytimen even if you are the only person remaining in the entire planet(I am legend style ;). Just the thought of crawling up searching for that tissue(/water) rides a shrill though the nerves.

So.... it happens to be the fact that i have a roomie to share my apartment with.Yay !! at least I could vent a little bit of my boredome to him.That is what I had planned.That dream got shattered, he is workaholic man with sole aim to get the project done and like every project manager, he assumes the role of project manager even at home which i have been happily evading off by my sheet acts of ignorance. Having been put the fact/premise in place, the recent activities in my apartments has reported a spike in resource usage. Every resource at my apartment have reported a sudden surge in demand. Which is pleasing as well as disturbing. Pleasing in the sense that most of them are used before they rot :D and disturbing cause when I search for something,its usually gone :( . And so I come to the toilet paper. My single pack of tissue paper lasted me for the entire year( yeah i am quite efficient on toilet paper usage :D ..khi khi ) while the next pack is on its way to extinction even before a month of having it brought on this earth(my apartment). Every visit to the holy place make me think how much exactly would be the usage :D .. is he using it for the right purpose or .... .. it has swayed too much .. 

ossomness of ossomeness

the past is gone .. the future is not sure .. the only thing which you have is today and thats why its called "present" ... isnt it a great thought ?????

Right or Wrong / Good or Bad / ??? or !!!!

This thought had come to me in so many ways and infinite number of times. How to decide what is good and what is not. A big dilemma. This thing has been made so complex in this world that sometimes it feel quite chaotic and hypocrite in a sense.
(Although at this point of time most of my friend would be wondering how am i writing such a serious post)
But yeah this question has been going around my head for long.Its such a confusing thing to decide.e.g. a person with best intention(you dont knw that person and dont know about his/her intentions) tries to do good but happens bad, what would you think of him. Or what if someone does exactly opposite to you when you think you are damm right and actually happens bad. Or when you dont know whats brimming inside head of so many people around you. I could sense that following heart is the best answer to the question but a logic has to be there for things to be consistent. Its just like a need of some dimensional analysis on this perspective. The only problem being that such a question would have so many dimensions to analyse that it would be mind boggling.
Why do we see something as bad. Is it because it might hurt or something of that negative sorts. Must be something in our brains. Or what can i say social education that a person goes through.But then a thing can be good/bad depending upon the perspective.
That is what has been brimming in my head.
off i go now !! :)

long time no see

Washington Trip

Laugh

How important is laughter to life ??

damm too much important.

It brings up the energy .. lowers down the stress ... BP ... lots of oxytocins ... health ... everything is positive about a laughter.
Laughter.... when you really mean laughing out LOUD .. carefree of the world around you .. feels like the most pleasurable thing of the moment .. alleviates the innermost stress/pain in an instance .. takes out the sadness ... guilt ... everything out .. No thought comes when you are (really) laughing ... its just like thinking ... just like you cant think while thinking ...
Finding this laughter is though but very tricky. Cause its not the squeaks or smiles that matter .. it has to come from within ... it has to be pure ... and then it hits your head and make a gud day.

Republic Day Weekend

Plan was morning cricket. Inadvertently I woke up 8.10 am just to see the temperature chilling at 2^oC. I summoned all my lazyness and sunk into deep sleep again J. With weather playing spoilsport for 3 consecutive weekends, I was left wanting to get out of the apartment desperately. It was a great omen as Ranjit told us that he is going to Raleigh and asked if anybody wanted to join him. I jumped into the opportunity. Bathed super speed and ran to his apartment.

A 2 hrs drive and we were at the "Around the World" market, the Indian Store we take month full supply of stuff back. Its such a great feeling to see Indian faces everywhere. Felt like shopping in Indian super market. Add to that there we couple of gals who weren't horrifying .. hehehe … so chanced a little flirt as well with no effect but got no sneers .. lucky .. shopped like anything .. after a couple of hrs I was exhausted and hungry. Ranjit and Deepesh also wanted to grab some Indian food , so we raced ourselves to an Indian restaurant "Tower Indian". We relished our taste buds with vada , onion rawa mysore masala dosa .. and gajar ka halwa as sweet dish … we savoured each bite with near to divine pleasure .. the clock struck 9 pm and we were late .

We then started out drive back. Deepesh put on super tracks on his ipod and we were like shouting on each song. It felt good. Really good. After like 1 hrs , we entered into heavy fog. With only few meters visibility, we were excited .. yeah it was exciting … 30 mins fog and we neared back to Deepesh's apartment. So it was a nice Saturday .

Untitled

While going to office, lots of thoughts attacked my thinking part of the brain. Most of them arbit and temporary. One thing stayed.

I happen to remember a dialogue I don't remember between who but the lines

"When you get what you long fought/wished/worked-your-ass-off for , the feeling which was so effervescent suddenly drops down to oh-so-normal".

 
 

Yeah, I had that same feeling today for many things and there seems to be no answer to it… probably there was some dialogue just after that which I don't rem now …

Mall here and there

After yet another boring day at office, we had planned to play tennis. Turned out we were out of gud balls … :) … we wanted more baaals in the frame .. Heheheh .. So we tuk ride to the nearby shopping complex .. The sports shop mite have beaten some good mall in its size.. The whole area was as vacant as someone had issued curfew .. Thats when I had a feeling how difference is being in a mall here (US) and there ( India) … being in the city of mumbai I was spoilt by visiting malls .. Our place to chill used to be malls .. It has all the energy .. To shop .. To eat .. To watch a movie .. To line maro chicks-who-wouldn't-even-give-a-damm… or to say a "complete experience" .. Here its like a funeral .. No one even so cheerful that they have come to mall … LAZY ASSES … they seem to get depressed even by the idea of "work" .. How one would enjoi malls when ppl are so depressing … empty malls and empty showrooms … boring …

 

Ps: a quick snack recipe

Heat some puffed rice …for 5-7 mins … put a little mustard oil .. Pinch of salt …. And choppped onions to taste … mix it .. And devour … it perks up the taste buds without putting up even marginal calories …

 
 

 
 

Into the wild

I saw this movie last week and somehow felt connected to the theory. The theory of breaking out of the norms. And its not making a revolution or agitate against how bad the world is, but to break from the concepts of how you perceive the norms of society.

What is 'Success'. How would one define it to be. What is life. Giving it a perspective makes us come to conclusion that its all relative. Relative to what society has put through. Is it necessary to live like how we do ?

That is what had me thinking … what do we really want ? The answer ?? I don't have.

ps: The song below is from this movie. Sung by Eddie 'GOD' Vedder

Song of the day

when I walk beside her
i am the better man
when I look to leave her
I always stagger back again
once I built an ivory tower
so I could worship from above
and when I climbed down to be set free
she took me in again


there's a big
a big hard sun
beaten on the big people
in the big hard world

when she comes to greet me
she is mercy at my feet
when I see her pin her charm
she just throws it back again
once I sought an early grave
to find a better land
she just smiled and laughed at me
and took her blues back again

there's a big
a big hard sun
beaten on the big people
in the big hard world

of sirens and khichdi

Doesnt the conjuction sound wierd but that is what popped into my mind...

i had taken a nap after watching Kite Runner in the evening to wake up at around 9. Udit woke me up and we had quite a chat about his trip to Canada. I was feeling famished since i just had a plate of poha in lunch. Decided to make khichdi. Callup mom and asked her the recipe. After a couple of good dishes i was feeling lucky to make this khichdi but this experiment turned out to be bad. It was a real pathetic khichdi. just about edible to have it for the dinner.
While having dinner i heard siren wailing.
--flash to the past ---watching hollywood movies---
Typical movie (thirller/action) involves somebody waking up to wailing sirens and humming of helicopter

yeah i was feeling the same experience .. wailing of polce sirens and humming of helicopter ... felt like i was in some movie ... i am still not able to find words to explain that feeling.

so that is why the topic.

First week of 2008

It all started with really beautiful sunshine morning .... i had to drop my rent car back to the airport so ran through to the airport hurriedly .. the streets were empty just like they are at the times of Holi .... with sun providing the heat much needed at this chilling temperature... came back through cab only to find some issues logged in by the user ( clients) on the 1st day.. crap ... but understandable .. a couple of mails here and there and i was back to sleep ... spent entire afternoon and night at Ranjit's place ... working .. dozin off ... munching something or the other .... twas nice .. next day spent doing something which i dont happen to remember much but had dinner at another colleague's place ... 5 drumsticks and rice ... d.e.l.i.c.i.o.u.s ...... next 2 days i didnt come out of my aprtment ... Ranjit decided not to go to office and we couldnt agree more .. ( who would want to go to office at 8 am .. that too trying to beat the chilling temperatures.. naaah ...) ... worked (he he )from home ... friday nite we had a round of cards for about 5 hrs ... which just finished and i victoriously finished last .... signing off as of now ... will post some more when i feel like typing :)

till then ... i visited an adjacent city on new year's eve .. instead of going through the normal highway .. i took the narrow highway and saw those nice rustic america ... while coming back i tried taking some images of the ride ... .

Songs

Sometimes when i hear a song i feel like reminisce some past ... happy or sad doesnt matter but songs generally get associated with what has been happening .. and when that song hits later in time .. its gets me back to that moment/time ...

Christmas weekend

The weekend started on friday itself. Showers from early morning brought down the temperature quite good.Office greeted me with scarce junta all busy chalking out the plans for the long weekend.I had no work whatsoever so was timepassing on laptop and doing my side of r&d of places to see in the long weekend. We( me being the only TCSer,other from other company but thankfully desis) had finally , after a weeklong debate on where to go , decided to go to our originally intended desination Sugar Moutain.Alright that sounds really cheesy but Amreekans do make cheesy names.eeew.
Anyways Friday i had decided to join the people who were going to other city to watch hindi/telugu movie.It would be the first indian movie (and theatre movie) in USof A. We started off at around 4 with conditions still overcast but pleasant.Since i was at the backseat, i managed to catch a gud nap while ignoring the telugu conversation(which i could not understand slightest other than few english words).A couple of hours later we were in the balaji temple. My first visit to a temple since god knows when. :D
After temple it was time to barge into the indian grocerie store. I shopped like crazy fellow picking out any recognizable stuff. each and every masala powder i could lay my hands on. Ended up buying a whole lots of stuff. It may last for couple of year maybe ..heheheh... paid the bills and stormed into the attached pakistani (indian) restaurant which greeted us with special EID buffet. I pleased my starved apetite with nice mutton and chicken and biryani while the tv played annoying pakistani comedy aarggghhhh ... we hurried our full (overstuffed ) bellys to the theatre..
by this time i was literally shivering from the chilly wind ... and the theare was warm with DESIs eveywhere around... although being just a minute from the show to start we managed to get the backseat .. and then saw Taare Zameen Par... A very nice movie indeed ... quite emotional .. i must admit... by this it was 1 am .. and we cruised back to our city ... 5 min into the highway and i was dozing ...
A veeer to the right shook me off from the slumber and found that my friend Kishore who was driving the car had taken an exit for gas.. and then decided not to take gas at that time ... now trying to find the way back we somehow took a wrong turn...and then we went into a rural patch with narrow road and crawling speed .. finally Kishore decided to swithch on the GPS .. and after 10 miles more we were back into the highway .. about 3.30 i reached home.
Saturday i slept most of the time intermittenly watching movies and SCRUBS :D ... and downloading more movies .. ( about 10 GB ) ... Ranjit ( my senior here) invited me for the dinner .. had rice with shrimp curry .. amazing ... Deepesh (Satyam guy) and i took pics ( at 11 pm chilling nite) infront of a decorated apartment and then headed for a short slumber before waking up at 5........to be continued in the next ... gotta have pulao !! :D

More on scrubs

Last week i saw about 30 episodes of Scrubs.
Reason being i had nothing else on my worklist. experiencing the camaraderie and conjunction of the character in that fictional world . The use of single camera make feel like i am roaming in that hospital. The comedy is implicit and not forced on to the audience ( with laughter tracks ... sucks) ...

More about JD
He is a intelligent intern who has a single-and-ready-to-mingle-but-not-open-to-committments attitude with his life. Loves to dig with his closest people and doesnt have a disregard to anyone. (No Malice at all) . Pure feeling which flows to him .. straight forward ...

Turk
He is a brilliant surgeon who has a clear vision to life and childish.

Major thing noticeable is that ... life is so full of things and events ... it doesnt needs to be made complex to understand it... just take them as they come .... as curt said "Come as you are ..... " .......

Songs Again

I was browsing facebook when i hit upon this song. (About a month back and i am still hooked on to this song)

What an amazing song which shows the fallability of a person and its dependency on others ( friends and family). Each word makes a sense and helps identify the weakness in oneself and the bonds that we share with people who are close to you.

We all have a weakness
But some of ours are easier to identify.Look me in the eye
And ask for forgiveness;We'll make a pact to never speak that word again
Yes you are my friend.

We all have something that digs at us,
At least we dig each other
So when weakness turns my ego up
I know you'll count on the me from yesterday

If I turn into another
Dig me up from under what is covering
The better part of me
Sing this song
Remind me that we'll always have each other
When everything else is gone.


We all have a sickness
That cleverly attaches and multiplies
No matter how hard we try.
We all have someone that digs at us,
At least we dig each other
So when sickness turns my ego up
I know you'll act as a clever medicine.

If I turn into another
Dig me up from under what is covering
The better part of me.
Sing this song!
Remind me that we'll always have each other
When everything else is gone.

Oh each other....
When everythingElse is gone

Songs

Songs ... its a food for thought .. :)

u just need to tune the songs to match the exact mood. And its rather subconscious which picks up the song according to the mood ( moods which are incredibly hard to bring to words ).

these days listening to vintage song while working has become a habit.

i am the son and the hier
of the shyness thats criminally vulgar
i am son and hier
of nothing in particular

....


i am human and i need to be loved
just like everyone else..

Damm good lyrics.... with super guitar riffs which fill the emptyness of the brain. It slowly creeps in echoing through the corridors of the skull ... and yeah it doesnt rock you even for a moment... Silent killler .. so much of anger/passion ...


The other songs thats ringing is

Baby we were making straight As
But we were stuck in dumb days
Dont much to memorise ur lines ....

And if you want to be the teacher'spet
you better forget....
rock got no reason .. rock got no rhym
you better get schoool in time ...

......


the U2+AC/DC kindish song is to go beyond normal .. be a maverick ......going beyond words .. rock it !!

These are very common songs and thats why havent put names of these songs...