Recently, I have been thinking all kinds of stuff. For instance, i was wondering what if all the technological advancements we have made so far, it was already achieved by people millions of years ago. Something bad, very bad happened and that everything got covered up and we have not found traces of anything anywhere. Bad , in the sense that the world was about to end and the people then knew about it . So with their advanced technology and stuff they just packed about everything here and left without a trace. They moved to another planet and so we remain ignorant about such a life. The solar system then exploded and the whole big bang and stuff( or whatever caused the universe) repeated itself and here we are again. We are just starting from scratch again and the whole process is going to repeat for how many times god knows !!. I think i just reversed the script of the movie Wall E. Or is this the beginning of craziness. I am not sure what, but these are things I keep thinking.
And for about two weeks i totally believed that Dec 21,2012 is the last day for all us. Those were the two weeks of incessant rains in chennai. The mood the rains created as I sat at home and heard it beating against the walls and roofs of houses just terrified me . Those were also the times i read a lot of theories of how the world would end. I did a bit of a googling on the topic and the comments in many of the forums gave an impression that the 2012 theory was correct and could not be just ignored. But after the rains, I have been feeling pretty good and and i realized that there was nothing one could do about that.
But then i put my two thoughts together . If the world was really going to end by 2012, we really havent advanced enough to just pack up our stuff and go somewhere else like our foreforeforeforefore fathers and mothers did.. So i guess history wouldnt be repeated and my two thoughts are just loads of crap or an indication to seriously hope that the world wouldnt end by 2012.
Or maybe its time to see a doctor.. :)
Anyways, i am done with this . Share your crazy thoughts if any.
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Sunday, February 28, 2010
S4 57,58,60 CNF
I am going to write about an incident that happened many years ago. Yes,it does involve a train journey.
We had gone to kerala to attend my grandmom's 80th bday celebs.After the celebrations , we got ready(my father,mother and me) for the journey back home. My mother, tensed as she is everytime before a journey made us reach the railway station an hour early before the actual arrival of the train. We sat at the station just talking about the day and having some quality family time.Now, we were waiting for the 9.00 PM Alleppey train to arrive. And we were there by 8 itself. So we had a lot of time to chit chat. Though we had around 1 hour with us, we didn't give the ticket a second look.
By 8.45 , Chennai Mail came and left. With its departure, we got up and walked to the coach of the train before it arrived. The coach was S4 and the seats were 57,58,60 CNF. When the train arrived, we got in and located our seats. In our seats were an elderly couple. We dedided to let them know of the ownership of the seats they were sitting in after we finshed our dinner. We slowly had our dinner and we let them know of our intention to sleep where they were sitting. That's when they told us that the seats belonged to them. My father quickly took out the ticket and verified again. It was the same number as them. We both had identical tickets. Then we checked the dates. The date too was correct.Since. their ticket was already verified by the TTE, my father went searching for him.
My father found him and told him the problem. The TTE looked at our ticket and then looked at my father and said "You can pay a fine and then travel". My father was taken aback. He asked why should we pay the fine.It is the mistake of the railway reservation system.The TTE pointed to the train name to my father. He then realised that we had taken the wromg train!!!! We were supposed to board the 8.45 Chennai MAil and not the 9.00 PM Allppey Express. Not knowing what to do, my father asked for our next step. We weren't ready to go to the general compartent.So we ended up doing a favour to the TTE and he aranged three berths for us ovrenight. We apologised to the elderly couple and slept thnking what a fool we had made of ourselves.
You might be thinking that this might have been one of our first journeys by train, We had been travelling on the train for 25 years before this incident and this had never happened to any one of us. And this didn happen many years ago. It happened just two weeks back. I didn want u guys thinking how careless we were until the end of this post...
I don't understand how on earth we boarded the wrong train. Anyways we learnt our lesson that day.
We had gone to kerala to attend my grandmom's 80th bday celebs.After the celebrations , we got ready(my father,mother and me) for the journey back home. My mother, tensed as she is everytime before a journey made us reach the railway station an hour early before the actual arrival of the train. We sat at the station just talking about the day and having some quality family time.Now, we were waiting for the 9.00 PM Alleppey train to arrive. And we were there by 8 itself. So we had a lot of time to chit chat. Though we had around 1 hour with us, we didn't give the ticket a second look.
By 8.45 , Chennai Mail came and left. With its departure, we got up and walked to the coach of the train before it arrived. The coach was S4 and the seats were 57,58,60 CNF. When the train arrived, we got in and located our seats. In our seats were an elderly couple. We dedided to let them know of the ownership of the seats they were sitting in after we finshed our dinner. We slowly had our dinner and we let them know of our intention to sleep where they were sitting. That's when they told us that the seats belonged to them. My father quickly took out the ticket and verified again. It was the same number as them. We both had identical tickets. Then we checked the dates. The date too was correct.Since. their ticket was already verified by the TTE, my father went searching for him.
My father found him and told him the problem. The TTE looked at our ticket and then looked at my father and said "You can pay a fine and then travel". My father was taken aback. He asked why should we pay the fine.It is the mistake of the railway reservation system.The TTE pointed to the train name to my father. He then realised that we had taken the wromg train!!!! We were supposed to board the 8.45 Chennai MAil and not the 9.00 PM Allppey Express. Not knowing what to do, my father asked for our next step. We weren't ready to go to the general compartent.So we ended up doing a favour to the TTE and he aranged three berths for us ovrenight. We apologised to the elderly couple and slept thnking what a fool we had made of ourselves.
You might be thinking that this might have been one of our first journeys by train, We had been travelling on the train for 25 years before this incident and this had never happened to any one of us. And this didn happen many years ago. It happened just two weeks back. I didn want u guys thinking how careless we were until the end of this post...
I don't understand how on earth we boarded the wrong train. Anyways we learnt our lesson that day.
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Impatient
I have become so impatient with myself and my life that i don't have the patience to finish off something that i started. I don't even have the patience to finish off this...
Thursday, April 23, 2009
What next?
I was wondering how the basic necessities needed by man has changed over centuries. I can't guess what's next.
Here's a table that I have made and believe is almost accurate to a certain degree.
When I said my table is accurate I didn't mentions I would not exaggerate just to make a joke out of it.Maybe some of the facts aren't true but most of them are.You are welcome to fill in the gaps.
If ever an ancient man was to visit the 21st century he would be thinking "hey it wasn't like this when i left this place."
So what's next???
Here's a table that I have made and believe is almost accurate to a certain degree.
When I said my table is accurate I didn't mentions I would not exaggerate just to make a joke out of it.Maybe some of the facts aren't true but most of them are.You are welcome to fill in the gaps.
If ever an ancient man was to visit the 21st century he would be thinking "hey it wasn't like this when i left this place."
So what's next???
Saturday, April 4, 2009
(no subject)
The last i posted something on this blog was around one month back. Then I had a lot of topics in my mind that i wanted to write about.Those were the days I wasn't subjected to much work at office.But then as things turn out since then I haven't reached home before ten.The moment i come home I have dinner and i am off to bed for around 8 hrs before i force myself out of bed for another day of 10 grueling hours.I don't seem to be working much but I always end up reaching home late. Anyways what I was coming to say was all those topics I had in my mind seem to have gone for a long walk.think as hard I may can I can't seem to remember. Since I am without a topic I again turn the wheel around.I started with my first ever post not knowing what to write about.I have reached my starting point again. Maybe this post too I shall write about what I should write about.
Anyways the latest thing to happen in my life is revisiting college for convocation. But the best part about me going to convocation is that I didn't go for convocation. I never attended the function and I didn't receive my certificate.this may bring satisfaction to some people who wanted to come but were unable to do so. I got only a day's leave for the convocation.Only the monday the programme was conducted. the function started at 5 and my train was at 5.30 in the evening. There was no way I could stay for the programme. But it was worth a visit. I met people knowing that this might be the last time our life crossed paths. Bidding farewell to people on that day was as overwhelming as on the last day of college.But then thre was a consolation on the last day of college.We all knew there would be a convocation and that we would be able to meet up back again. But now with the convocation over another chance of reliving college memories seems bleak. Maybe we should have a get together soon.Say 2 - 3 yrs from now. We will all be settled and we can make it grand. It's a nice feeling already thnking about it. Let's wait and watch what happens.
I started this post not knowing what to write but it looks I did have a topic in mind. Anyways let the topic be as it is.
Anyways the latest thing to happen in my life is revisiting college for convocation. But the best part about me going to convocation is that I didn't go for convocation. I never attended the function and I didn't receive my certificate.this may bring satisfaction to some people who wanted to come but were unable to do so. I got only a day's leave for the convocation.Only the monday the programme was conducted. the function started at 5 and my train was at 5.30 in the evening. There was no way I could stay for the programme. But it was worth a visit. I met people knowing that this might be the last time our life crossed paths. Bidding farewell to people on that day was as overwhelming as on the last day of college.But then thre was a consolation on the last day of college.We all knew there would be a convocation and that we would be able to meet up back again. But now with the convocation over another chance of reliving college memories seems bleak. Maybe we should have a get together soon.Say 2 - 3 yrs from now. We will all be settled and we can make it grand. It's a nice feeling already thnking about it. Let's wait and watch what happens.
I started this post not knowing what to write but it looks I did have a topic in mind. Anyways let the topic be as it is.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
A myriad of thoughts
During my stay in gurgaon where I underwent training for aricent we kept aside a saturday to tour
I suggested my thought to a friend who was with me at that time. He didn’t share my opinion. He didn’t want to be ruled by a king. There was nothing people could do if the king turned out to be the devil’s incarnation. He said atleast in a democracy people could oust the leader if he wasn’t a good one, I didn’t tell him anything then. But it got me thinking. So how different would it have been to be ruled by a bad king. Not much different from now. The government plunders from the people, leaves them in distress, doesn’t care about the people .I don’t see prosperity everywhere I go. We haven’t had a good leader since we declared ourselves a republic and a democracy. To be ruled by a bad king would be like living in the present. So my fantasy to go back in time and be ruled by a leader worth his position doesn’t look all that unreasonable.
However incorrect I might have been incorrect historically in this blog I know one thing for sure, if the world hadn’t had a rich history as it has now the world would have been a bland place to live in. I can’t share tables with people who say there is no use looking into the past. There is so much to be learnt from our history. History teaches us never to commit the mistakes our forefathers had done . It’s a teacher I would have missed a lot had it vanished one fine day. I love dwelling in the past. Maybe I should have done B.A History instead of B,Tech EEE and become an archaeologist. But I believe everything that has happened has happened for the good. Long live my belief. He is my king now.
P.S: I know some of the lines don’t have any relation. But there were too many thoughts pouring in at the same time into my head and I couldn’t help resist put it on paper ,oops blog.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
If I ever die young..
Although the title seems a bit poetic or a line from a tragic or romantic drama I am not going to write down a poem or the dialogues of a drama. Infact this title seemed apt for what I am about to write which is if I ever die young it will be due to the following reasons:
a) The relentless,inconsiderate traffic of chennai
Maybe I haven't seen it all. But definitely chennai traffic is as dangerous as the others. Everytime I ride my two wheeler for work or back from work I am either constantly abusing road users(in my mind of course!!) or thanking god for keeping me alive. People got no sense of direction. They just come in from all directions. People blame the others even if the mistake was theirs. Maybe this happens all around the world. But one should learn to own one's own mistakes(something the corporate world always tells you to keep in mind when there is an issue with the customer and i am intentionally or unintentionally part of it. )
When I am on the road riding I always think my death would be either due to a mad bus driver or due to the various potholes which become visible to the naked eye once the vehicle(four wheeler) ahead of you passes over it . Maybe one of the reasons why I am writing on this topic is that I have thought about death a lot many times after I started riding.
Anyways there are two things I would have liked to say if I ever die in this manner
i) F*** all those asses on the road
ii)Thank you god for letting me live this long.
b) By a fan
I mean the fan which rotates above our heads.
I have had this fear after a fan actually fell on my head when I was in my 12th std. I was sitting late into the night doing something which I can't remember when suddenly something hard falls on my head. I was in a daze and then I realized the fan above my head had fallen onto my head. Lucky for me it was the leaf which hit me not the body of the fan which would have cracked open my head. My house owner who stayed above my house told me they heard a loud noise but never assumed it would have been a fan and that I had a near escape. And the best part was I had to wake my parents up who were in the next room to tell them I got hit on my head by the fan.They hadn' t even heard the noise. Since then I have had a fear of the fan. I always try not sleeping below the fan. I have a phobia of fans or in general things that rotate above my head. I googled to find a word for this but I didn't. But i found many others. Just chck them out. here is the link..http://phobialist.com/...I hope they are true not just made up..Some of the phobias are really funny.
Think i will just coin one for this - rotato-thudphobia which means fear of rotating devices above one's head..
c) Crushed by the building i live in
I started to feel more strongly about this after the Delhi accident. The building i stay in too , is quite old and it leaks in places when it rains. Am not sure how much longer the building will stay up. Everytime i look at the ceiling of my room, i wonder how is it still up. I am just thankful it is. But i cant help wondering.
Hopefully it never falls down ever till Dec 21, 2012.
I have just found out three reasons for now. I will keep adding to the list as I unravel more about living in this world.
a) The relentless,inconsiderate traffic of chennai
Maybe I haven't seen it all. But definitely chennai traffic is as dangerous as the others. Everytime I ride my two wheeler for work or back from work I am either constantly abusing road users(in my mind of course!!) or thanking god for keeping me alive. People got no sense of direction. They just come in from all directions. People blame the others even if the mistake was theirs. Maybe this happens all around the world. But one should learn to own one's own mistakes(something the corporate world always tells you to keep in mind when there is an issue with the customer and i am intentionally or unintentionally part of it. )
When I am on the road riding I always think my death would be either due to a mad bus driver or due to the various potholes which become visible to the naked eye once the vehicle(four wheeler) ahead of you passes over it . Maybe one of the reasons why I am writing on this topic is that I have thought about death a lot many times after I started riding.
Anyways there are two things I would have liked to say if I ever die in this manner
i) F*** all those asses on the road
ii)Thank you god for letting me live this long.
b) By a fan
I mean the fan which rotates above our heads.
I have had this fear after a fan actually fell on my head when I was in my 12th std. I was sitting late into the night doing something which I can't remember when suddenly something hard falls on my head. I was in a daze and then I realized the fan above my head had fallen onto my head. Lucky for me it was the leaf which hit me not the body of the fan which would have cracked open my head. My house owner who stayed above my house told me they heard a loud noise but never assumed it would have been a fan and that I had a near escape. And the best part was I had to wake my parents up who were in the next room to tell them I got hit on my head by the fan.They hadn' t even heard the noise. Since then I have had a fear of the fan. I always try not sleeping below the fan. I have a phobia of fans or in general things that rotate above my head. I googled to find a word for this but I didn't. But i found many others. Just chck them out. here is the link..http://phobialist.com/...I hope they are true not just made up..Some of the phobias are really funny.
Think i will just coin one for this - rotato-thudphobia which means fear of rotating devices above one's head..
c) Crushed by the building i live in
I started to feel more strongly about this after the Delhi accident. The building i stay in too , is quite old and it leaks in places when it rains. Am not sure how much longer the building will stay up. Everytime i look at the ceiling of my room, i wonder how is it still up. I am just thankful it is. But i cant help wondering.
Hopefully it never falls down ever till Dec 21, 2012.
I have just found out three reasons for now. I will keep adding to the list as I unravel more about living in this world.
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