procrastination flowchart

stumbled upon this: http://www.mymilliondollaryear.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/flowchart1.jpg - it's the stages you go through when trying to avoid work! hehe sounds almost uncomfortably familiar! :)

eulogy to a brother in arms

in the words of phoebe buffay: "it's a sucky life! and just when you think it can't suck no more, it does!" fuckall cruel joke we are, mortal and fallible, dying before our time.
yugraj was his name, but he did not rule the world, not even his own world. a little boy inside the man. the eldest and the youngest of us all. my darling, darling brother, i miss you!

star power - may the force be with them

so many of our indian movie stars are now turning to blogging to be able to connect directly with their fans and the public. i suppose it's a free country and all, but really, i thought much more highly of them before i knew them so intimately! in an industry built on selling the impossible dream to people, it is disillusioning to see them as mere mortals. if this continues, will the next step be, oh horrors, realistic cinema?????????? :)

aerosmith guru

You ain't that good/ Is what you said down to the letter
But you like the way I hold a microphone
Sometimes I'm good but when I'm bad I'm even better
Don't give me no lip/ I've got enough of my own...
Falling in love is so hard on the kneeeeeees!!!

Genius! Pure genius! :)

The story of your life... in 30 words or less

There's this really interesting website that posts stories written by its readers. The catch? The entire story has to be written in one sentence. A very interesting idea. Some of the stories are really good, and most of them evoke a lot in just one sentence - a whole setting, situation and mood. Here's the link: http://www.onesentence.org/

I stumbled upon the Picasso in me

hehe I was stumbling again, and it led me to a site where you can make your own picasso-esque painting using basic design elements from his work. it's fun, even though the choices are quite limited! see what I made: http://www.mrpicassohead.com/canvas.html?id=87ebcc5&skin=original

Are we animals???

I was watching this animal rescue show on one of the nature channels on tv. It's so depressing to see in what condition house pets are sometimes kept. Why do people think they're the lords of creation? They take animals as pets when nobody is forcing them to, and then don't feed them or look after them, or worse, are cruel to them, and make them wish they'd never been born! What gives us the right to do that? Animals are made for love, the only beings in the world capable of unconditional silent devotion! They're like children that trust us and depend on us for everything! It is NOT OK to mistreat them! Thank God somebody's monitoring the situation and taking maltreated animals away from their "owners".
I loved my dog and I miss him every day. He was the most beautiful brindle boxer that was specially hiding in a hell-hole for us to rescue. He had three different kinds of worms when we got him, as well as near-starvation, asthma and slight starvation-related muscular under-development similar to rickets. Boxers don't do so well in a hot country like India. It took us nearly six months to get him completely healthy again, and he was faithfully ours for the rest of his shorter-than-usual life. Such a beautiful dog, and so naughty! He conquered our hearts and ruled our lives. He had the best blanket in the house but would only wait till Dad dozed off to jump up slyly onto his bed. If you made a strange noise that he'd never heard before, he'd cock his head around from side to side trying to figure out what the matter with you was. He was so patient that once when I didn't see him behind me and stepped back onto his toe, the poor thing went and hid but never retaliated in any way. Would you be able to do that? A darling, darling boy that left a space in our family, our lives, our hearts that we will never be able to fill again. If you think he was just an animal, you seriously need to get one yourself. Most likely you'll be talking to your pet within a month. :)
I want to get another dog, but we're here in this country only temporarily and I don't know what it would involve to take him back with us to a country with a very different climate. And if we're not able to take him/her, it would just break my heart. So I wait... But God, I miss having that interaction. It's on another level, a more basic, instinctive level, something we can't achieve with humans because they're too developed.

latest stumble

OK so i'm addicted to stumble upon! :) here's the latest: http://www.overheardinnewyork.com. it seems like in NY, everyone says the darnedest things! :) (wow darnedest is in my browser dictionary!)

To beget, or not to beget...

You know, in the world as it is today, it is becoming more and more difficult to justify making the traditional choices to your friends! If you're a big city-big school type, you'll have come across the standard feminist theories about self-realization and not having to bend to the pressure of society to fulfill traditional roles of wife and mother. But if you've been through that education system and still want to fulfill those traditional roles, out of choice heaven forbid, suddenly you're an outcast! Nowadays it's not rebellion if you wanna sleep with your boyfriend before marriage, it's rebellion if you don't!!! In my opinion, this is as much against feminism as I understand it as enforcing traditional roles was. To be truly fulfilled, it is freedom of choice I need, whatever those choices may be! Women, stop enforcing gender roles on me, no matter in which direction! 25 years of school, and I'm still succumbing to the most ancient hormonal impulses hehe...

tick tock tick tock clockwork oranges are exploding...

i never thought i'd say this, but i think the movie made more of an impact than the book!!! shockers! it's just that violence in print does not get the kind of graphic, sub-cutaneous reaction that it gets in visual. but in one way the movie missed the point completely - the book is not about violence inherent in all of us, it's not about finding out that no matter how sick this is making you feel there's a part of you that knows that urge and understands it and you're mr. hyde too ha ha ha! in fact, the book's true motive (yes i'm the messiah so shoot me!) is really revealed in its ending, in a few short lines that deliver a punch so hard you're left gasping for breath and thought - it's about youth!!! youth striving to shed shackles, youth caught in self-loathing awakening to a sick new world, violent fuck-you i-don't-give-a-damn youth!!! and THAT's why it's a book that every generation must have a copy of!!!