The Act of Blogging

As I was sitting jobless today, suddenly it occurred to me that I haven’t posted anything here in more than a month. And I was wondering what could be the reason. I mean, there are people who post every single day. But here I am with just 5 posts to my credit in 3 months. It’s not like am very busy to write a few lines. God knows how I while away my time with nothing to do. The hardest work which I do would be downloading a movie through LimeWire. And the second hardest thing is watching all those downloaded movies. Whoever said B-school life is busy?

Well, coming back to the topic of discussion, an introspection into my daily routine and the resultant analysis was a shocking revelation. My schedule goes like this- wake up, get ready, eat, go to class, surf the internet there (this includes googling, orkutting, mailing, g talking, etc.), lunch, again class and internet, tea/coffee, chat, loiter, dinner, movie+chat, late night go to sleep. Then why does my blog remains so inactive? Well, there could be several reasons for this.

1.Plain bone-deep laziness
2.Extreme absent-mindedness (I forget I own a blog)
3.Too much of watching movies
4.Day dreaming in the remaining time
5.Hang out with friends doing nothing
6.And rarely loss of coherent thinking to put my ideas together.

Is this the same way for others or am I the only one feeling this way?
BTW, is this a dumb topic? :O

In Memory Of Those Who Died Waiting For The Classes To End..

Economics, accounts, statistics ,
Causes my head to spin.
All around me, I see a sea,
Of numbers which ignore my silent plea.

My ears are filled with a constant drone,
Creating a headache, to which I’m more prone.
My mind wanders off to distant places,
On horses and ships, into empty spaces.


An occasional glare, brings me back,
The professor's lecture, doesn’t seem to slack.
What goes into my head, only God knows,
What enters one ear, through the other it goes.

A rainy day @ IFMR

Nose Blocks and Early Mornings..

I have the peculiar habit of waking up early in the morning, stepping out of the house and taking a deep breath to fill my lungs with the fresh air. Anybody who has done it would know the joy in it. The way the ozone laden air fills the lungs. It’s a feeling that has to be experienced. Well, today as usual after much swearing at the alarm I finally got out of the bed and went out for my breathing ritual. I closed my eyes and with a tiny smile playing on my lips, breathed deeply and….. found that I couldn’t draw the air in!!!! My nose was blocked. Now to explain the feeling I would like to make a small comparison. Have you ever tried to suck air through a straw with the open end blocked? I had the same feeling. Immediately I understood that the reason for the block was a glass of lemon juice, which I had believed was quite safe. Frantically, I tried breathing again and felt one of the nostrils giving way. A rush of relief flowed through me. Pressing the free nostril with a finger, I tried breathing through the blocked one and again got the ‘stuck’ feeling. Now it was near emergency according to me. After ransacking the house to find the bottle of Tiger Balm, during which I discovered one long-lost shoe, my favorite teddy bear mug and water color set, I finally found it ensconced in the corner of the showcase. In my panic, I massaged it all over my nose. What followed a minute’s relief could only be described as inferno. A stinging started from the area around the nose and spread till my ears. Now it was a frantic run to sink and splashing my face with water and drying it vigorously. Finally when I was done and took a relieved breathe… the nose got blocked again!!

A new beginning...

Finally after much pushing and prodding from my friends, i have my own personal little space where i can chatter about anything above the earth and below the heaven. Even beyond the boundaries of both. Let me tell you, this is an exhilarating feeling. A sense of freedom... Something like getting a driving license or flying a plane... Or riding a horse with the wind whipping ur hair all over ur face at a hell-for-leather speed. So in my first post, am going to comment on the very thing which made this freedom possible. Technology. Man, can there be a world without technology? I often doubt it. I wonder how people would have toasted their breads before a toaster was discovered. Or reached a place on time before the invention of engines. A life without tooth brush, paste, vehicle, washing machine, phone, pen, spectacles(had it not been discovered a lot of people wud be half blind!!!!), etc is unimaginable. I don't say impossible because people have lived without these for more years than we have lived with these. But having that level of patience, which is equivalent to sitting and watching a sapling grow into a tree, is amazing!!

But.. That's a pretty BIG 'but'..

Friends, Humans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury technology, not to praise it;
The evil men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones,
So let it be with technology...

When Alfred Nobel discovered dynamite, he never would have imagined it would wreck so much havoc. Almost 125 years after its discovery, dynamite still reigns!! Many a brave men have fallen prey to it and many still falling.. Technology has helped dynamite graduate from hazardous to fatal bombs, with constant updates making it powerfuler and powerfuler. Bombs have become the toys used by terrorists to instill fear and demonstrate their point. Whatever happened to peaceful talks to prove one's points? There was a time when V.K.Krishna Menon made a 8-hour-long speech in th UN defending India's actions on Kashmir, which still remains the longest ever delivered in the history of UN. A pity he didnt think of bombing a few cities to drive home his point!!
And talking about the effects of technology itself. The hole made by the latest technology in the ozone layer is big enough to let a NASA space shuttle pass through to the moon. The gap in the Antarctic ice shelf is so wide that a submarine can easily slide into the frozen waters. And the number of species getting into the extinct list is so large that it would make counting them the next time much easier.
If this is what people call 'technology-growing-at-leaps-and-bounds' .. Excuse me.. Am not the person for it. Men are so disillusioned that they think they own the world. They forget to consider the fact that they share it with millions of other creatures from microscopic amoeba to mind-boggling whales. From a tiny sand to majestic mountains. Drops of water to mighty oceans. And the concept of 'Live and let live' has been lost somewhere on the way.
It's high time we looked back at what we have left behind while on the pursuit of comfort.