Life can just get so weird sometimes. People whom you knew for years suddenly melt away and before you feel their emptiness , there are replacements in forms hard to imagine. Why there should be such jolts and jerks is beyond me. The concept of a single womb is long gone and has been replaced by something like an amoeba, forever changing. I'm surprised I'm not bewildered by it.

Sab kuch chalta hai...kyu?

I'm sick and tired of the cliched, overused and overrated phrase, " arre yaar, sab chalta hai. Adjust kar le." in its various forms that almost everyone in India seems to have adopted as their personal motto in life. Whether it refers to loading about a 100 people in a bus meant for 40 , or worse yet, and I kid you not, loading 15 people in an auto meant for 3, people seem to have no problem.
What I'm puzzled by is that these same people are ready to join all kinds of stupid unions and organizations to challenge the authorities for outrageous and useless demands like a new state, or recognition of some obscure tribal dialect as a national language or just for the fun of it.
I guess the immediate problems that people have to face are too difficult to face so they simply go into denial and think about far-off, futuristic things which gives them some measure of comfort.
What they fail to realise is that the only way to improve their life is to live in the present and that means tackling their present problems as well.

Fast Forward

The word generation-gap has become obsolete, since nowadays it doesn't take a generation's time to create a gap between people of differing ages. Maybe its because our culture has been put on
fast forward because of the rapid advance of technology or maybe its just me feeling like this, but the fact is that people having an age difference of as little as 10 years, even from the same social background, seem to have completely different takes on life. This might be particularly true for India which is undergoing a cultural revolution right now, in which people are finally becoming more liberal and open. In the past, it used to take years, even decades, to change the general view on even one little thing but today, its almost as if yesterday's mania is today's joke. I wonder when this accleration will end because if it doesn't, I may soon be a thing of the past.

P.S. The pic I've included is not really relevant to what I've written but it was just too funny to pass up.

White

Remember how you could see only your immediate surroundings in Age Of Empires and everything beyond was just black. Well reality seems to be copying this, only everything is white instead of black. The fog this morning as I was coming to office was incredible. It looks really beautiful but is probably the biggest nuisance, not to mention life-threatening,
to people travelling early in the morning. A no. of accidents were reported last night caused by it.
I myself saw three such incidents on my way today. Hoping that the fog lifts soon.

Return

Wow....its been a really long time since i last posted anything here.
A college without any facilities for internet didnot help either.
Well hopefully I'll remain connected now.
College is pretty much over and I'm doing my final training for my major project.
Once this is over, I'll be a certified engineer. Difficult to believe, I know.
But it had to happen sometime.