IAQs & As

You must have seen FAQs(Frequently Asked Questions) in one place or the other.You also must have seen the Q&As published in glossy magazines -sort of a mini interview of celebrities.Well ..I thought what would I do if someone asked me such questions, and since I am no celebrity( I mean ..not yet ;-)) these questions would seldom be asked, they would be infrequently asked questions & answers(IAQs & As).

I completely agreee this is as self-indulgent as it gets but as they say ..what the HECK !!

Here I go :

Q1.You salivate when ..... ?

I see Katerina Kaif,Carmen Electra & Authentic Mughlai Food (In no particular order..)

Q2. You drool over .... ?

Intelligence, self-sufficiency and honesty and sometimes over Jessica Alba too ;-)

Q3.Life is....

Pointless

Q4.Friends are ...

neccessay evils

Q5.Love is ...

I am clueless about it.

Q6.War is ...

Occupation of perverts....

Q7.Music is...

To each his own

Q8.Books are...

my favourite escape from the real world.

Q9.Biggest threat to the world ...

Religion, Terrrorism and Global Warming(In that particular order)

Q10.You cringe when...

• Someone is denied his freedom of expression by violent means.


• People don't know what they are talking about.


• I hear of any kind of religious violence, I feel like shooting all who did that.

Q11.You feel happy when...

• I am reading a good book


• I behave like a gentleman(happens very rarely)

Q12.What you want to be ??

Nothing that I am already not.

Enough of it now , even I am tired ....now it is your turn ..go ahead ...answer these IQAs for yourself.

Signing Off
Amitabh

White Flag-Dido

Why does it happens that sometimes we listen to a song that we instantly identified with ....all the emotions and the feelings.It seems as if I were a lyricist I would have written exactly something like it.Seems like a leaf out of my own life, wonderful !! Isn't it ?I guess songs/books/poems are written for their own sake but maybe the commanality we all share make them universally appealing.

This is a song I found from a fellow blogger ( http://www.melodycalledlife.blogspot.com/ ).

So beautiful this song is ..I couldn't resist myself posting it.Dido Rocks ?? Indeed :-)

"White Flag"

I know you think that
I shouldn't still love you,
Or tell you that.
But if I didn't say it,
well I'd still have felt it
where's the sense in that?

I promise I'm not trying to make your life harder
Or return to where we were
I will go down with this ship
And I won't put my hands up and surrender
There will be no white flag above my door
I'm in love and always will be

I know I left too much mess and destruction
to come back again
And I caused nothing but trouble
I understand if you can't talk to me again
And if you live by the rules of "it's over"
then I'm sure that that makes sense

I will go down with this ship
And I won't put my hands up and surrender
There will be no white flag above my door
I'm in love and always will be
And when we meet
Which I'm sure we will
All that was thereWill be there still
I'll let it pass
And hold my tongue
And you will think
That I've moved on....

I will go down with this ship
And I won't put my hands up and surrender
There will be no white flag above my door
I'm in love and always will be

I will go down with this ship
And I won't put my hands up and surrender
There will be no white flag above my door
I'm in love and always will be...
- Dido

The sad demise of Sachin Tendulkar

It is with great sorrow and sadness I have to tell you that Sachin Tendukar , Son of Ramesh Tendulkar , the heartthrob of millions, died yeseterday while he was playing with Bangladesh in the 2nd Test Match.Fittingly enough the last innings of the record century maker from India also was a century, though we will try not to deliberate how it was made.

He was not feeling well for quite sometime suffering from should-i-score-centuries-or play-cricket-for-the-team, and not unexpectedly failing on both the fronts.His last healthy appearance on the field was recorded when he was playing against West Indies in Malaysia in slog overs, doing what he does best to a mediocre bowling usually , teaching how not to bowl to him, which pretty much meant not bowling to him at all.

His last days have been thoroughly recorded as a real life case study of the ever interesting theme of "Death of a Genius".His last days was very much notable for the eagerness he showed for scoring centuries, and doing whatever it takes to achieve it which sometimes meant a kid growing up and learning how to say four letter words before Sachin reached to his coveted Hundred from "Nervous Ninties". There are some insane people around who are accusing him of playing a little defensive, now who can make them understand that it all depends upon team needs and the quality of bowling attack one is facing(Did someone just said it was Bangladesh or we had already scored three hundred runs for 1 wicket??).They are plain stupid people who expect him to score on every juicy half-volley or a spinner pitching the ball on half-pitch on a dead pitch.Shut Up you morons !!! If the game was so easy every Brayan Lara would have become Sachin Tendulkar.I mean you don't do easy things, do you ? You do complicated things and then give even more complicated explanation of such complicated doings if somebody bothers to ask.Yeah I know that is not cricket , but Whatever !!

Anyways this is just too much to be addressed in a obituary.Let me go ahead and tell you the cause of death so that we don't have to ask like a stupid in the funeral ...." What the hell happened " when everybody is trying so hard to decide the amount of glycerine to get the desired effect for such a socially important event.According to experts( just take my words for it, they are experts !! ), he died of ECS( Excessive-Caution-Syndrome) which got aggravated by "Make-my-place-secure- anxiety-attack" which normally succeeds an extended " I-have-got-only-5-Crore-worth- -commercial-this-year-complex" .

This world is harsh and harsher is the death of someone we love, but we have to learn to live without them and though we know it is going to be difficult, we all going to try to live wihout you.

Sachin, the one who hit the bowlers all over the park and the one whose batting was the elixir of our cricketing life(if there was such thing),

WE WILL MISS YOU !!

ADIEU !! May you rest in peace , forever.

Musings of a Melancholy Mind

• Life seems fairer in retrospect,than it actually is.

• Dreams are there to make life more bearable.

• Don't take yourself too seriously,you might become the only one to do so.

• Friends let you sing, even if you are not the best singing bird in the woods.

• Money is the greatest sedative in history of mankind.

• Life becomes a lot easier with a God handy for cursing.

• Being human is not an excuse for not being perfect.

Just Like That !

Destiny (or simply put it, Life’s trajectory) is a strange thing. You never get to know the reasons for many things that happen to you, even when you seek them with intense ferocity. Utterly inappropriate as it is, still you can't help shrieking WHYYYY at such times.

Maybe the simple answer is ...there are no reasons for anything that happens to you, it happens because it has to and you become what you are because you have to. Maybe there is no answer too...leave alone the possibility of there being a simple one. And these questions, sought reasons remain orphans much to agony of the seekers of their answers.

Destiny, kismet, luck and what not is nothing but an idea which help to keep many people sane as they should be for the greater good.(I m not sure of 'should be'....but what the heck ? then I am also not sure of 'greater good' too).

There are other ideas too, Idea of GOD, of divine intervention, of Karma, of afterlife, of heaven, and of hell etc etc. Why do we believe in all of them even when none of them seems to have a tangible existence ? (I know these were not supposed to be tangible..but I ask just for the sake of it ).Nevertheless even intangible things have some kind of tangible or demonstrable proof of existence for example Gravity, Force and many other. Well my aim here is not to question the existence of such things(pardon me for saying so..'things' ? )I m only saying that even if we don't know the truth about GOD and many other ideas ...will the truth be any better ? Will the proof that God is non-existent make life of some people any better?(leaving some idiosyncratic atheists like me aside) Will this world would become any better place to live ?

Tell me how comforting it is for a person who lost his dear ones in Tsunami that it was nothing but a mere consequence of some rumbling at the bottom of the sea thousand miles away ?If you suggest this you might be called a heartless bast*** ,never mind the fact that it IS the truth anyways. But when somebody say that it is Mother nature's way of taking revenge from humans or It all because of God’s wish, the victim despite of his irreplaceable loss finally accept this as his 'FATE'. In the extreme situation(though not very rare) as a penance for something wrong he must have done in the past or some other life.

My understanding of this phenomenon remains at best cursory, but even I understand why people use these anodyne to comfort someone. Knowledge of truth does not necessarily make a person happier. So if that is not the case, these words of comforts are all that one would expect from his fellow human being and doing so is no felony.

Meanwhile LIFE keeps on running sometimes lazily, sometimes hastily and sometimes frantically on the zigzag tracks of its own without a bigger design, without much thought about where to go. Seekers of reasons and ultimate truth, sooner or later feel disillusioned in their hopeless pursuit and give up , those who refuse to give up, DIE.

And life goes on ,JUST LIKE THAT.