Learnt a very valuable lesson today. Never strive to know everything or never ask for everything, you may end up getting it. Feeling disgusted now! Nonetheless. As always music was there to comfort me.
I’m not in the mood to write or do anything for that matter. Just uploading a couple of songs that helped me heal today. These belong to my super list of I-CAN-LITEN-TO-THIS-SONG-AT-ANY-GIVEN-POINT-OF-TIME.
I’m back to my bickering. Cant help it much. When I see nonsense and I’m not allowed to do what I’m supposed to, it bothers me.
Traffic and the Desi attitude: By far, I find this to be the most annoying one. Everybody wants to go first. Picture this – where there’s traffic on one end, all the vehicles from the other end will just cram up wherever there’s space. Numb skulls dont realize that its clogging the whole freaking road. The point is “Even if I dont get it its fine, but I need to ensure that YOU dont get it.” And to do this, we’ll break signals, bribe the Pandus, runover innocnet people. Killing people here is not that big a crime if you got the power of Vitamin M. Again the same shit starts. Buy witnesses, kill ‘em or destroy them, bribe babus.. Somewhere I feel Mustaine had India in mind when he was writing Killing is my business.
Mob Mentality: This you can find everywhere. Where there are queues, mob mentality makes its ugly presence felt. Simplest of all examples. Lunch time and Cafeteria. Instead of behaving in a disciplined way and waiting for my turn, I’ll just pounce on the guy who’s serving food. I’ll just shove my plate into his face and scream “Dal Rice aur pappad”. I’m not just alone there. There are scores and scores of hungry (since last few months, perhaps??) wolves who do this and this just scares the jeebies outta the poor guy on the other end. Most popular examples of it being our marriages, functions and festivals. My due respects to everyones’ sentiments, but just one thing. You book a hall or a hotel or a whatever, get inside that room and do whatever you feel like doing. Why block the roads with some band playing the lousiest of music and cause traffic? And when there’s traffic, refer above.
Crazy conversations at a holy place: Like, I come to this temple everyday, observe fast for 8 days a week (^&^#*(@#), my son is doing his PhD in USA (so???), my daughter cooks well and so on. C’mon! Who gives a damn! Your daughter being a good cook or son doing his PhD is not gonna be a life transforming piece of information to us. Just shut up, pray and get lost, will ya? On the hindsight, dear God, I feel sorry for you.
We’ll never understand that one doesnt need policing to behave well. Simple fact - Money can buy you everything, but not the basic etiquettes.
This was the view in the ground floor of my buidling at 12.00 noon today. The knee deep water had come down to ankle deep.This water was like: Water = Water+pee+poop+shit+crap+plastic bottles+plastic covers+plastic bags+Condoms. In short, it was everything plastic.
You hear my friends voice in the background.
This is probably the worst kept promise ever! Throughout May and June (or rather the whole year) all the leading dailies spoke about how preapred is Mumbai to combat the July rains.
Its July again and its pouring. Mumbai is AS USUAL raped. You really cannot blame the rains can you? If you want water to wash your arse, you need water. Beer doesnt help. And we Indians, dont really use paper to clean, do we?! So when its monsoon, let it rain. Let it fill the dams and the rivers. But when its gonna piss bad and that too in excess, has enough been done by the Govt to protect its very own people? The answer to this question lies in the question itself.
Mithi is overflowing and I’ve actually seen whats been done to CLEAN it up. There were weeds and other crappy plants and creepers as far as my eyes could see, the last time I saw. The same being 2 days back, on Sunday. All the roads (be it Santa Cruz/Vile Parle/Andheri/Goregaon/Kandivli) have been dug up. Supposedly to construct SkyWalks. ??????? Really? Where has the 1200 crores that was given for dealing with monsoons, unclogging and repair work of the drains, et al. evaporated? Disaster Management or Management Disaster? Will things ever improve? Where have my and my fellow men’s taxes gone?
Dying to hear what BMC commissioner now has to say.
Whether or not TOI carries RK Laxman’s daily You Said It, it’ll definitely talk about some Asian geting assaulted in the now infamous Australia. Articles go on to say how racism is a problem faced by Desis everywhere. I agree. But have you looked at what goes on in your house before checking out the shit in your neighbour’s place?
To begin with, ads after ads endorsing Fair n Lovely, Pond Fairness, Fairever, Emami Fair & Natural, etc for women. Shahrukh and John Abraham do their bit by being the face of Himani Fairness Cream and Garnier Fairness cream for men. Why? I mean why this obsessive need to look fair? Whats wrong if your skin produces “that” extra ounce of Melanin???? Aren’t we being racists here?
Next come the super annoying matrimonial ads. Need a “Fair”, good looking and well educated girl/boy blah blah blah.. Its amazing how qualifications take a back seat and FAIR is the first word! Amazing priorities. What if your would be groom/bride is a money sucking parasite, who has no respect for you or your parents? What if all that happns when they open their mouths is garbage flowing out? Ever thought about it? Why do you think girls or boys with darker complexions wont make good spouses? What are your reservations against them? And more importantly WHY??? Aren’t we being racists here?
The place where I stay, has a lot of citizens from Nigeria. Believe me, I’ve seen this happening. I was standing in the queue in front of my bank ATM. There was this guy who was standing ahead of me. A woman and her son behind me. The kid in all its innocence asked his mom “Why is this Uncle so dark?”. The answer that came out from his mom was “Coz he’s a Black/Negro”. I just wanted to slap the woman real hard. Couldn’t you have thought of anything better to answer your child? Aren’t we being racists here?
For many people, wearing an attire in black on auspicious days or during festivals symbolises something sad/evil. Why? Aren’t these lame beliefs man-made?? Whats the big deal? You like it, you wear it. Isnt that plain simple? Aren’t we being racists here?
For all the filmy people (Bollywood) out there who might defend themselves saying “We aint like that, we treat everyone equally”, I just have one question. In the movie Fashion, Priyanka Chopra’s character, Meghna Mathur feels she has hit rock bottom, after finds herself having slept with an African American. Why? Would she have felt the same had she slept with a Gora firang? And women in the theatre shed copious tears with her in the next scene.
Aren’t we being racists here? The answer is “Yes, we are racists too. Happily at that.”
Anyone who bumps into this page, please do NOT read any further. Its just some crap.
I dont know if I should continue writing or give it up for the sake of humanity. If you have ignored my warning and have ended up reading this post, you deserve to be tortured. Why the hell would you not listen to someone!
It feels like 567 degrees. Horrible climate. I start sweating the moment I step outside the bathroom, after a nice cool shower (that lasts for about 15 minutes) I mean. I’ve lost count of the number of Dermi Cool and Shower to Shower dabbas that I’ve emptied. Still no respite. GRRRR. GRRRRRRRRRRR. This climate makes me go GRRRRR…
Today, 6th May 2009, is a day that I wont forget in this lifetime.
The process that I’d set up after 5 months of meetings, concalls, endless approvals, raging chooran sessions, is in complete doldrums coz Ive shifted to some other unit and apparently there’s NO ONE to keep a track of it. I know for a fact that I’m dead from inside now. Have never felt so let down by anybody. Time again, it has been my own people who have trampled me. Its like I had a baby and now its gone. Believe me it hurts like hell. I wanted to cry but couldnt coz I was too shocked. I still am. More than being angry, I’m hurt. All the people who were readily available with their own opinions and comments, when the initial hiccups where guzzling my time, have just vaporised now. 5 months of investment (time, money, energy) has gone down the drain today.
In all, a very crappy day for me. Like Arun said, bad days here just dont seem to end for me.
Yes on the other hand, my resume can now boast of something that would definitely be noticed. Praise the Lord for this.
I’m really pissed. I’m badly and very badly pissed. I’ve been given some facts that I dont want to accept. I question them, but I know its futile. The facts are:
I really feel like taking a sword and start chopping off heads. Integrtiy is a lost word.
It bothers me to a large extent when people say I’M TRYING. I say, whats there to try? Just do it… What do you mean when you say you TRY? You either do it or dont do it. How the hell do you TRY doing or not doing it?? Bunch of crap!
Secondly, some people spend a major chunk of their precious energy at all the wrong places. WHY? Is there a point? What a waste!
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