Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Hope

When faced with an adverse situation your first reaction is despair, then follows numbness and a blank thought process and finally you begin to pick up the pieces and fight back. The human spirit is possibly the strongest entity that exists. Hope is not an illusion. Hope is the reason we are where we are.

Friday, July 21, 2006

She said

I have a bad habit of eavesdropping when I am in restaurants. I like to listen to people on the other table as it gives me a peek into their life for about half an hour. I find it pretty interesting.
Yesterday I heard two women/girls having a conversation over lunch at an Indian restaurant. They were Indians of course and I heard the following words at least 10 times during the course of conversation as expected.

Project
Green card
Programming
Software

And a few which I don’t remember anymore.

Saturday, July 15, 2006

Mr Singh

I commend my fellow Indians. I commend my fellow Indians for not reacting in an irrational manner. I commend my fellow Indians for practicing peace. We will prevail. Do not indulge in any kind of madness.
Mr Singh, please react. People are waiting for you to do the right thing. It is your duty to do so. There is a reason you have been given the power to decide. We have entrusted the power to you to make the choice in a calculated and rational manner. People are waiting. Act now before there is a chaotic reaction from the people to the madness that we just witnessed in Bombay. Communicate to people as to what exactly you are doing and keep them posted. We should not forget. There are no reasons to.
We have to get to the bottom of what happened. Find people responsible for the blasts, bring them to justice or rid them of the face of the earth. Mr Singh, it is your choice. Whatever it is, do it and tell people what the hell you are doing or trying to do.

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Stop

I have an impending feeling of gloom in my heart. India is on fire, Israel is on the offensive and Iraq is a boiling pot. The world is falling apart. I wish the madness would stop. I wish peoples and nations would stop provocating each other. There is too much of capability to destroy. There will be catastrophic results. These wars if they bloom will be like destruction never seen before. We have to stop. Please stop. Please think.

Monday, July 10, 2006

Oak Tree

Went grocery shopping to oak tree road yesterday. Another reason we went there was because my wife wanted to eat chaat. The sun was setting by the time we left the chaat place. It was raining down brightly on the Catholic Church at an angle and the church looked pristine. As I was walking by it, I saw a Muslim gentleman praying on the lawns of the church. He was facing the church and praying with his shoes off and a rug on the ground. I wish I had taken a picture. I was elated.
It is what it is.

Sunday, July 09, 2006

New England, the place to be.

The weekend of the 4th, I was away up in the mountains with my wife. In the state of New Hampshire and in a small town called Jackson by the foot of the great White Mountains. We stayed in a nice quite Inn with a spa.
The good part was that we were in the country. The bad part was both of us were down with a cold and a cough. Pretty bad feeling when you are all clogged up, spewing out phlegm and blowing mucous. Didn’t do jack shit. Well, we didn’t get to see as much as we wanted to. We went up Mount Washington. Didn’t drive up because we bought a new SUV and the lady at the counter said that we would be taking a year off the transmission and brakes.
Incidentally, Gawker and I had made this trip up the mountain around 6 years ago. His Jetta was new too but no one told us anything about it. I called him and told him that he practically fucked up his car the week he bought it and as usual we had an arguement about how he would still be macho enough to take it even if he knew he was going to fuck it up while i said that knowing him and how much he loved his card, he would have never taken it up the mountain if he knew. It is one scary drive. There are no railings and there is a big drop waiting for you if you do not gauge your turns. Coming to back to last weekend, we took the shuttle to the top of the mountain where there was a crazy wind blowing at about 80 miles an hour. We went up, took some pictures and then came down. After that we ended up going to “Spicy Lime”, a Thai restaurant which was pretty good food and had some Singha beer. We also did quite a lot of shopping up there. There was this Ralph Lauren store in North Conway which we visited and I lost my mind there. Off late, I have been enamored by POLO apparel to a great extent and am spending a lot of money buying shirts, t shirts, shorts and anything I can lay my hands on. I have to stop it.
Anyways, my wife and I ended up doing some trekking, taking a trip up the mountains and shopping. I drank beer everyday as it was my right to do so even though I was dying of a cold and cough. I somehow feel it really doesn’t make a difference. I am an idiot anyways. I will post some pictures. The weather was perfect but the physical being was not up to it. It is a good place to be if you are feeling good. You can trek, take the cruise, go up the mountain and walk around. It was fun but it was also fun to be back in jersey and watch TV on my big ass TV. We had a TV in our room which was a LCD screen and was as small as my laptop. Fucking pain in the ass.
Planning on going white water rafting with my wife and BIL. Called gawker and asked him to join me but apparently he is scared. Fucking wuss.
Today, everything looks good. Today, everything is peaceful. Today, there is equilibrium between what is and what should be. Alas, today is never the same.

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