Owing to some of my friend's lazy office hours, I came across this particular link
http://www.totebo.com/monkey-kick-off.php.
And on one lazy sunday having nothing better to do I tried a little monkey-kick-off. Initially I was absolutely pathetic! Then I relaised it is all about timing. If you can simply match a little of you timing, you can easily score some 5000 monkey-mts.
It is so relevant, isn't it? The 'perfect timing' thing. People who are involved in sports will agree that it needs the perfect timing to score a goal or a six or that smash. Even if everythign was great little dilly-dallying and you will end up messing it all. Not just sports actually, the other day at lunch, we were discussing about the movie 'Welcome'. Everyone was unhappy about it. And yet it seemed to have attracted a large crowd. One would wonder why. One of us pointed it out - the timing. New year time, nothing else to go to except Welcome or TZP. Some light-minded people would actually end up choosing comedy of Welcome over the seriosness of TZP.
In fact doesn't it matter in almost everythign else in life - that perfect time to enter the GD i always miss that), the perfect time to question or or even answer something, the perfect time to take leave, the perfect time to call someone, the perfect time to propose, the perfect time to leave your job, the perfect time to invest, the perfect time to buy/sell shares, the perfect time to open a business... add some more to the list for eg the perfect time to write a blog(actually there is no such thing, no not for blog :D )
I had been doing some perfect timing things recently. The other day I just found the perfect time to mess up my work. :D
Oh btw in case you have nothing to do on a lazy sunday, try this --> http://www.gamedesign.jp/flash/domino/domino.html
Let me know how you fared. :)
[PS: If you havent watched TZP yet, please do
Btw TZP is Taare Zammen Par - in case you didn't understand]
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
Another Year - 2008
It might make sense but forget it! For me, New Year is a time when I look back to see what it had been and then look forward to see what it might be. Of course, it need not be new year to do so but I prefer that because it saves me from the fractional months.
In a way, the past year gave me a lot. If ever there has been a drastic change in my life, this year would be considered first and foremost. I got my first job, left my college, got my first salary... and so many more. There had been things I never anticipated, things I dreaded for my entire life, and things I hoped for. Just too many things to list out.
Now lets see what the next year brings for me!
Happy New Year to all of you.
(Don't ponder on what my friend said. Enjoy every moment you live! )
Sunday, December 16, 2007
The Kite runner - some thoughts.
Yesterday someone was asking why I prefer fictions to non-fictions. She asked if it is fantasy that I look for, do i try to run away from reality. To tell the truth, I was caught off-guard. It actually is a truth. Books always give me a way to move around in a different world. But I didnt see it as 'running away' atleast not until she said so. It was something I didnt want to agree to. I'd rather have agreed if she had used the word 'escape' and not 'run-away'. I replied that its not fantasy of the fiction that fascinates me, its the creativity of the author, the ability to create characters, world, situations in his book. Yet when I read "The Kite Maker", I felt it ring like reality, no make-believe world there and that fascinated me more.
It is a sad story. So I was told. So I found. But actually it is much more than just a sad story.
Here are aome thoughts that I found in the book.
And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too. [Page - 48]
It is difficult to know which is harder, to think everyone means what they say or to think nobody means what they say. To decide who means and who does not is probably the hardest. Yet this should be the way. Isn't it? How do these people react when they discover the superficial world around them? Do they break down or do they too get drowned. Is it possible to live genuinely when everything around you is superficial? For Hassan it was. He moved away, or rather was moved away, far way and finally farther away. But what happens when moving away is not one of the options? Or may be such people don't exist, are not let to exist.
Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the VOLUME knob on life.
Silence is pushing the OFF button. Shutting it down. All of it. [Page - 315]
This gives a new perspective to "silence". I never thought it this way. I may have been wrong. We do sometimes shut down our windows. Pull their shutters down. In some way or the other everyone does that till we need that sunlight again, till we want to feel the wind again. But not forever, not forever. Yet do you think it can happen that we just forget that shutters can be up again?
Running after butterflies
When I started blogging, I didnt intend it to be my online journal - the ones that say 'i went to office today, we had a lot of work... etc'. I wanted it to be the window that would connect my thoughts to outside world. I wanted to catch the momentarily fleeting thoughts and pen them down here. May be that precisely is the reason why my post count has dwindled over time. It will be wrong to say that thoughts don't fleet anymore. They do but I just don't get to pen them down.
It is something like, you see the colourful butterflies, you smile but you don't run after them like you used to. It has nothing to do with the absence of butterflies, nothing to do with your growing up, nothing to do with your not being able to catch them - because catching was never the fun, it was always the running after them- yet today you just don't run after them.
Why do you think, we stopped running after them? Was it that we realised the futility of it? Or is it that we forgot to have fun or may be we just changed our ways to have fun. Then again, what actually is 'funny'. So often I find the distinction between humour and sarcasm blurring. I realise laughing is not an indeliberate effect anymore but actually a deliberate action. We laugh because we are supposed to. We smile for the same reason.
I wandered away (as usual). I was talking about blogs. Sometimes I wonder there are so many blogs in this blogsworld that have been abandoned, lost, left unfinished, forgotten, ... dead. Its all like phases you know, we get crazy about something for sometime. One month, two at most then forgotten. Then I look at my blog and think how often did I come close to abandoning it. Yet what is it that brings me back again to run after the butterflies!
May be its not futile after all.
It is something like, you see the colourful butterflies, you smile but you don't run after them like you used to. It has nothing to do with the absence of butterflies, nothing to do with your growing up, nothing to do with your not being able to catch them - because catching was never the fun, it was always the running after them- yet today you just don't run after them.
Why do you think, we stopped running after them? Was it that we realised the futility of it? Or is it that we forgot to have fun or may be we just changed our ways to have fun. Then again, what actually is 'funny'. So often I find the distinction between humour and sarcasm blurring. I realise laughing is not an indeliberate effect anymore but actually a deliberate action. We laugh because we are supposed to. We smile for the same reason.
I wandered away (as usual). I was talking about blogs. Sometimes I wonder there are so many blogs in this blogsworld that have been abandoned, lost, left unfinished, forgotten, ... dead. Its all like phases you know, we get crazy about something for sometime. One month, two at most then forgotten. Then I look at my blog and think how often did I come close to abandoning it. Yet what is it that brings me back again to run after the butterflies!
May be its not futile after all.
Saturday, November 24, 2007
'Transit'
Most of the time, like most of the people, I find 'transit' periods awfully boring. Waiting for the results of an important exam (ask the 2007 CAT-takers :D), the duration between getting a job and leaving the college, the duration when you wait for your interview, the time when your preparation is mostly done and the examination seems to arrive too slowly, the time when train/flight gets late, the time when your work is done but you still have to wait in the office because its just too early to leave, traffic signals, long queues (for the movie, in the stores, bill payment, mess, etc), and many more.
Yet to think that the trip to home this Diwali had longer transit duration than the journey duration! The 'to' had a transit duration of 6 hours and the 'fro' had 9 hrs that makes a total of 15 hrs while total flight duration was at most 10 hrs. Both of these transit periods were spent in the Mumbai Airport. In the 6 hrs one, I had company so it was not at all irksome. But the 9 hrs were spent alone (mostly). The question however is 'was it then really tiresome?'. Well, not really.
I reached Mumbai at 9.30pm. Went on to the departure lounge and waited. For company I had phone, book and fm. Not bad. Once in a while some airport officer would come and ask if I was fine , tell me where I could find snacks/tea/coffee. The couple next to me had their flight at 5.30am. They left early but while they were there we had small chats about how bad the waiting lounge was, that Mumbai airport should have some kind of waiting room, and that it actually used to have. Other than this I was continuosly talking on phone (having arguments actually) during the early hours when it wasnt time to go to sleep for them. For the rest of the time I was busy probing into Orhan Pamuk's "My name is Red" and listening to the songs played on fm. (This finally discharged my cell and I had to stand and get it charged --> this too took some time :D)
Before long it was already time to get up and get going.
I didn't feel the passage of time. May be I didn't take it as a transit but rather as a part of the journey. Sitting there while I was observing the surroundings I thought it is stupid to think that our life stops during transits. Why, there was motion everywhere even in the 'waiting' of passengers, their loitering, reading, talking, and even dozing off.
Yet to think that the trip to home this Diwali had longer transit duration than the journey duration! The 'to' had a transit duration of 6 hours and the 'fro' had 9 hrs that makes a total of 15 hrs while total flight duration was at most 10 hrs. Both of these transit periods were spent in the Mumbai Airport. In the 6 hrs one, I had company so it was not at all irksome. But the 9 hrs were spent alone (mostly). The question however is 'was it then really tiresome?'. Well, not really.
I reached Mumbai at 9.30pm. Went on to the departure lounge and waited. For company I had phone, book and fm. Not bad. Once in a while some airport officer would come and ask if I was fine , tell me where I could find snacks/tea/coffee. The couple next to me had their flight at 5.30am. They left early but while they were there we had small chats about how bad the waiting lounge was, that Mumbai airport should have some kind of waiting room, and that it actually used to have. Other than this I was continuosly talking on phone (having arguments actually) during the early hours when it wasnt time to go to sleep for them. For the rest of the time I was busy probing into Orhan Pamuk's "My name is Red" and listening to the songs played on fm. (This finally discharged my cell and I had to stand and get it charged --> this too took some time :D)
Before long it was already time to get up and get going.
I didn't feel the passage of time. May be I didn't take it as a transit but rather as a part of the journey. Sitting there while I was observing the surroundings I thought it is stupid to think that our life stops during transits. Why, there was motion everywhere even in the 'waiting' of passengers, their loitering, reading, talking, and even dozing off.
Sunday, November 18, 2007
New Look again!
What a mess that was!!! How did you ppl even manage to visit it??? :D
Well after lot of experiments I settled at this particular template. The colour is not what I generally choose but the theme still is from my favorites.
A few days back, I deleted all my poems and there from my blogs. Some of you might have noticed. Did you wonder why? If you are, by any chance, curious, then your answer lies in this particular link: http://sanjumomentum.blogspot.com/
Have a look. Looks familiar? Familiar picture? Familiar entries? Some of you might be actually reading this not on my blog but on the blog mentioned above.
I came across this blog on 19th Sept 2007, it was after this that I went away on hiatus but I guess now I am back for good.
There is soooooooo much to write and sooooooooooooo less time. :(
I will take some days to make up for the gap.
But c you soon.
This post can be treated as 'old'. The link given above does not have much relevance anymore. Not deleting or editing it but keeping it as a memento. [Edited by Anki on 24/12/2007]
Well after lot of experiments I settled at this particular template. The colour is not what I generally choose but the theme still is from my favorites.
A few days back, I deleted all my poems and there from my blogs. Some of you might have noticed. Did you wonder why? If you are, by any chance, curious, then your answer lies in this particular link: http://sanjumomentum.blogspot.com/
Have a look. Looks familiar? Familiar picture? Familiar entries? Some of you might be actually reading this not on my blog but on the blog mentioned above.
I came across this blog on 19th Sept 2007, it was after this that I went away on hiatus but I guess now I am back for good.
There is soooooooo much to write and sooooooooooooo less time. :(
I will take some days to make up for the gap.
But c you soon.
This post can be treated as 'old'. The link given above does not have much relevance anymore. Not deleting or editing it but keeping it as a memento. [Edited by Anki on 24/12/2007]
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
On a brief note.
I dont know if any of you remember my post "Reality or rainbow??!! " (Check the link in case you don't).
Anyways I came across this article today "Your world is in your brain" (Read for yourself!)
See I always told you so :D
(Pretty pressed for time now, hence no updates. wait till Oct. or better still till Nov.)
-@nk!
Anyways I came across this article today "Your world is in your brain" (Read for yourself!)
See I always told you so :D
(Pretty pressed for time now, hence no updates. wait till Oct. or better still till Nov.)
-@nk!
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