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Tuesday, 06 March 2007

Excerpts from conversation with this nerdy, foolhardy but still very kool friend of mine ( 10 minutes back!) –

He called me from the bus stop, as he just missed his bus. Three minutes before the expected arrival of the next bus, guess what I get –
Stuckonthefilter: “Ok I gotta hang-up now. I have to get ready for the bus.”
Me: “ Uhh,..what!!!!”
Stuckonthefilter: “ Ya, you know, get my change out, properly…documents…( I didn’t hear the rest!”)
Me: “ Uhh,..what!!!!” Me laughing loudly
Stuckonthefilter: Well you know……………. WHAT?? ( I still didn’t hear”)
Me: “ You need to GET READY for the bus!!! Me falls on floor laughing!!!!!

Earlier in the same convo.

Stuckonthefilter: ………. I went jogging with Roopa yesterday.
Me: Now who’s Roopa? (He always has a new girl to talk about, so I lose track), sounds like an item-girl kinda name
Stuckonthefilter: It’s a nice name. I like short names, easier to pronounce….(and he goes on to elucidate)
Me: She sounds a bit weird.
Stuckonthefilter: She is not weird
Stuckonthefilter: She’s Australian
Me: Falls off chair and rolls on the floor laughing….
Stuckonthefilter: What????????
Me: She’s not weird, she’s Australian!!!!!

Continuing my convo with Stuckonthefilter and we are talking about best friends, here’s the cream of the cream.
Stuckonthefilter’s funda on why best friends would have an awkward fight. I dared asked him to enlighten me with his theory!
Stuckonthefilter: “Well if 2 people are best friends and they r of the opposite sex, then an awkward fight between them is usually b’coz one of them is Gay!!!!!!!!!!???!!!!!” ( If u didn’t get it - So they both like the same guy/girl which makes it awkward…)
And the first prize for an over-imaginative mind goes to...

Well, he speaketh from some teenage experience; dun ask me..I shall NEITHER ASK nor TELL...

You are a crazy dude Stuckonthefilter. Am glad you called today, I really needed this crazy laughing!

Currently Reading
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
By Malcolm Gladwell
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Tuesday, 19 December 2006

" People say that what we're seeking is a meaning for life.
I don't think that's what we're really seeking.
I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive,
so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive."

" We must be willing to get rid of
the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed
before the new one can come."

Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If you want to be with Rae, aren't you already there?
~ Richard Bach (from "There' No Such Place As Far Away) ~

There is nothing I can tell you
That you do not already know.
There is no question that you can ask me
That you Yourself cannot answer.
You have just forgotten.
~ David Littlewood (from 'Start To Live') ~

It's just awesome to have a good night's sleep and wake up at 7 in the morning rather than the usual sleep at 7.... I don't recall when was the last time that happened in months! Awesome feeling!!

Currently Listening
Romance of the Violin
By Claude Debussy, Fryderyk Chopin, Camille Saint-Saens, Franz Schubert, Vincenzo Bellini, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Alexander Borodin, Antonin Dvorak, Claudio Monteverdi, Jules Massenet, Robert Schumann, Michael Stern, Craig Ogden, Gregory Knowles, John Constable, Jacob Heringman, Stephen Orton
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Monday, 04 December 2006

"But love don't make things nice. It ruins everything. It breaks your heart. It makes things a mess. We aren't here to make things perfect. The snowflake is perfect. The stars are perfect. Not us. Not us. We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts and love the wrong people and die."

Jeff Megall: Gotta go. London. It's 7 AM in the Old Empire.
Nick Naylor: When do you sleep?
Jeff Megall: [pause] Sunday.

Currently Listening
Dark Sorcery
By Aeturnus
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Tuesday, 31 October 2006

Clueless who wrote this or where it came from, saw it lying within some of my old files and man.. it rocks! Kudos to the poet!
Selfish
Beware the introverted,
the painfully shy,
the dull and the depressed.
They will devour your spirit
and make you as empty as themselves.
Beware the weak,
the crippled, and the handicapped.
they will cling to you
like a parasite and a crutch,
while the rest of the herd trots away..
Beware the old,
the has beens, the veterans,
the grey and molding,
for age only makes a man senile
and stupid, and talkative, and boring.
Beware anyone who needs your help
Your company, your time,
your money, your love,
your sympathy, a favour
your advice..
They are leeches and lepers
who can give you nothing
save compliments and sweet words
for that's their only means
of ensnarement.
They'll bind you
in a web of obligations
And soon enough
they'll come to expect
deeds will turn into duty
should you shirk even once
they will never let you forget
how you let them down.
they will sabotage your peace
and stalk you without remorse
Do them and do yourself a favour
Cut your losses and run.
In the matters of love and affection,
always make a sound investment.
Compassion and sympathy
allude to the weakness in yourself.
Learn from nature and myth
an act of mercy wont
be returned in kind,
a good deed
is a bad debt.
- @ Unknown

Currently Listening
Ministry of Sound: 15 Years
By Various Artists
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Thursday, 12 October 2006

As I was telling someone earlier today, steer clear of corporate slavery for as long as you can ‘coz once it sucks you in, all it spits out is broken bones and metal… uhmm..maybe more metal than ash..
Unless, somewhere somehow you can break free of the cyclonic eye and join hands with the likes of the Google bro band.

Google buys YouTube for $1.65bn.
YouTube was only launched in February 2005, conceptualized by two tech savvy 20ish bright guys who worked on it for about 6 months off a garage.
6 months of work = $1.65bill dollar. Well atleast, they dun have to worry about their credit card debts now.

It’s ideas that sell and it’s all based on what you and I want.

You can break down the most complicated of things, business ideas into the most basic. It’s all about demands of the times and supply of ideas to fulfill them that become the end products; it’s all about human needs.

You can similarly break down the most complicated of human feelings and emotions to the most basic. And at the most basic level, all that you have is love and fear. Fear which stems from the lack of love, so all that you essentially have is love. Every emotion taken to its roots brings you to the most basic and the most profound.

There is truth in ancient proverbs – Always go to the root of the problem.. I would rephrase it – always go to the root of the issue. And what about – Love is all there is, or something to that effect.

You get the point but I digressed.

So yeah, Google buys YouTube for $1.65bn.

I aim to be a VC and invest in bright chaps with brighter business ideas. That’s my biz plan for now and today. So, any bright ideas people?

Currently Listening
Mutual Annihilation
By Negative Creeps
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