Go skydiving and find out how hard I can scream while am at it.

Join a dance class.

Learn some more French.

Read some Russian authors.

Stop whiling away time.

Learn to whistle.

Learn to sing one annamaya keerthana.

Lose my love handles.

Visit the bazaars of Istanbul to buy myself a Turkish carpet and eat yummy food while I’m at it.

Get myself a book from Shakespeare and company and sit at a Parisian café and pretend to be in search of love.

To go see where Anne frank lived.

To eat yummy waffles.

To live in an old Moroccan home for a week, eat the food, get the massages and live the sand, the sun and the drums.

To own my very own bookshop.

Get a nice picture of myself clicked.

Sit down and search for my favorite music.

cut my hair and get it styled!

Check out Vienna and find out what the hype is about.

Gondolas and Venice cant be missed.

First I have to do an India trip.

Writing a book can never be far behind.

For now I’ll suffice with this………

I did!! Fortunately or unfortunately for my country I did, and so did many other ‘inspired’ souls. Source of inspiration being the umpteen sexy VJs, actors, actresses and some very highly motivated groups of youngsters one kept bumping into virtually.

True to the ‘jaago re’ campaign, we did wake up and enrol ourselves in the voters list. Now the question, is not if you did get to the polling booth, but how many out there did anything more than just buying the right T-shirt or getting the hairstyle right for the occasion. How many knew at least the candidates names before they stepped in to vote. The work they had done, work they hadn’t done, the background and the likes. Oh!! So you thought if the name has a nice ring to it, you’d go for it.

You did vote, you did use your right but until the right is explored and utilised to its full extent, it’s still a right gone waste. To get the young India to the polling booths is a task accomplished, but its still a job half done. Time to make them realise that the dot is more than a style statement. Its time to ask not if you did vote but if you did VOTE RIGHT???

I was reading today about the dark times of medieval ages in Europe, and it got me thinking. I noticed that even then they were men who committed gruesome acts with shameless ease and some others who could truly be called noble and kind.

So why then do we hear so often the statement” what is the world coming to”, you say cause the intensity, the numbers and deviousness of crimes committed again and again have increased; but I say the world was always the same, ever since man turned human from the animal he was. The world has always had its periods of exacerbated unrest and unruliness, until one learns to tackle it followed by relative quite and peace. So mankind learns its lessons and moves on, but we forget that the lessons are well learned by both the relatively human sections of the society and also the other sect, the side we call the criminals.now history repeats itself, fortunately or unfortunately its never exactly the same, so until we realise and relearn our lessons, the damage has already been done.

This is not a theological discussion on why do we have such scourges in our world. I write this cause it scares me, its not the offences or crimes committed, nor is it the offenders themselves that scare me so. For someone like me who believes that everybody is born kind, it’s the unkindness that is adsorbed, who believes that all are humane basically, what scares me the most is the reason behind the change from human to the likeness of demons of age old lore. It’s not as much the act of theft, pilferage, terror, murder and rape but the cause that shakes me so. I don’t mean to say that the acts themselves don’t sometimes give me nightmares. But that the reason why someone turns into a monster and continues to commit these scornful acts without regret and remorse, is what one should be even more frightened of.

I don’t know what the true reasons are, be it hunger and poverty, be it a loss of morality, be it the loss of belief in retribution to be meted out, whatever it may be; if it can cause this change in some, why wont it be plagiarizing a million others.

Someone once asked me why people want to write?why the hype about a book written,the numerous blogs and attempts to add to the zillion words printed and read everyday??i dint have an answer,which was weird cause i'm one of those ardent readers who cant live without books..well yea i enjoy them but why the hype,some guy or gal can put together a few words which mostly make sense and seem to use proper grammar and the likes...so what?big deal!! is what most of my peers would say.so it all boils down to why then does the world want to write those books(bloody books sounds nice but i thought it would offend the books)
so i sat down to reason this out..
lets see the first reason that comes into my mind is that they want to be famous,the wrold knows them and their egos get a massage but there sure are other easier ways to get famous i'm sure..then we have the 'leave an indelible mark in the history of mankind' for the coming generations to appreciate their work and know about their forefathers..but who thinks that far!!!ofcourse the only reason could be that they spent years going to proper schools learning english and grammer and now that they finally know where the I goes in Mary and I,they want to display to the world their knowledge..i reject the before said theory based on my belief that the human race is much more complex than that.
humans have been around for a long while they say,based on the skulls and paraphernalia found.the most we know bout the latter part of our history is because man developed this unique art of wirtting down what he saw around him..but did the egyptians really care that their heiroglyphics were reaching us,or did it matter to the sumerians that their writtings are a tad bit difficult to decipher and the aegeans,did they suffer because we dont know how their mighty civilisation perished.So why then did they write..
i personally think its the power..the power to influence thought,sometimes more than just influence,but to put the very thoughts into the minds of the reader.Even the most powerful of the politicians and leaders have a difficult time controlling thoughts but books and authors can influence even the most intelligent peruser of his text.lets take for instance the events leading to the declaration of independence of the state of israel and the turmoil that still goes on,when i read a jews side of the story,i appreciate their courage,wit,think them just and identify with them but the next day when i read bout the plight of the displaced palestinians,refugees in their own state,bound to centuries of tradition,bedouin culture and a religion which thrives on cruelty for thats the way of life the desert has taught them;i come close to understanding their fight and maybe some even support their cause.
I think this is the sole reason one writes,cause nothing,Believe me nothing beats POWER in our human way of life..

 

Douglas Adams;i really dont know if he is the kinds one tends to categorize as a genius,but when i say that he was one creative chap,i do so without worries about contrary opinions.you think he is good,you think he is bad,you think he is awesome,think wat you may think but creative you cant argue about.I also think he would have made "perfect date" material in his hey days,you know when he was alive and kicking,and when he wasnt thinking of ways to cheer up marvin;i mean the guy could think of the weirdest,most eccentric things,which incidently are more often than not funny too...what else does a girl want from a conversation.how can one forget that he is so busy thinking of life,the universe and evrything,that he has very little time to ponder over trivial matters like sex,atleast on the first date...Well moving on to the book its a funny book,just like the eskimos have two hundred odd words describing different types of snow,this book is a good source if you want to come up with two hundred odd words describing humor.There is just funny,rollling on the floor funny,side aching funny,you know its going to be funny so you dont find it funny enough funny,there is just a smile on your face funny,smile turning into a mild laugh funny,blatant funny,blasphemous funny,absurd funny,you cant believe someone get so mundane funny,creative funny,eccentric funny and sometimes constant mind numbing you need a break from funny funny..well there is more but guess you can just read the book for details.i almost forgot there is a tad bit of sci fi in it too..