thoughts worth thinking

Why do I hate weekends

2007-09-05T00:16:00.001-05:00

1) I have to have a good answer to the question that is repeatedly asked on every Monday by everyone that I meet....
"How was your weekend?? what did you do??

2) Doing nothing / cleaning up your house / sleep / watching a movie is considered a sign of being a loner /loser

3) Drinking beer / getting wasted is the coolest thing ever

4) Going on a hike in the bright hot sun and getting sun burnt is the sign of loving adventure.

5) You get sympathy for having missed out on something you never wanted to do

6) Managing your bank work / other finances = geek /nerd

Alrite.. enuff said... whats my point here??? .. simple ...
making the best use of a weekend is strictly voluntary and very relative. For some it might be skydiving, for others it might be sitting in starbucks and blogging their thoughts.

Its the "getting away from the rigmarole" and "recharging your batteries" that counts not how you do it....

-JK

Superheroes

2007-01-07T03:11:00.000-06:00

I have always maintained that Spiderman is my favourite super hero because the whole comic book sort of makes sense to me. And the recent Spiderman movies have been great too and I am much awaiting Spiderman-3 , the trailer looks awesome.

Neways, whenever Spiderman is pitted against Superman, Batman and other superheroes in a discussion, I havent really bothered or cared as to why people are batman/ superman fans.

As I sat watching Kill Bill 2 (again) on a Saturday night, I was fascinated by the famous Tarantino monologue about Superman which gave me a completely new perspective about Superman and realised how people have their own unique reasons to love their superheroes.

Here's the monologue:

"As you know, I'm quite keen of comic books, especially the ones about superheroes. I find the whole mythology surrounding superheroes fascinating. Take my favorite superhero; Superman, not a great comic book, not particularly well-drawn, but the mythology; the mythology is not only great, it's unique.
Now, the staple of the superhero mythology is; there is the superhero and there is the alter ego. Batman is actually Bruce Wayne, Spiderman is actually Peter Parker; when that character wakes up in the morning, he's Peter Parker. He has to put on a costume to become Spiderman and it is in that characteristic, Superman stands alone. Superman didn't become Superman, Superman was born Superman. When superman wakes up in the morning, he's Superman. His alter ego is Clark Kent, his outfit with the big red “S”. That's the blanket he was wrapped in as a baby when the Kents found him. Those are his clothes. What Kent wears; the glasses, the business suit, that's the costume; that’s the costume that Superman wears to blend in with us. Clark Kent is how Superman views us, and what are the characteristics of Clark Kent; he’s weak, he’s unsure of himself, he’s a coward. Clark Kent is Superman’s critique on the whole human race, sorta like Beatrix Kiddo and Mrs. Tommy Plympton."

If you liked it check out this link on youtube - Superman monologue.

Goodbye 2006.... here comes 2007

2007-01-01T02:50:00.000-06:00

Its 2:50 am Eastern time... yes I am in NYC for New Year's weekend.. and being a California resident, I am blogging in my first hour of the year 2007.

Just wanted to put something in... coz I am so sure I wont get time to write any other time today... mostly mite sleep off all day before my flight to SFO this evening...

As I was thinking as to what to blog here on 1st Jan 2007, I thought of a lot of things... finally realised something I had heard while watching "Seinfeld". I dont need to specifically blog about something. Just like "The Pilot" in Seinfeld , I am going to blog... mostly about nothing...

lets see how that goes...

finally, NYC rocks and I must say it reminded me of Mumbai :)

last words,
Goodbye 2006 (was a wonderful year)....
and welcome 2007

Change

2006-12-20T03:29:00.001-06:00

There is only 1 thing in life thats constant.. "change"

What a statement... so simple and yet not so trivial...

It is this change which is the very essence of the journey of life.
How we take this change is upto us... how to be happy and haf fun with the new things that life gives us and to gracefully leave the past behind is something to learn...

What change gives us is a set of mixed emotions, .. a thrill of exploring new things and nostalgic memories of the past. It is with these mixed emotions that we take every big step of our life..or rather a different route in our journey of life...

and although we want to believe that everything is going to be fine...
what we all know or come to realise is that :
"Nothing is ever going to be the same again"

Perception

2006-09-03T12:57:00.000-05:00

Perception is a term that I use very frequently and I just realised that I use it very loosely.Before writing I checked up wikipedia and dictionary.com and this is what I struck upon.

Perception is the process of acquiring, interpreting, selecting, and organizing sensory information.

Neways, what I wanted to write here was how people perceive things and jump to conclusions.
I am amazed to see how people perceive things based on circumstantial evidence. As in, a certain logical sequence of events has to point to a certain consequence.
I had this argument with a friend as in how the real world works on probability and generalizing depending on higher probabilities and I just realised that I belong to the same set of people who do perceive things and conclude on the basis of circumstantial evidence.

I dont want to just circle around the issue, so to get to the point, this is what I want to say. Very few people know a lot about a certain person,event or thing. And a large majority knows very little about it. I do not say that people shouldnt have an opinion. But give it a little more insight, a little more credit than what you think about it or what you see, before you make a statement. Because circumstantial evidence mostly points to a very superficial view, and "there is always more to it than what meets the eye".

Do you read my blog????

2006-09-02T14:04:00.000-05:00

I have been awful at maintaining a blog in the past....
and there are a lot of people who have complained to me about the same...
Just needed to check how many people actually check my blog from the orkut link.

I'll see how many comments I get in a week.
So, if u do happen to visit my blog.... feel free to drop a comment
ciao

JK