TRIFLE MUSINGS

2012 has finally arrived... After much anticipation, the legendary year, talked about long since the Mayans roamed Earth is upon us... One wonders what all one can expect this year...

These are some expectations from the eyes of a common student...(I know there are millions of other things one can expect this year...these are but superficial fibres from the fabric of my mind)

• 1) If the world's going to end...It better end before the exams...

  Armageddeon is coming... Even if it ain't true, I just hope that it doesn't come after the exams...
  Think about it...You study your ass off for a month... and then, after the exams...BAM!!!The world ends...Life's a Bitch...You've spent your miserable life's last moments studying, burying yourself in more misery, then immediately when you think you can finally enjoy...You're dead!

  If there was any person incharge of the end of the world and all that crap...I would advise him to aim for the Preparatory holidays...because no one studies at that time anyway....

• 2) Please make them stop...Make them stop!!!

  Stop increasing the fees every year for all batches of students in engineering...If you want to increase, increase it for the students coming into the institution... Don't trap the students in the middle of their semesters..because they have nowhere to go... You Money grubbing Bastards!!!!

• 3)Don't fuck me from the left side...

  Don't fucking overtake me from the Left...especially during turns...
  Some of us have the misfortune of meeting such assholes who don't care which direction we are moving in or turning to... He/She(usually a Two wheeler) don't even glance at what the person's indicator is signalling...Sometimes when one really needs to pass from the left, honk a couple of times... don't zap through... One day you might just meet your end...

• 4) Enough with the blasts already...

  No one ever knows what is going to happen on the commute nowadays...A fire here...a blast there...
  Too many people die for nothing due to these blasts... To those people who do this... all i can say is... We all are brothers under the sun... Stop killing and living for extremist goals... Enjoy your lives... Peace...

• 5) Hope for other Heavy metal acts to come to our country...

  With bands like Metallica arriving in India and Opeth to perform in the coming month, one really hopes that they frequent our country and are not discouraged due to some isolated events that happen(like what happened in Delhi)... We have a growing market for the Metal scene in our country(especially in our city...), Hopefully the bands that made it this year would come back again...

PS: Hopefully the cure for pseudo-Schizophrenia is also found this year... Or else the business for the PUC guys will be booming due to one of my friends alone!!!

An Altercation

A Fictitious conversation between two moderates.One being an atheist and another,a theist.
T: Hey!Happy Diwali!!!
A: Happy Diwali to you.It's just a normal day for me.
T: Could you just humor me for once.This is a festival of Joy.
A: Well, choking mother Earth is a joyous occasion. Isn't it?
T: Bursting crackers is just a tradition. All of us have toned it down. We just do it for the kids.Don't mock traditions.
A: I am not mocking them. I am just saying that different times, calls for different celebrations. Even with all the technology that we possess and all the knowledge that little ones are pumped with, it's just a bit too sad to see them overlook and ignore it.
T: They are not overlooking anything. It's just one day on a year, and like I said, there are some people who believe in moderation. But, being a festive season,don't be a kill joy and a sadist. Go with the flow.
A: First of all, I'm not a sadist. Being an atheist, I really don't even care for religious festivals. They are just a marketing scheme for making more money getting more profits.
T: That's offensive. Festivals are all about joy and sharing. It's that time of the year, that old friends meet up to greet one another. You really need to be in that spirit, overlook the religious part.
A: Oh, so now,'I' should overlook? 'I' should open my mind?
T: Well... yes.
A: But why should I? Why the hell should i be open minded when everyone says "Happy Diwali!" to me? I believe that the very cause of Diwali is entirely fictitious,a fable, a moral story,something that should be told to moralize people. How would you feel if I come over to your house one day and say "Happy  Godless Day!!!!"?
T: That's a direct offense. Being an atheist, you love fidgeting with theists don't you?
A: That's not true at all!! In-fact you fuck with us more than we do!!! Just the other day I saw an agarbhatti's advertisement with it's tag line as "Bhagwan hai". I was pretty surprised to see that. My first reaction was-"FUCK YOU!".
T: Well, what's wrong in that. This is a democratic country. Anyone can say what ever one wants to say.It's you who is taking the offensive.
A: That's exactly how you reacted when I spoke about "Godless" day.See, this is the fault with theists. They aren't open minded.They take offence for the slightest of difference in opinion.
T: You are just generalising it. At one time, you say that we aren't open-minded, and then you say theists fight over trifles.When you generalize something like this, that itself shows how open-minded you are.
A: Well, since the time I have been an atheist, I was open to all sorts of religions, reading what the stories actually wanted to tell us, not reading on how to become one.
T: But what is so wrong to place a person superior to everyone.What is so wrong to believe that there was a creator?that there was a beginning?
A: Well, why should we? Why can't we simply believe that we exist, because we are bound to exist. And when we fuck up, we    
 are bound to be extinct. See, thats the problem with you theists, you guys are so afraid of the judgement day that you even fear to think differently. You fear god rather than worship him.We are more stronger mentally, since we believe that nothing is above the human mind.
T: I beg to differ on that one.We put our fates on an entity,being god,and pursue our lives effortlessly. We believe that what will happen, is bound to happen and is good for us.Thinking that way gives you the satisfaction in life from the poorest of beggars to the sickest of patients. That kind of thinking calms your mind.For what is life without living in Harmony?
A: But that kind of thinking is the very root of lethargy.The mordern technology that has been evolved from nothing to beautiful things is a manifestation of a thinking that states-"We can change the state of our surroundings.We are the ultimate torchbearers to our own future".If everyone would think as you would say, then we would never have developed.
T: That is true, but what you are talking about is extremism. A extremist would think that way.A moderate,like you and me, can bend our minds so that we can adapt with the society in general.
A: Yup, that's the root cause of all evil.Extremism. Be it of any kind. Atheism is not a bane to the society, nor is religion.Both are effective when it's habituated in a moderate upbringing.
T: Hey, we better leave. There is some strike going on about some bill that the government is not passing.
A: Ah!...If only all arguments were soo open and more Interactive.Life would have been much simpler.

Different worlds

Yesterday as I got down from  the bus near my home,I saw a child wearing a half pant and a shirt , both of them unwashed perhaps for weeks.It was understandable as their parents were busy working for the new fly over that is to be completed in few(few is not defined) years joining Aundh to Hinjewadi(most probably).As I write this blog I have set my music player in repeat mode and it will be repeating the same song so that I can concentrate on what I write.The name of the song? That I will tell you later.So yes the child as dirty as the road with sparkling eyes was collecting stone chips to help his parents. Although his effort was too meager to  have some effect on the pace of the work but was enough to make me think what I must have been doing when I was as young as him.I saw another man in his mid 50s
looking at the boy in admiration.

 I know after few years I will be driving my car on that fly over but that boy will be cursing  us in frustration, cursing his parents for the ignorance and cursing this world for its kindness. 
Why that boy at such tender age is not getting the treatment he deserves?What are our responsibilities?
What the government can do to revive the condition?Why the children of these people who are the most important factor in materializing the development of this country wont have a chance to develop?
These are the questions that lay in-front of us and we don't even feel obliged to think about these questions.

They have made tin houses for those who are working on this flyover project.I don't think those people have enough warm cloths ,that child must be shivering  in cold as I write this article sitting on a chair with a nice and comfortable headphone on.The song has started 4th or 5th time now.
I don't know,thinking of what Knopfler wrote the song(particularly the lines I am talking about) but the lines that has moved me the most than any other lines from any other song ,and it goes like:
                                                 "There's so many different worlds,
                                                           so many different suns,
                                                     And we have just one world,
                                                       But we live in different ones"

Brothers in arms is the song that I am listening to(now perhaps for the 6th time in a row)....
With a hope that a day will come when such boys will have equal chance of prospering as those who refuse to eat green-leafy-vegetables because they are not tasty and with a hope  that we all will live in the same world one day, not in different ones.......I'll go to sleep

Abusing in the name of...

This post contains some abusive and strong language. Continue reading if you are comfortable with it.You have been warned.

A couple of days back, the first thing my friend asked me after entering my college was, " Abey laude, tune Assignment kiya kya?". This was a casual and innocent question. But got me thinking. Has swearing become such a crucial factor to be integrated into my life that now,with which, i cannot live without?

The 'swear' words that we use to represent derogatory remarks, is by definition amusing.

On one hand, 'swear' means, to take oath,to declare a promise.On the other hand it means to utter obscenities.To promise is to utter obscenities!.So, next time any guy tells his girlfriend,"I swear to you..." It might mean that he is either promising something, or he is uttering profanities and is likely to break that oath.That is English language for you, contradictions in the meaning of the same word. 

I then started becoming conscious of the swearing going around me,"arre woh toh chutiya hai","arre ,call that Gandu".

"who the fuck does that madam think she is?".

These are casual remarks, but are derogatory. Derogatory in what sense?. In the sense that you compare that person, usually to a reproductive organ or a excretory organ or to a general reference to consummating.

Why is this derogatory?,Well it is, because since we were a kid, we were brought up to believe that sex and things related to sex were taboo, and any reference to something related to faeces was disgusting, eventhough because of these two factors alone, we are able to sustain our lives and continue our human species in this planet.

That is not bad per say, but that is how it is.

But now another question arises, Why do we swear?

Is it due to the western movie influence on the minds of teenagers, thinking it would enhance their 'cool' factor?

Well, maybe, but that is not always the case. I mean, i learnt my first abuse way back when I was in 4th standard(yes, I know i am disgusting), and it wasn't even english. Infact it was kannada,and that word 'Tikhlu' was the equivalent to 'Gandu' in Hindi.

Then, is it the society?

i don't believe this is a factor,but every now and then, when I walk on a busy road, and  there is an accident, you are bound to hear something abusive, which might be embedded on the minds of innocent passer-bys or little kids who don't know the meaning of '!d%*)^R'.Other than that, i can never imagine a Indian home filled with abuses,nor do i think that it is how it works.

Then, the simplest answer that dawned on me, was a word.

'Frustration'

Frustration regarding the system.

Frustration regarding the roads.

Frustration regarding exams.

Frustration on looking at extremely poor people, begging on the roads.

Frustration on getting extremely bad food for a lot of money in a Hotel.

Frustration of not finding a Hotel with affordable price.

Frustration with the rising college fees.

Frustration Frustration Frustration.

At these moments of life, some words do come out through our mouths. It will not solve the problem.It basically, is a sigh, which has vocabulary.

But does that make you a bad person?An indecent person?

Well, not necessarily.Cursing does not make you a bad person. It just means that, thats your way of dealing with the problem.

The pleasure of screaming 'fuck' in a empty room after a session of gruelling exams or lessons is unparalleled.The kind cursing that i am talking about is casual cursing. The ones that are spoken between friends in a conversation.Not during fights and arguments.

But should you do it?

Well, that depends from person to person and from situation to situation. It would be highly inapproriate to use that lingo,in business or in family surroundings, and sometimes, getting used to abusing may lead you to involuntarily utter stuff in front of people, who should be the last ones to hear you like that.

Cursing is an important characteristic in life, if you so choose adopt it. 

As for me, I better continue with completing my assignment, else my fucking teacher might put his snake in me.

In and out of the bus

I dont know how to start this post, I am actually not that great at wrting but being a part of this blog I have no choice but to write something and post it. I am writing somehting about my daily travel to my shitty college and the post is as follows...see i told you i am bad at writing you dont write 'as follows' and shit for a blog right....anyways its as follows...

I take a bus near my house and another near the COEP hostel and another near swargate and another near ok forget it and I believe in using public transport not because I dont have my own vehilce but out of my concern for the increasing pollution, and I am not being sarcastic. So why am I writng this post well the answer is written right at the beginning but on a serious note I actualy want to write something for the blog and hence this post.

Our very own PMPML BUS

It takes me more than an hour to reach my college on the way my eyes are either out of the window or on my cell phone(texting). There are many things that never change like the mad woman near the Shanivar Vada, she seems mad though I am not sure I might be the one, then the prostitutes standing at the brothel doors just ahead of the famous Dagdu Seth temple, the temple also doesnt change throughout the year except during the Ganeshotsav its suddenly a place everyone remembers and the bus route changes and i cant see the change. Bus is a pretty interesting place I am often accompanied by a labourer with the seductive smell of 'deshi daru' or by a fat lady or sometimes my brother who has started resembling Jimmy Hendrix and becomes the center of attention in the bus and I try to pretend this mad guy is not related to me. As the bus approaches swargate i find two shops with 'Deshi Darucha Dukan' written on the board and some daily wage labourers sleeeping with absolute calmness outside their doors. Sometimes it happens that a person gets caught without a ticket and shows temper on the ticket checker for not releasing him, its so funny to see a person hiding his mistake when everyone around him knows that he is the culprit. The habbit of texting that I have devloped for sometime now is compelling me to use some smileys but I will hold myself. Once a student got caught without a ticket and his excuse was 'leave me kaka i have exams' and the way he ran when the bus stopped was mind blowing the whole bus burst into laughter.

Now the B.R.T.S, well its the most amazingly misplanned and most beautifully misconstructed BRT though it has reduced time of travel it has narrowed down the road for other commutators(this might be my other reason for using the public transport) they have left no place for the people to cross the road. I everyday climb the wall like divider to cross the road, its not a problem for a 20 year old like me but the one with their back paining and knees aching its horrifying.

Last stop for me is Bharti Vidyapeeth whose red brick gate like the one during the era of Moughuls gives you a total misconception and I will not elaborate on the misconception. If I am lucky enough(which I am most of the days) I get a bus directly to my college and then I get down at the gate of my college whose name itself contains shit.

Now to end this painfull story with a happy note, I did not go to college today!!!

Engineer's Day (15 Sep Every year :D)

I can write 70 words per minute but I can't read my own  Handwriting !!

I spend more time with my teachers than with my parents and family !!

I know the Euler's Theorem but I'm not sure what's my Shirt size !!

I have no life and i can prove this mathematically !!

I can translate English into Binary and  a 40/100 is Heaven for me !!

My xerox bills are higher than my semester fees !!

Can u guess who i am ????

Its not that difficult.........Yes, you got it right , I am the STUDENT OF ENGINEERING

History : Why we celebrate engineers day ??
In India, Engineer's day is celebrated on September 15. This day is celebrated in the honor of Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya (1861-1962), who was a notable Indian engineer, scholar, statesman and the Diwan of Mysore during 1912 to 1919. Internationally recognised for his genius in harnessing water resources, he was responsible for successful design and construction of several river dams, bridges and implementing irrigation and drinking water schemes all over India.

He served as the dewan of Mysore State and was considered to be the architect of the all-round development of Karnataka.

Among his most successful projects are the design and construction of the K.R. Sagar dam and its adjoining Brindavan Gardens, turn-around of the Bhadravati Iron and Steel Works, setting up of the Mysore Sandalwood Oil Factory and the founding of the Bank of Mysore.

Finally , this is for my all friends pursuing engineering :

We are Cheaters.. But we dont cheat Humanity!! 

We hate Study.. But we love Technology!! 

World cant Change us, But we can change the World!! 

We dont have Books in Hand.. But have Revolutionary Ideas in Mind!! 

We are the rarest common Race on Earth..!! Meet us.. We are the ENGINEERS!!!

I know what you guys thought before reading the history behind engineer's day , but yes what you thought might be true that this is the only day in the whole year when a engineer is actually happy !!! :D :D

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