doppelganger

there’s a nifty tool called msn polygamy which lets you run 2 instances of messenger on your computer. you can login with 2 different ids at the same time. i usually login with both my official and personal ids. what i have done is; i have added one id in the other’s list.

sometimes, i open a messenger window and chat to myself, from one id to another. the chat heats up so much that i have pretty intense conversations.

it freaks out the people around me…

sometimes, i don’t even remember typing some of the replies and feels like i am chatting with someone else…

that’s freaks me out…

do you have any weird stuff like this that you do? the comments section is open...

lazy friday chat

1500 HRS (IST), Company IM
gary: had ur lunch?
olivia: yup
gary: i had just now
gary: what are u doing this weekend
olivia: hmm…nothing specific. might jus meet some frins..
gary: with paula?
olivia: gosh...we both have lotsa othr frinds other than each other…hehe
gary: :)
gary: if you want, we can watch a movie
olivia: if i want????
gary: yes, which one do you want to?
olivia: when did i say i wantd 2?
gary: ok, when is ur birthday
gary: mine is 26^th nov
gary: urs
gary: ?
olivia: 8^th march
gary: wow, my mom's b’day
olivia: sorry, 8^th july i mean
gary: hey, that’s my cousin's b’day
olivia: on which day are there no b’days?
gary: what?

(laughter)
well, this guy needs a serious shakedown on basic rules of hitting-on someone!!

decisions

steve jobs once asked john sculley:
"do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water? or, do you want a chance to change the world?"

i think. contemplate. i imagine.
roar of the wind that blows from the frontiers unconquered.
the battle of "what i want" vs "what i got" rages in the arena of my mind.

apocalypse

"ring a ring of uranium,
pocket full of plutonium,
fission, fusion,
we all fall down."

imagine...the countries of the world standing in a circle.
imagine...they are holding hands.
imagine...they are chanting this..

knowledge

over a hundred years ago a university student found himself seated in a train by the side of a person who seemed to be well-to do peasant. he was praying the rosary and moving the beads in his fingers. "sir, do you still believe in such outdated things?" asked the student of the old man. "yes, i do. do you not?" asked the man. the student burst out into a laughter and said, "i do not believe in such silly things. take my advice. throw the rosary out through this window, and learn what science has to say about it". "science? i do not understand this science? perhaps you can explain it to me.", the man said humbly with some tears in his eyes. the student saw that the man was deeply moved. so to avoid further hurting the feelings of the man, he said: "please give me your address and i will send you some literature to help you on the matter." the man fumbled in the inside pocket of his coat and gave the boy his visiting card. on glancing at the card, the student, lowered his head in shame and became silent. on the card he read: "louis pasteur, director of the institute of scientific research, paris."

the force

(drum roll) dum..dum..dum..dum-de-dum..dum-de-dum...
long time ago, in a galaxy far far away…

i was watching star wars yesterday. not one of the new fangled episodes i to iii which are choc a bloc with visual effects and cgi (i mean, george, i know you own ilm and probably don’t have to pay a penny for those server farms but there’s a line between visual eyecandy and visual diarrhea!) but the original star wars which is now episode iv: a new hope.

its one of my favorite movies ever. if you strip it down and examine it all you would find is a storyline that’s mediocre, visual effects that are asinine and a slew of confrontations. but add george lucas’s magical story telling approach, harrison ford’s charisma, james earl jones’ voice, stunning landscapes, plethora of weird and inimitable characters (chewbacca an all-time favorite!) and an ensemble cast you get pure unadulterated magic!!

if you haven’t watched it yet go to the nearest video store and grab a dvd of all the three classic star wars movies. get the digitally re-mastered version, they have better visual effects. may the force be with you!!

an unfinished life

[new year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions - mark twain]

at last i am blogging. well, i feel like the guy who’s back in his wife’s arm after a long time. love is there but there a wall of aloofness that blocks intimacy. maybe its because there was a long hiatus between this and my last one. there has been a lot happening in my personal and professional life but i don’t want to bore anyone (least of all myself) i have been very unjustified towards my blog for the past few months and plan to make up for it this year.

i am starting the year by renaming my blog. good bye “the lone wolf” and welcome to “an unfinished life” well, if that’s not a spanking new start then maybe the resolution to blog more is? as my resolutions go, this is the most aesthetic one and lets see how successful i am in keeping it.

well, there i go!! i have fallen into the age old fallacy of the new year. isn’t the new year just hype? new year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights. i wonder why? what’s the point when what happens every new year is the same? yesterday, we all smoke our last cigarettes, took our last drink and swore our last oath. today, we are a pious and exemplary community. thirty days from now, we shall have cast our resolutions to the winds and gone back to our vices and embrace them with a fresh vigor.

also, why should the resolutions begin on the first? i do think new year's resolutions can't technically be expected to begin on new year's day, don't you? since, because it's an extension of new year's eve, smokers are already on a smoking roll and cannot be expected to stop abruptly on the stroke of midnight with so much nicotine in the system. also dieting on new year's day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. i think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on january the second.

anyway, i think my brain is satiated by all the ramblings that i did now. these were inside my brain like cobwebs and were cluttering up valuable brainspace. mush needed. now without further ado, let me go on…living…and unfinished life…