If Ambiguity was a person...

Have you wondered how it will be to have Ambiguity as a person around you? You would be in a woozy world where you don't know what anything means. Consider that you meet Ambiguity at a party unexpectedly:

X: Hey Ambig, what are you doing here? I din't expect to see YOU here.

Ambig: I don't know, what are you doing here?

X: I came because Y called me over. (Then kicks himself in the shin for telling it). Anyway what are you doing here?

Ambig: Ok. Hey look that's the sky, this is the ground. See you around!

X: Ok........... Ok........ Well, good to know that........... Bye!? *_#

Ambiguity will leave you flabbergasted. You know why? He/she would get all the information from you and give you nothing but vagueness without you having a clue of it. Beware of Ambiguity, you never know what it really means. It will hit you like a runaway truck hitting a frog, but as soon as you turn around, it's gone. Gone baby gone! The best part: You can never get back at Ambiguity, because you never really know what it meant o_0

P.S: The author is a staunch follower of Ambiguity and it's principles, hence the post.

Things as they are

Have you seen people talk about their lives? Have you seen people actually live their lives? Nah, who cares right. But come again, people talk about their lives, forget it, people just talk, we listen, and then we realise something. That discomforting feeling does come knocking. Yes, judgement. Any living human with an able mind judges anything given to it at lightning speed. Because that's what the mind was built for, processing whatever it senses! Heck leave listening to people, you are doing it while reading this. Now comes the tricky part, how does one not show his/her real judgement and try to coerce a feeling to the other person that he/she needn't worry about that judgement. That would come handy when someone asks for a definition of "Politeness" - State of mind where your actions are exactly contradictory to your thoughts. When you don't, you just are really really, I mean really, rude. There is a state even beyond the regular judgement. It is called prejudice. We all do it. Tiny, but existent. The whole civilization is based on showing a masked reaction to everything that happens. That's social norm. And by judgement, it can be a good one or a bad one. But people as such tend to peep into good ones as if that's the best possible thing in the world. What if it is wrong? What if I am wrong? What if everything is wrong?

We still have to live the same way as we used to because we used to? I am not the best judge of it perhaps, hence that is a question best left to be answered by each individual. Nah, this ain't no philosophy. Just a little pondering. Chaotic at that. Like every other post of mine, you come with nothing, you go with nothing after reading it.

To IPL, with love

To KTK,

Thanks for reminding Kochi is in Kerala. Again.

To PWI,

Thanks for reminding Pune is in India. Has been a revelation to many, they were looking at the other part of the globe. Dumb idiots eh..

To MI,

At first I din't think they were all Indians. But now I can't deny the fact that they are Indians. Justified.

To CSK,

Ever heard of mind-blasting from Russel Peters? You must try it. "Super" = mind blowing. "Kings" = fantastic. "Super" + "Kings" = Mind-blasting!

To RCB,

Dear Mr.Mallya, thanks for reminding me of your brand, I keep forgetting it. But then I remember your team name, and voila I get your brand name. Real smart move!

To KXIP,

While others stopped at 3 letters, you went ahead with 4. Leaving everyone else in a dilemma - K-X-I-P or K-Eleven-P or Kings-XI-P or Kings-Eleven-Punjab?? Nah you made them all call you by your full name. No other team has achieved this!

To KKR,

Rather SRK, you missed the plot. What has been consistently making a hit for SRK? "Rahul, naam to suna hoga?" If not a Rahul at least a Raj.

To DD and RR,

How do I put it.... Hmmm.. You guys are, you know, "different".

To DC,

Ambiguity has been your meaning and performance. Chargers. What could they mean? Do they "charge ahead" or "charge/electrify the field" or simply "charge money"??

Sad life Pathetic life Happy life

Sad Life:

SadGuy has the worst luck in life with things not going his way. Not even a little bit. I mean if he wears sunglasses just because he felt like it, would by nature make it a rainy day, if not worse. So that person is really shattered at every step he takes.

Pathetic Life:

PatheticGuy has a few things worked out for him. But he never seems to be even a little satisfied with it. He finds that everything he does has no meaning in it for him. He would feel like he is an outsider. Always. No matter the number of hours/days/months/years he spends with someone, he always will feel like an outsider from the inside. He needs constant reassuring of his achievements, qualities, abilities and the whole parade.

Happy Life:

HappyGuy has a life similar to that of the PatheticGuy but he seems to be satisfied with what he has. And life, in terms, has been kind to him at times.

So what's it all about? When you think about it, it's all about perspective. You have a life, that is all. Happy, sad or pathetic, doesn't matter. There is something that can be called over-living, which is similar to over-engineering, opening up one's thoughts so recursively that there is no individual thought independent of itself. So there comes the wreck in to the picture. I mean what's the meaning of it? Nothing, you came, you went and obviously, you are gone now. If you can not make peace with your own head, well it's going to keep coming back with its angry retorts time and again. Like I say, "Just get it over with".

Well lookie what we have here...

Hey. Ever wondered why the sun rises in the east? Why not the west? Because someone didn't know that and someone else wanted to act smart, he called it the east. And the whole world believed him and still does. Mad world. Why couldn't the north be the south? And so on. Anyway I guess its always been the perspective. No one wonders these things nowadays, at least according to me, because it is taken for granted. The phrase "taken for granted" is a lethal weapon if given to the wrong hands. I mean literally. Even in the right hands it is a powerful one. All crap right.

This is the end. This is the start. This is everything. This is nothing. All paradox. Whats this world got to offer me? Or you? Or them? All of these are just questions. Stupid questions. With no answers. All crap again. Does this mean I am stupid? Maybe. Or maybe not.

The next part comes to languages. Just now one of my friends was telling me that I am wasting time by learning new languages when learning one is enough to get us through. True. What is the point I am trying to make by learning this new language? I can communicate effectively? Or just wasting time? What is it? Don't know any convincing answer. I see the practical uses very reduced since I know a few more languages. But what am I using it for? Same way. Why not learn a new language? It is knowledge. But will it be useful investing in? Am I the only idiot in this phase? I don't know that either. I am not promising a solution to this question either. So what is it I am presenting? The question obviously.

Whats the use of all this? All this media, broadcast? Criticism is a useful tool in making things obsolete. We need it to focus, but the same thing can stop us from doing essential things that make life worth living. But "make life worth living" can also be criticized and break down what we are trying to abstract from our regular thought cycle. Brooding into too many thoughts may lead to senseless exasperation. But thats just the side effect, the main effect is that we may start to question whatever exists, what may come to exist. What is the point? That will become our motto. The path ahead is bleak. It is hidden in a shroud of mist. The mist doesn't seem to be clearing. Do we let it cover our eyes or try to live in harmony with it? What's the way of life, there doesn't seem to be one way to it. There is nothing like it. I don't know. That's where our society comes in. Painting pictures for things we haven't experienced. Forming a prototype of things which were and which will be. Whole load of pointless nonsense to attain a state of supposed bliss. Either block the rest of the world which you really really don't care about except for argument's sake and get on with it. Things will go according to plan, things will fail. Because that's what the plan was in the first place. Anyway who am I kidding? Myself. And that's why the saying "Some people just don't get it" seems very appropriate here.

Music and Lyrics

Read the following story. "Once upon a time there was a small town boy. After he grew up he became a small town man". This is what happens in reality. You need to understand the pragmatic nature of situations. The way it is portrayed in writing is mostly fiction as the writer's thoughts adulterates the reality of the circumstance. Consider Romeo and Juliet, it may never have been two people like that in the history of the world. History is what the historian records. Who knows with what sincerity that record was written. We just believe that its true. Was there ever any love between Shah Jahan and Mumtaz? We may never know, or until some idiot comes up with a time machine, ruining everyone's lives. So what we do know is that somehow the historians seemed to consider that there was something huge.

Anyway, this was a really happening week at work. Some unknown old guy once told that "The unknown is always interesting". And it is very true. Just because it is not known completely, curiosity definitely killed the cat this time. Anyway I ll stop before I get any gentle thumping on my shoulders, if you know what I mean. This time I have been working for more than a fortnight on this specific post. Don't know why though. The intervals between my posts are so long that even I get bored of it. To write something, I need something to write. Wonder how I wrote my grad exams. Anyway need more excitement in life. New projects. Short term goals keep it fiery. Incidents, accidents anything would do. It's a pity that life has come to asking for such things.

Thats that for this post. I seriously need to post something interesting rather than this old boring **** next time.

P.S. Whoever said Hyderabad is a very hot place, climatically speaking, is a liar. Its cold. And I dont usually feel any kind of change in weather, so you can imagine the intensity of the cold wave.

The tale of two idiots + 1

This is the story of two people I heard speaking in the berth next to my train. I tried not to listen to them but I couldn't help it because it was a serious discussion about something. I was trying to read something and they were disturbing. Sorry for misinterpretations if any. For ease of use, I will refer to the guys as oldV and youngV.

OldV and youngV were sitting on the side berths of my railway compartment. They started off with the usual pleasantries, exchanging names, occupations, backgrounds. OldV, as the name suggests, was a middle aged man, or an old man posing so, working in some IT industry. The youngV was a late twenties or so from his hair which was quite losing its hold on his head. Then came the education background. The youngV was from mechanical engineering stream. The pride with which he was explaining the reason why he chose mechanical while all his friends were busy choosing the IT related streams, was, for lack of a better word, admirable. The reason was, well you know, the whole hook-line-and-sinker story. The way he was talking anyone in the world would be convinced. Even you-know-who.

The oldV was totally impressed by the youngV because of reasons unknown. Maybe he wasn't thinking, maybe he was just passing his time. After that point the conversation became sharper and aggressive. The reason was, in youngV's words, "Mechanical engineering offers more scope because, once you understand mechanical engineering, anything else in the world can be easily learnt. The IT related streams have no idea about anything other than their line of work. Mechanical engineering is more open. Mechanical engineering is............................................blah." The oldV was agreeing at every pause. Taking instances out of his life, explaining why more people should choose the mechanical stream and why people shouldn't fall for the IT stream. Then came up the same-old-story of the IT recession. Oh my god, haven't I heard enough already, was the ringing thought in my head. The IT industry is useless, unreliable and so on. Now if you ask me where the oldV and youngV were working, well don't ask, you already know the answer. I"T" was their stream after such rigorous discussion on why IT shouldn't be a career for people. To all of this I had to definitely say something, but I couldn't. So I am typing it out now.

First of all, you are a mechanical engineer, so? Big deal. In the end you are just a graduate with an engineering degree. If anyone thinks that their field of engineering is the best in the world, please don't tell it out and embarrass yourself, because in the end what you are learning is how to keep your mind open to engineer solutions rather than produce one out of thin air. If you haven't understood this point, I don't think you should be called an engineer in the first place. The engineering part of the mind is the one which makes anyone apply things from one stream of thinking to another. If you studied mechanical engineer for the scope, and working in an IT company, you could have very well taken any IT stream and done better. It's not the stream, it's person who matters more. That's why you are in IT stream in the first place. I guess not many realize it.

Coming to oldV's IT-recession-story, seriously I don't think this guy even thinks. How does an IT company, no, any company operate? Planning, design and whatever things that come after that. How much time does it take for one product cycle? For e.g. for a mechanical main stream company, such as automobile industry, it might take from a few years to few decades. So if there is any profit, it can be seen only after a considerably long period. Same goes for the loss. Take an IT company, the product cycle ranges from days to months and sometimes years. So the profit is seen almost instantaneously. Looks more attractive, people like youngV and oldV get pulled towards it. But the loss is also seen instantaneously. So? It doesn't mean it's the end of the world, it just means that you need more think-tanks to solve the crunch, than the metal-heads of production stream. So people get scared as rapidly as they got attracted and start counting their options. Like any industry, the IT industry will rise and fall and rise and so on. Doesn't make it any better than other industries. But not the worse either. So if you still feel that the IT industry is not reliable and big-negative-adjectives, you are in serious need of time to think for yourself. And even more if you are working in an IT company. At the end of the day, business is business, everything has loss and profit. Do not endorse such statements before thinking about them. Please. My humble request. So why the oldV and youngV are idiots is clearly understood I suppose.

Sorry for blunt and hot-headed remarks, if any. This is a serious issue and it needs to be addressed, and I have done it. It's time for you to do it as well.

P.S. You know, there is a third idiot in this tale. Thats me. Because I am typing all of this instead of saying it on the spot. So the experiment continues. I do not speak out too much. Why?