Westin (n.): The weird sleeping position (not sitting, not lying) that one assumes only on Economy class flight seats.

Gadzillion (n.): The large number of aunties (close to infinity) who will, arbitly, for no reason, and without any knowledge about you, tell you at your cousin’s marriage that you are next to get married.

Thumbbum (n.): Someone you just told to go sit on his/her thumb.

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Some SMs I’ve had on Gtalk over the past months. A good reflection of what I was thinking then.

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heart of child, scorn of a woman
effervescent as a wave, dense as the night
light as love, intense as pain
what is it that she seeks, an answer to her own might?

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schadenfreude secrets /
Camouflaged closets /
Silhouetted Souls, and /
A billion black-holes…/

The question is, why?
Why?

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what do we fight for, who’s to be slain
who’s to the silence betroth, who shouts in vain
a rebel without a curse, a fugitive without a claim
an unknown horizon, an emptiness of disdain.

What am I here for?

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Home to only wandering souls,
of a million and more dreams; //

Majestic in its silent power
and more so, in its screams; //

Maya nagari, the chimera of hope,
The deadly sweet poison, in wide Cinemascope; //

..*Bombay*..

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beetee lamhon ki daldal mein, yaadein batorne chale,
dar dar bhatakte, apne hi pad-chinhon se unki kahani poochte,

zindagi ke kitaab mein, bulandi ke panne jodne chale,
jab hum hi nahi rahe, to yeh daastan kise sunate?

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The best Government is Fear.

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Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans.

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As we are reduced to nothing but shadows of our earlier boisterous potent selves, we should remember this. Nothing is different. It was all in the belief, that anything is possible. And achievable.

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Here I am, again on a Sunday night, loads of emails to go, no work done over the last two days, time wasted brilliantly with absolutely inconsequential trivialities. Why do something now, that can be done just-in-time later, seems to be the question.

Maybe the answer lies in the fact that I never procrastinate things that I hold dear, that I am passionate about, or that make me play the part of creator, and not that of problem solver or vicarious participant. This thing is I have no clue how to make money out of these things. Yet.

I have to write about the Chennai trip, the great Indian marriage, responsibility and simple pleasures in life (read rasam rice and dahi vadas). I have to catch up on tons of work, and keep up the oft broken promise of writing often.

But at least, I am reading a lot nowadays. Bless RSS and RSS integration with browsers. And bless India and easily available books. And I shall conclude this post later, when I think of a logical end to this situation.

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Back in the town of old aunties, older houses, temples and torching temperatures, movie fanatics and masala vadais.

Am in Chennai for a week, shall be back in Singapura by Friday. With loads of snippets and interesting observations about many things I have seen a thousand times before, but never really observed.

TED is a confluence of ideas that is unparalleled in my opinion, in its breadth of topics, its strength of discussion, and the intellectual power of its participants. And most of all, in its purpose. Of spreading ideas that are worth spreading.

TED is a yearly congregation of many fantastic minds who discuss and showcase anything that inspires; may it be origami or climate change or quantum physics. Definitely worth a visit.

Here I give you one of the many speakers: Malcolm Gladwell of Blink and Tipping Point fame talks about an important turning point in consumer understanding in the food industry. From the TED website:

In this witty monologue, Malcolm Gladwell follows the career of a food industry consultant who uncovered a key secret to what eaters like. Running huge focus groups to find customers’ truest tastes, Gladwell’s hero draws a radical conclusion, an epiphany that has defined food marketing ever since. Note: The theme of the 2004 conference was “The Pursuit of Happiness” — hence the talk’s quirky presence.

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