This evening, I was going through the chore of washing my dishes when i suddenly remembered my school loo ! strange huh !
Out of all the senses , the strongest and the most mysterious is that of smell . Apparently we got a new dish washing liquid which smelt like the disinfectant they used to use in my school's loo.
( Don;t start saying this going to be a gross post just because i have mentioned loo twice already ! )
This wasn't even the regular loo - it was that which we guys used to use when we were in junior school; it used to be in one of the most ridiculous locations - behind the canteen . I don;t know why I;m going so much in detail of it's location,etc.. !! Anyway, I hated the place for various reasons & consequently hate the smell too . Instantly, I just wanted to get out of the kitchen into a cleaner place ! Funny, the way the mind works ;)
To end the post- I'm gonna give u a link to a song i like ( why do i want u to listen to a song ?? well , i myself have posted this while thing in a gross mood ... just wanted to forget abt that ! .. )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ka--K41dyI
Monday, March 19, 2007
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
marriages are made in .... orkut ??
Yes .. they are ! Last week, i met a couple here who met on orkut & thats where their entire relationship grew. Apparently, the two of them were a part of the same community ( oh ! the communities in orkut ! they get really creative with names and ideas ;)) . It's not like they never met before deciding to get married, they did eventually meet to finalize things.
I found the whole thing very amusing ( it's funny how i find so many things amusing ! ) . You meet a person on the virtual world , form a virtual relationship & finally converted it to a a true life relationship.
When it comes to technology - I completely favor abstraction - like my OS prof says - "there is nothing that can't be solved with another layer of abstraction ! ", but in real life I prefer no abstractions at all .. phone over chat , face to face over phone . So to me it was really amazing that orkut could form the basis of a relationship. Personally, I dont spend time on orkut - I belong to that group who would check the scrap book if i get a mail notification that some one has scrapped .
Afternote - They are a really cute couple & seem to be having a time of their life . So , i guess they would have probably been together even without orkut .. so afterall marriages are made in heaven ! ;)
I found the whole thing very amusing ( it's funny how i find so many things amusing ! ) . You meet a person on the virtual world , form a virtual relationship & finally converted it to a a true life relationship.
When it comes to technology - I completely favor abstraction - like my OS prof says - "there is nothing that can't be solved with another layer of abstraction ! ", but in real life I prefer no abstractions at all .. phone over chat , face to face over phone . So to me it was really amazing that orkut could form the basis of a relationship. Personally, I dont spend time on orkut - I belong to that group who would check the scrap book if i get a mail notification that some one has scrapped .
Afternote - They are a really cute couple & seem to be having a time of their life . So , i guess they would have probably been together even without orkut .. so afterall marriages are made in heaven ! ;)
Wednesday, March 7, 2007
nan vegetarian !
I laugh at the joke in "Nala Damayanthi" every time i watch it !
Yesterday, I had lunch at an interesting place - it's a only salad restaurant . You get to make your own salad with anything u ask for , or take any prepared salad ( which were good too ) . This got me thinking into my vegetarianism. Before I venture any further , I would like to say that i don't mean to critique anybodies food choice and that I'm not being sarcastic about anything anybody told me (some of which is going to follow ! ) .. i merely am using your words to express my thoughts :-)
Some days back a friend of mine asked me if I was vegetarian by choice - I thought about it & could not really arrive at an answer . The question , ofcourse , was did i choose to be a vegetarian, or is it because of some religious sentiments or any other thing. The way I think this works is that ,initially, you are what you are told to be - in the sense that when you are a kid , you just eat what your parents tell you to eat ( though they have a lot of difficulty in getting you to actually eat all that ! ). So, if you eat only vegetarian food , then thats what you are . If your parents thought that it was perfectly fine for you to have something - say rabbits meat ( which people tell me is really tasty ) , then you would just have it and consequently would become a meat eater.
Once, you actually start thinking & reasoning out what you eat , etc.. you would most probably stick to what you had before . I dont think there is anything religious or emotional attached to it .As a matter of fact , why is religion associated with so many things that it should not be associated with is still very puzzling to me ! ( but that would take an entire post by itself .. so I would not venture into that topic now ) . Though I haven't answered the question i asked in the beginning , I'm going to bring up something another friend of mine said - this was about how he read an email about how the animals were treated in these farms ( In case you haven't got any such email - it talks about how the animals are drugged so that their meat is better or something in those lines ) and after reading the email , he decided to switch to vegetarianism. With all due regards, this is a completely hypocritical statement - I mean , even if they were not drugged , your still killing innocent being for your food .. it's like your some primate ! . Today you see that chicken flitting around your back yard and tomorrow you cook it in your grill ?? !!
You don't need an email to tell you that it's a poor living being your killing ( the email just goes a step further in saying that your drugging the living creature , just so that you get more juicier meat ) . I'm not sure how long he's going to stick to his decision - because the basis of the decision seems too flimsy to me .
Getting back to the first question - Am I a vegetarian by choice ? - I dont know really . What I do know is that I think I can;t bear the thought that I'm eating something that was living - probably didn;t want to die this early .. but is dead coz I'm hungry .Are there any religious setiments attached - absolutely not . I consider my religious sentiments to be very sacred - it's only between me and God & not related to anything else !
Consider this - how do you think a cannibalistic society would sustain ? I don't even know if any exist today . But if they would , then would it be confortable for anybody to eat anything - logically it should , coz thats what you've been seeing since you are a kid ( i mean absolutely anything .. i dont mean to put up a totally gross post , but in my opinion there is absolutley no difference ) .
As a rule , I don't criticize anybody's food .. for the simple reason that I have no business to do so. If there is anybody at all who should be thinking about it , then it should be the individual eating it . So , what I'm trying to say here is that I'm not preaching vegetarianism. All I'm saying is - if you can , and want to , then think about it ( not vegetarianism , but about what you are eating ).
Yesterday, I had lunch at an interesting place - it's a only salad restaurant . You get to make your own salad with anything u ask for , or take any prepared salad ( which were good too ) . This got me thinking into my vegetarianism. Before I venture any further , I would like to say that i don't mean to critique anybodies food choice and that I'm not being sarcastic about anything anybody told me (some of which is going to follow ! ) .. i merely am using your words to express my thoughts :-)
Some days back a friend of mine asked me if I was vegetarian by choice - I thought about it & could not really arrive at an answer . The question , ofcourse , was did i choose to be a vegetarian, or is it because of some religious sentiments or any other thing. The way I think this works is that ,initially, you are what you are told to be - in the sense that when you are a kid , you just eat what your parents tell you to eat ( though they have a lot of difficulty in getting you to actually eat all that ! ). So, if you eat only vegetarian food , then thats what you are . If your parents thought that it was perfectly fine for you to have something - say rabbits meat ( which people tell me is really tasty ) , then you would just have it and consequently would become a meat eater.
Once, you actually start thinking & reasoning out what you eat , etc.. you would most probably stick to what you had before . I dont think there is anything religious or emotional attached to it .As a matter of fact , why is religion associated with so many things that it should not be associated with is still very puzzling to me ! ( but that would take an entire post by itself .. so I would not venture into that topic now ) . Though I haven't answered the question i asked in the beginning , I'm going to bring up something another friend of mine said - this was about how he read an email about how the animals were treated in these farms ( In case you haven't got any such email - it talks about how the animals are drugged so that their meat is better or something in those lines ) and after reading the email , he decided to switch to vegetarianism. With all due regards, this is a completely hypocritical statement - I mean , even if they were not drugged , your still killing innocent being for your food .. it's like your some primate ! . Today you see that chicken flitting around your back yard and tomorrow you cook it in your grill ?? !!
You don't need an email to tell you that it's a poor living being your killing ( the email just goes a step further in saying that your drugging the living creature , just so that you get more juicier meat ) . I'm not sure how long he's going to stick to his decision - because the basis of the decision seems too flimsy to me .
Getting back to the first question - Am I a vegetarian by choice ? - I dont know really . What I do know is that I think I can;t bear the thought that I'm eating something that was living - probably didn;t want to die this early .. but is dead coz I'm hungry .Are there any religious setiments attached - absolutely not . I consider my religious sentiments to be very sacred - it's only between me and God & not related to anything else !
Consider this - how do you think a cannibalistic society would sustain ? I don't even know if any exist today . But if they would , then would it be confortable for anybody to eat anything - logically it should , coz thats what you've been seeing since you are a kid ( i mean absolutely anything .. i dont mean to put up a totally gross post , but in my opinion there is absolutley no difference ) .
As a rule , I don't criticize anybody's food .. for the simple reason that I have no business to do so. If there is anybody at all who should be thinking about it , then it should be the individual eating it . So , what I'm trying to say here is that I'm not preaching vegetarianism. All I'm saying is - if you can , and want to , then think about it ( not vegetarianism , but about what you are eating ).
Thursday, March 1, 2007
spring into action!
it's here ! & it makes no effort in being modest about it's presence . This morning I step out wearing my NCSU jacket ( i love that jacket ;-) ) like any other day, but it's a whole new world outside. It's a really an amazing sight to see these kutty flowers n leaves sprouting out of completely barren trees. where were these things yesterday ??
Vasanth has put me in a super mood :-) . It puts an extra energy into me .. I've been humming "Yuh hi chala chal rahi" from the morning . I would give u a link to the song , but that would be downright plagiarism ! ( My cousin,Anu's blog usually has these links to youtube .. i like that idea :)) There is a certain freshness associated with the song that goes well with the onset of spring .
Hopefully my academic work will bloom in the same way ;-)
Vasanth has put me in a super mood :-) . It puts an extra energy into me .. I've been humming "Yuh hi chala chal rahi" from the morning . I would give u a link to the song , but that would be downright plagiarism ! ( My cousin,Anu's blog usually has these links to youtube .. i like that idea :)) There is a certain freshness associated with the song that goes well with the onset of spring .
Hopefully my academic work will bloom in the same way ;-)
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