Saturday, January 3, 2009

Love Science Shopping

What if you love a person so much that you can't let go?? Even when the person is long dead or long gone! Can you bring them back? Is there a way? Maybe science could help. It could basically help you to terminate all memories associated with that person. It could help you to delete everything about that person. But what if you don't want to delete them. What if you still desire to have that person around you? Is there a way? Yeah. There is one. If you could manage to preserve one strand of your loved one's hair or maybe some teeth extract, science has a cure. Yeah. Cloning. Although it is a very old science by todays scientific standards, cloning comes very close to anything yet discovered to regain your loved one. Their affection. Their rightful affection. The cloned person would be exactly like your loved one, only a little different in looks. And what more-you could have more than one clone of the same person!! But then, what if that clone of yours doesn't like you or share any feelings for you? After all you have done, imagine if the person just doesn't relate to you. Fear not! Your loved clone would be made to love you. Since you have paid for it, it is binding on the part of any company from whom the clone is awailed to make the clone as per your requirements. With all neccessary customization and tweaks. You don't like something from the original version or you need updates-change it. You would keep getting newer versions of your clone. So start collecting nuclear DNA's of the original person. But what if the original person does not want to get cloned? Well....you could still make basic features of the original person available to you. Will this make things like real love redundant? Bunk it man!! There is no greater joy than shopping. This one is Love science shopping! Great variety!! Great prices! Great products! Choose your pick!

Friday, January 2, 2009

On Extortion.

Like many careers, extortion is as self-respecting a career as can be. It never really got the respect that it deserved. All other factions of criminal activities have their desired effect on the society. But extortion has been misunderstood and greatly repelled by people. It is not as ingrained in our brain, one form of job where a person or a group of people throw fear into another person or group of people. Extortion has all the real elements of a real job. An extortioner has to carefully choose his target; among a wide range of people. Then he has to be capable of understanding the target genre, his profession, his income level, etc. It is only later that our beloved hero would call his target for money. There is always the added threat from competition and the police. But the payoffs can be good for all the risks taken. But then-why have extortioners not been able to command the sort of respect or fear like their mafia counterparts? Even though, many extortioners diversify into other activities or they take greater challenges. Maybe because, extortion is a permission based activity. Even though it may look like coercion. You call a person and ask him to pay instead of robbing or stealing from him. Unlike most things in life, manners don't count in this form of trade. Society likes to get robbed, destroyed, devasted to wake-up. Most form of successful activities are about that only-robbing, stealing, stabbing. It is a fine art. More on that later......

Thursday, January 1, 2009

'MENU' KI FARK PENDA!!!

It is in the nature of restaurant menus to amuse a person far more than offering him a variety. I reckon, this is a deliberate ploy on part of the hotel to implant their sadistic curse on the eating public. This has also to do with the fact that while those folks serve, we eat. More often than not, I have greatly admired the menu and have been determined to have a dish on my palate which resembles closely the heavenly greatness associated with gourmet meals. But, my excitement has been withheld to containing myself to the mundane. Because, thats what seems to be available and time summons that I try only the 'flying of the shelf' variety for food. I assume that except for office-goers, we mostly taste outside food for the variety and the option it gives us to order and reorder while courting our gastronomical demands. I would always like to eat at a place where the menu is very small and precise. Too many ingredients on the menu makes it a difficult task to understand the finer nuances of food. Besides, many people visit hotels with the menu firmly ingrained in their brain.Seeing the menu is a fake custom. But we can't try to avoid it. We have to throw ourself into the menucard and pour over less interesting details like the price, interracial differences between dishes and grill the waiter over the less understood part. Here, people who get their queries sorted are the ones more likely to order , again, the same stuff they did the last time they ate outside. Interestingly, the lag time between ordering the food and eating it is also the time one should mull over the menucard. But most hotels prefer to take the menucard away from it's clients at that exact moment when he needs the most. Having ordered something, he is going to review his decision and also think himself into ordering more. I don't know why-hotels spend a fortune on the interiors, but they are always short on the menu cards!!Keep the bill please!

LOVE IS LIKE DIABETES

Love is like diabetes. Not that I like diabetes as a form of disease. Nor would I want anybody to have diabetes. Far from it. But when people suffer from it, their body requires high doses of insulin. To get over it, they have to refrain from taking sugar, in all its forms. They have to basically curtail their sugar consumption. Now love is like that only. Like sugar, the person you love might not entirely be good for you. Not that sugar is bad for you. You just don't have the capacity to absorb, process sugar. Similarly, it is not that the person you love is bad for you. Its just that in the whole scheme of things, you might not be able to justify that person, however sugar dandy-good they might be. So then, a diabetic indeed understands this. So he maintains his sugar consumption and starts to do things that are good for him. Like exercising, like controlling his diet, like avoiding junk food. Even though he might hate it, he has to do it. See, at some stage, the love for one's life far exceeds the desire for sugar. So the person compromises certain aspects of his lifestyle. Thus love is also about loving someone, even though superficially, in the first instance. This might look forceful, but it is not. But, this might start a trajectory of events that are beneficial for the survival, for the goodness of one's own self. Similar to exercising and other activities, this might turn in one's favour. Diabetes is all about trying to do good things with oneself. Loving is all about finding goodness in people. Not that you love diabetes for the change it does to you. But you would love the fact that one starts loving oneself for the change it does it you. Love is where it all started. Love is where it would end.

THE HUMAN MADNESS

Some two thousand years before Christ, few people in England moved huge rocks weighing 40-50 tonnes, carried them over 80 kms and built what is today known as stonehenge. Thereby, they paid their respects to their ancestors. But why do people across geographies,societies,periods do that? Why do they perform immposible looking tasks? Just for the heck of it? Perhaps. Perhaps not. Why do people have to cross the Atlantic, build pyramids, cross the North Pole, climb Mount Everest, traverse the seas and run marathons?? Most academics would agree that such innane activities does no real tangible good to the betterment of society. It is unlike discovering medicines or inventing the computer or even making great insights into science and technology. Then what it is about such insurmountable tasks that inspire people and also motivates a whole generation of others? How do these individuals make hereos out of themself? Maybe because, as humans go, we are one of the only species that can think. And as the human spirit goes, we are definitely mad. By giving such performances, we are making sure that nothing is beyond us,nothing it is that can't be achieved. We are beyond limits,in anything that we do. So, travelling in a hot air baloon around the world gives us pleasure. We know those risks, we know what could be the outcome. Possible death. So what!How beautiful, how amazing! Thats what living is about. Its about dying a hundred deaths to seek pleasure. Pleasure that would ruin us, make us suffer, take our breath away, leave us stranded....Let it be. Life would never come again. Then why should we embrace it to our self. Let it free, let it abandon, get lost, let it wander. In the process, it may inspire a few, surprise a few and bring a whole new discovery among us. A new land, a new space and a new horizon awaits us. Salute the adventuror! Let a life of chance begin!

TO DO OR NOT TO DO

I don't know where the tide flows nor do I know where the wind blows. I don't know what is good nor do I know where I would be persuaded to. Crime is there in all of us. It has just to be nurtured. We are much more fascinated by murders, frauds, scams, evils than we are by the good deeds done by some. Crime is much more than a simple act of good versus bad. It is also about our innate desire to do get away from the clutches of the society. To break it's rules and disband it's ideals. When somebody does it for us, we are astounded. Actually, each one of us has the propensity of commit a crime. Only few of us have the gumption to exercise the act. Imagine a world where the rules of the society don't innhabit. Or imagine, if we wouldn't be caught doing something. Wouldn't we jump traffic rules, stop paying taxes or better still-loot a bank? For most of us,the answer is a resounding yes. Crime starts in our mind. Then the question does not remain about good or bad any longer. It then becomes a question about something else. Just pure guts! Criminals have similar brain conditions like a chess playing grandmaster, rush of blood like an Olympian and the skill sets of a business tycoon. What sets them apart is the part they play in society and their wish to be different, noticeable and individualistic. Criminals can in way move a society forward. New systems, defence mechanisms, superior technology have all been possible thanks to the crimes committed by equally committed people to their cause. Hackers brought in better guarding tools,murderers brought transformation in medical science, financial frauds brought amazing quantifiable models. The many wars brought a better society altogether. Every evil that man has performed has always resulted in further looking into our selves. We should be greatful to the evils of this world. Without the evil, the goodness is bad enough to be even glanced at.