Parallel Processing.......

Spending way too much time on the internet, i browse a lot of sites each day and inevitably open the interesting links in a new tab so that that page is all loaded up while i am done reading with the present one. Sometimes i jump to the next one while the pictures are loading and get back again once i read a gist. Suddenly i get an IM in another window and am forced to reply there. I keep checking whether i have received the email in my mailbox on another tab. I dont get any...is a different thing altogether...Then suddenly i get a reminder alarm from McFee telling me that it is time for me to renew my subscription. i have too many tabs open on my browser window and am sure i didnt read a few that i wanted to. All this along with playing with my daughter, catering to her tantrums, watching meaningless talk shows on BBC channels and thinking about one & the other things of life...I guess i am pretty much into parallel processing too much than necessary. The great human brain is very well equipped to handle these...sometimes it needs rest for sure...

This has taken control of my life too...while reading a book, i am almost running thro' the words these days, with the brain runs a few steps ahead forming an almost clear picture of the paragraph from the two lines the mind has read. Thanks to my will power i manage to read the entire paragraph though...Even while cooking...which is irritatingly seen as my hobby is turning into a parallel processing scheme......when dal is in pressure cooker...i am already into how the sambhar will taste...

Previously, i used to be proud of this quality saying that it is the trait of a true Geminian.

But sometimes i feel it messes up my ability to produce something good...i really need to focus my mind...one topic at a time..

The world that never sleeps...

Its night time as usual....and i am doing what i loved to do most...doing nothing...staring at the ceiling...eyes wide open...but couldnt see anything....then i closed my eyes...the moment i did that...a whole world started dancing before my eyes...the one that never sleeps...

Blogging is such a pain....

Blogging should be banned and all the sites along with it....why r they doing this to me...i am totally hooked...addicted...and now i haven't written anything for 2 weeks....and losing sleep over it...Its 2:00a.m.....I am sitting here staring at my laptop with the dumbest look on my face....when i am supposed to be sleeping peacefully...dreaming of some crazy stuff...but the thing is i don't know what to write and where to start...

In the meantime...i found out a wonderful quote....'you can trust a enemy because you know what to expect. Honestly, Its the friend who you should be afraid of....you will never know how will he behave next....well...well this is nothing to do with my life...i am crazy about friends....its a universally known fact...and let me be clear with it...in spite of having wonderful families pre and post marriage...i just cant live without friends....

to come back to the business called blogging...i wonder how these column writers survive?...to come up with topic every week...and to write on that topic...they must be truly talented....so first thing i want to do tomorrow is find a way to transfer all the thoughts in my mind on to paper....oh well...what the hell....i am an addict...i confess that...

Slumdog Millionaire.....

These are the days when you must have slumdog millionaire somewhere in your blog...ur blog gets a boost...char chand lag jate hain....:).....its a fashion statement to talk about this movie....as happens with most of the topics-in-vogue...you can love it or hate it...but you can't ignore it...everybody is talking about it...the director...actors.....critics...media...common people...ex-fiancees are coming out of nowhere....everybody is joining the bandwagon...so you see i had no option but to write about 'slumdog' :)

i saw this movie a long way back...when it wasn't in the headlines for the right reasons or the otherwise....thank god....i could watch it in peace..without any preconceived notions...without any bias...and i genuinely liked it....the theme, the way it was handled...the way the child actors performed...and the KBC angle to it...in fact one of the best moments of the film according to me..is when jamal is answering the last question...he has associated himself as one of the musketeers all his life....but strangely he didnt know name of the third musketeer when it really matters...and he smiles knowing full well he doesnt know the answer...i just loved that moment...the look on his face....

to be frank...i didnt think about this possible exploitation of poverty in india for commercial purposes...portraying India as slum country...i just watched it like any other hindi movie....i dont know how much importance we should give to Oscars....but i guess i need to see it once again to reconfirm i really loved the movie....

Celebrate life....

Ever heard of a place called 'sapanta'....well...u r not alone...i read about it just a few mins back..

its a small village in the heart of Romania....there's a graveyard in the village...the local people call it 'a cemetary with a difference'...almost all of the graves are decorated by a local artist...and guess what these graves do not have the usual symbols of death...not they bear the usual 'hear lies so-and-so'....instead this artist uses his art to create some of the life these people lived on their grave...how they died...or..their profession...or their hobbies...just to tell u an example...there was this young person who was a tailor by profession...so his grave tells us how he used to spend his life.. ...i found it quite remarkable...its giving out a message...'respect the dead...& celebrate the life they had'.....

check out some of the photographs....

He cried...and the world cried with him

I dont remember the last time when i was so emotionally attached to an international sports player...but then Roger Federer is not just a player...he is the phenomenon..and when he broke down after loss in Aus Open Finals, the toughest of the guys on the earth had tears in their eyes...well...nothing to take away from rafael nadal...he played like a champion....and he deserved to win it...and he also showed what a great human being he is....but when a loss brings out that kind of feelings not only among followers but also his critics...you know that Fedex is not just another tennis player...take a break fedex...and come back stronger...we know you will...

Lateral thinking...

read something interesting today...an experiment was carried out with a group of people....consider this problem....there is a candle on the table....and there are some matchsticks lying around the candle....plus we have some drawing pins/push pins kept in a open paper box....we are in a room.....so the problem is how to put the candle on the wall using the tools you have...candle must be perpendicular to the ground....what do u think?....somebody come up with the answer...but after a long delay...and he was the only person who come up with this solution...

take out the drawing pins from the box....fix the box to the wall with the drawing pins...thus the box become a horizontal surface parallel to the ground....then melt some candle wax and fix the candle in the box....and then light with matchsticks...

do u know why nobody else could come up with this answer....? because almost everyone didnt take the box as a tool into consideration...they were thinking the box was just a box holding the drawing pins and not the tool to be used in the problem....

interesting...isnt it?