karma…God knows?

Sometimes I think this ‘fuck’ generation of ours, just puts f***/f-ing/ …Blame it on western pop songs(though pop era expired long time ago).

 And as I am writing this, a thought says even though such intricacies of working of higher power, the soul, the Karma has been in our culture then why we praise firangs, Scott Adams. Am not trying to demur Adams, its a awesome book, and nor are your post-read-review-thoughts, yet… Waz going through a website on Gita, and yet how many of ours “f-gen” have ever read Gita, we kind of ostracize (may b only mentally), one who does, Gosh! he is not a dude…

All written & mused. (/all said and done)

I always thought the creator of Dilbert, must be having a knack, for its hard to be so subtle & humorous, yet hitting the bulls’ eye, in 3 frame comic strip. (and so is RKL with his strip ion common man) I loved the part which was having science, g-force, nucleus, string theory. We all know about these, but yet again we fail to question any of these, a set of set beliefs, we lack ‘Jigyassa’

 Hey may be after a decade they will discover that there is a S-force (soul force), which binds all micro-sub-atomic particles. And being human we (may be me) always perceive soul as a scintilating, semi transparent human form, call it human limitation, it might be a force, or just a knowledge, as Buddha/Mahavira had. It’s just we are happy enough, to make soul/god to have a human form, its more easy to our brain. Worshipping/imagining ‘Nirankara’ is tough for mango ppl like us. Its definitely >1 read-book, although I have never repeated a novel, will b repeating dis.

Coming to our eternal ambition, iimA is definitely a class apart(oh dese cliches!), waz going thru a blog post, might interest u, Seeing pics of ppl in dem, I wonder they must hav came from some diff planet(Oh dese cliches!), rather they must b having a new undiscovered subatomic particle in grey matter, how it would feel to be among the top brains of India (provided u agree cat as a brain test).Will decide when I’ll jam at LKP

 But after 20-25 years all this will be trifle, or it might even be deciding factor.

God knows? (now thats a true cliched cliche and may be I have a cliche for cliche)

Gloria

The opening lines of the opening verse of the opening song of October crystallize the central dillema with which the band, and especially Bono,  were force to grapple throughout the album.

” I try to sing,

I try to stand but I can’t find my feet.

I try , I try to speak up.

But only in you I am complete”.

The song reflects a desperate desire to find a voice, a language, a way of expressing at once the faith- the certaininty- that was at the heart of band.

From listening to Paul McGuiness’ gregoraian chant album , the idea emerged to doing chorus in latin. In the context of prevailing nihilism of punk, this was an extraordinary audacious gesture. Bono asked Gary Jermyn – a friend who has gone to study in Trinity College, Dublin- to do the initial translation.

“You could hear the desperation and confusion in some of the lyrics“,’Gloria’ is  a lyric about not being able to express what’s going on, not being able to put it down, not knowing where we are.”, Edge

Over/Under-whelmings

Over whelmed by underwhelmings.

Or moving in circles,

The too-many world of quantum physics.

The lost horizons,

The new shores,

The pure or purile thoughts.

The pinings, the longings

The dreams the desires.

The strengths & weakness.

A wish to fly….A wish to run

A wish to shine….A wish to rise.

Running in circles, flying with birds,

Shining with stars, rising with sun.

The life is beautiful.

It’s a fleeting glimpse,

Catch before that fades away.

The action-packed thrillers

The oh-so-romantic romance

The ad infinitum secrets

Is this thrill, or horror or suspense…

Rumblings & musings

Ardent thoughts!    Ardent passions!

Ardent dreams!     Ardent desires!

They burn in me….They fuel me.

/\ru

Aug 10, CDC

Transcendental Binary musings of a flaneur

Caffine fumes on my face,

Fighting the insomniac in me.

Sun burns high and dry,

Asphalt hard and ashen.

Half-formed thoughts in mind,

A pen rambles on a white sheet,

Noises come in symphony

Colours green and yellow.

Late night junkyard shifts,

Cool night breeze washes my face,

The moon high and a dark night,

Bed seems cozy and water purifying.

Thoughts come in binary,

Pixels in high resolution,

Keypad tapping and mouse tracking,

Limitless limits set for cracking.

A friend murmuring for satisfaction,

A search issues in own self,

Soft and hard are the locks,

It’s hard to be soft.

Composed 23 March, HDC Cafeteria.

New Dawn

A dreamy eyed affair
A misty eyed presence….
Searching…assuming….
Towns to travel….
Roads to trudge…
Acts to act upon…

The sun sets upon me….and yet it will shine as it never shone…
The clouds will dissolve …
Waiting for a eternal spring…
They say night gets darkest before dawn…
will it get more dark
or darkness is subsiding

Ray of hope is around the corner…
It’s at the end of my tunnel…
The road is torn
the shackles are strong
the memories burnt deep

Come unto the shining rays
And a new dawn will shine

Composed around March 20.

Calvin the Great…..Hobbes the almighty!!

catch the fun at

http://www.brijj.com/group/manishi-s-group–presentation–Calvin-N-Hobbes-Class-Picture?eid=269950

Pixar motley creations…..

ONE MAN BAND

With one coin to make a wish at the piazza fountain, a peasant girl encounters two competing street performers who’d prefer the coin find its way into their tip jars. The little girl, Tippy, is caught in the middle of musical duel that ensues.

Written and directed by Andrew Jimenez and Mark Andrews

Produced by Osnat Shurer, head of Pixar’s Shorts group

 

 

LIFTED

When an overconfident teen alien gets behind the controls of a spaceship he must attempt to abduct a slumbering farmer under the watchful eye of a critical instructor. But abducting humans require precision and gentle touch, and within a few missteps it’s painfully clear why more humans don’t go missing every year.

 

 

GERI’S GAME

An aging codger named Geri plays a daylong game of chess in the park against himself. Somehow he begins losing to his livlier opponent. But just when the game’s nearly over Geri manages to turn the table.

Flash sites to look out for…..

(1) http://www.adidas.com/flash

(2) http://www.paperheads.co.uk/

(3) http://www.oakley.co.uk/

(4) http://www.hilfigerdenim.com/

(5) http://www.somebodyelsesphone.com/

(6) http://www.saveyoursensible.com/

(7) http://lukelarsen.com/

Check out  of the sites are listed in 

http://www.thefwa.com/

http://bestwebgallery.com/

280 Slides

An exciting funky  alternative to corporate powerpoint. Check out d exciting slides available and easy-to-use interface.

   It is one of the those web app which you will swoon over and be vexed at powerpoints and boring ppts.

Its a small startup from NOrth 280 Inc., a company of young creative entrepreneurs.

Try it out yourself.

http://280slides.com/

Vivre sa vie!!

Vivre sa vie(my life to live)

Hitting the keys of keyboard, hearing over the pro-technicalities of the instructor, I was loitering over the french arts and literature like a amateur flaneur.

I came over the series of quotes by the noted french director Jean-Luc Godard,one of the founding members of the Nouvelle Vague- the french new wave.

 

 

• Photography is truth. Cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.
• Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
• A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end . . . but not necessarily in that order.
• To me, style is just the outside of content, and the content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body. Both go together, they can’t be separated.
• All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.
• A tracking shot is a moral act.
• Films are the only things by which to look inside people, and that’s why people are so fond of movies and why they’ll never die.
• I mix images and sounds like a scientist, I hope. The mystery of the scientific is the same as the mystery of the artist. So is the misery. 
• To be or not to be. That’s not really a question.