Ho Ho Ho!

"Jingle bells,Jingle bells,jingle all the way...oh what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh..."

ah, the songs of merryment, and joy. The children sleep on chirstmas eve with expectations of a jolly elderly man coming down the chimney, and giving them gifts!
the joy of recieving those gifts, and opening a beautifully wraped present, is what we see on the childs face.
Singing songs that bring cheer to everyone, spending time with family, laughing, playing games, eating together, bringing back the life from the day to day mundane existence. What a feeling!!

in all this...when do i make a reference to any religion? these songs and ideas are now merely a symbol of happiness.

for example:

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Oh! You better watch out,
You better not cry,
You better not pout,
I'm telling you why:

Santa Claus is coming to town!

He's making a list,
He's checking it twice,
He's gonna find out
who's naughty or nice.

Santa Claus is coming to town!

(http://www.christmas-carols.net/carols/santa-claus-coming-town.html)

image from(www.wikipedia.org)

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Its got a nice beat to it, its catchy, and its telling kids something nice. why put a label of religion on it? I'm not chirstian, so what? i like the idea of a grey haired old man, who makes children happy!
Santa is so much of a "global figure"(considering his size and where he lives! :P), and hey, he seems like a fun guy.
look at him, he looks like he loves kids, and that kids would love him instantly. Children deserve all the fun they can get. Childhood never comes twice, and they should spend it laughing, dancing playing, (yea...lets be honest...learning too). Happy childhood, ensures they will live happy lives.
Its all about a fantasy, and kids love fantasies..fairy god mothers, large giants, small friendly birds, and now the newer flying brooms, wizardry.
So what if this one fella has something to do with a saint. (saint nicolas)

So its decided santa is fun...and kids should be told about him, and allowed to bask in this big bellied tank of happiness. heres hoping that all kids can enjoy the spirit of christmas, and partake in the cheer and happiness santa brings.

Sing carols, spend time with your family, eat good food, and be happy....coz "Santa Claus is coming to town....."

Heres a song thats nice to hear, if u get a chance to hear it...do so, its by Jim Reeves:
The Merry chirstmas polka

This is Christmas season so there isn't any reason we can't dance the Christmas polka
Hear sleighbells ringing everybody's singing dancing the Christmas polka
Christmas trees and holly make everyone so jolly and love just fills the air
It's a wonderful world for a boy and a girl while dancing the Christmas polka

The merry Christmas polka let's dance let's dance let's dance
Everyone's so happy the air is filled with romance
Watch the sweethearts kissing as they dance neath the mistletoe
It's a sight to behold for the young and the old the merry Christmas polka

This is Christmas season...


MERRY CHIRSTMAS TO ALL, and TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT!

Education and the masses

I was watching a movie called Swadesh again, it talks about a young man who returns to a village in India, from the comfortable life in the United States, and upon return, sees the pitiable condition of this counrty.

Now, I have always wanted to leave here, and go abroad, and many of my friends, after watching that movie, taunted me about it. But, what are those who stay here going to do?

What is our purpose? Do we have one? We study to become engineers, businessmen, lawyers, we form the layers in society, and help build a beautiful cake. What about those places where society is a fable. Unheard, unseen, and not understood. We worry about an exam that is two weeks ahead, or the car running out of gas, but there ar people who can do NOTHING, but worry about a square meal.
We(as families) live with the comfort of not worrying about where our next meal is going to come from, therefore we dont understand what a life it would be, when the thought, of a eating a dry chappati means eating a morsel too much.
I know people who talk about education as if its our job. We attend classes, colleges, various institutes of supposed learning, to do what? move on with our lives. Then what am i doing different? I just choose to do it in a different place. Just life people move from Infosys in Bombay to Infosys in Banglore.
Who can really USE this educated state of mind? We learn things , applications of the mind, and we do what? work our ass off so that at the end of the day, WE get to live a comfortable life.
but arent we as human beings supposed to help each other??
Why not try to help those who need what we have? There are children out there, who dont know abc, dont know numbers, are so ignorant that no civilized world would accept them.

What good use is our knowledge of the abc's and the tables if we cant help others who dont have access to it, to understand use the power that it holds. for if it wasnt for numbers, we would never have had computers.

I just gave my Electrical networks paper a few days back, now what can i do with what i have learnt? NOTHING...absolutely NOTHING. but if i were to teach a village boy, how to handle current, and voltages, what the best way to connect lights and fans are, what the concept of wattage was, about storage batteries. THEN, he has gained immensly. he can now do his best to get more power out of what little electricity he gets.

Another example, if those people knew, how to treat minor ailments. it would help. they wont have to worry each time the youngest gets a bout of diarrhea. they'll know what to do.

if someone knew how to work the finances, we would be able to set up funds, we would be able to help those who need it most.
i hope u are getting my drift.

The very foundations of our society was build by educated minds, that were tuned to help the other man, not for his/her own needs. and a fact remains that the way we learn today, cant help anyone ever. we are growing into a worthless breed of spawns, that can do no service to humanity, and can only think of themselves.

Education wasnt about gettin money and big jobs, it was so that, life would be easier for all of mankind. not just for one of us.

Doing the right thing

"I have come to the crossroads in my life, ..and I always knew the right path, but I never took it, Why? Cause it was too damn hard..."
-Colonel Slade(Scent Of a Woman(1992))

Isnt that so true for so many of us. Anything that is right, but is uncomfortable is never done. we have some how lost our sense of right and wrong in a world where everything is done to play it safe. An office stamps on a little guy, we call it bureaucracy bitch about it a little, and then continue to roll in the mud we fell in. some just get out of it, and walk away to let others fall in.

Who has the guts to stand up and question it? Maybe they would if they didnt stand to lose. We fear a backlash. It would displease the people in question and they would make life difficult for us. People who are that worried deserve no better.

If we ever feel that we are being wronged, we must by all means ask, for if we never ask, we will never know. and then find a solution for that, instead of throwing up your hands and saying, thats how the system is. why is it that when ever it is a matter of asking a superior for what is rightfully yours to know, we shy away. we look fr 1000 reasons not to ask, and just say leave it.

Large scale examples? Iraq war, the UN did nothing. small scale? The office charges you with unaccountable fees, we dont say a word.

i clearly remember a time when we were charged soemthing called "breakage" fees, not one person asked to know what it was that was broken. was it so difficult? its not right charging it, we know that, but then who wants to have issues with the office?

Despite this trend being so popular with todays youth, we expect a change in our nation. i dont think that will ever come, the idea of taking the right path probably didnt come with Gandhi, but it sure as hell died with him. Because we dont have the guts, we dont have the courage to say- "I know i am right, and i am willing to face the consequences" . thats what beats the system, and to know that u did the right thing despite what people might say, it feels too damn good.

Science goes out the window!

"...ignorance and fanaticism are forever hungry, it needs feeding..."
- Henry Drummand(character) Inherit the Wind(1998)

"Miracle Water" the headline said, and millions flocked to taste it. Once again we proved to the world how ignorant a large majority of our countrymen are.

This is how the story goes, some person went to the water body in question, and drank it to find the water "sweet". now thats his own choice of words. Sure enough, sea water is supposed to be salty...so this ignoramus spread the word. What is naturally salty is now SWEET!!!! "what could it be..hmmm.... GOD HAS MADE IS SWEET" how bout that as his thought process? whats worse millions think the same way.

What state is the science in this land, where any unexplained phenomenon is automatically claimed to be the work of god? In the day of the Rajahs i can understand, lack of sufficient knowledge, and backing of science. Similarly, i would not have been surprised if this had happened in Bihar either, but in the city which is home to places like the BARC and other advanced sciences facilities? Its a shame.

All we now need is some paranoid fellow to say that his problems are cured because he drank this water...Then is when the problems start to flow in. People from all over the country are going to want in, depsite all the advertizing of the fact that its unhealthy, and the over crowded city will just keep filling. whats a worse case scenario, the people predomintently in that area, will claim that its their religion and that no other religion should be allowed. ladies and gentlemen, another ayodhya issue, and over what?, sewage water.

Thats rather far into the future, or maybe not , eitherway, presently i hope the hospitals are readying themselves for truck loads of people who come in to get them selves treatment for the bacteria that infests them, and for those who are immune resulting of flithy living, should get their heads checked, and may be get into a course for science.

How they picked up their tails!

A few days back the HC instructed the govt. to fill all the pot holes that are a dime to two dozen in the city, or the officials would be pulled up! So dont be surprised if the roads are suddenly a flurry of activity on it. the dead line is up in 10 days!!!

i was on my way back home, and the Bombay-Pune highway, that was a disaster due to the rains, is now being worked on in a hurry! its hilraious, they are working at amazing speed, and this would be "impossible" had it not been for the HC order. "nai sahib...vae-l lagel". the trucks are out, they are puttin in tar, the road rollers touching speeds they arent build for. AND for this it took a HC order!

Its a sad state of affairs when the officials who are paid to do a certain job, need to be frightened to do i. thats the one biggest wrong thing bout this country. no body thinks it their job. they maybe equipped to do it, but if it means moving a muscle more than what they are "supposed" to do, they wont do it.

we passed our 59th year of independence, what do we have to show for it?? for all practical purposes, we just show that we cant manage anything, without big papa coming to tell us to do it. the other things(the frills so to speak) would have been possible (in this era) even if we were a colony of england.

College life..

college is gettin better, from the mundane place it was...to a more hip college. The socities, are moving gettin a move on, the magazine is going to be great fun. as it is, writing for tp is good news for me, and now when its gonna be done in group its better. Looking forward to it.
the techincal soc, had its first run in this year, with a seminar on robotics. i remember the one last year, not very different. altho the response was quite sad, but my class(se comps) turned up...nearly 75% of the crowd was my class. i love my class!!!
Apart frm good points...everyday, i manage to find a sour side of the college. today was just as bad as any other, the office staff, are gigantic megalomaniacs...when its their time to work, instead of finding ways to make it easier for us to be done with all these stupid formalities, they just make it more difficult.One could always assume that this is how an office weilds power in bombay, but then again, its ridiculous.
Lectures are one hell of a wasted excercise, except for the attendance, thanks to certain profs, and when 1 hour is too long, how in gods name does one sit for 2???
thats college life for today, hoping something cool comes along, for the next few days, and me come back to write.

Ahem..may i have ur attention plz

emm....my first blog...in the public domain...how does it feel?...not really different. except that there is this thing that people might just read this shit, and then go...'hmm....what a n00b", to them...a thank you is due...coz they are taking time out of their life....TO READ MY BLOG! very nice!
And why not read it, i spent a lot of time and THOUGHT in making this ...and getting a friggin domain name is so tough! what didnt i try...omg, lets see, something was taken, so was anything, then i tried no name, then really no name, jeez...i think ....I THINK i landed with damn-no-name.
so score....so in future NO one asks me...y i put it that way...the comp made me.
right now, i think this is more than nuff, so me leaving, come bak and read later ..ta'