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A: They were good days... badland days
B: Especially the keypad and gui
Yes..i miss playing dat
Anyways..i dont play much..

A: yeah..
B: I dont do anything much..

A: you are reading a lot...
that's the best anyone can do
become a bit wiser everyday
B: And working as an underpaid intern
Yes..i enjoy though..

A: i believe it will put you in good stead
B: Thats for the future to decide
The positive time axis
I would then think abt d stuff of negative time axis
Which i do most of d days bow
*now

A: "there are dreams, people, hope, present, past future, and beyond all that, there is nothing, but only you"
B:
I wonder sometime if i can get out of this constraint - time

A: you can...
B: Tell me how?

A: look for crevices in plain sight
cracks beyond the 3 dimensions
B: I would like to travel time like i travel from kondapur to begumpet
Like in a bus
Then i can get the bigger picture of human lives
And the inevitable events that affects our lives

A: yeah,.. we are people on a boat. We have nowhere to go apart from where the boat takes us. (Time) Unless, we know how to swim"
B: No..i dont think we can ever get out of this 3d spatial space time curvature...we can only experience things we percieve like the front of the building..we can never know whats on d other side
Its just we as a species cannot break away from our nature, our universe

A: Someday when we get out of the 3D frame, like when a sphere got out of 2D frame,
B: Sphere exists in 3d..in 2d its not a sphere..it loses its identity .

A: we will still want to get out of that frame
B: Its a circle

A: yeah it's a projection
B: But human lives r 3d...our consciousness cannot exist outside of this world

A: I think smell, sight, touch, sound and taste are projections in itself
B: All outside of it are open to interpretation..at best we can make a gues..but never chart the unreachable

A: i'll throw you into a blackhole
B: Like why we sleep or why trees dont move or why it rains

A: or may be i'll kill you, and release you through 3D manifestation of human soul.
B: Our guess makes us feel all important
Whereas we r nothing but an existential joke
A biological puppet

A: that's what the comedian had to say
B: And we need to prove things

A: why not lay back and enjoy the drama?
B: Like earning money, raising a family or promotion or college

A: step out of the queue
B: Thats what i want to do
I wantto get out of this time phenomenon

A: find a black hole
B: Just living my life i want it

A: for yourself
B: Ye kya dukaan me milta hai??

A: no.. baju wale galaxy mein
B: I dont wabnt to find..

A: one thing i will always want to do is contribute...
create
B: I will die..again reborn..again struggle..again prove my worth..again die

A: something permanent
B: Theres nothing permanent..not even sun
Not our universe
Both religion and science teach us that

A: yeah... i think an idea is permanent
"Idea"
B: Idea..it just last a century..or a millenium

A: how trivial it may be... it will only need a vessel to carry it forward
B: Which in 4th dimensional life might be a point

A: apocalypse, teleportation are all there, imagined by people, written in vedas, the idea has stayed... and now after eons, we are still talking an idea...you and me...
B: Che died for a cause..and now his own life is a materialistic joke..a consumer-driven enterprise that satisfy only the corporates

A: but his idea has not died...
B: Thats the problem with idea...2000 private institute in indiai is named after gandhi..all corporate whores

A: not even with hitler, no wonder it has been categorised evil but it stills lasts
B: Lasts till some other fellow come and replace him

A: ideas will oulast anything
B: Then some other fellow

A: everything..
B: Just like with buildinga
1st it was a temple..den a mosque..den again a temple

A: even though there won't be a omplex chemical experiment like life... the idea will find its way wherever there is a conscience
B: Ideas r not everlasting...humans r not everlasting...world is bnot everlasting..nor is the universe

A: what do you mean by conscience?
B: For past 5000 years caste as an idea is existing

A: consciousness?
B: How much years do u think it will survuivr?

A: it is the awareness of what you are...
a chemical experiment which is aware
B: And awareness is inside this big globe called earth

A: a molecule so complex that it resists decomposition
is said to have life
that grows
that replicates
B: Oh..mr. Science..after all science is not objective
Its all subjective truth we r part of
Trying to find objective answers

A: i will always remain a sceptic of the most ingrained truth
nothing is truth
truth is nothing
B: Never doubt the truth...it will never be easy to grasp at first place

A: all of it are projections and perceptions
B: Truth frm a human perspective is not truth..its biased
Truth of life in earth
Thats the book i want to read
Perhaps i may find it in eternity

A: I have a book
Man the unknown
B: Where time doesnt ecist

A: its a pdf
B: Again not some truth written by human
I dont believe in humans

A: a report of a psychologist, psychiatrist
B: They present distorted fact

A: of what he saw in humans
his patients
B: Some fucker who spend his life in universities and colleges
I want to meet the person who is away from this material world

A: meet a beggar
B: Not bothered by food

A: ask him how sees his life
B: Or shelter or cloth

A: meet someone whose future is just the next day
we humans... thanks to our life expectancy, have always stored things for use in future...
earlier, a 30 year old human was as old as he got...
he didn't have a future to worry about
B: Yes..someone who doesnt obey time..for whom there is no day no night..no sunrise..no rain...no thunder..no floods
When we conquer time...
Thats the dream world i want to live in

A: to conquer time you have it perceive it differently
just set your clock on a reverse counter... and work your way back...
B: Theres no diff perceptions that humans didnt tried

A: as if you are approaching a new beginning...
B: We failed

A: treading back yuour life...
B: We can never challenge "kaal"

A: do things what u have already done...
B: Thats why we r after success in material world now

A: lets for a day.. do whatever you did the last thing now...
B: Humans were long ago cheated by gods...

A: i mean... if i walked up the staircase to work... walk back the same stair case back...
B: Thats again u r limiting urself to the material world
Think a bit matrix-like

A: you will look like a lunatic but it will open another perspective
B: Where there is no boundaries
Where we do not follow rules of our existence

A: see... as per bhagwad gita
the only thing that has no boundaries...
is randomness.
B: Thats what we r..random particles
U think u r important?
U r born for some great purpose
Its just a mathematical probablity

A: no... but readin a new book makes me happy..
B: Just many things in our life are

A: chemically speaking...
it raises the dopamine level of our brain...
dopamine spike...
the most happiest person have to be the saddest person too..
that's why saints preach bereavment...pain.
B: Hahahaha...brain..a material physical construct...we r capable of much more higher things...but we r made chutiyaas by drinking water, eating food, peeing, shitting, fucking, etc etc

A: all we can do is either spike our dopamine level as much as we want or keep it constant...
that determines if we are as still as a saint or as human as nikhar patel...
:D
that's why bhagwad gita teaches us to meditate... tapasya, forget food, water and everything... then Gita says that we receive a boon, a boon of outstanding long life, or teleportation or powers outside the realms of the 3D world
i think tapasya teahes us to break free of normal human needs as you said...eating drinking etc
and then we pop out like a circle popping out to become a sphere.
Hopefully you dream tonight and perceive time as frames rather than a motion. In a way, dreams are hardly understood as 3D phenomena.

The Being from Higher Dimensions

What if you are so perfectly placed that you don't see the edges of the box you are in?

The slivers camouflaged, the cracks sealed.

The movements misunderstood. Because it's not you who moves, but time sweeps past you. It's the same frame you understand. The frame you have grown up into. The frame you comprehend and the frame you perceive. You move in to new albums, with new subjects. Your drive to your work. Your walk to the grocery shop nearby. What if they are all the frames you can only perceive. Because your senses haven't learn to perceive anything other than touch, sight, sound, taste and smell. You only do what you understand, thus unaware of the unknown, the past, the present and the future. Time sweeps past you. And you choose which frame you get into unknowingly, unaware. The world you comprehend. Time sweeps past you. And in loops you go through the wave of emotions feeling minor fragments of memory but unable to connect the when and where. Time and Space. You call it deja vu, intuition, sixth sense but you don't understand. Time sweeps past you.

We are all manifestations. Open your sensors. Expand your imagination.

Because, we are not just XYZ.

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A Bummer Story

I met a bum. I didn't exactly meet him ofcourse. The bummer was bumming around when he bumped against me. Right, so he asked me for alms. I showed him pity eyes and gave him a rs 10/- for a change, assuming that it would make me feel good. What happened next? The bum went to a tea shop, had a bun and a cup of lemon tea. Yeah, that's right. I couldn't resist helping myself to a conversation.

Me- 'Hello'
Bummer - (nods his head in appreciation) ji, shukriya.
Me- 'Is there any chance you speak in English?'
Bummer- Yes, thank you (winking at me).
(this bummer is quite a character, i thought)
Me- How are you?
Bummer- I am good. Thanks for that rs 10/-, it's not often we hit a jackpot.
Me- It's just rs 10/-. I would have smoked up a cigarette if i hadn't given it to you.
Bummer - (leaning against a spit stained wall) you wanna try something?
Me- (why would i ever try something from you) yeah, what is it?
Bummer - I got this from the valleys of kashmir.
(he digged deep into his pocket, and up with a stack of beedis)
Me- What is so special about them? Will you let me smoke one?

(We each light one, and smoke up)
Bummer- So what is keeping you here? Go on, enjoy the beedi and get along with all the other babus.
Me- I am waiting for a friend (lying, because i was there, just to talk to him, and prophesising how and what life meant).
Bummer- 'What do you see?'
Me-'Where? what exactly?'
Bummer- These people. Flashy suits, leather shoes, everything.
Me-'They had their chance, they made the most of it. You missed yours i suppose'
Bummer- (laughing loud) Yeah right.

Me-'Are you laughing at your miseries?'
Bummer-'Miseries? I can guarantee you that i had more vacations than you have ever worked.'
Me-'If you call not working a vacation, then good luck. Atleast we are doing something, contributing. I am amused, you are berating us like that.
Bummer- Okay, how much does this bun cost?
Me- rs 5/-, why?
Bummer- My body is so adapted to walk 10 kms with having just a bun in an entire day. I travel without ticket next to the toilet in trains. I sleep on the streets next to dogs. Is this why you think we are no good?

Me- A frank bum. Yep may be.
Bummer- what if i tell you that i have a degree in advanced cryogeny? And that i have traveled across Europe and Asia giving lectures on how particles close to absolute Zero.
Me- What?(bursting into laughter and astonished)
Bummer- I gave up everything. It was peaceful this way rather than trying to change the world.
Me- Wait, who taught you the word Cryogeny? Or can you even define Cryogeny?
Bummer- Yes, the phenomena that occur in atoms at around zero Kelvin.
Me- Whatever, come to the point!
(i was getting annoyed, annoyed because i couldn't accept it)

Bummer- Your cellphone, let me hold it and you will cringe thinking i might spoil it. Your cords, crisp and cosy, which you try to save from the faintest of stains. Your account, must be in 6-7 digits, which you worry about saving taxes, worry about investment; cars, beautiful and sleek, but you pay emis, and rents. A slave of money, to make your ends meet and then die.
Me- That doesn't mean anything, i was just being sympathetic towards a bum like you.

Bum- Come down, here, sit next to me, look at the people and the madness. Notice their frowns and fake laughs. Look at those numb expressionless faces. At my level, down here, you notice how people are ricocheting off each other, just the way it is, at zero kelvin. I love science, and i live science. The more energy we have the more we spend to jump to higher levels, only to escape as fragments of nothing. But down here, at zero, you understand annihilation, creation and collision. That is why i chose to become a bum.

(I got up, walked away, perplexed, as immersed and consumed)
10 years later ...
Me: Please spare some alms in the name of God.

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A Fancy Anecdote : From Indian epics to the science of Teleportation

India is a beautiful country. It has been a beautiful country. It has a civilisation that has outlasted many others. It has the two greatest epics ever written. The beauty of these epics? Apart from being the source of unforgettable and unmatched stories, the stories are very different from regular religious texts. The stories of Mahabharata and Ramayan show a subtle human nature ranging from the annexation of power to the renunciation of it after achieving enlightenment.

Why is India a unique country?
Not the Europe doesn't have fabled histories. Not that Chinese and Middle East have any less inspiring stories. But where other cultures have showed annexations and propagation of culture, Indians have helped themselves to conserving their culture, by looking inwards. The culture of India is so unique and so broad that it gives enough space for anyone, from any religion, culture to pursue his life in peace.

How is it different?
The differences lies in the roots of our culture. We have been told of stories of great sacrifices, stories of renunciation of kinship, family legacies, kingdom and all material pleasures. Such stories go a long way in forming the character of an average Indian and thereby explains why India has never taken the role of an aggressor as a country. Yes, Unification of regions has been attempted, but of parts which are a part of the same culture but different fragments, viz. the Mauryas. We have always practised such stringent activities like charity, self penance, that search of glory doesn't always form a part of culture. But glory through virtuous actions have.

Why can Mahabharat and Ramayana be actually true?
The stories of Mahabharata and Ramayana are filled with magic, superhumans, and devils alike. While an arrow shot through the sky replicating into thousands, is believed to be physically impossible. So has been apparition or teleportation. But i would like to state an important point here. The stories of Ramayana and Mahabharata, have shown people with amazing capacities, where they have used their spiritual and mental strength capacities, to bend matters. But as the time progressed the knowledge of how to use higher dimensions might have been lost and histories, became legends and legends turned into myths. A simple analogy to explain this.


Considere an ancient world. The boundaries of a caln are very much the physical boundaries. The society is united because of interdependence, a farmer, a hunter, a hermit and a healing-wizard, all focused on their powers,  honing their skills. There were no clans to fight, hence no army was ever needed to guard their natural boundaries. When there is no one to fight, no distant future to worry (insurance, tax, savings), basic necessities of food, clothing and housing available for nothing, a human mind has a lot of space to expand its boundaries, indulging in the forms that are paranormal.

Now the culture prospered, and the need for resources, and just endeavours, made the clan aware of the clan that were outside the natural boundaries. Interests clashed, giving rise to need of protection, fortification and thus armies. Now, various sections of society had to provide a son to help protect them. Raids, Seige etc followed, and the glories of the present were more appreciated and the past slowly considered less important. The humans were more organised and sure of their existence than the previous generations, hence the need arose to secure their future as life expectancy was increasing. The present became more important, more armies, more fortification, more battle glories, and thus furthering the deterioration of the pool of knowledge, and the boundaries of unusual mental capacity kept on shrinking. With these, we just remembered the facts and forgot the procedures. Hence, now we know that 'Naarad-muni' used to teleport, but not how. While scientifically saying, finding higher dimensions will only make it look like a cake walk.

But 10000 years on, and we have made our history based on physical sensations of touch, vision, noise that anything beyond these mere experiences seems outrageous. As 'Morpheus' said, what we see, hear, touch and smell, are nothing but synaptic electrical signals interpreted by our brain. Hence a right signal, right amplitude, frequency and modulation can be artificially used to mimic and fool our brain in distinguishing reality from wilderness.

The taste of chilly is taken differently by different individuals. There is no way you can feel how a chilly tastes to your best friend, but we all agree on a common concensus that a chilly is hot, with everyone having their perception of what hot might be like. There is actually no reference to anything ( except numbers, hence, Mathematics is called the exact science). I hope you get my point.

There are unexplained mysteries of science and science as it is isn't fully developed. The ability of the brain, the explanation of the paranormal, intuition, deja vu, memories of past life, sixth sense, dreams and nightmares, phobia, instincts, the subconscious and the unconscious etc., are not known, but doesn't mean they can't be known. Humans being in 3-Dimensional world can't imagine what higher dimensional forms can be, just like a dog who has never seen colour can ever imagine a rainbow. In the dog world, there is nothing called a rainbow, but it will be ridiculous if you tell a human that there is nothing called humans. Being in a 3-D world, is being in a boat. Your movement is restricted until you know how to swim. Deluded as this article may seem, think of opening up to unnatural abilities of our brain. Imagine.

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'Munireddy Gardens'

A pizza is on its way. A session is just halfway. A lazy sunday afternoon. Brushed. Bathed. And serene. I just remembered, Hotel California. I put on my earphones. Browsed through the playlists, and with a careful tap I played. So bad with names, there began a solo, a solo that just touches everyone, and just for a moment time pauses, and you get flashbacks of all the good times you had, with 'Hotel California' being the background score. I wanted to put down my top 5 Hotel california moments.

But then, I was compromising my present, unknowingly. Why not make this my top Hotel California moment!

First, it was the setup to enjoy the song. But with newspapers and bags around, a laptop beaming at me, I knew this wasn't my setup to enjoy the song. Shut down, lit up, and I heard a grumbling cloud calling me outside. I didn't have to turn much to catch moments of life breathing around. A squirrel squirreled across the ground onto the next tree. A kite flying low, on the lookout for those very squirrels. A second grumbling from clouds far above, trying to catch my attention. And the sun fighting it out to peek. Finally, I saw leaves swaying to its tune. It was my Hotel California moment at Muni Reddy.

Sorry for killing such an aesthetic image with a name like Muni Reddy. This wasn't the Muni Reddy Layout, or the Munni Reddy Apartments, but the Muni Reddy Gardens. A cosy hotel, with service exquisite and rare. Inside, you see two ogre bean bags, waiting to catch you affectionately when your feet gave away and you surrendered to gravity. And you drop, soft and lazy and blissful. Outside, you see big banana leaves swinging with the breeze in the balcony. You lean against the barricade carefully, adjusting your posture to get the best view. Mine was overlooking the coconut grove and a tiny little forest in the background. A lovely breeze, and you let go. Such a lovely place. Any time of the year, you can find it here.

Plenty of room at Hotel Muni Reddy, you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.

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@Munikireddy

Dhruvia Bandaron ki, 'Arabella'

(Kripiya aage padhne se pehle is gaane ka video dekhen : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-zkoK2kwxs )

Arabella's got some interstellar-gator skin boots
And a helter skelter 'round her little finger and I ride it endlessly
She's got a Barbarella silver swimsuit
And when she needs to shelter from reality she takes a dip in my daydreams

Kavi 'Dhruvia Bandars'(Arctic Monkeys) apne 'Arabella' ka vividh vivrana dete hue is gaane ki shuruat karte hain, jisme unki 'woh', antariksh ke magarmachon ke joote pehen kar, ungli kar rahi hain. Dusre pankti mein 'Arabella' ne 'Barbarella' ki chandi ki bani, tairaki vastra pehen kar, kavi ke geeli din sapnon mein dubki lagati hai.

Arabella's got a 70's head
But she's a modern lover
It's an exploration, she's made of outer space
And her lips are like the galaxy's edge
And her kiss the colour of a constellation falling into place

That's magic in a cheetah print coat
Just a slip underneath it I hope
Asking if I can have one of those
Organic cigarettes that she smokes
Wraps her lips round the Mexican coke
Makes you wish that you were the bottle
Takes a sip of your soul and it sounds like…

Kavi Dhruvia Bandar, 'Arabella' ke baare mein yeh bhi kehte hain, ki woh, 1970s ke vichaar dhara wale stree hain, jinke chummon se kavi ko din ke taare nazar aate hain. 'Arabella' ko Mexican coke bahut pasand, and woh 'Barberella' ke kapdon ke alava 'Cheetah' ki khaal mein bhi nazar aati hain. 'Dhruvia Bandaron' ka yeh gaana mujhe bahut pasand hai.

(picture section)

Arctic Monkeys

Arabella in Barbarella Silver Swimsuit

Isse kehte hain 'Langur ke haath mein Chasme Bad-dur'

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Out of Body

I was speaking a language i couldn't understand. It was flowing out with unflinching accuracy. What i was saying sounded like some gospels of truths, and the inner mysteries of the universe. Yet i couldn't understand, however hard i was trying. I had my subconscious (or may be unconscious) talking to me, mysteries of previous generations, which seemed to have the answer in it to various unanswered questions. Are there other dimensions that we can tansport to? If yes, is death the way to leave a 3-dimensional world into higher dimensions?

I was in a classroom of the college that oversaw a section of a steel plant. The college was right next to the British Steel Conglomerate, apparently named British Steel. The world was rusting, the students uninterested. And the news of manmade and environmental disasters were commom those days. Out of the many exhausts and pipes that riddled the steel plant, like our circulatory system, a few of them could be seen coughing out black smoke in instances. It was unusual as i could sense that something was wrong. Yet i didn't warn the class, and waited for further signs. The smoke was now blowing out as puffs of a cigar from the pipe nearby and i knew it was time to evacuate. The students rushed out, only to see the entire campus rushing out into the ground in front, cautiously wishing it to be a mini scare. At the far end, of the ground, next to the steel plant complex, the manholes started erupting with white smoke. Students panicked and started rushing outwards to the gate. and away from the erupting manholes.

The news reported that the leakage of the steel plant had still not been identified. This had been the general mood of the city news service, as incidents like these have become frequent. I was sitting with a group of friends, who had gotten used to incidents like this and while they knew something was wrong, nobody wanted to point it out and spoil the mood. We had a mini robotic drone with us, which we decided to test and have a look around the city. The city was rotting, and we had come to point where there would be no way back, just a count of incidents and the body count. The drone was flown over a section of the steel plant, where people were still unable to escape the errant explosions out of the manholes. The sewers had long become the gas chambers of the Nazi era and the best, the authorities could do was to seal it at every corner. We were all living over a dormant volcano in our sewers. A man was suddenly seen running on to an open field covered with white smoke. Though he ran fast enough, but he couldn't last longer and tumbled down. The society was all about survival for some, while some wanted to continue trying to live their daily lives.

I wanted to have a better look at the city, so i took the drone with me and went around by walk, through the streets, checking it out. At one section i lowered the drone to have a better look at a little playground, only to see a kid, throwing stones at it. One hit the drone and it went off balance and on to the ground. The camera showed the little naughty fat kid running towards it so that he could get a piece of it. I quickly started the engines, but before it could lift off, the kid had held the tail of it. I had to buzz it with full power and unconventional manuevres, as the camera showed me the face of the kid in swerves and flashes who wanted to break it so badly. Luckily, i managed to free it up, and there it soared again, but it had a lost a small piece from the front of the propellers.

I finally found the blue conical dome on the frontside of propellers after a lot of scans through the playground. The kid had gone home after his mom had lashed out from the window of their apartment. Things as tiny as these aren't usually found, but i had the knack of picking out a needle in the hay. It was dark already, and my drone was soaring up again. I saw lights flashing in the sky overhead. It must have been a plane, i thought but the lights were not moving in the trajectory they should, but instead, they were swirling and circling on me. It was a crash for sure, and it was heading for me. I kept on gazing, and i couldn't have been any less convinced that i would be dead for sure if i end up exactly below it. I left it on something i couldn't define, luck may be, and stood there perplexed, and there it was, i faced it eyes open as it dug me into the ground. I was lying there, as people came crowding the place. They noticed my badge, and the broken wing of the cargo ship, and with some unflinching emotions they came up to a conclusion that i was dead.

I was dead, but i could still see. I could still hear them. And i wasn't shocked as well. I tried to get up, and it was so easy as i felt lighter than a bird. I sat up and turned, only to notice that my body was still lying there. My body, in an orange and blue striped tshirt, and a navy blue jeans. Something had set me free. I didn't feel the gravity, or time running, but i was existing in a limbo. There was much to explore and thus i set off, finding those like me. I wanted to know where and how and what sort of forms we were in. One from the crowd said,"It's lucky that the plane didn't blow up after it crash landed on this guy. I wonder how many casualties would we have had if it crashed and burned. This guy seems to have some sort of positive cosmic energy". Lumps of energy, yes, changing from one form to the other. Lumps of energy, which exists beyond the boundaries of time. Lumps of energy, in the form of something as big as the stars, to something as small as a tiny bacterium. Lumps of energy, that is all we are!

Out-of-my-mind
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I am Malala

Who is Malala Yousafzai?

"On October 9, 2012, a 15-year-old girl was shot in the face, while she was in a bus, on her way back home from school."

At 07:00, the alarm rings and we wake up to a beautiful morning sun. A cup of tea, newspaper, and a tidy healthy breakfast. We worry about a few bills, traffic, our bank balance, an outcome of a football match and choosing a dress from the wardrobe, and set off for work. Pretty smooth and simple. Now let me change a few things in a our morning schedule. Instead of bird chipings, what if you wake up to bomb explosions and 'rat-ta-tat' of gun fire. You go to your kitchen where all the cans are empty. You can see the sun, not through the window, but the holes left in the walls through shellings. You peek outside, timidly, to enjoy a morning breeze but all you breathe in is smoke and ashes. You quickly cross the road to get water, only to see, everything turned to rubbles. That's what a morning is like in a Zone of Conflict.

A young man, Ziauddin Yousafzai, had opened a school in the town of Mingora, Swat Valley, Pakistan, which is described as the Switzerland of the East. Swatis, had lacked a proper school for the young kids. Malala Yousafzai, the daughter of Ziauddin, in the Pashtun tribes of the hills, was one determined girl, who loved school. But Swat was suffering from the Taliban insurgency. And soon, it was one of the strongholds of the new Taliban regime. Shariat Law was established, public schools were shelled, girls were pushed back into their homes, and basic rights of the people were curbed. If one didn't accept their rules, they would end up at the square of the 'punished' that ranged from lashing to beheading.

Ziauddin challenged the clergy, raising his voice for the basic rights of education, and Malala his then 10 year old daughter was his comrade. Malala, was relentless, for she defied all the threatenings and waged on a war with Taliban. Before she was even 12, she was participating in talk shows, documentaries, interviews, and writing blogs on channels like BBC, Geo TV, CNN, New York Times, grabbing headlines everywhere, appealing to the world, showing the true face of Taliban. She was shot at point blank, and yet she lived, she recovered. Youngest nominee for the Nobel Prize for peace, she has admirers in UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon, ex- British PM, Gordon Brown, US President Barack Obama, Madonna, Angelina Jolie (i can't list the numerous awards and numerous admirers she has won).

On 12 July 2013, Yousafzai's 16th birthday, she spoke at the UN to call for worldwide access to education. The UN dubbed the event "Malala Day". But she doesn't want to be known as the Malala who was shot, but as her father said, "Malala was born to be free".

"What terrifies religious extremists like the Taliban, the most is not guns or tanks...but a girl with a book".
'I am Malala', is her story.

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Insomnia

1:45 AM
Lying awake at night trying to sleep doesn't help anyone. It adds to anxiety that you don't sleep when you have to wake up early. But when did we ever manage to sleep when we were anxious, throughout the history of our living race?

So I decided to wake up and relax. I let go of my minds instruction to sleep, for my mind knew that if you don't sleep well, you waste your next day.

Sleep: When you shut down from all your state of awareness. You are a lump of mass then. At the most vulnerable of state. You can be overridden by a truck and you won't know, or be trampled by people when you don't see it coming. So for a good sleep you need to rest your worries way. You have to find a cave in your mind where you can surrender your arms and shields.

So can I sleep when awake?
I don't think so. Because, when you are awake, you are aware. You see, hear, feel, taste, think. You process garbage just because you are aware. For sleeping you need to unplug. Let go.

Why am I not sleeping then?
Bcoz ... I ha'ent leht gooo..

08:45 AM: 
Time to wake up and get ready work. 
(Sleep? Who?)

Wandered-Lost-Crazy

Skyfall

'M dies, leaves Bond with her porcelain bull dog wearing the flag of United Kingdom, and a few drops of tears. Yes, Bond cried when she died in his arms.'

The movie begins with Bond fighting some anonymous agent, on a train, and coincidentally, or due to some lack of dramatic action, there is a Earth Mover that Bond uses to get closer to the anonymous agent. Meanwhile, he is hit by sharpnels, almost derailed, and thanks to the Earth Mover, he still manages to remain on the train. A few more fight scenes, and the good for nothing co-agent shoots Bond, and we let a tiny shriek, imagining that Bond is dead (only that we know he isn't dead or else the movie would be over in 10 mins). The other guy shares a 'thank you' moment with the co-agent, and enjoys the remaining journey on the roof of the train (really glad that the co-agent didn't shoot him, or else the movie would have ended there as well).

After a few months, or days may be(as there is no fixed timeframe), MI6 is blown up by some hacker, and M is shaken but not stirred. And Bond, lost somewhere in a world where girls are hot and free and people cheer a weirdo drinking with a scorpion on his hand, somehow watches the news about MI6 being blown up. Not quite sure what happened in there, but that call of duty brought him out.

M briefs Bond about his next mission 'Find out who did it'.

Fast forwarding through a stint with a childlike 'Q' with a 'One-Republic' hairstyle,few dead people, a Komodo dragon in Shanghai, and another hot-to-be-dead girl, who takes him to 'Silva', who is the villain and is gay. Javier Bardiem (I fondly remember him as Anton Chigurh) reveals the master-plan, and 5 secs of action later, he is caught. Mission Accomplished. What? Really? It never is that simple, really, and sounds like a bed time fairy tale for a 5 year old. 'Silva' is held in a type of Lock-Up only seen in X-Men (Magneto), Silence of the lambs (Hannibal Lectar), where he shows M his Gollum-like teeth, that he wants to kill her for something she did out of morality and duty.

'Silva wants to kill M'

'Polymorphic Engine that mutates the code' says Q, while trying to access Silva's laptop. 'Security through Obscurity', a Micozyte, only 6 programmers in the world know how to code that, and of course, M invented that. Sadly, the genius gets fooled, the 'Villain' manages to sneak out. Silva had planned this entire thing through. A tube crashes out, M is attacked, and Bond sneaks her away, to his home in Scotland. Some ideas that look ingenius, but make no sense, help them kill 20 men, crash a helicopter, and leave the only one remaining, Silva. Silva does some psychotic acting leaving M teary eyed, and is about to blow himself up along with M. Bond arrives right on time and kills Silva. And M dies too.

So what really happened?
Silva wanted to kill M.
M wanted to save England (should be UK/Britain) from Silva, who had no such plans.
Moneypenny was perenially horny.
Bond did what he whatever he does.
M dies. Silva wins. The new M is Voldemort.



Wandered-Lost-Crazy

A Personal Interview

What do you want to do today if you come to know that you ar dying tomorrow?
"Let me think about it."

What? Seriously? All you want to do is 'think' about it?
"Mmmm I don't know, what i want to do"

Okay, Let me help you out. We will find your interests by the process of elimination.
"Okay"

Do you want eat a pizza before you die?
"Naah, not pizzas, or anything. I don't even want to become the best cook in the world"

Hmm okay, how about being a rockstar?
"Not a rockstar, but i would like to make some songs for myself soon. It isn't like i want to do right now, but i want to. Right now i have George Harrison playing - my sweet lord, in my mind"

Not a rockstar then, do want to become a writer?
"I would like to write about things i believe in, which i have already done. I have written about One Consciousness. But then i want to write about how it can be implemeted to other things in life too. I have a logical explanation of the role of religion in our society, since human evolution. I think what i have developed, suits the humanity right as it developed through the pre-historic ages, through the dark, medieval times and now in the age of information. I feel we are at a stage, where it is the make or break moment for our future. Either we reach further heights of glory through a one world view, or we doom ourselves in pursuit of oil, riches and individual glory."

Wait a sec, you mean to say you are the modern day philosopher?
"Well if you want to call me a philosopher, or a thinker, or anything, it doesn't imply that i have nothing else to do. I have a job, which even though isn't interesting gives me enough time to visualise things the way i do. I do a little bit from my side regularly like using just the amount of electricity required, saving fresh water, using public transport etc. Well it is not much but it is still satisfying."

What else do you do then?
"I like football, and yes, if i were to die tomorrow, i would like to play football, and score a few goals. I relive my goals from my childhood days and until now in my mind. I am proud of so many goals i have scored, which very few were noticing and no one remembers. But those moments are etched in my memory. I love the first touches and making the ball roll around defenders before shooting a meat of a shot at the goal. Not just that, i still think about the most delicate of lobs i hit while playing futsal in my college days."

When you were kid you had a lot of other interests as well? Where are you with them?
"Yeah, i used to love maths, as it was always exciting to be able to fiddle with the numbers and come up with the right answers. I still enjoy doing maths now, but the thought of going and sitting with the books is a bit draining. That is why i have to do a lot of mind make up before i actually start solving. Even after that i find it really difficult to concentrate for much longer. Just out of practice."

How do you see yourself in 20 years?
"In 20 years, i would like to see myself in the world where people are living motivated by themselves,and not money. If money is a personal motivation for some then be it, but it should not distract other people from living what they want to live for. Be it being a musician, to being a cobbler or an environmentalist. I want people to find peace within themselves, and not seek refuge, esp from religion. If that happens, we will be living in a happier world, where issues will be dealt with compassion rather than aggression."

Woho, that sounds Godly, are you nuts? Anyway, if you are so touched, then why don't you become an activist yourself? There are so many people trying to change what they feel isn't right. Talking is way easier than doing it. Are you doing anything?
"Yeah, i write stuff. Activism and activists,no wonder they are great deeds by people who believe in something. But they seem like point-specific solutions for a bigger problem. The activists and campaigns will change laws, scenarios, but the change in the mentality, or the process of thinking will take generations to trickle down. How do we  tackle that? In a few generations we will have damaged enough eco-systems and cycles of nature irreversibly."

Well something is better than nothing. Atleast they are doing something, unlike you. That is why i hate preachers like you. Thanks for messing up the minds of people and leaving them on a no man's land.
"Well, it's not always like that. All i did was answer your questions, show you a perspective of my world. If you like my perspective, it's easy to embrace it."

Anyway, how exactly do you expect people to contribute even if they embrace the idea of your new world? There has to be some way people can align themselves with it, right?
"Yes, that is the most difficult question you have asked. I had to finish a cup of tea, and a stroll outside to come up with the answer. The answer is simple yet complicated to explain. Just look within yourself."

I am sorry, but that triggered another question. Have you looked within yourself? If yes, what did you see?
"Yes, and i saw a beautiful sunrise. I saw all the animals, birds, trees, rivers, mountains and oceans, everything peacefully co-existing. I saw myself right between the mix of things, enjoying a cup of tea. May be that's all i can see as of now. Do you remember Mahatma Gandhi's talisman, at the beginning of every NCERT book? It is the closest that you can get to. But instead of the poorest man that Gandhi mentioned, include all the other living organisms. One world that belongs to us as much as to the others. The most important thing, don't make Gods out of Gandhi, Jesus, Prophet Muhammad or anyone, just be their friend and embrace their ideals. And not make rituals out of it, as that is where religion went wrong."

Okay, whatever you said is far-fetched, but that kind of introspection might make people just sit and introspect. Let's hope they pursue their true self, rather than bigger homes, luxurious cars etc. I am still wondering how did we start this little conversation with. Who are you anyway?

"Wandered-Lost-Crazy"

The Time's Now

Unusually hot summers? Drastic flash floods in the Balkans? High Inflammation? Credit Crises?...

Age of Survival (12000 BC to 2000 BC )
12000 years ago, when we were still cave men, we had nothing to wear, no concrete homes, no food to eat, which isn't imaginable sitting on your sofa. We were exposed to the extremes of weather, which was usually cold around that time (ice ages) or the fear of predators. And we found food by hunting animals or eating from the trees. In those days we had a future to behold for a few days at the most, which was mostly when and where do we get to eat again. The times were harsh, as we didn't understand the wind, the lightning, the rain, the fire, the sun or the days and nights. We just made the best of our situation so that we would live to see another day. What we understood was our need for food, for reproduction and for survival. We were ruled by our survival instincts only. We were learning how to survive the nature. Survival was our only purpose.

Age of Morality (2500 BC to 1500 AD)
It took us 8000 years, before we started learning how to grow food. Nomadism continued in some locations, especially in isolated regions with few domesticable plant species, but the relative security and increased productivity provided by farming allowed human communities to expand into increasingly larger units, fostered by advances in transportation. As farming developed, grain agriculture became more sophisticated and prompted a division of labour, to store food between growing seasons. Labour divisions then led to the rise of a leisured upper class and the development of cities. The growing complexity of human societies necessitated systems of writing and accounting. But there had to be some order, to rule us, now that we had become more self dependent. So we created religion, to create a code of conduct, for the humans to adhere. Religion (in case of hinduism ) taught us to worship nature through personicafication, though it never answered the hows and whys. It had repercussions, but was necessary for fear of the unknown had always ruled us, and we made the unseen order our purpose.

Age of Science (1500 AD to Now)
This was the age where we were starting to question the age old laws, set by religion. We were ready for the age of discoveries and inventions. We started sailing seas, we understood the Earth, solar system, days and nights, seasons, winds, ocean currents etc. We entered the phase of industrial revolution, advancements in medicine, agriculture, periods of colonisations etc. This was the phase in which knowledge differentiated us from the unknown. Energy was used in different forms, as in coal, oil and now nuclear. From calculating devices to super computers, from papers to smartphones, we have jumped by leaps and bounds. Now that we are taking deep space search, and quantum mechanics, we have distanced ourselves from the religion, condemning it being a practice by lesser minds. With religion taking a backstage, we have come to a moment where we are not ruled by any fear at all, but by money and greed.


The age of science has taught us to question the unknowns of the world. Now we have come to a point where we need to question the purpose of our existence. Of course our history, is a tiny little speck in the timeline of universe. Our significance can't be justified over such a long time scale, but our civilisation will just carry forward long after we are gone from the history of Earth. Let us open ourselves to the concept of taking all the living organisms together, and creating a world that sustains itself with nature. We have to consolidate our future and that begins now. Save Trees, save water, save animals, say no to fossil fuels. Save Planet. How? Start from the basics. Switch off electricity when not needed. Save paper. Use public transport. We are connected to each and every living soul through our planet. It's time to wake up. One Consciousness will help us see through.

(This might seem as None of your Concern, but it very much is. We complain of unusually hot summers, inflammation, drastic floods and what not. This is all the nature's way to lash back at us for interrupting its cycles)

Perennially Disturbed
Wandered-Lost-Crazy

The Birth of One Consciousness

How disconnected we all are from each other. As an individual, we have our own dreams, aspirations and whatsoever is individualistic about us. In the back of our mind there is always a desire that keeps us going. That makes us so difficult to be in tandem with other fellow humans. Some people share an unanimity with family, some with friends and some with their life partners. Mahatma Gandhi could go as far as uniting a country, but do we have a connection with every single earthling?

That was the prelude. The diversity of human kind and the cause of every other problem faced by us. In my state of drifting I have always tried to squeeze out the apt solution of crises the world is facing today. The crises of climate change, extinctions of species and ultimately our extinction. Divulge deeper and you will be able to see how easily each one is connected to all the others. It may not be big enough to be noticeable in one lifetime, but what we are doing is CONSUMING our present and the future.  Think of our lives as the life of a virus. A virus in its short liftime of nano seconds doesnt realise what it does to the human that it has infected. But imagine what a virus, which is replicating itself on a host, for hundreds of generations does to us. This is what we are doing to our planet Earth.

A cat when it purrs, looks cute, but what it is trying to tell you is this,"I am your master, bring me my food". Similarily a dog, a dolphin and a rat, they look at things differently. They have a different way around their thoughts. It is really difficult to imagine from a human thought process. Why am i telling you this? It's because even though we might think of ourselves are the most intelligent species, we are not. We are just more self-aware. Philosophers, thinkers of past and present have questioned themselves about, "the pupose of life". We might have answers to the blackhole, the human body and seismic activities, but we haven't answered that one question yet. So are we really intelligent?

We humans have been divided since time immemorial. Let's go back to the period of cave men. We had to stick together to survive. The matter of life and death united us. Then we started talking and sharing, and the matters of life and death were replaced by matters of hunger, wealth and boundaries. We formed civilisations and empires dividing ourselves further. Religion crept in, caste crept in, families and now individuals. With more individuals, there are more desires to be distinguished, hence we start consuming more, to satisfy us. We cut trees, consume power, pay in credit, and it goes on.We are 400 trillion dollars in debt to the world. What it means is that, we have already consumed trees, fossil fuels, natural resources, iron ore etc from our planet, without any repayment/replenishment/return to the nature, there by severely denting the natural cycle. Where are we ultimately heading?

It's a matter of big concern that the climate is growing more inhospitable. We have lost more species of flaura and fauna over the last few years than over millenia. And all of that, because of our greedy needs. Some may debate that the species are extinct because they weren't fit enough to survive. But the fact is this, that species got extinct trying to STICK to their role in the cycles of nature. The nature is being intervened by human activities every single day. This is a moment of crisis. I can see no way out if we continue like this for generations to come. We have to think with the broadest possible prespective.

One Consciousness
When we develop a mode of interaction, or an understanding where we understand the needs of ours, our kin, our surrounding and our planet, then we develop One Consciousness. We have to develop a consciousness, a medium or a form of language, that all of the living organisms understand. What do you think that language can be? The language of hunger for people that don't get to eat; the language of love and care for trees that provide us oxygen, food, shade etc; the language of death of a dying species close to extinction; the language of anger in nature's retaliation through floods, hurricanes, hot summer. Look around and hear the wind, hear the trees, the birds, the rain and the animals everywhere. They are all telling us something in different ways. Stop and listen to them. For our kind to survive, we need other kinds of life forms to support the ecosystem. An ant is as important in the ecosystem as an elephant.
The concsiousness of a man < The consciousness of a community < The consciousness of humanity < The consciousness of all living forms < The consciousness of nature < One Consciousness that unites us all.

That has to be the message, the purpose of life:
1) Seek the One Consciousness
2) Practise the One Consciousness
3) Find thyself in the One Consciousness


Wandered-Lost-Crazy

The O'Shea Menace

March 3, 2007:
"It stayed low, bounces around and into the back of the net by John O'shea, Manchester United, what a massive goal that is. It's a smashing finish, but United have the points surely. What a massive goal!"

30 seconds earlier...
Manchester United had won a freekick just outside the box. Reina and Carragher were shoring up the defence. Liverpool had dominated the proceedings the entire afternoon. Scholes had been sent off in the 86th minute. Cristiano Ronaldo took the free kick.
And there it was, O'Shea, was running around, celebrating his 91st minute winner against Liverpool at Anfield. Giggs, Ronaldo, Carrick were all chasing the "Ireland's number 1". Alex Ferguson, in one of his unique act, was jumping on the touchline, celebrating this goal as 5 year-old kid. It was a massive goal, no doubt about that, completely against the run of play. Liverpool were unfortunate, and United ecstatic, as they looked happy to settle for a point, but O'Shea had snatched a victory for United. O'Shea, the hero of that day.

7 years later...
March 26,2014:
Liverpool were playing Sunderland at Anfield. The question on everyone's mind was not how Liverpool will defeat Sunderland, but how many are they going to score? For the first 38 minutes of the game, Sunderland had a very disciplined defence. 5 defenders and 2 defensive midfielders shielded Vito Mannone successfully preventing a presumed Liverpool onslaught. Steven Gerrard made it 1-0 with a perfect freekick after Luis Suarez was fouled by Vergini just outside the box. Daniel Sturridge completed his 20 goal haul in the 48th minute, making it 2-0. The Anfield faithful were expecting the beginning of another goal feast, but Sung-Yong Ki grabbed one back in the 76th minute.

89th minute...
Sunderland won a freekick just outside the right hand side of the box, the exact location Manchester United had won it, 7 years back at Anfield. Adam Johnson measured up the wall. Sunderland had finally begun to believe they can take away a vital point from the title chasers. Among the Sunderland players who had come up for the freekick, was John O'Shea. Johnson delivered the cross. Time had stopped for the Anfield faithful, as they held their breath and watched the ball fly agonisingly past Liverpool's defenders. Unmarked, O'Shea rose the highest. He connected, the ball flicked off his head and flew across the Liverpool goal, away from Jozy Altidore at the far post. O'Shea had missed a clear header. John O'Shea, had missed it as Anfield heaved a sigh of relief.
Liverpool have won the match against Sunderland, 2 goals to 1, and take another step towards the title.

Phew
Wandered-Lost_Crazy

Predicting the Premier League table

With the title race tightening, I decided to do some simple Maths to give myself an idea of how the Premier League table is going to look on May 11th.

I have two sets of results based on, firstly, the current form; i.e. the last 6 games of home and away record each; of the top seven teams and here are the standings.

Current Form
Manchester City................................. 89
Liverpool............................................ 87
Chelsea............................................... 86
Arsena................................................ 77
Everton............................................... 70
Tottenham.......................................... 69
Manchester United............................ 65

And secondly, the league form i.e. the points taken per game in both home and away fixtures over this entire season and predicting the points taken by all the top seven sides over their next home/away fixtures.

League Form
Manchester City................................. 86
Liverpool............................................ 84
Chelsea............................................... 83
Arsenal................................................79
Everton............................................... 71
Tottenham.......................................... 69
Manchester United............................ 64

Well, the only difference between the positions occured between Chelsea and Liverpool while Manchester City look on course to take the premier league title.

BUT...
Here are some "buts" to consider:
(numbered on the basis of the easiest to the toughest fixture the clubs have)

1) Chelsea have 7 games to go out of which the highest ranking team which they have to play, apart from only Liverpool (ranked 2), is Stoke City which are currenlty 10th. Certainly seems the easiest run of games if you don't think about home and away situations playing their part.
2) Spurs have 7 games to go, and like Chelsea, they are again facing Liverpool away, with the next team ranked highest is again, Stoke.
3) Arsenal have Manchester City(3) coming to Emirates and Everton(6) to play at Goodison Park.
4) Manchester United will be done playing Manchester City as I get done with this article and after this fixture, they only have Everton to deal with. Southampton and Newcastle are away games for United and can steal a few points from the reigning champions unless.
5) Liverpool have 5 home games and 3 away. That certainly looks great, but to remind you, in the 3 home games, they have to face Spurs, City and Chelsea; which if Liverpool win will make them virtual champions of the Premier League. But its not a cup of English Tea they are sipping.
6) Everton enjoy the same fate as the Merseysiders will be facing Arsenal, City and United at home. But the have dangerous away games against Newcastle and Southampton
7) Manchester City have the toughest of fixtures coming up. They have United, Arsenal, Liverpool and Everton to deal with in away fixtures. That's a tough run in but they have got GAMES in hand.

How the Premier League Table stands now?
If Maths could predict the Premier League Table, we wouldn't be watching it anymore. So put your Algorithms at rest, the Maths handbook inside the drawyer, and enjoy the beautiful game of Football.

Anything-Can-Happen
Wandered-Lost-Crazy

Why I might die of a Cardiac Arrest

(This isn't an anti-smoking campaign blog)

December 8th, 2004
Anfield: Liverpool needed to win by 2 clear goals to qualify into the knockout stages. Olympiakos via Rivaldo made it worse after they went 0-1 into the lead. Now Liverpool had to score 3 goals, under new boss Rafa Benitez, and make it through. Neil Mellor and Florent Sinama-Pognolle, made it 2-1, while the third was from captain fantastic with a thunderous 20 yarder (FYI "you beauty", started trending since then), making it one of the most amazing Champions League nights at Anfield. The underdogs, beat Bayer Leverkusen, Juventus, Chelsea and AC Milan to win the Champions League. Every match, from the one against Olympiakos, was a show of tremendous character that saw Liverpool achieve something as incredible as that (5th time champion; trophy was ours permanently; UEFA had to make another one for the 2005-06 edition).

9 years, 3 months and 12 days later...
Old Trafford: The first season of David Moyes was a season many Manchester United fans would love to forget. A 3-0 loss to Liverpool the previous game, a 2-0 loss to Olympiakos, 3 weeks ago; life was not certainly a bed of roses. To qualify for the quarterfinals, Manchester United had to beat Olympiakos by 3 goals. Robin Van Persie, scored a hattrick, with lovely play from team mates Rooney, Welbeck and Giggs (the man behind so many turn arounds). On a normal day, the team comprising of Rooney, Van Persie, Giggs ... would have no problems swatting a team 3-0, but given the circumstances (a knife hanging on your head), i must say it was incredible.

Why I might die of a Cardiac Arrest
There are 2 things i want to tell you about myself. First, I am a Liverpool fan (a big one in my own regards). Second, I like preparing myself for the worst, still hoping for the best. I might invite the wrath of fellow Kopites, or I might also be called a pessimist but i couldn't ignore the
What-Ifs:
1) Liverpool FC play the best football but instead of the title, end up in 4th place.
2) Manchester United go on to beat everyone they get drawn against in Champions League and win it (you know what happens to the team finishing in 4th place if this happens. If not, ask an Evertonian, and/or David Moyes himself).
Had it been any other team Manchester United would have beaten, i would not even bothered to wake up early and write a blog. But it's Olympiakos, the same team Liverpool beat to start their amazing Champions League turn-around 9 years ago.

A message to BR:
Forget 4th place and go for the title, cause what seems a bonus to us right  now can come back to bite us in the butt. Or else I MIGHT DIE OF A FUCKING HEART ATTACK.


fingers-crossed
Wandered-Lost-Crazy

The Summer of TwentyFourteen

11th March, 2014
The day we decided to buy a new Bravia. What was special? the Summer of 2014

Liverpool FC season finale
Ranked 2, having plundered 76 goal, being unbeaten in 2014... nothing could have been going better for Liverpool FC at the moment. The job's not done yet, Champions League nights are potentially 10 games away. Suarez and Sturridge, forming the most devastating attack; Coutinho, Gerrard, Henderson and Sterling forming the high-pressing-dynamic-creative-and-whatnot midfield, and our a-bit-leaky defence; is the best Liverpool FC season so far since 2008-09. Records, glory, rewards and adulation await for the end of the season. Can we cross the finish line? #YNWA

FIFA World Cup - 2014
93 days to go for the biggest event in sports, the thought of which makes all the sports fans gaga. To back it up with stats, 203 countries participated in the qualification( just to remind you, even UN has 193 members) for the final 31 with the host country being automatically qualified, this time being the land of  Samba, Brazil.
For about one month every four years, most of the world's inhabitants stop everything they're doing to watch 32 qualifying countries battle it out for supremacy. The flag-thrusting, fire-starting passion of the fans and the breathtaking foot skills shown on the pitch mesh to create the most beloved tournament in the world.

Game of Thrones - Season 04
Targaryens: 8000 Unsullied, 2000 Second Sons, 20000 Free Men and 3 Dragons; Daenerys Targaryen, and her army... phew.
Starks: Robb and Catelyn mudered, Jon Snow half dead at Castle Black, Arya in pursuit of vengeance, Bran worging through the North of the Wall and Sansa, married to Lord Tyrion
Lannisters: The 2 heir of the Tyrells wedding Joffrey and Cersei, i wonder whether Tywin marries Lady Olenna and Jaime, the Brienne of Tarth, as he returns to King's landing.
The Whitewalkers, the Ironborns, the Freys, the Boltons, the Wildlings, Gendry and the Baratheons...
"All Men Must Die"


Couched
Wandered-Lost-Crazy

Why can't this be that

This might sound like a romantic comedy movie title but it certainly defines my romance with physics and the comedy of working in IT and not pursuing it. Anyway after stellar performances from stardust species in our life we have experienced if not supernatural but coincidences of very low probability (flickering lights preceding a visit from a higher dimension being and watching a Tamil rap)

There are few defining moments in life that people deal with. You feel hungry you go for the kitchen; check refrigerator for a cold meal or you go out; if you go out you check your purse and shortlist places and suddenly get reminded of paying an outstanding bill. One action results in another and finally before sleeping we end up sending a text "hi, whatsapp", just to catch up with someone who followed another action-reaction sequence of a different task (travel, emotions, etc). What differences do we see in those sequences of everyone's everday life? Nouns, Adjectives and Verbs change. In short and Sherlock's words; Boring, Predictable and Monotonous. Follow Quantum Mechanics if you want to spice up your life by being less predictable.

(This will get out of Context)
Doppler's effect has proved that the universe is expanding with speed increasing at the rate of the square of the distance between them. Well as per science books, the universe is expanding and quite believable too. Is there any chance that the universe, the stars and clouds and star dust start collapsing into black holes? Quantum Mechanics (i am a popular science novice; correct me if you know better) says that there is never a perfect answer and all are instances of probablity. So someday things might fall back, black holes  might eat blak holes and everything converges into singularity starting a big bang again (since space time is warped, and energy-mass interconvertible, we don't have any absolute reference on how, when and what will happen; to measure). It all looks very elusive from just the 3 dimensions.

How can we say that the big bang happened 13.798 billion years ago when we don't have a fixed time reference at all which is again warped and twisted with space? Just by calculating and doing a simple maths of all galaxies tracing back to one point i.e. the big bang? Does that mean our universe's largest beacon of em waves has travelled just 13.798 billion light years only? And who defined "years" of the light year in the first place? Just because in one specific place called Earth we started understanding a few forces, dug deeper into relativity, started thinking of conquering the world of physics by the "The quantum theory of  Gravity"? How can we define work, energy, power in terms of distance if there are wormholes to defy distance?Why can't we have another universe where 1 e has a different value of charge, light has a diffferent speed; for this might be just specific to our universe and the the pattern followed only after "OUR" Big Bang. There might be other big bangs and universes outside 13.798 billion light years distance. Are we actually in a flatland of the third dimension? Is there anything that is fundamental?

Are we looking for more facts when there are none? We need some out of the world perspectives here.

Naive-Loud
Wandered-Lost-Crazy

A Year Later

How does it feel to be a Liverpool Manager?

"Very proud, as you can imagine it"
"For me, is to defend the principles of this great club, offensive football with tactical discipline, and to retain the values of the club. That was the attraction, the history of the club."
"Also the frustration. It has been over 20 years since they won the title. We might not be ready for the title but the process begins today, it's a new cycle, and that is something that we will work towards in the years to come."


The Ups

"Liverpool 1-0 Manchester United; 3 consecutive victories for Liverpool see them on the top of the league. The season has just begun and Liverpool seem to be in a hurry"
"Spurs 0-5 Liverpool"; the biggest win at White Hart Lane since 1978.
"25th December, Liverpool at the top of the table again. Can they keep the momentum over the next 2 games against Manchester City and Chelsea?"
"Liverpool 4-0 Everton; what a display by the Reds, by the Captain, by the SAS and by the fans, You'll Never Walk Alone.

The Downs

"Manchester City 2-1 Liverpool. A goal wrongly disallowed, a team denied a crucial point."
"Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool" "Aston Villa 2-2 Liverpool"
"Salah 99% sure of making Anfield switch, 1% to Stamford Bridge, and look Chelsea beat the odds 1-99"
"Deadline Day: Can we get Konoplyanka? The answer  - NO"
"Liverpool 1-1 West Brom, and with this the 4 point advantage over Everton has been cut to half"

February 8th, 
Liverpool, 12:43 pm GMT

This is Anfield. Arsenal play Liverpool. Game no. 25 for both teams. A win means everything for the 2 teams. A win is what they are desperate for. It all comes down to this:
"Liverpool fight to bring European Football back to Anfield after 4 years; Arsenal chasing first silverware on three fronts since FA Cup 2005. The question is "Who wants it more?".


RedorDead
Wandered-Lost-Crazy

Liverpool's Konoplyanka deal "Hijacked"???

29th January, 2014 (in Greenwich Mean Time)

A glorious evening at Anfield, routing Everton 4-0 was the response a spirited Liverpool gave after the frustration of losing out on another player, Salah, to Chelsea. Sigdurssons, Dempseys, Mkhitaryans, Eriksens, Willians, Salahs and now the latest "breaking" news on Konoplyanka. Much hurt and distraught about such hijackings, one cannot resist the curiousity of knowing how these news actually sprang up. Call me jobless or a crazy Liverpool Fan, I monitored how the stories regarding a Spurs hijack of the Konoplyanka deal sprang up in the web.

Praisley Gates came up with the first article headlining "Rogers Remains Hopeful of Making a Major Signing" @01:51.
(A host of rumours aroused with Arda Turan, Hernanes, Mitroglu, Fernanado, Andre Gomes, Daniel Agger for Gokhan Inler etc names wildly thrown by websites all over the world)
Sky Sports came up with the same report @06:00. They were followed by Belfast Telegraph, IB Times, Sports Mole, SoccerSouls, Express & Star, Football 365,Daily Star, RTE, Daily and Sunday Express, ITV, talkSPORT, Liverpool Echo, Bleacher Report, Here is the City, The Independent and Tamworth Herald. (Whoah, thats a lot of articles which say the same thing, speculating)

Here comes Konoplyanka

Daily and Sunday Express took the lead of announcing Liverpool's interest in Yevhen Konoplyanka(had never heard much of him before this except scoring against England in WC qualifiers) @08:00.
Telegraph, Sports Mole, Off the Post, Daily Star, Daily Mail, 101 Great Goals, The Irish Times, Liverpool Echo, Mirror, The Guardian, Metro, ESPN, Give Me Sport, The Sport Review, Soccerlens and Sport.co.uk followed it up. All of them reading, publishing and manipulating others' article.

Here comes Konoplyanka's Dad

The Independent came up with a story @10:53 where the "Dad" says this: "I cannot tell you much but the rumours of an English club are true. He can change clubs later this week". Now here is the list of websites who claimed Konoplyanka's dad whispering the same; Inside Futbol, Bleacher report and Click Liverpool.
Clubcall went a step further with this article @ 11:03 "Konoplyanka's agent arrives for 16 million pounds move talks (My laptop keyboard doesn't have a Sterling symbol hence "pounds"). CaughtOffside, This is Anfield, Footy Matters, Goal.com, fanatix, Gulf News, Metro, Sports Mole, Here is The City, Sky Sports, Daily Star and London Evening Standard as usual.

"Hijack threats"

Sabotage Times thought it was funny to publish an article "Konoplyanka to Liverpool: Should Chelsea Hijack Move Just For A Laugh?" @12:47.
Daily Star reported "Liverpool jet out to seal 15 mil pound deal" (I wonder who jetted out and when but if it was Ian Ayre in there, i wouldn't mind an actual flight hijack).
"Gazumped again? Spurs aim to beat Liverpool to Dnipro's Yevhen Konoplyanka" @18:29 published by Off the Post was "the first artice" (concentrate here) in the web speculating a move by Spurs is awaited. Is it the scouts of Spurs, or the fans of Spurs, or Daniel Levy himself might have brought that story out through Off the Post. Or was it another media hype by the websites to increase the no. of hits? Or was it the agent of Konoplyanka who started throwing in some names to encourage a bidding war and cash in some extra? The truth is yet to be known.
Hijack or not, it certainly brought similar stories by Cartilage Free Captain, 101 Great Goals, Metro, The Hard Tackle, Here is The City,  The Independent, The Telegraph and Click Liverpool.
"Transfer Clock: United in for Konoplyanka? Liverpool MD jets out" @00:01 30th January, is another twist in the tale by Here is the City leaving no stones unturned to blow stories out of proportion.
5 more "special reports" of an imminent Spurs hijack have come since "YOU" started reading this blog post.


What we learned:

1) The truth about Spurs hijack is only known to the editors of Off the Post (being the first article).
2) Every article by every website is a permutation/combination or active/passive translation of the other.
3) Fans (esp Keyboard Warriors) have been engaged in another "WAR of WORDS".
4) The New Indian Express caught up with the news exactly 16 hours later from the first report... shows the plight of Liverpool Fans in India.
5) I can spell and pronounce Yevhen Konoplyanka in 5 different languages thanks to this herculean blog (kidding). A special message to Ian Ayre "better get him to anfield and save us the embarassment".


YNWA
Wandered-Lost-Crazy

Some stuff stolen from you

18^th august, 2012 (pages from the past)

Okay, here is something that a perfectly malfunctioning brain would say. Cerebral circuitry going haywire. It is just a diary entry and NOT* a blog! (*I am publishing this the way i wrote it one and half  years back)

So, it is my ex-girlfriend, the most boring thing to talk about these days. 7 billion people , 3.5 billion male approximately, if each of them start writing a love letter, or a diary entry or a memoir, they would have wasted a minimum of 3.5 billion pages. Of course, which are not just normal pages but cards, posters, charts, designer paper etc. I wonder how many trees we will save if we just stop itching our past by scribbling anything.

I hate to admit it but yeah you are right, I have had kind of a good and a bad experience both, of which the latter was something that should be stuffed down the closet. And yeah she is beautiful, sweet, nice, caring and overall a perfect specimen of the opposite sex as in all other stories (now just don’t lose yourself in somebody’s thoughts already). Bottom line, no matter how much in love you are, after all she is a human like us, and not a goddess.

Anyway, don’t want to sound more crappy and pathetic, IF YOU ARE IN LOVE, continue reading. These are some sweet advices that come straight from a guy whom the concept of eternal true love fooled thrice. Now some of you guys might just be wondering how good an achievement is that, but seriously when you come out at the other end, you will be blessed with repulsive wisdom.

“LOVE HER A LOT, BUT LOVE YOURSELF A BIT MORE”

When the next time you are thinking of buying your girlfriend a gift worth $2000, buy yourself stuffs, clothes, anything worth $4000 which make you look sexier, appealing and attractive to all the other girls. The world will love it.

“I WANT TO BE WITH YOU, TILL ETERNITY”- DON’T EVER SAY THIS!

A free candy doesn’t taste as sweet as a candy for which you have to sacrifice your li’l penny. Being a B.tech undergraduate and my immense experience in crisis management, one advice has always come in handy, “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.” Now eggs and basket can be time and the girl, money and the girl, attention and the girl, and anything that your imagination can throw up. So the new line goes. “I WANT TO BE WITH YOU, AS LONG AS YOU WANT THAT”. That’s a nice safety net. At least you don’t end up being called a hypocrite when the rest of the world is falling apart around you.

“SEALED WITH A KISS”

Feeling insecure? Is your girlfriend getting a lot of undue attention? Feeling inferior to the hosts of her admirers? Concentrate everything on that one particular date. Make it the most beautiful thing that could happen. Make her look the most beautiful thing on earth. And when all the people are noticing her, just hold her and give her the best kiss you got, no matter where you are, and who you are with. With that one move, you make her forget the world, and the world forgets her because she is with you.

To all those little sweet kids who are still living in the Cinderella land, love isn’t always the sweetest thing.

“SHE CAN ONLY BE YOUR WET DREAM”

People still looking for first love, still waiting for that first “hello”, I know you will just ignore me now, but don’t make a mess when you finally realise that the girl was never supposed to be yours. Your friends have a life too if not you. Live up to them and chill. They always understand.

“IF SHE LEFT YOU AND YOU ARE UGLY, THEN I AM SORRY BUT YOU ARE LUCKY”

Invest your assets in other aspects of life. Start doing what you love to do. That is how most of the popular people ended up, being popular. The hurt will drive you a long way if you are a serious guy. And anyway, if you are going up in my life, opposite sex will always find you cute.

“YOU ARE MOVING ON??? YEAH EVERY MORON TELLS THAT TO HIMSELF UNTILL HE STARTS GIVING NO FUCK ABOUT HER”

Ctr++

“IF YOU HAVE YOUR HEART BROKEN A NUMBER OF TIMES BEFORE”

Pleased to meet you, let’s have beer sometime,

cheers

Wandered-Lost-Crazy

Winning the wackiest convo trip award

Disclaimer: Whatever is said in the article is a figment of the writer's imagination. Not even Experts are advised to try it.

DAY 0
"It's a beautiful day.. don't let it get away"..  I told myself as i hurried over to the taxi waiting outside to take me to the airport (note: refer this http://platterology.blogspot.in/2013/12/not-to-promised-land-again.html for the background story). The flight was in 2 hours, and the last 6 hours were made to strike a deal with the manager to make it happen ... in the name of love-for-my-college. I could hear friend's yelling my name as i "SHerlOCK" them. I could hear my ex-gf telling that she does not care about me making such a "WHOA" sized entry. I could hear beer mugs tinkling, lighters flashing, music pumping and that's how it was meant to be. That's how i thought what 17k worth of tickets will bring me. Infinite Stardom.

DAY 3
"So the convocation is finally over. Had a good time (smiley)"... "Just that had i told mom i was coming or atleast called her i wouldn't have been left outside my house for 9 hours from the 12 hours i had allotted for "surprising" my mom only to realize that she had a school function and she couldn't be reached until its over. "But anyway, had a good time (sighing smiley). Will have 5 bottles of water in my flight back to bangalore to make up for the remaining worth of tickets"

DAY 2
"Oh Fuck! its 17th January"
"But today will be different, I always have a place among the bijuli bibhaaga" ... So gate crashing my electrical tattva party ?? Yeah baby.
(At the party when i enter to make a shock entrance)
Random-guy-on-the-mic: "We celebrate the 1st anniversary of Mr. and Mrs My-ex-gf" . And suddenly the spotlight falls on me (totally out of sorts here 'i am'). Well the people stopped for the moment shocked to see me. Some made instant welcome-home faces but i could still see the creases on forehead. I expected the blaring music to stop like in movies but even that didn't happen and honey singh was still stuck in the blue eyes for a time that seemed like eternity.
Me: "Oh Dear! its 17th January" (what i said, what i meant is up there)
Someone: (whispering) "Since we didn't know you would be coming so we didn't book a place for you, enjoy everything but please pay your share to me"

DAY 1
"So what if the flight got delayed by 7 hours? So what if i missed my train to college? General is always the quota for us" . "Shall i reach the station and call the juniors/friends to pick me up?" . Yup that sounds good, i would shock them out of their sleep to pick me up (Bono sings "the saints' are coming")
12:30 am
"Oh the kids must be tired partying since evening, may be that's why they aren't picking up". Anyway its a good thing because me reaching college will be a total surprise. I'll love the look on their faces.
01:30 am
"Wake up suckers it's me. Wake up!!!! " .Benaam Badshahs are stoned and sleeping."Where are the others?" the Ruffians are in Moksha. "There goes the jinglers of clubs". "Gulti zone doing the lungi dance" "Kaushalites booking an auto and 10 stuffing in each." And Bhubaneswar zone is in ruins. Luckily a joint comes around for me and "Bang.. What an entry"

DAY -1
"Shall i book the tickets".. "What a surprise it will be" .. "just 17k?? friends and college and home coming - priceless"..
Let me roll up one and book the tickets.

peace,
"Wandered-Lost-Crazy"