A pox be upon you!

What next?

I can only be grateful that my head does and always did work even when nothing else did.

Offended

It looks like they're burning money.
I find offensive, the ignorance connected to the evolution of convenience.
I wonder how they plan on destroying online banking transactions. Can't burn that.

Existential Crisis

My friend goes through them often because of the stage he's ended up acting on.
I've caught it. Like an illness. And because I have, it's becoming harder and harder to care about anything at all.

Beggars- the weaker species will die out
Empathy- some evolutionary trait
Patterns- We seem to admire things on repeat.
Sex education, condoms & moral science- everything, every single thing we do, pushes us towards the survival of the race. Like any other insect or animal. Like anthills, beehives, plants or parasites.

The only thing that lies between here and death is gratification (of self). Romanticised in all its glory.

Category 1: What's the story?
Category 2: Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory

Climbing makes you feel better about life.

Time flies whether or not you're having fun.

Every time they called his name, they called the name of God.

:)

Category 1: Strategy

Category 2: Shreeram

Donkey Kong?

Funniest picture we took all day :)

It's been a year.
I'm still not used to going into work on Saturday and I still get depressed every Friday.


Category: Cheers to the freakin' weekend

My mother's come up with his brilliant new strategy to wake everybody up.

Playing loud Hindi music (with song interpretation) early in the morning.
:/

Here's one gem from today:
If you want to see something, look.
If you want to touch something, touch it.
If you want to smell something, smell it.
Enjoy the experience but know that it's not forever. If it's a flower, for example, it's going to die.
It's not nice, but it's reality.

So don't get attached.

Category: 6 AM

I love the silence that ensues after I tell someone who wanted to be my 'friend', that I'm 32 and nearly twice their age :D.

If only everything else in life was this easy.

Fly

Airports & Train Stations

This year's holiday, wonderful as it was had entirely too many airport and train station intervals if you ask me.
That's probably what happens when I plan my own trips, I suppose.

Kempagowda Airport: I forgot my flight ticket. Fortunately, they let me board with just my passport
Muscat Airport: I bump into my best friend and we hang while we wait for our flights
Paris CDG: Laura, my sister, arrives to pick me up, convinced that I'd get lost the metro ride from the airport to the apartment. :)

Paris CDG: Lufthansa is automating everything, right from getting your boarding pass, by simply scanning your passport, to checking in your luggage, by scanning your boarding pass. It's wonderful, although I can't but help think about the loss of jobs.
Munich Airport: I lied at the ticket counter saying I was traveling with a group when I wasn't (to get a cheaper ticket). As I feared, I got caught.
Munich station: Uneventful (Don't shop at the Hbh station. Shop at the airport supermarket instead, it's cheaper)
Paris metro: A man helps me with my heavy suitcase; two older gentlemen help me again when it gets stuck at the gate. I make it to the airport with no further incidences.
Muscat Airport: I bump into two friends heading back. We're on the same flight. We meet at the grubby section reserved for grubby Indians for grubby flights to India.
Kempagowda Airport: I worry that my suitcase is not on the carousel because I've been caught for not declaring all that cheese and that 1 tulip bulb that I brought back. What really happened was that I'd forgotten which suitcase I was carrying and was looking out for the wrong one.


This summary makes me fear for myself :/


Category: Help!

Keep your shoulders back and back straight.
Seriously.

It supports your neck and will stop you from damaging your neck and back while you're spending hours and hours in front of the computer.

Category: Advice
Type: Free

Grieving?

Secret Ballot

I don't tell people who I voted for.
I tell some people I applaud the idea of anti corruption.
Others, the idea of economic growth
And still others, that I support the idea of a secular state.

When I did press that button though, it was with a clear mind and a certain amount of trepidation. 

There's something about exercise that makes you feel better about life.