Any good news?

In India, there is one BIG problem I have been observing. Everyone thinks the next logical step after marriage is to have a child and keep pestering the happily married couple with the question, "So, any good news?".

People can hide a job change or a promotion but not a child. So, everyone shall be informed when it happens. The more people ask, the more delayed it might get because stressed people can't produce a child and that is medically proven.

Henceforth, if you are going to ask someone "So, any good news?", there will be people waiting to do it to you. I have something to say to such people; Go, fuck yourself and ask yourself, "Any good news?"

Inception - the movie, the life

If you haven't watched Inception, you wouldn't know why people who pass by you look at you when they cross.

If you haven't watched Inception, you'd think you know the reality without knowing it.

If you haven't watched Inception, you'd think you have a control over your thoughts.

If you haven't watched Inception, you'd think you know why things are the way they are.

If you haven't watched Inception, you might think you know what happens is for good.

If you haven't watched Inception, you might think you fight with your wife because she wanted to.

It was all your idea. Go, sleep to be awake.

There was a chance and I lost it

After about 14 years, I found a few of my school class mates on Facebook. I just added them as everyone else in my situation would have done. Little did I know that one of the friend whom I added would die in an accident and I would never be able to see him again.


I must have wasted a lot of time at home, in front of my computer, on twitter, and on facebook. I just wish I could have moved my butt out and met him.



While inquiring about his death to another friend, I got to know that another class mate whom I'd been searching on Facebook and Orkut also had died long back.

I probably might never get to see them again. I just wish I meet people instead of wasting time. Miss you my dear friends. I am sorry, I did not meet you all this while.

Death isn't destiny. Remembrance is.

India is the biggest democrazy in the world

In India, there is an outfit called Maoists. No one would jail me for calling them internal terrorists. So the Maoists have killed a lot of people and the most recent being this as you see in the image.

 While these Maoists kill for blood there are politicians who don't bother to bring down the bloody Maoists.

Not taking action against those who do such cowardly acts are Maoists supporters.

In India, if you steal 500 rupees, you'd be caned to death. If you steal 500 crores, you'd be given Z class commandos for your security.

Old is gold but can they learn?

One of the things I observe about the oldies living around me is that they appear to have lost the ability to learn things or patiently listen. I am not sure if this is the case with all oldies. I know of Jerry Weinberg, who in his seventees and eightees is learning as much as he must have done in his twenties and thirties.


Age might not be the barrier to learn, its just that they learnt a way to live without having to learn.

Rules and Fools

So, I met an IT guy who works for an organization infested with lots of process. Whatever name you want to give to the process I am fine.

He had proposed to use a tool to simplify a great deal of work they had been doing. It had to go through a lot of approvals before he could install it on his desktop. Finally he installed the trial version to demonstrate the proof of concept and that demanded him to be the administrator of his desktop.

As per the IT rule of the organization no local admin access was to be provided to employees unless someone with lots of authority says "go ahead". He went around looking for approvals and some big guns were on leave or put this in low priority.

By the time the approval came and he got the local admin access, the trial license had expired. WTF! I am sure he is not going to be taking any more initiatives to save cost for the organization. There are going to be more people in the organization with similar experience. What a loss for the organization!

Two sides of a coin called "advice"

I know of someone who communicated to me that he hates getting advice from people and yet offers advice to others. Isn't it interesting that a specific thing such as advice is not being liked when on receiving side of the table but is liked when the same person is on the other side of the table.

Investigating a little bit, I see that it has got nothing to do with "advice" when someone hates it. Its about people. On the other side as we love ourselves so much that we feel elated offering advice to someone else.

The coin called "advice" doesn't have two sides but it is we humans who have multiple sides that make a coin feel bad about itself.