It's a Wonderful Life

Recently I watched It's a Wonderful Life. It's a good movie with a beautiful message on "Suicides". The movie gives a message that our life deliberately or non deliberately touches upon so many other lives. And no matter how worse the situation we might be in such that we hate our life, there still are many around us who need our presence. A beautiful thought ....

As such I have always had a different opinion on suicide. I believe that if one ever feels that there is no point in living he/she must turn to "Lethal Social work". I term Lethal Social Work as a social work which might risk your life. For example to castigate the politicians/celebrities who have been proven guilty. Oh, there is no dearth of such people in India. With all different level of security around them, from one police man oustide house to Z-Security. One has plethora of options to choose from..... really.




Anyways, Death is inevitable but Life is certainly beautiful. Above are the beautiful wings of a butterfly. I found it in the corridor of my office and It was dead. Simply proves yet again ......that Life is Beautiful. Never think of loosing it until you have lived it with a purpose.

-vipin

Cobweb of Life

No matter how complex is the cobweb of problems in life, all that is need at times is just one good friend with you behind it.

-vipin

Man will die.... but not his ideas .......

Listend to "Happy Nation". Liked it very much and really appreciate it for its lyrics. My initial reaction was how come in India we don't have such brilliant compositions. I mean something which has the capacity of moving not just the person, not just the people, but the whole country. I even supported my claim by thinking about the songs like "Its my life", "In the end", and movies such as "independence day", "Jurassic park", "Matrix","The Sixth sense" and many others


But soonafter I realized that may be I am being cynical about our own abilities and achievements. I realized that abilities are more of an attribute of inidividuals rather than a property of a country. Its a different matter though that a few countries have mastered the art of bringing out the best of the talented people in tehir country.

Anyways, as expected i was able to find out some of the magnum opus by our own people in India. I was easily able to recall some songs which would have caused a stir among the countrymen during their release and I am sure these still have the power to make the country move when needed. here are some.....


"Ae watan ..ae watan ..."
"Ae mere watan ke logon "
"everything gonna be alright....jab tak dil mein hai faith ..." --- I find this one very similar and stimulating as "its my life"

I am sure there are many more...


but when thought of picking my favourite ( in the line making an impact), the one I decided to zero in on was "chithi aayee hai chitthi aaye hai. Chitthi aayee hai"

I just feel it was quite important as an issue to be touched upon in those 80's. May be not so important from the point of view of IITs that spend so much of money on making a smart engineer out of an intelligent brat. I mean you raise that point and people will always counterfeit the argument by saying that you give us the right environment (salary, security and blah blah blah) in India and we will "think of" coming back. But it was certainly important from the point of view of parents who put their whole life in making the career of their children and never complain about the VERY SAME environment they had to bring up their children in :) :)

Well, No, I AM NOT AGAINST the people moving out of India and settling out there. I can defend very well the migrants' side of story around the topic "brain drain"[1]. But I just feel theme was important and uniquely related to India. And this score with superb voice of Pankaj udhas comprehended all about the topic very well.

Not sure though about how many people did this song really help them decide to come back to India. :) :) :)


Willing to listen any interesting stories around this .....


-vipin



[1] Let me accept that news of UK raising the education limit for work VISAs to M-tech level for engineers brings a gloominess of feeling like India lost another match to Australia. But certainlut just that -- only to Autralia, not to Pakistan. I mean a kind of punch which gets down easily with a bunch of peanuts and sweet lime soda.

Koi khaas wajah nahin hai ...........

I am into this bad habit of mixing the cinema into my life when I am too happy or too sad. I have seen only a handful of movies, may be 100 in total. However as many of my friends say, i usually remember best dialogues for most of the situations. For a last couple of days (or months may be) have had a HARD feeling about NAUKRI in general. Tried to superimpose the same over a scene from the movie ROG. Hope you like it.

How you go: Watch the video first. and then read the later part.




Me: Pichhle guruwar meine resign karne ki koshish ki.(Silence). Koi khaas wajah nahin hai, koi tanav bhi nahin hai.(silence ) Mann ubbbbb gaya hai. Ghar office. Office ghar. bugs. customer issues. (silence). Koi shikayat nahin hai. Shikayat nahin hai. Ab naukri ki hai to yeh sab to hoga hi. Ajeeb sa ahsaas hai mann mein. Roj naya din nikalta hai mein wohi purana hoon. Duniya wahi purani hai. Mujhe laga yeh jo naukri ki gaadi chal rahi hai, mein isski chain kheenchta hoon aur mein uttar jaata hoon.

Doctor: To kiya kyun nahin.

Me: 3 wajah hain. Yeh jo humein laptop milta hai. yeh office ka hai. Aur internet connection ka paisa bhi company deti hai. Mujhe laga saaala mein apna chain khardine ke liye company ke resource kyun waste karoon.

Doosri. Mera roommate hai munna. usska bhai aaya hua tha Jabalpur se. Next day mujhe usska interview lena tha apni team ke liye. Mujhe laga meine resign kiya to isski naukri bhi chali jaayegi.

Teesri. Jaise hi resignation mail likhi mera dhyaan gaya neeche khidki se gallery ki taraf. Wahan pe Toyota Camry khadi hui. Mujhe laga saala isse dekhte dekhte to resign nahin kiya ja sakta. Mein jaise hi utha, khidki band ki, wapas aaya to phir woh MOMENT chala gaya. phir mera resign karne ka mann hi nahin kiya.


Doctor: issi ko naukri kahte hain dost. itni aasaani se peecha nahin chhoregi. Achha neend to aati hai thik se.

Me: nahin aayeeee. nayee aayi.

Doctor: Akhiri baar thik se kab soye they.
Me: Last time. Last time picchle saal salary hike hui thi tab aaye thi neend. Khoob soya. Ghanton tak sota raha.(Silence) Kuchh bhi kaho neend to salary hike ke baad hi aati hai doctor sahab.

(All of a sudden manager enters the room. )

Manager: Achha thik hai ek kaam karo yeh 2/3 urgent customer issues hain. try to fix them. ho sakta hai pressure mein tumhara kaam karne ka thora mann kar jaaye. Otherwise we will have to try some radical treatments.

Me: "radical treatment". hehehe:) Lay off karenge Lay-off. OK.

vishwakarma diwas, 2008

A day after Deewali comes the Vishwakarma Diwas. Viswakarma is considered as the Divine Architect. He is called 'Devashilpi' or 'The Architect of Gods'. He is the Hindu presiding deity of all craftsmen and architects. This day is specially celebrated among Vishwabrahmins. They bring out their equipments/weapons and worship them along with god Vishwakarma. I just thought it was a day to check the temperature resistance of my laptop also. It passed the test but didn't improve the battery life.

One of my friends says that no matter where people are rest of the year but they must celebrate Deewali with whole family at native places. It was 2008. My first Deewali away from home.

Life in a Corner

Ek konne mein simti si yeh zindagi,
Uljhe se sawalon mein yeh jhulsi si jindagi !
Suljhane ko to suljhale isse aaj magar,
per bina uljhan ke bhi yeh kya hogi jindagi !!


I love this photo. Paper cup has been attached with the help of board pins. Pins are inserted into the clothing put on metallic frames. It works good as a pen holder !! I started first using it like this. Many people liked it and replicated the theme.

Age Factor -II

I have a feeling that at least at an abstract level these lines are very true and so I am just giving an attempt to translate it to English for a wider opinion/viewing by/for others.

The Age Factor
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Age is Ten,
This world is HIS Dan.

Age is Twenty,
Energy is plenty.

Age is thirty,
No more flirty.
**** hmmm had to be something better…something rhyming but better …but seeing most of my friends giving up their bachelorhood in late 20s made me write so : )

Age is Forty,
Kind of Empty
**** hehehehe. At least people like me are empty starting from their twenty itself and without owning a flat : ) but wait we own 3 Levis, 2 wrangler and one Dockers jeans. That’s quite a big investments right !!

Age is fifty,
Expectations are hefty.

Age is Sixty,
No more sporty.

Age is Seventy,
Mind is absentee.

Age is eighty,
Finds Pizza chocolaty.

Age is Ninety,
Doesn't matter if he sh*ts where he sits

Age is hundred
Who cares for a thunder (storm)