Majoooooriteeeeeeeeeee wins!
Always..

The whole world is controlled by the unassailable rule of the majority.. All decisions - each and every one of them - is made based on what the majority opinion would be..

Nothing else matters..

There is nothing called "true" or "fair" outside the purview of the majority.. Majority, roughly, is power.. And power is the one which calls whats fair and whats not!

I dont know whether this is a sad situation.. I dont know whether this isnt the right direction for the world.. But all I know is that this is how it is.. And it seems okay to me!

And so.. as we go in our childhood games.. we keep going.. Majooooooriteeeeeee wins!!

This man said it then..
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?

- Gandhi

Art!
The guy next to me showed me some nice pictures of tulips and daffodills that he had captured during last year's tulip festival (an annual fest in this part of the world).. He looked at me with an air of authority and said "Photography is art, isnt it?"..

If photography is art, so is 'seeing'..

Next Generation?
Is the next generation in?

I guess so.

Its a new feeling.. I see many birthdates that are post-1978 now - in the society.. And by society I mean those that move close to me.. My "more than just an" acquaintances.. This has never happened.. Until now, I was used to being the younger among any lot.. atleast by a few days..

But now it is changing.. I hear voices alongside and I see they are younger.. And they arent kids, if you know what I mean..

I dont talk about college and hostel anymore.. They do.. I dont know the latest happenings in sport.. They do.. I run toward a bunch of sweets to pick the best of the lot and I trail behind a few guys.. Some even call me "neenga"!!!

So I guess that is it.. My times over.. Its now for the younger lot to take over..

Take over the burden of being "kings of the world"...

Folks of my age - come lets go sit in the patio and watch things go by.. and read newspapers from page 1 to page 22.. and talk about the times that were..

Long long ago..
Here are some quotes.. Guess who are the owners.. Names when specified have been marked out as x's.

1. People tell me I am a journalist by profession..
2. My new year present to you xxxx :)
3. It's a crazy Wednesday morning. I am late to get in at work. Like I have been most of this week.
4. Welcome to the random notes of xxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxx. I had been surfing through a lot of weblogs. Maintaining my own weblog sounds pretty exciting.
5. So? I've finally joined the blog brigade...feels good....
6. Hey, I need to thank Sundu first...Thank you Sundu!...

Sadly, I could not locate a few which I would have wanted here..

Life just goes on..
Friday evening -
Go home - play tennis till its pitch dark and cant see ball anymore - dinner - bowling - sleep..

Saturday just before noon -
Wake up(!) - US open on TV - Agassi blasts Hewitt - inspired now - go to tennis again and play till the sun gets to you - lunch - hunt whole of city for a carrom board - get it in India Store - back home - Something About Mary on TV - Play carrom - Time for dinner - Dinner - sleep..

Sunday Noon -
Wake up(!) - connect to check mails - try hand in cooking - eat whatever that got cooked - and blog away...

Life just goes on.. unnoticed..

I like this aimlessness sometimes.. reminds me of my college days.. the utter meaninglessness in daily activities... but sometimes it gets to you.. feel like I need to break the shackles and come out of this..

Maybe to go back into it, later..

Bookie, anyone?
Okay.. So it is 336/2 for England at the end of day 1 at the Oval.

Anyone betting on an Indian victory? :)

In Praise of Idleness..
If Bertrand Russell were alive, I would definitely go meet him and tell him how glad and satisfied I was with all his arguments here. If you have'nt read it before, spend some time and read it..

I dont dare to spread this in my workplace.. For I fear that the people here are just too practical for my liking.. They probably dont know of Russell, his brilliant mind, and what he thought of these guys! Or maybe they knew and but didnt care to bother and jump out of a system that does not easily allow them to see beyond..

In these situations, I just love the analogy given by The Matrix. Sometimes I feel we are parts of various overlapping systems that tend to restrict us and prevent us from jumping out of it. And the winner usually is the one who jumps out of it, somehow! It is not just one big Matrix.. But a whole bunch of them.. All intersecting circles that lock us.. And close out our vision beyond their boundaries..

I used to play with ants like this.. Just draw water circles around a ever moving trail of them and restrict them.. I used to enjoy the fact that they tried their best to get out of it and still could not.. I am probably worser, simply because, atleast so far, I believed that those circular areas comprised my whole world.. The ants were better..

And you know what? The more number of circles that you get locked into, the less freedom you are going to have.. One of the group of people who have got locked into the most number of such circles are the work-folk - the kind who sell their time and labour to help manage "others" daily activity.. Like I do.. "I help somebody sell planes better"! :(

If Russell was around, I would ask him to keep me with him to help him do his chores.. And will keep talking to him forever!!

That was enough "work"..

I just need such a mentor.. Am looking for one..

Alice.. Alice..

`I like the Walrus best,' said Alice: `because you see he was a little sorry for the poor oysters.'
`He ate more than the Carpenter, though,' said Tweedledee. `You see he held his handkerchief in front, so that the Carpenter couldn't count how many he took: contrariwise.'

`That was mean!' Alice said indignantly. `Then I like the Carpenter best -- if he didn't eat so many as the Walrus.'

`But he ate as many as he could get,' said Tweedledum.

This was a puzzler. After a pause, Alice began, `Well! They were both very unpleasant characters -- '

Alice in Wonderland is a major philosophical book.. Sample the above passage.

Tweedledum and Tweedledee narrate Alice the story of The Walrus and the Carpenter. After the story, Alice is asked whom she liked the most in the story..

Assume that a jury is presented with the case of two murderers - one who murdered 85 people and another who murdered 1729 people.. Who do you think, will get bigger punishment for his deeds? :)

PS - Try becoming a 11 year old for sometime and answer! :)

Copy and repost, please..
Someone has to copy and repost in their website, all that this guy is writing..

His commenting system is that thing which does nothing except being busy always!

Ravi - please do something about this.. For you have written many things now that I would like to start a big fight on..