Its offical now...that,, I am unhappy and nose diving deeper into "unhappiness"...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/happiness_formula/4787558.stm
The good news is, I am not alone :-) everyone else in my age group is also unhappy ! yeeaahh..!! Thats certainly something to cheer about ;-)
Apparently my unhappiness is very umm..expected, and I might as well just go back and sink in my sofa and drink another mug full of unhappiness. Ironically my favourite or ummm.. ok the second most favourite mug has a big smily pasted on it saying "dont worry be happy"... ofcourse why not..
But rest assured there is light at the end of the tunnel,, literally at the end...
All I have to do is just wait till I turn 50 and voila..!! Id be happy again !!! swell... cant I pull a rip van winkle, till I turn 50 ???
Oh and by the way, one book I am reeeeally ,,reallly planning/hoping/praying to read.. is "The Orientalist" . It definitly sounds like something to dig in...
And while on the subject of orientalists... heres an interesting orientalist
And even more interesting what wikipedia has to say about the actual meaning and connotations of the term orientalist.
While still on the subject of orientalists,, here is another gem that google spewed out.
The anti-orientalist. Thank you google ! I shall happily accept this as my next birthday present. .. Everyday I learn more and more how ignorant I am...
Sunday, April 30, 2006
Saturday, April 22, 2006
I hear you Laila !!!
See: Lailas El-Haddad's blog
And it burns,, ...it burns...so bad that I can no longer hear nothing else, see nothing else, and feel nothing else.
I am not a palestenian, not even an arab, but when I hear what I hear, and I see what I see..I want to stand up and shout I AM a Palestenian. !!! My country and my people are under occupation, it is being systamatically eaten up and my impotance an inability to do anything about it burns me...
I have had discussions with well educated people, not knowing two pennys worth of history or facts about the issue at hand and yet having opinions and conclusions pasted all over their faces.
Their ignorance of what they really are supporting and what they are opposing is outrageous...
But I hear you Laila, I hear you loud and clear, I shall shout what I have heard,, shout it out so loud that the deaf shall hear ..shall finally hear what I hear, and see what I see...
And it burns,, ...it burns...so bad that I can no longer hear nothing else, see nothing else, and feel nothing else.
I am not a palestenian, not even an arab, but when I hear what I hear, and I see what I see..I want to stand up and shout I AM a Palestenian. !!! My country and my people are under occupation, it is being systamatically eaten up and my impotance an inability to do anything about it burns me...
I have had discussions with well educated people, not knowing two pennys worth of history or facts about the issue at hand and yet having opinions and conclusions pasted all over their faces.
Their ignorance of what they really are supporting and what they are opposing is outrageous...
But I hear you Laila, I hear you loud and clear, I shall shout what I have heard,, shout it out so loud that the deaf shall hear ..shall finally hear what I hear, and see what I see...
Thursday, April 20, 2006
Friday, April 07, 2006
move on...
Often, so very often we tell others who have been through a tragedy, or a loss, to try to forgive and forget and move on....
Good advice surely it is, but should be uttered only by those very few who actually have done that. Otherwise it stinks of a condescendingly arrogant attitute.
Take the case of the Rawanda genocide.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4877212.stm
A truly moving personal story. A nightmare to have to live through every day. How do you tell a person like this to move on ? You cant, because you simply dont know what you are talking about... You have never experienced the hell that this person has been through.
The best thing to do is to try to make that person's today happy. Try to put a smile on his/r face and maybe it will help. Giving advice to move on,,,haaa ! easy for you to say...
Good advice surely it is, but should be uttered only by those very few who actually have done that. Otherwise it stinks of a condescendingly arrogant attitute.
Take the case of the Rawanda genocide.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4877212.stm
A truly moving personal story. A nightmare to have to live through every day. How do you tell a person like this to move on ? You cant, because you simply dont know what you are talking about... You have never experienced the hell that this person has been through.
The best thing to do is to try to make that person's today happy. Try to put a smile on his/r face and maybe it will help. Giving advice to move on,,,haaa ! easy for you to say...
Tuesday, April 04, 2006
make yr move, set me free...
The dice,..has been cast....
For better or for worse,,,...
It was unplanned, I was going to wait a week more, but it slipped out.. I blame it on the stars, they forced my hand, I might have even overplayed a bit but now its done.
The ball has been set rolling, there is no turning back now. For better or for worse... let the game begin....
For better or for worse,,,...
It was unplanned, I was going to wait a week more, but it slipped out.. I blame it on the stars, they forced my hand, I might have even overplayed a bit but now its done.
The ball has been set rolling, there is no turning back now. For better or for worse... let the game begin....
packing order
Coffee breaks are a fun !
Its usually that time of the day when you really should be doing something, and there is nothing better than not doing what you should be doing and not doing it exactly when you should be doing it.
Todays coffee talk revealed a startling fact to me. Which is that in the dog world, the female dog runs the show. The she-dog is on top of the packing order, it is she who makes the rules and decides who gets what . This coffee jewel was revealed to me by Jarmo and Marko, both have bitches.
I couldn't believe it ,,..I thought the packing order is determined on basis of physical strength so is a female dog actually physically stronger than the male?, I asked.
No came the reply. I scratched my head to brush some dandruff off hoping that might recharge some now very grey matter in there.. and then looked at Marko.
It didnt help.
I scratched some more and looked hard at Jarmo, hoping to "get" it. I remained clueless..
Then Jarmo told me, it was his girl friend who had made him get and keep the dog.
All of a sudden, there was light....
Its no different in the man's-world either ....
An interesting article on the subject
Its usually that time of the day when you really should be doing something, and there is nothing better than not doing what you should be doing and not doing it exactly when you should be doing it.
Todays coffee talk revealed a startling fact to me. Which is that in the dog world, the female dog runs the show. The she-dog is on top of the packing order, it is she who makes the rules and decides who gets what . This coffee jewel was revealed to me by Jarmo and Marko, both have bitches.
I couldn't believe it ,,..I thought the packing order is determined on basis of physical strength so is a female dog actually physically stronger than the male?, I asked.
No came the reply. I scratched my head to brush some dandruff off hoping that might recharge some now very grey matter in there.. and then looked at Marko.
It didnt help.
I scratched some more and looked hard at Jarmo, hoping to "get" it. I remained clueless..
Then Jarmo told me, it was his girl friend who had made him get and keep the dog.
All of a sudden, there was light....
Its no different in the man's-world either ....
An interesting article on the subject
Monday, April 03, 2006
Ice Creaaaammmmm !!!!
I was in the kitchen, when I heard it first, do-da-ding-do, do-da-ding go-do, do-da-ding-do-doo...
Hmm,,thats not my phone, it cant be my computer either, as far as I know computers dont go do-da-ding-do on their own...Lets see, its getting closer ,,sounds like its in my room..hmm. Could it be !?? Could it possibly be !!?? Wondering I look out my window, and surely enough there it was, the ice cream van !!! haaayyyy..!! yiiipppyyy....ah, but wait a minute, I am not 10 anymore, am closing in fast on my 34th year... But what the heck..!!! its there...!!!! oh that universal ice-cream-van tune !!! No matter which country you go, that tune you can recognize from miles.
But so funny to see it here, and to hear it 8 floors up in my building ! and to top it all..its bloody snowing outside Been snowing almost all day! ..!! haa ! imagine that !! an ice cream van, selling ice-cream in the snow..and that too at this odd hour, its 8:30 pm ! Cant beat that..!! Darn its only about 20 years late,,wish it were yesterday,,20 years ago..Id just run down, jump from the window if I could...and get me one !!!
But today, I just smiled...
Hmm,,thats not my phone, it cant be my computer either, as far as I know computers dont go do-da-ding-do on their own...Lets see, its getting closer ,,sounds like its in my room..hmm. Could it be !?? Could it possibly be !!?? Wondering I look out my window, and surely enough there it was, the ice cream van !!! haaayyyy..!! yiiipppyyy....ah, but wait a minute, I am not 10 anymore, am closing in fast on my 34th year... But what the heck..!!! its there...!!!! oh that universal ice-cream-van tune !!! No matter which country you go, that tune you can recognize from miles.
But so funny to see it here, and to hear it 8 floors up in my building ! and to top it all..its bloody snowing outside Been snowing almost all day! ..!! haa ! imagine that !! an ice cream van, selling ice-cream in the snow..and that too at this odd hour, its 8:30 pm ! Cant beat that..!! Darn its only about 20 years late,,wish it were yesterday,,20 years ago..Id just run down, jump from the window if I could...and get me one !!!
But today, I just smiled...
Saturday, April 01, 2006
complexes..
Pia is a fine lady, social and all, but I just wish she would leave me alone. It seems that she has made it her personal mission to convert me to christianity or atleast to elighten me to how wrong I really am.
Its amazing,,totally mind boggling. She has got a degree in Physics, and working on another one in CS but her mind still is so closed.! How do people manage to pile up degrees and still have such narrow views on life, world, people, society and the rest.
Recently she started this talk about Israel and on knowing that I held views different from hers she immediately started trying to prove how wrong I am !
When I asked her specific questions, to my utmost surprise she knew nothing about the history or the issues surrounding the subject(this she herself confessed to as she had no answers to the questions I asked) and yet she was so sure of how right she is !! Amazing !
And she is not the only one, I am sure you can find atleast one like her in every square meter of this planet !!
Particularly of shock to me, was her almost "belief" in the news , the news she gets from BBC and the rest of western media.! She is of the view that I am "brain washed" from the news and views that I have been exposed to while growing up, and all the news broadcasted in my part of the world is of course just plain false propaganda.
I guess she also believes that the media and news that she has been and (is)exposed to while growing up was and is naturally the virign truth...
I am not claiming that western media spreads false reports. No, in this global village,that could never work. But often the news stories are one sided, or worded such as to create a given impression and enforce it. But many people like Pia, are blind to this.
Most people in the west seem to have this superiority complex, some express it rather openly and others wont admit, they might not even be aware of it,but they atleast unconciously or subconsciously consider themselves intellectually and culturally superior.
Fascinating...! the more the things have changed,,the more they have remained the same....
Its amazing,,totally mind boggling. She has got a degree in Physics, and working on another one in CS but her mind still is so closed.! How do people manage to pile up degrees and still have such narrow views on life, world, people, society and the rest.
Recently she started this talk about Israel and on knowing that I held views different from hers she immediately started trying to prove how wrong I am !
When I asked her specific questions, to my utmost surprise she knew nothing about the history or the issues surrounding the subject(this she herself confessed to as she had no answers to the questions I asked) and yet she was so sure of how right she is !! Amazing !
And she is not the only one, I am sure you can find atleast one like her in every square meter of this planet !!
Particularly of shock to me, was her almost "belief" in the news , the news she gets from BBC and the rest of western media.! She is of the view that I am "brain washed" from the news and views that I have been exposed to while growing up, and all the news broadcasted in my part of the world is of course just plain false propaganda.
I guess she also believes that the media and news that she has been and (is)exposed to while growing up was and is naturally the virign truth...
I am not claiming that western media spreads false reports. No, in this global village,that could never work. But often the news stories are one sided, or worded such as to create a given impression and enforce it. But many people like Pia, are blind to this.
Most people in the west seem to have this superiority complex, some express it rather openly and others wont admit, they might not even be aware of it,but they atleast unconciously or subconsciously consider themselves intellectually and culturally superior.
Fascinating...! the more the things have changed,,the more they have remained the same....
creationists vs evolutionists
A Russian, a Fin , an Indian and a Pakistani during a lunch break in an architecture training got into a discussion over the grand-architecture , the big picture, the begining of time, the ultimate question, the answer to everything.
The instant the topic evolved out of the sizzling steak, I knew it, ..I should have just shouted "42!" >>whats 42<< and ended it there...but my lunch was too greasy to stop anything...
The Indian was a full swing creationist, the Russian and Fin supporting the theory of natural selection and the Pakistani accepting the evolution with exception of humans.
An interesting mix it turned out to be. Specially since a Russian is to a Finn what an Indian is to a Pakistani or the other way round.. But when idealogies and theologies are discussed the borders tend to move up and be drawn on the metaphysical and spiritual lands.
The problem with the creationists or the hard core ones is that they refuse to accept the ground reality, the known facts. On the other hand the evolutionists tend to indulge in arrogance by extrapolating their limited knowledge which is accquired from limited senses, known for only a limited domain over the entire grand-architecture.
The discussion was all the more fascinating when done in the context of architectural system design.
The basic principle of "where there is somke, there is fire" must never be overlooked when studying a system. Unfortunately evolutionists and creationists both tend to miss that by miles...
I for one am forever fasicnated specially with the plant kingdom. The plants do not have a nervous system or intelligence mechanism like animals, that give them a perception of their surroundings, yet they are aware of what colors to make their flowers, what fragrance to put in them, what taste to put in their fruit to be attractive to animals.
"Subtal is the Lord" said enistine, and a good point he had there. The devil is in the details they say,,but I would amend that to "the God is in the details"
One cant just make assumptions about the unknown and stamp them as facts. The best thing to do would be to accept that there is lot we do not understand and hence the process of discovery continues..
Refusing to accept exsistance of what we do not understand is stupidity at best and arrogant misleading at worst.
The instant the topic evolved out of the sizzling steak, I knew it, ..I should have just shouted "42!" >>whats 42<< and ended it there...but my lunch was too greasy to stop anything...
The Indian was a full swing creationist, the Russian and Fin supporting the theory of natural selection and the Pakistani accepting the evolution with exception of humans.
An interesting mix it turned out to be. Specially since a Russian is to a Finn what an Indian is to a Pakistani or the other way round.. But when idealogies and theologies are discussed the borders tend to move up and be drawn on the metaphysical and spiritual lands.
The problem with the creationists or the hard core ones is that they refuse to accept the ground reality, the known facts. On the other hand the evolutionists tend to indulge in arrogance by extrapolating their limited knowledge which is accquired from limited senses, known for only a limited domain over the entire grand-architecture.
The discussion was all the more fascinating when done in the context of architectural system design.
The basic principle of "where there is somke, there is fire" must never be overlooked when studying a system. Unfortunately evolutionists and creationists both tend to miss that by miles...
I for one am forever fasicnated specially with the plant kingdom. The plants do not have a nervous system or intelligence mechanism like animals, that give them a perception of their surroundings, yet they are aware of what colors to make their flowers, what fragrance to put in them, what taste to put in their fruit to be attractive to animals.
"Subtal is the Lord" said enistine, and a good point he had there. The devil is in the details they say,,but I would amend that to "the God is in the details"
One cant just make assumptions about the unknown and stamp them as facts. The best thing to do would be to accept that there is lot we do not understand and hence the process of discovery continues..
Refusing to accept exsistance of what we do not understand is stupidity at best and arrogant misleading at worst.
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