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There are ads, and then there are ads that are really a class apart...

And this is one ad which lives up to its promise. 

For the one who wonders why he is ignored. . . .

A walk, a run, a mile, a race. Whatever you call it like. A journey it is, A journey of choice.
A journey it is all that we make, A journey it is common to us all,
A journey nothing but a travel through life.

A journey has its joys, A journey has its sprains. A moment or in whole labelled by a choice.
A choice I say it is for it either can be one. It can be the either one, for it is what I choose to say.

The choice in the journey is not just a point in space, it is what defines the journey you just made.

Choices Choices Choices, Thinking of a man to choose what I can call him as.
A choice to label you as. A person not to be, or an example of what not to be.
But where was my lesson of what to be and be and example for others to be.

You ask me as to why you get ignored by me. But are you really worth my time.
Are you really keen for change.

My lessons expect respect for you, A lesson am ready to let go for a place in hell.

Why this pain, why this say. A question many more you may seek.
A question many you seek, but never stand in a place and say I caused this.

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These are a few words for whom I care a rat's ass for. I have my reasons to hate him, reasons for him to just wither and die. With a disgust of to just know you, feel a burn in even a hear of a name.

You did what you did, none of which I approve of. None of which I even wanted to know.

I've head you say, sounds that make me wish never was I born.
But really what is you are out to do, Are these things a human would ever do.
There are men far worse, but you shame my name.

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Life is a journey of choices I said . . .

Can really I make a choice for a chance. A forgiveness and a chance, but is he willing I stop to ask

A chance to take

I see the choices I chose not to take. A coward have I been - not to take a stand, a stand for people twice my height.

A chance I have to set things right.

A chance for which am I really too late.

A journey through choices, where I share a thought whether to give a chance.

A journey through choices where I can choose to set things right

For choices waiting to be made for a when where and how

Tom & Jerry (Behind the Scenes)

One of my favourite shows of all time.

We've all loved it, we've been all told to turn it off. Then endless fights to watch it, and the few oldies who do managed to get captivated by their charm.

A simple prank, a little fight was never so simple, but in fact in itself was a load of creativity.

Hats off to the original creators of Tom & Jerry and more importantly the background score

I never thought it would be so simple, Simple ?? watch and decide it sure is a lot of fun

PS : my 7 year old blog will get a noticeable change soon

The beauty of RED

Dedicated to all those who realised I did not understand hints and found it easier to tell me directly why they did not want to step out  ....

Also to the ones who didn't ...

And last but not the least for the one I had a huge fight with and threw up tantrums as I found it stupid to travel 100's of Kilometers and not enter a temple which she had promised to go to after my exams - My MoM

Apologies for being a jerk, but I still have not understood why does one have to miss out on life . . .

Doctor's Quote, Layman's thought

Living problem is better than a dead solution

- Dr Jai Arora (via Dr. Rajashree's Whatsapp Status)

[19:45 a friday evening] happened to see a new status as I was about to take a nap, while I waited for a couple friends to wind up their work and continue catching up  .. . ..

So while I had my seat pulled back, trying to switch off from the noise of the evening rush hour made worse by a celebration at a nearby mutt went back almost automatically to once again read the few words that I saw. Not to understand, but just for once complete read

[19:50 - 20:12 the friday evening nap in my car]

It was all a cloud, the train of thoughts part from the time I drifted to sleep, bits from the vague conversations in my head and the rest pieces of what sense I could make of it.


Btw, I am not sure of the context with which the original quote was made, but sure it was an eye-opener for me towards my total discomfort for having problems around / little issues around me. 

A fight/tussle/a misunderstanding/ a mistake (especially from me) was something I could not comprehend or live it. It had to be resolved. In short, I could barely sleep till the time I had "solved" the problem. On one side, the ideal side good to be a person who puts an effort at not being an a****e in life. but where was I heading, what was the experience I was leaving the people around me with. In being the perfect person In not being the imperfect person that I am - damages that were being caused.

Over the past year(s), have had one of my friends (one of those whom I meet the most) say "You are not the same, like you were 2 years back"
Many who do meet on occasions do find me the same (Except for the little extra weight)
I not had a fight with my lawyer friend in like ages, maybe not having your late night foodie buddy around for years for a "midnight idly dosa" made the difference . . .
and last but not least my best friend the one who really almost never showed any anger (to put in other words, we'd resolve thing sin less than 30s)

But coming to it really had a question of why I used to let down some of my closest of close friends (at times). What were they missing from me .... The actual question "Why was I (why were we) not experiencing the joy of being who we are", and I mean, i we did not have a fight what was missing from my side that they did not get to express anger, if we did not have fun, which part of me were my friends missing

The answer to my questions lie not in solutions to be perfect, have perfect friendships, have perfect relationships .... but in being who we really are.

Where can be a expression of one's self and a experience of living where you do not take the liberty to be the person who you are. And, where one cannot experience being themselves, thinking of letting others be who they are really does sound far fetched

So where does this bring me :-
Back to the statements someone made some point of time, statements at various points of time, by various people, little advices, little angry statements which really hit me at some point of time.
Statements that I took personally as a reason to stop being who I am.
Statements that I took personally to be in a particular way.
Statements that I took personally to conduct myself in a particular way.
Statements that I took personally to make myself mean "There is something wrong in me"

And,
Chill, Yes!! for starting another round of fixing myself is not what this is all about.

The statement above just brought me closer to who I am, neither perfect nor totally defunct. rather to accept the not and never will be perfect be.

Oh! and the "Statements that I took Personally" , they were said at some point of time, where they were valid, and with a commitment for me (say like pieces of advice).

I do have a choice to stick on and hold on to them,
I also do have a choice to be informed by it, and not governed by it.

And So ....
this is something i dedicate to all the people I am in communication with and who are in communication with me. (if we talk, message, mail, ping, fight, remember, each other - yes this one's for you)

While taking up responsibility of my actions and its consequences (including the experiences I left you with).. its me saying Thanks, Sorry, Hi5, etc .... its a pleasure STILL KNOWING YOU :-P

APPEAL

Tomorrow many of you are going to vote.

ASTHA makes a request 

Please answer these questions about your polling booths and send it to info@astha.in

1. Name of the constituency 
2. Polling booth name
3. Was it accessible to people with disability

               If yes - pls share briefly
               If no - pls share how was it

If possible can u have pic ( u can use your mobile )

This information will be used to positively

One more request 
Please share this appeal on your page and all your social medias
Your one action will go a long way in supporting millions of people.

Thank you

(from one of my great friends  ... Sunil)

Choosing a better demon ..

Well, i guess this the most apt statement statement which I feel anybody in Karnataka can agree to today. With the voting set to kick off in a few hours.

Important:
http://ceokarnataka.kar.nic.in/SearchContestingCandidate.aspx

Use the link above to search and find out about your candidate. (you can find their nominations there), i went to the extent to digging up what their net worth (assets, liabilities), prior experience, education , what are they promising etc.

This blog post is in response to a good friend of mine prompting me to vote for a party since his "Uncle" was the contestant.

Today I see a newspaper article where he promises to rejuvenate the lakes in South bangalore, and asks us to go visit one such lake as a proof of his achievement.

I almost lost my temper, as I have been following the happenings of this lake
http://www.puttenahallilake.in/about-pnlit
(I remembered this lake has been developed by donations and not government funds)

My friend had one reason - Everybody eats.
I still haven't got a response for a few questions i posted to my dear friend .... there aren't any


So what...
I have a little request from all

1. Take time out (30 mins), get online, search about the candidates contesting from your area.
2. Make a choice
3. Leadership, Integrity, ethics.
4. Do not vote for someone if it benefits you, ask yourself - Is this person going to make a difference to my constituency, my state or my country.
5. Do vote, or go to the polling booth and record your choice not to vote.
6. Remember it is we who are responsible in electing our leaders. Do not put the blame that all the leaders are like this.
7. When my grandfather was faced with this choice he chose to stand for elections himself ( so do not say there is no capable / good leader). It is we who do not have the courage to stand for what we want.

All the best, do fulfill your duty tomorrow.

Sebastião Salgado: The silent drama of photography

Delhi 16-12-2012

Here while I sit a week after 16/12, I realise this is the time where it all happened, or as I check the time maybe the time where it all ended. the girl full of dreams and responsibilities being torn apart, quite literally and dumped on the street.

Yes, I am referring to the Gang RAPE incident.

Delhi, the farthest city which my mom travelled to quite often over the last year and a half. The city I wanted to explore a lot more. A city whose surroundings I still want to visit, photograph, and capture in my memory.

First it came across a daily news item, a headline on my phone, feeling bad as usual, not an inspiration for any action. It was a headline, which surprised me for that was almost a daily occurrence at the rape capital.

Rape Capital - a label to be ashamed of, for that's also the capital of my country.

Dear friend, wait and look how fast / how content / at ease we are once we put a "label".

Label/No-Label :::: Statistics/reality says a lot, and numbers don't lie.

Open your eye, look around you, lean back !  now again look around you.
I am keeping my eyes on Delhi, I looked around, looked back from my memories of Delhi, and what was Delhi made up of, and what's around Delhi.

Down south in relatively nice and safe Bangalore. A single guy sitting writing his blog post, awaiting his 30th birthday.
"Hey I'm single, so are many of my friends (guys) my age. My classmates, friends are all either started delivering kids and have even moved on till even their third kid. Ok, the final Batsmen are finally having their wickets fall but still a gap is obvious even as I realise I do know a few single ladies... There are considerably less girls around"

For those of you who still managed to keep your eyes fixed on Delhi, let us make list of some its neighbours

• Haryana
• Punjab
• Uttar Pradesh
• Uttarakhand
• Bihar ??

Do you know geography ?? that may be your question right now. But was just making a wild guess of the origin of a bulk of Delhi's migrants. Speaking of migrants I'm not referring to not ones with white collar jobs but the more visible and yet insignificant, lifeline but the significant unimportant people like the rickshaw wallas, labourers, small time labourers etc.

PS: I did a quick look up at the sex-ratios  (obvious thing rite)

Now Eureka!! I found another root cause of the problem, the lack of girls/women ...

Wait, that's half of the problem.

All the 6 were really backward/poor who would have married them, poor lonely guys 

Oh! wait late in the night, a girl with a guy... ah haa... 

Oh! these politicians, only concerned about their security, is any cop left to protect the aam (mango) admi

Oh! there unruly illiterate (and literate) pigs men

STOP !!

I can go on and on. Finding more reasons to justify explain what happened on the fateful night and why, how to prevent. A thesis too may actually be helpful.

Ohhh!! WTF (What the Fuck)

• A Kid was raped inside a store (while the shopkeeper's friends diverted the relatives of the girl who came looking for her)
• A middle aged woman was drugged and raped in Delhi 

 (a gang rape, at a time when when prisoners are making one of the accused eat excreta & drink urine, forget harsh sentence, a jail ready to tear you apart is not deterring some assoles)

People Get it THERE IS NO REAL REASON / CAUSE / EXPLANATION

Even with the country burning with disgust, more incidents are making it to the the headlines

• Will anything ever change ??
• what will deter these cowards.
• Hopeless Situation is this, totally out of any sense of repair.

Without much further ado, I'll skip to my own little 2 cents worth of thoughts

• Women want to live, play all the roles they possibly be can be it their hobbies, career, learning, be a kid, be a friend, be a mother, be a winner, be a equal . . .
• Its high time we (men & women) accepted this and gave the respect, and acceptance to this fact.
• Its high time we overcame our insecurities
• Its high time we embraced change
• Let every girl live, be born, express her possibility fully in this world.

We (including me) are responsible for every atrocity. Its my duty to stand up, You/I may be beaten by the guy in this incident. Me even loose our lives. But what life it is to live of a coward. Live a life for a second than hide for a hundred years.

A Zero Tolerance is what we need to develop.

• You don't have to get violent / need to.
• But Never ignore any indecent, speak out, say you disapprove
• Its not out Govt. / Police / Law that can give us solutions
• Its high time INDIA stood up for itself.

This girl is standing up for herself, by wanting to live, by caring for her friend even when its hard for her to live, she is voicing out to bring the guilty to justice. THAT MAKES HER A WINNER

Woman, you truly are a man. One I respect and salute.

Your live may never be the same, but girl you are a winner for having come this far.

We are here for you today and when in need

There is hope

• Thank you countrymen for standing by for standing by a fellow countrymen for what was done to her by some of our own.
• Her identity is still not been disclosed. Good work (doctors, police)
• Thanks for offers of help (docs, politicians, public - INDIANS)

Women

Friends, Crushes, Sisters, Mom ...

Have got to know quite a few, and had lots to learn from all.. A lesson from each, had me appreciate the new one a tad bit more.

Till I got talking to one, whom I assumed being a workaholic, turned out to be a committed, sensitive n adorable little one...
Rare, for I had not found who had the innocent child in them alive.
For I saw strength, fear, compassion, determination and a heart as clear as a child's

I thank you for having got me to take a moment to appreciate & acknowledge all the wonderful women who have made a difference to me.

Pics from my phone

Some pics after a long time...

100 Experiments . . .

Yes, 100 snaps or a hundred experiments with light, this has been the highlight of my day.
Penned a Independence Day Speech, a baby step which got me as exited as parent watching their child have its first step.
I day I took on something I had once failed at earlier.
Met a baby, a witness to the courage of two people making a resolve to make things work.
A day when I actually felt low, a day where I am ready, desperate and hurting to give up my freedom, my freedom whom many a wish they still had, this prized freedom I so wish to let go, let go so as to to belong to someone other than me and have the other be my own. To be owned I so long, for my loss of freedom is where I find my freedom.

Cadaver Organ Donations

A noble cause - may just be a first thought.
But think of this, a family has just hours or minutes to make a decision and yet at the same time go through the shock and emotions
Lets say a leisurely 40hrs, but we need to fit in paper work, procedures bureaucracy (police etc, who at best are as (un)informed as any of us)
I have started work on this and will be sharing my actions & thoughts here.
Meanwhile I request all of you to drop in your views, thoughts, ideas and of-course offers to help in the comments
Stay tuned for updates ...

The Perfect Shot ...

I compare myself and I compare myself a lot...

and I even do this with something I really enjoy doing ... Photography
lost I was for a while of in judging if I'm any good. All I could see was the next improvement, or where I can be better, or what are all that didn't come right and lost I got ...

There's always a be a better shot, a better result abut I got to learn to take and give a little compliment for what I got right or for that little progress and for even those little failures ...

Best Blog(er)

My Best Friend who started her own blog after mine has won a Award for for the Best-Blog in her company :-)

We don't get to see her company blog but sure we cm see this
http://simishots.blogspot.com

Maga lets just blog a little more often

Sleeping Protest

If bangalore shutting down by 10p.m was not enough, we now hav e our highways closing shop much early now.

So just tonight I was returning back to Bengaluru after a funeral. I left late to miss the trafic on mysore road..

I wad in for a rude shock to find out my regular pit-stop Mc-D was closed. This place was a real convinient mid way bathroom (snack n drink for me) break for my older co-travellers.

The nxt shocker was to find d 24x7 CCD closed (KFC had a little chicken left though)

POINT is this, this will get much worse over time, a break after a few hours of driving is necessary (my last night sleep was 3hrs).

Now the rel question is this ?? Which laws apply to Barista ??
Greasing d machinary ??

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My silent protest,
Upon entering Bangalore, I gave the cops at the checkpost/point to look after my makeshift nap room
Aka my car

With my complaint for a necessity voiced out.

Time to get crearive and take this on big time and get some results..

Stay tuned ...

The first depressing moment of 2012

Life has its ups and has its downs...
Shouting out my first (major) down of the year ...

A Friend thinking I am judging them ...

• after all the crap you have told me about your self over the years (while being sober or not)

you think I am judging you and want to prove your point regarding this, the best joke that can ever be

Anger Expressed.... time to move on with life

PS: I am actually feeling Jealous that I'm missing ut on the fun (LoL)

Censored

Censored ...

Birthday Wishlist

With my birthday inching closer, I just thought I'd share my wishlist for this year (& birthday)

1. 6BNOkz9zDwyfWxX1/Uq/5f3vLXUDdeZVsTEdc7sc1cVu85zsR8BVK2HHZjKt/PAxNZfb1WgCSgEN4dUpR7TKkQ==

2. rjKJhsXqtuYHg1ogH0yBgu+4b5+3BC2YNhkyeyEIbFf2TCQgzDM9g8xI9kESLnVL+dU26Nf0CigjmKt9mrfHHw==

3. PQ9GqMhyChj/3VHhvUmN+QTwmq0tkbhPQ3duiXZV1EnhOJr1H/XyaI/srf5ZBDvGPBh9oEikHpk1q3rwka7hqw==

4. 4ufJqf98rsICZO8ZGryCtkRlgVHQ8oA6po3EJYS4yfxZTJpilbBb4oBWPcKjlG0KTuVIULP7vMRKqQVBnsNNLg==

5. o+i4xT4UAFBAfDj3qTNg1PzHB80dhZjAfGW4pKPfA2Txw3kZiV5efD1pfB+WaJpqbzJjzUz9obAZFsliDezQSw==

Oh! these are SHA-512 hashes of what all I wish (in base64)

Clue 1 :

http://hash.online-convert.com/sha512-generator

Clue 2 :

If you are on my blog ... you already have part of the info you need to move ahead cracking the hash

Clue 3:

Capitalisations so matter here (I've tried sticking to common grammar and maybe a smiley)

Note : These ones which come true will be revealed.

Reason for hash, than plain encryption ... 

• I can blame the cracked results on collisions... he he he, I am evil

Bangalore Freeze Mob . . .

The first attempt



We have more in store in the coming days . . . STAY TUNED