the indian mass production factory

With the kinda fits of frenziness, its not very unnatural for me to remain quiet for prolonged periods or just to lie down on the bed with lights off n think abt all the things that I never seem to understand, smoking one after the another, filling my ashtray aka 'CUP of LIFE'***.

Indian life has been so simple for me and ye so chaotic that I don't even know which direction to take. Spending time with myslef I even tend to forget at times that there is a dimension called time and money which most of the times decide the fate of us all especially people in third world countires. Where by there are so high stakes to settle ourselves down that we tend to become lost in the rat race. Starting from school we try really hard to beat the hit out of others. Professional degrees seem to be the most logical way to head for as they appear to be the paths to success and comfort and are rated high in out little midclass society. Education and degrees are portrayed as the easy way to success, no not success but gurantees sucess.

Look at me today, not one of those exceptional few, but still I have two professional degrees, bachelor's in engineering from a government college which was okay i accept not IIT (ones faour for their 1% success rates in entrance exams) and one post graduate degree from the same dreaded IIT. Shall not get into the IIT debate, lets chuck it off sometimes later I will take it up. And in India its not like that am the only one, I know atleast 50 of my batchmates who did the same....and after all these degrees what are we all doing and how much are we being compensated for our work. and what have we really got out of the years we spent preaparing ourselves for the career.

The fate that India is suffering today, all engineering and realted degrees have merged into one sector called services. Imagine a plight of a country where only one state called TamilNadu produces 70,000 engineers alone. And we have some 10 states doing the same thing on the same scale. Where are we all heading for. A mechnical engineer is doing the same thing what a civil enginner does and what an MSc or MCA in computers does.
Oh for the people who still don't know in our land the more difficult an exam is to crack more people appear for it. This is a national craze and employers are looking for people in the same way, prioritizing them on the basis of their educational institiutes. And in that roll there is an unsaid rule of thumb, I call it unsaid coz its so obvious that people know it all, they don't talk about it but everybody knows.

Bachelor degree holders from IIT's are considered to be the best in India (though rating amongst IIT's is itself another issue, have to postpone this one till next time as well...btw last year it was IIT K which was on top), followed by Master's from the same institutes, followed by students from NIT's and then regional colleges compete with MCA(Master's In Computer Applications) over supremacy. Its not like that there is a major difference in all the students who get their degrees from these colleges, eventually they all do the same work...IT.

Our society n system still can't appreciate the fact that one can take an year off college just to travel around the world. Or let go around the world to tour his own country. Stakes are so high that we keep streching ourselves until one day we realise that its all so fake n when we see that what we really appreciate as life ain't life really. We are like those small mosquitoes flying in our houses....in fact not even that.

We Indian's might have the brains to solve the most complicated of problems and I take proud to say that we are the ones who have a natural knack for solving problems and only people I consider really worth competing with us are the russians. We all can speak english fluently than most others, we can talk in any accent be it american or british or singaporean (OK lah), we earn money abroad but we still are the same. We still don't know how to enjoy life.

In my life time I have found only few people who have followed their dreams on themselves, dreams which were really dreams not imitation of other people's dreams. And I think the primar reason is that when we are racing for survival, there is little room for chaisng dreams coz u know the moment u slip, there ain't no one to support and desi's aka fellow country men would be the first to make sure that u fell hard enuf not to rise again.

But this doesn't mean that these problems are Indian, I can talk about these coz am an Indian, I have felt this, seen this.

Sometimes it's really hard to say AM PROUD TO BE AN INDIAN

***CUP of LIFE not coz it's someway related to life, it is because it fills itself with ash and butts and takes out the life off you

marital bliss

more n more frns are getting married more n more news are pouring in....marital bliss is it really worth falling for. Talking to the people njoying it sometimes they talk abt it so passionately that it leaves u tempting to get married (only obviously after u find a suitable partner) and very same moment when the thought of responsibility and changes in the life that it will bring along come to mind..kinda shocks ..n lets me to believe that am happy just perfect as I am today, and brigtening it up may not be a cakewalk as it seems to me on the first go.

So am tempted not to fall in the trap, and prolong it as long as I can.

I don't know but wheneve I think about it, just reminds me "GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE"

I wish all people getting married good luck..njoy the bliss if there is any ..and let me know the secret..what it is and it it really worth it all.

myMusic: Norah Jones - Feels Like Home
myMood: close to calm...very calm n happy
myMessengerStatus: Invisible
myPhoneStatus: Last call recieved was yesterday..sarvanan rokde's friend called up


Interesting Readings:

Question: What is the difference between Singapore and China?

SINGAPORE IS LIKE A DEMOCRACY RUN IN A COMMUNIST FASHION AND IN CHINA THEY ARE RUNNING COMMUNIST STATE IN A DEMOCARATIC FASHION

PS: I have just finished reading the HitchHikers Guide To The Galaxy, fantabulous book. Douglas Adams has some very interesting observations about human beings and its lovely to hear them from the mouth of aliens.

BTW: He forgot to mention that this computer EARTH is even capable of writing science fiction books and quote himself...woudn't it had been interesting as well.. Just a thought. Coz this is also I think something worth mentioning , the creativity and imagination of earthly humanoids. Ain't it so?

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@Ole Pals

" I may not know the right questions to asks, I may not have the right answers to tell you, but yes I can try to listen to what you are telling me."

vansh ...indian dining place n waterfront

In Singapore some body offers u unlimited kebabs yep both vegetarian and non vegetarian and unlimited beers (Kingfisher - United Breweries India) for just 30 SGD,in a decent in fact pretty decent resturant..then u have to say that oh its is must steal bargain. And we me and my boss did the same.



Okay to be very frank the kebabs were not reaaly great but they were infact better than reat of the places 8/10 stuff, beer was alama nicely served chilled..not in pitchers..kingfisher is the indian taste of beer in singapore 10/10 for that. The ambience is really good, better than those boat quay resturants in Singapore, a cool islolated place...at waterfont, near Singapore Indoor Stadium, Kallang.

Fantastic Sunday treat,silent waterfront experience,courteous waiters, excellent service. I must say must do for desi's in Singapore. And look at the view just outside the resturant enuf to be mesemerised, truly not Singaporean.

look at me now

this is how..a new gadget n guess what it is?

Hello guess it n tell me fast.

@Preeti
"this is like Banerjee Sir back in Dehradun. Well I can't remember exactly but yes he was a bit like this."

@Vidhi "Some Italian painter" (Oh thats atrange I couldn't react to this one)

lil update

Someone was asking me the other day dude what all u do when u are free..there ain't ne free time in mu life coz i dun know what to do wid my free time...some people may say WTF..this is crap but this me "take it or leave it".

Lil updates for the people who are still reading or wanna peep into my life a bit.

a) Am not calling any one cause am running really low on cash. I have run out of cash to buy even phone cards and my prepaid balance stands up at $8.00. So sorry people all IDD called are out of scene.

b) Am kinda frustrated wid life a lot these days, everybody seems like a monster trying to invade my space and am fighing hard wid few and surrender to others..Surely was telling someone life sux..yep it does.

c)Just to kick ass this feeling one trip is being planned off to Malaysia. godknow if it will comeup or not but whatever its some good time wasted planning it.

d)I am reading Douglas Adam's Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy...not one but the whole series.

e) Am listening to more heavier and black metal again. Dimmu Borgir/Slayer/Cradle Of Filth/Arch Enemy are back up on charts..metallica is going down..oh I forgot melodic and speed metal genre artists..Stratovarius and Dream Theater are up as well.

f) Am too fucked up too talk most of the times and prefer to keep my bloody mouth shut.

PS: Dun u think u have better chances to hear the words better if u use that service Skype offer for free or i u use that gadget u invested money tp buy called handphone...whatever.

Oops one more thing if u meet me today u will also find some beard they called french on...just experimenting..makes me look even more older...

yahoo lovely audibles

Yahoo has launched certain audibles which Indians are going to like a lot. I have been introduced to them only today morning and I have gone crazy looking at them. Simply superb they capture the essence of being an Indian, just perfect. Bollywood dialouges which people use so frequently and the commom slangs on the streets it so superb simply great. Feels so greatly Indian, I just couldn't resist talking to every one about them. Telling everyone what it is ...what great thing yahoo have done.

But one thing I didn't like about the new beta was the inability to send IM messages by opening the IM window n then typing the name. This means too much dependence on the GUI. Didn't like this feature of yahoo.

And my gosh I just notices that they have removed the launcast radio from this. This sucks but still audibles rock.

Imagine being a desi, another desi IM's u and u hear the other one "Yeh Chat Mujhe De De Thakur"....or " Abe..khamosh" n then a punch lands on the face.

Simply great :)

Review : Vision - Stratovarius

In this world doesn't happen very often atleast with me that u stumble upon an album and u find it just amazing and out of the world. And you are hooked on it unbelievably long..and u keep thinking that how many such beautiful peices of cration are out there to explore..one such masterpiece is this album.

In the genre of metal, I have stumbled upon a band which sometimes remind me of Dark Saga's rhythm and melodic, rightly named n categorised into speed/melodic metal. The musicians (Timo Tolkki-guitar, Timo Kotipelto-vocals, Jari Kainulainen-bass, Jens Johansson-Keys (EX-Dio/Yngwie Malmsteen and Jörg Michael-drums (ex-Running Wild) have just done a perfet job creating the album. Timo Kotipelto vocals have depth n his fight for superiority with the Tolkki's guitar n melody of Jens have only added value ot the album. Just perfect..must buy.

Here is the listing of the Songs
1. The Kiss Of Judas
2. Black Diamond
3. Forever Free
4. Before The Winter
5. Legions
6. The Abyss Of Your Eyes
7. Holy Light
8. Paradise
9. Coming Home
10. Visions (Southern Cross)

Total time: 61.06

Steal this album...take my words for it. Btw I have been writing this review in between work..can't oorganize it ...this is a concept album called visions as it's the Stratovarius's reflection of the visions of Nastrodamus.

I shall rate the album 9/10.

One point am taking off coz the songs is because of track called Paradise, the lyrics are really bad, the music is sub-par too, the choruses are the only redeeming aspect and sometimes the album slows down so much..and the Holy Light sounds too much like Dream Theter.

Wow what lovely astro predictions!!

For the past some time, I think almost two years now, no in fact more than that, but it ain't important how long, I have been reading the daily forecasts for TAURUS, not beacause it's my gf's sun shine (Some people do it everyday...dun know is it love or something else) but because its mine.
For the past few days the forecasts have been really good..a pleasure to read every morning; but i just wish the days should have turned to be equally good.

Lets take it day by day...wouldn't it be the best idea to do the analysis with facts n figures as engineers do :)

Monday, July 11:

That romantic roll you're on isn't going anywhere just yet, which is just the way you like it. The good news is that the person you're sighing over is on the same page -- and there isn't any bad news.

I Will leave this one open cause its only 11:31 AM till this time. Shall update this later on.

Shit I can't find the yesterday's amazing forecase and not even saturday's I deleted them to clean up my mail box.
It ain't fun ...all facts gone.

But neways I will put up the jist for the forecast, it started of on Saturday as like this is the time when some one i really like following n knowing n adoring , its time to make a move towards her coz she is also thinking on the same lines. Sunday it was like this is when it will all shower on us that is me and my lady.

But what it turned out to be I spent some 22/48 hours in office working, some 4 hrs traveling to and fro between office and home some 17 hrs sleeping and rest of the time also wasn't really great just normal times eating, cleaning up, washing clothes and blah blah blah.
There was nothing too romantic or let alone romantic some thing worth mentioning.
July 09, 2005

You've never been short on ways to express your feelings for a loved one, and today will be no different. Your mission is to let your words go and say everything that's in your heart, with no holds barred


This day I spent discovering the factand preaparing myself mentally, telling myself over n over again that this weekend also am going to work and making love to what comes for free fiesta...my work.


SO dude the bottom line is not that u shouldnot subscribe to email forecasts ..or that you shouldn't hope that they won't come true...you must not do any of those but you should religiously believe them..so that atleast once u are screwed u still have some hope and the best part when u come back to work next day..after being screwed or whatever..afte reading days forecat u again have the feeling that wow another great day has started.

So subscribe those free zodiac daily forecasts and njoy them like I do :).

just to stimulate the desire further


Tuesday, July 12

Someone you see on a daily basis hasn't just caught your eye, they've also captured your attention -- so much so that you can't seem to think about anything else. Wonderfully enough, they feel the same.


FEELS SO GOOD

paki desi band

Checked out a new band...called Rungg based @ pakistan and was wondering how can the same style of bands come one after the other..bands with two or three memebers, the same stereo types sounds of the guitar and vocals. Remember there was a band called Strings some days back..this Rungg is almost like them. Atleast to me it was like Strings had released some more songs. But they say these bands are grpwing in popularity, overseas atleast that's waht Rungg said on their website www.rungg.com. Check out their donwload section, there u can find some songs and videos.

7/10 kinda stuff. Paki desi pop scene us churning some good songs. Time pass types to listen to when u are looking for alternative music.

Lest I forget, I also checked out the Buddha Bar vol.7, huh I am still not in a position to write a review about it. I don't know what the compilation aims to do, which genre to allocate it to ..its kinda hovers around the trisection of trance electronic and jazz music. Loaded it to my iPOD with great expectations but may be at first go it wasn't much appleaing. Wasted time it appears, not all good to be played preferentially unless u are too much into experimenation.

Checked out the Lamb Of god's "a reason to die" video, thats a nice band looks appealing to me. I have no more songs/ videos but it lookes appealing.

This weeks top music on my list stands here today as

a) Nymphetamine - Cradle Of Filth --amazing video pushes it to top of my list
b) Burn In Hell - Dimmu Borgir
c) A Reason to Die For -- Lamb Of God
d) Light My Fire -- Doors
e) Indra story -- Buddha Dar 5

And guess what SLIPKNOT is coming to Singapore...in August.

free musik as in free beer

he he notoriously good and professionally sad..no not for me but the creators of these music pieces. This morning tried google a bit hard and pressed the throttle a little more coz my ipod was playing the same ole music and now i have some links to kindle the soul.

Genre by genre or should I post all in one shot. Okay whatever.

If you are open to experiment with ur music then come here to this website called http://mauseeqi.blogspot.com/ wonderfulu website...the guy is as smart as me...I DON"T STORE OR SHARE MUSIC I JUST SHARE THE LINKS, AND THESE LINKS ARE FROM GOOGLE...so thats the opening statement for me too. The guy has compiled some good colelctions.

http://www.idobi.com/media.wml go here for some media links if u have broadband or the patience to stream media on a dial up...well i dun have it.

I hope u know what bit torrent is. Coz some more torrents for trance are available here at this beautiful website...http://www.uktrancealliance.com/
Follow the link towards the end called archive and u will find some torrents. Download play njoy with the grass beet whatever welcome to the TRANCE

Coming back to a website which boasts to be just a blog which compiles all about videos and mp3s is this http://www.muchmusic.net/ and do I need to tell u that u can dig a lot of stuff with this website.

I wish I had the time to write a crawler like google which will just keep searching for all the free music and videos, back in college though I had a small fto script which used to scan ftp servers for their contents :-P.


And the biggest of all. The PINK FLOYD webcast footage is available here. Want to watch the masters and the biggest name in Psychedelic Rock...go here

http://yee.is-useless.org/Live%208%20-%20Pink%20Floyd%20(webcast).wmv

I have checked all links on Jul 7, 2005 and they are working fine. Take u r time and do justice to ur comp and ur cable net...

CHEERS

btw: AM STILL LOOKING FOR WHAT I STARTED LOOKING FOR----> PINK FLOYD VIDEOS----ne one can U help me find them.