the spectacle spectacle! :D

....kind lady at the spectacles store --> tries to clean my glasses --> breaks the frame!! 

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I can't see now and I don't speak french...partially blind and dumb...I can finally use parking spots reserved for the disabled all over the city! *SWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEETTTTT* 

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please come with me out front to collect receipt for your repairs...

Me: I am so blind without glasses that I couldn't tell if that person walking into the store now is a lady or a bloke.....

Chap @store: No no...that has nothing to do with you being blind without your glasses...!! B-) B-)

Top 5...last names...!

Top 5 last names that I'm truly glad I dont have...! :)

5. Sidebottom
4. Fellacio
3. Ben Dova
2. Stroker
1. Tutu

you've got to love the 90's!!

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K: Where the hell is he?
V: I dont know...call him
K: A**HOLE!! Hes late!!
V: CALL HIM!!!
CALL
K: You B*TCH! You are late...get here right now man!!
H's Dad: I think you are looking for H...hold please
Dad to H: Call for you and your friend just called me a b*tch!
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...ce n'est pas crapola!!! :D

I tell you...the french are just plain lucky! And I think hatred toward them from the ROW stems mostly from petty jealousy rather than anything else...


When you say French...I go "fries"...I go "kiss"....and then I go..."the next slide please"!! :D


Fries: They are from Belgium!! The Belgians invented them!! And I shall forever be personally indebted to them for this truly noble invention!! 


Kiss: Well, OK!! I think what really happened there was....two loud people when requested to speak slowly moved towards each other and their mouths accidentally touched...


et voila!! embrasser à la française!!! 


Dont believe me...next time you hear the french language...try and focus on the way their mouths move when they speak.... 


I kid you not...or simply try and saying these things in front of your mirror and watch how your mouth moves....

l'addition s'il vous plaît...
une petite bière s'il vous plaît...
ont un cookie s'il vous plaît...
(...and finally....) Nous allons rectifier cela en débitant votre compte bancaire vers le 18/06/2012. (I swear I dont know how to "pronounce" this sentence...but I PRECISELY know how my mouth should move...though!!)

....testikills!

Ok...I think I can speak on behalf of most brothers here...that we do like to aim, target! Its always fun. I mean in an otherwise boring job like taking a leak...this aiming, shooting at a target, a spot in the urinal often gains significant importance..! :P

Every once in a while, you may find a little spider or a fly (...dead or alive...) and then you try and sorta get the fly to fly away...or give it a questionably honorable salt water burial...!! Whatever!! I mean...make most of the boring job...!! I think it is way more sensible than trying to send that URGENT text message or take that phone call that just can't wait for 30 seconds! See what I mean?

So today, once again, this country amazed me like most everyday with yet another intelligent innovation.  There I was getting the job done. I see a fly! And of course there was I trying to get it to fly away...! And then I realize that it is actually not a real fly but just a little design of a fly on the urinal itself....and on that exact target spot....that you actually sorta mentally try and target ALWAYS!!

How brilliant is that...a permanent target to shoot at...! The target, the intent to save a life, the realization, the adoration of the brilliance...the calmly smile at the end of it all! Bliss isn't it?? :D

past, present, future and wonderful tense...!!

Time, Tense (in tamil...kaalam) is permanent, real and sort of omnipresent..in its own right...! But, the fact that man can communicate/measure 'time' or 'tense' with use of events (sun rise to sun set = date, birth to death = lifetime etc etc) makes it comprehensible and therefore bringing it under the purview of senses!! Therefore, time, tense as spectacularly omnipresent as it may be...has to be transcended as well...!!

Top 5 conversation starters!! (that never work!!)

5. anglais s'il vous plait / engels alstublieft (will not make the mistake of giving two different ranks here!!!)

4. I'm just like the 1 billion other Indians. And yes, we dont win a lot of Olympic medals!! So, how about it??


3. Slum dog millionaire was based on my best friend's life! Wanna meet him??
3 a. I choreographed the dance at the end of the movie!!
3 b. You havent watched the movie. Wanna watch it??
3 c. I'm just kidding. Lets get some french fries!! (oooooopsssss!!)


2. Well....helllllllloooooooooooooo there!! :D

1. I wanna be your underwear!!!
1 a. Its really just a song...
1 b. Bryan Adams!! No kidding! Even I cant be making sh*t this up!!
1 c. We do a good cover of it! so, yeah..? what do you say??
WHAT DID I DO WRONG NOW!!!

kéké visits paris!! :D

Its been such a fantastic few weeks...beauty, kindness all around...

I've always wanted to visit Paris and no one could have planned it better for me...it was an impromptu "pack your bags dude!!" text from a dear dear friend and the tone was an emphatic "ofcourse!! I wont take no for an answer" -- so what choice did I really have but to have fun!

I am leading a rather envious life right now, even if I say so myself...there is abundance of kindness, niceness, beauty, warmth, lucidity!! For once, actually, I cant remember when this happened last, I am not craving solitude. I am not craving for 'me' time! It feels full, it feels perfect!

So, road trip to Paris! Beautiful beautiful city! Wonderful wonderful family with whom I felt comfortable with from the word go!! Saw all the touristy attractions...!!

There I was at the tower standing right in front of it...mouth wide open...going "how can man not really be god in his truest state...if he can build something like this!!" :D

Got my posterior seated in two super cars and taken for a spin!! All in all PERFECT weekend.

...celebrity friends!

I have friends/colleagues who look like....

1. Lawrence Fishburne
2. Matt Damon
3. Gabriela Sabatini
4. Brooke Shields
5. Renne Zellweger
6. Alan Rickman (a.k.a Hans Gruber)

Total freedom (revisited and corrected)

As rightly pointed out by a senior 'ponderer' known to me almost my whole life when we met in Dubai very recently! :)

You will be able to achieve complete freedom, only when you completely lose your ability to hurt anyone or anything (including yourself), willfully or unwittingly by your words/thoughts/actions!

Top 5 - losses!!

Top 5 losses, that almost seem like gains! :P

5. The will to let go! It simply makes practical sense to just give up...and save the effort...

4. Art of smooth talking "bull crap"...

3. Art of pretending to listen to #4...

2. My child-hood naiveté...!

1. HAIR...!! :D

...seemingly incurable ailment!!

Your emotional 'immune' system often becomes extremely vulnerable when touched by the insatiable curse of "there needs to be more"....!

Don't really comprehend at what point the "so far seemingly enough" transgresses into the infectious and often unreasonable "there must be more"....

...truly fascinating!!

....the lovely guilty

...in a life where most of our 'energies' are expended either on regret prevention  a.k.a "pre-action" worry or regret redemption a.k.a "post-action" guilt....where does love figure in it...

Love or rather "ideal" love should come from and remain in that purest, cleanest 'part' within you. And by definition, it is a place far from the reach of...guilt or...self doubt!!

I'd like to think or rather believe, it is a combination of respect, adoration and unconditional acceptance. All of this would perhaps result in placing that object/recipient of such love in a state where they become "you cant hurt me ever because I believe that 'skill' of yours is 'blunted' by my unrelenting fondness for you"

And in those very rare occasions that it becomes mutual between two individuals, those occasions are 'blessed' and the individuals themselves ought to be considered truly truly 'blessed'...

Of course, unconditional acceptance often in practice is simply "coined" unconditional after a thorough analysis and introspection to confirm without doubt whether all "unacceptable" conditions are indeed absent..! :)

...the problem with perception

The problem with perception is that it is greatly affected by the inherent inefficiency of the respective sense in question and therefore ultimately not reliable in its entirety!!

It is at that point and from then on, you rely only on intuition....

I've realized...

--> I can....therefore I must help!!

--> That its not the quantum but it is the willingness to share that matters.

--> Every tiny little drop of help helps those in need in more ways than you can imagine.

--> It truly is an emotion thats deeply spiritual and fulfilling.

Please feel free to join me / our team

http://www.kiva.org/team/mad_4_people
http://www.kiva.org/lender/kjagannathan

of cross-dressers and their daily predicaments...

Quote I read on a friend's facebook wall who took it from an "undisclosed" source --> "I stopped trying to be a man cause its such a waste of a woman" and I continue quote "now who cares who said this, this quote takes it all!"

Obvious questions --> What was "tried" and what was "wasted" and what/who is "all" and finally are we even sure this wasn't a cross dressing male/female who was very simply just having a hard time making his/her mind about what 'type' of clothes to wear that particular day?!

Conclusion --> That quote was vaguely brilliant yet brilliantly vague..!! So now I am having a hard time making up my mind to "like" it or not...

Some one PLEASE help....the cross dresser first...obviously thats a bigger crisis...!! :D

Glory...and what it is worth...

Emil Cioran's perhaps most thought provoking a.k.a the question that disturbed me the most is (or rather was...till few evenings back) - "Glory - once achieved what is it worth?"

We, human beings, whether we want to or not, need inspiration, aspiration, appreciation! Why we need those - that'll be a separate topic of discussion for a later point in time.

For ponderers - most times, our inspirations/aspirations directly or indirectly reflect those virtues, that people who matter most to us, wish for us to cultivate and live by. The end result of which, as distant as it may appear right now, is perceived as indescribable by mere words.

I would like to believe, what IT is worth therefore, is directly equal to the 'waste' of potential if not achieved/utilized. Only that Learned teacher would know this suffering. Only That devout student of his would truly understand the pain and see IT worthy of pursuit. Only They can explain what I have perhaps failed to explain here - what Glory is really worth.

Top 5 - Office LOLs! :D

5. Oh dear lord.....!!!.......Yes. How can I help you? (in unison...!)

4. "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaachhhhhhhhhhhhoooooooooooo"......Bless you...and thank you for waking up our colleagues in China!!

3.  "moooooooooooooo" and thats your 'holy' cow!!.....Our cows are not like that...they dont mooo!!...And why not.....?!.....Thats why they are holy man!!

2. Does anyone want to step out for lunch?......Yes! But not with you!!

1. They are like us!....You mean incredibly good looking and talented...?!

...of lillies and their prickly demeanor! :P

Concert in Belgium: #2

Venue: Botanique, Brussels

Band: Lilly wood and the prick

One word summary: ENERGETIC

More:
....so out came Lilly on stage surrounded by her multi-talented pricks an hour later than the scheduled time but it suited us just fine as we were 'on time' after a rather ridiculous day @ work!

The music was high voltage, the sound was fantastic....their energetic presence on stage was simply uncontrollably contagious! Excellent songs! There were songs that sounded very "Oasis" with some amazing "Rush" like rather long instrumedlies in the middle of some of them.

One of the "pricks" even pulled out a flute in the middle of a song and that was particularly refreshing!! The drummer who appeared like a "leaner" Ben Affleck did an amazing job behind his kit. As always - most of my time was spent "looking" at the drummer!!

All in all an excellent concert...! I'd definitely go see little lilly and her rather talented boys again anytime!! :))

Rishikesh....

It is not very often in life you feel transformed into the best version of yourself....

And in my case...in the not-too-distant past...I questioned if I even had a better version of me...and I was extremely lucky to have met and known my Rishikesh Swamiji...! And I truly transformed in Rishikesh everytime...!

Today is the saddest day of my stupid meaningless trivial life....as I sit here and think of every act of kindness shown toward me from Rishikesh Swamiji...the first one of it being acknowledge my stupid arrogant existence as an act....and console me that I do have a better version....and that transformation is indeed possible and achievable....!! All I can do now is wail in the kind of pain I have never known...!!

Life truly does become irreparably sad and damaged knowing I dont have Swamiji to visit in Rishikesh anymore.....

As I read His life here -->  http://www.sivanandaonline.org/public_html/?cmd=displaysection&section_id=1501&parent=1055&format=html

I cant but help cry uncontrollably for my loss.....!!!