...profitable business proposition!

...expectations, everyone loves them, has them, can't do without them...! And not just humans when you think of it...! Its a thing of marvel really...how animals (pets) have them too...but theirs come from a more unconditional, selfless place and its genuine affection...

...when you have expectations, you unquestionably AGREE to that risk of them not being fulfilled...!
Don't like taking that risk called disappointment, STOP expecting...! Yes, it is that simple! Think long and hard before you next time....."I expect this..." "I want this..." "Can you do this..." "Will you...." "You disappointed....."

ING, Prudential, Aviva - here's a amazingly huge business oppurtunity!! Sell "Expectations Insurance" to help those who cant help themselves or know better than to keep on expecting...! :D :D

S.O.L.I.T.U.D.E

...Supremely Over-joyous Life-changing Illuminating Time Understanding (this) Delectable Existence!! 

It is definitely no surprise why India's most enlightened Swamis often confined themselves to SOLITUDE....! :) 

...this quest toward...

This quest toward this un-diminishable "eternally-happy" zone is inescapable, once realization, of this seemingly endless loops that becomes of life, dawns!!

Anything tangible that you strive to gain, possess, and eventually in the end, successfully achieve, is always subject to the economic law of marginal returns. Therefore, at the end, you realize the pursuit was often more pleasurable than the actual "find" or "gain" or "result" and that also perhaps explains why this search or pursuit almost immediately restarts as soon as there is a perceived marginal diminish in derived pleasure. At that point, the enormity of the pursuit itself seems so insignificant and the eventual ultimate dis-satisfaction is almost magically forgotten, ignored....

It wont take long to see the endless loop:
pursuit -> result -> dis-satisfaction -> pursuit again -> result -> dis-satisfaction -> pursuit -> 
...and the mystery magic begins to be less and less potent!!

The wise ones are woken up and commence wandering towards this 'zone' with no endless loops. At first, it almost seems imaginary and a make-believe-cynical "too good to be true"!! Soon, it turns into a semi-serious "what if"!! I believe the point at which you sincerely make this your true pursuit, ambition, goal - result wont be far and there wont be any need for another pursuit EVER again!! 

ॐ असतोमा सद्गमय ।
तमसोमा ज्योतिर्गमय ।
मृत्योर्मामृतं गमय ।।
ॐ शान्ति शान्ति शान्तिः ।। – बृहदारण्यक उपनिषद् 

...brilliantly intrusive sales...!

...from an online discount warehouse sales store:

email 1: random subject, no content, just sender but written in a way you can't miss who the email is from...

email 2: a rather humble apology note from them for first blank email with a discount for 5 bucks if you purchase something within the next 7 days! 

...it certainly put a smile on my face, despite the absolute horror of a week this has been!! 

:)

If by Rudyard Kipling

...I've always believed what you demand your universe ALWAYS supplies...!

...actually, it would be more appropriate to state what you "need" your universe delivers...I am in dire need of inspiration and my universe unequivocally delivered it to me....

Heres a poem from Rudyard Kipling:

If you can keep your head when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

But make allowance for their doubting too:

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,

Or being hated don't give way to hating,

And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream---and not make dreams your master;

If you can think---and not make thoughts your aim,

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

And treat those two impostors just the same:.

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,

And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings,

And never breathe a word about your loss:

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with Kings---nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

If all men count with you, but none too much:

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,

And---which is more---you'll be a Man, my son!

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!!

...
...
...
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!
...
...
...

...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.

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