No matter how blessed, man can always find something to grumble about.
Sad but true.
Sad but true.
Friday, June 29, 2012
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Satirically, Gossip Girl
Gossip Girl, unlike other TV shows, does teach a lot of things; YES, it can teach......Few being -
1) You can throw a lavish party even within 3 hours notice, along with a theme, and expect scores to turn up complying exactly by the theme.
2) FASHION is RELIGION.
3) Life is boring if Gossip Girl doesn't send out a post for more than 3 hours.
4) It's easier to trust an unknown lady with great spying skills than your own childhood best friend.
5) A few thousand dollars here and there don't really matter.
6) It is possible to go from lonely to The One, if you are on Gossip Girl's radar.
7) Yes, you can sleep peacefully every night, even though the entire city knows your pranks.
8) It is possible to wake up like a Diva, with hair and make up done, every single day.
9) "I am 18, I feature in Gossip Girl, no I don't need to study. High School is my highest qualification." - any GG cast.
10) "My mom is my enemy." - most GG girl stars.
11) A series based on teenagers now no longer means more of classroom shots, quite the contrary, it shows them everywhere else like staircase, clubs, fancy restaurants & huge mansions, barely in classes.
12) You can do sin and hide from God, but not from the eyes of Gossip Girl.
Though the above is obvious satire, there is some thing I really learnt -
SAY YES ALWAYS! Be it for a party that Dan hates, or a vacation that Serena does not have on the cards, an illegal affair that Nate is afraid to reveal, living on a yacht & biking for the not so adventurous Chuck Bass or marrying a guy, Blair is not in love with.....Whatever it is, their best and most unexpected moments of life come when they agree to get out of their comfort zone and say yes at every opportunity, whether to their liking or not.
XoXo.....
Hail Aamir!
Highlights of Satyameva Jayate - Organic Food and Farming
1) Pesticides are not medicine or growth formula that doubles the quantity of the crop, it is POISON.
2) Fruits and Vegetables that are fresh are not necessarily nutritionally high. They need to be free of chemicals to be able to retain their nutritional value.
3) Research on a segment of lactating mothers showed that the chemicals that she has consumed over the years are transferred to the child in the form of breast milk and the chemical endosulfan is almost 400%-800% higher than usual in it.
4) Endosulfan Horror - An area in Kerala was sprayed with the this chemical from helicopter the result of which is deformities in children, miscarriages (10 times higher than usual), death at birth and other chronic ailments. Over 5000 people in the region and a large number of cattle and animals have been affected.
5) Farmers do not eat what they grow for commercial purpose. Almost every farmer is aware of the ill-effects of chemicals and pesticides and does not grow the crop with the same means for their family.
6) Unknowingly, we take in almost 400 times higher the amount of chemicals that can be considered normal.
7) Folic Acid that leads to the development of brain in fetus, cannot function because of the chemicals. Hence, babies in Rajasthan have been born with unthinkable deformities and without a brain itself.
8) Chemicals ARE CARCINOGENIC.
9) Green Revolution brought about more harm than bad. Not adapting Green Revolution would have probably led to slightly lesser growth but people would have been much more healthier now.
10) The root problem is not the pests. The micro-nutrients found in the soil are naturally blessed to fight the few pests. Spraying of pesticides not only kills the micro-nutrients but also makes the crop potentially dangerous to consume. Micro-nutrients in soil are far lesser harmful than the chemicals.
11) If the issue is to kill the pests, that can be easily done by various other simpler methods, like sticky paper, cloth trap etc. These are safe, effective and yet cost nothing more than Rs. 15 each.
12) Pesticides and other chemicals involve huge costs to farmers and in turn lead to suicides due to loan traps.
13) If subsidies are given for chemical farming, that will grow, but if the same subsidies are given for organic farming, not only will more farmers adapt it, the cost of produce will also reduce.
14) The more the consumers opt for organic, that much more higher will the produce be. The farmers will be forced to meet the demands.
15) Its a myth that Organic methods lead to lesser growth of crops.
16) Washing, soaking and peeling a vegetable are very basic and temporary solutions. Unfortunately, the chemicals have been deep-rooted and are present in the entire vegetable. Only going ORGANIC is the permanent solution.
17) Interaction with local producers in Farmers Market will not only encourage the peasants to opt for organic methods, but will also give them a thorough understanding of what is liked and and needed by the consumers.
18) Sikkim has evolved itself as THE ORGANIC STATE, other regions should emulate the same system.
19) Consumers job - opt for Organic
20) Hail Aamir Khan and Satyameva Jayate!
1) Pesticides are not medicine or growth formula that doubles the quantity of the crop, it is POISON.
2) Fruits and Vegetables that are fresh are not necessarily nutritionally high. They need to be free of chemicals to be able to retain their nutritional value.
3) Research on a segment of lactating mothers showed that the chemicals that she has consumed over the years are transferred to the child in the form of breast milk and the chemical endosulfan is almost 400%-800% higher than usual in it.
4) Endosulfan Horror - An area in Kerala was sprayed with the this chemical from helicopter the result of which is deformities in children, miscarriages (10 times higher than usual), death at birth and other chronic ailments. Over 5000 people in the region and a large number of cattle and animals have been affected.
5) Farmers do not eat what they grow for commercial purpose. Almost every farmer is aware of the ill-effects of chemicals and pesticides and does not grow the crop with the same means for their family.
6) Unknowingly, we take in almost 400 times higher the amount of chemicals that can be considered normal.
7) Folic Acid that leads to the development of brain in fetus, cannot function because of the chemicals. Hence, babies in Rajasthan have been born with unthinkable deformities and without a brain itself.
8) Chemicals ARE CARCINOGENIC.
9) Green Revolution brought about more harm than bad. Not adapting Green Revolution would have probably led to slightly lesser growth but people would have been much more healthier now.
10) The root problem is not the pests. The micro-nutrients found in the soil are naturally blessed to fight the few pests. Spraying of pesticides not only kills the micro-nutrients but also makes the crop potentially dangerous to consume. Micro-nutrients in soil are far lesser harmful than the chemicals.
11) If the issue is to kill the pests, that can be easily done by various other simpler methods, like sticky paper, cloth trap etc. These are safe, effective and yet cost nothing more than Rs. 15 each.
12) Pesticides and other chemicals involve huge costs to farmers and in turn lead to suicides due to loan traps.
13) If subsidies are given for chemical farming, that will grow, but if the same subsidies are given for organic farming, not only will more farmers adapt it, the cost of produce will also reduce.
14) The more the consumers opt for organic, that much more higher will the produce be. The farmers will be forced to meet the demands.
15) Its a myth that Organic methods lead to lesser growth of crops.
16) Washing, soaking and peeling a vegetable are very basic and temporary solutions. Unfortunately, the chemicals have been deep-rooted and are present in the entire vegetable. Only going ORGANIC is the permanent solution.
17) Interaction with local producers in Farmers Market will not only encourage the peasants to opt for organic methods, but will also give them a thorough understanding of what is liked and and needed by the consumers.
18) Sikkim has evolved itself as THE ORGANIC STATE, other regions should emulate the same system.
19) Consumers job - opt for Organic
20) Hail Aamir Khan and Satyameva Jayate!
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Random
I discover from my experiences so far, that the best word to describe life is RANDOM!
And on the lighter side, the image below -
And on the lighter side, the image below -
And Life Happens
Just go out, do your best and be simple & straight. Speak what you think and do what you feel. You need not play games and be political at all times. Do your honest work, sleep with a clear conscience and know that you will be justly rewarded. Trust that what you deserve is what you will get and understand that we will never be made to go through an experience without learning anything from it. Believe in yourself because if you don't, then who will.
-Inspired by the eternal source Himself.....
-Inspired by the eternal source Himself.....
Monday, June 18, 2012
Cake Quotes
1) Happiness is not the absence of Cake, but rather the judgement, that something else is more important than cake.
2) You must create the Cake you wish to see in the shelves. (The base to all weird flavours we see)
3) Have a problem, Cake it. (Unfortunately, at some point even Google doesn't have all the answers.)
4) Cake - Eat like you don't get fat and love it like you have never tasted a bad one.
5) Better to eat (Cake) for yourself and have no friends, than to have friends and no cake.
6) I am patient with bad Cake, not the baker.
7) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for him to eat cake. (All humour of life returns.)
8) The trouble with the Cake race is that....... Oooppss sorry there can never be any trouble with Cake or those who eat it.
9) The cure for all problems is Cake, there is no cure for Cake-eating.
2) You must create the Cake you wish to see in the shelves. (The base to all weird flavours we see)
3) Have a problem, Cake it. (Unfortunately, at some point even Google doesn't have all the answers.)
4) Cake - Eat like you don't get fat and love it like you have never tasted a bad one.
5) Better to eat (Cake) for yourself and have no friends, than to have friends and no cake.
6) I am patient with bad Cake, not the baker.
7) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for him to eat cake. (All humour of life returns.)
8) The trouble with the Cake race is that....... Oooppss sorry there can never be any trouble with Cake or those who eat it.
9) The cure for all problems is Cake, there is no cure for Cake-eating.
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Living in Varanasi
So yesterday, was the first day-off work, since about two months. And, I am pretty pretty pretty sure, it was one of the best days of this year. There were many memorable instances of this year but yesterday was one I would remember for a long long while.
After eons I sat down with a book and refills of hot chocolate from about 3pm to midnight. While the entire city was out celebrating the 40th birthday of our nation, I celebrated in my own fashion, and without a single regret of wasting my only holiday in half-an year by spending at home. The thing that kept me going on, inspite of a bad cold and sore eyes was Chetan Bhagat. Oh, I must admit, being an avid reader, nothing....no-one transports me to another world as much as he can.
Revolution 2020, or R2020, is the story of three friends, a love triangle and in the midst of this passionate tale of young love, grows a revolution. The intertwining of two radical ideas to make a plot and the completely unexpected end made it almost impossible for me to do anything else even if I did decide to take a break from the book. The pining which the protagonist (can't be termed so till almost the last chapter) has for the leading lady of the novel, will give anyone a different angle on the idea of love, and maybe some false expectations too.
And the lines which I do not wish to forget for a long time, and have already read about 20 odd times.... "Once upon a time, I was Keshav - sweet, innocent and unaware of the world. Maybe the Keshav hasn't died, I told myself. Maybe that innocent, good part of us never dies - we just trample upon it for a while."
I woke up this morning feeling absolutely different, so different I really am finding it difficult to even express it here. With two hours of an environmental awareness meeting and designing/marketing throughout the day, I somehow still did everything at a superficial level, my mind was completely in Varanasi, infact Varanasi and an engineering college seemed more real to me than my actual life. I have come to understand that I not only read his books, I live them, literally...live them!
Though I completely understand that this post has little or no focus, but after a few midnight messaging sessions, which carried on throughout the day, in a frantic hunt of at least one person who had read the book, to discuss its events and ideas, and utterly failing, I realized I had to vent out in one way or another.....hence the blog. After all, I couldn't spend another day with no productive outcome and was compelled to write this so I can spend tomorrow where I wake up and not in Varanasi.
*Sigh*
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