6th Sense

This morning, I read in the news about a Mini Bus overturning and 3 getting killed. The report also mentioned how these locally made vehicles flout norms.

While getting back from office in a share auto, I was wondering whether these autos were also locally made and therefore flouted norms.

The auto caught fire as it was nearing the place I was to get off it. I quickly looked behind to see it any vehicle was coming from behind and jumped off it. Funnily and strangely, another guy in the auto had a problem with me jumping off and tried to stop me. I pushed his arm and jumped off. The fire got extinguished somehow but heck, it was scary.

We talk about sixth sense. Animals having it and all that jazz. Humans have it too. I call it Gut Feeling.

iThink

Right, we had a very highly anticipated launch of the tablet by a man who will never be Jobless. There were speculations about everything. Its name, what it ll have, its price and what not! Since it was a tablet and going by the name of the previous products, it had to the iPill. Oh wait, the name was already taken by a, err…, you know that don’t you? So what do we get. a name which is better! The new name sounds more like err…, you know that don’t you?

Anyway, a lot of fanatics are lauding the technological marvel. Which is equivalent to lauding a 50in TV when the thing, in reality is only a bigger version of a 14in TV with the same specs. Of course, when you make it a little bigger, there has to be a couple of new features thrown in, just to attract the consumers. The above 3-4 lines tell my own opinion. It doesn’t reflect the opinions of this blog.

Ok, here are a few lame #iName I came up with. It may have been invented by someone else as well. But, since I am not in the habit of reading other blogs, I am not aware of any. Ok, ignore the latter part. Like I ve mentioned a lot of times, iRead a lot good blogs these days. Google Reader is epic in that sense. And even if you think I copied, I ll surely claim that I have not read it anywhere, but definitely somewhere, but I do not know where. (those who read the good blogs and know about the credit crunch going on would definitely know about what I was referring to in that last sentence)

iDigress.

Here go the lame #iNames

• New washing machine – iWash
• Ugly looking aircraft – iSoar
• A fabulous piece of metal for removing wrinkles – iRon
• A device to deceive people – iCon

And yeah, it has been decided to rename Mackarel as iLa. And since I am putting on alot of weight, I ve decided to go on a diet and rename this blog to Level Headed’s iDiet.

iSurprised that people believe faking news for actual news. The other day, iPosted something (That can be name for our postal service!) on Facebook about “Rakhi Sawant going on a Hunger Strike to protest against her non inclusion in the new Phir Mile Sur.. video”. That is a real fail video iMO. Lotsa reviews on the same ve come up. So, iWont write one.

Anyway, before the guy becomes Jobless, iDisappear!

Road Rash

Most of you would ve played or seen someone play the game called Road Rash. Or maybe NFS. The objective of the game is racing. The street/road is the circuit. In case you ve played it, you surely would ve hit people crossing the road, kicked other bikers off track had your car/bike flipped over etc. You hit the “recover” key and start playing again, or in the worst case, restart the game.

With life, you do not have such choices. If you crash your vehicle like you did in those games, there is no way that you are getting up. Even in the closed circuits like that of an F1 track, we ve seen how dangerous it is. Felipe Massa’s accident last season being a case in point.

How many of us actually care to follow the rules and drive safely? Even if suicide is ethical, do you have a right to take other’s lives? Does anyone realize that by breaking the rules, over speeding, using the mobile phone while driving etc you are putting not only your life, but others’ lives as well in danger? A little bit of caution from everyone can prevent a lot of “accidents”(they are actually not accidents because its all our own fault).

Note : Manu, a very close friend of mine and his extended family met with a fatal crash a couple of days back. A speeding bus crashed into their car. A little bit of caution from the Bus Driver could’ve avoided this mishap.

R.I.P brother. We all will miss you forever. :’(

Randomness

There is this thing called a ‘tag’ which we can attach to all these posts. If you ve ever cared to look at the tags I attach to posts (Aah, you don’t even read my posts properly and here I am talking about tags, such high hopes I have!), ‘random’ happens to be on a lot of them. Thats because most of the stuff in those posts are random happenings. Random events that caught my attention.

There have been a million times when you and I have said “Nothing much. Same old stuff. Same routine” kind of answer when some asks how life is. Its never that “same old” all the time is it? Do you meet the same people at the exact same time everyday? Do you do the same work everyday? As in, do you repeat something you did the previous day? No. Then how is it same old?

The other day, while hanging out on Twitter(yeah, its an awesome place to hangout), we were discussing our playlists for the day. Mine was a very random mixture of a lot of genres from classical to black metal. I like my playlist to have a lot of random stuff. Even on days when I plan to listen to only one band, I end up listening to a lot of stuff. Through all this randomness, though, runs a common thread. Music.

Have you ever gone through this? You get a random thought, which leads to something else which has no connection to the initial thought and it goes on and on in a very random pattern? Have you wondered while listening to any kind of music where a lot of instruments playing their own random notes all fall into place and give the tune and sound to that particular song?

I ve been getting to do a lot of random stuff at work. And of course random roles too. I was a developer till about 20 days back. Now I am a trainer. Even so, these things have somethings in common. They are challenging, enjoyable, gives me a lot to learn.

Oh, a random thought. Why do Tam Brahm Maamis ask you if you want to have “Horlicks” or “Complan” when you decline Tea or Coffee?

Twitter is full of random people posting random stuff. When you make meaning out of it, thats is a lot of information.

Like I read somewhere, “Order from Chaos”. In case you are wondering how this philosophical kind of post all of a sudden, I ve been reading this book called The Fountainhead, which is awesomeness in the form of a book. Of course, if you pick a random guy from a group and ask him, he has heard about The Fountainhead. Reading that has made me a little philosophical. Dont worry, I ll get over it.

I love those recursive abbreviations.

GNU – GNU’s Not Unix

BING – Bing Is Not Google

Here is one I framed the other day when someone tweeted asking what LOL stood for.

LOL – Lots of LOL

So long!

Currently Tripping on Porcupine Tree – Hatesong. This is not a random song. The bassline is epic. Go listen to it NOW!

The Right Noise

Going through the Newspaper this morning, I chanced up on an article in which the police say that DJs are the main noise polluters. Of course they do create public nuisance by playing loud music at nights.

Before coming down strongly on them, shouldn’t our law enforcers think about other Noise makers too?

• Like the political gatherings for which huge PA systems are set up.
• Crackers with high decibel levels being burst to celebrate events. Diwali, weddings, political victories et cetera
• And the grand daddy of them all, Honking

So dear Uncles/Aunties, Brothers/Sisters Before you put the blame on others for ruining your sleep by playing loud music at night, stop using that Horn uselessly while on a busy road. You are contributing to noise as well. And this noise also adds to your restlessness. And if you really must use horns, use one which doesnt produce a shrill noise

KTHANXBAI