The truth about fences!!

We have been taught to belive that fences are barriers to entry.....but in reality, I think, they are instruments used to pique our curiosity and provoke us to enter.....

If the preview is this beautiful, wouldn't the actual show be breathtaking????

Why did Eve taste the apple?

Why did Pandora open the box?

hmmm.....the forbidden is always more inviting......!!!!

It's all about MONEY, Honey!

Those crisp green 100 Re. bills crackle in my ears and I am ready to sell my soul! Money, the creater, the sustainer and the DESTROYER........As I was walking down the road the other day, I saw a young man very able looking, no handicaps at all.....standing at the side of the road and beg....I did not feel pity...anger instead...His limbs were better and more sinewy than mine....he was perfectly capable of performing simple tasks like delivering paper or milk or even selling peanuts on the roadside .....My blood boiled and I walked over to him and asked him why he begged..."It's all for the money, honey"....he said....I was shocked and explained all that he could do instead of stooping down to the level of begging....He smiled an arrogant smile and said...." I make Rs. 30 a day....enough to buy me three square meals....I have no-one to take care of...no rent to pay...People take pity on me and sometimes give me old clothes.....that fat man who just passed by and dropped 50p into my begging bowl did not so much as glance at my face......neither would he ever want to.....it made him feel good to give me the money...it made him feel generous....I am actually doing everyone a favour by letting them feel good about themselves...he earns by going to an office...I earn by sitting on the road......!"...It took me quiet a while to digest all that the beggar had said....my first few emotions were that of resentment....what impudence...what impertinence...Why did I even bother????...but then I guess what he said was true....very true....In the end ...it all boils down to money.....Relationships don't count....Love does not count.....and neither do emotions as in the case of me and the beggar.....I know I am sounding an old hag while writing all this and I seem to be painting a very grim picture...but i think this is the universal truth that stares us right in the face from the day we are born.....

When the child is a girl, the first and foremost thought of the parents is about the dowry that would have to be paid when the girl gets married........the worry lines on the forehead of a girl's father grow exponentially as the day of the 18th birthday looms large on the horizon.....And the quicker the wedding the better.....so they would at least have the time to pay back the monstrous sum of money borrowed from all possible sources....SEE??? it's a tarazoo...with money on one side and the girl on another......

If it's a boy...hmmm...now that's all together a different ball game.....I know a friend whose parents are spending oodles of money on his education with the hope that they can recover that and more through his bride...the more educated the groom, the more is his Net Asset Value in the Marriage market.....If it is a foren ka dulha....then his mother would be the queen of the ceremony...demanding heaven and earth.....and the bride's father left with just his undies to call his own after the wedding....But they think it's all worth it....there daughter is sent into a 'GOOD' home...what is hidden under this kashmere shawl is the ugly truth that what was demanded was an kashmere shawl instead of a small piece of linen that would have sufficed to tie the knot and take the 'saat phere' ......

What about friends??? One thing I firmly believe is that no matter which frat you belong to and no matter how close you are as frat brothers or sisters....keep money out of friendship because it tends to complicate things.....In fact keep money out of anything and everything...Money has it's own space and we should learn not to encroach that.....so don't try to show your love and affection for anyone in terms of money...'coz you will end up hurting the relationship and the entities in the relationship.....

Money should be respected and we should acknowledge the fact that it is more than just powerful...I know it's not the do all and end all...but I know for sure that it can prompt people to do things that can end EVERYTHING!

Death has no DIGNITY!!!!

Ever wondered why death always picks on life? Don't tell me that its the way its meant to be...I will not buy that....What I am trying to say here is that....Death always goes after life who has no choice but to surrender to death in the end....If death really had some pluck he would pick a bone with someone his own size, someone who can fight back...I thought about this and concluded that DEATH HATH NO DIGNITY!!!

" Death is a coward"...I mentioned this to my friend and he looked at me incredulously and felt my forehead to check if it were hot....

"Have you flipped your lid" he asked...but i persisted....

" Think about it" I said....."I would be a coward, a bully , if I were to fight a 5 year old kid, because, the end result of such a fight would be known...I would win anyways...It won't be a fair fight"......."And Death fights such a fight everyday....."..." a fight where life would eventually lose"....

but my friend would not give up either...." If there were no death, we would not appreciate life"

Now wait..."where did that third entity called 'WE' come into the picture? the fight is between life and death....."

"Ok, Ok, let me rephrase......If there were no death, life would not be apreciated, just as good would not be appreciated if there were no evil"......

"aaaahhhh....my friend...there lies a difference between 'life and death' and 'good and evil'.....good need not bow down to evil always.....good has sufficient chance as evil to emerge victorious..."

My friend throws up his hands in despair...and he says " what's gotten into you today?"...and I have a story to tell him....

"I was sleeping in my room when there some commotion outside, and something brown and fluffy came fluttering into my room.......I saw to my delight that it was a tiny sparrow.....but the poor thing was terrified and flew to hide behind the TV......My mom came in and told me that the mother of the sparrow was teaching it to fly and was waiting outside (Since when did my mom understand sparrow lingo?)....well, I am supposed to be good with animals (and birds)....so i spoke to the little scared thing in a very soothing voice and got it out from behind the TV...its claws were buried into my skin and I figured it was only because it was in unknown territory......as i let it fly out through the balcony...my mom and I sighed with satisfaction to see the little one rejoin its family........and then SWOOOOOSH....and chaos, pandemonium.....A CROW HAD GOTTEN THE BABY SPARROW.......I was rooted to the spot for a few seconds...once I came around...we shouted, we threw stones.....but the crow flew away with the little guy and many crows followed suit...their lunch was arranged for.......I cried my heart out.....partly 'coz of the death of the sparrow and partly 'coz of guilt......I could have let it stay behind the TV......My mom said it was the balancing act of nature.....thats when this whole thought struck me.....Death vs. life...."

and then my friend said......"the reason why the crows went after the baby sparrow was life......"
"Life was trying to fight death....Eating would keep the crows alive.....It's a circle ....and a vicious one at that"

Partly defuzzed...but still kinda pissed off with death......I decided to write about it!!!!!

"How I met your mother"

I chanced upon this sitcom the other day! I don't know about all the other guys who have TVs at home and who also have STBs (thus enjoying the previlage of being able to watch all the 100s of great channels), but for us poor IITians who have no access to TV (Even if we do, it is hardly ever possible to catch the good shows), this sitcom is...mmm...not very known!(WOW! that was a looong sentence(with all the brackets and all...)(ha ha!))

Now that F.R.I.E.N.D.S is off the air there are plenty of sitcoms vying for that top 10year 8:30 pm slot.....'JOEY' seems to be doing well there, and as far as I saw (Season-2), its a good show!!!
Now, coming back to the point... I have been watching 'Coupling' too...For those of you who don't know....it's a Brit Sitcom, has three guys and three girls who meet all the time at a pub and drink loads of beer(Now...where have we heard that before?yeah yeah....its the new Central (be)erk...:)).....but I don't enjoy it too much because it's a little too vulgar for my taste...

So as I was browsing through some stuff on my laptop, I chanced upon a few episodes of 'HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER'....first glance at the name, and I thought it had to be some kind of Porn movie (Ok! I am a pervert).....but then I saw that there was 'Season-1, Episode-01' written under the mpeg file and I understood it was a SIT COM!!! I am big fan of sitcoms and so i watched one episode and then another and then another and in sometime I had watched all fifteen episodes of season-1.....well...I seriously see some potential in this one.....has 5 poeple in it...the pic shows 'em all....some fabulous dialogues and acting...kinda feels like a cocktail of FRIENDS, JOEY and a little bit of originality! It's essentially about a guy who is telling his kids about how he met their mother and every episode is a story.....the best thing is the mother has not showed up yet...and I really don't know when she will...It does not matter...the whole thought of a really nice single guy meeting the love of his life keeps the audience hooked.....episode after episode after episode.....

And of-course the review has to be followed by some of my own emotional ranting....watching the sitcom and laughing, just makes me realise how lucky I am to have some great friends here .....we have fun, we have our own stories and some day when I get married, maybe I will be telling my kids about how I met their father .......I am sure all my friends would feature in these stories too!!!

We will be going our ways soon (in 2 months )...joining various organisations and moving on with life....it saddens me...but at the same time there is a gut feeling that we will look out for each other always...even when we are 50, we would still be joking about Dada's gazillion futile trials to find a BABE and how his SOULMATE found him...;)....joke about Sid being obsessed with money....me being obsessed with how FAT I am and so on.....

Bottom Line: Please do watch 'How I met your mother'...I am sure you will LOVE it!!!

P.S. If you are wondering why the last few posts have been centred around movies and sitcoms... I am mutating into a COUCH POTATO!!!!!

Adios......