vryte-After 1 y!ear

Its been one year since we started  and it has been a silent journey all these days. Exactly a year back, on 14th Oct 2008, our first post was made on this blog, though the blog was actually created on 04-oct-2008.  Its been a great experience to be writing along with friends, sharing thoughts and stuff like that.

Must admit it would have been even more wonderful if some our  friends who didn’t participate much in the blog could actually have done it. They were actually very excited to be part of the blog in the beginning but eventually couldn’t, somehow for some reason, participate  on the blog. Well, that’s ok. Its been satisfactory with the job we have done and must remind you that we have had fun all along.

With 39 Posts  and more than 3,000 hits in the last one year, vryte is now going on slow patch.
I said its been a silent journey in the beginning of this post. So silent that we didn’t even realize that its been one year now! Well, sometimes we get busy, also everyone’s getting busy these days but I’m sure we’ll get back to our blogging space and get vryte running back at its usual pace.

I hope it will be even more fun in the next one year, I’m looking forward to it. Looking forward to have some interesting topics to discuss, to get to know, to have fun! Hope others  share the same sentiments too . Anyways, its Happy Birthday to Vryte!

The name’s Khan? too bad.

Security : Your name sir?

SRK : I’m Khan, Shahrukh Khan

Security(to other security guard): Khan? did I hear that? Is that so…? Khan…?
SRK(meanwhile): I’m a VIP. I’m a movie star. I’d come here for shooting last weekend.

Security : Your a VIP? Then you need a VIP welcome, sir. Step aside please.

(that may not be the actual conversation, but when put together all the bits and pieces of information this is what it more seems like in TOI).

I wasn’t expecting such a scary looking headlines on such a beautiful day. It was just a security check and it was SRK who was frisked. I heard about this news soon after SRK was frisked in one of the news channels and it seemed really sad cuz I wasn’t aware what actually went wrong. In fact nothing went wrong. I was feeling really sorry for an Indian being humiliated like that on an Indian I-day celebrations in Chicago. But the very next day when I looked at the newspaper this news was so hyped. In fact scary, really scary looking headlines with all the pictures and bold headlines stuffed together, it more seems like a terrorist attack and SRK’s picture right in the spot made me think, did SRK carry weapons?

What seems more funny is the rest of the story. All the celebrities commenting about the whole incident.

If they (US) want I can frisk Angelina Jolie when she is here- SRK

That seems hilarious with the word “I” there.

I am shocked and upset. I am feeling terrible- Karan Johar

This manner of detaining(over religion) is unjustified. There should be a tit for tat response- Ambika Soni

This is not a kiddo fight madam, “I’ll tell mommy that you hit me!!” security checks are much serious in US since 9/11 attacks and there haven’t been a single terror strike since first and last 9/11. This is what it takes a country to make their citizens more secure. The security guards are doing their job and they are not taking chances to even let go a popular figure without being frisked. This incident is an act of making a country terror-free though it might seems dumb by US officials. It took Al-Qaeda terrorists to be trained as commercial pilots in the US. But the other part of the story was to use the planes as missiles and strike out the two tallest towers? Using their own(US) planes, hijackers also being trained in the US as commercial pilots and plan a major terror attack in the history? And last but not the least, one of them also being a US citizen! What can be more horrifying than this? With this SRK incident the first line of defense by mr.security guard was why not actor be trained to act today as a real suicide bomber? That is it. It was an act of defense against terrorism. There is nothing to feel terrible about or being humiliated racially. Salman Khan too have experienced such situations and so have Amir Khan, Saif-ali-Khan and all other Khans. Nobody can help it. US has its own rules and if one has to visit, then abide by its rules. Instead not throw such kiddo comments and make fun of us Indians as under-developed brains, or brain dead kids. If our country can make its own rules, let it be. And all visitors should abide by it, instead not make a cold war against individuals and make such “tit for tat” comments fly over the globe and make fun of yourselves. Spare the other Indians, please.

It is traumatic to not be allowed to even make a call- SRK

There’s the whole point of the story. Bombs are much made with such instruments only, pocket radios, mobile phones, and one taking out a mobile phone in front of a security guard is as good as taking out a naked bomb.

What prevails in our Indian minds from yesterday is “All Khans are not terrorists”.

What prevails in the minds of US citizens from today and forever is “All Khans are Muslims and all terrorists of 9/11 were Muslims”.

Point and angle vision in human beings

Have you come across the fact that men are better drivers? True. But the fact women are cautious drivers is also true. There is a scientific reason behind this. Men have point vision and women have angled vision.

• Women can see 45deg right, left, up and down. But the straight vision is almost nil. If they can see so many things at a time they have too many things to process and the so straight vision is less concentrated. Men have good straight vision and the side views is almost nil. This is the fact scientifically proved. But when I came across these facts I was astonished that I could recall so many instances that were exactly the same to the performed experiments.

I was once on a ride in a busy road and I was fast approaching a small but congested junction and it had no traffic signal. The scene is I’m traveling on a main road and a service road passes across the main road exactly at right angles. This is the junction. There was a scooter approaching this junction, two ladies on that scooter. And as I came near to the junction I heard a loud shout and hit the breaks hard but too late, although the accident wasn’t serious. The main road in which I was traveling was pretty clear and so was the service road. The angle of vision was too big for me to judge. And that woman riding the scooter could see me to her left, but I didn’t.

Also in the refrigerator women can spot things very fast, while men cant. I’ve seen my mother take out vegetables, rice, milk(and what not), take out in quick succession while I take ages to spot the box of eggs or even give up the search! Again 45deg angled vision come into play.

• Women can perform multiple activities at the same time. Men can perform one activity at a time.

I’ve seen women cooking, feeding a baby, and talking over a phone and may be commanding the servant too. I’ve observed my father, while having dinner and watching tv, he’s either eating or watching, one at a time!

• Women can recognize various color composition in an object, men rarely can.

One of the conversation that I remember between me and mother. I asked, “mother, what was the color of our old house? I forgot” She said, “Sea green” Me confused, “Sea green! right. Whats that?” She took an old photograph of our old house and showed it to me. I said “you said its sea green. But I don’t see anything green in it. I can rather say its blue”. She laughed and said, “take a look again”. Me scratching my head, “hmmm yeah, somewhat green”.

• Who’s better in crossing busy streets? Think.

Its men. Men can judge speed, direction of vehicles intuitively and while women, can see too many things, things that don’t matter for crossing roads. Again too many things to judge and they back off.

• Now who’s better in driving?

Again speed, direction, focus, objects come into play. Men are more focused. While in a highway men’s angle vision including both ongoing and incoming traffic are well within critical limits and the superpower “intuition” takes care of the rest. And as I said women are good in angular vision seldom see things that are right in front of them and intuitively weak. Although less careful than women, men are better drivers.

Gloom

Have you ever wondered what makes you sad? Is it always a person who makes you feel low? Is it the situation around you that makes you sad? Or is it your nature to feel low about everything, that you often find yourself in such situations? Have you tried to overcome this kinda situation and try to forget what makes you unhappy? Do you feel happy if you remain low sometimes? Have you ever come to a situation where you feel uncomfortable and all you want to do is go away from everyone and sit alone all by yourself and ponder over? Does it make you happy or does it make you feel strange? Is it normal?

Of course it’s not! Being alone all be oneself is one thing but trying to hide from someone/something is a different story altogether. I have been in  situations where I start feeling strange and suddenly I feel low. The state of mind is hard to comprehend. Though there are people around me, though I’ll be doing something interesting, this strange feeling start creeping onto me slowly and in the end I’ll be left wondering! First i thought if I’m in an unfavourable situation I’d be feeling like this. No, the situation/environment is of no matter, I just fall into that state. Am I complaining? Hell no. I’m not unhappy about it, Am I? I just start thinking, lots of thoughts come into my head. But i’ll soon recover and make sure I miss nothing and I’ll be all alert about the surrounding.

So coming back to the set of questions I’ve asked in the beginning of this post. I do feel low and have felt bad about many things. Mostly it’ll be ‘coz of the people and def its not my nature to feel low just like that! I do wonder what’s the root of sadness. How does it even arise and I really don’t understand it and the people who are low, their complex minds and the way they react at such times!

Change

I remember a newspaper saying “…..humans race is likely to be split into two in the next thousand years, one part into an intelligent living creature and the other into man-eating goblins “

I remember another newspaper saying “…..male chromosomes are dangerously going down in count”

What do you understand by this? And why is this happening?
Is this a natural transformation?
Is this a blunder made by ourselves?
Is this a misinformation that has made a scientist find a vaccination for swine flu and inject the same sample to every human being?
Could this be an infection carried by an astronaut who had been to a different world on an occasion to explore the universe?

B’coz there is already a change!
People are dying of heart attack at a very young age
Some get asthma before they can learn to walk
What would this kind of strange happening be?

People eat human flesh in reality shows(that’s next to come)
There is a habitat imbalance, and I see leopards crossing the streets
There is food crisis
There is a reduction in aquatic population
Number of tigers existing can now be counted in minutes

A recent change I read yesterday:
A friend can be the best sex buddy!!!
B’coz there is no risk involved of any kind
B’coz you don’t need to apologize for your mistakes
Marriages were a trend once upon a time!
What kind of hilarious change is this?
( who did even talk about this? What have you stuffed in your head? )

This is turning out to be a contest
Who’s gonna be the ‘goblins’
I’ve classified various classes of human beings, the best way I can
The last guy left is me
Or someone like me
Or someone who is wondering about this change
Can I possibly become a goblin?
May be I can already sense some change in me

Its been a long time..

Its been a very long time. where have you  been? I hope you are  doing great and nothing has struck you down!

Its been nice in the past few weeks, it was raining, evenings were awesome. Nowadays its not raining much but nothing to worry, for we know the monsoon is yet to arrive at full speed!

Too many trees are being pulled down here in Bengalooru, such a sorry fact. But we have to get on with it. Metro is the need of the hour. I wish people find better alternatives and cut fewer trees. And yeah they should plant more to compensate this deadly act of us- humans!

I wonder if cricket is losing its fan base. The ICC T20 world cup is over and gone and it makes no difference to me and my friends. After the successful season of IPL, which we all followed with immense interest, world cup was scheduled. “Are we getting to see too much of cricket these days?”- One has to ponder on and come to a conclusion on his own.

My final semester exam got over last week and only thing that’s left now is the project presentation. We’ll all be done, more or else, within this week! There is a plan being put up about going out somewhere, both my college friends and the guys here. i hope I can make it. Also the plans for the School re-union 3rd is being tossed up from time to time. hehe so much on the plate huh? Not really, there is not much. When I start clearing the vision and try to re-jumble everything, I’ll get to see (know) the big picture ahead and I will know there is too much to be served to my plate. I’m ready for it, bring it on!

So where are you? I’m trying to summarize so many things in one post, you seem to be missing. I’m wondering about everything ( err,. most,..some of the things) that’s been happening, like how an old man with a newspaper sitting in a park would do! Does an old man talk to himself too? I guess not..

Swine flu

I hope most of them are aware of the deadly swine flu caused by the virus H1N1. Pigs are the largest carrier of this disease. Its been spreading very wide through out the world and many infected and few of them dead too! Its horrifying to hear it while being safe in non-infected countries. It takes my breath away to imagine myself being infected when I have no clue what this freaking disease is. As I’m aware from the latest news there are 900 people already being infected but no one bothered to count how many pigs are being infected, instead people are counting how many pigs actually exist?

I was watching the news today morning and it was so really sad to see the flash news saying, “more than 900 people infected by swine flu, 30 dead and more than 300,000 pigs slaughtered”. Before I go on further, just stop reading at this point and make a contrast on what the situation is.

Its a fact that we are suffering but we have a medication for that. But what about these poor animals? They are suffering too! and without medication! Its never that pigs want us to share the disease with them. Or is it? Those human beings who are infected are quarantined and given proper care and treatment but why are the pigs slaughtered? For the kindest of information those 300,000 are not the one’s being infected, they are only the pig count slaughtered and people are searching for more pigs to slaughter. Tomorrow I’ll probably be reading 300 millions of pigs slaughtered and I wont be surprised then. Why don’t animals have the right to live? Let the infected people be slaughtered too. Thats a fair deal and I wont be posing this question. If human beings can be quarantined and there are research operations for the finding of a vaccination formula, there should be a way out for the safe being of these animals too. Why aren’t the animals quarantined? Or should I make an excuse again by saying “we are indeed human beings!”

Shocking: Become a Terrorist, get paid by Indian Government

I was browsing through the communities in Orkut. In one of the communities I found a thread discussing about this video. It was very surprising as this was a new news for me! I follow almost all major English News channels and to my knowledge this bit of news was not shown at all !  These channels will be first in showing some particular events (you’d know what I mean if you watch these channels regularly) and criticize till the very end. But in some cases, as in this one, they happen to ignore completely. This piece of news never made a buzz. Is this a matter of least importance? Watch the video and let me know if it is so.. Are they keen on publishing news from a particular side or view point by criticizing the other side to the cheapest level? Or they show only convinient issues? Why this bias? Anyway, just view this video. If it isn’t a new news to you, then you’ll be as shocked as i am now. Where are we heading to? Lets discuss about this after you view the video.

Guitar & Music

I usually have my tea in the terrace floor. I just love the evening phase at 5-7pm. No matter how I would have passed my day I’l be very relaxed and happy during this hour. So  I just leave behind my belongings in my room(viz cell phone and watch) and just enjoy the breeze whilst having tea. Its a very nice time to spend that way. So as usual today too I took a cup of tea and went to the terrace floor and had a good time, the surroundings around me was just normal as it always seems. Orange and sunset!

Soon after my tea I just felt like getting my guitar to the terrace and play whatever music I knew to play by then. So I just ran to my room as it was getting a little dark and got my guitar. I just leaned to the wall in the terrace floor and  thought of all the songs I knew. Then I chose this new song I’d learnt called “killing me softly”.  I’d learnt this song by my virtual master,Siggi. He’s the best guitar teacher I know. He uses “finger style” which is not so easy to learn.

I started playing this song but I found it nearly impossible to sing along with the groove I played  so I just played the solo tune, I neither had heard of this song before. I though played it in broken pieces and enjoyed every bit of it. I had such a great time playing solo guitar in open air.Well if you don’t have a guitar yet I think you should go grab one. Its awesome fun to play your favourite tune on proper musical instruments istead of grumbling and scare off your neighbors Just kidding.

I cherish Music. And Music can cheer me up all the time and I don’t remember me living my day without listening to music. But me myself playing music got to be really special time for me.

Ok here’s the video of Siggi teaching “killing me softly”

Well I’d made a very good choice of playing this!

Off post: Many music lovers nowadays think of buying a guitar and play some of their loved tunes. But really run out of patience soon. Frankly it happened to me as well. I just bought a guitar and started going to classes and it got really boring as I was only doing finger stretching exercises and very limited to playing songs. I just stopped going to classes and was trying to play my own tunes at home and all of them sounded awkward. After a few days I got to know about the online lessons available in YouTube. Justin Sandercoe has given some really nice lessons for beginners and in a matter of few days you can get to play some chords and few songs too. Then I also knew about Siggi who teaches songs directly for beginners and teaches just awesome! So I follow a routine practice of finger stretching skills everyday and some theory for 30 mins and I try to play some songs taught by Siggi. This routine keeps my interest going and I get to understand music day by day. I’ve been through lots of ups and downs learning guitar but once I cross it, its all worth it. Need not be a rock artist or something but being a bedroom rocker with some basic skills is far enough to enjoy the groove by yourself. Its been 2 and half months since I started playing guitar and I’m near to completion of beginners lessons. Just give a visit to www.justinguitar.com or just search for beginners lessons by Siggi on YouTube. Its really fun playing guitar. I hope that day comes where me and my friends can Jam music together.

Thinking of you

Small as we are,
Small mistakes we do.

Old as we become,
More we realize.

Small mistakes we did,
But greatly we suffer.