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!

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!

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..

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.

Into The Wild

From the past 20 minutes or so I’ve been left wondering. Pondering about what happened to the life of Christopher McCandless. After watching this movie I was taken away, lost track completely of the surrounding and i headed towards my room. I switched on the fan to full speed and sat on the bed, still thinking. I was pretty much confused, I was left dazed by the fact that I was not able to interpret what’s on my mind. It’s really a very hard thing when you know what’s on your mind but you are not sure if its what you really think it is. Lying on my back I kind of felt like crying, I didn’t cry though. I removed my specs and kept it aside on the bed. I started thinking, slowly, the entire movie came like a flash. Why? ‘Why did it happen like this’, was what I was wondering about. I finally was able to understand but it was all still obscure. I rolled on the bed. Lots of thoughts came gushing into my mind. I couldn’t relate them at the start but slowly I could sort them out. All these happened so quickly. I must agree that i started feeling great! Yeah whenever things like these happen to me and whenever I pass this kind of phase I kind of spend time thinking and in the end I feel glad and happy. But in this case i’m not sure i’d feel happy about the tragic story of the protagonist. I just wanted to make an account of how i spent the last 20 minutes or so in a haze, so i’m writing this piece here. I’m still thinking though, about the movie. It’s there at the corner of my mind somewhere and it’ll be there for quite sometime.

Now that i feel somewhat better I decided to write this- write whatever comes to my mind. I feel I just get involved too much whenever I watch a movie or read a book that interests me. About Into The Wild, I had this movie with me from a long time but hadn’t got a chance to watch it. It had been quite sometime since I had watched a movie. From what I’d gathered from a friend and my cousin, I was sure this was a movie which I’d love to watch. I did enjoy it. This is really the kind of movie I’d love to watch.

To think of a person going alone into the wild leaving everything and everyone behind is great. I love this sort of things and if I do get a chance I’ll spend sometime all alone in a forest or a mountain with no contact with outside world, with no modern gadgets and spend some time there with the nature listening to the music mother nature plays! I used to think of this as a teenager and even as a boy i had this ‘wild’ dreams. Will my dreams be fulfilled is a completely different question, the fact that the protagonist of the movie goes into wilderness all alone made me more interested. People he encountered on his journey, the kind of relationship he developed with them and the fact that he could resist not getting attached to them is incredible. Well, i’m not going to write a review about the movie, it’s best watched without knowing much about it. I admit that I’d have loved to read the book by John Krakauer before watching the movie. I’ll try to lay my hands on it sometime in the future.

This is not the first time, I remember I’d spent the entire evening in the similar state after watching ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ and ‘Touching the void’. There are some unforgettable moments, the moments I spend with myself thinking and wondering about facts, thoughts and so many other things. The movies, I guess, gave me a channel or a path so that i could reach there, inside my mind, and to realize and rethink about so many things. Its like going into the wild. alone with no one but myself! I always felt better. I feel better.

A series of unrelated questions put forth by someone who is sick of seeing sick people everywhere and confused and who has no intention of seeking answers for his questions.

Is it true that people are always money minded?
Is it true that whatever they do they seek money and the intention behind helping others is to acquire more money?
Is it true that people try to seize your situation to extract something from you that is of great use for them? Money probably in this case too?
Is it all because of money?
Why is the mind of a human so inclined towards money?
Why is it that he would do anything for the damn money?
Why does he have to take advantages out of a helpless man, to make more money?
Why does he see money every where and in every situation?
Is it money that fuels a man’s life?
Is it money that makes him think?
Do you live on Money?
Why is he so jealous?
Why is he so selfish?
Why everything he does is commanded by money?
Do you think you gain everything from money?
Do you think you can portray yourself as someone else, that you can never be?
Can he feel my anger towards him?
Can he see how I hate him?
Does he know I’ll keep on hating him till he lives?
Does he know I’ll find ways to hate him more?
Does he know his end is near?
That he will crumble soon?
Can he realize that he will find no way out of his own labyrinth?
Does he know he is digging his own grave?

SEE: ‘A man questions another man’.. He can spot errors on the part of his fellow mates. He can complain. He can also praise a fellow human being. He tries to create pleasure from others virtue. He also asks questions! Questions related to the species of his own kind. Most interesting part is He directs his questions to none other than his own kind. He seeks answer from his own type! Funny part is the other man also has a similar questions and he starts wondering what he can answer and thinks who to ask his questions too!

Think Not:  1) That you’re, though belonging to the type, not of this type.

2) I’m of this type!

At Last:  Don’t See? Neither I’d at some other time ( or I may), but now I do and you don’t!

Iron Maiden-Somewhere Back In Time

Iron Maiden’s Somewhere Back In Time Concert is just 5 days away and I just can’t wait for that moment! It’s been exciting from the past 2 weeks. Of course the fact that I’ll be witnessing my all time favorite band for the 3rd time in 2 years is something very big for Me! My last two experiences at Maiden concerts ( In Bangalore-2007 and in Mumbai-2008 ) were just unbelievable and I can’t find words to describe the pleasure. Of course I had to make so many sacrifices and had to bear a lot of things but the concerts were worth every bit and I don’t regret! Each and every time I think of those two concerts I’m gushed with pleasures and happiness that comes from i don’t know where! It’s like in my dreams i saw them live and I’m going to dream that dream again in a few days time!

Come this Sunday, 15th Feb-2009, Iron Maiden will be playing at Palace Grounds. It’s their final leg of the on going Somewhere Back In Time World tour and they are going to be a part of this year’s Rock In India, Bangalore’s very own Rock festival!

The fact that I’ve the tickets in my hand now adds more to my excitement. yeah, my friend giyo777 and I bought the tickets yesterday from the Planet-M outlet in Brigade Road. Now all I intend to do in the coming days is to be lost in my imagination and create my own world where I can forget all the worrying things and do things in the way I always wanted to do. Just like in the old days…

What’s Maiden and the gigs got to do with me? -> Me,Maiden and the gigs!
Also @ Zyg1

Millionaire Slum Dog

From the past week or two I’ve been coming across this one particular movie everywhere. The newspapers, TV channels… What is so special about this movie? The movie I’m talking about is the much hyped “The Slum Dog Millionaire”. I thought what’s so special about this movie that everybody is talking about it? Well, this movie even bagged Golden Globe Awards. Oh! After the awards there were more people talking about it. There are speculations that this movie is gonna make it big in the oscars! Talks about this movie making it to the oscars and winning awards have become common these days. So I wondered, What is so special about this movie anyway?

I did get a chance to watch this movie finally. So much is being said about this movie but to my surprise this movie was not yet released in India! ( It was released this week, I guess). But, I got this movie all right from my friend Vinay. I watched this movie, and after wards I thought “What is so special about this movie?” I mean to say that this movie is good, but I didn’t find it as good as it’s being hyped about. Did I miss something? I guess not. So I again thought “What is so special about this movie?”! The slums of mumbai? Yes this movie is all about a boy from Mumbai slums who wins 10 Million Rupees in a quiz show and about his brother and his girl friend.

I must say I got pissed watching some sequences. Like in one part there’re two American tourists who wishes to see the “Real India” and the kid( protagonist) will be their guide. He takes them to a slum. They take a walk through the slum and  they return back only to see their car being robbed off tyres and other things. The driver starts hitting the boy and the boy with outrage shouts “You wanted to see the real India, See this is the Real India!” And then the American guy gives the boy a bunch of green notes saying “This is Real America”(something like this, don’t rem the exact sentence). Come on, “The Real India” they say! There are couple more sceans which are completely ridiculous. So, What is so special about this movie? Why there are so much talks about it?  Probably ‘coz people from other parts would like to see India the way it has been shown in this movie. Probably because the movie makers of our country hadn’t had any movie to boast off, to get Golden globes and oscars.

Random Conversation- Nothing

Here’s a text Conversation I[Me] had with a friend of mine[F].  [most of what you read here is imaginary and abstract and It's Nothing. If you find this is abstract, unclear,rubbish then just rem this is nothing and pretend you didn't read nothing at all!]

He texts Me and it goes like this..

F: Hey wassup? you there?
Me: Hey! nothing much man, sup with you??

F: Me at my friend’s place enjoying with friends
Me: Oh cool, Enjoy-Have a nice time
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F: So, What else? What you doing?
Me: well nothing as such. I’m doing nothing.

F: How can you be doing nothing man?
Me: Well, If I’m not doing nothing then I’d be doing nothing rite?

F: yeah, but.. I guess you’re trying to hide something. You can’t be doing nothing, you should be doing something! Are you trying to be a smart ass or something?
Me: Hey  C’mon man. I said I’m upto nothing and that means I’m doing nothing. How can I be doing something when I am doing nothing? Can’t a man do nothing at all? Is he supposed to be doing something all the time? Give me a break..
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F: Lets take that you’re doing nothing. At least you should be thinking of something? You confuse me, you pretending to be cool?
Me:[I wonder, why the hell is he trying to make me think something when I'm supposed to be sitting here doing nothing? That too he's 'enjoying with his friends'!] Well, You’re right! I’m thinking of nothing !

F: Curse me if i’m wrong. A Human Being can’t spend his life without thinking!
Me: Hey I never said I am not thinking! All I said is I’m thinking about Nothing! Got it?

F: Damn you! You are irritating Me!
Me: Excuse me. Why would you get irritated If I do/think nothing?

F:Why do you always  have to ask questions ?
Me: ‘coz you amuse me when you ask “hey how can you not be doing nothing?” and crap quesions like that. I wonder why such questions even arise in your mind when you’re supposed to be partying with friends!
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F: Sorry I had been out to get my buddy’s present. So you still doing nothing?
Me: Oh! Yep I’m doing nothing!

F: you are sick. Can’t you get over it?! get a life!
Me: But I already got a better life!

F: huh? you think its funny? So you say you’ve got a life. Any person who has a life does something or think something, That’s a Human tendency!
Me:Ok. Lets say a Human Being has to d something and he does it by performing actions required to do that job. In my case I’m doing nothing by actually doing nothing at all.

F: #$%#$#$^ 45^$^#%@
Me: Be polite my friend, I have nothing against you. There is no reason for you to be so mad.

F: OMG! you got nothing on Me? What’s all the previous msg’s supposed to mean ?
Me: They are supposed to mean nothing actually. Well, Since it didn’t mean nothing to you, It means nothing at all.

[no more replies frm F]
[I wonder: Oh, now he really doesn't know what nothing is. well he isn't messaging. Too bad he stopped before I could make him realize. I suppose he's also doing nothing now. I wish he understands that.. oh what am I doing? what am I thinking? Wasting my time thinking about him, I guess. I better go and start doing Nothing. Damn F.]

A few mins later when i’m doing nothing: Another fren msgs..
F2: what are you doing man? No msg nothing?
Me: Hey F2! I’m doing nothing ……

07:46

Oct 19, 2008

It’s 7:46 AM and I’m sitting here in front of the comp nothing to bother me, hot coffee waiting to be consumed. If not here at this moment I’d have been in the bus stand or walking towards the bus stand ( Usually I have to catch bus at around this time to reach college at 9). Either ways one thing would have been certain..I’d be listening to Coming Back To Life, the place doesn’t matter. Really, the place doesn’t matter at all but the mood does matters, so are the thoughts that come to my mind does. More or less I’ll always be in this frame of mind. Thinking about something that is of not much importance, planing to do something which might not be feasible to do at all. The thoughts never go beyond myself and my interests except that these days i’m thinking too much about the project work to be done. I just think, you know, nothing else i do, everything else falls into the place by themselves. So in this case too i’m hoping everything will sort out by itself. What I really want to say is i do not think too much about the thinks that needs to be considered (untill it completely comes to my neck!) rather i only spend time thinking of those things which either elates my mind or think of a way to overcome the obstacle to make myself happy.

Whatever, Coming back to life and High Hopes are the songs that I’d like to listen at any point of time. Such wonderful songs they are. These songs take me away into a completely different world, a place where only my thoughts matter and nothing else. Thats when I realize I love myself so much. Thats when I realize I’ve no regrets for my deeds. Thats when I realize I can do whatever I want and take whatever path my mind wish to and reach wherever my thoughts ask me to go!

Nov 15, 2008

What compelled me to post this now? Well, I was listening to Pink Floyd while bathing today. It just took me away completely and made me forget everything for a little while. Never i have had a shower listening to Floyd before. It was an awesome experience, maybe you should try it too! This piece of writing which I had written long back came to my mind and i decided to post!

Did some editing for what I had written long back. I am sure I have depicted my state of mind on that day perfectly. It feels so nice to think about that feeling. I’ll listen to the song now!

Note: I’ve posted this on my personal blog as well.

Nov 28,2008:

This post had to be done again today. Reason? vryte had some major changes! It’s an all new look and feel now!

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