How to use an elevator

Is the lift going up or down ? Common question, huh ?
One of my friends who got pissed off with the increase in such questions whenever he was in a lift started answering this question.
Whenever anyone asked if the lift was going up or down, he answered, “neither ways mate, tis going to London”
I wonder at times, what is it about elevators and the keys that control it, that people cant understand ?
Highly educated people. Software Professionals, Project managers and all those “big” people who get paid till their throats choke, also falter on this.
Hell, money can buy you expensive perfumes and cars not brains !
Typically there are two keys that you can press. Those keys mean : If you want to go down, press the key which points downwards and if you want to go up than the level you are on, then press the key which sort of looks like it is pointing up.
Thats about it. How hard can this be.

Ideal Futuristic City’s Architecture

This is my idea of what an ideal city would be, in a few years.
What you have to basically understand, is, what a city is made up of.
this is an abstract list of the things and behaviours a typical city would have.
1) Houses (residential places)
2) Offices (Workplaces)
3) Recreation (Parks, Gymnasiums, Zoo,Restaurents, pubs and Theaters)
4) Shopping malls
5) Health (hospitals and healing centers)
6) Religion ( religious places)
7) Outer city limits ( boundary of the city)
8 ) Education (educational institutes)

now picture this.

You are looking at clusters. 7 of them. The 8th one is really a virtual boundary of the city that I will be making.
When I say clusters, you can imagine huge(I mean really huge) circular(or may be square) buildings.
All of these clusters will be built so they are earthquake,lightning (and all other possible calamaties) proof and probably be painted with a paint which already comes with a fire repellant.We are talking about gigantic structures so it is implied they will have express lifts too.
Every structure will have its own emergency units trained for multiple emergencies and ofcourse exceptionally networked with each other.
Each of these clusters would be connected with a Multi Modal transport system which would run at altering speeds depending on its usage. For example the frequency of the trains would be more at rush hours and relatively lesser at other time periods. There would be one dedicated train available all the time at all the clusters for emergencies.
Without snatching the innocent joy of playing in the gardens and getting drenched in rain and going out for a walk with the elders in the house… all the clusters would be surrounded with beautiful parks with huge trees everywhere. All the parks would be outside and surrounding the clusters to have the natural feel. There will be one petrol pump too. I dont want to rob the joy that humans get when they drive their automobiles. I would always love to take my de-modified bullet out for a drive once a week. All the clusters will be connected alternately with roads and walk paths. The usage of roads for automobiles will be very limited, where you will be allowed to take your automobile out on the roads once a week. Exceptions will be made for the driving schools.

Now, you can imagine the life of people living in my city. Everything moving in order and at peace with every other thing in the city.
Everyday morning you wake up, you are in the residential cluster. You take a lift to the station and there you have a train waiting to transport you to work. Your children will follow the same suit.Your parents can take a train to the parks and have a walk around there. So many things are sorted. You can imagine till your mind drops. You dont see a person dying because he didnt get medical attention, because he was stuck in a traffic jam. No Consumption of petrol. The Cellular companies save by installing lesser but more technically advanced equipment. You live better.

Although just an idea, I think one day, all the cities of the world will be modelled this way. There is no other way out. You GOTTO have better infrastructure and you have a right to live life the best possible way, its after all, one life.

Baby in a pram – rant

I really feel for the young babies being wheeled around in prams.
Picture this, a deserted evening. The sun just about setting so its making the blue skies dipped in orange color and somewhere an aged gardener sprinkling water on plants and trees along the road, giving rise to that irresistable smell that comes when earth is watered. I am sitting on a bench watching them. A young couple walking on a road where vehicles ply, albeit, rarely, with their baby in a pram who is so small that its hands fully spread wouldnt even cover 1/8th of your palm. True torque style, a motorcycle zaps by the pram throwing its exhaust fumes …and the baby doesnt even have enough air in its lungs to cough ! Blinking eyes rapidly, It just keeps moving its hands across her face, as if trying to clear away the smoke.

Now this is a rant against young couples who have just become parents and think moving their babes around their apartments and localities in a pram, is very “in”. If you have pictured the above scenario properly, you can imagine anything happening to that young child. An autorickshaw passing by and a careless smoker throws a cigarette ? A dog near by comes all of a sudden and puts his head in the pram ? Just a few of the hazards you can think of. There can be so many more imaginations. I can only imagine how hard this can be for the baby. Poor child.

Ever thought how a baby will stop crying just when it is given back to its mother. They say a baby stops crying as soon as it is given back to its mother is because it can synchronise with the harmony of its mothers heart beats. Its been listening to it for 9 months ! It has a profound effect on babys, what they hear when they are still in the womb.In a recent experiment pregnant ladies were repeatedly made to listen a specific rhyme. After the baby was born and a couple of months old, when the same rhyme was played, the baby responded to the same music. You gotta keep that child closer to your heart man. I can only see the future of our country going down the drain with broken families and depressed youngsters.

Its a gift to be a parent. Scriptural studies suggest that if you are to receive the highest blessings from the cosmos, it will be channeled through your parents. Thats the law. A wo/man who unfortunately get cursed by parents have no salvation, they say. You have to feel and realise this power in you…And THIS is the treatment you give to your child. I am sure hes gonna grow up and kick your butt when your old. Or atleast kick the wheel chair you might be in.
Can you imagine the plight of a couple who cant concieve? I have seen them so closely, you cannot imagine the mental agaony you go through ALL the time.

If you think you cant carry the weight of a baby, you dont deserve being a mother.Thankfully, its not too prevelant that a mother doesnt hire a financially unfortunate mother to provide mothers-milk to the baby. Again, if you think about it, this will be the future.

I still remember the days when my mother used to hold me in her arms and go about doing her daily chores.In the nights my dad used to sing lullabies, lying me on his chest. wow..those were the days. I still cherish those memories. Alas the new generation kids wont even have memories to remember !

Take clue from the women who work in the field. They tie their child to their backs and do their job. They will not even put the child under the shade of a tree and go about doing their job. Get a baby holder. Keep your child closer to your heart, cos thats where they belong, atleast momentarily.

I Proud to be an Indian

I proud to be an Indian
I will not open my mouth come WHAT may. I will simply open my pants, and allow myself to be screwed.

I will not make way for an ambulance to overtake me, I basically do not even know why these fellows blow the sirens… tis so damn irritating !!

I will never help a woman or an elderly person. or be courteous towards them .. what is chivalary by the way ?
I am the king of the road, every other fellow is just another bastard on the road.

I will spend thousands of Rupees, buying a cell phone, but will never do charity.

I will not care about the pain( physical, monetary, psychological) that my family goes through, but will blow money on the requirements of my girlfriend, (..ofcourse.. cmmon.. who doesnt wanna have sex)

If I see a person crossing the lane, I will make sure that my vehicle almost brushes past him ( ..sadistic pleasures are an important part of life)

I will not speak up if the government hikes the prices of every single essential commodity.. (inflation is  apart of every economy …. cant help)

I will always have one destination in mind… destination..-> America!!
(what has my country given me)

I am ashamed to speak my mother tongue in front of a few fake-American accented BPO employees ( cant look like a villager u know)
I am ashamed to order in a restaurent Indian dishes. ( what if i cant go places, i can eat their cuisines )

I do not have the time to stand up and back protests being demonstrated by my fellow citizens.. ( busy, project deadlines ..u know)

It is my birthright to lick a firangs ass, all i need is some money thrown on my face ( .. its all about the money,honey)

It is my birthright, to help a firang give directions, when he is in India, but will not do it for an Indian ( ..bloody blacks)

I will be least bothered if the Queen decides to once again make Indiaa British colony, I am happy when i am ruled ( u get to see so many white babes!!.. and they did a good job last time they came, btw!)

I will slog my ass at my workplace for double the time than what I am expected to . ( what if the other fello gets the promotion )
 
I will look down upon anyone who advises me to breakfree and achieve mental/economic independance from my current lifestyle/job/midset to lead a better life. (..what foolish lunatics)

I will try to forget the teachings and the entire entities of whatever great heroes my country produced…( what crazy esoterics)

I will not faithfully pay the taxes, and yet blame the government for filthy roads ( .. the government officials are leeches, btw)
…. list continues

Thinking….

I sincerely think that thinking cannot be changed.
The way how my left or right side of the brain works, is probably irrelevant to me or to any body and my daily existense.
They say activity in left side of the brain determines how good you are with numbers, well, then, my left side of the brain might just about be dead !!
You are born with the way your brain patternizes thinking.
No one can be made a Schopenhauer, pluto or Socrates.
They were born that way.
No rocket science though. Its something all of us are born with.
You cannot proclaim to be a better thinker after you have attended a few seminars on creative thinking and things like that. Programs which assure you will be a changed “thinker” /person(?) after attending their seminar.
Blaspehmy, I say !!
All they will give you is a lot of jargon and a lot of jazzy terms about reasoning and innovation and out of box shit, subjective objective thinking yeda yeda yeda  ( Does any one even know what all this means ).
Probably just a subset of a part of the esoteric society who want to proove and change something that should probably be left to nature and situations to do

I believe You can either be a positive thinker, a negative thinker or probably a “no thinker” at all… who just loves to watch the day go by and is there, present in the moment and enjoying it without having any thoughts at all… without any prejudice, enjoying everysingle thing his eye can see.. the clouds, the sun, the bees, the flies, the plants…being one with the universe for those particular moments… without even realising you have actually been a buddha for a short time!!!
The influencable thinkers are either positive or negative and THOSE cannot be changed completely as well . you can just about influence the negative thinkers to be positive. I have been a complete negative fuck. I have been an opinionated fart for a major part of my life.
Nothing but real life situations that a man encounters or is forcefully put in, can change the way a man thinks.
The only thing I believe can start having an influence on the way a man thinks is most probably by reading religious scriptures. I have been through a lot of shit, just as all of us have. I have observed how my mind responds and reacts to normal situations when I have been in those puddles of mud. I occassionaly try and read The Bhagwad Gita ( holy book of the hindus ), and every time I have, it has brought a new meaning  to my life. A new dimension to the way I think. I am out of the grind atleast for those few days. And as they say, once you are out of something, you get into somehting else!!There is no such thing as being at peace with the world. You can only be at peace with yourself. The mind can be the best friend of a man. It will not cheat you like the rest of the world, and will do things at your command. you are either its master or you are its slave.

Its not easy to change the way you think, because to change the way you think is to change the way you live and I believe that is something that deserves a lot of effort and thinking.