Saturday, November 26, 2005

im·promp·tu

Sex without Marriage, is like
Coding without a Deadline


I was at the grocery counter, paying 300 bucks for the duplicate BRUT spray. The machine clinged, and the guy shelled out the change.
As if snow felt into my t-shirt. I felt two satin nipples rub against my back. before i got turn around, a hot venus mount gently skimmed past my buttocks.
eeks! Just realized , did that sound like some p0rn literature ? .. sorry guys.
Anyway, i turned around and saw a black beauty with big earrings, black see thru t-shirt and denim jeans. She was a little drunk and was searching for Vitaene (health drink). She starred at the BRUT bottle in my hand for some time.. i mean .. for quite some time.

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Andrew said it tasted like sweetened beer. I didnt know , cause i have never tasted beer. The drink was called 'Hollandia Malt' , non-alchoholic. With great difficulty, i finished off the 350 ml, the sour taste is still on my tongue. The last time , i tasted anything like this was at Food world, adyar, thanks to dog and zeus.I mean , this one is the wackiest of them all - Red Bull, Power Gold, Pokari Sweat, Vitaene..

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The mercedes started shaking at 190 kilometers per hour... Archie stepped on it once more and we were doing 210 !!! I think thats the fastest i have experienced in a car. A wonderful car.. 96 model merc. we shot the video on canon poweshot a400. will soon upload it to google videos. he sold it here for 3 lakh rupees... i am thinking of getting a license (auto drive).. so that i can rent and drive all those gorgeous cars .. bmws.. mercs.. mini-cooper, bentley . .and even a hummer!

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300 rupees, and i was inside Grand Cine City, Al Ghurair. The movie - March of the Penguins. 'Narration by Morgan Freeman' had made me cross all my money thoughts. Red carpets.. Not a fly inside (oru eacha polum illa!). I wished someone would come in. The movie, although in french (without Morgan Freeman's narration) was a really moving one (Thanks for the English Subtitles). It really questioned me.. the penguins almost brave their lives for bringing their offsprings into the world. The empty theater and the red carpets added to the altogether eerie experience.

Monday, November 21, 2005

What it means...

Brainstorming - When a single idea vacuums through all the empty heads in a room collecting all the garbage along the way. It usually culminates with lots of people assigning action items to lots of other people. You can say that a Cranial Exodus follows...

Action Item - Something that will be brainstormed, dicussed and mailed about. Special care will be taken to ensure that no physical activity ensues which might disrupt status quo...

Sunday, November 13, 2005

Another Unoriginal Post

This post is old repost some of the regular readers of this post, through other sources. I have however thought about it for so long that I feel compelled to post it. I came close to feeling such an emotion on one starry night as I slept under an open sky in Sabarimala, two years ago. But if I tried to put that experience in words, it would be a clever intellectualization at best. Maybe I should have posted it earlier...

Into the 4th week of ramadan fast, bodies weakened by the continous fasting, with no vitality retained to pursue lust, anger or anything else, the mind succumbs to prayer, from azan at dawn to the second prayer the mind doesnt rebel, it just listens to the quran quoted at intervals.
In the desert where there is a awesome peace absolutely incomparable in other parts of the world where its as if the whole world has stopped, the sky is a kaleidoscope , the heavens are never as beautiful as they are in the clear desert skies. Hearing the azan peace sweeps through your soul, and you thank god, overwhelmed by Shukr for giving you the chance to experience this peace, unconquered in ability to fulfil the soul.
Tears flood the eyes. All is forgotten. Only the Shahadah remains. There is no god but God. The feeling is deep and beautiful. The pleasures of the world are seen in a new perspective cheap and fleeting compared to this peace. Thoughts are forgotten. Philosphies are dead. What religion? What prophet? What Holy Book? No intellect. No thoughts. Only Iman(Faith) and Tawhid(difficult to explain means oneness of god). All the clever intellectualizations remain shattered at the feet of the maker Al-Aala the most high from whom we came and to whom we must return.

Let me live in islam, Let me die in islam . What is Islam? from the root slm, to obey, to surrender to gods will in total peace. A Moslem is one who's surrendered.
Peace be to all

-cheers
Sriram 'donalduch' Veeramani

And so (sh)it happens...

From trying to be an arrogant programmer who gives his stupid bosses hell, I am taking a step to transition into the stupid boss himself.
Went to an IMS centre in Adayar. Arrogantly appreared in the Preliminary Test, which is mandatory for all trying to even enroll for the course for CAT'06. Out of a threoretical possible of 150 marks I scored an extraordinay 23.
If I ever become a manager, may all the people under me live in constant awe of how someone so dumb can be so powerful.
Will have to shell out 16.6K next month when I actually join this course...Only hope it does not go down the drain as most things do when I start doing them.

Friday, November 11, 2005

What the Bleep ?!

// The following is an excerpt from what the bleep study guide ... interesting read . Sorry, but i have nothing original to add;-)

Today the Newtonian view of physics is referred to as classical physics; in essence, classical physics is a mathematical formalism of common sense. It makes four basic assumptions about the fabric of reality that correspond more or less to how the world appears to our senses. These assumptions are reality, locality, causality, and continuity.

Reality refers to the assumption that the physical world is objectively real. That is, the world exists independently of whether anyone is observing it, and it takes as selfevident that space and time exist in a fixed, absolute way.

Locality refers to the idea that the only way that objects can be influenced is through direct contact. In other words, unmediated action at a distance is prohibited.

Causality assumes that the arrow of time points only in one direction, thus fixing cause-and-effect sequences to occur only in that order.

Continuity assumes that there are no discontinuous jumps in nature, that space and time are smooth.


Metaphors We Live By

WORLD AS BATTLEFIELD
"Many people see the world as a battlefield, where good and evil are pitted against each other and the forces of light battle the forces of darkness. This ancient tradition goes back to the Zoroastrians and the Manichaeans. . . . There is the sense that you are fighting God's battle and that ultimately you will win. William Irwin Thompson called this kind of certainty and self-righteousness 'the apartheid of good,'" Macy tells us.


WORLD AS CLASSROOM
"A more innocuous version of the battlefield image," Macy offers, "is the image of the world as a classroom, a kind of moral gymnasium where you are put through certain tests which would prove your mettle and teach you certain lessons, so you can graduate to other arenas and rewards. Whether a battlefield or a classroom, the world is a proving ground, with little worth beyond that. What counts is our immortal souls, which are being tested here. . . . For the sake of your soul, you are ready to destroy." These two views are strong among monotheistic religions. But according to Macy, agnostics can also fall prey to this way of thinking when they become militant or self-righteous. Fundamentalism has both religious and secular adherents.


WORLD AS TRAP
"Here the view is not to engage in struggle or vanquish the foe, but to disentangle ourselves and escape from this messy world. We try to extricate ourselves and ascend to a higher, supra-phenomenal plane. This stance is based on a hierarchical view of reality, where mind is seen as higher than matter and spirit is set over and above nature. This view encourages contempt for the material plane," says Macy. The Western worldview was based on this metaphor, with the trap being the illusion that the phenomenal world is real. To know truth one must directly apprehend the eternal, transcendent Platonic ideas or forms. These perfect forms are unchanging, a welcome relief from the overwhelming flux and chaos of the world. Elements of this worldview have entered all major religions of the last 3,000 years,regardless of their metaphysics. Macy tells us, "Many of us on spiritual paths fall for this view. Wanting to affirm a transcendent reality distinct from a society that appears very materialistic, we place it on a supra-phenomenal level removed from confusion and suffering. The tranquility that spiritual practices can provide, we imagine, belongs to a place aloof from our world and to which we can ascend and be safe and serene." For those not engaged in spiritual pursuits, another version of this worldview is the idea that we need to get healed from all our neuroses and hang-ups first and then we can participate in the world. In this view the self and the world are seen as essentially separate, so we believe we can heal one without healing the other.


WORLD AS MACHINE
Also known as modernity, the world is viewed as a collection of inanimate objects that interact in predictable, mechanistic ways based on mathematical laws (developed principally by Isaac Newton and thus known as Newtonian, or classical physics). Introduced in the seventeenth century by Descartes, Newton, Bacon, and others, modernity established a discontinuity between mind and matter, the subjective and objective, and ultimately between science and religion. Over centuries of struggle between a rising tide of empiricists who battled against an entrenched theology, an uneasy truce developed. Science claimed the domain of the physical world, religion claimed the domain of the mental world.

Our core assumptions about the universe are embedded in the metaphors we use. Ecophilosopher Joanna Macy explores five central metaphors through which people in different spiritual traditions see the world: world as battlefield, world as classroom, world as trap, world as lover, and world as self. We have added to this list: world as machine.
Resource: For more information about Joanna Macy's work, see www.joannamacy.net

In a worldview where the physical and the mental have split allegiances, what happens to powerful religious and spiritual impulses, which address the essential role of meaning in Paradigm Shift our lives? Integral theorist Ken Wilber argues that when driven underground the basic human need for transcendence comes out "sideways," through compulsions to accumulate possessions and stroke the ego.


WORLD AS LOVER
Macy tells us that with this view, "The world is beheld as a most intimate and gratifying partner. In Hinduism we find some of the richest expressions of our erotic relationship with the world. Desire plays a creative, world-manifesting role here, and its charge in Hinduism pulses onward into Krishna worship, where devotional songs, or bhajans, draw on the erotic yearnings of body and soul. . . . You feel yourself embraced in the primal erotic play of life. This erotic affirmation of the phenomenal world is not limited to Hinduism. Ancient Goddess religions, now being explored, carry it too, as do strains of Sufism and the Kabbalah, and Christianity has its tradition of bridal mysticism."
Nineteenth-century Romantic poets like Blake, Wordsworth, and Shelley felt this erotic affinity with the world, as did Walt Whitman in his "body electric." The American Transcendentalist Movement, with Emerson and Thoreau, also communed deeply with the natural world to discover that in doing so they became more fully human.

Resource: For information on Paticca Samutpada, see www.akshin.net/philosophy/budphilcausality.htm

WORLD AS SELF
The world as lover is a complement to the world as self. The subject (the lover) and object (the beloved) are no longer separate. The world is an interconnected whole and each individual a node in a living web of life. The Hindu tradition offers the image of Indra's net, in which each node is a jewel that shimmers with the reflection of all the other nodes. In Buddhist thought we find this idea expressed in the concept of "dependent origination," or mutual causality. Today this perception also arises in the realms of science—in general systems theory, complexity science, and quantum physics. We are discovering that Mind is immanent in nature, extending far beyond the spans of our individual conscious purpose.

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www.whatthebleep.com

Monday, November 07, 2005

K750i

Bought Sony Ericsson k750i
Gem of a Phone , Jewel of a Camera.
Have uploaded some pics at fotoniks