Radio

I listen to the radio on the way, and back from office. And I realised how bad some of the RJ's are. The music is good, but when the RJ starts making no sense, its just annoying. 

Last week, an RJ just came on air, and he was commenting on the weather. And he said the weather is "Pleasantish gloomy". What the hell is that? It is either pleasant, or gloomy. How can it be both?

There was another time, where the RJs asked the listeners to name bands who they think are the 'worst band of all times'. Apparently, when you google for 'worst band in the world', it names Creed, and the RJs think they are not really that bad. So, some listener sent a text saying he thinks it is Korn. And the RJ says, "Korn? Who is Korn? I have not even heard of this band!" How is this possible? She is an RJ! How can she not know who Korn is?! At this point, I just switched off the radio and started listening to my own playlist. 

Pigeons and Crows

Yesterday, there was a "meet" in one of my friend's house. They have some name for it, I cannot remember what. It was something about Jesus, and praising the God, worshiping, and some stuff like that. There were 4 christians, and me. I have never felt so conscious about my religion till yesterday. They were playing some godly songs, and talking about their experiences with god!(?). I felt so out of place, that I left in 5 minutes.

I later joined for dinner. And they were still playing songs, and somehow the conversation drifted to pigeons. 2 guys were in a train station, and they were hungry. They saw pigeons, and were glad that they were not close to them, else they would have eaten them! What the hell, I thought. But it was not over.

One guy said he had an air gun, and that he shot a pigeon once and ate it. I was sick when I listened to it! And he was SO proud of it! He shot a goddamn pigeon coz he wanted to eat it! Fuck! Who does that, I thought. But, it's not over yet! Then, another guy said that he too had an air gun. But he didn't shoot pigeons. He just shot a crow. And then he hanged it at the top of his house. So that other crows don't come close! Whatever, man. You people are just weird! And creepy. I just went back home. I don't even know how I managed to swallow what I was eating. It was just sick.

I was so angry yesterday, I could not even sleep. I just can't get over the fact that there are people who see pigeons, and then just decide to kill them coz they want to fucking eat it. I don't even want to see these people anymore. Yuck.

United Kingdom!

Yes! I am here in UK! And I will be here for a month or so. And I am so excited!

my first impressions were totally great. The place is amazing. Just that I am finding it too cold for comfort! Its like 10 degrees here. But, I saw in bbc news that it might go to negative temperatures tomorrow! Oh gosh, that's just crazy!!! And I am totally excited! :D

Yesterday I went to a church (first time in my life). Sat and listened to stuff. Will probably blog about that later, if I feel like.

also, happy Diwali guys!! Too bad, I am not at home eating sweets :(

Yay! I am so excited!

Friends

I do not have a lot of friends. There was a time(when I was a kid) when this actualy bothered me. But not so anymore. 

There is just one person from my school who was my friend then, and still is my friend now. Yeah, we have known each other for more than ten years, and we talk about all kinds of crap. I mean, I just need to pick up the phone and call her, and without even knowing, I would have spoken to her for an hour. It is nice, the fact that there is someone I know who would always listen to me when I need to talk. (It does not really happen a lot - the need to talk, but still)

There are friends from college as well... though we keep in touch with each other, and talk to each other regularly, there is something missing when compared to my friend from school. I do not know why. Perhaps I do not want to associate myself with anything in college. I did not really have a good time in college. I actually like working much, much, much better. I have fun working! Seriously! 

And then there are 2 good friends that I made in office! Both of them are very talkative. (I just realised that all my friends talk a lot! I am a quiet person) . And now, both of them have quit to study further. Both are not in Bangalore, and I sort of miss talking to them, and I miss discussing insane stuff with them. I have actually discussed browser incompatibilites with one of them. haha! Firefox is awesome! (If you are still using IE 6, throw your comp out the window!  )

Hmmm, was there a point I wanted to make at all? 

Speak Out

There are so many instances where we see things that aggravate us. One such thing for me, is when people jump queues. You know, when there is a huge queue ahead of you when you want to get something done... And then, someone just decides to bribe someone and gets right ahead of you. Without any regard to all the people who are standing there. When this happens, I just cannot shut up. I HAVE to speak out and tell such people that it is not fair.

This happened to me when I had to get my voter ID done. So I was standing with my mom in the line (For some very weird reason, there is a separate queue for men and women!) for about 2 hours. There was no electricity, and so they could not print out the cards. We just had to wait for a very long time until the power came back. 

So we are waiting for 2 hours. 2 whole hours. And then some bloody guy and his wife(I guess) just enter the room to get their cards done. Needless to say, I was pissed off! I went right ahead and started yelling at the cop standing near the door, asking him to let the people who are in the queue to go in first before anyone else does. And what does the ****** up cop say? He asks me to stand in the queue and just shut up! Yes, he actually told me to keep quiet! I, at that point of time thought that there would be someone who would speak with me, but no! There was just one lady who decided to come and yell at the cop. Everyone else there did not want to speak out! I do not understand why! And my mom! My mom went crazy! She told me not to yell at the cop! Oh well, whatever. What irritated me was the cop - who didn't have any business being there. Who decided to make him a cop anyway?  

Yesterday something happened that reminded me of this incident. Again I was in a wretched queue, and someone decided to pay off the cop to cut the line. A guy who was behind me was the one who got furious. The people (a mother and her daughter with the help of the father) who cut the line, actually abused him verbally! The cop too (again) asked the guy to 'maintain silence'. What the hell? I wish I had asked the cop how much he got paid. I wish I could see the look in his face when I asked him that. Damn, I missed it. By the way, here again, this guy was the only one who actually confronted the cop. Everyone else just stared. The mother said that the daughter had to go to a birthday party and that it was an emergency and so they had to go soon. So our guy says that he too has a job, and he too has to be there doing his job. He said he was in this place since 8 am(it was about 12 when this happened) and he had to get to work. For this, the mother asked him to go speak to the cop so that he too can stand in front of the queue. What does one say to this? A birthday party? Gimme a break!  

This just irritates me. Is there no way out of this? I mean, what can one person do when no one takes his side? It is said that one person can change the world. I don't see it happening. 

Once I have even heard a parent say his kid was sick and so he had to get in front of the queue. I do not get it. If your kid is sick, stay home! Why venture out anyway? Your kid is sick, damnit!

Another time when I was waiting in a line for movie tickets, a lady came and asked me if I would buy tickets for her. I just looked at her, and she told me that her husband was standing behind with their baby. I asked her, "so what?" Even I want to watch this movie. The people standing behind me also want to watch the movie without getting late. She came in late and expected people to do her a favour coz she had a baby. Nice reason, lady. Ain't gonna work with me. But you know what is unfortunate? When I left, I turned to see where she was, and I saw someone buy her the tickets. Why! I do not understand why!

Prison Break

It is a TV series. I watched the first season when I was in Turkey. Could not watch season 2 and 3 though. Found out that my friend had both the seasons. So I got it and watched it.

 

I wanted to watch it so bad, that when I finally did, I did not like it. season 1 is the best- nothing can beat it. Season 2 was atleast ok. But I dont know why season 3 was made. Seriously. I dont get it. Once the story gets over, you should just finish it. Why prolong it?

 

Now I need to get Lost season 3. Have watched the first 2 seasons and it makes me want to see 3.

 

This is totally intelligent...  

Movies and Books

I watched 2 movies today and finished 2 books yesterday! Yay!

 

The movies were

 

Hancock - which was good (not great). I simply HAVE to watch anything with Will Smith in it. Somehow I had expectations from the movie. I would have liked it much better if I had not heard anything about the movie. If you have not watched it, you should.

 

and Amir - A hindi flick. It was just ok. So many people told me it is amazing, but for me it was just ok. I must say though, it was a different hindi movie. I liked the ending.

 

The books!

 

One night at the call center. I dont know why I read it. After reading this book, I feel even I can write a book and publish it.

 

The redemption of Althalus. The fights were good. The story was good. The book was long. What else do I need?

 

I've got 2 more books to read, maybe I will start it now. I don't know how to spend my time... I dont want to watch another movie.

 

So that's my weekend. Also went and shopped today! Now the whole thought of going to office tomorrow is depressing me.

I just

figured out how to blog by mailing! Yes, yes, I know that this feature was there, like, forever! I never got around to doing it though.

Just did it. And I am so excited! Yay!!!

Any one has any idea if it is possible to add labels through mail?

Hatred

I wish I could blog from office. Unfortunately, blogger is blocked. I mean, there are so many things that cross my mind that I wish I could write. But since I don't have access, I just ignore the things without writing it down.

Like for example, right now, I am in a very hateful mood. I am feeling this hatred towards everybody in my team (all seem to be jack-asses). There is this issue that is going on. No one knows how to fix it. I do though. But, I just don't want to tell them. Only because the fix is a work around. I feel that instead of giving a work around, we should just fix it at the source. But no one is listening to me. I know they will eventually get around to doing it my way. So I will keep quiet while everyone runs around trying to get a fix.

I don't get it though. I know there are some standards that we must follow. I totally agree to it. But if it is going to hamper performance - very drastically at that, we must take the best of what we can do, and do it. Screw the standards. But who listens to me! Apparently there is a right way of doing things, and there is a quick way of doing things. My team will always do the right, I guess. Finally when everything fails in production, they will realize that sometimes performance also matters.
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I wrote this in office. I decided that if I want to write something, I can always write and just mail it to myself. Later, if I feel like it, I would post it.

PS - I know it is not intelligent conversation!

In Bruges (Its in Belgium!)

"Dude, what kind of a fucked up movie is this? In Bruges? What the fuck, man."

"You didn't like the movie? It was nice!"

"What part of the fucking movie did you like? I was waiting, and waiting for it to get better, but it just got fucking worse!!"

"haha, if I had to sit through it, so do you!"

"Ugh. I hated the movie, man. I did not understand anything! I don't know the point of the movie at all!"

"But didn't you like the dialogues? they were fucking awesome"

"All I heard in the movie was the word fuck, fucked, and such. Though I must admit, some parts were actually funny! Like the dialogue ---

'You from the States?'

'Yeah. But don't hold it against me. '

'I'll try not to... Just try not to say anything too loud or crass. '

--- hehehe"

"hahaha, yeah! And the part where Ray tells those fat guys not to go up the tower. The winding stairs and stuff.. hehe, the fat guy is actually tired of chasing him!! "

Whatever. I really didn't understand the movie. I cannot believe there are people who actually liked this movie! I think my friend liked the movie. And somehow didn't want to admit it. Hmm, I wonder why.

Colin Farell was amazing though. I actually felt sorry for him!

After watching the movie though, all I could think was "fuck it, why did I watch the fucking movie!" But in retrospect, it was not such a bad movie. Maybe I should watch it again to really get it.

PS - Bruges is a place in Belgium . A medieval place, historic. Very interesting, I thought.