So, Where was I?

A long break, I must say. My dash board says “last published on Jun 23, 2011”. Nearly 5 months since my last post. Does it mean, I didn’t had thoughts or feelings to express? Or was just too lazy enough to open a “Document.docx” and start typing or was in the process of findings higgs boson particle that kept me speeding away in the circular tunnel and go dizzy all this while. Well, I guess I didn’t had the “thing” during this gap to write a piece of something. Hmmm, so why not gibber about this “gap” to get back on track.

So what I did/gained/learned in this “gap”

1. Gained few pounds , by not going to the gym regularly and finally not even passing by that place.

2. Books:

Started reading many books and have finished only one as of now. And they are

Tao of Physics – An awesome book on the comparison between Modern scientific approach to physics and the ancient philosophies of India, China & Japan. At times this book made me feel, to just drop all the bonds and obligations in my life and follow the Tao (which is unknown). Reading the book, it gave some sort of peace or illusion worth seeking for. After all Sanyaasa is not that easy, someday I shall try out the Saffron.

AdKatha – This book was released in AD ASIA 2011 conference. A nice collection of the history in Indian Advertising ranging from the British era to 21^st century. Who doesn’t love a big colourful hard bound glossy book.

The Secrets of Naga – the second part in Shiva’s Trilogy by Amish. Was amused and disappointed, with the abrupt revelation of Naga Lord who turned out be Lord Ganesh. Until the trunk wasn’t described, the description of Naga in first part was not even closely related to Ganesh. But the author has brought out the concept of duality (good & bad) very well.

And there are many other smalls small books with only few pages conquered.

3. Finally made a trip on my bike with buddies to Pichavaram, the world’s largest mangrove forest. Used satellite images to plan when to leave accordingly to escape rains and luckily/scientifically it worked as travelled through without stopping in rains (w2g INSATs). Clicked awesome pics, went to the Great Thillai Natarajar Temple (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chidambaram_Temple) and was amazed and inspired by the Architecture of those times. Even though I haven’t move a single stone, yet was proud be to a Civil Engineer from the land where great Temples have been constructed. One has to carefully observe these temples, as they offer lot of insights into the Culture of the past in Tamil Nadu. Made a point to study about the culture of the ancient past through the architecture and planning of the great temples in Tamil Nadu.

4. Got the touch of the present, by user experiencing iOS (through iPad 2) and Android. Getting amazed and amused by the infinite variety of apps in both the OS platforms. Apps likes flipboard, Pulse, Ted has kept me away from blogging I guess. Really happy and fascinating to be in the times where the World is making break throughs in digital technology.

Well that’s it. There were other thoughts, but so poor of them as they died off like the innumerable no. of sperms that don’t live to meet the ovary.

THE LIFE RAILWAY CORPORATION

People say life is a journey. I would prefer to say life is a train journey. Because I nauseate in buses and air travels are so short and I don’t like them. So I say God operates this great railway network and has allocated his children various divisions. So the kids line up and the take their zones.

The girl kid says “papa, I will take the plains and coastal zone, will make people’s life happy and beautiful” and she treats them like her Barbie dolls.
Whereas the mischievous son says “Pop, gimme the mountainous terrain, I will take people through a ride of their life time” and he takes these trains through (wooo, choock, choock ) through corners, rocks and gutters and thus some people have this struggling difficult hard life.

As the population grew God wasn’t able to manage his family run business by only employing his family. So he hires these angles, demons and other non-earthlings (Martians may be) and goes public as the Life Corporation. As year on year this corporation has developed into a mature company (may be) with its input to output ratio steadily increasing but a slower rate than the past years or whatever the appropriate unit of time with which we should measure the life of this organization.
The network has various zones divided like well off, filthy rich, damn poor, just making ends meet and so on. Each zones has numerous stations where people board (are born), switch trains (life takes lot of turns), and get down finally (die). So who decides when to board, whats the route/zone to travel and where to jump off? There is various level of decision making in the network, from the God making strategic decision of altering the network, bringing in new zones, adding more trains like

“hmmm… zones are less, lets divide them more, more my son Miserious take the new zone BPL, you my girl Optiona take this minority zone CEOs”.

And the God’s children maintaining their zones, improving their features and maintaining stations; the angels and demons maintaining their respective stations and operating the trains.

You could imagine two demons chatting

The darky bombshell TsuNaomi says “oh boy, last week was tough, had to jump with my train into sea from the bridge”,
“man, you atleast had fun in the water, last week I was all over with debris and mud”, replied Quaky.

There are also other demons like Hearty the attacky, Cancerious, the big Eights who deal with passengers person to person. So they deal with passenger like below

“Am sorry passenger you have crossed two stations past your destination point, Mr. Hearty the attacky will now throw you off the train now”

The Big Eights says, “Oops, I did a mistake. I made a passenger disembark two stations before his destination”
“don’t worry mate, I will make some other passenger in my list get down two stations after”, said Cancerious.

Each passenger gets many freebies and goodies in a random manner that comes allocated with their ticket which this network calls FATE. So someone might have a Jaguar written in their fate, whereas someone might get a rusty Cadillac tagged with their fate. The ticket also has various statuses like ‘Son’, ‘daughter’, ‘father’, ‘wife’, ‘mistress’, ‘poor husband’, ‘grandpa’, ‘pretty old sick grandpa’ assigned to it and keeps constantly changing.

Customer satisfaction about this network is a widely distributed ranging from “bloody hell good”, “I love my life” to “f**king bad”, “life s**ks”. But this network still maintains a monopoly which no one has ever thought about and people are forced to use this network somehow or the other.

There is a special travel pass of this network called ETERNITY which is only given to the employees of this network and has left many passengers stranded in search of it.