It's Funny

Life is.
It can be a silent butcher.
It can be a generous whore.
It can be a slutty bitch.
We'll never give up on defining Life in our own words.
We all have our own definitions.
We have our own experiences, good or/and bad.
Sometimes, it makes sense.
Sometimes, it doesn't.
Sometimes, it is all make believe.
We fight.
We let it pass.
We give up.
It is full of surprises.
It is full of setbacks.
It is full of comedies.
For some, god is great.
For some, god is late.
For some, god is fake.
Some say, Everything happens for a reason.
Some say, Everything happens for good.
Some say, Everything just happens, we can't control it.
It keeps you alive.
It kills you.
It plays with you.
It's a cocktail of all the above things.
It's cruel, evil, happy, sad and so much more.
It's but, even after all these things, funny. Amusingly, the joke is on us, most of the time. Sadly, you and me will never get the joke. Nope. Nada! Life is so damn funny. It's funny.

What's amazingly commendable is that, even after everything, we just never give up on our mediocre attempts at life, death and everything else in between.

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That very thin line between

• being smart and being a smart-ass
• being generous and being stupid
• being a success and being a sucker
• being successful and being arrogant
• thinking good and moving your ass to do it
• dislike and hate
• proving a point and being evil
• destiny and luck
• hard-work and the point above
• this | that
• Perk and Munch
• realism and people's perception of it being mega optimism/pessimism
• marks scored and people's perception of your ability
• marrying for security and marrying for marriage
• society's definition of marriage and practical definition of marriage
• love and whatever soul is left of that distorted word
• money and happiness
• Robert DeNiro and Leo DiCaprio
• DiCaprio's acting and the Academy Award jury's preferences
• present day Bollywood Actresses and Barbie Dolls
• Cameron Diaz in 'My sister's keeper' and Surprise 
• this movie 'A Separation' and all the bloody good adjectives you can think of about any goddamn movie, a master class.
• Joe Pesci's killing moves and an Indian middle class woman doing laundry
• my poetry and flop forgotten songs
• Recycle Bin and Twitter
• books and boobs, the spelling only
• Catherine Earnshaw and most Women
• Mario Puzo's description of sex between Sonny Corleone and his sister's bridesmaid and Literary Orgasm
• Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley and Hallelujah by Bon Jovi
• secular India and secluded India
• huge, posh apartments and the small dependent basti outside it
• Football and Religion
• Sachin and God
• Paul Scholes and Rahul Dravid
• Humans and Humanity
• what we see and what we judge
• being right being self-righteous
• being persistent and being super-imposing
• an Ass from the pornos and an Ass from your acquaintance
• the work of guitar in all RHCP songs
• almost all country songs
• being human and being a responsible driver
• falling in love and fallen in love
• hope and survival
• satisfaction and the idea of it
• everything you thought and everything else that happened
• what you deserved and what you accepted/got

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Playing in my head: "Challa' from Jab Tak Hai Jaan

Not-So-Nonsensical Sense of Trivia

Everything matters. Everything seeks reason. The reasons always vary as do the people. But yes, they do matter. This is the essence of Trivia. From this blog that you are reading to the blog that you chose not to read any further, everything matters.
Not that you have to see the importance. No, you don't have to. More so because it may not always be Important. You see, Triviality is relative. What may seem important to you may not deserve the same importance in my life. The fruit that has fallen from a tree may not be of much value for you. For you, it might just be another fruit that has been devoid of it's Mamma branch but for the fruit it might be the worst day. Or take a street urchin, for him that fruit can prove to be a happy dinner meal. Gladly for him, the time and energy he would have wasted on that fruit with his novice wayward shots at it using the stones lying around was saved. Gladly for the stone, he wasn't moved from his preferred state of stability to that roller coaster kind of ride onto some random fruit on a tree. All these were subtle facts for someone like you or me but it wasn't the same for people who were attached to these instances.

This is the relativity of triviality. For a corrupt Policeman, taking a 100rs note from a poor vendor might be pretty trivial but for that poor vendor, it might be a reason for frustration and anger which gives him sleepless nights, which may further result in that vendor killing that policeman out of misery and revenge. In another case, this frustration and anger which renders him incapable of maintaining his financial condition stable may result in that vendor committing suicide along with his family.

For a teacher who keeps on harassing a  student for some particular mischief he committed a long back may seem to be trivial for the teacher but for the student it might lead him to finally leave that school/college. Or even worse, he may end up taking out the petrol from his teacher's bike/car and setting it on fire with the same petrol. This because it is making the life hell for that student. Revenge isn't that sweet on the receiving end.

Finally, take this post. This might be a trivial post of no importance to you and as a matter of fact, it is. But for this blog, this one post after so many days might be everything that it actually needed all along. For the person who wrote this, the post might be the only way to some much pined peace of mind that he was vying for helplessly on some stupid social networking site. 

This is what i wanted to say. Nothing is trivial. Everything means something. Every offense offends, every word shouts, every broken promise hurts, every memory recreates, every fuck counts. Every thing matters. Don't say it unless you mean it and don't take it unless you need it. Moreover, don't make fun of anything. It might mean the world to someone. Trivia is nothing is trivia.

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Playing in my head: 'Bailiya' by the band Faakhir.

alphaville-forever young !!!

no,no,no don't go on the name. i am not gonna post the lyrics of this song. this is something that i expect you all to do after reading this post, besides listening to this mind bending song.
this is not a hard rock head banging song nor a classic eminem rap...its a normal single from the great 1980's but the reason that it deserves a post is that the song makes you realize so many things,so many simple things that you would have never realized before listening to this song.
to begin with, atleast i agree with song that i do wanna be forever young because life becomes so monotonous when you get to your late 30's and it gets even worse from thereon, except if you are vijay mallya!!!
the best part was the one where it tells about the normal human tendency to "hope" for the best but to "expect" the worse...strange but so true. and no wonder, at some point of time, in their life, people do think why don't they stay young, just like i am thinking now and maybe you are too!!! besides all that, even though things are never in our control but still we never say never, we never give up and we keep on trying,isn't it !
oh yeah...who wants to die. so many great songs are still left to be heard,by god, really even though i find a couple of new songs almost everyday, still my playlist seems to be incomplete always because there's still plenty of songs to enjoy, plenty of songs to dance to and plenty of songs to learn from, just like this one here!!!
well, just think once and you will realize that there were so many things that you had planned to do,so many dreams you had, so many people you planned to meet, so may places you wanted to visit and to do all this in this short life suddenly seems to be impossible.
well, there's much more to this song but i will leave that for you to figure out. listen to this song asap and feel what this song wants to say!!! hope you all love it !
PS- while writing this,felt like i was giving a hindi exam from school days where we had to explain a poem line by line.i wish those poems would have been like this song, i would have written a book on them, if not an encyclopedia. :)

New CBSE grade system disappoints me :

This batch of 2009-10, which has been introduced to the latest nostalgic act of the great CBSE have nothing to gain but everything to loose. This system, which was launched with a motive to reduce the pressure on the students and the parents alike, but other than the parents part, it does nothing to reduce the pressure on the students. And well, as far as parents are considered, with all due respect but very frankly, this generation mom-dad, they really suck big time. Every time when a new child is born in a normal middle class family or above, he becomes a subject of great care, such care of which clearly i would never approve for. CARE for these mom-dads has a wide variety of meanings, ranging from educational excellence (of course, it’s inevitable) to excellence in anything and everything that is in their control and reach, which sometimes, even depends on what khanna ji’s or mishra ji’s or choudhary ji’s child is up to.WTF !!! Take a break people. Enrolling a new born angel in karate, swimming, cricket, lawn tennis, singing, dancing and god knows what not is not going to make him a multi-talented superstar but instead that angel will turn in to a spoiled brat. And he will grow up to be a big bully or sad-ass or maybe worse. Well, coming back to the topic, take a look at the scoring guidelines, much like the system that works so well in colleges...

91-100 – A1
81 -90 – A2
71 -80 – B1
61-70 – B2
51 -60 – C1
41 -50 – C2
33-40 – D
21-32 – E1
00-20 – E2

So for the students, this system is bringing smiles on the faces of students all throughout the country. What people don’t realize is that it’s nothing but a short lived fantasy that has a life span less than that of a butterfly. This system makes the whole motive of conducting the board exams a waste. Actually, now the students won’t have anything to study for. Its all happy happy for the mediocre students who will manage to get a cgpa above 8 easily.but this system will suck when it comes to the students who are going to miss the magic number 9 by 2-3 marks or even less. This will make admissions in high schools even more difficult because then there will be no major crossbar for the selections. Yeah, i agree that suicides will be less now but then i wonder if anyone’s ever going to understand the meaning of the word failure now. And people who even think of committing suicide, maybe in the name of marks (grades, welcome to 2010) or love and other dumb reasons, please for the sake of your mom-dad, grow up. Come to me and i will give you a million other reasons to die for,that will at least make the world a better place to live rather than wasting your life for a dumb mate or some lame grades.
Gone are the days now, when 10th marks used to form a integral part of your CV or other important job applications. These certificates will serve as nothing more but mere identification proofs now. That’s the way to go CBSE...go gO GO !!!