Life Is.

Do you know that one of the best father-son moments happen in my life during the weekends when my father wants me to clean up the car?

"Hey son, c'mon lets clean up the car, we haven't cleaned it for a long time..."

"...er..."

"Open up the garage and take the car out. I'll be right behind you."

10 mins later:

"I see that you started cleaning up the car...good. You take the left side and I'll take the right. Just let me make this call and I'll be right with you."

30 mins later:

"Oh you cleaned up the car...great. You could've waited up for me. Now put the car back in the garage and lock up."

5 mins later:

"Ok, you're done. Now stop wasting time and go prepare for your tests."

"But dad, my tests ended last week!"

"Well then, prepare for the next one."

"But dad...."

"No buts. Now go."

Perfect sunday.

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There was this really funny application in facebook. It will ask people a series of question and after answering them, it will tell you which important event of your life will be interrupted by Kanye West!

It all started during MTV awards. Taylor Swift got the award for best music video and she went up the stage for her acceptance speech and there he was, Kanye West, jumping out of nowhere. He grabbed the mic from a seemingly stunned Taylor and started talking about how Beyonce's entry for the award was way better than Taylor's and that it was Beyonce who rightfully deserves to be awarded. The incident ended with Kanye being escorted out of the award show.

So according to this crazy facebook app, what event of my life was going to be interrupted by Kanye? My marriage! "Beyonce's marriage with Jay-Z was waaaaaaaaaaay better than yours man!" But I feel sorry for one of my friends who's first time doing "you-know-what" with his girlfriend will be interrupted by Kanye!

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Life is _______________.

Ever tried to fill up that blank? One of the most bizarrely spent time in someone's life, according to me, is thinking about the purpose of life. I use the word bizarre because you can't define whether it is useful or useless to think about the purpose of life. Because, when you figure it out, you wouldn't know if you got it right. Even if you did get it right, you might not be brave enough to change yourself to your purpose. Don't tell me, "I know what the purpose of my life is! I'm a dentist and my purpose is to rid the world the evil of plaque!". Say that out loud and it will sound stupid even to you. You probably ended up becoming a dentist because your cut off wasn't enough to get you a medical seat. You're probably a Hindu because your parents are. You prefer wearing briefs because your mom didn't buy you boxers when you were little. So many things we do, without thinking why we are doing it. And the beauty is, every moment you think about these things, in some strange way, you are also wasting time.

So as I was walking in the rain on my way home from college, I thought to myself, why bother? Its just going to be one life time for me (unless the creationists are right), so why bother? Just take a moment to appreciate life. Ever looked up the sky when it was raining and saw a rain drop falling down? I think its exhilarating. One part of you wants you to close your eyes because it will fall right on your eyes. The other part of you doesn't care of it falls on your eyes, it just wants you to see that spectacle.

So don't try to fill up that blank. It'll come to you. Until then, Life is.

"I love the rain. It helps me think."

-Violent Marv in Sin City Comics

Ciao

So Much For The List...

After starting the holidays with an ambitious list of things to do, I did none of those things in the list...except sleeping. But I didn't have to watch a Vijay movie to sleep, that would have been dreadful. I've been getting hate mail from people who have tried that. They're complaining that they've had epileptic seizures after watching 10 minutes of his movies. Those who did see the whole movie have stopped believing that Newton's law of Gravitation exists. I sincerely apologise for suggesting that method.

The movie that I did see was called The International. It stars Clive Owen as an Interpol officer and Naomi Watts as a New York District attorney. Its about these two people teaming up to bring down a bank that makes money in illegitimate ways. The film may have appealed to those people who had accounts in Lehmann Brothers or some other bank which crashed and burned in economic recession. Its aimed to be an intelligent thriller but I saw only intelligence but no thrill. The film could have been better if not for its dragging pace.

Besides watching the movie I didn't do anything else that was interesting. I had hopes for getting a part time job in a nearby computer centre(for those who didn't know, I am a certified C programmer and an uncertified expert in AutoCAD). It started like this. I wake up in the first day of the vacation, have a cup of tea in the bed, take a bath, remember that I still haven't brushed my teeth, brushed my teeth and went to eat. As I started with the dosas, My mom told me to write a resume. I ask why. She says that I have to take it to a computer centre. I ask the same question again. She says that I had "an interview" in the nearby computer centre. I ask the same question the third time. She reminds me of the last vacation in which I so splendidly and effectively spent doing nothing and she didn't want that to happen again(she may have read the list, but I couldn't know for sure). So I reluctantly accepted to go and wrote a resume that could have been the most horrible thing written on a paper(except if you write the word "horrible" on a paper). I didn't have anything to write on my resume(except my certified and uncertified expertise mentioned above). And on the eggman went to the interview.

To call it an interview will be like calling a Maruti 800 a Ferrari. The stompy lady on the desk told me that I had a good chance of getting to teach during the evenings. You have no idea how elated I would've been. I was bound to have 3000 per month. I was told I would get a phone call to confirm it. I went to home smiling. Mom, I aced the interview ;)

But the call never came and the next day I checked with them someone had already been hired for the position that I applied for and the stompy lady didn't know that. So much for 3000 rupees. Then the International followed. And that's how the eggman's hopes of getting a job crashed and burned(damn I like this expression).

But I recovered from the failure. I said to myself "You have a destiny. Maybe you aren't supposed to get a job. It wasn't an accident that you typed that list. Maybe God(yeah, the infamous, notorious and pretty much non-existent God) handed it to you. Like the Ten Commandments He handed to Moses". Now I had a mission. I will watch Vijay movie. I will cook something... hopefully edible. And I will do all those things I wrote about in my previous post that I don't remember much now. But I will do those things and fulfill my destiny. I will keep you updated on how I go about it.
For now, I'll leave you.

Ciao.