Love is not blind, its retarded !

They say Love is blind. You dont look before you leap. They say its a wonderful feeling to be in love. Makes you feel on seventh heaven. You can do anything to stay in love or win it. They say love makes you a better person. Love shows you the world you never thought existed. But there is a downside to it too.

People in love tend to act more foolishly than they would normally. Egos tend to be hurt more often than it would otherwise. Still we walk on the path like a donkey with a carrot held close to its mouth. The donkey feels the carrot is in its grasp in the same way how we feel about true love. We sacrifice so many things, our individualities, friends & hobbies. They say love completes you but it does not. It only gives you an illusion of completion. To sum it up we lose a part of our life that would have been dear to us at a point of time before love kicked in. People make themselves more vulnerable than they would any other time. I have seen people struggle for love, fight for love, destroy themselves and die in the name of love. And the journey seems endless ....

So the million dollar question is "Is love blind?" ... I say "No its retarded".

So is falling in love foolishness? Would I recommend not falling in love? No way ! I would recommend on the contrary. Love is a beautiful feeling though strangely our reasoning power goes for a toss. But no pain, no gain !! But dont go into Love kingdom expecting a fairytale.

Management Rules

1. Credit for a job well done travels upwards. The blame for a botched up job travels downwards.
2. Your bosses's KRA will be your achievements. Your KRA will be the failures.
3. Your exceptional reports that travel all the way upto top management undergoes major changes at only one section. The "Report by ________ " section.
4. Your Boss buys time by asking for data that he knows you'll struggle to get. Additional benefit: That way he gets to blame you for a bad decision.
5. No matter when you start on a assignment, regardless of simplicity or ease, you'll always finish at the last minute.

(Will keep updating from time to time)

Divide, Multiply and Rule

Of all mammals I believe humans are the most social and insecure species. The level of insecurity though not explicitly stated can be maddening at times and yet be completely unnoticed. Any given place, any given setting we are looking at ways to deal with our insecurities. On the outside we would like to be seen as strong and independent but the truth of the matter is that we all live in a world full of internal demons.

We are always trying to form groups wherever we go. And we dont stop at that. We look for ways to increase the people in the group and strangely succeed. Then one fine day you wake up and realize that the group needs sub-groups. Though all this is done in the name of diversity and need for different opinions and perspectives but the reality is that we are viciously addicted to "Divide, Multiply and rule". And there is no end to it.

Let me give you a example. Say, I go and work at the marketing department in a big MNC in US. There the first level of grouping of people will be done department-wise - Marketing, Product Development & Manufacturing. (I am not talking of professional division here. I am talking of people forming groups) Then second level will be within the department - Seniors, Juniors. Then the third level will be Americans, Europeans, Asians etc. Then the fourth level will be South Asians etc. Fifth level will be Indians, Pakis, Chinese etc. Sixth level will be North Indians, South Indians, East Indians etc. Seventh level will be Kannadigas, Tamilians, Andhraites etc. Eighth level will be North Karnataka etc. Ninth Level will be District based. Tenth level will be Caste based. And the list will go on ... from here on it is more and more customised. What complicates all of this is that all these are heavily interlinked. There will never be a clear distinction between sub-groups within groups.

So why do we do this? Why do we make our lives more complicated than it already is? Why do we look for "security" by making groups and sub-groups ?

I am just guessing nature has made us this way to spice up our lives (with politics, infighting, rivalry etc) !

Rock On

"Tum ho toh gaata hai dil ..... tum nahin toh geet kahan" - screams my junior's status message on Gtalk !  At first I didnt get what it meant but it didnt take long enough for me to realize that it was the lyrics of "Rock On". Just like him several other friends of mine too had "Rock On" lyrics as their Gtalk status message. Never had I seen any movie finding its way to so many status messages. 

Makes me wonder what was the one thing that made this movie different enough to capture the imagination of so many cool dudes and babes !  Being an guest expert in Behaviourial Sciences it surprising to me that so many people had fallen to the movie's charm though the movie had no Bikini scenes, kissing scenes, item numbers, running around trees, villain, the customary dishum-dishum  or SRK !!

For me it was the mature way in which the story was handled with the kick-ass songs. Unlike other Bolly movies it didnt show Rock stars as badly dressed drug sniffing over-tattoed morons. 

But what was in it that clicked for you ?.....................  Socha nahin toh socho abhi !!

The Art of insecure living

Last to last week a girl committed suicide because she was dead convinced that the world was doomed to be destroyed because of the big-bang experiment !! 

You wouldn't blame her for being outrageously stupid in doing it because the news channels were reporting it in the manner as if there was no tomorrow. Some of them even had the B-grade music in the background to announce the "pralay". That was a classical of journalism in India having gone to the dogs. Sensationalism had replaced common sense !! Take any god damned story, add some black magic music, show goddess kali and a sensationalizing reporter and you get a sizzling Bullshit determined to scare the hell out of you.

They say journalism mirrors the society. Do we as a society like to live in fear ? be constantly reminded that the world outside our homes is dangerous ? There are already enough real issues I dont think we need any 'engineered' ones. If we are destined to die .. we will ... even in the 'safe' 4 walls of our home !! 

There is no denying about dangers lurking around the corner but i dont want a hairy nincompoop telling me that on national television !!!