Singapore - Losing her virginity in the night

Oh its awesome !!! Look at that circuit.... never has an F1 race made me go so ga-ga over it.... I have not stopped talking about it for the past three months. Its the Singapore GP of the F1 season and its a night race... yes my dear...its a NIGHT RACE !!!!

The speed demons will be zipping over the streets .. you heard me right... the streets of the wonderful city at night.... Singapore is the second of the only two street circuits in the F1 calendar and its the first night race....
Speeding in daylight itself is a nerve-wracking proposition. And here there are a bunch of fanatics who are thinking of driving at 300kmph in the night !!! And there are a million other fanatics like me who are grinning from ear to ear at the prospect of a historic race ... ALL IN THE DARK!!

The city is hosting her first street race and that too at night - this is so commendable of Singapore. Hail the officials for having the guts and the confidence. I wish it all the success and I hope all the people in Singapore appreciate this historic event. How I wish I could be there .... anyway no doubts that I would be glued to the tv today and tomorrow.

I couldn't contain my excitement and hence typed this early morning without even getting ready of office.....what the heck !! Man has stopped building the Taj Mahals, the pyramids and the Collosseums... but the pursuit to build something that still trascends the boundaries of comman imagination still remains. We, the modern humans, are still building, creating and conceptualizing some path breaking things. The romanticism has still not died out of us. And that's why the Chandrayaan must happen. Its to satisfy our inner child... to explore the exotic, to create the exotic and this race too is a tribute to that breed of exotica. Its intoxicating :-)

I am blabbering... I think I must better switch the tv on to spare my blog of more tautology ;-)

Pop !! God gives the answers !

A dear one asked me, "How goes life?". Now what is new in this question? This is the most cliched, over-used, under-rated and self-analytical question that all of us keeping using as a greeting. When we ask someone "how's life?", we never intend to get an honest reply.... most of the times, "life's good", "nothing new machan", "life's rocking" etc kind of replies. I somehow end up thinking a lot each time someone asks me this question. And give an honest answer which sometimes embarrasses the other person since they would not have bargained for an 'introspective insight' into my take on my life. Lolz!! well, I find delight in that quandry that the person faces. Devilish ! Lol !

If someone asks, "Kaka, how are you?", I would spontaneously reply, " Am good." But not so for the former question. Lolz !!
Anyway, as I said, when as usual I was wondering about this question.... I got this :


A Professor began his class by holding up a glass with some water in it. He held it up for all to see & asked the students
"How much do you think this glass weighs?"

'50gms!' .... '100gms!' .....'125gms' ...the students answered.



"I really don't know unless I weigh it," said the professor, "but, my question is:

What would happen if I held it up like this for a few minutes?"

'Nothing' …..the students said.

'Ok what would happen if I held it up like this for an hour?' the professor asked.

'Your arm would begin to ache' said one of the student

"You're right, now what would happen if I held it for a day?"

"Your arm could go numb, you might have severe muscle stress & paralysis & have to go to hospital for sure!"
….. ventured another student & all the students laughed

"Very good.

But during all this, did the weight of the glass change?"
asked the professor.

'No'…. Was the answer.

"Then what caused the arm ache & the muscle stress?"

The students were puzzled.

"What should I do now to come out of pain?" asked professor again.

"Put the glass down!" said one of the students

"Exactly!" said the professor.

Life's problems are something like this.
Hold it for a few minutes in your head & they seem OK.

Think of them for a long time & they begin to ache.
Hold it even longer & they begin to paralyze you. You will not be able to do anything.

It's important to think of the challenges or problems in your life,
But EVEN MORE IMPORTANT is to 'PUT THEM DOWN' at the end of every day before You go to sleep.

That way, you are not stressed, you wake up every day fresh &strong & can handle any issue, any challenge that comes your way!


So, when you leave office today,
Remember to….
'PUT THE GLASS DOWN TODAY! '


So then I got the answer to my question. I replied back:
" Hakuna Matata"

"What you dancing for, kiddo?"

Nauseous !

That is how I felt when I saw the pictures of the kids jumping around, celebrating the verdict of the Central govt. to allot land to the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board ! What are they being involved in this for? What do 5 year old kids understand about religious politics, agendas and propagandas ? Why are they so blatantly celebrating the ‘victory’ of ‘Rama’ over ‘Rahim’ ! It just saddens my heart.

Have we descended to such levels wherein we involve our innocent children in fighting for such base and immature causes. I still remember one member of some agitating group in Delhi giving sound bytes to the media that he knew that the bandhs and strikes were causing inconvenience to the public, but then to right a wrong or to fight for a cause, people will have to bear with such inconveniences and make such sacrifices. ‘sacrificies’? boy are you serious … I just shook my head in disgust.

Is this the way we are thinking? Have we lost our sense of reason? I mean which cause is being eschewed here by making millions and millions of people suffer in hunger, thirst, pain and misery? Just to get a few acres of land which does not even belong to any among those protestors?

A few weeks back I had seen a protest on M G Road near Chinnaswamy Stadium. It was being staged by the Pandits (from J&K) and who were in Bangalore. I saw kids and women shouting slogans and holding placards! Why are innocent boys and girls being made a party to such innocuous protests? Is this the learning and education that we are providing our children? And why are we using children to make up the numbers in a protest march?

I wondered while I saw the children dance along with a few elders, with colours of their faces and clothes – Do they even know what they are dancing for and what repercussions it might have on the relations between different sects of people? One of these celebrating children might grow up to become a Hindu fundamentalist bragging about his childhood days’ ‘netagiri’ or one of them might just grow up to become a sensitive individual who is against such narrow mentality. Will they both be able to forget this incident for the rest of their lives?

I don’t think so.