The reason for India lacking high-strata knowledgables

It just hit me: the reason there are not as many intellectual breakthroughs from India as we are capable of is that we start education with the aim of getting a job, a salary, a profit, a comfortable life, the sort of furniture the narrator of Fight Club has, etc. add to this the heavier burden of our parents' expectations, and top off this health hazard with the icing of peer pressure. A heady cocktail, one to make any head swim.

DCH

Dil Chahta Hai is an awesome movie. Mahak, you are The Only. :x

The Order of Things

Everything has a place. Things in order are pleasant to live with and help in maintaining a tension-free life. Blah blah blah...

Live Sync

Blog synced to Windows Live. Microsoft strategy is not something small I’d comment lightly about, but I do think they need to consolidate their businesses. I suggest concentrating on making Live a phenomena like Windows. For that, a new Windows, built from scratch, is necessary. next comes making it migration-compatible, and I’m pretty sure Microsoft has the programmers to do it. Google, on the other hand, benefits in this regard from being open-source. Anywhoo, don’t mind these ramblings, please. They are prone to be neurotic and irrelevant, nonsensical even.

Sync failed. Microsoft sucks. Was trying out its Live Writer, did everything, failed to publish the above paragraph. Ptooey!

Sleep patterns

It's 3:00 a.m. and I'm unwilling to lie down...how many nights have passed like this? Not consecutively, I'm talking lifelong. It is not the slight foreboding of evil things and bad times that makes us spend sleepless nights, it is the opposite. We end up causing grief to ourselves and people who love us by not taking care of our health properly. I'll lie down right away, and shut down this laptop, my prized Vaio.

:)

Pictures on webpages, and general frustration

Is everyone having trouble viewing pictures on sites? First Picasa Web, then Wiki - almost simultaneously - what's going on?

C'mon, say it loud - there is NO harm in being a fan of two sports at the same time!

Love is such a fun spectator sport - Garfield. I hope my book reaches such heights that I get to chat with Jim Davis et al.

I don't have to eat enough, I have to eat EXTRA. Period.

The escalator etiquette on the Delhi Metro proves the improvement in the city's bourgeois.

Cool, okay and :p. These are the three categories of my acquaintances.

There's a reason Coke goes with burgers and such fast food. The aeration in the drink wets the food item more thoroughly than water or juice. In my opinion, of course. I like to think I can 'backward integrate' my neurons into sending what I want my organs to do, to them. Long explanation short, if I think it, my body does it.

Tariffs have plummeted, but the need to stay in touch has skyrocketed. This has been inadvertently pushed higher by natural disasters (our maid calling her son in Gujarat after the earthquake) and terrorism.

I won't mind directing the production of infomercials, either.

I think I'll nominate myself for talking to Mamoo.

The reason behind the AirTel logo fading in at the end is psychological. They are trying to bring the brand into focus from an overlapping colorful collage of signs. We should pay attention to our old people, one good use would be to encourage them to go back to their rural origins, and teach - actually teach, in schools. Subjects should not be constraints, rather, they should be opportunities.

Early woes

Waking up early is always a hassle. The good weather doesn't help, either.

Advice#1 of many

Do not work hard just learning all sorts of information. choose what

International Exchange Programme

I feel disappointment, to say the least, having looked at the "International Associations" page on our website. We should, collectively, do something to improve that, amongst other things. Amongst lots of other things.

A step in the right direction.

"Send your entries as "REPLY TO ALL" to this mail only."

A step in the right direction.

\m/

The Way Forward

I must break out of my habit of attempting to find conclusions to everything - paragraphs of HIWTBINW, conversations with friends, discussions with The Only, movies on television, actions of people. LET IT GO. Concentrate on what you are doing, right here, right now. Listen to Fat Boy Slim.