Hi friends. I have been seriously ill for past few days. It took some time before I could realize the age old saying that "Health is more important than Wealth". It called for a visit to nearby hospital and when even that didn't work I had to go to the famous Apollo Hospital. There what I experienced may be the reason why this saying "Ignorance is bliss" should have a second meaning .
All I can see was pain. I could hear was children crying, relatives wailing and advices from a battery of Doctors who looked like demi-gods to the patients. For a moment it let me forget my pain , but when I returned back to my senses , also returned the pain along with a fear that was getting into my nerves. The Doc came and as soon as he referred me for a blood test the words namely HIV and Elisa came alive in my brain. I was not sure how many years I had in my hands and still it was undecided . All I wanted was to run away from it but a close friend took me to the Pathology. A sight of this unit in the hospital again made me visualize millions of pathogens nibbling on something that was definitely human brain. I had been always known among my friend circle as a person who visualizes total crap things , and it seemed none of them was wrong. I tried to overpower my thoughts and somewhere in this conflict came a beautiful nurse. She was supposed to take my blood samples and In normal situations it would have been painless , due to LAFS (Love At First Sight). But strangely enough it did not happen. To me she seemed like a person with a lot of malice and one who badly wanted a share of my blood. She proceeded in her act of ripping my vein and blood oozed out of my body. I had to bite my tounge to keep myself from screaming and it added to one more mouth ulcer (mouth ulcers were the reason why i was there..) My blood was gracefully bottled by the vamp of this story and then she walked away with her prized possession, leaving me all in agony. I was told to wait for almost an hour for my blood report. One hour at an place which seemed none less than my graveyard. I wanted to wait for my report of griefs by sitting there. However my friend had some earthly plans in his mind. His earlier visit to this place made him know the exact place we had to reach. We made our way to the 2nd floor, to the nurse station. And like wonder struck me, all my pain went away seeing around 50 young ladies. I always wanted to be at such a place , admiring the beauties. In some time I lost count how many time LAFS struck me. The pain was all relieved and all i could feel was bliss. Suddenly my friend's push brought me back to the real world. Our presence was been questioned and my inability to speak anything , got my friend in real awkward situation. Rather than answering those ,we darted our way through a myriad of patients to safer territory where our presence would not be objectionable. However after a sort of humiliation we felt better to be outside the hospital. In my escape I am sure i had ran into my Doc, leaving him all perplexed. I spent the rest portion of my hour looking for any beautiful faces outside but without any luck. The clock struck 9 and I felt that my demise report would be ready. With a heart of steel , I proceeded to read the obituary of my pathogens or Me.Thankfully it was of the pathogens!
Half an hour had passed and with everything visibly under control and with almost each of mine penny spent, me and my friend were on the way back. So after an eventful evening we made our backward journey in Rs 10, and this was a real reason of jubilation.
Sunday, January 21, 2007
Sunday, January 7, 2007
Saddam Hussein Execution
Recently I was watching the Saddam Hussein execution video on YouTube. What meant a leisure activity for me was actually the footage of a living being killed by his own breed. It is simply unacceptable. What meant a source of time pass for a millions of people , was actually much more grave that what it seemed to me on the video. I believe executing a person is one among the the worst things that human race has come up.
It remembers me what Agent Smith (in the movie The MATRIX) says to Neo "I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure." I was very much influenced by this statement. In essence what Smith says was a truth except the fact that he considered himself equivalent to God.
So coming back to the topic of execution of a human being, recently there has been a lot of public debate on this topic in India, reason being a frightful increase in number of cases where death sentence has been awarded. Lets be truthful to ourself; how justified is it to kill a person. Whatever the reason may be , but since God does not give us power to give life to somebody, how can we claim the right to take life away. Lets reflect upon the case of Dhananjoy Chatterjee who was hanged in 2004 after being convicted of raping and murdering a schoolgirl in 1990. Though the charges were gruesome and the how warranted is it to hang a person after 14 years. I believe the persons who fought all out to hang this criminal lacked on thing for sure and that was empathy. Did ever once thought what would Dhananjoy be facing after committing this crime 14 years back. He may also not remember the incidents on the date the death sentence was meted out to him. And with such public outcry and jubilation , what one forgets that we are killing somebody. Come on you damned people, how can you be so insensitive to someone of your own race. I call this civilized cannibalism.
And the worst part of this is that we are really happy about it. We publicize it as a grand event , debate it and finally take videos of it, which can satisfy the voyeuristic needs of an entire generation. At least we should make the death of a person dignified rather than it being used as a way to publicize an Internet portal.
Really we are like virus on the face of this earth and we should accept it rather wearing a shroud of innocence and just.
It remembers me what Agent Smith (in the movie The MATRIX) says to Neo "I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure." I was very much influenced by this statement. In essence what Smith says was a truth except the fact that he considered himself equivalent to God.
So coming back to the topic of execution of a human being, recently there has been a lot of public debate on this topic in India, reason being a frightful increase in number of cases where death sentence has been awarded. Lets be truthful to ourself; how justified is it to kill a person. Whatever the reason may be , but since God does not give us power to give life to somebody, how can we claim the right to take life away. Lets reflect upon the case of Dhananjoy Chatterjee who was hanged in 2004 after being convicted of raping and murdering a schoolgirl in 1990. Though the charges were gruesome and the how warranted is it to hang a person after 14 years. I believe the persons who fought all out to hang this criminal lacked on thing for sure and that was empathy. Did ever once thought what would Dhananjoy be facing after committing this crime 14 years back. He may also not remember the incidents on the date the death sentence was meted out to him. And with such public outcry and jubilation , what one forgets that we are killing somebody. Come on you damned people, how can you be so insensitive to someone of your own race. I call this civilized cannibalism.
And the worst part of this is that we are really happy about it. We publicize it as a grand event , debate it and finally take videos of it, which can satisfy the voyeuristic needs of an entire generation. At least we should make the death of a person dignified rather than it being used as a way to publicize an Internet portal.
Really we are like virus on the face of this earth and we should accept it rather wearing a shroud of innocence and just.
Saturday, January 6, 2007
The truth
Hi all. This is my humble start in the blogging world. Right now I have no clue what should i write about except that i am feeling very nostalgic right now. I miss my damned college very much.
FYI I am an Engg graduate from NITK Surathkal, a small place near Mangalore. The special thing about this place is that it is known only to a person who ever visited here. Anyways I should call myself a provisional engineer cause I still do not have degree ( repeated delays in convocation has caused this). So though i am Engineer, actually a barely one. This is the plight of of a 2nd tier engineering college. Being an NIT , my college boasts a lot of being among top 10 institutes in the country. But the truth is known only to its inmates. Its infested with every known social disease. Corruption, lawlessness, racialism , mismanagement, alcoholics, dopers.. U name it and u will get it here. Still being my Alma Mater I recommend this damned college to any unsuspecting engineering aspirant, so that he can rot in hell (like me).
I sincerely believe our education system has to evolve a lot so that it can be comparable to the best in world. What is happening these days is engineering colleges are becoming like factories where which produce useless assholes who can survive the hardships of at most software industry. The thinking level that these graduates posses is measly when compared to what they could have achieved if they did something meaningful. Just like a bunch of cows these people are led to big names in software industry where they are expected to do meaningless work. I wish i had power to change all this. I wish the youth of today be more conscious of its decisions and should understand the implications of it. If you ask somebody what did he/she intend to do in life , in most of the case the answer be different from what one is doing currently. Its a mad race where people are running after money thinking that it could provide them with some sort of mental satisfaction but they end in deluge of hardships.
The educational institutions today should radically change themselves and try to be anything but a institution set up with the motive of earning money. Today the last place i wish to be , is my college. I have seen it all. Still there is an inane wish deep inside me that i could do something to improve the present situation. So i have started blogging. Maybe by this way I would try to attract attention of my audience (if any) to more lively issues and try transforming them to individuals who think more before doing anything.
FYI I am an Engg graduate from NITK Surathkal, a small place near Mangalore. The special thing about this place is that it is known only to a person who ever visited here. Anyways I should call myself a provisional engineer cause I still do not have degree ( repeated delays in convocation has caused this). So though i am Engineer, actually a barely one. This is the plight of of a 2nd tier engineering college. Being an NIT , my college boasts a lot of being among top 10 institutes in the country. But the truth is known only to its inmates. Its infested with every known social disease. Corruption, lawlessness, racialism , mismanagement, alcoholics, dopers.. U name it and u will get it here. Still being my Alma Mater I recommend this damned college to any unsuspecting engineering aspirant, so that he can rot in hell (like me).
I sincerely believe our education system has to evolve a lot so that it can be comparable to the best in world. What is happening these days is engineering colleges are becoming like factories where which produce useless assholes who can survive the hardships of at most software industry. The thinking level that these graduates posses is measly when compared to what they could have achieved if they did something meaningful. Just like a bunch of cows these people are led to big names in software industry where they are expected to do meaningless work. I wish i had power to change all this. I wish the youth of today be more conscious of its decisions and should understand the implications of it. If you ask somebody what did he/she intend to do in life , in most of the case the answer be different from what one is doing currently. Its a mad race where people are running after money thinking that it could provide them with some sort of mental satisfaction but they end in deluge of hardships.
The educational institutions today should radically change themselves and try to be anything but a institution set up with the motive of earning money. Today the last place i wish to be , is my college. I have seen it all. Still there is an inane wish deep inside me that i could do something to improve the present situation. So i have started blogging. Maybe by this way I would try to attract attention of my audience (if any) to more lively issues and try transforming them to individuals who think more before doing anything.
I have woken up. Have U? And this is Project Jigsaw!
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