Life's weird...

I was awestruck yesterday after getting my broadband connection. The reason-The connection speed? no..Easy usage? no no..But the way in which the line was set up by a couple of "extraordinary" boys, perhaps not even in their double digits. These boys were from airtel, the first noticeable fact in them being the half a dozen holes in each of their shirts and trousers. Let me briefly describe why this work seemed an eyeopener to me. We had a touchtel landline connection in the hall, and my computer along with the dialup net connection. After the proposal for the broadband, i shifted my comp to my study. Now,a new telephone line comes in free with this, which was asked to be placed in the hall itself(near the existing phone). So,a new broadband line to my comp in the new location had to be done, the new telephone line had to be taken, and what worse, according to my "instructions", it had to be diverted to the comp in it's new place, so that I may use the dialup and broadband simultaneously. To add to the woes, my dad piled on his "instructions" too not wanting the original dialup to be disconnected but to be diverted to the comp in my study(which is bout 10 m away in displacement), and to use the previous lengthy 6 m wire which gave me my dialup..huh.

I was sure enough, having the natural "ego" associated with an "IITian", that the work would be messed up, and was constantly objurgating them. But god, it was as if these guys had turned an India-Aus match to an India-Bangladesh. I could'nt believe my eyes. I nearly had tears coming out... Why is this world so selfish..? Why are such brilliant guys, who ought to be learning trigo and calculus, connecting and disconnecting wires,all for a pair of torn vests..? God,why did you create them after all..? Anyway,pack.. am getting to philosophical. I could not sleep yesterday thinking of this. Just spend a moment thinking about this...All i realize is..life is fcuking man...It's just absolutely "bullshitty". We have a million engineers graduating out of colleges, which spend more time in choosing their names than their faculty, all for working in a call centre..or a bpo..or a damn cupp level coding job..? Why dont people utilize the opportunity given to them..? Howbeit, I very well know that a single person cannot change a country..at least in today's world. It's just an eyeopener to all those reading this(I'm sure not more than a dozen). And finally, all I could do was to hand them a 100 buck note and give them a gentle tap, saying "It was remarkably done" in tam.. And off they trotted..perhaps to give a new broadband connection somewhere... GOD SAVE THEM..

Memento

"A remarkable piece of work"...Yes. Iam referring to Memento. I had the occasion to see this 2001 "blockbuster" only recently..about a week back. And in hindsight, I thank my stars that I saw this with one of my more intellectual friends. You will understand the benefit of that soon, for seeing it in solitude might just have made me lose half my hairs. An extremely well knit, puzzling story it was. And i personally feel it was made for the intelligentsia. Seeing the film reviews, it was apparently clear that almost all the critics had'nt apprehended it. Only a countable nunber actually saw through the tunnel, and were able to cognize it. Before all that, let me tell you this. If you have not watched the movie, please do not do so unless you get hold of the summary of it from an amigo. Anyway, let me continue with it's praise. The most noticable and astounding fact about it is that it runs in reverse. And this brainflash must have occured to none less than a mathematician's caliber. And the beauty of it us that you dont actually realize that you are seeing it backward. The set of events which take place make the movie go in the forward direction. After each scene, you crave for the next. You have your hands clasped, your brain on a high(no pun), anticipating the next clip. It's such a wonderful ride that a guy seeing this will have utilized more of his grey cells than he would have for solving a krotov problem.I am obviously not going into the story or anything here, but just writing about the effects this movie produces on a naive viewer. The most probable effect would be to just shut the movie down,or maybe walk out(if you are in a theatre). It's very difficult to retain the calm and composure for the 2 odd hours. I'll put forth the idea of the movie. Its about this guy, who wants to avenge the killing of wife. And the most important part is, he does not have short term memory..he can remember incidents only upto the murder of his wife. So he goes about it.Like I said before, the movie starts off with the scene where he shoots the murderer. And then, proceeds backwards. You have to see it to believe it..no further insights..you can see it for yourselves. But all I would say is, the movie has far wider implications than that. Anyways ,enjoy the movie. AND PREFERABLY DO NOT SEE IT ALONE. It's just an advice after all..have fun.

hmmm...

Changed my blog.lemme see how this one works..