How much does a blog resemble the blogger? Very much! Each of the blogs is essentially what n how the blogger wud like the stuff he reads to be! So the blog is the blogger itself!
For instance i know this awesome blogger who pens down moments of life as they happen... concocting great blogs with each incident! A R.K.Laxman cartoon jumps up to one's mind with every blog of his!
Another thinks he is a far realtive to Raja RamMohan Roy... being just one step short of liberating India and the world from social issues! Though i wud have exaggerated here, most of his blogs contain stuff that remind u of the centre page of Hindu!
Yet another interesting blogger has brilliant coherence in his thought line and is a zany thinker who wudn't restrict his writings to the normal. He extravagates and with style... an angry young man with a thinking head on his shoulder is the precise piture that pops up into u'r head!
Ah! the one that blogs on anything at all! All the logs have this i-dont-give-a-damn or u-can-go-to-hell attitude in them, yet making a good reading. Here is an absolute freak who wants to and will have it her way!
The magic about this particular blog is that, to the junta visiting here, the identities wud have just sprung up from the one-line description i have given above! So here's to celebrate blogs and blogging!Hurrah!Blogging rocks!!!
Those left behind... catch up and start blogging else catch u later!
Saturday, April 23, 2005
Monday, April 18, 2005
Zoo in the night time?!
Never go to the zoo in the night! Once we all went, we being my mom, me and some other strange characters... strangely resembling some cousins of mine! Its pitch dark and we see the animals, few of them. But there might have been more and they all see us! We all recline on the highest rows of some kind of viewing arena seats and focus our inhibited visions into the dark night. Suddenly the trees above us start spinning or mebbe it the arena seats that are spinning!!! And with every revolution of the arena.. strange animals slip from the darkness above and fall into our laps! I just see something slimy and green fall onto my neighbour's lap! Next is me...and i get a footlong creepy scaly thing with yellow eyes on my lap! yeeeew!!!
This vicious circle seems to blur past and a strong cold wind keeps ruffles my hair, parching my lips! Then with a sudden jolt i wake up to find myself travelling on a bus! Slowly i realise that i had been having this incredible dream on my way back to Bangalore from Chennai! And exactly when that slimy thing hit my lap is when i get up, almost in a state of quasi-conciousness. Then there is this flurry of thouhgts i usually have when am woken up from a good sleep, even if had slept for a few minutes only! Immediately i pull out my Nokia-6800 and start typing away... to the utter astonishment of the fellow sleeping(actually not sleeping) beside me! He just stared at the bright screen in my hand for a few seconds and tried to sleep again.
The thought that struck me was Giri talking about the best way to blog... blog on the go!! "Travel-blogs make the best writes" is what he said! And even i found it to be pretty exciting! But again, writing down one's dreams is another aspect... and the voluminous dreamer that i am i have to admit this is the firt time i tried it! The worst aspect is that the whole dream, so much would have happened in it, would just evaporate within seconds u are fully awake. Guess it will take a little effort and practice to retain them and write it down, but i can assure u it is pretty exciting!!
Also, i was reminded of Vairamuthi's lyrics - 'nooru kanavugal kandaaley, aaru kanavugal palikaatha?!!' (wont 6 dreams out of 100 i dream, come true?!). i know i wouldn't want this one to come true!!
This vicious circle seems to blur past and a strong cold wind keeps ruffles my hair, parching my lips! Then with a sudden jolt i wake up to find myself travelling on a bus! Slowly i realise that i had been having this incredible dream on my way back to Bangalore from Chennai! And exactly when that slimy thing hit my lap is when i get up, almost in a state of quasi-conciousness. Then there is this flurry of thouhgts i usually have when am woken up from a good sleep, even if had slept for a few minutes only! Immediately i pull out my Nokia-6800 and start typing away... to the utter astonishment of the fellow sleeping(actually not sleeping) beside me! He just stared at the bright screen in my hand for a few seconds and tried to sleep again.
The thought that struck me was Giri talking about the best way to blog... blog on the go!! "Travel-blogs make the best writes" is what he said! And even i found it to be pretty exciting! But again, writing down one's dreams is another aspect... and the voluminous dreamer that i am i have to admit this is the firt time i tried it! The worst aspect is that the whole dream, so much would have happened in it, would just evaporate within seconds u are fully awake. Guess it will take a little effort and practice to retain them and write it down, but i can assure u it is pretty exciting!!
Also, i was reminded of Vairamuthi's lyrics - 'nooru kanavugal kandaaley, aaru kanavugal palikaatha?!!' (wont 6 dreams out of 100 i dream, come true?!). i know i wouldn't want this one to come true!!
Wednesday, April 06, 2005
Why our education system needs a fix!
A must read artilcle! Impressed...!
http://in.rediff.com/money/2005/apr/06guest.htm
Well structured piece that set me thinking....what more there IS to life?!
Some quotes from the article -
'He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.' ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
'Money is like sugar, no point in hoarding it, it's usually goes bad, or you have to make quite unnecessary cakes to use it up.' ~ Charles Handy in his book The Empty Raincoat
'Disciplines are habit forming, define boundaries. The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.' -- Prof. O. Reilly
'The perfect form lies in the block of stone; all that is needed to chip away until it is revealed.' -- Michelangelo
'The only kingdom that makes any man a king is the kingdom of his own soul. The only power that has any real meaning is the power to better the world.' -- Gregory David Roberts in his book Shantaram.
http://in.rediff.com/money/2005/apr/06guest.htm
Well structured piece that set me thinking....what more there IS to life?!
Some quotes from the article -
'He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.' ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
'Money is like sugar, no point in hoarding it, it's usually goes bad, or you have to make quite unnecessary cakes to use it up.' ~ Charles Handy in his book The Empty Raincoat
'Disciplines are habit forming, define boundaries. The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.' -- Prof. O. Reilly
'The perfect form lies in the block of stone; all that is needed to chip away until it is revealed.' -- Michelangelo
'The only kingdom that makes any man a king is the kingdom of his own soul. The only power that has any real meaning is the power to better the world.' -- Gregory David Roberts in his book Shantaram.
Tuesday, April 05, 2005
Books Vs Movies ... ?
There are movie buffs. There are book buffs. I am both, not with equal fervor though. But there are few people who enjoy just being either one! And the talk/arguement with such a person is what spawned this blog.
From every movie i watch, i would like to take home something. And that stands more so for a book too! And this person happens to be a 'book-ie' who thinks there is no point in people not knowing to read and just existing. According to her, anyone needs to know how to read to live rather than just 'exist'. This was it! And it dint end here too! She went on to suggest that books are more expressive than movies!!! If i was being me, i would have dismissed the whole idea of continuing with a pointless argument. Pointless because someone who is capable of thinking that up will never get the point! Where the argument ended is inconsequential here, because what set me thinking was that content of a book or a movie that gets imprinted in me, changing me forever. And as i just commented on J's blog y'day, when u read a good work again or watch a real good movie a second time, u see it in different light. Some part of it stands out this time that just passed notice the first time, or rather failed to make an impression then. My point on his blog was whether this happens due to the mood we are when we go through a book or a movie? Or is it what we call the attention-to-detail of the creator of that piece that we are appreciating, one of details drawing our attention everyother time.
Now back to that argument, where this person insisted a book can be more expressive because the reader is free to visualize the scene rather than a movie where things are shown and u have to see it that way only! But again, she failed to understand that a book doesn't have light/sound in it! It is an interesting point of contention because even with movies I would prefer those that are subtle in thier content leaving a little bit for the viewer to elaborate. So would a book or a movie tell a story better?
Now we can take numerous examples to explore this tiff. But the one i chose that day was Jurassic Park. Anyone who read the book would have had a great experience thinking it out, what with Crichton getting techie too! But the sheer brilliance of the spectacle that Spielberg brought in front of eyes takes the cake according to me! Another great effort from this director is Minority Report. Making that movie from a book, actually a fiction novel aint easy at all, but he did and i liked it! Countering this point would be efforts like, mebbe Sphere (took some time to think that up!) to some extent, where the read gives you a better feel of what the author intended to say than how the movie portrays it. But me being more 'movie-guy' than a book one, i liked Sphere too anyways ;0)! And me being more a movie guy might be due to the fact that i have watched more movies than read books. Also the books i have read are not diverse enough to rate myself a buff!
Alright, even if i read more books than watch movies, no one can convince me otherwise. A scene is always better described as an audio-visual than mere words!
PS:
the latest movie i saw was 'Million Dollar Baby'
the latest book i am still reading is 'Black Holes and Baby Universes' - Stephen Hawking
both have been revelations!
From every movie i watch, i would like to take home something. And that stands more so for a book too! And this person happens to be a 'book-ie' who thinks there is no point in people not knowing to read and just existing. According to her, anyone needs to know how to read to live rather than just 'exist'. This was it! And it dint end here too! She went on to suggest that books are more expressive than movies!!! If i was being me, i would have dismissed the whole idea of continuing with a pointless argument. Pointless because someone who is capable of thinking that up will never get the point! Where the argument ended is inconsequential here, because what set me thinking was that content of a book or a movie that gets imprinted in me, changing me forever. And as i just commented on J's blog y'day, when u read a good work again or watch a real good movie a second time, u see it in different light. Some part of it stands out this time that just passed notice the first time, or rather failed to make an impression then. My point on his blog was whether this happens due to the mood we are when we go through a book or a movie? Or is it what we call the attention-to-detail of the creator of that piece that we are appreciating, one of details drawing our attention everyother time.
Now back to that argument, where this person insisted a book can be more expressive because the reader is free to visualize the scene rather than a movie where things are shown and u have to see it that way only! But again, she failed to understand that a book doesn't have light/sound in it! It is an interesting point of contention because even with movies I would prefer those that are subtle in thier content leaving a little bit for the viewer to elaborate. So would a book or a movie tell a story better?
Now we can take numerous examples to explore this tiff. But the one i chose that day was Jurassic Park. Anyone who read the book would have had a great experience thinking it out, what with Crichton getting techie too! But the sheer brilliance of the spectacle that Spielberg brought in front of eyes takes the cake according to me! Another great effort from this director is Minority Report. Making that movie from a book, actually a fiction novel aint easy at all, but he did and i liked it! Countering this point would be efforts like, mebbe Sphere (took some time to think that up!) to some extent, where the read gives you a better feel of what the author intended to say than how the movie portrays it. But me being more 'movie-guy' than a book one, i liked Sphere too anyways ;0)! And me being more a movie guy might be due to the fact that i have watched more movies than read books. Also the books i have read are not diverse enough to rate myself a buff!
Alright, even if i read more books than watch movies, no one can convince me otherwise. A scene is always better described as an audio-visual than mere words!
PS:
the latest movie i saw was 'Million Dollar Baby'
the latest book i am still reading is 'Black Holes and Baby Universes' - Stephen Hawking
both have been revelations!
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