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[02 May 2004|01:59am] |
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Well….getting back to my blog after a long time. Had been quite busy all this while due to product release. Anywayz, trying to gather rest, sleep and enjoyment for some days at least.
My very good friend and colleague left the organization on Friday to join some other place. Well, I do miss him. Had some very good moments with him…especially the trip to Hessargatta and Sammy’s Dreamland. Anywayz, people come and go……
Met up with him and two other colleagues today. It was a sudden plan triggered by a couple of phone calls. Met up at Lalita’s Paratha Point (LPP…..Not Linear Programming Principles!!) Had some stuffed ones. And then managed to get tickets for Main Hoon Na!
Well…..I felt that the movie is a total shit! No sense in any scene. And those typical gyan scenes…..and some rona-dhona and some sentipana…..
I wonder how people enjoy all these things…Most of the movies that have been coming from the past few years depict glamour and riches and dancing and flashy clothes and raounak. Its all fine…but, they seem so artificial…..India has lot many people belonging to the middle class and below poverty line. All these things that are shown never happen anywhere in India. And unfortunately the people get carried away by these glamorous stuff and riches and flashy things. The common man dreams about all these and when he is shown these, he truly gets carried away….though he can’t achieve them…..such a pity!
Was reading Linda Goodman’s book on zodiac signs. Though I don’t totally believe in these stuffs, but I felt that certain fundamental things are true. Well, I don’t know whether the stars and planets affect our behaviours, but the environment in which we live in certainly depicts and affects our personalities to a large extent. The thing that specially attracted my attention was the paragraph on compatibility among zodiacs. Certain things were, I felt, right in a pretty large way. For instance, I have very good friends with whom I am compatible and very close and very comfortable. And I am a Piscean. And my best friends are mostly Taureans or Pisceans….and to any extent scorpio. And that’s precisely what she says too. Anywayz, I don’t make friends based on zodiacs!
Anyways, had a great time today! :D :D
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[02 May 2004|12:08pm] |
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I am now sitting in my room and staring out of the window behind my comp. Staring at those tall coconut trees that are swaying in the wind. It’s hopelessly bright and hot outside. The leaves are shining bright yellow. Well, see how nature has made these coconut trees so adaptive. They are so tall and yet can sustain the winds so easily without getting uprooted. It’s in the design of the leaves. Nature is truly a great architect. Those splits in between the leaves allow winds to pass through so easily…. providing no resistance at all…inspite of the height.
Adaptation is an ongoing process and as environment changes, living beings keep on evolving to get adapted to the changes. Those that can evolve, perish. Natural Selection. But, there is certainly a limitation to the pace of this change as well as this adaptation. A natural pace. Any pace faster than this and especially brought out by man’s artificial activities can certainly harm nature and eventually man’s own survival. What is prompting me to write all this is a list of temperatures that got published in today’s Times. It is a list of hottest temperatures recorded in Bangalore since the last ten years. What we see is a horrifying increasing curve. Simple interpolation can show that in around five years time the temperature in Bangalore can touch that of Ahmedabad and the temperature there can touch that of the Sahara! What a horrifying site! No wonder the air conditioner sales have zoomed up! But, its all this effect of global warming…cause being exponentially increasing pollution brought put by man’s anti-natural activities...right from soaring automobile population to smoky industrialization to …
Seems like man would start developing nictitating membrane to counter the pollution!
“Nature can act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional difference, on the whole machinery of life.” – Darwin.
Well, should we climb down the civilization ladder? Well, that doesn’t at all seem practical or sensible. Even if it did, it’s impossible to do so!! It’s all about following nature-friendly practices. Atleast the basic and easy ones…starting from decreasing the use of plastics (non-bio-degradable and are hence harmful) to keeping the vehicles in good pollution-free condition to planting more trees. Well, this reminds me of one thing: Many trees along Major Cariappa road (parallel to MG road), Bangalore, have been cut down. What a pity!
Unfortunately the concern is very limited. Even among the educated masses. That’s because the educated don’t have the time to think about these things and the uneducated don’t know about these things!
Seems like it’s in the very characteristic of man – this selfishness – lack of concern for members of his own species as well as others. For instance, take birds feeding on ground. One individual may notice a predator and sound an alarm. In doing so, the bird also calls the predator’s attention to itself. Similarly with the bees. The worker bees (they are sterile) unselfishly devote themselves in caring for the queens, which alone reproduce and subsequently for the young ones. And one this side, we have Homo Sapiens who not only care for members of other species, they fight among themselves too.
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