ok this is the time when everybody meets each other with the three magical words... HAPPY NEW YEAR... families plan vacations... the middle-class save the whole year to spend this week... with all thats been happening around the world in general and india in particular, i was of the opinion that people would not spend lavishly on this new years eve.. i thought that with the recent mumbai attacks, the global meltdown and the resulting instability would dater people from celebrating an occasion which i frankly never understood. i mean, whats there to celebrate in a new year? i can understand a birthday or an anniversary or any other momentous occasion but a new year? and especially this new year! whats there to celebrate this year.. what have we achieved in 2008 that we look forward to 2009 and welcome its inception. this was perhaps the worst year in the past few decades. surely people would not be celebrating this new year.
but as i was travelling around the city, i realised how wrong i was. people were excited about the new year. and not just excited, they were going out of their way to welcome it. people were thronging bakeries to buy cakes. families, friends were planning on where to celebrate rather than whether to celebrate? and i was just roaming alone with two thoughts in mind. people are either dying or are getting sacked around the world. and i could be one of the latter coz this was my last sem. my last new year in my college life with my friends. surely i had a larger reason to make this occasion all the more memorable. but there i was just alone thinking if these are the same people who uptil yesterday were mourning those dead in the mumbai blasts ans vowing to fight for justice. did they forget everything overnight? is this what the human race has become? are we so selfish that we dont care about others in our good times.
and as i was going around i saw a group of poor people begging for food. no one seemed to care about them. why would they? god has been kind to them. so what if he hasnt blessed those beggars or those victims around the world. thats not of any concern to us right. we are a race above them right? there were small kids begging for food and the rich didnt care because they had their very important celebrations.
i relieved myself of some money to give them whatever i could. they seemed to be verry happy. this was their new year, their celebration. then i stood there a few minutes and i saw some kids share crackers with them. they all seemed happy together. then i realised that not everyone forgets others in their happiness. and there are many who try to hide their sorrows and everyone celebrates the new year because if theres one thing that god has given us all in equanimity, it is HOPE.. the hope for a better tomorrow.. the hope that these celebrations of today might mask their sorrows of last year... and surely they believe in the adage THE PUSPOSE OF LIFE IS THE CELEBRATION OF BEING ALIVE... yes this is the new year and this is the time to celebrate.. so lets all celebrate, lets pray to god for a better 2009 but lets also pray for others around the world who are not in a situation to celebrate.. i guess the world needs these kind of festivals because they generate employment oppurtunities.. for eg. the bakers and the tourism industry benifit from this.. i guess to keep everything in a level field, these kinda festivals will continue...... i just hope that during our celebration, we dont forget everyone else
and for all my collegemates, these are the last few months so lets try to make them memorable... and everyone who has read this.. i hope u can forgive me if i have ever done any harm to u.. plzz forgive me...
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Monday, December 8, 2008
introspection
ok its two posts now and i showed them to a friend who wants to be known as mr.A.... not for any security reasons though... its just that he likes it that way and lets just keep him happy... although ill give u a few hints and lets c if u r smart enough... his name begins with the letter A hes my classmate and hes not short... ok just one more.. his roll number comes before mine...
now this mr.A has this really irritating but admirable ability to make even shakespeare appear ordinary... so u can take a guess as to the criticism i have had to face.. i had almost stopped blogging ( which many of you humans might take as goodnews) but then since i had nothing else to do, this became my fall back option...
a lot of news channels started campaigns against the security ( rather the lack of it) in india and got a tremendous response from the janta... but just a week or so later they seem to have lost steam in the wake of the elections in 5 states and hence ends the great indian campaign...
talking abt elections it seems that congress won this battle grabbing 3 out of 5 states... but i guess the public were voting for the party they hated less as against voting for the one they liked.. vasundhara raje can definitely shout "ab nahi rukega rajasthan".... now that shes out of the picture.. for 5 years atleast..
i just received a message which has happy bakr eid wriitten in c language.. now who would have had the time and patience to write that down... which brings me to a question... who forwards the forwarded messages... i mean who writes that up? tell me if you know that one...
talking about messages, i have been made to think hard for the past few days if technology has made us lose our common sense... yeah we depend upon it for all our contact details and so we memorise less but does it affect our common sense?
i got two messages from friends which read as follows...
"hi remember me this is xyz and my number is this 9xxxxxxxxx... now the last time i checked, we have caller id facility on our mobiles... yesterday i got a call from a friend of my dad who calls and then tells me to note his number down. i tell him that i got his number but he tells it has changed and dictates the same number that came on the display of my cell..( yeah i 4got to mention.. i own a cellphone :-) i know its so rare to have one)
remember the aliens.. since i stopped communicating with them (go to blog 2 for details), im having a recurring nightmare where the alien metamorphosises into a cat and then into a question mark and then disappears, leaving behind a sentence... its coming.... man they know how to scare the hell out of u..
hey im learning swahili... its not that tough u knw... just mutter anything that doesnt make sense to u while making sure that u are dancing and your words end mostly with the letter u... which brings me to another question.. who invented language and how did they do it? i mean who sat and thought that eat has to refer to consume and moreover who discovered grammar and pronounciation.. i mean why cant we say sicoloji instead of psycology... why cant we just let things be simple...
if u think this blog is just like the tickr from mtv, thats coz i dint have anything worth writig... hopefully next time ill write smthng meaningful
dedicated to
1) ahmed multani... u inspired me to write
2) aamer oops sorry mr.A, ur criticism mean nthng to me.. but yeah they do inspire me to write that one blog that you may like
3) jatin, faheem, riaz,waseem,prashanti for reading my blogs... and if anyone else is reading them then plz plz do leave ur comments.. and suggest any improvements that u might want..
4) my cousins who throughout the wedding didnt bother me by asking how my cat was (oh i 4got to mention that i was out of town for my cousins wedding)
5) all manchester united fans who may or maynot read this... coz u have done one good thing by supporting the right club..
6) anyone who is getting irritated by the man utd thing then i apologize coz thats one thing i find hard to control
and yeah ive got an xam on dec21 so plz pray for me and multani
now this mr.A has this really irritating but admirable ability to make even shakespeare appear ordinary... so u can take a guess as to the criticism i have had to face.. i had almost stopped blogging ( which many of you humans might take as goodnews) but then since i had nothing else to do, this became my fall back option...
a lot of news channels started campaigns against the security ( rather the lack of it) in india and got a tremendous response from the janta... but just a week or so later they seem to have lost steam in the wake of the elections in 5 states and hence ends the great indian campaign...
talking abt elections it seems that congress won this battle grabbing 3 out of 5 states... but i guess the public were voting for the party they hated less as against voting for the one they liked.. vasundhara raje can definitely shout "ab nahi rukega rajasthan".... now that shes out of the picture.. for 5 years atleast..
i just received a message which has happy bakr eid wriitten in c language.. now who would have had the time and patience to write that down... which brings me to a question... who forwards the forwarded messages... i mean who writes that up? tell me if you know that one...
talking about messages, i have been made to think hard for the past few days if technology has made us lose our common sense... yeah we depend upon it for all our contact details and so we memorise less but does it affect our common sense?
i got two messages from friends which read as follows...
"hi remember me this is xyz and my number is this 9xxxxxxxxx... now the last time i checked, we have caller id facility on our mobiles... yesterday i got a call from a friend of my dad who calls and then tells me to note his number down. i tell him that i got his number but he tells it has changed and dictates the same number that came on the display of my cell..( yeah i 4got to mention.. i own a cellphone :-) i know its so rare to have one)
remember the aliens.. since i stopped communicating with them (go to blog 2 for details), im having a recurring nightmare where the alien metamorphosises into a cat and then into a question mark and then disappears, leaving behind a sentence... its coming.... man they know how to scare the hell out of u..
hey im learning swahili... its not that tough u knw... just mutter anything that doesnt make sense to u while making sure that u are dancing and your words end mostly with the letter u... which brings me to another question.. who invented language and how did they do it? i mean who sat and thought that eat has to refer to consume and moreover who discovered grammar and pronounciation.. i mean why cant we say sicoloji instead of psycology... why cant we just let things be simple...
if u think this blog is just like the tickr from mtv, thats coz i dint have anything worth writig... hopefully next time ill write smthng meaningful
dedicated to
1) ahmed multani... u inspired me to write
2) aamer oops sorry mr.A, ur criticism mean nthng to me.. but yeah they do inspire me to write that one blog that you may like
3) jatin, faheem, riaz,waseem,prashanti for reading my blogs... and if anyone else is reading them then plz plz do leave ur comments.. and suggest any improvements that u might want..
4) my cousins who throughout the wedding didnt bother me by asking how my cat was (oh i 4got to mention that i was out of town for my cousins wedding)
5) all manchester united fans who may or maynot read this... coz u have done one good thing by supporting the right club..
6) anyone who is getting irritated by the man utd thing then i apologize coz thats one thing i find hard to control
and yeah ive got an xam on dec21 so plz pray for me and multani
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
beware of aliens
ok so the first one is gone and by popular demand of about 1000002 creatures (a million of them were aliens), im coming out with the second one... frankly those aliens seemed very supportive , although i couldnt understand a word of what they said and i wonder if they understand what i write.. so its a mutual admiration going around here... now i dont know how to thank you aliens.. i mean what do i call you.. do u guys speak any language... obviously youre looking down at the earth right now and maybe even using a super high-bandwidth internet... so do u guys travel on brooms or do u have individual spacecrafts... frankly i was so overjoyed at seeing your comments that i went to my balcony and started shouting my thanks at you guys... i tried everything from barking to naying even sneezing (who knows that might be your language) till my mom started panicking and almost dialled 911 thinking my cat results were out and i had either flunked or passed but when i explained the reason i was making those noises, she panicked even more and started searching for a psychiatrist... now in my quest to be the first person on earth to communicate with the aliens, i continued first by meowing like a cat (somehow i got that idea) the i played a speech of george bush but someone from the opposite building threw a stone at me.. now obviously those aliens were hiding their identity so i got an idea and then i played something i thought even the aliens mght not like--- a himesh reshammiya song.... the aliens didnt reply but i got a lot of tomatoes and rotten eggs from every direction... my mother became even more determined in her search for a psychiatrist and the secretary of my apartment wanted to throw me out of the building.. i tried explaining the historical significance of my quest but the more i tried to convince him, the more aggressive he became... so with the noose tightening around my neck, my brain started ticking and i finally got a very bright idea.. i finally came across a word that everyone new... the word transcends languages, religions and i was sure even planets... so i shouted half excited with the impending glory and half amazed at my intelligence... so i shouted at the top of my breadth... " manchester united".... "manchester united"... my mom dropped the phonebook, the secretary stood still with his mouth wide open and i stood totally dumbfounded as i heard a noise... is it a bird, is it a plane.... no, it was a few dogs who all of a sudden had started barking... talk about timing... i tried to convince myself that there was some idiot standing down there who made the dogs barkright at that time... now for those aliens... i know you guys love me and my posts but if you dont know what manchester united is then i dont care about you guys... needless to say my mom took me to the psychiatrist and had a difficult time convincing the secretary that i was sane.. just a bit insane maybe but it can definitely be controlled.... and i was banned from going to the balcony...
and just if you dont know, the guy in the pic is rafael da silve.. 3 years younger than me and 3000 times better than me....
ok so i have for today this arduous task of getting up early at 8 and going in search of a project for my final sem.. but since i am blogging right now you can take a guess of how that is developing....
now my mom is getting suspicious with my long hours in front of this idiot box, so before she gets any funny ideas, im outta here.... cya soon... and beware of aliens
and just if you dont know, the guy in the pic is rafael da silve.. 3 years younger than me and 3000 times better than me....
ok so i have for today this arduous task of getting up early at 8 and going in search of a project for my final sem.. but since i am blogging right now you can take a guess of how that is developing....
now my mom is getting suspicious with my long hours in front of this idiot box, so before she gets any funny ideas, im outta here.... cya soon... and beware of aliens
Monday, December 1, 2008
think about it
for all those who dont know me(trust me you havent missed anything) my name is touseef im 6 foot tall, and got horrible eyes... im in degree final year(if u care to know) and i get pissed off when anyone calls me a nerd... and right now im trying to download a dictionary to throw in some tough words (sigh), i wrote (or should i say gave(forgive the grammatical errors)) the CAT this year and for everyones sake, i wont be discussing it...
hmm.. what do i say.. when i thought of writing a blog (inspired by a friend called ahmed whose blogspot is www.ahmediqbal.blogspot.com ) i had various topics but now i think i will focus on the one thing that had (or still has) the country stranded(obviously im referring to india because i dnt think ny1 abroad would be reading this). i know it might not be something to read as a pastime but what im about to take is a view that has not come into the limelight as of yet.. and yeah for the uninitiated, im referring to the mumbai blasts and while i was reading into the different opinions, one photo struck me and made me think.. WAS THE MUMBAI BLAST REALLY AN OUTSIDE JOB....
check this link out http://pakistankakhudahafiz.wordpress.com/2008/11/29/evidence-being-deliberately-ignored/ notice the thread and the fact that the terrorists had ordered liquor ( which is banned in islam)... now i know ppl will say that this might have been a coverup but why would they require one when the next thing they do is send a mail from russia claiming that they are part of a group called deccan mujahideen.. even if we consider that this is another coverup to hide the fact that they are pakistanis then why would these terrorists, who have so carefully planted fake evidences, make calls to karachi from the hotel? doesnt make sense right..
there are reports that they were trying to kill british and american nationals when only one britisher actually died... and the most important events that support this theory are the deaths of the ATS chief HEMANT KARKARE who reportedly had enough evidence with him to make a few high profile arrests in the nation.. dont you think his death was a bit too timely.. and another point to note is that the terrorists had enough ammunition to last 59 hours and if common sense were to be applied, there is no way that they could have carried it through the front gate of the hotel... which leaves two options.. the ammunition was already there or some one helped them get it in and in both cases there is obviously an insider involved..
okay enough theories lets see what the govt does... first they ignore all prior warnings of an impending attack and when the attack comes, they blame it on the pakistan govt without any investigation... frankly speaking, they did not have much of an option because claiming that the attack was an inside job would further pressurise the government which has clearly proved itself inept in providing security to its people and also taking rapid actions in the aftermath of this catastrophe...
now what does the government have to support its claims... an arrested terrorist who is divulging details faster than bret lee's deliveries... i have just seen the photo of this guy taken from a cell phone and for all i know he might already have been dead... just think about it... why would anyone who has agreed presumably to sacrifice his life so that his family is paid well make confessions so easily when he knows fully well that the masterminds of this attack might well be on their way to his house to kill his family members.. the same people for whom he had done this crime... it just doesnt make sense to me...
i guess in the next few days we will have newpapers and news channels carrying reports of the "spirit of mumbai" which totally makes me sick... i mean what do u xpect from people
whose house runs on their daily wages to do? stay at home in fear of another attack? do u think they are not concerned about their security? but can they help it... i mean what are they to do when their saviors are helpless.... the one thing this blast has brought about is the anger people have in their hearts for the politicians and the love they had for the commandos who were given a reception that only bollywood and cricket stars had experienced ... and god knows they thoroughly deserved all the accolades they got and even more maybe....
now if u r reading this till now, i can only assume that you have been moved by the incident... today i read a newspaper article about how people believed that terrorism had no religion and its really hearwarming to see that especially to a guy who has been called as being or belonging to a group of terrorists about 3 times in the past month and trust me it really hurts... atleast now i know that not all indians consider everyone as their brothers...
and where do we go to from now... i dont know... for once i hope whatever points i have given above are proved wrong for the nations sake(after a full and fair investigation i.e) and for our sake lets pray it was an outside job... but if it was an inside job then the nation is definitely tearing apart... its about time we star taking politics and national security (in that order ) serioously because i feel that the two are inter related... lets hope the lives of those commandos dont go in vain...
the elections are coming... should we give this govt another chance? can we trust the opposition? do we have another alternative? just think about it... till the next time when hopefully it will be a lighthearted post, im sighning off... c ya and pray for those who lost their lifes and their families
hmm.. what do i say.. when i thought of writing a blog (inspired by a friend called ahmed whose blogspot is www.ahmediqbal.blogspot.com ) i had various topics but now i think i will focus on the one thing that had (or still has) the country stranded(obviously im referring to india because i dnt think ny1 abroad would be reading this). i know it might not be something to read as a pastime but what im about to take is a view that has not come into the limelight as of yet.. and yeah for the uninitiated, im referring to the mumbai blasts and while i was reading into the different opinions, one photo struck me and made me think.. WAS THE MUMBAI BLAST REALLY AN OUTSIDE JOB....
check this link out http://pakistankakhudahafiz.wordpress.com/2008/11/29/evidence-being-deliberately-ignored/ notice the thread and the fact that the terrorists had ordered liquor ( which is banned in islam)... now i know ppl will say that this might have been a coverup but why would they require one when the next thing they do is send a mail from russia claiming that they are part of a group called deccan mujahideen.. even if we consider that this is another coverup to hide the fact that they are pakistanis then why would these terrorists, who have so carefully planted fake evidences, make calls to karachi from the hotel? doesnt make sense right..
there are reports that they were trying to kill british and american nationals when only one britisher actually died... and the most important events that support this theory are the deaths of the ATS chief HEMANT KARKARE who reportedly had enough evidence with him to make a few high profile arrests in the nation.. dont you think his death was a bit too timely.. and another point to note is that the terrorists had enough ammunition to last 59 hours and if common sense were to be applied, there is no way that they could have carried it through the front gate of the hotel... which leaves two options.. the ammunition was already there or some one helped them get it in and in both cases there is obviously an insider involved..
okay enough theories lets see what the govt does... first they ignore all prior warnings of an impending attack and when the attack comes, they blame it on the pakistan govt without any investigation... frankly speaking, they did not have much of an option because claiming that the attack was an inside job would further pressurise the government which has clearly proved itself inept in providing security to its people and also taking rapid actions in the aftermath of this catastrophe...
now what does the government have to support its claims... an arrested terrorist who is divulging details faster than bret lee's deliveries... i have just seen the photo of this guy taken from a cell phone and for all i know he might already have been dead... just think about it... why would anyone who has agreed presumably to sacrifice his life so that his family is paid well make confessions so easily when he knows fully well that the masterminds of this attack might well be on their way to his house to kill his family members.. the same people for whom he had done this crime... it just doesnt make sense to me...
i guess in the next few days we will have newpapers and news channels carrying reports of the "spirit of mumbai" which totally makes me sick... i mean what do u xpect from people
whose house runs on their daily wages to do? stay at home in fear of another attack? do u think they are not concerned about their security? but can they help it... i mean what are they to do when their saviors are helpless.... the one thing this blast has brought about is the anger people have in their hearts for the politicians and the love they had for the commandos who were given a reception that only bollywood and cricket stars had experienced ... and god knows they thoroughly deserved all the accolades they got and even more maybe....
now if u r reading this till now, i can only assume that you have been moved by the incident... today i read a newspaper article about how people believed that terrorism had no religion and its really hearwarming to see that especially to a guy who has been called as being or belonging to a group of terrorists about 3 times in the past month and trust me it really hurts... atleast now i know that not all indians consider everyone as their brothers...
and where do we go to from now... i dont know... for once i hope whatever points i have given above are proved wrong for the nations sake(after a full and fair investigation i.e) and for our sake lets pray it was an outside job... but if it was an inside job then the nation is definitely tearing apart... its about time we star taking politics and national security (in that order ) serioously because i feel that the two are inter related... lets hope the lives of those commandos dont go in vain...
the elections are coming... should we give this govt another chance? can we trust the opposition? do we have another alternative? just think about it... till the next time when hopefully it will be a lighthearted post, im sighning off... c ya and pray for those who lost their lifes and their families
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