Of cheats and generosity.

A very small snippet of what may be right and wrong with the world today explained through blatant consumerism:

Last Sunday, I wake up with the usual thought of picking up the Sunday supplement to read with a cup of coffee and there I saw on the newspaper, a sachet of Vivel shampoo – the new range by ITC. Well, that’s a freebee! (I think we threw the paper into our recycle stack though, shampoo et all).

Then, we go over to our friend’s house for lunch and conversation leads to why there’s a white blank rectangle on their Sunday supplements. Turns out the news paper guy has nicked the shampoo sachet before delivering them! Ouch! Now this is approximately a 300 home apartment complex which equals 300 stolen sachets that the newspaper dealer may be selling to the shop around the corner for a profit, unless Rapunzel lives with him.

Turn to Monday morning in our house and guess what? another Sunday supplement is delivered to us! Looks like the dealer had a few extra newspapers and wanted us to have the sachets.

Now that’s generous. All’s well with the world again (for the next 5 mins).

End of the world

I went about my usual daily business scarcely aware that this potentially devastating device (Hadron Collider- Will post the link later. Looks like the entire world is searching for it so it wont load) will be unleased on the world today. Imagine the irony - the experiment CERN is conducting to study the Big Bang - the birth of the universe can cause the the end of the world. All the radio stations are inviting callers to discuss their "in a blaze of glory" exit from this world. A lady wants to take her husband to all his ex's so they can give him a last goodbye kiss? Huh? Another guy wants to propose (sic) to Sania Mirza.
Anyway, what about my blaze of glory? I want to discuss a movie. A movie called Dark Storm that I watched quite recently on TV (was that a sign from up above?). This obscure movie (took me tons of googling to get to its name - had forgotten it) talks about exactly the world faces today. Scientists in some super secret military lab discover "dark matter" and the mandatory evil and greedy one amongst them wants to un leash that on the planet for his own excitement (or to sell it or whatever). You see, its very hard to understand what the movie tries to convey. But if you ask me, this was the warning god gave to us long back (movie released in 2006). What's the fun if you dont use your grey matter to figure out the deep implications of the movie?? So here we have Mr. Rebonded hair scientist (turns out he has a web site for his "fans" but again I get an error. Is it just me?) who has swallowed dark matter (the evil guy puts it in him in true Guinea pig fashion). He can now control it. He's got this flashy presence on screen (literally) and can throw electricity bolts at people amongst other things. A boring 2 hours and tons of close ups on the hero's hair style later, Mr hero guy goes to this "lab" to stop the dark matter from creating a black hole in order save the planet. I'll leave the ending for you to figure. Come on you've got to use your grey matter too - to figure out how to tackle today.

As for me - I've now told the whole world how to save planet earth. Watch Dark Cloud.

The Indian connection

I do not have to introduce anyone to the habit of Indians taking credit for everything important that happens around the globe. Not to take away the accomplishments of talented individuals but I totally gag everytime the media digs up an Indian connection within no time for any happening that gets widely reported about. Take this for instance. It took them what? One week? to decide that an Indian was behind google's new browser Chrome.
Booker price? Gotta have an Indian. In fact none of the other nomineess with even get discussed in the Indian media.
Man on the moon/Mars/Uranus? - The little Indian needs to be waving right from up there!

Umpteen other examples. Bah!