Congress ka Jai Ho Campaign…

I remember a popular story I had read when I was in primary. An idol of some god was being carried on a donkey’s back. All villagers were bowing down to the idol and the donkey thought they are bowing down at him. The Jai Ho Campaign of Congress reminded me of this story. A patriotic song like “Jai Ho” will evoke feelings inside any Indian and Congress thinks it is smart to use it for campaigning.

5 years back when BJP were in power they had committed the same mistake. They had come up with “India Shining Campaign.” They had spent an estimate of $US20 million on it and finally had to admit that due to their overconfidence and wrong slogans they lost the elections. Women dressed in sarees playing cricket made no sense to the voters. Congress is trying their luck by following the footsteps. Though they have made a more sensible advertisement, the issue remains the same- shameless use of government resources for electoral purposes. Lage Raho Congress!! :P

Let me make it clear over here that I am not a fanatic of any party. In fact I believe with the popular saying: "Politicians and diapers have one thing in common --- they both should be changed regularly and for the same reason!"

Manish Tiwari, Congress party spokesperson, said, "If one party deserves the song to be played during campaigns it is the Congress party because of its image." Seriously I have no Comments about this...

As for the opposition, they have no other work but to ridicule the actions of the government. Corollary of Newton’s third law says, for every action by the government there is an opposite opposition reaction. "This song will ensure their defeat because it will remind every Indian that millions of people still have to stay in slums because of faulty Congress policies," Prakash Javdekar, a senior BJP leader, said.

As for us voters, we can only wait and watch the consequences of the elections. As far as they say, “Democracy is where any two idiots outvote a genius”.

Crazy Ambitions

As if I didn't have enough confusions in life, one more got added into the list today. My ambitions in life have changed from time to time, some persisted for a few months, and others lived only for a few days. As far as I remember, my first ambition was born in our History class (probably 5th STD) when we were taught about the life of Gautam Buddha and Lord Mahavir. :P There I was sitting in the first bench, dreaming to be the 25th Tirthankar. I wanted to meditate, go in a forest, sit beneath a tree, probably erect a shivling there and do tapascharya! When Lord Mahadev would appear before me, I would ask him to fulfill my secret wish! :) I am not joking. I had been watching TV serials like Om Namah Shivaay, Jai Hanuman, etc. during those days. :P

I had made plans to collect sufficient sand when I go to Colva Beach and bring it home. Going to forest seemed impractical, so I had decided that during the long summer vacations, I would carve the shivling out of the sand and keep it on our terrace and sit there and meditate. :P

Well that was long ago. When I look back at those days, some of these ambitions seem too childish; almost always evoke a hearty laughter or at least a smile on my face, while some of them drive me into deeper thoughts. One of them is still alive. I have always wanted to see India in the list of developed nations, before I die. I have no idea how difficult this is. But I have wanted to make my contributions in this noble cause.

Today a thought occurred to me, I wish to go and spend some years of my life in a village, and give in my best to develop it. I would strive to bring electricity, water and food in every home and educate them about contributing to a developed India. I want to live life which I haven’t ever dreamt about. And I don’t mind if I have to collect cow dung or if I have to sleep hungry in cold beneath the plain sky. I want to experience how millions of men and women do it. Probably then only I will realize how lucky I am to have such a luxurious urban life and so many people to care about me. Then only I will learn not to complain for what God chose to give others but not me.

THE ACADEMY AWARDS

After a successful journey of almost one week in my life (since my last post), I present before you a few of the Oscar winning moments during the week.

The nominees for the most delightful moment are: Slumdog Millionaire winning 8 oscars, some really heated arguments and jokes exchanged with Pintoo, leap into the swimming pool after 1 long tiring week, driving our ALTO after almost one month.

And the winner is: “some really heated arguments and jokes with Pintoo”

Speech: Pintoo is one of my beloved dudes in campus. Arguments with him can last for hours together and almost always are ridiculous and idiotic, yet they have sometimes made me laugh more than I have ever in my lifetime. And the best part he appreciates some of the most pathetic PJs I have cracked. The other day I said the center of mass of his body will shift if he wears his new heavy wrist watch and he will lose balance when he jumps from one tree to another ;) err... he’s our Makadman!! And he liked the technical joke! Hehe! :P By the way, having posted all this in public, I guess I'll have to face one more heated argument (which might get physical :( ) when he reads this post!

In the category of moment of achievement, the nominees are: completing DMV assignment at 2am after some really painstaking efforts, writing my first ANSYS code successfully, topping CAD in Test1 convincingly, Winning the 16^th Trophy in RanchRush (that’s my favorite Yahoo game- see my orkut album for details). And the winner is “Topping CAD in Test1 convincingly”.
Speech: Getting a score of 57/60 was undoubtedly a dream come true when the average is just 25. Scoring more than double the average marks is a big achievement as far as academics are concerned.

The nominees for the most memorable moment are: Antony’s birthday treat at Royal Darbar, 8 guys in 1 Taxi NFS ride from Royal Darbar to BITS, Playing a pun on Antony by telling him he was OPRE topper, Watching “How can she slap me” videos. And the winner is: Watching ‘How can she slap me?’ videos

Speech: In the Dadagiri show on Bindaas channel, Esha the goddess slaps Ravi and he returns it with full force. (You can see the videos from youtube). There are some lolest videos on DC (a place to download all kinds of stuff from, in BITS) :P and the whole campus watches them and has intense discussion on mainchat. This time almost everyone agreed it was Esha’s mistake. She deserved a harder slap.

In the category of fiction, the nominees are: first kiss with my girlfriend (issshhh…!!!), driving our Alto at 100kmph, taking a 10m leap at the swimming pool and the award is bagged by “First kiss with my girlfriend.”

Speech: Fiction refers to some of the dreams that I might have

seen, either asleep or awake. : P

Almost all the times (including this one) awards in this category have been bagged by daydreaming. Well the kiss lastest for just about 20 seconds, but left memories worth 20 years. Err… and those 20 seconds will require at least 20 pages to describe, so I’ll post it some other time. :P Enough for now!

Idle Mind is Devil's Workshop

A Quick intro:
(1) Why the name Random Variables?
That's because I have planned to post some Random Stuff on this blog... :P



(2) Why "kaamdhandona"?
I always believe that Humans can stay busy if they choose to be or can stay idle if they choose so. The point I want to make here is the choice is in their own hands! What inspired the title of this blog "Kaam Dhando Na" is obvious from my above statement. (For Konkani-illiterate guys, it simply means I have no useful work to do...)
It was also my long quest to start a blog that finally gave birth to this useless crap on the net (as if I didn't have enough!!)

So what do you basically do when you are idle? Eh? You Fart?? Well that was unexpected!! But most people whom I know, think of means to waste their time, ob! And then they do that thing! But I am not like that. I only think of how to waste my time, and having arrived at a conclusion, I realize I have wasted enough time thinking and I get back to work. So that's exactly what I am going to do right now, I am going to get back to my work and post something more interesting when I become idle next time! Hang on!