11 May 2009

Save your Girl child -




A seemingly normal and affluent family of four in Mumbai, India. The 21 year old daughter, a silent sufferer for over 10 years, decided to bring the truth to light, when her 15 year old sister was in danger of meeting a similar fate.
The superstitious parents under the influence of an astrologer, had been sexually abusing the girl, all in the hope of becoming richer!

This news was followed by news of charges of sexual exploitation of six physically challenged girls, by the teaching staff, of a rehabilitation centre for the deaf, dumb and mentally challenged, being run by an NGO in Shimla.

I don't know what to say on the above. I feel selfishly thankful, that my own childhood had been a safe one. That I went to bed secure and feared only the darkness and the unknown. That there was no monster in flesh and blood, lurking in the shadows, waiting to pounce on me while the world looked the other way.

I don't even feel like preaching. I don't want to remember the lyrics of the song Heal the World by Michael Jackson.

After all what is the use of saying things that only a certain section of us believe in, while the perpetrators of crime continue, unabashed and unchecked.

Overloaded Emotions

I am so ANGRY that......
I am so SAD i feel like.....
I am so SCARED......
I'm FRUSTRATED.....
I HATE. ....
I'm CONFUSED......
I'm SUSPICIOUS...
I'm a VICTIM...

so on.....

I am paralyzed by the emotional overload which this movie has given me. It ‘pings’ so many ‘ports’ of my conscience, so very effectively and deeply. And this song is the representative of the whole package. It goes like this, movie : Taare zameen par-

Main kabhee batlata nahi, par andhere se darta hoon main maa,

Yoon to main dikhlata nahi, teri parwaah karta hoon main maa,

Tujhe sab hai pata hai na maa, Tujhe sab hai pata meri maa.

(English literal translation :

I never tell you this, but I am scared of the darkness, oh mother,

Generally I don’t show it, but I care for you, oh mother,

Do you know it all, oh mother? You know it all, oh my mother. )


I was thinking how emotions can paralyze a person, both mentally and physically. The first symptoms of this can be seen in the eyes, where you can’t control your muscles to stop the salty fluid from flowing out of the tear bags.

A greater impact can be seen mentally, when all day you just keep swinging here and there, and are not able to concentrate on your work, or do something else except being in that pathetic mental state.

If emotions are so harmful, then why do we need them anyway? If through evolution, only the best traits of all living beings get boosted and the useless ones get deprecated, how have we, humans, supposedly the most developed species on earth, retained this ‘defect’?

What good do emotions do to us that their shortcomings can be ignored as minor round-off errors? When a person is acting emotionally, it is less likely that he/she is doing things practically or rationally.

But if we look deeper, emotions can create revolutions, emotions can boost the morale of an entire army by a thousand times in magnitude, emotions can help people keep going on even when its gets tough, emotions can make someone achieve that practically and rationally seems impossible.

hmmm...

Emotions are a reason for misery and sadness in the world,

Emotions are behind revolutions, discoveries and inventions,

Emotions make us behave worse than animals sometimes,

Emotions are what makes us human.

Annual Health Check

How many of you fear needles (the ones used in hospitals)? Well, at least I do. And this fear hasn’t left me even after uncountable injections that I’ve received. People just say, its just a prick, its smaller than a wound or anything like that. Why do you fear it?

How do wounds occur? You’re just playing or working, when suddenly due to some mishap, you get a big cut. And if you could ever predict you would get a cut, you wouldn’t do that thing. Now imagine the following scenario.

You call the doctor and take an appointment date. You go to the hospital and wait for your turn. When your name is called, you go in a small room where they make you sit on a high chair. Then someone comes and cleans your arm with antiseptic lotion. Then he takes a knife, and very carefully peels off some part of your skin. Probably the wound he makes isn’t even close to the random unannounced accident.

I think its not about the small prick, its more about the build-up. The whole scene, the hospital environment, the waiting and then the actual act. Nonetheless, we must understand, its all in our mind. The nurse who is doing it is well trained, the syringes are new and unused, and you’d come out alive (rather pretty much the same).

Annual health checkups are a very essential thing, and everyone should have them. I am really fortunate that my company provides this facility to all its employees for free upto a sum of 2500 grand. But still, the damn needle hurts yaar.

Brain Activity

Having thought on this subject a couple of times sometime ago,I,had never done any research on this. Hmmm after I got a link through a friend of mine I decided on trying it out. Going by this quiz it seems, I use both of them equally- amazing eh??? hahaha


You Are 50% Left Brained, 50% Right Brained



The left side of your brain controls verbal ability, attention to detail, and reasoning.
Left brained people are good at communication and persuading others.
If you're left brained, you are likely good at math and logic.
Your left brain prefers dogs, reading, and quiet.

The right side of your brain is all about creativity and flexibility.
Daring and intuitive, right brained people see the world in their unique way.
If you're right brained, you likely have a talent for creative writing and art.
Your right brain prefers day dreaming, philosophy, and sports.


But this test says I'm more of a right brained person.

Lay off's?

At our office one of my colleague commented, "I am buying a house when many people are getting pink slips.." Jokingly I commented, "It is said that, not spending during a bad economy would worsen the situation, and people should spend, which would make businesses flourish and economy would get better"

But this made me think about the prevalence of the pink-slip fear. I know some of my friends who are afraid of being laid-off and hence they work 24 hours doing almost 2+ person work a day, to make them valuable for the company. But the net effect is everyone does 2 people's work and the management would find that only half the number of people are enough. So they would cut the workforce!!! And most of the people who worked like a donkey to shield themselves from lay-off, would be laid-off...

Moral of the story: Prevention is better than cure, but make sure your prevention measures cannot be multiplied by a negative number