From shadows to the stars

Another old FB post. INSOMNIA - You wish you had it during the nights before exams. But that never happens. When you have Insomnia, you are never really awake. But you are not really asleep either. You can feel your eyelids getting heavier. Time to switch the light off and get cozy under your blanket. Close your eyes. Ahhh.. you think your are gonna fall asleep. The illusion of sleep takes over you. Time passes. And yet, you are still rolling around in bed, waiting for your brain to stop thinking and let your sub-conscious take over. Let the imagination pour into the dreams. And yet, somehow, your mind wont let you sleep. You shut your eyes tighter. "Shut up and sleep". Start counting sheep. A big flock of sheep. A VERY big flock . You wish you had a "power off" button. Is this just a dream? Then your mind starts lingering. The past becomes present. All the times you screwed up torture you again, coming to life in your own head. The self-executed punishment...

Note: This an old post of mine that was on Facebook. The first sentence when I meet a new person invariably happens to be “You are tall!” or a paraphrase of it. If it weren’t for the sake of acting “civilized”, I can assure you that they would have had some scars to show-off for the rest of their lives. Once, when I was on my way to college, a complete stranger came up to me and asked, “How tall are you?” In my mind, images of a chainsaws, shotguns and torture devices started popping up. Breaking my fantasy, the guy repeats “Hey! What is your height man?” Thoroughly irritated, I reply “Well I’m between 6’2” and 6’3”” and walk away. Others ask me if I play basketball. Some go down to unprecedented levels by asking me my shoe-size. I guess, after experiencing thousands of such questions and awkward moments, how a beautiful woman must be feeling when all kinds of people tell her that she is beautiful. It is flattering for the first few times and thereafter, it gets irritatin...

RO #1 Isn't it ironic how strip clubs are called "Gentleman's Clubs"? (at least according to pop-culture). Or does it imply that if you're a 'gentleman', the only way you can see a woman naked is in a strip club? RO #2 To the only thing in this world I cannot live even a few minutes without - Oxygen! RO #3 The one thing Indians are punctual at is cutting the electricity. Shocking though, it may seem to the rich countries, we, the people of developing countries do have power cuts. Especially in the summer. While Indians are notorious for giving a damn about punctuality, the men working the power stations are dead punctual. In fact, they cut the power a couple of minutes earlier than the stipulated timing. RO #4 There is something perverse about the way people on the internet seem to seek out opinions that they know will enrage them. Being on twitter, i observe that some people go out of their for arguing with people ...

The Convert hypothesis has a simple premise. Converted Christians feel burdened (or "driven") to prove that they have just as much faith or belief in the tenets of Christianity as the natural Christian  (I use "natural" only because of the lack of a better word. No one really is a "natural" believer in religion/ God. They are born into families who have been practicing a certain religion and therefore adopt, at least in most cases, the same beliefs.) Because they have converted from some other religion, they want to make a point that they are just as religious as those 'natural' Christians. If you collect data on how often converted and 'natural' Christians visit Church, i'm quite positive that the converts go more often. I dont know why this is. Maybe the 'natural' Christians look upon the converts as 2nd rate Christians? I'm just speculating, I dont know for sure. But this phenomenon is observed only in first g...

I think I might have figured out the reason behind the chaotic traffic situation in my city, Hyderabad. For a long, long time, many people in the city have been driving two wheelers. In Hyderabad, and presumably India, two wheelers are driven in a pointedly different manner than in the rest of the world. Two wheelers (including myself), regularly snake through the traffic, squeezing through the smallest nooks and corners in an attempt to escape the horrors of the traffic congestion. The relatively smaller two wheelers do not cause an additional congestion by snaking through like this. It would be understandable, though probably not commendable, that two wheelers are driven in this particular fashion. The problem arose later. A lot of the people who had been driving two wheelers, due to certain reasons like financial boom through the IT industry, were suddenly able to afford a more lavish lifestyle. They were able to afford cars and other such four wheelers. Yaay! For t...

RO #1 If girl keeps calling ex-boyfriend, “Aww! She’s still in love with him!” If guy keeps calling ex-girlfriend, “Oh my god! What a creep!” RO #2 If you have to stay up all night to “get lucky”, doesn’t it mean you suffer from erectile dysfunction? Note: this is in reference to the song “Get Lucky” by “masked duo” (I don’t remember the name of the ‘band’, I remember they don’t reveal their faces or something like that). Yes, I know that song was the “in thing” a long time ago. RO #3 Out of the world – why do people assume that something that is found outside our planet must be more beautiful than what we have here? After all, we have life. How many planets can boast the same? RO #4 A lecturer called me “resourceful” sometime ago and I was hugely upset by this. I don’t want people to think I am resourceful. If you are resourceful, you get asked to do every little piece of work (and also the big ones). I want people to think that I am lazy and useless, so that I c...

When someone starts to get white hair, the natural reaction, in most cases at least, is to dye the hair. I do not have anything to say about this. If people want others to think that they are actually younger than they are, that's fine with me. What I don't understand, is why some people choose to dye their hair to a brown or maroonish colour. The slang word for people who have intermittent maroon hair is "copper hair". Yes, that statement was totally irrelevant, I agree. If you dye your white hair to the copper colour, you are not fooling anyone. When I see a person who has black hair sprinkled with copper coloured hair, I realise that he/ she are dying their hair. To these people, I ask, "Why dye your hair at all when you obviously are not achieving your intention of hiding away your white hair?". I suggest that the copper haired people either start dyeing their hair black or - this one's the better option - don't dye their hair at all! ...