From shadows to the stars

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...