A walk in the street

During my last visit to India after 2 years, I realized all over again that a walk in an Indian metropolis is either a treat or a mis-treat for your senses.

• one moment you taste the sumptuous dishes from a streetside vendor during lunch break at office and the very next moment you inhale the smoke and polluted air while walking back to your office

• One moment you hear the soothing music of sitar playing at a music shop and the next moment you hear a loud ear-piercing honk of a passer-by car

• One moment when you hold a silk saree or check out the intricate design of a kashmiri shawl and you appreciate it's beauty and craftsmanship, next moment you jostle to get in a busy train and rubbed by the sweaty and hairy hand of a co-passenger.

• One moment you smell beautiful 'jui' and other aromatic flowers at a street side flower shop and within five minutes you smell the ammonia of someone pissing by the street or even the paid toilets

• One moment you see a bevy of young girls beautifully dressed for a special occassion and your heart start racing and the next moment you see a few homeless & hungry kids begging for a few bucks and your heart starts crying

It is what it is, an enigma and paradox of an Indian metropolis...

Random thoughts - again

Most powerful positive emotion - Love

Most powerful negative emotion - Jealousy

When we do something out of feeling of duty or responsibility, over time we get emotionally tired. However, if you do something out of feeling of love, you are never tired.

Love, Sex & Marriage

Our existence inside this triangle. As the power of Sex & Marriage pulls you down, the strength of love lifts you up. If marriage & sex was taken out of the equation, love would be a truly wonderful thing!

How to google...

The other day I was typing "How to..." in the google page and it showed me the top 10 lists of "how tos" based on the latest stats, I guess. I was a little disappointed to see that "How to tie a tie" made it to the top even though I also don't know how to tie a tie!

It was so surprising to see that activities that should come to us naturally, like how to kiss or how to get pregnant, needs a google search ultimately. Even though I am a big fan of google, but, I do think that the Bing ad brings up a very good point about our mindless search of data!

Stretching my imagination, how stupid it maybe, I came up with the following storyline where the same person does all of the above searches. A little overweight single guy being lonely for a while decides to "lose weight fast". He likes a girl at work, but never talked to her. He wonders how does he "make her like him". Being innovative, he decides to learn "solving rubix cubes" while reading out an article loudly in a record time and uploads a video of that in youtube. He sends that link to the girl and she asks him back "how to dowload the youtube video" as she wants to copy it to her phone and show it to her friend who does not have internet connection(hahaha, possible, right?). Now, they start dating and one evening they plan to go to a fancy dinner and he decides to wear a tie, but not knowing how to tie a tie he resorts to google search. A few weeks pass by and they start liking each other and one night (lets give him a name now, say, Chris) after dinner, randomly searches a few things like how to kiss and how to become pregnant. Chris gets very excited that night by the thought of making her pregnant(lets give her a name too, say, Christina) and could not sleep. After a few months and having spent "quality" time with Christina, Chris decides to make his own website to write journals and publish pictures(lets assume he does not use facebook, blogs and such :))

Now, that he is kind of settled with Christina, Chris needs to find a better job(I dont know what he does now) and searches how to write resumes which catch employer's attention. After a few months, he lands up with a good job and proposes to Christina, which she accepts.

Even though he still sometimes sleeps alone but he is not lonely anymore, he often feels that he is in cloud nine. In one of those nights, when he is in cloud nice, he wonders how do other people make it in america...he gets up to do a google search on the same.

PS: Google did show an ad during superbowl which had some common concepts outlined in the storyline above

An idea of solving traffic congestion

Thats quite a bold claim is n't it? everywhere in the world, be it developed or developing nations people spend zillions of hour stuck in traffic. It's an omnipresent problem. Better city planning, more public transportation is definitely some way of solving the problem.

I have a totally different approach, which relies on randomness of events. Suppose, you generally leave home to go to office around 815AM every morning. You catch a train or drive your car or whatever. Similarly, every other person generally has a fixed time of leaving home for work or school unless they have a different appointment at a different time.

What I suggest you to do is to leave randomly at a time interval say, between 8:05AM and 8:25AM(8:15AM being the mid point of them). The idea is if everyone follows the same principle it will smooth out the traffic congestion. For example, look at the difference between a traffic signal and a stop sign. For a stop sign, a distance is created between two consecutive cars. The problem with this approach is everyone has to follow the same principle for it to work. One can get a random number generator to generate one between two intervals.