Crazy Kiya Re

CAS is here. a day early. Only news channels, some more news channels, doordarshan and its children, regional language channels, jagran.... wooohooo. After watching amisha patel get tormented by dead hrithik roshan lookalike new hrithik roshan for the hundredth time.. and cringing at hrithik's painful efforts at overacting, i discover (and am subsequently told AGAIN and AGAIN) that Zoom and Times Now are free to air in CAS notified regions. balle balle.

I get to watch songs of Salaam-e-ishq where i notice that all the three songs i saw had been picturised atleast in part on the millenium bridge in London!! Some people sure love the bridge!

Doordashan was showing this program where the cartoonist, Sudhir Tailang, was trying to interview Gulzar and was doing a very pathetic job of it. Such acute discomfort that I am sure that both would have been very glad if the ceiling had fallen on their heads rather than going ahead with the interview.

Times Now was showing clippings from various interviews done by Arnab Goswami over the year. While the show was interesting, it furthened my resolve to name my son Arnab or Arnav (or one of the other forms of the name, if any). (hanso mat!)

I also finally saw the famous MIKA video where he explains why he kissed Rakhi. Amazing man! what freedom to put whatever crap one wants on the television!! I wonder if there was a contest of the most trivial item which made breaking news this year who would walk away with the top spot: rakhi-mika, prince or sunju baba? more nominations are welcome.

After preparing lunch and sitting down to eat it, I made the grave mistake (no pun intended) of watching news channels while eating and the gory details of the NOIDA murders took away most of the fun out of the meal. (And what the hell is this looping of small clippings business on news channels. urgggghhhh.)

This inhumane crime, the hanging of Saddam Hussein... they just reiterate what I said in my previous post.(and which HoH finds very frivolous :P) ANYTHING is possible. There is no permanence in any institution of any kind. We humans engage in a constant race to outdo ourselves: technologically, economically, politically, socially, culturally. Some of these races are for the bottom. We are testing how low we can stoop. And I am not pointing fingers. I, unfortunately, may be doing the same.

I hope the new year productively channelises our energies and we become better human beings.

Enjoy!

uljhan

whenever examinations approach and I finally pick up my books to study, my slumbering greycells get hyperactive and in the convenient absence of any form of discipline whatsoever, thoughts run in all directions and numerous realisations are made.

the eternal questioning of whether I genuinely desire little from life or i am just being lazy . when we are eventually looking for happiness and small things in life make me happy, why should i be chasing grandoise dreams? dreams that may be mine but i cannot relate to...!

and what of taking a step at a time? isn't that impossible considering how present overlaps with the future and much as you would like it to be, life doesn't come in watertight compartments, neatly packaged and in a manageable sequence! isn't being able to handle this flux what growing up is about?

living in the present isn't easy!

if one pauses in a particular moment and tries to feel the great power that one possesses to break free from the past and begin anew.. it is very heartening. just that one step, one trigger.. the right moment and the push of the past can be minimised..

I can be anyone I want to. Nothing stops me. And I have all the time in the world.

youth, eh?