Lachuvum Nannum - GOD

Last week I told Lachu that there is NO GOD ( effects of reading God Delusion). She challenged me back asking me to read "Value Education". Her "Value Education" text book says lots of things about GOD.

And the thing that GOD may not exist seems to bother her. She is telling her friends and their families about my stupidity.

And this weekend.. she again took the topic back. She told me GOD is invisible and UP there. Whether its in Clouds, she said much above. About Ganapathi, Siva, Vishnu having shapes, she said she did not make them, it was bought!

Finally she became aggressive: "If you are teasing GOD, and if you do not believe in GOD then why did you visit GOD in Mysore ?

Hmm...........

Zindagi Na Dubara Milegi

Can we make road-trips compulsory before marriage ? So that engagements can be called off... ( oops.. spoilers behind :) )

What about married guys ? They need a real tough road-trip to rediscover themselves.

Rashomon

Rashomon - Beautiful film. Deals with the "subjectivity" of truth. One murder and four interpretations. Must see.

Haven't we also faced similar situations... Happenings in life.. And the interpretations are different.. We never want to make ourself look bad in our thoughts and view points. There will be a hero element in my part when i make up the story.. I will be the Dev-D, Vijay and Rahul in my story.

Other films watched this week incudes

- Rounders
- Harry Potter
and
- Zindagi Na Milega Dubara ( This one inspired me for a road trip.. But no bikes, scuba diving, parachoot and bull fights :) And also to call or mail all old friends )

Lachum Nannum - II

Anyway Lachu has categorically stated that: < She will not scold her husband the way her mother scolds her husband. She will only tell him. She says Love is important > Good wisdom :)

And she gave me a look.. "that i dont want a stupid guy like you" :)

Am I writing too many personal things ? Dont worry, I am faking it :)

Lachuvum Nannum

On the way to see "Zindagi Na Milegi Dubara"

(.. translated to english...)
Me: When u grow up u will drive the car, and i will just sit
Lachu: No , my husband will drive
Me: Where ur husband ?
Lachu: I will find
Me: How ?
Lachu: I will meet somebody
Me: Tell me
Lachu: Will tell u later
Me: Till then ?
Lachu: I will be in bangalore with u. You can drive

On the way back I didnt ask anything, as "ZNMD" may have givem more ideas to her !!!

Feynmann effect

Teaching Lachu has become easy after reading Feynnman books. She had an assignment yesterday to do - paste 3 kinds of leaves and tell their names. I plucked 3 types of leaves and was wondering what the trees names are ? Then remembered Feynmann. Its not important to remember all the names in chinese, english or sanskrit. It is more important to understand their behaviour and characteristics and the rational behind that. Me and lachu visited the tree sites :) and understood what they offer ! And didnt bother to give the names.

what do i want to do before i die ? i already did

What do I want to do before I die ? After pondering the question for a day I came back with the answer. Buy the full Tintin collection... And then realized that its too easy to 'realize' the dream. Bought from flipkart and now reading for the second time. So now I can die peacefully.

My other wishes:

1. Date with a premium actress ( It seems I need to buy them an 18 cr apartment to do that )
2. Love and Elope ( It will be adultery, but still its an unachieved dream )

If my other wishes doesnt come true, then will replace those with (1) Aesterix and (2) Calvin and Hobbes collection.

Red circles

Lachu has a new process. Whenever I scold her she puts a red circle on the day in the calendar. She wants to expose my double standards.. that i pretend to be a nice father who is a friend to my kid... Now July calendar is full of red circles. I hope it will become green for the rest of the month !

Will another 9/11 help ?

We Indians, Our government cant protect ourselves. The world super power America is interested only in a selective fight against terrorism. They dont care about attacks outside America, and the people who create trouble for us are their major allies in the "war against terrorism". Hope the same bastaards who bomb us do another 9/11 in america and let the world super power awake against these people...

Humps ahead

B'lore is hotter day by day ( not alone in terms of weather ).. Me a decent fellow gets pleasure in reading the literature in all the Tee-Shirts. Some are like stories which u dont get in one glance. And nowadays lots of caricatures are also there with the literature and you need to stare a while before getting the full picture.

Hope my intentions will not be misunderstood. No fuss

mysore - conclusion

I asked the sanest soul in my house what she liked in mysore. Her likings in descending order are:

(1) Hotel Stay: she likes to stay there forever

(2) Mysore palace... before i was too happy she said ... ballooons bought from mysore palace

(3) The other palace ( Jagmohan palace ) from where we bought purse and hats

(4) Brindavan dancing music garden... not that object.. but the Sare Jahan se music played.. she likes that song and is patriotic

Things she would like improvements in future are:

(1) Visit Wonderla

(2) If we had stayed there on monday also she could have avoided tuesday's unit test.

Cool....... Next where.. Coorg is calling me.

mysore trip - II

Its not over. Worst part is I bribed Chamundeswari Devi. After being a sheep in the herds of baba I thought I will never pray bribe again. But things dont work that way. There was long queue and a person there asked me whether I need special entry. I sais Yes, as I am less interested in gaining punya and although my daughter wants Punya she hates queues. So I got an easy entry paying 100Rs per head. Coming out felt guilty, but there was no guilt while going inside. What an opportunist!

And inside temple I was garlanded by Pujari also. I was happy and give him a 50Rs. So blessings are with me.

Compared to Tirupathi trip where I didnt visit the temple but climbed up Tirumala, God might be more pleased with the Tirumala. There I made some effort.

Anyway both decisions whether to do darshan of Chamundeswari or not do Tirupathi was not mine. It was destined to happen. Its my previous karma. And what is already destined here choses my next kharma also. Inside the Matrix you dont have any control.

Mysore Trip

Went to Mysore for a trip 1 week back .. last time visited mysore was in 8th std.

Cant remember exactly what all happened in liner order. Will state whatever pops out from my volatile memory stack....

Had a disastrous purchase from a fake Cavery emporium ( at Ramanashree hotel complex). Bought things for around 2000 Rs. Knew it while entering that its a fake shop. Wanted to buy something and bought it without bargaining or checking the quality. And later found that bought agarbathees worth 100Rs for 250Rs and so on. Good for the seller. Later compensated that by buying for another 2000Rs from original shop.

Good Masala Dosas at Paradise hotel. Very nice ones. Ate 4 ones each for 2 days making it 8 in total.

Everybody driver, wife and all the people I see was criticising for having 3 days and 2 nights at Mysore. Too many buffer getting added in projects is influencing me in real life also.

The only notable things saw was - Jagmohan palace and mysore palace.

I got 1 out of 10 for planning this trip. Disastrous ratings.

Next time visit Coorg or Oooty and sleep there. No more palace and garden visits.

Advices

These days I am not turning to others for advice ( except for the apartment buying case )... Too many advices received over these years and now well-wishers are wary of me approaching them with a problem.

Just refreshing the learnings I received over the years:

Be selfish: Take oxygen mask first, and then only you can save others. Enjoy more during hard times.

Be at present: This is what you have. Take it and make the best out of it

Stop complaining: You are responsible for your present and future. Stop complaining / threatening. Why disturb others ? ( My blog readers are less, so i hope this post will not be taken as complaining )

Find out what you want to do now and Do.

Thought of penning it down all the wisdom for my future years :)

These days "without advisers and well wishers" I motivate myself my seeing the hard truth in "planet earth" dvds. Life is tough and colurful.