the blogger's block

What do you say when you have nothing to say?

2009-07-23T20:42:00.000+05:30

No. it's not about me. Or, me having nothing to blog about. I'm ample supply of blog ideas and I'm taking them up One at a Time, which is nice.

To me, I think, it's the best to shut up. When you have nothing to say, my contention is that, rather than making a mess out of it, by spilling out your ignorance for everyone to see, you'll be wiser by just not opening your mouth.

Another good thing to do would be to plan your next move or next thing to say. I've seen people taking the not-knowing-when-to-shut-up to a point where they fill fuss into the situation and make it go awry. On reiterating, I'd like to say that you have it all in your hands!

P.S. I'd not be surprised if someone would use the comment space to say,"Shut up."

P.P.S. No. I'm not done yet.

The Story of the Creative Compass

2009-07-22T14:09:00.001+05:30

Let it pass, let it pass.
I don't yet have a creative compass
Yes, I've looked hard enough
I smelled crack, I'm but a lone ass

Blas (Psalm)phemy 111

Why do we decide not to care?

2009-07-21T08:03:00.000+05:30

No. It's not about you being a witness to a person who's had an accident and you deciding to walk away. It's about something more than that!

Why is that you chose not to listen. To a voice that speaks to you in the face and you put your palms around your ears. Like the metaphor little girl children choosing to pull their hair over their face and making a fantasy space,very different from our world. Our world is no fantasy world, it's more materialistic than you can ever imagine and imagining it either wouldn't infuse fantasy into it!

Like the Rosebowl tagline: Open your mind.

Speaking to the Paper

2009-07-20T22:50:00.000+05:30

When you begin to write without editing or revising what you just wrote and go on with it, it is sort of like having a conversation with the paper (or at least the word processor!). It's fun ... or in my case, I've learnt it's the most fun of them all: yeah, when the domain is writing.

But, saying that, I'd like to contradict myself: everything has its beauty and has to be given its due credit and importance! So, re-editing and revising can improve the process of writing a passage, it may polish the dimensions of the text to its sharpest point, which itself is a good thing, really.

Of the two things, I'm going for the unrevised unre-edited version, since it's the one I've grown to like lately and since it's the one I used to write this text.

Thanks. Now, go get some sleep. I know you're tired and you've office tomorrow.

Making the most of now!

2009-07-20T08:07:00.001+05:30

Why are you wasting your while? Can't you just get up and do something good? Is it so hard for you to do that even? I guess, yes. Now you need to realize the importance of now. Now is the time to make the most of now. Now is challenging enough to infuse a new mindset in you. Get out there and start picking up. No, not the girls to be precise but the goods: the oppurtunities! Now is the timed reality of greater things to come.

The right time is right now.

Being opinionated.

2009-06-08T20:52:00.007+05:30

"Opinions are like assholes. Everybody's got one and everyone thinks everyone else's stinks."

~ The Dead Pool (1988), Home for the Holidays (1995)

But even with that people don't feel like rethinking on what they even stand for, and sometimes it gets out of control. It becomes stupid.

Why is it that most people like people to think slower than themselves (for the exception: there are people like Binayak Sen to think different than most of the rest of us).

Maybe because it is easier that way, I guess.

Freedom at last for Binayak Sen.

2009-05-26T23:01:00.004+05:30

I read first about Binayak Sen from CMC Vellore itself. I'd gone there with mom for her ailment.

The news about him was stuck on a noticeboard, that he'd been arrested and jailed wrongly victimized on charges of sedition.

I followed on the news, all through. Tehelka did a wonderful piece about him, and it further peaked my interest about him.

To see him walk out of jail, where he'd spent some 24 months, is real relief, that justice still exists. Hopefully, all the charges against him will be dropped and, people and government will realize the realities with the Salwa Judum, who Binayak (he's now the national Vice-President of PUCL) fights.

Good people do have their place on earth.

A new leash of life!

2009-05-25T21:55:00.003+05:30

Fresh.

I needed a break. A real one. So I set out to re-theme this blog. I hope I've not done a bad job tweaking the Typoork theme by Antonio Lupetti. He's an awesome guy. You should see what he's done to his Blogger(!) blog!! Blogger hasn't looked better!

He opened up the possibilities. I chose to have an open mind. And, here I am ...

Why do people compromise on dreaming?

2009-05-23T18:35:00.004+05:30

Why is it hard to dream? To think big ... and out of the box?

To rephrase it in another way, looking at it ... from a different point of view, why do people fear to dream?

People limit their dreams. The point upto which they dream, they define and, then ... would be complacent with what they are at with life. It becomes scary to go beyond, is it? Or, rather ... we won't bother to. It's easier not to care, right?

My point is that, people shouldn't stop dreaming. To stop dreaming is to become static in a way of thinking. To me, being static, is a sort of death. Actually, it's darn too boring too.

Think about it.

wit and wisdom

2009-05-20T06:54:00.000+05:30

Wisdom dawns upon me. I need to spend more time studying. Even if it means going through crappy pages of awkwardness you'd rather not internalize cross-checking it with the syllabus.

So, if you find me around, send me back to studying.

Another thing, adding to my worries is that time is running out for me. It's enticing to have time race with you. But, after a while, when you see it flash before you and ... you're tired to even look up and take notice, it gets scary.

This thing has been persistently worrying me. Okay, it's a new day, maybe ... if I think too much, there'll be a new way of looking at it!

Good day!

Randomness is at stay again!

2009-05-19T20:59:00.000+05:30

Yes, I need to have those random spurts of randomness in my life. To make it less mundane. Hope everyone's with me.

This isn't a new beginning or just that ... I'm high from some Simon and Garfunkel music, and/or ... I'm more crazy than you can imagine.