ban on anonymous comments

well, i recently updated the 'comment' settings to my blog... from allowing anyone and everyone including the anonymous none, i have now allowed comments only from those people who are comfortable with their identity- in other words those who do not suffer an identity crisis...
this is a step in that direction- my small little effort to make people who write in what they feel, to feel more confident about their opinions, themselves!
so all those people who 'anonymously' left in their comments- get a life- love yourself... be confident of expressing yourself...there is no need to hide your identity and expression. you are entitled to your expression as much as i am to mine!
ciao!

legalising gay sex- a step in the right direction or the worst mistake ever!

well its all over- every newspaper and news channel surely has something to say about the Delhi high court's decision to repeal Section 377 of the IPC.
Section 377 of the IPC which talks about unnatural offences defines an unnatural offence as follows-
"Whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man,woman or animal,shall be punished with imprisonment for life,or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years,and shall also be liable to fine"
The Delhi High Court in its recent ruling held that criminalizing gay sex is violative of articles 21,14 and 15 of the constitution [which talks about Right to Personal Liberty, Right to Equality and Prohibition of Discrimination on grounds of religion,race, caste, sex and place of birth].
the decision has upheld gay sex while continuing to make intercourse with animals and non vaginal sex an offence.
the result of such a decision- the gay rights activists are happy, the religious and cultural activists unhappy.
my take?
well personally i think we just blindly ape the western way of living. i personally think all these supposed gay activists are mere attention seekers.
i mean come to think of it- some comments, post the decision, shows one gay activist being elated- happy that he can now marry and have kids contrary to the public notion that gays are merely promiscuous people.
i have only one question- how can two men or two women produce kids?for that matter how can two men or two women even have any kind of intercourse?!?!
its plain weird and gross!
while the western world benefits from the good things of Indian culture, we Indians ape the wrong things of Western culture!!!

what if....

so it all started when i planned to go to kolkatta for a holiday....i was feeling bad on missing my gym for a week, when,i learned that my gym had a branch in kolkatta. now i did have a great time in kolkatta with friends except for the fact that i lost my sneakers.So..
what if i did not learn that my gym has a branch in kolkatta???
... i would not have taken my sport shoes and sports gear with me on a holiday!
what if i carried another pair of slippers with me to kolkatta??
...i would not have worn my sport shoes to a temple!!
what if i stuck to my ground and put my shoes in the shoe stand??
... i would not have lost my expensive,as good as new, sport shoes!!
what if i did not lose my sport shoes at all??
... i would have never have to feel bad on losing an expensive shoe and buying an even more expensive shoe!!
...i would have never realised how good and comfortable my previous pair was!!!
what if i never planned the holiday at all???
...nothing of this would have ever happened!!

done with LLM 1 year

so in my long drawn education process, am finally pretty close to the fag end of the process... done with my first year LLM... one more year and am done with studies for sometime now........ a PHD is on the cards, but am soooooo bored with studies that im no way gonna pursue it any time in the immediate future!
hopefully should land myself in a good job- something that interests me and helps build such interest..im already a lil too late in the day... should have had atleast 2-3 years of work ex by now...anywhich way i see it ...
but like they say..its never too late i guess...
another year and am free.....
till then,
adios!

positive thinking or dont count your chickens b4 they hatch?!?!

well thats pretty much my state of affairs right now...
am confused and in a perpetual state of conflict!
too many thoughts that cloud my mind and prevent me from clear thinking :(
i have always been the kind who likes to play it safe.. in the sense that i always underplay my strengths, my positive traits as it were... put it in another way i like to always leave that little element of doubt, that little excuse just in case things go wrong...
for example my standard reply to my parents as to how i wrote my exams has been- ok. even though i know it went decently well i like to say OK, just in case things go wrong i have that buffer ready.
in other words i do not want to sound like those over confident people who think they are good when they are actually not ....
like my loved ones keep telling me... i just royally underplay my inherent good traits and am a lil too self critical...
now over years of being told to change im beginning to be a lil less critical and more positive of myself... a sort of meditation course and reading some motivational books i started to try to look at the other end of the spectrum. so i want to start thinking of the good things. start being positive, start thinking that things will happen the way i want them to happen. that the onus is on me to steer my ship in the direction i want it to go...
but somewhere the thinking pattern i adopted for 25 yrs of my life lingers on...
the end result- am completely stressed out, get all unnerved for the smallest thing possible and in a continuous state of conflict and agitation :(
if this is but a transient phase, the experimental and testing phase as it were, before the final result is given shape im more than ready to go through this s@#$.
incoherence if any maybe excused ....

my birthday :)

realised just the other day thats it been two whole months since i last blogged...
i dont really know the reason behind it..neways...
so 23 march was my birthday.... and buoy it was great!
had a full 24 hour celebration this time..not kidding :)
my sweetheart and our common friends surprised me at 00:00 hours by coming home[ as in parking lot of my apts :D]a yummy fruit cake, candle, flowers, heart shape balloons,beer[ a substitute for champagne so to say]and a lot of love and affection... they truly made my day :)
after all the cake cutting, cake smearing and beer bath ritual went for a drive,had some chai[tea]at a roadside tea stall, dropped a friend o ours to her hostel and got bk home around 3 am!!!
barely slept...
5.30 am- parents wish and bless:) tried to catch up with some sleep
post 6am kept receiving calls from family and friends.. quit all efforts to sleep...
so got up, attended calls, got online...etc etc..
got ready,hit the parlour to get my hair done..a damn good job done! looked awesome[ i know im very modest :D]
went out with friends for lunch, cudnt stop preening and admiring my new look all this while :)not to 4get a photo session capturing my new look :D
post lunch chilled out at a cafe- another photo shoot...
called it a day with friends in the evening. had enough time to get home and get ready. draped a saree :) went out with family for a quite and lovely dinner :) caught up with a good friend o mine during the dinner.
got home and finally called it a day!
slept at 00:10 hours!
did i say a 24 hours celebration!
to conclude, an awesomely hectic birthday :)
a lot of fun and memories :)
signin off..
cheers !

OGIF-oops TGIF

sorry my true intentions leaked out!!
OGIF is what i truly think about the restaurant...
O Buoy my first and [hopefully] last experience was horrible...
>> first the food sucks!
>> second its expensive for the kind of crap they serve!
>> three totally sad service
>> four and last- the name is so frickin misleading...nothing thankful about it... dreadful sounds more like it!
im sorry if i hurt the feelings of very staunch tgif fans... but as far as im concerned- the place sucks!
O God Its Friday- methinks thats what the chain should call itself!
signin off!

slumdog millionaire

so i finally saw the movie yesterday afternoon..finally, because i heard and read quite many things about it... some o my friends who stay in the US [and therefore saw it before me] thought it was amazing, superb and the like...
now that i have seen it, what is my take?
well i think it is a nice movie, certainly..not great or breathtaking or fantastic or the like!!
yes what i did like the best is the characterisation- the kid>> adolescent>>youngster jamal, salim and latika were perfect.. especially Jamal.obviously effort has been made to make the 3 different people look like one.. be it the hair, the eyes and the characteristic ears jutting out[incase of jamal] kudos to that!
the one scene where the two young brothers hold each other while sleeping on top of the train was beautiful!
now about the music- a golden globe award could have been given for numerous other movies composed by rehman...in my opinion, several movies of his are worthy of getting the golden globe when compared to slumdog millionaire!
the background score is undoubtedly nice[ after all rehman]but not spectacular so as to win a golden globe!
i personally think the movie is overrated.and honestly i am trying to find out why?
all in all i think the movie can be definitely watched once. and no more!

bk to hostel..

so got bk to my hostel this morning after a two month vacation...
start my second sem of LLM w.e.f today...
got to my room, cleaned up and unpacked a lil.
set out to pay up my previous sem mess bill and some grocery shopping!
had my lunch, the old caterers are back... just that today the food was awfully spicy!
got bk to my room, lazed around, caught up with some friends....
evening a couplo us went to the lakeside[ pretty much our only place of recreation!]
was nice to just sit by the lakeside :)
got back...basically fooled around..
ate[again ;)] and called it a day!

a rattletrap bus, a cranky bus driver

so thats the best way i could describe my journey home from my hostel...
first i walk in the hot sun till the main gate of my college>> catch an auto till the main road>> wait on the main road, again under the hot sun for a bus>> finally get into a bus, find a seat,buy my ticket and settle down...happy!
a bunch of college going boys hoot, talk loud and basically make a nuisance of themselves, all of this while hanging precariously on the foot board.
the bus driver orders them to get into the bus and so does a fellow passenger.. this fellow passenger gets into an argument with these college boys>> each of them exchange the choicest slang in the local language-telugu and hindi.
the bus driver was at his cranky best- yells at them, when they fail to listen, asks them to get off the bus.
did i think the journey will now be peaceful?YES!
was i right? NO!
after a lil distance, another bus overtakes my bus and the passengers of that bus are busy hooting and booing the driver.who were they? those very students.
wat happens next?
my bus driver hit his all time high in being cranky>> rips the bus[ was i glad cos till then it was moving rather slow]and thats when i realise its a rattletrap!
so he rips it until he catches up with the bus in the next bus stop>> stops his bus and orders the driver of the other bus to stop as well.. and what ensues is a verbal duel with those students!
happy with his supposed sweet vengeance, we move... thankfully with lower decibel levels!!!
reach my bus stop>> catch another auto>> get home!
phew!