Friday, July 20, 2007

tale of the tail...

...a dog spinning in circles trying to catch his own tail.

Its not a very rare sight and at some point or the other, you would have seen one of them around... and laughed at how stupid that creature is !!! Till this point in the story i'm sure you all are with me.

What i realized today... rather embarrassingly though is that i occasionally do that too. Things i do that do me no good whatsoever, but things that i still continue doing! Its not that i dont realize that it stupid, its useless, its an utter waste of time... i still do it. Its more like i dont know what else to do, so although i know what i have been doing makes no sense... what the heck - lets me do it again !! :) ...and the story goes on.

ah, why do i see you smiling, you still with me uh ??? :) thats good bud, i'm not alone after all !!!

Saturday, July 7, 2007

I'll survive...

First I was afraid, I was petrified!
Kept thinkin' I could never live without you by my side
But then I spent so many nights thinking how you did me wrong,
and I grew strong, and I learned how to get along.

It took all the strength I had not to fall apart,
And tryin' hard to mend the pieces of my broken heart.
And I spent oh so many nights just feelin' sorry for myself, I used to cry
But now I hold my head up high

Go on now go, walk out the door.
Just turn around now, cause you're not welcome anymore.
Weren't you the one who tried to break me with goodbye?
You think I'd crumble? You think I'd lay down and die?

Oh no not I! I will survive!
Oh as long as I know how to love I know I'll stay alive,
I've got all my life to live,And I've got all my love to give,
I'll survive, I will survive!

- Extracts from 'I'll Survive' by R.E.M and others

Tuesday, May 1, 2007

the wrong in the "right and wrong"

"corporate ethics is situational, personal ethics is optional"

today when i visited my own blog... i realized i missed out something in my previous post... i spoke in length about why personal ethics is optional, but i was completely silent bout the corporate ethics piece, so here i go -

'empty vessels make the most noise' and so i'm gonna make subtle noises bout the corporations that make the loudest noise about ethics, transparency, corporate governance.... blah blah and more blah ! the business of business is to do business - and when it comes to doing profitable business, ethics is nothing more than a marketing tool and a very profitable one at that. You always hear of a lot of companies that are "ethical" and extremely successful, but have you ever heard of a company that is "ethical" but was not doing well? That’s because, being ethical is not really about being ethical, its knowing how to look "ethical" while doing exactly what it takes to beat the hell out of the competition !!! That’s the art.... and the corporations that have mastered this art, are reaping the profits of low cost publicity, increasing brand repute and a higher aspiration value among the targeted audience. With that note, i'm putting an end to this noise :)

Sunday, April 8, 2007

right and wrong

"corporate ethics is situational, personal ethics is optional"

isnt it ? my judgement of right and wrong is based on what i have learned to understand, partly due to my education... my upbringing, my friends, my location... and so many more my this and my that. The person across me has another set of definations for right and wrong, and thats perfecly fine... coz if i was born where he/she was, brought up where he/she was... etc etc, i would probably think the same way. Then whats the fuss about ??? everyone is never going to be born alike, brought up alike.... so we are bound to have differences and the best way to cope with those is to say - i care no shit about what you think, period. Life's simple :)

sublimation is a strategy

....every day is a mindgame.....
and there is reason why i say that - how you feel each day, each minute... is so based on how u want to make yourself feel. It feels so ackward to accept it, but you really have control of how you want to feel by accepting that you have no control. its a paradox but let me give you an example - things go wrong... you can keep thinking of how much that has screwed up and how things will never be the way you want it, but on the other hand you can just give in to things and think that there is fucking nothing that you can do about it...whats happened is happend, and just move on.

You suddenly feel so much better accepting that you are neither the creator nor the custodian of the things that happen to or around you, wow and thats just a great feeling !

Monday, January 29, 2007

... now the first thing that you would ask if you visit this blog is, why the name? the reason is that there is no reason... its my mindspace where reason is the last thing i want to have around. Just like all these years in my life, i dont have much clue of what i have been doing... what i would be doing... or what i want to be doing... so here is a salute to that spirit... a space for no reason... for times when reason is the least desired commodity !