Saturday, July 12, 2008

The Police Story & The Black Media...

Posted by Dpka at 10:27 PM 0 comments
She writes...

Seriously, what went wrong ? It could've been just another twin murder case. It could've easily vanished into those thick lumps of dusty files. Yet, It blew up. Blew up to be one of the most scandalous cases ever. One that made the Indian Judicial system look like a complete farce in front of its people. One, which will not be forgotten for a LONG time...

I opened my idiot box on May 16th to see the headlines flashing about an yet another teenage murder case. Didn't pay much attention to the details, as i was by now getting used to the words like "Murder","Abused","Teenage" and "Noida" being flashed on the screen an infinite number of times. Finding myself being served the same news in almost all the channels that whole day, i decided to finally hear the news. Yes, there's a beautiful 13 yr old Arushi, and then there's the domestic servant, Hemraj who is not around. Giving the perfect plot for our favorite news channels (!!!) to go on and make a nice tale and treat it to the millions who innocently watch them.
Plot #1 : Hemraj abused Arushi and later murdered her.
Plot #2 : Hemraj and Arushi had it rough for a long time and one night Hemraj kills Arushi to take revenge !
Plot #3 : Hemraj and Arushi had an affair. ( Most disgusting of 'em all)

And then, there's a constable who accidently happens to catch one of these headlines flashing on screen and recites it to his superiors. They find it quite convincing and probably decide to pick one of 'em and take credit for the brilliant storyline themselves, leaving sector 25 without giving a slightest thought to look around , lest they find something like , say "Hemraj's DEAD BODY on the terrace" !!!!! They obviously settled for the easier and lazier option.
It couldn't have gone worse for the UP police when the neighbour's of the Talwar's had to show them the way to the terrace to find the body. I was shocked with these turn of events. A case that was treated like an ordinary murder suit took a complete U-turn. UP Police just proved themselves to be a Joke to the public.
ENTER Media. The workstations of these news channels must've announced some prize money for the guys who come up with the most convincing and thrilling story for the Talwar case. Everyone put their sherlock caps on. With some help from our most trusted police fraternity of UP, I don't think they had much pressue in coming up with a deluge of plots.
Plot #4: Rajesh Talwar ( Father of Arushi) was drunk and he murdered Arushi.
Plot #5: Rajesh Talwar had a row with Arushi about her relationships with Hemraj . Hemraj tries to protect Arushi from Rajesh hurting her and hence ends up being the bait himself.
Plot #6: The vice-versa of plot #5. Arushi sees Rajesh killing Hemraj and ends up with the same fate.
Plot #7: Rajesh Talwar had an affair with friend and colleague Anita Durani . Arushi knew about this. Rajesh killed her. Later, Hemraj.
Plot #8: Rajesh and Nupur ( Mother of Arushi ) plan the murder. (The most ridiculous of the lot.)

I was exhausted seeing this whole lot of crap coming out of media and Police everyday. It was over a month now. Rajesh arrested. No sign of any improvements in the case. The "Whodunnit" question swimming forever. Although, i have to admit . The media and the stories from the Police almost got me to believe that something was wrong about the father. Yes, not a surprise. Most of us did. That's the sheer power of media. Damn it. With all the hype and hoopla, we had nothing to doubt.
Just when things were getting to dry, We got the CBI in. (Somehow in India, we have them at the right time in the right place. ) And things started to unravel. And today, on July 12th, after 50 days of physical and mental torture, the father is released. Does the media even understand what it is to spend 50 DAYs in the Jail ? Can they replace the wounds of the bloody torture ? What does the UP police and media have to say now ?
Apologise ??

Mr.Talwar, Sue them for God's sake. We don't need such insensitive media and those extremely incompetent lot in the UP Police community.

Thursday, July 3, 2008

No comments

Posted by Dpka at 4:03 PM 2 comments
She writes...
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
from: smirclhari@sify.com ( who the hell IS this ?? )
to : dpka2087@gmail.com
date : Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 5:26 PM
subject : hi deepika
mailed-by : sify.com

hi deepika..,
how r u?
where r u now ..
how is going on..

r uremember me..

Y there is no message..
u forget me ..

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

I open my inbox after ages. Curious and excited to check some nice-sweet nothings mail from my long lost friends. Alas, all i find is a bunch of c-mails* - random orkut notifications, free sms registration invites,network sites invite, c-mails from music sites i registered a decade ago and bla bla. I scroll past 'em and suddenly i find a name which is not exactly english and neither would i call it Indian. I mean, i am not even sure if it was a word. The subject says "Hi deepika" . Excitement mounts. "Wow", I say to myself, " It must be her new id, she's mailing after so long.. ". Smiling to myself i open the mail and Voila! - Refer above.

I just have one query.
Does the mail qualify to be a pick up line(s) ???


*C-mails = Crap - mails

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

He's the man from earth - 2

Posted by Dpka at 2:51 PM 3 comments
She writes...

When i wrote the blog "He's the man from earth" , little did i know it was going to be read by the producer of the movie Mr.Eric D.Wilkinson himself !! :-)
With all due respect to him and all the technicians who worked in the movie, I certainly didn't intend to steal their thunder. On the contrary, I loved the movie so much that i wouldn't stop without filling a blog about this movie. Long ago, when i did create a blog for myself, the one thing that i took an oath was for the fact that i'd never write reviews for any movie and never turn my blog into an advertisement portal.

But alas, the inevitable happened !! I saw this movie. Evidently, this movie is one of those very very few movies that i liked, enjoyed and savoured in ages. Its clearly a masterpiece. And so, i had to write about the movie without reviewing it.

The strength of this movie was its screenplay and the strong storyline. The story had everything. So i thought, why not present the story in a different yet very subtle way( nevertheless committing to everyone that it WAS Jerome Bixby's script in the first place) .
In fact, i got this idea from my friend. Incidently, I asked him if he had seen this movie ( knowing that he is for one, who's certainly what they call a "movie" buff !!! ) . He said NO (Shockingly!!!) . And that's it. All set to write the blog (Remember, Not a review, just a blog ) .
Friends, those who enjoyed reading my blog, please do get hold of this movie. Its million times more exciting than the blog itself . Trust me.

And lastly, Thank you pavan for giving me the movie. :-)

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

13 questions

Posted by Dpka at 10:39 AM 10 comments
She asks...

1) Why is everyone being unfair to the Number 13 ? No thirtneeth floor, no gate13 in airports, no No.13 car in Formula one ?

2)Why do all the Aliens and the UFO's only land in the US ?

3)Who and what is society ? Why is that our every action has to be considered with regard to the pros and cons of affecting and treating the society ?

4)Why only february has 28 days ? Why did they chose the second month and not any other ? In fact, Why only 12 months ?

5)"Cigarette smoking is injurious to health" has to be replaced with "POISON" on the labels of the cigarette packets. Agree or Disagree ?

6)Why is there such a massive difference in the pay slips of a Pilot and a Train Controller ?

7)Why do people always account their mistakes to the rightness of Murphy's law ? Who the hell is Murphy ?

8)Do men know that even women have commitment fears in a relationship ?

9)Are the Americans really what we think they are ?

10)Why is Laloo Prasad Yadav the most attractive politician in the history of Indian politics ?

11)Is the concept of ''Arranged'' marriage the most insensitive discoveries of our people ?

12)Why are the Pakistani men so handsome ?

13) Can i ask the 13th question ?

Monday, June 30, 2008

He's the man from earth.

Posted by Dpka at 12:45 PM 19 comments
She writes...
She writes about a "he" for the first time. She's excited, Don't bother.

So 'He' is a man from earth. A man who's lived for 14000 years. He is a Cro-Magnon caveman who survives untill the present day. He has seen the world deepen into a warmer planet from the cold sphere that it once used to be. As a cavemen, he saw his three generations die but he lived. It was sometime around 35 where his aging stopped. The herd was worried, they thought he was sucking up the souls of the other men and living his own. (The famous vampire theory). They chased him away from the herd. He moved on, towards the setting sun, exactly what he did the next whole century. Back in the 15th century, he had a chance to sail with Christopher Columbus. He was also one among the many who believed that columbus was a nut job when he argued the world was spherical and not rectangular. He was sometimes afraid that when they reach some farthest land (the edge of the rectangle) , they were going to tip off and fall into the vast space. He grew as the civilisation grew. Ideas changed, people started growing food instead of gathering them, raising animals instead of hunting them, fishing. Growth. Civilisation.

He moved on to be Jacques Borne, a good friend of Van Gogh. He realised that he had only 10 years to survive in a group after which people would start noticing that he wasn't aging. He fashioned John as his name. He moved on from one group to another learning languages wherever he went, living only 10 years and moving on.
John was once a Sumerian for 2000 years, then a Babylonian under Hammurabi, and finally in his quest towards the east became a disciple of Gautama Buddha. It is under Buddha he learnt many many philosophies of life. Buddha always knew there was something about John. John was a true disciple and stayed with Buddha untill his death, after which 'He' moved on. Changing names, sometimes faking his own death, pretending to be his own son. He simply lived.

John never believed in one religion. He had seen SO many of them. As a cavemen, he remembers looking up always wondering someone up there was creating all of this down here. But, as he moved from one civilisation to another, he refused to believe in an Omnipresent all-knowing God. Kings were God's , Stones were God's , Nature was God. Everyone everywhere had(has) a new version of God.
Did he know any Biblical figure ? Was he one of 'em ? Yes.
Guessing Moses ? No. Moses was just a myth crafted after a Syrian mythological figure. The Bible text? large parts of fairytales and myths with a touch of Hebrew. John knew this. The world was shattered with the new rising Kings, War and threat beleaguered. He had enough. He wanted to change. He was the man who taught the people the teachings of what he had learnt in his hardships, his life and people started following him, worshipping him. And...
He was Christ.

(No offence intended to any religion or any beliefs. Only believers read on. )

Jesus/John wasn't nailed to a cross. He was tied to it. He never died , but merely stopped his breath and controlled the body processes, something that he had long learnt in India (Yoga, it is). They thought he was dead. Put him inside the cave, and when he tried to escape without being noticed, little did he know that there were followers still waiting outside. Thus , Jesus was resurrected. He saw the Bible take forms from the Old Testament to the New. The OT according to John is a book that sells fear and guilt but he was glad that the NT was written with a positive touch, with more of good ethics to follow. John was only committed to teach the people of what he learnt in his life, his philosophies and spread goodwill. Even, Jesus failed !

He lives, lives to this day to see how the world has rapidly succumbed to the human desires. HE moves on. He is one among us. He could be a farmer, a scientist, a professor, a doctor, an archeologist, Anything. John can not go back to where he was, everything has changed.

-
( As scripted in Jerome Bixby's "The man from Earth" , Nov 2007 release.)

Friday, May 23, 2008

LOL is not COOL !!!

Posted by Dpka at 6:38 PM 4 comments
She txts !!
Tis b'cum 2 diffi 4 me 2 undrstd dis new 'Englis'. A new lang wher a 5 letter wrd b'cums a 4 letter word. A lang wher "be" b'cums "b" , "see" b'cums "c", "you" b'cums "u". A lang wher words mysteriously take da numeric form; "for" b'cums "4" , "ate" b'cums "8" ! Sumtimes al u find r jus acronyms; "ttyl" is actually "talk to you later", "gtg" is "Got to go" !

I find this new trend of typos extermely annoying. I understand that this fashion in writing has come into practice mainly because of the deluge in the SMS industry. The number of pages you type in for messaging accounts for the amount you pay. But, isnt that ages ago ? Thankfully, the older schemes were slashed and we ended up with free texting. Still, the practice prevails.
And the most disturbing fact about this is that the new English has become a craze with the young. Its there everywhere. E-mails, Internet Chat, Classroom writing, Blogs, every damn place which you would associate with writing. And when i do complain, they say "chillax, its just cool" . Dear, Its not cool to meddle with a language and make it sound stylish. Thats precisely what the Americans did and now, "Going to" is a lost phrase. "I'm gonna go to the school ma" Says a 5- yr old. Ha!
Fine, i'll rest with words like "gonna" and "wanna". They are after all new additions in the dictionary! But, whats with these typo's people? You can not get away with "sry" and "tc". I hate it when people text me "TC" or "SRY" . It just makes me understand that it is not meant the way it is actually supposed to. After all, the writer is being lazy even to get the message across correctly. I know i might sound crazy with all these radical thoughts, but what's the blog for anyway ?
Its not just these words that are whacky, often you hear people saying " Hows u? " !! Now, whats that ? They have started picking on the grammer too? Girls are being referred to as "DUDE" ! Its funny when a "Joey" or a "shaggy" says it, yeah! But, you peck it right away and use it, Neah!
I was revolting these thoughts for a long time but ultimately i've succumbed to the changes. As is said, Change is permanent. I still loathe the typo's and try not to ever use them in my writing and i obviously prefer that in turn, but alas!
Don't try to ape the language styles from the west guys. Its really not COOL !


May 23rd , 19:46
Beep ... beep...
Open Message
Open Inbox
"Wat r u dung?" ( Read as "What are you doing?")

Thursday, May 22, 2008

I Dont Care...

Posted by Dpka at 9:43 PM 2 comments
She writes...
I've started saying "I Dont Care" too often. And its not something i picked up from the chipy chips girl from that advertisement aired ages ago. I really dont seem to care about anything these days. It just happens to be my impulsive response to anything that happens around me. And lets leave the quintessential relationships related "care" out of this ( Like, "I care for you friend" bla bla ) . The 'care' am talking in here is just mere acknowledgement of the happenings around you. There's a power cut, I don't care. My system's kaput, I don't care. A friend's b'day, I don't care. Super Kings lose another match, I don't care. Prince Caspian in theatres, I don't care. Oh, Its may 22nd, I DON'T CARE !!!!
Get the idea! I just fail to understand what it is that has led to this numbness of mine. 'Cause believe me, all the things that i've mentioned above get me all hyper and charged . The zest with which i would await every single day is immeasurable and NOW i'm just slogging through my days. In the depths of my despair i've reached to an extent of not even being perturbed by the (scorching, it is said!) heat. Every day has become the same day.
Why ? I ask. What is this mystery ? Why should i stop reacting ? Why have i not been writing a blog roaring about the cheerleaders or the slapleaders ? Why have i stopped responding to my text messages ? Why have i not checked my mail ? What is my password ? Is it feb 30th ?

Yes, Ennui kills. It really does.

Saturday, July 12, 2008

The Police Story & The Black Media...

Posted by Dpka at 10:27 PM 0 comments
She writes...

Seriously, what went wrong ? It could've been just another twin murder case. It could've easily vanished into those thick lumps of dusty files. Yet, It blew up. Blew up to be one of the most scandalous cases ever. One that made the Indian Judicial system look like a complete farce in front of its people. One, which will not be forgotten for a LONG time...

I opened my idiot box on May 16th to see the headlines flashing about an yet another teenage murder case. Didn't pay much attention to the details, as i was by now getting used to the words like "Murder","Abused","Teenage" and "Noida" being flashed on the screen an infinite number of times. Finding myself being served the same news in almost all the channels that whole day, i decided to finally hear the news. Yes, there's a beautiful 13 yr old Arushi, and then there's the domestic servant, Hemraj who is not around. Giving the perfect plot for our favorite news channels (!!!) to go on and make a nice tale and treat it to the millions who innocently watch them.
Plot #1 : Hemraj abused Arushi and later murdered her.
Plot #2 : Hemraj and Arushi had it rough for a long time and one night Hemraj kills Arushi to take revenge !
Plot #3 : Hemraj and Arushi had an affair. ( Most disgusting of 'em all)

And then, there's a constable who accidently happens to catch one of these headlines flashing on screen and recites it to his superiors. They find it quite convincing and probably decide to pick one of 'em and take credit for the brilliant storyline themselves, leaving sector 25 without giving a slightest thought to look around , lest they find something like , say "Hemraj's DEAD BODY on the terrace" !!!!! They obviously settled for the easier and lazier option.
It couldn't have gone worse for the UP police when the neighbour's of the Talwar's had to show them the way to the terrace to find the body. I was shocked with these turn of events. A case that was treated like an ordinary murder suit took a complete U-turn. UP Police just proved themselves to be a Joke to the public.
ENTER Media. The workstations of these news channels must've announced some prize money for the guys who come up with the most convincing and thrilling story for the Talwar case. Everyone put their sherlock caps on. With some help from our most trusted police fraternity of UP, I don't think they had much pressue in coming up with a deluge of plots.
Plot #4: Rajesh Talwar ( Father of Arushi) was drunk and he murdered Arushi.
Plot #5: Rajesh Talwar had a row with Arushi about her relationships with Hemraj . Hemraj tries to protect Arushi from Rajesh hurting her and hence ends up being the bait himself.
Plot #6: The vice-versa of plot #5. Arushi sees Rajesh killing Hemraj and ends up with the same fate.
Plot #7: Rajesh Talwar had an affair with friend and colleague Anita Durani . Arushi knew about this. Rajesh killed her. Later, Hemraj.
Plot #8: Rajesh and Nupur ( Mother of Arushi ) plan the murder. (The most ridiculous of the lot.)

I was exhausted seeing this whole lot of crap coming out of media and Police everyday. It was over a month now. Rajesh arrested. No sign of any improvements in the case. The "Whodunnit" question swimming forever. Although, i have to admit . The media and the stories from the Police almost got me to believe that something was wrong about the father. Yes, not a surprise. Most of us did. That's the sheer power of media. Damn it. With all the hype and hoopla, we had nothing to doubt.
Just when things were getting to dry, We got the CBI in. (Somehow in India, we have them at the right time in the right place. ) And things started to unravel. And today, on July 12th, after 50 days of physical and mental torture, the father is released. Does the media even understand what it is to spend 50 DAYs in the Jail ? Can they replace the wounds of the bloody torture ? What does the UP police and media have to say now ?
Apologise ??

Mr.Talwar, Sue them for God's sake. We don't need such insensitive media and those extremely incompetent lot in the UP Police community.

Thursday, July 3, 2008

No comments

Posted by Dpka at 4:03 PM 2 comments
She writes...
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
from: smirclhari@sify.com ( who the hell IS this ?? )
to : dpka2087@gmail.com
date : Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 5:26 PM
subject : hi deepika
mailed-by : sify.com

hi deepika..,
how r u?
where r u now ..
how is going on..

r uremember me..

Y there is no message..
u forget me ..

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

I open my inbox after ages. Curious and excited to check some nice-sweet nothings mail from my long lost friends. Alas, all i find is a bunch of c-mails* - random orkut notifications, free sms registration invites,network sites invite, c-mails from music sites i registered a decade ago and bla bla. I scroll past 'em and suddenly i find a name which is not exactly english and neither would i call it Indian. I mean, i am not even sure if it was a word. The subject says "Hi deepika" . Excitement mounts. "Wow", I say to myself, " It must be her new id, she's mailing after so long.. ". Smiling to myself i open the mail and Voila! - Refer above.

I just have one query.
Does the mail qualify to be a pick up line(s) ???


*C-mails = Crap - mails

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

He's the man from earth - 2

Posted by Dpka at 2:51 PM 3 comments
She writes...

When i wrote the blog "He's the man from earth" , little did i know it was going to be read by the producer of the movie Mr.Eric D.Wilkinson himself !! :-)
With all due respect to him and all the technicians who worked in the movie, I certainly didn't intend to steal their thunder. On the contrary, I loved the movie so much that i wouldn't stop without filling a blog about this movie. Long ago, when i did create a blog for myself, the one thing that i took an oath was for the fact that i'd never write reviews for any movie and never turn my blog into an advertisement portal.

But alas, the inevitable happened !! I saw this movie. Evidently, this movie is one of those very very few movies that i liked, enjoyed and savoured in ages. Its clearly a masterpiece. And so, i had to write about the movie without reviewing it.

The strength of this movie was its screenplay and the strong storyline. The story had everything. So i thought, why not present the story in a different yet very subtle way( nevertheless committing to everyone that it WAS Jerome Bixby's script in the first place) .
In fact, i got this idea from my friend. Incidently, I asked him if he had seen this movie ( knowing that he is for one, who's certainly what they call a "movie" buff !!! ) . He said NO (Shockingly!!!) . And that's it. All set to write the blog (Remember, Not a review, just a blog ) .
Friends, those who enjoyed reading my blog, please do get hold of this movie. Its million times more exciting than the blog itself . Trust me.

And lastly, Thank you pavan for giving me the movie. :-)

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

13 questions

Posted by Dpka at 10:39 AM 10 comments
She asks...

1) Why is everyone being unfair to the Number 13 ? No thirtneeth floor, no gate13 in airports, no No.13 car in Formula one ?

2)Why do all the Aliens and the UFO's only land in the US ?

3)Who and what is society ? Why is that our every action has to be considered with regard to the pros and cons of affecting and treating the society ?

4)Why only february has 28 days ? Why did they chose the second month and not any other ? In fact, Why only 12 months ?

5)"Cigarette smoking is injurious to health" has to be replaced with "POISON" on the labels of the cigarette packets. Agree or Disagree ?

6)Why is there such a massive difference in the pay slips of a Pilot and a Train Controller ?

7)Why do people always account their mistakes to the rightness of Murphy's law ? Who the hell is Murphy ?

8)Do men know that even women have commitment fears in a relationship ?

9)Are the Americans really what we think they are ?

10)Why is Laloo Prasad Yadav the most attractive politician in the history of Indian politics ?

11)Is the concept of ''Arranged'' marriage the most insensitive discoveries of our people ?

12)Why are the Pakistani men so handsome ?

13) Can i ask the 13th question ?

Monday, June 30, 2008

He's the man from earth.

Posted by Dpka at 12:45 PM 19 comments
She writes...
She writes about a "he" for the first time. She's excited, Don't bother.

So 'He' is a man from earth. A man who's lived for 14000 years. He is a Cro-Magnon caveman who survives untill the present day. He has seen the world deepen into a warmer planet from the cold sphere that it once used to be. As a cavemen, he saw his three generations die but he lived. It was sometime around 35 where his aging stopped. The herd was worried, they thought he was sucking up the souls of the other men and living his own. (The famous vampire theory). They chased him away from the herd. He moved on, towards the setting sun, exactly what he did the next whole century. Back in the 15th century, he had a chance to sail with Christopher Columbus. He was also one among the many who believed that columbus was a nut job when he argued the world was spherical and not rectangular. He was sometimes afraid that when they reach some farthest land (the edge of the rectangle) , they were going to tip off and fall into the vast space. He grew as the civilisation grew. Ideas changed, people started growing food instead of gathering them, raising animals instead of hunting them, fishing. Growth. Civilisation.

He moved on to be Jacques Borne, a good friend of Van Gogh. He realised that he had only 10 years to survive in a group after which people would start noticing that he wasn't aging. He fashioned John as his name. He moved on from one group to another learning languages wherever he went, living only 10 years and moving on.
John was once a Sumerian for 2000 years, then a Babylonian under Hammurabi, and finally in his quest towards the east became a disciple of Gautama Buddha. It is under Buddha he learnt many many philosophies of life. Buddha always knew there was something about John. John was a true disciple and stayed with Buddha untill his death, after which 'He' moved on. Changing names, sometimes faking his own death, pretending to be his own son. He simply lived.

John never believed in one religion. He had seen SO many of them. As a cavemen, he remembers looking up always wondering someone up there was creating all of this down here. But, as he moved from one civilisation to another, he refused to believe in an Omnipresent all-knowing God. Kings were God's , Stones were God's , Nature was God. Everyone everywhere had(has) a new version of God.
Did he know any Biblical figure ? Was he one of 'em ? Yes.
Guessing Moses ? No. Moses was just a myth crafted after a Syrian mythological figure. The Bible text? large parts of fairytales and myths with a touch of Hebrew. John knew this. The world was shattered with the new rising Kings, War and threat beleaguered. He had enough. He wanted to change. He was the man who taught the people the teachings of what he had learnt in his hardships, his life and people started following him, worshipping him. And...
He was Christ.

(No offence intended to any religion or any beliefs. Only believers read on. )

Jesus/John wasn't nailed to a cross. He was tied to it. He never died , but merely stopped his breath and controlled the body processes, something that he had long learnt in India (Yoga, it is). They thought he was dead. Put him inside the cave, and when he tried to escape without being noticed, little did he know that there were followers still waiting outside. Thus , Jesus was resurrected. He saw the Bible take forms from the Old Testament to the New. The OT according to John is a book that sells fear and guilt but he was glad that the NT was written with a positive touch, with more of good ethics to follow. John was only committed to teach the people of what he learnt in his life, his philosophies and spread goodwill. Even, Jesus failed !

He lives, lives to this day to see how the world has rapidly succumbed to the human desires. HE moves on. He is one among us. He could be a farmer, a scientist, a professor, a doctor, an archeologist, Anything. John can not go back to where he was, everything has changed.

-
( As scripted in Jerome Bixby's "The man from Earth" , Nov 2007 release.)

Friday, May 23, 2008

LOL is not COOL !!!

Posted by Dpka at 6:38 PM 4 comments
She txts !!
Tis b'cum 2 diffi 4 me 2 undrstd dis new 'Englis'. A new lang wher a 5 letter wrd b'cums a 4 letter word. A lang wher "be" b'cums "b" , "see" b'cums "c", "you" b'cums "u". A lang wher words mysteriously take da numeric form; "for" b'cums "4" , "ate" b'cums "8" ! Sumtimes al u find r jus acronyms; "ttyl" is actually "talk to you later", "gtg" is "Got to go" !

I find this new trend of typos extermely annoying. I understand that this fashion in writing has come into practice mainly because of the deluge in the SMS industry. The number of pages you type in for messaging accounts for the amount you pay. But, isnt that ages ago ? Thankfully, the older schemes were slashed and we ended up with free texting. Still, the practice prevails.
And the most disturbing fact about this is that the new English has become a craze with the young. Its there everywhere. E-mails, Internet Chat, Classroom writing, Blogs, every damn place which you would associate with writing. And when i do complain, they say "chillax, its just cool" . Dear, Its not cool to meddle with a language and make it sound stylish. Thats precisely what the Americans did and now, "Going to" is a lost phrase. "I'm gonna go to the school ma" Says a 5- yr old. Ha!
Fine, i'll rest with words like "gonna" and "wanna". They are after all new additions in the dictionary! But, whats with these typo's people? You can not get away with "sry" and "tc". I hate it when people text me "TC" or "SRY" . It just makes me understand that it is not meant the way it is actually supposed to. After all, the writer is being lazy even to get the message across correctly. I know i might sound crazy with all these radical thoughts, but what's the blog for anyway ?
Its not just these words that are whacky, often you hear people saying " Hows u? " !! Now, whats that ? They have started picking on the grammer too? Girls are being referred to as "DUDE" ! Its funny when a "Joey" or a "shaggy" says it, yeah! But, you peck it right away and use it, Neah!
I was revolting these thoughts for a long time but ultimately i've succumbed to the changes. As is said, Change is permanent. I still loathe the typo's and try not to ever use them in my writing and i obviously prefer that in turn, but alas!
Don't try to ape the language styles from the west guys. Its really not COOL !


May 23rd , 19:46
Beep ... beep...
Open Message
Open Inbox
"Wat r u dung?" ( Read as "What are you doing?")

Thursday, May 22, 2008

I Dont Care...

Posted by Dpka at 9:43 PM 2 comments
She writes...
I've started saying "I Dont Care" too often. And its not something i picked up from the chipy chips girl from that advertisement aired ages ago. I really dont seem to care about anything these days. It just happens to be my impulsive response to anything that happens around me. And lets leave the quintessential relationships related "care" out of this ( Like, "I care for you friend" bla bla ) . The 'care' am talking in here is just mere acknowledgement of the happenings around you. There's a power cut, I don't care. My system's kaput, I don't care. A friend's b'day, I don't care. Super Kings lose another match, I don't care. Prince Caspian in theatres, I don't care. Oh, Its may 22nd, I DON'T CARE !!!!
Get the idea! I just fail to understand what it is that has led to this numbness of mine. 'Cause believe me, all the things that i've mentioned above get me all hyper and charged . The zest with which i would await every single day is immeasurable and NOW i'm just slogging through my days. In the depths of my despair i've reached to an extent of not even being perturbed by the (scorching, it is said!) heat. Every day has become the same day.
Why ? I ask. What is this mystery ? Why should i stop reacting ? Why have i not been writing a blog roaring about the cheerleaders or the slapleaders ? Why have i stopped responding to my text messages ? Why have i not checked my mail ? What is my password ? Is it feb 30th ?

Yes, Ennui kills. It really does.
 

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