Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Never say "no"

Never say no to your coworkers about anything. This is the lesson I learned on Monday. Around 3 PM, I was debating if I should go in the staff room and get a coke, or have a cup of tea or maybe just ask someone to make a pot of coffee for moi or just go out for a walk and get a cup coffee from my favorite coffee shop of the town. Apparently, I said it out loud and Charlotte who was freaking out for some unforeseen reasons or maybe because some deadline was approaching and she was all worked up, screamed from her office “Sukrit, I have coffee in my thermos”. I politely said no thank you as I am not even sure what I want at the moment besides I would rather have something else from my list than drinking coffee from some thermos where that coffee might be sitting since morning.
It wasn’t moments after that when I realized about the mistake I made. Charlotte just pouted in the beginning and Terry told me how rude it was for me to say that to her (she meant to refuse her), and someone even brought up the issue of my brat-ness and how to make me Americanized.
I thought they will get over it and move on. But its 3rd day today since that happened and these ladies are in no mood to leave this behind. Seems like they wanna live all their life with this as at every step I am being reminded about how wrong I was.
Now come-on, why would I drink old rotten coffee from a thermos? What was so wrong about saying no to that? And above all, I was not even sure if I particularly wanted coffee. I could have gone out and would have gotten Iced Latté or something.
So the morale of this story is to NEVER say no to anyone’s generosity, be it is some old coffee or some fungus ridden brownie or a soggy cookie. Just take it with grace and spill it, throw it or do whatever else when they are not looking and shower them with compliments like “the coffee was delicious”, and then ask “what kind it was” or “this is the best brownie I have tasted in my life” .. yup that is the American way. Oh joy!!

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Happy Ramnavami

Lets celebrate the birth day of the Lord who lived his life for others, its pupils. Since my childhood days I see Lord Rama as a motherly God, someone who I always can rely upon and also can demand anything from without even thinking twice. I have always been his favorite child and I am sure I will always be. So don’t even think about stealing him from mighty moi :-P

Lets talk about the Lord for a bit. He is the one who set the ideals for the people: Lord Rama set an example through each and every action of his. He explained how an embodied soul can attain “Final Liberation” by acting in the righteous ways. “He set an example of a Divine Kingdom for the people: When Righteousness (Dharma) manifested in the gross, Unrighteousness (Adharma) also manifested in the gross. Many embodied souls started troubling Sages, Saints and others who acted in accordance with the scriptures. During that time Lord Rama protected the Sages and set an example through His own deeds for all kings as to how a Divine Kingdom should be. Lord Rama is an ideal of how selfless, free from desire and impartial a King can be!”[1]

Above all, lord Rama displays emotions of happiness & unhappiness just like humans do. (His melancholy at Sita’s abduction is an example.) Hence, we feel closer to Him than we feel towards other Gods.[2]

Lets celebrate the day in his glory and may lord brings happiness and joy to all of you on this pious day to forever and ever and ever – Jai Ram Ji Ki.



Monday, March 26, 2007

la la la la

The following quote is from Desidarta and I read it again today and got carried away. So here are some excerpts from my carried away moments.. ha ha

"If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself." - Desidarata

Isn’t it amazing? I mean, why do we compare ourselves with others? I know many of us do. But I am happy to be where I am and moreover who I am. A lil bit of idiotNESS, and stupidNESS and some other nessESS wouldn’t hurt us. I think that is what makes this life beautiful. So yes, love yourself for who you are sing beautiful songs, or just humm if u suck in singing like moi :-) But be passionate :-)

Passion! Yes the passion. Live with passion, no matter what it is, just dream and let the time takes its own course. Some dreams will come true and some won’t. Just acknowledge what we want today we might not even like tomorrow. So just dream and don’t care about the outcome. For better or worse, enjoy the life to the fullest. Love and be loved, cherish everything and be happy. Yup cherish the life, enjoy it and be thankful, actually be very thankful for the wonderful world you are living in.

(thas what I think in my happy sapppy moments .... luv to all *hugz*)

Monday, March 19, 2007

Shortbus!

I am drawing a blank to come up with something rather interesting to write here. I don’t want to write all about what I did this weekend and all that kind of stuff as that can be perceived boring and redundant. Besides its not all about my life, is it? Well, it is my journal so whose life it is going to be about? I don’t know, sometimes I just want to mention my imagination and thinking and at time I do mention my life. So, I guess it is all about my mood and frame of mind I am in.
Saturday night I watched this movie “Shortbus” with the gang, and I have to see it again, as I didn’t get the plot. When during the movie I mentioned that I am not sure what is going on, I was bluntly told to blame it all on myself as I was not paying attention, which I know I wasn’t but come on. If you are against nudity in the films, please do not watch it, as this movie was full of naked people, sex, 3-somes and many-somes, orgasms, lone sex, gay sex, str8 sex and sex in general ….. You got an idea, right? To add more flavor to it, just think about, someone being a sex therapist who has never had an orgasm, yes that was one of the theme of the movie. By the way, it wasn’t porn and it was proudly played in one of my favorite theaters in Albany, the one and only Spectrum.
After much thinking and by a little push from (Insert name here), this weekend I also worked on my resume which is looking annoyingly dull at the moment, but I have vowed to make it look awesome as I am awesome so my resume should represent mighty me. I am also convinced that there is nothing wrong in exploring and expanding my horizons and work towards making my dream of getting a Ferrari come true.

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Cricket World Cup!

Cricket is a game I never lost my interest in, even after living in a country where majority of people don’t even know if it is a sport, in their dictionary cricket is only an insect not the game. It is really interesting to see my never fading love for this game; this love even surprises me at times. I should know it comes natural by being an Indian or something, but come on! Time after time I have been stumped by people from Cricket playing nations when I cheerfully ask them something about the game and would be disappointed by their complete lack of interest in it. When I asked my English and Australian friends last week about what are their plans for the world cup, they looked at me in a very strange way, and showed no interest whatsoever in watching even the Finals. Mind you, one of them brought me a cricket bat and other a cricket ball from their respective countries when they visited their homelands last year (only cuz they luv me not the game). Their interest for the game can be judged by this statement of my Aussie friend who said, he will give me a party if India wins the world cup.
But, I am still very excited and will be following the performance of Indian team very closely along with the two other teams who I don’t even want to see winning a single game ha ha .. yup Australia and the Sinstan!

Monday, March 05, 2007

Why we need Dennis Kucinich?


“Remember that kid in high school who ran for class president, the one who wasn't popular, who didn't have money or dress well or even make a decent hallway poster? Now imagine if he sticks to it so long he starts to win. And by the time he's 23, he's a city councilman in Cleveland. At 31, he's the country's youngest big city mayor. All this success, you figure, would make his skin glow a little, his suits a bit spiffier, his speeches a little punchier. But what if he was so damn earnest that it didn't? What if at 60 he still looked and sounded like Dennis Kucinich?” [1]

Now that would be one heck of a guy, and that’s who Dennis Kucinich is. This guy knows what the right things to do are and what issues his conscience allows him to stand for without worrying about the fact that his opponents can use that platform of his to hammer him. Clinton and Obama do not stand anywhere near him when it comes to supporting the issues they believe in. Don’t take me wrong, I admire Hillary Clinton, and I do want to see her as the United State’s president. But that is because I am thinking like an average American (an Indian in my case) perspective, where we only talk about flamboyant candidates and since media has given certain candidates so much coverage that thinking about any other candidate would be considered some kind of wrongdoing or something.

Let’s see, why I want to see this man in the higher office. I think he reminds me of a great Indian politician L.K. Advani. They both have something in common, and that is standing by the issues which are near and dear to them. They stick to their issues, not because they believe supporting certain issues will make them elect able in office, but because they both believe in being truthful and stating the facts “as is” without trying to make them look good or because of some popular public demand due to media hype.

People everywhere are so used to double speak and that is why they do not understand the candidates who don’t speak doublespeak. I think it is time we fix this problem. Lets start it from here and Vote for Dennis Kucinich in every single democratic primary and show everyone that we stand for honesty and we stand with people who have ideals.


[1] Stein, Joel. "The Kucinich Conundrum." Time 02 Mar 2007 05 Mar 2007 .