The vicious Iran!

A nuclear Iran is more dangerous than the combining the entire Muslim terrorism all over the world – from Sudan to Russia & to England to Kashmir, India. There are many powerful countries which seem to be less concerned about this major threat to humanity. Surprisingly there are many countries which don’t want to put any sanctions on Iran for its declared nuclear program. There are also a few countries which are not even favoring strict monitory sanctions on Iran if it doesn’t stop its nuclear agenda.

“The fact that the leader of a nation such as Iran can threaten the very existence of another nation, as he does towards Israel,” is a good enough reason for the world community to make sure Iran doesn’t achieve this devilish goal to attain its nuclear dreams.

I find it bizarre that world is not commenting on the recent comments made by Iran’s leader which are very provocative in nature and should be condemned by UN and every single nation. The following comment was made by Iranian leader about the state of Israel on Monday, “We will soon witness its disappearance and destruction.” For me this is a good enough reason to go in and destroy every single nuclear reactor site or even the suspected ones.

This is the time when the EU, the UN and the Arab world take necessary actions to prevent such kind of vicious dream of an evil empire.

Who is a Hindu?

I am starting this conversation about religions today. Although I respect most of the religions and philosophies, but I am not a fan of philosophies which preach violence and I have been very blunt about this fact. I am a proud Hindu and I a big fan of “Tao” also known as “Dao” faith and their very realistic philosophy. In Dao-ism everything depends on “The Way” which follows “the natural flow of things”.

While what other religion can be more liberal than Hindu-ism? Its philosophy says it all. Who is a Hindu? Let me state this little stanza which summarizes this complex and harmonic religion and its followers:

“A Hindu is one that believes in one God who incarnates, as and when he feels fit, in the shape and form he wants. God creates, sustains and destroys when time comes. Many names and forms are given to each with the love and affection of each individual devotee. Our Dharma is eternal, so is God and all the souls. It is our conviction that body dies but not the soul. The old scriptures are guide to salvation and an individual can steadily make his way back to God in the speed and path selected. Karma (deeds) and results of Karma are the basis of our lives. Knowing that good karma will bring good results and vice versa, our lives can be guided towards fruition of Salvation termed as Moksha. Guru plays a very important part in molding our lives and whilst the Holy book Gita can be accepted as Guru so can the word of a saint. A Hindu may or may not agree to some of the points above but he will willingly give his fellow human the right to practice religion as and how the other sees fit.” ( http://www.albany.edu/~hindu/ )

After reading this, the hope for peace in the world looks achievable. It would be so much easy and rational if we just “believe in whatever we believe and let others believe in whatever they believe”
One other question I would like to ask to all the sane people of the world. “Do you think God/s care if we worship him/her/them/it in a certain manner or with a specific name? - and that too if he/she/it/them exist!” – I don’t think so!

The day after!

It couldn’t be better day for all the liberals and NOT narrow minded people of the states. Republicans got their ass kicked in congress as well as in senate. Losing majority in both houses means an end of irrational and illogical conservative ideals of bigots.
To make things sweeter, John Sweeny lost this wholesome RED house seat to Democrats.

First causality of this rout is Rummy, and I hope there are many more to come. The following are the front page images from the newspapers.

Political Platform!

Today is the big day. I mean it is going to be a complete rout out for EVIL-licans (Republicans). I am very excited and am planning on staying up all night to view the results and watch these loosers LOSE. ONE seat I would ReALLY like democrats to snatch is NY dist.20. This thug named John Sweeney needs to go and it is about time this RED seat turns blue :-)
*keeping my fingers crossed*

Where I stand on the issues at the moment:

I support Stem Cell research
I am pro life and but I do not support making abortions ILLEGAL even though it is unethical and morally wrong to abort a fetus!
I am for stricter GUN control laws
I support EQUAL RIGHTS for everyone. (If you are not with me on this issue, I do not want you in my life)
I am totally for wars against terrorism.
I believe in capital punishment.
I support a timely pull-out of troops from IRAQ and Afghanistan(Let those fkced up people settle their disputes among themselves)
I support attacking the nations which support any form of terrorism. (even the sympathizers.
I support every move to ban and/or stop illegal immigration.

ABOVE ALL
WHEREVER I STAND, I STAND WITH ISRAEL!

India after 8 years! - Part I

August 16th
Immigration Counter @ Delhi Airport
Where is your old passport? The immigration lady asked me right after my landing at the IGI Airport in Delhi. I was surprised by the rudeness and also by that question. After all I have a valid Indian passport which proves I am an Indian citizen and that should be enough for her to verify my identity. Sadly, without even arguing I produced my old passport. There she fired another ridiculous question. “Where is your US visa” For heaven’s sake, I am coming FROM the US, not GOING to US. Instead of telling her that “MORON, my US Visa is on my NEW passport”, I asked, “what difference it makes and why do you want to see that?” … she replied …. “Aisse heeee” .. That meant “no reason” … … .. ..

August 16th
British Airways counter (Lost & Found)
A charming girl was helping me out about my luggage which got stranded at Heathrow airport for some security reasons. This guy “A Sikh man” who was a British citizen (who probably got the asylum in the name of SIKH militancy when Sikhs butchered Hindus in Punjab) interrupted the girl and started inquiring about his luggage. When being told that yes this is the right counter and he will have to wait until she is done with this other passenger (me). His response was, I am in hurry and I have people waiting outside. MIND YOU mister, I have people waiting outside as well …… That was exactly what the girl told him.
I was surprised and I appreciated her response. That was enough for me at that moment to forget about my bad experience at the immigration counter.

Sept. 3rd
Airport Lounge Part I
I have about 30 minutes till boarding starts. I am thirsty and am looking around for some vending machine for water. There I found a vendor selling water and soda. The man was reading an evening newspaper and seemed to be very much into it that he had no idea about what’s going on outside his newspaper world or someone is trying to get his attention for last 25 seconds. After a reasonable wait, “Hey mister, can I have a bottle of water” that was all I said. He got up, gave me a bottle and I gave him 20 Rupees. He placed a 5 Rupees coin on the counter for me and went back to reading the newspaper. Mister, this sign says it is 12 Rupees, I said. He looked at me over his newspaper, and said “Do you have change?” I said No, I do not. His expressionless face stared at me and uttered “ME NEITHER” and he pulled his newspaper back up in front of his face, and there he was back to his reading.

Sept. 3rd
Airport Lounge Part II
After going through, thorough and multiple security checkups I was finally in the boarding lounge. When BA staff started boarding us, they found out that my shoulder bag is not tagged, so they sent me back to the security check. While I was there, the security personnel looked at me and rudely asked “WHY DIDN’T you get it checked?” I did, I said. Either you people didn’t put the tag on or it fell. He told me to get back in the line which had at least 100 people. I was amused by the absurd rudeness. I refused to go back in the line and I bluntly told him that it must be some idiot like him who didn’t do his job properly. Anyhow, after hissing and puffing and showing me his red drunk eyes he finally checked the bag, put a tag on and with a THUD, dropped the bag in front of me and left without saying a word. I was astonished with the ill treatment at every step I was getting on MY airport in MY own country.
Ironically, if it was in the US, I would have blamed it on the staff for being selective and racist and Gods know what and who else … ……….
*sigh*
This is my India!

234 years!

I am not going to get into the crap of apologizing for not updating this blog and not writing anything over here in past 234 years. Yeah, when you count it correctly it has been exactly that many years.
Anyway, its not like I didn’t have anything to write or didn’t have any time to write, it is just that “I didn’t write”
I have been busy lately. First parents visited me (as most of you have even met them), so I have been busy with them, then I went to Argentina, then to the UK and then to make this year as one of my International traveling year, I visited India. And oh my!, that Indian trip was after 8 long years.
Basically doing all this along with being with YOU GUYS and .. he he he never mind (remember the rules? ) kept me very busy.
Aight, I did write a journal about Argentina, which I might post it here (summary), There is not much to write about my UK experience and there is NOTHING I am going to write about the Hindu Land.
Already then, that is it for now, mebbe I will peek in here soon and do my "jibber jabber" :-)

A lil bit of this and a lil bit of that!

A long due visit to Providence and New York City is finally taking place this weekend. And full coverage of the visit will be made available on the namasteny blog after the weekend.

Recommended Books:
A million little pieces “aka – a million little lies”
The Tender Bar

Movies :
Watched a lot of movies in this year so far. But only a couple were able to move me a tiny bit here and a tiny bit there. “Million Dollar Baby” was a long time due in my, to be watched list, but got a chance to watch it with Keith and what an amazing movie I have to admit. In Roger Ebert words "The kind of movie where you sit very quietly in the theater and are drawn deeply into lives that you care very much about". Another movie I liked was “Rang de Basanti” (Hindi). Saw it when my Pain in the Ass (PITA) brother made me watch it by emotionally blackmailing me. It was about time to finally watch an OKAY Hindi movie which wasn’t really great but wasn’t bad at all. I didn’t like the ending at all, actually it was a very dim-witted ending, but that didn’t lure me away to give credits to this otherwise amazing movie.

Happy Valentine's Day :-)

Dear ******,

I really can't believe how happy I am to recieve this card full of "hugs" from you and what you wrote in there about how you'd like to send many hugs from ***** :-)

Anyway, how are you doing *****? It's been ages since I heard from you. How is life with you? I so want to talk to you right now but I don't even know how to reach you and where you are at the moment. Life takes so many turns at times but sometimes it makes people very distant for no particular reason. Well I believe it is all fate (well not entirely), we all come in this universe with our fate written up there somewhere in gods' files or probably computers these days or something similar.

Anyway, i am very happy today and am playing the silly music of your **** while I am writing to you. May St. Valentine brings looots of love and happiness for you during this year.

Lots of love and thinkiing about you .... ..... :-) *hugz*

Always Yours
Me

Peter Pan!

I saw Peter Pan; a show which I felt was so good that I feel this need to mention it today over here. I have heard of Cathy Rigby’s gymnastic abilities but now I am her fan because of her performance in the show.
If you haven’t seen it yet, it is still not too late to go watch it, they are still here at our lovely proctors till 15th. I saw the movie Peter Pan very recently only because “the sucker” wouldn’t let me go home unless I watch this movie with him, so I did and I fell in love with it. And yesterday, Patrick gave me an opportunity to watch the show, when I had no plans to go and see it. Cathy Rigby’s performance was great, and her gymnastic abilities made her character looked very real and very Peter Pan-ic type. I think I am in love with her, NOT.

I am going to watch Phantom of the Opera sometime next week, depends when the gang is willing to go and get drunk after. So perhaps it will be a Friday or a Saturday.
I will give reviews after I see it. Again, I am expecting it will be better than the movie, which I absolutely love already. Especially the music.

Goodbye 2005

The year 2005, a great year, a very fine year, and a very successful year of my life. This was a year full of achievements, the achievements which I am proud of. All my tactical moves and decisions brought me good results. Gods have been very merciful and stood by me with many of my bold and blunt decisions. A year, I took many calculated risks and a year, when I didn’t waste my time in doing anything I didn’t want to. A year which, I will never forget because of its aura, its color, its splendor. A year of incredibly good results and a year full of vigor. (touch wood)

Good bye 2005 and welcome 2006. May this New Year bring peace and prosperity to my family, friends and my loved ones.

Congrats to Sir Elton John

Congratulations to Sir Elton John for making this commitment and my best wishes to both David and Elton.

If I don’t post anything before Xmas then merry Christmas to all of you and a very Happy New Year 

Where we are?

As humans, we have certain responsibilities on this planet. We are one of the most advance and intelligent race, which also give us the title of super race on this planet. If we all work towards the development of mankind, without getting involved in religious frenzy, there is a lot more which can be achieved.

People should not get involved with non-sense issues. Instead they should utilize that time in developing new methods, techniques etc. to help the mankind.

Any kind of fundamentalism should be outlawed. The punishments should be more severe, kids should be in better hands rather than in the hands of irresponsible parents. Education should rely on science and historical facts rather than fiction and fictional philosophies. ( … and on and on …I will add on to this when I have more time :-P)
…… Something like this I am going to say once I get elected in the office as the Governor of NY :-)

A Proud Canadian Moment.

“Days like yesterday make me a very proud Canadian” This a journalist friend of mine told me while he called me at work today from "k"anada.
Being that I am a very strong believer in equal rights, I am a huge advocate of the same-sex marriage bill anywhere across the globe and the one, that has been hotly debated there in Canadian parliament for close to two years. Yesterday, the House of Commons in Canada voted to pass the bill allowing same-sex couples to legally wed all across Canada, not just in certain provinces, as it currently stands. The bill still has to be passed and signed by the senators, but it looks as though, by the end of July, Canada will officially be the third country in the world to legalize gay marriage!
Fucking, eh.....

Review: Life of Pi

No other book has antagonized me as my latest read, the book by Yann Martell, Life of Pi. While I was reading it, it was hard to put the book down. When I was listening to it’s CDs in my car, I would sit in for a few extra minutes just to know, what is about to happen next. But from the day one, I didn’t like the book and I could tell, I do not like what I am reading/listening but I kept on listening to it and reading it.

Now yesterday, when I finally finished the book, I felt like screaming on and kicking and slapping the author. I feel cheated. I feel like this author cheated me big time. The end is ridiculous. The only thing, I like about it is that I was not able to put down this book. But I know, I read this book in camouflage.

Now, it comes to recommending the book. I would say, NO. Do not read it. Its been more than 24 hours since I finished the book but I still am having heartache because of it. I am angry. Honestly, I don’t recall if I have been ever angry after reading a fiction book, but this time I am.

somehow somewhere!

Hmmmm, last time I said, I am considering almost everything as personal .. so just to break the ice, here I am posting the letter, the one I wrote to my "first and perhaps the only love of my life" "AS IS" except the name.


Happy Birthday ***,

As we grow old we become wiser and older years are the best years of someone's life. You are supposed to be more mature, and now definitely qualify for the mighty wise fraternity of full adult people. I am not saying, past years were bad or something, but yeah we cherished/used those years and now time to move on and enter in the sane world. Well, hypothetically!

Anyway, I hope you are happy and still think about me once in a while. I do think about you. Frankly, I never really stopped. There are hardly any days when somehow somewhere in my mind, conscienceless or unconsciously you don't come in my thoughts. I am amazed by this, but don't know what it is, and what to call it and what to make out of it. There are so many things I want to talk about. There are so many things I want to tell. There are millions of questions I want to ask you. But, I don't know where I stand with all this. Do I even have right to tell you everything or even ask you everything. Sometimes, I wonder about it.

I hope you are achieving, whatever you have thrived for. And you are in between the people who love you and care about you.

I am so glad that you wrote to me on and I am feeling like you celebrated your Birthday with me. I don't know why, but now I am in both joyous and sad mood at the same time. No idea why .....

Anyway ***, I wish you all the best and bestest of wishes.

Yours,
Me

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I will appreciate if no questions are asked about any of the contents of this letter.
PHEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW, OFF TO TAKE A WALK!!!!!!!!!!

Hobnobbing!

Hello everyone, I'm sorry *not* I've not written much, actually make it “haven’t written at all” recently but I've been appallingly busy with several things. There are quite a lot of you reading this now and I do appreciate the comments and emails I receive off readers, so please bear with me if I seem to disappear from time to time.

And the not so good thing is, I still have nothing to write or say except that I have been really busy. Now, most of you would be wondering about this and must be thinking, what the heck is this dude’s problem, who doesn’t work a minute over his 35 hours a week schedule. How could he be busy. But honestly, trust me, I am.

Alright, the ones who are convinced about me being busy would say, alright, busy doing what? … HAH.Good question, is all I can say.

This is summer, and summer in New York is very short lived. Oh! and it comes once a year for a few months , so I try to live each and every moment of it, and that is what I have been doing, spending time with the people I love, walking, running, sitting admiring nature, feeding ducks (haven’t done it so far this summer), talk to fishes (yah we do that, me and a few of us), sleep with my windows open, whoring slutting as usual and so on.

I have been waiting for this summer for a long time, as in the last summer, I couldn’t do much for so many reasons. Although I did a whole bunch of stuff, but this year I am planning on doing 10 times more than I usually do. Therefore, if my postings are not on regular intervals, please forgive me. (the bona fide version of me would say, “deal with it”)

There, is one more reason, I haven’t been writing much lately. As time goes on, I am being more and more lucid about what to write and what not to write. And what I do and why I do. It’s a fact I don’t like to talk about my personal life, well not just with anyone, let leave it to the whole wide world. That’s because I believe, it’s “personal” for a reason.

Sorry, not trying to be coy here, just being honest. So, that leaves a lot of stuff out, and lately whatever I have been doing, I consider it as personal. I think.

But, I definitely need to redefine the word “personal”. I need to redefine personal for real, beacuse with this speed; soon I won’t have anything to write up here. That means, everything is gonna end up in my secret diary which would be made public after a few hundred years as I do intend to live a looong looong life :-)

I have so many things to write about. A lot has happened since I wrote in here, but the reason there was no blog entry from me was that I didn’t have time.
Usually to write here, I get plenty of time and I look for something interesting which has happened so that I can write about it. But lately that hasn’t been the case. I have been so busy recently I was hardly home and it made me impossible to have a few moments of peace so that I can sit relax and write my blog:

I would hate to not mention about my last few action-packed weeks, but then it would require a lot of time on my behalf to write, which I refuse to do so. So I am doing a little briefing.

Fighting with your friends about who should pay and who shouldn’t is kindda a normal thing, but have you ever imagined fighting with a lady double of your size because she refused to take money from you and instead took the money from your friend .. LOL yah that would be one and only oglie booglie “olga” .. (I am so going to tell about this event in detail, but not today. It happened on some rest area when we were coming back from Woodbury Commons)
“Fountain day” – This was the 6th fountain day in a row which I attended at SUNY, and this year I was not even supposed to, but I did anyway. It felt great to jump into the water like good old days, with my girls and guys of course :-P - (pictures to be followed)

Oh! And think about this -- ring ring -- ring ring – liz calling – ring ring – you pick up the phone and say HELLO, and u hear the “sobbing” and then “hi hunniieeeee, *sobbing* I cut my fingure and I lost my job” --- you'd say WHAT? .. more sobbing and then again, just like that old record .. “Sukrit, I cut my finger and I was bleeding, and there were people in the line and I still tried to help *SOB* and they fired me” and at that stage sobbing turned into crying … HAHAHA ooops, sorry, I think that was kindda funny … yah I would have written more but time constraint and ya know, to respect liz’s privacy and other crap I am ending it up right here :=P

Aight other “very short briefings”
- Visited Aunt, and honestly had great time :-P .. she was.. umm amazingly different.
- Making the Shmuck come over and go shopping with the gang
- Making all the non-hindi speakers listen to so called “Hindi-Crap” (in their words)
- Casino with the gang, actually I should say with the MEN, cuz she refuses to be called a girl … YAH, go figure who that would be.
- Taking pictures of “them & us” while .. ummm, I shouldn’t say, HAHAHA (well, I will post them here and you can see by yourselves .. so pics to be followed, I think!)
- Sleepovers, haha
- Bars, bars, bars and more bars.
- Getting drunk outside and inside the bars
- Getting MORE drunk, and losing the way back home, HAHAHA, yeah, for the first time in my life.
- Got high again, umm, yep, don’t ask where and when and with whom.
- OH AND other stuff .. LOLOL .. umm yah not mentioning cuz you know the rules :-P

So yeah, when I m bored at home in near future, I am going to put a little more light on these events (again, no promises) .. ..

I am Going to THE City tomorrow, wohoooo, will report back after I come back, untill then, "Jai Ram Ji Ki"

Shuffle!

"iPod shuffle"; yeah, what an invention! It's like, we have never heard of anything like this before. No media player/real player/any other player was able to perform this shuffling function before. Give me a break!

It’s amazing how an intelligent company can come up with the dumb ideas. (well, in this case it’s brilliant because public bought the idea, which isn’t even original” … humans! what can we say!)

I remember having a CD walkman with the shuffle feature about 10 years ago. But God, seriously, this hyped up item is proving the insanity of my race (human race? :-P ).

The way this item is being advertised on TV commercials, makes me laugh, and I didn’t hear anyone, literally anyone, saying that this is not a new concept.

But oh well, I also got this item, NOT because I was swayed away by the advertisements or anything, only because it is a very sleek item and can hold about 250 of my favorite songs and with this WONDERFUL shuffling feature :-D

Happy Birthday Matthan

Happy Birthday Matthan :-)

Great Dinner
Awesome Wine
Bestest “ya know” not saying weeeeeed .. ooopsy :-P (my second time)
And … Ummmm NO *no comments*

How about to conclude if I say , I had a great time and I got home safe and sound :-)

A Quote I found.....says it all

"Relationships--of all kinds--are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto some of it, but most will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost."

I don't know who wrote this, but I liked it so very much that this quote found a place in my blog .. lol .. but serioulsy, it is the best someone can explain in so few words. *applauds*

I am listening to Tina Turner's "I am a private dancer...I dance for money" haha, I am a big fan for her and her songs these days. Oh and BACKSTREET BOYS are back. That is what .. ummm i don't remember who, but a semi-friend told me yesterday. They are about to release a new Album after a gap of 5+? years ... woohoooo

Have you noticed all random things today I am writing about? :-P :-)))))))))