The Desi Connection

I just finished watching Kuch Kuch Hota Hai with my roommates. They are nice guys and ABCDs - more or less. It was like watching an India-Pakistan match sitting in the Pakistani section of the crowd. If my reaction upon seeing Kajol or Rani Murkherji on the screen would be, wow! Those guys would like. She is not hot. I want hot chicks! It is not that I do not fancy hot chicks. But for you at that time its just out of context. Its like talking about politics in a math class.

The connection is never there. They can never identify with me, my tastes. Nor can I identify with theirs. Even the sense of humor is different. You laugh with them because they find it funny. Not because you find it funny. The place where I spent 21 years of my life, and the connections and values established there, is what I am made up of. Its just different.

Its only a very few people you come across in life who can identify with you and you can identify with. With whom you keep going to the same restaurant over and over again and not get bored. With whom you can watch a movie - whether good or bad - and enjoy it. From whom we do not have the fear of being judged. These people whom we call friends and family.

Google-Craiglist mashup

Google and craiglist together. What do you think about that?

I first found about the google/craiglist mashup (http://paulrademacher.com/housing/) @ http://www.ypjain.com/anand. Also check out at http://code.google.com - our good friend google gives kudos to Paul for pulling this off.

I must admit, I am humbled. By Google and by this guy Paul.This is cool and intimidating. Google started off as a simple search engine. Today google has changed our perspective and ways in so many areas of mundane life. We search for information rather than seeking it( the old fashioned way). We search our mail rather than sorting it! We do not write in our own little diaries, we blog! and there are so many more examples. Internet was the one revolution of my lifetime. Google is going to be next.

We are always seeking Clarity, Knowledge, Awareness in life. What we currently have is a sum total of what we know(till now) and our perspectives about what we do not know. We live our lives equipped with this combination. Knowledge in one hand and perspectives in the other. If we knew, we would not have any perspectives! Because then we will just know.

Internet brings information together. Google makes it easier to find. End result. We become more aware.

Life surprises to remind that "the impossible" is possible