one way space warp

i've been commuting to and from work by rickshaw for almost every single day of the past few weeks at my new job. it's not exactly cheap, but it saves me the pain of train travel, and cuts my travel time to half, if not less. i've noticed one very weird thing though: the rickshaw fare invariably is higher on my way to work in the morning, than on my way home in the evening. surprisingly, that's despite there being much less traffic in the morning (it takes me 20-25 minutes to work, but 35-45 minutes to get back home). there are no one-way diversions or anything else of the sort either. in fact, it's a perfectly straight road from about 200 metres from my office to about 200 metres away from my home, and the difference is about 5rs on an average (about half a kilometre, by rule of thumb). absolutely inexplicable. i still haven't the slightest clue on how i can explain it.

i guess it's just another one of life's mysteries :D

While I Was Sleeping - Part 2

as a sequel to the last time i freaked myself out in bed (no puns intended ;)), i woke up yesterday morning, with the pillowcase off my second pillow, and neatly folded and kept at the side of my bed.

i think i see a pattern here. i wonder where it's headed though :P

south park!!!

just read this interview...it happened quite a while ago, but it's still real interesting.

trey parker and matt stone rock!!!

http://www.reason.com/news/show/116787.html

i guess it's pretty obvious i'm a *big* south park fan :D

dozing on the first bench

i have always had problems staying awake during lectures. my friends can vouch for the endless occasions when they've had to literally cover for me because i was dozing away during the HOD's lecture (thankfully i don't snore too much :P)

still, those were college days. i could always come early and catch a place on the last bench (highly unlikely, but it has happened :D), or come late and make an emotional appeal to my less sleepy friends that they don't need the last bench as much as i do (much more likely :P). these days it's training at work. we get assigned positions. i've been assigned the instructor's nose (give or take a few inches :D)

i hope the instructor didn't hear me snore. he definitely saw me doze away (he doesn't seem farsighted :P). i tried to make up for it by asking questions every minute i was awake. i hope he takes it as a sign that i was not sleeping, but just thinking with my eyes closed. unfortunately, asking too many questions when i'm awake also means that he and the rest of the batch is acutely aware of my 20 minutes of eyes-closed-thought.

i wonder what they think i'm thinking :P

360 degrees

The time it took for my life to seemingly turn upside down and then right itself completely: 94 hours.

The time it took for me to go from almost giving up on life to embracing it yet again: 36 hours.

The time it took for the end of the line to turn into the start of a new one: 24 hours.

The time it took for me to realise nothing can break my spirit if god is in my heart: 8 hours.

The time it took to start a new life, in the middle of an old one: an instant.

Soundtrack: why by joe satriani (album: the extremist)

life is unfair!

Life isn't fair. Some people seem to have much more problems than others. I know many such people. I used to feel sorry for them.

Then one day i thought i turned into one of them. I never questioned god's hand or his will. I know i didn't land up where i did by accident. I thought it would be a long drawn, bitter battle. Little did i know i had such an overpowering weapon with me.

I don't pity people with problems anymore. I only pity people who haven't truly discovered god yet.

24...and counting...

It feels great to be 24. It feels great to be alive. And very inexplicably, it feels that i could not be in a better place than right here, right now. After 23 birthdays that just went by with a quickly forgotten celebration, this is one that i never thought i would even celebrate. Little did i know that it was to be much better than the ones when i thought i would.