In the end...

In the end, it doesn't really matter!
Funny, how these words from a Linkin Park song seem to be swirling about my mind since the past 2 days...As a matter of fact, the entire lyrics (or maybe just the chorus) of the song suddenly seem to be making sense to me now wrt my situation. Ahh well, I don't want to sound melancholy but " I (did) try so hard, and got so far, but in the end, it doesn't even matter!"
Hah! I always end up with this sing-song, kind of lyrical notes..I've noticed this a lot. Not that I do it intentionally, but I guess, it just comes out this way.
Anyways, lets shift focus to something else altogether. The "drinking age" limit! 25 years! Are u "kidding"(pun intended) me? I mean, do they really take us as kids/juveniles/ *immature adults* till the age of 25?! Apparently, this is the govts' new *de-addiction policy*. Well, then lets increase the voting age to 25 too! I know a few of you would feel this is just a knee-jerk reaction but hello? If the so-called politicians feel that we do have the sense at 18 years to vote for a political party, then,I'm positive that we do have the sense to drink responsibly too! Yes, there are a few reckless binge drinkers and drivers here and there, getting into brawls, mowing people down and getting acquitted with money exchanging hands, but, the point here is about this flimsy reason given which made the Maharashtra govt issue such a statement..I'm sure they have other, more pressing issues to focus on too..But as Linkin Park says, "In the end, (to the Maharashtra govt), it doesn't really matter". There are various online protests, a leading newspaper has launched a citizen protest and various film personalities have voiced their dismay too. But do we really see all of this heading somewhere? Or do we as usual blindly accept whatever has been laid upon us? Has the govt thought about the number of road accidents and related deaths because of the decrepit condition of roads or pot hole ridden roads? From the looks of it, they want to focus more on road accidents due to a case of drunken driving which has become their latest cause. I'm not denying the fact that there are road accidents due to drunken driving but there are an equal number of accidents because of road repairs being left incomplete or worse, the road was built or repaired using substandard material.
Coming back to the drinking age being extended, I'm writing because, unfortunately, today, everything has been reduced to a numbers game. Be it from the scams enveloping our country to this drinking age permit, just about everything is riddled with numbers. The bureaucrats/politicians are playing a good numbers game without even thinking where exactly what numbers should be used. I fail to understand why the govt suddenly likes to focus all its attention on such issues when it could do more on completing all the infrastructure projects on time in a *ever growing* city like Mumbai and using sensible *numbers* (as in completion dates of these projects and making sure they do not *extend* beyond the required date!). If they are so interested in toying with numbers, then, I would like them to do some number crunching on the tax-payers money spent on making sure that Kasab gets his meals on time and sleeps with *Z-security*. Can the Maharashtra govt promise its people with such security? Again, in the end, to them, it doesn't really matter! or does it?

Note: I didn't intend to make this an inflammatory note but I would appreciate if there could be a discussion, as, to me, in the end, all of this, does really matter!

Finally.....a sigh of relief? or a sense of danger ahead?

Figured its been long since I last wrote here and hey, what else to write about when you have the biggest breaking news sweeping across the world...." Osama Bin Laden is Dead!!!!!!!"
Isn't it funny when we, as a people, thrive on news feed as huge as the one above and soon, after it becomes stale move on to yet another one..What I mean to say here is that almost a decade has passed since 9/11 and well, we are still living!! lol..As in, that for the first few months(since 2001) or say a year or two, you would keep seeing Osama (photographs/videos) who slowly got relegated from front page news to um, well, a snippet..And lo! Here we are in 2011-year starts off with revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia, moves on to scams enveloping our country, crises in the Middle East and in certain countries in Africa and finally the dynamite! Boom! Osama Dead!
The timing of such events seems uncanny at times! Just 2 days back you had the American President Barack Obama in a jolly mood, donning the joker's hat at the White House Correspondents' Association annual Dinner. Who knew that at the same time, an operation was being given the go-ahead by Obama himself to exterminate(if I may say so!) the dreaded/most wanted (acc to Forbes list) "terrorist" in the world- Osama Bin Laden.
In the end, (I hope I don't get beaten up for writing this!) Osama accomplished what he had started,"mass murder" which according to him had "exceeded his expectations" (statement made by Osama after the "success" of 9/11). So does this "death" of Bin Laden herald a new era of "jihadists" or spell doom for the already beleaguered and scattered terror outfits who would be running like headless chickens now...? One doesn' know, until, of course we have another Booom! a rude wake up call to the people of the world, that evil (I use the term loosely here), still resides/ is planted in the minds of a "brainwashed"(eg: recent suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan carried out by a 12yr old!) few.

Sure enough, no prizes for guessing what tomorrow's newspapers will be flashing on their front pages and that would go on for say, a week?!! And then its back to business as usual, wait, what did you say? Oh did you know that the Arunachal chief minister hasn't been traced as yet? Arunachal? oh yea, well, Osama getting killed was more "hot damn", wasn't it?! So lets all forget the Air India strikes, the questionings in the 2G scams, elections in a few states, Lokpal bill deliberations, IPL!!!! etc etc...and focus our artillery on attacking Pakistan with a barrage of questions/ accusations on being a "safe haven" for people like Laden, lets bring 26/11 again into the picture (after all this is the moment when Pakistan  would be at its defensive worst!), boom boom bommm!!! Phew! [The above statements made are not the author's personal views but rather a predictable sequence of events] (which you may be free to agree or disagree) over the coming days...Mind you, there will be an equal amount of yellow journalism too...Beware!

End.

Moments

I have just been realizing some things these past few days. Well, I really haven't been in the  best of my moods of late for a Very Well Known Reason, its just that yes this has affected me..albeit not in a good way.
Firstly, I'm beginning to realize that all this while I have been around a bunch of juveniles who cannot and absolutely cannot Think for themselves and go about following the frog in the well syndrome...to put it more bluntly, a couple of spineless people and a bunch of headless chickens!
You know what? I really really need to give vent to this bitterness and bluntness seething inside me and thats why I thought of putting this on my blog...It is not that I want to prove something here but I guess it just helps when you find a medium to give vent to your frustrations, fears, random, revengeful thoughts.
Why do I think so much? It drives me insane! I think the word "think tank" should be specifically allocated to a person like me...oh God! I think and think and think...atleast I put my brain cells to some use, on the lighter side.
But at the end of it I cant help it...Alright, I really don't mean to get repetitive around here but this one episode of my life has definitely hit me like a rock! Thud! Bang! and all similar onomatopoeic words...It has unfortunately or maybe fortunately changed me in a way, I think! (See! there comes that word again!)..
But I know at the end of it all, over time, I will be okay (I really hope so!).. I  have started thinking about the Justin Timberlake song where he says that, "What goes around, will definitely come around."  I think I might just start romanticizing about certain stuff here..
I did not want to start my blog like this but I guess to all of you who are reading this, maybe over time you would see a difference in my writings and then you all would know that "aalll izzz weelllll"..:)
Peace.

My First!

Well, I shall start with the simple and most obvious of all salutations, so here goes,

A warm hello to all fellow Bloggers!.:)
So, I guess from now on I will be a part of this growing community...Lets see how I fit in and get comfortable..I really don't know what more to write here for now as I am trying not to use a lot of slang or make any typos..(after all its my 1st post!)..okay, lame jokes apart, I really hope blogging proves to be a good and enjoyable experience for me and well, what else can I say, Im going to let my thoughts and my fingers run wild..:P