Can something be done?

Went out for lunch today .. We thought we've been to Laitha's Paratha
point too many times .. so decided we'll go to Sealand ..
We reach Sealand and see the shutters are down .. the guy next door says
it's abandh day today.
We wonder what to do next ..so drive up the road and see this restaurant
called 'Tava' right to Ranka de Paradise ..
Ordered out lunch and suddenly the lady downs the shutter with all
customers inside .. says there's a mob of BJP supporters who on the
rampage asking everybody to down the shutters till 5 PM .. why ? Because
Uma Bharti has surrendered ! Where ? In Hubli ? But who's she ? CM of MP
.. we have a bundh in karnataka for that !
Walk out through the partially closed shutter .. walk out and through to
the other side of the road ... i 've never felt such a stench in bangalore
.. why ? Because the garbage is lying there in the corner . Why ? Because
the truckers are on strike and there are no trucks to clean the garbage ..
Why are the truckers on strike ? Everybody has some reason or the other
right ?
Come back on the road .. usual lousy traffic .. why ? because everybody's
in a hurry and have to go wherever they are going .. So traffic rules can
be violated .. there's not enought space for everybody to go .. Why ?
Beacuse there are so many people !!
While I sit and complain, somebody sends me a mail saying Dr. Abdul
Kalam's message .. he says u need to be the change u want to see. .. take
small steps - like : don't litter the road, obey the traffic rules, don't
spit on the road etc etc .. But I don't do any of that stuff ... So why am
I paying the price ?
Read the newspapers - the flyovers are behind schedule .. the roads are
out of shape because of the rains .. there are flash floods in uttaranchal
... there's drought and drinking water problem in chennai .. and still
Dharam Singh smiles on .. I say Dharam Singh because of his name. 'Dharam'
means 'adharma' today.
With these conditions, I only ask one question : What is the solution ?
Can somebody tell me what to do ? Should I stop thinking ? Or Can I do
something ?

The flower show

Last weekend was Independence day weekend. Every year for Aug 15 and Jan 26 there's a flower show held in Lalbagh in Bangalore. It's a very neat botanical garden. I know there are lots of useless people in bangaloe who haven't even seen Lalbagh. You know those kinds who don't go anywhere and yet complain that there's nothing in the city.

Anyway, coming to the flower sow itself, it was quite impressive. Good stuff ! I was happier coz she was happy going there .. it's amazing feeling .. this male thingie of doing things to please the woman. But I enjoyed this one thoroughly.

I'll post some snaps ..enjoy !

I want to blog ..

I just want to get into the habit of blogging .. I want to start .. I have so many ideas and so many thoughts ..but I feel so lazy to put them down .. hopefully this will be a good beginning to start writing about the storehouse of ideas and thoughts in my head !

Yesterday night I almost started fighting with her. She wanted to fight. She said she was bored that we hadn't fought for over 10 days now! Is that bad ? We keep fighting so often .. but I love her! But somehow we keep fighting. We don't agree on so many things. I'm going to marry her early next year.

Will type in more later ..

To excercise or to not excercise !

I wake up every morning listening to the laughters in the neighbouring park. Yes, there's a laughter club where a lot of old people and quite a few middle aged people also come and laugh every morning. I found the concept very amusing initially. Then I stopped getting amused by it. Just accepted it as one of those innumerable inexplicable things in life !

Then begins the struggle of making choices. From the below list I need to chose a few and plan a chronological sequence of the activities ! What a pain !
1. Take a jog in the park
2. Do some yoga that'll improve my body and mind
3. Or is it too late for all these coz I've got to rush to office ?

I postpone the decision making moment because my body needs to release all its waste ! Okay I can make the decision while I crap.

Now where is the newspaper? How can I not make use of the time to catch up what's happening in the world ? Okay there it is ! :-) Now I can go in for a crap.

Okay I can now pull myself to wear the running shoes and go to the park. I start my run .. it's a little funny watching the same people go round and round and round in the same park endlessly. I sweat it out and feel good about the excercise. Prbably next year, I can complete the Bangalore marathon.

But the day I've described above is a good day! A bday day begins the previous night. A stupid party with a bunch of drunk blokes ..coversations leading nowhere and yet everyone's laughing their ass out :-( .. that's the beginning of a bad next day.

There are other days that begin - well begin much after it has begun for others. Then I sleep sleep and sleep on that I could make sleeping beauty feel ashamed !

A certain other types of days - the yoga days. Wake up and do a quick round of asanas and surya namaskar! And the hurdles in that - just when you are all set for surya namaskar the servant maid rings the bell. And she needs to clea the room. Cleanliness after all is next to Godliness :-). Another excuse not to excercise.

Other types of days when you decide that evening's the time for excercise. Then the evening you end up in the gym. But there's always a shortage of oxygen in all the gyms :-( .. Can't seem to run beyond 20 min on the tread mill. When will I run the marathon ? Booh ...