Credulous me!!

Oh for the love of God...I just realised yesterday that www.leavingbangalore.com was all about some Singapore low flight rate tickets!!And here I was thinking that people are genuinely on a forum determined to make a difference!! duh...Since when did I get so credulous???

You wretched Hyprocrites....

Go thru the new blog that is in vogue....

http://www.leavingbangalore.com/index.php

Here is my opinion:

Don't blame IT people for ruining the city. Know your stats before you jump into conclusions. Look around...We Indians have all ruined the city. I have seen a zillion non-IT people throw garbage out of their doors even though the garbge van is waiting outside..A little sensibility is all that we all need. Regarding the infrastructure, we Banglore-ians need to act. I come from a communist state where people fight tooth and nail to get what they deserve(sometimes, they get more than what they deserve:D ).

Think of what we could do if all companies decided to not pay IT for one year if the government doesn't fix Infrastructure. Who are we afraid of? Banglore reaps crores as Income Tax from the IT industry and what does it give back to the people? Power cuts, bad roads, bad manners,polluted air and traffic jams. We all need to put our feet down and ask for what we need.Similary the govt , BDA and Urban development team needs to put it feet down and tell the people what they need from us.

IT has only helped the economy to grow. India wouldnt have been as rich as it is today if it hadnt been for software exports. Most of the Indian doctors have left India for greener pastures which they have got. I know so many professions where people have left the country for better money. Accept it, money is what we all are living for.

I do my share of cribbing every day. I am no exception. But this is not a solution and as humans we are all built to fix a problem and not just to accept it and live like it none of your business.
Please ACT people!!!

Auto drivers, landlords and shop keepers behave this way and demand for more money because they know that we are at need. Not because they are lacking education.They are well educated. Demand fuels supply...Thats what economy and business is all about..If the American money dries up, you have no clue what a terrible wave it could send across the world.. Accept it or not, the entire world is fueled by the American economy directly/ indirectly.

We Indians are sick and selfish people!!!We are ruining the country...We waste electricity and water. And we judge the govt..Play your part and then blame others!!Hypocrites...We all have been brought up that way. We are never taught in schools how to behave in public and how to care for public property. We need to learn from the US,UK,Japan and Europe. We need to care for the country like we do for our houses..

A few months back my colleague berated some 'guy' strangers for throwing sweet wrappers out of the bus. And since he was an Indian guy the response wasn't very upredicatble ..."Aye get lost..Thera bap kaa road hai kya??" We hear it and leave it..It doesnt occur to us that we need to start changing ourselves changing the way that we think.

I am terrifed of what monsters our children will turn out to be!!I pray my kid is not a boy...well that's a totally different topic...Will discuss that on another blog :D

What you are today....

I called up Mom day before yesterday...Told her how pathetic our first Onam was. I strangely feel closer to her now than ever..I guess this bond gets stronger as years go by...When we are young we are dying to get away from the parental grasp...We swear that we will not end up being like our parents..But the older we get, the more we realise that we are replicating their behaviour. Cos that's the way we were brought up and that is the right way to bring up our children we feel.... It take a lot to be different..I think I will end up being like my parents cos I am very proud of the way they brought me up to make me what I am today...(with exceptions of the extereme bouts of inferiority complexes and unexplained moodiness!!)

Leaving a mark....

I have been doing quite a lot of "mending up relationships" for others this week....And I am happy that we have been progressing a bit...slow as ever though!! My nephew and his girlfriend, two close friends who have no clue as to what they are looking for in marriage proposals, a wonderful friend who is struggling to get her marriage work...I sometimes wonder why we don't have any friendly elder teachers in whom we could confide and get some advice from...We Indian's dont have a lot of elder people who encourage us to think and do things out of the box and discover the true meaning of life...That is a rarity...All of us including our parents are stuck in a rut, in a re-disocvery of the wheel....Birth, growing up, studying and playing, school, college, professional studies, work, marriage, having children, pains of bringing them up, sacrifice, teaching the kids, managing finances, buying a house, worrying more than the kids in getting a good marks and finally a decent job, marrying the kids off, grandkids and last but not the least,(when all the kids move to greener pastures, and you are left with your wife or husband in a empty house) loneliness- an emptiness that leaves you wondering, what did i gain all along these years.....There is still something missing........

As Mitch Albom says:

"The culture dosen't encourage you to think about a lot of things until you are about to die. We're so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, famiy, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks - we're involved in millions of little acts just to keep going. So we don't get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying . Is this all?? Is this all I wanted? Is something missing?

You need someone to probe you in that direction. It won't just happen automatically..

After I read this section I realised that this is something that I wanted to do all along...be a guiding light in someone else's life...Helping them discover what they really have within and what they could do in this world..."

A Teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops"

What better way to leave a mark in this universe......

Bored???

Upset that I am wasting my life...Wish I could know what I want in life...