Random Thoughts 2

Kalyug Kyun?

Because we do so many things exactly the way they shouldnt be done?

Office or home, the seniors/parents rather than reprimanding the insane ones, asking the saner and obedient ones to 'understand' and 'ignore' as they are intelligent enough to be able to do so.

Result 1: 20% people doing 80% of work!
Result 2: Life being unfair to especially these 20%.

Assuming a hit ratio of smartness as 20%, offices are still safer but for nuclear families with one child or two, the numbers just dont add up!

The Curse of Patience

Mumbaikars boast of being the calmer of the lot when it comes to traffic. I figured I had also become one after a while as there seems to be a limit to impatience in limitless traffic jams.

But rather than looking at Delhi as road-rageous even after superb roads and Mumbai as calmer even after the bumpy as hell roads (my back is all fucked up!), can it be the other way round?

Will roads be better if Mumbai started giving some shit to especially the BMC? Sadistic/perverse it might be, but can some nasty road rage cases create enough political momentum for smoother roads?

Note: its not about widening, its about not letting a 1m dia pothole cause a 10km jam.

Random Thoughts

FINDING PROXIES

Grenade on the right, gunfire from the left and voila, the sniper shot did me in.
I look at the killcam (shows how you were done for) and curse at the leisure with which the guy aimed and pulled the trigger.

Lesson: Don’t drink and drive.

A multi-player game score is a good proxy for what your behavior can be on the road. After all, in both cases, a split second is what matters. Rather, in the game you are at least monitoring your performance and trying to improve it.

On the road, you don’t respawn!


TWO MONTHS

And you have settled in the new house... and you are again missing your hometown.

And you have inducted yourself into the new job... and are still workless.

And you have met friends and relatives you hadn’t for long... thrice.

And you have the new connections for the phones, for the laptops and for the loo (ToI).

Two months… and the sounds again a monotone.