when i passed 10th it was but obvious that i will take admission in the AE junior college......who the hell in the world went outta colony man????
and then dad asked me well why not try other colleges??? and i asked why do??? but i nonetheless filled up the form for Swami Vivekanand......forget the name....it was OUTSIDE the colony.....that was the main thing......no big deal. i was determined i'll be with my friends in AEJC (Atomic Energy...what a hip name to start with....Swami??? the name sounded dead to me)....
But when i saw my name in that first list in Swami....i decided then and there i wanted to come here......WHY??? i still dont know.....i dont regret that decision.....more of an impulse rather.... but that was the first tangent that my life took!!!
everyone did engineering man!!! that meant everyone!!! so it was in colony, in AEJC and in Swamis.....but me.....no i wanted to do pure science???? WHY??? i dunno.....cause i seriously like mechanical engineering as much as biology.....i guess i didnt know that then.....what i did know was that i liked biology.....
i knew then that there was no money in this line.....that was the one thing i did know....i didnt know anything else.....like the fact that good opportunities are real hard to come by.....that there is no placement......and the competition is so high that only the top 1% go on to do masters from any decent institute.....
had i known all this i wud have taken up engineering with its fantastic packages and placements.....cause only i know how much of my life has rolled in uncertainity and fear this last year of bachelors.......but i didnt know all these sweet facts then.....
so i took up a BSc in microbiology......dad warned me.....in this line u gotta go till PhD or u perish midway and find a new line.....
that was when my life shot off on another tangent......all my friends from Swamis and Colony took up engineering......but not me.....i went in for BSc.....
now that i have a bachelors degree in hand.....isnt that supposed to be a good thing.....not if its a BSc.......well now that i have a BSc in hand i am off for an MSc......
this MSc must come from outside mumbai since mumbai univ sucks and this is the condition put by my dad to me if i am to continue in this line of work.....
i sense another tangent thats gonna shoot off......it'll include my first real experience with research.......my first hostel experience.....my first time away from home.....a lot of firsts......
later after MSc the same uncertainity will play its game before i get into any good PhD course....hopefully that will involve another country.... a lot of another firsts... another new tangent......
but now i am not scared like i was half of last year.......maybe later i will be.....but not now......cause the certainity of an MSc admission shields me......so bring it on!!!
atleast my....whole life keeps on curving and twisting and bending.....and some times a tangent shoots out....so i wonder is this ones ever gonna come a full circle......i hope it does....far far out in the future....cause then i will reminiscence and i know that will be a good feeling.....
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Saturday, June 7, 2008
Humane??? Humans no more!!!
I just saw an excellent movie called "Blood Diamond".....and it has really shaken me, the images in the movie, the scenario, everything.......it has got me asking some questions to which i dont have any answers.......
In the movie the main protagonist is a diamond smuggler who smuggles stolen uncut diamonds from Sierra Leone mines and sells them off to private companies which then mix these with legally mined diamonds and out into the open market.../...in the process of obtaining these stolen diamonds he exploits diamond mine workers....these workers themselves are exploited and forced into mining.....theres a local civil war going on between rival black factions, between blacks and whites and theres absolutely no government no law, order nuthing.....u have a gun and the other person is eating and u hungry.....just shoot and eat....thats what they do.....the diamond companies employ there own armies and bomb the diamond mines.....killing thousand of workers.....who are really better off dead...(but they shudnt be and thats what this blog is leading to).....all illegally.....but hey everything is legal here and nuthing is legal....
the situation is created such that it profits everyone if the war keeps on going....no body is financing the war.....everyone is just helping it along....all u need to do is get ur hands on one fat diamond and u are set for life....thats the reason for the war.....the diamond companies hoard the diamonds in vaults causing a shortage and increasing diamond prices....consumer will always buy however costly they may be.....after all diamonds are supposed to be costly......
In the process (though Sierra Leone is now peaceful) there are now 200000 child soldiers every one of em with an AK 47.....where the fuck do these guns come from.....cause they arent being manufactured in africa for gods sake....so many bullets are fired.....where do the new magazines come from??? they got be coming from somewhere but from where fucking where.....
Why do we kill so easily.....why doesnt it matter to one individual that his actions are causing suffering in whole god damn nations!!! that people are killing each other because of situations created by 2 diamond companies.....and the irony being that these same people dont even know that any such company exists......
What is the freaking meaning of the word Humane??? Human Rights?? Humanity??? Human??? Are we inherently that selfish an organism??.....ok lets give the fucking humans a chance.....lets analyse this from a biological viewpoint.....An animal will ofcourse fight for the best resources, best pastures, the best patch of sunlight, the best hunting grounds, the best mates.....money is a resource for Humans...it has become one now......so it is justified to fight for money.....a lion will never kill an animal for fun....once it has had its fill, it'll never kill..... are we then justifed in so much killing after we have had the money??? after we have had our fill......and the weird thing is we kill our own kinds.....not that we dont kill other organisms.....we do that in plenty too....
wars have been a fixture with this race.....we killed off the neanderthals in war.......thats how this race begins its sojourn on earth....whenever things get too quite we go to war,......theres not enough money in the economy....lets go to war....theres too much of it...lets got to war....oh my...my neighbor has too much of it...let go and have a fucking war.....oh my god my neighbor looks different today... kill!!! wtf???
we humans as a race/.....are inherently too selfish, greedy, callous in our attitude towards everyhting....and all this after being the only species to recognize all this!!! we cannibalize, rape, kill, destroy and fuck up everything from our own selves to other people to other animals, environment everything!!!
did the word humane come from the word human.....their meaning has changed now....diverged so drastically that I dont now know what the word human means anymore...
but the most weirdest thing is.....i myself am a Human !!!
In the movie the main protagonist is a diamond smuggler who smuggles stolen uncut diamonds from Sierra Leone mines and sells them off to private companies which then mix these with legally mined diamonds and out into the open market.../...in the process of obtaining these stolen diamonds he exploits diamond mine workers....these workers themselves are exploited and forced into mining.....theres a local civil war going on between rival black factions, between blacks and whites and theres absolutely no government no law, order nuthing.....u have a gun and the other person is eating and u hungry.....just shoot and eat....thats what they do.....the diamond companies employ there own armies and bomb the diamond mines.....killing thousand of workers.....who are really better off dead...(but they shudnt be and thats what this blog is leading to).....all illegally.....but hey everything is legal here and nuthing is legal....
the situation is created such that it profits everyone if the war keeps on going....no body is financing the war.....everyone is just helping it along....all u need to do is get ur hands on one fat diamond and u are set for life....thats the reason for the war.....the diamond companies hoard the diamonds in vaults causing a shortage and increasing diamond prices....consumer will always buy however costly they may be.....after all diamonds are supposed to be costly......
In the process (though Sierra Leone is now peaceful) there are now 200000 child soldiers every one of em with an AK 47.....where the fuck do these guns come from.....cause they arent being manufactured in africa for gods sake....so many bullets are fired.....where do the new magazines come from??? they got be coming from somewhere but from where fucking where.....
Why do we kill so easily.....why doesnt it matter to one individual that his actions are causing suffering in whole god damn nations!!! that people are killing each other because of situations created by 2 diamond companies.....and the irony being that these same people dont even know that any such company exists......
What is the freaking meaning of the word Humane??? Human Rights?? Humanity??? Human??? Are we inherently that selfish an organism??.....ok lets give the fucking humans a chance.....lets analyse this from a biological viewpoint.....An animal will ofcourse fight for the best resources, best pastures, the best patch of sunlight, the best hunting grounds, the best mates.....money is a resource for Humans...it has become one now......so it is justified to fight for money.....a lion will never kill an animal for fun....once it has had its fill, it'll never kill..... are we then justifed in so much killing after we have had the money??? after we have had our fill......and the weird thing is we kill our own kinds.....not that we dont kill other organisms.....we do that in plenty too....
wars have been a fixture with this race.....we killed off the neanderthals in war.......thats how this race begins its sojourn on earth....whenever things get too quite we go to war,......theres not enough money in the economy....lets go to war....theres too much of it...lets got to war....oh my...my neighbor has too much of it...let go and have a fucking war.....oh my god my neighbor looks different today... kill!!! wtf???
we humans as a race/.....are inherently too selfish, greedy, callous in our attitude towards everyhting....and all this after being the only species to recognize all this!!! we cannibalize, rape, kill, destroy and fuck up everything from our own selves to other people to other animals, environment everything!!!
did the word humane come from the word human.....their meaning has changed now....diverged so drastically that I dont now know what the word human means anymore...
but the most weirdest thing is.....i myself am a Human !!!
Friday, June 6, 2008
Screwed Up
Recently, I think it was Condoleeza Rice who said that the world was facing a food shortage because of the rising appetites of Indians!!! A provocative statement to say the least....and an absolutely silly one on top of that!!!
What are we doing exactly......(we-as in humans). We are screwing up big time....in fact we have already screwed up big time.....Theres is a limited area of land on earth, of that some of it has to be given to perennial forests to act as lungs so as to keep our metabolism oxygenic..... some of it is waste land, desert or mountain land and generally uncultivable......some of it is covered by our filthy cities and houses and god knows what else.....the rest must now be efficiently converted to agricultural land....the only problem is it already is.........and it is not enough....so what do u do......eat meat.....how do you grow meat??? u need more land for grazing cattle than for agriculture.....so its actually better to eat green leafy vegetables however much u may feel like a cow........but still not enough food.....so you fish....but the problem is excess fishing has already decreased the numbers to such drastic lows that many near extinction locally(most notably the yummy blue fin tunas)....quite a few globally (most notably the whales). So what do you do....u start fish farms....only they dont grow like wheat...and fish from fish farms are costlier than fish from sea!!!......so now we have less food which is more costly....and we already are in a global economy recession with rising oil prices and decreasing steel availability.......and the global warming is increasing sea levels steadily so that the amount of available land is decreasing still further.......and rising sea levels would engulf not just coastal cities or villages but whole countries.......for eg: Netherlands is a country which will be totally submerged if the sea levels rises.....and Netherlands holds in billions of dollars in the world horticulture industry.....thank god its not agriculture instead of horticulture....Another bad news.....we are converting agricultural land to grow crops to harness biodiesel.....thus decreasing agricultural land for food further and on top of that burning a hydrocarbon to give off more of that noxious CO2 which increases global warming, raises water levels and decreases land availability further.......on top of that we are reproducing faster than rabits and while rabits would satiate with a forest we need whole cities to take care of our brethren and.......yes u got that right..... that requires more land...
So we eat and dont have enuff to eat, we fish and now the fish dont have enuff to eat (cause one fish eats another) we burn and we pollute and then we blame Indians rising appetites for food shortage forgeting that the max no. of obese are in the US of A....
WE ARE SCREWING UP BIG TIME ~!!!!!
(The weird thing is....there is a solution....and its called sacrifice.....but who is listening....all are busy eating!!!)
What are we doing exactly......(we-as in humans). We are screwing up big time....in fact we have already screwed up big time.....Theres is a limited area of land on earth, of that some of it has to be given to perennial forests to act as lungs so as to keep our metabolism oxygenic..... some of it is waste land, desert or mountain land and generally uncultivable......some of it is covered by our filthy cities and houses and god knows what else.....the rest must now be efficiently converted to agricultural land....the only problem is it already is.........and it is not enough....so what do u do......eat meat.....how do you grow meat??? u need more land for grazing cattle than for agriculture.....so its actually better to eat green leafy vegetables however much u may feel like a cow........but still not enough food.....so you fish....but the problem is excess fishing has already decreased the numbers to such drastic lows that many near extinction locally(most notably the yummy blue fin tunas)....quite a few globally (most notably the whales). So what do you do....u start fish farms....only they dont grow like wheat...and fish from fish farms are costlier than fish from sea!!!......so now we have less food which is more costly....and we already are in a global economy recession with rising oil prices and decreasing steel availability.......and the global warming is increasing sea levels steadily so that the amount of available land is decreasing still further.......and rising sea levels would engulf not just coastal cities or villages but whole countries.......for eg: Netherlands is a country which will be totally submerged if the sea levels rises.....and Netherlands holds in billions of dollars in the world horticulture industry.....thank god its not agriculture instead of horticulture....Another bad news.....we are converting agricultural land to grow crops to harness biodiesel.....thus decreasing agricultural land for food further and on top of that burning a hydrocarbon to give off more of that noxious CO2 which increases global warming, raises water levels and decreases land availability further.......on top of that we are reproducing faster than rabits and while rabits would satiate with a forest we need whole cities to take care of our brethren and.......yes u got that right..... that requires more land...
So we eat and dont have enuff to eat, we fish and now the fish dont have enuff to eat (cause one fish eats another) we burn and we pollute and then we blame Indians rising appetites for food shortage forgeting that the max no. of obese are in the US of A....
WE ARE SCREWING UP BIG TIME ~!!!!!
(The weird thing is....there is a solution....and its called sacrifice.....but who is listening....all are busy eating!!!)
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