Catch sleep quick

Lately started listening to Jiddu's audio or started reading few of Jiddu's books.
I think lately I am catching sleep earlier than ever.

Pretty pretty pretty good

Watching Curb Your Enthusiasm all day/night - all the reruns, hardly seem to disappoint me at all. My precious sleep time has taken a beating and waking up in the morning is also a struggle. They also play Seinfeld in regular dosage and I have to say 'Long live nard-dog, long live JTV, long live LD'

Get out of here!

Larry David is God!

Dream - Work In Progress

Why is it that dreams are almost always in slow motion and nothing ever really happens during the entire course of the dream !
Guess, dreams are unfinished or does not have any climax - maybe cause there need not be any climax and dreams are meant to be unfinished.
Someday, I wish I can make a movie which are similar to dreams i.e. there's no beginning, there's no end, everything happens in slow motion, all faces are hazy and nothing really happens during the course of the movie.

The Book Conspiracy

For someone who watches the news/talk shows on television in the US of A, it will be no surprise to find that every guest to any talk show or every guest who walks into any news show, has a book published on some goddamn topic.
It gets terribly irritating and one wishes the host does not turn into a book publisher's pimp !
Even a person like Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert or Amy Goodman spend a minute or two talking about the book, show the photo of the book's cover and appreciate the author for writing the best seller.
I can't figure out why talk/news show hosts patronize their guests' books or the book publishers !

Travel

I think the concept of 'travel' is hyped.
Who would want to see places or see people, when all the places or people are just available all the time in the internet ?!
Nothing beats the internet !

Flush

'The Thinker' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thinker)

Now here comes the stinker:
Does it not surprise you that the above picture resembles a person sitting on the toilet seat ?
Does it not surprise you that, it is the toilet seat which provides a conducive environment for free thinking ?

A restroom is an impenetrable fortress, as long as the door is latched properly! One has all the creative licenses of the world to dwell in past or future and see moments pass through in snail's pace. Only precondition to this whole time travel adventure is that the subject must possess fertile imagination and intellect.

Of course this happy story has a sad ending and the sojourn is broken by a flush of all the inventive thoughts and the long walk towards your office desk starts.

Sachin has no class

I always wonder why should a player as flamboyant as Sachin, curbs all his natural instincts/talents just cause he wants to score more runs/want his team to win (rarely).
Questions which immediately comes to my mind are:
a. Is winning more important than being honest to the talent/skill ?
b. Is scoring more runs important than being honest to the talent/skill ?
c. Will Bradman/Richards also stifle all their strokes just for the heck of scoring safe runs ?
d. Why is he so scared of playing those glorious drives in the cover-point, straight ? And instead pockets those safe runs in third man and fine leg region. He really has to think he is Sachin and not Chanderpaul or Jimmy Adams or Justin Langer or Graham Thorpe.

There are folks who say Sachin is playing these drab innings because of:
a. The pressure factor - which does not give him too much liberty to play his natural innings :
Hmm.. I think it is important one does justice to his natural talent and be honest to himself, rather than claim that he is playing for "others".
b. It takes great courage to curb one's instincts:
Hmm.. this is equivalent to cheating oneself.

Why do you care - it is Sachin's own decision to play positively/negatively ?
Agreed, it shouldn't exactly bother me. Sachin has all the liberty to change his style/improvise whenever he wants and whenever he wishes. But, I think Sachin might never re-capture the imagination of many cricket-watchers, thanks to his negative instincts.

Chomsky - Monk

I find a similarity between Chomsky's thoughts and that of Jiddu(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiddu_Krishnamurti) or Osho (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osho). Jiddu and Osho were mostly professing Hindu/Zen school of philosophy, who emphasized the idea of 'self' and how "individualism" is the key to everyone's happiness and not obedience towards concepts like government/state/organization/religion etc.,

Chomsky's thoughts are similar to what these Eastern/Oriental philosophers who have professed i.e. realizing the power of 'self' and do not allow external factors to distract/prevent to pursue the task of understanding/realizing the "self".
In Chomsky-speak, external factors can be replaced with institutions/organizations/state/government/corporate/or any culture which takes itself too seriously.

I trust the bottom-line of Chomsky's school of thought is to 'free the individual' from 'groups' that will invariably enslave him/her.

As part of this effort, Chomsky uses "reason" or "rationality" with the foot soldier's of government/state/organization/corporate/religion. Chomsky's "reasoning or rationality" is not merely qualitative but also quantitative. Chomsky always amaze me with the way he supports his arguments with numbers/data/information from reputed sources. And whenever he supports his arguments with numbers/data/information, I find that the other person is spellbound, gets desperate and jumps out of the argument.

Because of Chomsky's strong opposition to concepts of State/Government, there's a strong likelihood that many among the common public will always associate 'Chomsky' to "anti-state" or "anti-government" or "anti-imperialism" or other upteen number of "anti-.." propaganda, instead of looking at "Chomsky" as the one who professed "individual freedom".