Sania Malik?

Well well well.
Even though I think public and press should stay away from the private life of public figures, I can’t help but wonder about Sania Mirza getting engaged to Shoaib Malik.

If this engagement proceeds to marriage, that would be the pinnacle of Sania Mirza’s career.
Yes I didn’t commit a spelling mistake. Who cares about Sania Mirza’s tennis career anyways?

Personally, I followed Sania Mirza when she was an innocent 16 year old teenager, who paired up with Leandar Paes and won Asia cup mixed doubles gold for india. After that, her rise has been pretty meteorological. She kept on being in the front of press, more for putting her legs before Indian flag, than winning any tournaments, which she hardly did any.

Yes she won a grandslam with Mahesh Bhupati, and she has beaten Martina Hingis once. But for the fame and the number of advertisements she appeared in, her contributions to sport is pretty stingy.

I was not able to understand the hullabaloo around her ‘cos Mahesh Bhupati and Leandar Paes kept on winning grand slams after grand slams one after another.

I dont think she did enough to tennis as PT Usha did to athletics or Saina Nehwal did to Badmitton. Still the only thing is Sania Mirza is better looking than the other two and she was able to act as a bitch (sorry girls ) when required.

By the way I wanted to write about this issue, as this issue will definitely bring up lot many issues including feminism.

Dont believe me?
Do you remember how Indians cheered when Sunny Deol who is an Indian eloped with Amisha Patel who is a Paki in the movie Gadar: Ek prem katha.
Now is the perfect role reversal. A guy from Pakistan is going to marry a girl from India.
I don’t think Indians will support this marriage as they did with Gadar: Ek prem katha.

The next thing is Indo-Pak peace talks.

Think about it. If Gandhiji brought up a decree saying that all Indians should marry a Pakistani only, then most probably we will stop fighting with Pakistan. ‘cos it will be like fighting your own Mom or Dad.

Sania, by starting inter country marriage, has definitely started a new peace process in the correct path

5 digits

Congrats to me!!!
My blog visit count is slowly moving towards 10K.
I was hoping my blog visit count will overtake my Orkut home page visits before my home page visits reaches 10K.
But unfortunately today, I found out that Orkut home page visits have crossed 10K and Orkut has edged out WordPress.
Even though 10K is noway a big number, personally, I think it is a huge achievement for me.
I am happy that some one out there in the wide and huge internet reads my rumblings and have even provided comments for the same.
Many a times, this blog has been a tool to vent out my frustration and anger I feel towards something.
Funnily, I have more posts in Draft than the number of posts which I have posted.
Enough of my rumbling. Thanks every one.
I will try to come up with something soon in the future.

Dream Job

When you were a child, some one would have asked you this question. You might have even written essays about it too.

“What do you want to be when you grow up?”

Most of us would have said they wanted to be an astronaut, pilot, or a teacher, some even district collector and a very few army officer. I can bet for sure, none of us would have even though about being an engineer.

When we were kids (I am talking about early 90s), computers were kind of like rocket science. You might have had one or two classmates, who had a distant cousin, who owned a computer. You might have even paid lot of money to learn Basic and Foxpro in an old dos console. Dave and Prince were the hippest of the video games, and your friends might have talked hours together about how Dave jumps and how Prince stabs.

Now things have changed to each and every one for sure. You are most probably reading my blog in a computer(Other options being smartphone, iPad, blackberry). The sight of looking at a computer, which once was extreme delight, has given way to utter disgust. Personally, I hate the black lenovo which my company has given me. But I still have to look at it day in and out.

We want to stay away from computers as long as we can. But it has become such an addiction that, even after staying away from it for half an hour, we return to check the new mails and the facebook scraps.

We have become like Gollum of Lord of the Rings, who hated and loved its ring at the same time.

OK OK, as usual, I have drifted away from the topic which I wanted to talk about.

The topic was about our childhood fantasy.

I dont know how many of us are doing the same job which we dreamed of as a child. I am pretty sure, most of those who wanted to become a collector, or an Astronaut would be doing something else in his life, as their dreams were as high as Everest is for a whale.

Talking about me, as a child, I wanted to become a geologist.

If you ask for the reason, Geology was the only subject in which I was able to perform consistently in my class. I was kind of dumbfounded by the different rocks and stuff. Seriously I liked how sedimentary rocks are formed and how they were distributed around India.

South West and North East monsoons were cool to learn, and the fact about Chirapunji and Sahara were mind blowing.

Every thing came to an abrupt end when I told my dream of being a geologist to one of my mom’s collegues. She brought me out of my dream world and made me face the reality. She told me about her nephew and how she finished her degree in geology and how she is still waiting for a call from the Indian government to be given a job in geological survey of India. I don’t know whether she has now got a call, as it has been close to a decade since then.

But leaner job market in Geography killed my dream. I was no way interested in studying something and getting nothing in return. For me, my dream should pay me big time . I changed my focus out of Geography and into mathematics. Of course, I stopped getting high marks which I used to get in Geography.

After learning that after 10th, you don’t have to learn Geography, Geography became a mundane subject, than an interesting one which it used to be.

But even now, the number of treks which I do might be due to the interest which I had in Geography. I like the variation from the arid regions in Andhra to the dense jungles in Karnataka.

When I see with my own eyes, the truth of windward side and leeward side, I feel enticed. Even now, I feel, working in Geological survey of India, roaming around forests and jungles, taking measurements about the subtle variations in soil and vegetation would be the best job in the planet.

But I guess some dreams are meant to stay as dreams.