wishlist for a good internet existance

less:
articles on ill effects of coffee.
diets plans
diseases and their pictorial representations.
political propaganda.
free advise

more:
remedies
networks
faqs.
free porn
entertainment
ideas
personal goals
support.

tagged!

/riya brought this upon me... a looooooong time ago.. adn i finally got to writing it...!
some day i shall remember to thank her for this. :)

life ten years ago:
Odd, awkward, aimless.
i wasnt born that way, they made me like that, full of dreams void of directions. another cog in the wheel destined to become a spanner in the works. one way or another. fresh out of high school, I dreamt of becoming a research scientist, which got lost somewhere in the transition between the child and adult. the glorious future replaced by the multi flavored present. the rude shock that i am now at the crossroads that would lead to i-know-not-where. into architecture by chance, not sure if belonged. they were weird times.
music: the birth of the metal junkie. introduced to it by an acquaintance trying to showoff

Life five years ago:
angry, smitten, determined.
it wasn't over night but it was somewhere now. from the reluctant entrant into the world of architecture and design, i fell in love with it. no longer a design virgin i was hooked like an addict. my friends took up alcohol i took to fantasy for kicks. angry at the system for keeping me in the dar about the wonders that design brings. angry that i didn't know then what i know now. determined that i would better what they ruined. make up for lost time. load up on junk and get the show on the road.
music: deep into nu rock. heavy metal, death metal and all things that sounded rebellious, introductions were made with classic rock too... U2, rush, lynnard, DT were made...

Life tomorrow
certainly uncertain.
music: metal still rules, right besides, house, electronic and classic rock...
Five locations I would run away to
i dont think places are special. its what we make them with the things that we do that make them special.
my top 5 hideouts:
my imagination, alone, with characters, and the things they do.
a road trip to nowhere, dirt sweat, caked mud on a throbbing head has its own charm. this i would do alone, no baggage, emotional physical or otherwise,
a movie theatre, the matrix trilogy, kshitij, dey and a lot of coke.. not snorts, liquid, not diet, the stuff that real men drink!!
the beach at pondycheri, friends, food and fights....
bangalore, friends, food and ram to take shots at! (sorry ram but u are the best part!)

5 bad habits:
y top five, i leave that to you...
this is what came out of an exercise on a very long and cramped plane journey...
(axe, elle and the short lady!... you know who u are!)
fear of responsibilities
confused
short attention span
push over
aimless
talks crap
lazy
indifference to attire
no tact
spendthrift
inconsistent
emotional
afraid of women? (i dont know what made them say this.)
restless
no sense of belonging (root less) (drifting)
spells horrid!
disinterested
non prioritizing
childish
immature

Five things I will never wear:
under normal circumstances:
deep purple/red/yellow
head gear made out of another animals head.
a suit
the emperors new clothes.
a shirt that says britney rules!

Five biggest joys at the moment
ravioli in walnut and cream sauce.
the macbook 13" black.
motorbike and an open road
good movies
new music

Something to achieve by next year
c l a r i t y! would give anything for it!... absolutely anything. just show me what it is that i want. a definite answer to anything. but ya otherwise, a new bike, a longer ride, a faster run, a smoother road, a cleaner beach, and someone to understand why! if not ride along :) and a million bucks... any currency.

Something that impacted me last year
18th march 2008, the maiden concert and everything that happened around it!, (you know who you are)
What I will miss about 2007
everything and nothing. it changed my life in more ways that i know and more ways than i would like to... its was the best and the worst year of my life, this phoenix burnt brilliant in 2007 !

Five things I want to do before I die
World domination.. and wont take no for an answer.
waken festival
road trip on a bike that i hand built across all 5 continents
skinny dipping in the Antarctic.
and stop a speeding bullet... just once!

and now to inflict this on to the next breed of suffering bloggers... I would like to introduce ... Sam , sister and r3fluxx, may you feel what i felt while writing this post. :)

cheers!

zero knowledge society.

there was a time before time... when all was in the dark, no one could see anything, they were dark times, and then god said.. let there be light, He willed it, and it was done, and the world changed for ever!.... awww shoot!

we started to see things, observe them, understand them, analyze, rationalize assess them against other rationalized theories, practices, experiences... we started seeing things for what they were, potentially and actively, and found them to be very threatening. because logically it was concluded that people go bad. so every thing people do, can do, will do, must do, will be done bad. faith in everyone was lost in the fear that knowledge created. people somehow extrapolated their bad experiences, mapped them over real life scenarios and
this made people unhappy... very unhappy...! they now knew that u cant exchange metals for food.. will work for food became outdated, they wanted to work for more, shiney little pieces of metal seemed like a nice thing to work for, you collect them and then exchange them for food, shelter clothing, and better food, bigger shelters and more clothing and so on... this too wouldnt satisfy us.. we wanted more, we knew we wanted more, and we knew we wanted to know more... and so we fought, we travelled, invented, discovered, shed more light on the world, got more and more unhappy, the closer and smaller the world got the more unhappy we became... and there in came about Angelina Jolie's personalized lower belly tattoo "Quod me nutrit me destruit" or for the latin-ically challenged "what nourishes me, also destroys me". the knowing has undone our faith and trust in everything, and we have to rationalize everything, we have to necessarily do a worst case scenario simulation before we get into anything, we have become more cautioned, more surefooted and lost our ability to adventure, to try out new less done things, knowledge has its price and sometimes times its just not worth it.We started decaying the minute we were born, and there is no such things as immortality, the only question is can we go back?...

now imagine if it were possible, we could go back to not knowing, if it were possible that we formed a society in the middle of nowhere, connected to nothing but those around us, no information super-ways, no internet, no vast libraries chronicling our rights and wrongs, just us, no wise men of the village, no rules forbidding, just our morals, and respect for each mans private space, you trust everyone and they trust you back. and all progressing with the same pace, progress not because of resource availability, but because of shared and collaborative enterprise. and it is all beautiful... now imagine this same society in present day, we force feeding trust in our system, us looking for means for peaceful coexistence, no them vs us, just plain we. take the whole web 2.0 movement and make it earth 2.0 and start open-sourcing our lives, you use my knowledge in exchange for yours, back to barter living. no economics, just a collaboratively grown knowledge society, the power that knowledge brought would now percolate right to the bottom, forming a corruption free society with pure progress,we move forth only when we move together.... the individual as significant as the community and no one left behind. pure utopia. non corrupting power, zero singular knowledge, absolute trust. pure bliss...
in the valley of the one eyed, the blind men shall rule! The end...or the beginning...:)
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