Oh, Sinnerman, where you gonna run to!

The following video depicts a step by step manual that teaches how to return a stolen painting and steal another one and go through all this trouble just for the fun of it. I know it's kinda old but quite a lot of fun and still all golden. Hope it proves to be educational!

From the movie- The Thomas Crown Affair
Clipped from- You Tube

Poetic Compliment!

My tribute to Pablo Neruda’s Book of Questions:

Does brightness conceal the coat of dark or does darkness hide behind the cover of light?

Do colors truly ever mix?

Can music live without instruments?

Where can I buy sleep?

Why do stars hide when they are needed the most?

How loud is the breaking of a heart?

What color is the sky when it’s feeling blue?

tO lOOk Or nOt tO lOOk?

There is something that has been bothering me for a while. Not really, bother bother but it does intrigue and fascinate me; it is not really a problem of philosophy per se but it does have certain reflective connotations associated with it.


My question, is simple- to look or not to look?


Looking involves directing all energies towards the pursuit of whatever is that is being sought- a relentless, persistent search. Is there not a prevalent conspiracy theory that talks about wanting something so badly that the entire universe starts conspiring in helping one achieve it- what 'The Alchemist', 'The Secret', 'Om Shanti Om' etc have been trying to drill into us? That means I can actually find out who gave the Joker his scars? Amazing! (And, no, even in the face of overwhelming evidence it is not Rajnikanth)


On the other hand, is there not an equally established school of thought that promotes the "Don't seek and you shall receive" theory? For example, when you have lost something and are frantically looking for it or when in the middle of a conversation an all important word eludes you, is it not highly recommended to immediately halt the exploration and cease rummaging around? And is it not believed that after a few anxious moments, just like that, as if carried by the wind, the spectacles will be found perched atop the head and another curse word will simply pop into the mouth?


To summarize, there are 2 scenarios- one where you look and look and look…∞
And in the other situation, you look but then decide not to look for sometime and kaboom, you find what you were looking for.


So dear Reader, what do you think- which solution should one look up to? Which one would work?


P.S. - Personally, I think sunglasses should be worn all the time. No, it won't answer my query but at least no one would know if I were looking or not!

10 Reasons Why People Create A Blog And Then Ignore It

Reason 10: Somebody (of course a well wisher with the sincerest intentions) told them that they can write.


Reason 9: They know and believe that they can write.


Reason 8: They are laziness-personified. They idolize Garfield and believe that inherent lethargy is a genetic trait that cannot and should not be messed with. They like to stretch the idea that a personal blog can never be updated, to its maximum limit so that the idea itself snaps with a loud creak. Was it that or the sound made by suddenly moving bones that have been idle for ages?


Reason 7: They, by fluke, once sent a piece of their work that they really despised, to an online writing reviewer/tutor. The tutor appreciated and encouraged their work but they firmly believe that the tutor was a habitual drunk who cannot be trusted.


Reason 6: They have a personal TV recently moved in their room. They watch one series after another and the re-runs and end up being zonked out and in general an idiot.


Reason 5: They think they can write.


Reason 4: They get the weirdest issues to resolve at work. They end up replacing a single beautiful simplest line of code in the world with 30 lines of the wackiest ugliest piece of code every seen by humankind. And then ensuring that this clutter ends up looking the same on Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome and whatever-is-the-name-of-the-newest-browser. Not that anyone said that office hours (total hours minus hours spent taking tea/lunch/chit-chat/loo breaks) are meant for writing blogs but that's not what we are talking about, are we?


Reason 3: And if killer work is not trying to strangulate them, it's Mother Nature taking her revenge. Sometimes the scorching sun tries to fry them, other times vengeful clouds attempt to drown them. As if Delhi traffic and roads were not enough to bring them in close contact with death everyday, the climate decided to join the slaughter party too.


Reason 2: They have the attention span of a fly. There are so many things happening in the immediate surroundings that it becomes humanly impossible for them to retain their focus. And so when they are trying to keep up with world events, they have a dekko at other writers' blogs and repeatedly question their self what was I thinking and then, more importantly, why was I thinking?


Reason 1: They feel they can write.