07

1. Brakes don't always work (especially on MG road)
2. Never keep spectacles on beds
3. Optimism never killed anyone (Well, maybe not never)
4. The passenger next to you is never pretty (more often than not its a drunk, who conveniently uses your shoulder as head support)
5. Water Heaters (geezer) sometimes burst (VC's scream of horror will haunt me forever)
6. Bangalore roads never fail to surprise
7. When all else fails ... hmm... I still don't know what to do
8. I don't remember much of what happened since 06 (must be congenital)
9. Blog posts tend to get shorter as time goes by

Guess there wasn't much I learned from 07 :)

The Ten Commandments of wooing

1. Thou shall be as peppy as a peppy girl on crack
2. Thou shall learn subtle ways to scream out loud, announce thy intentions and tattoo them on the forehead of the one being wooed
3. Thou shall always offer a ride home (or better, ask for a ride home)
4. Thou shall develop a sudden interest in playing the guitar, or dance or breeding venomous reptiles or whatever interests the one being wooed
5. Thou shall never pay a direct compliment
6. Thou shall frequently use the phrases "get lost", "go to hell" and "ya right!", always with a suggestive smile and a sparkle in the eyes
7. Thou shall learn to type faster using a T9 dictionary than the 'qwerty' key board
8. Thou shall swallow the last vestiges of of one's pride, self respect and dignity and forget that one ever had any traces of these
9. Thou shall erase the words disappointment, frustration, grief and pain from one's vocabulary ( and one's dictionary)
10. Thou shall persevere, thou shall persevere, thou shall persevere

P.S. The author has had no success with these, but wishes the readers the very best.
Good luck and godspeed

Shades

Society is based on values, rules and assumptions. Like any system, society uses these tenets to continue functioning.
Values which tell us whats is right, rules which make us do the right thing and the assumption that the previous two have been formulated keeping in mind the best interests of society and the individual, the assumption being the most significant of the three.
As children we are trained to follow them and hence, fit into society. There is no ambiguity. There is right and there is wrong.
If only it was this simple. Unfortunately there is more. Unfortunately there is that enigmatic 'Grey'.
The 'grey', is not wrong, but does that make it right? The line was clear, till we learnt to push and contort it, till we learnt to go over it, without stepping over it.
Would you stop doing something 'grey', if it gave you great joy and happiness, yet did not do any immediate tangible harm, if it only created an atmosphere congenial for the 'black'? How far would you push the line? Would you keep doing it till rebuked?
The kid in us never would. But somewhere along the line, the kid grew up. The kid grew up the moment he realized, black and white are just shades of grey.