Reign Over Me

And today, I realized that Adam Sandler was not just a damn hillbilly who made crap movies that idjit Amrikans watched and giggled at.

PRESCRIPTUM: ** SPOILER ALERT** The whole damn post is a spoiler. So if you wanna watch the movie, Don’t read the post… (As if any one reads here )

Reign over me is a movie that could have been so bad in so many ways. It could have moralized and talked about how psychiatric help is essential or even necessary for people who deal with sorrow. It could have been an exercise in the futile system that exists now in the United States – The Pill Culture. Just solve away your problems by taking pills, by spending an hour a week with a therapist. (BTW this is catching on in India too).

The movie is not about disorders, its not about being hyperactive or having ADD or being bipolar or being depressed or having Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Its on one level the crude need for society to make its individuals confirm to a standard – Make people fit into blocks. She is a prostitute so she was abused when she was a kid. He is depressed, well get him some anti-depressants fer crying out loud and so on.

Maybe it shouldn’t be about that. Maybe it should be about personal responsibility. Let people heal in the way they are most comfortable with. Maybe valium is not the solution for depression – Maybe all that is needed is a good bunch of people who surround you most of the time and keep you cheered up. Yes, its not a quick fix chemical solution – BUT maybe that is just it. Life cannot be a quick fix solution – Spend an hour of therapy with some dude and expect to solve why your marriage is failing or why your wife is having an affair. Nah..I am not sure it works like that.

BUT who am I in this entire equation to tell anyone anything.

P.S: Happy Diwali to all ya folks out there. The first silent Diwali in a long fucking time. I am loving it.

Just saying :)

Mark Twain

Born – November 30 1835

Died – April 21 1910

BEP

Born – March 3 1986

Died – ???

Certain Appearances of Haley’s Comet

* November 16, 1835

* April 20, 1910

* March 4, 1986

* Mid, 2061

Just saying

/Bucket list coming up…

/Stay tuned

Shameless Plug 101: Blog Features Kitties!!!

In the words of Will Smith in Independence Day, I did promise you  Fireworks .

Kitty Cato

P.S: Oh BTW…The stuff I wrote yesterday..it still holds..I still see the same damn thing happening in there…

The Serial Killer of T-Board and other oh..so..irrelevant stories.. II

Of a story in 2 Parts: Where in the previous part be heer

WARNING : May be slightly manic and involve words which are not fit for consumption by Children and Peope who are stuck up

While, the entire drama  (of the cats!!!) was going on; A certain small trivial episode happened that I shall recount here in great detail.

I am sure most of the students/researchers/Project Assistants/Interns of IISc are nice and decent people who deeply care about where they drink their coffee and other such irrelevant matters. ( Still not commenting on Coffee Board vs. T-Board or any such nonsense) ;However it seems to me that its the little details that escape us especially that bite us in the end: The little details that make up this wonderful country – The two Indias. While, on one side, we have one of the greatest Academic Institutions that I am proud to be part of; where the Research is orgasmically Amazing and we have a large number of people who are much better (intellectually and personally) human beings than the average riff raff you see dotting the rest of Bangalore ( Disclosure: BEP HATESSS Software Companiessss) ; The other side always bites you: The shocking sight of a kid, (Looks ten, Could be twelve ) being beaten the crap out as he is dragged back into work in a certain eatery (Oh Look at the title for clues ).

NOW:

Let us analyze the incident calmly: Forget the fact that the kid was beaten up brutally like a dog. (Why? He might have deserved it? I am not even going into the fact that a kid can’t defend himself against a grown up individual). Forget the fact that I have seen this same case all over India: Be it in Bombay, Be it in Chennai (In a very popular chain of departmental stores) and in my Undergrad College. My point is why is there a hue and cry only when there is a brutal flashpoint? Yes, Even I am guilty of the same damn thing. I sit and waste my time writing a blog which no one reads but I dont have the guts to stop going to a place where the prices are dirt cheap because the labour is cheap.

Why take the effort to make the hue and cry?

BECAUSE:

We should! You (The people who dot the lecture circuit moaning and groaning about child labour) and I may just be armchair protestors. But unless you and I talk about this: When is it going to stop?

P.S:(To self) I meant this post to be a sarcastic piece…Dont’ think I have achieved that.

P.P.S : Please Folks, This post is not meant to diss (insult for the slangly -retarded ones) the Institute. It just proves a point. We complain, we make fine speeches about oh so many a “social evil”, in the end, we just help it go on. Recursive Hypocricy of the Elite ( Disclosure: I am also part of the same damn elite)

The Serial Killer of T-Board and other oh..so..irrelevant stories..

PRESCRIPTUM:

The fact that this blog and its owner is mad about cats is known to all. Another factotum is that this blogger can be often found in T-Board watching and admiring cats (Nope, its not procrastinating if you are drinking coffee and the cats do represent nature don’t they? – BasEkPal’s research interests do include building Robots that mimic real life; the above statement is a vain attempt to justify time wasting…But digress not we shall )

A fine specimen (featured previously on this Blog here) is one among a clan of cats that look like entirely similar (  and seem to be very passionate umm…. well you get the picture )..Any hoo, over the previous few weeks, their strenuous efforts (very public..even more public than Kareena and Shaheed) seem to have paid off as three to four kittens were observed peeking through a window ( All those who love kitties can go say AWWW next time you tea board ).

Anyway digress digress we shalt not!!!Recently while yours truly was contemplating on the sad thing that we call life and the singularly unusual situation where in the “beautiful” girls of IISc seem to be missing from BEP’s field of view: The Proud Mother of the three (or was it four) kittens was seen removing a victim from the T-Board Kitchen (No comments on how the hell a huge fuckin rat runs around in the Canteen -  FOLKS JUST EAT NOODLES!! Its packed & sealed!!!). The victim (Blood still Dripping) was dragged across until both the suspect and victim were seen leaping away to glory onto the window sill.

Now when such a situation arises, the sanity in one clearly makes one point out that one can’t anthromorphosize (sp?) cats into cute cuddly Felix the cats ( Yes, I am deliberately missing a famous toon cat) ; However the insane one can justify it by saying – Maybe the cat just rescued the victim from the Kitchen where an inhumane trap was used by the evil humans to catch the free beautiful ( Ok..Today’s first and last big lie) Rodent.

However, Tonight ( YES! This is news just off the blocks people!!! ) Yours truly observed the same alleged suspect drag another victim across the same path. Bah!! Chennai Cats are betta..Weak Scrawny folks who get terrorized by Rats..!!!

(Stay tuned for the oh..so..irrelevant stories..)