Trials and Tribulations by Fire

Today was OPE Day. I hate people, events, and things that make me feel less about myself. Like OPE. I hate it but it is a necessary evil. Can't be shrugged off. You have to endure it. Else it will make your life rough. I have known other OPEs, which were so drastic and bad that today seemed like a gentle breeze. The feeling of oppression was still there, but the degree was different. Now let me talk about people who make me feel less than I am. Well, is this sentence correct? Has it been structured correctly? I dunno. Maybe PST or JD can help me out with this. I am sure NRU can not even comprehend of these things. Well, I have certainly come a long way, now. I have a penchant to make big blunders in my life. I just did one. And this is an effort to erase something similar. I know I am a fool. But knowing this makes me wiser. I can make things better. OPE is a devil of the 28th. 29th is a new day. Let me sleep over it. Goodnite! People, today, If I hurt anybody, please forgive me. I...

Love is your nature. In the process of its expression, you often get caught up in the object. This is when your sight is caught outside. To return back to your nature, you need insight. Pain is the first insight: It takes you away from the object and turns you towards your body and mind. Energy is the second insight:A bolt of energy brings you back to your Self. Divine Love is the third insight:A glimpse of Divine love makes you so complete and overrules all the relative pleasures. Trance is the fourth insight:An elevation of consciousness and partial awareness of the physical reality around is Trance Non-dual existence, that all is made up of one and only one, is the fifth insight. When love glows, it is bliss, When it flows, it is compassion, When it blows, it is anger, When it ferments, it is jealously, When it is all Nos, it is hatred, When it acts, it is perfection, When love Knows, it is ME!

Today was a very strange day; August generally is, for me. The whole of the month gets on my nerves since I have remembered. Maybe it is simply a superstition. But August generally takes a toll. I get hurt unnecessarily during the month, get into unnecessary troubles, lose something, get stressed out, and find myself in a total soup! Well, i manage to get out of these somehow, but August tends to drain my emotional and mental energy a lot. August, the Eighth month of the Roman calendar. Named after Augustus Ceasar. I am a number 1. Yeah, would love to be that always, in everything, but as of now, my birth number is 1. Number 1 is always at loggerheads with numbers 8 and 4. Numbers 4 and 8 are known as fatalistic numbers for people born under number 1. have a strange love-hate relationship with people born under the numbers 4 and 8. I generally find out anybody's date of birth and try to steer clear if they are an 8! 4 seems easier on me, but 8 is dangerous. People with a birth num...

Picture this: A new swanky Maruti Swift, shining in the moonlight. Sounds good, aint it? Well yeah. It has been designed well too. Swift's core contains a 4 cylinder 16 valve DOHC arrangement with a 75bhp performance. The new Maruti Swift VDi has a Common Rail Multi Injection fuel system to boast of. I dont know what this was. Wiki came to my rescue, now I know something. Let me give you gyan. In older diesel engines, a distributor-type injection pump, regulated by the engine, supplies bursts of fuel to injectors which are simply nozzles through which the diesel is sprayed into the engine's combustion chamber. In common rail systems like the engine in Swift, the distributor injection pump is eliminated. Instead an extremely high pressure pump stores a reservoir of fuel at high pressure – up to 2,000 bar (200 MPa, 29,000 psi)[1] – in a "common rail", basically a tube which in turn branches off to computer-controlled injector valves, each of which contains a precision...

I came across this article on a website. I found it rather amusing, so I am reproducing it here. :) Read and enjoy. The biggest problem with us Indians; is our big mouths. We talk too much. But when it comes to action, we're too tired from all that talking to really do anything about anything. Or, we come up with the most ridiculous suggestions. Like the brilliant suggestion our ministry* of (god knows whose) welfare has come up with to solve the burgeoning population and HIV crisis (we are number two and three in the world respectively). Apparently, the best way to fight the problem is to introduce - hold your breaths people (ha, ha) - paan-flavoured condoms. (*While the government is not directly involved - the condoms are being launched by a private body - any such product release will require government approval) Apparently, it's a preference for paan that has led to conclusive conclusions that paan-flavoured condoms will work where other condoms have not. By that logic, a...

Nature has a way of remembering everything. Mother Nature as we call her. It is the power of nature that is considered very potent, and that is worshipped by people who believe in New age religions. Paganism, or being different is simply to understand the flowers, trees, humans, animals around you and responding to their stimuli. This is the basis for pagan worshippers and the establishment for pagan goddesses. Well, did you notice I said goddesses; there are no gods. Err. Yes, nature is female. Not male. So pagan worshippers are also worshippers of the female form. Something like the followers of the Virgin Mary . Now, this was a base for what I wanted to write. I came across something that was shocking for me. I chanced upon a website that led me to a Yahoo group which, well, was for Witches. The list owner was claiming to be a neo-pagan follower and a practising witch, somewhere in Mumbai. Well, tll date, I had seen women who advertised themselves as witches and psychics and said th...

Strange it seems isnt it, the title. Well, I am so shocked and tortured at reading an article about female genital mutilation, this was the first thing that crossed my mind. For the uninitiated, here is a link to the most gruesome practice in the world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_circumcision For people who don't have the patience to go through the entire piece, here is a shorter version. Female genital mutilation or female genital circumcision (FGC), is practised in the African subcontinent and the Middle East, among the Christians and the Muslims. (Well, this is rare in Indian Muslims and Christians! I wonder why.) The one and only reason given for this barbaric practice is that, it enhances the sexual pleasure of the husband! (Guess men, seriously need to grow up.) Here are four important reasons that this practice is still carried out by Muslims and Christians (Arabs and African-origin): The custom involves the "rite of passage" of the young girl child from ...

I received this e-mail from a friend, today. I want to share this with anybody who cares to read via my blog. I want to do this instead of sending 1000 e-mails to my contacts. Shame on Indian Media Dear Editors of HT, TOI, IndianExpress and The Hindu, I got the mail below from a friend of mine and following the unwritten code of conduct, I am forwarding it to my friends but all efforts of people who have been forwarding this mail would go waste if this mail doesn't reach YOU....... Something to think about..!! By the time u guys read this news, the body of Major Manish Pitambare, who was shot dead at Anantnag, would have been cremated with full military honors. On Tuesday, this news swept across all the news channels 'Sanjay Dutt relieved by court'. 'Sirf Munna not a bhai' '13 saal ka vanvaas khatam' 'although found guilty for possession of armory, Sanjay can breath sigh of relief as all the TADA charges against him are withdrawn' Then many personal...

Ever wondered how Aishwarya Rai keeps a hold on all her love handles and handles Abhi baby's love as well! No? well, neither have I. Lets wonder together, and do research. I have found out from a li'l research that the food that you eat is not only connected to the tubeless tires around your hips and waist, but is also connected to your mood swings. Moreso if you are a woman. Welcome to the irritated women club! Some background : Most women secrete hormones called Serotonin . (See image) This is a mood-enhancing hormone. This causes them to be happy, chirpy, and very pleasant. If you exercise during this time, it raises the level of dopamine in your blood stream and gives you a good 'high.' (The effect of lower serotonin levels are evident during your monthly cycle - PMS!). This also explains why we feel slightly elated when we binge on dark chocolates, and food during depression. Voila! Well, for men, it is Dopamine . (See image.) Dopamine is produced in ample quantity...

The building itself is so big that you will get lost in its hugeness. Its like a human mind. The more you try to explore, the more you get lost within its vast confines. The vastness scares us and we run back to familiar ground, to safety. We rarely want to be adventorous, try out new things. The Bank also embodies such stuff. It has a strong habit of sticking to its culture. A culture of rampant promiscuity, jealousy, nepotism, and rage. Aggresiveness is a way of life. Jargons fly like the night flies, without conveying anything that means any sane thing to a human. People live on like there is no tomorrow, in a time wrap. They act as if there brains have been put into a mixer and their minds have been caught in a giant spider web. Time stands still here. Life is scared to rear its head and creativity is a slave to the jargon-throwing giants. The Bank stifles and kills average men and women. Tread at your own risk.