2014 [Food]

2014 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 9,400 times in 2014. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 3 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

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Route to freedom

Everyone has their moments of self reflection, often in segregated dark rooms, sometimes in late night parties, during tests which you cant solve, driving back home, when your office desk is full of to-dos and the list goes on depending on the version of life you lead. In these sessions, we mostly think about things we long for, things we achieved, failures, things that we know we will get, things that lie on the border lines of being getable and things only a miracle would bring about. This is as clear a thought process can get. We quickly succumb to our failures, smile at the reminiscence of our triumphs, cherish the small otherwise trivial things and saddened at the recollections of our lost ones, which under normal circumstances we appear to hate. It proves that inherently we are not built to be what we become under the persona of a self imposed societal image that we don subconsciously but religiously day in day out.

So what is so peculiar in those moments that momentarily we forget to put on a personality? Stress, paranoia, excitement? While it could be linked to the inbuilt emotional surge but it tilts more towards the feeling of freeing from everything we are tied with daily.  In all these cases, our mind and body are in relaxed states, we do not care about anything, therefore the acceptance, the purity in thoughts and hence the truth of our lives. I had been thinking of inducing this feeling of freedom when i had a conversation with a friend who happened to have met with a bunch of socialists. He explained to me in detail the idea off socialism [I have little or no interest in isms, to me they are just different workable systems] and the doctrine of freeing the natural needs for the people so they think clearly and having social gatherings , parties, etc etc. The crux of our discussion was when a man is free from external and internal pressures, and appears not to care about trivial and non trivial things, he is at his most rational state . While one could easily come up with the bright idea of consuming alcohol/drugs to get to a care free state of ecstasy, but that is a tad bit to far from where we want to be but it will ephemerally pass the position we want to be in. Another similar stint could be relocating to an isolated station and cut yourself from civilization which physically might disengage you from worrying about modern day life but it will bring the animal out of you. All these ideas are superficial, or probably the quest to get to freedom of thought in its true essence is unreal. So it is imperative to  stop worrying about getting something which is un-get-table and stop the futile attempts to ruin an otherwise peaceful warm bed. Good night.

Abandoned Stuff

I probably lost interest or ran out of time, because if i don’t finish things in one go, they remain incomplete drafts like these. Most of these would have come to my mind in the most boring circumstances, and then when i began to pen them down i lost everything i had collected in my head. Whatever.

Impressions:

“It is often said that children have the most candid opinion. Irrespective of the benefits or plausible losses, they give their brutally honest view of things. Origins of this feedback could be credited to the fact that they have not had the same experience as us adults have with the world and our decisions or assertions. Which to say is partially correct because our gray matter works like an ever evolving dictionary which forms the base of our decision making process. While there are countless factors that attribute to filling this dictionary, one that stands out, and is rather strange is impressions. Now there are two faces to how our brain interprets impressions, 1. By the way one looks/talks/write 2. By their actual behavior .

The strange thing about impressions which i earlier wrote is the quality of our brain to judge someone when we haven’t even met them as yet. It creates a virtual image of the qualities which it deems to fit in a persona one is wearing and this image is so strong that it takes good effort for your head to realign with the correct personality of that person. I’m bored now.”

Why we change:

“Our heads work like a gear does, it keeps on rotating to an input, metaphorically of course. Interesting thing to note is the change and how we respond to the change . blah blah blah”

Let me tell you your story:

“I’ve been planning on writing this piece for a long time. I am not a vocal person, i do things in the most tacit form possible. i don’t know how i got this, but i have this ability to refrain from using words. As a consequence i observe, and i do it in detail. Looking at pieces of texts/pictures can gauge the person quite well, what they have been through or how they lead their lives. No, i havent been lately watching Sherlock. It somehow comes to me quite easily then i put my theories to test by doing experimenting on people which 60 – 70 percent of the time come out positive. There are place where i fail miserably but all humans are not same, and i am not psychic. Often i’ve been told not to pry on private lives of people, but somehow i cant help backtracking people o their origins. I do not stalk them and dig their things up, but i frame them up within a few minutes. Lets just say i met you at a bus stop, i’ll not talk much but i’ll observe. Probably everyone does the same, but i think i derive a feeling of winning something after my brain crafts a persona and it fits them perfectly. ”

Hilarious:

“Often have you seen people doing remarkably unique things that leave their mark on your head. Most of them are excessively funny and stupid. There are people who try to get into character of somebody else and fail while you cant help laughing in the back of your head. Some of the excerpts that i remember from past few years:”

 

Post midnight thoughts

As we dive further into 21st century, while the technological baby is getting out of infancy, most of us are already tangled in the sutures that has come along with this aging. Social networks, consoles, TV subscriptions, smart phones and all sorts of tech-baggage has pinned us down in a kowtow . The good part is that all these amenities are so spell binding, while at the same time violating our private spaces and most importantly tethering on our time. While i’m not a philanthropist and certainly not a motivational speaker but, the crucial thing that i’ve come to realize and probably you’d too with some effort maybe that, in course of sticking to the already available, we are missing on whats behind the curtain. While for some it would be the same junk in some other preposterous form – read flappy bird – for me its time, money and other relational investment. Crux is, the toys are not worthy of being played for all lives, so like children, fearless as they are, we need to break them to get to new ones.

Big question: Pro-Procrastinators as we are, how to get things done?

Answer: Bring out the worst evil and use against the man in the mirror [or the woman if you fit into one #lame]. Emotional blackmail yourself. Wage a ruthless war, whatever the outcome its you who is going to win. I have quit from many things that most of us are in the shackles of. Effectively stopped myself from ordering fizzy drinks with meals because someone is getting rich and all I’m getting is a sweet substance which is eventually cost me my liver and then doctors are gonna get rich.  There were other things, harder to accomplish, but they are far too personal to discuss for public consumption. My motivation is money, yours could be anything else, find what you love.  Start with small things,  make a big show out of it and as a symbol. Write these items on a list and cross them off. Cross this item off while proofreading for the impact.  Here are things i do not do that most of you don’t think of spending a day without: Don’t watch TV, My phone is dumb. Don’t send text messages, unless it is entirely important, i don’t like self implicating examples, you might as well disregard what i said. Point being, there is always a road going back, left or right, at the least you could travel back the same track. They say i’m too metaphorical and vague in my writing, probably they are right, but i see it as a breathing space; Just in-case the winds change direction.

Forgive me for sidetracking but Rome wasn’t built in a day and so wasn’t this blog post. My version of untangling ma sound like a hippy version of life, but its quite the contrary. I’m only trying to do the impossible, i.e. create time in a limited day, live more life than an average joe. The master of time is the true master of everything dependent on it – which is just about everything -. While it is useless to quote Napoleon’s example of the Waterloo war-front – Lack of historical depth of average reader – but its carries weight since time did cost a great general to  face defeat at hands of a fleeing force. If you have this valuable commodity in your palm, you can stop worrying about circumstances, since nothing can go against the tick-tock of a clock, not even the clock itself. Which brings us to management of time, and other to do items. Many of you use applications, gadgets, sticky notes and stuff, but remember the rule of navy, that when everything will fail [electronic equipment], only the ones who know the watchtowers will make it to the shore. Make yourself robust, your brain is capable of doing much better than is normally required of it. Memorize, do not write it down. When all your goals are in your head, there is no way anyone can sneak that knowledge from you, or can get you sidetracked. This might result in sleepless nights, but the reward of ultimate success knows no travelling pains.

… continued