Thursday, December 29, 2011

From Here To Eternity


It was like a terrible hangover. My head was pounding up and down like Yasmeen Bleeth’s bosoms in Baywatch. I woke up and a strident voice told me that I was on my way to hell. It was hard to believe. While I was terrifyingly watching all the horrible pictures of demons with curved tails and pointed teeth, I was stopped by what looked like customs clearance department which had a banner ‘’And you thought going to school was a pain!’’ displayed on the top. A skeleton wearing a robe scrupulously skimmed over a hefty book for my name- page by page, which took around half a day. I was standing still the whole time and got quite convinced I was actually in Hell by then.  After finding my name in the list the skeleton exhibited a sigh of relief, coupled with a look of derision that featured smoldering blaze coming out of his nostrils. He then signaled the other skeleton wearing a black robe to frisk me for drugs or lethal weapons.

You see, it is a common belief that people are naked in Hell. But it is a myth. You retain the clothes that you last wore when you were on Earth. My commiserations for Arab people considering it is already hot and their cover-all-parts-of-body-with-clothes look outright dumb in here (unless they die while…you know!).  The humidity is the first thing you would notice after reaching here- It is effin’ hot! You were taking the pleasure of using phrases like ‘my ass is on fire’ so often in Earth that you literally feel it here. Seriously, you could sense the fire coming out of yours’ whose length and density is proportionate to the cumulative word length of all the abusive words that you’ve uttered in life. Mine went twelve miles long.

The food is surprisingly good in here. There is one disadvantage though. All are poisoned. Thank God the amount of poison in food doesn’t depend on the level of your affinity with abusive language (or sex addiction for that matter).  Just as in Earth, the most painful part in here is to stand in queues. It is not just a straight queue. You stand in line for hours, and then the line splits into two. It further bifurcates into two and joins the main queue again putting your peripatetic peregrination into an infinite regression. The telemarketers, inventory stock counters, and call center executives are exempt of this terrible activity since they’ve aced doing the same thing over and over again on Earth that they might probably expect a pecuniary reward for doing it again. The same applies to rap singers who create songs with same tunes and perform it till they go out of breath and die. These people are put in Serpent Inc (a company listed in Inferno Stock Exchange) where they are required to come up with innovative methods to torture people. Long hours, stressful job, and no time to enjoy the complementary venemous beer that they provide. No good, I tell you.

 Coming to the menial exertion that is inflicted upon you in a loop-format, it would all seem crazy at first. I tried to ask a demon about it once and ended up in a solitary room with endless videos of Lady Gaga songs. Trust me, it was much horrible. There is one thing you could do to avoid boredom while standing in the line though. There are stones available for you to throw at people. Make use of the stones but beware you need to pop out at least one person’s eye for every stone you pick. If you miss, the demons will confine you to that Lady Gaga room for one whole week. Personally, I’d never take a chance.

So after two weeks, I was out of this ordeal and times still produced an unbearable ennui. I decided to look out for a job. I had a lot of relatives in Hell so it was easy for me to utilize the connection and get a job with a demon named Adolf Toothpicker. The job description was to pluck people’s teeth. Well it was more of an internship so I ended up providing different sized spanner wrenches to Adolf while he performed the plucking flawlessly. Fellas, it will seem as a good job and at first it is all very interesting but you reach a stage when you think ‘’is this why I came to hell?’’ As soon as I reached that stage, I quit the internship but too bad there was a service level agreement that I’d broken so I was taken to the boss of all demons, allegedly called ‘the Satan’. He looked shorter than I’d imagined but he was certainly fierce. He stared at me for almost an hour and I kept avoiding his eyehole somehow in utter fear. Then I decided to play it cool and thought ‘Hey Satan, watsup?’ would be a perfect ice-breaker. It wasn’t. Never play it cool with Satan else you will be tormented in such atrocious ways that you will start forgetting the pain and start wondering about the awe-inspiring methods that they’ve come up with. Perhaps these are the output of Serpent Inc (good job they are doing, strongly a buy signal). After sometime you get tired of explaining you’ve already been castrated, the chainsaw is too big for your weenie, yours nostrils are too small for that big a nail even with that hammer. Finally they’d let you go if you skillfully perform a special kind of ‘job’ for the demons, the nature of which I am not allowed to say because those are trade secrets. I was so adroit that I was out in a month while it normally took twenty years for others. More importantly, I am in bliss that I’m out of Satan’s wrath and in the hands of demons with a much lesser degree of diabolism.

Okay people, I better get some rest now.  Tomorrow I’m applying for an internship at a construction company. It is rumored that a big wall is going to be built for crucifying people who have written ‘super like’ as comments in addition to ‘liking’ the status in Facebook. Fingers-crossed, I’m very excited. See you soon.

P.S. I heard people in Heaven don’t even have internet let alone BlogSpot or Twitter. #EpicFail. LOL at them for living life in a moral, ascetic way and end up like this.

P.P.S. I also heard it is a New Year day in two days on Earth. Good luck with things people. *goes to sleep on a boiling pan*


Monday, October 3, 2011

The Bar Economics

Few months back, I wrote a post 'GI vs Joe' and labelled it 'Rational Irrationality',where the belief 'experts are always better than the average minds' was scrutinized. Precisely, we saw three things - 1) this belief is not true in real world, 2) why many are smarter than the few, and 3) how making decisions that involve large group of people, taking independency, diversity, and decentralization into consideration, most likely go right. The fact that the post was lengthy, referring to terminologies that were pedantic (which I couldn't comprehend either) had left my friends and readers disapponited. And asking did you understand it to my close friend became a life threatning situation considering the manner he showcased the sweet half part of the victory symbol to me when in fact I was expecting a full one. The other fatso friend of mine, while reading it, slowly digressed away to day dreaming about being slim which was soon interrupted by the sound of his own munching. So this time I'm cautious enough to demonstrate it with a bar story for the fact that, well, everyone likes a bar story!

Mustering enough confidence that I won't face such insult from my friends like last time, I'm getting into the crux of the post now. One fine morning of a seemingly ordinary day, after the daily fills of Lolcats, 'Forward this to 15 people or you will die', and a generous gift of $500,000,000,000,000,000 from a Nigerian princess in exchange of helping her to transfer funds, my gmail inbox had an interesting story. It is probably the only forward e-mail that I've read in my life. So here it goes...

Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100.

If they paid the bill the way we paid our taxes, it would go something like this:

The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.

The fifth would pay $1.

The sixth would pay $3.

The seventh would pay $7.

The eighth would pay $12.

The ninth would pay $18.

The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.

So, that’s what they decided to do. The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve. He said, “Since you are all such good customers, I’m going to reduce the cost of your daily beer by $20. Drinks for the ten now cost just $80.”

The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes, so the first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free. But what about the other six men — the paying customers?

How could they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his “fair share”? They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted that from every body’s share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each end up being paid to drink his beer. So the bar owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man’s bill by roughly the same amount, and he proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay!

And so:

The fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings).

The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33% savings).

The seventh now pay $5 instead of $7 (28%savings).

The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% savings).

The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 (22% savings).

The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% savings).

Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four continued to drink for free.

But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings.

“I only got a dollar out of the $20,” declared the sixth man. He pointed to the tenth man, “but he got $10!”

“Yeah, that’s right,’ exclaimed the fifth man. “I only saved a dollar, too. It’s unfair that he got ten times more than I!”

“That’s true!!”shouted the seventh man. “Why should he get $10 back when I got only $2 ? The wealthy get all the breaks!”

“Wait a minute,” yelled the first four men in unison. “We didn’t get anything at all. The system exploits the poor!”

The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up.

The next night the tenth man didn’t show up for drinks, so the nine sat down and had beers without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important. They didn’t have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill!

This, exactly, is the reason why taxing the rich is not the optimal solution. Just as seen in this post, the rich corporate businesses (like the tenth man) will relocate in a business friendly environment thereby causing the economy to further extenuate. Job losses will be inevitable and the poor, middle class, and soon to be rich (like the other nine men) will be left with nothing at all. The next time you start castigating the government for not taxing the rich, think about this bar story. Let us all accept the fact that we wanted capitalism and so we have to bear getting the taste of our own medicine at some point. As much as I'm tempted to relate this to Karl Marx's philosophy and mind numbing economic theories, I'm conscious that I want the other part of victory symbol from the readers as well, and thus bid adeu with this.

Cheers,
G'tam.








Friday, September 30, 2011

Curious Case of an Equity Investor.

With a sullen look, I found this candle-chart get a short term shock,
As deplorable as a good book being filmed into an embarrassing schlock.

They say life ain't rosy after all....
Well it sure has one big thorn (that pricked me hard),
I'm gonna grab a coffee now....
And later mourn (coz I'm a retard).

Who knew that the markets would stall;
Whose to know that my hair would fall.

There is nothing much left now but to tune up my iPhone dock,
If only I was adept and hadn't invested in this desultory stock.

The jive I had without knowing this equity lacked liquidity-
I should have seen it was all con (that set me up),
It's now time for you to show some pity-
And send me world-class porn (to cheer me up).

Who knew that the market would stall,
Whose to know that my hair would fall.

-G'tam.

Saturday, July 23, 2011

Stairway to Recovery

Decades have passed, ages have passed, but the quest for Jack Daniels by mankind has remained refreshingly the same. Wine is a bottled poetry, they say, and man has seemed to embrace this tightly. However, a la Isaac Newton(see here)/Justin Timberlake(see here), what goes around comes back around. Hangovers have seemed to determinedly plagued mankind ever since the advent of the alcohol.You have a shot, you have nothing the other day. You have a few shots, you have a slight headache the other day. You have a deluge of shots with a  feeling that you have drank the whole bar, you wake up in your vomit (hoping that is yours!) the other day. You see, the extent of repentance is always proportionate to the amount of shots indicating that the law of diminishing effects does not apply when it comes to alcohol consumption.

Given that medical professionals have tried to come up with a cure for hangover for centuries but in vain, it is ironic that I - a person who is remotely connected with medicine - have finally discovered the cure throwing these losers into disarray. So here we go...

The best and most obvious way to avoid a hangover is not to drink at all, but who am I kidding? Let us kick that option away.

When you wake up feeling unpleasant after a night of revelry, the most important thing to remember is that God is punishing you for having fun. In order to cure your hangover, you must therefore attend Church as quickly as possible. During the service, pray for hydration. When the collection plate is passed, remove some bucks and use it to purchase a couple of aspirin.

On your way home from Church, stop at the grocery store and buy all the leafy vegetables you can carry. Then quickly affix them to your head. Laughter is a type of medicine, so try hard to laugh at yourself. This shouldn't be difficult, because you're wearing a hat made of salad. Seriously, look in the mirror. You look like an asshole.

Time to go jogging. Studies show that exercise generates powerful endorphins, diminishing feelings of weakness and nausea and replacing them with similar but subtly higher-quality feelings of weakness and nausea. While you are running, think about the reasons you got so drunk last night. Your life's pretty messed up, isn't it? Yes. Run faster.

Finally, look back all that you have done. You are now a thief, nuts in the mind and your whole life is messed up. Hangover is hardly a problem now. Take the aspirins and go to sleep. If you still have a hangover the next day, don't worry I have got a cure for that as well and I will let you know when the time comes.

Cheers.


Friday, June 24, 2011

By nature people will like...

Great men quote things. It reflects their experiences in life. When Robin Williams said ''God gave men one brain and one penis but sadly enough blood to run only one at a time'', we knew he shagged bitches and transgender hustlers. We knew that for sure because it was from his experience. While I've come across thousands of quotes in my life, one particular quote has intrigued me to the deepest pacific core. I started ruminating if anyone else had quoted on the same subject better than this astute genius who did first. And the answer I found was- none. Yes, no one ever said it better than Osama Bin Laden when he said...

''When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature they will like the strong horse''

Let me break this down to you alright. When people (by people, I mean men) look to have pointless shagging after heading a bar and they see a bitchy minge, it is rare that they think 'Hey that is great!'. But when they see a jilted chick who just wants the same they're, like,  ''Awesome that is so great!!'. And yet they both are women. By nature, men are drawn towards hot chicks.

Let's say you see a kitten. Fine, make it two kittens. One is nimble, fast and cute. The other one is dead. My experience is that people, by people I mean children, by nature go for the live kitten. They see strength in live kitten. And also, who wants a dead kitten?

Imagine, if you will, a great collection of Bollywood movies DVDs in front of you. All smash hits that are said to knock your socks off completely. In each, as you are told, one can see great passion, color and romance. Now imagine, next to those, a dead kitten. Which one would you choose? Personally, I'd choose the dead kitten!

When people- and by people I mean people like me, hear 'Big bang', they often think, Is that the show on NBC? But it is actually not. It is the cosmological theory that the show has borrowed the name from. Imagine you are a sitcom fan and purchase a Big bang DVD from a shop only to watch a drawn-out and lackluster documentary from BBC. You feel like an asshole right? I don't know why I'm telling you an  incident that is extraneous to the topic but it is really sad I didn't get my money back.

Let me tell you something about human nature. If people are given a choice between a nice roasted sandwich with pesto mayonnaise on warm pita bread and having to define the word ''rheostat'', the vast majority will go for the sandwich every time.

Try this one the next time you're in a meeting or a conference and there is a lull in the conversation. ''A neutron walks into a bar and says, ''how much for the drink?'' and the waiter replies ''For you, no charge!''. By nature, people will laugh. But not because it is funny. Because they feel sorry for you.

So I guess my point is that, as Mark Twain said, ''It is always better to keep our mouth shut and let others think we are fools rather than opening it and removing all the doubts.'' Now that is one hell of a quote Osama dumbass Laden...!!!

P.S I wanted to write this when he was alive but you know......I didn't want to die!!

Friday, June 10, 2011

Truly Immortal



It is amazing isn’t it? How one piece of music, a few words and a few chords, and an idea can change a life? It just fits, doesn’t it? The song is actually singing your life.

One such song is ‘My Immortal’ by Evanascence.

                                            


Shakespeare once famously said, ‘’It is better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all’’. Sometimes, I wonder if he had it right.

I’m so tired of being here | suppressed by all my childish fears | and if you have to leave | I wish that you would just leave | coz your presence still lingers here | and it won’t leave me alone.

You’re at the end of relationship and you don’t know where to go from here. Everything reminds you of them – that shirt, that empty glass. All the scenes from the movies come to your mind. Suddenly you find ‘’the closed lid cereal box reminding Jason Segal of Sarah Marshall’’ act utterly sensible, although his nudity in the movie had haunted you for days. You are just nowhere to go- although, so desperate to move on.

These wounds won't seem to heal | this pain is just too real | There's just too much that time cannot erase

Time is a healer, they say. Well, time is more of a band-aid, should I say. It will just hide the wound until something opens it up. Time might take you on a trip to Hawaii to get over things. Time might make you temporarily realise you now have nothing to lose, and are on your own completely. Time can do incredible things; Ineffable things. But one small prick and you start bleeding all over again. ‘Coz the wound doesn’t ever heal.

I've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone | But though you're still with me, I've been alone all along

There is always a bone of contention between the mind and the heart at these times. The mind will not accept what the heart knows. No matter how much you tell yourselves that it is over and that it was for the best, it doesn't really erase the pain.

When you cried, I'd wipe away all of your tears | When you'd scream, I'd fight away all of your fears | And I held your hand through all of these years | But you still have all of me.

These lines are incredibly painful for the fact that they beat the time that brought you incredible things in the short term and takes you back into the past. Those moments when you held hands together, cried together, laughed together, come crashing right into your mind; the mind that is still in contention with your heart.  You try to jab those memories into pieces but they remain as an Eternal Sunshine of your Spotless Mind- the Sunshine that gives you pain and nothing else; a cloud of sorrowness in your life and nothing else; grief and nothing else. You beg for Time to let you move forward only to realise time can’t just heal certain things.

Now you know you are lost- In the dark. 


Monday, May 30, 2011

I don't know....Google it!

I have always wanted a cool dictionary that provides a better comprehension than the ones that I already had. Glad I stumbled upon the Google dictionary that was added to a series of service extensions by Google Inc. You just type in some words and they'd come up with the meanings that are clear in understanding. For instance, I provide you with the words that I'd typed in recently...


Facebook - A stupid website for stupid people who only want shit.

Mahatma Gandhi - A great man who is unfortunately dead to use Google.

Lady Gaga - A lady who uses Google.

Relax - A thing that some people should learn how to do, especially the Journalists.

Information - The thing that Google makes instantly available to anyone for free. And that makes us their enemy? Explain that logic to me while you teach the journalists to relax.

Privacy - An over-rated thing that people should learn to chill about. (Synonym - insignificant)

Victim - A nice company like Google who gets attacked for no reason. (Synonym - Google, of course)

Nonsense - Reasons why Google is attacked. (Synonym - Privacy, Facebook)

Jesus Christ - A person who made people's lives easier and then was crucified. (Sounds familiar?)

Monopoly - A word termed by the morons to sound smart at News Channels who don't have a clue what that means.

YouTube - A cool website where you can see how crappy Yahoo is.

Computer - A thing for using Google.

Search - Google.


Wednesday, January 5, 2011

When shall we have a Home in Glory Land?

With the dawn of a fresh year, there have been resolutions taken, policies reformed and predictions given for the future. The diminutive issues like possibility of QE3 and existence of monumental national debt in the US, and conflicts encircling currency devaluations around the world in the short run, along with the heftier elements like Revolt against the bankers, Vaccine against AIDS, the discovery of dark matter etc. are some that look certain to happen. (see here) Plus, it is just as frightening to see another dot com bubble looming with most of the tech-equities overvalued as to see the Chinese ruling the world.

Positives and negatives, certainty and uncertainty. But, what doesn't seem to abate is the savagery, baptised 'war', that has taken the world to abyss. With over 25 extant combats, we still are cruising through our lives with precariousness lurking behind, the disturbing story of Ayesha and Taliban last year among many others being a damning manifestation.

So here it is, inspired from various artists from Bob Dylan to Guns n Roses, a teensy message depicting the dark side of the world. The world that would be better left forgotten and never to be conjured upon. The world of annihilation, demise and bereavement, the world that no common man hankers.


                     The Crimean War with the Russian Victims. The laceration and the gore.


For the Love of Mother Earth, let Peace prevail.

Hate is all we have in our heart
We fed fear.
Vengeance is all we have in our blood
We breathed fire.

Living under the same sun
Walking under the same moon
Why is it we wanna kill each other?

Shame is all we have in our history
We wanted blood-shed.
Disgust is all we have in our past
We celebrated genocide.

Living under the same sun
Walking under the same moon
Why is it men wanna kill each other?

Will this world ever change?
Will our fellow-men ever find peace?
The presidents give speeches while the poor gets buried
The rich gets richer while the poor gets buried.

Let us hope for a better place to live
Let us hope for a better life to live.
All we ever had and have now is hope
coz if it weren't for hope
the world would tear apart!

Living under the same sun
Walking under the same moon
Why doesn't men think of living as one?

-G'tam.