World Builder

A technologically advanced love story - a video I came across on You Tube.
For those who liked Matrix : this is on similar lines -: where

A strange man uses holographic tools to build a world for the woman he loves. This is a short by filmmaker Bruce Branit. (some info about him and his other works)

I relate to the video and am fascinated as the tools that the character uses to create his world are the very same tools I use to create 3d - renderings and animations.

(the video is a bit long - around 9 mins - but if you liked the way Matrix was made - you will surely enjoy this video)

Here is a link shared by a fellow reader Cosmic Joy - on how this video became popular - exemplifies the power of the internet - Link

Chat-formation

Was tagged by WhoamI to write 25 random facts about me. Being blogging for a while have done these tags before and lot of randomness is spelt in them.

So instead I am presenting you a ramdom chat for exact 4 mins 25 secs that took place between me (cd) and my friend kedar (kp) - after todays horrific attack on the Sri Lankan Cricketers in Lahore early in the morning here.

Even though insipid in nature this is a sublime meaningful random rhetoric.

cd : What happened - supposed to be attacking cricket - but today cricket got attacked

kp : I did not do it!

cd : Well they say RAW was involved. Just thought of verifying with you as you are on a RAW vegetable diet.

kp : I feel LTTE has a hand in it or it is a bigger conspiracy where it is US's another money making scheme

cd : If it was LTTE then they would have to build a Ram Setu through India to reach Pakistan and the only person who could give them subsidised land was the Laloo - the rail dude.

kp : That is out of question. Maybe they were training to goto the cave of Obama filled with his flatulence and go boom.

cd: But how will they see Obama in a dark cave.

kp : They dont have to. They are also Vicco brown and trained to see the dark side without teeth.

cd : So you mean man teats?

kp : I did not say that. I say Kalla Bandar. (Black Monkey)

cd : You referring to Bandar Chap Dant Manjan. That means that his teeth are black and so he is invisible.

kp : That is true. Ahem.

cd : Maybe they can use Obama for a Super Rin advertisement - that way he will garner Safedi ki Chamkar jyada and endorse being Shiny Ahuja

kp : What is Shiny Ahuju called if his movie flops?

cd : ? What....

kp : Lacklustre Ahuja

cd : Yeah it is dull - freaking cold minus 5 today

kp : When cold - what happens to Shiny Ahuja's dick.

cd : Chotta Chetan

kp : Precisely he becomes Tiny Ahuja

cd : Ok dude. Have to go for a meeting.

kp : Hope you are not mating the imbeciles who pelted the lankans.

cd : They are seeking darkness I guess. Will wear ample protection when mating and penetrating them with my precise questions. Later.

Symbiotic City

This is a view from my apartment of NYC at night with the half moon in all its glory.

Currently I am reading a book called Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino :

There is a chapter Cities and Memories. Paraphrasing from that - It describes what a city really is :

"I could tell you how many steps make up the streets rising like stairways, and the degree of the arcades' curves, and what kind of zinc scales cover the roofs: but I already know this would be the same as telling you nothing. The city does not consist of this but of relationships between the measurements of its space and the events of its past : the height of a lamppost and the distance from the ground of a hanged usurpers swaying feet: the line strung from the lamppost to the railing opposite and the festoons that decorate the course of the queen's nuptial procession; the height of the railing and the leap of the adulterer who climbed over it at dawn...."

Like in any great city or town, its identity is not only its physical structure but the very people residing there, their dreams, aspirations and fears which ultimately dictate the outcome of how they perceive their home to be.

I write this because in the past few weeks, there have been lots of blogs that mentioned about why many people did not like Slumdog Millionaire - as it is based on marketing of the poverty of Bombay or India per se. But that is the most visually tangible aspect of our country where inspite of these great economic divide - each of us is allowed to dream to make it big in our own little way - it is the celebration of this co-existence and freedom that shapes the very spirit of the city of Bombay that is brilliantly captured in the movie.

I understand that many people feel that the West markets the poor -

there are two reasons -

one they have plenty here in terms of material wealth but there is a dearth of communal feeling here - its each for his own

and secondly they are unbiased and this allows them to be bold and show it as IS rather than put a glossy make up or shy away from reality.

Another book the dwells into this subject brilliantly is -

Shantaram - by Gregory David Roberts - it elucidates the experience of coexistence and how the city makes a person and in turn these collective groups of persons define the very nature of its existence. I

It is a symbiotic realm of mutual give and take.

Another picture Midtown Manhattan taken from a park on the cliff in West New York, New Jersey. Sitting in this park its fascinating to see the accomplisment of this urban jungle.

Paraskavedekatriaphobia

Today is Friday the 13th and people who are scared of that day because of weird connotations have a phobia and that phobia is the title of this post. Luckily I do not suffer from this and am glad.


Here is an interesting list of some Phobias I found online. (there are many more)

Am glad that I don't suffer from many of them or else life will be miserable.

Telephonophobia - Fear of telephones.
(I am not scared, I just hate cell phones, don't know if that counts.)
Thaasophobia - Fear of sitting.
(Haha....these people will surely never be couch potatoes)
Nomatophobia - Fear of names.
(I fear forgetting names. So I will call it Amnesinomatophobia)
Nephophobia - Fear of clouds
(He should move to sunny Florida - but this person is doomed I guess)
Dendrophobia - Fear of trees.
(Al Gore should collect all these people and put them in a Desert.)
Cacophobia - Fear of ugliness.
(This can be deemed as discrimination)
Barophobia - Fear of gravity.
(Imagine this person goes for Sky Diving - oops)
Sophophobia - Fear of learning.
(Aren't these people under the category of Dumb and Dumber?)
Scelerophibia - Fear of bad men
(The world will be a disaster if Superheroes get this phobia)
Pogonophobia - Fear of beards.
(He needs to stay away from Taliban Country for sure)
Leukophobia - Fear of the color white.
(Thats why criminals are put in grey cells - now you get it.)
Lachanophobia - Fear of vegetables
(Crossing my fingers that I dont have this or else)
Euphobia - Fear of hearing good news.
(If you were husband to the octuplet mom - you will surely have Euphobia)
Clinophobia - Fear of going to bed.
(Zombies!)
Arrhenphobia - Fear of men.
(Potential Lesbians!)
Arithmophobia - Fear of numbers.
(For generations I am sure no one in my family had this - am a gujju)
Verbophobia - Fear of words.
(President of Anti Blogging Foundation)
Ablutophobia - Fear of washing/bathing
(Stinky pants)
Alektorophobia - Fear of chickens.
(If there is a town full these - there is no point opening a KFC there, is it?)
Bibliophobia - Fear of books.
(Lucky bastard - can avoid all the freaking homework and schoolwork)
Monophobia - Fear of solitude
(I am Monophilic :))
Nostophobia - Fear of returning home.
(All Immigrants kinda suffer from this but do not admit it)
Heliophobia - Fear of the sun.
(Nightcrawler - and we feel scared of ghosts - duh - they are just patients)
Hydrophobophobia - Fear of rabies.
(Try saying that 10 times as fast as you can!)
Koinoniphobia - Fear of rooms.
(Potential clients for whom I can design Studio Apartments w/open toilet)
Megalophobia - Fear of large things.
(Does this include breasts?)
Mageirocophobia - Fear of cooking.
(This person will save a lot of money on WeightWatchers)
Carnophobia - Fear of eating meat
(Honestly no guy will prolly have a fear of this - except if he is gay - cause guys love one animal - the pussy)
Pantophobia - Fear of everything
(Sadly this person cannot even die as he might be afraid of it too!)

Do you have Phobias?

Check this website - you might have one for sure - Phobialist

Randomness

A new short story - Tr-i-rony - Story 1 : Ramdin is up on the short story blog. The link is on the right.

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The weather here has been nothing short of freezing for the past couple of weeks. There has been abundant snowfall. Here are some pics that I took in the forest past weekend.

Ice on a log in the lake.

The surreal White Path to Neverland

Bare Naked Ladies

Frosting on Natural Ice Cream

In this weather though the grey matter was mobile. So here are some random thoughts from the almost frozen brain.-

- A sentence like I had a good sleep - isnt this an assumption as there is no way to verify it unless you are awake. How and on what do we base that the sleep was good. Isnt it the waking up that is actually different that makes us beleive that we had a good sleep.

- Another one God Bless You - Now here first we assume that the person believes in God and that he/she is not an atheist or agnostic. Also we never verify if the person really needs blessing at that given moment of time.

Now taking it furthur many people wish you saying God Bless You with (something) but will it not be fair to give a Gift Card of virtual blessing instead of a specific one. That way the blessed will make the best use of it as he/she deems it.

- What really happens when someone is always in a bad mood and does not like being funny. Is his/her Funny Bone fractured. But that is not possible as Funny Bone is really not a bone but a most unprotected nerve in your arm that is very sensitive. So what really goes wrong and what is the purpose of calling a nerve a bone - Why confuse us?

- Another one Hang In There - now if you tell someone who is perplexed or suicidal - think about the consequences. He/she can really ask you Where to hang? Also where is this place really that one can Hang when we are troubled. I have never found it. Is it a place where by hanging we dry up our emotions like clothes dring in the sun and then we feel better.

- When someone ask you over the phone What's Up? What do they mean? Do they want to know where I am standing and what is over my head. Do I answer that its the sky, or a tree or a ceiling. The only time such a statement can help is when you are standing below a tree and the bird has just pooped and you are asked at that very moment What's Up? It can save you the hit and stink.

And dont forget the Short Story