Lucky Number Seven

It is once in a lifetime event.

07:07:07 on 07/07/07

Lets hope that the Taj makes it to the new seven wonders list.

The Horror – 2

Its been almost a week since I saw Apocalypse Now. But it keeps coming back to me. This one line in particular.

Kurtz: I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That’s my dream. That’s my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight… razor… and surviving.

The next line is in because I was watching a documentary on the word “Fuck” yesterday, with Tera Patrick in it (Hell Yeah), and all I could think of was this line from Brando. Am I going insane?

Kurtz: We train young men to drop fire on people. But their commanders won’t allow them to write “fuck” on their airplanes because it’s obscene!

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Kick Ash

From Scott Adams on the ashes of James “Scotty” Doohan which were lost from a rocket which was supposed to scatter them in space:

I also wonder if the people in charge of this mission are admitting their mistakes or trying to cover their ashes. Okay, I don’t really wonder that. I just wanted to write “cover their ashes.” And this:

Q. What do you call a crater left by a rocket full of cremated remains?

A. An ash hole.

Friday Morning WTF

From Youth Curry:

Lastly, Forsche recruited drivers from an ad it placed in Mid-day a couple of months ago. Apparently a range of women applied. Says Ms Roy:

“While Prabhjyot Kaur (57), a grandmother and graduate in economics and sociology will be our oldest driver, the youngest in my fleet of taxis is Rajashree H (32), an electronics engineer from BITS Pilani.”

I too, as Rashmi, would “love to meet this engineer and ask… why?” Now please do not get me wrong. Driving a taxi is very honorable and all, but it seems to me like Matt Damon saying he wants to tend to sheep in “Good Will Hunting“.

Sleep Over It

Okay. This is one wierd post. Even I don’t know why I am writing this crap.

Don’t you sometimes think that the concept of night is way over rated??

I studied in a school which was affiliated to the ICSE Board of Education. Under its syllabus was a story (don’t remember the name though) about a man stuck in a storm and a beggar woman, who gives him the support needed to spend the night, stuck in a room on a railway station, when everything else gives way. It was during the course of our discussion on this story that our teacher, (one of my all time faves!!) Ms. Gulati, told us how night gives us the time and peace to recuperate from all that we have gone through the day. Similar sentiments were echoed by Mr. Thapa (again a gem of a teacher), and there I was, a believer in the necessity of the night in our lives.  

But now when I stop to think, I feel that the theory is flawed some where. During the day, you can keep your thoughts off stuff, not think about things you don’t want to. You seem to, at least temporarily, forget certain things which would otherwise be hard to dismiss. You think you are in control. But then one night, one dream, and everything comes crashing back. You again have to face the situations you did not want to face. You have to answer questions you always tried to evade. And why, because you have no control over how the subconcious brain functions while you are asleep.

I wish I had control over things I dream about. That would have made life so much more easier. Night, definitely, is highly over-rated, much like our Indian cricket team.

Wierd Searches!!

This is the first instance of people coming to my blog while searching something so specific. I must say there is a high chance of me knowing this person. And please do not get any phunny thoughts!!

I am the Devil!!

I had registered for an General Course on IP (DL 101) on WIPO Academy. Guess what my login id is?

The number of the devil himself. Yeah, you heard that right. I am AGoyal666. While I derive immense pleasure from getting the number, I must confess that I am still feel a little wierd about getting the id.

And I am ready to bet that this has to do with August, a little wierd superstition that I have of August not being very good for me (and so far it is proving so true).

Muhahaha!! <evil laugh>