Abre los ojos

Yes .. another day at work completed... waking up at 4:30 in the morning ... and working your fucking arse off building PLCs the size of mountains .... I mean it's moronic ... fuck you dont use your head to do anything.. it's just being dextrous and diligent from the beginning to the end .. where the only thing that matters is 1 64th of an inch precision in mounting equipment on to boards and stuff... Well there's one thing i've learnt ...this wont be something i want to do as a living ... fuck no... factory line work is no fun .. and is the sweat and blood of these men ...that has built the west.... years and years of blood and sweat ...and then squeezing taxes out of their hard earned pay checks ... is what has made the west what it is today... I tried the Michael Douglus "lunch is for wimps" on the first day.. then i fucking learnt ....the hard way ofcourse... that keeping up requires energy... and shit loads of it... man i'd be devastated if had to do this support a family... i'd break down and die... any sane thinknig individual shouldn't engage in slave labor... no matter how big the corp... and yeah ... i'm bitching and ranting alright... but it's good .. i've learnt my lesson ... and the good thing abt it being my dexterity and my clumsy fingers get a break...

Hey Jude...

Paul McCartney kinda revived yesterday night .. it was the least he could do.. considering most of us would want to see a wardrobe malfunction on his part... Would we now????

Any way if you belive in the concept that each of our lives have a soud track ...well "Hey Jude!" just became a part of mine ... the superbowl version was grand ..and splendid... but lil did i realize the next day at work i would have a Srilankan/Tamilian collegue named "Jude" (Figure that Avi!!!) ...

Well the guy was cool ... and he showed me around the placed and is my mentor ... I had a good long 9 hour shift with him... showed the brilliance ... and utter stupidity that "the Arun" can accomplish in the span of a day...

It seems i should be able to handle it ...it's mundane ... it's boring ... after all that's why they call it WORK!!! ... Well cya later ... readers ... that's all for now ... do be considerate enough to leave a stray comment .... it would do my ego a world of good!!!

I'm on the verge of the next step...

It's been a rather eventful busy week... with the usual KPI stuff and a whole load of meandering thru the miscellanious kinda thing ... nothing major just small little things ... and that's abt it ... hummm ... what more do i have to punch in .... i had a cpl of ideas the last time i had thought abt writing something ..but it got lost in transit... Oh well ... another day another time ... i'll see what happens..

As for now just a craving to scroll down something ..but nothing substanial... so lemme get along with what ever i was doing instead of thinking of ten different things at the same time..

In Good Company

YES... the movie was for every KIDult ..for every ADULT-escent out there... It was my movie... I liked it ...No i enjoyed it... Why coz i had this conversation with elke earlier in the day .. and we were talking abt this certain thing that we were talking abt ... my predicament ... or let's say this certain juxtaposition that i'm in ... it was as though the silver screen was playing it out to me... like i told her... the yr has engaged in some kinda re-wiring my inner circuitry ... where by im turning into this sap ... this uber-romantic of some kind... It's probably got something to with being on the planet for almost a quarter century now... well let's just say there's this agenda i've .. the Tony Montana philosophy of life has three stages... "In this country, first jou get the money, then jou get the power, then jou get the women."

In my lil domain .. in my narrow scope of reality .. the slice of life that i have gotta deal with ... well i'm working on it ... i've got pseudo-power ..that's power in terms of a title.. with no monetary kick backs.. but to get the positive aspect outta it let's just for arguement's sake say i've conquered the power domain ... and now it's the other two domain's that are left... money is over-rated.. in terms of monetary value pieces of ppr shouldn't dictate our lives... but it's the purchasing power of those pieces of ppr that dictate the course of our lives.. the direction ..the pursuit to those desires .. humm... vanity does play a part ... but none the less... it's when money is spent on the ones that we love that it turns into a beautiful thing... (i told u i'm romantizing even money).... well... yeah.. any way money... will come ..or it 'll go .. it isnt substanial how much we make or much we need... it's abt the good times at the end of it all.. that's what we live for ... and i'm pretty sure i've got it in me to take it all the way... now that leave's the final frontier... ok .... this is an open confession ... i think... or let me say i suppose i think i've an idea ...for somebody i want to spend the rest of my life with... have i asked this person ... NO!!! do i intend to tell this person any time soon ... NO!!! am i romancing this dream a lot ... YES!!! will it work out ..maybe... when do i intend all my loved ones to know abt it... 5 yrs from now... that's right FIVE years from now!! that's right... all decisions come 5 yrs from now... but there has to be some kind of pro-active participation in the involvement of a cpl or something of the sort .. i do agree... but i'm not ready... it's just a euphoric idea.. a concept that i'll be incubating till the time is right.... when will it be right.. I dont know... kinda silly.. aint I? yeah ..silly is what silly does... well any way ... like i said .. i'm this kidult.. who's not sure .. who's not yet ready... if relativity were a reality ... i could have engaged in a more pro-active approach... but it isnt.. and i carry on... will i tell any one ... any time soon.. i dont know... well i love it the way it is as of now... Amen..

Oscar '05

My Oscar predictions ..or who i'd like to see win ..

Best Director: Martin Scorsese

This man has made quite a few good movies in his haydays...Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, i say it's high time he get's his due...

Best Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett

This woman has given us stalwart performances ... and among the lot she deserves it the most (she deserves 2 oscars come to think they gave one away to Haley Berry for Monster's Ball .. ohmygod.. that was a porn flick for crying out loud... all that female every did was cry and fuck...)

Best Supporting Actor: Morgan Freeman

As much as i want to see Jamie Foxx win, this guy deserves it ... Have u seen him in Shawkshank Redemption, Driving Miss Daisy, fuck he lost to Sean Connery the last time he was nominated in this category... i hope he wins this time

Best Actress: Annette Bening

She lost to Hillary Swank last time round... i think she's got a better chance this time round... and let's see how they vote this time ..tides might be in her favor...

Best Actor

this is a tough one ... as much as i loved Jamie Foxx in Ray ... i dont think they'll give it to him .... Sidney Poiter, Denzel Washington... Humm is it time for the academy to pick another black actor as the best i dont know ... the prejudices are not in his favor... Johnny Depp... this is his second nomination in a row ... and has he given outstanding performances tine and again... yes he has ... fuck he might just walk away with it this time... Leonardo Di Caprio ... the second biographical contender in the race... my .. he looks much better off this time ... better than his chances from the Gilbert Grape days... Clint Eastwood... he's 70 freaking 4 ..the man's come up to tell us ..GO AHEAD ..MAKE MY DAY!!! will the academy sway his way.. there's a good chance...

so my predictions for winning the esteemed title would be Eastwood, Depp, Dicaprio and Foxx in that order...

Collingwood Times...

Spent the weekend away on a ski resort ... Collingwood... like i said ealrier .. amazing place.. i've been to desert resorts.. beach resorts ... but lemme tell u this u've to have been at a ski resort to know what it's like ... It's a totally outta this world experience... Hell yeah... It was pretty nasty out there in terms of weather... -24C thru the course of the night sometimes a lil bit more with the wind chilll... but that's not too bad considering that Hamilton was hit bya snow storm and was blanketted by 3ft of snow... so there you have it ... i escaped the freaking white shit storm again... As for what i did there... i drunk my self stupid .. and then regained consciousness and then spent the next day smoking my self stupid... It was divine ... I pulled this chick from western university across the other chalet ... (a slip of the hand and she's a good two storeys away from the ground...) but hey i'm drunk and i give her a puff of my joint ... and away she comes... and then she sez it's her birthday and Anthony pops her beer... well .. she didnt stay for long until she left and we proceeded to their place.. well lets just say things got a bit blurry from their own .. i was stoned off my ass.... had loads of fun though... played a cpl of drinking games... and then hit the sack ...It was good...

today made my first pasta ever ... 'Food and Wine Digest' calls it a new frontier in Pasta... the Chicago Tribune says ..it goes where no pasta sauce has gone before.. The New Yorker calls it an orgasm in your mouth...[howz that for wishful thinkning]

Tyrolean Village

So I'm off to Tyrolean Village... As I hear of it...it's a ski resort on the base of Blue Mountain @ Collingwood. I'll be there over the course of the weekend...with all the MSA brigade ... We'll upto our usual round of "bored meetings"...and probably some snow boarding/skiing and a trekking session ...or a nature walk or something like that...

What's the weather like you ask... today Friday is Sunny at a High of -18°C. later tonight we'll have some snow and a Low of -24°C. The weekend will bestow upon us blowing snow at a Low of -24°C and High of -10°C... Brrr!!!!

As for the happenings of the week.... Avi has got his visa stamped.. Holy Fuck!!! Hallelujah... i gave him a call as soon as i heard... i was uber-thrilled...

Well.. that's it for now ... will punch in more details later.. have been seeing pretty weird dreams lately... now if they are re-occuring i'll punch it out...

K-OS

Yesterday night .... attended the k-os concert.. it was cool... great performance... awesome vibe .. loads of energy ..and it was a very vibrant world music with loads of blends kinda performance .....there was a lotta good energy ...

Ended up realizing something ... i'm turning into some uber-romantic of some kind... everything has freaking romantic overtones to it ..it's hilarious... freaking hilarious ... the inner softie is running the place... everything is u know kinda all abt the love and the peace .. and the harmony and shit... it's freaking awesome when ur high... but otherwise i hope somebody doesnt get a whiff of the inner moron running the place and catch me off guard... must be something to do with what shakesphere said abt the seven ages thing... if it's a passing stage ...i'm up to it .. otherwise ....urghh.... now that's a scary thought..

and i think i've broken my math-tutor jinx... Kathy came up to me yesterday .. and said she passed math... and not just border line but with a pretty good score... and said a big thank you and shit ... well... glad to hear that...maybe the blonde-math jinxed my jinx.. and was some kinda uber fuck up ..well any way it was a good feeling..

got a certifed graphologist to have a look at my handwriting .. and he told me some pretty neat stuff... some of it were bang on ....

as for today... Happy Birthday Chacha!!!

SiLK BOxERS

I feel great today.. Why because i feel i have been able to contribute to a better human life.. how well..let's look at it this way... you look back at your life and see your self in this particular period of time and see and feel or wished how perhaps things could have been better .. if only someone was there to look out for you.. someone was there to watch out for you .. i mean we've all at some point of time wanted it .. atleast i have.. since i've this unending need/desire/thirst that i cannot quench to empathise with ppl ..put myself in their shoes ... i guess it's my working strategy... put urself in the other persons shoes kinda thing.. see what they'd want ..they'd like done..any way to quit the rambling and to get specific...

Today January the 17th, 2005... happens to be Tina's birthday... she turns 17... WoW!!! a millennium ago i used to be 17... and in some odd way she reminds me of me... away from home ... in the middle of no where in a totally new place... with absolute strangers around you... with none of the comforts of home ...and further more unlike any of the other 16 birthdays you've had on the planet ..this one will be for the very first time that u are away from everything that was familiar to u.... kinda strangely odd... for the fragile mind of a 17 ... how did i feel abt it... i was for one not happiest ppl on my 17th... i was bitching and whining and complaining and oh jesus all that rage ...must have been the testostreone going bonkers... well... as i look at it... if there was any way i could make this kid's b'day any better than the one i had eons ago... being in the very same shoes she was in ... i had a handle of things .. but since it's me things have to have that extra bit of shall we say life's way of saying lemme see u get past that......the geographical disposition was going to be a setback ....

so thanks to that wonderful invention - the digital dog leash aka the MOBILE...i got in touch with a friend of mine... another acquaintance from when i was in those late teens ... we did a lil bit of growing up together shall we say... and i might add learnt quite a few life lessons from each other... saw some real nasty shit.. went thru stuff that moulded us into who we are today ... it must have the intensity of human emotions we shared together that a single cellphone conversation got him to set aside time for lil ol'me off his busy schedule...

and how does this grand plan of mine come to life.. i ask Deepak ... to go in search of the perfect gift ... well ... since i had this vague kinda idea that she might appreciate a CD ... being an Eminem fan in her haydays.. i honestly didnt know her present musical disposition as of today but only went with a gut feeling she might appreciate the idea behind it ...

why am i punching this all down.. i guess .. i'm putting some vanquished souls to rest...it's not demons .. it's this 17 yr old in me that needs to be heard ... that needs to live again..that needs to come to terms with life ...to be able to bring to rest that 17 yr old.. and move on ... that's what it's all abt.. and since it's a self less act that in all intentions is intended to mean more to her than it does to me .. it will in turn mean more to me...

well back to the actual happenings ... i sent deepak on an errand to get T a gift ..which i hear he was able to get her in time... and he tells me... talking to her reminded him of me.... see it's all abt that teenager we once were....and how we first met...uncanny as it may seem... and i guess being around em ...kinda sends u reliving it ..and puts that zest back in life... but the second time around ..u have that know-how of the boo-boos that happen the first time round.. so now the predicament is all abt do u wanna be a spoil sport and give em the parental NO! or the enjoy life u live it just once... right now i'm trying to be on both the boats.. it's a nehruvian dream of the mixed economy thing...the best of both worlds.. but we all know what happens is the kinda the opposite.. let's not side track here...

the point of the matter is... i'm offically calling `05 the year of love...the giving kind... i wanna be around ..in spirit in person .. a phone call ... an email... i have a lotta inner wounds that need healing... and i guess true human interaction with the ppl u love might be the only way to heal em... once again ...thank you life for giving me another chance...thank you friends for showing me what it means to be around.... thank you from the bottom of my heart....

the inner peace n tranquility i feel.... to put into persepective... you might just metamorphasize in to matter... Imagine ... every man on the planet wearing Silk Boxers.... that's how divine it feels.....the pure symphony of SILK BOxERS!!!

Wee.... Pee.... Lakshmikutty

Yes ladies and gentelmen there you have it .... The year has greeted me with another title... I'm MSA Wee.... Pee.... Lakshmikutty... for those of you who didn't get it... MSA VP Exec... Mohawk Student Association Vice President Executive... I got the nomination package on the 12th at 10am... came back an hour and half later... with 75 ppl that had signed off ... i had it made... but i thought i might have some one running against me ... but what do you know.. i just got thru ...

It's GOODDDDDDD!!!

"CHIN-ju Node ChodheEe Queue"

I'm back after a much needed break ... I feel rejuvenated... I feel nourished ... I feel GOOOOOOOOOOOOD......... It's been ages since that's happened but lemme tell u this it's an awesome feeling....

Unlike how I usually land up next to a grumpy ol'fart .. this time my flight was different ... I had a decent chick sitting next to me on my flight from dammam to amsterdam ... and what was my first utterence... to her... (i must admit she was looking rather uptight...) ..I said... "For starters ... I Snore... ".. and lo and behold she bursts out laughing ... which i guess was a good sign.. any way .. stirred up a healthy conversation ... the flight were late but not horrendously so ... i had the usual array of hiccups i have at airports across the globe especially in saudi arabia... but years of trying to tame this donkey has been anything but successful for the saudis.... so here i am unscathed by the tribulations that would bring mere mortal passengers to their knees...

As for my holiday... it was by far the best one i've had in this quarter century on the planet... Yes... THE BEST holiday yet.. It came at a time when i needed it the most .. IT had all the ppl i needed to see and be with the most ... we did all the things that holidayers should do ...and it was my little trip to an utopia we created ... we nourished and bade our farewells to .. and i guess each of us will treasure in his or her minds in his or her ways the exact recreation of it all ...as for what was this perfect holiday like ... that is a question for which u'll have to: "CHIN-ju Node ChodheEe Queue"

Karma Accountant

It's great to start the year with the karmic ledgers balnced out ..and you ring in all the good karma to jump start the year... I mean it's family and friends ..they're just NOS for your karma... All the positive good energy around you ...this must be heaven... yes i must be on the 'Stairway to Heaven' ....

When dreams aspirations and the little things in life that you've hoped for just come true ... It's so uplifting ..it makes you believe.. believe..in people ... in love .. in hope... in the virtues of the human spirit... i'vent felt so good about myself... about the people around me ... about each and every single thing about life... ever... i guess.... If this is a sign of the happy times in life... I'm grateful ... For everything.. for this moment ..for all the people i've met along the way... for all the learning experiences in life i've had...

To aspire of anything of me ..of what i can and could have had eluded me ... but now ... I feel re-energized ...yes ...the vigor the vitality the spirit and zest for life ... to face life head on ... to take up every obstacle there is to come ...and what is the kryptonite you need to keep you going... All you need is to remember the sweetest cutest innocent gurgling babies around you...how they waddle around and talk in that divine baby tongue only babies can ...and how you remember how those kids you used to carry around just till yesterday are as big or bigger than you ... how those tadpole like hairless babies of yesterday ...cum up with the cutest jokes today....babies/kids ... it's just amazing how much karmic energy they possess.. the spirit of innocence... each time they call out your name ..they fill you with all that is their's and more...much more..... An epitome of love.....when they call out to you... it's just divine... to feel wanted ..how i cherish the caring the giving the currency to immortality ... Innocence... the schemes they hatch... their mickey mouse infatuations ...the chuckling laughter .... oh god...lock me up in this time warp where all that happens are these events over and over again...

I've always been the big 1..... never was i the one who could get away with a a shrill scream.... I'd always to give way to the younger ones .. in the process some where along the way the resentment and why me died ..giving way to the eternal big brother.... and for once in my life i'm so happy about it.. i'm in tears.... to ave had everyone under one roof... for these cpl of days ...days i cross my heart not to forget as long as my memory doesnt fail me......in each of their eyes i see me...saying doing something i once did .. i once said....and to be around when they want me would be nice... but i've never truly been a proactive part in their lives have i .. if there is ever a new year's resolution i'd like to take is to be a more active part of their lives ... who am i kidding.... the circle of life has eluded me from the major part of their lives so far.. will they accept me... or am i too old to be included... have they shown me the door .... or am i that weird wacko who shows up once in awhile ... and then just disappears to em....i guess i can always go back to that land of make believe in my head for solace and comfort...or if the new year is any sign of things to come ... there might be a tsunami in the channels of communication....

my life has taken quite a few detours ...but i learnt it's never a race with anyone but yourself... and i've battled a lot of my inner demons ..exorcized those fears that kept haunting me ... it's a matter of conviction i guess... and it's taken quarter of a century....for me to get somewhere in the vicinity of ..or so i think...

Let me come to a close ....with words from Luhrmann:

"Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because the older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young. "

I Love You

I truly believe ...I belong to a community of people that comprise the greatest group of buddies that exist on the planet ... and if there was ever an exercise to prove the fact of well we get along .. how much we bond .. of much we enjoy each others company of how truly we share amoungst ourselves the enduring aspect of what as grown way beyond the confines of friendship ... it was the night of revelery we had celebrating christmas eve/new years... It is in the proximity of the heart soul and sweat.... that one experiences the true joys of life...

I could clutter sentences with adjectives of the highest denomination in trying to express what would not even come close to the shallow end of how much fun we had together... it's times like that the true meaning of the of the power of the human spirit is witnessed.... Together we have championed every human emotion ... And that makes me feel good .. It makes me innately happy... I feel elated ..so very in fact .. it is an almost divine experience...

I thank the cosmos to have let it occur... I thank every one for being there... I am deeply indebted to my folks friends and family for everything that has happened and is due to happen...

thank you .. Thank You.. Thank You.....

I love you ......

Tis the season to be jolly..

Now how long has it been since I last posted anything.... And what's happened in the time that has a preceded.... Well for starters I'm on the other side of the Globe... I had my exams... There's been the hardest hitting tsunami that's graced the planet in the last 40 years... So what have I've been doing??? I don't know ... For starters I'm in a happy place...I'm with ppl I grew up with/around.. kids who've been born around me ...I'ven't the slightest clue when all of us are going to be under the same roof again ... But here and now seems too precious to leave out.. The festive season does add to the whole ambience...

Maybe when I'm sitting back to look back it ... I'll describe what happened in more precise detail... As for now......

I love you guys.... Avi , Ajnu, Tina, Neetu, Acchu, Jamie, Joel, Akhil,Noel....

Merry Christmas ...You kids are the greatest...

In the Midnight Garden of Good & Evil...

I'm Arun's Enraged, Inflamed Sense of Rejection

here I am ... blogging ... coming to terms with what it does for me ... what it's about ... how ppl all over the globe ave traken up this ritual..to express their innermost selves.. bashfully nonchalantly candidly ..amorphously turning it into an artform ... blog are the literary classics of the 21st century.. reading blogs is a truly euphoric experience .. ppl share their inner most thoughts with such vigor..with much soul.. it's a form of writing where i find the heart finds it's way out into the wolrd.. blogs; ports or portals rather of emotion... where past memories ..present worries and future dreams meet... why do i blog? a fight clubsque elucidation would be .. when the chronicles 'Arun's Enraged, Inflamed Sense of Rejection' need release ... Alcohol and Narcotics supress that feeling for a while; but the whole blogging process kinda relaxes the inner self .. a kind of ...search for the 'why am i so fucked up?' ..'is is ok to be this fucked up'... i hate rambling about what i am going thru.. it's the bloody self loathing, self hate, self pity state of being that i want to run awa y from ... but then again ..will i ever be able to .. ageis catching up on me.. i feel worthless.. almost pitiful .. i have acquired nothing in this pathetic human existance.. i have lost all my treasured possessions .. and keep losing any of what i acquire... it's horrible .. to top it off the irrefutable arrogance... the the condescending demeanor..the anarchist spirit.. the intimidating attitude...oh ! they've just accumulated over the years ... no human relationship of susbstance has crossed my wretched existance.. fuck ... fuck...... fuck..... what is there to talk abt ...when u have no one to talk to ... am i losing it....i guess so..... is it just the day to day stress and strifes of my well being ... i'm not too sure..... i answer how r u with a blank i dont know these days... it's true...

back after another dose of reading blogs my old passion of reading has found a new avenue rather .......reading sotroes from other ppl's lives.. ppl with lives very much like mine.. nothing over the top.. nothing overtly pathetic...just the same kinda stagnating blatant shit....... where human relationships as we knew it has turned into a reminiscent of a jewish concentration camp... misquoting a blog i read .... my friends and folks and life as i knew it has seized to exist and this mutated being that lives today is just a faint shadow what used tobe and what could have been.....

oh well... all that self bashing has done more than enough damage to my already returbed ego... i'm done for now......

And Then There Were None...

There are several a times when the mind is overwhelmed to come up with solutions; finite solutions; probable plausible solutions; to bewildering predicaments. Problems find themselves leading to solutions without a certain element of hardship. But what governs the amount of stress and strain that we are to be subjected to. What is the measure of this threshold? And what good is having a threshold greater or lesser than the medicore...

When do we take a hold of ourselves...and "Snap Out Of It".. or do we wait for Cher to slap us! Are we all endowed within this life time to come across our own versions of Cher..

"Science says: before anything else, love yourself, for everything in the world is based on personal interest."
- Lujin of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment

Cui bono

Sometimes the state of affairs in your life, kinda baffles those of us who try to make some sense out of it... And for those of us trying not to it remains to simple and plain .. I dont get it ... i simply dont get it... How difficult is it for ppl to acknowledge you for the right u do and the good that comes out of it .... yet how little u have to do to have em at ur throats as u fumble... Disgusting... absolutely... why do those u who whine never look around u ... to see what every one else is going thru.... why is the threshold of pain and suffering not the same across the entire race.... why do those of us who are persecuted have to be in such enormous quantities....

Bah! i'm done.....the ranting is getting me no where in particular... but a release of some of this negativity is of utmost need... to string together the strands of sanity that is left....

arbiter elegantiae

There's something about people, that kind of resonates through time. People recollect images of public figures or other people in general on the basis of a singular event. One event in time can change how the rest of humanity is going to percieve about from now to the end of time. And no matter how great or small your achievements after the incident you shall always be remembered for that first make or break. And you're stuck with it.

Monica Lewinsky can come up with the cure for AIDS and Cancer, but she'll always be remembered as the greatest knob gobbler of all time. David Hasselhoff may have sold millions of records in Germany and the rest of Europe... but for the rest of the world he's no more than the guy from Knight Rider (if u were a TV viewer from the 80s) or Baywatch (alright i'm ancient ... for u 90s viewers)...

But what if, those people/events in history were to have had slight fuck ups ...Or slight variations? What if fat man and/or little boy didn't detonate? [What a FUBAR that could've been]... What if Oswald missed? [Yeah! I know the fella in the grassy knowles would've made it...] What if Lennon/Morrison/Hendrix/Cobain.. didn't die their ill fated deaths? There are too many what-ifs to ponder over? I'll leave that to you oh beloved audience of mine..add'em as comments ....

But lemme leave u with this one particular thought.......if Clinton had a gay affair.. would the american political instituition have left him in power? Would the world have taken to it as it as just a case of promiscious behaviour? i'd like to hear your opinions......... punch in ur responses.....

Specto Vulgus

The weekend was rather eventful.. I was at the Rankine Power Plant in Niagra... A 100 year old damn built on the Niagra Falls... It was divine ... Especially the board roam..Wow... most office space dwelling Dilberts dream of a window.. this place had the Falls to look at .. Does it get any better than that? The place had history reeking out of every nook and cranny ... Your talking the very walls within which allegedly Tesla and Edison had a fist fight over whther AC or DC would be the way to go... We all know who won that one... Italian Marble for the Switch Panel boards... Brass Relays .... Turn of the century electricity generation... People who barely knew what they were dealing with were generating power and making a hefty profit selling it out to the infant giants of the Industrial Revolution... Amazingly spectacular to see one of the corner stones of power generation that the world has seen... The hydro-electric project that was truly from an eon ago ..with none of the sophistication that you see today..yet doing a Herculean task... Mind you they used an operating frequency of 25 Hz... and they do generate 0.3 MW of power even today to supply Washington Mills and Stelco who use it for their Arc Furnaces. Up until recently there was a turn of the century cinema hall in upstate NY that had the 25Hz operating frequency used on their arc projectors for their shows... No wonder yhose Chaplin movies seemed all fucked up...

Anyway 100 feet under the damn dam... there i was in the damp humid bottom of this massive shaft running right thru ... The magnanimous size of the place just leaves u awestruck... An engineering wonder... no words could do justice to the kind of blood and sweat that has gone into running a mammoth of this size..Cheers !!! to all those unsung heroes who made it happen... Any way i walk away with a nut that was one of the many hundreds that hold the rusty old shaft that runs like a massive cock that penetrates the core of the earth ........

After that escapade i set out on an escapde which i must say i truly enjoyed... I turned into an anthropologist on a quest to find what drives people to behave in a certain way in public....

There i was at the falls... with this cattle of ppl walking past me .. coming to a halt in front of that railing that must have been touched by millions of ppl ...(Think of finger print analysis of the site... the amount of microbes....)..Any way beofre i get off on that tangent.... Toursits from all over the place arrive at the site to do the very same thing... Take a picture of themself in front of this piece of geography... and the way it's done is exactly the same they fake a smile in that lens... and try immortalize themself.. Probably to satisfy the vanity within...

The visitors themselves could be categorized... there were the families.. the kids who were hungry and wanted to eat ... the kid who wanted that $49.99 slnky ball in the store and was howling its brains off... then there were the kids who wanted to pee...

Then there those who bring their moms and dads along ..u know when it's the guy's folks... the chick's body language just sez.. i hate that ol'hag... and u know it's the chick's folks..the guy's like when the fuck are we going to leave ... it's hilarious ... just sit there and look at these ppl ... it's the same genric display of feelings... The son who wants to so desperately have his son and mom to take a pic together... Why ..so that that kid can look back and see this image of grandma.. a person who this photograph is going to be the only surving relic of ever being a part of his life... And there's the over protective mom who doesnt let the kid peep over the railings .. coz she's freaking out ... each stereotype imaginable in society is there to be viewed in all their splendour... After the family crowd withered away i shifted my attnetion to the yuppie cpls... their hormone levels were too high to engage in any other activity but perhaps what a rabbit could keep up with... Trust me from the meagre holding hands to humping I saw it all ...

The sheer spectacle of people was much more entertaining and enthralling than any movie, song, dance, drug enhanced euphoria..... I had always felt the same about airports... which is going to my next ppl viewing place...