It's Green All Over


It takes black to be green for Google. The Apple too will be Green. ...and there are many more to follow the green brigade.
I can see green all over.
Isn't that a good sign? For those who have been made the Earth a dumping ground for all the harmful waste and its environment a huge nebula of toxic gases and poisonous fumes, have actually begun thinking about it. Yes there have been signs. Signs that these speechless elements of life are giving out...shouting in every manner they can--that they are tired of bearing the burden of mistakes that we keep making in the name of evolution.

Though slow, we have begun to react. Its a good news. Google now plans to be "Blackle"--a black search engine. "Black google would save atleast 750 Megawatts per year" 'coz it requires lesser energy for a screen to throw black light as opposed to white. For more, search google, read http://ecoiron.blogspot.com/2007/01/black-google-would-save-3000-megawatts.html, OR go to http://www.blackle.com/ that works exactly as Google.

After much fuss about Greenpeace condemning Apple about not removing/reducing toxic things form its products, Steve Jobs bounced back saying they are. And to know what all the non-graduate Jobs is upto, read the letter he issued (in May this year) at http://www.apple.com/hotnews/agreenerapple/

Dell is another company that flagged off its green initiatives in June this year. The others who are already working on reducing negative impact of manufacturing on the environment are Hewlett-Packard, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Siemens, LG Electronics, Panasonic, Fujitsu and more.

Wipro and HCL Infosystems are also in the race (http://ia.rediff.com/money/2007/jun/29green.htm) with their Green PC initiative.

May all THINK ENVIRONMENT asap.

What an advertising!

I hadn't shopped for a while for junk jewelry for a while and it was a weekend too. So we decided to go for it that day. On the way to district center-- the most popular hangout on my side of the city and just 10 minutes from my dwelling--falls a stretch where you have a lot of low and lower income group people staying. You will find a lot of them running small shops form their residence, on the side that faces the main road. There are shops of almost anything you ask for a living--salons, general stores, doctors, chemists, meat shops, panwalas, auto- service centers, dhabas and what not.

But I noticed a strange pattern--almost every shop had its name beginning with Su-Kam. There was Su-Kam meat shop, Su-Kam Vakil Hair Dresser, Su-Kam Auto Repair, Su-Kam Chaurasiya Pan Bhandar, Su-Kam Gupta General Store,...
At once I was taken aback as to how could one own so many shops. But then, my mind got another memory signal that said, "Hey moron! Su-Kam make batteries and inverters."

And then it occured to me that atleast such an advertising exercise was a good way to imprint the brand name in our minds...making it a healthy brand recall exercise.

For they won't realize

God forgive them...as they know not what they are doing; they know not in time, what they are losing. Lost five of them...atleast 4 precious jewls and 2 more unpolished. But if you are bent upon closing your eyes to the reality, how would God show you any light.

Sameis happening in this maddening place...or may be I have some attachement to this place, this product that even I want to 'not see' the downfall. May God be my strength in doing so. As someone very aptly said a few days ago, "One should stop singing when the melody is still good." I too want to do the same.
Yes, I might be blamed for not trying to improve how things here are. But the truth is, I DID, and I DID IT MANY TIMES.
But unheard, i returned to my camp lonely..with deaf ears most of the times and false assurances for some of the times.

I have lost hope and there is no sign of improvement. I wish I had some strings in my hand that I could maneuver...for the betterment of this place, this product that has taught me how to walk in this world.

A Bicycle thief is what I want to be

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord doesn't work that way, so I stole one and asked for forgiveness.

People who think this is not true, may please come forward to tell me how does it work otherwise. Coz, all I have seen and experienced till date is this only. I know that the world is not perfect, but who wants a perfect circle for it to be. We could survive with say an ellipse too, but here it seems that there are no rules in this jungle.

No I am saying I am looking for perfection. I am party to some wrongs too, and some I have been forced to do. But like this gentleman called Emo Philips, who I have quoted to begin with, I too did not forget to ask for forgiveness.

After all, it is for the divine to prove it now by forgiving us.

yeah bakwaas...

and that's what it precisely means when you try to tell/show someone something. actually no one in this world is free enough to actually spend some time listening to what you want to say.

it is still there

yes, I am talking about weightlessness again...and it has been increasing...this feeling.
I thought it was only the thought of my dissociating myself from this place. But no...i think everyone has a time span, a life span at a particular place.

and so is happening to my being. my being at the place I am...to the extent that my near and dear ones have begun to notice some irritation, some disgust, some thing in me.
And again..a retrospection tells me, "it is not my lack of skills or interest to work...but some things within me that have begun to ask for a little too much in a little too less a time." And you may want to call it my overconfidence, but I feel and believe that I shall be able to do it. Acheive what I want...with the blessing of my elders and The Almighty. Amen

Weightlessness

No if you are thinking I did, I haven't been to the moon and back.
But I did feel losing my weight for a few hours that day. And now when I look back, I think I have felt in a similar manner, atleast a few other times in the past five years while I have been a working professional. The latest was this one when I received an offer from a very well reputed multinational for accepting a position with them. For a few minutes after getting it, I was confused...and then I decided to think about whether to take it up or not.

Soon after I began feeling the loss of weight. If it had happened in the real Physical of Physiological sense, I would have been more than happy...but it was haapening in all ways other than these two. People were speaking around me when my subconscious was imaging how would they behave once they came to know I was leaving. That my views would no longer remain important (that's a different matter that they still are not ;)) even if they actually were. That responsibilities would be taken away, I would be told to sit in a corner...just do my job mechanically...no need to think, comment, participate. I could see it happen around me as I have seen it happen with others.

The truth is that I have not accepted that offer...not because I was scared but because it didn't meet my expectations on certain other grounds. I might have had to experience this zero gravity all the while I were there if I did accept it. I could see myself getting no self actualization there.

While it is a fact that I am where I was--same longitudes and latitudes--I think I have definitely changed altitudes psychologically, if not geographically. The circumstances have taught me something--that God has his own ways!!