"So far so good"

An American cowboy joke:

"They see a man falling down from a building. He reaches the 10th floor. You know what they say?

What?

"Well, so far so good."

Useful American military acronyms

SNAFU - Situation Normal: All Fucked Up
Rough meaning: "things are in a mess — as usual"

DILLIGAFF - Do I Look Like I Give A Flying Fuck?

FISHDO - Fuck It, Shit Happens, Drive On

FOAD - Fuck Off And Die
FODA - Fuck Off and Die Asshole

FUBB - Fucked Up Beyond Belief (a worst-case scenario)
FUBAR - Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition

SFUS - Standard Fucked Up Situation

SWAG - Scientific Wild-Ass Guess. A close approximation

Global warming: Our bit

This link was sent to me by a friend. Seems useful. Although it was written with an American perspective (what else is new!!), items relevant to people from other environments can be picked up as well and applied.

http://globalwarming-facts.info/50-tips.html

When does the line become clearer?

Two rival forces for the product - restore, give more and improve Vs keep it away from client

The restore force could be supported and thats the desire

But the client's stated word is - "dont want" and "no value"

Looks like the point of no return has been crossed by the client to switch

Conclusion - The product failed

Western influences

A word in hindi corresponding to "boredom" does not come easy to my mind!!

Is it then that our society did not express, hence experience "boredom". Is "Boredom" a western construct??

India

Was responding to a friend's mail while discussing as to what has happened to the Idea of India. My verbose thoughts:

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Choice - cant have things imposed on people in reaction. E.g. what we could perhaps do is ask our administration as to whats their view on "language" now, now that technology makes a lot of things possible e.g. multi-lingual software.

I value our diversity a lot, at least in my head (hopefully i will be able to assimilate it more as i keep going). We have been able to nurture and grow over aeons by absorbing all things that come to us. We are again faced with the same challenge - western society's influence.

But this age is different -
1. 300+ years of suppression where the focus was to "impose" a new lifestyle on the subcontinent's natives (either deliberate or collateral)
2. Mass media pervasiveness and massive bombardment - Homo Sapiens is a vulenrable animal. It is prone to self doubt and seeks approval. When a "being" is exposed to a single sentence for days and days over years, that "being" starts believing so.

So the western societies create labels and cram them up the media pipes and bombard us with those - "third world", "poor", "bad living conditions", "dirty", "uncouth"...BULLSHIT!!

Explain to me the high amounts of crime stats in the western mouthpieces!!

For long, the western idea of efficiency, of order, of precision has been mouthed out loud. I agree we have garbage lying around in our cities and lot of people cant afford to own a two wheeler. But thats not all that describes a society. We are helpful, tolerant, childish, innocent, religious, historical, festive, traditional, heirarchical, hero-worshipping... long list.

So what?? We are so much more than a 40%-of-their-population-earns-less-than-a-dollar society.

Whats with the selective judgement!!

So let me cut it short

I would want the element of choice to remain while we start looking back inwards for seeking value [and we have a huge screen to look at :)], and try to make sense of what road have we travelled on for so long, what all dotted the landscape, how we affected the landscape and how in turn we got affected by it.

Find those key events, people, beliefs that make us and ADD to them, not just worship them.

Our responsibility is to ADD, contribute our bit back

A saying:

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable than risk being happy.
- Robert Anthony

The songs:

Mozart - Pachelbel: Cannon in D Major
Chal Chalein...
Amethystium

Song - "She's always a woman to me"

Very cool lyrics!!

She can kill with a smile, she can wound with her eyes.
And she can ruin your faith with her casual lies.
And she only reveals what she wants you to see.
She hides like a child, but she's always a woman to me.
She can lead you to love, she can take you or leave you.
She can ask for the truth but she'll never believe.
And she'll take what you'll give her as long as it's free.
Yeah, she steals like a thief, but she's always a woman to me.
Oooh, she takes care of herself.
She can wait if she wants, she's ahead of her time.
Oooooh, and she never gives out, and she never gives in,
she just changes her mind.
And she'll promise you more than the Garden of Eden.
And she'll carelesly cut you and laugh while you're bleeding.
But she'll bring out the best and the worst you can be.
Blame it all on yourself, cause she's always a woman to me.
Hmmmmmm Mmmmmm Hmmmmm Mmmmmm
Oooh, she takes care of herself.
She can wait if she wants, she's ahead of her time.
Oooooh, and she never gives out, and she never gives in,
she just changes her mind.
She is frequently kind and she's suddenly cruel.
But she can do as she pleases, she's nobody's fool.
And she can't be convicted, she's earned her degree.
And the most she will do is throw shadows at you,
but she's always a woman to me.
Hmmmmmm Mmmmmm Hmmmmm Mmmmmm

Job test

Came across this -

Go over this list. Check the statements that are true. If you check almost all of them, you are doing pretty well. The ones you left unchecked show where you could use some improvement. If you left several of them unchecked, you are in the wrong career;

- You feel like a duck in a pond. Your work is a natural expression of your talents and personality
- Your job fits you so well that, often work is play.
- You are proud of what you do and enjoy telling other people about it.
- You are highly respected at work because you are so good at what you do.
- You do not have to pretend to be someone else at work.
- Your own best and most natural forms of creative expression are what you are paid to do.
- The environment you work in brings out your best efforts.
- You enthusiastically look forward to going to work most of the time.
- Your job rewards your most important values and allows you to fulfill your goals in terms of personal growth, achievement, income, stability, etc.
- The result of your efforts makes a contribution that personally matters to you.
- You don't spend your days working for something that you don't really care about.
- Your job directly fulfills your work-related goals. It does not create barriers to realizing your other goals.
- You like the people you work with.
- You are on a winning team that is having a great time getting the job done.
- A day on the job leaves you feeling energized, not burned out

100%

Wise people, unwise people, old people, yound people, all of them have said this but its practice has been so rare in this world and my world -

"Whatever one does, it should 100%!"

Sage A adds:
1. If one can't give 100%, one needs to bear the cost no matter what.