Waking Life

'I think that what we don't take into account when we're young is our endless curiosity. That's what's so great about being human.'

These are lines from this amazing animation movie called "Waking Life "


(Two women are sitting at a table talking)

2nd Woman: Yeah....Well, do you know that thing Benedict Anderson says about identity?

1st Woman: No.

2nd Woman: Well, he's talking about like, say, a baby picture. So, you pick up this picture of this two-dimensional image and you say, "That's me." Well, to connect this baby in this weird little image with yourself living and breathing in the present, you have to make up a story like, "This was me when I was a year old, and then later I had long hair, and then we moved to Riverdale, and now here I am." So, it takes a story that's actually a fiction to make you and the baby in the picture identical....to create your identity.

1st Woman: And the funny thing is, our cells are completely regenerating every seven years. We've already become completely different people several times over, and yet, we always remain quintessentially ourselves.


So, Whats your story?

Love Bug

Two female dung-beetles on the lawn one dreamy night.
The first one asked the other “So how did he actually woo you?”
Chin supported on her middle legs gently stroking her horns with the front two,
Dreamily looking at the moon she says “Those lovely eyes and a lot of bullshit”

Jewelry Enamel

Sunday evening, Balan explains the whole process of Jewellery Enamel Painting.

It seems these dull dyes go into the furnace, come out red hot, cool down to transform into these shining marvels.

After we are done with all the cakes and bakes and other goodies by Aditi we come back to the topic.

So how do you figure out how it will look when it is done?

He says, Only with acquired skill, and lot experience, you can actually visualize what it will look like.

You cannot predict easily, most dyes totally change colour when they come out of the heat.

Same with people.

Little bit of heat brings out the true colour and brilliance.

And you need loads of experience to be a good judge.

 

Apercevoir

Apercevoir: Random thoughts on a Saturday morning...:

"Most people are extremely wonderful.
The others aren't worth it."

Dachau

Sunday Evening.

Friend comes back from Germany with a bottle of Mexican Tequila.

After the second shot, cutting another lemon I ask “How come you never visited all the places in Germany. Any historical place I mean.”

“Well we were supposed to go see the Dachau Concentration Camp place but then too much work. Stayed back in office, check out these snaps”

We down three more shots each after that.

Who cares if its working day tomorrow!!!

 

JOB POSTING

Dream Job…

This is here because I don’t qualify

(And people I know who do are not interested)

 

-----Original Message-----
From: sandeep kumar [mailto:sandeepkumar5@rediffmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 1:43 PM
To: collectivechaosblr@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [collectivechaosblr] research fellow

hello friends,
We are looking for a Research Fellow who is willing to travel extensively through South India collecting and documenting interesting facts about history, culture and even biodiversity.
Upon completion of the research, we propose to convert it into a documentary film.  Knowledge of Kannada is a must, and a working knowledge of Malayalam and Tamil will be useful.

Contact us at fairblr@vsnl.net with your CV.
regards
SASHI S.

 

Diggers

My favorite place for lunch used to be the last table next to the window.

There we used to sit and watch these people digging the road and the Autos and the Buses.

The diggers and the drivers synchronizing their efforts to produce maximum interruption of traffic on Langford Road and of course entertainment for us.

They would dig dig dig all the time.

Start digging from this end and before they reached the other end, started digging again from this end.

It looked so foolish.

And the worst part was that they would take to digging right in the middle of the day.

When the sun was at its worst. I am sure that kind of exposure to sun would cause some kind of permanent brain damage.

I wanted to say “Hey!!! Go sit in the shade now. You can come back and work in the evening”

I was so obsessed with watching them I would go for coffee alone, sit facing the window and watch them till they wound up for the day.

Then I thought…

What would the diggers think of people in the prime of their lives, working for ten years on the same product, sitting, staring at a tube for hours, back towards the remaining human population in the room, no physical activity, nothing to go home to, except for may be another tube.

Why they never stood there looking at me.

Realized that the glass of my building is opaque from the outside and went back to work.