Saturday, April 30, 2016

Life in a.... Park

Go to any public park, and you'll see the following default entities:


  • Overprotective parents: Usually seen as a couple. While their kids are willing to adjust and take turns at the sportsware, these parents are like "no beta, don't leave your place, let others wait."
  •  Mobile Moms: Always deep into their smartphones or talking on phone. Totally oblivious to current location of their kid in the park.
  •  Middle-aged house wives: Seen as a bunch, always gossiping about husband, saas, and stuff. You don't even have to make an effort to listen to them; their sound waves are all pervasive.
  •  Health freaks: Running on jogging tracks, looking condescendingly at us pot-bellied creatures.
  •  Senior citizens: Another bunch, discussing what Modi or Obama need to do and passing judgments on the folks in the park. They usually have a 'preferred bench' in the park.

Thursday, April 28, 2016

Good morning!

As a kid, my morning routine was rather messy, doing things haphazardly, out of sequence, wasting the time. Very inefficient. 
Then, I read about boot loader, the program that loads operating system when you start up the machine. It performs many tasks in an elegant sequence, an orchestra of files being executed in an optimal manner. I was fascinated to see a machine working so logically and rather embarrassed about my own booting up process every morning.
Since then, for the last 20+ years, I have tried to stick to what works best for me. Of course, marriage has added some subroutines like PREPARE TEA, but otherwise it remains unchanged.