Jab Tak Hai Jaan

If Major Samar Anand wanted to take on Meera and her ‘Kris on a Cross’, he could have played chicken with a train and saved us 2 hrs.

Or he could have played Russian Roulette with a semi-automatic.

Baffling it is, when a 25 year old makes it into the army and is able to make an international trip in no time.

Apparently Discovery Channel wants to prove the identity of a Indian Army Major by making him come all the way to London. Duh!

Coming soon, Discovery Love. Did you know that orgasm of a pig lasts for minutes? Watch active pig-love on Discovery Love!

Akira jumps of a rock in the middle of a lake. Or did she? How the hell did she reach the rock in the first place?

Mystery, the case of the disappearing rock in the middle of a fricking lake!

Attention Terrorists. Fire your bomb maker. Sticking a wire in goo all the time? Seriously!

Why are those army guys with scoped-guns aiming at the sky and walking around? Hoping to shoot down Santa before Christmas?

So in London, i can walk towards a bomb with confidence, diffuse it and walk out of there, all the while making the London cops look like jack-asses. What if i was trying to trigger the bomb? Ha ha got you! Boom!

Towards the end i so badly hoped that Meera would be an Al Quaida/Lashkar suicide terrorist and blow up both of them Dil Se style!

At this point my greatest fear is waking up to realize that i have to watch Jab Tak Hai Jaan again. Oh! Wait. Correction, i’m being forced to go for Twilight: Breaking Dawn 2.

Period!

What would You do and Why?

A long winding road. The kind of road that is perfect for driving, with fields on one side and a water body on the other. Trees adorn the sides of the road with intermittent patches of shade and sunshine. The kind of road that you love to slow cruise on your vehicle rather than set the next land speed record. Other vehicles seldom pass through this road. Public transportation is close to non existent.

You are driving on that road, on a summer afternoon. Catching a break from the buzz of the city life.

Scenario 1 : You spot an elderly woman, alone by the side of the road. Her are close to rags. They have signs that tells you that she could have been working in the fields. She looks tired. She spots you on the road, approaching and signs that she needs a lift in the direction you are going.

Scenario 2 : You spot a young girl, shades, shorts and tees, alone by the side of road. There is no hint of her being out on the road for long. She looks fantastic and great curves. She spots you on the road, approaching and signs that she needs a lift in the direction you are going.

Question : Whom would you give the lift to and why did you decide not to stop for the other person?

P.S. Ladies, if you are reading this then change the characters to an old man and a handsome chap. icon wink What would You do and Why?  

Out of Ideas

Just one of those days, when you stare at the laptop screen and have nothing to write about.

It’s not that i have totally and completely ran out of topics for the day. It’s just that the topics that i have are still half baked and needs a bit more work before i can post them online.

So, in the mean time, here is a cat video for you ..

Who the hell are we?

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Congrats to Sachin on his 100th century.

Being fans of this incredible athlete, we can celebrate this. For some he is even God!

But who the hell are we to tell him to retire?

So dear Sachin fans, if all of you are so good at what you all do. Why don’t you just quit and sit at home?

Beating Procrastination!

The other day, i read this article about “How to Beat Procrastination“. What interested me was that, the article outlined a procrastination equation,

procrastination equation Beating Procrastination!

This was followed by couple of steps on how to beat procrastination. It looked at factors in the equation that you can control – Expectancy, Value and Impulsiveness (Please read the article of more details). The article goes on to state that -

… Once you know the procrastination equation, our general strategy is obvious. Since there is usually little you can do about the delay of a task’s reward, we’ll focus on the three terms of the procrastination equation over which we have some control. To beat procrastination, we need to:

1. Increase your expectancy of success.

2. Increase the task’s value (make it more pleasant and rewarding).

3. Decrease your impulsiveness.

Then there was this article, that explained what the author had in place to beat procrastination. The article is aptly titled as “My Algorithm for Beating Procrastination“. It gives a step-by-step approach to be productive and beat procrastination.

Step 1: Notice I’m procrastinating.

Step 2: Guess which unattacked part of the equation is causing me the most trouble.

Step 3: Try several methods for attacking that specific problem.

Step 4: If I’m still procrastinating, return to step 2.

The trick here is to realize that Delay is the only fact that you don’t have control over.With that enlightenment, i decided to take myself through the steps when ever i find myself procrastinating.

Need less to say, it didn’t last very long. It simply failed at the very fist task. Or to give the benefit of the doubt to the equation, the task was not a well chosen one.

The Task :  To wake up in the morning.

Result : FAILED

I wake up everyday my snoozing the alarm as many times as i can. Just prolonging the sleep 10 more minutes and that goes on and on, till i’m really late for work.

The alarm went off as usual. 7:30 AM, the alarm read. The hand moved voluntarily to tap on the mobile and snooze the alarm. Now it was the long and tiresome process of getting my ass of the bed.

Then, in that state of semi-consciousness, i thought about the 4 steps. But all i could remember was step 1 and 2. I realized that i was at step 1 – i’m procrastinating.

Now to step 2 and answer the question – what would be the benefit of waking up early? I could be in office early, i could finish work more because of the less distractions. I could feel fresh all day. I would be … would be … would … wou .. zzz…

(It never works!)