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· At times…
…there is so much talk of Connectivity, that I feel Disconnected.
…there is so much talk of the Online World, that I feel totally Put Off.
…there is so much talk of the Unlimited potential of Cyberspace, that I feel Cramped.

· If the Earth stopped rotating and moving around the Sun and the Moon drifted off, then would the Days, Months and Years cease to exist? Would we become immortal in some quaint way?

· Isn’t there any software that makes Human Beings Interoperable?

· In 2570 BC, the Great Pyramid of Giza became the tallest man-made structure at 146 metres. Recently, Burj Khalifa claimed that record at 828m. Forget 828m, Bangalore (the place where I live) is yet to break the record set about 4500 years ago.

· You should use the Mobile phone when you are mobile. When you become stationary for long period of time: Switch the mobile off.

© Sunil Rajguru

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• Does Father Time suddenly look at the date and find it’s December 31 and say: Oh God! A year has ended; let me change the luck/fortune of this world/country/person/group?
That decade was so… 2009 was so… are such artificial constructs. Fortunes and eras don’t wait for a date, beginning and ending at any time they please. They could last for a second, 17 days, 8 months, 13.5 years or 7.34567 decades.

• The world did not end at the turn of the millennium. The world will not end in December 2012. I think a lot of people keep hoping that the world will come to an end… it sure beats the concept of suicide!

• Does a New Year’s Day really change anything? Does every Birthday really change your perspective? Does an anniversary change fortunes? For me there are only two types of days: Holidays and Working Days. Any other classification is irrelevant.

• Why a New Year Resolution? Why not a New Month Resolution or a New Week Resolution or a New Day Resolution or a Mid-Day Resolution?

• Did You Know? Today is the 1000th anniversary of the Japanese Emperor Go-Suzaku turning 17 days old!

• If Saturday and Sunday is the Weekend, then Monday should be called the Weekendend.

© Sunil Rajguru

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• I wish Santa Claus would distribute Joy, Hope and Happiness in little packages for a change… the world has no shortage of material gifts.

• The more Connected you are Online, the more Disconnected you are Offline. They talk of a Work-Life Balance. But what is required is an Online-Offline balance.

• The Office Laptop should come with a Statutory Warning: Usage of this device is dangerous for both health and family.

• Recession and Inflation are antonyms. And both are equally bad. No wonder the Common Man gets rammed no matter what state the economy is in.

• Off late, Reality Shows are looking more like Fiction Shows.

© Sunil Rajguru

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· Man was not made in the image of God, but in the image of the Quantum Particle: Unpredictable, schizophrenic and linked together with his fellow men in ways that one cannot even begin to comprehend.

· In a Limited Overs Cricket team, there should be 10 batsmen/fielders and one mathematician. Put a bowling machine with umpteen permutations at the centre and let the mathematician be the bowler. Then with 10 batsmen, we can have regular scores of 500 and everyone can be happy. As it is, all the rules are killing bowlers.

· Life is simple as a child. Then you complicate things by ending up in a college and course that is prestigious rather than one that your heart wants. Your subsequent job choice based on that is a further complication. Then you get married and that’s really complicated. So is parenting. Finally you keep changing jobs and running after material things that make you the Master of Complications. Thereafter Life is a Struggle. But Life is also Quicksand. The more you struggle, the more you sink…

© Sunil Rajguru

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·We live like matchsticks in a matchbox. We go to office like ants in a line. We work like sardines in a can. As the years go by, we make the boxes, lines and cans more and more beautiful and feel happy about it even as the grim underlying reality never changes.

· Sometimes I think that the Indian Cricket Team’s favourite theme song is Ring a ring a roses… they especially love the “and we all fall down” part.

· I like the way Indian newspapers keep saying “ABC grilled today”, “CBI grills XYZ” etc. Someone coming from the past would have visions of a grim torture chamber with the person a hot grill over fire.

· For men only: As a bachelor you are fully alive. Being a husband leaves you half-dead. Fatherhood fully kills you. If you have many children, then that’s life after death, you are living the life of a ghost.

© Sunil Rajguru

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· All the roads, walls and grounds in India are public toilets. Our Nation should be renamed UriNation.

· Credit Cards should actually be called Debt Cards. Debt Cards and Debit Cards go well together.

· If horns and honking was banned on Indian roads, then most motorists would die of boredom and silence.

· Why call them Moral Police? Immoral Goondas would be better.

· Population Explosion? I think it has already happened in India and we are living in the Post-Blast Holocaust.

· It’s not death I’m scared of… it’s rebirth…

· Inventions keep continuously coming and make things easier and easier for us… then why is life getting tougher and tougher?

· The more you progress, the more time you spend working hard at doing nothing.

· Is Wikipedia turning into a Weakipedia?

© Sunil Rajguru