Convenient... Very convenient

I stumbled upon this news article in a local newspaper... it said people in Myanmar beat up a clergyman (a Buddhist clergy)... as a reaction to this the monks have "threatened" they will stop taking alms from them unless they apologise!!! (Apparently a good Buddhist must donate to the monks).
Now that's a threat.... Imagine talking to your boss...
Hi boss, I cant work on the project you are assigning me I dont like its name..
No subordinate, you have to work on this...
[Angry] Boss, if you make me work on this I will not take the 30% salary raise you are planning for me
[Sweaty and shivery] Subordinate please dont do that please no... ok ok i will change the name of the project!!!!

If life were that easy for all of us.... "threaten to stop taking alms" God I cant get over it!!! I dont mean to sound offensive or anything but havent these Monks heard of "Beggars cant be choosers" I am not saying they are beggars; they are not and i am not justifying beating up a clergyman... not saying it is allowed... it is as wrong as beating up any person on the street... in my opinion... all men (and women ;-) ) are equal... we just make a big deal of the so called "men of God" but had those monks really been that great wouldn't they have said something to the effect of "Lord forgive them they dont know what they are doing" rather than THREATEN the people and ask for an apology... why would it even matter to them... had they asked for better medical care for the beaten up monk it would have made more sense!!!

I cant get over "we will stop taking alms"... how very convenient a threat and those guys must be so sure of their alms not stopping!!!! Waao!! I am almost jealous of these guys... they have such a convenient life!!!
I know their lives might not be all fun.. but arent they supposed to be following that path because they really want to... and didnt Mark Twain say (in Tom whitewashes the fence - adventures of tom sawyer- one of my all time fav short stories) work is different from fun only because one is what you have to do and other is what you want to do that is why climbing Mt. Everest is fun but doing needle work is work....

Turning 25

The 25th Post... and rules(???) dictate it has to be special....here it goes*:













~Jeeyo

*taking a rain cheque for now... cant think about something "special enough"

amount of information

The amount of information in the world is amazing.... you pick up a newspaper (or the news-site if u so please) and there will be something which might just tease your brain cells... may be some place is mentioned which you have heard about have an idea where it is but not sure what its claim to fame is... you go and search for this place ( i was searching for Macau)... then while reading about this place you come across something else... may be something you know quite a lot about but then again you think of a particular why ( for me it was the sentence " The Roman Catholic church sent some of its greatest missionaries to continue the work of St Francis Xavier, (who died nearby after making many converts in Japan)" and i wondered why are Christians so much into converting everyone to their faith... or is it true for all religions). Then you search for that topic or think after i finish reading this i will read that... so on and so forth you keep on jumping from one topic to another; sometimes very very feebly linked to one another. and you ask yourself do i know anything at all? considering the amount of information in the world.. OK leave the world just Internet may be... the amount i know is zilch... whereas on the other hand if i don't compare it with the total information i do know quite a lot... for starters i know what 2+2 is; i know who wrote "Harry Potter(1 to 7)"; i know how to spell "friend"... i know the origin of the phrase "Dry Run" (so what if i came to know about it only yesterday!) and this is not even a significant percentage of all i know...
If some day i am able to know even 1% of the things to know in this world wouldn't it be great?? i would practically be a know all!!! just by knowing 1 % of the things....
On second thoughts may be it wouldn't be that great after all.... may be i would be so clustered with Information.... so interested in just gathering facts that i will forget why in the first place i gathered that fact... like for example i know what 2 + 2 is because it helps me when i buy stuff at the local super market... i know who wrote Harry Potter may be because i read all of those books and it would help me if i need to search for it in a library... i don't know why i know how to spell friend... even if i spelled it freind it wouldn't matter.. would it...
moral of the story i already know more than i need to know... so why bother ;-)

All said and done its still fun to read arbit stuff in office when there's is zero pending work!!