Corporate Drudgery

(corporate humor) Got nothing to do? Call up a meeting!!

I was relieved that I did not have vermillioned ears or throat, the aftermaths of Holi. Although, by the records, I have never really enjoyed the festival firsthand (I meant all those colors and drenchings look cool on TV).

Not that I had much time to indulge in reveries. Insurmountable loads of work, undefined by the office hours...

(suddenly) Why do we wear ties? Now that has got to be a vestigeal apparel. It's basically a strip of eyecatching silk pointing towards your groin but tied around your neck that suspiciously is a euphemistic representation of a hangman's noose. Coincidence? Well, lets venture to differ, shall we? Ties, Cufflinks, Suspenders, Pants... think of the literal meanings...

Actually, I like my work- but I tend to throw off from the mouth when I feel stressed.

I got an email from a reader!!

Who says I cannot write more than one blog per day?

I just got an email from a Mr. Aalok. He says:

"Milan, let me take the liberty to assess your writing style. Your writing amuses me through and through. Also, you have cleverly put in clever puns in your sentences that normally passes the reader's first eye.

On the flip side, your writings are worthless in the sense that they are written without any apparent reason. So it will not serve any purpose. Like, I come across many Nepali blogs that inform, and many that entertain. I do not know where yours lie.

So basically, you suck. But in such a silly way that it entertains me."
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Now, if you say "really?!", you know what my answer would be: "Of course not..."

Lying through your teeth

You know a fly has farted when you see it flying in a straight line...
-George Carlin

The most achieved liars are the raconteurs of bedtime stories and fantasy, like C.S. Lewis (Alice in Wonderland, Narnia Chronicles), J. K. Rowling, and the fabricators of religion, cinderella story, red riding hood, etc.

Lying harmlessly can be used as an amusement tool, if you really think about it. I sometimes employ prevarications and fabrications to amuse myself. It is fun making up something that sounds too weird to be true. But the catch is that it should only be a bit weird. And you have to be specific about it. It is like you are creating an event that might as well have happened, but you need to sprinkle some odd facts to make the listeners prick their ears yourway.

Like, you can say:

1. "you know, those music bands that play those Hindi movie songs in weddings. They inherently have this intense competition. Normally, one guy from some band company will sit down and translate the catchy songs into the band's notation. That notation script is so valuable that he does not normally let others see it. Often, ugly scuffles break out when somebody from another band company is caught stealing/plagiarizing the original notation."

2. "Chhinnze Tongg Maah! means I want to be your scrumptious petal in Vietnamese."

3. Long time ago, there was this divine being who hooked up with a talking and flying monkey with a handy tail and some odd animals, who helped make a floating rocky bridge to win back his love of life from a dude with 10 heads who had a golden kingdom on an island.

I consider myself an accomplished liar (of harmless type). After my delivery, I invariably see the awed expression. And a statement "really?!", after which I promptly reply, "Of course not...".

Too Weird Lies
Although, I also make up absurd events, making the listener know for sure it's a straight lie as soon as I say it.
But with the aim being to watch how he/she takes in and tries to digest the fabricated morsel. I would say something like:

1. "you know, I have found out how to communicate with the dogs."

2. "Once, immediately after watching Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone, I suddenly had this unexplained urge to concentrate on my room's door and run into it; the next thing i realized was that I was on the other side of it."

The listeners sometimes give me an 'you never change', or 'as if that can happen' look. But rarely, they find it laughing funny. Even more rarely, it backfires- the listener actually believes it. I think that was when I said "Once, I jumped from the roof of my house, and landed on the concrete completely intact." Tara you never know whether that (as in, somebody believing) actually happened!

;)

Dreams, Science, and Rationalizations

I used to have a recurring dream where I would bite on a match, and it would explode, shattering my molars to smithreens and making a sound like crashing glass. It would be so vivid that i could almost smell sulphur. However, there would not be, of course, any pain.

Dreams are welcome in that sense. Anything can happen, but there would be no consequences (except for some psychic who would say you certainly peed on your bed if you dreamt a river). Much like movies, but better- since there is no possibility of previews or predictability- adding to suspense.

And dreams are in that mental realm where none of the physical laws make much sense. You could be coming out of your room and suddenly enter the class of your most dreaded teacher. Maybe they are relaxing in that sense.

To further sophize on Phil, I think I am going to say that dreams are created by uncertainties in the mental equations, that they are the wastes of some mental arithelogic, the entropy of mental events. Or it is most definitely an unconscious attempt by (mammals ?) to rationalize things in the environment. Religion is also another unconscious attempt at rationalization, which, to beat you with the Obvious stick, is markedly different in characteristics from a dream.

And even if you ask me the chicken-or-the-egg question "then why did they attempt to do so?", I still would have the answer, borrowing from some biological scientists (Darwin?). The universe is full of random occurrences, some of which, over the long long time, was 'chosen' by the nature to persist because they were fitter than the others that were less fit to persist. In the end, Earth is now full of objects that are, if you think, basically just highly ordered arrangement of atoms and molecules. It's all a question of probability. It's like saying a human being is much much less
probable order of molecules than, say, a lump of rock; but the human is also much much more adaptive to surroundings than the rock. Kapisce?

And speaking of scientists, why is it that the most famous have names that sound so cool, but would sound equally ridiculous if you have a friend with that name? Ever heard of the name Einstein Pradhan or Gallelio Shrestha? (I rest my case)