Heaven is a place on earth!!!

Main Entry: heav·en

a : the dwelling place of the Deity and the blessed dead

b: a spiritual state of everlasting communion with God



Thats what heaven means according to the websters online dictionary.

Funny thing is that the more people I meet the more meanings i get for the word. Its funny how heaven differs for each individual. Some talk about it in metaphysical terms, some believe that its earthly; heck i even have a friend who finds his evening nap as heaven. To clear out all ambiguities heaven is most definitely the place where you are the most comfortable, where you are at peace with yourself and its where supposedly all your wishes come true.

(I guess i ruined it with the last part of that sentence)

What i am actually trying to say is that i believe that you dont necessarily need to turn up to the sky to look for heaven, neither do you have to die to reach that holy place. I believe that if we just look around and start enjoying life and everything in it; the task wont be so difficult. It can be your room, the toilet(hey everyone feels relaed in the loo; dont laugh!!!!!), a long drive in your car or whatever. It really irritates me how our so called spiritual gurus, pundits etc. etc. think that heaven is the resting place of all those ppl who have never sinned in their lives. Till date i have not met anyone who has not done anything wrong in his/ her life. Like they say to err is human.

I know you'll find my idea of heaven hillarious and too simple, but what the heck........

Heaven for me, believe it or not is spending the entire morning sitting on my porch with my dog by my side, reading a book; while its raining. And these last couple of days its been raining day in and day out; so technically im experiencing heaven every single day...........Did you know that rain is the only season which has been used in every language and culture to describe both something happy and sad at the same time.

I guess if we really simplify our ideas and beliefs life wont seem as BITCHY as i hear from most of my friends. Maybe, and i stress again maybe mankind will make earth as good as heaven; maybe we'll get over all the fighting; maybe we'll stop blaming ourselves and others; maybe all the hatred, cruelty and anger will just vanish........maybe...........

@g@memnon

aka ABIN

P.s. i started writing this post about a week before so its a lil outdated as far as the description of rainy days go.

"We The People"; A show more about the celebrities and less about the people!!!!

Sup people


(well hello to all the people who've at least seen my tiny blog!!!!)


Nothing new going on except the fact that the vit ppl are playing around with my VIT result.......


Forget that, i got something interesting to share. This weekend i was invited by NDTV(no doubtedly the third best news channel ever; first position goes to BBC and second to Times Now)


for their weekend talk show "We The People" along with my mum and my aunt. Oh i got the invitation coz one of my friends is doing an internship with the NDTV guys . Anyways my mum and i were excited like anything coz we've been like loyal followers of the show and we had the idea that this was one of those shows where you could actually speak out..........and the fact that we would be sharing our views with Barkha Dutt (an amazing journalist and anchor who is also very very fake;read on to know why) was thrilling.


Anyways the telephone correspondents asked us a couple of questions on our views about the woman's reservation bill (thats what the show was about:-"Should there be more women in parliament?") to know whether we were ahem...."intellectually capable" for discussion.


On sunday may 11 we dressed up in our best clothes and got ready to go to some weird Archana complex in GK-1 which is also a studio for the NDTV ppl. Man were we pumped to discuss the topic and there was a verbal catfight btw my mum and my dad coz they had different opinions about male dominance, Darwins law of Natural selection(weird this came in though) and the responsibility of women and men in the world!!!!!!


The shooting was supposed to start at around 4:30 but they got all the audience seated by 5:00 , then we had to wait for the guests to arrive, their microphones to be adjusted, lightings to be made perfect, seating arrangements to be changed, cameras to be ready, the anchors makeup....THE WORKS. It was like we were these nursery children who had come to the zoo and had to watch the animals(read:celebrities) from very far and had to wait for an eternity.


The panel consisted of Lord Meghnath Desai(he needs a hair stylist badly!!), Jug Suraiya(total respect to this dude), some Farzan lady(chief editor of chowk.com; wazzat???), Najma Heptullah(spelling's wrong i guess but she is one of the nicest ladies i have ever met),Dolly Thakur(oh man is she confident) and some other ppl whose names i dont remember but who belonged to the well "S.A.I.B.C.C. or SOCIALLY AWARE INTELLECTUALLY BRILLIANT CELEBRITY CLUB". Oh ya last but definitely not the least there was Shabana Azmi(social activist, politician, actor and ya probably the head of S.A.I.B.C.C.). You know what when she came in she did a Deepika Padukone style wave to the crowd like in the movie OSO(I didnt see the movie it was in the song "Aankhon mein teri....."), you know the one when the whole world gets into slow motion mode and then the celebrities gentle hand goes up and it waves to the masses, the fans; and its replied with ooohs and aahs and applause.WHAT RUBBISH!!!!I never liked her and trust me my opinion of her went even lower after the show. When she arrived there were like these crazy ladies who took out their handkerchief for an autograph(can you believe it a handkerchief, YUCK!!!!). Crap! i forgot to mention the audience was taken into the studio back door entrance which was a roller coaster ride, with confusing sets of stairs, plaster peeling off the walls, construction work going on, sawdust in the air. The guests however were taken via the main entrance. Talk about discrimination!the route which we took was kinda hazardous for the senior citizens in the audience.......

The show started and it didnt take me time to realise towards which side the scale was tipped. It was all about how men had dominated the political scenario for decades and how it was time to change. The show started with Shabana Azmis comments and ironically enough even ended with her comments. The entire one hour program just revolved around the opinions of the celebrities. The audience was told to ask only valid and interesting questions and not to create a ruckus by speaking out of turn. I did raise my hand a couple of times but i was constantly overshadowed by the shouts of other audience members to grab Barkha's attention. So i quitely crept back into my shell.

Anyone who spoke against reservations but for inclusion of women in the parliament(including myself) was glared at with an expression saying "OMG! How Dare You???". All the views expressed were just a reflection of a minority of the indian population. Even Barkha who supposedly was not supposed to take sides was heavily for reservations. Someone should give the woman an academy award for her fake smiles and irritating facial expressions which used to disappear after the camera was switched off. Any sort of valid point against reservations was met by booos and blank stares by the celebs.

The celebrities with their bloated up brains and even bigger egos (except Nejma Heptullah and Jug Suraiya) kept going on and on and on about how reservations were sooo necessary. i mean i fail to understand why ppl think about such humongous ideas such as reservations for women and fail to look at the grass root level problems. What about stopping female foeticide, giving women the basic respect they deserve, changing the attitude of us men; towards women!!! Not even once during the hour long show were the difficulties faced by a woman living in a backward family discussed!!! Jug Suraiya said that if we took this debate to a rural level the entire opinions, views and even the output of the discussion would change. And frankly that is the truth!!!

So the show ended and the AUTOGRAPH session began again!! I mean why cant people accept celebs for who they are and not treat them like demi-gods?? Ppl even went to the extent of taking out their 1.3 cmegapixel camera phones to take low resolution pics of themselves with the stars. Seriously these kinda ppl need to GET A LIFE!!!! This was one of the worst debates i had seen or been to. No wonder why we always fret about not getting "quality" television.

While we were exiting the complex Madame Azmi waved at me and my mom from her shiny red car and put up a very fake smile. I didnt wave back; i just gave her one of my irritating grins.
I never really liked the lady and after this show I hate her. Why you may ask; its coz she is extemely bossy and very dominating. She expects the entire world to bow down to her and salute her views. SICK.

During the telecast of the show i had expected the camera to at least capture a glimpse of my face. All that was shown was a very bad shot of my lips and not even my face....lol. I guess that was my nano second of fame! Seriously I had to tell my dad to look at the extreme bottom right corner just to see a glimpse of my white t shirt...hehe

Ironically i am listening to the song "Lifestyles of the rich and famous" by Good Charlotte while ending this post.



Peace Out
@g@memnon

Sorry for making this post extremely boring and long!!!!