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Digging deep Down Under ;)!

Every morning I log on to news sites and the news is about some Indian getting beaten in Melbourne, Australia. 'Times of India' screams out that it was racist and 'The Age- australia' screams out that motive is not racist. Gives me the great feeling of being at the center of a war field.

                All the news are pretty much the same, some Indian student is beaten up at insane hours. But this one is different – “Australian Team will not be allowed to play in Maharashtra”- Times of India.

"We will not allow kangaroo cricketers to play in Mumbai and Maharashtra, till the attacks are stopped on Indians,” he announced in Saamna -- Shiv Sena’s mouthpiece.

                So Mr Sr.T read the news one day in the morning and then felt patriotically offended that his fellow countrymen- importantly mostly North Indian(Whom I think he is trying to befriend by this move to gain some ground against Mr Jr T)- are being thrashed mercilessly in foreign land.

Thank god he does not take the whole newspaper to his heart – else the headlines will start reading like :

 “Shootout on US college campus hurts indian – we will not export software to US from Maharashtra”

“Indian student commits suicide after being ragged in Indian college -  Indian team will not play in Maharashtra”

“Indian Woman raped in Mumbai – we will not allow MEN in Maharashtra”

There is one interesting thing though – there are almost as many Sri Lankans and Pakistanis as Indians in Melbourne – not very often that we are getting the news about Sri Lankan or Pakistani attacked in Oz. Wondering how the attackers differentiate ;).

Am not ruling out the possibility of the attacks being racist and truly appreciate the fact that the media is so concerned – but it worries me why we are not equally angry about whats happening inside. Imagine the number of murders, stabbings, rapes, domestic violence etc. is happening in India just as you read this. Forget India – just imagine Mumbai – no one even knows and its not a big deal to call of cricket matches. May be because the TRP has relatively been squeezed out of them.

Ahead is some serious stuff. Give up if you are just reading for fun. But if you want to know my take on what is happening- read on :

I don’t deny the fact that the attacks may be racist. Nobody knows. But it is a fact that even local crimes are happening against local aussie and other people as well. I know that because it gets covered in the local newspapers here. Its just like every big city having its problems with crime. Its only fault is that it has been accommodating to immigrants, who I think, have much more than outnumbered the locals, and are obviously going to be part of everything that goes on including the crime. Media is not doing too well as I guess the criminals now have an incentive to attack Indians- they know they will be in news.

                Actually racism is more of a social issue rather than a crime- so it is even harder for the government to deal with it. How can you change the perspective of a person ? It is one of those things that only God(If you believe or call truth or whatever) can fix out while balancing out your karmas. Well I don’t know how much of the truth I personally know, what I can tell you is just what I experience :

I stay In Melbourne. My housemates are aussies and one of the sweetest people I know. My housemate left her pets(whom she considers her children ;)) with me for 15 days when she was on vacation. I hang out at the beach with friends who are aussie, Chinese and French. I attend parties, chat at coffee bars, work out at swim at recreation center, spend time in local library, and attend business and social meetups with various groups that have around 5% Indians. Everyone including the lady at the grocery store to people whom I cross on road to my diving instructor to people whom I talk business with greet me with a smile and ‘hey how you doing today’. I have seen almost the whole of Melbourne and around. And in all this – I have not once come across an incident where I have been looked down upon because of the color of my skin. May be I’ve gotten lucky.

But hey – the TRP rating is in the ‘breaking news’ – not in rational solutions or deciphering  of the truth !

The pace of technology !

                    1977 !! 80MB =$12000 !















                                                                                                                2009 !! approx 8000MB = $12

Can you imagine how a computer will look like in 2030 or what a mobile phone will cost like ;) !!

The Avatar Plug In !

Avatar is a mind blowing movie. Along with the thrilling 3D effects and crazy animations, it has one amazing concept – every Na'vi (a blue-skinned neolithic species of sapient humanoids with feline characteristics!! ;) -> basically the blue creatures) have an amazing illuminated string like ‘plug-in’ at the end of their plait – which can be plugged into other things like the horse or the ‘tree of voices’ and you can then feel and know the other thing ! Wow – just wish we had something like this today – imagine how the world and people would transform –

The Avatar Software Engineer – Software developers can now directly plug into customers and get their requirements precisely and code – just imagine – you are writing the exact code that the customer wants ! No more leaking of data through managers, no more change requests, no more assuming and coding !

The avatar boyfriend – The avatar boyfriend can now plug into his girlfriend while she is asleep and know what she wants on valentine’s day. Days of efforts saved – i.e. if you are able to know what she wants rather than just seeing her running around trees with with Shahid Kapoor in her dreams ;).

The avatar police can now plug into goons and terrorists and know the truth and would miss all the fun of torturing innocent people.

The Avatar students can now say with authority that their professors don’t know what they are saying ;).

Whats more, plug into your dog and know what are his shitting times – the house is clean!

The Avatar Gadget – Google would launch G-Avatar : A hand held device in which you plug in- and just think what you want to search- it can search out and download all results in your memory.. oops. Brain ;).

Politicians can be plugged in publicly and prosecuted, Call center employees can plug into their phones and control the minds of their customers to fix problems onsite.

And the last one – The Avatar Manager – Extinct ! If developers and designers get everything that the customers want- why managers ;).

The Best of 2010 ;) !

          Everyone is posting the best of 2009. So I am sure everyone is going to know everything anyways. So this is my blog post that I would love to publish on 31^st December 2010 ;).

World :

India has successfully turned all the nuclear guns of Pakistan towards Nepal. (Why Nepal ?.. well.hhmm... who cares ;)) and Pakistan has finally ceased to exist in spite of all the money given by US and is no more officially recognized as a country.

Obama has finally said – ‘Yes we did’ instead of a perpetual ‘Yes we can’. (BTW: shouldn’t new year day be named as Obama day – it’s a day where everyone hopes for the best ahead and who else can show better ‘hope’ than him.)

Copens and Hagens**  have finally shook their hands on the heroic climate deal. Climate is not going to end humanity anymore – war may though ;)

India :

Mumbai police have finally started torturing Kasab publically… and we are loving it ;).

Chandrayaan 2 has successfully planted the first mango tree on the moon and is using the detected H2O to successfully water it. ;)

In a miraculous case of self realization, Raj and MNS have resorted to peaceful satyagraha.

Swine Flu immunization reaches India and perpetually no deaths due to H1N1 in full 2010. J

Sensex closed 45 points higher today at 35,452 pts.

Gossip :

Rakhi Sawnt’s sequel reality show – ‘Rakhi ka Honeymoon’ has gone on to become the most popular reality show in the world.

Woah ! Saif was bi and had Shahid tattooed on his lower back !

We have finally found 100 waitresses who have not slept with Woods ;).

Entertainment :

AR Rehman gets Oscar for 2^nd year in a row.

Aamir Khan had delivered a mind blower that makes 3 idiots look mediocre (now that would be something ;)).

Business/Technology :

Tata has obliged to the PM’s request to reduce emissions and has launched – Tata Pico – worlds cheapest bike for Rs 1k.

Google has successfully launched Google Life – It is an application that is going to scan through all the data on your laptop, your personal diaries, bank accounts, photos, video chats with your girlfriend, your search queries, the songs that you sing while bathing and pass it through the google black box to give out relevant Ads of what you should buy in order to lead a better life.

Facebook’s population that exceeded that of Chinas.

Windows 7 consistently sucks less than Vista.

Completely ‘working’ GPS active in the whole of India.

Sports :

Commonwealth Games 2010 were the best commonwealth Games hosted – ever. J(well atleast grant me a wish to be able to publish – Woah – nothing actually went wrong in the Commonwealth Games 2010 in Delhi ;) )

Sachin Completes 21 years and sets the record for the highest number of records anyone has broken and set in any sport.

India retains No. 1 in Tests and also in ODI’s.

Cheers !

Rahul

31 dec 2010. ;)

Also – check out this cool site to be used for the new year – http://www.futureme.org/. It lets you email to a future you ;). May seem a bit silly, but actually pretty cool to email a 30 or 40 year old you asking – hey man –  did you finally get the Ferrari ;).

Oh and ya – feel free to list down something that you feel would be great to have in news on 31^st dec 2010. HAPPY NEW YEAR ;) !

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