I can describe chocolate bar of my dreams… Does it mean dream chocolate bar?
So it is a huge disc, not a bar, with a hole like the one that fits into the upright stub of a gigantic turn-table. And then it rotates like a music disc, with men and women attempting to dance on this rotating chocolate disc and their feet getting stuck in the gooey chocolate and then they find themselves falling into the chocolate, and licking it instead of getting up on their feet to dance…
Even going by the titles of the jobs I’ve had, I can list quite a few. But that’s the problem. It is so so so boring to recall each of those titles. And then as if my listing the job titles shall make you understand what I’d be talking about?
Let me just say, for the last 13 years, the job has been to survive and offer sterling earrings with the hope of looking at beautiful faces every day. Does that sound like a job?!
As part of that, I’ve had to learn photography and shoot a lot of earrings, and collect a lot of cameras. That’s been painful and entertaining all the same.
Some times questions baffle me. Or just some words in the questions.
Say, after you answer in ‘yes’ or ‘no’, what is even left to say? Is the question answered? It may feel like the question is answered but it doesn’t feel like one has answered it well enough. No?
Imagine these questions instead:
How do you practice religion?
How far do you practice religion?
How deeply do you practice religion?
Is there something called non-religion?
Can a non-religion be practiced?
Is it possible to not practice a religion?
O, thank you. Enough of this. It is just a blogging question. What are you talking about. 4:25am and the crows and cuckoo’s are awake. I can hear their calls. I could hear the crows even at 2:30am actually.
At 4:30, deep into the night, just before I can call it a morning, I feel the urge to write a few things down in the notebook and I am missing my fountain pen(s).
Ballpoint pens, you see, run out of control and even make the fingers slide and slip and roll out of control on the paper.
I am making another attempt to get my Pants Project off the ground, in commercial terms, especially in the Indian context. That would surely be one thing, the pattern, the cut, the silhouette, the philosophy in all of it, I would like to believe behind. Is that good enough?
Wait, there are some more projects I am working on. Some success would make me leave those as well as legacies. I will keep you posted.
The easiest way to do this is, maintain a village distance between your home and your office. I have maintained this and it has helped stay very mobile and fluid when matters need to be handled.
That said, I find it absurd to think of balance in such matters. As if, the two are separate.
There are phases when work demands a lot from you, and then there are phases when home demands a lot. And when you are in the zone you want to devote a lot of yourself to work instead of thinking of ‘balance’.
Not experimenting, not exploring, that makes me nervous.
Not trying new approaches, that makes me nervous.
Misinterpretation makes me nervous.
The thought that the political party that screwed Indians for 6 decades, now under the leadership of a rank dumb leader, may even have a chance come back to power, that makes me nervous.
Let’s say I really can see myself in 10 years; it is quite an ability.
Once you see yourself that way, can you unsee how you have seen yourself? I have my doubts.
Once you see yourself that way, wouldn’t you repeat seeing yourself that way every other day, perhaps every day?
And then after this seeing, wouldn’t it make matters funny for you?
I do not have this ability. Thankfully.
In fact, seeing oneself in future could as well be a horror of some sort.
May be, I see myself doing the same pull-ups and sprinting the same 200 metres, with some more whiteness in my hair.
It has taken me so much time trying to find a manufacturer to launch a line of my pants, and I am still not there yet. In 10 years, I would make a million customers buy these pants I guess. Is this called seeing myself?
Typically it is found on bookshelves of marketing and advertising professionals. But it concerns itself with much more than just marketing or advertising. It is so wittily written that you may want to finish it in one sitting.
It is a strategy book unlike any other. If you are starting a start-up, and if you are looking to improve your chances of success as a start-up, this is a must read.
Pick up the mobile phone. Check some stupid notifications.
Prepare coffee.
While sipping coffee, read something on Kindle. Or the newspaper. Intersperse the reading with some staring out of the window. Wonder about the silly words in the ads or the silly headlines.
Wonder if I can step out for a run… Or if I can do some movements with weights.
If the wonder-phase is affirmative, step out sooner than later.
If the wonder-phase is not affirmative, prepare for recording a short video which would start with my beautiful look.
Trick question. The question makes me think as if ‘aspects’ = genes. A collection of genes coming together to make one what one is, a collection of aspects coming together to make one unique.
An extended enthusiasm, stretching over a life time, for anything that he/she does, I sense that makes a person unique.
Are you enthusiastic about your sadness? Do you feel it with enthusiasm? Can you express it enthusiastically? Do you recognize this type of enthusiasm? That makes a person unique.
Most people don’t understand most of the things, myself included. Even so, I observe this silly thing.
With a Youtube-like storage system, video recordings can be stored without paying a penny. Looked theoretically, every moment is now recordable as video.
Videos can often be recordings of the most frivolous moments and labelled content-creation, simply because there is a storage system like Youtube, or your iPhone storage. Check the latest ad for iPhone, DON’T LET ME GO.
And of course, there are other storage systems like 1 TB SD cards. Micro SD cards too I guess.
Now when your 1 TB card fills, how do you run through the files to pick the right ones? Or how do you go to those moments which felt right and leave out others which didn’t? Or do you just let it all be and not bother much? Upload’em them all for your God? Amass the SD cards that can be gifted to the future generations?
Recording is merely a reflex-tap of a button on the mobile phone but these matters suck attention and time, and force one to take very cumbersome, sometimes stressful decisions.
In this question, I assume that technology refers to a particular set of things including internet, software, hardware, ‘digital’, data, analytics, and stuff like that.
I don’t think I have a good grasp of what my job was earlier and what it is right now. But I am pretty sure that many things have changed anyway.
For example, I think more about durability of storage of data whenever digital storage is in question. I have devoted a lot of hours, a lot of hours, no exaggeration, to organize my digital files and ensure smooth retrievability; while I found some cool techniques for certain types of files, it has been a mighty struggle. Now I don’t bother as much. I let things be for as long as possible.
In any case, digital objects have overwhelmed. Every picture, every word file, every excel file, every long video, every new version sucks. Overwhelming number of objects to handle.
Interaction and involvement with technology has exaggerated the realization that spending time indoors, in air-conditioning, sitting in the front of the screen for long hours, thinking of working using laptops, these are injurious to health, just as smoking may be. I enjoy my sleeping more, I value every moment of moving my body a little more and that helps me do my job alright so far.
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