So....what's the point anyway??

I find myself thinking along these lines rather often. "So...what's the point anyway??"

No, seriously...what is the point? Of everything. Work, life..etc etc. Whats the point?

This is possibly going to be by far the most random blog post i have ever written because very honestly i have no idea what the point of it is!! But i feel the need to write it down nevertheless at this point...so i will. Afterall whats the point of not writing it either!!

So where's all this coming from?? Well, I'm not sure of that either!

But don't you go into this phase in life when you are not really sure where life is headed? What are you really doing? and more importantly...why are you doing it? Sometimes you just can't see the bigger picture...in fact very often you can't see the bigger picture! (And this is not just because i can't appreciate art!) Sometimes i seriously doubt if there even is a bigger picture! I really do think it is an elaborate hoax...this "Bigger Picture" crap. You mean i work all my life to teach myself to appreciate the bigger picture without really being able to appreciate the smaller aspects? Seriously, how can you really appreciate the smaller aspects in their right context till you know the bigger picture?? And by the time you realise the bigger picture, you don't really remember the smaller aspects to appreciate them!!!

Like for example you slog your ass off through school and college and then when you are 25 nobody really gives a damn how much you scored!!(Well, me being the quintessential south Indian nerd did slog my ass off. Did get told how my life would have no meaning unless i scored 90 odd percentage and how the world would implode and life as we know it would cease to exist if i didn't get into engineering....so yes...i did slog! If you didn't...well...good on you! But you don't know how difficult life can be..so there!!!) So things that suddenly seem Oh so important and take up a cart load of your time will probably mean a little less than nothing very soon. Then you turn back and say...."So...what was the point of all that anyway??"

I do feel i am wasting away my life in a lot of ways without really realising it. When i got up on august 5 last year i suddenly realised that i was 24 and had just sleep walked through the last 16 odd years!!(i say 16 because i am assuming that its alright to bawl, crawl and in general have no idea about life for the first 8...so if you already had your life planned out by the time you were 6...then woo hoo!!good on you!!) Don't get me wrong, i'm not regretting anything i have done in this time cos it all has made me into the person i am now (Which i am very proud of by the way) but somehow it all feels....for the lack of a better word...pointless...in some sense atleast! There are so many things i didn't know of, didn't experience, didn't think of and so on and so forth which i look back on and wonder ...what if.....

It would probably have resulted in me having a total different life right now. Different approach, different mentality, different everything....and then a different destination! So you see....since i didn't have any idea of the bigger picture then...i did what i had to, to survive in the dog eat dog world and then realised that i was a dog eating dogs thinking they tasted like chicken!! (not the best analogy...but you get it!). So yeah....while we could read a book to know why bread always falls with the buttered side down...what's the point??

Whew!! What a week!!

So, we finally have a go ahead on the launch date of the new channel. (That's WB for the uninitiated). A bit late in the day to really give us enough time, especially someone as green as me in the field...but hey!!....this means loads of work...woo hoo!!(Well not really...but woo hooish nevertheless)

But before i get distracted by work stuff....let me focus on stuff that is actually important.

Manchester United 3 - 0 Chelsea

How good that does sound?? Did United beat chelsea?? hell no!! 1 - 0 would have been a beating. 2 - 0 a sound beating...but this?..This was a thrashing of the royal kind! And the best part is that United never got out of second gear!!! A lot of players i have not been too impressed by this season really came forth here. Giggsy after so many glorious years in service of the club was starting to fade away this season but against Chelsea he really shone! The kind of command and desire he showed in mid field would have put the so called mid field generals of Chelsea like Ballack, Deco and Lampard to shame! Chelsea's 3 man midfield was in the back pocket of United's 35 year old winger turned midfielder!!
So Ronaldo didn't really live upto his billing as the best player in Europe and the top scorer last season was not even 20% of what he could be, but in a wonderful win like this, all is forgotten. (He also won the World Player of The Year a few days later....so yeah...one more trophy!)
Rooney was as usual all over the place playing like a man possessed and his role in United's creative but dis allowed goal was splendid. The corner routine to result in that goal was a piece of creative brilliance...sadly though the refree's assistant, was clueless about the rules and ruled the goal out! a real shame!

Anyway...coming back to the original point...i returned to the week with renewed vigour after seeing the events of the weekend unfold and was promptly greeted with more work than i could handle. Earlier, when i had been relatively freerer, i had wished that i had more work to do than i had time for rather than waste my oh-so-precious time. (But then again...its not like i knew what i would rather do than waste my time...so it's kind of a pointless point...if you know what i mean!) Whoever said, "Be careful what you wish for..." was probably the smartest person around! Within a day i was so swamped in work i had no clue when the day was starting and ending. I was coming home just to hit the sack and get back up on time for office the next day!

Nevertheless, i still managed to sneak in some time to watch Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. Two classic movies which really got me thinking that movies are no longer of the same vein as these truly funny earlier ones. Even Sting had a sense of humour in Lock, Stock...
Bill and Ted...had a very young Keanu Reeves and its hard to imagine this scrawny, dumbass kid playing the lead in Speed and Matrix!! How times change!! I have then of course very religiously downloaded the second installment of the series called Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey. Plan to watch it one of these days.

Apart from all this, i finally managed to finish Arctic Event which is written by James Cobb along the lines of a series created by Robert Ludlum. It was quiet a nice book. The author has taken a lot of literary licenses to highten the suspense and make the book interesting and immensely likable, but then that is expected. Inspite of this, the book is good and quiet a page turner. (That i took a week to finish is no indication of this, i know. But really, its good!) However i feel sorry for James Cobb. The guy writes the book, but his name gets mentioned in much smaller text than Ludlum's name, cos ludlum is the bigger guy. Unfair, don't you think??? Marketers suck!

Anyways that's it for today. My foray back into blogging after i don't know how many days, months, years has not been so bad, hope it continues! Anyway so till next time....as Bill and Ted said...."Be Excellent to each other and PARTY ON DUDES!!!" (Even Ab lincoln in the movie says that!! Watch it!)