Bountiful Beauty!
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I somehow feel the girls of the day in India have grown more beautiful. Don’t laugh! Look around you. If your life had spanned through a few decades you would acquiesce to my statement, at least after a bit of recapitulation. Girls have learnt the art of being graceful, delicate, exquisite and lovely even if not so naturally endowed. It is perhaps attributable to the growing awareness of aesthetics and sensuous portrayal of oneself without losing one’s individuality and values. And the quality being assertive, clear definition of one’s image coupled with college education - all these add to the grace and beauty of the fairer sex of the species!
Another aspect that has helped to add to the pleasing appearance is the keen sence of proportion, symmetry and elegance that has been embraced by the girls as their second nature. The tasteful selection of dresses, appropriate colour-sence, the hairdo, the external add-on’s, facials, avoidance of garish makeup, modest-simple-but-elegant aproach to exposition of self - all these make girls comely!
And they are so mindful of looks in all departments - not limited to what the eyes see. They are cleaner, sophisticated, informed, matter-of-fact and mindful of mannerisms and external stimuli like body odour.
The girls want to look better not merely to attract attention but as an expression of their feminine charm as part of an extended self esteem and development of personality and positive image.
They take care even to the way their feet look! They get pedicure done, select appropriate footware - mostly with a heel strap and two-part covering for the frontal part with special attention to toes. Toes. Yes. They do make certain that the toes look handsome. Skin colour nail varnish with a little bit of glow make the toes twinkle! Cracks on the heels have become the thing of the past. In fact the heel parts have begun to look polished nowadays.
And the gait carries a self assurance that comes out of a sence of assurance of the future, what with the opportunities thrown open by BPO’s and call centres! If you do not savvy what I am talking about, walk around Isphahani Centre at Chennai in the evenings!
And when they sit, they invariably take the #1 posture - as designated by Leo. F. Buscaglia - crossing the knees. That adds to the elegance in my opinion.
Add to this the ornaments, jewellery and appliques. Girls are so choosy about even an anklet (it is my pronounced opinion that girls must wear ankelts- golden is better - be it saree, salwar or pants). They sport variety of them and they know what really enhances their beauty.
That is ok about urban girlies. What about village belle-fille’s!
They are not far behind!
They too have become conscious of looking gorgeous and charming. Television and movies have brought in an awareness of how you should look!
And let me fall back upon the time-tested cliche` - a thing of beauty is joy for ever!
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Confusion, delusion and realisation!
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Here is a discourse attributed to Zen master Dogen:-
“…those who are greatly deluded about realisation are sentient beings. If you examine myriad things with a confused mind, you may suppose that your mind and nature are permanent. But when you return to where you are, it will be clear that nothing has an unchanging self. Then even myriad things become deep experiences”
Well, you savvy, or you do not?
Either way you are very much with me!
Please read my previous blog!!
Nihilism?
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Sometimes I could feel the futility of all our earthly pursuits especially when I visit old monuments like palaces and fortresses. Think of those wars, killings, schemings, intrigues, treacheries, back-stabbings, betrayals, conspiracies, Machiavellian manipulations, mutinies, coups d’état that would have been witnessed by those relics!
But pray tell me what is their relevance today? Or, did they make real sense even at those periods - all those machinations driven by transient, hedonic, self-deceiving, self-adulating and megolamaniac delusions of personal omnipotence and grandeur - all rendered meaningless by the passage of time.
But I feel hungry now - that is for real (no Maya about that)!!
Is there a virtue in poverty!
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One of the strikingly down-to-earth statements of Robert T. Kiyosaki in his bestseller Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money….. is that parents tend to brainwash their children that being poor has a virtue in it and that it is a sin to be rich! What a pity!!
In my boyhood days all the moral science books and stories invariably portrayed the poor as the very embodiment of virtues and the rich and affluent as villains of the piece, all vices personified! Another fallacy that we were fed with is that all riches are ill-gooten. It was as if poverty is the “equilibirium status” as it were, and that gathering riches in a grave sin. The stories exhorted us to lead a spartan life, sacrifice personal creature comforts (without any cause!) since the poor are God’s children! What a tomfoolery! The person who wrote such books would have sold the copy to the highest bidder and and marketed them with vigour to gather as much money as possible. It is rank hypocracy to negate the natural urges to own and enjoy. Ok, even discounting over-indulgence and hedonism, one has to possess enough to live in this manifested world. Look at the so called “seers” and “mantrics” and “tantriks” - they invariably wear spectacles to correct their vision or apply hair-dye to give a “face-lift”. They need these worldly things in order to draw a crowd to listen to them so that they can dwell at length on the virtues of renouncing attachment towards worldly pleasures!!
It is high time the children are told right things at the right formative years so that they do not end up trudging along in their life “working for money”, rather than “making money work for them”!
Let us stop existing and start living!
Collateral damage!
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In the course of internet’s war on unsolicited spam - the ultimate buccaneer of the internet (at least of the ubiquitous e-mail system), one of the most popular and useful online tools viz: e-Mail lists, is increasingly facing collateral damage!
There are already bounced messages galore, filtered out by the spam killers with ultra-paranoid settings! But it is difficult to write off the email lists so early since they play a significant role in dissemination of information especially in technology-related matters, in addition to being the only source for specific interest groups to exchange information over geographically distributed members at a very low cost, say, at $zilch!
But you can’t blame the folks who put on a clam sentinel on to their inboxes. Just look at the avalanches of spam cluttering mailboxes with penis enlargement blandishments, Viagra advertisements and XXX photos, not to speak of the bonanza from the tainted legacies of enigmatic African ex-dictators.
The alternative is RSS feeds. Already many free agregators have spawned like FastBuzz. You can get to know more about RSS feeds from this article in Sitepoint.com. This blog too is rendered in RSS format. You can aggregate it by adding the XML link provided on the right side bar (with an RSS logo).
Embrace, Extend and Exterminate!
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With the chief adversary Sun neutralized for $1.95 Billion, there is no tangible impediment to the MS juggernaut to rule over the entire cyber world, software, standards, et al!
But what goes up must come down, claim the pundits and soothsayers. Here is one such prophesy from the irresistible Bob, who predicts that suicide is the only way the empire can end!
You can read it here
Gobbledygooks!
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Jungle.com was asked a simple question – Do you still sell blank CDs? Instead of simply saying ‘No’, the company replied:
‘We are currently in the process of consolidating our product range to ensure that the products that we stock are indicative of our brand aspirations. As part of our range consolidation we have also decided to revisit our supplier list and employ a more intelligent system for stock acquisition. As a result of the above certain product lines are now unavailable through jungle.com, whilst potentially remaining available from more mainstream suppliers.’
This along with many such gems had been selected by the Plain English Campaign for Golden Bull Awards for 2003’s worst examples of gobbledygook.
Here is the pièce de résistance:
‘In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to a numbered regulation is a reference to the regulation bearing that number in these regulations and any reference in a regulation to a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph of that regulation bearing that number.’
You can have the whole list here!
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