It is good (almost) every time when someone points out how you've been a jerk to them and that you managed to offend them, knowingly or unknowingly.
If you did it intentionally - congratulations, it just got acknowledged. Or, less commonly, if it was a mistake, still better. You can now take it as a fresh idea and try (or avoid, if your hate rating for the subject is much lower than the average value) it on others.
Messing with someone unintentionally gives a stronger impact.

Sadism

All my actions result in hurting somebody. Obviously. Since I can not make everyone happy at the same time. Perhaps I don't want to either! I am a sadist. At least a bunch of them really bring one out of me and hurting them makes me happy. Or really - does it? Lets leave that for another time.
I just have to stay focused, and, without getting carried away, not miss any chance in where I can extract that pleasure. :-)

One Point Compactification.!?

I was in Chidambaram last week. This place is 240 Km’s from Chennai, further down south in Tamil Nadu. I was there for a 4 day visit. Had to go through an orientation about a land rig.
Passing through Chennai reminded me of the time I had spent there till four months back. Back then, I was deeply unimpressed by the job and the place and I had to move on. North Indians don't like Chennai because there are not too many places to hang around, and due to different local language, they can not talk easily with people. These are not the reasons why I disliked it, though. (And no, I am not trying to be politically correct here).

While in Mumbai, I am put up in Jogeshwari. My office is in Mhape. It takes ~2 hours of road journey either way. I take this road that goes right in front of IIT Powai. Reminds me so strongly of the summer 2005, I was staying here doing my so called internship. Again, my office was 2 hours ride from here. Things have changed over the years but I still see the same road, same entrance as it was back then. I am too lazy to go in to check the details and I am not too crazy about it either.

This may not seem as a big deal because, as many would say, the whole world is a small place; nevertheless it gave me a kick when I was there at the Chennai airport.

Both the instances that I mentioned above, remind me of this example a friend used to cite while teaching the ‘One Point Compactification’ theory in topology: we can (theoretically) combine the two infinities of the real line to get its mapping on a circle . Similarly, life, in spite of apparently moving forward, brings up things that we think we have left behind already.
It scares me to think what could happen if the space and time are not as passive as we assume them to be; because isn't it too much of a coincidence for (apparently) random and disconnected events to fall so often so well - correlated.

It so damn nearly kills me when people listen to modern Bollywood and Hindi pop and all that crap. It really does. I do like listening to this song called echoes, though. Echoes is a pink Floyd song. Big deal. I like to listen to it at night when every damn bas****d is sleeping. I also like to listen to this in the mornings because there is this line which says something about that time and all that. Basically I am a big liker of all of Floyd music. You should listen to it too. Theres' is the kind of music you will feel like listening to all the time. Believe me I am not kidding. Usually I don't kid anyway. It's just that the people who think they are funny while cracking useless jokes and all and then themselves laughing like hyenas on those stupid jokes, that only morons could find funny, gives me a pain in the #r$*. Sometimes I feel sorry for those jerks. I don't care too much about them though. In fact I don't care about too many people anyway. I am very careless in that respect.


Tried to use the writing style of J. D. Salinger in Catcher in the Rye. Read it if you haven't still.