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or what makes an embryo human??
The Mumbai High court denied an abortion to a woman, whose embryo was detected with a heart condition. I have my own personal observations to share about this.
My younger sister would tern 17 tomorrow. Even if I write “many happy returns of the day” she cant read it. She cant read anything for that matter, or see a movie or the rainbow. She is blind, congenitally. She is also autistic. Some part of her brain refused to develop, along with the rest of it. The eyes never got developed. She cant speak. And yet, she is intelligent enough. She can very well emote, and identify people and enjoy life as she sees it.
It confuses me to no end. What exactly is a human being? I am sure philosophers are dusting off their books in anticipation of a new virgin entering in their hunting grounds, but I dont want all those brainy answers. My questions are different. For example, does she have a voting right? what if he has no clue of what is democracy and why she is pressing the button, will she still vote?
I am confused.
On an unrelated note, I had to climb up 12 stories to reach my office. Of the 3 lifts in the wing, one is under repair, one is broken, and almost all of the employees of the myriad offices turn up in the same narrow window of time. The queue stretches to infinity. So I took the stairs. And immediately noticed the difference in me. The tiredness has come down drastically. The thigh muscles are still under worked, but the respiratory system has become efficient enough. Till the 9th floor, I was not even breathing heavily. Last time when I climbed up, I was panting since the 4-5th. I like my breathing exercises. Whats more, they are simple, take around 5-10 minutes… AND ARE FREEEEEEEE!!!!! I guess raw food is helping the cause too..
I am planning to buy a cordless headphone set for my sister tomorrow. She enjoys music a lot.
Take care…
are totally different topics to post on, so I am finding it difficult what to choose as todays blog topic.
I guess local trains is a miracle sent directly from heaven, just because so many people believe in god. you can read up on it at this wiki page. 6.1 million official travelers ( many people just have no clue that ticket needs to be bought to board a train, and also that the first class compartment is less crowded sometimes for a reason).
The flow of masses is unidirectional in both morning and evening time. In the morning, to reach the office by 10, I get up at 7 and I am ready by 7.45-7.50 ( actually every minute matters). I have to be on the platform before the train comes, or only viable option is the next train. From 7.30 in the morning, till about 10.30 one can see a war happening, with its casualties, on the platforms. I catch the train from the station from which it begins its route to the church gate, the last and my target station. Now while the train starts from my station, before reaching there its already full, and the vantage places are taken. That is because it halts at other stations while coming, and many people, who have the whole timetable by heart simply catch the train going in the wrong direction, and just wait.
Getting in the train is a guerrilla war, with its numerous strategies. Now it is extremely difficult to explain them in a blog, but I guess I will try my best.
One has to stand one compartment before the target compartment. That is because by the train stops completely, it is already full by the people jumping the the slowing train. So, you must remember the Olympic motto, citius altius, fortius. Jump early, in the faster train, with a higher chance of getting a good place.
Another thing is, where you want to get down ? there are rigid rules to forma queue and other wise the person violating the rules will be brutally crushed by the human mass in the compartment which moves in a chaotic rhythm.
safe places for a longer traveller are, standing near the window, or in the door, holding the front door or having ones back to the door. it is quite difficult to actually explain this.
I guess I have tried enough, and I am not making sense to myself. So I will stop!
The week was very long and tiring, al though I have slept properly last night, I can still feel the tiredness in me. This is it for today i guess.
Take care…
when I am supposed to just be lazy, and be lazy I was that day.
Nothing of notice happened on last few days, except on a personal level. Nothing I could share on a blog.
Did not exercise for quite a few days, hogged around a lot more than I should, and the fat has immediately started to show. Working out is the only feasible option it seems. I will also have to incorporate the eating raw at night habit, but my mom is impossible, so unless I take up all the preparatory part on me, its not going to get done.
I ahd a very difficult month end professionally. Most of my work over month end consists of updating the client portfolios manually. Manually because my office still has not quite understood the concept of using a software to automate such processes. So we take the data from various websites and type it in excel. It is criminally stupid, but I am too junior to fight it. All I could do till now is to automate some parts of information collection by using excel web queries. And to think I never worked on excel. Sheesh, some offices just need an engineer MBA combo I tell you. As the days will go by, I swear I will make enough changes to make the organization competitive at least at the local level. I mean, clients cant even see their own portfolio real time on the net. Every time the person handling the stuff has to pull down the information, confirm about all the transactions that have occurred from various sources and then pray to the god of portfolio updation that the portfolio is without any mistakes. How my company gets clients is a question to me. Maybe because the services and personalized attention that we provide is not matchable in the industry till now. So, luckily we are ahead of the curve.
Enough cribbing. Got to go to work and make some value add tomorrow.
Take care.
My first day as a worker in the office. My joining was on 7th april, but today was the day I actaully got to do something. The story goes like this:
There are five people in the office, the boss and four of us associates. The back office guy feels ill in the morning, decides to skip the office for the day. The marketing guy is in serious health trouble, is taken to the hospital by the roomie who is the third colleague. So its me and the boss in the office for the day.
It was fun though, not really hectic but at times I got confused. No accidents though, and the day is saved. I also attended a couple of meetings, one with a client and another with a fund manager. Good day for me in the sense that things are now moving in the direction I want them to move.
Reached home late, at about 8.30PM. Had dinner today for a change. No exercise though. Sad.
Tomorrow, I am going for three meetings, will be fun. Need to hammer out what I want to accomplish in professional and personal space for next few months. till then
Take care.
I woke up at 10 to 7. got ready to catch the 7.57 Churchgate fast. Reached Churchgate station and walked the way to the office that takes about 20-25 minutes. Had huge breakfast with Poha and Shira. The dude stands outside the building in which I work and his massive storage gets over by the time its 10. Then its office time. I skipped the normal tea at 10.30 but had one at around 12. Lunch is nice and the tiffin is provided by this company. Freaking good food, and the meny is hardly repeated. We have opted for an option where we get 8 rotis with vegetable and curry. Thats a collosal amount of yummy food we all enjoy to hog down.
The food part for the day ends here. In the afternoon another round or two of tea ( at 3.30 and at 5, if I am going to wait after that). And I left the place at about 5.30. A slow walk across the sea shore again and I reach just in time to catch the Borivli fast at 6 pm ( I dont remember exactly, I just saw the “Bo ” and that the train has not come yet, and ran to get a good place to jump in) ( got window seat too , 
you losers!!). I reach home at around 7.30 and luckily I see couple of my friends going to the neighbourhood chaiwala. So quick cutting, and we are off to play table tennis on the table bought recently. 2-3 games and the crowd increases. I am finally at home at 8.30 pm.
Few push ups and ab crunches and its time to have fruit juice. Today its chikoo milk shake and I am done for the day. time to blog and touch base with my google reader. will sleep by 12-12.30.
So, all in all, I get free time from 8 till I sleep…. pretty boring but good enough than many of my friends.
Take care.
Nice song this.
Anyways did good exercise today. PU 20+10 AC 12. My target is for 100 PU and 25 AC. The target date is 15th August.
I am a subscriber of this tiny little library couple of minutes from my place. Its actually really a shack kinda, and it has books in 3 languages. Good enough novels collection, but non fiction suckz. Anyways, picked up Paolo Coelho’s “The Pilgrimage” yesterday. Small little book, as big as two hours. As I had read The Alchemist, Zahir, 11 minutes already, so I am quite familiar with his semi mystical style. Love it actually. The book is about a pilgrimage he takes ( erm… road to santiago..) with his guide, to reclaim a sword. Let me not write the summary here. His books are to be experienced anyways, the summary will only confuse you.
So, I am in a happy mood today, reading a good book always makes me so. The work day was also good enough. Not much of a work. For anyone. Anyone with my speed at least. Few tasks in the office, and my main job profile is all about meeting people anyways. Front end, The. Pretty glam eh? meeting those richie rich people, is boring actually. I would love to meet those first gen successful entrepreneurs but, pretty sharp them owners.
Next task is to set mile stones for next three months. Personal front and professional front.
Take care.
to normal life. to routine.
Daily count PU 20 AC 10.
So my boss was out of the office to Jaipur. I had no work at all. Nothing of importance happened today in my life at least. I am more thinking of taking the leaderless place ahead by some means. For those last days, I was absorbing the culture of the place, and its slow. Very relaxed. In fact, too much relaxed to feel safe in this dog eat poodle world. I mean, for buffet’s sake, the sensex went below 14K intra day. It does no harm though. The cash keeps flowing in. People are in for a long term. Not that they have much option so as to say. Even I have started investing. I am in for a long term too. I believe in buffet, but the index funds in India are notorious in their performance. Simply put, it is independent of the index they are tracking. I know! miraculous right?
So the life goes on… Need to formulate PoAs as goes my career and personal life too. The office needs a leader to give a direction. When the students are ready, the teacher appears.
