Just some (or most, depending how you look at it 😛 ) of the lunch which I had today. Gave 2 of my friends my so called pending birthday treat today (which was about a month ago) and we went to Barbeque Nation which has some amazing food. On a side note, their washrooms have BOSE speakers! I mean what the hell? :O
Batman!
Yep, that would be my immediate if not the only topic of choice which comes for a presentation. You can check out all my posts here on Batman. Clearly that character has had a big impact (in the positive sense) in my life. Not only a big source of entertainment but everyone has something to learn. My presentation would range from the origin of the character in comic books and further in popular media throughout the years being the most iconic figure in culture, how this has had an effect on my life personally and further on everybody else.
On this, have a look at the video below on an upcoming documentary based on how much the caped crusader has meant to fans.
What are you more comfortable with — routine and planning, or laissez-faire spontaneity?
While planning is always the logical step to go about in anything, logic doesn’t always work and at times the pleasure with spontaneity is like nothing else. While I too am at ease with things going in order, in reality I actually like things just happening. But reality is there is never something ‘fully according to plan’ and ‘totally spontaneous’, it always has bit of both (in varying proportions that is).
Looks like I got to take part in this week’s/month’s first phoneography challenge in the true sense after all! Just today I got my very first smartphone, Nokia Lumia 920 and so far it’s great! I mainly got it for the camera, otherwise I don’t have much to say (or complain). Also it was great timing since I didn’t get time to take a snap earlier in the week, and there is no camera left at home as my mom went on a holiday in the south of the country and she took the only (crap) camera we have at home.
I tried to take panorama shot but well I messed it up since it was the first time and barely a few hours after I got the phone. The first 2 shots are views from right and left a little bit outside my building in my colony, and the third is outside on the main road near the game of my college.
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This will be a very short boring post (sorry!). I can’t recollect something as such because I tend to change my thinking if the reason is strong and sensible enough, as it’s pointless holding on to something if there is a better way. There are many times I’ve changed my views both negligibly small to very polar opposite, that I can’t recollect at this moment. Sure I stick to most of my thinking too but I’m always open to change, as they say change is the changeless factor of life.
– Where are you?
– I’m not finished yet.
– And you’re not finished with me.
You’re never finished with me.
This was perhaps the most powerful scene (for me) in Part 1 of 2 of the movie The Dark Knight Returns which is the animated adaptation of Frank Miller’s 1986 epic graphic novel of the same name. Not only it is the (one of the depending on your liking) greatest Batman story ever told, it’s one of the greatest graphic novel and pieces of literature ever made, and it was actually the first time Batman was taken seriously as a legendary character. It took years for several Batman veterans to finally adopt it to a movie in 2012/2013, and it sure did deliver. Definitely one of my most favourite movie/lines of all time.
While I could never do justice to it by describing that particular scene (or the book/movie) in words, you should check them out. Here we see an older Bruce Wayne all by himself who goes to find his strength and the scene shows the fact that he can never be done with being Batman with much powerful emotion yet simple dialogue. I like to think we are also never done with what we are supposed to do in/with our lives, and it just keeps going forward.
You have the choice to erase one incident from your past, as though it never happened. What would you erase and why?
I started to think all the bad things which happened in my life. Clearly too many, which also very much outnumber the good ones. Here note, I was thinking about the bad things/incidents, not a one which I would want to erase. Because despite how much I think and pin point one, thinking that was it which caused a certain chain of events and made things worse, or that one was so bad that nothing could ever compete with it, I just realized more on an important thing which I already knew – that good and bad are two sides of the same coin. It’s just a matter of when the coin flips and lands on which side.
If I was to conclude with one, I should just erase the day 26 February 21 years ago – the day I was born. That would spare all the suffering. Otherwise no matter how much I think of erasing a crappy one, there was good attached to it too. No, I’m not going to give the sweet sugarcoated ‘one day things will be better’ pep talk, things will always go wrong. There are times that I wish I could take back many times, and if it was actually possible I might change my thinking and perhaps go for it too, as I don’t hesitate to bend my ethics for the better because I never be a hypocrite. It’s about being grateful for the good, learning from the bad and moving on, or taking the (inevitable anyways) way out.
Coming to which, you should read The Shiva Trilogy by Amish Tripathi, India’s first (and best yet) literary sensation. The third book very much highlights this aspect of the trilogy, check this out which was on my birthday some weeks back.
If you could have any author – living or dead – write your biography, who would you choose?
The answer is pretty simply actually, for me it would be Walter Isaccson. He is a writer, journalist and more importantly in this case, a biographer, (and a very good one at it) which makes him the ideal candidate. Now while I might sound like a big ass for putting it that way, it can be said this is his area of expertise.
I had read his famous biographies on Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein before, and with his most recent work on Steve Job’s biography, he did get much more fame (he was already acclaimed, just that more people know him now because of it). While my favourite authors include George RR Martin, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Dan Brown, Stephen King, Khaled Hosseini, Amish Tripathi and in graphic novels/comic books Frank Miller, Alan Moore, Grant Morrison these lists go on, and he quite doesn’t come under the ‘favourite author’ list, he is great at what he does no doubt, and it would be an honor to have him write my own. Just that I need to do something worthwhile first for that matter.
And thank god the question was not an autobiography. That would have killed even myself to death.
Tell us how your week went by putting together a playlist of  five songs that represent it.
Maybe Tomorrow Is a Better Day by Poets of the Fall
Somewhere I Belong by Linkin Park
Numb by Linkin Park
Bored by Deftones
Dreaming Wide Awake by Poets of the Fall
Well honestly that is more how my week was based on remembering songs from my favourite bands than actually pertaining the song to the context itself. Still accurate more or less. Here is a post with songs describing my life.
The Nameless One 