Nothing else mattters

So close, no matter how far
Couldn't be much more from the heart
Forever trusting who we are
and nothing else matters

Never opened myself this way
Life is ours, we live it our way
All these words I don't just say
and nothing else matters

Trust I seek and I find in you
Every day for us something new
Open mind for a different view
and nothing else matters

never cared for what they do
never cared for what they know
but I know

So close, no matter how far
Couldn't be much more from the heart
Forever trusting who we are
and nothing else matters

never cared for what they do
never cared for what they know
but I know

Never opened myself this way
Life is ours, we live it our way
All these words I don't just say

Trust I seek and I find in you
Every day for us, something new
Open mind for a different view
and nothing else matters

never cared for what they say
never cared for games they play
never cared for what they do
never cared for what they know
and I know

So close, no matter how far
Couldn't be much more from the heart
Forever trusting who we are
No, nothing else matters

D Traveller : Mangalore and beyond!

Part II -- Driving!Lazing!Pondering! in Mangalore

The Travelogue!

As always, all my trips start at Office. So, this time, this day i.e 20th Nov I start at 9:00 AM towards office,on Outer ring road, with the resolve to finish all my work by 8:30 PM and come back to my house,in BTM, by 9:00 PM then pack my gear, and have grub, and leave for Majestic to catch bus, at 11:00 PM, for Mangalore.

And as always what happened --

9:25 PM - Me having a conversation with my manager about what I understood, from certain vendor, about calculation of share of preference and what my manager understood and how both the "understandings" are not identical. Me sitting upright on chair, half on it and other half in air, in kinda of posture suggesting that I am some how just managing to control very very urgent nature's call.

9:45 PM - Me on my bike, actually Deepak's, and riding as if my ass on fire zing! zang! zoooom! no truck,no car ,no pothole, nothing mattered but just consistent speed of 70 KM/hr in Bangalore traffic. Ofcourse barring traffic signals.

10:15 PM - Me packing my bag running down the stairs for Auto

10:50 PM - Me in Volvo towards Mangalore. Phew!!


But I guess, in retrospect, the run was all its worth! Mangalore was amazing! A city born in antiquity,matured in parts,developed in other parts,young at heart,birth place of major banks, counted among major port cities of India,leader in private entrepreneurship, center for pilgrimage and of course a ideal place to relax for buggers like us on amazingly serene, impossibly virgin beaches.

City has a laid back feeling to it at the first sight, but the humdrum starts to unfold as you move little away from city center towards Suratkal.Where you find loads and loads of trailers moving with loads of timber, Malaysian wood called as Pincoda, and other raw materials or may be finished products from one of many industries present in Mangalore. To name a few KIOCL, MCF Ltd. ,Ultra Tech cement.

work in progress!

Extrapolation!

We have learned about it in school,College. Whenever you don't know the Ans take the best guess i.e look at the data available and extrapolate! And in strict mathematical terms - Extrapolation is the process of constructing new data points outside a discrete set of known data points.**

Now extrapolating the hard facts/kewl insights/fascinating views*, given by Dr. V S Ramchandran, author of Phantoms in the Brain, on the workings of the brain to apply on thoughts, a world where we are lone rangers.

Now, if our hands and legs are just mere mappings in the brain then what about the opinions, beliefs, and faith et. al. Are they also just mappings? Opinions in my opinion are very personal thing, a kind of a mapping in the brain or a perspective, to relate to things/places/people. And as with mappings, they can change.

Then next obvious question is -- which opinion or which perspective should I have? In the case, of phantom limbs, patient feels pain in his amputed limb and pain is cured once his eyes sees the mirror image of his other limb superimposed on his amputed limb. Now extrapolating the same method of cure to apply on phantom thoughts,opinions,perspectives.If by superimposing the Next thought, opinion, perspective you are comfortable with what you see around you or feel relieved of the pain then you got the right perspective,opinion,thought.

So I say keep the right perspectives,opinions,thoughts ,which keeps you happy and ameliorates the pain and settles you comfortably into the matrix of human minds.

I have a opinion/thought/perspective that Adam Smith's "Invisible Hand" is all about this.
Now thats what you call a Extrapolation!


** Wikipedia
*Hard facts/Kewl insights/Fascinating views --Views like "Pain" is just a opinion of the brain, our hands,legs etc. are just the mappings on the brain and mappings can change i.e extreme examples - eyes can hear, your cheeks can feel the sensations on your hand etc..

D Traveller : Mangalore and beyond!

Part I -- Driving!Lazing!Pondering! in Mangalore
Duration -- 21st & 22nd November (2 days 1 night)
Idle pondering of a busy mind!

1) Reflections

-- Roaming around in company is more fun! Especially like minded company.
-- I like relaxing at a place, enjoying beer ,Vodka and Smoke !
-- Biking is what I love!
-- I have a flare of noticing most trivial things :p
-- If I want a Bike I want a bike,if I want to eat an Ice-cream I want to eat an ice-cream!
-- I always manage to miss the Boat Ride! Though I really want a Boat ride! Someday :)
-- I like to Move Ahead! I like the breeze, through my hair, when I drive. I like the water running down my eyes when I drive fast! Laos trip plan has to have a Bike,a dirt bike,Honda Baja!
-- My Sis's Ipod has few songs to my taste - The reason,In the end,They don't really care about us, and a few of hindi songs! I always thought choice of our songs won't even match an iota, but I guess I was wrong!
-- Time to be skeptical , to control and test few hypothesis!
-- It's not that I don't like competition, its just that that I hate the attitude of competitors! The cut throat-ness,the shear lack of competitor's feelings. But I guess Joker was right " whatever that doesn't kill you simply makes you a stranger"
-- Game on!!

Score Board

A - 3

B - Unknown ( 3 for sure)

Take away counter!

Man is born a fool
when it is hot he wants it cold
When it is cold he wants it hot
always wanting what its not

- anonymous

Phantoms!

I am reading "Phantoms in the Brain : Human nature and the architecture of the mind" by Dr. V. S Ramchandran. The book provides stunning cases, astonishing explanations ( though can be found in plethora of platitudes and wise saying) from scientific point of view, and a glimpse of power of investigative nature of science or of logical deduction.

Till now I have read about the Phantom limbs, virtual limbs in amputees. Dr Ram talks about and explains the curious case of missing limbs and the feeling associated with them, that they still exist.

He says its the mind which has mapping of the each and every body part that we see. It goes on explaining that how mind fools us into thinking & feeling that limb still exists which was amputated long ago,how mind has been trained since childhood to send signals to "the limb" which is contradictory to visual inputs, in case of amputees.

According to Dr. Ram pain is an opinion on the organism's state of health rather than a mere reflexive response to the injury. He goes on to logically conclude that vision has influence on our subjective experiences. In blunt words pain is an illusion created by mind which can be countered.

While thinking about the Phantom limbs it just occurred to me what about the phantom ideals and phantom principles! Aren't we trained or to say conditioned to believe in some ideals since childhood. Shouldn't we use the power of logical deduction to experiment with some ideals ,principles and perspectives? Or should we just blindly follow?

Don't we see masses being conditioned daily ? New phantoms being created every day? for example -- Recession, MNS's vote bank politics,Marketing of products etc..

Case with mind is it can be trained or conditioned to believe in anything and everything. One gotta analyze before accepting anything.

Oxymorons

Peoples democratic dictatorship

Sometimes Oxymoron's* way i.e reconciliation of the opposites, is the only way to go...


* applicable to thoughts and actions as well

Take away counter

Bullfight lovers ranked in rows
Crowd the enormous plaza full
But only one man really knows,
And he's the man who fights the bull.

Domingo Ortega - Spanish bull fighter

Random out-of-context thoughts

Knowing the path,walking the path,and story(that we tell), of walking the path are different from each other .

Random out-of-context thoughts

Life is like a resume.

It needs experience,not experiences!