I havent abandoned my blog

It's just that for the first few days msn wudnt let me sign in n then i had no net access for the past 5 days :)

Here's the entry which i was gonna post a week back..

Here I am again.Writing after a whole week, but hey I havent abandoned my blog. I just havent been online much cause hv to use dialup here, n the speed's not that gr8 :)
So this is gonna be a short update, even though I'v got loads to write n tell, I'll save that for when I get back.
The whole week has been amazin.Been travellin a lot. One whole day for the flight, but I enjoyed it. Didnt sleep for even a minute n saw 5 movies on board :D So all the movies I missed during exam time have now been compensated for :)
Staying at a place called King's Lynn which is in South-East England. Beautiful town..The whole countryside here is just so green n beautiful.The buildings, the architecture is just so amazing.
Have been to Peterborough,cambridge,London,a beach nearby at a place called Hunstanton, and am going to Scotland tom. Have taken loads of pics but it takes ages to upload them, so will do that later.
I have so much to tell about these places, the experiance.. will do that in my next post.
Till then,
Keep smilin ( I think I borrowed that from somewhere ;) )

Since then I'v been to Scotland.. beautiful place.More updates on that tom :)

Tada

Summertime

Stuck again,right at the start.Don't know how to begin. The beginning's always the toughest part isn't it? There are a number of times when I get stuck right at the starting line and I keep pushing off things till the time I'm left with no choice but to do them :)

Was reading catcher in the rye abhi.Have read about half of it, don't feel like leaving it.But it's tough reading on the comp and I think my eyes need a break now.

Havent really written any updates after exams, well time has just flown past.. just like it always does when u'r not doing anything you don't want to do, because when you'r doing something you don't want to do things just go on and on and days just don't end.. you know what I mean don't u !

My net connection's been unwell ever since the day Delhi had that storm, monday I think it was, so been on and off the net.. there was another small storm 2 hours ago, n the network cable had gotten disconnected again but somehow miraculously got connected on its own without me having to call up the net guy, something which I'v had to do everyday for the past 4 days..lol.

Seen a few movies, Bunty n babli, Star Wars 3, Hitch.. I'm really not the right person to give movie reviews cause I rarely dislike movies and needless to say I liked all 3 of them.. really wanted to see hazaaron khwaishe but plan got cancelled at the last minute :( still hope to see it though.Maybe on cd now..

Well the big news is I'm off to UK this sunday.Going with my family,for a few days .. First time me going out of the country, am looking forward to it :) Infact it's been a while since I travelled in a plane. hv become so used to going everywhere by road so I'm even looking forward to the plane journey..lol..anyone got any suggestions on where to go.. what to do!

Hope to be blogging from there too :)

PS. I know the title has no link to the post but it is summertime isn't it? Infact it's so hot that I'v been postponing my shopping plans for a week now..lol

It happens when you least expect it to happen

The setting was pretty good.Food set out on the table.3 candles on the table and 2 more in 2 corners of the room.No light anywhere else. Everything totally, absolutely dark.

It's been years since the time I last had a candlelight dinner.Yesterday night I had to, even though I did not really want to, neither was I prepared for it.

But the power supply people had decided enough was enough. It was high time that I did it. So just when the invertor had fallen sick, they decided that yesterday night had to be it.( Actually they hadn't, the grid had tripped..;) but this sounded better :-) So all of us at home were forced to have a candlelight dinner!

Well everything was just plunged into total darkness.It's really been years since that last happened. Luckily, my side of town does not face huge power cuts, and when there are minor disruptions, the invertor has always come to our aid.It wudn't have been so bad.. if only it wasn't this hot.Another effect of the power cut was that I did something which i hadnt done for months now. Went off to sleep really early,lol, cause there was nothing to do! No TV, no comp, no books, nothing!!

Anyways had a good 10-11 hour sleep yesterday and now I'm feeling totally refreshed :)

Btw Exams finally overrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!! Yipeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Capital Punishment

Can you even imagine the dilemma a judge faces when he has to decide whether to give the death sentence to an individual? The life of another individual is in your hands. You will decide whether he dies or lives to see another day. I can't ever imagine myself being in such a place. Whenever i hear or read about a gruesome,brutal murder, somewhere inside i feel ,god, does this person who has taken away the life of another so brutally really deserve to live? What about the family of the victim? Would it make it any better for them if he dies? This feeling of retribution in some sort of way is what defines the pro-death penalty arguments. But even if he doesn't deserve to live, who am I to take his life? Does every individual deserve a chance to reform and live ? What about people who kill members of their own family for property, people who rape and murder a 2 year old child, people who burn a man alive just because he belongs to another religion? What kind of thinking do they have, how does their mind work? Can we really change their thinking? Can they be reformed? Do they deserve to live? I am unable to go on either side. One part of me says that someone who commits such a heinous crime has to be punished. Be it for the proportionality of crime with punishment, or with a view to act as a deterrant for others or in some way to avenge and assuage the feelings of the wronged party. What kind of sick person would do such acts? But the other side of me comes up with a lot of questions. Death penalty is irrevocable, what if it was given to an innocent man? Wouldn't that be a bigger crime than any other. Where the whole judicial system would be accused of murder. When a man doesn't have the right to take his own life, afterall suicide is still illegal in India, can the State claim this right? What about the family of this person? What crime have they committed? If the state is taking the life of a person, shouldn't it also have the responsibility to take care of his family? And if he's really so sick in the mind, is it really his fault that he's done this act?

The Supreme Court says death penalty can only be given in the rarest of rare cases. They even have some guidelines for what is 'rarest of rare'. But inspite of all this at the end of the day, it's the judge's own subjective views on what is rare, his own sensibilities which would decide the fate of a man. One judge might convict a person and punish it with death and the other might even acquit him. It does happen in so many cases that the trial court convicts, High Court acquits, Supreme Court aqcuits again.Then there are cases where similar situations would give rise to different decisions. Dhananjoy was sentenced to death but a man who raped and killed a 1 and half year old daughter of his neighbour was not. In my view this man deserved an even more severe punishment.And again... does he deserve to live?

There is also this argument about human dignity and how civilised societies cannot carry on the 'eye for and eye' kind of punishment. But then it is the murderer who violates human dignity in the first place,isn't it?

The arguments, the questions don't end. I don't know how the debate on capital punishment would ever end. Right now, all I know is I don't think I'd ever want to be in the chair of that judge.

Frankly my dear!

Wanna write.. wanna write.. wat do i write?
The problem is that there is nothing new happening, and i don't want to write about the same old things.

Exams still ( yeah :( ) going on. Had a break for about 3-4 days n it's been so tough to egt back to studies, i just can't concentrate now. Just want them to finish, so i can move on. As for how i do in them, Frankly my dear.. I don't give a damn..lol :)) Well i do actually, just wanted to use that line. :D Anyone remembers where it's from? I loved the book when i read it. I used to stay up till 3-4 am reading it n then get up at 7 and go to college too.. gosh. i wonder how i managed that!! :)

One of the books in recent times that could make me stay up has been Harry Potter. I just can't leave that book. I read the last 2 or 3 versions on the comp, sitting from morning to night.. just wanting to read on and on. Am eagerly awaiting the next one! It's the story, characters, the narrative, the simplicity, J.K. Rowling's writing style.. I just can't leave the books! Some people might think it's still a kid's book after all.. but i don't care :P

I love kid's books anyways. I used to read so much when i was a kid, used to red while walking, eating, even tried to read sometimes in torch light when the lights used to be out :) Had a lot of favourites, some of the ones i remember are the Enid Blyton books on schools, St. Clare and Malory Towers.. the adventurous lives those girls had with their pranks, midnight parties n wat not! Still have one of those with me, though i havent read it since quite a few years now.Then the Hardy boys n nancy drews, agatha christies, sherlock holmes.. reading used to be such a pleasure then. There was no net,no computers in fact, nothing much on TV.. Used to read a lot of short stories.. from the panchantra, aesop's fables.. Infact I used to read my english course book the day we used to go and buy the books, even before start of the year at school :)

It feels nice remembering those days n the passion I had for reading books.. and what do i have to read now? Some stupid chapter on directors in company law.. Ughh :((

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Havent really written about anything since the past few days, alot of things keep coming to my head.. but somehow dont want to write about them..Maybe i'm just too lazy, or maybe i'm just too bored :)

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Lol, got this as a fwd :)