ನನ್ ಎಂಡ್ತಿ

 ಇವ್ಳಲಿಲ್ಲ ನಂಗ್ಬೇಕಿದ್ದು, ನನ್ಗ್ ಬೇರೆ ಬೇಕಿತ್ತು!
ಇವಳಲ್ ಏನ್ನಾ ಕಂಡೆ ನಾನು, ಇವಳಲ್ ಎಂತದ್ದಿತ್ತು!

ಸುಂದರವಾದ ಎಂಡ್ರು ಬೇಕು ಅಂತಂತಿದ್ದೆ ಕಣ್ರೀ,
ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಬಿಟ್ಟೂ ಇಂತಾ ಯೆಣ್ಣೆ ನನ್ಗ್ ಸಿಗ್ಬೇಕಿತ್ತೇನ್ರೀ?

ಕೆಟ್ದಾದ್ ಮೂಗು, ದೊಡ್ದಾದ್ ಹಣೆ, ಇವಳಲ್ಲ ಸುಂದರಿ,
ಮೂಗಿನ್-ಮೇಲೆ ಕುಂತೈತ್ನೋಡಿ ಸೋಡಗ್ಲಾಸು ಭಾರಿ!

ಹಾಡ್ ಏಳೊವ್ರು ಬೇಕಂತಿದ್ರೆ, ಇವ್ಳ್-ಈಗ್-ನನ್ ಸಂಸಾರ,
ಹಾಡು ಆಡಕ್ ಬರಕಿಲ್ಲ, ರಾಗವು ಅಪಸ್ವಾರ!

ಪೂಜೆಗೀಜೆ ಮಾಡೊವ್ಳ್ ಬೇಕು ಅಂತಿತ್ತು ನನ್ಗ್ ಇಷ್ಟ,
ಒಂದ್ ಅತ್-ನಿಮೆಷ ಕೂತ್ಕೊಳ್ಳೋದು ಈ ಉಡ್ಗೀಗೆ ಕಷ್ಟ!

ಕೈಯಲ್-ಬಳೆ ಕಾಲಲ್ ಗೆಜ್ಜೆ ಹಾಕ್ಕೊಳೋಳ್ ಬೇಕಿತ್ತು,
ಹಣೆಮೇಲ್ ಕುಂಕುಮವಾದ್ರೂ ನೆಟ್ಟುಗ್ ಹಾಕೊಂಡ್ರೆ ಸಾಕಿತ್ತು!

ಬಳೆಯೂ ಕಷ್ಟ, ಗೆಜ್ಜೆಯನಿಷ್ಟ, ಕುಂಕುಮಬೇಡಂತಾಳೆ,
ಅರ್ಥವಾಗುತ್ತೇನೊ ನೋಡುವ ಈವತ್ತಲ್ಲಾ-ನಾಳೆ!

ಇಂಗೋ-ಎಂಗೋ ಮಾಡ್ಕೊಂಬುಟ್ಟೆ ಮಧುವೆ ಈ ಉಡ್ಗೀನಾ,
ಸುಮ್ನೇ ದಿನಾ ಗೋಳ್-ಉಯ್ಕೊಂಡು ತೆಗಿತಾಳೆ ನನ್ ಪ್ರಾಣಾ!

ನನ್ ಕಾಟಾ ನನ್ಗ್ ಸಾಕಾಗಿತ್ತು, ಇವ್ಳ್ ಬೇರೆ ಈಗ್ ಸಿಕ್ಲು,
ಬೆಳಕಾಗಿದ್-ನನ್ ಜೀವನ ಈಗ್ ಆಗೋಯ್ತ್ ಕಂಪ್ಲೀಟ್ ಕತ್ಲು! 

.... ಹಹಹ ....

ಇಷ್ಟೆಲ್ಲಾ ನಾ ಸುಮ್ಕ ಅಂದೆ, ನನ್ ಎಣ್ರುನ್ ರೇಗ್ಸಕ್ಕೆ, 

ನನ್ ಪದ್ಯಾನ ನೋಡಿಕೊಂಡು ಒಂದ್ಸಾರಿ ನಾನೇ ನಕ್ಕೆ!

ಇಂತಾ ಒಳ್ಳೆ ಈ ನನ್ನ ಎಂಡ್ರು, ಯಾರಿಗ್ ಸಿಗ್ತಾರ್-ಏಳಿ?
ಆಡು-ಏಳೋವ್ರ್ ಕಟ್ಕೊಂಡ್ ನಾನ್ ಮಾಡ್ಬೇಕಿತ್ತೆ ಕಛೇರಿ?

ಬಳೆ-ಕುಂಕ್ಮಾ ಆಕೊತಾಳೆ, ಗೆಜ್ಜೆಯೊಂದನ್ ಬಿಟ್ರೆ,
ನನ್ಗೆ ಸಂತಸ ತರ್ತಾಳೆ ನಾ ಒಂದು ಮುತ್ತು ಕೊಟ್ರೆ!

ಮುದ್ದಾದ್ ಹುಡ್ಗೀ, ಒಳ್ಳೆ ಮನಸ್ಸು, ಬೇರೆ ಬೇಕಿರ್ರ್ಲಿಲ್ಲ,
ಇವ್ಳ್ ನನ್-ಜೀವ, ಇವ್ಳ್ ನನ್-ಪ್ರಾಣ, ಇವ್ಳೇ ನಂಗೀಗೆಲ್ಲಾ!

ಇಂತಾ ಎಂಡ್ರುನ್ ಕೊಟ್-ಆ-ದೇವ್ರ್ಗೆತ್ಯಾಂಕ್ಸ್ ಎಷ್ಟ್ ಏಳ್ದ್ರೂ ಸಾಲ್ದು,
ಹೆದ್ರುಕೋ ಬೇಡಿ, ಇದೆ ಲಾಶ್ಟ್ ಲೈನ್ ನನ್ ಈ ಡಬ್ಬ ಹಾಡ್ದು :)

Just another blog!!

Is it brag or blog? Anyway ... even then why do we blog at all? is it because everyone has it and I have mine too? the sensless flocking sheeps? or is it because its free? may be! but whatever it is, would we have done this if we were to pay for it? may be this query extends to many of the "free stuffs" that we are now accustomed to, including the email and stuff. an era of free meals!!! Anyway.

Why do I blog? may be I need to know!!

Once upon a time, I used to enjoy talking and writing to people. This does not mean that I do not enjoy those anymore, but the intensity and the feeling is definitely diluted. There is a sense of meaninglessness in the conversations that we have, or may be in everything that we do. Everyone and everything seem focused on and motivated by one thing - money, and nothing else, expressed in varied forms as job, security, networking, MBA, education. We are no more motivated by values and knowledge. How opportunitisitc and materialistic have we become, I wonder many a times.

But, this does not answer why I started blogging.

Blogging provides me an opportunity to express myself, in an unsensored way, when I do not have to argue meaninglessly on what is right and what is wrong. May be this is an attempt to search the person within me, the passion inside me, and explore what appeals to me. I could just dump what I feel while I write what I write. Sense and non-sense make no sense, I am not being evaluated while I express myself. I can brainstorm from within and I do not have to take a stand and justify what I say until I have said what I have to say. The ability to dump thoughts and express self without evaluation has a lot to do with our creative abilities, and blog provides that platform to hone ideas endlessly and seamlessly.

I have nothing to achieve through this media, but still a lot gets achieved. I have nothing to gain from doing this, but end up gaining those guiltless insights that I seek. I have nothing to lose, but there is so much that get expressed, which reduces the burden of thoughts that my mind has to deal with.

On the fun side, as the caption says: this is simply harate prapancha.

Power Equation and Knowledge

Hmmm its 5am, a little early in the morning, and I am heating my tea with the conventional electric heater, with those sleepy little eyes! May be it was time to contemplate!

Why does the heater get heated? Why does the bulb get heated? my limited knowlege explained that "it is due to the resistance of the coil". Again!! Is resistance the reason for the heat? I guess so! How does it matter even if I am wrong in the electrical example, because I am damn sure that resistance is the reason for all the "heat" we see outside.

I see that preacquired knowledge, preconceptions, prejudices, ego, education, habits, routines are a few reasons for the internal resistances to change; the resistors within us that have the ability to create heat. So, whenever we are faced with situations that challenge our "established truths", we see heat within us, dont we?

Switch!! There are different sources of knowledge that we know of, knowledge from within, from outside, through others, through experiences, through a process of accepting and rejecting of ideas and concepts, though our experiments, and so on. OK Now! what is this power equation nonsense?! hmmm another of those contemplative thoughts that pass through our little circuits within. For me, Power of humans is in knowledge. But if knowledge is power, knowledge is the reason for "resistance" too.

Switch!! The slow heater had fueled my random thoughts on heat, resistance, life, knowledge, more power leading to more power (rich get richer, poor get poorer or whatever the stupid crap is), more power more resitance, more resitance less current, less current less power ..... oh my mind, slow down a bit!!!! .... hmmmm ..... Floating around thoughts, while my tea heated I was contemplating on the equation that I had hated (waaah bhai waaah! heat and hate is in our fate!! waah waaah!!) P = I*I * R (rather I 'squared' R). I had by now switched beyond the "electical" or rather true logic of this equation. I had replaced I with information flow or our openess to external ideas, thoughts, and people. R had transformed to our prefixed, preconceived notions. And P was the power of our knowledge.

Prop prop prop ... popped up these stupid little thoughts. Power should increase with a slight increase in "current" or a more substantial increase in effective "resistance". In simple words, it is better to work on increasing I rather than R. Personal knowledge, or resistance, plays its role but the impact levels are different and substantial, power of 2, when the current is let smooth. So, one way to substantially improve our power of knowledge is through continuous contemplation on personal thoughts with resistance to others, but a more effective way is to be open ourselves to other ideas, people, thoughts, knowledge. These are the "currents".

If current is the inflow of thoughts, ideas, emotions, or in general information flow through our system!!, more open we are, less resistance we exhibit, more current we let in, and more power we generate. More we let the ideas flow through us, more ideas we generate, more power we develop. More power implies more knowledge, and more knowledge is more power!!! A systematic cycle of evolution. But, we have to ensure that this does not bloat our "resistance" as well. More rusted (stale, stagnant, stuburn, stupid, structured) we are, more resistant we get. So, its time to unrust ourselves, decrease our resitances, and open up our gates for knowledge, and develop a pathway for limitless power of knowledge (squares all the time).

Thoughts as random as they get, a thorough nonsense, but that is the whole purpose of this exercise :)

Cognition, Memory, and Activation

Another interesting point I read just now (Introduction to Affect and Cognition, Consumer Behavior and Marketing Strategy, Paul Peter and Jerry Olson): People can consiously consider only a small amount of knowledge at one time, which makes interpretation and integration processes during decision making fairly simple.

I was also reflecting this to the movie craze. A simple logic would reveal the absurdness of sitting in a hall watching a thorough nonsense, like the alien movies. But, the limited temporary cognizance of the environment, knowledge, logic during those 1 or 3 hours (depending on whether you are watching holly or bolly wood!). Not just that, we get easily influenced by company or university rankings, we develop biases, get into frictions, buy things that we dont need, and waste time instead of preparing for the future.

Everyone knows what is important and mostly categorize what is urgent, but never act on it. Everyone knows that jogging is good, but only a few make it. I am not sure if I am ending with the same note as I started, but the limited memory usage is the cause of all these and this is not due to cognition limits but due to an internal lethargy to dig beyond the surface.

Life is interesting, we are limited by our senses but we are proud of our abilities :)

How Colors Affect Behaviour

Today, while reading an article on Affect, Cognition, and Behavior I read this interesting aspect of how colors dictate our behaviors - supposedly based on Carlton Wagner's "Color Cues". I asked myself, "does it" and the instant response "yes it does". The article talks about how we are attracted or distracted, or feel pleased or disturbed, or eat more or less of something, or even fall in love or hate something based on the external factor of color.

While reading this, I was also recollecting the color code in the Indian system, white representing a Brahmana, Red a Kshatriya, Blue a Vaishya, and Black a Sudra. How colours were used to represent cognition or intellectual levels. How colors are used to represented joy and celebration. How sanyasis are attracted to the saffron, girls to pink, fashion geeks to black, the politicians to white etc etc. It left me amazed beyond the explanation based on chemicals and stuff. I may buy a junk product in a well packaged tin. The article also gave me an opportunity to reflect on how easily are the children attracted to bright toys.

I was not surprised as to how marketers and advertisers play around with those colors to entice customers to buy products they otherwise may not have even thought of. I have been a victim myself many times, may be so were you, so are the very advertisers who create such an allure.

So, karappu daa yenakk pudiccha colorru .... :)