Innovation by minority is always opposed at first. Maybe even oppressed. If I make it sound like there is something called ' Innovation by majority' as opposed to minority well... there might be. Haven't found an example of it, but you never know right?

There might be more innovators. But few are even strong to stand up to the rest and say, "Enough is enough. I know I'm right and your wrong." Then shove the physical/scientific proof in their faces and add,"See here now. This -insert your innovation of choice- works and is a good thing. So all you people can stop being scared sheep and open your eyes, free your mind etc. I sure as hell ain't gonna be one of them."

My point is that the rest of us who don't think like sheep still live like them. We're wasting our potential because of being either a) lazy bastards/bitches or b) having a lot to lose if we open our mouths. We aren't strong enough to turn around and say, "up yours" looking the real sheep straight in the eye.

Conforming to general society is important for our survival. Otherwise you might find an angry mob with torches -yes they do still exist in some places- breaking down your door and beat you up. At the very least you'll be exiled informally from your community and burned at the metaphorical stake.

On the other hand if you don't care about this and are persistent enough (read stubborn enough) you might finally get your way.

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Should've posted this weeks ago. As usual it can be found on my deviantart account.
http://boredmuse.deviantart.com

Oppression of females is a thing of the past you say? Lemme change your mind.

The Rama Sena (the local moral police with rowdies if course) invaded a pub in Mangalore and beat up/molested all the females partying there for actually daring to relax and have good time.
This lady puts it more eloquently.-->http://blah.burrp.com/my-city/social-commentary/divya/2009/01/hurrah-to-indias-taliban/#article_apps

Full news article here --> http://ibnlive.in.com/news/hindutva-moral-brigade-attacks-women-in-mangalore-pub/83648-3.html

The freaking Chief Minister is supporting this. Not hindu enough. Eat shit and die Yediyurappa.

In India you have to be a spineless worm to survive the law. If your a law abiding citizen that is. Being a good Samaritan will get you nowhere or worse attacked by the very law enforcement agency that is supposed to protect you. Why? It's because almost every police station and it's mother is as corrupt as a scratched up CD. In this country the local cops are knee dip in bribes from the MLA to your local rowdy gang.

Just last week a good Samaritan helped catch one of these dhoti wearing creatures we call MLAs in a money laundering operation. Not even a few days later, he and his family gets attacked by some hired muscle (read local goonda) belonging to said MLA, with dire warnings to drop the case and withdraw the complaint. The MLA goes Scott-free and the cops stick their heads in the sand regarding the whole matter. Why again? The cops are cahoots with local gangs and are more interested in protecting their cash cows than 'god forbid' doing their jobs.

It's worse if your a woman and lodge a complaint. The the local rowdy gang will not only beat you up, but rape your first and any female relatives you may be living with. It doesn't help that rape victims in this country are still told that they asked for it instead being considered a victim and being helped to get over the trauma.

They want us to vote for these bastards? Fuck off. They want us to not take matters into our own hands and leave in the 'oh-so-capable' hands of the police when it comes to the criminal elment? Fuck yourself up, down and sideways.

Thought I had the worst picture of Venus, Jupiter and the Moon lining up like this. But can't seem to find any better ones either.

Art after a gap...again

A good internet connection does make all the difference. I'm discovering new things about the net that I couldn't possibly have done before. Reason? Simple, a bad connection which simply doesn't allow you to stretch your exploratory interests. New phenomena that couldn't have existed before highs-peed internet connections came to be. Like torrent sites and youtube.

Speaking of you-tube, what interests me most about it is the straight-web, short-span webisodes. not something I could really explore before. Of course everyone in the know is aware that its a relatively new phenomena on the internet. 'Relatively' being the keyword.

Why am I blabbing about this right now? One word, Afterworld. I'm a little late arriving in this fandom. Late enough that it's showing on television, which is how I discovered that the episodes are available online. Clever mix of narrative storytelling and 3D imagery I gotta say. The episode's are short, so they wont take too long to load. Makes me wonder if it has anything to do with the current generations short attention span.

When I reach out for the sky,
I'm grasping at nothing.
I hold only air and nothing more.
Where the real sky begins air ends.
So when I'm reaching out for the sky
I reach out for nothing.
When the sky is the limit,
The limit is nothing.
Then there is nothing but the sky and I
Then I am real and the rest is nothing.
I cant feel the earth beneath me anymore
I fall into the sky and into nothing.
I fall into nothing into infinity.
The sky cannot be bound
I fall into the sky and
I am bound by nothing
When I reach out for the sky,
I’m grasping at nothing.

With my brand new signature finally up, I thought I'd celebrate it with a post related to the subject. Hence without further ado, dun dun dun duuuuh - The Matrix. Anyone who like me whose worked in the graphic/animation feeled would've drooled over the film the first time it came out (to be fair even if you weren't). SFX like these were considered ground-breaking in 1999. Something like this had never been seen before. It was worth watching for the visuals alone. Add the cracking plot with various bits of philosphical & religious references thrown in without being very heavy-handed and you've got the makings of a cult hit. Which it was and still is.




*The blogger kindly requests you to allow a moment of fangirlish squeeling & offers cottonwool to protect your ears.*

Taking the red pill and going and going down the rabbit hole. The Parallel to Alice in Wonderland couldn't be more obvious, even if you dropped an anvil on someone's head. Like Alice, the main character 'Neo' takes the red pill and jumps down the rabbit hole.

To be continued

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Dear God, finally...

...an art update.

Sometimes people come upto you and ask a queston that goes something likw this, "If you were placed in situation X would your response be A or B (or C)". Many of you might have answered with one of the options. The question I have to ask here is. Are you abso-fucking-luteley sure? How the heck would you know, to act or react in a certain way until you've actually been thrown into one?

You might even do something completely different from what's present in the options.

Thinking and doing are completely different. You never know until your in that situation. Savvy?

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I'm so used to the clocks at home (and the watch on my wrist) always being 15 minutes ahead of time (at the very least), that I sometimes get confused when looking at clocks that are set accurately. By accurate make that slow-by-five-minutes if school bells are anything to go by. But only with analog ones. Digital clocks are something else. They're supposed to be more accurate and all. It's pretty obvious why someone like yours truly wouldn't get confused by them. Hooray for Digital Clocks.

Art update. Can also be found at my deviant art page.

http://boredmuse.deviantart.com

WARNING: Personal rant ahead!

Alright, here's the deal people. Getting married and/or pregnant is absolutley not on my pririty list. It's not even anywhere in my list. Here's why:

1) Marriage is unlike what you think, not sacred. I'm pretty sure it started out as a way to control everybody having sex with each other, and multiplying like rabbits. It's the 21st century now. We got condoms and contraceptives.

2) As for the being 'faithful-until-death-do-us-part'. If that were the case no one would be divorcing each other. Ofcourse there are some who stay together for the children. But there are a lot of them who don't have any, or don't care either way.

3) 'But what about true love?' you may ask. People who love each other, can hurt each other as well. Even if they don't you don't need to be married for that. After all, soul-mates don't need to prove themselves to each other.

4) Kids. Just-not-in-my-nature. The common of stereotype (someone who keeps going on about eanting be single, doing a 180 degree turn, and getting married quicker than the others) is nothing but that. Needless to say they don't hold up very well in real life. Anyone with a smidgen of logic & intelligence in their brain will attest to that.

So there.

New Drawings!

I made these two versions of a drawing for a good friend of mine, and am uploading them with his permission. It's a bit abstract, but will provide explainations if asked.

Here they are.

Art update..well sort of.

There's been a lack of updates here. Again! But this time it's not due to lack of things to write about. But the old adage of not having access to the net when the topic comes to mind, and having forgotten it completely by the time I getg to my comp.

So I've decide that this place will serve as a update page whenever I post some of my sketches (or scratches if you like) on deviantart. Atlesst maybe then I'll remember whatever it was on my mind and be able to spit it out here.

So without further ado.

Further as a shamelss shill: you can view the rest at
http://boredmuse.deviantart.com

Evolution is a one way process.

What baffles me though is why so many people don't realise it. Now what am I on about?

It's the populace that is always surprised to find how much sharper their kids/nieces/nephews are than they were as children. Of course they get smarter. Of course they will be sharper, more perceptive and worldly (or world weary in some cases) than the previous generation. Do they seriously expect them to get dumber? If any more proof was needed to prove Darwin's theory, then this is it.

Yet I overhear this in every discussion in pretty much every place. Where folks who have children or come in frequent contact with children. Surprised as always they are. Tch!

Which brings me to another point. I here the same parents lamenting as their children get older (aka school), of how their precocious little child is getting moody, rebellious and is slipping down gradewise.

I'd like to direct your attention to a popular T-shirt slogan:
'I was born intelligent, but education ruined me.'

It's the the averge children who are suddenly jumping up the totempole of high grades. The reason? Mindless studying and obedience is what works. Being logical and an Independent thinker gets you labelled as an outcast and troublemaker.

What can I say..?

Cynicism isn't something we're born with. It's something we learn, that we grow up with.

We lose our innocence, as we get exposed to the world. We learn not to believe in true love. We learn not to trust, because it seems natural for the world to cheat and stab us in the back. Thus cynics are born, after being born.

Yet once in a while one can see or here something, which makes said person wonder if that's not all there is to this world. A husband genuinely happy to see his wife come home. Who smiles a free smile because he thinks no outsider us watching. It is a peek snuck through the tinted glass of a car that provided thsi unbidden glimpse into the lives of another family.

Your mother sweeping you into a hug and showering you with affection that is not given as a reward for good behavior but freely. UNconditional love that you feel in your bones.

Are we truly all cyinics with cold hearts?

Two meet in the dark, Only one will leave.

They are the clothes of a Samurai. Clothes of an era gone past. Their gi & hakama are of the finest make and speak of their high status. Fine clothes they once were but no longer. Frayed at edges, patched in places. They indicate the Samurai's fall from grace by the end of an era.

Their pride too fierce to attempt any other trade to make a living. To high their upbringing too know of any other. Reduced they are to penniless ronin. Too noble to turn into bandits. Too stubborn to forget their grudges. For both were bitter enemies as far as memory stretches.

Now they meet on this dark and moonless night. After years of wandering, searching for one another. Searching for their foe. To end this battle, this bloodfeud which raged for years.
Tonight they have met, tonight they fight and tonight it will end.

The clearing is empty and only the trees bear witness. Both sink into their stance and unsheath their swords. Slowly, languidly with only the scraping of metal against iron sheath for noise.

Both circle each other with deliberate calm. Both have danced this bloody dance a hundred times. Tonight they dance it one last time.

Both each other's moves with near perfection. They are master's of their craft. The night provides no hindrance, for they see with their minds eye and read each other like a book.

Both stop and there is silence. It lasts a mere heartbeat but to them it seems an eternity. Then as one they strike.

Both are fast but only one is faster. A single strike, one spurt of blood, and it is over. Both stop on opposites as if nothing had happened. Another heartbeat, another eternity. Then one slowly slides to the ground and the blood flows freely. There is no sound from the fallen or the victor. No surprise. Only acceptance of the inevitable.

Both look at each and a faint smile graces their faces. In death their feud has ended. Their purpose in life attained. The fallen warrior closes his eyes never to open them again. The victor flicks the blood away from his sword, sheathes it with practised ease and bows to the fallen opponent.

Two met in the dark, and only one left.

We're all living securely in our smug little lives. We get driven to work by a carpool/company cab (at the company's cost in some cases, in some cases not). We work in an self-contained, air-conditioned environment. It's almost like it's own closed eco-system. Trust me I know. Most people don't even realise if it's raining outside or not. The worst thing that can happen here is that you get fired. Or if your extremely unlucky (as happened in one very disgustingly unfortunate incident) get raped by the driver (if your female) and killed. May that poor woman's soul rest in piece if there's such a thing and her two-timing husband rot.

But all in all it isn't a very physically exerting job. Atleast I think that's the point I was trying to make. Whatever may be the case in point here, only a two decades ago such a thing was very foreign, to be surrounded by technology almost 24/7 in a job that isn't very technologically inclined. Well mostly, some are like tech support for Micr'sloth' or other prominent software companies that outsource to countries like India, phillipines..etc.

I guess there isn't a point to this and I'm just blowing off steam after listening day-in-day-out to comments from colleagues who complain how ahard there lives are because they don't get enugh time anymore to loaf around town with there buddies/girl/boy anymore because of this job. Try supporting half your family income without a social life for becasue your father fucked up his (and by extension his families) good prospects big time, and are struggling to graduate. Not an unfamiliar story to a lot of people who may be reading this. But not very familiar to good percent of the population.

I may add something to this later but not right now.

Comedians ought to be commended. Take the local variety. In an archetypical b-grade cheesy Indian film, they play the most entertaining characters, keep the overtly melodramatic lead characters in line with a well-timed quip or a metaphorcal/literal boot-up-the-arse. The reason maybe that these gifted actors come with a theatrical background. Or the fact that they usually have a connection to reality that most of the other characters in their roles do not. Pity they don't get ebough recognition.