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Mad trip on “If I were the prime minister”

I was tripping on this BBC article. It says “If I were the Prime Minister…”

This article consists of a few interviews. People – different places, different backgrounds, different situations all constituting a major trip. It is ultra difficult to speak for anything other than what constitutes me – holy idea of selfishness. Do check that article.

Here are a few snapshots –

“Everywhere you go, officials ask you for bribes. I will work to weed out corruption.”

“If I become the prime minister, my first priority will be to ensure that all the farmers in this country get a fair price for their produce, whether it’s rice, wheat, sugarcane or some other crop.”

“Farmers make up more than half of our country, so it’s important to focus on their needs instead of only taking care of people who live in the cities.”

“I would want to solve all of our electricity problems. Even where I live we have long power cuts in the day of about six to seven hours.”

“As prime minister, I’d probably look at ways of separating religion from politics.”

“Educating people about health is important. If people can take care of themselves, our problems are reduced.”

“If I become the prime minister of India, I will make sure that all the poor people like me can have small permanent shops so that they can earn a living. Poor in this country have no peace, no hope.”

“monitor my ministers and other members and score them at the end of every week or month. This division would also educate the ministers on where they went wrong and where they could improve.”

“If I were to become the prime minister, I would give shops to all the poor. I will tell the police not to harass them.”

“I would also promote e-governance at all levels to introduce transparency so corruption is removed and the government comes closer the people.”

Mad trip. All the learned ones wants more education and the struggling ones need more shops. The healthcare geeks need more health and the farmers need more money. Its a crazy ass job – being a prime minister. I have decided I would think five times before taking up power.

For more trip do visit LordsOfOdds Election site . These guys have made something where you could design your own cabinet portfolio. Recommended.

Why Kids can be much more evolved than us?

I have heard people say kids can do stuff. A friend of mine (Appu – Apurva – ex Chutney) once actually showed me why kids can be a “major trip”. I have stopped ignoring kids since and try get their game.

• Stop ignoring kids and the things they do. There is no “kiddie stuff”
• So sad if you have grown up. You are missing all the fun
• The energy levels of kids are unbeatable. Can you be on the run for 2 hours non stop with just a plastic junk
• Ask a kid to frame a story. Can you make such a trip?
• Ask a kid about crows, pigeons, lizards, dogs and such urban / suburban forms of fauna. You might figure out why these things are not extinct yet. Probably you might just land up with some “anti-extinction” plan for yourself
• Kids have more developed right brains and less developed left brains. How much I wish for the same. Well we got computers and calculators for the intricate calculations.
• If you can make a kid understand what you mean by Web Develpment, you probably know it well. And how do you know if the kid understood it? If you can understand what the kid means by web development and if that understanding is correct. Mere usage of words may not be helpful here. Try pictures, stories and such. Web Development can’t be more interesting than a Tom and Jerry show. Can it be?
• If you think kids are innocent, you are dumb. Kids have no mercy and no limitations. They live constantly on the edge.
• Try answering a kid when watching a movie. That can be more interesting than the movie itself.
• Cartoons made for kids are much more engaging than the soap operas made for adults

If you have plans to make something more creative and stuff, listen to kids. Plus, if whatever you make is not creative (that includes Dal rice, a website, a piece of music, a presentation, a document, a spread sheet, a sexual act) its not worth it!

Got an iPod? Suck on it!

Junta keeps going crazy on their iPod and the amount of crappy music they carry on it with pride. Just an appreciation for all of them! This V – Day could have quite a lot of this gadget being gifted all across the globe. Spread the music all around!

Do you take a look at the rear view?

One thing about social networks is the ultimate temptation to see the updates go up and hence the hard on of seeing your “authority” and “rank” go through the roof.

Yet, there is a risk of having said something embarrassing and having to live with it. But, this seems to be pretty low.

One solution to actually find this out would be to go back on your own tweets or facebook profile for the last three months and see how the authority came up. Good that the world is so fast paced that people are forever looking for the fast approaching stuff than glancing on the rear view.

On ‘the’ three letter middle name

Saw a killer obeservation by Seth Godin on middle names. Here goes….

It’s “The.”

As in Attila The Hun or Alexander The Great or Zorba The Greek.

When your middle name is ‘The’, it means you’re it. The only one. The one that defines the category. I think that focus is a choice, and that the result of appropriate focus is you earn the middle name.

Jordan’s Furniture in Waltham was the place to go for that sort of thing. Bocce Pizza and the Anchor Bar were the places in Buffalo when I was growing up. Google is more appropriately called Google the search engine.

Seek the.

Of course, Winnie the Pooh is the exception that proves the rule.

Idea of a perfect gift – a prepaid card!

I was thinking about gifts one day. For one I dont like to buy gifts. Too feminine a practice.

However, on a recession struck day a jobless guy like me would like a prepaid card. How cool an idea is that – a prepaid card! Man, that is one gift I would give to a college kid.

Market predictions for the future – how exactly?

I have been following a few market research articles since July 08. Used to think how these guys come up with predictions for future – like for five years in the future.

“Online spends will increase by 20% in 2013″
“Email usage will go up by 75% by 2012″

One tight recession slap and suddenly the double digit figures still remain – “Online spends in 2009 to increase by 0.16%” – we still have two digits post the decimal mark.

I believe most of these numbers actually stand for the present stage of the economy. All predictions stand on the present. I don’t really know if we stand on March 2009 and look back at the predictions made in June 2004 about the future of Online Video (well in 2004, there was no online video – except for a lot of Porn maybe).

So, if you are actually in the business of making predictions for the future – like for five years in the future based on the present set of technologies that is available, what exactly is your game?

Obama in pictures – neat collection

The smoke is clearing. Now we got pictures.

Check out some really cool Obama pictures picked from Flickr by some dudes at Time here.

Looks like our dude (Obama) can really leverage his pop even post elections. what next – Obama theme parties with all forms of drugs, legalization of marijuana (its pop too), high speed internet across the world, blackberry in the white house, head start for small businesses (biggies might get boot if they still loot), “Politics is in”?????

WHAT?

My kinda cat pic – hell yeah!

Was checking out icanhascheezburger. Full of funny kitten pics and captions. Found this one there. Too cool. Too damn neat!

Well, among the tech blogs and news blogs, this particular one with funny cat pics comes in top 10 blogs. Don’t really know how!!! Well, I liked it though . Do check out www.icanhascheezburger.com