Call me old-fashioned..

Yes..Please call me old-fashioned I am one...and I just realized that drastically while watching Rahul Mahajan ka Swayamwar...what in the wold is that man doing on TV and really WHAT is he doing...Looking for brides is one thing but using girls for the lure of fame and marriage is another..Today, the show's been coming since morning and yes I have been watching it...4 to 5 episodes back to back...without blinking...but not without being shocked, outraged and exasperated. There is no episode, no scene wherein Rahul is not doing his chance pe dance. He kisses all the girls, lays down on their lap, holds hands, dances closely..and with much ease and appalling dignity. Well, you think Splitsvilla is shocking watch this show..Openly flirting and being way too touchy, downright creepy all in the name of looking for a bride..
So as I started call me old fashioned, but to me all this seems way over the top...Also, Rahul, the producers etc are not the only ones at fault in my view, it is also the girls who are willing to being projected as they are. When will we say, just because I want to be famous, an actress, a model or Mr Mahajan's wife I will not tolerate some guy touching me inappropriately on TV . Anyways why did so many girls line up to marry an ex-drug abuser(I am assuming the ex), an alleged wife abuser, someone who has built his new found TV career on the sympathy garnered after his father's demise?
The question is to what extent are we willing to go to achieve our dreams & ambitions?
P.S: This is not a promotion event for that advertently idiotic and shocking show..I would still say do not torture yourself by watching it.

Changing the World Part -3

Someone told me that to build up momentum, I need to write everyday. If I really want to change the world I need to change the duration between two of my blogs too. I cannot promise writing everyday, however since I logged in today too, I can write on two consecutive days at least for now.

So you guys must have become somewhat familiar with the kind of propaganda I might be promoting. Yes it is changing the world by changing ourselves. So here I come with one more doctrine that I sincerely follow:

"Waste no Food"...

I work in a large company with some 5 to 6 huge food courts each harbouring about 8 to 10 caterers with some 10K people eating there every single day (off course on weekends it's much less, we get them off). And every helping that we get is enough to feed some 100 anorexic models. Yes the quantity of food that we get is a lot and at some counters we can serve ourselves. However in both the cases we tend to go overboard with the food. It doesn't matter that the daal is of an obnoxious colour or the gobhi is floating in oil or that we don't even like the coconut chutney they serve, we fill it till the brim maneuvering the plate and ourselves to our friendly team with similar looking colourful plates. And then in all that office gossip, catching up on the grapevine, complaining about how bad the food has become, we somehow forget what we were thinking when we took so much food and then at the end of eating what we like, we simply go and throw the food. Yes on an average 70% throw 30% of the food. This is just the cafeteria that too in an office.

Move out, closer to the weekend and Bangalore - the garden city has only one mode of entertainment - that's eating out. It's definitely going out, ordering lots , trying out new tidbits of food as well as the news and then leaving it all to waste. Why did we order so much? Simple - we have the money to order all the food we can and then we have figures to watch so we can't always shove all of it down our throats.

Then let's move into our household - bread that craves for fungus because a new loaf was bought, old vegetables that were bought but out of laziness never cooked, delicacies that were supposed to be eaten but actually forgotten after lying in the the cold (fridge) for some weeks...why waste food here too.

It's only because it has not hit us yet. Just think about people who die out of starvation, little kids with malformed bodies because they never got enough food, mothers not being able to feed their Young ones because their share of nutrition was thrown in dustbins in offices & restaurants.

The next time you throw food - just "think", "picture" and "think" again. It won't use much of your brain cells, just maybe save some food:)