Ranternama2…( because its easier to rant )

1.SCHOOLS – Every single day when I travel to work I notice the so called schools all along the way and wonder where have “The Schools Gone”??? the concept of schools and schooling has changed so drastically, for me school meant a nice building with lots of space around it in  peaceful locality or location with big playground etc. I see schools which are worse than any other building around not even a compound wall, they open straight on to the road and the traffic, dust and all the other dangers lurking to steal a childhood. Its ghastly jeez kids will turn out to be street thugs in such schools not model citizens or whatever the elders aim for. Anyways just like big companies make their pricey products in what are called as “SWEATSHOPS” we are making our engineers etc in such places- sweatshops /factories/schools.

Last night I happened to see the advert for a High School or Junior College and one of their USPs or unique selling propositions was I quote ( in their pathetic english )- ” To make parents realise their dreams as they have them.” or some shit to that effect, and I perused further and was disappointed to find there was nothing even remotely talking about the Child’s Dream ad ambition. Has it become such that people have started living their dreams through their kids?? kind of like “I have a dream to become an engineer….I am sure my son will do that instead of me”. Live example I have a pal who is a doctor because his father had a dream, the poor sod wanted to be a Computer Engineer, he went to med school and in the evenings learnt C++ and all that jazz etc a doctor who is more a software geek. Man it sucks!!! Thank God my dad is letting me dig my own foundation…lol But yeah basically its that about schools and schooling.

2. A MILLION LITTLE PIECES- Now this is a book which unfortunately I havent yet read but what I have certainly read a lot about is the controversy surrounding it. This bestselling book ( got there through Miss Goody two shoes Oprahs plugging it ceasely on her money spinner of a show) is supposedly the true account of a man ( the author ) and his battle against drug addiction and abuse and how he over came them and won the uphill battle. Now came the problem or controversy , when some zealous and defnitely jobless people dug deep and found some dirt on the man- it so happened that he concoted some of the misery he allegedly went through, so basically its not all a true account but part fiction masquerading as pure Non-Fiction. Oprah was mighty upset shed a few tears on her show as to feeling cheated and so did the audience the guy was made to come back on the show and unlike the earlier appearence was made to “Unpromote??” his book ( can you call it unpromote hehe ) and the drama went on thus.

Now the reason for my griping is: – What do they feel cheated of all these honest readers and fairy godmother promoter of misery and feel good…what??? Did they feel cheated of the misery? I mean would they have loved the book if the misery was real and 100% true and genuine and came with a certificate saying “ye herewith certified as just returned from hell “. All this brohuha because it was part fiction…ok so what?? WTF it sold a million copies you all liked it and felt inspired – now whats the big deal it was a wonderful read while it lasted and if it inspired you it did even better. The only person to crib would be a bloody ‘Sadist’ for he can crib like this – ” Man I so turned on and it gave so much pleasure and now that I know it aint real, it wont be the same again, I feel cheated like a fake orgasm during sex”…..well now are all of us sadists to feel bad and cheated because someone didnt go through real misery??

Why not just be happy it was a great insiring story real or fiction who cares. …..I can go on but I will stop for you get the idea…

3. SELF STYLED CRICKET PUNDITS-  Now this is a breed unique in itself as each one of us can be that at some point of time or the other. I call them self styled because no one calls them or thinks of them as pundits but nevertheless they feel like they are one. I hate it when India loses they come up with such blashemys like Sachin doesn’t want Sourav to have a successful captaincy hence hence he got out cheaply or the Umpires don’t like India every match we get a coupla bad decisions ( forgetting this crap when we are at the right end of the luck ) or they basically discuss what was going on and what is on the mind of and what are the personal grudges of a player/umpire/official/ everyone. I ask them ‘ Why do you think you can read the mind of someone who is on TV thousands of miles away??? How can you make assumptions as to what so and so must’ve been thinking while he was doing such n such thing??? J H C !!! its just a bloody game ok it makes a lot of money only because of your thinking of it as more than a game, but come on let it now fuck up ok fog your rationality and the sane portion of your head…..all you experts please talk about what you can see like-that was an awesome six or sheesh!!! bad luck mayte but wonderful ball …you know talk sense basically based on facts not like you are running for the “Nostradamus of the Year Prize” or something predicting and talking about shit you don’t know about, can’t see. wont know…but all the same just say it propheticlly…