Satyamev Jayate - Female Foeticide

Yeah, I am talking about the first episode of Satyamev Jayate, which I think have disturbed at-least 80% of girls, who watched it, at-least for a while. 

I was one of them. I watched it in the middle of night and got soo disturbed for being a part of such society, being a part of propagation of such evils, by silently ignoring it, by accepting people in our social circle, who desires a boy child for that stupid reasons. 

Most of us know at-least one person in our extended family & friends, who truly believes in superiority of boy child over girl and propagate such thinking.  And what we do about it, just ignore their opinion in such matter as being old fashioned. But, it won't let that person realize that they r doing a crime by having sch attitude. And accepting such people in our society, we are being part of propagating such evils. Why not boycott such people from our society, similar to boycotting a serial killer, who believes killing is good ? We don't do that, we all are equally guilty for making such evils acceptable in society by making such people acceptable in our social circle.

Every time, I think about it, it make me feel soo bad. But, for how long - a couple of hours,a day at-max. We get disturbed by such things, we talk about it, then we just ignore it, since we are fortunate enough not to be a victim of such things. Since, we are the fortunate ones, who got a family where such evils do not exist. 

But, do we deserve to be the fortunate ones ? As we are anyway wasting all the fortune by not doing and not trying to do anything significant. I know I am not good enough to make any significant contribution in eradicating such evils. But, I am not good enough for PhD either. I am doing Phd, just because I am enjoying it and I don't care about being good at it. 

So, why not try eradicating such evils ? Atleast, I will feel good for not being a part of it ..... [something to think about after PhD (don't wanna to leave things in between :()]

Appreciation or Embarrassment

Most of you would have watched the joke about arrange marriages in some television series. Guy's family come to the girl's house to see the girl. Girl's parents serve them lot of snacks and claims that everything is cooked by her. In-fact, all the paintings in the hall is her creations etc. etc.

Wait, I don't wanna discuss arrange marriages and their showing off girls part. What I am trying to  understand is the reasons of false credits. Are the parents proud of their girl or they are embarrassed of her not knowing cooking, painting etc. etc well enough.

I know, it is an extreme example, but people give false credits to their loved ones all the times. And I never understood it at all. Sorry, but my mom is a bit too honest, who won't try and brag about the first dish i cooked, since it was looking too bad :p. It made me feel, that all these things are not important. She loves me and proud of me for what I am. For me, false credits are result of embarrassment.

I am talking about the false credits given by the people who loves you, so sarcasm is completely out.

But, then what does it mean ? That you are not good enough without all those things (for which you have been awarded false credits) ? That you should have done that ? and they are embarrassed that you didn't do that (and / or cannot do that) ?

I know, I am becoming a bit too harsh. But, I can not find any other reason for false credits :(. 

Another awesome day at Weowna Park

Initially when I got the apartment at SE part of Bellevue, I was a bit disappointed. The 37th street you need to take to reach here, is soo confusing with confusing forks, unexpected U-turns and missing paved shoulder pedestrian way till hotel.

After exploring the area on foot, i started liking it. The area consists of soo many small trails for non-hiker like me. Last week i discovered that the I-90 underpass has a paved pedestrian way and then there is a mountain-to-sound trails which runs along I-90. Its cool to walk in a tunnel with cars zooming in and out and along the freeway.

Today I went to a trail in Weowna park. It is small park with old growth forest, walking distance from my place. It has various small simple trails for random walking into the woods. Infact, it is among the perfects place for a nice refreshing walk. It is a NOT a park with well maintained garden, which puts this pressure of presenting yourself properly before others, and the pressure of trying to be perfect and pressure to follow social conventions and formalities. It is NOT a not-et-all maintained thick forest, which is soo tough to explore and represent complete cut-off from society and being completely uncultured. It is a park with old growth forest, but has a nice trail and forest is just maintained enough to make it safe and easy to explore. It is just soo peaceful to walk in here, it seems the trees took all your worries, you just feel like at home. And it is soo green and weather was just perfect :)

The day didn't end just with that, the awesome walk is followed by a drive to kirkland waterfront. The two things I miss most in delhi - lake and forest - I just love Redmond for this :)

Then finally ended the day by watching "The Dark Knight Rises" at IMax, Seattle, an awesome movie and the best place to watch it .... The day could not have been any better ....