AIR

AIR is an acronym for America, India and Russia.

I believe that how AIR is i.e. how America, India and Russia deal with each other, is important in the near future. When there is balance and harmony within AIR, there will be a corresponding effect in the world and vice versa. It will also do a great deal of good to the 3 countries if they come together.

Statisticians can bring about a lot of interesting facts about what the 3 countries, if and when they come together, can add upto. Like how it was calculated for BRIC or BRICS. More than that, it will be coming together of ideas from the right, the middle and the left,like Capitalism, Socialism and Communism. Yes, I know that Communism is not the ruling party in Russia but Communism is to Russia what Buddhism is to India - both getting kicked out but never forgotten.

Now, I really don't like much the idea of groups getting formed in the world at the expense of the UN. It's also not my intention to sneak India between two super powers.

Let's see some reasons why the coming together of the 3 will benefit each of them. America and Russia are both descending in their power stature in the world - America because of the downgrading of it's economic status and Russia for not having a stable democratic political system after the collapse of the Soviet Union. India is ascending in living conditions but when a survey suggests that most Indians regard the winning of the Cricket World Cup as the achievement of the decade, one starts wondering. I believe that since Independence, India has achieved 50% of her potential. Today, we have quite enough money but still our cities, towns and villages are mismanaged. It's possible that India can call herself a super power in 2020.

AIR is not just a convenience but is a necessity for these 3. Steve Jobs has said that a Thomas Edison has done more to the world than Karl Mark or Neem Karoli Baba. Leaving aside idealogical warfare, suppose Edison, Marx and Baba come together to find a solution - wouldn't that just be fantastic?

The good thing for them is that they don't have big internal or external stumbling blocks though there will be minor irritants. The political AIR is as important to the world as the air is to the body. But just as too much air can cause harm to the body, too much importance given to AIR isn't good either. Ultimately, the General Assembly, not even the Security Council, in the UN should be able to call all the shots.

But if you ask me, while I believe that AIR is good enough in the immediate future, a Black African country joining the club will complete it in a lot of ways. By 'complete', I don't mean it in terms of importance but in terms of representation - if an alien asks for a sample, AIR plus a Black African country will give an idea what earth is all about. The sad thing is that presently there doesn't seem to be any one Black African country taking the initiative - this will change after 10 - 50 years.

This is perhaps the last post I will be making from the side-effects of a prescribed drug. Today is the last day I'm taking the psychiatric drug. These days, if and when I get some psychotic thoughts, I repeat a nice affirmation on grace to get back to normalcy.

I invite you to join me tomorrow in this blog since it will be when I'm supposed to be right in the head and without the side-effects of the drug. It is a big milestone for me and a moment for celebration.

The Pursuit of Happyness

Idea

What Idea???

Idea is. . .

I - Idea
d - delete
e - edit
a - add

And what is it supposed to mean?

It's an acronym I use for my work.

Now, Arv. . .pleazzzzz, no more acronyms???

Incidentally, it makes good sense and is beautiful.

You can use it for many things. . .design, development, problem-solving etc.

This is a few things that I associate with it.

The 'I' is capitalized, which means it's got a special status from the other three. Ofcourse, being the first term, it also gets to be attended to first.

Suppose you have got an Idea. Great. Now, in the Idea, there can be some undesirable elements - these you element by 'd' i.e. delete. Next, there can be certain things that you would like to modify i.e. edit. Finally, you can 'add' and this completes one iteration.

The special status for 'I' in 'Idea' is in the sense that you can delete or edit or add things but the Idea remains the same - kind of like the body can change but the soul remains the same. Idea is complete in itself - it's a recursive acronym, like PHP.

The order of the term is quite important. Call it Serendipity that it came like that. Everything starts with an Idea. Now, it's better to first delete the unwanted than add the useful items if you consider Idea as a container that's to be filled. It's easier to knock off the unwanted i.e. delete than examine something i.e. edit. It's also easier to edit what is present already than go fetch something to add.

'I' comes from intuition while 'd-e-a' comes from rationality. They are the Yin-Yang and right-brain -- left-brain. And the cyclic order of I-d-e-a is the 'Tao'.

One can also associate this with Hindu Trinity. 'I' is like 'Para-Brahman' and 'd-e-a' are like 'Shiva-Vishnu-Brahma'.

For design, one can take the I as a template or prototype from which one deletes, edits and adds items. For agile programming, one can say the 'I' as creating the first core product. For writing, 'I' can ofcourse be an idea from which one can later delete 'ego', edit for entertainment and add (action, description and dialogue - ADD)

4 more nights to go before I will be drugless.

Where does all this leave me? I'm wondering if I should do website design and development using this or write the novel professionally. Ican presently work nicely, with minor hiccups, for 1 session of 45 mins to 1 hour. I don't know how balanced my mind will be if I work for 6 hours like this, with psychotic thoughts of hackers. I guess I'm grossly over-estimating my problems. Anyway, I will be working for 1 session like this. Writing novel isn't easy either and it's difficult to explain to my mom that I'm working when I keep looking out through the window (quote used from elsewhere).

It will be one of the two. Let's see.

The cost of being straight-forward

It's not as if I get a sadistic element of joy from speaking my mind negatively. Speaking the mind in a negative way is a sure-fire way of losing friends and winning new ones (only to lose them also).

It's not as if I don't value any friendship high enough not to worry losing it. I also don't support enemies of my friends in order to get their friendship. The way I treat another online is the way I treat my mom or sister or even myself.

Perhaps it is the way a brotherhood or sorority grows by first eliminating the bad ego. This is supposed to happen in some army. Even though I do it, I don't agree 100% with it. I will soon oneday stop it. There are 2 ways that one can live good - by fighting the evil and/or supporting the good. Fighting the evil is a lower form of goodness from which everyone has to graduate to the higher form of goodness by supporitng the good. Evil collapses and implodes under it's own weight when there is no support for or attention to it. The relief is that one wouldn't be reminded of one's own negativity since everything that happens out there is a reflection of some area, however small, within oneself. I can see that one of my FB friends is doing this.

Perhaps after 7 days when I would have stopped taking the anti-psychotic drug, I wouldn't be bitching any more :)

With only a 'dry mouth' (it's actually a physical ailment, not the 'bad mouth' I talked about now. . .lol), I'm inching towards being wealthy, even though my bank balance is only Rs.2000, since Health is Wealth.

Thums Up to Germany and Europa

Nice to find that Germany is rescuing Greece and Co. from the recession. Shows that Germany is really interested in European Union rather than in NATO expansion. Sarkozy and Brown can take humanistic and political lessons from Merkel. Greece has given a lot to the world and deserves a bailout from those who can help.



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The wonders of 3G

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