The Grand Circus

People who came there expected to see a movie but they had a surprise awaiting them. It was not a movie anymore but it had turned out to be a grand circus! The circus has begun and the ring master is using his whip to show the world that he is the boss and that he is in control. He uses his whistle often to scare those around him and has promises of better food along the way. He is promising a bigger and better circus under his mastery but people did not expect a circus. In fact they did not know what to expect! The ring master has hired clowns who can sing and dance the best to his ridiculous tunes. Time will decide how long the people would tolerate this circus since they were expecting a movie.  

Money!!

Money!!

mon·ey

noun, often attributive \ˈmə-nē\

something generally accepted as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of payment: as
a : officially coined or stamped metal currency b : money of account c : paper money

(Above is one of the definitions of money from www.merriam-webster.com. Most of the people need money for food, clothing, shelter, hobby and other bazillion things which may or may not make sense!!)

 ("Money" by Pink Floyd)

Have you ever wondered what is the ultimate source of your money? If you are earning, your immediate source of money would be your employer and if you are not earning, your immediate source of money would be your parents or friends or someone who has money and is willing to share some of it with you. 

But where do the immediate sources of money get their money from? For example, if you are employed by a company, the company is your immediate source of money. Let's suppose that the company gets its money by making profits out of its products (or in case the company is not in profit, it might get its money from some loaner. Company can mean any institution/enterprise which is employing people). To make matters simple, let's also suppose that the products are bought by some people having money. So, in this "simple" money-flow model, the flow of money is:

People-->Company-->Employees

The "People" in the model should have an immediate source of money which could be one of the two sources initially mentioned. Those immediate sources should also get their money somehow which results again in a model similar to the "simple" model. By extension, the flow of money is: 

People1-->Company1-->Employees1/People2-->Company2-->Employees2/People3-->....

This model could probably be extended over and over again which may or may not give a plausible answer to the question!

 There could be a feedback somewhere in the above flow, but it may not be straight-forward to find the location of the feedback. For example, some part of People3 could contribute to Company1 so that they are getting some part of the money they spent but unfortunately this is not always true. This simple model does not answer the question: "What is the ultimate source of my money?" but the answer could be that the source is distributed, just like the source of water in a river!!

My niece's confusion!!

My niece is about 4 months old now and I haven't yet met her in person. Our meetings have only been through web cam (because we are half a world apart). In her perspective till now, her uncle is just a moving image on a computer screen. She, might be thinking that her uncle is indeed a computer itself and not a bipedal human. This might add to her already complex confusions about her surroundings. It is interesting to see how babies look at the things around them; there will be something new almost everyday. But for my niece, I am the same old computer screen which responds to the questions being put by my brother, sister-in-law and sometimes my mom. So, it might be hardwired in  her head that her uncle is not normal person.

Well, I am imagining my niece's reaction once I meet her when she will be about n year old. It might be hard for to digest the fact that her uncle is indeed a normal human who can walk and talk normally like the people around her.  It will be interesting for me to see her reaction; I guess it will be fun :-)

Baghdad

Watching the movie made me recall the live images of the city of Baghdad being bombed, on TV, some 7 years back. Imagine a flourished city with normal people and normal affairs, being bombed overnight. The people who were lucky (or unlucky!) enough to wake up in the morning to get back to their businesses would have been left with nothing at all. The schools, hospitals, offices, market places were all crippled beyond imagination. It is like destroying an entire civilization in one night. The city of Baghdad almost ceased to exist and had come to a stand still! It was reduced to a bunch of debris with rotting dead bodies. The same might have been the case with Hiroshima and Nagasaki or Pearl Harbour for that matter. It is like the handy work of an evil force which arrives overnight and changes everything in its way forever! Well, it has been repeating time and again with the human history; only places, time and people are different. 

[PS: These are some of the thoughts I had after watching the movie Fahrenheit 9/11. Criticism is welcome!]

Pictures say more than a thousand words

NO PROBLEM!!!

ONLY SOLUTIONS!

Actually there are no problems in life; i mean to say life by itself doesn't pose any real problem. It's we mere mortals who create our own problem and start solving them. So life actually consists of only solutions and no problems.

But not all problems are created by an individual. The collected efforts of many in the mortal community serves to create hell lot of problems. But no problem!! It has been like this for centuries; and it may be like this for many centuries to come. It's such that man can't live peacefully without actually taking the peace out of his life.

Merry-go-round

This may not be liked by everyone; but atleast someone will appreciate it! But who the hell cares. Do you beleive in merry-go-round. Merry-go-round?! Well, it's a term which describes the universe and the life. But how is it? Think about it!! Get the answer for yourself. But don't worry if you don't get the answer! It will only be a waste of time. So, don't waste your time and carry on your work. Thank you for wasting your valuable time!!