Shout when in doubt.
What a blunder your life must be
Overlooking all possibilities that could be.
Shout when in doubt.
Fear of the unknown
will only let you down.
Shout when in doubt.
Nothing really lasts forever.
The good or the worst of times.
Shout when in doubt
You can't breeze through the rough rides
with doubt in your heart and mind.
Shout when in doubt
That's what you can do
to live life loud.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Inflation hits a home run
"M, we're more poor than we were a year ago!"
"How so?"
He hands me over the newspaper carrying a headline that says, 'Pakistan hits record high inflation at 17.6 percent'.
"Hmm, we've set a new record R"
"We're more poor despite our increments, M!".
Sad.
I wondered if both of us were sad on the prospect of being poor or the circumstances that were pushing us towards the edge.
BoL:"I told you to convert your savings in to dollars three months ago"
M.: (I dont know where the time went)
BoL: "You're the MBA here" (he smirks)
and its totally justified.
So while we fish for the Financial Advisor (yet another Banker) to be the Mesiah for the traumatic state of economic affairs, people continue to face food/water shortages and brave the price hikes. They eat less, shop lesser and yet save the least.
Oil crises worsens globally, OGRA announces yet another anticipated hike in fuel prices and the Oil transporters threaten to call a strike because they feel they do not benefit from the rising fuel prices.
A middle-class bread winner is expected to maintain his/her fuel tank, bank account, grocerries, all utility bills cleared and yet be deperived of all the facilities he/she direly pays or saves for. Its a lose-lose situation.
What next for the dipping Rupee is anyone's guess.
"How so?"
He hands me over the newspaper carrying a headline that says, 'Pakistan hits record high inflation at 17.6 percent'.
"Hmm, we've set a new record R"
"We're more poor despite our increments, M!".
Sad.
I wondered if both of us were sad on the prospect of being poor or the circumstances that were pushing us towards the edge.
BoL:"I told you to convert your savings in to dollars three months ago"
M.: (I dont know where the time went)
BoL: "You're the MBA here" (he smirks)
and its totally justified.
So while we fish for the Financial Advisor (yet another Banker) to be the Mesiah for the traumatic state of economic affairs, people continue to face food/water shortages and brave the price hikes. They eat less, shop lesser and yet save the least.
Oil crises worsens globally, OGRA announces yet another anticipated hike in fuel prices and the Oil transporters threaten to call a strike because they feel they do not benefit from the rising fuel prices.
A middle-class bread winner is expected to maintain his/her fuel tank, bank account, grocerries, all utility bills cleared and yet be deperived of all the facilities he/she direly pays or saves for. Its a lose-lose situation.
What next for the dipping Rupee is anyone's guess.
Friday, May 2, 2008
The Wonder Years
Hollywood no longer makes stuff about normal people with ordinary lives. Wonder Years remains a cult TV series todate only because it showcased lives of people, anyone can relate too from a 20% to a stunning 100%. Stumbled across a documentary on the movie tonight on TV and realised I could relate to it....only it dawned on me after 15 years or so. Incredible isn't it.
Excerpts from the final season's last episode of The Wonder Years (1988).
"Things never turn out exactly the way you planned. I know they didn't with me. Still, like my father used to say, 'Traffic's traffic, you go where life takes you' and growing up happens in a heartbeat. One day you're in diapers, the next you're gone, but the memories of childhood stay with you for the long haul. I remember a time a place, a particular fourth of July, the things that happened in that decade of war and change. I remember a house like a lot of houses, a yard like a lot of yards, on a street like a lot of other streets. I remember how hard it was growing up among people and places I loved. Most of all, I remember how hard it was to leave. And the thing is, after all these years I still look back in wonder."
"All of our young lives we search for someone to love. Someone that makes us complete. We choose partners and change partners. We dance to a song of heartbreak and hope. All the while wondering if somewhere, somehow, there's someone perfect who might be searching for us."
"I learned that sometimes growing apart means growing together" -
Excerpts from the final season's last episode of The Wonder Years (1988).
"Things never turn out exactly the way you planned. I know they didn't with me. Still, like my father used to say, 'Traffic's traffic, you go where life takes you' and growing up happens in a heartbeat. One day you're in diapers, the next you're gone, but the memories of childhood stay with you for the long haul. I remember a time a place, a particular fourth of July, the things that happened in that decade of war and change. I remember a house like a lot of houses, a yard like a lot of yards, on a street like a lot of other streets. I remember how hard it was growing up among people and places I loved. Most of all, I remember how hard it was to leave. And the thing is, after all these years I still look back in wonder."
Kevin Arnold (The Narrator)
"All of our young lives we search for someone to love. Someone that makes us complete. We choose partners and change partners. We dance to a song of heartbreak and hope. All the while wondering if somewhere, somehow, there's someone perfect who might be searching for us."
Kevin Arnold (The Narrator)
"I learned that sometimes growing apart means growing together" -
Kevin Arnold (The Narrator)
"When you're a little kid you're a bit of everything; Scientist, Philosopher, Artist. Sometimes it seems like growing up is giving these things up one at a time. "
Kevin Arnold (The Narrator)
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