Wassup Doc???

News today on Yahoo:
1. Raging California wildfire forces 10,000 to evacuate.
2. Obama moves to political center on surveillance vote.
3. Prosecutors clear JonBenet Ramsey's family with DNA
4. Survey: Nearly half of Britain's troops have considered quitting.
5. Suburban families feel financial pinch as U.S. fuel prices soar.
6. New flatfish solves missing link in evolutionary theory.

World News :
1. Iran test fires missiles.
2. 7 peacekeepers killed .... and so on.

But featured news : Impossible to get new shoes : Kobe has a pair. But getting the shoes Marty McFly made famous in "Back to the Future" isn't easy.Is it just me or is the world of news moving more and more towards absolute bullshit?
The world is in chaos. The economy is screwed up. The job market is bare. Inflation is skyrocketing. Fuel prices seem like highway robbery. More people are dying in a war that has never really taken place in a land almost half way across the globe. And while all this is happening, the featured news is, shoes are impossible to get.
Any teenager today knows exactly what is wrong with Britney and Paris. But ask where is Iraq, and they won’t be able to spot it on the globe. Forget the number of troops perishing there.Every grownup has an opinion about religion, but ask him about Green house effect and global warming, and he will say "What has painting a house green got to do with the increasing temp around the globe." And even the ones who know, don’t know how the increase in temp. is going to affect them. Some even say its a hoax, amongst the biggest ones ever. No matter the world is seeing the exactly the effects predicted at a pace much faster than predicted. The proof is available and proves the theory beyond doubt. People believe in god simply because some book written some hundred years ago says so, but cant draw simple conclusions on hard facts.

Movies gross amounts with so many zeros that make your mind go dizzy, Movie stars are demigods. Their lifestyle and attitude, today’s culture and bible. But care to know any thing about people who actually made a difference in the world? Any one know the story of Mother Teresa? Gandhi? Any of the real heroes? How bout the heroes still among us? May be not for their philanthropic work, but because of their vision and the effect they have had on the world?May be even crazy lunatics like Hitler. Even if what he did was scandalous and evil, but knowing what he did and the source of his power will act as a lesson for the world in may ways. At the very least, we will know what to prevent in the future. But how many know about history?We live in a world that is numb. I don’t mean numb to pain and suffering and all that. I mean brain dead. We have lost our ability to differentiate between that which matters and that which doesn’t.
Sports are a big event. Death matters not. Crime matters not. War matters not. World matters not. Life matters not.....
I heard of Iran launching missiles and therefore checked the news, and the featured news was : some shoes worn by some hero in an age old movie was launched by a company and worn by another sports star and the "fans" are unhappy because not enough of the shoes were made. In fact they are selling for a 1000 bucks online. ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS for a pair of shoes. That is more than the annual income of people in some countries! That can feed a thousand people a meal for a day in some countries! That will be more than what some people earn a month even in this country!
Einstein said "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." People sometimes go to all possible limits and beyond to prove others right.I am not going to judge what is wrong in today’s world. I cant, not as long as I am a part of it. My judgment might be clouded. I therefore cannot comment on what needs to be done to fix it. But I believe we can start by accepting that there is something wrong with it.What is wrong will depend on your perspective. Once again to quote Einstein "Whether you can observe a thing or not depends on the theory which you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed." A religious fanatic will say lack of belief is the problem, a scientist might argue its the lack of logic. Some try to fix things which aren’t necessarily broken, others break stuff just to have something to fix.And while all this is happening, the majority of the species sleeps in deep slumber.

Awake, Arise, Act. For the time of change is now. Its the time of great need and great deeds. Men might wander, but Man can lead.Its a world in chaos. Its a world in peril.Its one earth, one planet, one home. Lets fix the roof for its leaking. I want to see the wonders of this world someday and I mean to save it for the future.

Bucket List - Updated!

5. Go camping. (DONE.. wanna do it again)
4. Learn Rock Climbing (DONE! LOVED IT... hope to do this again)
11. Try to make/create/put into practice at least 1 of my ideas. (Made, rather remade DaVinci's Crypt. Maybe it wasnt my idea to make something like it, but I had to design it from scratch and I built it... ok it was done with cardboard, but it was still fun and gave me a sense of acomplishment. :) Will continue doing more. Maybe an automatic Vaccume cleaner, it has been been on my mind for some time now.)
12. Create a collection of Books and CDs/DVDs (Have a collection of books, though no where near enough :D. But the reading bug is wearing off now. Hope to get bitten again sometime soon. Got a lot of movies, good ones too but on my HD. Does that count? I can make my house a complet wireless one. Will be awesome to work with that kind of freedom where I can access any movie from any cornor of my house without worry of my DVD's/CD's getting scratched)
9. Write a book (On my way... a lot more difficult that I thought it would be, especially I didnt make it easy by planning a saga rather than a bunch of short stories :( But I shall not give up. After all this is part of my Bucket LIST :D)
6. Go trecking. (This seems a lot closer to being accomplished. I might get to do it in the near future! WOOT!. )
10. Learn to Sketch. (This was because of a girl. Now that she is out of the picture, I dont see the fun in it anymore. Ohh well, it was on my bucket list, maybe I will give it a shot too.)

1. Sky Diving
2. Learn to play guitar.
3. Learn to play Violin.
7. Learn French.
8. Learn German
13. Hot air baloon ride.

Wow! the rest take a lot more time, effort or money. But I think I can do them too. Need more stuff on my Bucket list. Its not been 2 years and I have gone through half of them!
Well hope to get new ideas, intrests or hobbies soon :)