Month: October 2004

  • The games people Play

    Monopoly, yup, the board game alright. One of my fave games ever, though there are some uncharitable people who call it a game that gets you bored. A couple of months back, i had bought the computer version of the game, and have been addicted since. this weekend, i finished the 15th and final level, so i thought i had to write a post on it, thereby slightly altering the ‘introspection’ scheme of things to the ‘my diary’ kind…but let me assure you that its only a temporary aberration, which shall be rectified in this post itself…
    hmm, back to monopoly, for those who are regulars, the comp version is slightly different coz there are different levels, with each level having a different objective. also some things like having to own all locations of the same color before starting construction have been bypassed, which actually makes it much better.
    as with all the games i play, i tried to find a link between me, the person, and the game i am playing…. monopoly allows you to completely destroy your opponent, using whatever cheap trick (read strategy) that you can think of, it allows you to toy with your opponent’s future and plans, and if you are real good at the game, put him in situations that will make him do exactly what you want him to do… all of which are things that get done in today’s world….but fortunately or unfortunately not the things i could bring myself to do in my current ‘love and peace to all’ avtar (which looks to be more and more a permanent state of affairs)..hehe…
    and so, do i like games like monopoly, delta force, unreal etc coz they allow me to be someone i am not, manifest myself in a form that i cannot be ‘really’… and so again, is it possible for all of us to find our own games, take out the rage , frustration, deviousness etc on the game, so that we can stop playing games on other people??
    until next time, keep playing

  • Choice of joys

    Please consider this hypothetical question – If God gave you a choice between 30 (no more, no less) years of life with only joys/happiness and 60 years of life of joys and sorrows, which one would you choose?
    that was a serious question, but this

    Should However Invoke Tickles
    Little Johnny was sitting in class doing math problems when his teacher picked him to answer a question, “Johnny, if there were five birds sitting on a fence and you shot one with your gun, how many would be left?”
    “None,” replied Johnny, “cause the rest would fly away.”
    “Well, the answer is four,” said the teacher, “but I like the way you’re thinking.”
    Little Johnny says, “I have a question for you. If there were three women eating ice cream cones in a shop, one was licking her cone, the second was biting her cone and the third was sucking her cone, which one is married?”
    “Well,” said the teacher nervously, “I guess the one sucking the cone.”
    “No,” said Little Johnny, “the one with the wedding ring on her finger, but I like the way you’re thinking.”

    and someone’s humble contribution to the Taj’s birthday –

    Taj Mahal kya cheez hai
    main to usse bhi bada mahal banaoonga,
    aree Mumtaz to marke dafan hui thi,
    main to tujhe zinda hi dafna doonga.

    until next time, bury the thoughts….