Why we need the less intellectually gifted

Be warned well in advance, this blog is all about snobberism. So sometime back I was having a conversation with another friend of mine and we were criticizing a few people trying far too desperately to come off as one of the so called intellectual lot. And this thought just struck me for a second- would we really feel this awesome about ourselves if our daily dose of moronic fellow human beings weren't there with us? I don't think so. The Americans have put forward this theory you see, you might be considered a nerd in high school today. You might be bullied by the 'popular kids' today but tomorrow is a whole different story. See American Schools really are how they show in the movies most of the time, you have the 'jocks and the cheerleaders' and you have the nerds. It doesn't take much of a genius level IQ to realise that the nerds will be the successful ones in the future.

Now Indians are a different lot. We can't stand to be stuck with this blatant polarisation. In fact we'd go- "hell we can be both!" And yes we try and most of us FAIL with a resounding thud. I mean come on lets be honest, how hilarious is it when you hear someone go, "yeah yeah, i totally agree" followed by enthusiastic head bobbing... a friend of mine actually once asked the person to elaborate more on a point she had previously stated and you know what we got? One blank stare. Of course we felt good. Because if we were all the same in every way, we'd never have the competition. We'd never want to be better, we'd never dream big. And yes we're snobs. Very few of us will admit to it but we're glad the dumber ones are there. Don't deny it! You love it when you get something that some people don't. I've observed this quite a lot right from tiny tot land. Cause you know this 'oh i totally understand what she's saying' is followed by a snicker, a conceited little snicker. Personally I miss those days. I'm in a class where not one person has a 12th percentage below 93 at least. Its downright disturbing. And I'm gonna say it, someone has to! I miss the idiots... :(

Mirror Mirror on the wall, whose the biggest bigot of them all?

So i was reading the movie reviews today and Mr. insufferable (aka Emraan hashmi, twin of Himesh Reshamiya or vice versa) has a movie called Crook out which is about the Indian bashings in Aussieland. So in the entire thing this one line really caught my attention- both the Indians and the Aussies are equally racist. don't get me wrong you'd still have to shoot me dead before i go and get brain hemorrhage from Mr. insufferable's acting but at least one film-maker is ready to see our part too in all of this. This entire media portrayal of us as simply the innocent victims and what not is simply one sided. And isn't the media by definition supposed to be a neutral element? Their job is to present the facts not twist it further. I'm not saying the Aussies are right, I'm saying that we have to wake up to our own fault in this. I mean how would you feel if you were denied a job, one that you desperately need and later find out that some outsider got it instead? It's human nature. And honestly it'd happen here too... hell its already happening here. Invasion is one word that really gets to us. It brainwashes us so completely that we refuse to see reason. The Aussies just want one thing- they want their jobs to remain with them. And honestly its fair. These people, most of them are illegal aliens. They take huge loans for 'student' expenses and then when they reach foreign shores work illegally as cab drivers, waiters.. the likes. And people hiring them don't miond cause they do it at less than half the price of a white native. So in the end the alarm bells go ding ding ding. And the 'invasion' must be stopped. If you go watch War of the Worlds you'll know what they're feeling. Also i would like to bring up the issue as to why o' why do most fo us have to go and do this entire- Our superior culture dance in front of them? I thought the whole reason for wanting to go to settle in another country was to learn more about theirs? Not go and slap ours on their faces and go- we're all high n moralistic and you're all sluts... What gives? Also guys, just cause the idiotland of India (aka Bollywood) likes to portray their women as loose doesn't make it true. I've heard enough from friends abroad about how 'brownies' like to behave that all their women want to do is to have sex with anything that moves and also how they shroud themselves among their own cliques and gangs of saas-bahu addicts. If you scream tolerance at them, think about this- are we tolerant ourselves? And lets face it all those fairness cream commercials don't help us much on the anti racism front either. So before yelling at the Aussies, how bout a little lookie in the old mirror first?

when i grow up

so i was talking to a friend just now, he's in haridwar with hippies. freaking awesome ain't it? so after that i was thinking- what would i do if i had absolute freedom... that one damn thing that would make me go - now i can die in peace.... well honestly for me it'd be a road trip- see all those places that I'd never been to... I'm not talking about gay destination spots like London or Dubai or any other place that any wuss can just take a plane ticket to just so that you can come back , home and say you shopped here and there.. no I'm talking about the real deal, couantries like Romania, Bosnia Herzegovina, Slovakia, Peru, Chile, Argentina.... the amazon even! i mean places that make you go, " this is what life is" and you discover people and cultures so different from your own. i guess the feeling's kind of hard to explain but to me its the one thing i want to do most in life. i knw that there are a lot of wonderful and awe inspiring places out there and i know that someday i'm gonna go there myself and see... least that's the plan. people hope to grow up and become doctors, engineers or just folks with a lot of cash and an easy life in the future but for me its doing something incredible before i die, just for myself, i guess its because i have this strange manic obsession with living life the way i want cause i know that if i don't i'll die unhappy and that's my biggest fear in life.