On poetry

Just read a beautiful song at Ankur's blog and had to write some comments.

Though the technical aspects of the poetry - for that matter literature - is beyond me , I always liked them. They can convey so much with so few words. When silence is not enough and prose too heavy, use poetry to convey your feelings... Well that definitely forces me to understand the technical aspects of one - but then does one need that knowledge to appreciate good poetry?

Yes, the tech knowledge gives you greater details about the poem and admire not only the meaning but the poet's talent as well.

The Dark Knight

Just came back from the movie - yes on a workday - The Dark Knight. I was not very enthusiastic about it on Friday when my friend suggested that we should catch it. But on Sunday, karma favoring me, it was on local channel and I was able to watch its part 1. I loved it - both the Batman Begins and The Dark Knight.

One of my favourite part of the movie was the ship situation. The Joker puts 2 group of people in 2 ships - 1 with criminals and other with ordinary people. He tells them that there is bomb in both and detonator in other ship. So if they don't blow each other by 12 midnight - he will blow up both.

What fascinated me was not everyone rushes to get the detonator and blow each other up. Ofcours batman saves the day by ensuring that the Joker don't blow them up but it strengthens my belief that people do not react to a situation as we assume them to do.

We assume that everyone thinks alike - but they don't. However, we presume that they will and we don't give them a chance to prove otherwise. Hence, we end up loosing out on lot of things. I am not saying that people are totally unpredictable, but that they are not very predictable. We need to give people chance.

I had huge argument with my friend on above. She is having issues with her current manager and I asked her to raise it to HR and head of Ops. But she didn't want to because she assumed that HR would react according to rules and head of Ops would just listen to the managers. My argument was - so what - if they do then at the best you might have to quit job - which you are still planning to do. SO why not give them a chance to help you out! I don't know what is doing but I do hope that she does give them a chance to help.

Bottomline, don't consider yourself at good understanding of a person - give them a chance to surprise you.

Here Is Your Pen Scanner, Mr. Bond - New York Times

My voracious reading and desperate need to collect information and ideas - I need to slow down my reading and take notes as I go. Unacceptable.

So my next gadget is going to be this pen scanner! Amazing stuff - time to research and find the best one. Time to take my reading habit high tech.

Here Is Your Pen Scanner, Mr. Bond - New York Times