The prophecy by The Who

Blind Kid
This is brilliant- reminds me of the song Pinball wizard, now is this a prophecy????
The deaf dumb and blind kid, sure plays mean.....

Song: Wicker man

Things in the world

Nothing comes free in the world, there is always a thread attached....
And you think the thread is free????

Highland Games!!!!!

Back after a brief hiatus. Been very busy at work, sleep deprived, tempers flaring all over and disgruntled in a very obvious way. The only highlight of the past two weeks was my birthday (23rd). The birthday by itself wasnt all that fun, but I got to see the much spoken about Highland games in Inverness.
The history of highland games dates back to centuries and the tradition still carries on, with added modernisation. A huge congregation of people from all over the highlands, England and Asia were there. The traditional scottish games were a total display of brawn all over the place. The three events fun to watch were the shotput, Throwing the heavy stone and Caber. The shotput was not like the shotput we have seen, but was a hybrid of short put and hammer throw, except that the hammer chain was absent instead it was a wooden stick with a short put at its end.
Throwning the heavy stone was to throw the heavy weight around 15-20kgs or probably even more over a high jump kind of pole. They had to stand below this and hurl it over the bar. Yea, they had to watch out for the falling stone and see that it didnt fall over their heads. The winner threw it over 17 feel.
The best was the Caber. The caber is a 16 feel long pole weighing almost 15kgs. The idea of throwing the caber is to topple it over. For this to happen, the caber has to land in such a way that it is 90 degrees, so that there is a chance for it to fall over. The weight and the height of the caber makes it almost impossible to topple the caber over. I recon this needs brute strenght.
The Irish three time shotput gold medallist was there, surprisingly he didnt win any of the events.
Apart from these events I did finally see the ceilidth dancing. It was just too brilliant, I probably will join for ceilidth dancing soon. The Bagpipers bands were there in all their grandoise. The sound of the bagpipes I think are rich, unique which I say have come about to enjoy. Infact, I know the tunes of quite a few songs, which suprises me. I havent really heard many celtic/gaelic songs.
I tried to find out about the history of the highland games. The games in the medival ages were between different clans. This I understand was quite brutal. During First Jacobite Rising, the scotts clan chiefs made special use of runners who had distinguished themselves in informal but noteworthy games and tournament. Bodyguards of clan chiefs were men who proved their strength in wrestling contests. Some aspects are less certain. The tossing of the caber history says that it may have had its origins in the throwing of a two-handed, heavy war-spear. Now it is part of the ritual. The caber itself was originally the roof tree or part of the roof tree of a house.
This rich tradition is still carried on in the present time though a highly organised event. I regret that I forgot to take my camera, hopefully get to see the games once more entirely for the photos.

Song: bad motor scooter ( beats me, first time I have heard it )

life, dont talk to me about life

-Targeted
- stifled
- despair
- bludgeoned
- Drowning
- Sink to Abyss
- Darkness - no light, no sense of direction - lost ( but am i breathing???)



Mood : Bah!!!!!

Holy wars!!!!

The one kind of people I can't tolerate are bigots and religious fanatics. They cause problems everywhere they go. If you deal with them for all their atrocities they do, they say you discriminate against they religon, they call others blasphemous and are up in arms, callously causing mayhem to innocent civilians. They call it the 'Holy war', a crusade against the people who dont share the same ideology.
Yesterday's incident in London, show to a great extent the the irrational demeanor of the JIHADIS. It is really amazing the amount of hatered they have bottled up. Have the people in the world mistreated, shunned them so much? Or it is just a sad excuse they give for being total failures in life? I think it is the latter reason.
In either case it is not doing any good to them or the society by maiming or killing innocent people. The countries affected are going to be more stoic in their resolve to solve this problem. An article which I agree with said "The war against jihadi terrorism cannot be won without effective action against states, which have been using them, conniving with their activities or tolerating them in their territory. The international community has to find a more effective way of dealing with the jihadi terrorist and proliferation infrastructure in the territories of countries that harbour them".
The other thing that has been bothering me is the lingering issue of "disputed site" in Ayodhya.
A few militants have tried to blow up the make shift temple there. The hindus thus angered are marching up. Communal riots are bound to follow. The whole nation stands still worrying. Nothing happens except for few muslims killing hindus and vice-versa. I think we have heard this story time and again. I dont see any difference between the hindu, christian and jehadi fanatics.
"Religion" as my friend says has lost its cause. It has lost all the casue for which it had been created. All it portends now is hatred and more hatred. It is a lost cause....

Song: Imagine ( ahh.. Panacea)