Crime spree... this is pretty serious.

I remember coming to I C Colony around 17 years back. When my building was just some brick and mortar starting to climb up from the red dust that was near the Gorai creek line, I thought 'Is papa seriously thinking of shifting us to this ... this ... Sahara Desert?' For it sure looked like a desert to me ... all red clay, no a soul for miles around, no shops and definitely no transport hubs.

By the time our home was complete and ready for us to move into, there were other constructions already on. Pretty soon, I C Colony lost its fresh jungle look. As the years went on, more and more sophistication settled in and now its allegedly one of the posher areas in Borivli.

With that much of progress, me and most of the happy people in I C were pretty happy that we did not see many burglaries, save the odd one during the still of the summer vacations.

All that has changed within a span of a year. 3 gruesome murders within a span of a year and a half, and one of them a little baby. I hear whispered comments of 'I C is no longer a safe haven.' I happen to disagree. I believe that you are as safe as you try to make your life. Barring accidents, which I classify as acts of Destiny, there is nothing to make life dangerous in I C Colony's quite lanes.

When I try to think of what could have happened to increase the incidence of crime in this colony, I can only come up with one reason - Conspicuous Consumption of wealth. A lot of very very rich people live in this area, own flats, drive swanky vehicles. But while these are the obvious signs of prosperity, there is also a dark underbelly to life in I C. These are the immigrant workers, the lay unskilled man on the street who makes his living by hiring out himself to building contractors, and last but not the least, the children of the less-than-well-to-do people.

I do not paint all of them with the same brush of being blinded by the conspicuous wealth on display, but the fact remains that there are some who are unable to hold off the temptation to try and make some quick money.

For instance, the double murder of Glenda Lobo's mother and her infant son Dylan. Those are teenage kids accused of the most horrible kind of crime, for God's sake!! While one can understand a poor man trying to make off with valuables and knocking off someone in the process (though a crime is a crime is a crime any way you look at it), I can't digest kids murdering ladies and babies for pocket money!!

Makes me wonder what kind of sc$#ed up generation I live in. Peer pressure is easy to blame but I don't believe that it holds water any more. Do your friends tell you that if you aren't wearing so-and-so brand, you are 'uncool'? It's just a perception, for God's sake! I am as cool as I perceive myself (maybe it's just me and being pretty unconventional here) and I don't feel the need to conform to a common standard of 'passable maal'.

But I guess for today's spoilt brats (and not all Gen X kids are brats) to control their anger, they need to be weaned off AXN and Steven Seagal and of course, the omnipresent RPG ... the one I hear most quoted is Quake. And I see what it makes of the people I work with, when they are in game play mode.

Come off it, people!! Life is a different reality.

Two days later...

After the two-day hiatus, I'm back but without much to add. What does one add to a Blog? Does one update it regularly? Define 'regular'.

Ah ... just remembered something. I like watching those Ads. Sure, they are a nuisance when you are in the middle of a nail-biting climax in the movie, but they are a welcome break in between those boring shots of two stunted dudes running between 2 pairs of wickets on a baked pitch somewhere in Australia. LOL

Currently, the Hutch Ad tops my list of favourites. Its fun to watch that pudgy dog follow the kid over a rickety bridge and when the dog gets the kid caught at hide-and-seek. LOL

The next favourite is the Cadbury's one featuring Amitach Bachchan ... the one where he gives a lift to a young lady, who does not realise who her co-passenger is till the car is moving. :-) The Perk ad is a good one too ... the lady gym instructor gets her just desserts after chastising a later comer. Rrrrrip!! LOL

There's something about well-made ads. By well-made I do not mean jazzy, hi-fi shots (this is most visible in bike ads) .. just a good concept and sensible execution.

That's it for today I think. Or maybe more later ... LOL

I'm Me

Pretty much the average Indian metropolitan neurotic female with a good job and a social life that sucks, really bad. Late twenties, not much to look at but hey, my wit kills me. LOL

I like messaging shortforms like LOL (Laughing Out Loud, for the uninitiated) which incidentally appears a lot in nearly all text that's written by moi (causing a few frowns and umpteen #@#$#@#$#).

Not at all poetically inclined, but I like prose. I love to read, read and read some more and I get to live this coz I'm a content editor. Sometimes I end up cleaning a lot of garbage, but most of the time, it's a rewarding job, both monetarily and in terms of satisfaction. Considering the fact that I spend most of my days staring at text on the screen, it isn't the least bit boring thanks to my love of reading.

I also like the virtual online community for the anonymity that it provides. Hey, when online, you are as beautiful, clever, wealthy ..no, make that filthy rich... you are everything you want to be and aren't ... your words are you, not your mugshot. LOL

I'm also vertically challenged with a propensity to grow outwards (!) when depressed. LOL Which is why I try to keep myself happy all the time (and succeed pretty much in making everyone else guffaw!) LOL

I have some beautiful friends (I'm thankful to God for that) who are my life support, especially in the crucial time that I'm going through. I read somewhere that best friends are the siblings God forgot to give us. True. LOL I'm fond of saying 'I'm fit and fat, how about you?' LOLOL

That's me.