DECISION STATS

Heroin

I had hoped for a miracle

Had hoped for some relief

When we met I thought she was my insulin

She enhanced my long term grief

�

For while a drug looks from outside

It can be tricky never be sure

What looks like insulin from the outside

Can turn out to be heroin 90 % pure

�

For once addicted to

The chemicals and the rush of blood

You almost treat inevitable

Sad droughts and angry floods

Of Misery and Of Tears Respective

As the emotions ebb and flow

Stuck with an addiction thats legal

You wonder where to go.

�

Some relationships are like heroin

Addictive and yet impure

What started oh so seductive

Leads to a deadly lure

�

And my beloved you are my heroin

My salvation and my once promised cure

Some day I will be cured or dead from you

Till then we argue some more

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Terrorist Brother

(after the Saturday attacks on 14 September that killed some 20 people in my city Delhi)

after the �Nov 27 attacks that killed 101 people in Bombay, Mumbai

�

O Terrorists, So near and yet So far.

Distracting us with explosions that jar.

Are you a man, or Are you a su-ar.

�

Sending emails before the bombs go,

Do you think this is some movie show.

Your bombs kill Muslims and Hindus today,

Unlike you, they dont stray.

�

Whats our fault, that we went to the park that day,

to rest for a while, our children to play.

Our government sucks, we couldnt agree more,

But have you tried some other method before.

�

We would have joined you, Saying�

This government is a clown.

Tell me, brother terrorist,

Why so serious , Why the frown.

Dont bomb this website,

Its bombed thrice enough,

Thanks to servers,

Which cant keep up.

�

Try and think, you�

were once a boy.

Loved ones you had,

I am sorry if they went away.

�

Its not our fault,�

Try to hate the government�

with out hating each other.

Else we are just pawns on eaither side

My terrorist brother.

�

As Gandhi said, he was an old man

Long Ago.

An eye for an eye will leave

A world of blind for sure.

�

Terrorist brother ,time to wake up�

Smell the Coffee.

It may smell like victory today,

but no lunches are free.

�

As the Book said,and it is true

Those who live by the sword.

Will die by it too.

�

Death will reach you,

Reach your door.

No matter how high you be,

No matter how brave you were before.

�

In those last dying moments,

Terrorist brother, you may�dream of the Angel to come.

there are no hoories in hell,

and no glories in a death dumb.

Banning Offline Shopping

Still on the mind numbing trip for shopping – I am thinking can governments give a deadline for transitioning out offline shopping.

Offline shopping should be banned as compared to online shopping because-

1) It leads to lots of needless inventory so that huge stores do not look empty. The excess inventory benefits the manufacturers ( mostly Chinese) and hurts the retailer ( mostly local).

2) Demand prediction is obviously worse so it will lead to spare inventory anyways.

3) It encourages excess debt consumption.

Now people might want to sit up and say that both 1) consumption and 2) retail sector jobs are good for the economy.I agree transitionally this will lead to job cuts .But customers would be better off and retailers would save huge costs ( no more land for huge malls)

This is an ideal solution for Asian countries like India that can simply leapfrog from Mom and Pop stores to internet marketing malls than go in for the epensive intermediates of big offline malls. Though the Chinese may not be so happy it ultimately could lead to huge benefits to the West as well it would create huge jobs in the online space.

And yes bars and resteraunts would still be offline. You can not make dining out as an online experience —

Banning Plastic Bags

Dragged to yet another shopping trip by the better half I could not help but thinking- What if all plastic bags were banned. Then people would have to carry bags from home .

Thats doable – right ? And a small price for saving the environment – right ?

So how about banning plastic bags.

Ps- Also it makes shopping/retail sales lesser atractive ……………………………but thats true anyways.

Image from-

http://www.sustainableisgood.com/blog/2007/03/plastic_shoppin.html

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