india-china, india-japan courting?

"I recognise that India is stridently emerging as a global power, aided by robust economic growth, and that it has become a major country essential for peace, stability and prosperity of Asia and beyond," Koizumi was quoted as saying in The Hindu newspaper.

"China reiterates that we attach great importance to the important role of India in the international affairs. India is a very populous, developing country and is also very important developing country," said Jiabao.

"With my visit to India, it is my intention to reinforce our relationship ... with a new strategic orientation in a new Asian era, to take our partnership to a new height of regional and global significance," Koizumi said.

"China attaches great importance to developing good neighbourly relations and friendly co-operation with India" Jiabao said.

see a trend? the japanese prime minister followed close on the footsteps of the chinese premier to india - they both said the same things - only china had that border issue with india that japan did not have.

both the japanese and the chinese said almost verbatim - Business is the most important part of our relationship. china has that relationship, japan wants it. wonder who's going to get it. inspite of our many problems with china, we have 14 bn dollars trade with them and barely 4 bn with japan with whom we have pretty much no history at all, good or bad. its a weird world of business.

blogging

blogging is either the ultimate arrogance or the ultimate desparation. i cannot decide.

arrogance coz you write something and assume people want to read it and will tell you what they think - as if your opinion counts for shit! mine in this case. or desparation - nobody listens to you in real life and you want, wish people to listen to you in cyberspace. or just hope in vain.

im not sure which category i fall in. could be both, or may be i just like the sound of my own voice; there is something supremely gratifying in knowing that my opinions are there for anybody to read, whether anybody actually reads it or not.

nobody has posted any comments yet but i started blogging only yesterday, so im not too heartbroken.

class quotes

say it after me- wiki anything is god. you know you want to :D

i was clicking on "random page" when on the 6th or 7th click (after daniel stern, list of suburbs in victoria, lik-sang.com and others of that ilk) i landed on p.g.wodehouse. serendipity! i went to wikiquotes from there and i've been spending the last one hour lokking thro quotes by jeeves, honoria glossop, bertie, bingo, elmsworth, psmith, and others.

i know it sounds like im jobless. i have work to do, but somethings are more important than a paycheck. :D

fav quotes from wodehouse - (did ya know its pronounced woodhouse?? the things you learn from wiki!)

• And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.
• He trusted neither of them as far as he could spit, and he was a poor spitter, lacking both distance and control.
• 'Yes, sir,' said Jeeves in a low, cold voice, as if he had been bitten in the leg by a personal friend.
• It is not aunts that matter, but the courage that one brings to them.
• Like so many substantial citizens of America, he had married young and kept on marrying, springing from blonde to blonde like the chamois of the Alps leaping from crag to crag.
• A sort of gulpy, gurgly, plobby, squishy, wofflesome sound, like a thousand eager men drinking soup in a foreign restaurant.
• I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
• Mere abuse is no criticism.
• The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

these are all from wikiquote but when i find more i'll put them here.

i wonder who this "you" person is? i have this mental image of a software programmer, with that inescapable id card, spectacles, oily hair (ugh), in an orange cubicle in a large room full of orange cubicles, reading this and wondering why on earth s/he came to this link :D yes? no? maybe?

religion - so many q's

i dont understand it, i dont want it, i dont believe in it. but i am interested in understanding the huge power that it wields; i want to know why, how and when religions evolved..

why are people willing to die, kill and sell their children for religion. why do christian missionaries pay poor people to convert to christianity, why do muslim fanatics think its ok to kill in the name of allah, why does vhp think all hindus give a damn about hindutva, why do sikhs carry knives, why are there not many more jains and buddhists?

what is it about religion that everybody think only their religion has all the answers and everythink else is "unholy", "unworthy", and not the "real and true god".

which brings me to another question.. why only one true god. i havent put g in god in caps for 2 reasons- 1. its a lot easier to type without caps,and 2. capital g implies a name, a proper noun, one person(or god in this case) who answers to that name.

so many whys, and the answers are so unconvincing.

i kinda prefer the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy or chariots of the gods kinda answer to creation, existance and stuff.. but even that leaves a lot of q;s unanswered. i guess its foolish to expect answers to questions taht have been asked since "man could think" and all that shit.

boring life boring job but sick of complaining

im sick of complaining about my boring life, my boring internship, my boring everything. i would love to have a room full of books and food... all the trashy thrillers, all the spooky pscho stories, all the comics, all the legal 'thrillers', all the travelogues, any nonsense that exists... since i dont see myself getting that in the near future, i have created this blog to keep myself occupied during the day; to keep myself from self-combusting due too an over-heated imagination and no way to act it out.