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i didn't know what to do for the forum this weekend. before the attacks on bombay, i'd wanted to do the next set of top five lists, the "ph-hand-ooh" (read "fundu") thread, a "bring back the court case" plea to the mnstr. for the last two days, i've not had the heart or brain to do anything. poor bombay, my poor city. and then i figured that i'd do my wtf. and this one is devoted to bombay and her suffering this week. and if i don't get thrown out of the forum for it, i'll try to do the rest as well! (btw, today's interpretation of wtf comes from the right to choose and the right to personal freedom. today, what the wtf stands for is totally upto you.)
* wtf#0: the way that bombay grabs my heart and steals it away - like prem-heer do. bombay, her ways, her streets, her people are prem-heer. seriously.
i've been all over the place in india, and i have never understood why i get more charmed by this city than any other place in india. others give so much more to admire. delhi's chandni chowk and it's hustle-bustle makes you feel you're in the middle of a bollywood set. delhi's raisina hill with the most beautiful admistrative center in the whole world (i dare anyone to deny this) making the largest gulp in your throat with pride in your country. delhi's many mughal tombs making you feel you are in as holy a place as being surrounded by the himalayas and buddists monastries in ladakh, or the mecca masjid in hyderabad, or the superb temples of mysore, or the golden temple in amritsar, or the solemnness when you stand in the victoria memorial in calcutta, or the sweetness of being in the little temples in trivandrum. but bombay is where you feel like removing your chappals, throwing away your umbrella and jumping in the rain with your whole heart. where in a traffic jam, you get out and steer the traffic 'cause it's your family. where it's natural to sit down on the same sea-side wall and eat roasted corn rubbing elbows with a family of eight on one side of you, and a posh couple drinking coke on the other side of you. what's common is that none of you have a care in the world.
'cause bombay makes you feel ... just right. not a smidgeon of dark, bad, wrong, unright. just like the feeling of watching prem-heer. that they're just ... right.
edit add: read lana (lghosh) comments and put this in
('cause she is right -- what i wrote above is my feelings for bombay. this is what actually happened to my poor city.)
*wtf#1: in what has happened to bombay, bombay, the south bombay hotels, the people who had to die because of this are like heer&meher. dirtchachi has plotted against heer from the beginning. sometimes, luck favoured dirtchachi -- like when balraj and teji maan both decide to sacrifice themselves and their children's life to the concept of living and dying together. just like an absurd stroke of luck for the terrorists when the three most capable people in the ats/bombay police force got killed at the very beginning of this whole episode -- primarily because of bad equipment and good luck for the terrorists! đ and sometimes, dirtchachi deliberately plotted to hurt them. but the effect is the same. misery and destruction. meher came out of it with no confidence in herself completely. both of them have spent hours feeling miserable and alone. and that is what has happened to bombay too. for the first time, people are shaken out of their "chalta-hai" attitude. they are scared. they are wary. they want more protection. but like heer's love for prem remained strong, i love that the people of bombay are not going out on a war against muslims or even against pakistan because of these attacks! they remain sensible. and true. go bombay. you are the best city in my world. you rock. and i hope this time your hope will give us a safer country, safer lives, more confidence and greater happiness because of what has happened. just like heer got her prem and dirtchachi lost. and heer will get her prem back after ratpal loses! *fiercely w&w-ing for this as much as for sensible anti-terrorists policies from the indian government!!!!*
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* wtf#2: the moron snipers with their toys of destruction are like lalit juneja. they grab attention with nothing good to offer back at all. wtf! đ˛
they are young and fit. they speak well and have skills. and yet, they ignore all that they have. they kill what they have. and worse, they kill what others have. with absolutely no point at all. just like lalit juneja. who has money. fame. the most wonderful family. and yet, he acts like a selfish brainless life-sucking, happiness-sucking ... creature! to absolutely no point at all.
y'know? i wondered whether the moron snipers should not be the same as veera. but then, i realised: when she wanted to grab attention, she chose to kill herself! veera is better than the moron snipers. never thought i'd ever see the day when i put veera above anyone else. but i have. as always, veera's true problem is that she is boring. sadly enough, evil can't be called 'boring'.
* wtf#3: the terrorists who planned this are like dirtchachi.
they collect their information from all kinds of places. the floor plans of the taj. maps of bombay from google earth. and they schemed to have maximum impact. the heads of these organisations are the true evil. the moron snipers are just the idiots who carry out their orders indirectly. like dirtchachi who explicitly went out to destroy the lives of her nieces. and she did it using the idiot lalit juneja to carry out her "plan". these terrorists just want to see other people unhappy. like dirtchachi who explicitly wanted to see heer-meher unhappy. what i can't figure is just... unlike dirtchachi who also ultimately wanted wealth, what do these poop-piles of evil morons want? đ
* wtf#4: the mumbai police force are like ... kul-di and probably her husband. they have good intentions and want to help. but they are not equipped enough.
* wtf#5: the nsg commandos are like ..... prem! when they get going, they don't stop until they have won. 'cause they fight. and fight. and fight. like prem did.
* wtf#6: the people of the world who watched in horror, helplessly, are like gayatri-mom. *sigh*
* wtf#7: the newspeople/channels are like the director+camera-crew+editors at balaji telefilms/show-channels. they bring us the package of what is going on.
edited after reading everyone's comments -- luckyluv, smitha (sshekar), ashpush, lana (lghosh) -- that preet's not like the politician! so changed it to "government" instead -- 'kay?
* wtf#8: where does the government fit here? gee. they don't seem to have a role, do they? hmm. well, the state government calls the home ministry. and the home ministry call the nsg commandoes out to the field. so if the nsg commandoes defending the innocent and the weak are prem fighting to defend heer, then i guess the government is ... preet!!
the ministers in the government get to see all the alerts and warnings about dangers to the citizens of india from both inside and outside the borders. preet watched and found out about muckmeet from meher. he found out about dirtchachi from... ash? and when he finds out things, he plots and schemes and puts his plans into action - he doesn't do the rescue himself. when he found out about muckmeet, he told prem. and then, prem fought so that heer would be "saved"... the planning part of the "good guys" counterpart to the planning part of the "bad guys", ie, dirtchachi.
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and with that, i think i'm done? did i miss anything? đ
i hope that this was not too frivolous a wtf. i just know i couldn't ignore what a horrific week we have had back in india. but i also didn't want to do/say nothing. else, like everyone says - not participating in our everyday life and try to think and keep alive, but hiding away, being quiet and numb, is the same as letting those morons win. this is my otherwise helpless bit in not letting those poopheads win.
what do you think?
* wtf#0: the way that bombay grabs my heart and steals it away - like prem-heer do. bombay, her ways, her streets, her people are prem-heer. seriously.
i've been all over the place in india, and i have never understood why i get more charmed by this city than any other place in india. others give so much more to admire. delhi's chandni chowk and it's hustle-bustle makes you feel you're in the middle of a bollywood set. delhi's raisina hill with the most beautiful admistrative center in the whole world (i dare anyone to deny this) making the largest gulp in your throat with pride in your country. delhi's many mughal tombs making you feel you are in as holy a place as being surrounded by the himalayas and buddists monastries in ladakh, or the mecca masjid in hyderabad, or the superb temples of mysore, or the golden temple in amritsar, or the solemnness when you stand in the victoria memorial in calcutta, or the sweetness of being in the little temples in trivandrum. but bombay is where you feel like removing your chappals, throwing away your umbrella and jumping in the rain with your whole heart. where in a traffic jam, you get out and steer the traffic 'cause it's your family. where it's natural to sit down on the same sea-side wall and eat roasted corn rubbing elbows with a family of eight on one side of you, and a posh couple drinking coke on the other side of you. what's common is that none of you have a care in the world.
'cause bombay makes you feel ... just right. not a smidgeon of dark, bad, wrong, unright. just like the feeling of watching prem-heer. that they're just ... right.
edit add: read lana (lghosh) comments and put this in
('cause she is right -- what i wrote above is my feelings for bombay. this is what actually happened to my poor city.)
*wtf#1: in what has happened to bombay, bombay, the south bombay hotels, the people who had to die because of this are like heer&meher. dirtchachi has plotted against heer from the beginning. sometimes, luck favoured dirtchachi -- like when balraj and teji maan both decide to sacrifice themselves and their children's life to the concept of living and dying together. just like an absurd stroke of luck for the terrorists when the three most capable people in the ats/bombay police force got killed at the very beginning of this whole episode -- primarily because of bad equipment and good luck for the terrorists! đ and sometimes, dirtchachi deliberately plotted to hurt them. but the effect is the same. misery and destruction. meher came out of it with no confidence in herself completely. both of them have spent hours feeling miserable and alone. and that is what has happened to bombay too. for the first time, people are shaken out of their "chalta-hai" attitude. they are scared. they are wary. they want more protection. but like heer's love for prem remained strong, i love that the people of bombay are not going out on a war against muslims or even against pakistan because of these attacks! they remain sensible. and true. go bombay. you are the best city in my world. you rock. and i hope this time your hope will give us a safer country, safer lives, more confidence and greater happiness because of what has happened. just like heer got her prem and dirtchachi lost. and heer will get her prem back after ratpal loses! *fiercely w&w-ing for this as much as for sensible anti-terrorists policies from the indian government!!!!*
edit end
* wtf#2: the moron snipers with their toys of destruction are like lalit juneja. they grab attention with nothing good to offer back at all. wtf! đ˛
they are young and fit. they speak well and have skills. and yet, they ignore all that they have. they kill what they have. and worse, they kill what others have. with absolutely no point at all. just like lalit juneja. who has money. fame. the most wonderful family. and yet, he acts like a selfish brainless life-sucking, happiness-sucking ... creature! to absolutely no point at all.
y'know? i wondered whether the moron snipers should not be the same as veera. but then, i realised: when she wanted to grab attention, she chose to kill herself! veera is better than the moron snipers. never thought i'd ever see the day when i put veera above anyone else. but i have. as always, veera's true problem is that she is boring. sadly enough, evil can't be called 'boring'.
* wtf#3: the terrorists who planned this are like dirtchachi.
they collect their information from all kinds of places. the floor plans of the taj. maps of bombay from google earth. and they schemed to have maximum impact. the heads of these organisations are the true evil. the moron snipers are just the idiots who carry out their orders indirectly. like dirtchachi who explicitly went out to destroy the lives of her nieces. and she did it using the idiot lalit juneja to carry out her "plan". these terrorists just want to see other people unhappy. like dirtchachi who explicitly wanted to see heer-meher unhappy. what i can't figure is just... unlike dirtchachi who also ultimately wanted wealth, what do these poop-piles of evil morons want? đ
* wtf#4: the mumbai police force are like ... kul-di and probably her husband. they have good intentions and want to help. but they are not equipped enough.
* wtf#5: the nsg commandos are like ..... prem! when they get going, they don't stop until they have won. 'cause they fight. and fight. and fight. like prem did.
* wtf#6: the people of the world who watched in horror, helplessly, are like gayatri-mom. *sigh*
* wtf#7: the newspeople/channels are like the director+camera-crew+editors at balaji telefilms/show-channels. they bring us the package of what is going on.
edited after reading everyone's comments -- luckyluv, smitha (sshekar), ashpush, lana (lghosh) -- that preet's not like the politician! so changed it to "government" instead -- 'kay?
* wtf#8: where does the government fit here? gee. they don't seem to have a role, do they? hmm. well, the state government calls the home ministry. and the home ministry call the nsg commandoes out to the field. so if the nsg commandoes defending the innocent and the weak are prem fighting to defend heer, then i guess the government is ... preet!!
the ministers in the government get to see all the alerts and warnings about dangers to the citizens of india from both inside and outside the borders. preet watched and found out about muckmeet from meher. he found out about dirtchachi from... ash? and when he finds out things, he plots and schemes and puts his plans into action - he doesn't do the rescue himself. when he found out about muckmeet, he told prem. and then, prem fought so that heer would be "saved"... the planning part of the "good guys" counterpart to the planning part of the "bad guys", ie, dirtchachi.
edit end
and with that, i think i'm done? did i miss anything? đ
i hope that this was not too frivolous a wtf. i just know i couldn't ignore what a horrific week we have had back in india. but i also didn't want to do/say nothing. else, like everyone says - not participating in our everyday life and try to think and keep alive, but hiding away, being quiet and numb, is the same as letting those morons win. this is my otherwise helpless bit in not letting those poopheads win.
what do you think?
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