Ear Candy >>> Weezer - Perfect Situation

A big debate was on the dinner table today. Bangalore’s name change. To Bengalooru. My dad, the ultra-modern-wannabe is pissed with the “backward turn”. Myself and my mum, both “statists” and nationalists, are all for the name change. I mean, it’s about time, and long overdue since Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkatta are all household names now. Soon Bengalooru will follow suit, and should too, since it was the original name anyway and was changed because the British found it difficult to pronounce. *rolls eyes*

I don’t understand his stand on wanting to be so ultra-modern. I mean, I believe you should be modern but they’re certain limits. You cannot be so modern as to sacrifice basic priorities.

1) Yourself
2) Your immediate family
3) Your community/village
4) Your caste
5) Your state/language
6) Your country

Everything else should be secondary but these cannot be compromised. Like his stand that companies from Bengalooru should hire everyone indiscriminately, regardless of what state they’re originally from. That’s ridiculous cos’ other states don’t do that and other countries don’t do that either. Take Malaysia or even Singapore for example. Malaysia has the “bumiputra” policy and Singapore keeps check of the number of foreigners employed here. Right now Bengalooru has no such policy. Of course that has made the city extremely cosmopolitian which I’m not against. But the problem arises when our own people have no jobs despite having qualifications and instead are forced to head back to their villages to escape Bengalooru’s exhorbitant living standards. I think these companies (shall not be named but it’s sooo obvious who they are) should set aside a quota for college grads strictly for their own people and also limit recruitment of people from certain states which already show signs of poltical and territorial encroachment. It just doesn’t help poltically and relations-wise. I’m not saying don’t hire outsiders but please, be responsible and have some civic mindedness and uphold your duty as a citizen of your state first.

Ok, that was a long winded rant. Anyway was wearing my brand new white suit with lace trimmings today and everyone loved it. Not gonna give away the secret as to where I got it from but I really got it for a steal even without realising it! Wore it for some recruitment lunch by some big company at a certain big hotel. It was the first time I ever ate in that hotel but the food sucked so bad. It was super pretencious and cold and truly sucked. But I wasn’t at all impressed with the company and told my bosses so. After a chat my boss made a list of banks for me to apply to cos she said “all have a lot of indian bankers, surely fit in very easily”. Bleah. That’s the last thing I want to do, apply to a place just because there are a lot of indians there. Wrong reason.

And I want to get another suit. It’s really sad I get paid intern pay. How? Each suit costs almost $300. And would have helped if I had had a more generous credit limit.