from the head of a stray cow

I travel to office everyday either by my office bus or by BMTC if I'm late. I travel on the famous Hosur road of Bangalore known for its never ending stretch of tar and asphalt from the heart of Bangalore to Hosur. Its a highway and a city road all in one. Hosur road is infamous for its traffic snarls, potholes and its famous residents, the stray cows.The stray cows have made Hosur road their home, the sad part is that their grazing field is the garbage that is lying around hosur road. The cows sleep either on the medians or on the footpaths watching over speeding buses and motorcycles. Now, one fine day I took the BMTC Volvo to office when at Adugodi junction I happened to see a stray cow, let me call her, careless :-). Careless, the Cow was brown in colour with short horns funnily turned on her head. She was trying to cross the road unmindful of the morning traffic madness all around her. My bus was heading towards Electronics City, the Info Tech park of Bangalore and so I was on the left lane while careless was on the right lane, so I had a nice view of careless from my bus seat.

      Careless was trying to cross the road from the footpath on the right lane to the left lane and it was then that the signal turned green and all hell broke loose, motorists just vroomed in opposite directions in both lanes. Careless suddenly found a wall of traffic on her way and so she hesitated for a moment, then she just swayed away without crossing the road. I was amused by this scene. A human would've waited for the traffic to die down and then would've crossed the road but careless, the cow she is just didn't bother to cross the road at all.

   

I wondered why would careless have wanted to cross the road in the first place. Did she have a purpose? Did she want to cross the road in search of food on the other side of the road? If so, then why didn't she just wait for the traffic to die down and then cross the road. If not, so what makes her stray like this aimlessly. I know cows don't have aims and goals in life and are aimless but it just beats me.I wondered whats just goes on in that head of careless, howmuch ever small a brain it houses. Pretty naive thoughts I should say, but then thats what I thought of then. Is careless then suffering from the short term memory loss like gajini? :-) I guess not.

cartoons

Well folks, time for some cartoons. I'm a big cartoon fan, tom and jerry, bugs bunny, daffy duck, angry sam, you name it I've watched it, an yes a million times over. But, cartoons are a world in them and there is much more than the popular bugs bunny. Dexter's lab, swat kats, powerpuff girls, scooby doo, johnny bravo, Courage, the cowardly dog(what a name ;-)  are hidden treasures and they come only on Cartoon network and I must say they're equally and sometimes more interesting than the big wigs.

       

Take Dexter's lab, my favourite of them all. Dexter, a kid who builds his own lab, a futuristic lab unlike  the physics and chemistry lab we have at school, an out of the world science lab where out of the world inventions are made by Dexter and boy, does he make look so easy. His Sister dee dee(lovely name isn't it? simple and to the point;-), the only one in the house other than Dexter who knows about the lab, loves to eat his head and is the only disorderly primitivness in the otherwise neat and futurstic lab. Oh, I almost forgot to mention about the unsuspecting parents of Dexter.Dexter's dad, a less meaner version of Homer Simpson and Dexter's Mom, gosh she looks funny, walking on her toes with a big bum and baking muffins all the time. All in all, I should say Dexter's lab is a family entertainer :-)

Swat kats are the coolest and slick cartoon cats around. They're the batmans of MegaKat city(oh yeah, a city of walking, talking, human like cats), saving the city from the clutches of a myriad of villans by flying around their awesome twin seater fighter jet. Swat Kats are brains and brawn built together. They've no professors at their hideout camoflauged under the city dumpyard but still build and operate an awesome figher jet.They're no millionare like batman but can still afford to build mind blowing gizmos and fight crime. The red and black suit they wear and the matching colours in their figher jet is super cool. I know swat kats defies all reason and logic, but I can assure you, no one kicks butt like the swat kats do.The most interesting part about swat kats is that, they don't wear shoes, yup, their creators have given them a twin engined fighter jet but no boots to wear. Thats a cartoon for you. Mindblowing fun! 

Then there is Johnny bravo, the cartoon version of Joey from Friends, The Powerpuff girls, the mutated school girls trio who fight mojo the evil monkey and the creepy Courage, the Cowardly dog who saves his mistress from creepy aliens and ghosts even though he is one cowardly bugger, gosh. Each one of these cartoons is a logic defying creation and they just do well, what they do best, kick ass and have fun(except Johnny bravo that is :-)