I'm thinking about blogging....
The last of the exams of quiz 2 got over today. I needed half an hour more than others to solve a simple paper, but I solved it anyway. Now what?
I'm thinking about my hostel, Narmada's chances of winning LM/WM group. Still remember the time 2 years back when we did immensely well but still ended up coming 2nd in LM group. We had arguably the best guitarist and undisputedly the best keyboardist with us. We felt hard done by. We felt the judges selected individual brilliance over group work as the winning hostel had a super vocalist who stole the show. Last year, we didnt participate in LM group as we didnt have a drummer. Now, we have a decent guitarist, a god-level guy at pads, an ok drummer who doesn't miss the beats and decent vocalists. The team is doing well and we complement each other well. Would want to add an LM group victory to my gallery.
I'm thinking about WM group. We know that our chances at WM arent great, so we would like to enjoy ourselves and perform the songs that we like.
I'm thinking about LM solo, where amazingly, 3 people from our hostel went through to the finals. Now that I'm in the finals, I would like to take it seriously and do some practice to land up with a formidable place.
I'm thinking about the 4-a-side intra hostel football event and would like to play well and take my team a fair distance (as I'm not that great a footballer you know).
I'm thinking about 6-a-side footer and would so love to see Narmada winning it and would also like to take the team that I play in through a fair distance.
I'm thinking about the horrible mess that opened up opposite to our hostel, which rather looks like a 5-star hospital unless someone told you its a mess.
I'm thinking about the Bolton v/s Manchester United game tonight.
I'm thinking about my sister and her life in Chennai.
I'm thinking about Sting as I'm listening to this wonderful song while I'm blogging.
I'm thinking about crashing in the afternoon to compensate for all those sleeping hours lost in the night due to my mugging prowess.
I'm thinking about today's LM/WM practice.
I hate to think about having my lunch in the mess half an hour from now.
I hate to think about the hot weather that is unsettling our daily habits.
I hate to think about the assignment in Analog IC Design that is due tomorrow midnight.
I hate to think about the assignment in DSP Algos that is due Monday.
This song by Coldplay is good you know, and I think its raising my spirits and all.....
Bible — Ezekiel 25:17
"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who in the name of charity and good will shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee."
Samuel Jackson's first rendition of this phrase and the follow-up in Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction" is the best scene that I've seen in any Hollywood movie.
Whadda I got to, whadda I got to do to wake ya up, to shake ya up, to break the structure up
"Any system can be overwhelmed".
Nowadays, life for everyone is how to beat the system you are in. It is true for all fields ranging from education to law. The obvious question one needs to ask is: "Do we affect others' lives by doing so?"
I was with my friend at "Ascendas", sipping on a Cafe Mocha when we were talking about the loopholes in our system. Whatever problem we took, it just kept circling around various departments. Though we kept talking about "problems", there was no solution available.
Some people are open to change, but some are not. Its a simple statement, but its true. Some people succeed in changing their beliefs and ideals but some can't digest it.
Assume you have criminals locked up in a jail. If you could somehow change the criminal and manage to change him into a righteous person, then what would be the need for punishment? (reminded of "A Clockwork Orange"?). You know, kinda erase whatever is there on his brain make him a child at heart and now he is open to any new ideas and suggestions and would accept what he feels right.
Now the blame falls on the society! This is a big circle and you could go on and on. But the important point is "you can change innocent minds". Or rather, striving for a perfect society would directly relate to the education that a child receives.
Indian education is supposed to be one of the best, isnt it? But, what is it based on? The quality of Mathematics? Or, is it about the physics you learn? I would rather say the education in schools in India is rather poor. No education would be perfect unless you develop the child's personality.
Schools shape a child's character, not the parents. Many of you may tend to disagree, but I think its true. What is that school if it cant instil values in a child? Why is computer education being pushed up the level and introduced for a 4th standard student? Why does no syllabus have a subject called "Moral Education" in it? Why is there no change in the syllabus as far as moral education is concerned?
Do I still get recognised as the guy who scored 93% in his board exam? Far from it. The people who love me, love me for what my character is. What good is the score in the board exam, if I dont have friends around? What good am I if I don't have people around me who care for me? What is the use of all this gimmick if I don't have people who can mourn my death from their heart when I die?
You can only beat the system, changing it would be a difficult task. The solution to most of the problems would be to revamp the whole education system. Make strong characters out of children. Give them credit for what they are and not for how much marks they attained. Not everyone is born to be a mathematician.
The present situation can change. It would be a slow change, but a change for the good. The doorway to a bright future. The precursor to a better world. The key to life....
Strap up your arm, find a vein, inject drugs and when you fall, glance over what is written beneath......
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Choose life.
Choose a job.
Choose a starter home.
Choose dental insurance, leisure wear and matching luggage.
Choose your future. But why would anyone want to do a thing like that?"
Think over this statement. Then, think over it again. You'll keep thinking and end up accepting that the statement is so true!
If you can't find the source of this quote, see the next line.
If you want proof, watch "Trainspotting".
Mallu Reunion
Yesterday, 13 of us mallus in IITM went to The Piano Restaurant, Savera as part of a treat given by 5 of them for getting a job. It was nice meeting up with all of them after a long break. Who cares for the quality of the grub as long as one doesnt feel like puking after having the food?
Kind of felt very sad that it required a job treat for us to meet up after a long time. I don't even want to think two months ahead when all my BTech friends will say goodbye and pass out of the institute in search of their life.
Funny that distance isn't the only criterion for meeting up with friends. If you are in different hostels in IITM, the chances of your meeting them are very remote. Why is it so?
What would I be if not for my wingmates who are my only comfort in misery? They are currently the ones with whom I share all of my emotions. No one comforts me more than my wingmates. If you guys are reading this, I just want to say how happy I am that you people came into my life......
The Truth about Truth
How many directors went down this line and made movies I don't know, but it sure got me thinking yesterday. The movies "A Beautiful Mind" and "15 Park Avenue" dealt with a common situation. A person suffering from schizophrenia - something which humans gave as a name to behaving strangely and suffering from hallucinations. Now, what is a hallucination? - again, its a
name given by
humans to people who can see, feel, hear or taste something
which doesn't exist.
How do you say that something exists and another thing doesn't? Humans gave a definition that anything that exists can be felt by atleast one of the five senses that a man has. What if there are other modes of sense that a human doesn't have which can prove the existence of something? Isn't this exactly why people keep dogs as watchman of the house because you know
dogs can hear something which humans cannot? Lets assume that 2 people are sitting in a perfectly silent place and one guy says he can hear something distinctly, the other person will just laugh it off if he himself couldnt hear it. What if they had a dog with them and it started barking for something? You would be scared even if you couldn't sense it. What if man hadn't discovered that dogs can hear noises that man cannot? You would definitely say that
the dog has lost its mind. It has gone mad.
What if there is some creature that can see things that a man cannot? Wouldn't that be hard to accept? Man wouldnt rest peacefully till someone ventures out to see what its all about and lays down some axioms and proves that there are indeed some creatures which can see things that a man cannot.
The problem occurs when another
man himself sees, hears, or feels (rather hallucinates) something which you cannot. Then you consider that man as one of your own kind and say he's
lunatic and call him as suffering from a mental illness and try to cure him. What if the man thought it better to keep those things within him? Lets say that the man sees something that doesnt exist but he keeps it to himself. He doesn't say it to anyone. Now, wouldn't you allow him to live peacefully along with others in the community. You wouldn't call him mad, would you?
Man is supposed to be intelligent and he belongs to a very large community. Any man tends to hold an opinion which 99% of the others prove right. But no one could even care about trying to find the truth behind something which a supposedly
mad man says. You are so confident you are right. What if someone proved it to you that you were wrong.
What is the truth? Who is speaking the truth? Is there any absolute truth that exists in this universe?
What a pathetic bunch of losers...
Have a look at this link......
http://in.rediff.com/movies/2006/mar/01bush.htmNeed I say more? Probably, there aren't any Lewinski's left for Bush to date!
I was on a break!
Its a beautiful day....
