Last exam to go...2 day break when u really don't need it.. Perfect time to have a puppy!
Well the bugger was roaming around outside mess hall when me an my friend spike set our eyes on him. Well for spike it was love at first sight and i would fall for the cute one once he convinced me we must take it back to our room. So this cold winter night to shield him from the weather we thought, we must keep him with us and boy did we have a ride!
It was almost as if after my previous post god wanted to show off and show me what a creature he had made. I think he decided to send me the cutest little puppy to see what i do!! Really if ever we may pour our heart out unconditionally and spontaneously... its for a dog! As he jumped we jumped, as he ate we smiled, as he played we played, as he cuddled and slept on us..... we ran out of words....
He was twice the size of my palm, jet black in color and about the cutest thing you would see anywhere.We wanted to name him...just because we wanted to do what people with dogs did, u know, give a name and try fetch then potty train all that stuff.So we started with the name.Spike came up with that, i thought okay he's fighting it and we tried saving him from it, worth the name..WINTER.
Then came all the fun things as all of us guys ganged up in spikes room to make sure that he had the best of everything! Try as we might we couldn get a certain 150kilo talking machine called iyer out of there but we still did what we could.But then the dog really never gave a shit about him so we let him stay.
Even worse was the analogies and doubts cast by one undescribable Ravi!!!His first doubt was not a surprise to me..."What is his reaction to music?" I was going- for god's i mean dog's sake give the poor thing a break but noo.. on he went yapping away never once moving from the bed to do anything for the dog mind you.There were people running around getting it milk(Thanks Bharath - who even made winter a nice tray to eat an drink in!) an food but he was watching it like it was a circus animal and he'd got his ticket! He totally cracked us up with his nonsensical doubts on whether or not it will take rock music so we let him also stay... Besides i knew i had to blog up this post from his comp later in the night, so we let him stay ;).
But later in the night after spending time potty training him to piss on newspapers and also teaching him a brand new "chase me" game we had to let him go... well we dint know if he had a mommy or not when he started yelping and screaming so we let him go with the outside dogs.
The toughest thing i have done after my math exam. I don't know how they do it but yes they have this effect on you.They make u feel close to them.For the next one hour me and spike had to hide and watch it and make sure it was ok.We were hiding so it doesn follow us back you numbskulls and nitwits!
I have no complaints he had his life and i had mine, but I'm grateful and i think spik too will be for the one night we had, this winter.....
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Saturday, November 24, 2007
The list of life..
An afterthought to the movie Schindler's List. What makes a movie such, such as Schindler's list?
Is it the truth behind it? Is it the voice of gratitude of the thousands that live in testimony of the great man? ..or is it the dying pleas of those who were left back...those victims of the holocaust??
Who else may form such an unlikely hero as schindler? A swindler.A man who's sole purpose was to make money out of the sufferings of people during war.. To take advantage of them.One wonders as the movie goes on where in the movie does it happen? do the shades of gray start turning white? Was it when he bribes the first time to get the old couple from camp ghetto? Is that why the golden watch he tips off look so golden? Is this color one of emerging emotion?
Why then does the little blob of red in 3 hours of the movie reach out like those of a child's hands that don them?
How is it that the quiet diligence of a jewish accountant affect so adversely such an entirely visual and outspoken,even flamboyant man. Was that what made him realize his own power? In his own word's schindler in the movie says "money is not always money" even when he thought money would get him all he wanted.But what redefined what he wanted?
The warmth in the words as he offers them "hot soup and bread" will mellow down the hardest of hearts.But the doubt is how very little lives he seems to have affected around him. The warden of that camp the Russian officials, the other businessmen. Even with the jews crying for water when schindler runs with a fire hose to give them water, there seems to be little effect on anyone but a trace on the wardens mind.Are men so cold? Or was schindler just godsend..
Those last minutes, despite his efforts as he breaks down on every object he possesses on how they could have been sold to get more people free...the effect is magical and would leave stones wet with emotion.
Oscar Schindler is more than just an inspiration in a world riddled with violence. Not that many of us may be blessed with the power and ability to scale a task as big on the mind as on this world, but it is a lesson on what to live our lives for.Not pots and pans....
Is it the truth behind it? Is it the voice of gratitude of the thousands that live in testimony of the great man? ..or is it the dying pleas of those who were left back...those victims of the holocaust??
Who else may form such an unlikely hero as schindler? A swindler.A man who's sole purpose was to make money out of the sufferings of people during war.. To take advantage of them.One wonders as the movie goes on where in the movie does it happen? do the shades of gray start turning white? Was it when he bribes the first time to get the old couple from camp ghetto? Is that why the golden watch he tips off look so golden? Is this color one of emerging emotion?
Why then does the little blob of red in 3 hours of the movie reach out like those of a child's hands that don them?
How is it that the quiet diligence of a jewish accountant affect so adversely such an entirely visual and outspoken,even flamboyant man. Was that what made him realize his own power? In his own word's schindler in the movie says "money is not always money" even when he thought money would get him all he wanted.But what redefined what he wanted?
The warmth in the words as he offers them "hot soup and bread" will mellow down the hardest of hearts.But the doubt is how very little lives he seems to have affected around him. The warden of that camp the Russian officials, the other businessmen. Even with the jews crying for water when schindler runs with a fire hose to give them water, there seems to be little effect on anyone but a trace on the wardens mind.Are men so cold? Or was schindler just godsend..
Those last minutes, despite his efforts as he breaks down on every object he possesses on how they could have been sold to get more people free...the effect is magical and would leave stones wet with emotion.
Oscar Schindler is more than just an inspiration in a world riddled with violence. Not that many of us may be blessed with the power and ability to scale a task as big on the mind as on this world, but it is a lesson on what to live our lives for.Not pots and pans....
Monday, November 19, 2007
why suck-ups hav dogs...
Well ppl were back to totally nonsensical and absolutely irrelevant blogin. Its amazing how these thoughts just never seem to give me a break during the exams.Its almost as if the exams seem to crank up this side of the brain. Anyway guys moving right along..We are all surrounded by suck-ups, not one or two of them.they seem to breed by the hundreds like a swarm of mutually dependant bees. but the amazing thing is they seem to get their work done always.What makes them so successful?Is it that their blessed characters have additional talents and sterlingly superlative skills?? No the answer is they know how to lick the derrieres and thats all!
Coming to the point of the blog, there was a recent survey among ppl in an office on how much time they spent with their family members including the "family dog" and the result was a resounding victory for the dog!! amazed? its hardly surprising to me. Well its easy to understand the human psyche here.The dog is a creature that loves its master no holds barred.It can't assess the individual.U could be cyrus broacha or a serial killer.. even srimao bhandara naike was loved by her dog( don jump on me its just an eg.!!) The dog is always happy to see the master.And even better is the fact that the dog never speaks back.It doesn't object to anything its master says!
Now for the implication which the brighter among you might have already started seeing.The dog is a symbolic outburst of man's "social insecurity". I don mean "social rejects" mind you.They're different.Some ppl are inherently socially insecure.The main way these ppl make friends and acquaintances is by sucking up. The dog is the common link.Most ppl voted in the above survey by their colleagues as suck ups were the same ppl who devoted their attention to the dog! Funny isn't it?? not really..The dog gains your favour above other family members by sucking up which is its nature and also its master loves it cuz its a wonderful suck up.The result is ppl who love their dogs so much end up not only sucking up themselves but also encouraging others to suck-up to them! This may be absolutely sub-conscious but its the reality. Most of such ppl get to good positions by sucking up and then encourage others to suck-up to them!
What a wonderful world we live in!
Pls note that i hav nothing against dogs and their owners! they are wonderful creatures( few owners too).Its just that ass lickers are all over us! and we need awareness in this world to await their onslaught!
*Amen*
Coming to the point of the blog, there was a recent survey among ppl in an office on how much time they spent with their family members including the "family dog" and the result was a resounding victory for the dog!! amazed? its hardly surprising to me. Well its easy to understand the human psyche here.The dog is a creature that loves its master no holds barred.It can't assess the individual.U could be cyrus broacha or a serial killer.. even srimao bhandara naike was loved by her dog( don jump on me its just an eg.!!) The dog is always happy to see the master.And even better is the fact that the dog never speaks back.It doesn't object to anything its master says!
Now for the implication which the brighter among you might have already started seeing.The dog is a symbolic outburst of man's "social insecurity". I don mean "social rejects" mind you.They're different.Some ppl are inherently socially insecure.The main way these ppl make friends and acquaintances is by sucking up. The dog is the common link.Most ppl voted in the above survey by their colleagues as suck ups were the same ppl who devoted their attention to the dog! Funny isn't it?? not really..The dog gains your favour above other family members by sucking up which is its nature and also its master loves it cuz its a wonderful suck up.The result is ppl who love their dogs so much end up not only sucking up themselves but also encouraging others to suck-up to them! This may be absolutely sub-conscious but its the reality. Most of such ppl get to good positions by sucking up and then encourage others to suck-up to them!
What a wonderful world we live in!
Pls note that i hav nothing against dogs and their owners! they are wonderful creatures( few owners too).Its just that ass lickers are all over us! and we need awareness in this world to await their onslaught!
*Amen*
Saturday, November 17, 2007
(Artificial) Consciousness..An illusion?
(Just a wee bit technical guys but fun i assure u ;) )
This is an interesting thought i jus happened to come across while re-reading one of my favorite books.Prey by michael Crichton.Its about awareness.We are all aware, U ,ME.. we are aware of what and who we are and a few lucky souls even what they must do! Now the question that troubles me an crichton too i guess, Is it possible to create artificial awareness???
I mean can u create a machine or write a program which is aware of itself? Now, by aware i mean it must be conscious of its existence and purpose as a machine or program. Take a break.
Well there is a computing concept called recursion.Recursion means making a program loop back on itself to use its steps to get a result.In simpler terms its what happens in the mirrors of the barber shop.A reflection is reflected an re reflected.But that is an extreme case which will lead to the break down of the program.
Now why am i telling u this? Consider a machine(to simplify things) whose purpose is to be aware of itself and we cal it the "awareness machine".It maybe its sole purpose or one of its purposes to be aware.Let me remind u this is just a hypothesis, an imagination.This has not yet been even conceptualized properly.
Now if this awareness machine were built, apart from being aware of "itself" would it be aware that its purpose is to be aware of itself? or will it be aware that it should be aware that its purpose is to aware of itself...do u follow it?
Here a recursion sets in which is appearantly endless...An i told u what happens to machines that fall infinitely into such recursions.It will simply break down.
But the really big question is going to blow u away!
Isnt our mind just another machine? isnt our mind a machine whose one of the purpose is to be aware?? So why doesnt our mind fall into the recursion that seems to prevent even the mere conceptualisation of aware machines??
So now the new question that arises is are we truly aware then??or are we run by a brain that creates an illusion of awareness beyond which may lay the cosmic truths.Is this what they called hiding in plain sight?
Or is this MAYA???
This is an interesting thought i jus happened to come across while re-reading one of my favorite books.Prey by michael Crichton.Its about awareness.We are all aware, U ,ME.. we are aware of what and who we are and a few lucky souls even what they must do! Now the question that troubles me an crichton too i guess, Is it possible to create artificial awareness???
I mean can u create a machine or write a program which is aware of itself? Now, by aware i mean it must be conscious of its existence and purpose as a machine or program. Take a break.
Well there is a computing concept called recursion.Recursion means making a program loop back on itself to use its steps to get a result.In simpler terms its what happens in the mirrors of the barber shop.A reflection is reflected an re reflected.But that is an extreme case which will lead to the break down of the program.
Now why am i telling u this? Consider a machine(to simplify things) whose purpose is to be aware of itself and we cal it the "awareness machine".It maybe its sole purpose or one of its purposes to be aware.Let me remind u this is just a hypothesis, an imagination.This has not yet been even conceptualized properly.
Now if this awareness machine were built, apart from being aware of "itself" would it be aware that its purpose is to be aware of itself? or will it be aware that it should be aware that its purpose is to aware of itself...do u follow it?
Here a recursion sets in which is appearantly endless...An i told u what happens to machines that fall infinitely into such recursions.It will simply break down.
But the really big question is going to blow u away!
Isnt our mind just another machine? isnt our mind a machine whose one of the purpose is to be aware?? So why doesnt our mind fall into the recursion that seems to prevent even the mere conceptualisation of aware machines??
So now the new question that arises is are we truly aware then??or are we run by a brain that creates an illusion of awareness beyond which may lay the cosmic truths.Is this what they called hiding in plain sight?
Or is this MAYA???
Monday, November 5, 2007
The semester that was!
So it ended the fateful yet rather bleak and event less semester......or thats what the mundane minds of ppl like ravi would say.Personally i felt there were jus too many things happenin this semester. The college which as we all know is very hectic and takes up a lot of my very precious time.And since im a firm believer that one must have ample attendance to get a feeling of satisfaction out of college life,yes, its tougher for me.
But speaking of attendance in this semester gives me a big shot of cocaine up my $%^$ cuz it has yet again proved that god exists.God the almighty equalizer and the harbinger of eternal harmony has showed us his presence - IYER GOT LAG!! I mean for all the inane and insane nonsense that happens in this world there is hope for us to continue. We cant live in a world where he can do watever he wants and still doesn get a LAG can we??? i mean its bad enough he clogs up the WIFI network with his unsanctimonious(ahh...always wanted to do tht to him) and abysmally unclear ideas of what to do on the internet (and my dear friends on tht note im workin day and night to find a way to block him from going to those highly objectionable websites an i promise u in due course i shall find an answer).
Otherwise the sem was fairly peaceful... spike has successfully completed this semester without buying even a toothpick/paste. Actually i found out tht only the day i left.. before that i thought it was just the bucket,mug,shampoo and washing powder apart from the occasional clips and hanger...but thts ok.. happens!
That reminds me i feel its better to borrow than to remain without something..like for example.....LAN!! haha.. we all know where im going.A certain person is really happy and jumping about in his checked shorts(who the hell wears chekd shorts???..i mean checked ??? as in lik a john miller shirt o somethin!!) that he has finally got LAN!!! a certain somethin that normal people have been enjoying for more than 6 months now!! i mean lan is so out... ppl move on to wifi an now he gets LAN..baah.. Not to mention all the various uses the poor computer of his has been subjected to. Especially with that archaic roomie of his! its degenerated so much that rumors flying in the hostel say it attracts warden Harriharan late in the night...scary.
On the more sane side of the hostel shielded against iyer by a few walls and against the lanlessly impotent gay me an lappu hav finished yet another argument over some absolutely irrelevent nonsense on the internet.Not to mention the various "haha my wifis downloadin at 100kbps(A dream)".. and" haha ur comp cant support tab effect on mozilla"(it really cant!! boo).
But we have made a few advancements on our career options.For instance we once started a conversation at 4 in the night before a practical exam on what we would do once we go to us for MS!!!..again.. happens...
Another thing that happens is ppl disappearing... sp??nowadays hes known to be spotted during cricket matches and somewhere in the corridors of the ground floor with one extremely bright junior guy... i dono...its all from sources u c..and besides it can be tough to spot someone below the knee... i mean u don look there do u?
Spotting can really be necessary in our gang of guys..I mean how else does one run into rama? unless u hav a tracking system that finds guys stuck to a phone in the ear and virtual guns in their hands..Well hes lik some of those weird tropical birds that show up during the nice seasons..So much so that these birds mark the beginning of the season. Rama is one such bird (ramesses fliers) which can be spotted marking the beginning of any exam..When we see rama u know its time to study!! be it watever exam u know hes got it covered for himself AND for u! hell even have a few time table options all planned with bathroom breaks for me an ravi!! wat would we do without him... hmm..not study maybe but still..wat would we..
When i thought i must rant away about all of us i wanted a particular viewpoint to begin with.. i thought i would try one of VC'c... of course it never got done.. Wasn't VC making a movie/short film/commercial/random photos...something like that???
but u know how it is... the rule that must not be said... vc movie= not getting done... hmmm..maybe VC should stick to playin san andreas.But hes already like all those professionals indefinitely postponing his shoots and release... For sometime with all those dates going around for our wifi i thought wifi will will be co-released with VC's movie.. but even they couldn delay it that much!!...losers
I love picking on people and who better than my friends..As far as i am concerned i hav spent another 5 months bugging all of them and laughing at every single atrocious and absolutely admonishable thing they have done(except iyer cuz what he does is just unpardonable).So pardon me for all the silly jokes, not so silly ones etc.. and if u don't then to hell with u!
[Curtains]
P.S. look out for more.. i think maybe my next post should be about things less explored..like sleep o something..
But speaking of attendance in this semester gives me a big shot of cocaine up my $%^$ cuz it has yet again proved that god exists.God the almighty equalizer and the harbinger of eternal harmony has showed us his presence - IYER GOT LAG!! I mean for all the inane and insane nonsense that happens in this world there is hope for us to continue. We cant live in a world where he can do watever he wants and still doesn get a LAG can we??? i mean its bad enough he clogs up the WIFI network with his unsanctimonious(ahh...always wanted to do tht to him) and abysmally unclear ideas of what to do on the internet (and my dear friends on tht note im workin day and night to find a way to block him from going to those highly objectionable websites an i promise u in due course i shall find an answer).
Otherwise the sem was fairly peaceful... spike has successfully completed this semester without buying even a toothpick/paste. Actually i found out tht only the day i left.. before that i thought it was just the bucket,mug,shampoo and washing powder apart from the occasional clips and hanger...but thts ok.. happens!
That reminds me i feel its better to borrow than to remain without something..like for example.....LAN!! haha.. we all know where im going.A certain person is really happy and jumping about in his checked shorts(who the hell wears chekd shorts???..i mean checked ??? as in lik a john miller shirt o somethin!!) that he has finally got LAN!!! a certain somethin that normal people have been enjoying for more than 6 months now!! i mean lan is so out... ppl move on to wifi an now he gets LAN..baah.. Not to mention all the various uses the poor computer of his has been subjected to. Especially with that archaic roomie of his! its degenerated so much that rumors flying in the hostel say it attracts warden Harriharan late in the night...scary.
On the more sane side of the hostel shielded against iyer by a few walls and against the lanlessly impotent gay me an lappu hav finished yet another argument over some absolutely irrelevent nonsense on the internet.Not to mention the various "haha my wifis downloadin at 100kbps(A dream)".. and" haha ur comp cant support tab effect on mozilla"(it really cant!! boo).
But we have made a few advancements on our career options.For instance we once started a conversation at 4 in the night before a practical exam on what we would do once we go to us for MS!!!..again.. happens...
Another thing that happens is ppl disappearing... sp??nowadays hes known to be spotted during cricket matches and somewhere in the corridors of the ground floor with one extremely bright junior guy... i dono...its all from sources u c..and besides it can be tough to spot someone below the knee... i mean u don look there do u?
Spotting can really be necessary in our gang of guys..I mean how else does one run into rama? unless u hav a tracking system that finds guys stuck to a phone in the ear and virtual guns in their hands..Well hes lik some of those weird tropical birds that show up during the nice seasons..So much so that these birds mark the beginning of the season. Rama is one such bird (ramesses fliers) which can be spotted marking the beginning of any exam..When we see rama u know its time to study!! be it watever exam u know hes got it covered for himself AND for u! hell even have a few time table options all planned with bathroom breaks for me an ravi!! wat would we do without him... hmm..not study maybe but still..wat would we..
When i thought i must rant away about all of us i wanted a particular viewpoint to begin with.. i thought i would try one of VC'c... of course it never got done.. Wasn't VC making a movie/short film/commercial/random photos...something like that???
but u know how it is... the rule that must not be said... vc movie= not getting done... hmmm..maybe VC should stick to playin san andreas.But hes already like all those professionals indefinitely postponing his shoots and release... For sometime with all those dates going around for our wifi i thought wifi will will be co-released with VC's movie.. but even they couldn delay it that much!!...losers
I love picking on people and who better than my friends..As far as i am concerned i hav spent another 5 months bugging all of them and laughing at every single atrocious and absolutely admonishable thing they have done(except iyer cuz what he does is just unpardonable).So pardon me for all the silly jokes, not so silly ones etc.. and if u don't then to hell with u!
[Curtains]
P.S. look out for more.. i think maybe my next post should be about things less explored..like sleep o something..
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