K : So my Cat's over... (Pretend the next statement is witty and indirect) Let's go out for dinner
X: (Pretend I thought about it) NO
K: OMG ! WTF !
X: Drama queen. How's tomorrow?
K: I have plans for tomorrow. Friday?
X: So far. What if I don't remember you till Friday?
K: That might be a good thing!
X: Tee Hee.. See you friday. Mwah!
K: I'm not into TeeHee s
X: K, I'm not into mwahs.
K: OMG! WTF!
X: See you friday. Mwah!
K: :-)
I'm K, no prizes for guessing. There are prizes for guessing who X is though :-D
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
So facebook quizzes can be right sometime...
What's Your Theme Song? - Spin Lifehouse
Result: Spin Lifehouse
The fast life is full of strange and crazy experiences. But you have the best of friends and wouldn't trade them for the world. You would never change a thing, because you know that this life is meant to be lived by you.
Hmmm..... yes true.
What's your favourite song?
Result: Eye of the tiger
No doubt about it !
And I finally found a quote that explains relationships. It's either very poetic or I've misunderstood but
"I have plenty of people to do things with – I just have no one to do nothing with "?!
Result: Spin Lifehouse
The fast life is full of strange and crazy experiences. But you have the best of friends and wouldn't trade them for the world. You would never change a thing, because you know that this life is meant to be lived by you.
Hmmm..... yes true.
What's your favourite song?
Result: Eye of the tiger
No doubt about it !
And I finally found a quote that explains relationships. It's either very poetic or I've misunderstood but
"I have plenty of people to do things with – I just have no one to do nothing with "?!
Saturday, April 2, 2011
I’m bored and feel like making fun of society and its customs --- part # 1
So I was a ‘sciencee’, and week in week out I got sick of making 3 columns titled Experiment, Observation and Inference. However, subsequently I realized that it was a convenient structured method for observing and analyzing various phenomena quite methodically.
Consider this, there is a slightly crushed empty soft drink can lying on top of a shelf in your room visible to you everyday. You are not permitted to remove it, and as a result you get habituated it observing it regularly. Even though it has no contribution productively, aesthetically, comically, monetarily or socially, it has become a part of your life.
Despite the above unflattering characteristics, if you were to find that, after 3 weeks of frequent ‘interaction’, the empty crushed can isn’t there anymore, irrespective of anything you shall first exclaim “Hey, where did it go?” I guess it’s an encephalic flaw, or perhaps conditioning but either way, that just isn’t right.
Consider another case, where you are told to spend 2 hours with an absolute stranger who is fully accredited by those you trust in every manner addressing any possible insecurity you may have. Still you would necessarily with even the prospect of such a circumstance, HESITATE,
Intelligent and charming as the given stranger maybe.
“I guess it’s an encephalic flaw, or perhaps conditioning but either way, that just isn’t right.”!! However on meeting this stranger everyday for a period of 3 weeks, the sudden disappearance of this stranger would prompt you to wonder “Hey, where did he/she go?”
You get used to the person being a part of your life everyday and the disappearance creates a void. Annoying as they are, voids create a psychological imbalance don’t they?
Before I continue,
This is dedicated to a friend of mine who’s reluctantly agreed to have an arranged marriage at the age of 24, though she is genuinely apprehensive, frightened, and disinterested. I hope this makes you feel WORSE :)!
For everyone else, don’t take it personally it’s just a point of view.
So, yes that’s what I’m referring to arranged marriages!!! Various reasons maybe debated as to why they exist, and I maintain that on pragmatic and utilitarian grounds, they do have advantages over the ‘other’ kind, on the grounds of the reasoning given above, isn’t it a bi weird. Of course, I’m not insinuating that your to-be is “productively, aesthetically, comically, monetarily or socially” ‘challenged’, but just the idea of the whole thing.
The only grounds that are rational (read: not based on Indian ‘traditional’ customs) is that there are two ways of approaching the situation.
Two people have their own individual requirements, and while the whole starry-eyed love concept is nice, no two people can agree on the same pizza toppings, and of course a truck load of other less important things. So if you decide on the person first, some of your ‘requirements’ will have to take a back seat, and some things you don’t like will have to become a part of your life, such as Ironed clothes for example…
On the other hand, if you state your requirements first, it gives you the option/flexibility/luxury of not altering your lifestyle and continuing with it,
all at the small cost spending the rest of your life with someone you don’t care about
, or care as much about as you cared for the aforementioned can. Note, that since this was a low budget short term experiment, I have not discovered if an individual will miss the can more after 6 weeks than after 3 weeks, though my random guess is yes. I’m sure that’s comforting to know.
Yes, I have been accused of not giving equal opportunity to both sides of an argument while debating before, but apart from presentation, the content seems thought out to me.
What say you?
Consider this, there is a slightly crushed empty soft drink can lying on top of a shelf in your room visible to you everyday. You are not permitted to remove it, and as a result you get habituated it observing it regularly. Even though it has no contribution productively, aesthetically, comically, monetarily or socially, it has become a part of your life.
Despite the above unflattering characteristics, if you were to find that, after 3 weeks of frequent ‘interaction’, the empty crushed can isn’t there anymore, irrespective of anything you shall first exclaim “Hey, where did it go?” I guess it’s an encephalic flaw, or perhaps conditioning but either way, that just isn’t right.
Consider another case, where you are told to spend 2 hours with an absolute stranger who is fully accredited by those you trust in every manner addressing any possible insecurity you may have. Still you would necessarily with even the prospect of such a circumstance, HESITATE,
Intelligent and charming as the given stranger maybe.
“I guess it’s an encephalic flaw, or perhaps conditioning but either way, that just isn’t right.”!! However on meeting this stranger everyday for a period of 3 weeks, the sudden disappearance of this stranger would prompt you to wonder “Hey, where did he/she go?”
You get used to the person being a part of your life everyday and the disappearance creates a void. Annoying as they are, voids create a psychological imbalance don’t they?
Before I continue,
This is dedicated to a friend of mine who’s reluctantly agreed to have an arranged marriage at the age of 24, though she is genuinely apprehensive, frightened, and disinterested. I hope this makes you feel WORSE :)!
For everyone else, don’t take it personally it’s just a point of view.
So, yes that’s what I’m referring to arranged marriages!!! Various reasons maybe debated as to why they exist, and I maintain that on pragmatic and utilitarian grounds, they do have advantages over the ‘other’ kind, on the grounds of the reasoning given above, isn’t it a bi weird. Of course, I’m not insinuating that your to-be is “productively, aesthetically, comically, monetarily or socially” ‘challenged’, but just the idea of the whole thing.
The only grounds that are rational (read: not based on Indian ‘traditional’ customs) is that there are two ways of approaching the situation.
Two people have their own individual requirements, and while the whole starry-eyed love concept is nice, no two people can agree on the same pizza toppings, and of course a truck load of other less important things. So if you decide on the person first, some of your ‘requirements’ will have to take a back seat, and some things you don’t like will have to become a part of your life, such as Ironed clothes for example…
On the other hand, if you state your requirements first, it gives you the option/flexibility/luxury of not altering your lifestyle and continuing with it,
all at the small cost spending the rest of your life with someone you don’t care about
, or care as much about as you cared for the aforementioned can. Note, that since this was a low budget short term experiment, I have not discovered if an individual will miss the can more after 6 weeks than after 3 weeks, though my random guess is yes. I’m sure that’s comforting to know.
Yes, I have been accused of not giving equal opportunity to both sides of an argument while debating before, but apart from presentation, the content seems thought out to me.
What say you?
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Leaf life
I could have also titled this: A very interesting way to spend 900 rupees.
No, this has nothing whatsoever to do with cards, and doesn’t refer to my liking for ‘occasionally’ playing assorted card games for amusement.
I literally meant leaves, the kinds that grow on trees.
Even if you’re a non-believer in destiny, fate and other concepts of the like such as me, it is still a fascinating amusing manifestation of the same to come across.
Save me some effort and read this stub… It’ll take a minute
WikiPedia Nadi
Yes you read that right… A leaf was written about you before you were born detailing everything about your life. And these leaves are believed to exist.
What crap I thought, but then when my Grandfather told me that he got it done 30 years ago and that he attributes greater than 90% accuracy to it, I thought what the hell, it’ll cost me 900, that too if the leaf is found !
I know of a lot of people whose leaves weren’t found and thus weren’t even charged a penny, so that made it sound even more legitimate than before.
More out of curiosity than I hope I set out on my journey to find my ‘leaf’.
It’s a simple process really… you give your thumb print at the concerned centre and they locate the stack of leaves that may or may not contain your ‘leaf/life’.
After they locate your leaf-stack, which can take anything from a week to 6 months, you are required to visit to see if your specific leaf exits. Apparently, the probability of finding your leaf is 1/3, which means of 3 people that try 1 is successful in locating their leaf.
Now it gets scary
Then they start asking you questions, which by no means are exhaustive. Here’s what makes it more legitimate, you aren’t supposed to give them any info, simply answer a lot of true or false questions.
Does your name start with a vowel? Were you born in March? Do you have a sibling?
It may be noted that since I am a computer engineer who’s very interested in logical deduction, I can testify to the fact that the questions were in know way exhaustive for a person to figure out all that information about me and fleece me. I know how Karnaugh maps and the like work and the sequence of steps were nothing that seemed to suggest deduction by elimination or such malafide intentions.
So it goes on and on with lots of questions till one second when your heart freezes when the rishi starts reading the next leaf. I think it was the 167th attempt in the second stack. I was gasping for breath on holding my head, but I was warned in advance that it has taken people trips to 4 cities and over five thousand attempts.
So anyway imagine my shock and disbelief when somebody who has no information about me, not even my name, starts reading for verification purposes a leaf that goes
Your name is…Your father’s name…Your mother’s name…The fact that I have no siblings, what I do , what I have studied, what my parents do, assorted personal details about the family that no outsider would generally know, the fact that my only uncle is abroad, and the like.
Thankfully my friends associate some credibility with what I say otherwise this would sound like a hallucinogen intoxicated punk with attention deficit disorder trying to get 15 seconds of fame.
So anyway step one was thumb print submission, step two was leaf identification.
Scariest of all is step 3. The leaf contains one’s future right, so the person starts reading your leaf in front of you while simultaneously making a voice recording of the same.
It carefully details aspects of you personal life, career, family, health over you ENTIRE LIFE’S DURATION.
Covering your entire life in spans of 3 years or greater, such as 23-25,25-27,27-30 it elaborates on everything from when you’ll get married, how many kids, professional growth and occupation. Specific Health problems in terms of the organs effected and at what age and so on… (hypothetical) example Lung related problem between the years 47-50. It even tells me of specific events to watch out for and impending disasters. Goes right through when there would be marital problems, to even the Health problems the girl I’ll marry will subsequently have and at what age, and the marriage is also at an already defined age !!!
WHAT THE BLOOOOODY FCUK IS GOING ON??????
HOW CAN PEOPLE IN MY PARENTS AGE GROUP AND GRANDPARENTS AGE GROUP, people who are successful professionals, doctors, lawyers and engineers, supposedly brilliant in their fields testify with respect to their PERSONAL LIVES TO the accuracy of this god forsaken thing. I refuse to believe my entire life can be broadly summarized in 16 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Is anybody out there…..!!!!??? Say something!!!!!!!
PS- Please do not switch your phones off at night dear friends, nor put them on silent, and whatever else. I will call. I will not act brave or calm.
Peace.
No, this has nothing whatsoever to do with cards, and doesn’t refer to my liking for ‘occasionally’ playing assorted card games for amusement.
I literally meant leaves, the kinds that grow on trees.
Even if you’re a non-believer in destiny, fate and other concepts of the like such as me, it is still a fascinating amusing manifestation of the same to come across.
Save me some effort and read this stub… It’ll take a minute
WikiPedia Nadi
Yes you read that right… A leaf was written about you before you were born detailing everything about your life. And these leaves are believed to exist.
What crap I thought, but then when my Grandfather told me that he got it done 30 years ago and that he attributes greater than 90% accuracy to it, I thought what the hell, it’ll cost me 900, that too if the leaf is found !
I know of a lot of people whose leaves weren’t found and thus weren’t even charged a penny, so that made it sound even more legitimate than before.
More out of curiosity than I hope I set out on my journey to find my ‘leaf’.
It’s a simple process really… you give your thumb print at the concerned centre and they locate the stack of leaves that may or may not contain your ‘leaf/life’.
After they locate your leaf-stack, which can take anything from a week to 6 months, you are required to visit to see if your specific leaf exits. Apparently, the probability of finding your leaf is 1/3, which means of 3 people that try 1 is successful in locating their leaf.
Now it gets scary
Then they start asking you questions, which by no means are exhaustive. Here’s what makes it more legitimate, you aren’t supposed to give them any info, simply answer a lot of true or false questions.
Does your name start with a vowel? Were you born in March? Do you have a sibling?
It may be noted that since I am a computer engineer who’s very interested in logical deduction, I can testify to the fact that the questions were in know way exhaustive for a person to figure out all that information about me and fleece me. I know how Karnaugh maps and the like work and the sequence of steps were nothing that seemed to suggest deduction by elimination or such malafide intentions.
So it goes on and on with lots of questions till one second when your heart freezes when the rishi starts reading the next leaf. I think it was the 167th attempt in the second stack. I was gasping for breath on holding my head, but I was warned in advance that it has taken people trips to 4 cities and over five thousand attempts.
So anyway imagine my shock and disbelief when somebody who has no information about me, not even my name, starts reading for verification purposes a leaf that goes
Your name is…Your father’s name…Your mother’s name…The fact that I have no siblings, what I do , what I have studied, what my parents do, assorted personal details about the family that no outsider would generally know, the fact that my only uncle is abroad, and the like.
Thankfully my friends associate some credibility with what I say otherwise this would sound like a hallucinogen intoxicated punk with attention deficit disorder trying to get 15 seconds of fame.
So anyway step one was thumb print submission, step two was leaf identification.
Scariest of all is step 3. The leaf contains one’s future right, so the person starts reading your leaf in front of you while simultaneously making a voice recording of the same.
It carefully details aspects of you personal life, career, family, health over you ENTIRE LIFE’S DURATION.
Covering your entire life in spans of 3 years or greater, such as 23-25,25-27,27-30 it elaborates on everything from when you’ll get married, how many kids, professional growth and occupation. Specific Health problems in terms of the organs effected and at what age and so on… (hypothetical) example Lung related problem between the years 47-50. It even tells me of specific events to watch out for and impending disasters. Goes right through when there would be marital problems, to even the Health problems the girl I’ll marry will subsequently have and at what age, and the marriage is also at an already defined age !!!
WHAT THE BLOOOOODY FCUK IS GOING ON??????
HOW CAN PEOPLE IN MY PARENTS AGE GROUP AND GRANDPARENTS AGE GROUP, people who are successful professionals, doctors, lawyers and engineers, supposedly brilliant in their fields testify with respect to their PERSONAL LIVES TO the accuracy of this god forsaken thing. I refuse to believe my entire life can be broadly summarized in 16 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Is anybody out there…..!!!!??? Say something!!!!!!!
PS- Please do not switch your phones off at night dear friends, nor put them on silent, and whatever else. I will call. I will not act brave or calm.
Peace.
Monday, February 28, 2011
Questioning, Defining, Consolidating
At the age of 15, I was really confused as to what I really wanted from life. A strange question in someways, because it doesn't come with options to choose from.
The easiest questions one has to deal with in life are the ones with finite choices. These questions may be dealt with when confronted by various methods such as direct choice, choice by elimination,and even no choice if that's an acceptable answer.
However, open ended questions with no defined choices existing and no time limit with which to answer them leads to perpetual procrastination. The biggest problem is that thinking about such conundrums is that thinking can never find a solution. Thinking fails as it simply creates more and more options as there isn't an incorrect answer, nothing outside the scope of feasibility, and then playing with permutations and combinations of these options creates a nauseous dizzy feeling in your head.
Too much thinking and planning is bad is what I've been told, but old habits die hard. I guess you can't take a wrong decision till you take a decision, so by not taking a decision you are ensuring you aren't doing anything wrong in a way.
Does that mean decisions are gambles?
No they aren't is what I've come to realize. Because even a wrong decision will lead you to a new situation, give you more experience in life and well, at least tell you what not to do. The reason I am focusing so much on wrong decisions is that I don't think there can be any right decision. Everything comes with opportunity cost. Even if I wish I had a million dollars, I can only either buy a penthouse or go an a world tour with a private jet. The solution isn't 2 million. That's just greed talking. I can list an infinite number of other things to expand that list... after all "we all just wanna be big rockstars......."
So anyway, My dad asked me a question many many years ago. And being the brilliant individual that he is, it sort of rounded of all the options to my question quite easily and perhaps would have been a tool for great self-discovery for a person looking to walk down that road and seek an answer.
"Do you want MONEY or POWER or STATUS or AUTONOMY" . Apparently these 4 independently or in combination are the highest possible attainments for mankind.
Looking at this question I feel the same disconnect that I've felt dealing with computer science in theory and in practice. Solving a question of finite state automata never really helped me as a computer professional and a lack of explicit connection. But I've spent a lot of time pondering over this question.
Power is the least appealing. I don't want to be in a position where my actions can influence the lives of others. Apart from the people I really care about, I never factor in emotions in my decisions, thinking of them as a liability inhibiting proper analysis.
Money is necessary but no sufficient. That's the best way I can put forth my opinion on money. How much I can't quantify, but I don't have a lifestyle involving outflows of much magnitude.
Status is also very unappealing to me. Status or recognition or an identity is quite a nuisance because it takes away the amazing gift of anonymity that allows one to have experiences one can't otherwise have. In contrast to getting a lot of people who're nice to you in front of you isn't much of a favourable trade off.
AUTONOMY is quite the gem. Except you need to know what to do with it and how to deal with it. Is absolute freedom really that desirable. Doesn't it automatically lead to a state of self destruction or something like that? Yes Autonomy encompasses adventure, passion, experience and all of it, but it requires a lot of intelligence or a lot of stupidity to handle.
Do I sound confused ? Hmm... have been for long, But I'm 22 and that's time against me to do something productive. I look at a year of work ex and then 2 years of an MBA to figure out things... but my brain is dealing with other issues at the moment.
On a humourous note, one of my closest friends thinks the solution to all my problems is a vacation. Thanks but I can procrastinate for free right here in my room.
PS - I'm not attending my college farewell.... Please mark my Proxy one last time :)
The easiest questions one has to deal with in life are the ones with finite choices. These questions may be dealt with when confronted by various methods such as direct choice, choice by elimination,and even no choice if that's an acceptable answer.
However, open ended questions with no defined choices existing and no time limit with which to answer them leads to perpetual procrastination. The biggest problem is that thinking about such conundrums is that thinking can never find a solution. Thinking fails as it simply creates more and more options as there isn't an incorrect answer, nothing outside the scope of feasibility, and then playing with permutations and combinations of these options creates a nauseous dizzy feeling in your head.
Too much thinking and planning is bad is what I've been told, but old habits die hard. I guess you can't take a wrong decision till you take a decision, so by not taking a decision you are ensuring you aren't doing anything wrong in a way.
Does that mean decisions are gambles?
No they aren't is what I've come to realize. Because even a wrong decision will lead you to a new situation, give you more experience in life and well, at least tell you what not to do. The reason I am focusing so much on wrong decisions is that I don't think there can be any right decision. Everything comes with opportunity cost. Even if I wish I had a million dollars, I can only either buy a penthouse or go an a world tour with a private jet. The solution isn't 2 million. That's just greed talking. I can list an infinite number of other things to expand that list... after all "we all just wanna be big rockstars......."
So anyway, My dad asked me a question many many years ago. And being the brilliant individual that he is, it sort of rounded of all the options to my question quite easily and perhaps would have been a tool for great self-discovery for a person looking to walk down that road and seek an answer.
"Do you want MONEY or POWER or STATUS or AUTONOMY" . Apparently these 4 independently or in combination are the highest possible attainments for mankind.
Looking at this question I feel the same disconnect that I've felt dealing with computer science in theory and in practice. Solving a question of finite state automata never really helped me as a computer professional and a lack of explicit connection. But I've spent a lot of time pondering over this question.
Power is the least appealing. I don't want to be in a position where my actions can influence the lives of others. Apart from the people I really care about, I never factor in emotions in my decisions, thinking of them as a liability inhibiting proper analysis.
Money is necessary but no sufficient. That's the best way I can put forth my opinion on money. How much I can't quantify, but I don't have a lifestyle involving outflows of much magnitude.
Status is also very unappealing to me. Status or recognition or an identity is quite a nuisance because it takes away the amazing gift of anonymity that allows one to have experiences one can't otherwise have. In contrast to getting a lot of people who're nice to you in front of you isn't much of a favourable trade off.
AUTONOMY is quite the gem. Except you need to know what to do with it and how to deal with it. Is absolute freedom really that desirable. Doesn't it automatically lead to a state of self destruction or something like that? Yes Autonomy encompasses adventure, passion, experience and all of it, but it requires a lot of intelligence or a lot of stupidity to handle.
Do I sound confused ? Hmm... have been for long, But I'm 22 and that's time against me to do something productive. I look at a year of work ex and then 2 years of an MBA to figure out things... but my brain is dealing with other issues at the moment.
On a humourous note, one of my closest friends thinks the solution to all my problems is a vacation. Thanks but I can procrastinate for free right here in my room.
PS - I'm not attending my college farewell.... Please mark my Proxy one last time :)
Monday, January 3, 2011
Dear Idiot , you know who you are, stop writing Poems to random girls, here's a jingle for u
Dear Idiot , you know who you are, stop writing Poems to random girls, here's a jingle for u.
Reality samjho aur jao jaag;
life is more complex than sarson ka saag.
Nazar lagi kahin pe aur lagi dil mein aag;
but it doesn't mean you stop using your dimaag.
Ruke ho aise jaise suung gaya ho naag;
socha thaa uske jaoge bhaag.
par ye story ddlj nahin hai jiddi daag;
reh jayegi end mein sirf detergent ki jhaag.
Toh mat gaao tum 1 sided love story ke raag;
jo hai woh bhi jal jayega bachche gi srif rakh.
I will read this in public if you don't get some fcuking sense in you head.
Reality samjho aur jao jaag;
life is more complex than sarson ka saag.
Nazar lagi kahin pe aur lagi dil mein aag;
but it doesn't mean you stop using your dimaag.
Ruke ho aise jaise suung gaya ho naag;
socha thaa uske jaoge bhaag.
par ye story ddlj nahin hai jiddi daag;
reh jayegi end mein sirf detergent ki jhaag.
Toh mat gaao tum 1 sided love story ke raag;
jo hai woh bhi jal jayega bachche gi srif rakh.
I will read this in public if you don't get some fcuking sense in you head.
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