An Ironical Irony!
Last week I had thought of at least three different ideas for my blog posts, and jotted a few lines as I had no time to write full-fledged posts. They still lie as drafts, and today when I thought that I’ll ditch everything else and write something, I am not able to! Alas.
Why does anyone write?
No, I am not talking about myself. For that, read “Why I started this blog“. Why does anyone write, just anyone. Some say, they like it. There are others who make money out of it. There are people who write for others, then there are those who write for themselves alone(read, personal diaries). Some write to express their views, others write to combat them.
Then, there’s another huge group who says they write to be in touch in with their fans. Read celebrity blogs. In the Indian scenario, Big B has a blog, so does Aamir Khan and of all people/politicians Mr.Advani. This is getting nowhere. Go read this why do you write 
Shall return to this!
Someone, somewhere is made for you!
I just now finished watching “Dil to paagal hai” for the umpteenth time, hence the title. Makes me wonder about love, yes and more so about movies. Love as the believers argue is the soul of life, what’s life without love and all that. The non-believers, on the other hand consider love only as a myriad of chemical reactions and hormonal changes that just drive you crazy or make you drugged as if from an overdose of marijuana. To quote some research conducted at the Columbia university,
“Michael R Liebowitz of Columbia University suggests that the mysterious experience of oneness that the lovers often feel is probably caused by an increased production of the neuro- transmitter serotonin.The yearning for each other in lovers comes from the gush of natural narcotics— endorphins and enkephalins — which the brain produces when they are together.Even gestures such as gazing, nuzzling and the exchange of sweet nothings between lovers can stimulate the brain to pump out natural drugs. No wonder people in love feel a sense of power and eternity.”
Going back to the views presented in the movie, which proclaims that God has made us in pairs and spread us around. It’s upto us to find our yet-to-meet partners. Is that really true? Then what about people who have multiple relationships through their lives, divorcees or polygamists. So the movie says, that the already-decided partners are our “true loves” which is “the one”, only one 
If that’s true, I am yet to meet mine.
Flipping back to the chemical view of love, for “the one” is it some kind of lock-and-key mechanism, which hardly follows Michaelis-Menten kinetics(courtesy the biochemistry course I am TAing ). For the many others, which are sadly, “not the ones”, it might be an induced mechanism, which might be not as well, something like trying to open a lock using a master key or worse still a hairpin.
Before I digress further into chemistry, let’s explore another facet of love. The soul mate kind. Do soul mates really exist or is like the best possible fit. More like shopping, aint it, sometimes you immediately see the dress you know you’d buy and many other times, it’s like I need a dress, and I’ll buy whichever looks the best or the “least bad”(is that even a phrase )
Last but not the least, the time-line of love, the love-at-first-sight vs the longer variety. To quote another movie, “Kabhi kabhi ek hi mulaqat kaafi hoti hai, par kabhi kabhi kayi mulaqatein lag jaati hai”. More like music, there are some tracks who instantaneously fall in love with (Ahh, the overuse of the word “love”) , there are others who hate at first and all-of-a-sudden find yourself humming. Rather, like the acquired taste for cheese and/or wine.
Enough said, the movies deserve another post.
PS: For people who don’t speak hindi, email me for translations.
A few cartoons I like!
No, I am not talking about the Cartoon Network, although I used to love “The Flintstones” and “Scooby Doo” and “SwatKats” back then. Below are a few cartoons from the RD site (which is one of my major time-suckers online)
Let’s start with love 
and then work 
and family and doctor and finally the farm. Stanford is known as “The Farm” too, though I see no other animals than the homo sapiens variety.
My fav in TOI
Streamlining part2. For the uninitiated, TOI stands for Times of India which is my favorite English newspaper, correction my favorite newspaper.
* When we can’t have what we love we must love what we have. Roger de Bussy
Well..life’s all a compromise. But Ms. Rand doesn’t seem to agree with it, neither do her characters. But do you really think such people do exist? Isn’t absolute perfection a farce!!! Suppose you got to measure a 3mm length and use a normal geometry scale to measure it but when you crosscheck it with a micrometer gauge there are sufficient chances that it would be 3.1 or 2.9 mm. Then what’s correct!!! Guess perfection is all relative, had AB junior stint with Karishma culminated into marriage would Abhi-Aish pair be so perfect 
* A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. George S Patton
Think economics( of time, money, talent…) doesn’t go well with perfection..sigh again!!!
* When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them, but you won’t come up with a handful of mud either. Leo Burnett
Good advice for all engineering aspirants, prepare for IIT-JEE, you’ll at least get through AIEEE, like me
Just thinking…
Says Mr. Wilde. And who am I to disagree….
But pondering on the question of friendship, how does it start. Well that reminds me of two things- one a song “yeh mohabbat kya hai…kahan se shuru hoti hai” or something like that and the other, much worse “Can I be your FRIEND” types( courtesy orkut )
And how does it end?? Why does it have to end in the first place when it’s all smiles and cheers? Another question that forever haunts me is how you judge a person, whether he/she’ s right or wrong, nice or not-so-nice…
- When you don’t know a person, how can u judge him..
- When you know a person, suppose he becomes your friend/not-so-much-as-a-friend. you are already biased…
- Suppose you were great friends and thought they were cool and you have a fallout with them and they are no longer cool now..so which one of your opinion is right, the cool one or the not-so-cool one
So what do we do? What do we think?? How do we decide what’s friendship?? Enough questions for today Guess I should STOP THINKING …sigh!!!
“Untitled”
I had expected to post sooner, but with the end of quarter and a bit of procrastination still left in me, that didn’t materialize.(and I am studying materials ) So what do I write about? Stanford! *My posts are written in a conversational style, and I have no idea why*
Stanford, where I have been for the past 6 months, is an interesting place. Lol. Saying that Stanford is interesting is as much of an understatement as saying that I have a little bit of a problem of procrastination It’s really been a roller coaster ride at Stanford, with a two-and-a-half months of an exasperated uphill ride, a mere 15 days of gradually sloping down and a long uphill once again. The good news is the tough part is about to get a 10-day relapse, and then Bang! Back with vengeance on the Fool’s day.
Everything here is like a really wonderful, fun movie which you are watching, alas on fast forward. I guess that’s what you call “Work hard, and party harder.” Talking about movies, don’t get the impression that Stanford is all about the watch, rather it’s a highly intensive workshop, just a bit-crammed up.
Enough of cribbing, let me shift to some laudable aspects. Stanford is endowed with a most beautiful campus, and what lovely weather. People who’ve known me for longer than a year would remember that I was hooked on Mumbai this time around in 2008, now I am hooked on California
Someone asked me how’s it to interact with Nobel Laureates, frankly I haven’t met any yet but I am eager as hell to meet Ms.Condoleeza Rice, who’s a professor here and was on a sabbatical while she was with the Bush administration. The people here really inspire you to give your best, yet the schedule keeps you crazy and it requires every bit of grit on you to not become complacent and depressed that you are a nobody.
I can go on and on, on this but I would stop because this is exactly “not the way” to spend your time right before Finals, that too at Stanford.
The description shall continue, after Wednesday
Update: I realised that this post doesn’t have a title, so suggestions welcome
Why I started this blog?
I love reading, no seriously I can read for as long as I want, skip meals/sleep/conversation for a well-engaging book. And, I procrastinate a lot, seriously(to the extent of dangerous/life or career threatening situations).
These are my two reasons. Made the connection?
For quite sometime now, reading for me has become a mode to procrastinate. Does anyone else feel in the same way?
So, this blog serves a dual purpose, will force me to write(finally!) and is my armor against procrastination and passivism. Hope this works :S
A step ahead..
This blog commemorates my moving on and taking a step ahead in life.
To introduce myself, I am just another individual, as unique and as common as the next person. Details to follow!
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