A Clue that was given..

I don't remember things well, but I rather think it was Aristotle or one of those other intellects who said: ' Life gives you clues: Rest depends upon how well you use them'. Well, the point I am driving at is that, the man is correct. Absolutely!

It was like this.. I reside 4 kms away to the East from my office. I usually take a road that runs south for a few furlongs before it meets Arcot road, on which further down was my Workplace ultimately. I turn right at the signal in the X junction and ride westwards to the office. Rarely, I take the other road from my home, which leads me to the main road. There's the petrol bunk near the intersection. Then I'll have to travel towards east and take a u-turn to take the west bound road. (I bet you scored well in your Geography papers at school if you could understand what I've just said!)

Yesterday, I was going to the office and incidentally took the second road.. I cursed my absence of mind and went ahead the circuitous route. I wouldn't have passed over a kilometer from the traffic signal I mentioned, that my bike started losing speed with mild jolts and rumbles.. What's wrong? I peeped into the speedometer. After some instant calculation I figured out I had driven more than 200kms for the four litres of petrol I had filled three days ago. Hmm. That also indirectly meant that now the tank is dry! What shall I do? Well, din't have any other go. I pushed my bike back towards the gas station.. Why did I take the second road? This is more than just a coincidence so to say..

Note: I typed this last week but couldn't afford time to post it. I suppose that was just too bad a crap to be called as a post.. Anyway I AM SO CRAPPY nowadays!

Some Quizzies..

You are one the Chosen. one of the few privileged
mortals that gods can work through.

What level of divine power do you have?
brought to you by Quizilla

You can be a wind master. You can create streams
of air that move as you wish. Whether for good
or for ill.

What are your special abilities?
brought to you by Quizilla

These feed my ego well! ha ha!

Story in the make!

What's her name? That question, and that alone, was from my part and every other sentence in the story of alleged romance spun around me is the contribution of others.. The tale was expanded and developed, new scenes and sequences added and it stands a bit short of a romantic episode.. All this sans reality and truth. Isn't there a thin line between liking somebody and going behind that somebody? I believe there must be something of that sort.

mathematical EXPRESSION!

Is there a measure to judge how good a joke is? Well, Read this article from The Hindu. This talks about the mathematical formula for perfect jokes, grading them from worst to best on a zero to 200 scale. Here's an excerpt:

x = (f*l + n*o ) / p

A comedic value is determined by multiplying the funniness of the punch line (f) by the length of the build-up (l). This is added to the amount someone falls over (n) to the power of o - the `Ouch' factor of physical pain or social embarrassment. The total is then divided by the number of puns (p) that reduce laughter.

And to all those people who undermined my jokes as tedious, Wait till I get my scores on them..

Note: One of most embarrassing moments I could ever remember was my participation in Jokes Telling competition (I know you laughed again!).. That was somewhere during my seventh standard in Kendriya Vidyalaya, JIPMER. I was left wondering when I delivered my share of jokes: not a single face in the hall showed even an expression of smile. All were looking at me with a 'you-said-you'll-tell-some-jokes?' kind of expression.. Was that a plot of my opponents or a spell on the audience, I couldn't make out till this day.. I left the podium with the words, "THOSE, were the jokes I wanted to share. Thank you." :-|

Talking of Dreams

I have finished LOTR at last. The pace was slowed down so much that at one point of time I had to re-read a few pages to get the flow! I closed the book on Sunday, and guess what, watched The Return of the King the very same day! Only then I realized how much was omitted, skewed and eroded when the story was carried on to the screen. Anyway, that didn't dissuade me from watching the movie with awe.

And coming to the title, I couldn't decipher what it meant, when I dreamt of:

- Participating in Handwriting Competition (Why do you laugh??),

- riding on a muddy road which eventually turned into a huge maze,

- sneaking into a ghostly land with couple of my friends.. (Yes,'Frodo and Sam into Mordor' sort of thing!!)

and the best of all,
- calling a function with the argument to sleep! It was like sleep(garden) .. Too much into DSP coding eh? ha ha!

I think all these, in some way reflect my state of mind : Lost, Confused, Perplexed, Stupefied, definitely Rotten, Disoriented, Befuddled, Mislaid, Demoralized, Addled and so on and so forth.. :-P

The World is your mirror..

The good you find in others, is in you too.
The faults you find in others, are your faults as well.
After all, to recognize something you must know it.

The possibilities you see in others,
           are possible for you as well.
The beauty you see around you, is your beauty.
The world around you is a reflection,
          a mirror showing you the person you are.

To change the world, you must change yourself.

See the best in others, and you will be your best.
Give to others, and you give to yourself.
Appreciate beauty, and you will be beautiful.
Admire creativity, and you will be creative.

Love, and you will be loved.
Seek to understand, and you will be understood.
Listen, and your voice will be heard.
Teach, and you will learn.

Credit:Pravsworld.com

Do I need a Title?

Wake up or sleep a minute more? Break my fast or skip it? Go straight or take left? Leave now or stay longer? Act now or postpone? Continue or change course? Take it or reject? Stop here or run more? Say it out or just shut up? Is that right or its' worse? Will I have to answer them all over and over again or it's going to end somewhere?

Why the place around me, so vibrant few days before, has altogether turned gray? Or is it only me that's desiccated? Why does this vicious cycle of pleasure and pain haunt me? I am confused; What makes me confounded? I don't know. Something dictates misery and I yield to it. Am I taking it on myself? Why should I? All this is draining me.. There are hundred things to be sorted out, thousand decisions have to be made. Time is seeping out of the glass, until it will be too late. Will I recover? Recover soon enough? I am frightened!

A Clarification

Writing is a communication that's always addressed to someone to convey thoughts and ideas to them, then or in the future. Well, to WHOM are my posts addressed to? I very much wonder if all the trivial things screened on this page are worth a minute's glance from a visitor? I wanted to ascertain the Nameless Him, for whose concerns and interest that my post are orchestrated.. I thought over it and realized.. It was for my Future Self..Yes! It's my fancies and my passions that are cast into words here.

That remaining a fact, can it be assumed that this blog is a closed affair? NO, not that way. If it was, there was no point in my elevating the words from boundaries of the diary pages to those of the HTML Tags. It is just that, the relevance of the revelations(?) that pop up here are not aimed at pulling in people, but it's to talk my head and heart out..

I would ever love to have more people dropping by and sharing their thoughts..as I always look forward to expand my personal horizons!

Had just 24 Hrs a day!

It rained on Friday evening, so I thought my bike ride would have to be ditched off. Luckily, it was a fine cloudless morning the next day and everything went on as per plan. It was an extraordinary weekend as I predicted.. Met many people after long and a few were out of the blue. Some from my school and some from the college, it has been very long since I've seen them.

On Saturday, after visiting Sujatha in the evening, we (henceforth refers to Siva, Vj, Tarr and self) went to the beach to catch up with our folks waiting there. Second show of Ayutha Ezhuthu was next. Had been to Sundar's house warming ceremony on Sunday and then to Diana's house.. Pritam and Balasankar joined us there.

It so happens that whenever the school friends get together, we start to talk about every stupid thing that happened while in school. But, for somebody who hasn't shared our schooldays, this whole twaddle proves to be confusing and at times annoying too! So was it for Tarr and Vj, who were, for most of the time, trying to figure out if we were laughing with our senses off! It takes sometime for us, the school-kids, to realize their state and come back to senses for their good!

After washing down hot Gobi pakode with cool lime juice, we posed for some snaps together before leaving for home. We called in Varun in the evening. He had had great experiences in Pune which he faithfully described to us (You see, one shouldn't try to demonstrate how the disc brake works to a girl while on the move. Is that right Varun?) and made us laugh our stomachs out!

Well, as I told before, time was in dearth and it seemed that we packed up as soon as we landed! With sweet memories, I am very dearly looking forward to more such instances..

Now its Weekend !

Arvind is quitting his job as he's all set to go for his MBA in MDI, Gurgaon.. Today is his last day with the company, so he'd came to my office to finish off the formalities. Though he was sure of leaving this job from the day he joined the company, he did not compromise with the effort he put into his work. He had really strived hard to push his way through and now he's in a place that he fully deserves ..

Am taking my bike to Pondicherry tomorrow. The morning ride on the ECR, with cool breeze gushing across my face, through the sylvan-scape, over the bridges on the backwaters, along the salt dunes and verdant fields that line the road and also the sandy beach that occasionally extend to touch the asphalt track...Wow! I am just waiting for the Sun to take a dip and come back.. But all this amusement will be served only if I wake up by the time of cockcrow and push off, else what I'll have is a torturous trek with the Sun baking the petite brain inside my skull!

And it's party time again! We'll be having Varun and Siva along with the Chennai folks to rock the place.. Couple of them are coming home after a long time.. So much to talk and chat, two days will be too less for all that!

Then, this is going to be yet another great weekend in a row! ;-)

Into a $ billion company..

11:00pm, Yesterday :When I saw my mobile ringing , displaying 'Abode Calling..', I expected the good news and so was it. By bro has made it to Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. TCS is the first software company visiting the campus this season. Incidentally, I too was placed in the first company that came for recruitment. Me so happy and so are my parents!!