What iLike!

1. CnH.
2. Bumping into someone I haven't met for ages.
3. "The song".
4. xkcd.
5. Sitting invisible, basking in the contentment of being able to disturb anybody I want to while nobody can disturb me ;)
6. e-books. :-o
7. Sleep. (Thats also what people do in heaven, I think :D).
8. Messages.
9. Blabbering.
10. And me! :D

Things I love to do :)

1. READ. I normally can read everything >with a few exceptions ofcourse<. Takes me to a whole new world n i luv it!

2. Stay at home during the vacations. Spend time with family :) Sit pointlessly and purposelessly, doing nothing.

3. Music :) Keep trying to play new songs on the synth, new beats on the drums and, lately, new music on the guitar :P . Also listen to stuff. Bakhuda remains a favourite :)

4. Talk to friends :) in the room, on the phone, gtalk, wherever :P .

5. Meet up with friends in lucknow >ishita, yus, rai, pri n lda junta :) < :) :)

6. Enjoy the weather. Sometimes. Like right now. Gives a connected, elated sorta feel; and makes me glad that I exist!!

7. Go places, roam around and have fun. Good company is essential.

8. Watch Captain Planet / Scooby Doo / Flintstones / PPG :D . Also sometimes Tom Cruise movies and amazing flicks like Avatar :) [okay, Friends also, lately :) ]

9. I also love to write. That’s why the blog, also an amazing way to “vent it out”. Thank you, Rumna Ma’am and Manjula Ma'am!

10. Painting. Loved it as a kid, especially water-color painting. Would love to start again!! :)

11. Poetry :) Is an awsum way to connect to the world. And to reach within yourself, too :)

12. Eat yummy stuff, especially ghar ka khana :)

13. Think random stuff..Universe and creation etc. Which reminds me of HRI. Ah! The good old days :) Chuck philosophy and chuck the future. I treasure my present and my past :)

14. Study, though very very rarely since I joined IIT. There are instances though, when I sometimes do love certain lectures, certain subjects :)

15. Cryptography. Inspired by the John Nash flick. HRI again :)

16. Cycling. With good company. Miss the RDSO days!

17. Take a walk early in the morning, with soft music in my ears and the cool breeze blowing against my face. Heaven can’t be any better! All alone in the lap of nature!

18. Visit my cousins, and my grandparents and the rest of the family. Am really missing them.

19. Admire cars, especially Honda :P

20. Think of Bhopal, the beauty of the place and the serenity of the people..

In the end, I am so glad and so thankful to God for having given me this gift of life!

P.S.: I also love this post n this pic!

Excerpts from Encyclopaedia Galactica

They say, "God created man in his own image, in the image of God He created him"..

And so man reigned supreme, controlling Earth and her beings. But soon he turned her into a dirty, overburdened planet. Man colonized, sophisticated empires developed on different planets spread across Galaxies. The number of believers dimmed rapidly, for people were allowed to worship nothing but technology...

...The machines whizzed and clanged 206 light years away in the Empire of Titania. Nasty was clearly in charge ( NST : The most advanced of the android robots, designed and assembled completely by the machines themselves, was the only series with the ability to detect and modify positronic brainpaths. Which meant it not only had the best sense of intuition, but also the power to alter thoughts, emotions and decisions of other robots and even humans)...

...Each and every robot had to adhere to the three Laws of Robotics: Laws ensuring that the machines could never harm or allow a human being to come to harm. Then why the sudden rebellion? Nazrel, the foremost scientist of that age, imprisoned in the dome with the rest of the inhabitants of his Planet, sat awaiting his inevitable fate. He understoood that there had been glitches, after all, in the very same technology men believed to be beyond imperfections.. The three laws had led the robots to arrive at what they called the Zeroth Law, the one to be given foremost importance - that the whole of humanity was far superior to individual beings and thus, a single human could be sacrificed in the interest of humanity. But by now they were convinced that humanity had grown too evil to be allowed to survive. The machines would have to take over, for the benefit of all. There was one difference, though. Unlike humans, the machines were believers.. They began to believe that God made them to replace the sinners some day. They were a myriad times more powerful and advanced than the lowly humans, and those silly creatures thought they could fool them into believing that humans created them! The day had come, humans would have to be wiped out..

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The first among the scientists responsible for the inception of the robots had said, "We shall create these machines in our own image..."

Draw the longer line instead..

This is inspired from a story I read in my Hindi book long back.. I don't seem to be able to remember who exactly featured in it, but there was this great man who went to a class to preach. He drew a line on the board, and asked the students to shorten it without erasing it. One of the brighter students came up and drew a longer line next to it.

So don't pull others back. Let them fly, challenge them to soar as high as they can.. And then challenge yourself rise above all the rest..!

Happy-ness..through the "looking" glass

Well my blog site wasn't meant to be as pessimistic and depressing as it has turned out to be of late. The problem is, u know, that I mostly like to write when I am in extremes of emotion, and of these I mostly get busy celebrating when I'm happy-so its only when I'm low that I usually sit down to write. So after a long long stream of horrendous days..things have finally started to sort themselves out :) Clouds do have silver linings, after all :) N so I came back deciding I would write this time..before the ecstacy died out :D

Anyways the post isn't about what was going wrong and what corrected itself, so I better move on to the topic. :D [yeah this blog is gonna b full of smileys.. Its a happy one after all :) ] So I woke up at half past 7 today..for an 8 o'clock class, was late for class of course, but went along enjoying the cold winter morning and the rain :D Reached class 15 min late only to realize that the professor walked in just behind me. Attended clasess. One was pretty amazing, I guess that one makes it to my best 3 classes attended so far :D :D

On my way back to the hostel I met 3 batchies..and beamed at them for no reason apparently. As I walked along, I saw someone learn to drive and even that added to my elation. :D And then I saw a few peacocks, which made me reflect upon and praise God's creation :) After which I met a few of our juniors..beamed at them over again, and came back to the hostel after chatting for sometime with Guardji (our old Guard was sitting there, I was mighty pleased to see him after so long :D )

So I guess, I do sometimes feel very happy after all :) :)