Thursday, November 24, 2011

Fest

There's a predominantly Punjabi fest going on in KMC (methinks). There was a spate of Hindi 'Happy Birthday To You' songs, and it's evidently party music. Ironical, considering that what sound is spilling over into my ears is making me reconsider going to Jynxx (hope I've got that "write")...I wonder what goes on in people's lives when no one's looking. Reading "Connect The Dots" and "Stay Hungry Stay Foolish". Entrepreneurship is 50-50, at best. Or maybe 100-0 or 0-100. I don't know. I think it's more about trying to find things you don't know so that you can find them, or the answers to them.

The Cow, or, An Essay on the false notion of triviality of subjects as we grow "older"

Why is it that topics such as 'My Favorite Toy', 'My Summer Vacations' and 'The Cow' lose their importance as we progress from grade to grade?

The cow is a four-legged mammal. It is herbivorous, has four stomachs, and chews cud (i.e. regurgitates its food and chews it again to aid digestion. Gross.) It has different places in human society according to geographies. For example, in the west, cows are livestock, while here in India, they are "live" stock - sometimes more a part of the family than family itself. Even in the business scenario, it is common practice for cattle to be given more importance than human resources.

Another topic that may be used for encouraging thinking by young minds is 'Light'. Its still-debated characteristics may be found in the uncomplicated thoughts of a child. The simple occurrence that is reflection has been analyzed to within an inch of its brain (relativistically speaking). While Heisenberg had convinced humanity that it is impossible to be certain of anything, children unencumbered by formulae and relatively free of stereotypes, cultured by familial traits or otherwise, may show humanity a different way to perceive. I say, why know the small details? We know enough to rocket to the moon, or so NASA claims. Time to expand our horizons as a species.

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Surprisingly, NOT another cellphone dump...

...to begin with. I didn't know Alistair MacLean's novel The Way To Dusty Death had borrowed the title from Macbeth. Purposely haven't got a book today so as to give my eyes a rest from reading fine print... We're imbibing the worst parts - obesity, cable TV, et al - of "developed" society. Onerogwation. Huh? Anyway, modernization has come at the expense of evolution. We've become stagnant. All the more reason to challenge ourselves as a species and go beyond Earth for habitation. The event of not taking psychology - and, ultimately, anything - in Lower VI. Life is bound to have been, be, or be somewhere in the universe as we know it. Its characteristics are hard to imagine - it may even be characterless [or undefinable in our terms] - which is why Adams' babel fish is such an awesome concept. There is no point in comparing myself to others. Case in point - bali(?). As soon as humanity set time for itself, everything became inevitable. As we say, everything became a matter of time. Everything expressed in a language is plagiarized - hence originality is in creating languages, like Welsh and Burgess, and others i haven't had the pleasure of deciphering. Tolkien, of course. Rip-offs also count, refer starting of paragraph.