I agree that human beings rule because of their superior intellect but what really intrigues me is the relative rapidness in our evolution. The key lies in our awareness about how efficiently we process whatever nature offers to us, but we have been as ignorant (or may be not so clever?) about how nature has been processing us all these years.
Look closely at the other living beings and you will see that the most docile creatures have undergone minimal evolution. In fact, we are indirectly resposible for their morphosis by constantly changing their habitat. Rate at which the nature changes us is directly proportional to the rate at which we change the nature's constants! Just imagine nature in the shoes of a producer and ourselves as the raw materials.
Don't you think we are stuck in the phase of ''Product development'', a slow but a continuous one? The mutations inflicted on our DNA by free radicals present in highly processed foods/polluted air is the best of all the countless examples. It affects and alters the most vital base (DNA) of a man as a raw material! Whereas as we spend sleepless nights racking our brains to find that very nerve in natural products! I can simply summarise all the natural catastrophes or the survival-of-the-fittest-situations nature puts us through as nothing but a ''Quality Control'' step.
Man-made plant lay-outs are more or less the same for a particular product- depending on area, water, electricity. We change the lay-out to suit the product. Our world processes us in varying and versatile lay-outs and we are altered to suit its lay-out as well. Our processing steps are properly compartmentalised but we need a plant shut-down frequently. With us as raw materials, all these steps overlap and still, nature has never announced a shut-down (20/12/2012 calling?).
The constantly changing weather (again because we changed the constants) alters our ''processing (living) conditions'' accordingly. It may sound a little silly but it also demands a constant change in ''packaging'' (clothing) ;). Last but not the least, compare these two scenarios: billions of human beings are working on altering say a lakh of things by trying zillions of methods and processes. And nature is single-handedly tackling the processing of 2 million unsuspecting species with a few finite and specific methods. I need not even comment on who's more brilliant out of the two :). Think before messing with nature's constants or you will be processed at a rate with which you won't be able to catch up anymore!
-Rati Bhagwat
Tuesday, 7 June 2011
Saturday, 15 January 2011
Animal Fish-ponds
I enjoyed writing the Animals-on-Facebook blog tremendously and couldn't help keying in another one. What if the animals start playing the good old game or get caught up in bollywood melodrama? Here goes:
Glow worm: Cham cham karta hai yeh nashila badan...
Bat: Aaj main upar asmaa neeche, aaj main aage zamana hai pichhe :)
Tiger: Logo naa maaro ise, yehi to mera dildar hai :(
Giraffe's romantic song: Unchi hai building, lift teri band hai, kaise main aau? dil razamand hai...
Ant: Ichuk daana pichuk daana daane upar daana ichuk daana
Turtle: Parde mein rehne do, parda naa uthao, parda jo uth gaya to khel khul jayega :(
Penguin: Thande thande paani se nahana chahiye, gaana aaye ya na aaye, nahana chahiye
Monkey: Idhar chala main udhar chala, jaane kaha main kidhar chala, fisal gayaaaaa....
Pig: Khaane ka peene ka marne ka jeene ka, chalne ka phirne ka uthne ka girne ka, tension nahi lene ka bhai se poochne ka, Kasa kai bara hai I am Bum-bhai
*And the snake story continues*
*Female snake seduces male snake*
Female snake: Leherake leherake, balkhake balkhake, dilo ko jala ke, aag laga ke, karu main ishaaaraaa, sharara sharara...main hu ek sharararara...
Male snake: Aao twist karein, jaag utha mausam, aao twist karein, zindagi hai yehi!
*Brother Cobra intervenes and scares away the snake with his fearsome personality*
Cobra: 'Hood' 'hood' dabangg dabangg dabangg dabangg, 'hood' 'hood' dabangg dabangg dabangg dabangg...
Cow: Main gori chhori hun gopala, tune tirchi nazariya se kyo mara...gopala gopala bolo pyare gopala, aage bhi gopala, peechhe bhi gopala, bas gaya dil mein gopala...
Bull: Yeh laal rang kab mujhe chhodega :(...mera gham kab talak mera dil todega :(
Rat: Mere angnein mein tumhara kya kaam hai? X-(
Chameleon: Mujhe rang de, mujhe rang de, mujhe rang de rang de, mujhe rang de...Haan rang de, haan rang de, mujhe apne preet vich rang de...
Fish: Kyu jhoomein hai gagan? Kyu chalti hai pavan? Naa tum jaano naa hum :(
Fox: Jo soche jo chahe woh kar ke dikha de, hum woh hai jo do aur do paanch bana de ;)
Frog: kiss me kiss me kiss me, zara zara kiss me kiss me kiss me...
Snail: Intehaaa ho gayi intezar ki...aayi naa kuch khabar mere yaar ki :(
Hen: Aao sikhau tumhe ande ka funda, yeh nahi pyare koi mamoli banda...
Cat: Purr purr purr purr har pal har pal, kaise katega purr har pal har pal...
Owl: Yeh raat, jaali ki chipkali raat, yeh raat, Naa ugli hi jaye, naa nigli hi jaaye, yeh kaali zehreeli raat...
Wolf: Chanda re chanda re, kabhi to zameen par aaaa, baithenge baatein karenge...
Butterfly: Main albeli ghumoon akeli, koi paheli hun main, pagli hawayein mujhe jahan bhi le jaye in hawaon ki saheli hun main...
Cockroach: Naa jaane kaha se aaya hai, naa jaane kaha ko jayega, deewana kise banayega yeh banda...badi apsos ki hai baat, badi chhoti hai mulaqat; kisi ke haath naa ayega yeh banda..
Mosquito: Raat akeli hai, bujh gaye diye, aake mere paas, kaano mein mere, jo bhi chahe kahiye, jo bhi chahe kahiye....zzzzzzzzz
Firefly: Shola jo bhadke, dil mera tadpe, dard jawani ka sataye badh badh ke...
Bee: Main pal mein sadiyan jee aaya, saari madhushala pi aaya. main pi aaya, main pi aaya....
Pigeon: Dil hoon hoon kare, ghabrayein :(
*Octopus's message to FIFA board*
Octopus: Aanewala 'paul' jaanewala hai, ho sake to isme zindagi beeta do, 'paul' jo yeh jaane wala hai :(
Glow worm: Cham cham karta hai yeh nashila badan...
Bat: Aaj main upar asmaa neeche, aaj main aage zamana hai pichhe :)
Tiger: Logo naa maaro ise, yehi to mera dildar hai :(
Giraffe's romantic song: Unchi hai building, lift teri band hai, kaise main aau? dil razamand hai...
Ant: Ichuk daana pichuk daana daane upar daana ichuk daana
Turtle: Parde mein rehne do, parda naa uthao, parda jo uth gaya to khel khul jayega :(
Penguin: Thande thande paani se nahana chahiye, gaana aaye ya na aaye, nahana chahiye
Monkey: Idhar chala main udhar chala, jaane kaha main kidhar chala, fisal gayaaaaa....
Pig: Khaane ka peene ka marne ka jeene ka, chalne ka phirne ka uthne ka girne ka, tension nahi lene ka bhai se poochne ka, Kasa kai bara hai I am Bum-bhai
*And the snake story continues*
*Female snake seduces male snake*
Female snake: Leherake leherake, balkhake balkhake, dilo ko jala ke, aag laga ke, karu main ishaaaraaa, sharara sharara...main hu ek sharararara...
Male snake: Aao twist karein, jaag utha mausam, aao twist karein, zindagi hai yehi!
*Brother Cobra intervenes and scares away the snake with his fearsome personality*
Cobra: 'Hood' 'hood' dabangg dabangg dabangg dabangg, 'hood' 'hood' dabangg dabangg dabangg dabangg...
Cow: Main gori chhori hun gopala, tune tirchi nazariya se kyo mara...gopala gopala bolo pyare gopala, aage bhi gopala, peechhe bhi gopala, bas gaya dil mein gopala...
Bull: Yeh laal rang kab mujhe chhodega :(...mera gham kab talak mera dil todega :(
Rat: Mere angnein mein tumhara kya kaam hai? X-(
Chameleon: Mujhe rang de, mujhe rang de, mujhe rang de rang de, mujhe rang de...Haan rang de, haan rang de, mujhe apne preet vich rang de...
Fish: Kyu jhoomein hai gagan? Kyu chalti hai pavan? Naa tum jaano naa hum :(
Fox: Jo soche jo chahe woh kar ke dikha de, hum woh hai jo do aur do paanch bana de ;)
Frog: kiss me kiss me kiss me, zara zara kiss me kiss me kiss me...
Snail: Intehaaa ho gayi intezar ki...aayi naa kuch khabar mere yaar ki :(
Hen: Aao sikhau tumhe ande ka funda, yeh nahi pyare koi mamoli banda...
Cat: Purr purr purr purr har pal har pal, kaise katega purr har pal har pal...
Owl: Yeh raat, jaali ki chipkali raat, yeh raat, Naa ugli hi jaye, naa nigli hi jaaye, yeh kaali zehreeli raat...
Wolf: Chanda re chanda re, kabhi to zameen par aaaa, baithenge baatein karenge...
Butterfly: Main albeli ghumoon akeli, koi paheli hun main, pagli hawayein mujhe jahan bhi le jaye in hawaon ki saheli hun main...
Cockroach: Naa jaane kaha se aaya hai, naa jaane kaha ko jayega, deewana kise banayega yeh banda...badi apsos ki hai baat, badi chhoti hai mulaqat; kisi ke haath naa ayega yeh banda..
Mosquito: Raat akeli hai, bujh gaye diye, aake mere paas, kaano mein mere, jo bhi chahe kahiye, jo bhi chahe kahiye....zzzzzzzzz
Firefly: Shola jo bhadke, dil mera tadpe, dard jawani ka sataye badh badh ke...
Bee: Main pal mein sadiyan jee aaya, saari madhushala pi aaya. main pi aaya, main pi aaya....
Pigeon: Dil hoon hoon kare, ghabrayein :(
*Octopus's message to FIFA board*
Octopus: Aanewala 'paul' jaanewala hai, ho sake to isme zindagi beeta do, 'paul' jo yeh jaane wala hai :(
Tuesday, 27 July 2010
A Mathematical Twist to Relationships
A weird twist, isn't it? Maths gradually unfolds it's complexity to us from Kindergarten to Higher education and so do relationships, as they grow deeper by the years. Let us start with a basis to establish the similarity between the two and see how they proceed from basic level to calculus.
You enter a new class and there are so many students to interact with; as simple as counting Natural Numbers. After a month, some of them give negative vibes, some enter our positive books; hello to integers! Groups of like-minded people form just like sub-sets or Matrices. And then comes the quest for your crushes which marks the beginning of higher levels. You have your share of link-ups, 'Probabilities' of successfully wooing your heart-throb and not to mention the several cross-connections and on-off relationships happening within your class . And if you think that these 'Permutations and Combinations' are enough to make your heads spin, you are mistaken!
You are unsuspectingly dragged into an even crazier world. When you are friends with your crush, it is a simple 'a+b' situation. You start going around and in come the variables-ax+by, where x and y are likes of a and b respectively. But it is very simple to draw optimum solution at this point where there is a willingness from both a and b to 'çonstantly' showcase only the positives of their personalities and adjust the 'x and y's. When you get engaged, your negative aspects subtly start showing up in the form of 'cw+dz'...c and d being negative characters and w and z being dislikes. Still, they are simple enough to solve.
Marriage bombards you with endless polynomials, where the variables cropping up exhaust all the 26 alphabets, the symbols and the likes! It starts with where to settle, who cleans what blah blah blah...And so many angles from two families come into play that trigonometry blows out of proportion. The Linear Programming that was once resorted to in times of disagreements is utterly neglected.
Calculus ushers in, with the birth of your children where there is no 'Limit' for differences and 'Continuity' of bad habits within the family. Our behaviour affects their behaviour in a good/bad way; that is, an increment in 'x' brings about an increment in 'y'...Quite a 'Derivative' situation! And more the number of children we have, the more their behaviour is affected by us and their siblings...That brings in differential equations of first, second (and so on) order! We rack our brains to reach a solution for these uncontrollable series of differentials, just like Lagrange, Fourier and all did in their times.
Sometimes we let the equations run wild, sometimes we come up with a solution. And, this is how relationships throw us in a loop of derivatives and integration, forever!
Cheers!
Rati!
You enter a new class and there are so many students to interact with; as simple as counting Natural Numbers. After a month, some of them give negative vibes, some enter our positive books; hello to integers! Groups of like-minded people form just like sub-sets or Matrices. And then comes the quest for your crushes which marks the beginning of higher levels. You have your share of link-ups, 'Probabilities' of successfully wooing your heart-throb and not to mention the several cross-connections and on-off relationships happening within your class . And if you think that these 'Permutations and Combinations' are enough to make your heads spin, you are mistaken!
You are unsuspectingly dragged into an even crazier world. When you are friends with your crush, it is a simple 'a+b' situation. You start going around and in come the variables-ax+by, where x and y are likes of a and b respectively. But it is very simple to draw optimum solution at this point where there is a willingness from both a and b to 'çonstantly' showcase only the positives of their personalities and adjust the 'x and y's. When you get engaged, your negative aspects subtly start showing up in the form of 'cw+dz'...c and d being negative characters and w and z being dislikes. Still, they are simple enough to solve.
Marriage bombards you with endless polynomials, where the variables cropping up exhaust all the 26 alphabets, the symbols and the likes! It starts with where to settle, who cleans what blah blah blah...And so many angles from two families come into play that trigonometry blows out of proportion. The Linear Programming that was once resorted to in times of disagreements is utterly neglected.
Calculus ushers in, with the birth of your children where there is no 'Limit' for differences and 'Continuity' of bad habits within the family. Our behaviour affects their behaviour in a good/bad way; that is, an increment in 'x' brings about an increment in 'y'...Quite a 'Derivative' situation! And more the number of children we have, the more their behaviour is affected by us and their siblings...That brings in differential equations of first, second (and so on) order! We rack our brains to reach a solution for these uncontrollable series of differentials, just like Lagrange, Fourier and all did in their times.
Sometimes we let the equations run wild, sometimes we come up with a solution. And, this is how relationships throw us in a loop of derivatives and integration, forever!
Cheers!
Rati!
Monday, 12 July 2010
THE PARADOX CALLED ''SUICIDE''
The rampant suicides, especially among the students these days, made me delve into their mentality and pen my thoughts on this dark topic. A wise man had once defined suicide as a permanent solution to a temporary problem. It certainly ''becomes'' permanent once the distressed resorts to the irreversible act. But what about the other temporary solutions that might have flitted across his/her mind?
No mental state can be as paradoxical as that of the one on the verge of doing the unthinkable. Taking one's life is the strongest resolve one could ever make. Just because he/she is not strong enough to face his hopeless situation, he becomes unbelievably strong to face his death...He loses the courage to withstand the worst but musters the courage to end his life. Due to the unbearable fear of consequences, he rids himself of the fear of mortality. To avoid crying over mishaps, he smiles in the face of death.
Why doesn't he choose the strength to cope with the stress, over the strength to deal with death? Why doesn't he divert his courage towards battling the worst? Why doesn't he overcome the fear of putting up with bad results? When the doer can't control his life any more, he takes the ultimate control over it! A psychological state full of ironies! A matter of choices...
I can't even figure out if it is planned consciously or done on the spur of the moment. The most intriguing and disturbing part about many cases is that the person was said to have looked absolutely happy and unruffled, moments before committing suicide. How can a seemingly normal person go beyond extreme abnormality within no time? Is it the overwhelming sinusoidal pattern of thoughts beneath the nonchalant exterior that coaxes him to end his thought process once and for all?
A suicidal situation is like a coin with two sides...You either ''head'' in the right direction or proceed towards the ''tail''-end of your life. And it is out of our bounds to comprehend the paranormal state in between.
Rati
No mental state can be as paradoxical as that of the one on the verge of doing the unthinkable. Taking one's life is the strongest resolve one could ever make. Just because he/she is not strong enough to face his hopeless situation, he becomes unbelievably strong to face his death...He loses the courage to withstand the worst but musters the courage to end his life. Due to the unbearable fear of consequences, he rids himself of the fear of mortality. To avoid crying over mishaps, he smiles in the face of death.
Why doesn't he choose the strength to cope with the stress, over the strength to deal with death? Why doesn't he divert his courage towards battling the worst? Why doesn't he overcome the fear of putting up with bad results? When the doer can't control his life any more, he takes the ultimate control over it! A psychological state full of ironies! A matter of choices...
I can't even figure out if it is planned consciously or done on the spur of the moment. The most intriguing and disturbing part about many cases is that the person was said to have looked absolutely happy and unruffled, moments before committing suicide. How can a seemingly normal person go beyond extreme abnormality within no time? Is it the overwhelming sinusoidal pattern of thoughts beneath the nonchalant exterior that coaxes him to end his thought process once and for all?
A suicidal situation is like a coin with two sides...You either ''head'' in the right direction or proceed towards the ''tail''-end of your life. And it is out of our bounds to comprehend the paranormal state in between.
Rati
Thursday, 17 June 2010
Mind-Over-Colour
Be it any language, it has phrases linking different moods/emotions/feelings with colours. And recently, I realized that these phrases are not mere musings of an idle ancestral mind. They have a rather unfathomable significance on the physical world!
The profoundness of this mind-colour-matter association hit me while hanging out at Mocha when I saw my reflection in the mirror illuminated by red light (Mochas' trademark). Flawless skin, sharp features- I thought I was staring at a stranger! Red is touted as the colour of ''confidence'' and at that moment I couldn't agree more! It subtly camouflages your acne, highlights your features, giving you a very beautiful aura. It explains the dominant use of red lighting on theatre stages, probably to accentuate the facial expressions of the actors, and why the red-light-areas are called so. There is more to this insecurity-buster than just wearing a red out-fit.
Jealousy makes your facial veins jut out and you become ''green'' with envy. You appear pale and ''yellow'' when sick, thanks to the existence of a (yellow yellow) ''dirty fellow'' in your body. I don't feel the need to mention excreta ;)...When you bump into something and feel excruciating pain to the core, the surrounding skin turns blue. That's why you feel ''blue'' even when someone hurts you verbally.
Imagine all your emotions placed on a rotating disc. When they careen out of control, they are replaced by a single emotion- fear. Or you can say that when you are gripped by extreme fear, your confidence, stability and all other feelings whirl into oblivion inside your mind. Isn't it analogous to a rotating disc divided into different hues uniformly showing a white colour when swerved wildly? You turn ''white'' with fear!
White is also associated with purity of mind, which is inherent in a very very few people. Compare it with the R-G-B model that we learned in school. When the three basic colours (emotions) of accurate shades (intensities) are mixed, they give a pure white shade. A slight deviation in any one of the shades (emotional intensities) gives a greyish outcome...And that explains the existence of people with different grey shades. I am sure many of you must have shallowly correlated grey shades as a combination of black (dark thoughts) and white (ideal thoughts). But these age-old ideologies run deeper than that.
When you achieve something by imbibing virtuous qualities and overcoming all the negative ones, you are said to ''come out with flying colours''. Just as the perfect combination of rain (gloomy days) and sun (bright moments) develops into an enchanting rainbow. Although most of us are cynical about the lucky stones the astrologers advise to wear, they may have more of scientific than spiritual bearings-an unexplored aspect. Mind over matter, mind over colour. You'd better mind over what colour colours your mind and, what colour your mind colours ;)...
Ciao!
Rati
The profoundness of this mind-colour-matter association hit me while hanging out at Mocha when I saw my reflection in the mirror illuminated by red light (Mochas' trademark). Flawless skin, sharp features- I thought I was staring at a stranger! Red is touted as the colour of ''confidence'' and at that moment I couldn't agree more! It subtly camouflages your acne, highlights your features, giving you a very beautiful aura. It explains the dominant use of red lighting on theatre stages, probably to accentuate the facial expressions of the actors, and why the red-light-areas are called so. There is more to this insecurity-buster than just wearing a red out-fit.
Jealousy makes your facial veins jut out and you become ''green'' with envy. You appear pale and ''yellow'' when sick, thanks to the existence of a (yellow yellow) ''dirty fellow'' in your body. I don't feel the need to mention excreta ;)...When you bump into something and feel excruciating pain to the core, the surrounding skin turns blue. That's why you feel ''blue'' even when someone hurts you verbally.
Imagine all your emotions placed on a rotating disc. When they careen out of control, they are replaced by a single emotion- fear. Or you can say that when you are gripped by extreme fear, your confidence, stability and all other feelings whirl into oblivion inside your mind. Isn't it analogous to a rotating disc divided into different hues uniformly showing a white colour when swerved wildly? You turn ''white'' with fear!
White is also associated with purity of mind, which is inherent in a very very few people. Compare it with the R-G-B model that we learned in school. When the three basic colours (emotions) of accurate shades (intensities) are mixed, they give a pure white shade. A slight deviation in any one of the shades (emotional intensities) gives a greyish outcome...And that explains the existence of people with different grey shades. I am sure many of you must have shallowly correlated grey shades as a combination of black (dark thoughts) and white (ideal thoughts). But these age-old ideologies run deeper than that.
When you achieve something by imbibing virtuous qualities and overcoming all the negative ones, you are said to ''come out with flying colours''. Just as the perfect combination of rain (gloomy days) and sun (bright moments) develops into an enchanting rainbow. Although most of us are cynical about the lucky stones the astrologers advise to wear, they may have more of scientific than spiritual bearings-an unexplored aspect. Mind over matter, mind over colour. You'd better mind over what colour colours your mind and, what colour your mind colours ;)...
Ciao!
Rati
Saturday, 1 May 2010
IF ANIMALS WERE ON FACEBOOK...
Internet is obviously a medium for one and only one species- man...Countless new profiles pop up every now and then on social networking sites. Imagine the pandemonium if all other creatures gain access to Facebook...
DOG Who took away my pole? X-(...Pee-king around for a new one...
KAMINA KUTTA likes this. Comment.
DOG1: Don’t worry! Every man has his day...
DOG2: ‘’Dislike’’...why doesn’t FB provide a ‘’shit’’ option?!
KAMINA KUTTA: kkth*...(kutton ki tarah hasna)
DOG1>DOG2 Where r u dude? Don’t see u around these days...
Comment. Like. See Wall to Wall.
DOG2: The dog van’s frequently patrolling my area...had to go underground :(
DOG1: Je baat! Become a fan of the Maneka Gandhi page, they won’t lay a finger on you...
DOG3 Yippeee! Mating season’s here!!
10,77,391 BITCHES like this.
COWS, SHEEP, HORSES and GOATS joined the group- WHAT THE **** ARE WE DOING IN FARMVILLE?!
Join. Like.
UGLY DUCKLING took the test ‘’Are you born to be a Swan?’’
See More.
LADY FROG>PRINCESS You boyfriend-kisser, give my frog back X-(...
2,97, 854 FISH became a fan of THE NEW WATERPROOF APPLE iPAD
4, 56, 788 BIRDS joined the group- MAKE AN APPEAL TO STEVE JOBS TO INVENT FLi-PAD
CHAMELEON FB is so inconvenient! No colour theme settings :(...
Comment. Like.
CHAMELEON1: Yeah, Couldn’t change my colour in ages! Feeling blue :(...
PORCUPINE joined the group Kaanta Lagaaaa
Join. Like.
EARTHWORM changed it’s Orientation to Bisexual
Comment. Like.
FEMALE SNAKE, you have 1 friendship request from
MALE SNAKE- 1 mutual friend
‘’Zeher hai ke pyar hai tera chumma? Will you be my friend?’’
Confirm. Ignore.
FEMALE SNAKE and MALE SNAKE are now friends.
Comment. Like.
FEMALE SNAKE>MALE SNAKE Let’s Hissss and make up....
Comment. Like.
SPIDER This web is even more confusing than mine!
Comment. Like.
SNAIL1>SNAIL2 Oh no, not again! I will wait till you connect the internet router and return. C u soon :)
April 22 at 1:53pm. Comment. Like.
SNAIL2: Done! See, I am quicker than your dial-up connection :P...
June 3 at 8:43 am. Delete.
MOUSE is in a Relationship
Comment. Like.
MOUSE1: Your updates are always so ‘’cheesy’’! How I wish I had such a love story to boast of!
MOUSE: Then why don’t you make a ‘’Squeakquel’’?
COCKROACH1, ROACH2, ROACH3.....were tagged in 112 billion photos
View. Comment. Like.
LIZARD1, LIZARD2....were tagged in 90, 567, 878 photos
View. Comment. Like
TIGER1 and TIGER2 were tagged in two photos
View. Comment. Like
TIGER1: Extinction alert!
BAT1 Can someone tell me how to change settings on FB so that the updates appear in ascending chronological order?...The banes of hanging upside down...Arrrrgh...
Comment. Like.
BAT2: Abbey dhakkan make ur screen upside down :P...
9, 768, 324 CROWS are attending the event PREMIERE OF MOVIE PHOONK
Comment. Like.
ELEPHANT Fie on size zero! 3600-2400-3600 trend is back in vogue!
Comment. Like.
CAMEL THAR me kiska SAHARA lu?
Comment. Like.
BABY BLACK BUCK :)))))))))))))))))))))))
Comment. Like.
MOM BLACK BUCK: Beta so jao nahi to Salman Khan aa jayega...
CAT gave purrrfect answers; the interviewer was so Purrrplexed by her Purrrspectives that he recruited her at Purrrrcept motion picture...
ROOSTER took the test AM I A GOOD EMPLOYEE?
Result: You are the most loyal employee. Blame it on the Cell phones, Morning calls and Alarm Clocks. People will understand your worth some day, when these gadgets let them down.
PIG had an indulgent Sunday! A scintillating slushy mud bath, followed by a sumptuous meal of rotten insects and fresh worms...
CROCODILE1>CROCODILE2 Don’t shed Lalit Modi tears...
1323 crocodiles like this. Comment.
Crocodile3: Thanks to that man, we have been freed from the curse!
RATI says she can go on and on...She is leaving the rest to your imagination...
Cheers!
DOG Who took away my pole? X-(...Pee-king around for a new one...
KAMINA KUTTA likes this. Comment.
DOG1: Don’t worry! Every man has his day...
DOG2: ‘’Dislike’’...why doesn’t FB provide a ‘’shit’’ option?!
KAMINA KUTTA: kkth*...(kutton ki tarah hasna)
DOG1>DOG2 Where r u dude? Don’t see u around these days...
Comment. Like. See Wall to Wall.
DOG2: The dog van’s frequently patrolling my area...had to go underground :(
DOG1: Je baat! Become a fan of the Maneka Gandhi page, they won’t lay a finger on you...
DOG3 Yippeee! Mating season’s here!!
10,77,391 BITCHES like this.
COWS, SHEEP, HORSES and GOATS joined the group- WHAT THE **** ARE WE DOING IN FARMVILLE?!
Join. Like.
UGLY DUCKLING took the test ‘’Are you born to be a Swan?’’
See More.
LADY FROG>PRINCESS You boyfriend-kisser, give my frog back X-(...
2,97, 854 FISH became a fan of THE NEW WATERPROOF APPLE iPAD
4, 56, 788 BIRDS joined the group- MAKE AN APPEAL TO STEVE JOBS TO INVENT FLi-PAD
CHAMELEON FB is so inconvenient! No colour theme settings :(...
Comment. Like.
CHAMELEON1: Yeah, Couldn’t change my colour in ages! Feeling blue :(...
PORCUPINE joined the group Kaanta Lagaaaa
Join. Like.
EARTHWORM changed it’s Orientation to Bisexual
Comment. Like.
FEMALE SNAKE, you have 1 friendship request from
MALE SNAKE- 1 mutual friend
‘’Zeher hai ke pyar hai tera chumma? Will you be my friend?’’
Confirm. Ignore.
FEMALE SNAKE and MALE SNAKE are now friends.
Comment. Like.
FEMALE SNAKE>MALE SNAKE Let’s Hissss and make up....
Comment. Like.
SPIDER This web is even more confusing than mine!
Comment. Like.
SNAIL1>SNAIL2 Oh no, not again! I will wait till you connect the internet router and return. C u soon :)
April 22 at 1:53pm. Comment. Like.
SNAIL2: Done! See, I am quicker than your dial-up connection :P...
June 3 at 8:43 am. Delete.
MOUSE is in a Relationship
Comment. Like.
MOUSE1: Your updates are always so ‘’cheesy’’! How I wish I had such a love story to boast of!
MOUSE: Then why don’t you make a ‘’Squeakquel’’?
COCKROACH1, ROACH2, ROACH3.....were tagged in 112 billion photos
View. Comment. Like.
LIZARD1, LIZARD2....were tagged in 90, 567, 878 photos
View. Comment. Like
TIGER1 and TIGER2 were tagged in two photos
View. Comment. Like
TIGER1: Extinction alert!
BAT1 Can someone tell me how to change settings on FB so that the updates appear in ascending chronological order?...The banes of hanging upside down...Arrrrgh...
Comment. Like.
BAT2: Abbey dhakkan make ur screen upside down :P...
9, 768, 324 CROWS are attending the event PREMIERE OF MOVIE PHOONK
Comment. Like.
ELEPHANT Fie on size zero! 3600-2400-3600 trend is back in vogue!
Comment. Like.
CAMEL THAR me kiska SAHARA lu?
Comment. Like.
BABY BLACK BUCK :)))))))))))))))))))))))
Comment. Like.
MOM BLACK BUCK: Beta so jao nahi to Salman Khan aa jayega...
CAT gave purrrfect answers; the interviewer was so Purrrplexed by her Purrrspectives that he recruited her at Purrrrcept motion picture...
ROOSTER took the test AM I A GOOD EMPLOYEE?
Result: You are the most loyal employee. Blame it on the Cell phones, Morning calls and Alarm Clocks. People will understand your worth some day, when these gadgets let them down.
PIG had an indulgent Sunday! A scintillating slushy mud bath, followed by a sumptuous meal of rotten insects and fresh worms...
CROCODILE1>CROCODILE2 Don’t shed Lalit Modi tears...
1323 crocodiles like this. Comment.
Crocodile3: Thanks to that man, we have been freed from the curse!
RATI says she can go on and on...She is leaving the rest to your imagination...
Cheers!
Thursday, 18 March 2010
The TIMELESS POWER OF THE FACELESS TIME
We are aware about nature and its ability to captivate mankind with its benevolence or obliterate all species with its prowess. But most of us are oblivious to the power entwined with nature- Time...Nature outlined it for the human race with day and night.
We finally ended up with our current calendar after the study of motion of earth and her neighbours...And if our ancestors had failed to grasp the nature's signals, the world would have been in chaos...What if our primitives had not taken the initiative to study the solar system? There'd be no seconds, no minutes, no hours, no days, no months, no year! You'd argue that discovering a day was obvious but what about different durations of darkness across different places, owing to the apparent migration of sun? Earth would have been a haphazard place with all the lifestyles gone haywire!
Time brought order from chaos and there was no looking back for man from then on. His lifestyle well-organized, he went on making inventions and discoveries. If there was no such system, what would have been the basis for evaluating the epoch-making theories of all the geniuses? Newton's laws, Einstein's theories, Wright brothers' dream, Satellite missions and infinite feats would have been impossible! I need not even evaluate the situation in their absence. We would be practically left with nothing but a primitive life :)...
P.T.Usha lost due to a lag of a few milliseconds. A few seconds' delay can cost you a fortune or rob you off a profit in stock market. Success, failure, life, death- it all boils down to time. Every aspect of our lives directly or indirectly relates with time.
This abstract demigod would have shaken and swept away the very foundations of human development in its absence. Nature at least gives some hints of impending disasters or even false alarms. In fact, they are predicted with the help of the twin power... But time shows no mercy. Irrespective of what happens to you, time flows, time flies, time moves on, giving a simple but the most effective message- Move on! The ultimate healing power...
Nature has its own diverse physicality. Time does not have a physical form but still you can feel it with your five senses- through a flowing river, changing weathers, ticking of clocks; finding its blurred face reflected by natural cycles...And yet it has the penultimate power of altering the very reflecting surface...
Time is the problem, time is the solution...
Race against time or race ahead with it...
Tick with time before it ticks you off...
-Rati
We finally ended up with our current calendar after the study of motion of earth and her neighbours...And if our ancestors had failed to grasp the nature's signals, the world would have been in chaos...What if our primitives had not taken the initiative to study the solar system? There'd be no seconds, no minutes, no hours, no days, no months, no year! You'd argue that discovering a day was obvious but what about different durations of darkness across different places, owing to the apparent migration of sun? Earth would have been a haphazard place with all the lifestyles gone haywire!
Time brought order from chaos and there was no looking back for man from then on. His lifestyle well-organized, he went on making inventions and discoveries. If there was no such system, what would have been the basis for evaluating the epoch-making theories of all the geniuses? Newton's laws, Einstein's theories, Wright brothers' dream, Satellite missions and infinite feats would have been impossible! I need not even evaluate the situation in their absence. We would be practically left with nothing but a primitive life :)...
P.T.Usha lost due to a lag of a few milliseconds. A few seconds' delay can cost you a fortune or rob you off a profit in stock market. Success, failure, life, death- it all boils down to time. Every aspect of our lives directly or indirectly relates with time.
This abstract demigod would have shaken and swept away the very foundations of human development in its absence. Nature at least gives some hints of impending disasters or even false alarms. In fact, they are predicted with the help of the twin power... But time shows no mercy. Irrespective of what happens to you, time flows, time flies, time moves on, giving a simple but the most effective message- Move on! The ultimate healing power...
Nature has its own diverse physicality. Time does not have a physical form but still you can feel it with your five senses- through a flowing river, changing weathers, ticking of clocks; finding its blurred face reflected by natural cycles...And yet it has the penultimate power of altering the very reflecting surface...
Time is the problem, time is the solution...
Race against time or race ahead with it...
Tick with time before it ticks you off...
-Rati
Friday, 19 February 2010
BEAUTY AT ITS EXTREME...
Nature is the most enigmatic and versatile show-stopper on the earth's ramp. The more enthralling and rarer the beauty, the more hostile are the conditions, the designers of the splendid show!
Flowers, trees, lakes, rivers etc. are of course the eternal sources of beauty. But I am referring to the most extreme beauty offered by mother nature and it doesn't come for free. The phenomenon occurs at the cost of the following:
1. Enduring harsh conditions or
2. Accurate collaboration of various parameters.
Enduring harsh conditions: Imagine basking under the spell of the white blankets of Alaska or Antarctica, cherishing but withstanding the blizzards, avoiding frostbites...Outrunning the avalanches of the captivating mount Everest...Going up the magnificent Leh-Ladakh slopes, coping with thin air, treacherous narrow ghats, and the rockfalls...Sailing amidst the mysterious icebergs on an ocean, braving the turbulent waters, storms and towering waves...Imagine exploring the most amazing extreme world near the ocean floor without scuba gear...These stunners are worth all the tribulations, because the endurance that we conquer to catch a glimpse, makes them even more special...
Accurate collaboration of parameters: The charm of this category mostly lasts for a moment. The mesmerizing rainbow demands the combination of the sun and the rain; the more accurate the size of the rain drops and the angle of the sunrays, the better the shape and sharper the colours...Have you ever wondered about how the cute little perfect hexagonal-shaped snowflakes are formed? They are created only by an accurate, concurrent existence of temperature, air currents, humidity and the level of clouds in the atmosphere...The rare phenomena of solar/lunar eclipse, falling meteors, shooting stars (unlike the nature-defying shooting stars in kuch kuch hota hai) etc. also come at the cost of the collaboration of several parameters. And some of these beauties last for a blink of an eye!
Nature is a factory of pretty stuff like flowers and trees, standardized and coordinated...But the creation of the extremes is equivalent to the infinite laboratory experiments till you inadvertently and miraculously come up with the right readings and again lose track of what you have done ;)...Things of beauty are joy forever...Things of enigma are ecstasy, forever, but in your memories :)
Regards,
Rati
Flowers, trees, lakes, rivers etc. are of course the eternal sources of beauty. But I am referring to the most extreme beauty offered by mother nature and it doesn't come for free. The phenomenon occurs at the cost of the following:
1. Enduring harsh conditions or
2. Accurate collaboration of various parameters.
Enduring harsh conditions: Imagine basking under the spell of the white blankets of Alaska or Antarctica, cherishing but withstanding the blizzards, avoiding frostbites...Outrunning the avalanches of the captivating mount Everest...Going up the magnificent Leh-Ladakh slopes, coping with thin air, treacherous narrow ghats, and the rockfalls...Sailing amidst the mysterious icebergs on an ocean, braving the turbulent waters, storms and towering waves...Imagine exploring the most amazing extreme world near the ocean floor without scuba gear...These stunners are worth all the tribulations, because the endurance that we conquer to catch a glimpse, makes them even more special...
Accurate collaboration of parameters: The charm of this category mostly lasts for a moment. The mesmerizing rainbow demands the combination of the sun and the rain; the more accurate the size of the rain drops and the angle of the sunrays, the better the shape and sharper the colours...Have you ever wondered about how the cute little perfect hexagonal-shaped snowflakes are formed? They are created only by an accurate, concurrent existence of temperature, air currents, humidity and the level of clouds in the atmosphere...The rare phenomena of solar/lunar eclipse, falling meteors, shooting stars (unlike the nature-defying shooting stars in kuch kuch hota hai) etc. also come at the cost of the collaboration of several parameters. And some of these beauties last for a blink of an eye!
Nature is a factory of pretty stuff like flowers and trees, standardized and coordinated...But the creation of the extremes is equivalent to the infinite laboratory experiments till you inadvertently and miraculously come up with the right readings and again lose track of what you have done ;)...Things of beauty are joy forever...Things of enigma are ecstasy, forever, but in your memories :)
Regards,
Rati
Thursday, 10 December 2009
Learning through Role Reversal
I am roughly putting forth my idea of creating an effective learning institution. The imaginary system won't be perfect, but it can be highly instrumental in replacing ''mugging'' with ''understanding'' in several minds.
Most students tend to procrastinate their studying schedule. The time-table they chalk out is never followed! And then the time turns the tables on them, when the day of the battle with the question paper ensues. Then their mind loses the track of the times and the tables! They finally end up swallowing their notes and vomiting them out on the answer sheets. Exams get over and all the non-understood or even the misunderstood knowledge just vapourizes from their minds!
What remains is just a residue of wisdom, which backfires when they finally enter the industrial world, where their understanding and application of knowledge is put to test. Time to present my idea. It can be put across in a few words- Teaching is learning.
Assumptions:
Consider any course of four years, with each batch having their exams a month prior to the previous batch. Each batch will contain equal number of students.
Idea:
The final year students, the earliest free birds, will teach and help the third year(TY) students prepare for their exams. It would be a win-win situation! Both the parties will have a better understanding of the subject. In fact the FIY students will gain even more through teaching, the concepts and fundas hammered permanently into their brains. In the same way, the TYs will teach their juniors and so on...
It won't even be a deja-vu for the seniors because they will see their ex-subjects in new light. And the best part about it would be, that they won't be studying under the pressure of exams. But for the sake of making it clear to their successors.
I am sure that the understanding of subjects will reach new levels through this system. This is just a rough sketch of my plan because there are still many loopholes and flaws to be taken care of. For example, it depends on the teaching and grasping abilities, the intellectual levels of the students. After all, each plan has its own pros and cons...Our job is to optimize...
Regards,
Rati
Most students tend to procrastinate their studying schedule. The time-table they chalk out is never followed! And then the time turns the tables on them, when the day of the battle with the question paper ensues. Then their mind loses the track of the times and the tables! They finally end up swallowing their notes and vomiting them out on the answer sheets. Exams get over and all the non-understood or even the misunderstood knowledge just vapourizes from their minds!
What remains is just a residue of wisdom, which backfires when they finally enter the industrial world, where their understanding and application of knowledge is put to test. Time to present my idea. It can be put across in a few words- Teaching is learning.
Assumptions:
Consider any course of four years, with each batch having their exams a month prior to the previous batch. Each batch will contain equal number of students.
Idea:
The final year students, the earliest free birds, will teach and help the third year(TY) students prepare for their exams. It would be a win-win situation! Both the parties will have a better understanding of the subject. In fact the FIY students will gain even more through teaching, the concepts and fundas hammered permanently into their brains. In the same way, the TYs will teach their juniors and so on...
It won't even be a deja-vu for the seniors because they will see their ex-subjects in new light. And the best part about it would be, that they won't be studying under the pressure of exams. But for the sake of making it clear to their successors.
I am sure that the understanding of subjects will reach new levels through this system. This is just a rough sketch of my plan because there are still many loopholes and flaws to be taken care of. For example, it depends on the teaching and grasping abilities, the intellectual levels of the students. After all, each plan has its own pros and cons...Our job is to optimize...
Regards,
Rati
Sunday, 29 November 2009
The ''D''eciding Factors
Mankind flourished with the two D's working together- Development and Division have been allies since man started his life from scratch.
Sign language, I believe, must have been the oldest universal language used to communicate in the primitive times. It is the development of different languages that ushered in the first degree of division- communities. People who spoke the same language, shared their own set of beliefs, preferences, needs, risks; which cumulatively metamorphosized into a community. Countless languages, countless communities.
Man was already struggling for survival, clueless about, but still exploring, the boons and the banes of nature. And then, he found a simpler way. The communities systematically developed and alloted different job functions (hunting, gathering firewood; later- education, farming, business etc.) to different groups. Survival became easy. Job functions developed into occupations and occupations into industries. And based on occupations, the caste system raised its ugly head- lethal division for the sake of further development!
People yearned and mutually toiled for years, to know the shape, the size, the topography of the earth! And when their knowledge and abilities developed to the level of accomplishing the seemingly impossible task, it gave birth to different continents, nations, states, cities. The division, of course, proved to be convenient for many purposes- ease of administration, tracking etc.
The division led to the ultimate endless quest- the quest for being the superpower...which is measured in terms of (again) development..the underdeveloped, the developing and the developed nations.
Development has given rise to many convenient and harmless divisions too! But this chain reaction of the D's has been too fast and furious for man to grasp, and decide what kind of division was essential, mutual and beneficial. The alter-egos will keep on acting as the driving forces for the progress of humanity; sometimes symbiotically, sometimes viciously.
Regards,
Rati
Sign language, I believe, must have been the oldest universal language used to communicate in the primitive times. It is the development of different languages that ushered in the first degree of division- communities. People who spoke the same language, shared their own set of beliefs, preferences, needs, risks; which cumulatively metamorphosized into a community. Countless languages, countless communities.
Man was already struggling for survival, clueless about, but still exploring, the boons and the banes of nature. And then, he found a simpler way. The communities systematically developed and alloted different job functions (hunting, gathering firewood; later- education, farming, business etc.) to different groups. Survival became easy. Job functions developed into occupations and occupations into industries. And based on occupations, the caste system raised its ugly head- lethal division for the sake of further development!
People yearned and mutually toiled for years, to know the shape, the size, the topography of the earth! And when their knowledge and abilities developed to the level of accomplishing the seemingly impossible task, it gave birth to different continents, nations, states, cities. The division, of course, proved to be convenient for many purposes- ease of administration, tracking etc.
The division led to the ultimate endless quest- the quest for being the superpower...which is measured in terms of (again) development..the underdeveloped, the developing and the developed nations.
Development has given rise to many convenient and harmless divisions too! But this chain reaction of the D's has been too fast and furious for man to grasp, and decide what kind of division was essential, mutual and beneficial. The alter-egos will keep on acting as the driving forces for the progress of humanity; sometimes symbiotically, sometimes viciously.
Regards,
Rati
Friday, 13 November 2009
Gen-Ex + Gen-Next = Gen-Net
Have you ever wondered about the web scenario 40 years later? All the social networking sites will be inundated with us oldies and yet another generation-Next! Presently, all the 50+ individuals hobnobbing with their children, grandchildren on networking sites are touted as very ''cool'' and ''net-savvy''.
But after a few decades, a child may be ashamed of the fact that his mom/grandpa has no profile on facebook/orkut...Or maybe, many teenagers will gleefully rejoice about their ignorance ;)...At least the new bf/gf in their life can be hidden safely in the chat-boxes, scrapbooks and walls from the prying eyes of their parents, prevalent now in countless cases. Though they can't be totally fearless, for there is some mom's best friend on orkut or an uncle on FB to spill the beans...
''Mock'' profiles of an 80yr old granny spring up every other day on orkut, intended to spread humour amongst your friends. But 50 years down the line, the mock profiles will be a reality!
The sites will be splashed with communities you won't imagine even in your wildest dreams but you may find yourself to be a part of them sooner or later-''60/70/80 year olds'', ''born in 1980s'', ''I love my grandchildren'', ''Feeling lonely after my daughter got married''...so on and on...:D...It gives me goosebumps!
Plethora of new developments will crop up here and there! I am already lost in my own world of thoughts...I am leaving the rest to your imagination ;)
Ciao!
Rati
But after a few decades, a child may be ashamed of the fact that his mom/grandpa has no profile on facebook/orkut...Or maybe, many teenagers will gleefully rejoice about their ignorance ;)...At least the new bf/gf in their life can be hidden safely in the chat-boxes, scrapbooks and walls from the prying eyes of their parents, prevalent now in countless cases. Though they can't be totally fearless, for there is some mom's best friend on orkut or an uncle on FB to spill the beans...
''Mock'' profiles of an 80yr old granny spring up every other day on orkut, intended to spread humour amongst your friends. But 50 years down the line, the mock profiles will be a reality!
The sites will be splashed with communities you won't imagine even in your wildest dreams but you may find yourself to be a part of them sooner or later-''60/70/80 year olds'', ''born in 1980s'', ''I love my grandchildren'', ''Feeling lonely after my daughter got married''...so on and on...:D...It gives me goosebumps!
Plethora of new developments will crop up here and there! I am already lost in my own world of thoughts...I am leaving the rest to your imagination ;)
Ciao!
Rati
Thursday, 12 November 2009
Law of Conservation of Stress
Grass on the other side looks greener, goes the adage. The moment the opportunity to explore the so-called greener pastures knocks on your door, you grasp it and bid a hasty good-bye to your zone, which you later discover, is as cosy as any damn place on earth.
You mull over all the cons of your habitat, outweighing them with the pros of your destination. With a rosy picture of a stress-free new lease of life in your mind, you cheerfully settle into your nest and then the reality hits you!
You start afresh with your routine and ''stress'' gropes its way through your brand new agenda, albeit in a new form. It proves my new Theorem: Law of Conservation of Stress!
Irrespective of where you stay:
1. Stress can neither be created nor destroyed.
2. Stress can be converted from one form into another.
3. The total amount of stress on planet earth remains constant.
I have my own life's example to put forth, in the support of these statements. After staying for two decades in Mumbai, I moved to London. As compared to my feat (sarcasm intended) of travelling unharmed in the chaotic Mumbai locals for years, commuting by London rail was a piece of cake. Transport stress was erased!!! But not destroyed. It raised its ugly head in my house, in the form of daily chores, Do-It-Yourself (DIY) et al...You are the master and you (yes you!) are the house-maid!...Life in Mumbai started appearing more luxurious in this perspective.
The greens on both the sides started appearing in identical shades! Stress had conserved itself, converting its boring-commute-form to repulsive-chores-form! Never budging even a wee-bit from its initial magnitude. And I guess same applies to all the places in the world. Stress will keep peek-a-booing in your life in the form of house-management, work, weather, transport, cooking, seclusion, so on, so forth...
I feel, each place has its own balanced state-of joy and stress. It ultimately depends on what kind of joy and what form of stress you prefer :)
Cheers!
Rati
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)