I was orkutting tonight when i came upon a link to a friend's blog. And on his blog he writes about how blogging is a waste of time and the same time can be put to constructive use. So true...I totally agree. Thinking and typing out these huge posts (i know the lengths of my posts are getting out of hand, i'll try and keep this one short) does really consume a lot of time. Time during which a true IITian is supposed to study or do something constructive, although no one does either :P.
But then why the hell do we all love to blog?
Personally, it is actually a good thing that i blog, i get to vent out my feelings and in general think about something i usually don't think about in an organized and structured manner, to put into words. Its also good once in a while to write something that comes straight from your imagination, hell the last time I did that before I started blogging was when i participated in a creative writing competition. And in any case,I know that if I don't blog and try to use my time i generally use for blogging constructively, the only constructive thing i will end up doing is watch a movie or something which again is nothing constructive. So here I am blogging away......Its certainly not a waste of time for me, nothing compared to the time i waste doing other things.
As for the blogging fever that has gripped the world, I don't really know the reason why. Ranting away about day to day happenings on a blog is really dumb and idiotic according to me. One should keep all that in a personal diary.
As for me, I write when anything comes to my mind....... my blog is more like my opinion about stuff.
Read it if you like.....
Friday, October 27, 2006
Monday, October 23, 2006
Hey....
Its Diwali time and I am back home for a whole week! That is avoiding mess food 36 times which is like awesome!!!!!!!
And there's nothing to do.... i mean i have infinite things to do as in study, read up something for future use, learn the guitar... etc etc but there's a time and a mood to do all that, isnt there?
So all i did for three days is nothing.... watched infi soccer.. nice games... manu beating liverpool.... awesome goal by ferdinand... and a very good display by real madrid... they're back... which is good since this means that the spanish league will now be competitive. I dont know why... but i hate any sport which is not competitive and is dominated only by a few...... i hated the time when the aussies dominated cricket... or when schumi, lance armstrong, tiger woods et al. dominated. Its much more entertaining if it is competitive.
And i watched 3 movies till now....one by one
'Don' was a pleasant change. A decent bollywood thriller after a long time... i liked the treatment farhan has given the original... typical bollywood masala filmed in a hollywood style, a good package overall.Three hours of light minded timepass. Worth it.
Then today.. 'Remember the Titans'. Awesome movie. Great power performances by all... i liked the little girl in particular, awesome acting by her. And Denzel Washington too. I really felt for the guy who gets paralyzed... just reminds me how thin the line between a 'positive' and a 'negative' can be. One moment you are having a whale of a time, revelling in your success, and the next moment all can come crashing down. It also underlines the importance of good health in your life... achieve anything you may, you can enjoy it only with good health. Then again, the incident in the movie also teaches about the triumph of mind and will over matter and the never-say-die attitude. So much to be learnt from a movie!
And then the last.. 'The Butterfly Effect'. The best of the lot by far. This movie was a stunner. Simply superb. The effect from chaos theory was very aptly portrayed... how a minor change can have major consequences in a larger system.
'It has been said something as small as the flutter of a butterfly's wing can ultimately cause a typhoon halfway around the world.' - Chaos Theory
The movie also hints at the theory of existence of multiple universes depending upon our decisions, something very well presented by Richard Bach in his book 'One' (i read it long back, gotto read it again now, dont remember much). I had a similar dream once, in which i conceptualized different planets on which I existed in different time frames... in the sense that if I went to the other planet I will meet and older or a younger me... spacetime travel of some sort.. leaving all the complexities aside. Not exactly multiple universes, but time travel and all. The movie made me remember all that.
Anyway... this post is getting nowhere, and i am bored.
Time for another movie.
Adios. Till we meet again........
And there's nothing to do.... i mean i have infinite things to do as in study, read up something for future use, learn the guitar... etc etc but there's a time and a mood to do all that, isnt there?
So all i did for three days is nothing.... watched infi soccer.. nice games... manu beating liverpool.... awesome goal by ferdinand... and a very good display by real madrid... they're back... which is good since this means that the spanish league will now be competitive. I dont know why... but i hate any sport which is not competitive and is dominated only by a few...... i hated the time when the aussies dominated cricket... or when schumi, lance armstrong, tiger woods et al. dominated. Its much more entertaining if it is competitive.
And i watched 3 movies till now....one by one
'Don' was a pleasant change. A decent bollywood thriller after a long time... i liked the treatment farhan has given the original... typical bollywood masala filmed in a hollywood style, a good package overall.Three hours of light minded timepass. Worth it.
Then today.. 'Remember the Titans'. Awesome movie. Great power performances by all... i liked the little girl in particular, awesome acting by her. And Denzel Washington too. I really felt for the guy who gets paralyzed... just reminds me how thin the line between a 'positive' and a 'negative' can be. One moment you are having a whale of a time, revelling in your success, and the next moment all can come crashing down. It also underlines the importance of good health in your life... achieve anything you may, you can enjoy it only with good health. Then again, the incident in the movie also teaches about the triumph of mind and will over matter and the never-say-die attitude. So much to be learnt from a movie!
And then the last.. 'The Butterfly Effect'. The best of the lot by far. This movie was a stunner. Simply superb. The effect from chaos theory was very aptly portrayed... how a minor change can have major consequences in a larger system.
'It has been said something as small as the flutter of a butterfly's wing can ultimately cause a typhoon halfway around the world.' - Chaos Theory
The movie also hints at the theory of existence of multiple universes depending upon our decisions, something very well presented by Richard Bach in his book 'One' (i read it long back, gotto read it again now, dont remember much). I had a similar dream once, in which i conceptualized different planets on which I existed in different time frames... in the sense that if I went to the other planet I will meet and older or a younger me... spacetime travel of some sort.. leaving all the complexities aside. Not exactly multiple universes, but time travel and all. The movie made me remember all that.
Anyway... this post is getting nowhere, and i am bored.
Time for another movie.
Adios. Till we meet again........
Friday, October 13, 2006
I wanna blog!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The intervals between two successive posts on my blog are getting really long, and that is really bad cause it doesn't mean that I am not thinking or anything, it means that I am getting really lazy or I am so busy wasting my time that I can't get time to write....... anyway here's one after a really long time.... have done too many things in the meanwhile.. and even grew older!!!!
Somehow whenever I decide to write, I am always having deep,profound,serious thoughts on my mind and so nothing funny ever appears here. But believe me I am not the serious guy,the nerd... no way. I am normal, cheerful, fun-loving and all ... only that I am in IIT which I believe is a collection of the weirdest people in the country........... seriously. You have to be here to know.....
Sample this....... we had an off lecture followed by a really boring quantum physics lecture which I almost always sleep through. So we decided to bunk the same..... and while walking back stumbled upon this topic.... the discussions that led to the same were really different, I don't want to get into that...but the main point we considered was what is 'right' and what is 'wrong'.......
I know its a basic, fundamental, debatable topic since time imemmorial, but two long hours of debating, which did digress a lot, by the way, sparking off completely new thoughts about alcohol, Gandhiji and quantum mechanics, did shed light upon a lot of new things and was a nice learning experience too. Funny, how arbitrarily, walking back to the hostel, joking with friends
turns out to be a great lesson in life........
What is 'right' anyway? Is there is a difference between individual moral and right? Is there a universal 'right' and 'wrong'? One may say that universal right is what is right according to a majority of the society, but then again this clearly is not true. Copernicus was ridiculed and outcast because he propounded a 'right' against what was universally 'right' at that time.... so there arises a difference between considered 'right' by society or 'acceptance' and 'right'.....
So will it be better to say that 'right' is strictly individually defined? What is 'right' for me is what i believe in and want to do most? But then someone will want to murder his wife for being an infidel cause according to him it is against his morality and is 'wrong' for her to cheat on him. Zapping into her reference frame, 'right' to her is to satisfy her primary physiological desires which her husband fails to meet, etc etc..... just a difference of opinion.. and both of the perspectives are justifiable. Hell, even a suicide can easily justify the reason for him to end his life in a perfectly convincing argument, cause that is 'right' for him, and he is labelled a psycho by the society relying on 'acceptance'......
And what about all the teaching that goes on in school and college? Is what we are being taught 'right'? Its just that a number of scientists believe that something is true, makes it 'right'... this is going on majority opinion again. I will be called a fool if I say that all physics laws are all crap and that we are all in an interval of time delta-t in which everything thrown up falls back to the ground and a tomorrow will come when say we all will fly around..... to hell with all the things they teach us. We don't need no education...............long live the music of Floyd.
Anyway, what do we really infer? We agree upon the difference between acceptance and universal 'right'. And 'right' is a hybrid form of individual moral..... the real problem then is to define social morals, unacceptables.... the distinction is not very clear.
And then i just stumbled upon the same argument in a book I was reading... by Richard Bach (Running From Safety, awesome book, awesome author....) between him and his wife. He sums it up as follows. Right or good is what makes u happy which is a sense of well being.... its opposite is bad,wrong,unhappy. So right or wrong is individual. Also, consequences should be kept in mind. A murder may bring a temporary state of well-being, but consequences harm this state. And so on.....Pretty nice way to put it.
So what I really got from all this... what I really believe now is that yes, 'right' is for an individual to define, within limits. One is answerable to his own actions and decisions and so they should not bring any harm to society, in general... so no crime basically. Majority, polls,etc give only a cumulative measure of the individual 'right's, there is only social acceptance. There is no universal wrong and hence every opinion deserves existence and some amount of respect however ridiculous it may be. For lack of better techniques, decisions on the same should be taken by majority of perspective or opinion.
Think Think, Work Work................
Somehow whenever I decide to write, I am always having deep,profound,serious thoughts on my mind and so nothing funny ever appears here. But believe me I am not the serious guy,the nerd... no way. I am normal, cheerful, fun-loving and all ... only that I am in IIT which I believe is a collection of the weirdest people in the country........... seriously. You have to be here to know.....
Sample this....... we had an off lecture followed by a really boring quantum physics lecture which I almost always sleep through. So we decided to bunk the same..... and while walking back stumbled upon this topic.... the discussions that led to the same were really different, I don't want to get into that...but the main point we considered was what is 'right' and what is 'wrong'.......
I know its a basic, fundamental, debatable topic since time imemmorial, but two long hours of debating, which did digress a lot, by the way, sparking off completely new thoughts about alcohol, Gandhiji and quantum mechanics, did shed light upon a lot of new things and was a nice learning experience too. Funny, how arbitrarily, walking back to the hostel, joking with friends
turns out to be a great lesson in life........
What is 'right' anyway? Is there is a difference between individual moral and right? Is there a universal 'right' and 'wrong'? One may say that universal right is what is right according to a majority of the society, but then again this clearly is not true. Copernicus was ridiculed and outcast because he propounded a 'right' against what was universally 'right' at that time.... so there arises a difference between considered 'right' by society or 'acceptance' and 'right'.....
So will it be better to say that 'right' is strictly individually defined? What is 'right' for me is what i believe in and want to do most? But then someone will want to murder his wife for being an infidel cause according to him it is against his morality and is 'wrong' for her to cheat on him. Zapping into her reference frame, 'right' to her is to satisfy her primary physiological desires which her husband fails to meet, etc etc..... just a difference of opinion.. and both of the perspectives are justifiable. Hell, even a suicide can easily justify the reason for him to end his life in a perfectly convincing argument, cause that is 'right' for him, and he is labelled a psycho by the society relying on 'acceptance'......
And what about all the teaching that goes on in school and college? Is what we are being taught 'right'? Its just that a number of scientists believe that something is true, makes it 'right'... this is going on majority opinion again. I will be called a fool if I say that all physics laws are all crap and that we are all in an interval of time delta-t in which everything thrown up falls back to the ground and a tomorrow will come when say we all will fly around..... to hell with all the things they teach us. We don't need no education...............long live the music of Floyd.
Anyway, what do we really infer? We agree upon the difference between acceptance and universal 'right'. And 'right' is a hybrid form of individual moral..... the real problem then is to define social morals, unacceptables.... the distinction is not very clear.
And then i just stumbled upon the same argument in a book I was reading... by Richard Bach (Running From Safety, awesome book, awesome author....) between him and his wife. He sums it up as follows. Right or good is what makes u happy which is a sense of well being.... its opposite is bad,wrong,unhappy. So right or wrong is individual. Also, consequences should be kept in mind. A murder may bring a temporary state of well-being, but consequences harm this state. And so on.....Pretty nice way to put it.
So what I really got from all this... what I really believe now is that yes, 'right' is for an individual to define, within limits. One is answerable to his own actions and decisions and so they should not bring any harm to society, in general... so no crime basically. Majority, polls,etc give only a cumulative measure of the individual 'right's, there is only social acceptance. There is no universal wrong and hence every opinion deserves existence and some amount of respect however ridiculous it may be. For lack of better techniques, decisions on the same should be taken by majority of perspective or opinion.
Think Think, Work Work................
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