Category Archives: Life

Writing after thought

It’s been ages since I posted some­thing. I want to write about the numer­ous things I’ve done, the very many thoughts I’ve encoun­tered, and the awe­some books I’ve read. But after much thought, it boils down to, who cares? What’s mine, is mine. It’s mostly remain with me, if it needs to. So what’s the

My Map — II

I see that the orig­i­nal aim of my map: to be able to pin­point any loca­tion on the map with just one piece of infor­ma­tion instead of two, was rather ran­domly far-fetched. What I was imag­in­ing, was cre­at­ing a map­ping of all the points in two dimen­sions to a sys­tem in one dimen­sion. Which per

Major Joke: That kid makes up questions for himself, and even those he can’t solve

Major truth: He is truly awe­some. Or at least, so I believe. When Lock­hart said, In fact,  if  I  had  to  design  a mech­a­nism  for  the  express pur­pose  of  destroy­ing  a  child’s  nat­ural curios­ity and  love of  pattern-making, I couldn’t pos­si­bly do as good a  job as  is  cur­rently being done. I didn’t quite agree with

The Mathematical Crusade

It hap­pened. Like, two weeks ago. See — that’s how awe­somely fast my life is. Hence, I for­got to tell you about it. Now, I’m pretty offi­cially also called tech.head, while Anurag is called Ac.  Head. And I’ve actu­ally aban­doned most of my anger at that. Here go my “tech­ni­cal” con­tri­bu­tions to this year’s cru­sade.

I Had A Road Accident! :D

Oh yes! Fif­teen days ago. And not just a ran­dom acci­dent. One in which I was hos­pi­tal­ized for three days! And I got to miss all my half-yearlies. Truth be said, I could’ve given the last two HY exams, but why put the effort when I have the option not to! It was def­i­nitely an

Hitopadesa — A Penguin India Classic

I reg­is­tered for this “blog a Pen­guin India Clas­sic”, got the book, and didn’t man­age to com­plete it for nearly two months. That goes nowhere to say how good or bad the book was, but does go to say how cal­lous, dis­tracted and shame­less a per­son I am. Well, I finally man­aged to read through

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

A story. Yup. That’s all it is. Minus the adjec­tives. Life-changing, mem­o­rable, and most influ­en­tial; unfor­get­table and really thor­oughly awe­some. Of course it would only be self-flattering to say any such thing on them­selves.  It is about a seag­ull with the name of Jonathan Liv­ingston. I could go about telling you the whole story, con­sid­er­ing

Does History Repeat Itself?

Q. Prompt: “His­tory repeats itself. This is a tes­ti­mony to the stu­pid­ity of man.” –Adapted from Edith Hamil­ton “His­tory does not repeat. It rhymes.” –Mark Twain Assign­ment: Does his­tory repeat itself? […] Write an essay. A. Does His­tory Repeat Itself? No — in my view, His­tory does not repeat itself. I would con­cur with Mark Twain —

The Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun

A Must-Watch. I mean I’ve been telling it to nearly all the peo­ple I’ve met. You just got  to see this. Cause if you don’t, trust me, you’re wast­ing your life. Update: I absolutely for­got to men­tion that you could see the proper flash video of the same, which makes it eas­ier to nav­i­gate, at

99 — Unexpectedly Nice!

I acci­den­tally watched a movie. Hindi one, start to end. Which is an over­whelm­ing shock. . But yeah, it was 99, and rather unex­pect­edly, fun too! Well, the only fun I had expected, was from Cyrus Broacha — but whoa, there was a hell lot more. I won’t exactly go into the details of the