What is so special about 25Feb??? ;-)

There was a time when I used to wait for it to be the 25th of feb.
I would start the count down from the New years day and eagerly wait for the day.
More than the gifts and cards,it thrilled me more to find out how many of my friends and other close people actually remembered.
Of late,the thrill has been fading.Maturity I guess. ;-)
And since last year,I had been dreading the date.I some how wanted time to freeze, so that it wouldn't be 25th feb this year.But the truth is ,I can ignore it,I can overlook it,but today it's the 25th feb of another year. I am one more year older and the fact is staring back at me from my mirror!!!How I hate being on the other side of 20.

But yes!even today all my friends and close people have made my day!
The best thing I like about birthdays is that it is a day when the world comes calling at you,literally ;-)

Amidst all the routine greetings and messages,I have noticed that few things haven't changed.Not that I am complaining.Nonetheless it was amusing to note.
I woke up today at midnight to the same voice who has been greeting me birthday the first for the past few years,ever since we became friends in hostel.
The same people needed to be reminded to wish me(They know the date,but have to be reminded that the date is actually that of today ;-).Since their wishes mean a lot,I didn't mind asking for it.And then, it is not my birth I am celebrating,but their being my parents.)
And finally,as usual my brother called me up at midnight,but had to be prodded to wish me.These sort of wishing and all are a bit embarassing in the family,to receive and to give.;-)

Thank you all, for your wishes

'Kollifying'English

Q : What do people do on twitter?
A : They tweet!

Q : What are people who tweet called?
A : Tweeple.

Q : And where do i get all these information from?
A : Tweetipaedia

In the past few years , perhaps, more words have been added to our lexicons than before.Though only a few have made their way into the official lists others still find their place in our conversations.
Words like orkutting,tweeting are still informal while those like Banglored have made their way into the Oxford dictionary.

With new inventions and changed lifestyles came either new words or new contexts for many already existing words.
Like 'to chat' might have been used only to mean 'to converse' till sometime back.But today it largely means to chat on the 'net'.



Also words like 'padipist'(to mean a nerd) led to the development of regional variants of English like 'Monglish'and the like

English evolved from the German and latin languages and borrowed into its arsenal a whole load of foreign words and phrases.It developed for itself a grammatical structure and absorbed into it all the new terms that were popularly used.Just when we thought nothing could harm its newly acquired status there lay another axe waiting to slay it.

With service providers competing with one another for charging lesser and lesser per alphabet,the mobile users have been chopping the language into tinier and tinier bits.The complete jargon of letters,yet succeed in making their point.



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This is in the context but slightly stretched out.But I am adding it for the lighter touch ;-)
I am reminded of two words whose usage I have been able to put in new contexts over the years.
The first one would be 'bit'.
I graduated from the 'bits' of paper in the nursery classes to 'bits' as units of digital information in my engineering college(GEC).
But GEC also taught me another bit. A bit which I could use in exams! ;-)

'Release' is another such word of interest for me.
We all know what the verb means.
Since my college days,again,they held a new meaning to me.Specially on fridays.That of a movie being 'released'.
The niceness about the word ,however, vanished soon. ;-(
It held a different meaning for me in Bangalore,and that too, coincidentally on the same fridays!!
My weekly software release!And it came to be a dreaded verb.
Thankfully,I am 'released' from that scene.

As I rack my brain,perhaps, more such 'bits' would fall down.I shall be updating this blog as and when I encounter them.
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MNIK

The movie is an answer to all those who think SRK emotes too much and KJo can work only on romance.
Well,being smitten over and over by SRK is not a new experience for me.
As always he is the best,but I won't speak much about it.(Too overwhelmed that I hardly have any words ;-) )
Let me take this opportunity to express how I feel at having been able to watch such a great movie,not only for SRK,the SRK-KAJOL-KJO trio pack,but greatly for the huge message the movie portrays.

The creator or the creation??

From time unknown,Man has been questioning his existence.
He has been forever trying to find his origin.
Yet,even centuries later,the quest remains incomplete.And like everybody else,I am curious too

I don't know if there is a specific reason we all exist.It could just be the game of a superior intellect.There was a time when we thought ourselves to be string puppets at the hands of the creator.The strings break, the game over.Today can't we relate the idea to an Xbox or Playstation game.The string may be invisible.The game however is controlled by the Player outside.The time expires,and the game is over for the actor inside.Tomorrow as we conquer greater avenues of wisdom,perhaps a novel explanation would arise.

Scientists fervently are searching for that God-particle which actually gives life.Today science can create everything, except life.Robots can be made to look like and do things as perfectly as any living being.Yet,what is that differentiates them from us?The spark of life!
Can we ever create that invisible yet prevailing inexplicable screen called soul??
In this search for that ultimate truth are we actually privying???

Let us assume science(or God?) actually gives life to what we call the robots,then are we actually paving way for the next stage of evolution.From neandarthals to apes to homosapiens and then to robots?Is it then, the part of a greater design??
Are we then the Creator or the creations??

We can never be the Creator,it could only be our thoughts or intellect.Perhaps a part of that superior intellect manifests in each of His creations.

All Izz Well

Good things happen to good people.
This is an adage I've heard often.
And it had me doing things which I judged to be good so that I'd be good and good things would happen to me.
However,I could find no changes in the way 'things' were.
Life just went on as usual,bringing in its wake, both pleasantnesses and unpleasantnesses.
Then I read somewhere that expecting good things to happen to good people is like believing a lion not to eat you because you are a vegetarian!

Now!!Was I confused.

Somehow,I don't beleive that either of the above sayings is more credible than the other.
To me both are true.
You cannot expect good returns unless you have worked for them.Miracles don't just happen as such.You reap only that which you have sown.

And the best thing I have noticed in good people is their attitude.Let the sky fall upon them,they remain unfazed.Troubles,difficulties the terms merely don't exist for them.All izz always well for them!!

Facing fears

What is the greatest inhibition on our way to winning our desires.
Fear, I would say.
We are all scared of something or the other,right?
We all have fears of varying degrees for various things.
And how can we win over fear.

The best,or perhaps the only,way I would say,will be to face it.
Face your worst fears.Don't run away from them.
Easier said or blogged than done,I know.

Might not be a great example but here is a tiny incident which will definitely give me the power punch next time a fear holds me back.
I had always been scared to ride a vehicle.I knew how to ride.I had confidence I could ride well and I even had a license.Still,a very weak twine from within always held me back.Then,one fine day, with some encouragement and support, I managed to take my 2 wheeler out.It went fine.I thought it raised my confidence level.But the fear had been stll lurking inside and it manifested as recurring nightmares.Every night I would see one or the other images of me and my Activa falling down.Somehow I would force myself to give one more try the next day.And one day,as if reliving my nightmares,I actually fell with the vehicle.I still remember how i felt.It was exactly the same fear I had in my nightmares.I knew if I let that fear win this time I would never touch a vehicle again.I gave it a shot again and yes it did help a lot.My fear has subsided greatly.And I can be sure of it by the decreased frequency of my nightmares!

Sometimes, a simple incident like this becomes an eye opener when thought about deeply.May be the rules can be applied elsewhere too.

Change of title

I thought this is better..