You will probably know a seemingly somnambulistic individual, prowling the corridor at ungodly hours [Even by a hosteller’s standard!] uttering inaudible words. On closer examination u will notice the headphones [With miniaturized gadgets u can’t identify the actual bonkers case!]. Or the guy whose “Haan.. mathlab.. chuckle.. giggle”emanates from behind the doors of the only proper loo when u want to use it! Well I can’t offer my opinion about their counterparts but I can state boldly these people are generally loners. Not that their gangs disowned them but they chose to be so.
I personally know people who have detached themselves from the gang on the arrival of a girl. As one of my friends remarked “What the hell did she do to him!? She’s changed him completely!!”. O course his frustration is justified. A guy who used to shower us with four letter words at the frequency of a klystron oscillator [ECE guys] now wincing every time I utter a rare disgusted profanity.. I mean, HOW CRAZY IS THAT!!!
Having brought on the charges guess the burden of reasoning rests with me. Let me start with a simple explanation.
If u have read Freakanomics u would probably know, the one point the author is trying to drive home is - Man is driven by incentives. So he mostly settles for the side with the butter. I mean a group to hang out with and party is not exactly on par with a more ‘harmonally’ driven relationship [Adrenaline rush remember?] is it? For those who ask why they have to be mutually exclusive, I can tell u if everyone in the group has a girlfriend then probably yes, but then that would be a group of loners.
Snide remarks and knowing glances can be somewhat irritating I guess. Let me take a scenario. I for one believe had Adam and Eve been Chinese we would still be in paradise for they would have gone for the snake and spared the fruit. [Relevancy lost] But imagine if Adam had been offered the fruit in front of his ‘hip’ gang of guys. [clothed of-course] With remarks like “Dude, u are drooling all over” or “Hey Adam, how about the peach Daphne offered” or a mimicry of “have the fruit Adam”, who knows, we might still be in paradise!! So maybe the lost in love fledgling feels more secure in solitude. Atleast his projected image stays unshattered.
If you are on of those [unprintable profanity] guys who ditched your gang [shame on u!] and think this passage supports your actions, well u can jump off from the tallest structure and let gravity finish its job!! This is intended to come to the aid of the poor thing [read GF] who takes the rap for your misdemeanor. And if u are the GF who is appreciating my concern, I have this to say. If u breakup with ur boyfriend cause he doesn’t care for u, u know whom to approach next [contact details in profile :D]
If u just reading this for fun, hope u enjoyed the attempted behavioral explanation and nodded ur head at least once.
Thursday, November 30, 2006
The Fox and The Crow (in Technicolor)
On a hot and humid day, the crow [our Hero!], hungry and tired, was gliding around swearing at the communication engineers for bringing in wireless and optical fibers. He settled on the sill of an engineering college classroom and strained his ocular muscles hoping to satisfy his energy needs. His bird’s eye view [crow- animal kingdom of aves] couldn’t materialize anything to silence his grumbling stomach.
The voice from the classroom [some wise guy lecturing!] was saying line of sight increases with height [los = sqrt(2h)]. The crow, blaming his stature went in search of a new perch and found one over the 6th floor cantilever beam. That happened to be the canteen [Talk of coincidences!!].
The crow phase locked its thought waves with the incoming aroma of hot ‘vada’. His tracking skill was being tested and he rose up to the challenge! Well, with his stomach grumbling, acquisition of the ‘vada’ became his prime task. Craning his neck at impossible angles [which then is possible!!] got sight of his target. Letting out its war cry [or the only one it knows] attacked with split second timing only to find the place deserted. [Come on! Engineering college canteen and empty???] Thanking his stars flew away with his prize onto a tree in the campus.
Meanwhile a fox [Yup, there is a fox!] was roaming mindlessly from the library to laboratory to gobble up some lecturer [whose absence will not be noticed]. And when it caught site of his potential prey, it dawned on him that it was world vegetarianism day! [if u could believe someone was actually listening to a lecturer in class then..] Being a man of his principles [actually fox] the dejected fox decided to call it a day when his angle of elevation brought into frame the crow with his prize.
His cerebral cobwebs got fumigated in a second and using all his technical know how formulated a plan to prove lunch=vada. So, undetected like a signal in spread spectrum, approached the trunk of the greenery that held his lunch.
“Mr.Crow,” bellowed the fox in Agent Smithish tone. “What would u be doing in an intellectual place like this?”
The startled crow replied “ummm mmm!! Mmmm mmmum uumm..” [Vada in mouth]
“How delightful to hear! Now that you are here you might as well help me with a few doubts that have been eating my brain.” Without giving a chance for the crow to respond he continued. “As u are the one who seems to be the most affected, can u suggest a low attenuation low skinloss transmission waveguide that might make wireless obsolete?”
The crow felt like he was being zonked with the stun gun. He just kept staring at this creature who seemed to have materialized out of vacuum!
“Let it pass. With your intelligence and experience of flying over the obnoxious Nox and SOx gases, do you think a separation of these gases based on their magnetic properties feasible? Is this a solution to the Green house effect?”
Still no response but our crow was getting frustrated. After a few more such probing intellectual questions from the cunning fox, the crow lost all its cool.
“You $#%&@^ [college atmosphere guys! I hate this #$%^# editorial censorship!!] Can’t I have my lunch in peac..” [oops! Too late. Gravity took over!]
The victorious predator darted eagerly towards his prey [a stationary one at that] and gobbled it greedily. The crow, who felt like rupturing an artery, watched first in horror and then in delight the changing expression on the fox’s face. The expression of gloat gave way to greed to satisfaction to laugh to oh-oh to I’ve-got-to-use-the-loo!! Yes, the vada had triggered the change of state of matter in the large intestine of the fox.
The Crow took off uncontrollably laughing, learning 2 important lessons
· Never lose your cool to screwed up questions and more
importantly
· Never eat the food from a college mess/canteen!!
Note: The separation of the green house gases based on their paramagnetic properties won the Honeywell innovation award for the year 2005. It was the brainchild of Keerthi, Ashwin, Pratik and Harish of VIT Bio-tech department.
The voice from the classroom [some wise guy lecturing!] was saying line of sight increases with height [los = sqrt(2h)]. The crow, blaming his stature went in search of a new perch and found one over the 6th floor cantilever beam. That happened to be the canteen [Talk of coincidences!!].
The crow phase locked its thought waves with the incoming aroma of hot ‘vada’. His tracking skill was being tested and he rose up to the challenge! Well, with his stomach grumbling, acquisition of the ‘vada’ became his prime task. Craning his neck at impossible angles [which then is possible!!] got sight of his target. Letting out its war cry [or the only one it knows] attacked with split second timing only to find the place deserted. [Come on! Engineering college canteen and empty???] Thanking his stars flew away with his prize onto a tree in the campus.
Meanwhile a fox [Yup, there is a fox!] was roaming mindlessly from the library to laboratory to gobble up some lecturer [whose absence will not be noticed]. And when it caught site of his potential prey, it dawned on him that it was world vegetarianism day! [if u could believe someone was actually listening to a lecturer in class then..] Being a man of his principles [actually fox] the dejected fox decided to call it a day when his angle of elevation brought into frame the crow with his prize.
His cerebral cobwebs got fumigated in a second and using all his technical know how formulated a plan to prove lunch=vada. So, undetected like a signal in spread spectrum, approached the trunk of the greenery that held his lunch.
“Mr.Crow,” bellowed the fox in Agent Smithish tone. “What would u be doing in an intellectual place like this?”
The startled crow replied “ummm mmm!! Mmmm mmmum uumm..” [Vada in mouth]
“How delightful to hear! Now that you are here you might as well help me with a few doubts that have been eating my brain.” Without giving a chance for the crow to respond he continued. “As u are the one who seems to be the most affected, can u suggest a low attenuation low skinloss transmission waveguide that might make wireless obsolete?”
The crow felt like he was being zonked with the stun gun. He just kept staring at this creature who seemed to have materialized out of vacuum!
“Let it pass. With your intelligence and experience of flying over the obnoxious Nox and SOx gases, do you think a separation of these gases based on their magnetic properties feasible? Is this a solution to the Green house effect?”
Still no response but our crow was getting frustrated. After a few more such probing intellectual questions from the cunning fox, the crow lost all its cool.
“You $#%&@^ [college atmosphere guys! I hate this #$%^# editorial censorship!!] Can’t I have my lunch in peac..” [oops! Too late. Gravity took over!]
The victorious predator darted eagerly towards his prey [a stationary one at that] and gobbled it greedily. The crow, who felt like rupturing an artery, watched first in horror and then in delight the changing expression on the fox’s face. The expression of gloat gave way to greed to satisfaction to laugh to oh-oh to I’ve-got-to-use-the-loo!! Yes, the vada had triggered the change of state of matter in the large intestine of the fox.
The Crow took off uncontrollably laughing, learning 2 important lessons
· Never lose your cool to screwed up questions and more
importantly
· Never eat the food from a college mess/canteen!!
Note: The separation of the green house gases based on their paramagnetic properties won the Honeywell innovation award for the year 2005. It was the brainchild of Keerthi, Ashwin, Pratik and Harish of VIT Bio-tech department.
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