Long time no 'Siege!'

Ah, its been long, or long enough that i haven't written. its beginning to scare me now. i realize that the less often i write the less capable i am going to be of articulating my thoughts! After a grueling session of examinations i found myself at the liberty to do whatever i pleased. and so i pleased to go on a trip with my friends to a city called Hyderabad. The trip was a good 6 days, not counting the days spent in travel to and back from the place. The noteworthy travel was within the city of Hyderabad. The notes that i claim as worthy on the travel within city limits will be left to another post another time. This time i concentrate on something of lesser worthiness. This is merely a comeback post, to let the ardent fans of this blog know that i am very much here and have not taken to another hobby. Just as Psmith does to reassure his superiors at the bank he works in by leaving his hat and glove at his desk when he leaves for a lunch break, that he will be undoubtedly back, that they at the bank needn't worry that the 'highly efficient, toiler' Psmith has left for good, when they notice his absence. After the 6 days -excluding the one day of travel which is in no great detail explained here because of its already assessed worthiness, i was kept busy with other engagements. First on the 24th when i arrived at home, was my sisters birthday, which we all who are younger brothers know- must be treated with the respect that it is due. the first half of the next day went in coming back to the state where there is no PARTY! and the second half went wastefully in the expectation of my birthday, which demanded its own importance. Having called some people over and asking them specifically to come with presents, i was done for the day. My birthday passed very well, thanks to my family and all the people who made it. it pleased me very much that everyone who did come- had with them some present or the other. those who had no particular object to offer as a present, said they have brought themselves. i made a mental note of that so i may use it when i go for the very many parties i am invited to. The 27th presented me with a driving engagement that i was unable to escape from. again the engager of my activity was an elder sibling , so all my friends who are younger siblings will imagine and take comfort in that imagination that Alcatraz would be a lesser challenge. 28th was spent tiring to figure out what would be my POA or plan of Action for the remainder of my vacations, which i spent ideally- wastefully watching movies on my laptop. the joys of wasting time along the vacations was not exactly what i was planning for the days ahead, only they seemed a fitting way to start. all other means of entertainment failed to present themselves in time to save me from passing away the time they could have occupied. today is the 29th, and i am writing faithfully. I feel that i owe all of the fans of this activity of mine an explanation and a detailed report of those chores that kept me from posting my works so that they may read it. I am glad that this day will mark my comeback to writing, and your comeback to reading. Till later and more noteworthy topics arise, Adios

Whats human about us?

I have this interesting piece of news to give you all. yesterday in Kentucky (a state in the US) there was a Hit-And -Run accident and the driver just drove off.
CNN made THIS NEWS, and it was news because the by standers DID NOTHING! In that country everyone was appalled how a 78 yr old man crossing the road was just allowed to lie there.
the approximately 2 minute video shows very clearly the incident, of him being knocked over.
and the driver just drove off.
(link to the video:=http://www.hartford.gov/Police/)


The police say they aren't sure if anyone called 911. Cars just drove by around the body, as if it were a rag doll on the road. EVEN THEN You would expect them to move it out. people gathered around the body and just stood there for a few seconds, and walked away.

The local paper reported it as "SO INHUMANE". the chief of police even said-"we no longer have a moral compass".

no one even attempted to get medical attention to him. it was only when a police rover came up that they manged to get him help.

Juxtaposed to situations here, we aren't unhelpful, its just that most people would rather stay out of it. a majority of people would do exactly like these particular Americans did, and it would be normal conduct here. While there its national news. Inhumanity is made news on CNN.The people are calling it BEYOND CHILLING.
we are obliged to think we are doing someone a favor if we help. We should help because its the human thing to do.We just haven't gotten civilized natures into us yet.

i'll Be there for you...

When the rain starts to pour...,
...Like i've been there before...,
...'Coz you're there for me too."

These words made so famous by the decade long run of the sitcom 'F.R.I.E.N.D.S'. Some how manages to -when not just heard, but also thought about- set a sense of contentment. We always as our second nature would dictate, lean on our friends for support for so many things. from the disastrous to the completely joyful , it would help to point out that in the latter's case the support would purely be when one - jumps in delirium,and trips, if there is such a phrase.

Everyday, we feel our day just is more exciting and fun to go through just because they are around us. We really can't imagine a fun day all by ourselves. Even if we are doing stuff we really like, the fun just seems to diminish without them around. During travel, when you are with friends, you would spend time sharing the joy in doing stuff that you do. Be it discussions, laughing at something funny that happened in college that day;or would laugh out loud alone?

No one can really say they don't need friends. or at least they can't say they don't NEED REAL friends. Everyone needs friends. as children, if we grow up in societies where they are fewer kids to play with, we end up making imaginary friends.
I can't provide to you living examples(i can't say that i had imaginary friends, but i did carry out discussions that were quite real with an imaginary person) but i can give you an example we all know of-Calvin and Hobbes. where the 7 yr old kid makes a friend in the stuffed tiger Hobbes.
At least they grow up with the company of someone they make dear to them.
Wonder about those people who outgrew these friends, and then never got incorporated into a group.
Most likely that never happened. like i said everyone needs friends, and these people don't stay out of friends groups....those people who dont fit in... can 'not fit in' TOGETHER!
so there's hope for everyone. :)

We all need friends, those that we can rely on, those that we can share our joys with, those that we can share our sorrows with. Those that make us feel good about who we are, and what we do. these friends may not be in the same person, these friends may be different people, they could be around you, they could be living your life with you, or they could even be in another part of the world.

So if having friends is such a good thing, something that should ordinarily make us happy, then why is it that people are so weary, so often of making friends? So many people are so reluctant to meet new people, and engage in friendly banter with. Everyone thinks it is the only done way to make new friends if you are introduced to a person. Why can't you just chat up with some u meet at the platform? Or you are working out at the Gym , why must there be a need to talk to someone? why cant you just walk up to a person and strike a conversation. why does it sound so absurd? Should it sound absurd?

I might think this person of the opposite sex from a class is a nice person to talk to(or would be a nice person to talk to) from the little i have seen her interact in class. it would still strike me as absurd to go up to her and introduce myself. why you would think i was hitting on her! !

Even in cases of same sex, people just NEVER want to get friendly out of nothing. there must be a reason. i have had issues where people don't on outings just because they don't have people they know with them...if you never give them a chance, you will never make new friends.
you might argue -'why do i need new friends?' and thats not the point at all. Thats the whole wrong outlook.
These people, people who feel that socializing is a talent, or job, or work that needs to be done, they ask for a REASON to talk to people. Well for them...the image is a simple reason...

Just Because There is no such thing as too many friends

These Humans are crazy!!!

"When did that bolt of lightening hit the ground mate?"
"just as i got there!"
"And what about the second one?"
"IT TOOK RIDICULOUSLY LONG"
"really? The humans couldn't even scamper off fast enough when i saw them...are you sure?"
"POSITIVE"
"a friend of mine in printing said the humans wrote it as within '30 seconds' of each other."
" '30 seconds' ? what does that mean? i know it happened when i was around equator , and the second one when i was around the moon."
" i dont understand why they cant describe everything normally? either it was before or after a definite event"

"These Humans are crazy!!!"

this is probably what a photon would discuss with another photon.
Our concept of time is flawed. that is according to them. and theirs would be flawed according to us. This is the major thing in the theory of relativity. first we must get our perspective right.
the underlying concept being in the most simplistic terms, as an object moves faster, time is supposed to go slower.
Albert Einstein, came up with this new perspective and showed it to the world.He said that everything depends on the observer.
i could say that 2 events were simultaneous from where i stand(logic would tell me i am in the mid point of the distance between the 2 places where the events occurred) where as a person at the place where event -say - A occurs, would undoubtedly claim that EVENT A occurred first!
but are we wrong? or is one of us lying? it would be incorrect to say either. we are both correct in our judgments.

Time is not absolute, like so many before Einstein felt. time is relative. if in the same example of the 2 events, a rapidly moving particle were to observe this, it would find that the 2 events were separated by a HUGE gap in "ITS TIME".

I get this knowledge from a book called ' THE ABC of RELATIVITY- By Bertrand Russell"
the only absolute is the velocity of light. no matter who the observer, or where they are, or in what motion they are.
the book uses an example to show this. if i am on a crowded street, and i suddenly open a source of light waves that propagate in all directions...after the first second i would say that the light from my source is 186,000 miles away from me.
The fun part is...an observer who has his watch matched exactly with mine and would be about a at some distance away from me, would at the same instant say quite accurately that the same light was 186,000 miles away from him too!
thats the implication that when your moving as fast as light...time has different meanings all together.

no wonder they would think " we humans are crazy".

ps: the theory of relativity is something that is amazing and also something that i with my limited understand of this will be unable to explain to anyone. i provide my apologies if any of my analogies in the post are inaccurate and are irreconcilable with the ideas presented by Einstein.

Dont make it a big tissue

At the risk of being read as completely clichéd, i ask you, have you ever had an annoying cold when your nose kept flowing like one of those irritating tiny holes in the roof? have you ever eaten a meal with your bare hands and not found a single source of water to wash your hands with? Or when u really want to get that stain out of the glass, and you cant find a decent enough cloth to get a hold of, yet a cloth that qualifies as a rag to wipe it off?

i sound like a dubbed russian commercial yes, whats the point i am getting at?-> Tissues. tissues are a god send. its a substitute for so many things.to the aforementioned problems(albeit only a small glimpse into the wonderful uses of tissues) when u have a cold, u could blow into a handkerchief and then really keep folding it over and over till u find a spot un-smothered, OR...u could use a tissue for each use, and throw the damn thing out. thats the end of that problem. next time u want to blow, use another tissue that was as easily available as the previous one.
You need to wash your hands, and u cant find a wash basin, you certainly dont want to use a water bottle to rinse your hands in the grass. What comes to the rescue? a tissue! wipe your hands, and then keep the used tissue in a small 'throw away when u get home' bag. or find a waste paper basket and throw it in that.
easy huh?
tissues are easy and more clean solutions to water and cloth pieces. You could wipe the stain off the table and just throw the dashed thing out, without having to clean it over and over.
The most common claim is that Foreigners (to india) are the only people who use tissues. If you are an indian u will use water like everyone else. Thats not true.
the only case where i can agree that using water is better than using tissue paper is in the loo. thats mainly because our food is more with gravy and wet. their food is by and large dry food.
but in all other places that is fathomable to my mind, tissue surpass all other forms in terms of clean efficient disposal, or clean efficient usage.
you never have to worry about cleaning is over and over as you would do with a rag cloth, or handkerchief on a day of a real bad cold. you dont have to worry about finding appropriate sources of water to wash soiled hands.
Whats more is that you even get Cold Tissues, or scented tissues! the moment you feel hot u just whip out one of them cold tissues and wipe your face and hands...viola! you will begin to feel much better.
If all of that is not reason enough, picture this, you have your boss's family over for dinner, and his kid spills some drink on the table. you cant bring yourself to soil that absolutely new towel you bought, and the one cloth you usually use for wiping is over due on its cleaning schedules.
dont embarrass yourself-> use TISSUES!
PS: had i had a tissue brand to name, i would do i gladly, already this is like a commercial for them:)