Happy New Year

Happy New Year everyone!

But really what is there to feel happy about? I mean, we are in 2007 now and still we don't have teleportation or invisibility or colonies on other planets or even talking refrigerators! It is so sad that science is so far behind science fiction.

But we do have youtube and blogs and the diet coke+mentos experiment to entertain us. So I guess there are things to be happy about.

Selling your soul

A simple procedure to get someone to sell his/her soul:

1. Place the individual in front of a decision problem
2. Keep interest+insecurities+doubts+uncertainties on one side
3. Keep assurance+something routine+a fat wallet on the other side

In most cases, the outcome is very predictable. (but s/he may still end up feeling crappy without the soul)

Things ain't what they were...

A friend was telling me the other day, that he was wasting all his time watching Dragonballs. DRAGONBALLS!! Of all things! And it got me thinking of today's cartoons, and how they have become the mindless talking heads and the excessively 'cute n cuddly' creatures. Look at POKEMON, I cant make any sense of it, but all the kids are obsessed with it. There is some kind of card game too. Oh, how I miss Topcat and Bugs Bunny. Those were real cool cartoons. I even like Dexter's Lab and Samurai Jack which are somewhat recent and Simpsons of course (I think it is for grownups). I guess I'm just getting old, but the friend I talked about is older than me :)

The Wisdom of Age

It’s been a nice week, with the new students coming and I being able to delude them into considering me as a wise senior. It is always nice to meet new people; with all their enthusiasm and exuberance. And succeed in getting them to look up to you (wish it would stay that way). I think this year I will extend all my help in making the new students feel right at home, especially the girls and there are quite a few this time.

Also, today I watched some random tamil movie which had Bhavana in it. It made me an instant fan of her. I guess it takes a tamil movie to make a mallu actress appealing. After the movie me and my friend went for a coffee and ended up talking about school, life, love, girls and almost everything under the sun till 1:00 am. 'Twas time well spent (especially when I have one month left for GRE).

Cube Life

I live in a cube – 343 – 7³ – that’s my room number. But you can’t complain about the room, it really is a cube (as promised). The walls are at perfect right angles with the floor and the ceiling, and of exact dimensions too. There is just enough space for a bed, two chairs - one for hanging my dirty laundry and the other for draping my towel on (I sit,lie and sleep on my bed), a table and a shelf for my books. Just perfect for your average cubeite. Makes you wish you had some cardboard boxes to decorate the room with, then it would be really picturesque