every one is going berserk over 12th class results, let me tell a story
my brother had appeared fr 12th boards in 2004. On the day of his result he had gone out to play a golf tournament. On the morning of the tournament, he was sitting while the other fellow- ravi aggarwal was driving. So ravi aggarwal said in a very sad tone" beta your mom called and told your results are out .. wait let me tell you about the exams first.
PAST- My brother was very bad at studies. In fact it was looking pretty bad in pre-boards, like he getting 10-11 marks in every exam. One teacher even told my mom like let him give exams next year (so pointless,since he wastes a year, but i guess she wanted better school result) .
PREPARATION- So for preparation first , one teacher who was not getting permanent my dad had put in a word of him to get so. To return the favor he would come with some 3-4 teachers who would teach taking turns, while others slept, ate, watched TV etc in my room.
But my brother didnt have must trust in these people. Only one thing he trusted. He had a sure shot method. -Prayers. He built sorta of a mini temple/gurudawra in his room and prayed everyday.
EXAM- Biggest problem was maths. On the day of his maths exam, my brother walked in his class room . When he took his seat , his best friend was sitting next - pure coincidence. Now my brother was really good at cheating , also this guy knew my brothers condition. After the exam he told me that he had show at least 30 marks to my brother.
yea so, back to beginning. Exam results came. Ravi aggarwa said " beta your mom called and told your results are out.Pass, toh tum hogaye ho, magar number ache nahin aaye hai "
result as i remember- maths-35, business studies 35 ,economics-43,english61 type something
PS. I told this story to rohan, before iit exam. i asked him what if we get seat next to each other in iit. He said we will also cheat. I told if we cheat and not clear then surely, i didn’t deserve iit.
I also walked inside my class and found rohan sitting next to me. first exam went by and i couldn’t cheat at all since rohan was covering his sheat, so i cant cheat. Then while lunch break, i explained its goa and no body is even looking. We went again and this time also i could cheat, some times, i look back that was the day, when i was suppose to get into iit.
PS2. after result some people after failing themselves had proclaimed that " hum agar fail hogaye toh angad bhi fail ho gaya hoga".
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Friday, June 17, 2011
In search of that perfect cross
There are couple of good stories in Mahabharata about how to get on target 1. Arjuna not seeing anything other than bulls eye and 2.hitting the target which is eye of fish by looking at its reflection in water. So its amazing some thing like that got incorporated, real stories or authors created fiction?
What i really wonder is, ability of human mind to launch projectiles and hit them on target. Two games i had experience of these test are golf and football. In both games first u have to play the ball in your mind( but one must know from experience how they will actually behave) and then do it same on the ground.Anything else is just a fluke. Now the degree of imagination is what i question here, i just look at the target spot which has to be like a foot or a head,( but i can imagine what shot that guy will play from there on wards , this is stretching of point since here only discussing the initial trajectory)
In golf one has more time to imagine and decide on the exact trajectory more i guess than football, but the idea remains the same.
In both games one also needs a consistent technique , otherwise one cant deal with the real behavior.
certain test - get a target and illuminate while leaving the path in between completely dark. see if a person can hit the target , also see if the person can improve
Its amazing that other than humans , no other animals use projectiles. humans can kick, throw etc and land stuff on target. whats really important to me is how we do it . This can show us about the brain, its ability of doing certain things without knowing, how to do it. This shows us about the learning capacity of our brain.
P.S - even though the blog post is not good, there is a story behind it. Let me reveal it. there is stray dog which is friend of my dog buddy. Now this dog has got lot of ticks on its body so i don’t want it to come near my dog since he already had tick fever once. This dog is always trying to come and play with buddy , so earlier i use to take stones and but only throw them very close to dog but always making sure i never hit him. Now this dog learnt this and started to feel less scared. So i decided to actually hit the dog, but i have been unsuccessful till now ( some 1500 stones thrown).
i have couple of theories one being the first 500 stones trained the dog to dodge and second i have a bad aim(which i dont believe since i have perfected it by throwing stones at other dogs). but my mom said i have a bad aim . So i set out to test it. I tried to hit a pole which was illuminated by its own light but rest of the path was dark(or the light blinded me , as i always lost path of stone ). Only after i hit the wall on the other side of pole would i see the stone again, i found this very hard and so came up with the test.
P.S 2 even now that fucking dog is barking outside.
What i really wonder is, ability of human mind to launch projectiles and hit them on target. Two games i had experience of these test are golf and football. In both games first u have to play the ball in your mind( but one must know from experience how they will actually behave) and then do it same on the ground.Anything else is just a fluke. Now the degree of imagination is what i question here, i just look at the target spot which has to be like a foot or a head,( but i can imagine what shot that guy will play from there on wards , this is stretching of point since here only discussing the initial trajectory)
In golf one has more time to imagine and decide on the exact trajectory more i guess than football, but the idea remains the same.
In both games one also needs a consistent technique , otherwise one cant deal with the real behavior.
certain test - get a target and illuminate while leaving the path in between completely dark. see if a person can hit the target , also see if the person can improve
Its amazing that other than humans , no other animals use projectiles. humans can kick, throw etc and land stuff on target. whats really important to me is how we do it . This can show us about the brain, its ability of doing certain things without knowing, how to do it. This shows us about the learning capacity of our brain.
P.S - even though the blog post is not good, there is a story behind it. Let me reveal it. there is stray dog which is friend of my dog buddy. Now this dog has got lot of ticks on its body so i don’t want it to come near my dog since he already had tick fever once. This dog is always trying to come and play with buddy , so earlier i use to take stones and but only throw them very close to dog but always making sure i never hit him. Now this dog learnt this and started to feel less scared. So i decided to actually hit the dog, but i have been unsuccessful till now ( some 1500 stones thrown).
i have couple of theories one being the first 500 stones trained the dog to dodge and second i have a bad aim(which i dont believe since i have perfected it by throwing stones at other dogs). but my mom said i have a bad aim . So i set out to test it. I tried to hit a pole which was illuminated by its own light but rest of the path was dark(or the light blinded me , as i always lost path of stone ). Only after i hit the wall on the other side of pole would i see the stone again, i found this very hard and so came up with the test.
P.S 2 even now that fucking dog is barking outside.
Sunday, June 12, 2011
monsoon doubts
yesterday it rained a lot and light went out , and while every time lighting striked i could see the tree from my window making scary faces. But, i was thinking what if earth didn't tilt on its axis and we didn't have summer and winter, will we still have monsoon?
as in if north of earth was always in summer, will we have monsoon - a perennial monsoon, a monsoon that comes but is weakened or no monsoon. i just want to know because monsoon are easy to imagine and if i get answer to this , i will get more data to fit into the video simulation of monsoon in my head
and while we are on it will someone please tell me how does those thread marks on tyres work. As in that grip cant get inside the road.
Saturday, June 4, 2011
two wrong cant make a right but three wrongs can
Every one has a opinion about Ramdev dramatics going on. here goes mine
Three parties involve are there
1. Ramdev - I don't know what his agenda is. But one clear benefit i see is, corruption is center stage once again in media. So at least it will be a boiling issue for elections and hopefully will remain a issue for long time. More over more fast like this can happen all over India and every where corruption will be a major issue and not cast,religion etc
2. media - Again even though media tries to hide behind the flag of crusade against corruption , most channels just want to sell. But its amazing how much its selling , and keeps these issues from dying out . Its amazing 10-15 years ago when only half an hour of news use to come so few people would watch it, or how many people actually read serious news. But all are in for this masala news.
3. common man at these show - I would often wonder at the "none" chance the common man had against the current corrupt system. Here no common man can win election. Hell, no one even listens to them. their votes are most divided . What i also felt sorry was some one with a job etc wont have a chance to take a stand and risk his entire life getting wasted in fighting the system.
Now two things are happening one lots of people (which is not the people i spoke about-people with jobs ) are coming to events like these. Again this keeps politicians on toes.
Secondly pseudo support from twitter, Face-book is coming . Both these i feel are not the politically aware people. But they are getting the job done
Together these three are atleast finger fucking the govt. which is a treat in itself.
Thursday, May 26, 2011
run and fight
name was bullied by people much stronger than him. so he decided to take revenge. but instead of building muscles or learn how to fight, he started running every day . Most of his friends couldnt understand this strategy . When one day name thought he was ready enough he decided to confront his bullies. He mocked them and hit one guy and ran. All of them started chasing him . But name was very fast now and had lots of stamina he ran and ran. Finally bullies tried their best but failed to catch him. But just when they thought he ran away he came back . while others were tired to get up he came back to beat up every one .There fore proving u can even run and fight so start running.
instead of google if we had ships
growing up i had one dream, to be a sailor . I would have to travel far and long in search of something truly amazing ( like some special sword ) . The journey would be a search and as we go along we would meet people, ask them directions become friends part ways. Many a times run across bad guys have to sword fight kill them. Some time work under a crazy captain , sometimes be the crazy captain over selves. I will meet some incredibly beautiful girls and fall in love but part ways. and so on
now we do search for stuff, we search for books , music , movies etc. Modern world's sea is internet . Imagine if Google worked on the same principle, wouldn’t life be super cool . you want to get music first u must reach Poland from here and there pay some guy 10 gold coins. I don’t blame Google only , may be we are not looking for good enough things yet .
now we do search for stuff, we search for books , music , movies etc. Modern world's sea is internet . Imagine if Google worked on the same principle, wouldn’t life be super cool . you want to get music first u must reach Poland from here and there pay some guy 10 gold coins. I don’t blame Google only , may be we are not looking for good enough things yet .
Thursday, May 5, 2011
army men and storytelling
the art of story telling is to be learnt from a army people.
(( the first paragraph of this blog has been lost since it came to me arnd 5:30 in the morning and if i had gotten up and written at that time , my parents will be shocked about a night out . If i ever get it back in my head i will add here))
My brother told me so many stories of his stay at northen glacier. Funny stories - example - some senior official will come in a helicopter to visit the post. My brother and other officer at post will stand on helipad along with indian national flag .When the Helicopter comes, it throws a hell lot of snow in their faces , while from inside the helicopter the senior official gives a thumbs up and leaves.
he told me stories of bravery - he saved 2 helicopter pilots from a crash. Saved one guy at advance post who got some attack of eplilepsy ,when no chopper support was available to that post.
and other genre like supernatural.
the army officer tells his story without any tailoring . Its almost like when he narrates he tells it like their is no other thing greater than the story itself, he aint trying to gain anything . Its just that he feels that story is to be shared, like some sailor who went on some voyage needs to tell his story type. His emotions are so real. This leads to a coherence (emotions, stories etc).
Their is this dilema always in me wether to tell a story or not. two main reasons are there for that. first , when i tell a story is the other person intersted ( with so much written on internet this is a big question) secondly if i tell stories of my own life their is always a risk of u trying to live your life like a story then( like instead of story telling as a result it becomes a cause). For this dilema also the result likes in the psyche of the army officer ( that infact was the reason to write this blog)
P.S - These stories my brother told not only to me but like all the people we met like relatives etc. Infact my brother saw some girl for marriage . It was a really getting boring and then my brother told these stories . By reading of faces i felt the girl had fallen instantly in love with my brother, While her parents especially her mother were too scared.
P.S 2- do u know why people want to become high post officer in army. so they can call a party and after all the initial party is done , they can start of with their story . If they are the senior most then no one can object to their story telling( even if some'1s kids cry he can give punishment to that officer - so good story hearing discipline in every kid).
(( the first paragraph of this blog has been lost since it came to me arnd 5:30 in the morning and if i had gotten up and written at that time , my parents will be shocked about a night out . If i ever get it back in my head i will add here))
My brother told me so many stories of his stay at northen glacier. Funny stories - example - some senior official will come in a helicopter to visit the post. My brother and other officer at post will stand on helipad along with indian national flag .When the Helicopter comes, it throws a hell lot of snow in their faces , while from inside the helicopter the senior official gives a thumbs up and leaves.
he told me stories of bravery - he saved 2 helicopter pilots from a crash. Saved one guy at advance post who got some attack of eplilepsy ,when no chopper support was available to that post.
and other genre like supernatural.
the army officer tells his story without any tailoring . Its almost like when he narrates he tells it like their is no other thing greater than the story itself, he aint trying to gain anything . Its just that he feels that story is to be shared, like some sailor who went on some voyage needs to tell his story type. His emotions are so real. This leads to a coherence (emotions, stories etc).
Their is this dilema always in me wether to tell a story or not. two main reasons are there for that. first , when i tell a story is the other person intersted ( with so much written on internet this is a big question) secondly if i tell stories of my own life their is always a risk of u trying to live your life like a story then( like instead of story telling as a result it becomes a cause). For this dilema also the result likes in the psyche of the army officer ( that infact was the reason to write this blog)
P.S - These stories my brother told not only to me but like all the people we met like relatives etc. Infact my brother saw some girl for marriage . It was a really getting boring and then my brother told these stories . By reading of faces i felt the girl had fallen instantly in love with my brother, While her parents especially her mother were too scared.
P.S 2- do u know why people want to become high post officer in army. so they can call a party and after all the initial party is done , they can start of with their story . If they are the senior most then no one can object to their story telling( even if some'1s kids cry he can give punishment to that officer - so good story hearing discipline in every kid).
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