A Post After A Slumber

*Yawns*
*Looks around*
Tempted to go back to sleep.
Sigh.
*Wakes up*
Good day, Sunshine!

A Little Something:
Maybe I'm exaggerating things a little bit, but I feel like I'm changing a lot. Physically, I've managed a feat I never thought possible. I've shed 10 kilos *pride*. Mentally, I'm seeing people, past their masks. I've managed to, in only 8 months, become friends with, respect, be amazed, get inspired by, lose respect and develop anger towards the same person, in that order. This has never happened before to me. And for my sake, I hope it never does. This person and I may not be on great terms with, but I got to say, I'm grateful to her.

New Year's Blues:
A little something I typed out on New Year's 2012 on my phone:

From the amber in the past, rises a giant magnificent flame in the present, shining light, the giant, magnificent, vicious flame that is hope.

Bullshit:
For the people around me who believe their agenda is to make me resemble the female human being more than I do now, I always knew I should be just as much female as I am. This is what I ought to be; this is what people hope I am :)

One More Year Later:
Two years ago, I thought this nation was too obsessed with IITJEE.
Last year I thought this nation was too obsessed with IITJEE.
This year I think this nation is too obsessed with IITJEE.
I am, although, guilty of the charges I hold against the nation. I am re-taking IITJEE.
Why? The truth is, I can't believe I failed an exam. I need my ego back. Either I win it back or I lose more ego and hope to win it back in the greater agenda of things.

On The Brighter Side:
On the brighter side of things, I have managed to successfully rediscover my love for science in general and physics and calculus in particular. I have realised that this love for Physics and Calculus will never die in me. These are my true love. Paraphrasing what Lord Tennyson said, wrote rather: For men may come and men may go, but Physics and Calculus go on forever :)  

The Probability Of Death Paradox:
Some of my friends have had the opportunity to hear of this theory I developed a while ago. I don't know if I digitalised it. I don't think so. But I believe I should because it is sort of a genius, if I may say so :D

At any given instant, the number of ways you can die = ~(infinite)
That is, sample space S = ~
Event E: The event of you dying.
You can only die once. You can't, for instance, die of poisoning and then get stabbed to death. This basically means out of the infinite ways you can die, you will actually die in only one way.
That is, E = 1
Thus calculating the probability of your death at any given instant,
P(E) = E/S = 1/~ = 0
Voila! The probability that you will die at any given instant is... *drum roll* ZERO! *Ba dum tsss*

So the paradox here is, is math deceiving us, because we do die, or is this just one of the paradoxes in science?

*Looks back at work done*
Wow. That's a lot of force. Shouldn't exert myself the day before the battle to win back my ego.
End of post.
Going back to slumber.
Arthi

Hippity Bippity Bop

To start off this post, a small rhyme, if I dare call it, that I wrote:

Hippity bippity bop!
The mouse ran off the clock
The cat did a hop
and hit on a block
Hippity bippity bop
the cat became a clock!

Moving on to more unimportant yet inevitable things, being a person who has just now completed High School and awaiting the exciting new college life, I would like to represent us all out-of-High-School-waiting-for-college teenagers in asking the general public to avoid in conversation with us, if so requested by the cruel wands of Fate, the following questions:
1) How much did you get in 12th?
2) What is your [enter name of entrance exam] rank?
3a) (If you failed to obtain a rank)What other colleges have you applied?
3b) (If you have obtained a rank) What college and course will you get for this rank?
4) Why didn't you apply for [enter name of college you did not apply for]?
5) When is your counselling? (Especially painful if you're not aware of the date of counselling)
6) What are you going to do till your college starts? (Especially painful, again, if you're completely clueless about the answer to this question)

So, in conclusion, what I'd like to say is, and my colleagues would agree, that elders of the world, please stop asking us any of these questions. Also, please note that more such questions may (and will, most likely) appear on the list when you are least expecting them to do so.

Among other things, I've always wondered why I'd sign my leave letter by saying 'Yours Sincerely' because I've never gotten the hang of it's usage, especially when I'm least sincere in the letter about my reason of absence or in the general feelings towards the Addressed. Food for thought, I'd think.

I'd like to proclaim to the part of the world that is interested that I have been reading a lot of story books, watching a lot of movies and viewing a lot of TV during this Summer as I do not have a Greater Agenda to keep up with.

If I could have my way with a magic lamp with a Genie trapped inside waiting for me to rub the outside of the lamp to free him/her (33% reservation for women in India, you see) so that he/she could kindly and gratefully grant me three wishes, I'd ask for a) a million dollars b) lots of real estate in the up-and-coming localities of all major cities of the world and c) to spend many a joyful (and eventful, if so Fate wishes) Summers at a generous residence of an English Earl in a picturesque English Countryside complete with seemingly unemotional butlers, beautiful young men and women wanting to marry trying to fight the hurdles, quick witted relatives of dim witted Earls, formidable aunts, miscellaneous flora and fauna and so on and so forth.

In conclusion of this post, I'd like to say this much: Thank you and goodbye, well at least until the next post.

Arthi

Random Discoveries of the Day

Bron wrapper can be used as a coaster after being folded at least twice. It's true.

After 12 in Chennai, water from the taps are going to be VERY warm.

You don't want to rinse your mouth with that water after using a strong mouthwash.

Sleeping longer than usual makes me sleepier.

Wikipedia can be more entertaining than you think.

Cold water makes me thirstier.

Arthi Appathurai