The Life of Me

This was written in a class, on Thursday, 13th Nov at 5 pm. Since I don't want to edit and change what I wrote, I am just reproducing what I wrote exactly. The quality is not good..obviously; this was written in a class. Here goes:

I am in class sitting in the last bench, as usual.Unfortunately, the Prof doesn't know where to stand and he has a damningly clear view of me, as I do of him. So, instead of the usual nap I take in this class, I am forced to pretend taking down notes. Hence this article on my views of this class. A rarity I must agree - me having any view of any class apart from "Boring!"

Actually, this class is not much different from the other classes I used to wake through before I realized that there is precious little I can assimilate by staying awake. This class is on "Trends in Manufacturing", supposed to update us on the latest in production processes. I am left wondering - where India seems to have specialized considerably in reproduction, others are still stuck up on production.

The topic of the day is Rapid Prototyping and the first thing I am reminded of - given that reproduction came up in my mind earlier - is the film Sixth Day where we see human bodies being produced and memories being induced into them.

Talking about memories being induced, and also since I am really bored talking about my class, let me go on to Matrix Revoltuions. I saw the movie only this week; I agree I am late, but "better late than never". The movie is disappointing, to say the least, for those of us who belong to what the media calls the "Matrix Cult". I don't know what went wrong with the imagination of the Brothers Wachowsky, but they simply could not live upto the Matrix in either Reloaded or Revolutions. The special effects are all wonderful, but characters simply lost their touch. Neo is just a confused wanderer, Trinity has nothing to do except "love Neo", Morpheus is like a morose prophet and the Oracle in her "new shell". Only Agent Smith survives unscathed...er, I mean the characterization. I guess it is only Hugo Weaving, who played Agent Smith excellently, who got any real gain from the trilogy. But I must say that I don't think we could have gotten a better epic for our times than Matrix.

Back to present: I typed this out so late since I had an exam today..just finished writing it...and am really pleasantly surprised that I did reasonably well, a thing that I don't remember in recent times.

The first time I am posting an image. Thanks to Suds for telling me how. Anyway, for now, my life seems really complicated. All in all, I have to agree with Garfield than with John. But for now, I am with John.

That aside, we did a skit in our French class today. Suds, me and a couple other friends teamed up to do our variant of "Kaun Banega Crorepati", with no intention of even coming anywhere close to the original show. Ours was modelled after the GREAT MAN, Rajinikant and we christened our show "Kaun Banega Dalapati" after one his earlier movies. Suds played Rajini to almost perfection. Anyway, the skit was prepared with no involvement from my side - the only contribution I made was I got the script printed about 15 minutes before the class started and we practised in the class till our turn at the stage came. I must say that the skit was not so bad, considering that two of us saw our lines for the first time only after the print-out was with us. Anyways, I think Suds might have more things to say about the script than me.....he was one of the scriptwriters!

I don't know who the 500th visitor to my blog was, but accept my personal thanks. I would also like to thank all those who have contributed to the count. It took me one and a half month to reach the 100 mark, and now it took about three months to reach the 500 mark. I should think that the readership of my blog has increased, but recent statistics from Sitemeter shows a decline in the visitor rate. I know that I haven't been writing as well to make people come back oftener; all I can say is that that is going to change soon.

Anyway, I had a series of tests and have more to come soon. My endsemester exams start in a week from now. So, I don't think that I can write much in some time. But, I promise interesting posts in December. But I must say that I might have some things to say in the meantime also.......

I am not getting any time to rest at all. Not that I am doing many things, its more like I am still in the process of trying to do many things. Everyday leaves me feeling tired both physically and mentally. I am now sorry for not doing many of the things I should have done long ago. But, no use crying over spilt milk. Oww...cliches..am not even able to think properly nowadays.

I'll sign off with a poem written by my friend; its nice....better than my earlier attempts:

Rain it raineth
On the Just
As well as on the Unjust fella
But more on the Just
'Coz the Unjust had an umbrella

Word of the Day: SOLIPSISM: A theory that the self can know nothing but its own modifications and that the self is the only existent thing.