Unbounded Creativity

Everyone will have to agree that this year's Physics Batch has been excessively blessed with creativity. There are some who can sing, some who carve, some who draw really nice cars, and others who can write beautiful poetry.[Sadly neither sarchasm nor cynicism can be called creative, so with a heavy heart, I will have to be ommited from this list of these wonderful people.]

For those who disagree, let me provide some proof:

The Time: A lazy saturday morning.
Oscar like usual, was nowhere to be seen even by the second lecture. Suddenly we get this message from him:

Those foyer chats amidst the chaos,
the stories zealously shared.
The end shall sure be a loss.
To leave am I prepared?

Now oscar does write good poems, but what was bugging us was the fact that he was happily frolicking out somewhere, while we were suffering one of the worst tortures know to man, which some people might prefer calling 'A Veda Double Lecture'. We asked him to come out of hiding and join us in our misery.
He replied:

Hiding amidst the chaos,
As veda tortures the few.
I shall not be at a loss,
the loser shall be You. ;o)

We realised that oscar might be a lucky rascal, coz he might be snoozing at home, while we were undergoing this torment.
Also, receiving unilateral creativity from someone once, is allowed but twice, that would be accepting defeat. Thankfully Chitrak's mind came to the rescue, and that's when we sent him this message.

That's what you think my friend,
while you may have slumbered,
the year draws to an end,
and ALL our days are numbered.

Is India No 1?

What happens when an Malaysian woman who is in Mumbai to make a documentary, meets two Chinese industrialists, and has an conversation weather India is better or China?
Read Here

M.S.D.

The second test Match had become such a boring affair that Mahendra Singh Dhoni handed over his pads to skipper Rahul Dravid, and took the new ball (and for the record, did a fair approximation of a seam bowler, both in his run up and with his deliveries that touched the 121 kmph mark). And just to rub it in, Yuvraj Singh shared the new ball with his wicket-keeper. (Late into the evening, the Pakistanis were to respond by giving the new ball to Shahid Afridi and Younis Khan).

A Mega-trend

Today's Times of India has a good article on the Economic reach of India in this globalized world, by Swaminathan.
Quite a read. Makes one's heart swell up with pride.
Read it at:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1372145.cms

Me, Marathon & her

Today was the Marathon Day. Now those who have no idea as to what that is, let me enlighten you. This is a day when South Mumbai's arterial roads are closed to traffic, so that it is easy for the 30K odd people who have registered, to move along them. About the same number show up, Line the streets on a sleepy and foggy morning in January so that they can cheer up the masochists who have decided to run either 42 or 21 Km. The not so brave souls who register for the Dream Marathon (7 Km) are the majority and great fun to watch. Yours truly has been running the Half Marathon, a distance of 21097m for the past two years. The route starts at the historic V.T. Chowk (Even though I am a Maharashtrian, I refuse to call it CST) leading to Nariman Point via Fountain. One then has top run along the Scenic Marine drive, via Kemp's Corner, till Worli and Back. This year they decided to apply a lot of things they had learnt in the past two years, and there were a lot of changes.
Firstly my race was at an unearthly time of 7 in the morning, and I had to be there by at least 6:30, which was all fine except that it meant I would be leaving my house by 5 in the frigid cold morning. I happened to reach the station by about 5:17 and the first person I see on the 5th platform is a fat guy with read colour on his face. He seemed to be holding a yellow coloured Bib, which meant he was out to enjoy the Dream Marathon. Soon I saw a lady holding a blue coloured Bib with the word veteran underscoring her number. Soon the train chugged in & as always I jumped in, along with the red faced dude. After hanging out for sometime, I saw that Khalik and Anurag were there as well, sitting right in front of the red dude. Time was passed by the usual tomfoolery on the part of Khalik.
After we alighted at Churchgate, Anurag disappeared in the quest of some Chick, Leaving me along with Khalik. We managed to reach Azad in once piece, and after depositing my stuff at the counter, we started walking to warm-up. Khalik apparently wasn't too keen on it, and I didn't push him. After a couple of rounds, who should we walk into? Isha and Karan. Apparently they had both planned on participating in the Half Marathon, but due to some unfortunate accident involving a swimming pool, Isha would not, and Karan was going to be the sole one doing so.
Both of us left the couple, in order to answer nature's call before running. By the time we returned, Both of them had disappeared, and we also realised that not much time was left, so we proceeded to the Holding area, and within a couple of minutes, we were left out on Mahanagpalika marg, which was when I lost Khalik.

Congratualtions to Oscar for finishing the full Marathon

P.s. I almost forgot about 'her’. After completing the race, I was drifting back inside Azad, when I remembered to take my Participation Certificate. As I trudged towards the counter, my tired muscles could hardly control my posture. At the counter there was a decent female who was asking names and writing them on the certificates. As My turn came, I leaned on the table, coz my legs were too tired to support my weight. I also was quite dazed, and apparently while giving her my name, I must have also given her one heck of a smile, coz she blushed like hell and turned Beet red. I quickly made my escape, before things escalated.    

Revenge of the Geeks

Now what does an Alpha Geek do for fun? He will play around with his computer Peripherals and make them do weird stuff. He will not be satisfied till he has discovered each and every function, whether it is useful or not. Here you can see what some guy has done with his Hp scanner! It actually plays music! At the bottom of the page, there is a link to a video file of the scanner playing the Für Elise. I think its quite cool. What do you think?    

Saturn

We finally managed to get to vagni for that Star gazing trip.
A lot of people had withdrawan, thus leaving only a group of about 80 people. Not bad considering who had organized it.
The people managed to show a lot of stars and other cosmic shit. The moon thru the 8 inch telescope was a treat to the eyes.
We also managed to see saturn.
Its so frekin small, that its hard to see even thru the telescope.
Here a sample of what we saw.