Random Ruminations

Most of my limitations are self-imposed. I have been dreaming about studying medicine for quite some time.....high scores in high school biology exams helped fuel this "delusion". Now I am in my  second year in computer science engineering......and though by all reasonable standards i cannot be tagged one of the "brilliant" students in my class i like it.......I keep thinking i'd have expired had I taken some crap like ece and now i know that I am fortunate to have got cse in such a good instituition......since childhood brainteasers , riddles , puzzles have fascinated and frightened me....this predisposition of mine and my prominient(read monumental) laziness at problem solving often makes me wonder if I am of engineering calibre.......the only thing i like is reading books(fantasy mostly,outgrew thrillers), listening to music and making grand plans to undertake hugely mentally challenging projects.....stints at solving shakuntla devi 's puzzles and playing chess and doin math from famously infamous math refrence books(this one in my school days......now in engineering working for math is a thing of the past.......a friend once told me that some cricket player(kumble i think) raises his bat on scoring 40.....reason? he was an engineering student and WE KNOW how tough the chase for that elusive number gets.)

But there are times when at all the aforementioned things  I don't do so bad (at least in my opinion)......these are times when i don't care about the outcome.......I guess the mental barrier I have for them ceases to exist when I cease to care

Why am I talking of these things?

I dunno.

nota bena: The objective of this post is not to advise.

                   I aint' soul searching or anything........the thought makes me gag. 

Disclaimer: Some parts of the post may make some sense.

Poor ol' Bush..........Khalb??????

What do you have to do to have shoes thrown at you?

1. Sing a backstreestsboys song at my college audi night(at least I'll throw some).

2. Eve-teasing(being "smacked" by shoes is what one will incur if the retribution is left to the girl concerned(legend has it that they take a devious interest in reminding you of this power.....a sole prerogative of theirs)...........however if relatives get involved.........thats why i pretend to be a gentleman).............[......sigh.....brackets within brackets i'm desperately tryin to be funny here and its all your fault you bloggers]

3. just being a mallu first year at NITW.......(only the said mallus will understand).......mind you its the mallus who do the shoe throwing too....please don't get any fool notions in your head(for the non mallus)....we are not that insidious......just a little.

4. or just start throwing all manner of footwear you can lay your hands on at any random group of people, rest assured the gesture will be creatively returned.

and so on and so forth

What do you have to do to be the Commander-in Chief of an army that can bring about armageddon if pushed "and" have shoes thrown at you ?

Ravage a country with war originally launched on the basis of poor intelligence and then continue ravaging it for five years and then during your farewell address tell its journalists that..."the war (in Iraq) is not over"....

All hail Muntadhar al-Zaidi, a reporter for the T.V. channel Al Baghadia!!!

"At Sunday's news conference, the journalist whipped off his shoes and hurled them at Bush during the president's unannounced stop in Baghdad. The reporter called his shoe-throwing, a traditional insult in Arab culture, a "farewell kiss" to a "dog" who launched the 2003 invasion of Iraq."

Ironically Iraq's people responded with the same gesture on the day Saddam Hussein's regime finally came to an end........but then it was reserved for his statue in Baghdad's square.

Iraqi police is conducting investigations to inquire whether there is a possibility to charge the reporter with "breach of etiquette" in front of the Iraqi prime minister and not for throwing shoes at an occupying army's CIC...........sweet.

(the authorities make it clear that they see the throwing of shoes at the president not worth prosecution just that he did it front of the Iraqi prime minister)

Its not that I am anti-American or anti-Bush for that matter......what else do you do if people drive planes into buildings in your country's economic capital with a brazen televised message promising more such attacks in future to boot........than declare war on the most plausible suspect country......given the fact that you have the power to shake the world?

but the war in Iraq was carrying it too far........way too far (not saying that the war in Afghanistan was justified just that it seemed....well.... inevitable)

Everyone's Blogging! *#@%$???

so why shouldn't I ?

In the begginning(slightly later) when men discovered themselves capable of conscious thought the next logical fallout was the use of that ability to influence fellow-men (probably inspired by the serpent fooling our mother eve and she fooling her mate......i s'ppose the latter still rankles!) .........blogging is probably another milestone in this quest to satisfy this sense of self.........unfortunately everyone can blog including jobless people like me..........now howmuchever i'd like you to believe that i am of a self effacing disposition... since u are taking the trouble to read my first post...please labour under no delusions...i am as recognition-hungry as they come, and jobless.