Randomness...

I don't think i really believe in luck or God or a higher force for that matter...mostly i am of the view, things love randomness, and thus no matter how much you'll try to organize your world...random strokes of good and bad luck will keep hitting you..

Theres no heaven or hell, so maybe theres no moment of truth, no check of how you lived through life and also no reincarnation... so again, the life you were assigned wasn't from a thorough calculation of your potential or your goodness... it was a random choice of nature... and then, in your life you see all this mess around you... nature does a lot of jobs with great accuracy, but it isn't perfect... what you see here is a labyrinth, with many paths, each leading with a different style of life-pattern... what these paths lead to isn't visible to you, you can only assume from the experiences of people who have gone through that path... but the funny thing is these paths are dynamic, they keep evolving and dissolving; merging and emerging, so you can never be sure... you pick, or you're forced to pick, (or in rare case you build) a path... but where you land up during your journey is so complex to find out, that its best explained as random...

Then, what the hell is a "set" life??... lots of people have that, they knew what they wanted, they made efforts and got that... no randomness there... the reason is, that certain paths are less likely to change than others... and thats why many normal people are likely to choose that path... study, study more, get a job, get married, have kids, grow old, die... it would only be in the introspective moments, that these people will think about all the paths they could've chosen, lives they could've lived... the randomness, the absolute freewill they could've enjoyed... but then, their focus was always to rush through life making the seemingly right choices, so it never caught their eye, how relative right is... and how they have the power to redefine right...

Its only now, i fully understand why i liked "entropy" so much in thermodynamics... the fundamental property of materials to have minimum energy and maximum entropy... this kind of gives me a great excuse why i don't like organizing my stuff... why i don't like killing the free spirit of things around me... a lousy excuse, but still an excuse... anyhow, going back to life and randomness...

Again, the people you meet in your lifetime, follows no plan at all... and how all these random meetings entangle into your character, and make you the person you are, is subject to so many theories that its impossible to predict anything... you unconsciously/consciously learn things, stuff them into the back of your head... and finally one day spit that out, in a totally unrecognizable manner; your actions or your choices or your words or your dreams...

The whole point of this discussion, is that theres randomness integrated in every aspect of your life, and life becomes more fun, once you start appreciating that... because, then you don't look for grounds to dump your blames on, or escape routes, or answers to never-ending "why me??"... when everything is governed by some nonsense; you tend to be more forgiving...
and this is yet another abrupt ending to an abrupt idea...

The golden ratio..

Nature loves symmetry... there are patterns and proportions all around us, that make sense of this whole chaos of the world, we live in... i remember how i felt when i came to know of pi, it felt like in some mysterious way, everything has an inherent nature of being pre-defined... that theres an order of things, that we just have to decipher and everything would be simplified to plain mathematics and logic..

Phi is another such number... better known as golden ratio; its been there consistently, just under our eyes, in nature, in architecture, in paintings, in music, in beauty and even in your DNA...heres a nice video about phi...



So, two quantities are said to be in golden ratio if, the ratio of their sum to the larger quantity is equal to the ratio of the larger one to the smaller one..
or (a+b)/a=a/b=phi (if 'a' is the larger one and 'b' is the smaller one)
or a=(phi)b
substituting this value of phi in first equation yields
phi=(1+sqrt(5))/2=1.6180339887....

Some unique things about phi::
* the ratio of subsequent numbers in fibonacci series tends to phi:

1/1 = 1
2/1 = 2
3/2 = 1.5
5/3 = 1.666...
8/5 = 1.6

13/8 = 1.625
21/13 = 1.61538...
34/21 = 1.61905...
55/34 = 1.61764...
89/55 = 1.61861...


* 1/1.618=0.618, the golden ratio conjugate

* (sqrt(5) + 1)/2=1.618 and (sqrt(5) - 1)/2=0.618

* phi^(n+2)=phi^(n+1) + phi^(n); i.e. the powers of phi have this unusual property in that they are related not only exponentially, but are additive as well

* The human body conforms to phi...


-The distance between the finger tip and the elbow / distance between the wrist and the elbow,
-The distance between the shoulder line and the top of the head / head length,
-The distance between the navel and the top of the head / the distance between the shoulder line and the top of the head,
-The distance between the navel and knee / distance between the knee and the end of the foot,
-Length of face / width of face,
-Distance between the lips and where the eyebrows meet / length of nose,
-Length of face / distance between tip of jaw and where the eyebrows meet,
-Length of mouth / width of nose,
-Width of nose / distance between nostrils,
-Distance between pupils / distance between eyebrows.


in Architechture

The Golden Ratio has appeared in ancient architecture. The examples are many, such as the Great Pyramid in Giza, Egypt, and the Greek Parthenon that was constructed between 447 and 472BC. Not only did the ancient Egyptians and Greeks know about the magic of Golden Ratio, so did the Renaissance artists, who used it in the design of Notre Dame in between the 12th and 14th centuries. Some modern architecture are also influenced by Golden Ratio as well, such as the United Nations Building...

in DNA
The DNA molecule, the very program of life, is based on the golden ratio. DNA consists of two intertwined perpendicular helixes. The length of the curve in each of these helixes is 34 angstroms and the width 21 angstroms. Also, the major and minor groove of B-DNA follow golden ratio...

in Art


Da Vinci, a sculpture, painter, inventor and a mathematician, was the first one who first called Phi the Golden Ratio. And scientifically, Mona Lisa's face actually appears in a golden rectangle, which also makes her face appear more beautiful to human eyes. Also another masterpiece, the Last Supper, contains Golden Ratios...

....now, the list is practically endless, so i better stop here...
Conclusion: the golden ratio is ruling the world...watch this clip from "Numbers" where Charlie talks about golden ratio...

The simple truth...2

The difference between CAT and GRE...is somewhat like commercial and art cinema...

The simple truth...

Guys don't want their girlfriends to change, but they do...girls do want their boyfriends to change, but they don't...and that's the cause of most break-ups...

(courtesy: Sanchit)

Aishiteru Aishiteta...by Utada Hikaru

Rusu roku ni natta mama de anata no koe ga kikoeru
Irusu nante gomen ne rashikunai yo ne

"mata kakeru yo" tatta juu byou no messaaji wo
Makimodoshite kurikaesu

Yobikakeru yawarakai koe mo hanashikata mo
Zenbu ai shiteta

Sayonara wa ienai kara anata kara no denwa ni wa
Mou nido to denai koto de
Semete isagiyosa misetakatta
Yurushite ne hanashi wo shitara naku kara

Furui ringu hidari mimi no piasu
Nagai ude to hiji no kizu
Mijikai tsume kata no hokuro mo
Tsumetai te mo zenbu ai shiteta

Yawarakai koe yasashii hanashikata
Nagai ude to hiji no kizu
Furui ringu suzu no udedokei
Tsumetai te mo zenbu ai shiteta

Kore kara mou koi wo shinakereba
Kono omoi wa seijitsu to yobareru no?

Ai shiteru ai shiteru

....this is my most favorite japanese song(among the very few that i've heard); it has that sad undertone that, even though you don't understand the language you'll get the feel what she's talking about...even more beautiful are its lyrics, the english translation cannot fully bring out the meaning of the song...but still, here they are...

愛してる, 愛してた
a i s h i t e r u . a i s h i t e t a
Performed by Dreams Come True
Lyrics: Yoshida Miwa
Music: Yoshida Miwa
Arrangement: Dream Come True
English Translation: tsubasa ( courtesy : http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1392948)

I can hear your voice, which has become a recording on the machine.
I'm pretending to be away, which doesn't really seem like I'm trying
to say I'm sorry, does it?
"I'll call again." It was a mere ten second message.
But I'll rewind it over and over again.
You call out to me with your tender voice.
I love and cherish it all.
I don't want to say sayonara to you,
So I can't bring myself to call you back.
I wish that I could find at least the courage to return your call,
Forgive me, I'll cry if we speak to each other,
so...Your old ring... Your pierced left ear...
The long arms and scratched elbows...
Short fingernails... The mole on your shoulder...
And your cold hands... I loved everything.
Your tender voice... Sweet words...
Long arms and scratched elbows...
Your old ring... Tin wristwatch...
And your cold hands... I cherished and loved it all.
If we are no longer in love, then
These memories are sacred, don't you agree? I love you... Oh, I love you...

...i know, too mushy!!...but it makes my ears very happy...

Things life has taught me...part 2..

7. Before downloading a foreign language movie, download the subtitles beforehand....otherwise keep 2 disprins handy..
8. Never sit with a conductor of a blue line bus...especially if he's fond of singing..
9. Don't order Potato Salad in Cafe 100...infact, don't ever order any salad anywhere...if you like it so much, buy some fruits and vegetables and make it at home...at one-tenth price..
10. When someone walks like, talks like, eats like, smiles like, stares like and behaves like a mean ol pig/bitch...chances are he/she is a mean old pig/bitch...
11. Don't go to Imdb search, when you've an exam tomorrow..
12. Always note the no. of autorickshaw...or one day you'll regret..

Still some more left...will post later...

Still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

Kitaro and EVP

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Okay; just to make it clear beforehand, i have absolutely no belief whatsoever in supernatural...but I found this really interesting...this is EVP-Electronic Voice Phenomenon; an alleged communication by spirits through tape recorders and other electronic devices...in the above video, EVP from various sources are mixed with some music...

After World War II, tape recorders became affordable for the average person, and some paranormal investigators began taping their séances. Sometimes when they played the tape back, they heard voices or sounds that were not there when the tape was originally made... this is nothing but EVP ...and it has been mushrooming eversince..

Interest in EVP apparently began in the 1920s. An interviewer from Scientific American asked Thomas Edison about the possibility of contacting the dead. Edison, a man of no strong religious views, said that nobody knows whether “our personalities pass on to another existence or sphere” but

"it is possible to construct an apparatus which will be so delicate that if there are personalities in another existence or sphere who wish to get in touch with us in this existence or sphere, this apparatus will at least give them a better opportunity to express themselves than the tilting tables and raps and ouija boards and mediums and the other crude methods now purported to be the only means of communication." (Clark 1997: 235)

And though nobody knows for sure, that Edison had anything similar to EVP in mind while saying that..and though Skeptics and Paranormal Scientists(as they call themselves) both have their own facts and arguments... its almost like an experiment, and you can get lots of information from the web, how to make you own EVP cassette, if you so desire...

The Secret Life Of DNA(2007)

The Secret Life of DNA

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Did you know your DNA could create music...and not some ordinary music, but listen to this excerpt from "The Secret Life Of DNA"(2007) and you'll just say- "INCREDIBLE"...i heard it in the dead of night alone and had a spine-chilling experience...those A/T/G/C of your DNA do everything musical notes are supposed to do; when taken from a life-they make music; when taken from a random sequence- they make cacophony...

The Secret Life of DNA (2007)

This is a new symphonic work by Stuart Mitchell which expresses the protein patterns/music that exists within the four bases of DNA. The protein sequences of a 70 Million year old T-Rex, a Humpback Whale, an orchestral fugue of the composer's son Lewis's DNA melody entwined with the composer's own DNA, culminating with Ludwig Van Beethoven's Nucleotide sequence taken from clippings of his hair. The DNA proteins are all translated into music as he invites the listener into a new realm, a new perception and dimension of sound.

The album will be available by December, 2007

"DNA music exists within every living organism universally and now we have the technology to
unlock a symphony from within everyone for a better and more aesthetic understanding
of life, ourselves and each other."

Living inside a...

"When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It is only after a sort of 'get acquainted' period that I see what I have been about. I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well..."
-Jackson Pollock(1912-1956)(Jack, the Dripper)

He painted with his body...moved around the canvas as if dancing...he was all about flinging, dripping, pouring, spattering...physicist argue, his work displays property of mathematical fractal...was an alcohlic and died in a car crash...In November 2006 Pollock's "No. 5, 1948" became the world's most expensive painting, when it was auctioned to an undisclosed bidder for the sum of $140,000,000...In 2000, a biographical film "Pollock" won actress Marcia best supporting actress Academy Award...an influential abstract American painter-Jackson Pollock...

Jose Gonzalez- heartbeats (Sony Bravio Ad)

one night to be confused
one night to speed up truth
we had a promise made
four hands and then away

both under influence
we had divine scent
to know what to say
mind is a razorblade

to call for hands of above
to lean on
wouldn't be good enough
for me, no

one night of magic rush
the start a simple touch
one night to push and scream
and then relieve

ten days of perfect tunes
the colors red and blue
we had a promise made
we were in love

to call for hands of above
to lean on
wouldn't be good enough
for me, no

to call for hands of above
to lean on
wouldn't be good enough

and you, you knew the hands of the devil
and you, kept us awake with wolf teeths
sharing different heartbeats
in one night

to call for hands of above
to lean on
wouldn't be good enough
for me, no

to call for hands of above
to lean on
wouldn't be good enough
for me, no

...this was a recommended must-listen from a friend...and i must say the same too...the colors and d melody...too good!

Always on your side

Always on your side...Sheryl Crow

My yesterdays are all boxed up and neatly put away
But every now and then you come to mind
Cause you were always waiting to be picked to play the game
But when your name was called, you found a place to hide
When you knew that I was always on your side

Well everything was easy then, so sweet and innocent
But my demons and my angels reappeared
Leavin' only traces of the man you thought I'd be
To afraid to hear the world's I'd always feel
Leavin' you with all the questions all these years

Is there someplace far away, someplace where all is clear
Easy to start over with the ones you hold so dear
Or are you left to wonder, all alone, eternally
This isn't how it's really meant to be
No, it isn't how it's really meant to be

Well they say that love is in the air, but never is it clear,
How to pull it close and make it stay
Butterflies are free to fly, and so they fly away
And I'm left to carry on and wonder why
Even through it all, I'm always on your side

Is there someplace far away, someplace where all is clear
Easy to start over with the ones you hold so dear
Or are we left to wonder, all alone, eternally
But is this how it's really meant to be?
no, this isn't how it's really meant to be

Well they say that love is in the air, never is it clear
How to pull it close and make it stay
Butterflies are free to fly, why do they fly away,
Leavin' me to carry on and wonder why
Was it you that kept me wandering through this life
When you know that I was always on your side?

...first heard this song as the soundtrack of tv series "Desire" and absolutely loved it...a beautiful song...

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freeplacementcell.com etc etc...
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the last link gives some more links...also visit orkut community target placement and the like...

Sapient cracked!!!

26th Aug, 2007...this has been my luckiest day, in quite a long stretch of not-so-good luck...Today, i cracked Sapient, and i've heard so much about the company, that i cant help but be overjoyed...the questions were from that repeated bunch of sapient questions only, that circulate over the web; but i think what they were looking for was a good and somewhat different (from the solutions available on the net) logic...

I had almost no hopes to begin with, many "todu" programmers from IT/COE were still left; and I being from BT wasn't that much fluent with the coding...anyhow, i glanced over the previous questions, thought of an approach and looked over the net if there was a better way...you actually have to understand the 67 seat problem and think of a logic before running into coding; but that being said, i am no bond, so follow the advice of the pro people...

In the interview, i was asked repeatedly to find alternative approach and a better way of doing things; i'm not too sure how i did here, but i made some suggestions thinking from the common sense...then, some typical HR questions; had to convince him that though I have done projects in BT, i am really a software material; I think i did good coz i saw a fleeting smile on his face; which i assume was because he got impressed...asked me certain situation based questions; how i handle stress; anger of seniors; last minute goof-ups etc...again, i think i did well in this section...in the end, he gave me a feedback that i'm very interrupting; which kindof crashed my iota of hopes, whatever was left...and i actually left with no further expectations...

at 10:45pm , i got a message that i am selected...:))))
can't be happier...

Images...

Beautiful image of pigeons at kashmir(no, i din take it; courtesy: google search)....first thought that comes to my mind is...

यह रोज़ होता है जनाब,
कबूतर आते हैं, उड़ जाते हैं
फिर क्यों एक आज़ाद सुबह ऐसी
लगती है इतनी हसीन हमें...

Things life has taught me...

A recent accident that happened has helped me revise the things that i have learned from life...

1. Never put you bag on the backside of auto..you're doomed to forget it
2. Never buy an expensive wallet.. the more tattered it is, the better chances of it not getting stolen/lost.
3. Always travel light..the less you've, the less you loose
4. If you're on a diet, a great tip-don't keep any junk at home...most hunger-pangs occur at night, so always keep the fridge free from junk...
5. Consume your chocolates as soon as possible...they have a mysterious property of being eaten away by your younger brother
6. What goes around, comes around...trust me on this!...so don't do murder/rape/robbery or other crimes
there're plenty of these...will post them later...have to sleep now...too tired...

The junk collector

Over the years, carried this baggage,
Kept heaping , till I lost all strength.
Now, my back's aching,
And my stuff's leaking.

There're grudges scattered on the floor.
Dont wanna pick them...
Ah! I can always earn'em more.

Oh! ya! the good times..Perfumed paper,
Stuck in the thorns.
Not that perfect..can leave'em like this,
Evanescent and Torn.

Those colored ribbons, flying in the air,
My wishes!!...Too high! Unreachable!
Alas! I'll miss their every layer.

Scare-crow! in the garbage can!
Thats my pain...Still such a snob!
Like hell!! I never want him back again!

I'm looking at the horizon.
Tired of collecting all the junk.
My junk, my 'life'.
Will rest in peace now.

...a poem i wrote sometime back..

Lately, I have developed a taste for korean movies...they are very melodramatic, very emotional, very much like hindi movies...but an underlying humor and simplicity is always there, and they have the cutest faces...also i'm watching only few selective ones, so maybe im biased...but whatever shit i won't watch in a hindi movie, i'll get all emotional about the same in a korean movie...yes!! some hypocrite I'm...

So, this ...ing movie was courtesy a dear friend Shruti, who started the trend by the way...and i don't see myself stopping anytime soon...

a movie about a dying young girl who doesn't know she's dying; about her mother trying to hide this thing from her and giving her a cheerful and normal life; about a naughty photographer nieghbour who becomes her first love and fills her short life with a million smiles...and about her deformed hand, always hidden under the cutest glove...and about the jokes of daily life, and about realizing how short life is...

though sounds tragic, but was quite light actually...Mi-sook, the actress looks like a doll, but then may be most korean actresses do...

but i loved this movie...bittersweet, romantic, and extremely well pictured...i mean, a lot of scenes have this dreamy quality to them...like when Mi-sook is looking outside window; smoking cigarette; with her headphones on....and the sketches in the end...all very beautiful...

Children Of Heaven

This is that kind of movie, that isn't much well known...among the masses that is..but was nominated for an oscar..
But i saw this movie, not knowing of its oscar fame...a friend gave a bunch of korean movies and this masterpiece..so just watched it..and loved it
A story of two small kids- Ali and Zohra, from a poor family of Iran, and how a missing pair of shoes make their already difficult life, a bit more challenging...its not a sob-story, instead its an ode to simple joys that we all never take notice of..
Ali has those big eyes, droopy eye-brows; and Zohra looks like a tiny angel..you cant do anything but love them... you'll wonder, why you crib so much about not having this or doing that??? these kids don't whine and blame the world, they just look for the solutions- whatever their tiny lil head can come up with...
My favorite is the scene with the fishes around Ali's toe..and his cutest dialog when he tells Zohra, he'll come third in the race just to win her the sneakers...it amazes me how kids can think and understand and perceive better than some adults...
Its in Persian with English subtitles, but do listen carefully, you'll feel more connected with the characters..

All in all, a very simple movie, but can make you feel many things that you wouldn't have felt in a long time..