Cerebrations!

It is funny how a single letter can make so much difference to the meanings of words. And it is equally ironic that a small choice made in a fleeting moment can govern the rest of our stay on Earth. It is quite tough to be even a trifle philosophical in thought or writing, so it surprises me how I even started to think thoughts that is otherwise credited to the old and the 'mature'! It could have been spurred off by a lecture on neuro sciences that introduced me my own mind, not through sermon but by lulling me into a sleep that explored the depths. It could be as trivial as making a choice about how to spend the evening. You go to a park and you miss out on maybe a movie or going out with friends. You will never know the jokes they cracked or the things they discussed. You go to a movie and you would have missed the breeze that blew that particular evening! At every stage we close more doors than we open, and progressively shut out more of the world than we like to. The path you choose may not always be as rosy as you would have imagined and most often than not you wistfully think of the million other lives that you could have chosen from. You leave behind people you like and the Promised Land may have been an illusion. I really wish we had a looking glass to see for ourselves what lay ahead. I bet even you would if you unwittingly ended up reading the whole article!!!!!

Gripping Rambling Excursion!

The GRE...most of us at one point of time or the other have been in the vicinity of this vicious vortex. If you call that an alliteration, you have definitely been there and done that.. Personally, I think it's one of the most unreasonable exams that is administered on the face of this planet ( I really dont know what form tortures take on other heavenly bodies!). For it tests neither your vocabulary nor your capacity to memorize things. Ofcourse, there's no denying that the very process of going through the 3500 odd words in the most perfunctory manner is a superhuman fete and needs preternatural abilities. If you are one of the sane and have a vocabulary good enough to not make people throw stones at you everytime you try to put it into use, suggest you do absolutely no extra preparation for the cause of GRE. For once you start, the words that you'd have encountered a million times through the course of your life, transform into unintelligible, scary forms! Your brain is at it's muddled best and goes through a harrowing time differentiating between words like rife and rift and thrift. And really, that's when you see the redundancy that the language of the British is riddled with! You add the prefix in- to some words, and lo! nothing happens. You get a word that sounds almost the same and means exactly the same. You wonder if the origin of this new word is the mispronunciation of the earlier word by some high handed official who made the lexicographer include it at gun-point. On the other hand, if you are one of those sick souls who craves for attention, this is your ideal way out. People will look at you as if you are doomed and the sympathy they feel is as real as can get. Its also a good excuse to put things off for as long as you want (all you have to do is put your GRE date as far as you care to). You can safely avoid someone who's plaguing you for a date on its pretext. And well, if you come out alive of this whole ordeal you have learnt the essence of living!

For a start....

After years, I have once again been transported to the age where finding out new things, however small they may be, fills you with unparalleled bliss. This time, the reason being my accidental discovery of this blogspot and even more importantly, the latent wish to write. Ofcourse, I have for ages been aware of being a sadist who derives pleasure by watching (or atleast imagining) those facial contortions of a person subjected to my literary creations!!! So while all of you out there gear up to face the onslaught....