Alpha - Q!

Most of you would know that I am a passionate quizzer. For those of you who don't, "I am a passionate quizzer". Now you know...

Last Monday, 14th September was something special. I consider it one of our biggest victories. Deepak and I were at KQA a few weeks ago and we decided to call ourselves Alpha-Q! So there... any collaboration to do with Deepak + Me will be under the inglorious title of Alpha-Q. The inglorious basterd I am referring to in this case being Udbhav Tiwari.

So Monday... we set out for the Rotary Quiz conducted by Arul Mani. Open to all colleges mind you. So the prelims had 25 crackers for questions and we managed a borderline score of 13. We were pretty sure it was game over because the big dogs would obviously clean us out. But lo and behold, we entered a tie breaker just to make it into the finals! So there we were, a P.U team amidst giant quizzers.

Just before the tie-breaker, as Tiwari and Deepak chanted rampant prayers for their respective favourite deities, I, being the atheist that I am, reached into my bag and squeezed an .... ahem... "lucky charm" and thought to myself... "Please let me get this one".

Well I guess the charm worked like a charm!! We nailed Christ Law and made it to the Finals. So there we were...
2 teams from NLS
1 team from IIM-B
1 team from R.V.C.E
1 team from B.M.S.
and yours truly... Jain Callaze P.U.C!
Obviously, we were a little lost in the finals and finished last! But screw that... let the booze flow like water, we landed a biggie!

This post is a toast to 2 guys who cracked beauties... Mr. Udbhav "Snitch" Tiwari and Mr. Dee-Fuck Gecko. 100 Bucks to the person who correctly IDs what the damned "lucky charm" was! Its a dare!

Good Night,
Mr. Suraj "Lager" Prabhu

To Love Is to Leave Untouched

Humans by nature are inquisitive. That's how we discovered the wheel and fire. That's why Science as a subject exists and it’s exactly why people are willing to dedicate several hours of relentless work to finding out what constitutes an atom...

So we dig, deconstruct and search like a Musk deer trying to locate the source of the scent. But at the end of it all, what do we achieve?

Complexity is a very complex concept. If you understand what complexity is, then you are underestimating the might of the complexity. A subject continues to stay complex as long as it is not fully understood. Once you break it down and absorb it, it ceases to interest you. Need some convincing? Examples up your alley...

One... Take an infant for instance. The little thing will spend hours staring at an object as commonplace as a carton box or a cell phone as long as he fails to understand what the object is. The second he knows what the object does and more importantly, how it does whatever it does, it ceases to interest him...

Two... Who else but the master Sir Arthur Conan Doyle can bring out such intricacies of human thought! Observe that Watson is always taken aback by Holmes' ingenious findings only up to the point where Holmes explains it. Once that is done, it is "But elementary my Dear Watson"...

Three... Music. When you hear a tune teasing enough to hit the right pleasure spots with lyrics faint enough to keep you guessing and a theme perfectly effervescent, you are gripped by the tune like nothing else. Once you sit down and listen to it over and over again, you lose interest in it.

It is quite natural. Even human senses are built to that effect. The sense of smell for instance; that familiar blast of pizza goodness every time you walk into Cassa Piccola is a non existing scent to the chef who spends an eternity in those kitchens... Familiarity breeds contempt. So what is the solution?

Keep it complex enough to keep you guessing? That wouldn't work out. Because curiosity is like a spark in a hay-stack. If you let it burn unhindered for long enough, it'll burn the barn down. Leaving a complexity untouched leads to irritability which is as frustrating as finding dissatisfaction at the end of deconstructing the complexity...

Now if I have managed to tickle your gray cells the right amount, this article and the theme must appear just complex enough to keep you interested. Dig no deeper. Ponder no more. Let the feeling fulfill its destiny. If you love it, leave it untouched.

Everybody Loves Courtney!

Wanna know what'll happen to you if you get married to a mental-case like Kurt Cobain? You develop a craving to let you boobs fly in public. Not just in public... But on the freaking David Letterman Show! This is Courtney Love going ka-woo-ka-boo-ka-boo on the Letterman show. Enjoy. We love you Cortney... Muah!

Secret Window(2004)

How does Johnny Depp manage to do it? How? Secret Window is an adaptation of Stephen King's screenplay "Secret Window, Secret garden". If there's anybody crazy enough to fit into the crazy write ups that King comes up with, its Johnny Depp.

The plot revolves around Morton Rainey, a New York writer who has an unwelcome visitor 6 months after he finds his wife, Amy cheating on him. The intruder, Shooter(another well portrayed nut-job by John Turturro) , claims Rainey(Depp) stole his story 7 years ago and wants to set things right. The plot thickens slowly and steadily giving depth to Depp's character and hinting at what is in store to the viewer gradually. Not just another one of those oh-so-frequently told psychological disorientation tales... Trust me. The slight yellow tinge to the cinematography keeps the constant question mark etched in the user's head.

The twist in the plot is slightly predictable(by my standards atleast) but satisfactory nevertheless. I won't say what because that, children, would be a spoiler. Full points for Depp's shaggy eccentric portrayal of a sleep-addicted lifeless NY writer. Do not miss this one!

Rating: 4.0

P.S: King's book is "Four Past Midnight". You'll find the tale there. I have the book but was F@*%ed Up enough to lose it... I Suck...

P.C Saar Raaks I say!

Ok... Assuming you saw the horrifying shoe chucking video above, I'm gonna start off.
Guess what the new trend is?
Footwear missiles. After my dear friend Mr. Bush Jr. got his share,
now another pal of mine falls prey to the fast spreading culture...
Sure PC could have got together an army of shoe bearers and booted the living hell out of the journalist;
He is the home minister you know...But uh oh wait, he did something more damaging. He forgave! Ahem... Suraj says:
"To err is Human... to forgive is Divine"
Let’s modify this shall we...
I'm thinking on the lines of:
"To chuck footwear is mental journalist...to forgive is PC"
Hehe...Just see how politely the man says "Gently...gently" and tries to restore order at the conference. I bloody swear to Lucifer! This is one fine, polished man!

I'm Loving It! Inshallah!

You gotta take a look at this. Picked this one off an E-mail forward. Fast food like you've never seen before. Now you know where all the controversies surrounding MCD's come from. Quality customer outlets like these must make Ray Kroc grind a few rotting jaw bones and smile in his grave...

Introspection Of The Mental Sanctum

Think… The world…
So many, many people. Like the fibres constituting the felt covering a tennis ball.
And we have apparently evolved to beings that categorize similar thoughts of an order and call the thoughts “feelings”. What are feelings?

What is happiness, sadness, disappointment, anxiety, fear, excitement, anger, frustration? Names given to states of minds? What makes you so sure that the description of the feeling is so perfect that it is felt in the exact same manner by all beings?

When I’m happy every neuron in my system is lit up like a Christmas tree. Then, when you're happy, is every neouron in your mind the exact Christmas tree as mine? What if the glittering star on top is missing on your tree? Does it really matter? Can two people ever share the exact same feeling? Not superficially. My query is about the intricacies of the unknown...

Good, Bad, Nothing …
Who decides? The cruder the object of debate, the harsher is the conflict of values. I say coffee is bad. You say good. Crude…
I say capitalism. You say communism. It is after all the individual paradigm which attaches any moral, practical or logical value to a thought.

What I perceive as a world full of light, a battlefield to be explored, a dome for love to blossom, You see as the deepest nook out of Hell, with misery and suffering accompanying every step. Little Johnny may not like the rain, but what’ll little Johnny eat if the rains don’t nourish his farms?

The universe is like a film of still water. Achieve all the goodness you want to, the ripple will disrupt some distant unforeseen part of the blanket, ripping a few holes in the finely knitted film of nothingness. Don’t sneeze… what if the repercussion is the toppling of a bus full of innocent children into the abyss of a river at unrest in a parallel universe? You’ll never know where your actions end up, or what they end up doing. The future is not in our hands, it’s in our minds.

What is right? What is wrong?

Think. The World.
So many, many people…

Exams are Illegal

What you are seeing here is my Physics text book.(Looks brand new because this is the first time I am actually touching it this year).
But what caught my attention is what is inside on the first page. There is a paragraph in the copyright claim box which goes:

" No part of this book may be reproduced or copied in any form or by means(GRAPHIC, ELECTRONIC or MECHANICAL......INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM) or reproduced on any disc, tape or information storage device(paper) without permission of publishers."

Well firstly, that makes my Blog illegal but Damn that.
Bigger Picture: During exams, we store text book info in our "brain"(atleast we try...) The Brain is the INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM. Drawing diagrams is a violation of illegal graphic reproduction and writing answers is textual violation. So stop writing your exams.... It is Illegal. Be a good citizen and live a crime free life. If you really want to write the exams, track the publishers down, get their "Permission" and then proceed...but why go through so much trouble right?

Join the movement...BAN EXAMS!