Oh God!Gimme a Break!

It's breaking news!The rat race has just crossed the highest limits and it's really driving me mad...
Come on,there has to be an end to this madness,this madness that I'm shortly going to tell you about...

It was just yesterday when one of my teachers told me that the results of the students taking the 11th grade state syllabus board exams were shortly going to be declared (I'm one of the few lucky ones who's writing her board exams at the end of her 12th grade,CBSE boards you see).Amidst all the nail-biting and simpering(which has been on for a month now)came out the results.And the reactions were shocking.I mean really shocking!In fact I thought I could see the human race degenerating in front of my own eyes.And all this because a 94 percenter thought her marks were inadequate and highly dissatisfying.And she was actually upset about it.
This is not just her,but hundreds around us who feel the same,strangled by the ever rising competition,dazed by the smokey rat race,gripped by the materialistic pleasures...and that includes me as well.

We all are living in a highly competitive world and we have to be wary of every step we take.All of us are struggling to stand out amidst the crowd,create our own image and are yearning to hear the echo of that standing ovation we got at the last encore.
It's all about striving for the best,creating the best and being the best.No one wants to end up getting lost in this vortex.
But where does all of this end?Surely it can't be good when it happens because the speed of the changes going on out there is maddening.
And what of our future generations?Will they mellow down or is it going to be worse?It's a question no one's dared to answer yet,because it surely isn't good news.

The trick is to just accept the fact that we humans are slowly metamorphosing into automatons.Maybe,very soon, the hormones in our system will be replaced by liquid engineering technology and our brain by a simple microprocessor.

And it's not hard to imagine that now, is it?

An Engineer's Poem

Hey people,check this out!
My dad sent me this terrific poem the other day and I thought it would be a nice thing to post.
OK,I admit it takes a little understanding of the terms to know what the poet is talkin of,but I also think it's something all of us can relate to...

An Engine Room



The sparkling triple expansion,
With its noise and whistling steam
The thumpity thump of the crankshaft,
And the connecting rods all agleam.
The clickity clack of the valve gear,
And the swish of the feed water rams,
The aroma of engine lubricants,
The sound of the oilman's salaams.

The whir from the boiler air fan,
The condenser's different smell,
The leaking steam from loose packing,
The gurgle from the bilge box well.

The sudden blast from the boiler room,
As the junior blows the glass,
The aroma of sweat and brasso,
As the fireman cleans the brass.

The startling ring of the telegraph,
And the action that it brings,
The harmony of disciplined colleagues,
Like music at it swings.

Sunlight streaming through skylights,
Dazzling on polished steel,
Moving around the engine room,
As the quartermaster moves the wheel.

The slowing down of the engines,
And the final telegraph sound,
The quietness of finished with engines,
The joy of homeward bound.

-John Baillie

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Hmmmmm....

Here are a few quotations by some wise men that I came across while reading random stuff.
Wise words that will surely come a long way...

"An optimist is a person who sees a green-light everywhere,while a pessimist sees only the red stop-light.
A truly wise person is colourblind."
-Albert Schweitzer

"Everyone on earth has a treasure that awaits him.
Wherever your heart is,there will you find your treasure..."
-Paulo Coelho

"Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions."
Edgar Cayce

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. "
-Winston Churchill

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."
-Isaac Asimov

"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt."
-Mark Twain

"Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday."
-Dale Carnegie

"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people."
-Unknown

"Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach him how to fish and you get rid of him all weekend."
-Zenna Schaffer

Hmmmm....
What do you say?

Popcorn

The title of my post,although random, has got nothing to do with what I'm going to write,although it deeply inspires it's contents.It's more or less got to do with what I'm feeling right now,and how writing this article will change my state of mind for the rest of the day.

I can actually hear it...can't you?It's the sound of corn seeds popping in the steam basin,with the beautiful burst of yellow everywhere.And when you place a few popcorns in your mouth,they just melt away...

Its not easy you know,describing emotions and comparing them to edibles like popcorn.It's a tough call,especially when you choose to write on such a topic to seemingly make you look different.Nevertheless,I think doing the unconventional is what sets us apart from the rest.

The lives we lead,in fact,can be compared to everything around us,be it popcorn or the beautiful rainbow outside.It's like I said in my previous post,life is so easy yet so difficult to understand.It's a collage,a jigsaw...unexplainable.The only difficult part about it is that we complicate it.

We got to understand that simplicity lies everywhere.And it's so easy and simple that I end up writing about it everytime.



This post,which comes after a long time and though short,hopefully conveys what the mind of a teenager like me is trying to say.We got to tell ourselves that the wait is over.And the music is still on...

Popcorn,anyone?

April Fools'?Oh Really?

It is often in life when we wonder how the funniest things we come across have the weirdest beginnings.

All of us have been playing pranks on almost everyone on the 1st of april since donkey's years.But have we ever thought of why this day was picked out as Fools' Day?

I was browsing through stuff on Google when I stumbled upon this information.
Believe it or not a particular commission "of hoaxes and other practical jokes" marked this day out to be celebrated as named.
In Scotland the custom was known as "hunting the gowk," i.e. the cuckoo,the cuckoo being a term of contempt.


And what's more?We'll find that there have been some seriously funny well-known pranks that have been played in the past.



On April Fools' Day, 1997, Cartoon Network ran the 1944 Screwy Squirrel cartoon Happy-Go-Nutty repeatedly from 6 AM to 6 PM, suggesting that the cartoon character had taken over the network.


Water on Mars: In 2005 a news story was posted on the official NASA website purporting to have pictures of water on Mars. The picture actually was just a picture of a glass of water on a Mars Candy Bar.

Spaghetti trees: The BBC television programme Panorama ran a famous hoax in 1957, showing the Swiss harvesting spaghetti from trees. They had claimed that the despised pest "the spaghetti weevil" had been eradicated. A large number of people contacted the BBC wanting to know how to cultivate their own spaghetti trees. It was in fact filmed in St Albans.

Hehehe...
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