tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74369278339176945632024-03-04T20:25:35.856-08:00Grapevines and GalleonsAkshra Ramkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01180928658495645965noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7436927833917694563.post-67110742606428952952016-01-03T21:58:00.003-08:002016-01-09T21:41:27.490-08:00Me and my phases-1 <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Everyone goes through a phase. I go through hundreds of them...in a week. Only a few actually make it past a few hours. Some are lucky enough to last a few weeks; the others a few months. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I’m a deadly combination of a perfectionist and a VERY stubborn explorer. I explore the shit out of stuff that catch my attention. I’ll give it a few hours to sufficiently pique my interest and if it can, it becomes a phase. Have a look.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12pt;">1. </span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12pt;">My titanic phase: I was at the age where one actually starts realising that the movie ‘Titanic’ has a ship and that that ship sinks and that it actually happened-16. ( The previous attempts at trying to finish the whole movie were a disaster because I was a teenager and not really interested in exploring-ahem-ships) Naturally I was intrigued. Google,as usual, ruined my life and provided me with this-</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I spent a week,open mouthed and fascinatingly reading all the articles. I also did one of the stupidest things one could do -I clicked the ‘subscribe to the newsletter’ because I thought I would never grow bored reading about a ship,how life was for babies on the Titanic,how many times servants polished the floor etc. Sigh.I didnt have the heart to unsubscribe though because I, unsurprisingly, outgrew the obsession.Sigh. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">No other Titanic joke was funnier ok?</td></tr>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12pt;">2. </span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12pt;">My Pottermore phase-Every true harry potter fan foamed at the mouth and lost their mind when Pottermore was first introduced.It was magical and super fun in the very beginning. I got a wand,learned to duel,make potions etc. As I began to progress, I realised that I’m shit at doing anything in that website.Turns out you have to finish each level to unlock the extra juicy bits that Rowling had provided.Meh.(Unless it was tips on how to punch puberty in the face one handed and blindfolded like Neville-badass-Longbottom. It’s not there. I searched)Naturally, I lost the password,the ability to gain points and not lose them for my house, and the interest and just abandoned it in the dark with Titanic.Sorry Harry.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12pt;">3. </span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12pt;">My ‘sign-up-for-all-sites-that-require-an-email-address’ phase-The above 2 phases are this one’s children. This was the craziest,most stressful phase of all because I was going through another phase-’use a different password for each site’. Now I admit I am neither a prodigy nor did a gleaming,totally hunk Jeremy Renner grace me with awesome memory power,except in my dream which is a blog post for another day. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">So naturally, I couldnt ,for the love of god,remember what password I used for which site. Internet explorer didnt have a ‘do you want the browser to remember this password’. You can only imagine the struggles I would have to go through to press the mocking ‘dont remember password’ button,to find the password reset email in my inbox which was already crammed with ‘welcome to the site’ emails. So I just chucked it. I have to say, that was by far the easiest phase to get over.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Finally.I found a use for this picture other than an anger management power-point presentation.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">And then came the glory days. I had Chrome installed. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Akshra Ramkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01180928658495645965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7436927833917694563.post-74905864269794509402015-11-14T08:03:00.001-08:002015-11-14T08:05:42.134-08:00The Fermi Paradox<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I hope you all liked and understood my ‘Journey to the Cosmos’ posts. But if you’re far too advanced for such mortal paragraphs, what I say is that we ought to start colonising other planets to avoid getting smooshed by an asteroid/any big, flaming object and I proceed to tell you how to go about it.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Everyone say hi to Larry; Larry say bye to everyone"</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I’m now going to be the cause of an existential crisis in the midst of your happy,carefree lives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Let’s talk about the Fermi Paradox which is the ‘apparent contradiction between high estimates of the probability of the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations and the lack of evidence for such civilizations’(what?). In a nutshell, it says that there may or may not be aliens.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">No the kind that want to eat you.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ah here you go. The enlargement was intended.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Let’s dive deeper with some good old mind blowing facts. Without going into details(because I dont know them), there are 100 Earth like planets for every grain of sand in the world. And if 1% of Earth like planets develop life and that on 1% of those planets, life advances to an intelligent level, then would be 10 million billion intelligent civilizations in the universe and 100,000 in our galaxy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">And yet we havent heard from any of them(presumably).</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I’m going to confuse you further because why not. Let’s consider 3 types of civilizations.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A) </span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Type I</b>- they have the ability to use all energy on their planet (eg us)</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12pt;">B) </span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Type II</b>- ability to harness all energy of their hosts star (not us)</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12pt;">C) </span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Type III</b>- ability to harness the enrgy of the entire milky way galaxy (definitely not us)</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Type III civilizations are the boss. They would’ve conquered space travel,time travel, getting out of Ranganathan street in under an hour and not receiving flying chappal from mom for not filling the water bottle and keeping it inside the fridge. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">If 1% of the 100,000 civilizations in our galaxy manage to become Type III,1000, with the power that they have, we would have received something, atleast a warning that they’re going to destroy our planet. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">But no.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Fermi paradox has no actual answers, only possibilities and explanations.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b><u>Possibility 1</u></b>: There are Type II and Type III civilizations and they have very understandable reasons for not contacting us.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Reason 1)</b> They may have visited Earth billions of years ago. They either found nothing worthwhile or took everything worthwhile. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Reason 2)</b> We are probably the most primitive planet out there and they find no particular interest in colonising/contacting us. They may also find us immensely hilarious, going about our routines, brushing our teeth etc when they might already be living with teeth that doesn't need brushing(it’s such a pain really)</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Reason 3)</b> you want a good scare? Here you go. They realise that there are ferocious predators out there and only stupid people (</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">this</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> is us)willingly divulge their locations and intentions.Yeah. Sleep well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Reason 4)</b> That scare wasnt good enough for you? Well here’s the mother of all scares. There’s only one super intelligent civilization and they want it to be that way. They already demolished every other civilization that came close to attaining their level of intelligence and they’re coming for us,oh yes they are. I’d take Zombies any day.Except Sundays. I’m not a normally functioning person on Sunday.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Reason 5)</b> Basic reasons like our technology is still primitive, the Government is hiding everything, it’s Dhoni, we’re just a part of some scientist’s experiments blah blah blah.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I knew it. Duuuuude.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Now comes the interesting part.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b><u>Possibility 2</u></b>:There are no super advanced civilizations.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">People,jeez,wait. According to our assumptions, the above possibility is bullshit. There are so many Type I, Type II civilisations (thousands). The math says so. But since we havent received any contact, maybe something else is going on.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Enter the Great Filter.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">This theory says that between pre life and Type III period, there is a wall that all attempts at life hit.There’s some stage in evolution that is extremely unlikely for life to get beyond- The Great Filter.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">So any civilization that crosses the GF will be on the road to Type III. Now when does this filter occur?</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Again ,3 possibilities. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Possibility 1)</b> GF is behind us. We are rare.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Whew. We, along with one other odds defying species, are done with that. Maybe it was unusual for life to begin at all, maybe it was the jump from chimps to humans or the jump from simple cells to complex cells.But remember, it has be a freak occurrence for it to be a candidate for the GF.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Another reason is the Rare Earth hypothesis which says that even though there are many earth like planets,our earth has the particular conditions to sustain such life.Cool. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Possibility 2)</b>We’re the first. We’re early. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">We might be the only species to be able to cross the GF because of the once in a lifetime conditions that prevails now. We’re at the right place at the right time. Again, cool.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Possibility 3)</b> The GF is ahead of us and we’re doomed. Probably.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Every single civilization comes this far but something stops them from advancing. We’re not likely to be exceptions. Maybe it’ll be Gamma ray bursts, or maybe big ass asteroids. Whatever it is, it’s yet to come. And we’re all going to die. Yaay.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Now you know his name. You're welcome.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">In the words of Mr. Nick Bostrom ‘ No news is good news. Even if we find evidence of complex life on Mars , it would mean the GF is ahead of us (possibility 1 and 2 are ruled out because it’s not a freak occurrence anymore). When it comes to the Fermi Paradox, the silence of the night sky is golden’. Yes. Mr Bostrom. You’re a very positive, happy person. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">We’re either alone or we’re not. Both possibilities are equally terrifying. So I suggest you lay under your bedsheets for the rest of your life and contemplate how to b</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">eg for mercy if the aliens every attack us.Also fix your aluminium foil cap you made in 5</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: super;">th</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> std. </span></div>
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Akshra Ramkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01180928658495645965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7436927833917694563.post-78908903419074808542015-10-09T03:58:00.001-07:002015-10-09T03:59:43.094-07:00Who is Akshra?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I just realised that I haven't really told you about who i really am. So I figured it's high time I do that .<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I’m Akshra, I’m 18 and I’m doing my BE- perfect combination for insanity. I love books. I read anything and everything. My favourite genre( for argument’s sake) is mystery. I did dabble in horror for a while but Stephen King’s ‘The Shining’ knocked some sense into me.I like to consider myself very imaginative (don’t we all). To keep true to that claim I draw once in a while. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Poetry is something that I have a love hate relationship with. Words don’t flow out of me like a river. I’m more like a tiny lake that gets filled and stays filled only for a short time. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Writing is something I presumed would come automatically for someone who sleeps with books. But apparently not.I learnt the hard way. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I talk.A lot. Most of my talks can be and will be classifies into a ‘rant’. Give me an inane topic and I shall talk for hours but tell me to give a ‘speech on the advancement of nano technology and its applications in the modern technological world’ and I’ll stare at you like you just insulted my ancestors. And then I’ll talk anyway. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I cant use big words. I cant talk ‘articulately’.I cant write ‘powerfully’. And I really respect people who can. I can’t inspire a billion people with a few simple words. But I can sure as hell make them laugh. I use humour as a tool for both defence and attack. It’s not really easy to be angry with me when I’m having you in splits. Humour is how one connects with their audience. Understand this and you can take over the world. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Sarcasm is one thing I’m really good at. Sarcasm is a very effective tool to subtly punch someone in the face without them realising it. By the time they do, you’ll be dead.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Apart from being immature I also play Chess. I also stare at the sky for hours wondering about planets and all that jazz.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I’m lazier than the guy who drew the Japanese flag. But my teacher once said I’m efficient. So I don't know how that one works.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I’m so positive it even scares me sometimes.Too much of something is unhealthy. But life’s too short to think deeply about anything.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">What do I want in life? I just want people to remember my name and smile saying “Ah. I remember that chick. She was awesome”. Isn’t that what we all want?</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Akshra Ramkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01180928658495645965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7436927833917694563.post-10066311360095778602015-07-08T09:06:00.005-07:002015-07-08T09:07:21.498-07:00Things that excite me<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">First of all I ought to make this very clear; I’m forever on ‘excited’ mode. I’m never not happy, just a little less happy on some occasion. You know, typical south-indian-girl-college-student-studying-engineering-who-hates-waking-up-in-the morning kind of sadness. I live a relatively simple,dull life. So it would do me good to get overly hyped about something just to pass the long evenings,not to mention the nights. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">So I made a list of things that make me behave like a monkey that is all alone in an island made up of bananas(all inside my head ofcourse).</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12pt;">1. </span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Books- The only thing that can make me happy and sad at the same time.It’s extraordinary how something so small and flimsy can contain within itself the mysteries of the universe and the heart and thoughts of an entire soul.Whenever I come across a book that I havent read yet I will scream internally. When I read the back cover I start sweating with excitement. When I get the book in my hands I loose control and when I actually get around to reading it I start hyperventilating. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I'm a fangirl in a nutshell.</td></tr>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12pt;">2. </span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Sleeping-I get so excited during bed time that the excitement actually keeps me awake for several minutes. The feeling of plopping on a soft bed,cocooning yourself with a blanket and having all the time in the world to think about anything and everything without your thoughts being interrupted is just too overwhelming.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12pt;">3. </span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Watching a movie in a packed the theatre. I dont usually get a chance to watch a movie in a theatre let alone a full house. But when I do, it makes the experience al the more exciting. I dont want to sit quietly inside an ac hall, clapping and laughing without a sound. I want to feel everything, cheer my lungs off, laugh my guts out and hear someone to do it much louder than me. Therein lies the magic of a packed theatre.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12pt;">4. </span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12pt;">When I can make a group of people laugh or think deeply- I’m neither an introvert nor an extrovert. I talk when I want to and when I do,boy,I do it good. Let’s face it-it’s not really easy to divert peoples’ attention towards you. People are narcissistic pricks. Not a moment goes by when they don’t think about how their hair looks or how their voice sounds. So making a joke, a good enough joke to not only make people listen to you but also to make them laugh,is a herculean task. The reason I mention a joke specifically is not because ‘humour is the way to a person’s heart’ but because half the people in the world dont get jokes and the other half choose not to laugh. In such circumstances,an occasional snigger is enough to excite anyone.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">THIS is probably not to happen.Ever.Unless I fall off the stage and break my leg while tap dancing on stage.I should try that.</td></tr>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12pt;">5. </span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12pt;">When I google my homework and get the answer in the first page-this is mundane but nevertheless necessary. I’m not a good googler- I dont know how to perfectly phrase sentences so the you get your answer in the first try. I just type the entire question including the question mark and hope to god he’s merciful today.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Akshra Ramkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01180928658495645965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7436927833917694563.post-86229969869299007002015-01-10T07:39:00.002-08:002015-01-10T07:42:25.969-08:00My TBR shelf(sort of)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I read books. I also don’t read books.I also start reading some books and not complete them. The struggle is real.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I’ve been doing that for a while now(not completing a book). It all began one fine day when I started reading ‘the shining’ by Stephen King. For those of you who don’t know, Stephen King is one of the greatest writers of the ‘horror’ genre.The shining is a scary book. A really scary book. So naturally I had to read it. So I procured it and started reading. I was half way through when I realized something. I couldn't continue. I was much to terrified to actually finish the book. So I put it down meaning to read it later when I’m a bit more mellowed down. But I never did. That’s when I realised something. You can actually put a book down and then resume reading it AFTER a while. For various reasons of course. There’s just a small problem. The suspense would probably kill you. You can read the rest of the story in Wikipedia but that would be cheating(kind of) and I’m VERY serious when it comes to books.That was the start of a shameful guilt ridden unwillingly boarded emotional roller coaster ride- The TBR concept.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Just in time too as my inner demon wanted to read classics. And one should not finish a classic in record time. Well I couldnt anyway. I finished ‘picture of dorian grey’ easily enough though. it’s obvious. The hero murders people so yeah. But I couldnt get through ‘pride and prejudice’ (argh the guilt) and I’m too proud to look it up. So now it’s on the shelf of doom along with ‘a tale of 2 cities,which I havent even started(not fair to the poor bugger). The struggle is freaking real. And then there’s ‘Moby dick’. It’s about a whale.God knows why I even started this book. Now I’m a few pages through and it’s as boring as my school’s annual report. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">I have a kindle and honestly it’s way easier to finish books on it because you can’t actually see how much more you have to read. IT’s salvation for people like me. But my mother refuses point blank to pay for my obsession-be it an ebook or a regular one-and so it’s up to me to magically find places where I can download ebooks for free. Let me put thos out there; I am horrible when it comes to looking stuff up. This is how I google. One can hardly expect me to ‘find’ books in the vast spiralling vortex of terror(a.k.a. The internet). But I have managed to download about 15 books to my kindle-a pretty impressive feat if I say so myself. </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">I’m a fast reader. I literally skim through pages and just plain skip the paragraphs that describe the landscape and other boring stuff the first time. It takes me an average of 2 days to finish a book if I spend the whole day for that sole purpose. So I ought to finish 15 books in a jiffy. And then what will I do? I can’t even. This is how I’m going to die- broken hearted from not having enough books to read. Sigh. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ah well, better than being Dismembered By A Captive Orca Whale At SeaWorld , or drowning while trying to embrace the moon or drowning while trying to give a titanic pose or dying by tripping on your own beard (the above said thing are actually true and not just works of fiction made by me to enhance my awesomeness).</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Akshra Ramkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01180928658495645965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7436927833917694563.post-86918920051387194192014-12-18T05:34:00.003-08:002014-12-18T05:34:53.895-08:00The journey to the cosmos-Part 2<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Let’s move on to the actual point of these posts-space travel. Space travel,as is obvious, isn't easy(even traversing through Chennai’s traffic is not easy so go figure). The first thing we need is to locate the destination. That would be our nearest star system Proxima centauri. It’s a three star system(it has 3 stars. Duh). The first two star are in a binary system. That means they move together. Their orbits are closely bound thus rendering the two stars uninhabitable. The third star, though, is up for consideration.That is where our space ship is going to go. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Our destination is fixed. Let’s move on to the actual design of the space ship. The space ship must be able to withstand asteroids and other fatal things that come hurling at it every second. There’s not much we can do but hope nothing strikes the ship we’re pretty sure nothing is light enough yet strong enough to withstand a giant rock coming at it with an unimaginable speed. So the material for the spaceship is pretty basic. Nothing special. It should be modelled just like the other space ships, only bigger as it will be holding people. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Now the problems arise. People. They need food,water etc. to survive for about 50 years because remember, it would take a spaceship 50 years to reach andromeda if it were to travel at the speed of light. Just imagine what would happen to the human body if it exists in a non gravity state for 50 years. It would hardly be fit for anything let alone start a colony in a new planet.Our bodies are designed to withstand gravity. Without that the bones would start disintegrating as the need for them reduces (bones absorb impact. They will be no impact in a weightlessness situation).There’s a huge risk of cardiovascular diseases and your heart has to work harder. The only probable solution is exercise. Everyone on board needs to follow a strict exercise routine(yeah right). The other probable and effective solution is the generate artificial gravity. How can one do that? By centrifugal force of course. This is the force that keeps you in your seat in a roller coaster ride. So lets say the ship has a constantly rotating hollow circular band or the likewise. Now if the speed of rotation is perfect, it produces centrifugal force which basically pushes the object(humans) from the centre to the outer surface of the ring and keeps them in an upright position, much like gravity.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Now the fuel. There are only 2 things that could possibly help us travel approximately in the speed of light: hydrogen and antimatter.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Hydrogen: The sun gets its energy from fusion reactions. When 2 hydrogen atoms collide, they generate an enormous amount of energy. This energy can be harnessed as fuel to help us travel fast(just fast mind you. It would probably take us 70 years if we use hydrogen)</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Antimatter: it’s,obviously, the opposite of matter.Just like hydrogen antimatter also produces energy when it’s molecules collide with one another. This is what we shall be using. But there’s a teeny problem.As you might have guessed, a huge amount of energy will be produced when antimatter and matter get too friendly. When I say a huge amount I mean a REALLY huge amount enough to wipe off any traces of us.They only way to stop this spectacular destruction of mankind is to contain antimatter using magnetic force. We haven't yet developed the technology to generate such a huge magnetic field that too inside a spaceship filled with humans.So that’s that.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Space has radiation. I mean once you venture out into the unknown you get bombarded with all kinds of radiation the most of it being gamma rays. They are harmful,especially to humans. The earth protects itself by generating a magnetic field which deflects the gamma rays. But as mentioned above our tiny spaceship doesnt have the capacity to generate such a strong and powerful magnetic field. The best and the simplest way is to form a layer of water (yes. Water is a great “radiation protector”)outside the spaceship(much like a water jacket ).The water that is used by the people can be used for this purpose. This is probably already too much information to comprehend. So I’ll leave you to it.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">P.S woohoo! I included pictures. Hope you’re excited.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Akshra Ramkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01180928658495645965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7436927833917694563.post-30452864827311921782014-11-29T07:49:00.004-08:002014-12-03T07:32:11.054-08:00The journey to the cosmos-part 1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Sorry for the lame heading).We all know what happened to the dinosaurs. We still aren't sure what exactly “ka boomed” them but we do know for a fact that they are currently not roaming the surface of the Earth( sorry Jurassic park fans). That’s good news right? Who would want to rub cheeks with big ugly lizards? Now the bad news. Scientists are sure that the same fate will befall us too somewhere in the near future( you were better off not knowing that but hey, at least now you can enjoy eating unhealthy fried food saying” we may not be around for long. So I shall eat the shit out of this Lays”). It’s the Cosmos. Anything can happen in the cosmos at any time of the day. Seriously. Dozens of stars are created and destroyed every second. Millions of meteors strike our Earth everyday. If even one cheeky bugger manages to brave the Earth’s atmosphere we all will probably be doomed. So is there no way for this awesome, highly(ahem) intelligent species to survive? Is our fate resting upon our luck?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well no. It’s obvious isn't it? If something is destroyed/exhausted we move on to another. So if we colonize enough planets then humanity is bound to survive any apocalypse of any planet. We will theoretically be immortal. But immortality comes with a price. That price is braving all odds. And there are lots of odds. Lots.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Before we get to the difficult part lets get the easier one out of the way. Let’s “refresh” our basic knowledge about the universe. Our universe has billions of galaxies. Ours is the milky way galaxy. Our galaxy has billions of stars and each star has ‘god knows how many’ planets orbiting them. Our Sun is one such star. The sun is a yellow dwarf(yes its a dwarf). The hydrogen atoms which make up the sun collide with each other causing nuclear fusion which generates huge amount of energy. 9 planets orbit the sun(yes Pluto was finally allowed to enter the “What’s the best planet in the solar system?” competition). Most of the planets have moons orbiting them. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We know enough about Earth. Lets talk about Mars for a change. Mars was one just like earth. It had water and atmosphere and stuff. So what happened? Big objects generate magnetic fields around them just like gravitation. The smaller the planet, the lesser time it takes for the magnetic energy generated to be spent. This is what happened to Mars( it’s smaller than Earth). The universe if filled with harmful radiation and gamma rays. With no magnetic field to protect it, Mars was destroyed by radiation. It’s atmosphere was wiped out and without atmosphere, all it’s water evaporated leaving behind the red desert that we now see. But don’t worry. The Earth will keep generating magnetic fields for a very long time.<br />This is probably already too much to ponder over. So I’ll leave you to it. The interesting stuff is yet to come.<br />P.S I “acquired” this information from ‘how the universe works’ in discovery channel. So if you have been living under a rock or if you watch discovery only for bear grylles or if you get discovery only in Tamil and are so fed up and annoyed to hear the narrator saying vin veli mandalam (universe) or graham(planets) that you never set your eyes(ears in this case) on the channel, then this post is for you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If,by chance, you are awesome and have watched a few episodes of the above mentioned show then forgive me if I got something wrong or if I have exaggerated something because I do not have the time to re watch the show just for you(sorry but it’s what I do). Go read about cats or something.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Akshra Ramkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01180928658495645965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7436927833917694563.post-43823569546432945562014-10-09T08:16:00.002-07:002014-10-09T08:16:23.718-07:00I'M BACK.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I can basically hear a lot(I hope I'm allowed to exaggerate) of you sighing inwardly but yes. I'm actually back. Well technically I wasn't gone so I couldn't be back but you get my point. Er that's it for this post. Yes. I actually decided to NOT rant. I did write a post AND I did save it but I lost it in the depths of Mordor. Sorry. Shouldn't have gone there. My bad. So onward with the blogging.</div>
Akshra Ramkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01180928658495645965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7436927833917694563.post-35232212743267370832014-05-13T22:27:00.003-07:002014-05-13T22:29:15.214-07:00How I make tea<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Tea is something I can’t live without. So I’m compelled to
make it 3 times a day. I’ve decided to share with you my tea recipe albeit with
some other totally pointless and random stuff that I somehow end up doing. For
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the recipe for making tea, I’m going to be a good girl and say that you shall
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Turn on the gas
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Go into the kitchen.
Complain about how messy it is but do nothing to make it less messy. Then go
the LPG cylinder and turn the knob this way and that and finally figure out
the right way . Take the lighter and light the stove (in not less than 3
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Take a vessel. Keep
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Rummage through the
cupboard and choose the nearest one(pff.Easy).Keep it on the stove
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Fill 2 cups with water.
Spill some down. Curse the world. Recover. Drink the water from 1 cup. Fill
it again (not exactly ¼ because how in the world am I supposed to keep track
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Put the ‘tea powder’
(about 3 small spoonful) in the water and allow it to boil till the volume of
water left is approximately ½ that of its original volume. The aroma of the
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Take a spoon. Decide
not to use it because it’s too big which will lead to an error in the measurements
(10 points for trying). Search for a smaller spoon. I won’t find it. Use the
bigger spoon anyway. Spill some tea powder down. It mixes with the already
spilt water and becomes even more disgusting. Curse myself now. Allow the
water to boil. Curse about how hot the kitchen is. Decide to go stand under
the fan. Hear a sizzling sound and realize that I’ve let the water boil for too
long, so much so that the amount of water now left is just about a pint. Vow
NEVER to make tea again. Ah yes. The aroma. All that I’m able to smell now is
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Turn the stove off
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little milk else pour a lot of milk). Use a strainer to remove the tea powder.
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Turn the stove off
without anymore mishaps. Pour some milk. Taste the tea. Spit it out realizing
it’s too hot. Howl for my mother to set things right. She howls back saying “you
started it. You must be the one to finish it”. Damn it. Wait for the molten
lava to cool. Add sugar. Taste it again. Realize that more milk needs to be
added. Add milk. Realize that more sugar needs to be added. Do the usual swearing
routine. Add sugar. Search for the strainer and successfully find it. Do the
needful. Pour a little bit of it down again.<o:p></o:p></div>
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the kitchen is not. So try my level best to do something. Fail. Accept my
life and try to move on. Get out of the kitchen and drink my tea. Realize it’s
the sweet nectar of life and heaven. Congratulate myself and wallow in self
praise. Decide to break my vow. Hear my mom screaming at me to clean the
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Akshra Ramkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01180928658495645965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7436927833917694563.post-64520561944554822892014-05-08T06:42:00.006-07:002014-05-08T06:42:44.398-07:00Why I don’t(can’t) watch movies.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I can hear you all questioning my sanity(and my honesty) but just hear me
out. My mother tongue is Tamil. I have
the option to switch between Tamil films and Hindi films (I don’t mean to brag
but I've finished all the Hindi exams and am currently a Hindi pandit. ahem.)
and yet I don’t watch films nor have I watched many(now short films are a
different story). Now allow me to explain myself.<br /></div>
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1) I don’t watch films because I’m too lazy to go the theater. What’s the point? Wait for a week and you get to see it in the
comfort of your own sweet home. You try going to a theater on the first day
release of a Rajini(sir) film and come out unscathed with your hearing and
limbs intact.You’ll know what I mean. Trust me. I've tried. I know you want to
get the ‘theater experience’ and stuff but you don’t have to ‘experience’ it every
time a movie releases right?.Maybe it’s just me. We’ll never know will we?<br /></div>
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2)I watch films ONLY if they’re on TV and ONLY if their show timings don’t interfere
with my sleep schedule(nap time included). We have a set top box. And this is
really bad because you can now choose which channels to not watch. So my
parents don’t pay for the English movies channel no matter how much I beg them
to(no surprise there). So that’s out.<br /></div>
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3) What’s that? Watch videos on the internet? Okay. My internet is as slow as
me doing a Chemical equilibrium problem. So if the movie is for 3
hours it takes me triple the time to download it or watch it online (1 hour for
the website to load, 1 hour for the link to load, 2 hours for me to decide
whether or not I actually want to watch this movie after all this inner and
outer turmoil, 1 hour for me to go find my laptop charger and the rest of the
time for it to buffer/download. You do the math).All hell breaks loose if my internet gets cut
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3) I’m very picky. I don’t like love stories. I don’t like sad movies that make
me cry every time I see a character who make it a point to either deliver
emotional dialogues every time they appear or need to have very emotional
background music every time they appear. I don’t watch superhero movies (they’re
too super hero-ey). If I don’t like the movie in the first half hour then I
won’t watch it. So my fussiness eventually leads me into rejecting most of the
movies they show on TV.<br /></div>
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4) If a movie is too serious I’ll skip the middle part. As a result I will be
so busy figuring out where these extra characters came from and trying to patch
up the story-line with what little information I have that I’ll end up not
paying attention to the climax. Sad.<br /></div>
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5) Interruptions. My family has decided
that the best time to watch shows on TV is when I’m 2 minutes into a movie. It
ALWAYS happens irrespective of the day or time. And when I finally do get to
watch it, it’s either finished or a major chunk of it is over.</div>
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Now you know why I prefer to stare at a wall than watch a
movie. Who can I blame?<br />
But even after all these I did get around to watching a handful of movies in
the theater(most of them were Harry Potter movies and the recent one was
Tenaliraman.Oops.Too much information). But I’m going to take a chance this
time. This time when <a href="http://www.ibtimes.co.in/articles/551686/20140508/rajinikanth-kochadaiiyaan-release-delayed-thalaivar-kochadaiyaan-vikramasimha.htm"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">'Kochadaiiyaan'</span></a>
releases (if you haven’t guessed it yet, I’m a huge Rajini Fan) I WILL watch it
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Akshra Ramkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01180928658495645965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7436927833917694563.post-49266409482663775382014-05-03T21:20:00.000-07:002014-05-03T21:20:14.419-07:00Embarrassing stories part 1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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By now all of you might know how interesting my life is. But even I have some (ok
ok many) ‘special’ moments where I had wished the Earth would swallow me or
that I’d become invisible somehow. <br />
Needless to say the above methods didn't (and don’t) work. So I had to face the
consequences of the things my stupid self did. <br />
1) This happened in 7<sup>th</sup>. It was social period and we were doing
maps. I tore pieces of paper and put it on my neighbour’s head. After a few minutes my teacher noticed it. I
guess he was in a bad mood because he made her stand up and shouted at us
asking who did this dastardly act. Come on. It was paper. Sheesh! Being the badass that I am I didn’t own up.
So he took her to the principal(?). Then I saw this guy look daggers at me. He
came up and asked me in front of the whole class why I hadn’t confessed. I
innocently asked him what he was talking about. Then he said he saw me do it.
Then another girl said she saw me do it. Then another. I was speechless. So I
ran out of the classroom crying. And now whenever that guy sees me he never
forgets to remind me of the ‘bad thing I did in 7<sup>th</sup>’. Honestly
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2) I used to go to this English class when I was in 4<sup>th</sup>.
One fine day we(me and my cousin brother) went to her house as usual. We
knocked and nobody answered. So we thought she wasn't at home and rejoiced at
the fact that there was no class that day. So we went to their terrace and
started laughing and joking loudly (not to mention running) and then we
returned home. The next day she came to our house and told my mom, very angrily
of course, that we had bunked class. (bunk? We didn't do it on purpose okay)
And she narrated in full detail everything she heard us say in the terrace and
let me tell you this-we weren't exactly talking anything good about her or
anybody else as a matter of fact. The rest, as they say, is history. Needless
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3) When I was about 7 my mom enrolled me in some workshop
that dealt with matters 7 year olds could not comprehend. I couldn't anyway.
The lady was talking about time and stuff and how it was always moving and
doesn't stop for anyone (common workshop material I guess). She asked the gathering,
numbering 1000, if we had any questions. So I innocently asked her ”maam doesn't
time stop when you take the batteries out of the clock? ”(I was a special kid.
A weird kind of special kid). Yes. I actually said this in front of 100 kids
and their parents (not to mention my parents). Of course everyone started pointing
and laughing and the speaker was looking daggers at me(I guess I had ruined her
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Well that’s all. So now I shall go to a corner and cry
silently reviewing and exaggerating all the above moments and you can slap your
thighs ,roll on the floor with tears in your eyes(I’m pretty sure they’re not
sympathy tears) and laugh till your
sides ache. And for those kindred souls who have experienced/will be
experiencing such ‘special moments’ I feel your pain. And I assure you if you
write a blog post about that I will be the first one to read it and laugh
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Akshra Ramkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01180928658495645965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7436927833917694563.post-74083844023828984332014-04-26T08:32:00.002-07:002015-01-10T08:04:48.483-08:00'Face'book<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I’m not going to sing the praises of facebook here. People are paid to do that.
I’m not.<br />
My profile picture (a.k.a. DP. For those of you who have no idea what it stands
for , let me be the ‘light at the end of the tunnel’ by saying it stands for descriptive
picture) is Leonardo Di Caprio. Yes I’m a female. Yes I don’t look like Leo. Meh.
Who does?<br />
I am aware of the unspoken rule that people ought to keep a picture of their
face (read selfie) as their DP. Let me
elaborate on that. Facebook is for meeting new people(I guess). Now wouldn’t it
be enough for a stranger to know your gender and where you’re from (optional)
apart from your name? Does he/she have to know how many moles you have on your
face or how many hairs you have on your eyebrow? It’s a stranger for god’s sake. He/she is
supposed to know how you look like only if you trust him/her enough to meet in
person which I’m sure most of you would blatantly refuse to do. So why trust
him/her with your picture? How can you be sure he won’t use your picture in unimaginable
(remember that Goundamani joke where they use his picture for ‘aangal kakkoos’
or gents toilet for the less enlightened ones) ways? <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Dafaq am I doing here"?<br />
"I was just giving life advice"<br />
"Huh.Keep doing such important services to humanity"<br />
I'm so funny.</td></tr>
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Okay. Lets talk about friends (read college mates, school mates, colleagues).
They see you every day in person. Do they have to see you whenever they log on
to check their notifications too? Aren’t you torturing them enough? Now lets go to group photos. The whole
idea of a group photo is(should be, in my opinion) it would be difficult to actually
find out which one of the 2(3,4,5...) is you. But this only works if you haven’t
tagged people or if this is your first picture. (‘they’ say the ugliest one in
a group picture is the person who uploaded the picture but who am I to judge?).
So frankly this won’t work for anyone except for people who get this joke.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Haha. Gets me every time. By the way this is Chemistry cat. <br />
No amount of information is too much.</td></tr>
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On a more serious note, people say "those who cant accept themselves(apparently because they hide behind a celebrity) cannot accept others". Well why would I want to accept people who I don't know? If I really did want to accept them I would just go meet them. Letting people see your face doesn't qualify as acceptance. There are MANY other ways and you're just too shallow to understand them.<br />
Others say "people who don't have their photos on Facebook are ugly.That's why they don't want to show their face". You haven't seen me. Yet you've already judged me. I can't expect people like you who think beauty is having a photogenic(not pretty but photogenic) face AFTER you've edited it to actually understand whatever I tell you. So I WONT explain myself to them.<br />
Let’s face it. We all do it to get
likes. Just like how we do a bunch of other stuff on Facebook(don’t
deny it). The like button is there for a reason. Yes. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I hope this truckload of likes satisfies your even bigger ego.<br />
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The above paras that I have written after years of research, hard work and joblessness
is the reason why I don’t have my pretty(ahem) face as my DP. But let me
confess. If I do get the ‘perfect DP shot’(after editing it of course) I shall
not delay a single minute (What? How long can one resist the fad?). And I bet
you that picture will get 80+ likes. If it doesn’t then I shall remove all
traces of its existence. I assure this shall happen when Fevicol ads stop being
awesome or when they decide to rope in someone other than Abhishek Bachan for
idea ads or when I stop using 9gag. (P.S. they’re not going to happen anytime
soon so yay I don’t have to download photo editing softwares).<br />
Everyone’s happy right?<br />
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Akshra Ramkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01180928658495645965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7436927833917694563.post-6142648111065332342014-04-20T07:02:00.001-07:002015-01-10T07:46:21.040-08:00The almighty blanket<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Night-time. Darkness. Eerie , silent darkness. You sense a
phantom hand trying to grab your leg. What do you do? Pull it inside your
blanket of course. Roll yourself into a ball and cover yourself with that
single piece of cloth. Sounds familiar?<br />
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Blankets are the only form of protection against evil beings
known to man. Monsters under the bed, the girl from the ‘ring’, Mike Wozawski
all have one thing in common. They fear blankets. Every single spirit known to
exist quails in the presence of that formidable cotton/woollen cloth. This might
come as a surprise for people but the blanket, apart from protecting the wearer
from harm, death and destruction, also serves to keep him/her warm. No Really.
My current blanket is a woollen one. It even looks scary. But it's big. So I
don’t have to twist my body into uncomfortable positions to fit into it. It's
summer here in Chennai. And that means I'm always bathed in my own sweat and
grime. I can practically HEAR you all asking me why in the freaking world would
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Well there's something worse than ghosts here. Mosquitoes.
Those nasty unscrupulous blood sucking mutations. Yes. I do have Mortein (it’s
a brand that makes mosquito repellent coils and stuff that work as much as I do
on a Sunday.).<br />
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I did buy a mosquito bat once. It’s a
device that electrocutes mosquitoes so much so that not even their singed mangled
bodies are left behind. Pure heaven. But good things seldom last. The bat
broke. And this time it wasn't me who broke it. It was my cousin. He's 3 years
old. And you know what 3 year olds do. The next thing I know the bat’s broken
and the plaster from the wall lay scattered on the floor. Okay so the
mosquitoes won that round. Great. And after that the assault started again.
They got worse at night. So you see I had no other choice but to cocoon myself
inside my blanket and try to ignore the fact that I was feeling exactly like
how a cookie would feel inside an oven. But I'm a messy sleeper. So in the
middle of the night when my fort(a.k.a. blanket) is broken and my defenses are down, the mosquitoes start their
well planned attack. They succeed. I wake up. Squat a few. Then strengthen my
fort. It’s a vicious cycle. Ah well. I heard there's this new mosquito
repellent card in the market. It promises to kill all the mosquitoes in 2
minutes. Hmm. I wonder how much 200 of them would cost.</div>
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Akshra Ramkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01180928658495645965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7436927833917694563.post-1056096978707516822014-04-17T07:13:00.001-07:002014-05-13T06:15:21.882-07:00The concept of Blogging<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I don’t fancy blogs. But I do like the concept of blogging.
Blogs are supposed to be online diaries. Which means a blogger MUST blog daily
which might prove inconvenient to people who don’t even have time to wash
behind their ears.But not to me because I don’t write in my diary daily. I
write once a year. That too only if it happens to be an eventful year. And I
haven't had many eventful years. So the ‘use blog like a diary' rule isn't
going to bother me. Rules never do. Not
even ‘danger zone. Do not enter’. Yeah. I’m a badass.</div>
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I'm from India. So my dad gets no less than 10 diaries every
year. So I've been associated with diaries right from the time when I was a
baby. Of course I had no idea what I was supposed to use them for at that time.
And I still haven't figured it out. But that's not the point.</div>
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When I was about 5 I learnt to write. And by write I meant
join letters. In cursive of course. Those diaries were my solace. I would have
hardly written a sentence that made sense but I was 5. Cut me some slack. When
I was 7 I stated writing these "description" essays. You know those
'my mom, my dad, my pet, my school etc with crappy text and alignment. (I used
sketch pens. What can you expect?) Not to mention the language. Most of the space
in the page (including the ones near that day’s date at the top and the all days
of the month at the bottom) was filled with doodles and drawings of the thing I
was currently 'descriptive essaying'. (The one in ‘my role model’ was
super-worse. I had to draw Rahul Dravid. Go figure). When I was 11 my mom used
to give me these handwriting practices. (My handwriting wasn't that bad but you
know.Mothers.humph!). They were hell. But I used to draw these cartoons and
give them these speech bubbles with stupid immature dialogues that were nowhere
near funny. (I have no regrets. I was 11.Everything's funny when you're 11).</div>
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Then when I was 15 I started to write the 'once in year'
diary that I had mentioned. Most of it was teenage drama.(not mine because I
was as interesting to people as a beanstalk). I STILL scribbled. I still drew
cartoons and gave them speech bubbles. The only difference was the dialogues
had the I's and the first letter after the ‘.’ capitalized. Then suddenly when
I turned 17 the entire extra 'dad diaries' collection vanished. But that was
because I had used them to practice for my 12th boards. Yeah. I was a good
student. Meh. Then I decided to write (oops I mean type) a blog. I started with
the enthusiasm of a kid who had found his lost power ranger toy.(Tsk.Kids). It
was alright for a few DAYS. Then I began to miss those speech bubbles and my
awesome font (yeah I have my own font. It’s called my handwriting). I hadn't
written a diary. I had typed a paragraph. People do that for their thesis. Not to
express their feelings. I didn't feel
the connection. It was all systematically aligned, spaced and justified. I had
no idea how I was feeling while I typed that blog because I had no cartoons to
guide me. (normally if I was happy my speech bubbles would be like “I have to
tell you this joke werky(?).Why did the cow cross the road? To get to the udder side.hahaha.” It's funny.Come on.)</div>
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continue blogging. But once my ‘dad diaries’ shelf resumes its full glory, its
back to square one. How long can one remain without their speech bubbles? Ah
those were the days. And all you people who are going ’Tsk tsk. Doodling on
paper? Did she even give a thought to those poor trees?’ , tell that to those
teachers that tell us poor students to ‘write spaciously. Write 1 question per
page. Oh it’s for 1 mark? So what? You'll get plenty of additional sheets. Don’t
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