Super powers

After watching the movie Unbreakable starring Bruce Willis, in which he realises at the end he has some kind of super power(sorry for the spoiler for those who havent watched the movie yet !), i keep thinking maybe i too have some kind of super power which is going to just show up sooner or later.
Wouldn't it be just great to have some super power ? Like if I was just able to reach office in a wink of the eye instead of travelling through the crazy traffic of chennai for 35 min. Or if I had the power to remember each and every thing i had done till now so that i could just pick up the "important" document I had thrown away somewhere a few weeks back. Or even better, if I could make things happen by just thinking about it, that would be the most awesome super power.
But, come to think of this a bit more, I realize all these super powers are for my selfish reasons and in the end it does not affect anyone but me. I am doing neither good for me or anyone else. Having one of the aforesaid super powers, will just make me lazier than I already am. For a person like me the saying "With greater power comes greater responsibility" doesn't apply.
On second thought,maybe it wont be so bad having a super power. I might actually do something good with it. I might not be as irresponsible as I credit myself with. There is a definitely a part of me which wants to good for the people. Having a super power might just push me to do the right things.
Anyways having said so far, I am pretty much sure the future has different plans for me than bestowing me with a super power. But i will be waiting for my Samuel L jackson to turn up. It might not be a power to defy death, or extra ordinary strength but atleast something which brings out a super hero in me.

A Myriad of thoughts - II

Recently, I have been thinking all kinds of stuff. For instance, i was wondering what if all the technological advancements we have made so far, it was already achieved by people millions of years ago. Something bad, very bad happened and that everything got covered up and we have not found traces of anything anywhere. Bad , in the sense that the world was about to end and the people then knew about it . So with their advanced technology and stuff they just packed about everything here and left without a trace. They moved to another planet and so we remain ignorant about such a life. The solar system then exploded and the whole big bang and stuff( or whatever caused the universe) repeated itself and here we are again. We are just starting from scratch again and the whole process is going to repeat for how many times god knows !!. I think i just reversed the script of the movie Wall E. Or is this the beginning of craziness. I am not sure what, but these are things I keep thinking.

And for about two weeks i totally believed that Dec 21,2012 is the last day for all us. Those were the two weeks of incessant rains in chennai. The mood the rains created as I sat at home and heard it beating against the walls and roofs of houses just terrified me . Those were also the times i read a lot of theories of how the world would end. I did a bit of a googling on the topic and the comments in many of the forums gave an impression that the 2012 theory was correct and could not be just ignored. But after the rains, I have been feeling pretty good and and i realized that there was nothing one could do about that.

But then i put my two thoughts together . If the world was really going to end by 2012, we really havent advanced enough to just pack up our stuff and go somewhere else like our foreforeforeforefore fathers and mothers did.. So i guess history wouldnt be repeated and my two thoughts are just loads of crap or an indication to seriously hope that the world wouldnt end by 2012.
Or maybe its time to see a doctor.. :)

Anyways, i am done with this . Share your crazy thoughts if any.

S4 57,58,60 CNF

I am going to write about an incident that happened many years ago. Yes,it does involve a train journey.
We had gone to kerala to attend my grandmom's 80th bday celebs.After the celebrations , we got ready(my father,mother and me) for the journey back home. My mother, tensed as she is everytime before a journey made us reach the railway station an hour early before the actual arrival of the train. We sat at the station just talking about the day and having some quality family time.Now, we were waiting for the 9.00 PM Alleppey train to arrive. And we were there by 8 itself. So we had a lot of time to chit chat. Though we had around 1 hour with us, we didn't give the ticket a second look.
By 8.45 , Chennai Mail came and left. With its departure, we got up and walked to the coach of the train before it arrived. The coach was S4 and the seats were 57,58,60 CNF. When the train arrived, we got in and located our seats. In our seats were an elderly couple. We dedided to let them know of the ownership of the seats they were sitting in after we finshed our dinner. We slowly had our dinner and we let them know of our intention to sleep where they were sitting. That's when they told us that the seats belonged to them. My father quickly took out the ticket and verified again. It was the same number as them. We both had identical tickets. Then we checked the dates. The date too was correct.Since. their ticket was already verified by the TTE, my father went searching for him.
My father found him and told him the problem. The TTE looked at our ticket and then looked at my father and said "You can pay a fine and then travel". My father was taken aback. He asked why should we pay the fine.It is the mistake of the railway reservation system.The TTE pointed to the train name to my father. He then realised that we had taken the wromg train!!!! We were supposed to board the 8.45 Chennai MAil and not the 9.00 PM Allppey Express. Not knowing what to do, my father asked for our next step. We weren't ready to go to the general compartent.So we ended up doing a favour to the TTE and he aranged three berths for us ovrenight. We apologised to the elderly couple and slept thnking what a fool we had made of ourselves.
You might be thinking that this might have been one of our first journeys by train, We had been travelling on the train for 25 years before this incident and this had never happened to any one of us. And this didn happen many years ago. It happened just two weeks back. I didn want u guys thinking how careless we were until the end of this post...
I don't understand how on earth we boarded the wrong train. Anyways we learnt our lesson that day.

Impatient

I have become so impatient with myself and my life that i don't have the patience to finish off something that i started. I don't even have the patience to finish off this...

What next?

I was wondering how the basic necessities needed by man has changed over centuries. I can't guess what's next.
Here's a table that I have made and believe is almost accurate to a certain degree.




When I said my table is accurate I didn't mentions I would not exaggerate just to make a joke out of it.Maybe some of the facts aren't true but most of them are.You are welcome to fill in the gaps.
If ever an ancient man was to visit the 21st century he would be thinking "hey it wasn't like this when i left this place."
So what's next???

(no subject)

The last i posted something on this blog was around one month back. Then I had a lot of topics in my mind that i wanted to write about.Those were the days I wasn't subjected to much work at office.But then as things turn out since then I haven't reached home before ten.The moment i come home I have dinner and i am off to bed for around 8 hrs before i force myself out of bed for another day of 10 grueling hours.I don't seem to be working much but I always end up reaching home late. Anyways what I was coming to say was all those topics I had in my mind seem to have gone for a long walk.think as hard I may can I can't seem to remember. Since I am without a topic I again turn the wheel around.I started with my first ever post not knowing what to write about.I have reached my starting point again. Maybe this post too I shall write about what I should write about.
Anyways the latest thing to happen in my life is revisiting college for convocation. But the best part about me going to convocation is that I didn't go for convocation. I never attended the function and I didn't receive my certificate.this may bring satisfaction to some people who wanted to come but were unable to do so. I got only a day's leave for the convocation.Only the monday the programme was conducted. the function started at 5 and my train was at 5.30 in the evening. There was no way I could stay for the programme. But it was worth a visit. I met people knowing that this might be the last time our life crossed paths. Bidding farewell to people on that day was as overwhelming as on the last day of college.But then thre was a consolation on the last day of college.We all knew there would be a convocation and that we would be able to meet up back again. But now with the convocation over another chance of reliving college memories seems bleak. Maybe we should have a get together soon.Say 2 - 3 yrs from now. We will all be settled and we can make it grand. It's a nice feeling already thnking about it. Let's wait and watch what happens.
I started this post not knowing what to write but it looks I did have a topic in mind. Anyways let the topic be as it is.

A myriad of thoughts

During my stay in gurgaon where I underwent training for aricent we kept aside a saturday to tour Delhi which is just 45 min away from Gurgaon. There were too many places to cover in just one day so we decided to go the prominent places alone which again were too many but we managed to cover those we planned in time. I am not going to describe the places I visited in Delhi but a thought I had when I visited some of the places.

Delhi , the capital of the Pandavas , the Mughal Kings and finally of free Republic Independent India is worth a visit with it’s vibrant atmosphere and all the architectural majesty of the golden eras of Ancient, Medieval and Modern India. We visited Qutb Minar, Humayun’s tomb, Red Fort, Lotus Temple, Akshar Dham, India Gate, Birla Temple and a few other places which I don’t remember. When I was in these places I wondered how it would have been to be ruled by a king. How different it would have been to live during the times of Akbar or ChandraGupta Maurya., both , eras of prosperity and historical importance. I would love to live in the past. I don’t know why but the very thought excites me. It would have been wonderful to live amidst all drum beating, people gathering around trees to hold discussions, to scream “Our king his majesty Akbar is visiting our town” , to breathe in oxygen from a pollution free atmosphere, to be present when the history of our glorious nation was being made , to sleep peacefully knowing we are being ruled by a good leader in Akbar or ChandraGupta Maurya or Ashoka.. To live in a time when there was prosperity, peace and satisfaction, law and order in the kingdom. To jump over crowds to have that one little look at the lovely little princess(I don’t think there were any dearth of “bird” watchers anytime in our history). To stay away from all complexities of the present world. It would have been simpler, easier to live then. To know that there were people who valued human life and who didn’t harass or kill people in the name of god or religion.

I suggested my thought to a friend who was with me at that time. He didn’t share my opinion. He didn’t want to be ruled by a king. There was nothing people could do if the king turned out to be the devil’s incarnation. He said atleast in a democracy people could oust the leader if he wasn’t a good one, I didn’t tell him anything then. But it got me thinking. So how different would it have been to be ruled by a bad king. Not much different from now. The government plunders from the people, leaves them in distress, doesn’t care about the people .I don’t see prosperity everywhere I go. We haven’t had a good leader since we declared ourselves a republic and a democracy. To be ruled by a bad king would be like living in the present. So my fantasy to go back in time and be ruled by a leader worth his position doesn’t look all that unreasonable.

However incorrect I might have been incorrect historically in this blog I know one thing for sure, if the world hadn’t had a rich history as it has now the world would have been a bland place to live in. I can’t share tables with people who say there is no use looking into the past. There is so much to be learnt from our history. History teaches us never to commit the mistakes our forefathers had done . It’s a teacher I would have missed a lot had it vanished one fine day. I love dwelling in the past. Maybe I should have done B.A History instead of B,Tech EEE and become an archaeologist. But I believe everything that has happened has happened for the good. Long live my belief. He is my king now.

P.S: I know some of the lines don’t have any relation. But there were too many thoughts pouring in at the same time into my head and I couldn’t help resist put it on paper ,oops blog.