The Unreasonable Man

“A reasonable man tries to adapt himself to the world, but an unreasonable man makes the world adapt to him and all progress depends on the unreasonable man”

Imagine how everything would be if life went like this… the sun rises…the cock crows…You get up…Do your daily chores…etc.etc…Take a nap…wakeup again…etc.etc…sleep for another eight hours and the wheel moves on. Boring isn’t it? Don’t you think there is a need for a change? For something, out of the ordinary, past the mundane, off the beaten track?
It is only when someone thinks that things ought not to be the way they are that there is progress.

History tells us the same thing. Imagine how the world would be if some unreasonable man hadn’t decided to rebel againt the roman empire?…We would still be seeing half-naked men draped in shawls with olive reeds on their heads,olympics would always be held in Athens.And Gaul would still be defending itself? True, Rome wasn’t built in a day. But still, I like the present day world better.
Think of how the world would be if Jesus Christ hadn’t spread “the good word of god”?Majority of the world wouldn’t have a man on a cross, dangling on a chain, around their necks.
Or if Christopher Columbus hadn’t decided to go against the Turks and take the sea route to India?…We still wouldn’t know that the American continents existed.
Think of how the world would be if Gandhi hadn’t decided to use the yet-unheard-of methods of Sathyagraha and Non-violence to fight against the colonisers?…The sun still wouldn’t set on the British empire.
Think of what would’ve happened if Hitler hadn’t decided to overrule the Versailles Treaty? Germany would’ve burnt its boots. And most of all Democracy wouldn’t have as strong a hold in Eurasia as it has now.
So, I think that its only change which brings progress to the world and hence would want to make it the motto of my life ( Until, ofcourse, some “unreasonable” man decides that it should change)

Those ‘ickle ‘uns!

The new semester began a week ago and I needn’t even ask ‘what’s new?’ like I usually do, coz they share the corridor with me in the hostel. Yea readers, I am referring to that bunch of people called FRESHERS.
Being one no longer, I derive immense pleasure in looking at their expressions of shock and awe at anything new, which is presumably everything.
Like this budding electrical engineer who was taken by my IIMB T-shirt:
“Hi, are you from IIMB?”
“Nope, NITK.”
“Then how’d you get the T-shirt?”
“Someone I know did a short-term course there.”
“Ohh…. so are you doing your MBA?”
“Actually, I graduated last year.”
“Uh-huh…..Hey! how can you be doing your post-graduation when your graduation is still in progress?”
“Beats me, but remember, YOU started the jokes.”
But the naivete ends there.
You next have this madame with her acquired fake accent who disturbs us by blasting away modern rock on her imported deck [she could lend it to George Lucas for his next film, what with its flashing lights and metallic sheen].
Samples:
8:00 pm: “hi, didn’t get your name…?”
Well, don’t you KNOW that questions are outlawed for you guys outside of the classroom?
8:30 pm: “hi, didn’t still get your name, but my roommate’s on the phone and I am feeling SO BORED, could I pass time here?”
9:00 pm: “Hi, i invited all my friends to chat on Yahoo!, could you please vacate this comp for me?”
11:49 pm: “Hi, I still am bored. Do you have a novel to read?”
9:00 am: “Hey, how come you have power in your room? We are stuck with low voltage.. so could I use my hairdryer in here?”
Yea dahling, this is your commonroom-cum-lounge. Coffee with milk or cream?
And just as I write this, I am playing ‘But it Rained’ by Parikrama as loud as my laptop allows in order to reassert my position as a senior. Ms Very Un-Naive is at my door, gushing about how much she likes this song which she heard ‘sooo looong ago’ on TV, and would I please play it for her and ruffle her memory.
And she is a far cry from that other gang of freshers who fear us, but talk to us anyway [haan didi, the rooms are fine, mess food is okay, classes are cool] coz they think they’ll be ragged otherwise.
People, if there’s one thing a senior hates, it is to be misunderstood. No, we won’t pull your legs here; we know how stranded you feel in this brand-new place. And we’d like it that you don’t pull ours, we oldfaces wouldn’t like to ‘assert’ ourselves here,[nor would you, if we did], we don’t like to be pushed off the calling-the-shots pedestal this early.
Gotta go now, coz I can’t keep Madame waiting.
{shuts this window, presses the replay button on Windows Media Player}

I’ve been Tagged!

I wouldn’t be writing this if i had anything else to write. Still, can’t complain….thnx to Maverick..
Neways…here goes!

Three names i go by:
Priya – that’s the official one
Puri – that was what my friends called me at school
and the rest are, well, unprintable, they are what my sis calls me when I wake her up.

Three screen names :
I would like…hmmm… Arundati Ray. A combi of the geniuses Arundati Roy and Satyajit Ray.
Maybe when I cut my first music album, I can call myself Beatless…[That's The Beatles with an xtra s]
And most definitely….NITK Numbskull.

Three things that i like about myself:
I can type really fast
My voice echoes really well in the bathroom.
I can spread gossip really fast!

Three things that scare me the most:
No internet!
The quality of teachers in IT dept. of NITK Surathkal.
That I need yahoo chat to get communicating with the gal next to me.

Three things that I want in a relationship:
1.Its practical non-existence…hey, i wanna be single and ready to mingle.
2. 1 above
3 1 and 2 above.

Three physical things about the opposite sex that appeal to me:
1. hmmm…..
2. hmmmmmm………
3. hmmmmmmmmmmm……..cash?

Three things that i want to do badly now:
Get a Worldspace Satellite Receiver in my hostel
Rag the first year showoffs Real Bad! [more on this l8er]
Go swimming.

Three places i want to go on a vacation:
Colombo
The Hebridian Isles
sumatra

Three things to do before i die:
Complete my 16 failed novels
Take a year off life and do adventure sports and lotsa bigtime eating.
Learn to write well.

Three of my every day essentials:
my comb
toothbrush
and FOOD!

Three things i’m wearing right now:
clothes
spectacles [tuhina's]
nailpolish

Three people im gonne tag :
Finance Freak and Speed.thepundeets.blogspot.com
aravind