Sunday, September 26, 2010

The ambiguity of Quotes

The ambiguity of Quotes

Quotes are XYZ ( means i do not want to explain what quotes are or how important they are )

But with very little intelligence or slice of luck you can modify their meanings.
As has always been lets take an example

“कल करे सो आज कर – आज करे सो अब”

Meaning –
What you need to do tomorrow, finish it today itself. And for things to be done today do them NOW
Clearly states the importance of beginning and finishing tasks early.

Ambiguity can be induced by either Interpretation or Timing. Both are required for changing the complete meaning.

The first part is taken care by Interpretation while second portion requires perfect Timing

Interpretation - कल the word itself is dual meaning.
Along with tomorrow it also means Yesterday ;)

If we replace the meaning with yesterday the Quote turns on its head :D :D

What you needed to do yesterday do it today ;)

Timing –
Try quoting the second part towards the end of the day (definitely past 11th hour)
This will imply what you needed to do today (today morning) you can do in the evening / night ;)

Combine Interpretation and Timing and Awesome – the quote now is
What you needed to do yesterday do it today + What you needed to do early in the day can be done later ;)

TV


We were born in India at the same time as Tv was born.

Practically there were no computers forget laptops. Everyone used to watch Tv together

We used to see soaps like Mahabharat, Ramayana.
Comedies like Flop Show , Dekh Bhai Dekh
Shows like Surbhi, Tehkikaat
English ones like Street Hawk and Knight Rider

Then as we grew up we had to waste more time into ungainly activities like studies.
During that time we had a fixed slot of being awake
We used to sleep at 10:00 hrs and get up at 6:30 hrs
Most of the awake time was taken by activities like school and getting ready for school and commuting to and fro from school.
We played in the evening … returned home had dinner and slept after a while.
In this limited amount of time we also had to fulfill expectations of school teachers –aka HOMEWORK

As we grew old the study part increased
And as we could not compromise on important activities like dinner and play the time had to come from sleep/Tv time.

This started our degradation into watching lesser Tv.
Then after a certain period of time we enetered 10th the era of tuitions => we had to devote time to a subset of school in the evenings and mornings.
This Tv deficiency continued for few more years and worsened.

Then we entered college and the first thing we discovered was that we could cut time from unimportant activities like lectures ;) so that we could do all other important work.
We never missed a cricket match again unless it was on day of exams.

Then sometime in mid of all this COMPUTERS arrived and to turn things worse ….advent of Internet, Cd’s DVD’s almost killed the good old Tv.

# # # # in the picture denotes the advent of the internet/laptops/dvd/vcd etc etc

Sunday, September 19, 2010

A moron’s guide to more moronic questions

We often come across questions in various facets of our life.
Many a times we feel these are redundant, useless, waste of time.
The questions are long …..really long … so long that you feel that if such questions were never printed we would not have faced the global warming problem. :)
The answers (or expected answers) fare even worse.

I quest to resolve those issues by focusing on the answers
Assumption – we are not yet in a position to manipulate (eliminate will be better) the questions

Lets begin
A moron’s guide to more moronic questions ;-)

1. Where do you see yourself in 3-5 years? 7-10 years?
Ans – I am good at math’s 3-5 = -2. Two years in my past – 2008. By same logic – 2007 :)

2. Sometimes, we may find a group of people disagreeing with our beliefs/point of view. Give us an instance where you had to convince a group of people on your point of view. (Maximum 500 characters)?
Ans - If I had convinced 500 characters why would I be here :O

3. At times, many of us are caught in a situation of moral conflict, where we have to choose between two seemingly right alternatives. Give us one situation when you faced this conflict. How did you resolve it?
Ans - I had a coin :)

4. Tell me about a time when you had to make a split second decision.
Ans - The time when my fist decision was accused of being too generic or joint :)

5. Describe a situation where you had to assimilate analyze a lot of information to reach a sound decision.
Ans – Well we had a Dj party at college and I was incharge of the Music System..... :) :)