I do or I do NOT

                         
There was a gold fish. Pretty dazzling in the cool blue water. Swimming with others, a happy existence.

One day... A shiny bait dropped down, completely unexpected to our character. It came on when this goldie was alone, leading it to make its own decisions. Our passionate swimmer liked the bait so much that it just couldn't stay away. Isn't it always that way? Why are so many addictions unhealthy?

Anyway, when intelligent brain blessed humans ourselves do the wrong things knowing its wrong, what could a small pretty young fish do? To do it justice, it didn't bite the bait. Survival comes first passion next. So the lovely thing decided to be near the attraction but far enough so as to not do anything foolish.

Its days became exciting, a whirlwind of wild imaginations and at the same time repeatedly told itself to be in control. It went on and our goldie had never had had so much fun, it had never known something so bad could entice it so much.

All things. good or bad, must come to end, albeit very sadly. The bait went away. The fish spending its entire life in the water had never felt so lost. It wondered how its days were, before it had felt so attracted to the bait. Days felt empty. It kept waiting for the bait to be back.

It was a good fish. Realized how lucky it had been to have experienced so many feelings and yet not to have got hurt. It went quiet for a few days. Just drowned in the way it had felt, took its time to slowly emerge from the aura of passion. It still wonders how it would have been to have taken the bait. What was there in the cards on the table?

Is Addiction really a choice? Yes, it is, a little fish told me so.

Marathon

We did have a normal marathon where we are supposed to run (i walked a lot more than running) a few km . But this post is gonna be about the photo-marathon which got over about an hour back.

Mysore- and all its photo worthy places were invaded today by the event participants. We had three themes and one photo had to be submitted per theme. Duration:5 hours.

Initially I was pretty relaxed, thinking 5 hours is succccccccch a long time. But time ran by faster than Usain Bolt can ever do. And the photos to fit the topics were not easy to come by either! First I went to a few places i knew and took a few snaps of the hardworking Mysore people. Then started my handwork! In the hot summer sun we just started roaming the city searching for clickable spots :)

Devaraja Market was a hot favorite as I found plenty of my fellow camera people just loitering everywhere over there, the caps which the organizers had provided being our sole savior from sunstroke.

I met a few contestants in a couple of other places too causing me to ditch the famous spots. I went out of my way (literally :) and visited places i never knew existed in Mysore though i am staying here since my birth!

More than finding out about Mysore's secrets, how hot the sun can be, how different a sherbet near Lashkar Mohalla is (the above snap was where i drank the sherbet) and how sweet our Mysoreans can be in letting us take snaps I learnt if not how to take a great snap, how not to ruin one :) The purpose of a camera all these days for me was just to click photos of myself, friends and family for memories. But photography can be such a lovely hobby.There is definitely much more to it than see it, like it, take it! There were so many stops while i was zooming by in my dio to take photos that at the end it was a real problem to choose which ones to submit.

All i can finally say is, May the judges love my snaps :)

An hour of E&C- Dont be scared !

 

 Time just runs sometimes... Before i knew it, it was 2010 and March already!Haven't been blogging much, oops, haven't been blogging at all and finally its time to make a comeback .. The below 'data'  was written while listening, with no other choice, to an embedded systems class on single custom processors. Here we go:

 "If one goes for a combination of guys we will definitely face problems. We will need a truth table to keep track of which truth has been told to whom. Therefore a custom single processor (read 'a handsome guy') with multi-purposes is implemented.

 He can be an adder( repairing things we break), multiplexer(decider of what we should wear based on situations), demux( buying all the clothes in the store though we selected just one), flip flop( being able to change according to our moods) , shift register( taking us to different places), counter( keeping count of our calorie intake) and a clock(saying we are not at much late even though we were, by an hour).

  Considering the guys group as a finite state machine, we can move from a state zero (most handsome) and based on output to different states (guys of course) , while an output high (smiles and joy) causes us to orbit (loop) around that state :)

 Now if we form our state table, with our moods as inputs and the outputs from the handsome state machines, we will be able to determine which combination works. The FSMs states too come into account but thankfully guys will be at a low or a high, easy to interpret!

 The ultimate development in this field is a FSMD. A FSM with data. Someone who can understand how we work, whats the best way to interrupt us, how not to overload, how to turn the heat up, how to compile us and finally, how to work together :)"

That is it, the bell rang and i had to shut my book close, hope you enjoyed the class :)