Cognition!

I am equally 'unaware' of the word as you probably are. So lets drill this together!

cog·ni·tion n. The mental process of knowing, including aspects such as awareness, perception, reasoning, and judgment.

How would you think that your knowledge differs from that of your peers? Do you even believe it does? Or are you the one who's looking for a peer with a perfect match always? Do you equally argue as you agree to each other?

I have been an ardent admirer of "differences". I talk to people to know how different the individual is. Of course, i got a swelled head when we run into arguments. But hey, you should know that could be one of our differences. Or May be, which probably is, one of our commonalities!

For example, Mumbai Attack - IMO is because of the difference of opinion between blatant religious followers who never learnt to respect differences. Or, the massive jobs cut along with the continually downward economy - IMO is because of cognitive dissonance, ultra optimism or pessimism. Put a considerable difference margin before you make a decision.

Differences do not necessarily lead to destruction. Some people make a difference - so they lead. Differences is one of the sole reason we come up with great ideas. Had it not been different ways of cognition on things, i'd have been scribing these words on some rock.

I wouldnt say let there be no religion as John Lennon said. I say let there be differences among us, but let us learn to appreciate, collaborate and move forward learning from the differences we possess. Let there be many cultures, diverse faces in the community, and let us just change our thoughts - to appreciate that we have different thoughts and that we are all different!

It is complex i know - cos that beats the whole purpose of being different when we all agree to have similar thoughts. But hey, why not make it a commonality while you still remain different in many other things!

Pretty Long, huh!

It came to me that this place was abandoned. The place i was FOR myself , the place i was WITHIN me and the place where i apparently had verbal orgies! Or is that an overstatement?

Lots happened, and no updates - i must have been lazy!

Got an internship at an organization that promises me full time and sponsorship and what not! And a verse strikes me "The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But i have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep". Its a good time nevertheless, seeing that networks over here are equally messy/mismanaged as it was in my `con-tree`. I guess, that's what i got hired for. And though not bounded to wireless only, i am a wireless engineering intern. Lots of line ups for things that i need to study for the RF and signals domain. It is interesting though.

Few weeks back , i played on a concert opening up for some established artists. With so much respect for them, we went on a bar after our performance! And when we came back, the show had finished. Luckily, people called at the middle of their show and said, we want you guys back in stage, as people are running away! I am sure, they played good music, but may be they lacked dashing performers! If you know what i mean! Youth Power! Or, may be the guy who called was just a young crowd too! We are all YOUNG - if you ask me. The band formed in some 2 weeks' time before the show and we called it "MOJO". Utter it once, and you're sure to do it again! "MOJO MOJO"! There you go.

We do have a concert lined up within a month from now, so if you happen to pass by, you're welcome to attend. It'd mostly be Nepali 'rock' numbers along with Steppenwolf's born to be wild! (heavy metal thunder) and may be an iron maiden track "losfer words". We still got a month. We jammed this weekend for a start, and it wasnt bad at all. Guys were enthusiastic about making it happen this time!

So, what else?

Academics - Talk NOT!

Sleep - my sleeping pattern has changed!

Relationship - Oh well! No date.

Hair - I had some spikes few days before. It wasn't that bad either.

Alcohol - Do i even need to say? I just got back with memories of German beers at Oktoberfest yesterday.

Places - None. I seem to love my zip code! : ) (Commute to work - exception)

Trauma/Insanity - it seems to be in a dormant stage! Somebody wake the Satan in me!

And i am suddenly blank. I will try to frequent more. Please enjoy the song!

I will not Procrastinate.

I will not Procrastinate.
I will not Procrastinate.
I will not Procrastinate.
I will not Procrastinate.
I will not Procrastinate.
I will not Procrastinate.
I will not Procrastinate.
I will not Procrastinate.
I will not Procrastinate.
I will not Procrastinate.
I will not Procrastinate.

The day i was born!

I was not drunk, but i am now!

Its 4:15 AM (past my birthday) and im awake!

Had fun! Boozing and Singing!!!

Will come up with more later! : )

WOW!

14 - An Elucidation

1. Fourteen is my favorite number.
2. Two Lucky Sevens equal Fourteen. Fuck it - i am happy-go-lucky!
3. I have lived "four" teens! (A Musician , A Geek, A Hopeless Romantic, A Wanna-be misanthropist.)
4. 14 - Atomic Number for Silicon .. Oh wait, SILICON - is that what my life's revolving around?
5. Fourteen is an unlucky number to the Chinese. You must have got an idea now to what i am referring to!
6. Fourteen is a composite number. No doubt i am complex.
7. 7 * 2 should be Fourteen, right on! That makes me crazy! :P
8. 14 - The number of days in a Fortnight... I absolutely love mid-month crises!
9. 14 is the number of lines in a sonnet. Sonnet 116 - Shakespeare - I would write that if he hadn't.
10. Its been exactly 14 hours since NOON : )
11. It didnt take me 14 minutes to come up with this blog. Took more! - I am honest.
12. Believe it or not, Count the number of words in this sentence - exactly fourteen.
13. I am fourteen days ahead of getting a year older.
14. This has to be the fourteenth point. Precisely!

Sleepless!

Probably, its got to do with me having too much time to waste - even sleep dont mesmerize me anymore.

For the creators of sleep - you surely knew how to save energy.

My work has been confined to reducing energy consumption on devices by making them sleep more when not in action. And Look at me, i have been exactly the opposite! Talk about hypocrisy!

I learnt recently that there are stages of Sleep. Check on Wiki and you'll find that there are stages like :

1. The brain transforms from Alpha waves (8-13Hz) to Theta waves (4-7Hz). Thats the time when i lose conscious awareness of my environment.
2. Then Sleep Spindles(12-16Hz) and K-Complexes take over me. The conscious awareness completely disappears.
3. Delta Waves and Delta Rhythms (0.5-4Hz) assists me for a deep sleep with less than 50% of total wave-patterns.
4. The delta waves make up for more than 50% at the final stage of my sleep, where i go completely sleeping!

So, to sum it up , and as per my source of wiki , i go onto sleep with stages as below.
1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 3 , 2 , REM (Rapid Eye Movement)
(the 4 stages are characterized into NREM (Non-Rapid Eye Movement))

Anyway, Late Night Sleeping : but i still do maintain my required sleeping hours to 7-8.

I am drinking now. (Lots of water - for a change today ) , cos i knew alcohol might suppress my later stages of sleep. : )

Good Night People! Sleep Well! : )

Work and Wisdom!

PS: Sorry, you have to click on it to see the cartoon. Couldn't fix it! So much for being a Techie!

ELF - Cartoonist ?

Alright Guys ! I dont know how it hit me but here's it for a start!

As equivocal as my blog has been, so would be my cartoons. If i ever continue, that is! : ) Anyway .. too much of listening to "What breaks a heart" might have had this imagination come to my mind right now. I promise, it'll have some humor later on. LOL, if you dont laugh at this again! :P

Beyond this turmoil , I must Flee!

Of all that we are seeing, and yet to see, its HIGH time we make choices of expanding our community to Moon or Mars. I agree with Stephen Hawking. We should be establishing colonies on Moon and Mars. We must avoid Earth as catastrophes like nuclear war / climate changes / natural disaster are bound to make living extremely difficult. Read the link above and there are such great insights , rather plans.

- Moon , the base to other planets of the Solar System. Sounds like a pretty decent Space-Hub!
- Mars would be Google's GRAND DATA CENTER spot.
- My dream of working on Inter-Planetary Networks would come true, possibly, if i get hired.
- Every Country would reserve the place for their "just in case" situation.
- Rich would be out of earth on vacations , and perhaps reserving their lands too.
- Poverty / Gravity on earth - both are inevitable. Rich would escape them, of course!
- A day will come, the Capitalists would have a different planet!
- There would be inter-planetary relationships, a new name to long distance relationship. As an outcome of that, people would grow more into telepathy sort of relationships, than physical! inter-planetary relationships!
- Slowly earth will see a brain drain.
- Geniuses vs Patriots! WAR!
- Pollute the Solar System.
- Some other Professor somewhere in one of those planets would be planning for an outreach toward some other Galaxies.
- Who gets the right to escape earth first ? MONKEYS too ?

Uff , i guess i am simply making some noise here. But anyway the endless possibilities is interesting, isnt it? We think NOT about problems that we could solve , but about ways we can escape those problems, "just in case" ! Bravo Humanity!

Whoops !

I must have been in a disarray. Nothing can stop me write. Not even ME!

Met some employers and one of them on the interviews asked me more "Music" questions than technical ones. He was wondering how we listened and played American Rock music living in a country Americans(He) don't know about. Even the impression led me for a follow-up interview and who knows a job right away. I told him i was looking for the prospect than the job that was in hand, as i was over qualified for that.

Yes, Kansas City was fun. We had been there on the day of the match when Kansas was playing against North Carolina for the Final Four NCAA College Basketball. I supported Kansas City (no-1 seed), of course. And the same day, we had the college basketball experience at the Sprint Center. I was all sweat! There was this newly opened bounded place called the Power and Light District in downtown, where all we did was cheered up Kansas. There were like 2500 people around, boozing! Couldnt have been more fun!

Forgot to mention, we visited arts and museums. In fact, TWO. The art at the museum totally inspired me, cos it was all history reflected. I must say, i must have been old enough to actually be liking arts and orchestras! At a different place, it was the contemporary arts and guess what! Three Colors on a Canvas, and thats an art. : ) I hated starting off with a decision-tree based story written on the wall at that place, apparently cos it was a detective story and i ended up being killed.

Anyway, it was fun . Good thing, Kansas won the NCAA title in the finals, two days later. The City is all Basketball! And, yes, i do love basketball. No offense to my paunch today, but i was a member of the Basketball Club in my High School. And i played real hard, despite my height! :P I played late night indoor soccer yesterday and i was all panting on a single run on the field, but that was solely for fun and assessing if i lost my stamina completely or is there any chance, i can regain some!

The only thing i havent been able to do, this week, is synchronization. I cant synchronize my "TODOs". I cant synchronize my protocol! Synchronization itself would be a dissertation topic, and i am taking much time even for a work around. Anyway, hopefully, i get synchronized pretty quick with the research, as i did with my blog!

No . This isnt ending so soon ! You gotta bear me more.

An Inspiring Quote i read on the Museum, inscribed in the building.

The Soul has greater need of the IDEAL, than of the REAL