November 15, 2005

japanese (hehe)

some things i learnt:

asubo: play
atashiwa/bokuwa/orewa: I/me
omaiwa/temewa: you
hayaku: hurry up
ikuzu: let's go
des: is (like hain in hindi) suffix
ka: question (like kya?) hindi
kssse: damn it
timmeh: bastard (or some other profanity)
baakayero/baakamono: idiot
taicho: captain
nee-chan/onee-chan: elder sibling (still some confusion about the gender, lots of theories and counter examples)
kaa-san: mother
tou-san/oya-jii: father
naan: what ()suffix
daichobu: everything allright
so: so as in english (so des ka? translates to is that so?)
sugoi: wow, amazing, excellent
obaa-san: old lady
ojii-san: old man
chotto: little
matta: wait
zutto: always/forever
genjutsu: reality/alternative reality
ittakimaasu: something we say when we are leaving
ohio: good morning
ikerunasai (or something like that): welcome back.
shaase buridana: long time no see
itadakimasu: something that is said before digging into a meal (prayer?)
sensei: teacher
senpai: senior
ototo: li'l bro
gome/gomena/gomenasai/suimasen: sorry (in varying degrees)
arigato: thank you
gozaimaas: much more/ very much (i think it increases the degree someway)
heiya: room
-kun/chan: honorific used to denote familiarity (kun suitable for males, chan for females, although not strictly enforced)
-san: honorific used to denote respect
-sama/dono: honorific used to denote great respect and honour
gan: eye (byakugan, sharingan)
byaku: white (byakugan, byakuya)
sen: 1000 (when used as a number)


hmmm.. not bad i guess, considering all of this out of only anime...

November 13, 2005

TAGGED!!

been tagged by my loony roomy, Kangaroo high on life, and coming as it does after the grave danger for bloggers, i guess this is but a letdown. anyways, i'll try my best to be me (ouch! what a total Loser!!)

Bees: Everything is always about me. be it other's actions, or even other's thoughts, the only thing that goes in my mind is how does it affect me. all i think is about me. that is, of course, if i do think.

Unnees: am a first rate hypocrite. now does that make this a paradox? if a liar says he's lying, isn't he telling the truth? can't stand things that i'm not good at. can't take an impartial stand on anything, coz from Bees, my opinion on anything changes according to the effect it has on me.

ATThara: Like to think of myself as a Mathematician. see ? this is Unnees in action.. i know i can't even hold a candle to all those cat toppers, but still i'd like to think of myself as high and lofty.

Sathra: Cause for ATThara being i like logic and reason. not to the extent that i exclude faith from my beliefs, but yes, sometimes i do think why am i even praying. but then i realise, there has to be an all-powerful being, since the big bang theory doesn't hold up for all time. So is faith an outcome of failure of reason? or is reason just another form of faith?

Sola: sometimes Sathra even affects my social life. i mean, who would actually enjoy a logically correct joke? who in the first place would recognise it for being logically correct? Damn you, Aristotle. (if you are thinking this was a logically correct joke, you are gravely mistaken. coz i myself dunno what i'm typinh.)

Pandhra: Sometimes love li'l conundrums, play on words, oxymorons, and all such things. though i admit i can't solve puzzles for s**t, i still like the solutions or the thought process towards solution (better than the puzzle sometimes). one natural outcome of this being my affinity towards the Bard's Balderdashes in all their divine glory.

Chowdha: still believe that i'm superior to many people. that only reminds me i'm inferior to many more, but can't get rid of this complex. sometimes clouds my judgement. have an irrepresible urge to compare myself with anyone i come to know. "Pathetic existence" you say? hehe you don't even know the P of it yet.

Tera: a social outcast. i know all the smiles and TTY shouts i encounter in the hallways are but facades of much deeper feelings, which neither of us are ready to face yet. "friendly banter" and "camaraderie" are but euphemisms for "f**k you man, i wish i were in your place". or is this just a reflection of my thoughts and hence absolutely false? but i really lack true friends. friends who are willing to help me, yes, friends who are willing to take risks for me, yes. i do have them. but friends i'm willing to open up to? not yet.

Baara: i wish i was an intellectual. i really donot understand the concept of intellect or of art. but i do believe that philosophy is broader and encompasses science, so i'll always value intellect above intelligence. only, i don't know what is intellect. i know i don't have it, but i think some people do. just another concept to conquer, a bit difficult one tho.

Gyaara: Simply love the concept of a basis spanning a vector space. or in other words, linear independence. i think it's analogous in some way to a set of axioms creating a whole theory. or to a set being partitioned (do the words mutually exclusive and exhaustive ring a bell?). Whole of Geometry is based on axioms one of which is that point has no dimension. corollaries of this are that line has no area, plane has no thickness. can a person be simply expressed as a (be partitioned into) set of tastes and beliefs? what is it that differentiates a rational person from an automaton that creates its own theory based on the same facts of the same world? or in other words, can we create a being which is self-willed, but takes predictable actions, as would a hypothetical 'rational human devoid of emotion' ? can we then say a person is but an embodiment of a set of tastes and beliefs and nothing else?

Dus: sometimes really love totally illogical moments too. like the movie Dus. or Raj's pj's. prolly the reason i hang a stone around my neck. btw, does anyone have an idea why i would do that? help me out.

Nou: oh i almost forgot. the perfunctory "I'm a lazy person" point. seems like everyone's having a free point, i might as well take it too. for more details, contact His Excellency The Mighty Gluteus Max. his address is usually ambiguous, but i believe his summer residence is A207, winter residence is A202. usually prowls around the A2xx wing.

AaTh: Something about me, sthing abt me.... haven't the previous points totally exhausted my personality? i sure aplogise for them not being exclusive :P

Saath: sensuality is something that appeals me very strongly. i'd prefer to ogle at a sensual woman than drool at a sexual female. overt sexuality is something that puts me off. "Choodachakkanitanam" in telugu.

Che: as the numbering would indicate, i'm hopeless at hindi. but i still try my best. sometimes i get so frustrated at genders and past participles and such, i myself have trouble understanding what i say.

Paanch: Love to learn all the languages and scripts. Love to learn all the musical intstruments also. wild phantasy: one day i wake up to realise that i have a long forgotten gift at both music and language and math, such that i understand everything everyone speaks. Guess i like to understand things more than create something by myself. Aristotle's Passive Observer. guess it figures why i'd like the solution or the process towards solution more than the puzzle itself.

Chaar: never had any tastes or opinions in anything. absolute white paper. guess another attribute of a passive observer. and ultimately i become nothing, just remain in the background. composing background music for life in the manner my loomy (loony roomy, cho chweet loomy) envisions, but never living life itself. does that make me immortal? hehe.

Teen: really in need of a girlfriend. need not be very clever, need not be very rich. need not even be friends to start with... but should be of rounded proportions, and willing to bear the company of a despo tarkhi. the reason why i'm still single, even with such a magnificent brain and body? a much more magnificent ego, munificent enough to bother about self only. guess i'll really die alone.

Do: do need close friends too. i do have real good friends, friends willing to take risks for me, willing to help me out. but none i'm willing to open up to. there are secrets, and there are secrets. trust is not a very firm concept. not all transportation problems are in balance. 21 years of life have only taught me ignorance. can't find a more ignorant person than me in college. (KR Narayanan died?? oh i see. is RK Narayanan alive??)

Ek: what the previous unnees points add upto is not something very uncommon. it's called a loser. simple and neat axioms, assumptions or whatever, strongly intermingling with each other to create a web of contradictions, inaction and pathetic existence, appropriately termed as a loser. i think this is logically correct, but not a joke eh?

now to some questions: if i tag someone already tagged, aren't they obliged to write more about themselves? if yes, then consider this case, the barber's mirrors. A keeps tagging B, and B A. and they are truthful about every point they note. Now will the tagging ever stop? (halting problem?) if it does, then it means either A or B doesn't have anymore to say about themselves. doesn't that mean they are finite sets of points, either beliefs or tastes? If the tagging never stops, then don't they have a life? (cheap joke akshat, i know, just cudn't resist..)