Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus

This isnt a well written post, but I wasnt in a mindset to write a well written post; so here it is, as it is.

Well, the first thing to note is that you dont need any of those exotic substances to get high. The excitement around can very well get you there. And once you are on the top of the roof, you dont know what you are doing.

The evening was all going on well, until I get involved in the big mess. Firstly, you should realize that its better to mind your own business than get high on the excitement and do things that you will repent later on. Paining the hell out of a friend is quite common, but thinking of it later on, we did cross the line.

Nothing wrong in that too, you would say, but then, there is this burden of virtuousness, the feeling that keeps biting you. But once done is done. Life has no UNDO button on its screen.

Also, you never know how things can get back at you, so the best policy is to let the dragon sleep, rather than wake him up and laugh at him as if you have played the biggest prank of the century.

Well, this is an apology to a great friend, who was at his wits' end that evening.

Instantaneous thought

Consider the following scenario: A team is presented with a spade.

Someone influential in the team comes up with the proposition that the presented object is a rake. The ideal team player is supposed to accept that proposition as perfectly sound. He should actually hear out the person for quite some length of time, and take notes on that. Even though he knows perfectly well that it is a spade, he is supposed to keep his views to himself. Only then can the discussion go on, and people feel that they have got the freedom of giving their opinion.

Then the ideal team player gets the chance to speak. At first, he is supposed to speak about the positive aspects of the spade being called a rake so that proponents of that idea feel that they are on the right track and are making a contribution to the team. Then probably he can put forward a few points that suggest that the so called "rake" might not be a rake. At every point of time, he is supposed to make sure that the whole team is with him. After lengthy discussion on each of the points, the proponents of the rake theory slowly realize that their rake theory has some flaws, and the presented object might not be a rake. Note that they still havent accepted that it is a spade.

Now the team player has to wait for someone to come up with the idea that the object might be a spade. Only then can he put forward point s supporting the FACT and then convince the team.

The end result is that the whole team has accepted the fact that the object is a spade after all. But the exercise has taken hours of productive meeting time, and you, who knows well that it was a spade, feels like having wasted a lifetime.

But thats the way teams work. It is not in the team spirit to call a spade a spade at the very first instant. The next level of maturity comes when you give up your thought of the spade being a spade, and you evolve with the team.

I am learning to be a team player.

Mathematization

You can ignore the title as it is given for my lack of knowledge of a better word. Having given GRE a week ago, I think, does not make any difference in my ever so small vocabulary. Neither does cracking quant make any difference to my math skills, which remain at an average D graded. However, what follows is my attempt at trying to define something by a mathematical function: L (k,t)

Characteristics (for a given k):

1. The independent variable is time. That is, the graph is plotted with respect to time, and exists only in the first and 4th quadrants.

2. At t = 0, the function has a certain positive value, which is generally finite, but may tend to infinity in some cases. However, the special cases are excluded for general analysis.

3. The function gradually increases with time and tends to infinity. However, it goes to minus infinity for the next instant.

4. As time progresses, the value of the function approaches zero asymptotically from the negative.

5. Well, I can say, without doing much thinking, (which leaves a lot of scope to find out faults if anyone ever decides to read this post, or even comment, if i am really that fortunate) that the function will be:

L(k) = L(k)o + tan (0.5*t*pi/T) ; for 0=< t < T

L(k) = 1/(T-t); for T=< t


Well, the attempt is to define love. When you see someone(k), at t=0, there is finite attraction, which goes to infinity as time progresses. However, at some point of time, you realize that you have lost (time = T). Then you start hating that person so much, that you dont want to see, hear, think of that person ever.(L = -inf.) However, this hate to goes away after sometime, and you come to a balance where you dont care about the existence of that person. (L(k) = 0).

If you have read the post till here, then I am sure you are a vetti fellow :P