Doomsday over tea

"This is the end 

Beautiful friend

 This is the end

 My only friend, the end 

Of our elaborate plans, the end 

Of everything that stands, the end 

No safety or surprise, the end 

I'll never look into your eyes...again"

You'd be surprised at how much we wouldn't care. Honestly. You'd think that we'd care if the world ended, but ... naaaaah. 

I'm making a reference of course to the experiment which was conducted at CERN. To those who didn't keep up with the news, scientists tried to recreate the big bang in an effort to find the Higgs-Boson particle, the fundamental particle which make up all the other particles. 

I'm not a particle physicist but I'm smart enough to know what the experiment was about. And of course the papers and your local news/gossip channel were predicting the end of days, doomsday, ragnarok etc supposedly with the formation of mini black holes that'll swallow up the earth. And some imaginative buggers even went to the length of coming up with a computer  generated visualization of how the Earth would be eaten up by the mini black hole, which is ambitious since no one knows,exactly, what black holes are. 

I wanted the experiment to go on and was quite intrigued actually. After catching up with the story on some lame news channel late in the night, I went to college the next morning, breakfast and tea deprived. So I decided to make a quick stop to the canteen to stop my stomach from growling. As usual I found company in a number of people who had missed their first class of the day. So I decided to settle myself among a few mates of mine who saved me a seat. Incidentally we were sitting next to a gaggle of girls who were considered the "happening" crowd. 

 I was sipping on my tea and quite happily lost in my thoughts, but the gaggle of girls next to me were quite loud and were discussing something of paramount importance which only the female sex will understand. Shoes. And more importantly them being on some other girl. It was then then it occurred to me that we really wouldn't care if the world ended. 

I don't give credit to the doomsday soothsayers on the news, but hell I atleast I knew there was a particle's chance of things going really bad(pun intended). Would we care if the world would go puff in a flash? No we wouldn't because, if the world would go puff in a flash then we wouldn't be there to worry about it later. Doomsday is overrated. 

I thought I'd share this thought with my mates, but they told me to shut up and let them finish copying their assignment. Fair enough. So I finished my tea. It was a bit too sweet that day.

What to do child ??

In response to a plea to write something about, and in itself becoming a blog entry 

2 gay loafers in the middle of IT when the milkman comes in with his wife and 5 kids.. and it turns out to be CAD class in ramaiah

thanks Junkie !!

Then there was a Mongol...

Once a upon a time in Mongolia there lived a great Emperor named Genghis Khan. Now he conquered a lot of places and some say he was a nice guy and some say that he wasn't, and after leading a long and fruitful life.... he died. That is not what I'm here to talk about .

What I am interested is however that the fact the he was the world's biggest rapist and got away with it. And according to historians, he did it with so many women that his bloodline still runs today in the most unlikely people. And due to all that there was a young boy who was born. And like the great Khan there were a lot of legends surrounding him. Some say he was born knowing every oriental language, and also every known martial art. And at the present rate of his voracious appetite, is now the sole reason Africa is starving.

One day he had a vision that the great Khan came to him and revealed to him of his true lineage mixed along with a lot of blood of tamilians and kannadigas. He was inspired. He also learnt from the great Khan the reason why he went on world conquest. The great Khan was bored at home and wanted to eat in a swanky persian restaurant. But they denied him on the grounds of "rights of admission reserved". The great Khan was furious and livid. He made an oath to the Gods that he would one day eat all the culinaries in the world. But they denied him everywhere with the same sign "rights of admission reserved". So the great Khan went on world conquest to eat fine cuisine. The great khan conquerd China for their momos and noodles, Persia for their biryani and kababs, Italy for their pastas and pizzas, Germany for their blackforest cake, Russia for their vodka and so on ....

But before he could complete his oath to the gods .... he died. And his successors in their squabbles forgot their sire's true vision.

To the young boy he implored as his heir he must complete his oath to the gods else the great Khan would not be at peace. The young boy after his vision set out to do exactly that. Since the great Khan was blocked away from India from the Himalayas and he was born here, he began completion of the great Khan's oath to the gods, by eating here. From Kashmir to Chettinad style, from Gujju to Bengali food, from hell spiced Andhra style to mild and exotic sweets. And due to globalization he has been able to also eat a variety of foriegn cuisines unknown even to the great Khan.

He is presently in his third year in his B.E. course in the department of telecommunication at MSRIT . His name is Kushal and he also happens to be my best friend.