Language No Bar

Language gives a snub to borders in a way that is denied to any other human invention. There are no controls or checks to prevent words from crossing boundaries, there are no duties to be paid when phrases migrate from one culture to another. In the basic and simplest sense of the phrase, language is a free market. Among world languages, English has some claim to providing the freest market of them all, not only because it is compounded from a variety of sources but also because it has made itself open to linguistic influences from around the globe.

It is interesting to see how the different languages have come to be deployed in different fields. French is traditionally the language of diplomacy, of détente and démarche, but it is just as traditionally the language of sex and romance (billet doux; cinque à sept, describing the time late in the day when lovers traditionally meet). When we buy a house and sign a mortgage, let's keep in mind that the word derives from Old French mort(death) + gage (pledge).

Latin, functional and precise, provides us with many of the abbreviations we still use (e.g., i.e., etc.) as well as a number of legal terms. From Spanish come a handful of "masculine" terms like macho and cojones. At times it is difficult to avoid the feeling that an entire culture may be contained within an expression that remains tantalizingly elusive even when translated. One thinks of the sombre northern European quality of the German Weltschmerz or the way an entire (Mediterranean) quality of life seems to be embodied in the Italian dolce far niente (literally, sweet doing nothing)!!

Pathetically Exquisite

Annual Day was held at my school on September 8th.
A dance drama (adaptation of a poem by Rabindranath Tagore) was the highlight of the evening.
Though the play was in Bengali, (one couldn’t understand a single word of it), the impressive portrayal of the protagonist by Amrithavarshini of class XI is worth to laud. She is a passionate, expressive, and endowed dancer, and stole the audience with her magnificent performance. Bishen, as the saintly monk, gave a splendid act, as well.

After the play, the English teacher commented that it was a “pathetic play and a wonderful dance drama,” over the speakers. Wait a minute! Did she actually say pathetic? Is she expressing her acquiescence as a dreadful director?
I went to my dictionary, to recall the definition of pathetic and pitiful… well the two definitions given are on completely different arms of the galaxy.

pathetic

1. pitiful:
provoking or expressing feelings of
pity
2. contemptibly
inadequate: so inadequate as to be laughable or contemptible
(informal)

pitiful

1. arousing pity:
arousing or deserving pity or
compassion
2. arousing
contempt: arousing or deserving contempt or derision

I think, she was referring to the first definition… I think. I guess she could have used a better word…but all said and done, one can’t help but chuckle at the ironic conclusion.

The final word: The dance was amazing.
I’m sure most of you also had the wrong definition of pathetic, from the fact that there was a big controversy after the play. No denying… what did you think by just seeing the title of this post? So I hope I have cleared your doubts.

Unit Dispositions

I was just browsing through my physics text the previous day, trying to imbibe some of the diminuendos and crescendos of this lackluster and insipid subject (My apologies to the ardent lovers of physics). Half awake and half asleep; perfect for my peculiar and weird thoughts to take shape. I realized that the most the units, let alone constants, used are names of the guys who put in a lot of effort and toil to make our lives miserable.

To state a few: we have the Ampere for electric current, Becquerel for radioactivity, Coulombs for charge, Faraday for capacitance, Henry for inductance, Hertz for frequency, Joules for energy, Newton for force, Ohm for resistance, Pascal for pressure, Tesla for magnetic field, Volt for voltage, Watt for power, Weber for magnetic flux, and the Kelvin, Celsius and Fahrenheit for temperature, etc. etc.

What I find incredible, is that I don’t think any other unit would satisfy the concepts in concern. Maybe we just become accustomed to their usage and it becomes second nature. Still, I think Newton is the perfect unit of force, and Joules for energy. I don’t think it’d be elegant to measure something in Johns and Jacks, but maybe in Earnests….
With more developments in the field of science, new unit measures will surely arise, and the world must have scientists with apt and apposite names to satisfy the panache and elegance of the art of assigning units. So think twice before naming your child Bob or sumthin!

THEY ARE AMONG US.... THE BIONIC ET!!!

In this work of fiction, the characters, places, and events are

either the product of the author's imagination or they

are used entirely fictitiously.

This here is Priya, SPL of Chinmaya Vidyalaya.
Very nice, cute, jovial looking girl.
Ahem.... note the word... looking.

On September 6th, 2006 9:45 ISD Earth Reference, the Priya we know morphed into her true form. Many couldn't have noticed the subtle differences, but thanks to timely photography, we here at the CVSR (Space Research) have uncovered the truth. At that precise time, she must have recieved commands from the alien spaceships that have been orbiting around the once-upon-a-time planet Pluto (... which the stupid astronomers of the elite class keep mistaking for tiny planets.. go figure!) What commands you may ask... well, we humans... i think would never actually know. But one thing is for certain, this bionic extraterrestrial was on a mission that day... to conquer the humble institute of learning of Chinmaya Vidyalaya. She posed as the head of the institution the entire day... and the following picture shows you the transformation into her bionic self quite clearly, bossing out orders to her space servants (no doubt, posing as teachers as well). Can't you see that glint in her eye... a destructive laser for suree!

We certainly have underestimated the power of the ET lifeforms... Maybe Jessica Alba can act as the invisible woman in Fantastic Four.. but here we see that this alien life form literally has such powers... In the picture below, notice the hand.... She is assaulting an unsuspecting student... I dont think she was hitting him as such, because the fella was admitted in an hospital for twisted bronchioles and punctured lungs.

This is a caution to all you people! WE ARE NOT ALONE!...

BEWARE! TRUST NO ONE.....

Priya no more hiding! We know the truth!!! Your time is near, dont be suprised when you find us at your place with vapourizers!!

Thank you Atul Gupte, and Aditya Nair... your pictures have been very useful to CVSR in exposing Earths future threat.... We award you the Black Diamond for your services.

ARDOR

This here is a poem that i concocted when i was almost half asleep during my physics class. I find that i get these weird inspirations when im drowsy, dont ask why... i think many of you might feel the same way. As is ovbious, this is a love poem, written to turn that someone on... well here's to you...>>

To adulate a pretty girl,
To cajole her rationale,
To elate her spirits,
To see the sparkle in her eyes,

To relish in chocolate,
To swim in ecstasy,
To dance undulant,
To desire passionately,

To surrender the soul,
To revive the psyche,
To resuscitate vivacity,
To purloin generations,

To smile, for sadness,
To taste delicious sorrow,
To feel sensuous misery,
To laud a grievance,

To sympathize,
To empathize,
To extemporize,
To lionize,

Love, an intricate multifarious
Blend of emotions
To Love…
With me, will you be?

Photooggrappphhyyy

Well, some pictures come out quite different from what you expect.
Yesterday, there was this teachers day celebration at my school where there were these sexy dances. Being a part of it myself, i gave my cam to my friend to take the dance...
I thought I would recieve nice pics of the people in poses... but what i got were much more extraordinary multiexposures... which are really quite amazing. Just check some of em below. And Narendra can think of a career in photography!






Note: NO Part of the pics were altered in any form