The mind (of a japanese researcher) is a terrible thing to waste

Well about to embark on my own quest for truth and knowledge it is my constant endevour to absorb what is hapening around the world.And as for other mortals the newspaper serves the same purpose for budding mad scientists as well.Without further chit chat I shal, as usual, focus your attention to something which caught my eye and my senses.I am sure most are aware of the noble prize.And a lot of you may also be familiar with the ignoble award which(as is very clear) is given for research in the subjects most would question as pointless,absurd or plain stupid.Well this year one of the winners was a team from Japan which conducted their studies on the jumpin habits of the flees on cats to those on dogs.Though their results were highly conclusive the point was that clearly there was no point(of the research i mean).But living in a free world every scientist has a freedom to be do pointless research.So merely dismissing it as a one off incident I refrained from blogging about it(also i wasnt jobless that time-semester end exams,college application,etc come to think of it why din't I apply to japanese universities..damn)(where was I ?? of ya..bracket out)(are u ppl confused because of all the brackets? ok chuck that..read from the next line)

So last week when I was watchin cartoons on CN I realised that most of the cartoons i liked were off the air and replaced by japanese animation (Japanimation as Bart Simpson calls it and so do i cause they lack the good old cartoon flavour)(ok no more braketed text).This again led to a familiar feelin that I had encountered when i had read the ignoble article..u know when u feel like askin WHY.. To add to that I also read an article about how ppl who miss breakfast lose their virginity early..(which is absolute bulshit..here i go again) and ofcourse it was none other than some scientist whose name I dnt realy recall but was definately a japanese cause it sounded like a samurai(U know Hero Nakamuro type).
Then it dawned apon me
(Well it is the land of the rising sun :) )

The best chance that I had to do any research was probably in Japan..I could see the answers to my questions staring at me with a Hanzo sword.Also at the same time I realised that any wacky research should be claimed before some other Jap gets his mind to it.So as usual I started narating my list to my able(read equaly bored) research sidekick(he wud have sidekicked me had he not been on a flight to france right now).Though supportive as usual he backed out of this one..and he had some reaons too :

me: dude how come we dint apply to japan
as in not kidin
:)
we are ideal ppl
to do such research
vignesh: i'm not learning cantonese just for the sake of useless research.
i'll become a trendsetter in india. :P
me: yeah i already have a topic in my mind
vignesh: which is..
me: parker fountain pens squirt ink faster if its Quink
than if is camlin
vignesh: ooooooh!
me: or things like nights become darker when u are alone in the forest than with friends
vignesh: awesome!
you deserve a phd already
me: yeah i know..to bad itl be in cantonese
u know we can say cantonese turned at a 73 degree angle becomes tamil
and u can confirm it
so u an be in my paper too
vignesh: how prestigeous! thank you great mr. masaldan!
me: Dr
vignesh: yeah whatever

Some ideas of mine would have been made clear by the above brief converation..for now I am open to suggestions for topics... Sionara

The Games MEn play ..Extended

Well I am jobless..(the frequency of my blogs give that away i think). So without wasting much time(ironical isnt it? I mean i do this to waste my time...ahhm anyways .I shal close this annoying bracketed text now.) i shal present to u what I promised- that is the female gamer.Before I begin let me clarify that the female gamer that I am referring to is not your average solitaire playin girl..she is that but also beyond that. I am talkin about dudettes who can hanndle a rocket launcher as well as their color pencils. It is thus my great misfortune that this account of mine is greatly insufficient as I had limited data to work with.But I was lucky enough to be able to observe and hopefully(in a very small way maybe) create one such gamer.Without trying to take much credit away from her let me get back to the point:

The female gamer is under threat.And unlike other tropical primate being wiped out gradualy the female gamer is highly important.

So I urge ppl to promote girlz to take up gaming and see Y its awesome fun(I mean why wud we be so crazy about games if it wasnt)

A few possible benefits of this :
1) No need to make up excuses to girlfriends while playin games online..rather they could join u for a romantic game having a twenty frag limit.
2) Resolving fights by shooting each other down is great fun..(better still a head shot is great to put an end to fights amicably)
3) The obvious quiet moments can be filled by discussing gaming strategy.(Try the..what is the most effective unit to kill a persion elite war elephant or hey which is the ideal build for centaur khan if he's taking on Razor?)

But beware ..ur actions online may lead to real world repurcussions(unimaginable usualy).So do keep a few things in mind while enjoyin games with the gamer girls. For starters try not to blow up the dead body after making the kill..seriously not a good idea.And ya feelin sorry after making a clean shot with the rocket launcher can take you a long way :)

The Games Men Play

Its holiday time again - A time for fun ,frolick and for people like me joblessness. And as proof of what I am sayin let me tel you guys that I just completed reading a novel(the title of which being of no relevence to the point i'm trying to make).And on top of that I also read through Vignesh's blog which I would usualy not have done.But I am glad I did as it made me realize two important points-
1)Even he is jobless
2)Blogging is a great way to kill time
So without any further useless drivel I shal present to you all this work of crap.
The whole idea for this stems from my discovery that many a people (mostly of the female kingdom) have no clue about why guys are so addicted to videogames and gaming in general.Also some of the stimulus also came from a newspaper article I was going through(also an indicator of my being jobless-would never go beyond the comic section otherwise) which in a way answered the same question "scientifically". So I thought before some more scientists from Japan (i think only Vignesh would have understood the serious Japanese threat to my endevours ) tries to sink their claws into it let my disect the male gaming mind for the benefit of one and all(atleast the one for whom this is intended :) ).
Well to start of I would like to reiterate on the point I made earlier-Gaming is an addiction and I know this cause i'm a proud addict.But just like any addiction it comes in many brands.Well the game I enjoy most is the Age of Empires.Though I don't claim to be the best(though I do claim to be better than my fellow addict Sankalp-@ Sankalp: I can kick your ass in AOE anytime boy and you know it) I certainly pledged my aleigance to it.But this account is not about my gaming habits or about games and I shal now,as I said before, dissect this habit.

Most games provide the player with the sense of conquest or achievement.In the olden days probably it would have been easy to wage a war on your next door neighbour and show him whose superior but it just cant be done now.So the only option left to us is to setup a wireless lan and shoot his inferior bot with a shotgun or destroy his castle with about 20 trebuchets(I apologise to those who dont have a clue what trebuchets-all i can console you with is that your lives have been meaningless if you havn't waged a siege with around 20 of them).See the point I am trying to make is that it is a human tendency to make conquests after conquests.Barberic as it may sound ,the urge to make mince meat out of your competition is inborn in all males and Gaming is a great outlet for that.Even games that lack awesome graphics may do well by just giving a sense of achivement and superiority.For example Mob Wars : an app on facebook has been a great hit with not only Sankalp and me(hardcore gaming gone cases) but also the gentle "Photoshop loving,Excel abusing" gamers like Vignesh :)(As in people who actualy use the comp for things beyond games).
So for all those who think playin games is just a means of killin time i would say that it realy is'nt just that(thats what books are for).It's something more.And for those who still think otherwise just experience the fun of letting lose a bunch of cavalry archers on rival villagers or invoking a chain lightning on your "buddy" :)

BTW wait for the next post :Its about an endangered species(in India atleast- the Female Gamer ;) Happy holidays

A time for training and travelling

Well summer vacations are sure not what they used to be (like in the good old days in school). This sudden but sure realization dawned on me the first day of my summer internship. Sure I was about to work with many of the countries smartest scientists and hoping to learn a lot ...but hey ! the ride to work was a different matter. All the 6 hrs of travel in a day facilitated by almost all modes of travel (car,autos, taxis,buses and the good old rickshaw) ,i decided finally, was well worth it.
I liked doing work (yes "work"...falling generally under my list of "things to avoid at all cost"). Though i was sure I was still not converted into a harcore workaholic like my dad but there was something about workin in one of the leading r&d facilities which added a sense of importance to even seemingly unimportant things like labelling testubes.
Finally after settling into a daily routine of getting up at 6 am( a feat which my friends would tell u deserve an entry into ripley's believe it or not) and getin back home at 8 p.m after hopping 3 buses. So there was no time for anything.
But those were the weekdays.....