Valentine's day special - Love maadi nodu

Lock your wallets. Freeze your bank accounts. Stay at home. Follow these suggestions and you'll not be asking your friend to loan you money at the end of this month, even though it has just 28 days. Well its February and its Valentine's day and what more can you expect. Its that one day of the year when the world looks like what Anil Kapoor saw in Mr.India. Red, red and more red. There are red roses, red balloons, red cherries, red lipsticks, red wines and in some cases red blood.

Frankly speaking, the last one comes closest to personifying Valentine's day, after all the so called St.Valentine was beheaded on this day. In the golden words of Sheldon Cooper, "Given that St.Valentine was a 3rd century Roman priest, who was stoned and beheaded, wouldn't a more appropriate celebration of the evening be taking one steady gal to witness a brutal murder?" I totally disagree with what he says, after all where can one get volunteers nowadays who give their consent to getting beheaded in front of a crowd :-P.

I truly believe that this is one event that has been commercially milked in the perfect manner. Nobody cares about who is falling in love with whom or which girl slapped which guy or who jumped off a building as a result of a failed proposal. Hallmark and Archies are hellbent on selling more cards and teddy bears compared to the previous year. Restaurants are focused on increasing their profits by coming up with competing promotions. Ann Summers is well...., doing what they have been doing and they know for a fact that their sales are going to go up. The Bajrang Dals and Ram Senas are going to get all the unwanted media attention as a result of their stale hypocritic culture nonsense. At the end of the day, the businesses have made money, the guys(mostly) have seen a steep drop in their bank balance, some couples are happy and some couples have well, become singles.

I still remember those days during school, when we used to eagerly wait for this day. Not because I wanted to propose to a girl and definitely not because I was hoping for some girl to come and ask me out ( I was secretly hoping for that, but damn...!! Not even once). It used to be fun to see guys doing things that were totally unnatural of themselves. While a guy used to wait for the "love of his life" with a bunch of roses, there used to be numerous other girls who would avoid this guy, even though they secretly wanted atleast him to ask them out. Ultimately, that girl would come out and the guy who had rehearsed his dialogues the previous night would be dumbstruck and carry a sore face. Why? Most of the time, the girl would have her hands full of roses, chocolates and teddy bears and would be falling in love with all the attention. The irony is this most wanted girl too will have a crush on some other guy or in some cases even a girl but will be too timid to actually say it.

The only thing I would like to say is that you don't need a separate day to show your love and express it. Shower your boyfriend/girlfriend or husband/wife with unconditional love and most importantly love them for what they are and not what you want them to be.

P.S - I miss my Valentine dearly, and not because it is the 14th of February.

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Here Comes The Brain

Its about time, I wrote something about this wonder organ called the brain. I have always had an interest in medical science but decided not to go down that road for numerous reasons. More on that some other time. Being a regular "House" watcher, I really love the way in which some of the cases develop and pose really strange scenarios. I would request all my medical friends to criticize this post blissfully if they spot any mistakes and inturn educate me on this topic.

First a simple class on the anatomy of the brain. The brain is made up of two halves, namely the left brain and the right brain. These are two are connected to each other by a thick cable of nerves at the base called as corpus collosum (Yeah yeah..I still remember the II PUC Biology class and Skimba). I simple terms, it is like an Ethernet cable connecting the two giant processors. The right side of our body is wired to the left side of the brain and vice versa and I really have no idea why it is so. There are numerous other parts as well, but for the time being lets stick with just these.

Both these halves carry out special functions. Among the numerous other tasks assigned to them, the left brain deals with the analytical and logical side of things. The right brain is more into the artistic and creative side. So if at all you are writing a GMAT or CAT, you have almost put the right brain to snooze, only to wake it up when you need to scratch your privates with your left hand.

I was reading about an interesting case, in which a guy's corpus collosum was totally removed in order to treat him for uncontrollable seizures(short circuits). The end result was that there was no coordination between the left brain and the right. As a result of this, the right hand and right eye could actually name an object such as pen but couldn't explain what is was used for. The left eye and hand were able to explain the use of the object, but unable to name it. Cool ha. 

If at all a similar thing happened to you, can you imagine the situation? Infact imagine a situation in which you are on a highway in your car and your driver just eloped as he couldn't take more of you and your peculiar situation. You identify your iPhone but have no idea what to do with it, a BMW in which you are seated but cant drive, you see your Barclays credit card but don't know how it use it, you are feeling hungry and you even recognize a McD outlet just across the road but cant process that fact that it serves food. Cool or Koole now?

How many kids have you actually heard saying they want to be a musician or a painter or even a writer? The reason for this is that our education is tailored in such a way that a lot of emphasis is based on the skills of the left brain like maths and science rather than art or drawing. Invariably, even though you might be a very creative person inside, you end up flexing more of your left brain until you reach an age where you have the freedom to choose your career path. In my case, when I actually look back, I didn't take up blogging and designing as a hobby until I finished my studies. Infact, I realized this as I was writing this post. Totally in love with my brain at this moment :)

If you are in a state of emotional turmoil and unable to take a decision, don't be hard on yourself and don't blame yourself too much. It just means that the two halves of your master, the brain are just quarreling and disagreeing on the topic which has put you in this situation. Ever wondered why its so hard to propose to a girl? While the logical side is reminding you of a possible slap or a high heeled shoe in your face, the emotional side is pushing you to see the "happily ever after" side of it.

A very interesting brain fact is that the size of your brain is about 1400cc. Metaphorically speaking, its as powerful as a Hayabusa and more importantly as intelligent as the super computer of 2030.

P.S - I ended up making a lot of spelling mistakes in writing this post, before correcting them. Can any of doctors let me know the possible reason?

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