A Conversation that rewards every time

A Conversation that rewards every time

"One Vegetarian Burrito Bowl.."
"Some extra rice please,"
"Yes, both black gram and onion and peppers.."
"Some more onion and peppers..."
":-)"
"Yes both the sauces, the red one and this one..ye this one near the glass..."
"Cream and corn.. little extra cream please.."
"NO Cheese...As much guac as u can without charging me more.. :-)"
"Lettuce"

"No. Nothing else.."
"Thanks"

I indulge in this only when I think I am worth it. One of the best things about life in USA..... a burrito at chipotle.

Those dreadful 45 seconds in water....

Those dreadful 45 seconds in water....

The Ocoee River ! - I can never forget that now. It was in this river that I decided I will kill time this weekend. Never ever realized I would come back and write a blog about how I myself would have got killed(almost) :-).

Am reminded of this Kaaka Kaaka dialogue - "Sodukku onnu podrathukkula gaaali ! Athaaan vaazhkai.. elllarkum.. On anbu selvamkku sethu..! ". It does sound true after this Saturday.


Ocoee river is simply the best place to do Level III and IV white water rafting - atleast that is what many Kayaker's blogs say. I honestly cant have an opinion comparing Ocoee with other rivers cos this was my first time. This link gives a lot of details about the rafting part of the river....
http://www.candelatech.com/~greear/White_water/ocoee.html

Let me get to the point. There is a line in the above blog about this rapid called Hell's hole.
"The farther to the left you go, the tamer it is. If, for some reason, you take a swim here, swim to river right, for the next rapid, Power House, is a nasty swim on the left. It isn't fatal, but the ledges are likely to bang you up pretty good."
It is the last one on the river and our Guide on the boat called it the "Grand finale". We successfully avoided flipping in any of the other rapids which was quite an achievement I feel. Also flipping is not supposed to be this really rare thing that should not happen when rafting. I guess what does matter is where we flip.

As we approached Hell's hole I was kinda bored ( nothing much seemed to happen.. though there were one or two near misses from flipping) and I was sure we wont flip here. We managed to survive the rapid named - flipper ! With that thought in mind as we just entered the rapid, two of the guys(- the ones on the right front and right middle) . The two who sat opposite to them tried to get these people in and then came a huge fall in the river and the boat flipped. !

The first 6-10 seconds - I totally totally did not expect it. I still remember this period where I decided I was going to die. (Flipping is pretty common in rafting. I think the fall caught me totally unguarded. Then I realized I am near the far left of the river - exactly where I should not be. :-)....hence the mortal fear.)

10-45 seconds: This went in trying my best to battle and swim to the right. By the way, it sucks to swim with life jackets on. Atleast I found it hard. There is a force that constantly tries to hold u upright. I was tired of this force and could barely get myself to freestyle swim position - the only stroke I knew. The current was atleast around 20 miles/hr and there was NO way I could stop myself from drifting. I was too close to the left wall, the power house and all these places I was not supposed to be near. I panicked. I really really did.

45 seconds - 3 mins: My friend who was safely drifting (quite coolly smiling) towards the right most part shouted - " Don panic bey !" seeing my terrified face. He still laughs at how fear reigned supreme till he said that. After that I decided, I was going to do something about this rather than just panic and try to swim right. Once I started becoming calm, I realized I was just drifting rapidly and nothing else was happening. I realized my attempts had not gone totally a waste because I was right in the middle of the river now. (death averted !! )I tried slowly to swim towards the right and started thinking about a lot of things that I would not wanna blog about. :-)

3 min - 6 mins: This was an even better period. The current had slowed down but I was still far away from the other people in my team or my boat. I had by then decided my boat was not going to come to rescue me and I had to hang-on till some Magic force showed me the way. :-) I was not afraid. So, I was able to think. I did a lot of things like being in the position we are supposed to be in when we fall into rafting waters etc. and I managed some more swimming to the right. Then someone shouted - "Look back". I did. This was another rafting boat right behind me..

Got on it to it and came back.

No, neither am I unhappy cos I could have died nor am I proud that I survived. I just am thankful that I dint get thrown towards the left end of the river. There was a power house there. Turbines, pen-stock pipes -Those are not the things you wanna get into when you are an average swimmer.
Decided to raft every summer from now :-). It has been the best experience I have had till date. Simply the best. I was happy. It could have been better though.. Hmmm.

Favorite Quotes Updated...

Favorite Quotes Updated...

1) Easily the best....
Location: World Trade Center - Path Station.
"If you are bored in New York City, it is your problem..."

2) From "Rock On" movie...
Tum ho toh, gaaatha hai dil
Tum nahin, toh geet kahan..?
Tum ho toh, hai sab hasil
Tum nahin, toh kya hai yahan...

Tum ho toh, yahan sab bhi hai
Tum nahin, toh kaun yahan .....

3) Kevin Spacey in American Beauty...
"I am just an ordinary man, with nothing to lose..."

4) Anon
"Loneliness is not something to overcome, but something to live and come to terms with......"

5) The industry is all dirty and messed up. Why complain that your fingers smell, when you are trying to clean up ... - my boss @ work !!

"Yen kannu munnala ava enna maathitu irunthaa.. yen ulagatha maathitu iruntha..."

"Yen kannu munnala ava enna maathitu irunthaa.. yen ulagatha maathitu iruntha..."

(4.45 to 8.25.. .) - A great scene.. amazing BGM.. great lighting.... Really love it :-)....

Notice the BGM from 7.40.....

Truly truly amazing, i feel.

Inferences About Gautam Menon..

Inferences About Gautam Menon..

Being an ardent fan of Gautam, I have some inferences about his personal life purely drawan from his movies....

a) Argument: Gautam is from Aminjikarai/Trustpuram area.

Reasoning: Maddy is from Aminjikarai in Minnale. Surya is from Aminjikarai too in Kaaka Kaaka.(However, Ila is from Ashok Nagar..3714056 is his landline number and 2371- is Ashok Nagar Exchange...) Jothika's friend and Surya solve a land case in Trustpuram.

Yeah, I agree it might not be true but then I guess it could be true. Some kinda passion for associating toughness, manliness, crime with choolaimedu....

b) Argument: Gautam had his first (serious)girl friend in Adyar.

Reasoning: Reena Joseph - Cenatoph Lane, Maya - Kasturbai Nagar, Adyar. (Readers, am I missing out on Meghna's area ? )

c) Argument: Gautam has a deep hatred for MS in US or going to US for jobs.

Reasoning: Three powerful dialogues.

"US pora nu kelvi patten, Nalla vela thaaaney ? Perukra kazhuvra vela ?"

"Pothuva IIT la padicha US la nalla vela kediakkummey, neenga eppadi India la ?"

"Appadiye first class la pass panninaalum, inga ellam vanthu padichitu irukka maaten..."

(Actually more than 2-3 in just Vaaranam Aayiram)

More to follow....

Pursuit for a villain's name

Pursuit for a villain's name

--->This article might have content that is not exactly in good taste.

It happened a fortnight ago when we were driving to Atlantic City. As we were casually talking about a lot of irrelevant issues, the topic shifted to tamil cinema villains. We went ahead trying to appreciate different villains from AnandRaj to Senthaamarai and I thought of a villain...

That particular moment decided the topic of discussion for the rest of our journey. It was responsible for

a)4 ISD calls to India

b) waking up atleast 3 people who were in deep sleep.

c) calling up parents, uncles, aunts etc.

It lasted till we reached Atlantic city, stopped abruptly and started again on our way back. We were all sleep deprived (and money deprived.. we lost a lot except the pro gambler in our group who as usual won, in a different game though) and this was the topic which kept us wide awake.

Frankly, I had no idea about the villain's name. I was actually reminded of him 3-4 days before this whole journey was planned. So when someone was trying to guess Senthaamarai's name, I thought they were talking about this guy and thats how it all started.

Let me call him - X for now.

My clue to the group was... "dei, avanukku karumpulli-semmpulli kuthi, kazhuthaila ethuvaaanga da".Period..

Translated... He has a scene where "they will paint black and red dots all over him and shave his head and get him on to a donkey..."... This initiated a rather debatable thought process amongst the rest. I hardly knew any movies in which he had acted but that one scene had such an impact on me. One guy in the group convinced me he was the villain for Chinna Gounder(CG). I did not remember the face of the villain from CG and hence I believed it.

The other clues I gave include... "There is an inherent sarcasm in the way he speaks. He is thin. He has never worn pants(meaning only dhoti). Never spoken a word in english. Never involves in violence - he is the person who breeds enmity between best pals, brothers, cousins.. He is more of a Shakuni....(More of a 'strat'-villain)"

We all struggled. And then there was this other guy(for those who understand-babul), who suddenly realized who it was. The crucial clue being - Karumpulli semmpuli !. But he could only guess X as well as I could. We both exactly knew whom we were talking about. We had no idea about even a single movie he had acted in. We had no idea of the protagonists in any of his films. But we knew we were talking about the same guy. (I cant help but laugh even as I type this, when I m reminded of the joy I felt when I realized that one more guy knew this villain.)

Amidst discussions, we arrived at AC and the topic changed because Babul was under extraordinary pressure to attend a nature's call. We gambled(, lost, gave up and ) returned. On the way back the topic caught on.

Babul started mimicking the guy very well. He had no idea of the name though. I called up two of my friends in India who were basically confused about why I was calling them up after 1 year and asking them about a villain about whom I hardly knew anything. Babul called 3 of his friends and each of his friends asked his/her roomies too. The pro-gambler called up his friends in California at 10 am EDT on a saturday. !, his mom !!, his friends in India. We tried to tell them to google for X.(we had no idea about the search string though.... and we were pretty sure he wont be on google.). The other guy called his sister and this was truly turning out to be a multithreaded search.

But we were improving...nailing it to the same guy in the end. We all knew him. We all had seen his films. But we had no idea about any of these films except for the fact that X was the villain. We also were very proud that we would have been the first and the last people in the world to discuss X on the way to NJ from AC.

Then came the crucial clue by the Benjamin(motta) of our group. He was sure that this guy acted in this movie called - Aruvadai Naal. He was supposed to be Prabhu's dad in the movie.

We could not wait to get home to search for him on google.

We reached home and rushed to turn on the laptops. A lot of our search strings were useless returning hardly anything. Incidentally, Chinna Gounder's villain is Salim Ghouse who has a wiki page as well and ss quite famous, but he was not whom we were looking for.

Search strings included(but were not limited to):

a) Karum pulli semm puli villain

b) Tamil villain sarcastic voice

c) Villain Aruvadai Naal.

None of these strings gave us satisfactory results, though C) gave us some interesting hints. This guy was also the villain of Sarvam - a mid 90s horror film in tamil which was made quite decently. He was also the villain in Gabtain starring - Ezhai Jaathi. I had not seen sarvam and I had no idea about the veracity of the info. But I have seen Ezhai jaathi. (Seeing Ezhai Jaathi was the biggest mistake I did in the first half of my childhood I think.). But I was still clueless :-(. Another problem that we had when googling was because of this new movie - Sarvam . All google results relating to search string - Sarvam were about this new movie.

And then came the crucial hit on google. I do not know about the "punniyavaan" who posted this. But for him we would have gone nuts trying to figure out who the guy was. I leave it to the readers to see the link below and also enjoy his legendary dialogue...

Jayapradha says in elai jaathi:”...nan elaigalukaaaga padu pada poren…”…

legendary reply from X: "nee appurama paadupadu…ipa en koooda padu..”

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahaha.....

http://www.lazygeek.net/2009/04/who-is-the-best-baddie

When the Woodcutter's axe fable did not work....

When the Woodcutter's axe fable did not work....

This happened a week ago. It was a rainy day and with exams around the corner, rain did not stop me from going to the library. I had an umbrella with me when I entered the library. As soon as I entered, I was roaming around here and there taking printouts and finding a place to sit. I finally settled down and started youtube. ( Yeah, I came for studying....)

After about 2 hours (it was like 2 am), I realized my umbrella was missing. I went around searching for it in the places I was sitting initially before I settled down and I could not find it anywhere. Feeling rather annoyed for being so irresponsible, I was getting desperate to know it was safe somewhere. I went to the front desk guy who directed me to someone who was responsible for lost property on my level. I found that guy(Lynch) and he took me to the "lost property" room.

Then.....

Lynch: Is this your umbrella ? (He showed me a really new, nicely polished, black, sturdy umbrella. I was impressed but I was reminded of the Fable I had learnt when in kindergarden.)

Me: No....

Lynch: Is it this one ? (This time it was a ok-ok umbrella. Fairly new, black, long and sturdy.)

Me{(Soliloquy): "If I do accept this, it will be bad....".}: NO....

Lynch: It is this atleast ? ( This time, it was an old umbrella, barely a piece of cloth with some metal rods here and there to hold it against breeze( not winds).)

Me; No.....

That was it. ! There was no Goddess who came from the bookshelves in the library to give me all the three umbrellas :-(.

I have a feeling, I even looked around a bit to check if someone would just pop out and give all the three to me.... However, it did not happen and I was getting ready to leave cursing how I can never be careful.

At that moment........

Lynch: Hey, we should check out the shelf at the back. Hardly anyone uses it these days for lost property. But we should try.....

Me: (Eyes lit up).. Sure.......!

We walk to the room - a rather concealed place that I never knew had an entry point on the level we were in. We went in. He switched on the light.

And...... There it lay, silent, almost smirking at me... my 9 year old umbrella from India...... I was happy...

Quickly thanked him and walked back with almost an air of indomitable rudeness. {soliloquy:"I am sincere too......."}

An amazing scene....

An amazing scene....

Taylor:This is chemical burn.

(Jack's whole body JERKS. Taylor holds tight to Jack's hand and arm. Tears well in Jack's eyes; his face tightens.)

Taylor:It will hurt more than you've ever been burned and you will have a scar.

(Jack looks--the burn is swollen, glossy, in the shape of Tyler's kiss. Jack's face spasms)

JACK (V.O.):If guided meditation worked for cancer, it could work for this.

(SHOT OF A GREEN MAPLE LEAF, GLISTENING WITH DEW. RESUME:

Taylor looks as Jack's glazed and detached eyes.)

Taylor:Stay with the the pain, don't shove to center.

JACK:No!

Taylor:The first soap was made from the ashes of heroes. Like the first monkeys shot into space. Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing.

JACK (V.O.):I tried not to think of the words "searing" or "flesh".

(SHOT OF A FOREST, IN GENTLE SPRING RAINFALL. RESUME:

Jack, snapping back, tries to jerk his hand away. Taylor keeps holding to it and their arms KNOCK UTENSILS off the table. Taylor JERKS Jack's hands, getting Jack's attention.)

Taylor:Stop it! This is your pain -- this is your burning hand. It's right here! Look at it.

JACK:I'm going to my cave. I'm going to my cave to find my power animal!

(SHOT OF THE INSIDE OF JACK'S FROZEN ICE CAVE. RESUME:

Taylor JERKS Jack's hand again. Jack re-focuses on Taylor...)

Taylor:No, don't deal with this the way those dead people do. Come on!

JACK:I get the point, ok, please!

Taylor:No, what you're feeling is premature enlightenment.

.........................

Chennai da...

Chennai da...

Just happened to see the Chennai Super Kings Promo...
Have this feeling of extreme pride for having come from the Chennai.......... :-)



But personally last year's was way too good compared to this.

The way things just happen...

The way things just happen...

It is sometimes really weird to think of. Two people who are by all definitions strangers just meet in some circumstance and then they become the most important person in each others life from then. A day before it hardly would have mattered what that person had for dinner, what he/she wore, whether he/she is healthy.. etc. But then suddenly all this start becoming important.

A sense of enormity hits me hard when I think about this. So many people out there and a few lives suddenly matter so much to you. In one sense it seems unfair and in another it seems irrational.

The little time I am idle these days I spend thinking about what is the precise law that governs this. Could it be randomness ? Could it be Chaos Theory ? There must be something..................

Just cant stand these.... - Part 1

Just cant stand these.... - Part 1

Recently, the general level of hatred in me has increased tremendously for no particular reason. I am starting to hate actions that most people commonly do. One of them is uploading photos on orkut and facebook about conventionally popular places. ! I have come to completely detest photo sharing on public forums particularly when it involves these places - Times Square, Statue of Liberty, Eiffel Tower, etc etc. What exactly do people who post these wanna convey ? Most often it makes no difference to me if he/she slept at home that weekend or went to see the Great Wall of China. Why would people wanna show off that they have been to the most common famous tourist spots. ??? What would it take to explain to them that they are among the millions who do that everyday......I do not understand these people....

I would like to however, clearly mention that I am not against photo sharing in itself. If the photos are of places that are truly exotic or truly inconsequential then it is interesting. Some exotic places I loved to see on orkut and facebook(though I hardly knew people who visited these) include - NorthPole, Alaska...Crater Lake, Oregon( soon becoming popular hang out place.. but it is still exotic)....some irrelevant unpopular yet beautiful lake..... etc. One truly inconsequential photo is of the.. James Magic Show Walls in Chennai.......

Not that I truly care, but I hope people who post photos of their own presence in conventionally popular places and people who take every damn f**king quiz on facebook, would sooon get a life....

Facebook should certainly have a "Turn off updates on a) quizzes, b) Five things you would like to stick up your a**, c) mafia wars..." feature.

Enough hatred for a day.. Gud luck you losers. !

Anger ? Okay. Inopportune and mostly irrelevant Anger ? Not okay...!

Anger ? Okay. Inopportune and mostly irrelevant Anger ? Not okay...!

Found this online:

When a fireman sees a house on fire, he sounds an alarm, dons his turnout gear, bravely rescues the occupants and puts out the fire.

When an investment banker sees a house on fire, he quietly sells the burning house short, uses the proceeds to buy a larger house for himself and, when someone suggests that his taxes be raised to help the homeless, he rails against the dangers of socialism.

People are very angry. I understand. I do not approve of it though. Every system has its villains. Every temple its atheist. Every Wall St. its indifferent banker.
Exceptions exist. AIG is not representative of every financial institution. If you spill food in the kitchen and leave it without cleaning and blame the cockroaches later, is that fair ?
There was a hedge fund inside AIG. ! Why did not the officials have regulation enough to restrain the exposure an insurance company can take ?


Spill more food, force yourself not to see it and blame evolution and organic chemistry for having produced cockroaches. Do not let neighbors with better insecticides to clean it. And do all this when you are instructed to do so by a foreigner himself. - Way 2 go.

1977: Multiple roles in Continuous time

1977: Multiple roles in Continuous time

1977 reminds me of 1984 only because 1977 in itself a dystopian fiction about how bad movies can get if in the hands of wrong people. 1977 is a Sarath Kumar starring action sequence thriller - a story that goes 2 time zones away to explain a seemingly complicated conundrum packed with unintended humor, intolerable romance, inaccurate science and pure irrationality. This is Sarath's reply to Kamal's Dasavathaaram. Kamal played just ten roles in his movie but Sarath has played his roles in continuous time in this movie and not discrete time. So you can say he played 'n' roles as n-> infinity. In simpler terms, theoretically he has infinite roles in the movie. Every day you can see a Sarath thoroughly inconsistent with his previous actions and this I think is a breakthrough of unprecedented magnitude. After all, for the first time in World Cinema an actor has played infinitely many roles ranging from scientist to sarpanch head to what-not.. !

It is unfair though (given the number of male leads) that the movie has just two lead female protagonists who both compete in trying to seduce our celibate Sarath. Both females have tried their best to show off how going to VLCC wont work with their yucky flabby ponches. God knows why even this is considered glamor. Namitha should seriously be asked to starve for 2 months. She ll be okay hopefully then. How long is our Sarath going to do it with Namitha in front of the camera !. Isnt he bored.. ? The other female is meant for a head-on-collision with sarath and rolling 8 steps over a period of 8 hrs in extremely slow slow-motion technology.

The intro scene has the classic shoe-to-oiled hair bit slice camera angle opening. However when you expect a fight, the hero here(one of the infinitely many saraths) adopts a Ahmisa strategy and threatens to immolate himself if the anti social elements do not stop troubling the village. It is at that point that you start laughing and you ll go on laughing till the interval -the climax is so predictable that you would have actually laughed over it during the interval itself.

Riddled with planned punches, irrelevant multiple actions, inconsistent logic and unnecessary song sequences - the movie is at its best when you sit with a gang of 4+ friends and laugh your ass off. It is a must watch. Don miss it.

1977:aayrathi tholayarathi ezhuvathi ezhu verum seru.

'Na illi choosi nannu mechu.....'

'Na illi choosi nannu mechu.....'

HAHAHAHAHA :-)
ROTFLOL !!!!!!!!!!!

'Anthatlo maarenu rituvulaaa ' .... Yes, certainly, If I continue blogging like this. :-)

How motivational crap can help .....

How motivational crap can help .....

January 26th, 2009 was a day when 72,000 jobs were cut in US and Europe(alone). Yes, on a single day... I personally think it has been the worst till date in the last 11 months I have been following the recession.

Everyone I know here is really frustrated and once in a while the plug they have to hold their frustration within gets ruptured. What follows is a series of medical conditions best termed "Trauma". The Jan 26th news ruptured mine.

Being completely clueless on how I should handle it, I came up with a decent line to repeat to myself over and again: "Tell yourself you are lucky....."
I started hunting for what could make me feel good.
30L INR loan ? No..
The great GPA ? No..
Then ?
And then it struck me.....

I am studyin something now called "Implied Volatility Smile" as a subject and it was developed by Dr. Emanuel Derman and Dr. Iraj Kani. (google on them sometime)..They actually developed a mathematical model for this observed phenomenon in Stock Options with their own hands :-) It is one of the most popular and almost indispensable models ever developed in modern finance and now everyone uses it or atleast a variant of it..

And guess what, I m learning this concept from the exact same people.. Dr Derman and Dr. Kani(for a different subject though..).
:-) I really think God has been unbelievably lavish in giving me this chance .. :-) Seriously...

Every lecture is like Newton telling : " So the apple fell on my head. I started thinking what could be the reason. I decided it must be because the earth was pulling the apple towards it. I decided there must be a law governing this and so I came up with the Law of Gravitation" ....

Notice the bolded text : "I" s and "Me" s... :-) .. Yes, first person account ! awesome right ?
They do not use these pronouns as much as I have used them above. Infact, they never do. May be that modesty is what made them so successful. But at times, casually such usage does spurt out and the feeling you get is way too complicated to explain. :-)

Wanna end with a quote from Matrix: "Hope.. The quintessential human delusion. Simultaneously the source of their greatest weakness and strength.."

Damn the 2007-08 crisis.

Why ?

Why ?

Suddenly, as I was cleaning up all the crap in my room, I realized that I had more mint (that was given free through career fairs) than anything else !

Why do Financial firms do this ? 'Halitosis' prevention so that people can sit close by without any problem and crib over the billions of $ lost and the thousands they are gonna bid farewell to ?

Pisses me off.. Seriously.!

Cooking Tip !

Cooking Tip !

When you are making Rotis, make sure you do not start eating till you are done preparing. If you start multitasking (i.e., eating and cooking simultaneously), then, you ll lose count and eat more than what you generally consume. :-D

(Kick start)-ing 2009

(Kick start)-ing 2009

First blog in 2009.. It was in my mind that it should be not about something I have blogged till date. For the last 18 days I have searched everywhere for blog topics - in the activities I do, places I visited, frustrations I handled, problems I discussed, sites I visited etc. Nothing seemed really different. And as I almost decided I am gonna blog on 'thinking about blogging on multifarious topics', I hit on something interesting. Here it goes....

There is some buzz now amongst FE students here about this tv show - 'House MD'. At some level I have only liked Friends, Seinfeld and (more recently) Big Bang Theory amongst the popular shows here. However, I wanted to give this a try just because of all the talk & I started watching it.

I should say I really love it :-). It is really tough to bring out a character as complex as House (yeah, thats a character) in a tv show. I am all admiration for this now and that brings me to this blog. True to the above rambling the dialogue is about something I havent blogged till date.
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(two doctors who are kinda in a relationship discuss this.....)

Cameron: I was just being glib.

Chase: You haven’t said anything.

Cameron: No, before when I was talking about Brandon’s girlfriend thinking sex could kill you. I was just making a joke because I was uncomfortable.

Chase: Oh, I don’t even remember what you said.

Cameron: I’m uncomfortable about sex. [Chase turns quickly.]

Chase: Well, we don’t have to talk about this…

AND:
Cameron: "Sex… could kill you. Do you know what the human body goes through when you have sex? Pupils dilate, arteries constrict, core temperature rises, heart races, blood pressure skyrockets, respiration becomes rapid and shallow, the brain fires bursts of electrical impulses from nowhere to nowhere and secretions spit out of every gland, and the muscles tense and spasm like you’re lifting three times your body weight. It’s violent, it’s ugly, and it’s messy, and if God hadn’t made it unbelievably fun… the human race would have died out eons ago. "

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Interesting ? Worth all the intro I gave ? Atleast I think it is. :-)

Oh yeah, Happy New year ~!