China regulates Buddhist reincarnation

This is really hilarious. This jams my brain with such "nothingness" that I am speechless. I'd rather act as a linker to Scott Adam's amusing post on this.

The beginning of the end of this blog

In a couple of weeks, I begin a new life. My life in school. It has been an exciting albeit a "sweat" and "tears" journey all this while. I can't say I enjoyed all of it but I definitely feel fulfilled with my outcome. And as I transition, I have finally come to terms that I will not be writing here for long. People who know me well - know that I have a more professional-like blog going on and I am going to move on with that. There is always a sense of joy, a sense of longing, a sense of pathos all attached when something gets completed. So here it is. I am going to declare this adventure with my blog complete, by the end of this month. Those of you have regularly read this space - thank you so much for being a part in my life. Thanks for all the offline sharing. Good luck and Good Bye!

Reminiscing Auden in face of school

As I begin school in a month, I am reminded of these lines from a W.H. Auden poem. The lines were set in bold by me - lines that hit my strongest chord.

Thou shalt not do as the dean pleases,
Thou shalt not write thy doctor’s thesis
On education,
Thou shalt not worship projects nor
Shalt thou or thine bow down before
Administration.

Thou shalt not answer questionnaires
Or quizzes upon World-Affairs,
Nor with compliance
Take any test. Thou shalt not sit
With statisticians nor commit
A social science.

Thou shalt not be on friendly terms
With guys in advertising firms,
Nor speak with such
As read the Bible for its prose,
Nor, above all, make love to those
Who wash too much.

Thou shalt not live within thy means
Nor on plain water and raw greens.
If thou must choose
Between the chances, choose the odd;
Read The New Yorker, trust in God;
And take short views.