TOW .... eye of the tiger

So I was watching Rocky III today .
I've loved the whole series .

But the thing abt all Rocky movies is that u always know wats going to happen :

rocky always has to lose the first time - then he gets all the motivational talk - then he starts training really hard ( wit the eye of the tiger theme as the back score) - the scene rite after the ending of the training is always the final match - rocky has to lose initially - and gets beaten up so badly , u can hardly make out his eyes - and then Adrian shouts "rooooockkkkyyy " - and the eye of the tiger theme starts again , in a slow tempo - and tats signal for the italian stallion to kick ass - in the next 5 mins all we can see is rocky giving blows after blows - left , right , right again and centre - and then obviously he wins !!


And every time I watch Rocky or a boxing match .... it makes me wonder.
How do u think they came up wit this sport ?
Invite two strangers on the stage and ask them to beat the crap out of each other !!
And thats a sport .
And they are random people ... strangers ... not people who know and have anything against each other !!

Seinfeld once proposed :
" Let them bring their cars on the stage . They bang into each other , get all mad , and start hitting each other . See now that makes more sense "

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And then there is “the pep talk” .
they always give that before the fight .
( and if ya notice , they always say it twice , incase the fighter dint get it the first time )

" you are the best mac , u r the best "
" u are gonna kill him jack , u r goin to kill him "
" eye of the tiger man , eye of the tiger "

A question : after a couple of defeats dont these boxers like realize that they are not "the best" , and does the pep talk really work ?! I mean do they ever realize that its all fake ?


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And wats with all the aggressive talk ?!
I've heard its meant to scare off the opponent or something .
On the contrary , I feel it pisses him off , and you don’t want that wen u are goin to fight him , now do you ?

" I'm goin to eat u alive "
" You are dead meat "

“ ok hold it big guy , i don think u read UR copy of the rulebook !! “
“ Eat me alive !! wait a min , I dint agree to that !”

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The funniest part is the pleasantries after the match .
They always have the customary hug and sporty talk .
You wanted the man dead a minute back , but now u have to be all pal-y pal-y .
That’s the nature of this game .

" hey good game tom . hope i dint hurt ya "

" congrats man ! and hurt me ? no u did not . sure I’ve a fractured rib cage , my eye socket is now a squishy mess , a few teeth and one ear is missing , the nose and spine are one now , and my brain is prolly protecting the skull .... but I'm fine !! ... and hey good game man "

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So I don’t think I’ll ever understand Boxing .
But watever said and done , its a great sport .
And I love watching it , or fighting it out wit a virtual opponent who's always big but too weak for me .
And yes , I ve had a couple of not-so-good experiences trying out a few stunts ( alone , sometimes wit the wall , sometimes the mirror , often wit the pillows ) , but I'm learning to act 21 ( and hide the bruises well !! ) .

TOW .... HIS-story

the first human emerged 35,000 yrs back .
(ok obviously , it was a set of humans , and not a single guy , but for ease of writin/readin ... in this post i'm addressing them collectively and using singularity )

so yeah ... the first one emerged 35K yrs back .
for the next 30,000 yrs , he lived peacefully .
he had simple goals in life : hunt - eat - sleep - have sex . period

the more he did the last one , the more he liked IT .
but with all the hunting and climbing and running around the jungles , he couldnt have enough of IT .
so he started cultivating , giving him more time to do IT .
now he shud have been happy wit his life rite ?
his simple life of : cultivate - eat - sleep - have sex . period

but noooo . our man , was greedy . he wanted to do more of IT .
which meant more time . so he started engineering simple mechanical tools , that could aid him in his agri biz and give him more time for doing IT .
by now he shud have really controlled his greed , stopped anymore development , and enjoyed his peaceful-happy-content-simple life of : cultivate wit tools - eat - sleep - have sex . period

but noooo , he got so obsessed wit doing more of IT , that in order to generate time , he started creating more and more tools , until the whole automation bizness ( the whole point of which was to reduce effort and create time to do IT ) ended up taking more time than his primary activity of doing IT .
also wit all the doin IT that he did , he produced more of his own kind , that brought organizational and control problems .

soon his simple happy life was infested with horrible inventions like : religion , education , money , ego , pride , profits , classes , territories ....

then came 1700 AD . the Industrial Revolution happened .
34,700 yrs after he emerged for the first time .

and in the next 300 yrs , he created the darnest things .
things that dont even remotely support the cause of 'him doin IT' .

for instance ... he studied light . and tortured it until it got confused about its own identity . now the poor thing walks about roads , drunk , singing , " i'm a wave , may be a particle , who am i ? sine and cos , or photons my boss " !!

he split the poor little electron , studied all the mess of crap that was inside it , and made mathematical equations that no-one understands to define it !! the electron itself for one definitely does not understand it .

Now the world has to live with -> Schrödinger’s wave equation , deBroglie's theorem , wave convolutions , Fermat’s theorem , relativity , azhimutals quantam numbers , jacobian derivatives , markovian models , quantum foam , organic chemistry , hindu rituals , christian preachers , meaningless politics , hot beer , britney spears , mega k-serials , being a non-IITian , sop , reco letters , visa problems , heoretical education , chicks who wont give in , sadistic teachers , anna university exams ...


its funny to even think that , to start of with , all this had to do with something as simple as :
EATing , SLEEPing and DOing IT !!

TOW... The Lab

Of all the ridiculously funny things tat happen in TN colleges , its the lab hours that fascinate me the most !
In a perfect world , lab classes are conducted ancillary to the coursework , where the student gets to apply all the stuff he read in books during the theory hrs .
but then again as Michael Keaton put it in Batman ... " its not a perfect world " !

In the imperfect world that we live in , the lab hrs function in funny ways :

> key to success - HARD WORK , PATIENCE , OPEN-NETWORK and a GIRL :

lab is the place where we show our skills in maths , bottom-up-tracking algorithms , acting , and copying .
you start with the result that you are meant to get . then work backwards acting as if u are on the verge of getting it . then u act as if u are observing what u were meant to observe , whilst u do some fast math trying to calculate how u can tarnfsorm the thing that u did observe to the thing u were supposed to .
but all this hard work has to be done only till the sophomore year . after that u just let the smartest girl ( both words equally important ) , do the work for everyone . Like the old adage goes : Behind every successful lab hr , there is a smart girl !

> the LAB COAT :

it must have been the last working neuron on the guy's knee that invented the "lab coat" !
what exactly is the purpose of it again ?

the chem lab .
its supposed to apparently protect one from harmful malicious chemicals !!
wen i say 'one' , i mean one's clothes !
i got no gloves ... fine
i got no eyeshields ...fine
i know squat abt chemistry ... fine
i got no lab coat ... YOU get out of the lab !

i cud burn my hand ... ah who cares ; the chemicals can blow up on ur face ... oh its no good anyways ; the fire mite melt my eyeballs ... get new ones .
the shirt ...oh no no , not the shirt ! thats a fine shirt . Come-on , protect it with THE lab coat !

the physics lab .
Oh c'mmon , who do you think is going to shield us from that evil spectrometre , and tat crazy laser machine thats going about splitting students into half .
ans : the aegis of a modern day knight . the LAB coat .

the electrical lab .
working on machines that use 220 freaking volts of electricity without a LAB coat ? ... Are u freakin' kidding me ?!

the cs lab (!!)
{ luckily i dont have this rather embarassing system in my coll , but i've friends , who know friends , who have to go thru this ordeal }
see wearing the lab coat wen with the computers is for camoflague , so that in the event that they eventually do evolve into smarter creatures and become our masters , they wont know which one of us had screwed them up .


> OBSERVATON :

a colloquial word for a note book where u are meant to record , what u obsereve . and the profs generally dont like it , wen the object of ur observation are chicks .
there are rules :
- u must write the program . the same program that took you two hours to either locate on a diff computer and cut-paste , or code(which never happens) . the same program that you anyway will later take a printout of . copy each word , screen to notebook . tats the spirit of engineering ... complicating simple things .
- the book has to be unruled . no arguments . thats the way it is !
- the left side must be kept blank . sure a million trees were felled in making them , causing floods and hurricanes and temp rises and a whole bunch of other horrible horrible things , but the important thing is that u leave that damn page blank !

>RECORD :

dont go by its name . its not a place where u record ur observation . cuz , its the observation where u have to record ur observation . and once u record ur observation in the observation , u have to record it in the record .
so in short it is where u redundantly record what u record(ed) in the observation after ur observation in the lab . i hope its clear now .

no ? see i told u labs are funny places to be in !