me

Hey a new post! Congratulations to me! WTF

So whats in store for today. A friend of mine asked me to send her a list of my likes and dislikes. I was like wtf you just dont send it to someone like that unless that someone is a counselor or something. But i do do it and i end up writing 2 long emails, one each for likes and dislikes. I Copy+Paste them on MSWord and using word count i find that they are respetively 280 and 296 word long "lists" each of what i like and not like. Lists in form of descriptive paragraphs. heres my intro cont'd (copy+pasted parts from my email):

likes:

i like food, a lot, i eat like a fat man, but i still am real thin

i like music. a freaking lot. i learnt the guitar for a month then had to drop it , and i didnt start it again for some reason. but i have a knack of picking up tunes and beats.

but music..listening to it is my life. mostly rock music, doesnt have to be heavy. mainly the sub-genres derived from european culture. or derived from 60's to 80's american rock and grunge .

even when im writing an exam, one can catch my foot tapping away at some beat or the other,

i am inquisitive. always wanting to know the why and the how once i know the what. if i find a topic interesting..whatever the subject maybe, economy, food, culture, computers and gadgets, music.. ill go back home and google it. even the etymology of a word. thats why i like that norman lewis book so much.

but my fav topics to research on are culture, psychology, geography, music and technology..

i like to read books...mystery novels...sci-fi that are not too scientificy..horror, .

almanacs and atlases big time... i have 8 world atlases and im gonna get more.

i like travelling. i've parasailed once, and want to go paragliding and bungee jumping and sky diving and all those crazy adrenaline sports.

i like helping ppl. like motivating and talking and stuff.

dislikes:

i dont like hypocrisy. well who does. but especailly this thing which i see in India a lot. People try to mimic the west a freaking lot. and that turns me of. be what you are. if you arent american or british or aussie or whatever, who said its fad to monkey one and sound even stupider?

that turns me off big time...be what you are..have faith in your culture, your identity, your self.

another thing ..i've written thins on facebook as well. Im intolerant to intolerance. The latter case refers to the fact that ppl cant accept others for their beliefs. And that turns me off. Even if a guy is praising me over another cuz im brahmin and hes not or some shit like that...,,

I mean the guy is what he is. Even if he is gay or bisexual or whatever. i beleive in equal rights of these guys. glbt as they call them.

i dotn like plagiarism. if Person A has put his heart and soul into sometjhing and Person B takes it up and takes up most or all of it for his own..that i hate.

copying assignments are differnet. you dont put your heart and soul into it. but when you copy a 15 page research paper and take it as your own..thats fucked up.

and i hate narrow mindedness. similar to second dislike really. but when you just cant accept somethjing or are not ready to even listen to another persons thot on a topic,..thats wrong.

Ok, so i got the devil part, but what about the thinker?

Assuming that you want to know the answer to this question (because if u didnt want to know, then u wouldn't have visited my blog in the first place, and if by now my blog is large, u wouldnt have clicked on 'about me' if u didnt want to know abt me)

 the question is well, answered above. Reading the thing in the parenthesis shows that i think a lot.

So, yeah, I think a lot.

I think about why the shape of India is the way it is today,  and why we are stupidly enemies with every bordering nation, 

i think about why Italians are meant to be fashionable while some of my lecturers dress hideously,

I think about why should non-vegetarianism be followed, i think about how seeing a naked Pamela Anderson will help more people become vegetarians.(she is a big -no pun intended-vegetarian, you know.)

I think about why politicians in india are so corrupt, and why Eskimos in Alaska dont give a shit abt politics in india. Or rather, y most ppl in gujarat dont give a shit abt any thing beside their textbooks. 

I think about the psychology of serial killers, the evolution of computers, the serenity of new zealand, the evolution of mankind, if god is there or not, of why ppl fight over religions, of the mentality of terrorists

and blah blah blah. I am always in thought, whether it is a puzzle, a political problem, a technical one, or just how i will manage to complete all my work in time.

I think. That's the reason why i put up the useless knowledge widget on my blog and will put up other thought provoking widgets later on.

So yes, i sit and think, and many times just like the guy in the picture. (well not naked, but ya like on the toilet waiting for the crap to come out, i got crap in my head as i count the tiles on my bathroom wall thinking that i may come up with the next Ramanujan's number, or maybe i  contemplate the excretory system itself, and then i miss the bus for college ;)

Numero Uno

Ah. so this is it. This is my first blogpost. 

My name is Dhaval, but I sometimes like to stick to Devil - that was how this cute girl used to pronounce my name in middle school; unfortunately, i frgt her name :(

Anyway, "Devil" sorta fits my persona. Few people know my EXTREMELY high temperament, but those who do, know that i am a seemingly dormant volcano that can abruptly come alive and can obliterate anything in its path when something shakes its base. 

I get hyper whenever someone questions my reasoning, or ignores my opinion, but am peaceful otherwise. I found this volcano analogy irrelevant the first time a friend mentioned it, but as i thought about it more and more, i found it amusing, and yes, highly relevant. 

I can transform from calm waters, preoccupied in in trying to find the solution of a problem, to  your worst satanic nightmare when u least expected it. You throw a rock or two in these waters, and it wont just create ripples on the surface, not even waves; a god damned tsunami may just washout even the possiblity of a healthy conversation.

But if you steer away from these disturbances, or help keep the water calm, i can be a saint, an advisor, a teacher, a friend.

Its a weakness, i know, and i try to keep that demonic volcano within me peaceful. 

But anyhoo (thats not a typo), thats me.