zvaH mama pariikSaa asti

I have the examination tomorrow

You might think what the hell is this guy doing blogging when he is supposed to be studying but... Goddammit I'm getting bugged with these exams, hopefully these are my last set of exams I will ever have to write in my life!!!
09 more days to go... my college life to end forever... I'm a student no more... But Dammit!! I'm still grumbling about these stupid god damned exams still, can't help it, I'm still a student after all and what does every student (When I mean student, I mean people like me and not people who get a high studying for exams) do best, grumble and curse about exams, tests, assignments and the most irritating thing of them all Attendance, now which guy in his right mind at the age of 24-25 will want to sit inside class, when I couldn't do that when I was 16 don't you think it is a bit too much to expect me to sit in the class 9 years on??!!!!

And now back to the topic of the day.. Exams... Why is it necessary to write and exam, why can't I just submit a project report or a case study and get it done with???
Top it all I'm supposed to be in an Autonomous institute!! Pooh!! Tell you what these guys just want to drain me off all my active brain cells before they send me out of this place... Every time I see my classmates discuss the paper after the exam I feel like throttling the first person whom I can get hold of and invariably it happens to be Maha and dammit!! for the life of me I can't do that, especially to that woman, now take Chotu, MAN!! is he my soul mate or what, it's always been a permanent competition between the two of us.. Who comes out first from the exam hall?

My college has gone to the extent that when a couple of visiting professors didn't want exams and wanted to give assignments and projects, the management expressly forbade that and had them set question papers, reason... University Norms, what the hell is that Autonomous supposed to mean, Hello guys you are supposed to decide and not run back to the bureaucrats every time.

Oh! forget it I can keep going on like this but the books are beckoning to me like sirens!! OK agreed, bad analogy, they never were or will ever be so attractive as the mythological sirens that called out to Ulysses (It's him rite??), but I think you got the point, gotta go bury my nose in there.

Until then Ciao!!

Why Women Fall For Mr. Average

This article is inspired by a comment in my post Why Men Fall In Love - Sara hope this is a start

High-flying men are not as attractive to women looking for love as those with an average job, scientists say.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the University of Central Lancashire research found the 186 female students asked preferred good-looking men.

But within that group, those without top careers were deemed most suitable, the Personality and Individual Differences journal reported.

The team said women seemed to feel high-flyers would not be good fathers.

Lead researcher Simon Chu said the high-earning career men were deemed to be "too good to be true".

"Under particular circumstances, high socio-economic status in males can be subtly counter-productive in terms of attractiveness as a long-term partner.

"We suggest that females see physically attractive, high status males as being more likely to pursue a mating strategy rather than a parenting strategy."

Using photographs of 60 men in their 20s, researchers asked students to rate them on a physical attractiveness scale.

Six from the good looking group, six considered average and six judged unattractive were then selected.

Profession

Alongside each photograph they added information on the man's age, what he was looking for in a partner and their profession.

The professions included high-status jobs such as architects and company directors, medium-status positions such as teachers or travel agents and so-called lower-status roles such as gardeners and postmen.

The researchers found that purely on looks, the best-looking men were assessed as the best partners.

But within this group, when professions were taken into account, those good-looking men with medium status jobs came out top.

Ingrid Collins, a consultant psychologist at the London Medical Centre, agreed potential parenting and providing skills were important.

"I think there will always be a pattern where women will take the lead in caring for the children.

"Because of this they will tend to go for someone who can look after and provide for their family."

This article was found during my search in google in the pages of BBC News

kuTumbaka

Family


The reason why I picked on this word is because I love my family more than anything else in this world, for that matter who doesn't???

I picked on this video to start of this topic is because no matter what function a family or rather a dynasty get's together nothing can beat the get together of a family for a marriage and if that marriage is appreciated by everyone, in the sense agreed to by everyone then nothing like it, the celebration can go on for days together. It is but obvious that in India, till recently, atleast marriage was not just the union of two people, it was, and in most parts, still is merging/union of two dynasties

Now before I start off I will as is my wont give you other words that mean family

paricaara
parivaara
jaati
vyapadeza
vaMza
kuTumba
gotra
kula

Although words like kula, jaati, vamZa and gotra have been used to connote things that I don't personally agree with, I believe people initially used it only to connote the word Family
I was unlucky that I missed 3 such weddings in my family all due to my education, they would definitely have been festivals of joy.

I used the video of Murari to show the happiness of the entire family because of the wedding, in this scene the hero and heroine are related to each other and thus the wedding is in the presensce of the entire extended family of first and second cousins which is just magical especially if you can understand the language.

Each gRahajana (member of the family) enjoys the wedding without any other thoughts hampering their happiness, the joy of all these ppl is a sight to see, only a person who has been in a wedding with his/her parents, siblings, cousins, aunts and uncles will know how it feels.

In today's world we seem to be living niSkula and nirvaMza(i.e, without a family) although we do meet on occasions or holidays the feel of living in the same place is too good. Which is the precise reason why I miss my childhood days when we lived as an extended family and all relatives used to visit us regularly, but then marriages, careers and life in general drove all of us apart, not that I regret them leaving but I do regret them not being there, I would definitely like to meet all of them in one place, there was an opportunity recently on my niece's wedding to do that but alas!!! EXAMS the biggest bane of any student destroyed that chance.

I believe most people of my generation and my senior generations know the pride and joy of being a kaulika(belonging to the family), the pride with which I say I'm a Durbha is something I will never forget or let go.

I believe some day, preferrably my sister's wedding and my wedding I will be
mama parivaareNa saha (with my family) and I will post the pic with pride and joy

Until then
ciraM jiiva - May thy family be blessed with good health
tvaM gaccha - May thy family be blessed with good health and longevity