Hmmm... finally there!

So finally, the day is here, and I am 18. Although there is some inconsistency in this, which is based on the fact that I am still 19 and a half hours approximately form reaching that magical age. Well, if that really mattered, and I was so fussed up, I would rather take into account even the months spent in my mother's tummy.

All that aside, today was a very different birthday; away from my parents for the first time. Away from the cradle that I was being brought up in. I am reading the birthday card my parents' sent me, and I am beginning to realise that now is totally a diffenrent period of my life. I am finally an adult, I can be voted for ( yeah, well thats just a little out of the usual ' I can vote' funda) but more or less my equations in life have transformed incredibly the past year.

Even if this might seem too philosophical, I would want you to understand the enormity in our daily lives of the following few lines.
For the first time in my life, have I experienced such a society of people (yes, in IIT Kanpur), who judge people on the basis of their academic prowess, who disrespect the simplicity in science as much as they appreciate its complexity which they cannot dare reach; who ridicule people on their intelect and who like to maintain a gung-ho image (yes, that's what was repeatedly coming into my mind) and dwell in the upper strata of the social hierarchy here on the basis of their "superior knowledge". If you are starting to feel, that I might be having an inferiority complex, let me gaurantee you that I dont becuase I completely believe that the force is within me (however funny that might seem), and so will people tell you who know me well. What I do believe in is "simplicity of philosophy". You could say that simplicity in itself is a subset of this larger set. The point is, where is the simplicity in thought, in relationships, in social image, that Einstien and Newton so beautifully demonstarted when developing the Theory of Relativity and the Principal of gravitation in this society? These people who do not believe in simplicity are simply amateurish philosophers and scientists.

On a lighter note, this was a very interesting birthday, simply becuase I blew candles after, what, 13 years. Hopefully, this year is going to be a very interesting year, and for all the right reasons. I look forward to spending these summers and I have charted a few areas of interest that I would like to pay attention to in these very exciting summers just a month away.

1) Thermodynamics & Relativity
2) Non Linear Optics
3) Visual C++, Windows programming, assembly language programming, hacking for fun
4) Guitaring

And ofcourse, these are not in any preferential order.