"Whoa! How big a lock hanging from the door! What would probably happen if I hit the examiner on his head with it?"
"How could someone possibly carry a pink colored bag?"
"What would be the dinner at the hostel mess today? Try remembering from the menu! Try hard!"
"How could Nazriya agree to marry someone like Fahad though he is a good actor? She definitely deserves someone younger and with more hair, perhaps!"
"Wow! The girl sitting nearby seems to be good at drawing. She also seems good looking. Why don't I borrow her eraser? I could return it with a smile and start up a conversation later probably. Do it! Don't do it! Do it! No! Do it! What would she think? It's just an eraser! Do it! No! Do it! Oh darn! She has completed the exam!"
These were a few among the hundred thoughts that were occupying my mind as I sat in the exam hall today, completely clueless to the bullet that had been fired at me in the form of 'Genomics and Proteomics' question paper.
I generally find many people panicking the moment they realise that they are not aware of the answers for the questions asked in the question paper. I honestly find this reaction of people baffling. It might sound weird but my happiest moment after receiving any question paper would definitely be the moment when I realise that I don't know most of the questions, let alone answers, that have been asked in the question paper which occurs very often in my case.
The reason I get excited - I can think about anything I want in the exam hall, without a single person questioning me, because exam halls are meant for that, aren't they?
Normally, at any other place, when I keep staring pointlessly thinking about some random thought, people always question me as to what I am thinking about. And when I reply that it is just some useless thought, they never agree. Should a person always think only meaningful thoughts? Most of the thoughts that crowd my head are completely random and meaningless. And I enjoy it most of the time. Thinking about Samantha and moving to Siddharth and travelling to Surya's 'Michael' via Aayutha Ezhuthu and jumping to a student revolution in the political arena and reaching communism to finally end at Che Guevara - doesn't the train ride of the mind seem fascinating?
A similar train of thought blew my mind as I sat in the exam hall today. As I looked at the question - 'Explain in detail about the human genome and its contents' - my mind began to wander imagining how I would feel if I came to know about the diseases that I would be facing 20 years later if my genome sequence could be completely examined and analysed. And for some inexplicable reason, my thought process shifted to AIDS (completely weird, right?) and as I kept thinking about AIDS, the train automatically reached the station of Matthew McConaughey. As a few scenes of his fantastic acting as an AIDS affected electrician in Dallas Buyers Club ran past my mind, 'True Detective' stuck me like a lighting bolt. And as I kept recollecting some of Matthew McConaughey's thought-provoking dialogues in the series, the thoughts came to a halt at the 'M-Brane theory' explained by him in a fabulous scene. For a few minutes as my mind kept circling round and round the 'M-Brane theory', it suddenly took a leap to the 'Superstring theory' and as I thought about the 4 fundamental forces, the thought process gradually shifted to the 'Space-Time continuum' and Einstein's statement hit me - "Gravity is the glitch in the space-time continuum". As the statement kept reverberating, along came Matthew McConaughey's dialogue from the series - "Souls in the other dimension generally see time as a flattened parameter and not a linear one as it is supposed to be" and as these two statements combined along with the Space-Time continuum and the Superstring theory, an unexpected revelation hit me. If gravity was the glitch in the Space-Time continuum and souls in the other dimension could view time as a flattened parameter, could the Space-time conundrum be resolved probably for the other dimension and most importantly, was the 'gravity-glitch-in-the-continuum' the reason behind our Tamil filmmakers showing ghosts without legs in most of the horror films??!!!!
My mind went blank for a moment. And as the thoughts started crowding again, I thought about the revelation I had had and thought about its magnitude. After a moment of self-appreciation, I couldn't help but let out a hearty laugh. What a scientific explanation for the 'ghosts-without-legs' phenomenon!
And as I controlled myself from laughing out loud in the exam hall, I looked down at my answer sheet. It was filled up to halfway with an answer for a two-mark question. I read the answer I had written. And I couldn't control myself from letting out a chuckle.
The answer seemed absurd than my thought process!
For a moment I thought about how my professor would feel when he corrected my answer sheet and an endearing warmth filled my heart.
And I placed my pen on the answer sheet to write down another absurd answer. But I stopped. Who cared about the answer?
I started my thought process again. I wanted to see if I could probably get the answer as to why Tamil filmmakers placed a mole on the actor's face when they wanted him in disguise!
The thought process is still in motion.
"How could someone possibly carry a pink colored bag?"
"What would be the dinner at the hostel mess today? Try remembering from the menu! Try hard!"
"How could Nazriya agree to marry someone like Fahad though he is a good actor? She definitely deserves someone younger and with more hair, perhaps!"
"Wow! The girl sitting nearby seems to be good at drawing. She also seems good looking. Why don't I borrow her eraser? I could return it with a smile and start up a conversation later probably. Do it! Don't do it! Do it! No! Do it! What would she think? It's just an eraser! Do it! No! Do it! Oh darn! She has completed the exam!"
These were a few among the hundred thoughts that were occupying my mind as I sat in the exam hall today, completely clueless to the bullet that had been fired at me in the form of 'Genomics and Proteomics' question paper.
I generally find many people panicking the moment they realise that they are not aware of the answers for the questions asked in the question paper. I honestly find this reaction of people baffling. It might sound weird but my happiest moment after receiving any question paper would definitely be the moment when I realise that I don't know most of the questions, let alone answers, that have been asked in the question paper which occurs very often in my case.
The reason I get excited - I can think about anything I want in the exam hall, without a single person questioning me, because exam halls are meant for that, aren't they?
Normally, at any other place, when I keep staring pointlessly thinking about some random thought, people always question me as to what I am thinking about. And when I reply that it is just some useless thought, they never agree. Should a person always think only meaningful thoughts? Most of the thoughts that crowd my head are completely random and meaningless. And I enjoy it most of the time. Thinking about Samantha and moving to Siddharth and travelling to Surya's 'Michael' via Aayutha Ezhuthu and jumping to a student revolution in the political arena and reaching communism to finally end at Che Guevara - doesn't the train ride of the mind seem fascinating?
A similar train of thought blew my mind as I sat in the exam hall today. As I looked at the question - 'Explain in detail about the human genome and its contents' - my mind began to wander imagining how I would feel if I came to know about the diseases that I would be facing 20 years later if my genome sequence could be completely examined and analysed. And for some inexplicable reason, my thought process shifted to AIDS (completely weird, right?) and as I kept thinking about AIDS, the train automatically reached the station of Matthew McConaughey. As a few scenes of his fantastic acting as an AIDS affected electrician in Dallas Buyers Club ran past my mind, 'True Detective' stuck me like a lighting bolt. And as I kept recollecting some of Matthew McConaughey's thought-provoking dialogues in the series, the thoughts came to a halt at the 'M-Brane theory' explained by him in a fabulous scene. For a few minutes as my mind kept circling round and round the 'M-Brane theory', it suddenly took a leap to the 'Superstring theory' and as I thought about the 4 fundamental forces, the thought process gradually shifted to the 'Space-Time continuum' and Einstein's statement hit me - "Gravity is the glitch in the space-time continuum". As the statement kept reverberating, along came Matthew McConaughey's dialogue from the series - "Souls in the other dimension generally see time as a flattened parameter and not a linear one as it is supposed to be" and as these two statements combined along with the Space-Time continuum and the Superstring theory, an unexpected revelation hit me. If gravity was the glitch in the Space-Time continuum and souls in the other dimension could view time as a flattened parameter, could the Space-time conundrum be resolved probably for the other dimension and most importantly, was the 'gravity-glitch-in-the-continuum' the reason behind our Tamil filmmakers showing ghosts without legs in most of the horror films??!!!!
My mind went blank for a moment. And as the thoughts started crowding again, I thought about the revelation I had had and thought about its magnitude. After a moment of self-appreciation, I couldn't help but let out a hearty laugh. What a scientific explanation for the 'ghosts-without-legs' phenomenon!
And as I controlled myself from laughing out loud in the exam hall, I looked down at my answer sheet. It was filled up to halfway with an answer for a two-mark question. I read the answer I had written. And I couldn't control myself from letting out a chuckle.
The answer seemed absurd than my thought process!
For a moment I thought about how my professor would feel when he corrected my answer sheet and an endearing warmth filled my heart.
And I placed my pen on the answer sheet to write down another absurd answer. But I stopped. Who cared about the answer?
I started my thought process again. I wanted to see if I could probably get the answer as to why Tamil filmmakers placed a mole on the actor's face when they wanted him in disguise!
The thought process is still in motion.
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