Brain on Overdrive!

In my 19 years of life, I think the most important lesson for self improvement, is that to never keep the brain idle.

But the worst thing is that I never try my best to make it work. I try to learn stuff, do stuff, but I can never give it my best. That maybe a fundamental flaw in my character.

And this time, I will be trying to override my brain, overclock my brain, eventually putting my brain into overdrive. And I believe this won’t overheat my powerhouse of intellect. My brain is one of the most important things that I need at top notch performance at all the times.

I will need incredible self discipline, self composure, diligence, persistence, tenacity and flexibility of mind and body to attain pure overdrive, none of which I currently have.

I will also need to do  stuff, that I think I am already doing. Gobbling Up & Digest Academic and technical stuff faster than ever. Rebooting programming skills with Python and C++. Reinstalling Photography. Practicing Counter Strike & Warcraft 3 until I become a regular player.

My family doubts that I am having a slight hearing loss. I am a bit ‘not well’ about that. At 19 years of age, I don’t wanna stop listening to music and the birds. My color vision deficiency sometimes peeks into the horizon of mind.

My Latest Crush is inducing viscosity around me. How many more to I have to put up with?

It’s time I must break free!

P.S. – How many times I have to convince myself?

The Man

When my world is falling apart, down, I dream of becoming this man!

I drew him while our Chemistry Teacher was saying something about molecular structures.

This man is Rugged, Strong, Powerful and in control. He is a Genius!

Sniping

I was playing Counter Strike 1.6 a few minutes earlier. It was fun! The thrill of the game is what really matters to me. I was trying out sniper rifles, The Magnum, Kreig Commando, and the Scout. And I found while sniping that all had their distinct characteristics.

Like the Magnum is a heavy “One Shot Kill” Gun. The Commando is a good, light, low recoil, and rapid loading sniper with low damage. And not much accurate,  I had to shot many fires on each opponents, and rarely got a head-shot. And Scout is something in between these two.

I also tried out long range firing of the Carbine. It is good, but I couldn’t perform well with that.

I am not new to FPS gaming, but I am new to this game. No wonder it is one of the world’s mos played multiplayer game. It is just pure fun!

Those who haven’t played it yet, I recommend to play.

Obsessions

My recent obsession for various skills, I think is improving my overall performance as a ‘HUMAN’.

When I was young, and in High School, a teacher said something in Bengali…

“Je joto kom boyoshe nesha kore, Se toto paka Nesharu hoi”

It literally means, the more young one gets addicted to something, becomes more expert addicts. I don’t remember in what context he said that, but I recall this words very often these days, when someone says that they need more time and knowledge to do something and they cannot do it right then. The more we get obsessed with something, the more perfect we become. And perfection is necessary! And the early we do, the easier it is for us. Stuffs might appear difficult or impossible, but we can pull it off if is not drastically advanced. Like when I learned how to program a computer with BASIC, I knew I had a lot of power, but I couldn’t even form the simplest algorithms. I was in sixth grade at that time. Eventually I learned more programming languages, and learned to use more libraries. I am no super-duper programmer, and I am still trying to get into a open-source project, but I am starting to realize the abstract nature of programming, which I prefer to call, “The Zen of Programming”. These days, as a electronics engineering student, I sometimes try to hurry to some topic. I do find it difficult, but I believe I will eventually pull it off. It reminds me of the days, when I played Enigma and Pink Floyd in cassette player, and slept with the BASIC FOR SCHOOLS book under my pillow. Electronics is pretty new to me, and I am somewhat new to electronics. And the philosophy of the discipline is very much different than what I learned few years back as a kid.

Since recently I am trying to perfect my hand for drawing human figures and mechanical designs, improving my mathematical skills to for computationally advanced stuff, trying to get my photography skills to a significant state, dreaming of becoming a Good Adventurer and Mountaineer, getting a good skill for designing electromechanical and electronic stuff, and expanding my knowledge to as much as I can and getting a clear understanding of SCIENCE.

This is FUN!

Portal

Since the release of “The most original in recent days”, the World Of Goo, I didn’t find a original game play.

Two days earlier I got a chance to play Valve’s Portal. A very very very original game. Though it was released it was few days early, I enjoyed playing it.

Well, a review is worthless after all these days.

The game is short if you can understand the game. I took 6:30 hours at my first game play. The credits also were pretty beautiful, with the weird song!

The thing I like most in the Half-Life like games is the inhuman environments, and virtually absolute silence and solitude of the game character. Portal is a Half Life type game, it has some connection to Black Mesa in the story, which is a Rival Lab of Aperture Sciences (The Lab where the Game starts). Level design is very powerful, attractive, and you will feel brave when you play the game. And the story has a non-ending end.

You will have to use your innovative ideas to get the things done. And the enigmatic AI guide voice, will sometimes be your misery and source of motivation. I don’t think there is a need of a screenshot. Google it, and you will find a lot. And don’t forget to play it!

It is a treat!

The Rescue

I was waiting for a long time to post this. But I could not as my internet connection was down. But now, that I have regained the connection, I think I should write up this story right away.

Well, they were not conservation workers who did the job, there. They did rescue a DOG, from almost certain death. I am no good story teller, but I will try my best, so that you won’t fall asleep.

I didn’t even notice what was going on, but I saw one among team was looking the down a hole, near a temple named Ghagarburi. The rocks near the temple is has some strange holes, made by some industrial effluent flowing there. And there was some scream, it was the dog, and it fell in a watered hole. It was the scream that I noticed (and once again it was proved, that scream is an evolutionary aid).

Well, here is the team:

Now, just as we noticed that the dog was in trouble, the first thing that was on our mind that how to save it.

We saw a piece of clothe. We thought it would have traction with her feet, if we lay it at the mouth of the hole, as she was slipping. But that didn’t work as the cloth was slipping itself. “Godammit!”, we thought.

Then someone brought a large branch of a tree, to help the dog. But she couldn’t understand that we meant it for a ladder. And she screamed even louder.

The operation:

…

Ultimately she did get out, with the help that piece of clothes, as one us stopped the clothe from slipping.

I didn’t really did anything in the operation but I felt very light that day, when she looked back while running to her kids. I don’t know if it was gratitude, or some mystified look.

Run Baby, Run! Your kids are waiting for you…