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Wednesday, February 20, 2008

From a Professor's Point of View......

An insight into the mind of your average professor.......
The bell just rang, awakening me from my pleasant daydreams. 'Good god,' I thought 'I have to go for that horrible class. The hateful Engineering lectures!

Idiots who think they know everything and think that everyone else is plain stupid. They think no end of themselves, the alien beings! Its all a farce!

Standing up when the professor comes in and showing some respect just because she has the attendance register and the marks in her hand. Pretending to pay attention in spite of having no interest or inclination in learning whatever the 'poor thing' is saying. Trying not to yawn when her eye is on you... What hypocrites!! They think the professor is just dumb. She doesn't know anything at all!

Then again there are the first two rows, the geeks and the nerds (what's the difference? The geeks are slightly more intelligent. The nerds are just nerdy!) They actually pay attention and take notes. Unfortunately, they also ask profound questions to which thoughtful answers must be provided to satisfaction.

Also, there is the species that comes in 15-20 before the lecture is about to end just so that they get marked present when the attendance is taken. They will hang around right outside class for forty-five minutes and get dead bored but they will not enter the class till the eleventh hour. It's so exasperating. I hate going for lectures.

"I don't want to go to class," I whined. "But you have to," said everyone around me. "Who will teach those brats if you don't go? Then we'll be stuck with them for another year! Just go na, we understand it's horrible but it's only an hour, and you can always go late!"

Sunday, February 3, 2008

CHOCOLATES------Yummy

When I racked my brain today for something to write about in my blog, I felt like eating a chocolate cake instead with lots of icing and very little of cake...

Then, I thought, why not write about chocolate ??

Chocolate has always been a favorite comfort food with almost half the world's population...

God bless the African tribe who first discovered the rejuvenating effects of coco beans on sheep and goats which grazed on them...

I remember, when I was a child, I managed to take in 'Complan' only becoz it was in a chocolate flavor, I'm delighted it is the same with millions of other children across the world who are all enlightened souls about the benefits of chocolate.
Chocolate is available in a variety of flavors and combinations today, and is inspiring cooking connoisseurs to come up with a more enjoyable variety of edible chocolate. So, from cakes, toffees, eclairs, to pastries and swiss fondues, we are, and will continue to be blessed with an entire range of delicacies in chocolate.......

Chocolate has come to signify everything that is worthy of enjoyment in life. While medical journals publish commendable reports about the anti-depressive ability, dentists for long have been frowning down on the erosion of tooth enamel, but now, dark chocolate has been found to be beneficial for certain heart ailments, and we also have chocolate skin wraps in beauty spas, CCD have done much to boost the popularity of chocolate by blending coffee with chocolate in their menu......

Chocolate is slowly replacing traditional Indian sweets as appropriate gifts during festivals and other occasions so successfully, that shops selling Indian sweets have come up with variations of traditional Indian sweets with a chocolaty flavor, to sustain their sales. It has become a mandatory token of celebration during birthdays, anniversaries, milestones in our lives, weddings, and acquisitions. Can you imagine Valentine's Day with only roses and no chocolate ?? !!! I can't imagine it to be so...

With so much of research and innovation being attempted in the uses of chocolate, can anyone deny the omnipresence of chocolate in our lives ??