Snake Reverie / Benzene ??

Place : 10 July 2009 , 11.00 AM , Nerul , Navi Mumbai

"I turned my chair towards my window and dozed. Again the words were gamboling before my eyes. ... My mental eye... could not distinguish larger words , of manifold conformation; long ones , sometimes more closely related together; all twining and twisting in snakelike motion. But look! What was that? One of the snakes had seized hold of its own tail, and the WORD whirled mockingly before my eyes. As if by a flash of lighting I awoke...and wrote this post " - Nikhil Balachander

Folks , this could be an after-effect of continously mugging vocab for GRE !!

On second thought however it could also be an inane adaptation of the famous reptilian dream Fredrich August von Kekule (a German chemist)claimed he had and resulted in the discovery of the ring-shaped chemical structure of benzene in 1865. Although some scholars now believe that Kekule's dream was a hoax to avoid sharing credit for the discovery of the hexagonal shape of benzene, it still makes a wonderful story. :P :P

Cheers!

Summer of '09

" Oh when I look back now
That summer seemed to last forever
And if I had the choice
Yeah - I'd always wanna be there
Those were the best days of my life"

Ah....Sigh! I am back to the grind after two AWESOME months in Bangalore . The city , the IISc campus ( where i stayed ) , the clime , the food ( a gastronomic adventure to be precise : put some Chinese from Chungs ( or Chunk's :D ), some unparalleled Italian from Freska's , a much forgettable outing at Cafe Pazcuccino , heavenly Pizza Hut and to top it all the deadly DeathByChoc ( i have died thrice :P )and the gelato at Italicks ( where a certain much-feared Count happily glutted himself with Strawberry Sundae :D ) , and most importantly new-found buddies ( who are the REASON the entire experience was so much more memorable ) have left an indelible mark on my mind . The long walks through the canopied roads to the lab , the mess and back to the hostel , the mess-food :P , Tea-Board , Nesara, Gobi Manchurian etc. followed by infinitely long yaking sessions at midnight in Gym Cafe , associated lukkhagiri ( :P ) at JVH helped maintain an equipoise in my head which was just short of getting holistically screwed by the burden of my research project . This hurriedly-written post is dedicated to Bangalore and the folks ( especially N & S )there !!

Cheers ,
Count Grishnackh