A strange Black Swan. . . ! :)

Hi pa!

i know you may laugh at it; i too did initially, till... 
...till. . .i began hearing it laugh at me..!! :)

Here it is...a pattern that emerged by sheer chance...or in short, serendipity..!

I was shocked & amazed at HOW it looked like a mysterious, tantalizingly beautiful SWAN...!! :)

And before you laugh it off as a random cellection of numbers & symbols, let me assure you otherwise...!

It is actually the exact expression, or, a short-cut if you want, to compute the sum of the first 'n' natural numbers, with each raised to the power of 100. 

Yes, you 'heard' it right...it is the value of : {Click to see it as a larger image}

And you might be surprised to know that I had to toil more to get the above summation equation than the below expression...!! :)

Anyways, here she is. . . my beautiful Black Swan...! :)

"Why can't I  too recognize/find visual patterns in beautiful numbers..?? :-/

Certainly, if our ancestors could find our so-called 'constellations' by sheer co-incidence like the Big Bear(Ursa Major), the Hunter (Orion), Scorpius(Scorpion), The Bull(Taurus) et al, then, I too can ( & shall)...! :)"

~R. . . 

[Click on it, to view it better...]

Love & Best wishes,

the boy in "rags"

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Reflect upon this...!

...MiRRoR...

I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.
Whatever I see, I swallow immediately.
Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike
I am not cruel, only truthful –
The eye of a little god, four-cornered.
Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall.
It is pink, with speckles. I have looked at it so long
I think it is a part of my heart. But it flickers.
Faces and darkness separate us over and over.

Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me.

Searching my reaches for what she really is.

Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon.

I see her back, and reflect it faithfully

She rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands.

I am important to her. She comes and goes.

Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness.

In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman

Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.

:- Sylvia Plath

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PS: I felt the beautifully abstract, 'minimalistic' painting above was tailor-made fer this gem of a poem I wanted to share. It was done 'extempore' (that too on MS-Paint!) by my dear friend Prasidhya Sridhar. Thanks a lot fer her allowing me-moron to use it here! :-)


Sylvia Plath was a beautiful lady who wrote verse that is filled with great sensitivity & a keen observation of Life & its vagaries. Sadly, she ended her life due to depression when she was only 31. :-(


Anyway, hope you liked this poem pa..? :)


Take care, & keep REFLECTING. . . :)


Love & Best Wishes,
The MiRRoR in "rags"
Planet Earth
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A gem on Dreams...

~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~

DReams...
~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~

Hold fast to dreams 
For if dreams die 
Life is a broken-winged bird 
That cannot fly. 


Hold fast to dreams 
For when dreams go 
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.

:~ Langston Hughes  
~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~
Love & Best Wishes, 

The Dream(er) in "rags"...
Planet (H)eart(H)
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Thanks to Mommy :)

A cup of Tea,an idea,and...voila! :)

Yesterday…as I was getting ready to go home early, I got stuck up with some office-work, & ended up having to wait for almost an hour for a bus in which I could jostle & finally reach home…

Not surprisingly, mom was peeved at me for not being home “on-time” ;she waits fer me everyday, just to have a tea with me...!

{My Pappa does not drink tea or coffee. And that leaves only me fer her company…!}

But soon, seeing how tired I was, her anger melted & turned to affection, and before I knew it, I was sitting before the TV with a steaming cup-o’tea, dunking & savouring bread slices, regardless of the fact that it was almost dinner time for the rest of the world.. :)

And then, I had dinner with Pappa & Mommy, but during dinner, there was talk about the world, & various countries, etc. And Mommy became especially curious to know if we could easily get every country’s name, along with its capital-city. 

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She seemed impressed at first when I told her the place where my dear friend Siva Prasanna is currently staying, called Dar Es Salaam, is the capital of Tanzania in Africa. She then suspiciously asked if I knew all the countries & capitals of the world, or if I was just bluffing. Hahaha. Nobody seems to believe me-moron..? :(

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That’s it...! :-)

The unexpected cup of tea, and my Mommy’s curiosity had their effect…!

I quickly ran into my room, to my lappie…& came up with a 2-line (yes ! Just 2 lines!!) code which created this magical image… J

It has a list of 237 countries, their capital cities & their flags & even their shapes respectively...!

{Click on it..., better save it & SCROLL & view with a program like Google's Picasa..!! J}

Tried..??
I know...the image doesn't even appear at its normal size right..? 
Thanks a ton to a few of my friends fer pointing it right away to me-moron. 
"Only your real friends tell you when your face is dirty.", as my one of my oft-quoted saying (a Sicilian proverb) goes.:-) 


Here's the LINK fer the image to download & view properly..! :)

The strange thing is, I took hardly 5 minutes to cleverly set up those 2 lines…but took an additional 20 minutes to get my CRAZY COLORs, FONTS, etc…! J

Some interesting points to note:

1. The font I wanted ( & managed to get!) is simply country number 138 J
2. The map of Egypt (number 60) has a near perfect right angle…looks like a right-angled triangle… J
3. The flag of Isle of Man (number 100) is so interesting, and unusual.

This then, is THANKS to YOU Mommy...!! :-)

Love & Best Wishes,

The boy in 'rags'

Planet Earth

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"The best academy-a mother's knee."

:- James Russell Lowell

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Five elements !!

Phew..!!!

At-last, I have been able to "write out" this GEM, and thankfully, this time, not in a notebook in my scribbly hand-writing...!! :)

Please take a moment...to Behold the Beauty Below...:)
(Oh...nice alliteration there! :) Hmmm... :))

[ And Click it if you like..! ;-) ]

Like the five cosmic elements of the Greeks, or the ancient Indian system of seeing the Cosmos as being composed of Pancha-bhoothas (ಪಂಚಭೂತಗಳು--see this link), this lit'l equation, also known as Euler's Identity, somehow manages to unite 5 lovely "elements" in one place..!

(a) Euler's number e,


(b) a mystical element i (square root of -1) frem the Complex World..(like Ether..?? :) ),


(c) Unity (1),


(d) Nothingness (Zero--0 ), and


(e) To top it all, a Pi, the transcendental number that makes the World & so many more things (go) ROUND ! :P

Really, an awe-inspiring beauty indeed..!!

  

Love & Best Wishes,

The moron in 'raghu',{Planet Earth} 

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PS: How nice that even 'raghu' & "moron" have 5 (a Prime!!) characters apiece in them...! :) 

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