Cats and dogs

Cats are pretty picky and dogs are jealous. Today I had to take Simba and Toby(dogs) to bed. They were unhappy to see Meow-meow(the spoilt cat) eat from their dish. I think Jack left the dog food on the floor. And Meow-meow was happily munching on it. So when I took the dogs to bed, I thought Simba won't give me any trouble. She went to garage and Toby ran around in the house. While I was trying to get hold of Toby, Simba changed her mind and came to the kitchen and ate all the cat food. Toby didn't care much about going to bed, after he had one of the cat food container. Once Toby was in the garage, I was wondering where is Simba. I had to wait all the time while Simba munched on. I didn't want to disturb a hungry dog.
A little while later, I took food to both dogs and cats and all four of them seemed not to be hungry at all! I am now trying to understand this behaviour. It seems to me, that even humans behave that way. Sometimes when someone else takes the position one wants, then they have an icy cold treatment towards the other person. I think as higher level animals we should show much better behaviour.

I am back

"I can't do this, Sam", says Frodo
Sam replies, "I know, its's all wrong, by rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories Mr. Frodo . Once that really mattered, full of darkness and danger they were. Sometimes you didn't want to know the end, because how can the ending be happy? How can the world go back to the way it was when so much has happened. But in the end, its only a passing thing, the shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it will shine out the clearer. Those are the stories that stay with you, that meant something, even if you are too small to understand why. But I think Mr. Frodo, I do understand . I know now , folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't . They kept going because they were all holding on to something. "
"What are we holding onto, Sam?"
"There is something good in this world and its worth fighting for."

This is one of my favorite lines from the movie adaptation of Tolkien's Lord of the rings - The two towers. Darkness has passed. I am no longer paranoid. So I update my blog again, though not that frequent.

Philology- love for words.

Being a big fan of Tolkien's writings, I always like the new words that writers coin up. Rowling's writings also happen to be in that category. The etymological study of a word upto its root words is very interesting. Knowing older languages like Sanskrit and Latin are quiet beneficial. I wish at times I were doing some research on philology rather than computer science. But any ways the opportunity to challenge the mind, thats what matters most to me.

Addicted to sudoku

I spent so much time on solving sudoku puzzles these days. Its a good exercise for brains. Even though it's stimulating, it is definitely not a good idea to keep solving puzzles one after another, ignoring other work. How does addiction works? How can one get addicted to some simple things like playing sudoku?

State of mind

What could be the possible state of mind now? I mean the state of brain with all those indoleamines and catecholamines, are they balanced? I am wondering, as it is in its balance that each person feels good. Lack of seratonin(the feel good neurotransmitter) and indoleamine causes depression. Another aspect of the brain, how the primitive limbic system takes control of us and put us in a flight or fight situation even when we are just watching a horror movie amuses me. When information reaches thalamus, which is the sorter within the brain, the information is sent to the appropriate cortex area. But when the information has emotional content, amygdala bypasses the thalamus and takes control of the flow from reticular activating system and puts the person in the very emotional state as we see them to be in. This is one of the theories that I have come across today. It is pretty interesting.

don't know why my brain starts pondering for all the possible solutions to all the possible questions that i could think of? what is the difference between thoughts and day dreams? are the utopian ideas that evolve in a day dream, to be trashed? may be it should be recorded.