A Different Post

Different different people make different different choices. You can be different from the different different people. The difference between you and the different different people will become different if you can understand the difference between the different different people and yourself. Eventually, you will feel that the different different people are not much different and the difference will eventually fade away. By then, you would have discovered a different you. Isn't this different? 'coz that's what makes a difference!

Its only words ...

Must confess, this song had the most "to-the-point" lyrics. I am always so impressed with linguists and linguistics - not that I am one, but it just seems really good! I should also admit that I have not made any serious efforts towards picking up a new language or words - ever since (per my assumption) I attained adolescence.

Today, a word randomly struck me from some webpage hosted on a box in Sunnyvale. Not that its a glamorous, but it surely brings back bittersweet memories from the relatively gaudy parts of my life.

Ladies and Gentlemen, the word of the day (call it month/year/decade - as if I care!) is - Mamihlapinatapai.

No, it does not originate from the idli state. Nor its immediate neighbors. Wikipedia describes it as: Mamihlapinatapai (sometimes spelled mamihlapinatapei) is a word from the Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego, listed in The Guinness Book of World Records as the "most succinct word", and is considered one of the hardest words to translate.[1] It describes "a look shared by two people with each wishing that the other will initiate something that both desire but which neither one wants to start."

Each time I read the previous line, I can possibly think of a different situation - which, recursively, is similar to all the others. Bah, too much object orientation!

wishlist

Bermuda
Costa Rica
Dominica
Grenada
Haiti
Jamaica
Montserrat
Turks & Caicos Island
St Kitts Nevis
St Vincent And The Grenadines
Virgin Islands

Bhutan
HongKong (oh totally!)
S. Korea
Macao (yeah, I know :P)
Nepal

Mauritius
Seychelles

Cook Islands
Fiji
Guam
Indonesia
Micronesia
Niue
Northern Marinara Islands
Vanatu

Tonight

I really hate the world. All of it. No exceptions. Nope, none.

I wonder where the narcissist in me has gone. Tonight. Let bygones be bygones. Tonight.