Meyers Briggs Personality Test

finally i made an assessment the Jungian way. the results seem to be ok. quite obvious for a person who's into some introspection from time to time to keep the mental faculties in check :)
here's a screen shot from the online personality test:

No Es and no Js yet!

flowers

Photo taken at a florist in Stockholm Central Station. February 13, 2013.

one eyed kings

"in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king"

many a times i sought evidence to disprove it, and found out there are few or none with two eyes. and even when there are, they do not always become the kings...

the length of a thesis?

John Nash, the brilliant mathematician and joint Nobel Prize winner of Economics in 1994, and proponent of the Game Theory, actually wrote a 28-page manuscript for his Doctoral Thesis. i am yet to understand why was i made to write an 80 pg and 300 pg thing for my Masters and Bachelors theses respectively. So much for the emphasis given to heavy paper-work in the Indian Education System. I remember wrapping up the same 80-pg document as a 22 page thing at the TUM; and the painstaking effort involved in bloating it up by 58 more for a "standard" report at IIT.

what makes a city great

based on my general observations on a daily basis, i could conclude the following about cities:

"great cities are founded not only on the basis of good administration, but by and large, a majority of inhabitants and people who are ready to use their common sense when in the city."

- Susmita Sinha

he knew tons!

perhaps, it was Newton, who "knew" "tonne"s of stuff in Physics... really, the Father of the subject i'd say!

- Susmita.

inventions and foundings...

so the IBM invented the pen drive for their ThinkPad!
and a company founded on one of its collaborations with another company based out of a small municipality in Switzerland is the second largest manufacturer of optical media storage devices: read CDs, DVDs, pen-drive, etc. we're talking about Moser Baer, headquartered in New Delhi, India. Founded by Deepak Puri, also in collaboration with Maruzen Corp. in Japan, and Moser Baer Sumiswald, Switzerland.
humorous fact: "Thesis PPT and Report submissions: keeping CDs and DVDs from going obsolete" :D otherwise who really transfers files using them nowadays really...