Keeping Up with the Times

Hear me, all ye faithful! Verily I say to thee - this be the last post upon my blog 'til I have returned with the spoils of battle, with honour and glory, after having done battle with the mighty dragon (semester exams). I was thinking of drawing up a time table to follow till the exams begin. So could study according to it. So I can cover all the topics that way. Not happening. Because all this thinking about time got me thinking. What if I could play with time? I mean its not fair! We're allowed to play with certain things - like madness, for instance; but we're not allowed to play with time. Cheap, is the creator! Well, he's actually being pricey (I stole your line, Piggy! And I'm not sorry!). He keeps the best playthings to himself. Nobody taught him to share or what?! And he tells us to share and be good. Now, time. Its a concept that takes some imagination. A lot of it. Just imagine, while I'm here typing this at 0923 hours on the 19th of May, 2009; its still 18th of May, 2009 elsewhere. And in Japan, its past 1000 hours on the 19th of May, 2009. Japan is living the future! And U.S. of A is actually living the past! He he! I know that thought is wrong, but it puts a smile on my face anyway. But this whole thing of Japan being the first to herald a new day is only because we have it at the eastern end of our maps. What if we had Central Europe & Africa at the eastern end and Asia at the western end? We could have the sun rising over Prague instead. Hey! We'd be the Western Civilisation! Ha ha! I'd like to see Muthalik talk about Western Culture then! See? Its all in the head. We don't have to worry about the future. If anything extraordinary happens, like the Armageddon, for instance, the Japanese will see it first and warn us. Absolutely no worries. Hmm. So I can actually live here in the future and take a plane westwards so I'll be travelling back in time and so I'll know what happens in the future and I can use this knowledge to "predict" the future and make a pile of cash in euros or dollars and come back to India and convert them to rupees and be a millionaire! "Nice daydream", my scientific side says scathingly and bursts my little balloon. Well, the balloon wasn't so little and it was getting bigger. Positively bloating up. Like my tummy. Time for some exercise.