What is the one difference between lightning and my blog
posts?
The former doesn’t strike the same place twice; the latter
doesn’t strike from the same place twice… from yet another new blog id, here I
go.
Yesterday a very close friend of mine told me that his elder
brother’s 5 year old kid was the second runner up at the Under 7 national level
chess tournament in the US. The little boy also won the award for fair play.
The child’s father, my close friend’s elder bro, was part of
the team that established the VSNL network and the internet in India. He was
from Anna University and like most other engineering grads, he lives in the US
and in another few months, he’ll get the citizenship too. He could talk for hours
on HR policies and actually sound interesting too.
The kid-- now, he is a super-spectacular one.
He has three coaches to help him improve his chess- all of
them are International Masters; one for the opening 20 moves, the other for the
mid-20 moves and the third one to close the game. Scary. What would these
children be doing when they reach their 30's?
And, what exactly was I doing when I was five?
Let me see.
I wasn’t playing chess, nah. Too cerebral.
I was thrown out of my Bharatnatyam class because I was
horribly bad at it.
I was playing left-hand guitar and no one taught me how to.
We were army kids, so we used to play war games. That was
it.
A long time ago, someone I knew mentioned something about
Indigo Children. Super-evolved human beings. One of the strongest attributes of
these special human beings is their remarkable memory when it comes to events
that happened to them in their infancy. It goes back to as early as 2 months
for some. Wikipedia brands it pseudoscience.
Strange!