Monachini's Musings

Kaleidoscope of Emotions A long-due hello from your old internet pal, I'm Monachini! Wow! It has been long, hasn't it? You see, I kept telling myself that I should really get back to writing soon but somehow, whenever I planned to sit down, relax, and start pouring my thoughts out, there was always something that kept cropping in from some mysterious nook, ready to pull me back into my work. And it would end up where I wouldn't have anything to write about.  I just realized that I started this blog more than a year ago, so as a little celebratory gift to myself for somehow managing to put up nearly a dozen posts online, I thought I'd share another personal anecdote. This one's titled "Kaleidoscope of Emotions" because, the Kaleidoscope is truly a blank canvas, just waiting for each tiny twist, each minute rotation to generate colorful, complex, and intricate patterns, one more unique than the other and I think it's the same with our emotions too. There

 A review of the book "Walking the Himalayas" Image Source: Flipkart  In all honesty, this is one of my first attempts at writing a review for a book that I've read and enjoyed very much. One glance at the title, and this is what popped into my mind: Levison Wood – ‘a man who will stare danger in the face and soak up a lot of pain without complaint’. Walking the Himalayas is an adventure-travelogue written by British adventurer, photographer, and journalist Levison Wood. This book is an account of Levison’s expedition of crossing a stretch of the Himalayas from the Wakhan Corridor in Afghanistan to Gangkhar Puensum in Bhutan on foot. Inspired by the historical expeditions of ancient explorers and his fascination with the ancient Silk route, Levison strays away from the tourist trail to explore the lesser-known and authentic world of the Himalayan region. Crossing steep mountains and trekking through narrow passes, his journey of nearly 1700 miles focuses on understanding

  An attempt at achieving alliteration (No pun intended!) Note: Proceed with caution and seriously, good luck for making it till the end of this! Allow attempts at ascertaining absolute absurd ambitions,  But beware before being baffled, bewildered by blunders, believing baseless beliefs bygone. Confront complexities, contemplate chaotic choices cleverly, consider certain convictions carefully. Dearest dreamer! Dodge dangers, don't dare delve deeper down drowsy, daft daydreams. Evade excruciating evaluation, eschew expectations, endeavor escaping everything extreme. Forget fretting futility! For fear forces failure, fortifies fickle futures, furthers frustration forever. Gather goals galore, grasp glories gigantic! Grow gently, gradual grit generates generous gratification. Honor humility. Hail humor, health, harmony, hospitality. However, hope humans have humanity. Introspect ideas, invest in imagination, imbibing intelligence. Ignore idiocy, illogical intentions. Jettison judgeme

Well...who are you then? I think that I think more about things than I ever thought I did.  No. I am most certain that I definitely have the tendency to think - a lot. I think that I end up thinking too much at times. I've often found myself in situations where people might perceive me as awkward, lost, or indifferent to my surroundings, when in reality, I could have been, quite simply, lost in my thoughts and wondering about everything or nothing, in particular. Given the generation I belong to and the amount of time that I end up spending on the internet, most people find it weird and extremely intriguing that I don't have any of the popular social media accounts - Instagram, Snapchat or Twitter. I do use Pinterest though. And honestly, I personally believe it's the best thing I've ever discovered because a) I only view what I want to see - which is mostly memes from books or TV shows, hilarious anecdotes or really interesting art ideas without comments from people an

Nostalgic Fragrances It's been quite a while since I have posted anything and though I did have a couple of ideas on what I could write, I haven't had the time, nor was any presence of creative energy for me to actually sit down and type away my thoughts. So here's a little something personal that I've written after an extraordinarily long absence on this blog: Among all the months, June seems to stand out for some particular reason that I simply cannot fathom. It's probably due to the extreme heat and unpredictable weather that I find myself eagerly waiting for moments where I can lie down and laze around all day, seeking every opportunity to escape from the brunt of the overpowering sun.   It's also summer break, meaning I could binge through all the TV shows and books in my bucket list which I've held off for long, without feeling too guilty about wasting time for hours together. I always seem to have thoughts of the past or little reminders of my early c

 Why we need literary work from writers!                         " I spake ", said Jar-Jar Binks. " The ability to speak does not make you intelligent ", said Qui Gon. I've recently used and experienced one of the very popular and highly advanced technological models which is taking the world by a storm - Chat GPT. As a computer science student, I must state my amazement at how much development has taken place in the field of AI in order to achieve this feat - this absolutely mind-boggling piece of technology that has the ability to write human-like things by itself. Though chatbots have been around for ages, this is truly a revolution in what it means for a non-living, non-human, software system to generate such life-like conversational messages. My curiosity was at its peak as I played around with it for a while, bombarding it with all sorts of questions. What was funny was that an AI-model was verifying my existence as a human before proceeding with the promp