Saturday, September 27, 2008

So... what will you want to change??

During one of our daily conversations in our way from Office back home, this came up... going back in time. If I'm given a chance to change something, what will I want to change?? I've still not decided on what to change... I'm putting forth the same question to you.... If you are given a chance to go back in time and change something, what would that be.... (See.. it shouldn't be anything that might create a grandfather paradox - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandfather_paradox) It could be a simplest answer like "I would go back and mark the right answer in my 10th standard exam" to a very complex one.

The stage is all yours.... If you get a chance to go back in time... Where will you go back?? What will you want to change?? Mind you... You get only one chance...

8 comments:

ramkum said...
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ramkum said...

If I could go back, I'd go to back to my 8th Semester B.E. Power Electronics Lab Final Exam - KREC Surathkal, June 1998. I'd make sure that I got the polarities of the capacitor right before plugging it into the circuit. That would have ensured that the capacitor didn't blow up in spectacular fashion. And it would have saved me two months of agony (after which the results came and it turned out that I had somehow managed to pass, miraculously, despite the explosion).

ramkum said...

Ok, no fair..

No one else, including the author of the post, has answered the question! Whats the deal with that?

Balaji Srinivasan said...

Woah!!
If I had a time machine, I would go as far back as 1939, beat the hell out of Mr. Adofl Hitler, make him read all my blog post, which would eventually end up in his suicide. Thus doing the noble deed of preventing the world war II and sparing the trouble of reading a boring, soporific chapter in Histroy. :D :D

P.S; I'm expecting a noble prize for this brilliant idea, the greatest in the history of Mankind. :P :P

rajaji said...

hey prash,... good topic!!

I'd want to go back to July 2002 and cancel my B.Tech seat in NIT,Trichy.. I'd rather have chosen a degree in Philosophy and proceeded with my research in it.. oh.. how I long for it now!! :-(

and I could've come up with a book on Philosophy which may beat the records of 'The Da Vinci Code' and 'Harry Potter' and I would've been a celebrity now!!

woah woah... alright.. I'll stop before u all stare at me with hockey sticks and brooms ready to beat the hell out of me!!! :-P

rajaji said...

I second Ramkum..
now that there have been 3 answers, the author of the post is still evading questions!! :-( not fair at all..

prash... immediate action required!!

Prash said...

OK... OK... If I'd got a chance.. I would go back to the moment I posted this blog and would have stopped posting this one.. [;)] so that I could've escaped all ur blamings [:P]
Jus' kidding....
But am seriously still thinking what I would've have changed....
My manasakshi telling me - "Oh.. Prash.. nee ivlo nallavala.. oru thappu kooda panadhilaya which you want to change.. unai nenacha enaku perumaya iruku.. "

ramkum said...

Prash - that sounds like George W Bush, who, when he was asked in 2004 about whether he had ever made any mistakes in the aftermath of 9/11, he could not think of ANYTHING.
"I am sure something will pop into my head here... "
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0414-01.htm