It was a long time since I stepped in to a tournament hall.As (mis)fortune would have it, I was diagnosed with a 103` fever! I made it to the first few rounds all the same. "Hell with the fever", I thought. It worked. I won my first three games without much trouble. Usually, people play well with fever and I don't know how it happens. But it happens.
Round 4 was definitely going to be a tougher one and I was finding it hard to take rest and sleep. The 'heat' was getting to me and it was tough to sleep too. My sister, being in the medical field, had some words of wisdom to tell...
She told me that I should bring my CNS (Central Nervous System) to rest. Our human body is a wonderful structure and it can take care of itself. We just need to give it a chance. Every system - the CNS, and whatever system that exists, should be put to rest!
I found it hard to grasp these words. I was tired. My mind was going here and there and it was not resting for sure.
She told me again, if the brain was to keep going like that, the system would be doing three times the work it was currently doing and that my temperature would never come down.
I asked for help. (During high temperatures, it's especially hard to control the brain)
Can you meditate?
Hell, no! ( :) )
Okay, imagine a tubelight. Think of it. Again and again till you sleep!
This looked moronic to me. I tried and tried. After some minutes, my mind was focussing on one thing. And my temperature came down, slowly.
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However, my brain did not stop with that. It was still working - my brain. Then it narrowed down on something. This concept sounded all too familiar to me - OBJECTS!
What do we do when we write a program? A simple C# one... We create a class. Then we create an object (instance) of a class and use it. If we directly use the class, it's just not effective memory management. Object - CREATE / USE / DESTROY! (yeah u can call it the _____ algorithm too!)
Same was the case here. Till I thought about the tubelight, the brain was assigning garbage values all by itself. And that was why I was finding it hard to put the brain to rest. When the object was created, it all became too simple to manage. OBJECT-oriented programming in real life! Might have been an overdose of it, for sure!
It's not an enormous achievement, this concept; but the way IT has become a part of our lives, it's just unbelievable!
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And I played a brilliant round 4. Yes, I am proud of that game.
Round 4 was definitely going to be a tougher one and I was finding it hard to take rest and sleep. The 'heat' was getting to me and it was tough to sleep too. My sister, being in the medical field, had some words of wisdom to tell...
She told me that I should bring my CNS (Central Nervous System) to rest. Our human body is a wonderful structure and it can take care of itself. We just need to give it a chance. Every system - the CNS, and whatever system that exists, should be put to rest!
I found it hard to grasp these words. I was tired. My mind was going here and there and it was not resting for sure.
She told me again, if the brain was to keep going like that, the system would be doing three times the work it was currently doing and that my temperature would never come down.
I asked for help. (During high temperatures, it's especially hard to control the brain)
Can you meditate?
Hell, no! ( :) )
Okay, imagine a tubelight. Think of it. Again and again till you sleep!
This looked moronic to me. I tried and tried. After some minutes, my mind was focussing on one thing. And my temperature came down, slowly.
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| 100 degrees! |
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However, my brain did not stop with that. It was still working - my brain. Then it narrowed down on something. This concept sounded all too familiar to me - OBJECTS!
What do we do when we write a program? A simple C# one... We create a class. Then we create an object (instance) of a class and use it. If we directly use the class, it's just not effective memory management. Object - CREATE / USE / DESTROY! (yeah u can call it the _____ algorithm too!)
Same was the case here. Till I thought about the tubelight, the brain was assigning garbage values all by itself. And that was why I was finding it hard to put the brain to rest. When the object was created, it all became too simple to manage. OBJECT-oriented programming in real life! Might have been an overdose of it, for sure!
It's not an enormous achievement, this concept; but the way IT has become a part of our lives, it's just unbelievable!
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And I played a brilliant round 4. Yes, I am proud of that game.
