The art of mind control

Yesterday I had attended a class on "The Art of mind Control". Attending such a class in aryabhatta by a final year is thought to be taboo. This kind of classes are meant for first years who are crazy about anything! My friends rejected the idea of attending a class w/o attendance and that too on a fine saturday afternoon. Anyway I just want to check it out. So I went there. Inspirational quotes by eminent personalities flashed in the screen till the class started. Some people started taking down to get motivated later.The class was conducted by an experienced guy who takes classes for corporate guys. It is his first time with engineering students. The guy started talking about the need of mind control and taught us some basic pranayama techniques and methods to increase the spiritual quotient. The class was very nice but the way in which the nitc guys approched the class was quite interesting. Some doubts which I liked are those which followed the pranayama techniques.

* He taught us that in pranayama we should inhale till he count 2 and then hold for 8 counts and then exhale for another 4 counts. When u inhale take maximum breath and ur tummy should be of maximum size. While exhaling completely exhale and ur tummy should shrink inside. After practising 4-5 rounds came doubts from the ever curious nitc-ians :

Q:Sir is it absolutely necessary to hold for 8 counts...?
A:No.. If u inhale for 1 count hold for 4 and then exhale for 2 counts.
(The engineers figured it out inhale=x, hold=4x and exhale=2x)
Q: Sir, my tummy is moving the other way around. (shrinking on inhaling and vice versa)
A: Check with some doctor!
Q:Sir we are inhaling for x time and we exhaling for 2x time. So where is the extra air coming ?
( questioning the very existence of all theorems " energy can't be created or destroyed")
A: We are inhaling faster and exhaling slowly.
Q: Sir, any how which is more in amount ? Inhaling or exhaling air?
A: Exhaling contains impurities too. There fore may contain more amount.
Q: Sir, but the number of molecules inhaled is same as exhaled rite...?
Then the guy and some chemists started figuring out C4 + O2 -> CO2
then balanced C4 +4O2-> 4CO2. So inhaled amount is Same as exhaled.
Pranayama class thus ended up a chemistry class coz of engineers .

The guy succesfully took the class to the later sessions before avogadro's number and molecular masses would dominated the discussion.

Lots of such interesting discussion came up and I couldn't remember all. But I am sure he would be more careful in dealing with engineers in future.

APRIL FOOL (How many times can you fool the same guy?)

As I dream and as it may sound it is not me who fooled someone. It was HASH who fooled me.
I was thinking of some ways to fool my friends. Then I got a mail from HASH "101 ways to fool people" which came handy for me. But on opening the mail it said "this is one way.. Will send the rest later"! . No one saw that. I buried it!
I had been alert since then. I had graph theory class at 10.15 . As usual I was a bit late and when I reached the class it was closed and so I called Hash. He din take the call and msgd me telling "class has shifted to seminar hall". Ever since I registered for the subject it was taught in db. And why should it be shifted on APRIL 1 ?? My brain analyzed and found out a clear case of fooling. Who is he gonna fool ? ME!!! I went back to room and slept. But it turned out that class was actually shifted which means my bunkometer moved towards the border in the subject.
After all other classes I went back to room and I almost forgot the APRIL fool thing and then 'hash' sent me a link to the blog of an M.Tech guy whom we know and he claimed to have got "Google Internship" . I was happy for him and so I commented congratulating him. Then hash told me he was fooling !
Thus I got fooled thrice!