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On finally visiting Kanya Kumari I was enthralled not by the rainfall we experienced 24X7, not by the supposed theory of seeing different colours of sand or the sea(?!?!?!) but by the shear power of cell phone games and how they can keep you addicted for hours at end. But when I finally did decide to step outside the hotel premises and climb atop the Vivekananda Rock Memorial, I was stunned. On being quite bored after the first hour of my visit to the rock memorial, I turned my sight sea-ward... rather rock-ward and noticed a simple percussion beat, a four four being played out between the sea and the rocks. As I stretched my gaze northwards, my eyes stumbled across a beautiful rock piece jutting out to sea. On it I saw a thousand years (or more) of work by mother nature herself, represented in the form of a carved out shallow basin... and as my eyes rested on this work of beauty I saw a complete 5/4 beat being played out in almost perfect periodic timing as in the form of waves crashing against the rock piece. As the turbulent sea threw herself onto the rock, some of the water was duly held in the basin and the rest flowed out in the form of a mini-waterfall. This resulted in the first half of the bar. Water from the basin leaked out and crashed against the approaching wave resembling an accented snare beat. The final bit of the bar was completed as the approaching wave crashed against the rock itself. Being a percussionist myself, I was moved by the musical piece being played out by Mother Nature. It kind of led to the formation of a distorted image of a woman covered in leaves and petals sitting behind a five-piece drum kit. Ahh... the power of imagination coupled with boredom.

Note from the Editor: I have written this article of which many terms (and possibly,the whole article as a general) may seem meaningless to you. Does this make me one of the "neo-bloggers" from my earlier post,"The Intelligentsia"? So is the editor in chief hypocrite being hypocritical in the blog primarily based on social hypocrites about hypocrisy. Get the paradox??