Grad

Reality has set in, I am a graduate.
But convocation has left many sweet memories for me as I did not expect to be showered with so much love from my peers. Those who came down specially and surprised me with flowers. Really thankful for them. Though I expected it to be a hectic affair, I was not really prepared to how chaotic it would be. It was extremely difficult to search for anyone in the crowd and I was just grabbing to random people and acquaintances in the hope of snapping a shot for remembrances. This led to me missing out on some of my precious friends, the ones that really mattered. A once in a lifetime occasion to don our uncomfortable mortar boards and huge gowns that made us look like characters from a harry potter movie. My experience with the mortal board had not been a good one since kindergarten. My head has the shape of a weird inverted egg with the top a little sharper than a flattened Columbus egg. It seemed to be in between the size of 6.5 and 6.75 so much so that I have forced to stick 4 pins (2 on each side) just to make it stable. But amidst all that, I still enjoyed my convocation. :)

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On a side note, I have to return my book on the first fifteen lives of harry august. It is actually the first science-fiction book that I ventured out to read. It talks about the ouroboran or kalachakras. People who have the gift (or curse) or dying and reborning over and over again. The process of birth is never the same, even though the cause of birth and the circumstances in which you were born in remains. i.e if you were born poor, no matter which life you at the 3rd or 100th, you will also be born poor. never a king or noble. Ouroborans are not immune to physical pain, they are all human made up of skin, bones and flesh haha but they would have gotten back their memories from past lives by the age of 3, skipped a few grades and be extraordinary, perhaps obtaining a degree/PhD at the age of 18 well you get my point :) The age and die but they never forget... actually normal ouroborans do. After a while, when they reach their actual age (not to be confused with birth age) of probably 200++ years also, they are also unable to escape the clutches of aging, where the memories start to get hazy and fail you. But there are special ouroborans known as mnemonics where they never forget. No matter what has been done to their brains. There is a process called 'the forgetting' where you zap a few thousand watts of electricity through once's brain to basically wipe out an individual's memory.

Okay throughout this 400+ page book, complete with 81 chapters, it is about our protagonist (yes, you might have guessed his name is Harry august). How he came about is not really important, I mean you can read the book if you were curious as to why his surname is the month of August instead of june or something else but the main point that this book is trying to bring about would be the question of the power to change the future or history, depending on how you look at it. Since ouroborans have memories of the future lingering in their minds when they are reborn again, they can make the choice to either change the course of history/move the future forward so much so that they will have televisions in the early 1800s etc. Trivial matters like saving the life of a fellow comarade discreetly has also been mentioned and the book kind of makes me want to brush up on my history, especially during the WWII era.

Overall it is interesting enough for me to want to keep reading, to see how everything ends. However something to note would be not to read it after or before a meal. The descriptions are quite vivid and gory imo though illustrated with words but they are still able to form a brief enough image in my mind to make me want to skim through that paragraph. But then again it is science-fiction, so you shouldn't be surprised (don't say I didn't warn you though). Oh, and if you are wondering if there is a final death for ouroborans, well there is. You just have to stop them from being born. aka kill them before their birth when they are still in their mother's wombs. Lastly, if you are wondering if these ouroborans exist in real life... well I guess you can try searching for 'The Cronus Club'. They help to take care of new ouroborans and have branches all over the world including London, Leningard (Russia), New York, Greece and even Beijing. Good luck with that ;)

God bless!!

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