Crappy Genius

I was watching TV the other night. It happened to be a documentary about geniuses around the world. And there was one in Malaysia. His name is Adi Putra. I said to my self 'whaaa' when my home country was mentioned. What do you know... there is genius in country after all.

So I watch with so much curiosity. Never heard them before you see.

But, sad to tell, I was pretty dissapointed with this so called genius from Malaysia. For one thing, he is not showing any typical sign of being 'genius', let alone being a prodigy. While all geniuses think of problems of unspoken complexity and beyond current knowledge, this boy was using old age mathematical technique to solve mathematics. Err... sorry, not mathematics... calculation. The interviewer asked him what he foresee that is going to happen in the future. He said he knows that everybody will eventually be dead. Daaaaaa.... Even my dog can answer that simple. No obvious abnormal brain activity in this boy. Genius of prodigy somehow exhibit weird behavior such as obsession in something, liking in something off his or her age, ability to communicate something beyond our thinking, love mathematics but no solving mathematics. Rather analyzing the mathematics.

I got a little further. I dig the story behind this kid's life. In my opinion, he is just an ordinary kid, taught some mathematical tricks and get publicized. There is no Art, Physics, Chess, Chemistry, Biology, Literature, Astronomy... none of these are related to him. Geniuses, though not taught or shown, are able to find these knowledge. This Adi Putra certainly has none.

I know how a prodigy are because I have felt it before.

Hm, world... anything can happen.