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I was sitting in the office canteen amidst the rising clamor, having a conversation with my colleague. While savoring the fruit plate lying in front of me, the thought of apple popped up in my head. The moments to follow were like a massive blank canvas and after a pause; I was splashing different coloured thoughts all over it. I finally broke the silence and barged out of the self contemplation mode. “You know, we should award Apple with some trivial title” I said. My colleague quite familiar with my whacky ideas dint pay much head and said “Go ahead, enlighten me with the thought process that went behind that statement”.

It all just came so spontaneously to me and I began “As per the Book of Genesis in Christian religion, Eve had coaxed Adam to share the Apple with her and this event in turn was held responsible for origination of entire mankind. Since this fruit got stuck in Adam’s throat, the larynx in human throat got the name Adam’s apple. Apple was considered as the forbidden fruit and its interpretation in Latin was quite similar to that of the word Evil.”

“This tale of Apple continued to stick on for ages, until another horrid incident took place in the pages of history, where an extremely intelligent or geek scientist named Isaac Newton was sitting under an apple tree in Cambridge and one of its fruit fell on his head. From that day on, now did HE rest until he discovered the term Gravity and nor did he let the generations to follow till date live in peace without being forced to memorize his work and not cursing him at least once in their lifetime.” I said.

“And, until recently a guy named Steve Jobs founded Apple Computer Inc. in 1976. The American multinational, took the consumer market by a wave with its amazing electronic products and softwares. You wouldn’t find a techii nerd without an IPod, and entertainment and multimedia pro without a MAC and a gadget freak not ogling at their IPhone, all of which are products of this company named APPLE.”

I kind of amazed myself with the spontaneous thoughts that were incepted on that coffee table. We had a good laugh on the theory behind my proposal to give a prestigious title to this fruit. Later on, trying to search for some more facts on this fruit over the internet, I discovered that the apple tree originated in Central Asia. This brought another whacky thought to my head “Does this mean the tree plantation had spread all the way to Greece before Adam and Eve fell on Earth? If not, then this proves that they both were Chinese, which is like a slap to all the famous painters who are already dead now, but had never portrayed Adam and Eve as Chinks :D”