P.S. I'm writing this post in the middle of my mugging session, rather the beginning of it, or no wait a minute, its about something that never existed, or something that will never exist,, er,, well you get the point, or no maybe you don't... Whatever!
Ah, did I just start with a Post-script ?
Yes I did!
I thought post script is the script that initiates the post, and went ahead to modify the .post_scriptrc file!!! ( warning, too much of time with the linux users can lead you to crazy thoughts like this!)
Or maybe its just my Hangover from 3 and a half cups of really strong coffee [:P]
Well anyway getting to what I had wanted to post, I've decided (not really decided its more like painfully concluded) that there are somethings that you shouldn't do before an exam.
(i) Even more so if you have not mugged well for it.
{
" You've not mugged for it, ergo you dont have the enthu to mug for it, ergo you dont like it, ergo you do not care about the exam but you are still concerned, ergo all you care for is grades.."
FAQ's
Q: Well who doesn't ?
A:I don't!
Q:You are lying aren't you ?
A:Yes, I'm a complete liar!
( But hey,, hold on, did I just be truthful by speaking truth? Or did I just lie when I actually am a Truther? I’m confused [:P] )
}
(ii) Oddly more so if you are planning to put a nite-out and mug. ( Nite-out plus Mug ?? Seems like an anomaly here)
(iii) Rationally so if you have thoughts of doing well in it. ( I strongly recommend, you discard there temporary files that recursively write themselves into your RAM and get automatically corrupted just before the exam, almost always leading to a kernel panic)
(iv) Irrationally so if you are a desperate to do well. (It happens so that I’m in this state, irrational as always [:D] )
BTW, the (i)'s used above are purely intended to say 'i' , all in the heights of self-obsession
Yeah so, here it goes :
1. Do not start mugging after midnight on the day of the exam.
2. If you don’t follow step one, you’ll end up feeling sleepy very soon and plan to take coffee
3. Okay, that natural, but hey, you are desperate to do well so what do you do ? Take a cup of strong coffee,, and then another,, and then another,,finally a half cup,, ( Warning: This step contains information regarding screwing your mindset and squashing its functionality, do not try this, no Don’t even think about it)
4. If you are able to retain sanctity after step 3,
a. You are strong [:)] ( Yeah its a compliment)
b. Please don’t try step 6 [ its 5 actually, but after step 2 it hardly matters, wait.., gee isn’t it 3?]
6. Don’t try speaking to anyone, not even messaging or chatting, no not even to your mirror image ( you won’t realise its you when you look into the mirror though, but just in case you do..)
7. Don’t attempt to sleep after this, thats reserved for you just as soon as the exam begins!
8. Don’t blog!
9. Don’t do any of the above 7.
Ah, now I realise the probability of a person reading this article who has proceeded till step 4 or 5 is quite low, so I guess I’ll have to explain why.
1. It never works
2. Please sleep and wake up the next day, don’t ever attempt a night out for an exam, your mind simply shuts down. ( Ah, but go ahead and do it if you are doing a course with me and its RG)
3. This makes you awake, more awake than you can ever be, much more awake than what you want to be, its worse than being asleep and not studying , you get into this “Monkey” mode. You’ll start jumping, limping, jogging, juggling(quite unsuccessfully), and worst of all dancing!
4. Now in the aftermath of 3, you slightly begin to realise,” oopsie I’ve to mug now!” But hey, this fellow is online why not ask him what he has done.
In rare cases when you are mugging BT, you might end you proving that you've almost all the brain disorders
thatit could possibly suggest. I felt like a 3rd stage Alzhimer and a second stage Parkinson's patient. Yes I had vague recollections of diagnosing myself with Conduction Aphasia also!
5. I so totally can’t predict what happens in this part, either the guy signs off psyched, or he yells at you, or he comes to your room and strangles you until you stop laughing and begin coughing instead.
6. Its too embarrassing to admit what happens in this stage, it turns out just awful, plain simple awful, man Hallucinations, what can get worse? [:(]
7. You can try it out, it doesn’t happen (Not even if you are reading about the Mylenic Shin that covers the neurons and prevents damping of signals. All due to temporary Mylenic sclerosis. The sleep signal simply can’t travel in your axons and builds up pressure like an inversion layer formation in laser, the moment you enter the exam hall, the threshold is crossed...it just shoots an intense wave )
8. You might regret putting it up later, but while you are writing it, it sure as hell is fun! (You never know, well its like this Schrodinger’s cat )
9. For those who have tried these out, I’m looking for alternative ways to end this post. Help me out no...
10. Despite all my attempts to restrain myself, I’ll say this, this feeling now the awakeness is AWESOME
P.S. As I was writing this post, I’m slightly beginning to gain sense, so I decided to stop fooling with myself and start mugging
P.P.S. All the Best! To myself and the other deplorable souls writing BT101
Finally, I know I’ve made a total mess of myself, but you are still my friend right? Whatsay we give a virtual hug to each other and put all my messes behind you and promise never to look back?
( Yes, good things are not the only things that come to an end, but sadly they too end )
Friday, 28 November 2008
Saturday, 13 September 2008
Snipes from my rambling mind
I had a long conversation with an old friend of mine, and I realised things and people do change, and at times they can be for the worse.
After the call, I was pondering on several things that have been disturbing me and I felt its better I share this bit of sense that ran inside my mind. ( Yeah finally a post about the "sense" part :D )
The friend I had mentioned earlier is a (rather was a) peculiarly sincere fellow, used to surprise even teachers with the level of sincerity that he had. But now, for most part of the talk he seemed disinterested in everything, and had this "why do I care ?" attitude,,, this startled me, and as I was trying to figure out on what must have come over him, I realised this he wasn't devoid of company, many people I happen to know have come over some kind of a situation like this.
I do agree that everyone has limits, but we never know them till put all our skills to test. There is no sense in saying "This is all that I can do", unless you've tried doing with full effort.
It is not that we had the potential and enthusiasm then and lost it now, those things are still lurking underneath the thick fabric of our new mentality that we've somehow acquired.
Something which I'll shortly refer to as the "So what ?" attitude.
Most of us aren't afraid to try or do things, we just aren't bothered. We say things like, " So what, I know I'm good, why should I prove things now, why should I use my potentials now ?" This a question which can't be answered, atleast not by me.
But I can reply in kind, imagine what will happen if everyone starts asking such questions, what if your instructor says "So what, you are not going to learn anyway" or your garbage collector says "So what? your corridor will be dirty anyway"
Does this kind of questioning make any sense? What will you answer in these situations?
Its not a question of justifying what you are doing, it is about what you can do. The thing that's worse than quitting or losing is being complacent, believing that you are weak and that's all you are capable of. No one can help you in such a situation, not even the skills that you have mastered. The beginning of everything is believing in yourself, only then you can even expect others to believe in you. Start to care, even if no one else does care for you. You must be the last person to give up on yourself.
Okay, now this part is done, now you begin to believe in yourself, then another problem arises, finding our destination. It is easy to some, they are just born with an ambition. But there are many of us who find the path as we go by life's winding streets. Whichever the class we belong to, a goal is always important. Sticking to goals is vital, but knowing when to change them requires humility and wisdom. There are times that pass by, when we have to choose between what we want to do and what we can/should do. The realisation that our path has to change is definitely not something easy to accept, it takes a lot of courage to change something that we have pursued for ages, again here, questions like why should I change pop up, to which I have no answer. But remember the first part of the post, trying new things is not going to hurt, this is time we get rid of our stubbornness and pre-conceived notions.
But again there should be a balance, we should never be in the extremes, you need to set your priorities right. Learning to say no is also very vital. Everyone has individual ideas of what's important and what's not, its not necessary that we should live by them, but keep in mind you do give a little thought into them so that you don't end up with selfish ideals. It is you who has to decide, what you can change for the right reason and what it is that you should defend with everything that you have.
Finally have this in mind, time is something that you can never afford to lose. Don't gulp off the ticking clock in the name of enjoyment or spending time with others. They are very essential I agree but at the same time, that cannot be an excuse to waste time. Just think, whom are you trying to convince when you are trying to explain why you haven't been doing something that you were supposed to do. Looking back and regretting is never going to help. All of us have done this at some point or the other, why don't we learn from it and not repeat it ?
[ Seriously I'm tired to trying to convince myself as to why am not mugging for ID and writing this post :P ;) ]
So I'm signing off for now, do let me know what you feel about the issues I've tried to make sense of, have fun and keep smiling :).
After the call, I was pondering on several things that have been disturbing me and I felt its better I share this bit of sense that ran inside my mind. ( Yeah finally a post about the "sense" part :D )
The friend I had mentioned earlier is a (rather was a) peculiarly sincere fellow, used to surprise even teachers with the level of sincerity that he had. But now, for most part of the talk he seemed disinterested in everything, and had this "why do I care ?" attitude,,, this startled me, and as I was trying to figure out on what must have come over him, I realised this he wasn't devoid of company, many people I happen to know have come over some kind of a situation like this.
I do agree that everyone has limits, but we never know them till put all our skills to test. There is no sense in saying "This is all that I can do", unless you've tried doing with full effort.
It is not that we had the potential and enthusiasm then and lost it now, those things are still lurking underneath the thick fabric of our new mentality that we've somehow acquired.
Something which I'll shortly refer to as the "So what ?" attitude.
Most of us aren't afraid to try or do things, we just aren't bothered. We say things like, " So what, I know I'm good, why should I prove things now, why should I use my potentials now ?" This a question which can't be answered, atleast not by me.
But I can reply in kind, imagine what will happen if everyone starts asking such questions, what if your instructor says "So what, you are not going to learn anyway" or your garbage collector says "So what? your corridor will be dirty anyway"
Does this kind of questioning make any sense? What will you answer in these situations?
Its not a question of justifying what you are doing, it is about what you can do. The thing that's worse than quitting or losing is being complacent, believing that you are weak and that's all you are capable of. No one can help you in such a situation, not even the skills that you have mastered. The beginning of everything is believing in yourself, only then you can even expect others to believe in you. Start to care, even if no one else does care for you. You must be the last person to give up on yourself.
Okay, now this part is done, now you begin to believe in yourself, then another problem arises, finding our destination. It is easy to some, they are just born with an ambition. But there are many of us who find the path as we go by life's winding streets. Whichever the class we belong to, a goal is always important. Sticking to goals is vital, but knowing when to change them requires humility and wisdom. There are times that pass by, when we have to choose between what we want to do and what we can/should do. The realisation that our path has to change is definitely not something easy to accept, it takes a lot of courage to change something that we have pursued for ages, again here, questions like why should I change pop up, to which I have no answer. But remember the first part of the post, trying new things is not going to hurt, this is time we get rid of our stubbornness and pre-conceived notions.
But again there should be a balance, we should never be in the extremes, you need to set your priorities right. Learning to say no is also very vital. Everyone has individual ideas of what's important and what's not, its not necessary that we should live by them, but keep in mind you do give a little thought into them so that you don't end up with selfish ideals. It is you who has to decide, what you can change for the right reason and what it is that you should defend with everything that you have.
Finally have this in mind, time is something that you can never afford to lose. Don't gulp off the ticking clock in the name of enjoyment or spending time with others. They are very essential I agree but at the same time, that cannot be an excuse to waste time. Just think, whom are you trying to convince when you are trying to explain why you haven't been doing something that you were supposed to do. Looking back and regretting is never going to help. All of us have done this at some point or the other, why don't we learn from it and not repeat it ?
[ Seriously I'm tired to trying to convince myself as to why am not mugging for ID and writing this post :P ;) ]
So I'm signing off for now, do let me know what you feel about the issues I've tried to make sense of, have fun and keep smiling :).
Friday, 18 July 2008
Back from( without a) BANG(alore)
Before moving on to the post, I request thee to pardon me for a long period(about two months!) of absence from the world of blogosphere, one of which is attributed to my laziness and the other month is being described below :-)
As I lay awake at 6:00 am today, feeling the heat of Chennai in the train returning from Bangalore, I'm reminded of Bangalore, and my month long stay there.
The first thing I realised as I stepped onto Bangalore was it was cool!!! Phew, finally a month of relief from Chennai's scorching summer :-)
As things moved on, I settled with the "Bangalorian" life style in a couple of days.
BTW, if you are new to Bangalore, things to carry in mind :
But, hey life is not just bound by grubbing places and road traffic, you can always get over the grubbing issue by stocking up with finger chips and Haldiram's Bhel Puri . These are some other interesting things :
Auto-Rickshaws in Bangalore use meters to charge, If you are from Chennai and bulbing over "meter", I wont blame you, its a long forgotten instrument here, auto-wala's use them these days as something with an antique value! and needless to say, the auto fare comes out to be half of what you would normally pay in Chennai!!
There is something called a Daily pass (for 30 rupees) which you can get in the bus and travel in any bus for da whole day, I remember one particular day when travelled for about 60-70 bucks, and paid only 30 ! Ah, and thus saved money from my project budget.(Here the author wishes to mention that, he has aptly taken care of these savings by carefully utilising them for Grubbing purposes :D )
If you are suffering for back aches and if you are frustrated over poor roads in Chennai, Bangalore is the place for you to drive your bike, though the roads keep varying in slope, they are smooth.( Man, Why am I not 18 yet? I could've gone for a cool ride with my mom's colleague's bike othewise)
The author apologises for spamming his blog with description of roads and buses and autos, but as most of his time there was spent on travelling, he hopes you would understand
As to the shopping front, take a stroll in Malleshwaram area or near the railway station or in the avenue road, you get "original"( Yeah I mean original The special emphasis is meant for a particular person, if you find it inappropriate kindly ignore ) stuff for amazingly cheap prices, being a branded user myself, I can vouch for their originality, just pick stuff from the right shop. [For instance, the author brags about this Adidas raincoat, which he got for 100 bucks.] And what more, you don't have to put up with a crazy crowd, no, not even half of whats there in Chennai!
Needless to say, Bangalore is one of the cheapest places to buy novels, I bought only about 8 books :P (In the moment of happiness, the author shows his tongue to the e-books, which can never match the hard copies)
And thanks to the Bangalore trip, the author has gotten into linux once again, and a special note thanks to two of his friends (one had helped without her knowledge, for which a treat is pending :P, and the other is the main source of the author's inspiration, need I mention who?) the author has started developing kstars :)
Perfect as it seems till now , I couldn't help but notice several disturbing things, here is a small list :
What follows is the author's personal views, continue reading with caution, the author is not responsible for any arguments or bickering that might arise
No offence meant
But Dustbins, where are they???
NO dustbins in roadside, NO dustbin for about a km in the Railway station, NO common bins in the streets, what are people supposed to do with chocolate wrappers and kur-kure covers ? especially responsible citizens like me,( who never put waste outside the bins)...
I ended up carrying the wrappers in my bag and dumping them in my room(Where garbage was overflowing out of two bins)!!!
Fine, no bins all right, but Pollution control board , Where art thou ?
You don't have to do a emission check with the machines, just look at the nozzle of the autos and trucks a thick white(or black in the latter case) smoke comes out, and the roads look misty! (I've been in Delhi when the temperature was about 3 Degrees, and those roads looked fairly clear compared to the Bangalore counterparts)
All right, Now moving on to the buses, ah the boards in the buses are written beautifully in a language that shares its script from the second most spoken language in India(its Telugu for those of you bulbing), but I've a small problem with that, how is a person from Tamil Nadu or Kerala or wherever supposed to comprehend whats written? (Thankfully, we had Ramya on our team to decipher the fuzzy mess of characters :P oopsie I had forgotten to mention the fact that I was a part of the team of 4 , doing a project over there)
And most importantly, the author felt really sad for missing the 4.2 speaker system which he had to unwillingly leave at home
Okay, am tired of bleating :P ( The author realises that if he goes on with his list of cribs, he might be regarded as glummy, bewailing and clamorous especially by Ramya who regarded him as querulous )
See as I had mentioned before, the disturbing things are quite small, they'll never superseed the amount of fun that I had under the name of our "project"( which went very well btw :D )
( The only thing the author, regrets is not being able to submit his *solved* google code jam's qualification problems, on account of the browsing centre that closed early and the power-cut that followed)
P.S. This can't even be called as a short summary of what had happened, but right now what I need is sleep, so I'll include the other interesting facts later on :)
As I lay awake at 6:00 am today, feeling the heat of Chennai in the train returning from Bangalore, I'm reminded of Bangalore, and my month long stay there.
The first thing I realised as I stepped onto Bangalore was it was cool!!! Phew, finally a month of relief from Chennai's scorching summer :-)
As things moved on, I settled with the "Bangalorian" life style in a couple of days.
BTW, if you are new to Bangalore, things to carry in mind :
- The roads will be deserted in the night( night as in 9 PM on)
- No shops after 10 PM
But, hey life is not just bound by grubbing places and road traffic, you can always get over the grubbing issue by stocking up with finger chips and Haldiram's Bhel Puri . These are some other interesting things :
Auto-Rickshaws in Bangalore use meters to charge, If you are from Chennai and bulbing over "meter", I wont blame you, its a long forgotten instrument here, auto-wala's use them these days as something with an antique value! and needless to say, the auto fare comes out to be half of what you would normally pay in Chennai!!
There is something called a Daily pass (for 30 rupees) which you can get in the bus and travel in any bus for da whole day, I remember one particular day when travelled for about 60-70 bucks, and paid only 30 ! Ah, and thus saved money from my project budget.(Here the author wishes to mention that, he has aptly taken care of these savings by carefully utilising them for Grubbing purposes :D )
If you are suffering for back aches and if you are frustrated over poor roads in Chennai, Bangalore is the place for you to drive your bike, though the roads keep varying in slope, they are smooth.( Man, Why am I not 18 yet? I could've gone for a cool ride with my mom's colleague's bike othewise)
The author apologises for spamming his blog with description of roads and buses and autos, but as most of his time there was spent on travelling, he hopes you would understand
As to the shopping front, take a stroll in Malleshwaram area or near the railway station or in the avenue road, you get "original"( Yeah I mean original The special emphasis is meant for a particular person, if you find it inappropriate kindly ignore ) stuff for amazingly cheap prices, being a branded user myself, I can vouch for their originality, just pick stuff from the right shop. [For instance, the author brags about this Adidas raincoat, which he got for 100 bucks.] And what more, you don't have to put up with a crazy crowd, no, not even half of whats there in Chennai!
Needless to say, Bangalore is one of the cheapest places to buy novels, I bought only about 8 books :P (In the moment of happiness, the author shows his tongue to the e-books, which can never match the hard copies)
And thanks to the Bangalore trip, the author has gotten into linux once again, and a special note thanks to two of his friends (one had helped without her knowledge, for which a treat is pending :P, and the other is the main source of the author's inspiration, need I mention who?) the author has started developing kstars :)
Perfect as it seems till now , I couldn't help but notice several disturbing things, here is a small list :
What follows is the author's personal views, continue reading with caution, the author is not responsible for any arguments or bickering that might arise
No offence meant
But Dustbins, where are they???
NO dustbins in roadside, NO dustbin for about a km in the Railway station, NO common bins in the streets, what are people supposed to do with chocolate wrappers and kur-kure covers ? especially responsible citizens like me,( who never put waste outside the bins)...
I ended up carrying the wrappers in my bag and dumping them in my room(Where garbage was overflowing out of two bins)!!!
Fine, no bins all right, but Pollution control board , Where art thou ?
You don't have to do a emission check with the machines, just look at the nozzle of the autos and trucks a thick white(or black in the latter case) smoke comes out, and the roads look misty! (I've been in Delhi when the temperature was about 3 Degrees, and those roads looked fairly clear compared to the Bangalore counterparts)
All right, Now moving on to the buses, ah the boards in the buses are written beautifully in a language that shares its script from the second most spoken language in India(its Telugu for those of you bulbing), but I've a small problem with that, how is a person from Tamil Nadu or Kerala or wherever supposed to comprehend whats written? (Thankfully, we had Ramya on our team to decipher the fuzzy mess of characters :P oopsie I had forgotten to mention the fact that I was a part of the team of 4 , doing a project over there)
And most importantly, the author felt really sad for missing the 4.2 speaker system which he had to unwillingly leave at home
Okay, am tired of bleating :P ( The author realises that if he goes on with his list of cribs, he might be regarded as glummy, bewailing and clamorous especially by Ramya who regarded him as querulous )
See as I had mentioned before, the disturbing things are quite small, they'll never superseed the amount of fun that I had under the name of our "project"( which went very well btw :D )
( The only thing the author, regrets is not being able to submit his *solved* google code jam's qualification problems, on account of the browsing centre that closed early and the power-cut that followed)
P.S. This can't even be called as a short summary of what had happened, but right now what I need is sleep, so I'll include the other interesting facts later on :)
Friday, 16 May 2008
Trust
I came home from work one day to find my dog Jimmy with the neighbour's pet rabbit in his mouth, the rabbit was all bloody and dead.
I panicked, i thought my neighbours are going to hate me forever, so i took the dirty, chewed-up rabbit into the house, gave it a bath, blow-dried its fur, and put the rabbit back into the cage at the neighbour’s house, hoping that they will think it died of natural causes.
Later that day, my neighbour was sadly standing outside and asked me, "Hey, did you hear that Fluffy died?"
I din't know what to say.. so i just asked him "Um.. no.. um.. what happened?"
He replied with tears, "We just found him dead in his cage yesterday, and we buried him in the garden, today when we had went outside someone dug him up, gave him a bath and put him back into the cage...wonder who has this bad a vengeance on me"
( courtesy: Boston Legal, for the story)
But will my neighbour believe me if i go and tell him what happened?
Similarly so many situations that we face in life, however unreal they might seem, somehow are true.. there is this thing called trust, which we must place on people whom we know well, think in their shoes and see if it actually might be possible, because the worst thing that can happen to a person is when someone who knows him well doesn't believe him,, When someone whom you think trusts you. turns against you because he doesn't believe you,, someone whom you thought you can leaves you,,
This is one bad thing about trust...But there is also this terrible thing which everyone is aware of, breaking someone’s trust,, when someone whom you trust leaves you, when someone whom you thought you can always count on betrays you,, when someone who you placed your utmost value and confidence turns against you,,
But despite these, if you can find someone whom you trust and someone who trusts you, if the someone in both cases happens to be the same,,, be glad,, you are in the list of people who possess something called good fortune,, something called good will.. :)
Tuesday, 22 April 2008
Changing The Nest
Here is the story of a little bird, that has been living with its family on a nest in a big banyan tree. The bird had built the nest five years ago, from the day it moved into the nest, it has been artistically decorating its nest and more specifically its private space in the nest. Every twig and every leaf in the nest was carefully selected, and placed with utmost care. Within a month, it had got accustomed and attached to the place so well that it could identify everything with eyes tied. Also the neighbours were very friendly calm and nice people, who were very friendly and affectionate to it. It has been living peacefully there until yesterday, but now it has to shift its location due to the owner of the branch. Owing to personal and unreasonable request of the owner, the poor bird has to shift its nest now. But Great Heavens, the bird has its own branch in another apple tree, which chanced to become free last week. But be it an apple tree or a lemon tree, its own tree or a rented tree, shifting from the big banyan tree that has been your home for the past five years is very difficult for the bird to put up with. But on the other hand, moving to a new place is also very exciting. It can have all the fun it had when it starts to decorate the new nest. It might prove a much comfortable location. Speculating on all the bird slowly prepares itself for moving on to the new and its own place. A place where it has to answer no questions, a place which is independent, a place which is more accessible to food and water, a place which is a little bigger. But it will definitely miss its old neighbours, the little chirps, the surrounding trees, the nice lights, the temple which is right next to the nest, and the list goes on....it can never know whats in stock for it.
Now am in the same situation, i've to relocate my home. Now this old place has become just a house to me, its no more my home sweet home but a mere building, a concrete structure among 53 similar ones in the apartment. Changes always occur and this is one of the few times in which a physical change attributes to a lot of changes in the mind too. This is a classic example of how your physical conditions can attribute a change in your mindset , something which influences the way you think, something which influences what you like to do, something which can get very difficult and bugging without you realising the reason.
Change is indeed the only thing that doesn't change. It only matters how you deal it and how shrewd you are (Tch...Tch if you aren't shrewd your are screwed my dear). Just think how very interesting[:P] and how peaceful and how nice [nicest try :P] life will be if you can use every change to your advantage, getting bigger [yea.. yea.. size does matter in many ways;)] and better in your life. Just see how mind blowing it will be if you can do that? If thats hard, just think what will be the outcome if you can use half of them? Or Even just see how it can be if you can use one , just one little change to your advantage? [alright, alright if you cant think just skip the questions and move on :P ]
So next time any change occurs, don't feel bad or don't get irritated, get on with it and use your tiny grey cells to adapt to it. Who knows things can get much better than what they seem like. What you think you like might be different from what you actually like[ even otherwise you have to know it for sure don't you? :D ]
Now am in the same situation, i've to relocate my home. Now this old place has become just a house to me, its no more my home sweet home but a mere building, a concrete structure among 53 similar ones in the apartment. Changes always occur and this is one of the few times in which a physical change attributes to a lot of changes in the mind too. This is a classic example of how your physical conditions can attribute a change in your mindset , something which influences the way you think, something which influences what you like to do, something which can get very difficult and bugging without you realising the reason.
Change is indeed the only thing that doesn't change. It only matters how you deal it and how shrewd you are (Tch...Tch if you aren't shrewd your are screwed my dear). Just think how very interesting[:P] and how peaceful and how nice [nicest try :P] life will be if you can use every change to your advantage, getting bigger [yea.. yea.. size does matter in many ways;)] and better in your life. Just see how mind blowing it will be if you can do that? If thats hard, just think what will be the outcome if you can use half of them? Or Even just see how it can be if you can use one , just one little change to your advantage? [alright, alright if you cant think just skip the questions and move on :P ]
So next time any change occurs, don't feel bad or don't get irritated, get on with it and use your tiny grey cells to adapt to it. Who knows things can get much better than what they seem like. What you think you like might be different from what you actually like[ even otherwise you have to know it for sure don't you? :D ]
Wednesday, 12 March 2008
Happ'y'ness
er,, sorry i've been really irregular on my blogging time intrevals[ok!, i'm writing this with my physics exam tomorrow so ignore some terms like this]
Of late i've been under the delusion that life always mean and that u always have to work hard for everything, but as it seems life answers in mysterious ways, for starters i've always wanted to get an ipod but somehow if seemed a far fetched dream [ er.. i've a sony ericsson walkman mobile and some brilliant speakers in room,,,so ppl felt its not a big necessity] but as i've got more into music these days i desperately wanted one and Wham like a dream turning to reality , i'm getting and ipod in a couple of days!
And today i was pondering in class, why dont i eat some home food, [ yea as u are aware food in Himalays sks, and i definitely dont like it] and there comes my dad, with mouth watering mommys food!![er i might add, it was my favourite sambhar, curry and kootu]
After the great meal i was pondering on what to do in ed today [ yea i'm totally give up in ed, i can never draw!] i was hoping not to have any pending work today[ Now gimme a break!i already have 5 assignments to do!] And like magic i completed my drawing pretty much on time and quite neatly too!
seriously life is a brilliant miracle, it is a form of art that can never be understood, whatever happens there is always a reason, some brilliant after effect , some mystery, some clarity some sense and sometimes it never makes sense at all, but to my best knowledge it a game[sounds loads of fun right!] to be played[wisely]:
sometimes we lose, sometimes we win, many times we make mistakes and learn from them , at times we get frustated and at times we give up
But ultimately toward the end we sit back and ponder upon what has happened..
if we had played it well and had fun we rest with a smile ,
else we'll be clouded with the mist of sadness that engulfs our last moments...
so enjoy this beautiful mystery called life rather than trying to analyze it!
Time is too short to worry about the past, just learn from ur mistakes and move on!
Ultimately we realise happiness is not something to be pursued but it is something that we should always experience in every endeavour that we pursue.
Be happy and keep smiling[as always :)]!
Now wish me luck for the exam!!!!
:D
er...yet another arbit post,, sorry if i've bored u...
Of late i've been under the delusion that life always mean and that u always have to work hard for everything, but as it seems life answers in mysterious ways, for starters i've always wanted to get an ipod but somehow if seemed a far fetched dream [ er.. i've a sony ericsson walkman mobile and some brilliant speakers in room,,,so ppl felt its not a big necessity] but as i've got more into music these days i desperately wanted one and Wham like a dream turning to reality , i'm getting and ipod in a couple of days!
And today i was pondering in class, why dont i eat some home food, [ yea as u are aware food in Himalays sks, and i definitely dont like it] and there comes my dad, with mouth watering mommys food!![er i might add, it was my favourite sambhar, curry and kootu]
After the great meal i was pondering on what to do in ed today [ yea i'm totally give up in ed, i can never draw!] i was hoping not to have any pending work today[ Now gimme a break!i already have 5 assignments to do!] And like magic i completed my drawing pretty much on time and quite neatly too!
seriously life is a brilliant miracle, it is a form of art that can never be understood, whatever happens there is always a reason, some brilliant after effect , some mystery, some clarity some sense and sometimes it never makes sense at all, but to my best knowledge it a game[sounds loads of fun right!] to be played[wisely]:
sometimes we lose, sometimes we win, many times we make mistakes and learn from them , at times we get frustated and at times we give up
But ultimately toward the end we sit back and ponder upon what has happened..
if we had played it well and had fun we rest with a smile ,
else we'll be clouded with the mist of sadness that engulfs our last moments...
so enjoy this beautiful mystery called life rather than trying to analyze it!
Time is too short to worry about the past, just learn from ur mistakes and move on!
Ultimately we realise happiness is not something to be pursued but it is something that we should always experience in every endeavour that we pursue.
Be happy and keep smiling[as always :)]!
Now wish me luck for the exam!!!!
:D
er...yet another arbit post,, sorry if i've bored u...
Tuesday, 15 January 2008
thoughts during star gazing
yesterday, a nice celestron telescope was set up in the roof of my hostel and we were observing the heavenly bodies,,, by heavenly i mean really heavenly,,, they were nothing like i've seen before,,,, really amazing...
as i was observing the stars , mars , saturn and the moon my mind was running really wild with thoughts.,,
just looking at the sky and the horizon which extends till infinity in our point of view make us fell very insignificant too small,,
and suddenly we somehow get inspired by the vastness and the calmness,,, somehow we feel we have to do something in life,,,
or sometimes we just get absorbed in nature's beauty and keep looking at it and feel happy,,,
as i was watching the stars the same train of thoughts were coming into my mind,,, but as we started watching farther and more beautiful objects i sensed a different kind of feeling,,,
every star and every planet was unique in some sense,,,
even though we just see a tiny white spot on the thick black blanket somehow we can distinguish them, call them by their name, some of them are very significant and special , some are a part of great constellations and the rest or just stray stars which we dont bother about much,,,
and though mars and saturn just look like stars we can distinguish and spot them pretty easily so i felt the same appiles with us,,,
even though we are just a tiny segment of this world we still stand unique in our own sense some of us are too well known , some of us are well known as a group and the rest of us are unique in our own respect,,,
somehow there is always a point of distinction be it our skills or our characteristics or our behaviour or even the choice of words we use and the type of humour we like,,,
its simply amazing how distinct we are like fingerprints,,, we say a man can be identified by his unique fingerprint but sometimes we fail to realise a man himself is unique
Gods creations are truly amazing,,,, they are simply fascinating,,, and the way He plays around with His creations are even more amazing,,,
erm this post is totally arbit i agree,,, but i felt like sharing my thoughts so i posted it,,, sorry if i've bored you...
as i was observing the stars , mars , saturn and the moon my mind was running really wild with thoughts.,,
just looking at the sky and the horizon which extends till infinity in our point of view make us fell very insignificant too small,,
and suddenly we somehow get inspired by the vastness and the calmness,,, somehow we feel we have to do something in life,,,
or sometimes we just get absorbed in nature's beauty and keep looking at it and feel happy,,,
as i was watching the stars the same train of thoughts were coming into my mind,,, but as we started watching farther and more beautiful objects i sensed a different kind of feeling,,,
every star and every planet was unique in some sense,,,
even though we just see a tiny white spot on the thick black blanket somehow we can distinguish them, call them by their name, some of them are very significant and special , some are a part of great constellations and the rest or just stray stars which we dont bother about much,,,
and though mars and saturn just look like stars we can distinguish and spot them pretty easily so i felt the same appiles with us,,,
even though we are just a tiny segment of this world we still stand unique in our own sense some of us are too well known , some of us are well known as a group and the rest of us are unique in our own respect,,,
somehow there is always a point of distinction be it our skills or our characteristics or our behaviour or even the choice of words we use and the type of humour we like,,,
its simply amazing how distinct we are like fingerprints,,, we say a man can be identified by his unique fingerprint but sometimes we fail to realise a man himself is unique
Gods creations are truly amazing,,,, they are simply fascinating,,, and the way He plays around with His creations are even more amazing,,,
erm this post is totally arbit i agree,,, but i felt like sharing my thoughts so i posted it,,, sorry if i've bored you...
Wednesday, 9 January 2008
sugar or detergent
this incident happened just a few moments ago,,, i was mixing my instant coffee near the water dispenser and came to my room to add sugar to it,,,and added two spoons of what i thought was sugar, and was mixing it, when i began to smell some detergent and noticed something strange happening to coffee,,, just then i saw there were two identical bottles on the table and realised i had added surf excel to coffee,,,thanks to my friend who left it next to the sugar bottle and which also had an identical spoon,,, now i realise,,,, dont mix coffee when u r chatting with someone!
gosh just to imagine that i was gonna drink the detegent coffee makes me feel sick at stomach!
advice: never allow friends with identical bottles and spoons into ur room!
and again see before u add anything to coffee,,,, i'm so sad i wasted a packet of nice instant coffee :(,,, and my friend is paining me now for wasting detergent!
finally i decided to take this as an opportunity to clean my cup with detergent :D
gosh just to imagine that i was gonna drink the detegent coffee makes me feel sick at stomach!
advice: never allow friends with identical bottles and spoons into ur room!
and again see before u add anything to coffee,,,, i'm so sad i wasted a packet of nice instant coffee :(,,, and my friend is paining me now for wasting detergent!
finally i decided to take this as an opportunity to clean my cup with detergent :D
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