Hey people, sorry for the looong silence... The reason, me being a little preoccupied at work before taking off for the long awaited Christmas/New Year vacation :D . I hope that you all had a very Happy Christmas and I wish you all a very Happy New Year Ahead... I hope all your dreams come true in 2008 and you get all the success you ever wished for. A small tribute to my favorite comic character Calvin, and his tiger Hobbes. See you all again next year.
Hey people, today I decided to post a few brain teasers and help you sharpen up your brains. :-) ... Although some of these are silly, they make perfect sense. I won't be posting the answers now. Write down your answers as comments and lets see how many of you get these simple puzzles right. I will post the answers in a few days when I think the time is right. :-)So here we go
There is one word in the English language that is always pronounced incorrectly. What is it?
A boat has a ladder that has six rungs, each rung is one foot apart. The bottom rung is one foot from the water. The tide rises at 12 inches every 15 minutes. High tide peaks in one hour. When the tide is at it's highest, how many rungs are under water?
There is a house with four walls. Each wall faces south. There is a window in each wall. A bear walks by one of the windows. What color is the bear?
Is half of two plus two equal to two or three?
How much dirt would be in a hole 6 feet deep and 6 feet wide that has been dug with a square edged shovel?
What can go up a chimney down, but can't go down a chimney up?
If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 haystacks in the other field, how many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in the center field?
What is it that goes up and goes down but does not move?
Enjoy your day with a puzzling mind. Please look in the comments for answers.
The man had never believed in mere utility. Having had no useful work, he indulged in mad whims. He made little pieces of sculptures, men, women and castles and he painted. Thus he wasted his time on all that was useless and needless. People laughed at him. He spent his earthlife in useless work and yet after death, the gates of heaven opened wide for him and he was sent to the Workers Paradise. But this newcomer did not fit well with the scheme of things in Workers Paradise. He lounged in the streets absently and jostled the hurrying men. He lay in the green meadows or close to the fast flowing stream. A girl went hustling-bustling everyday to a silent torrent (silent since in the Workers Paradise even a torrent wouldn't waste its energy singing), to fill her pitchers. "A - Ha" she cried with concern. "You have no work in hand, Have you?" The man sighed "Work! I've not a moment to spare for work." The girl did not understand his words and said "I shall spare some work for you to do, if you like." She further said "What kind of work would you like?" "Would you give me one of your pitchers, one that you can spare?" "A pitcher? You want to draw water from the torrent?" "No. I shall draw pictures on your pitcher." The girl was annoyed. "A picture indeed! I have no time to waste on such as you. I'm going." And she walked away. But everyday they met and everyday he said the same thing to her. She yielded at last. She gave him one of her pitchers. The man started painting. When he had completed his work, the girl held up the pitcher and stared at its sides, her eyes puzzled. Brows drawn, she asked "What do they mean, all those lines and colors?" The man laughed "Nothing. A picture may have no meaning and serve no purpose." At home, away from prying eyes, she held it in the light, turned it round and round and scanned the painting from all angles. At night she lighted a candle and scanned it again in silence. For the first time in her life she had seen something that had no meaning and no purpose at all. She saw the painter standing by the torrent and asked him in confusion, "What do you want of me?" "Only some more work from your hands." "What kind of work would you like?" "Let me make a colored ribbon for your hair." "And what for?" "Nothing." Ribbons were made, bright with colors. The busy girl of Workers Paradise had now to spend a lot of time everyday tying the colored ribbon around her hair. Much work was left unfinished. In Workers Paradise, work of late had began to suffer. Many people who had been active earlier were idle now, wasting their precious time on useless things like paintings and sculptures. The elders became anxious. A meeting was called. The aerial messenger also hurried in, bowed before the elders and made a confession. "I brought a wrong man in this paradise. It is all due to him." The man was summoned. Stifled the president said "This is no place for the kind of you. You must leave." The man sighed in relief and gathered up his brush and paints. But as he was about to go, the girl of the silent torrent came up tripping and cried "Wait a moment! I shall come with you."
I came across this list while I was browsing. These are some actual radio exchanges between pilots and the ground control towers. Hope you have a good laugh...
Tower: "Delta 351, you have traffic at 10 o'clock, 6 miles!" Delta 351: "Give us another hint! We have digital watches!" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tower:"TWA 2341, for noise abatement turn right 45 Degrees." TWA 2341: "Center, we are at 35,000 feet. How much noise can we make up here?" Tower:"Sir, have you ever heard the noise a 747 makes when it hits a 727?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From an unknown aircraft waiting in a very long takeoff queue: "I'm f...ing bored!" Ground Traffic Control: "Last aircraft transmitting, identify yourself immediately!" Unknown aircraft: "I said I was f#@&ing bored, not f#@&ing stupid!" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- O'Hare Approach Control to a 747: "United 329 heavy, your traffic is a Fokker, one o'clock, three miles, Eastbound." United 329: "Approach, I've always wanted to say this...I've got the little Fokker in sight." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A student became lost during a solo cross-country flight. While attempting to locate the aircraft on radar, ATC asked, "What was your last known position?" Student: "When I was number one for takeoff." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A DC-10 had come in a little hot and thus had an exceedingly long roll out after touching down. San Jose Tower Noted: "American 751, make a hard right turn at the end of the runway, if you are able. If you are not able, take the Guadeloupe exit off Highway 101, make a right at the lights and return to the airport." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tower:"Eastern 702, cleared for takeoff, contact Departure on frequency 124.7" Eastern 702: "Tower, Eastern 702 switching to Departure. By the way,after we lifted off we saw some kind of dead animal on the far end of the runway." Tower:"Continental 635, cleared for takeoff behind Eastern 702, contact Departure on frequency 124.7. ! Did you copy that report from Eastern 702?" BR Continental 635: "Continental 635, cleared for takeoff, roger; and yes, we copied Eastern... we've already notified our caterers." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- One day the pilot of a Cherokee 180 was told by the tower to hold short of the active runway while a DC-8 landed. The DC-8 landed, rolled out, turned around, and taxied back past the Cherokee. Some quick-witted comedian in the DC-8 crew got on the radio and said, "What a cute little plane. Did you make it all by yourself?" The Cherokee pilot, not about to let the insult go by, came back with a real zinger: "I made it out of DC-8 parts. Another landing like yours and I'll have enough parts for another one." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- While taxiing at London's Gatwick Airport, the crew of a US Air flight departing for Ft. Lauderdale made a wrong turn and came nose to nose with a United 727. An irate female ground controller lashed out at the US Air crew, screaming: "US Air 2771, where the hell are you going?! I told you to turn right onto Charlie taxiway! You turned right on Delta! Stop right there. I know it's difficult for you to tell the difference between C and D, but get it right!" Continuing her rage to the embarrassed crew, she was now shouting hysterically: "God! Now you've screwed everything up! It'll take forever to sort this out! You stay right there and don't move till I tell you to! You can expect progressive taxi instructions in about half an hour, and I want you to go exactly where I tell you, when I tell you, and how I tell you! You got that, US Air 2771?" "Yes, ma'am," the humbled crew responded. Naturally, the ground control communications frequency fell terribly silent after the verbal bashing of US Air 2771. Nobody wanted to chance engaging the irate ground controller in her current state of mind. Tension in every cockpit out around Gatwick was definitely running high.
Just then an unknown pilot broke the silence and keyed his microphone, asking: "Wasn't I married to you once?"
Music: it has been my friend for a long time. A very good friend indeed which I'm sure I can never lose. I've loved music for as long as I can remember. I even tried my hand at it once but soon found out that it was not my cup of tea. I listen to it all the time, on my way to and from work, when I'm reading a book, while I'm in bed asleep and on my long runs(Which are but very few :) ). It helps me get relieved of stress, it gives me hope when I listen to some with such beautiful lyrics, and I'm at peace when I listen to ones with such soothing notes. It brings back sweet memories, even bitter ones some times but then again I'm still at peace. Sometimes it makes me think of my life, what it has been till now and where it is heading towards to now. It fills me with life. It reminds me of my friends, and those "Happy Days" when I was at college. Those days when we used to bunk classes and go to the movies. Even getting thrown out of classes was fun. The funniest one I can remember was when my Math professor (can't remember his name) branded my friends (4 of them) and I as terrorists for disrupting the peace in class. He called us the Lashkar-e-Taiba group. We had such a good laugh after class and for the rest of the semester ...LOL... Sorry I digress. So I was talking about music. Sometimes it's nostalgic, sometimes its sad, sometimes very happy, and sometimes it fills me full of adrenaline. Sometimes its my only company when I'm all alone and need someone to talk to, sometimes it shows a new meaning to my life and sometimes it shows me how happy and content I'm and I don't regret anything that has happened in my life so far at that moment. It accompanies me everywhere, no matter what I'm doing. I even remember listening to music just before my job interview. And yes, I had been listening to one particular song all this while, when I was writing this post. Here it is for you to enjoy (Although its Telugu, I am sure everyone would enjoy it)...
I don't know what would happen to me without music. I thank all the people out there in the music industry for their beautiful gift.
I don't know if you have heard of this before, but this is a great theory. And its true 'coz it hasn't been proven otherwise :) .... Click on the image to read it ... Enjoy your beers guys and gals....
Everything you do in life, you do it for a reason, for a goal that you have set for yourself. it's not been any different for me either. I went to school when I was a kid for a reason, to be aware of the society and life around me. I went to college after that for the same reason. I worked hard in college for another reason, to get the best job possible. I tried hard for a job for another reason, I wanted to be independent. But there was another reason, why I didn't take up the first job that came my way but instead chose the dependent life for a couple of more years and came to this so called land of opportunities. But what happens to life if that reason dies? What if there is nothing to live upto for? There are a few reasons that I can give, like to support my parents in future, to be successful blah blah blah which are always there. But these are not reasons good enough to lead an exciting life. These are not the reasons, that would force you to accelerate through life or to live on the edge or to take risks. These are reasons that are good only if you want to cruise through life. And I believe that life without risks is no life worth living. I want to get back on to the fast lane again, but a good reason is the ticket that would get me there. And thats what I'm living for now, to find a good reason to get back the life as it was.
Ever wondered why you should wear your wedding ring on only the fourth finger of your hand? This is a beautiful and convincing explanation. Some say its a Chinese Legend. I don't know for sure. OK. First, know what your fingers represent...
Thumb represents your Parents
Second (Index) finger represents your Siblings
Middle finger represents yourself
Fourth (Ring) finger represents your Life Partner
Last (Little) finger represents your children
OK. Now lets get on with the small test. First, open your palms (face to face), bend the middle fingers and hold them together - back to back(You can never ever separate yourself from yourself :-)...). Then open and hold the remaining three fingers and the thumb - tip to tip, as shown below.
Now, try to separate your thumbs (representing the parents)…, and you can, because your parents are not destined to live with you lifelong, and have to leave you sooner or later. Now please join your thumbs as before and separate your Index fingers (representing siblings)…., and again you can open them, because your brothers and sisters will have their own families and will have to lead their own separate lives. Now join the Index fingers and separate your Little fingers (representing your children)…., they will open too, because the children also will get married and settle down on their own some day. Finally, join your Little fingers, and try to separate your Ring fingers (representing your Alter Ego...). You will be surprised to see that, try however hard you may, you just can't do it, because Husband & Wife have to remain together all their lives - through thick and thin. Thats your Alter Ego, A part of yourself... You may try for yourself if you don't believe...Isn't this a lovely theory...!
Sorry for the long silence guys but have been a little busy lately with work and yeah, what I've been fearing for a long time happened a few days ago, my faithful old laptop died. I hope I'll be able to revive it back. Anyways, enough of my disquiets. What I wanted to write today is about "People and Places". How certain People and certain Places can change your life, change the way you think, the way you look at others, the way you live, the way you talk and hear things and the way you feel. Yeah, how they can change your life altogether. I've been fortunate enough to have traveled a lot (well atleast more than an average person in India), and live in almost drastically different social and economic environments so far in my life. I am happy for how my life has molded me so far regarding most aspects of my character, but the others, I don't know if I'll ever be able to change them. I was born and bought up in a small village in India, but not long after I moved out of it an landed in a small township, and then later in one of the largest cities in India followed by a small city later, where I spent the last year of my life before flying away from my beloved home country. It was in that small city, that I learnt life's most important lessons and met some of the most beautiful people in my life so far. When I say beautiful, I don't (only) mean physical beauty, which is but skin deep. It was in that city that I lived away from my family, alone, for the first time ever. I used to look forward for a call from mom/dad and also to meet my sweet and beautiful sis on weekends who was staying in a hostel then (I stayed as a paying guest for a year). I made some good and ever lasting friends during those last 3 years of schooling (high school). I never had developed close friendship with people before, 'coz by the time I was close to them and was at the point of trusting them, we used to move to a different place. But this place was different, it didn't take long for me to trust people here. My best year in the place was the academic year of 98-99 when I was in hostel. I learned and experienced the term sacrifice and felt the joy that comes from helping your friends. The loyalty and trust we had developed was absolute. That was the year when I had some crushes for the first time and realised it. Had some daring adventures, challenging some unlikely people (our warden :-)) and taking care of friends when they were low. That place taught me what it was to love and be loved. It showed me the pain of loss. When I moved out of the city to go to the neighboring place for the next two years, I saw how difficult it was to find faithful friends like I had back at school. I had not been so close to my parents, as I've been with my friends during those years. Those were the years when I developed an "Independent Lifestyle" kind of attitude. I no longer depended on other people to make my decisions, in some cases not even my parents. That has taken me a long way in my mostly successful life so far. I've never forgotten those friends and never will. Fast-forward 4 years down my memory lane and I was in the land of opportunities. My independent lifestyle helped me a lot to get settled into the new place and make some nice new friends here too. Los Angeles was kind of a dream come true for me. I have always wanted to be able to go to the beach often. The university and the social life were so different here yet so much more fun. The competition here was fierce, yet I fared well and was happy for it until I lost something which I had been yearning for years. It was then that I saw how much of an introvert and reserved person I am, and how much I hesitate when it comes to some decisions, and how less about my life, I discuss with my faithful friends. But what is lost is lost forever and I cannot get it back, and I think since then I've been living life the way I should have been for a long time.
Thanks a lot friends for being there for me and giving me hope whenever I was in need of it. Thank you all very much for all your support and encouragements. And thanks a lot for for being my friend...
I have been thinking of jotting this down for quiet a long time now, but this post took simply too long. Mainly because it has been two years since I set foot in this "land of opportunity" and have never recorded any of my thoughts ever since. It took me quiet a while to recollect and sort them out. Sorry for hurrying in the end but I have only one excuse for it, I was too lazy and wanted to be done with it. So here it goes... Long long ago on a beautiful morning (actually only a little over two years ago), I woke up to find my first acceptance letter for MS on the bedside desk. I was enthralled with joy. Little did I know of the the roller coaster ride that was awaiting me. Within a couple of weeks, I got accepted into all the colleges I had applied for, except one. Thanks to my friends and family who helped me choose the school where I was to slog for the next two years, away from all joy and enjoyment. Naah...I will take that back, I did enjoy and lot at USC, LA's been the best place I have been to in US so far. Anyways, the day of my departure came close and I started spending my time giving treats to my friends who had stuck by me all my life. I was lucky to have boarded the flight and escape the floods that broke in Mumbai the next day, delaying the departure of a lot of my soon to be new friends. So I finally landed in LA and got out of the customs with almost no trouble (I had a hard time convincing the guy that the Mango pickle didn't contain any meat). So there I was out of the airport with no idea where to go (I had not received any reply from the Indian association about my temporary accommodation yet). After thinking deeply for a long time I decided that it was the school's responsibility to accommodate me, as they were the one who accepted me in the first place. yeah I know that's bullshit but I had no where else to go. So they put me in the undergrad dorms (it was still summer and students had not yet arrived) for 25 bucks a night. In the next couple of weeks I got settled into a nice cozy apt with three other guys one of whom has stuck by me ever since. The school commenced soon after and my life after that was hell. So many homework and so much work (Labs, part times, study and partying was simply too much when everything was put together). I studied more and in that one semester than all four years of my undergrad put together. The following semesters were equally bad (better when it came to partying) if not worse, except for the last one when I had landed myself with an internship. I made a lot of good friends on the way who I know would stick to me forever. I thank you guys for being there for me always. I wish you all good luck with all your endeavors if you have not yet achieved them. I dedicate this song to you all
It's been a wonderful experience knowing you all and having you as a part of my life. Thanks a ton ...
The month of August went by like a storm. Was mostly uneventful but here are a few things I did and achieved for the first time ever...
Won a beer in Foosball at work.
Worked till 10pm at work. It was fun as we had lunches and dinners together.
Tasted Whisky and had vodka with cranberry juice.
Read The Alchemist for the first time and have been thinking a lot about my past and present (and to a certain extend, my future) ever since.
Regained contact with a very old friend after almost a decade. I learned never to make conclusions by knowing only one side of a conversation (and that too not entirely).
Crashed my external hard drive and lost all of my precious data. Hope I will be able to recover at least some of it.
Traveled by Amtrak for the first time. The journey was slow, uneventful, colorless and boring although a lot more comfortable and cheaper than a flight.
Decided never would work for a big corporation where employees (even the CEO) are treated like cars in a parking lot, after seeing one.
Blew a hundred dollars on something which I had thought I would never experience. (Guys who know what I am talking of, shut the fuck up).
Went on a 3 mile trek with friends in Yosemite. The views were breathtaking and the water falls were amazing.
This post has been lying as a draft in my docs for too long now. Although I've figured out to a certain extend as to why things had gone wrong, and think that some of the conclusions drawn have become obsolete by now, but I spent too much time to write this damn thought and so am going to post it anyways. But one thing I would like to tell everyone, When things decide to go wrong, there is nothing stopping them. Its what your destiny was meant to be, maybe for your own good too.
"The Alchemist", a book which you can read infinite number of times and still crave to read one more time. Well, so I read it once again today, my third time so far. This time I read it envisioning myself as the protagonist and associating various events in the book to those in my life and I began to wonder about my achievements. I had many dreams (interpret as goals) while I was growing up (When I say dreams, I don't mean the dreams I had between Age 1 and 13 :-) ), and I had always been the kind of person, who's very optimistic and likes to take his own decisions in life. And that has helped me a great deal to get to where I am today. I had my share of luck, burdens, choice, failures, hardships, risks and successes in life. And so I asked myself, have all my dreams been fulfilled? I wondered for some time if that was ever possible and finally declared that it is an impossible thing to happen. Why, you ask? Any guesses? No? C'mon you can do better than that...well OK, I concluded that as life goes on, so do your dreams, I mean you have new dreams everyday (or every night) right (If not you should seriously think of getting some help). So there is no way that all your dreams can ever be fulfilled. So I rephrased that question and asked myself have all my dreams, that I had a few years ago been fulfilled? It took me a while to recollect what my dreams were a couple of years ago. And finally when I tried to answer this question, only one dream kept coming back to my mind which was once my dearest, but was never fulfilled. I tried to figure out as to what went wrong there. Why did I fail that one time? And I realized that I had not always been that "optimistic" and "taking my own decision" kind of person in my life that I had envisioned to be. There have been certain episodes in my life when I was very negative, hesitant and very afraid of loss. I was so afraid that I never even tried to turn that dream into reality. I was happy the way things were and continued to live on. But "change" is inevitable in nature and so is it when it comes to our lives. Things changed so drastically in such short time that my dream hit a hard deadline that had been set for it a long time ago which I had but ignored. It was too late to make things right then and I had to give up. The only way it could still have become a reality is if I could somehow go back in time, which is all but impossible. So I decided today, never again to be pessimistic, 'coz the one time I had been like that, I had to pay a heavy price for it, and I don't want to feel sad for something I could've avoided, ever again. And so to all those who are reading, I say this: Dream big, never hesitate, never be afraid unless its upon your life, take calculated risks and always be positive. Never think how things went wrong when you fucked up, but think what you gained when things went wrong. And so here I am today, ready to read "The Alchemist" yet once again.
Ever wondered how actually the great pyramids were built, or for that matter how a structure as simple as a stone henge was made, or even why they were made? Ever wondered if our antecedents (ones before 0 AD) could have been super intelligent and genius beings and could accomplish undertakings, which we didn't even dream, of a couple of centuries ago?
How do you think they made the pyramids, or for that matter the stone henge, which is even older? They didn't use gasoline or electricity (sources of power) to achieve something that human ability or might cannot possibly accomplish. They used existing forces like the sun, the wind and yes the gravitational force. But here I am talking about people living way before the time of stone henge and pyramids. Do you think they could travel between continents at that time (yeah on oceans of course)? Do you think they would have traveled the entire earth and would have been able to make an exact model of earth, all its land masses and the oceans, and yeah even its curvature? To be precise, could they be able to make a globe with super fine precision (something like half a degree error in latitudes and longitudes) without being able to look at earth from space? O hell did we even know of latitudes and longitudes 10-15 centuries ago? Did we (people not living on America & Antartica) even know that North America and Antartica existed on the face of earth at that time? OK enough questions. But I guess this last one won't hurt :). Will you believe all this to be true if presented with some concrete evidence? Well you have no choice I suppose. So this is where The Piri Reis Map comes in. Piri Reis was a famous admiral of the Turkish fleet in the sixteenth century and he drew a map on a gazelle skin and wrote on it that he had gathered the data from many different source maps to make his own map. The surprising thing is that he had an almost perfectly detailed map of the Antartic coast line and the Atlantic side of the North American and South American coast lines and the northern African coast line. Antartica was not discovered until the next 300 years. And Columbus had discovered America only about a decade ago. Whats more surprising is the accuracy of the map (cartographers corrected some errors in the present maps after getting hold of Piri Reis Map). And whats baffling is that he claimed that the source maps were much much older. How did some one at that time accomplish such a feat? And what the hell did they want to go to Antartica for? Also the amazing thing is that they were able to record the curvature of the earth on the maps as well. So they already knew then that Earth was not flat (for disclosing which fact many great people were mocked in recent centuries). So now what happened to this civilization? Where and how did they disappear suddenly? If they would have lived, would they have been much more technologically advanced then we are today? Of course yes, and I could only dream some of their works of arts. So what seems to have happened was this genius of a civilization was wiped out and what was left was a much dumber civilization which took hundreds of years of learning to be where we are today (Does that justify the heading now :)). If you are interested, read more about Piri Reis Map here.
Move the green frogs from the left to the right. Move the brown frogs from the right to the left.This can be done in around 3 minutes with an IQ above 50. Just click on each frog to move them, there are no tricks good luck! Id appreciate if you post how many tries and how many times you moved, before you got it right… enjoy!
Hit Reiniciar to restart (thats retry in Spanish)
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
To all Indians who read this blog today (Aug 15'th 2007 IST), I wish you all a Very Happy 60'th Independence day. India has developed so much in the past 60 years, that it is simply unbelievable what a country can achieve in such a short period of time. But we are not at the end of the tunnel yet. There are so many more finer details for the development of a country that we yet have to take care of. Many of you must have got this as an email forward, but if not here's what A P J Abdul Kalam has had to say about our development, where he emphasizes most of these finer details. We've achieved so many things but yet theres still a long way to go. So kudos to our achievements so far, and lets all work towards the final step in converting India from a "Developing" country to a "Developed" Nation. Jai Hind.
"when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it."
If you've never read the book "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho, I would recommend you to get it and read it. It doesn't matter if you are a big novel buff or have never ever read a book (I don't mean text books...Of course you would have read those for sure...atleast...). This book is meant for everyone to read. It would be a very good first read if this is the first ever novel you are reading. And for others it would be very refreshing and enlightening at the same time. Its very different from the violent, thrilling and action filled conspiracies like The Bourne series, Sum of all fears etc. or the slow, sentimental love stories like The Love Story, A Walk To Remember etc. or the innovative science fictions like Time Machine and Star Wars or the legerdemain fantasy novels like Harry Potter or Lord of The Rings. The Alchemist deals with the experiences of a boy who decides to follow his dreams. Its his journey through the unknown land, which he had never ever dreamed of treading on before. Its about his losses and his realizations (as to how to deal with life). Its about his beliefs and trusts. And yeah of course its about The Alchemist himself and what the boy learns from him. But more than the fictional story in the book, its about what everyone who reads the book should do, is what I like the most about the book. Yes, its about believing in your dreams and trying your best to see them materialize before you. It tells you never to give up, to fight on, to always be hopeful and never to lose heart. The core message of the book is "when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it" which I can't say is a 100% true. Because when you do something great or good and you're on your path the success, there are always a lot of people out there in this world, who try to see you unsuccessful and would do anything to achieve it even if they don't gain anything out of it. I would agree that there are also others who try to help you and see that you succeed, but saying "all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it" is a little contradictory for me. Well I would say that even in the book, the boy does has some bad luck when he gets robbed, and when he is put up to an impossible task by the army. Did they help him in achieving what he wanted or were they a hinderance to him? I would say he would've reached his goal faster otherwise. So then how could the core message be true. So what I learned from the book was to follow your dreams, always listen to your heart, fight the hurdles placed in your way, never lose heart, never be so content that you lose sight of your dreams and yeah never trust everyone who agrees to help you out, although sometimes it may be for your own good to fail in certain circumstances. There are other things I learned too, but still I seriously don't think that "when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it." Still read the book friends, maybe you can get a lot more out of it and do follow your dreams.
When life seems a tough battle, for a while shift yourselves to the world of imaginations....
Look into the mirror...Your eyes... The depth...They reflect something... Catch the message...They have volumes to speak.... View the image in your mind...Flutter... Glide...Through the time...See the invisible... Gape in it...Hear the silence...Its got a rhythm... Breath in the vacuum...Get mesmerized...Feel the flaws within... Dance along with it...Dive into the river of belief...Get drowned... Find yourselves standing on he edge of a rock...Stop...Don't walk... Smell the mist around...Spread your arms... Embrace the rejuvenated feeling... Now come back...Retrieve yourself...
Discover the possibility of the impossible, the presence of the invisible, in the joy of being alive, 'coz as a human, you still can do a lot, with time.
So what the nostalgia is about?? Well I was going through some very old picture collection I had, and came across the pictures from my school. Such beautiful days those were. We didn't have anything to worry about, nothing to disrupt the fun we had in the hostel, nothing to dampen our spirits (except the early morning yoga classes ..which I am thankful for now :-|).
I can still visualize our dorm room and my friends. The brightest playing plastic-ball-exam-pad cricket with the youngest kids in the hostel...The strongest busy with his paintings in another corner...And the sanest busy in his own thoughts in yet another corner...and a few others, Juniors, (who used to practically stay in our:10'th class; dorm) sitting and chatting. The shrieks and yells of the girls who used to stay in the floor below. And the puffs of smoke coming from the kitchens in a yet, another floor below.
The weekends were something we used to enjoy the most. Trying to be rebels by playing the only game yet the best, which was banned for us: Cricket, keeping a kid on the watch for us. Booing and calling out to our friends who used to wander by our windows. People trying to talk to their girlfriends away from the prying eyes of the wardens.
That was the place where I met some of my best friends to date, those friends who have always been there for me, always helped me and always encouraged me. The best part was the school itself, which taught me some of the best lessons in life. That was the place where I was a student to the best teachers ever.
But that was a long time ago. Times have changed. And like everything else, the school has changed with time. Like everything the school has also been the target of a cataclysm called development. The hostel has been closed. The number of students has been dwindling. Old teachers are leaving. The place around the school is becoming a concrete forest. That once serene, secluded, quiet and beautiful place has now vanished. I wish I can turn back the time and relive that part of my life again.
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