Every week end I am happy for the reason that I can take rest without going to office. But really during the week end I literally feels bore what to do alone in the room or whom I should hang out. Certainly I miss a girl friend here. Some times movies, sometimes friends , sometimes sleeping , cooking was my typical week end. But yesterday it was sort of different week end which made me mentally satisfied. Accidentally I joined by company’s team to join an orphanage which is about 20km from pune. We started around at 10Am and reached there and joined with those children. The kind of children those are staying there are nomadic tribes where they dont have a home to stay and keeps moving everyday to one or the other village. They were abandoned by their parents and they were brought and kept in the orphanage. We played some games with them in which I have fallen while running and got my right hand injured , but fortunately nothing happened. Later we have taken lunch with them. I helped in serving food for the 100 people with my hands. Some are very friendly and asked whether I had my lunch, some are very serious , some are arrogant, some demanded more food than I thought was enough. Donating money never gave me happiness when compared to the physical service I did. Later there were few cultural programs and later each of us donated some amount of money to raise funds. One thing that was worth mentioning was bike ride on my pulsar which I drove on 80KMPH for the first time. It was fantastic and I have fallen on the bed after coming home, no energy to get up and even take water. Finally, week end ended with Bachna e haseeno. Hope I can do more this kind of social service on the week ends.
Feelings
August 7, 2008
I just thought that I should write something about my favorite time pass and activity which is eating. As soon as I come from school, even before entering in to house I still remember shouting “Ma, What is for snacks today”. Its not that I am hungry, but want some variety of food to eat. My mom is so sweet that she will make sure that she is not repeating the preparation of same food what she has prepared the previous day. She used to keep updating me with timely food without any delay. Puri was my alltime favorite during those days. When I visit my relatives house, I used to pray god that they should prepare puri that night. If I just think now how weird it was? My relatives also know that I am food freak and used to prepare the same when I visit them. I always have a desire to try something variety while coming to food. My mother used to learn some good recipes and used to satisfy my stomach. Even then I used to crib like anything and always lean towards outside food. Finally the days has come that I should leave home for education and I am so happy because I can eat food outside daily. As days went on I realized I was wrong. Then onward I used to crave for homely food. But what to do, when I have the opportunity I used to hate, but now no way I can get again opportunity as I was been living away from home since 11 years.
Dosa used to be my fav during +2 days. Mysore bajji is one more thing I used to like and almost eating the same every day. When I moved to engineering, my interests were pesarattu, onion dosa and punuku. Even my stomach is full I have a buffer which can accept variety kind of food at any time. My friends used to kid me saying that, thank god you are veg, if you are non-veg no chicken wud have been left for us. Here it was I got introduced to north indian food like roti, butter naan, palak panner, parathas and chineese food like noodles. Since it was a complete kind of variety I used to like it more. When I moved to IIT for masters there it was pongal that wakes me up at 8 every day, If I go beyond 8 pongal used to get less hotter in the hotel(tifanys). I was eating it daily for almost 1.5 years. When I moved to pune for job the whole style has changed. My punjabi room mate was panner freak and due to him I addicted to panner. Chilli panner, tawa panner, panner tikka masala are my damn favs here. Another kind of food that I addicted is Dominoes pizza which is responsible for 50% of fat in my body. In Domi, I like Peppy Panner and mexican green wave along with Garlic bread with cheese dip. You order the same menu when u go to dominoes, believe me you would visit it again. Call em if you want more taste and more fat, I would suggest some nice toppings for pizza. I am so confident that I need not look at menu to order in dominoes. Next was my week end snacks at Sweet Chariot at Koregaon park where I like Sphagetti with white sauce and panner masala jumbo. Other varieties include sizzlers, pasta, italian pizza which I tried here. I am looking out for extra varieties to taste in my life.
This is my food journey which is still continuing …..
July 29, 2008
I got the news late and its bad. The news is that the professor “Randy Pausch” passed away on July 25th. You might be knowing well about this strong man, if you dont know he is the person who is fighting for death since 1.5 years and passed away 3 days back. The irony is that there is no proper treatments or surgeries to cure pancreatic cancer what he was suffering from around 2 years. He inspired the whole world with his “The Last Lecture” which can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo , Please make time to watch. It was a 70 minutes video which talks about many things which are inspiring. He knows that he is going to die when he has delivering this lecture. The speech was entertaining and enlightening also. The video has become so popular in the world and it got millions of visits. It was made in to a book also. Only way the pancreatic cancer is cured by raising funds thereby increasing scope for research. If you go to his home page, he gave daily updates of his health condition. Finally the last two updates out of them one is regarding his death was updated by somebody who is close to him. He strongly fought his death but could not win over it.
Coming to technical side, his so many students who are working in google now and he is the consultant for google’s GUI design. He is the working in carnegie mellon university and founder of alice.org which teaches computer thru animation. The world has lost a genius, strong man at age of 48 years. May his soul rest in peace and I pray god to give strength to his wife and cute three little kids.
I have collected few inspiring words from his lecture. Here are they:
His first sentence in his speech was “If you had one last lecture to give before you die, what would it be? “
1. We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.
2 . when you’re screwing up and nobody’s saying anything to you anymore, that means they gave up.
3. when you’re pissed off at somebody and you’re angry at them, you just haven’t given them enough time.
4. Luck is truly where preparation meets opportunity.
5. Find the best in everybody. you might have to wait a long time, sometimes years, but people will show
you their good side. No one is all evil.
When he ask his football coach how are they going to practice without football. “Coach Graham said, right, how many men are on a football field at a time? Eleven on a team, twenty-two. Coach Graham said, all right,
and how many people are touching the football at any given time? One of them. And he said, right,
so we’re going to work on what those other twenty-one guys are doing.”
July 25, 2008
while I was talking over dinner with my friend, he was explaining a few problems his friend is facing these days. One of them goes like this…One couple got married very recently and started settling slowly and happily. Suddenly due to some issue in office the guy was thrown out of job. He is trying to find the job and could not get till now. He is feeling very bad . I just imagined this situation, felt very very unhappy for that guy and reminded that life is a bitch. My little mind trying to put its philosophy about the life and its trajectory. Life is all about getting up and falling again, getting up and falling again…..it goes. There will be dawn after dark night and also dont forget that there will be night again after day. Just as your body prepares to the nature’s cycle everyday i.e it prepares to sleep in the night and prepares to wake up in the morning, your mind should also be prepared to face the events in once life cycle. Mind should be prepared to wake up in difficulties and prepared to me normal during hay days. Life is a infinite sine curve which falls for some angles and rises for some angles.
July 22, 2008
The greatest of lies on the earth is our life. You tell me that how many times you have felt that the things are successful most number of times when you lie than when you dont lie. I feel lie is the powerful weapon on the earth. But the fact is that it may not hurt anybody because you are the lier and its only known to you that its the lie. It reminds of me of a famous line from a song which says that Birth and death are only truths in this world and rest of the life is drama (full of lies). If you try to be genuine and keep away from lies, you soon realize that lies are the shortest way to finish anything effortlessly. In a day you will definitely lie at least once for some or the other reason. The reason for writing this blog is from my own personal observation because I am forced to lie to manage some things. For instance, I went to doctor to show my father reports and I was asked to wait 4 days as I dont have appointment. I lied some blah blah and waited for one hour to get the appointment on the same day. These days lies have become part and parcel of our lives and it has been so embedded that we are not in a position to recognize that we are lying. When I was thinking about this it reminded me that we have to lie in all kind of situations. Starting from making your girl friend happy, flirting, asking parents to agree upon what you interested in , etc..etc..etc. Different factors of your life make you forced to lie. Its love or marriage when age lies. Its job when your intelligence lies. Its more money when money lies. Its pride when your ego lies. Its destruction when mind lies. Ultimately its appearing to me that life is a lie.
July 16, 2008
Waiting for so many days, finally I have received my appraisal letter. When my manager called me to announce the hike, I entered the room and searching the place in front of him in curiosity to find out the figures. He took out a small slip and showed the figures written in very small font. I rubbed my eyes and looked at it again taking in to my hands. Absolutely no difference between my old and new package. I could not react as I am not in a position to react. I was neither happy nor happy and I am just neutral. I can say newtons law failed here first time in my case as for every case usually reaction time is order for few milli seconds. One of the reasons is that I am carrying so much of mental tension since few days and other reason philosophically putting it , worrying about materialistic things seeming non sense to me these days after seeing reality. Forget about that side, primarily I want to convey this to my parents. When my mom en quired about my hike last time, she told me that ur father already got hike its around 2k per month (my father earns 1/4th of my salary). When this time she asks me how can I tell that its even less that what my father got. How to convey her the real essence of it. So I decided better not to tell and did not update anybody except a few best friends.
June 23, 2008
While I was traveling between pune and chennai, few thoughts were flowing in my mind. Here it goes… We were traveling at around 36,000 ft and we just rely on the machines designed by a human. Those machines were supposed to work with zero error. Any minute glitch will cause the devastation. I was just wondering how can anyone design such machines with utmost perfection. If it is a train, car, or bus…nothing will happen and the vehicle comes to halt. But imagine what will happen to a flight which is traveling at an altitude of thousands of feets. I guess designing zero error machines will be taught in aeronautical engineering course . Thats really fantastic to learn abt them. When I am discussing with my friends, the thing that came up is that each flight will be operated by two machines to make it redundant. But I still wonder how the fail over takes when one machine fails. How are the uncertain things will be taken care by the pilot while traveling is still a mystery to me. Hopefully I will catch a guy who has roots in it and get more information regarding it. I wish I would have been a pilot to experience or an engineer to design those kind of machines.
June 19, 2008
This post I was supposed to write on Father’s day but got delayed till today. I have seen much things happening on TV etc on mothers day but could not notice them on father’s day. I dunno whether I missed them or it has really happened. COming to point…I want to write a little about my father here. I don’t have an opportunity to express my regards for bringing me to the state whatever I am in today. He is very disciplined (which is inherited from my grandfather) and perfect in doing things. I can say he is the best manager of my family. Also he has lot of sense of humor which I inherited the most from him. Me and my sister were so scared of my father. I f my mother asks us to do something we used to take it casually, but if father says and we dont do it, we cannot imagine the repercussions. He started his job with salary of Rs. 250 a month. Can you believe it? Yes it is the truth. Later he got married and by the time my parents has me his salary was still less than thousand. I cannot imagine how he managed his parents, me and my mother with that little amount. After working for more than 25 years in the same company his salary is less than quarter of what I am getting. With that he could made his two children study and met all the expenses we require and finally he helped us in safely reaching the shore. After working for one year, I felt so much bored and I cannot imagine how I have to carryon working till so many years from now. Father, how did u manage to work for 27 years and still working??
He has control over every rupee he is spending, he knows how to effectively spend the money. Even now if i give money and asked him to spend, he wont to do it because he got habituated to whatever he is doing since 3 decades. I say to him that his life is spend 3/4th working hard and atleast enjoy your days from now. He is not in a position to listen and carries on with his own beliefs. So much to say about him but I got to go now and will write later by taking right opportunity. I express my heartfelt thanks for him thru this blog on father’s day for being my father.
June 13, 2008
Yes, its to time to move on when things really dont work for you. At least those things supposed to happen if not the things you desire. If your damn waiting for the thing to happen and if it tests your patience? what to do? . Sometimes I feel it is the stupidity of me in handling the things. What I feel is philosophy is very nice to listen and help us getting up if you are fallen. But the fact is you cannot follow the same philosophy when you are put under test to the same situation. Sometimes I suspect whether philosophy has real meaning to it if it is not implemented properly. Forgetting about the philosophy for a while now, lets discuss about moving on. If you program your mind to something and the input is in such a fashion that it cannot be handled, just imagine what happens to a software program..it simply dumps. Similar thing happens to our mind if programmed. But how to program the mind in such a fashion that every situation is handled in switch case. We should make sure there shuld not be any while or for loops which makes you busy but end up doing nothing. if presence of them is inevitable dont forget to put a break statement till the program moves smoothly to exit. The policy I am following is to divert mind in different directions. Call a friend, chat with a friend…read some article, watch some pics. When I do these things literally I don’t feel that I am frustrated. When I tell my frustration or disappointment to someone..i fell relaxed after sometime. If I keep it to myself it gets more inside and starts hurting. No other way … its time to move.
June 2, 2008
It seems that people working at google has no work except innovation. What are the products they are coming up with? Everyday I an finding one or the other google product which escaped my attention. I just came across Google health which is a huge repository of human diseases. Go there and you will find all the details about the disease. They have given facility to upload your medical reports and the idea is to keep your fragmented health records centralized. Its no wonder to say that google is a web leader now. They are doing what all can be done on the web. They have a business crawler too which is occupying the whole web industry. Recently they have come up with idea where we can integrate your personal web page with social networking. They have done everything for the user. We just need to configure and make it working. It is sure that user experience is going to be fantastic soon with google’s innovative stuff. The products that they are recently coming up with are for the users who have a limited internet connectivity. I mean user will be connected internet for few minutes. Assuming this, they are coming up with the solutions which a user can work even offline similar to an online user. One of them is google gears. They want to provide a browser integrated office tools where a user can work even there is no internet connectivity. He will upload whenever he connects to the internet for a short while. These are my personal opinions and understanding on whatever I read. Just keep watching what google will launch in coming days. It going to be fantastic in future. Keep an eye….
