Guru-kool

Now this is interesting.


I believe no girl who is going to marry need bother to win a college degree; she just naturally becomes a ''Master of Arts'' and a ''Doctor of Philosophy'' after catering to an ordinary man for a few years.

Highway to jail :)

Currently, I am working on financial modeling of stock market which might predict the future of the market movements and thus help evolve a efficient trading methodology for Intra-Day trading.

BUT this is New York State Code of Criminal Procedure's take on what I am doing

"Persons pretending to forecast the future shall be considered
disorderly under subdivision 3, section 901 of the criminal code
and liable to a fine of $250 and/or six months in prison."

Section 889, New York State Code of Criminal Procedure.
Silly Americans.

Kota

Written on June 19th.

Am in kota for another 5-6 days...
I am at my brother’s place where adjacent to his room, there are around 7 or 8 room which are typically occupied by IIT-JEE aspirants round the year. Presently almost all the rooms are vacant and once I happened to enter one of the deserted rooms next to ours. There I read many interesting stuff including poetic verses (better shayaris ), names of different girls encircled with a figure of heart in red ink (perhaps blood),inspiring life stories of great men who suffered and struggled before they succeeded, roll numbers of various exams, names of the students who had inhabited the room, class schedules of various coaching institutes in kota, periodic table, posters of dream girls (mostly Sania Mirza or some Hollywood hottie) trigonometric tables with conversions, sum and product formulae etc. Reminded me of my days when I was preparing for JEE. I recalled many correlated stories of my JEE times but this written on one of the walls is what amused me the most:
“Hum jise chahte hain woh chahti hain kisi aur ko,
Rab kare, woh jise chahti ho, woh chahe kisi aur ko”
i.e.
The girl whom I like, likes somebody else.
O’heaven conspire that the one whom she likes, likes someone else (and not her).

Ha Ha Ha.
Why this world is so unfair where even the beloved is to be competed for?
Ha Ha Ha.
Why the issue and spirit of healthy competition is dying a chocked death?
Why we are foraying deep into a materialistic world where even the relations and feelings are nothing more than entities which can be traded for a Diem?
?
?
?
All I can think of is a Bob Dylan Classic, “The answer my friend is blowing in the wind”!
The song is playing as I write this on my notebook. Wish I could funnel and filter the wind to get the answer.

Father's Day.

You are the lamp of our life;
the one who burns to keep us in light.


Taught us to differentiate;
what is wrong and what is right.



Papa, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown.

Happy Father's Day.

Summer's Heat

"Summer's heat can swelter and melt...
As summer's heat may simmer as weld.
Some summer's heat can burn as long...
This summer's heat can impel a song.
Summer's heat can cook and bake...
Summer's heat of life can take.
Boil and broil a heart so hot...
A summer's heat can break that romanceful knot.
This heat of summer can smoulder and rot."

-- Michael Gale

God knows what this summer has in store for me. I have tried my best to keep things, away from God's Control,... in my control. Ah, if only I could do that, people would have worshiped me as 'Almighy' and not him.

First things first. The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other. Thank you (God) for this pre-chirstmas (summer) gift. A great family get-together.

Secondly, am off to some alien place (actually Kota, Rajasthan) for a week where temperature shoots up to 45 degrees during day. Good for writing but not so good for postings. But, unfortunately I got to get my bu# kicked... बहुत काम है !!

Shyness & narcissism

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.

- - - Am I a narcissist?

- - Publicly NO.

- Secretly YES!!
:)

खामोशी

Of late I prefer to remain silent and aloof.
The reason?
Here it goes ...

खामोश हम इसलिए नहीं की हम बोलना नहीं जानते !
कहीं आपकी बोलती बंद न हो जाए इसलिए चुप चाप रहते हैं !!
ऐसा नहीं की जबाब नहीं हैं सवालों के हमारे पास !
कहीं आपकी बोलती बंद न हो जाए इसलिए चुप चाप रहते हैं !!

A Great Idea!

“Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.”

-- Ayn Rand.

* Read parts of The Fountainhead again! Had liked the book when I read it first. Felt like the book can be the light to follow. Lately have realised that it was more than idealism. It was ... I don't have words!
Certainly wasn't what I expected it to be. I used to turn to the book when I was frustrated and depressed. But life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

Yes! 'the great idea' has clicked!

Winning moments!

Nadal says the prize is less prize with Federer crying!!

What a tournament! Perfection personified!!
Finally FedEx did that!!
The only grand slam that eluded him was the one he conquered today! Since last four years, Nadal was between Federer and the trophy.



When Federer broke into tears after his loss to Nadal in Australian Open this year , I knew he was going to get this one.



















There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love. Only brave can do that. And its not a die hard FedEx fan speaking!


Love's labor fructified!

Where's the party tonight !

Gearing up!!



We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.




Too much of anything is bad, but too much of good wine is barely enough.

Had a blast when we 'brothers', 'brother in law' and sister were at home on Saturday night!!

Drunkard's walk

Silence is the fountainhead of strength.
-- Me


Silence please.

Ideal match

I was asked by a friend of mine why my ideal match on orkut says "am self-sufficient". Well, even I had never thought about this column very seriously!! For now all I can say that the term "ideal match" is an idealism in itself! Nobody can be an ideal match forever for the simple reason that, "Change is the universal law of nature". People change/d or atleast I change/d! Indeed, I have changed a lot... my thoughts are no more what they used to be a couple of years ago. Actually, my present thoughts contradict the ones which I had few years ago!!
Also, I don't believe am made to love someone. It involves risks... risk of love not being reciprocated, risk of rejection, risk of loss of love, if it existed in the first place! And, am not bold enough to take that risk! Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings! So, Whenever I am betrayed, am rejected, a part of me dies, and I am no more the same. Am metamorphosed to someone with less faith, carrying the corpse of the dead 'me'!
Alas! I can't throw that away.

The second reason is that the beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. So, the best match for me is/can be is 'me' and that makes me self sufficient!

Finally, making a girl love you is so very easy because no one but Marilyn Monroe herself has said "...If you can make a girl laugh - you can make her do anything..."
I swear I am very good at making anyone laugh but then, so are many in this wide world! :P

Priorities

By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the most bitter. Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority. Why most of us (me included) are so stupid that we don't understand this in time!!

We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done. But then, its too late to undo and then redo the prioritisation.