October 2008
17 posts
Spread the word.
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Insomnia.
Success (& goals, money, happiness) seems to depend on the value you add to the world around you.
There was a time when the world was just you, maybe your family & your close friends… now, its about your workplace, your society, the world itself. In this pursuit of success & adding value to the world, I have been made to believe that I’m adding value to my life. It’s...
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Spread the word.
And, praise the Lord for his music.
“People don’t do favours for a faceless voice.”
– My dad
Pass it forward.
Kiki had gifted me Randy Pausch’s The Last Lecture as a parting gift when I moved out of Bangalore. The book is a brilliant read, no doubt. I was thinking of gifting the book to a good friend of mine on her birthday today. On the way out, I saw Kiki’s gift lying around in the shelf and it just felt like I was killing the spirit of the book. It’s a book that’s meant to be...
Thought. Spoke. Did.
What we had in common - our restlessness, our impassioned spirits and a love for the open road.
- Che Guevara, Motorcycle Diaries
After BITS, there was a time when each one of us (Abhilash, Keki, Goutam, Me) had to take a turn somewhere in search of our own identity, our future. But all along, there was this common emotion, this common idea that we had discussed over innumerable cups of chai...
Timeless words.
Me: (at the prospect of another night-out for work) ... for night-outs like these, Pilani mangta!
Aparna: Pilani is in the heart. I always go back to Pilani when I'm lying down in a dark room with some brilliant music. :)
Me: Wah! :)
Money, the Grim Reaper.
“He had once left his room keys back home in Bangalore. Later, when the keys were dispatched by his parents by post, the postman slipped his keys back into his room at IIT.”
- A friend recollecting one of the funny college episodes about Rajaram.
At such times, I wonder if we have ended up giving money all the right to decide who lives and who dies.
2 more farmers committed suicide...
ME on the world timeline.
14.7 billion BC : Beginning of history according to Big-Bang Theory.
4.5 billion BC : Planet Earth formed.
3 billion BC : First signs of primeval life (bacteria and blue-green algae) appear in oceans.
600 million BC : Earliest date to which fossils can be traced.
530 million BC : Earliest vertebrates (jawless fishes known as agnathans) appear.
430 million BC :...
So, we can live another day! →
Wednesday's child.
Monday’s child is fair of face. Tuesday’s child is full of grace. Wednesday’s child is full of woe. Thursday’s child has far to go. Friday’s child is loving and giving. Saturday’s child works hard for a living, But the child who is born on the Sabbath Day Is bonny and blithe and good and gay.
Ever since I can remember, I used to hate this rhyme…...
My employer... & my school. →
September 2008
16 posts
