Friday, June 01, 2007
Life!
Grudges are a perfect waste of happiness
Laugh when you can
Apologize when you should
and let go off what you can't change.
Love deeply and forgive quickly
Take chances and give it everything
and have no regrets
Life is too short to be unhappy
you have to take the good with the bad
Love what you got
and always remember what you had
Always forgive but never forget
Learn from your mistakes
but never regret
People change and things go wrong,
but always remember
Life goes On!
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Geek Tshirts!!!
My Favorite Tshirt:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/sysadmin/344f/ (More Beer)
Caffeine Molecule:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/generic/2891/
man woman (awesome)
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/frustrations/5b7e/
shell script
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/frustrations/374d/
binary finger
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/generic/6a20/
html (cool)
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/coder/8bbf/
I Blog, therefore I am
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/generic/8f5d/
Cool!!
Sunday, May 27, 2007
Doorie........
Flashing back a little the eighth sem was kinda cool... did many things.... took what I wanted to study and attended whatever I thought was worth waking upto..... wrote brilliant proposals for Google Summer of Code, got selected and then had to actually leave it.. :( ..... gave 3 interviews for internship in Google Bangalore and god knows how I got selected... have I become intelligent....?? cool man :). and then when all was going smoothly it happened.... a truck came... on the wrong side of road... with its lights off... and hit Arpit Jain.... it seemed like the end of life.. for both him and me... but as dark clouds come and go... this event also passed by.... with Arpit Jain not even breaking one bone.... damm man.... !!! :D Anyways thats kinda good... it is becuz Arpit Jain is my only hope to get a girl... this is how it will work... Arpit Jain claims to have seen Vivah 5-10 times... and cried atleast 50 times... ok I may be exaggerating but the number is quite close.... ok so he says that he likes this whole idea of going to a girl's house and seeing her.... and plans to visit atleast 10 girls before settling on the one he has already decided... :)... so I seem to like marwari girls.... and thus have decided to go along with Arpit on his 10 adventures... and atleast I will like 1 out of the 10 girls(or may be atleast one of them will like me)... it doesn't matter until it works out... so long live Arpit Jain... hehe.
But there is one truth.... I have fallen in love with Atif Aslam's songs.... I feel this man is a genius.... he writes... so beautiful.... he sings... too much man.... you are my god....
So after all those hectic/sweaty days in kgp I finally landed in Bangy.... awesome place to be in if you have a girlfriend.... but otherwise its just a waste of the resources around... and ya Google is an awesome place to work in. They made office more comfortable.. than your home.... TV, CCD, free food and that too good food... cab to pick u up and drop you off when ever you want.... and if you like me don't have a girl friend to look after then probably you will end up living in the office itself as I do. Anyways after a long effort I've finally joined a Gym here becuz when you eat so much all throughout the day... then it becomes very important to exercise too.... and it is today that I went to a place where I enjoyed rock music... don't ask me where and why... :)
And then when I came back home those thoughts from the summers 2 years back started flashing... started thinking whether remaining quite for the last 2 years..... even though my heart was against it .... was it the right step or not???.......
Dooorie sahi jaayyye na.......
har rah main tu aaye nazar..... kat ta nahin ab akele tanha safar....
Adhora hooon mein abb.....tere bina........Adhoori meri zindagani reh jayegii
Doorie sahi jaye na......
press that button... yes I am going to this time... so here it goes...........
Monday, May 07, 2007
Thursday, April 12, 2007
यह मेरी पहली हिंदी post का शीर्षक hai
गूगल सही मैं परमात्मा हैं. जय हो.
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
Main khush hoon khamakhan......
I think sleeping on the right time and waking early gives you the right attitude... anyways I am enjoying my new found life.. do you too?
Current Music: Aap Close Up kyun nahin karte hain??? :D:D
Sunday, December 31, 2006
Just Another Day
Obviously the first answer is that man is a social animal and needs to party. Very true. But I by nature am not that out going and like to sit back , watch things happen, observe. From the day I have returned to Kgp, I have done nothing worthwhile, just sitting and watching time pass by. Seems C-314 RK gives the comfort, the coziness that one seeks at home. Its not that I am uncomfortable at home, but its juat that I feel more satiated here. It might be due to the addiction to computers/internet, but thats the way it is.
Coming back to where I started this post. New Year brings nothing special. Neither does the sun rise from west nor does Ayesha Takia decides to marry me. So why is it so special. I think there's one reason. This appears to be the time when we look back at our lives. I really like the comparison that Robin Sharma presented in his book The greatness Guide. Life's like a car that you are driving. You need to know before hand where you are going otherwise you'll get lost. But how many of us actully reflect back on life to check where's it heading to. Is this where I had positioned my self 5 years ago. Or have I got myself into compulsions that I cant break free from. Self Introspection is very important. Its just like the fuel you need to run your car. But often most of us dont have the time to sit back and think about life. We have too busy lives these days. This is dangerous. Imagine yourself as the driver of car, in hurry to reach the destination, not having enough time to fill the tank. A time will come when you will be stranded in the middle with no where to go. Awesome thought.
Most of us when we look back on the past year are able to picturize the good moments that this had brought us. I imagine myself as dancing at the weddings, going home on Diwali, standing on the edge at Grand Canyon, enjoying the long walk at Terminal 4, Heathrow Airport, listening to Atif's songs..... yes this is why I am happy. Also the fact I will be wishing everybody at home fills me with enthusiasm. But its important to learn from the time that has past. Not to repeat the mistakes that were made. This promts us to think about the future too, to plan for it, set goals. Here comes resolutions. This where the specialty of the day lies in. Its 11:25 pm and yet I have not fixed upon my list of new year resolutions. But soon I will be making them. The important thing is that this time I am going to make a reasonable list and will make sure that the next time I write such a post, I boast about achieving my goals.
Chalo its time now, Once again Happy New Year!!
An Year that has been......... Simply great!!
- It was the year when two of my cousin brothers got married and one of my cousin sister got engaged. I being one of the youngest in the family was pampered at the weddings. Wedding, this word rings bells in me. Its the only time when the whole family is together, enjoying, smiles all around everyone's looking great ...... Simply awesome. This year there were a couple of them and were the best family experiences of my short lifetime till now.
- It was an year when I traveled. Seriously. In January I was at Mumbai for a tech-fest. Then March I went to Vaishno-devi. Come May and I was sitting in USA. August saw a wedding a Chandigarh and finally visited Kota in December.
- This year again made that American dream come true. I was in Texas for 10 weeks and enjoyed/learned a lot. Awesome. Also I got to see Heathrow Airport( thanx British Airways), the one where a part of movie Love Actually was shot. And I seriously love this place. You got to be there to feel the love.
- This was the year when I went home 6 times the whole year. That is twice the expected number of times. Not to mention that it takes me about 26 hours to reach home. :)
- Academically this year was good too. Got nine pointers in both the semesters. But the important point was that I learnt quite a lot. but the main highlight of the year was getting an Ex in Grid computing. That restored back some confidence in me telling me I can still do it. Also I attened the first ever conference of my life. Finally did some research work and have written a paper too. Hope to get it published soon.
And then there's a bad side to everything too.
- This year too I wasn't able to find love. Matters of heart went vacant. Aaakir family tradition ko bhi tu aage badhana hain na... :D
- I should have said NO to a few things that I involved myself in. Saying NO is very important as it saves your time to do the more important things.
Summing it up, it was great year all round. It would be a bookmark year in the diary of my life. 2007 has a lot hopes associated with it right now. If they come true, this year will bite the dust. :D
Have A great 2007. Happy New Year!!
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Note: Totally off the topic, I want to mention something. Last night I registered myself to a university project at University of Minnesota, Movielens, rated 30 odd movies, just to get the right recommendation for a movie. Ya I know this is what geeks do... Finally watched Wedding Crashers.
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Celebration
CELEBRATIONS MEANS......
A winter evening.
Four friends.
One barsaat.
Four glasses of chai.
(OR)
Hundred bucks of gas.
A rusty old bike.
And an open road.
(OR)
Maggi noodles.
A hostel room.
4.25 a.m.
(OR)
3 old friends.
3 separate cities.
3 coffee mugs.
1 internet messenger.
(OR)
Rain on a hot tin roof.
Pakoras deep-frying.
Neighbours dropping in.
A party.
(OR)
You and mom.
A summer night.
A bottle of coconut oil.
A head massage.
Gossiping about absent family members.
You can spend
Hundreds on birthdays,
Thousands on festivals,
Lakhs on weddings,
but to celebrate
all you have to do is spend your Time .
KEEP IN TOUCH WITH UR LOVED ONES..
Thursday, November 23, 2006
Love and Marriage
*A student asks a teacher, "What is love?"
The teacher said, "in order to answer your question, go to the wheat
field and choose the biggest wheat and come back.
But the rule is: you can go through them only once and cannot turn back
to pick."
The student went to the field, go thru first row, he saw one big wheat,
but he wonders....may be there is a bigger one later.
Then he saw another bigger one... but may be there is an even bigger
one waiting for him.
Later, when he finished more than half of the wheat field, he start to
realise that the wheat is not as big as the previous one he saw, he
know he has missed the biggest one, and he regretted.
So, he ended up went back to the teacher with empty hand. The teacher
told him, "...this is love... you keep looking for a better one, but
when later you realise, you have already miss the person...."*
*"What is marriage then?" the student asked.
The teacher said, "in order to answer your question, go to the corn
field and choose the biggest corn and come back. But the rule is: you
can go through them only once and cannot turn back to pick."
The student went to the corn field, this time he is careful not to
repeat the previous mistake, when he reach the middle of the field, he
has picked one medium corn that he feel satisfy, and come back to the
teacher.
The teacher told him, "this time you bring back a corn.... you look for
one that is just nice, and you have faith and believe this is the best
one you get.... this is marriage."*
So True!!!
Thursday, October 26, 2006
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Searching for a life
Recently Life has taken drastic turns and thus has brought about many changes.
Firstly I have had this realization that I can't work for an employer. I mean I can't do stuff which doesn't make sense to me. So getting job in any company after I graduate is out of question now. This means there are only a few companies that appeal to me. But then most of them do no research work in their India centers. There's another option of doing a Ph.D. but it requires commitment from 3 to 5 years. But the advantage is that I get to work on the topics I want to and whenever I want to. But what after a Ph.D. Teaching... strict NO, Working for some research lab.... ya may be, starting something of my own.... ya highly probabable.... But there's also an option of starting up something right now, there's ample time and resources, but but but... I don't feel that we have the enough knowledge to go for it... I mean we have the ideas we can also make them work.... but these ideas are small... I mean putting up petty sites to capture small business doesn't work for me.... Putting up such stuff can be done at any point of time and doesn't offer that much of a technical challenge...... what I want to do is to first come up with something which brings about a substantial positive change in the lives of the people and then may be convert it into a enterprise . But then there's another side of the story too. While we are here at IIT we have got the resources, friends and support to make something work.... but on the other side it requires full commitment and sacrificing your academic life.... its pretty clear that two things can't be done at one time...
Thus there's a big big decision to be made right now..... What do you want to do... app... Then go study improve your CGPA and get some papers published..... want to startup something... minimize the classes.... work day and night to materialize your ideas.... the second option is totally opposite to the first one and I am hanging in between... right now I am at a crossroad, standing still, observing people working towards their set goals, wondering which direction to step in. Both have their pro's and con's and I’m totally perplexed about what should be done...maybe I need to talk to somebody.... but who... I don't know.....
Secondly, there’s bitwise to be organized. This involves getting a lot of work done by a lot of people. I am lucky that I am surrounded by friends who are more than willing to help, but still I am required to get the work done. It is not the work that loads me but the responsibility. But it’s Ok. I think with the help of my friends I can manage it.
Thirdly, my project has recently turned too demanding. Basically I am simulating something, which requires me to code in OTcl ( object oriented Tcl). Leave aside Object Oriented, I even don't know Tcl. Thus I have been spending days and nights to get it done... and it’s started to frustrate me now... I have an important deadline to match... Nov 1..... and in between I am going home too.. for 6 days... ufff... maa bahut kaam karna hain....
Fourthly, going home reminds me of home. I have been so busy lately that I had forgotten about home. Recently my mom called and its then I realized that I was to call her the day before....
Fifthly, there's illumination going on in the hall. I have worked off my ass in the last two years but this time I neither have the commitment neither the tempo to participate... why? mainly becuz of what happened to me last year.... I don't want to do the same to some third year, so I have quietly opted out. See I don't want to be god.... huh.... . As a result people of my batch who are actively into it, have started despising me, but then what can I do.
And Finally among all this I am required to attend classes and make assignments... :) :) , a few of them are good, but a few are really frustrating....
Thus at this point of my life I am standing at a point where every step that I take would matter and I am totally unaware of what should I do. I need to make quick decisions becuz the clock is ticking too fast....
Thursday, September 28, 2006
IPod rocks because:
Similar is the case whens a romantic scene comes on... or the hero is remembering his beloved... you have exactly the same thoughts... but the sweet music is missing.... It so happened that while I was at UTEP, one evening I feeling too happy, a bit romantic.... it was also overcast.... so what I did, played She Will Be Loved on my Ipod, and took a walk around the gardens, with hands in the pockets, whistling around, giving a damm about what others think...
And same is the case when you are sad... I take out my frustration by listening to Atif Ali's songs LOUD.... REALLY LOUD... but think of thy neighbours..... so what can you do, put on the Ipod, set the volume to maximum, change it to the bass boster mode, press the earphones hard into your ears... and get lost in a world thats much much above the one in which we live....
What do you do when you want to give a damm about whats happeneing around you... just pluginn your Ipod.... put up a instrumental and continue on with what you were doing...
Yes ipod you are my second love... after my comp.... hope it continues the same way...
Warning: To do what's written above requires one to pay a shit to what others might think. They might think that you're acting stylish... haughty... or something else... but you don't have to care about what others think... the important point is that you are happy with what you are doing and not hurting someone else..... thats all thats required..... :D
and for all the people who give that stupid smile whenever they see my Ipod on is this _|_
Sunday, September 17, 2006
So True!!!!
- Never compromise your ideals because someone said it’s impossible, stupid, or a waste of time.
- Do focus on changing the world, don’t focus on the money. If you provide value, the money will come.
- Have a healthy disregard for the impossible. If someone hasn’t done it yet, that doesn’t mean it’s impossible.
- Go against the grain. Don’t believe in other people’s visions for you, believe in your own.
- Speed is more important than looking good. A shiny, beautiful car isn’t impressive when it gets overtaken by an old jalopy; the same applies to software.
- Focus on users above all else, e.g. don’t do something that might annoy your users just to make more money, they won’t forget.
- Beat your own path through the wilderness.
I had been thinking of reading this for long now. Now its due next week. And ya the voice of the gadget when says, “You have got mail” is awesome. Haven’t submitted it though.
And yes, I’m quite happy today. Finally there’s a subject that I love. Cluster and Grid is the best course that I have done in 3.5 years here. I have started respecting AG sir a lot. He’s an awesome teacher. It happened yesterday that Jadda and I were watching a documentary on Windows Vista’s networking team. There were talking of the changes they had made in the networking part of their OS and half the things they talked about were the ideas that we were studying in class. This is what it should be like. I mean it felt awesome. More about this later.
Friday, September 15, 2006
Tanha Dil!!!!
Udit Sajjanhar... huh... that guy.... redundant.... throw him away....
People have had a drastic change in their priorities... which don't involve me anymore....
seems there is a big big ocean in front of me, and I am required to cross it ALONE. I am scared, I can't do it alone but then there's no one to beckon, everybody is too busy to respond to the fatal summons.....
A big dark hole and I am continuously falling, knowing nothing about where it would lead, But I can't do nothing.
chalna akele hain yahan....
Tanha Dil, Tanha Safar....
doondhe tujhe fhir kyun nazar....
Tanha Dil.....
I’m standing on the bridge
I’m waiting in the dark
I thought that you’d be here by now
There’s nothing but the rain
No footsteps on the ground
I’m listening but there’s no sound
Isn’t anyone trying to find me
Won’t somebody come take me home
It’s a damn cold night
Trying to figure out this life
Won’t you take me by the hand
Take me somewhere new
I don’t know who you are but I
I’m with you
Saturday, September 09, 2006
So what have I been upto???
Initially when the semester started, there was a lot of confusion and rush for getting the right courses, matching the slots , ensuring you had minimum 7:30 classes, deciding the tradeoff between QoS(Quality of subject) and the expected grade... aneways the first week passed, listening to the stories of different people, what had they done on their internship, telling them yours.... :) and ofcourse sleeping.
I had come to know about the Google Gadget contest in the summers itself, when it was launched, but it was only in the second week that I realized that the deadline was extended to August 14th. So why don't give it a try, I thought. Downloaded the SDK, decided upon the idea.... and then after several nightouts and dayouts too this was the result..... submitted it to Google and this was the prize... nice!!!! atleast it was the first time my efforts got rewarded.
Meanwhile I was also planning to go home... My cousin brother was getting married on 12th and my cousin sister was getting engaged on 21st.... I had to decide between coming back and staying back... the former had the advantage of not missing too may calsses and the latter ensured good food, sleep and unlimited pampering for a substantial period.... so after a lot of deliberations I decided upon the latter and set on my journey of dreams..... DREAMS... yes beacuse going home for a wedding is like a dream come true. All your relatives are there, all your cousins, all happy, and when you are the youngest and have just returned from states... you tend to get pampered... so was I... but the journey back was awesome... My Ipod lasted till the very end... Yo Apple... yo rock dudes!!!.... aneways just on reaching home... there was a function going on.... dhols were being sounded at full blast... I stepped out from the car.... ran inside... hugged my favourite cousin on the way.... threw my bag.....threw my shades... and started dancing.... wow....as I am writing this post... I am feeling the same way... wow that was awesome... and after that it was rocking for the next 10 days.... shopping for the wedding... get the small small tasks done.... managing the function... ensuring that bhiya's salis didn't pester him much... recording all the fun on my new camcorder..... and then afterwards teasing bhiya in front of bhabhi..... ufff... awesome... and ya also the engagement on 21st was awesome... danced my heart out... and everybody said that we were looking awesome... waiting for the pics to come... jaldi bhejo yaar.. missing you all at home...
Came back on 23rd.... every thing had piled up... there was a presentation in 2 days... and assignments to submit.... a week flew past without me knowing... but finally caught up... then there was the dep intro to be held... first we had planned it for 1st but then shifted it to 7th Sep. This week saw 2 tests.. assignments... prepration for intro... basically nothing interesting.... but I had already started on my second Gadget... It so happens that if you use Gmail... and have labels... and a mail comes to your labels, then the Gtalk notifier doesn't notify you.... this had been troubling me for a long time now... so I have made a gadget that informs you even when a mail comes to your labels... by saying.. You have got mail
Midsems.... this is one thing that haunts me now... haven't read anything till now.. and they start from friday... lag hui hain baap.... aneways... haven't seen any movies.. neither Omkara.. nor munna bhai....
Wednesday, August 09, 2006
There's nothing like.......
having a shower after a 2.2
There is nothing like
rajma chawal cooked by mom
There is nothing like
Shakira Dancing
There is nothing like
a rainy saturday...
There is nothing like
watching Love Actually
There is nothing like
completing the last round at gyan ghosh
There is nothing like
sleeping early and wakingup early...
There is nothing like
having AG's and PDG's classes the same semester...
There is nothing like
Spanish Girls (Komastas!!! :D)
There is nothing like
leading a life, not caring what others might think of you...
There is nothing like
getting lost in Ipod while cycling, specially when its overcast...
There is nothing like
watching Rang De Basanti on your flight home... 3 times... he he
There is nothing like
writing a blog after a long time...
There is nothing like
having a bath every day... :)
There was nothing like
dada's six.... wow I loved his stride forward....
Monday, July 24, 2006
atleast something's right....
Yes I have found a new passion in my life to keep me going..... recently got a new cycle... Hero Hawk... the racing bikes types... but without gears.... although I am in 4th year currently and I've got 2 more years to go... getting a new cycle was more of a luxury than a need... but sometimes you should do what your heart says is right and should ask your mind to keep shut becuz it really pays off.... so now lets come to the reason of existance of this post:
Recently I've got a new Ipod as well... so what I did was combined the two new material possesions above and also the song Bewafa from Mehfuz by Euphoria..... BINGO..... I mean I have never felt so happy/satisfied as when speeding on the new bike... listening to the song.... streaching out my hands when the bike is in full speed...... specially in the part of the song when there's a line like... voooo uuuu oooooo.... Its the best thing that has happened to me in days... and seems that it would last long...
Aneways there's another side to the above story... the lyrics of the song suit my present situation very well..... look at how the song starts:
aadat padi hui thi inhe intezar ki......
and then he says:
aur pehle se bhi jyada teri yaad aayi hain....
and then there's the frustration in love pouring out when he says:
Saatvan hi ho janam ye
Jaane bhi de
Jaane bhi de
Jee loon ab main zara sa
then there are more lines:
isme tum hi rehte the na...
fhir yeh ghum kyun...
aakhen nam kyun...
kya booon main kya na....
ab ke sawan aise barse....
teri akhiyaan
aason terse...
Saturday, July 22, 2006
Nice Tag
Early in the sunday morning... mess is open until an hour... the toilets will have water in an another 30 mins... newspaper vala will come in an another 90 mins... got nothing better to do... so decided to take this Tag although I haven't been tagged.... :)
So here it goes:
Grab the book nearest to you, turn on page 18 and find line 4.
Hence what gets stored in i is 3. Exactly opposite happens
Stretch your left arm out as far as you can.
Barely able to reach the door
What is the last thing you watched on TV?
Really don't remember.... It was about an week ago
Without looking, guess what time it is?
15 minuets to seven
Now look at the clock, what is the actual time?
6:47 am
With the exception of the computer, what can you hear?
wind chimes
When did you last step outside? What were you doing?
10 mins a ago. Went to the toilet, but in vain. Thakx to water department.
Before you started this survey, what did you look at?
looked at the nameen on the table... but couldn't eat it as I haven't brushed... :(
What are you wearing?
Tshirt and shorts
Did you dream last night?
I had a sound sleep. Didn't dream anything.
When did you last laugh?
while talking to mom and dad last night.
What is on the walls of the room you are in?
Last sems's timetable, some dennis posters, B'Day card I got from home last year and a mirror
Seen anything weird lately?
www.wired.com
What do you think of this quiz?
Time pass, but not that interesting.
What is the last film you saw?
Rang De Basanti, courtsey British Airways.
If you became a multimillionaire overnight, what would you buy?
A dish Antenna so that I can have high speed internet all the time, aquaguard and water cooler so that I can have cold water all the time, will buy one of the outlet of DUKE or Old navy, so that I can wear a different T-Shirt everyday and never will have to wear it back, rest of the money I will give to my dad.
Tell me something about you that I dunno.
She is back on my desktop.
Do you like to dance?
Yes
George Bush
I hate all americans alike.
Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her?
Mannat, I don't know why but the name just struck.
Imagine your first child is a boy, what do you call him?
I can't think of a good name now... maybe his mom might be more interested then. :)
Would you ever consider living abroad?
Yeah, but given my parents also decide to move in with me.
What do you want GOD to say to you when you reach the pearly gates?
Congratulations, you have done a god job. Now its your time to rest, in peace.
and I tag:
WhoamI
Tinni
Golpee
Shaunak
and anyone vella like me having nothing better to do, you are most welcome to take the tag.
Friday, July 21, 2006
The TRUTH
Although my thoughts have been going either ways but today I admit that I am in no better position than last summer and will continue to be the same. But on the other hand I would not make any effort to be in touch... I love the way I am.