Feeling and Having

This is not my composition. I have got it through an email. It's worth reading and keeping in mind.

Money has no memory. Experience has.
You will never know what the total cost of your education was, but for a lifetime you will recall and relive the memories of schools and colleges.

Few years from now, you will forget the amount you paid to settle the hospitalization bill, but will ever cherish having saved your mother's life or the life you get to live with the just born.

You won't remember the cost of your honeymoon, but to the last breath remember the experiences of the bliss of togetherness.

Money has no memory. Experience has.
Good times and bad times, times of prosperity and times of poverty, times when the future looked so secure and times when you didn't know from where the tomorrow will come… life has been in one way or the other a roller-coaster ride for everyone. Beyond all that abundance and beyond all that deprivation, what remains is the memory of experiences.

Sometimes the wallet was full… sometimes even the pocket was empty. There was enough and you still had reasons to frown. There wasn't enough and you still had reasons to smile. Today, you can look back with tears of gratitude for all the times you had laughed together, and also look back with a smile at all the times you cried alone.

All in all, life filled you with experiences to create a history of your own self, and you alone can remember them all. The first time you balanced yourself on your cycle without support…The first time she said 'yes' and it was two years since you proposed…

The first cry… the first steps… the first word… the first kiss… all of your child…

The first gift you bought for your parents and the first gift your daughter gave you…

The first award… the first public appreciation… the first stage performance…

And the list is endless… Experiences, with timeless memory…

No denying that anything that's material cost money, but the fact remains the cost of the experience will be forgotten, but the experience never.

So, what if it's economic recession? Let it be, but let there not be a recession to the quality of your life.

You can still take your parents, if not on a pilgrimage, at least to the local temple. You can still play with your children, if not on an international holiday, at least in the local park. It doesn't cost money to lie down or to take a loved one onto your lap.

Nice time to train the employees, create leadership availability and be ready for the wonderful times when they arrive.

Hey! Aspects like your health, knowledge development and spiritual growth are not economy dependent.

Time will pass… economy will revive… currency will soon be in current… and in all this, I don't want you to look back and realise you did nothing but stayed in gloom.

Recession can make you lose out on money. Let it not make you lose out on experiences… If you are not happy with what you have, no matter how much more you have, you will still not be happy.

Make a statement with the way you live your life: How I feel has nothing to do with how much I have.

हा विनोद(?) वाचायची सक्ती नाही...

एकदा गोविंदचे राजुबरोबर पैशावरुन काहीतरी प्रकरण होते. गोविंद कोर्टात Case file करतो. Case file केल्यानंतर दुस-याच दिवशी गोविंदच्या घरी एक गुंड येतो आणि गोविंदच्या कपाळाला बंदुकीची नळी टेकवून बोलतो, "ब-या बोलानं case मागे घे नाहीतर जीव गमावून बसशील."




यानंतर गोविंद खिशातून फणी काढतो आणि फणीने आपले केस मागे घेतो.

My Favourite Song- Someday Someway

Listen to this song by 'Michael Learns to Rock' at least once. The music and the lyrics are too good.

In my search for freedom
and peace of mind
I've left the memories behind
Wanna start a new life
but it seems to be rather absurd
when I know the truth
is that I always think of you
Chorus:
Someday someway
together we will be baby
I will take and you will take your time
We'll wait for our fate
cos' nobody owns us baby
We can shake we can shake the rock
Try to throw the picture out of my mind
try to leave the memories behind
Here by the ocean
wave's carry voices from you
Do you know the truth
I am thinking of you too
Chorus:
Someday someway
together we will be baby...
The love we had together
just fades away in time
And now you've got your own world
and I guess I've got mine
But the passion that you planted
in the middle of my heart
is a passion that will never stop

Notional Loss

I've observed this quality in many people. Perhaps this is how mankind thinks. When you get something, or you are expecting something you don't deserve or have not expected, you become joyous, but when you lose it or don't get it, it hurts. For example, give a gift to your sibling/friend everyday. Don't explain to them why you are doing it. Do this for 15-16 days. Now stop giving gift. Your sibling would ask you why you didn't gift him/her and would expect the gift from you. Let's take another example. If your dream girl calls you to go for a date, you are elated but again when she calls to cancel the date... why do you become disheartened? Remember Uday Chopra from Dhoom 1 and 2.
Why don't we think prudently in such situations? If the things are not meant for us,why do we sadden because of the notional loss? We become emotionally attached to the notional gain we make and start claiming right over the notional profit and then notional loss becomes emotional loss.
What the hell I am writing! That's it for now. Hope I've conveyed what I wanted to.

Effect of the Fail Blog

I've subscribed to the Fail Blog and enjoy 'failed' contents. This is something I've got in my calculator.

Survived.. Rather Saved

The results of my first semester exams are out and I(?) have somehow managed to pass in all the subjects and got first class. It's the output of the input given by rather not given by me during first semester after being processed by our honorable teachers. Being honest, I didn't perform up to the mark as I had not worked hard. I think the teachers were generous and kind to pass me. There was a mix of emotions; guilt and relief, when I received the mark sheet. When I got results of the mid term exams, I decided to work hard for the final exam but things didn't go as well as I had expected. Major time was consumed by project work. I read more in the vacations after the exams than before the exams.
When lectures commenced in the new year, teachers would discuss question papers and some mistakes made by students. Every time, my case was discussed and my case was discussed every time but I was kept anonymous. I also would join my friends in laughing when teachers would discuss some funny mistakes, despite knowing they were made by me. Statistically, the standard deviation of my marks is 6.56 which looks good but if you look at my marks, you'll come to know I didn't do justice to all the subjects. I was biased towards some of the subjects.It has always been like that since childhood. Except TY when I loved all the subjects. I believe all the students in DIMSR have almost same aptitude. The difference between the marks of two students is just the difference between hard work done by them. It's time to introspect and retrospect. It's time to pull up my socks. For that I have to wear shoes rather than sandals(Read:floaters) everyday . So I'll pull up socks tomorrow morning. Oh god, what I am writing!
P.S. Historically it has been seen that those who accompany me, do well academically. There were Siddhesh and Vishwajeet till HSC. There was Indrajeet in TY. Now, there is Siddhesh who scored much higher than me and secured 7th rank. Any girl wanna get good marks?

Test Your Creativity

Quote of the day: If you want to test your creative ability, appear for a theory paper without preparation.

अर्ज किया है..

देखा जो तुम्हें पहली बार,
प्यार तो होना ही था..

वाह वाह..

देखा जो तुम्हे पहली बार,
प्यार तो होना ही था..

वाह वाह..

शादी भी मेरी तुमसेही हुई क्योंकी,
मेरे नसीबमें रोनाही था । :D

वाह वाह। बहुत खूब..

My first shaayri

Front Page News

India announced its greatest civilian award 'Bharatratna' but our national(?) newspapers whose names have words like 'Hindustan' or 'India' printed front page top news headlines about voting in U.S.A. I haven't seen other English newspapers. I am too disheartened to write much.

King Is King

I congratulate Vishwanathan Anand a.k.a. Vishy for his splendid and spellbinding performance in the recent match against Vladimir Kramnik. In the recent match, Anand forced Kramnik to make mistakes. Much have been said about the Undisputed King of the world of 64 squares so I am not going into details and waste my and your time praising him. The reason I admire this man is he is not a product of any Chess school. His natural talent was nurtured by his mother. Even if he is ruling the world of 64 squares, he still works hard to find new strategies, works on his weaknesses, and buries himself into the depth of this beautiful and mysterious world everyday. He takes efforts to keep himself physically and more importantly mentally fit. I think he is the greatest sportsman India has ever had. Next is legendary Dhyanchand. Though he has been rewarded with ‘Padmavibhushan’, you would agree with me if I say he should be given ‘Bharatratna’. He has suggested the greatest Chess player Garry Kasparov to make a come back to Chess. I would like to see them fighting against each other.
Hats off to Vishwanathan Anand.