Reminiscence

The Defeated Soul

2008-11-19T23:34:00.000-08:00

Never before was my life so painful
Never before was my life so unbearable
Never before...
Until that fateful day
When you walked into my life,
My days brightened up, my sun smiled
The sweet melody of cheerfulness filled up my life

From the yonder skies,
You walked in
Filling my empty life with some hope
With some warmth
With love
Promising, that you’ll stay close to me for eternity
Eternity, a word whose meaning I never really understood
You walked away
Ripping away my heart, my happiness,
My smile

But enough time to repent,
Repent why I ever did let you inside my life
Now, I’m alone...
All alone, because I threw away my friends,
So that I could spend my time with you alone...
Because I threw away souls which truly loved me,
So that I could spend my time with you alone...
The blame is on me
For having destroyed my own progress and my own life
There you are, happy as you can be,
Like a vulture looking out for innocent preys

If I ever have a chance to rewrite my life,
Would I go back to set things straight with you?
Or would I go back to skip your part in my life?
I really don’t know...
But as ever, I’ll sit and brood, and get myself depressed,
Because
You walked away
Ripping away my heart, my happiness,
My smile

Never before was my life so painful
Never before was my life so unbearable
Never before...

-
Jk

Where Ethics Matter…

2008-10-25T10:27:00.000-07:00

1. Don’t steal

2. Don’t lie

3. Don’t cheat

What were your first lessons in school? Mathematics? English? No..

Moral Science. Although this subject did not have much value on the academic side, it was still part of the Indian curriculum and given much value to. Being a boy brought up in orthodox Hindu customs and practices, I was taught to give a great deal of stress to ethics, be it to someone we like or not. And till a few months ago, I lived an imaginary life, where in I believed whatever people say was truth and whatever they did was for the good of the rest. But some one pricked this bubble.

I was now brought to reality, where the new lessons are:

Kill the whole world if you’ve to live, lie all you can to put up an attractive image of yourself, your inner self doesn’t matter what matters is your outward appearance, if it means you’ve to be two-faced, do it…

I have specifically three instances of my life in my recent past, where I’ve seen the true colors of people. Quoting those instances wont help because you are not aware of the context of the issues. Although the core matter remains the same, if someone says “True” as an answer to your question, the same person gives an answer “False” to the same question posed by someone else.

The core foundation of ethics have been compromised, people live two-faced lives where

1. one face is your friend, lover, well-wisher

2. and the other one is your betrayer, one which sells you out once an attractive price is made

Why? May be because I ventured into the other side of the people, do these seem to bother me. During the times when I never knew such things could happen, these people seemed sweet. Now when I’ve known that they say and do things to make them self happy, it really pains to continue a relationship.

The whole framework of unconditional love for one another has fallen apart. The very foundation the world was built upon has started to shake. Not long before, everyone starts discovering their “Loved ones” true face. Now I that I’m doubtful of the integrity of the people around me, my life now has become meaningless.

So, do you still trust your Loved one? Then don’t go behind his/her back testing their integrity. have trust in them else you’ll ruin your own life.

Next time when you put up a smile, let it be from your heart, if it’s not from your heart then let it be a frown don’t fake smile.

PS: Although I ranted so long about ethics, I went around through unethical means to know the horrifying truths. Which now I regret why I ever did find the truth out?

Love,

Jk...

The reason for my downfall…

2008-08-24T02:57:00.000-07:00

I saw my destination right from where I was standing

Everything was clear

As I took my first steps forwards, a sense of overwhelming enthusiasm took over me

I was so happy to have a soulful journey like that

A sense of commitment and dedication filled the insides of my heart and mind

To work on something so meaningful and full filling was what I was looking for all my life

And when I found such a thing I was just glad that I did

The first few steps were perfect

I was greeted all the way

Then came a time were the path was full of thorns and stones

Hurt, limping, I went forward

So proud to have overcome difficulties, I failed to see that those weren’t the real ones

Swayed by enormous pride, my vision faltered

My sight fell on the roadside restaurant, restaurant of silly pleasures

I went in for light refreshment, but instead I ended up having a whole dinner for an hour

Realized I was late for my destination, I burst out, cursing my irresponsible mind

Just to see a bad storm developing

The wind, the rain, the lightning, thunder…

I still moved forward

For a second there, I just thought about having a nap before straining myself any further

Which I will regret for my entire life

I took refuge in the motel of Love
Which promised me a lifetime of rent-free stay

Days became months

Suddenly one fine day, the motel owner started demanding me rent for all the months of stay

Betrayed, fooled,

I paid her with all the money I had with me

I lost all my money, precious time which could’ve been used to help me reach my destination

But when I came out of the motel,

I was so depressed to see that

I failed my mission

I lost all that I was once proud of.

And even more depressing was the fact that,

The reason for my downfall… was ME!

Everyman Gets what he deserves.. Not what he desires

Cya then
Love
Jk

The Day(s) that was (were) not meant to be!

2008-08-21T05:59:00.000-07:00

The Ending note of the last post was “Exams have a cunning way of out-witting me, they hit on the areas where I have less or no expertise”. This was indeed true for the last three days. The papers which I thought would be easier, turned out to be messy and the difficult ones? Even messier!
From my experience, I’d say, the days when you have the most works, would be the days of most distractions. As like any other time, I had too many things in my mind and failed to put my 100% for the exams. However I had a little confidence in me, that I could handle the exams and that I knew at least what was necessary to get me a decent score.
But fate willed otherwise and the three days was yet another rollercoaster!

Day 1: The day that began with Security and Coding.

“Security? That’s just plain old math dude. Do you still need
to study how to find prime numbers?”

That’s what I told my pals when they were busy with their books.
( I was even successful in persuading them away from their books, Kudos, a pat on my back!) I touched on a few aspects of the subject and left the details on the way. I Never really bothered to go into the details. But the moment I got the questionnaire in my hand, I noticed, how cruel the fate is. 50% of what was on it was termed by me as “Unnecessary and Not really an area to test students on”.
Out of the rest 25% was what I had studied well, although I struggled a bit on that area too to get some of them correct.
And the last 25%? Those were the areas termed as “practically important” and I could not even make the question correct, let alone find the suitable concept and solve it.
The Next one, the Intimidating coding Techniques, or is it, Information coding Techniques?
That was another pain in the neck. I Hardly knew 90% of the question paper. I turned the questionnaire once in every five minutes and it took the first 40 minutes of the exam time for me to write my first alphabet on the answer sheet. Exasperated, I burst myself out of the exam hall, as soon as the final bell completed it’s last chord. Thus ended day 1. Phew., only two more to go!

Day 2: The day after the beginning of Late night phone calls.

Just the night before the exams, I received a phone call. My Old pal. Such a good friend, and an even more good and friendly chatterbox. She called me by the night, the only time when I sit with my books, and we ended up ranting till 1 in the night. Thus was the end of my next day-exam preparation.
The next day, I hadn’t much opportunity to study anything. It was management paper and an Intelligence paper. The former was a dry paper with some concepts and the later was purely a conceptual paper which required 100% preparation and 100% thinking (Yeah, that makes 200%!)
Surprisingly, I did well in both! (In my terms, it means, I had something to write in both of them!) And the rest of the test takers, found the former an easy piece and the latter, the toughest one to crack. But I was happy just to have had written something at least.
By the day end, One of my friends got into trouble and I ended up solving his problems. It was totally off the guard, but I couldn’t do anything else other than helping him. Thus ended day 2, with the call from my friend by midnight!

Day 3: The much anticipated Areas-of-Interest.
Hurray, the last two was what I liked the most and I really did them well!
So... All I have to do now is to take some time off and wait for the results!

Cya Then,
Love,
Jk

Exams Revisited

2008-08-17T04:32:00.000-07:00

The glories of conquering my last semester exams were short-lived. Because, they’ve started to haunt me once again. My Mid-semester Exams are due from tomorrow and what’s worse, I’ve six papers this time, and I still don’t even have a clue what’s in them!

The three days goes on like a festival in my university, hostellers staying up till 3AM, 4AM drowning themselves in endless cups of tea and coffee. I just spent a 200 Rupees on the Photostat copies, which made me repent, if only I had been to the library a bit earlier, now that all the good books are taken.

I had a good three days of a mini-vacation which I wiled away happily, watching movies, roaming around the cities having a merry time. And now when I sit with books in my hands, it’s all greek and latin and I’m starting to panic! (And I still can’t believe, I’m typing a blog entry amongst all this, lol)

Six papers to go, three days of horror and less than 15 hours for the first torment! What do I do? I took a moment’s break. Waited for a hot steaming mug of coffee, and started to think! How to handle these three days? Completely lost, I came back to my workplace, having emptied the mug. I looked at the Photostat copies, fresh from the machine! I went through the text for a while, nothing made sense! I couldn’t even recall if I listened to these in class, No! But I was regular to the class, although the text and the class notes seemed so disconnected.

I took my mobile, and I quickly sent an SMS to my pal,

“Heylo! Wat the hell, I can’t recall if the lecturer EVER took chapter 10 in the text!”

Pang came his reply,

“Dude! We never even crossed chapter 3 in the Text, Chapter 10 is way out of our exam portions!”

Omigosh! The few hours I spend before the exams, goes unnecessary like this. (I Really wished if they could include chapter 10 for my sake! ;)) (And not to mention the 25Rs loss on the inappropriate photostat :()

So, this is why people say,”At least get the portions for the exams correctly!” ;)

And now here goes, I start from the beginning!

With such a start span of time (little of which can be attributed to my laziness:)), It seemed like a run for my life! And god, this is just the day before the first two exams, and who knows how horrible the other exams are going to turn out to be! Either way, the exams have a cunning way of out-witting me, they hit on the areas where I have less or no expertise. So, let me try my best to go through these three days.

And I’ll get back to you at the end of day 1!

Cya then,
Love Jk.

The One after a Very Long Time!

2008-08-15T05:34:00.000-07:00

A Long overdue Apology!

Almost three-quarters of a year since my last post. Soaking desperation, Oft-changing luck, drowning sea of work, highly unstable relationships, gliding moments of horrific problems… The whole three-quarters have been quite eventful. So, to succeed, does one really have to sacrifice everything he/she loves? I just found an answer to that. It’s that the things that he loves that really help him to succeed. And I apologize to all those critics, and friends, who read my blog, commented on them, for staying inactive for such a long time forgetting my beloved blog!

But the silver lining is, I went through such an eventful time, that I’ve so much locked up emotions, news, information, to share with my fellow bloggers, that I’ll be blogging quite actively from now. Honestly, my blog wasn’t famous enough to attract many readers, so that was yet another reason that pulled me back on to the inactive side. Ho ho ho! So, now that I understood that big reason, I’ve planned to work upon the popularity of the blog, the content, and most of all – Style!

Fellow blogger-friends, who so far, have been reading my blog, waiting for my blog post, Thanks a million! It is because of you that I’ve started blogging again. Just a single smile(y) of appreciation goes a long way, and it did! I Promise you, never again, will I pause my blogging! After all, you people, who never at all have seen me, have been spending your precious time to read my blog and a little more to comment on it.

And by the way, my last eight months wasn’t all depressing as it sounds! I did have some big moments too back then. I got a job, after three rejections, and which also accompanied a few tears of gratification. I went through a wonderful relationship for three months (which did have a sad ending though), found how true my friends were, and moreover what friendship was all about! So many responsibilities came my way, which I shouldered happily, and performed my duties to my heart’s content.

I think you now get at least a small picture of how my life went so far…

Apart from all the regular stuff, Life’s just plain cool!

PS: Thanks to the really cool MS-Office 2007 for all the handy formatting tools!

Cya Then,

Love,

Jk!

Requesting Backup!

2007-11-26T09:57:00.000-08:00

Isn’t it ironical, whenever you want to be surrounded by people you are left alone and whenever you want to be left alone you are surrounded by people (much to your annoyance)?

I’ve been through both these scenarios. But as far as I can recollect it’s the first situation that is tough to live out. It’s like this, I've had a few good friends but none stay with me when I want them the most. No, don’t take me wrong, not that out of any misunderstanding, they are still good friends but you see, it so happens that they get separated out( and moreover there are problems which you can’t open up even to your closest pals). And I stand alone… all alone…

I feel like bursting out all my feelings, fears to someone but in vain. I end up pacifying myself. Often you wish there would be someone who’d give you a plausible solution to your problems and support during your hard times. But it never happens. So, you reach out to people and ask their guidance. As I know one of the following happens: they get your situation wrong, they think your problem is silly, or they just don’t care for you.

And many a times, I’ve experienced those things and I just say to myself, “they’re just like everyone else...” From my personal encounters, I dare say, don’t confide in anyone else than you, unless you’re pretty confident in that person. It’s a pity I never found such a soul. There were times when I couldn’t explain myself to my closest pals.

So, there goes, I never got a problem solver and I could never ask out to my friends. Eventually, I moved alone. Once when I started with my college, I was very much excited about new friends. It was like this at the beginning: you see a bunch of happy guys, I’d be at the centre of it. But later as time went on , I got alone. It was tough at the beginning. You have to rely completely on you. And it was pretty new to me. I kinda learned those things. So., I thought just could manage myself alone without company.

But when I look back to see my past, I just see the happy-bubbly-cheerful me lost away in time, drenched in a sea of silly problems (which had a simple way of solving it) I try a lot to stay cheerful, but one thing about depression is you feel good when you stay depressed and alone. May be, staying alone was the reason. It’s not that it happens eventually, it’s that you move yourself away from your surroundings.

Life has a unique way of teaching, through experiences. I learnt it the hard way. Now I know, what should be shared, what should be kept within myself, how much personal space you should have. Whenever I feel down due to a problem, I just ring up my pals and get ready for a football match, rather than asking them for a solution. The game didn’t solve my problem, but at least it helped me forget it for a good one hour.

These are just my ramblings. I don’t know if it made any sense to you. If you are/were a loner, certainly it would’ve made some sense, else, just read it for the pleasure of it. Its just my transition from a social guy to a loner and back to a social guy. These were what I exactly felt when I faced these situations.
What am I trying to say? Solitude is not a solution. If people can’t solve your problem, it certainly doesn’t mean it is doesn’t have a solution.
whatever be your problem is, the best bet would be to forget it.

Don’t make a silly problem spoil your day. Just move along, there’s happiness around the corner!!!

Pages From My SketchBook....

2007-04-24T22:59:00.000-07:00

A Few Recent Pages From My Beloved Sketchbook!

The Gamble With Monsoon !

How merciless have you been?

Innumerous Farmers wait for your arrival with tears in their eyes,

Yet, you disappoint them all !

The only place water can be seen is in their eyes..

Smile in its purest form!

Only period of your Lifetime when you never knew what worry meant.

The Innocent part of the Lifetime when you were scared to death to say a lie to your mom.

Vengeance, is all he cares for !

To see someone die is a painful affair, and to be a reason behind the death is much more painful. The gleam in the eyes of the assasin isn't for the dying soul but for the retribution he was waiting For!

Two Special Horror Stories !

2007-04-23T12:27:00.000-07:00

World's Shortest Horror Stories !

1.

When the last man on earth was sitting alone in his room......... His door was knocked............

2.

...she was feeling uneasy in her sleep,and got up to fetch a glass of water...she returned to find herself still sleeping on the bed......

I Swear........

2007-04-23T10:47:00.000-07:00

"I Swear, I Won't Place My Books Down, Until I Become A 9-Pointer! "

It marks the beginning of a new semester.Every New semester is built on the laments over the previous semester results.It meant new resolutions, new courseware, new lecturers, a new chance to fare well in the courses. With the fresh smell of your heavy 5-subject notebook, you embark on yet-another-wrestle for a stupid-letter and a fancy-number on your grade sheet.

The First Month:
The first few days is supposed to be full of smiles. A month of idleness is ought to make the laziest go for work. It's the time when you start to miss the classroom, the board, the sweet-smell of the computer labs, the stipulated tea-breaks and the evening walk around the campus. The First few days is ought to lure you into the mirage that the whole semester is going to be a piece of cake..,Only Time will teach the lesson.The lecturers get to smile with you, laugh at your pranks in the classroom, forgive your mistakes at the lab, leave free hours because you asked for,...... all for a short time,Very SHORT time..

The Second Month:
Here comes the days, when the class tests are frequent, half the syllabus have been covered and you hardly listened to any of the lectures and made any notes either.Within a snap of your fingers, the internal exam time-table starts posing itself glamorously in the notice board. And the whole affair of exams goes into oblivion. All ways of scoring marks you have tried (you know what) ends up in vain. And a painful week of waiting for the results come and go past.And when the results come, The Whole Row Of Nerdy-First-Benchers bag the applause for being the top of the class (Once Again).. And you sit in the last bench, Staring at the fancy red marking on the paper which has just now reserved you a good repremanding from your parents,(and a 50% reduction on the pocket money) There goes the second month...

The Third Month:
Its when you get impatient with all those assignments, lecturers' rueful remarks, those unfinished experiments in the lab.... Its when you start missing the free hours. Those Greedy lecturers seem to be unsatisfied with their slots of periods and start taking a big bite (mercilessly) from your free hours. Its when they dont care whether the subject reached you or not., Its when they care whether the subject was finished in stipulated time or not. Its when the time-table for lab examz get announced and you've hardly completed any records. Sleepless nights goes into for the completion of all lab works yet the examiner carelessly tosses over your record into a careless bundle of other records. There's another funny thing called viva-voce where the examiner has the fun of asking you questions which you cant answer(and even shares his best moments with his fellow examiners!) They all have a great time when you sit there, sorry for yourself, cursing why you chose this institution. The third month ends with a scramble for Photo-copies of the 9-pointers' notes(Hmm.. They are upto some use in the class) and the much awaited study holidays.

The Fourth month:
All the last minute preparation mean one thing,growing a mango tree in a desert. Hard-earned-pocket-money spent on the photostat copies goes waste as nothing makes sense to you.You feel nothing can save you, so you close the text-books and go for movies instead. And at the last day of the study holidays you start to feel sorry for yourself and feel you should have studied. The dreaded day comes alive(much against your prayers) The tensed minutes before the exams, your FRIEND enlightens you that you've missed to study the most important part of the whole syllabus. The exam hall- resembles a butcher shop and you feel you're the only goat. You just take a peek at your fellow-exam-takers, just to notice that all are busy filling their answer sheets (and even going for additional sheets) and you're still struck with the first page with no content to fill. Fortunately you still remember what happened at your grand-father's 90th birthday and hurray it reaches 5 Additional sheets! You come out and laugh at those funny people who lament that they've missed a 1 mark question or so....
As like any bad time, the exams get over soon and you get your well-deserved(?!?!) vacation.

Epilogue:
One more six-point-something,even five-point-something for blessed souls (god save those who kept arrears, i've escaped!) As you have passed, the text books reach the second-sales store and you get a good sum of money for the new releases (The books are really worth it)

But somewhere in the corner of your heart, your conscience start to get you worried.. Worried that you've lost yet-another chance of improving your GPA...

It's when,

You Swear," I Won't Place My Books Down, Until I Become A 9-Pointer..............."

Deja Vu With The Early Mist..

2007-04-19T09:53:00.000-07:00

Bang..!!

My hand hit something hard.. Hard enough to wake me up from the beautiful sleep.. I jus hit my hand on the table on the bedside.It was still dark in the morning.My wrist-watch's faint electronic light showed 5:00 AM as i squinted through the dark. For the past week(or the whole month for that matter) i used to wake up only when it was something over 9:00 AM. But today, it was hard to go back to sleep either, My hand hurt like hell. I just sat up on my bed and reclined on the wall. I looked around my room. If someone was given an award for "The World's Messiest Room" I would've been it. It was an assortment. It ranged from motivational to trendy to fantasy to all. My room contained most of the random things. At the east end you could spot Swami Vivekanda's majestic Portrait and on the west end there was Kareena Kapoor's Wallpaper. One thing I like the most is my bedroom's door. If u could take a peek at its back, you could find random comments, curses, proverbs and lot stuff scribbled all over it. My eyes shifted to my girl. She was standing near the door, romantically staring at me. Nahh.. It's not my girlfriend (Besides My Gf doesn't come to see me this early... ;-)) Its my PC. Pentium IV Compaq, 17" monitor, 5 years old. The only person on the whole earth who stands my lamenting without complaining. She's really a wonderful company. I thought of switching it on, but the ups beeping might wake everyone up and would earn me good thrashing. Next my eyes moved on to my study table. I dont study my text books., u can find any best-selling author on my table. Next on it was my mobile phone. It was a gift from my parents. My Prized posession.
There was lot more things to describe about but it was quite dark to see the rest(phew ! Gr8 escape!)

Reluctantly, I Stood up, Before the gigantic mirror(it stood to my height!) And quickly turned away as the sight was horrifying. I walked Out of my Den. Everyone was deep asleep.I walked through the back doors. The darkness was clearing up slowly. I quickly brushed my teeth and went into the kitchen. It's hard for me to spend an early morning without a coffeee.. The best thing i've learnt so far is preparing my own coffee. I took my hot mug of coffee to stairs outside my house and slowly devoured every drop of it. The climate was mildly chilling and it was soo.. so.. wonderful. But the thing that kept me worried at that wonderful moment was her absence. I just sat and looked at the cloudy sky.The rising sun gave those clouds shades of orange. It was a pleasant pain which only those who have experienced can talk about. I've experienced it on her absence but i've found it hard to put it in words.I went inside my house, placed my coffee mug in the kitchen, took my i-pod and my cycle key (ya., i still ride bicycles though i own a bike.. Try riding a bicycle early morning, i bet u'll enjoy it..) from my room and walked to my bicycle. It was pretty old, my companion for a long time. I keep it as a trophy from my past. Really great moments with this pal.

I switched my i-pod on and sat on my bicycle. The only song my pod had at this moment was from a new movie. It was my recent favourite and hers too. We used to spend time listening to the same song over and over again, we never got bored of it. I just cycled slowly through the familiar lanes to the rose street. It was a street close to my house where every resident of the street grew a mini-rose-nursery which made the whole street look red with plush roses. With the sweet song flowing in the air and sight of roses, i just lyricized my feelings. I am no poet but still my lyrics sounded touching to me. I spent a few more minutes cycling and when the time was about 6:30 i reached home and put my poem on paper.

Seconds dragging slower than hour,
Every moment of it becoming sour,

Desolation Seeping through my vein,
Filling my Days with pain,

Smile a stranger to my face,
I am lost deep inside your heart's maze,

Your absence making my Life hell,
Happiness becoming harder to spell,

I MISS YOU!!!

A few moments about her.. That makes My Day FULL...

-- Passionnant Pour être Vivant (Excited To Be Alive).,
Jk

The Two Days Of The Week..

2007-04-05T06:56:00.000-07:00

There are two important days in every week, about which you should not Worry and Fear..

One of those days is YESTERDAY..

Full of miseries, Desperation, Desolation..
Full of Pain and blunder,
A day full of mistakes and sadness..,

But Yesterday has passed forever beyond our control.
All the money in the world cannot bring back Yesterday.

Any act of Yesterday can never be undone,
Any word said yesterday can never be taken back,
Yesterday., is Gone Forever.....

So QUIT worrying about yesterday...!!

The other day is TOMORROW..

Tomorrow's sun will rise,
either in splendor or behind a mask of clouds, but it will rise.
Until it does, we have no stake in Tomorrow,
for it is yet to be born.

This leaves only one day, Today.
Any person can fight the battle of just one day.
It is when you and I add the burdens of those two awful eternities Yesterday and Tomorrow that we break down.

It is not the experience of Today that drives a person mad,
it is the remorse or bitterness of something which happened Yesterday and the dread of what Tomorrow may bring.

So Live One Day at a time., and live it the best!

-- Passionnant Pour être Vivant (Excited To Be Alive).,
Jk

What Matters the Most Is.......

2007-04-05T06:12:00.000-07:00

"Life's Is Not Long Enough To Wake Up Every Morning With A Regret"

Its a wonderful life isn't it??

But Ready or Not A Day Will Come..

A Day when ur Happiness, Grudges, Desires, Love, Lust will Disappear..

A Day when Your fame, power, wealth, beauty will shrink to nothingness..

A Day when you feel meek and powerless in front of your destiny..

The success you worked for so dearly, or the failure you despised will never matter
at that moment..

Your achievements will never matter anything, neither your knowledge...

Then What matters the Most???

What matters the most is not what you bought but what you built, not what you got
but what you gave.

What matters the most is not your success but your significance.

What matters the most is not what you learned but what you taught.

What matters the most is every act of integrity, compassion, courage, or sacrifice
that enriched, empowered or encouraged others to emulate your example.

What matters the most is not your competence but your character.

What matters the most is not how many people you knew, but how many will feel a
lasting loss when you're gone.

What matters the most is not your memories but the memories that live in those who
loved you.

What matters the most how long you will be remembered, by whom and for what.

Remember... you're just given this one chance Of LIFE... Use it wise...!

-- Passionnant Pour être Vivant (Excited To Be Alive).,
Jk

Inspirational One - Liners !

2007-04-02T07:11:00.000-07:00

If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something

Winning is not everything, It's the Only Thing!

Everything has a beautiful ending. If It's not Beautiful, It certainly isn't the Ending !

No one is listening until you make a mistake

Life's not abt the breaths u take, its abt the moments that take ur breath away

Every Expert was once a Beginner

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

Both Optimists and pessimists contribute to the society...The optimists invent the aeroplane..the pessimists..the Parachute..

"The person who comes second is the first looser"Aim for the top, no room for the second best.

The tree that bears the sweetest fruit gets most of the Stones!

Every saint has a past and every sinner a future

Courage is not the absence of fear but it is the conquest of fear.

You are responsible for You!

Life can give you a hundred reasons to cry,but you can give life a thousand reasons to smile.

Big goals creates a fear of failure , lack of goals guarantees it.

Failure is Not Falling Down, It's Not Rising Up After Falling Down!

Nothing Lasts forever - - Not even your trouble!

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-- Passionnant Pour être Vivant (Excited To Be Alive).,
Jk

A Relationship to cherish. It's called FRIEND

2007-04-01T12:05:00.000-07:00

One can realise the true nature of this relationship only in worst of his/her times. I wandered through my life in search of this relationship. I met a lot of People on my way here. Most of them left me as time passed by.Most of them stayed with me only during good times. But only a few have come with me so far. I call them FRIENDS. One of the purest relationship in any lifetime. One best thing about being friends is that it is Mutual. When your friend helps you in a difficult time., you end up helping him/her out during his/her difficult time. They Laugh when you laugh, make you smile when you start to cry, sort out your problem before even you are aware of it..! How many of your problems can you actually share with your parents? But your Friend knows it all. When you find a girl cute, who cheers you up to speak with her?It's your Friend.

It's my Friend Who makes my college life lot more happier than it is now. Hard times disappear like fog in sunshine, when I'm in her presence. My Friend Knows a lot more about me than even i do! I could Spend the rest of my life JUST thinking about my time with her, Time spent rambling about nonsensical stuff, Money spent on interesting bets, i call those "Best Moments of My Life" I remember one particular moment with my Friend which helped me get over my Depression, my Worries, and lot more things that were pestering me. For a week or so, I've been loaded with work, stressed to the core and things weren't moving properly for a long time. I used to spend time locked up in my room., crying in dark and even contemplating on suicide. That was when my Friend tried hard to reach out to me, helped me on half of my work. Bit Satisfied about my work load reduced,Half-past 10 we took a stroll in the campus roads. It was particularly a wonderful time with all the lightings and the breeze and the full moon. But I was in no mood to Enjoy all these but just to see. Before i could open my problems, My Friend started," You need fresh air !" I didn't actually see at that time how it would help me but just felt there was Some truth in it.
She Knew, I was on the verge of suicide. I hate to admit it., But If i were left alone even for a day, I would have Killed myself.
I remember her words till now and i'll remember them even till I die.

She told me this,
"Hey Jk (she used to call me using my initials)., I know you're in a lot of worries. If i had worries as much as you i'm sure i would have thought about suicide just like you. But before you put an end to all your worries the bitter way., just think about this. When you die, Where does all your worries go? It certainly leaves you. But it becomes ten times more worser and reaches people you love the most and who love you too. That means it'll reach me too.It means you'd hurt Me if you hurt yourself. I'm sure you won't like that to happen in any life time.Would you like that? Now, Think for yourself and promise me., that you wouldn't even think about it. Promise me you would try to live!"

I took a few seconds. Truth hit me hard. I promised her. She was so happy. That made me feel high. All these took the time to half past 11. And we spent another half-an-hour spending time watching the moon and ranting about other beautiful things in the world. And then we left to our respective dormitories.
If at all i owe someone in my life., it's my Friend. She gave my life back to me. And Whenever I feel Low, i just recall her words. And now i've put those words here where it stays for an eternity.

You know what keeps me going everyday? It's that there's one more beautiful day to be spent with my Friend. And That's what is keeping her going too!

-- Passionnant Pour être Vivant (Excited To Be Alive).,
Jk

Focussing On Problem / Focussing On Solution

2007-04-01T04:57:00.000-07:00

What do you do when u come across a problem?
Simply Focus on the problem and brainstorm your way out or Focus on the Solution and get an easy way out?

Read Through., You may get a better idea which is better !

One of the most memorable case studies on Japanese management was the case of the empty soap box, which happened in one of Japan 's biggest cosmetics companies. The company received a complaint that a consumer had bought a soap box that was empty.

Immediately the authorities isolated the problem to the assembly line, which transported all the packaged boxes of soap to the delivery department. For some reason, one soap box went through the assembly line empty. Management asked its engineers to solve the problem. Post-haste, the engineers worked hard to devise an X-ray machine with high-resolution monitors manned by two people to watch all the soap boxes that passed through the line to make sure they were not empty.
No doubt, they worked hard and they worked fast but they spent whoopee amount to do so.

But when a rank-and-file employee in a small company was posed with the same problem, he did not get into complications of X-rays, etc., but instead came out with another solution. He bought a strong industrial electric fan and pointed it at the assembly line. He switched the fan on, and as each soap box passed the fan, it simply blew the empty boxes out of the line.

Moral

Always look for simple solutions. Devise the simplest possible solution that solves the problems.

An ant can be killed in two ways......

#1) By lifting and pressing it by your hand....

#2) By Bombarding it with a missile.

Choose your way.. Choose the best way...

Think LEAN...

-- Passionnant Pour être Vivant (Excited To Be Alive).,
Jk

Short-cuts To Success

2007-03-31T06:30:00.000-07:00

PLAN while others are playing.

STUDY  while others are sleeping.

DECIDE while others are delaying.

PREPARE while others are daydreaming.

BEGIN while others are procrastinating.

WORK  while others are wishing.

SAVE while others are wasting.

LISTEN while others are talking.

SMILE while others are frowning.

COMMENT while others are criticizing.

PERSIST while others are quitting.

-- Passionnant Pour être Vivant (Excited To Be Alive).,
Jk

Welcome ! ! !

2007-03-31T00:01:00.000-07:00

BIENVENUE...,WELCOME.....,To My Digital BACKYARD!!

I Believe, Mind and parachute are alike., They both work only when they are OPEN..

and Creativity is 99% perspiration to search for the 1% inspiration..

Thats The Essence of Life..

La vie doit être appréciée...

Whenever Life gets Boring., Try To Get Yourself Interested in It... Look At More beautiful things and

Much More positive Things... And i intend to do same here.. I'm gonna put in the

beautiful things in the world...

Jus Pay A Visit To My Blog Whenever You Feel Low..!

I Jus end by sayin,

When Your glass is Full., Needless To Say., Have HAPPY SIP..!!

When it Becomes Half-Empty., Be Thankful For The Next SIP..!!

And When It Becomes Empty.., Put A Stupid Grin On Your Face And GO FOR A REFILL..!!

-- Passionnant Pour être Vivant (Excited To Be Alive).,
Jk

Few Secrets To Success

2007-03-30T13:17:00.000-07:00

1. Sleep less. This is one of the best investments you can make to make your life more
productive and rewarding. Most people do not need more than 6 hours to maintain an
excellent state of health. Try getting up one hour earlier for 21 days and it will develop
into a powerful habit. Remember, it is the quality not the quantity of sleep that is
important. And just imagine having an extra 30 hours a month to spend on the things that
are important to you.

2. Set aside one hour every morning for personal development matters. Meditate, visualize
your day, read inspirational texts to set the tone of your day, listen to motivational tapes
or read great literature. Take this quiet period to vitalize and energize your spirit for the
productive day ahead. Watch the sun rise once a week or be with nature. Starting the day
off well is a powerful strategy for self-renewal and personal effectiveness.

3. Do not allow those things that matter the most in your life be at the mercy of activities
that matter the least. Every day, take the time to ask yourself the question "is this the best
use of my time and energy?" Time management is life management so guard your time
with great care.

4. Stay on purpose, not on outcome. In other words, do the task because it is what you love
to do or because it will help someone or is a valuable exercise. Don't do it for the money
or the recognition. Those will come naturally. This is the way of the world.

5. Laugh for five minutes in the mirror each morning. Steve Martin does. Laughter activates
many beneficial chemicals within the body that place us into a very joyous state.
Laughter also returns the body to a state of balance. Laughter therapy has been regularly
used to heal persons with varied ailments and is a wonderful tonic for life's ills. While the
average 4 year old laughs 500 times a day, the average adult is lucky to laugh 15 times a
day. Revitalize the habit of laughter, it will put far more living into your life.

6. Stephen Hawking, one of the great modern physicists of the world, is reported to have
said that we are on a minor planet of a very average star located within the outer limits of
one of a hundred thousand million galaxies. Are your problems really significant in light
of this? You walk this Earth for but a short time. Why not become devoted to having only
a wonderful experience. Why not dedicate yourself to leaving a powerful legacy to the
world? Sit down now and write out a list of all that you have in your life. Start first with
your health or your family - the things we often take for granted. Put down the country
we live in and the food we eat. Do not stop until you have written down fifty items. Once
every few days, go through this list - you will be uplifted and recognize the richness of
your existence.

7. Recognize and cultivate the power of autosuggestion.It works and is an essential tool in maintaining peak performance. We are all performers in one way or another and it is
particularly valuable to use such techniques of athletes and public figures for our own
enhancement. If you want to become more enthusiastic, repeat "I am more enthusiastic
today and am improving this trait daily". Repeat it over and over. Purchase a legal
notepad and write out this mantra 500 times. Do it for three weeks with regular practice
and feel that this quality is developing. Very soon it will come. This is a strategy that
Indian sages have employed for thousands of years to aid their spiritual and mental
development. Do not be discouraged if the results are not immediate, they will certainly
develop. The spoken word is a powerful influencer of the mind.

8. Empty your cup. A full cup cannot accept anything more. Similarly, a person who
believes that he cannot learn anything else will stagnate quickly and not move to higher
levels. A true sign of a secure, mature individual is someone who sees every opportunity
as a chance to learn. Even the teachers have teachers.

9. Master the art of public speaking. There are few natural speakers. One great trial lawyer
stammered dreadfully but through courage and strength of conviction, he developed into
a brilliant orator. Role model anyone you think is a highly effective, influential
communicator. Visualize a picture of this person. Stand like him, smile like him, and talk
like him. The results will startle you.

10. Do not take personal development books as gospel. Read them and take whatever useful
ideas you need. Some people feel they must do everything suggested and take the
techniques to extremes. Every book has at least one tool or strategy of benefit. Take what
you need and what works for you and discard what doesn't suit you.

-- Passionnant Pour être Vivant (Excited To Be Alive).,
Jk..

Treasure Box Of HAPPINESS

2007-03-30T12:41:00.000-07:00

Dear Fellas..,

Needless To say, Life is Neither a Dream Nor a Nightmare.It's a delicate balance between both.What do you do when someone hurts u emotionally/physically? Vent up the emotions then and there? What if you couldn't? You store those feelings for a long time and stay depressed (Lot more than said,if the person is close to you)but what about your happy moments in Life? How much can you store/recollect? I bet you haven't crossed five (In case You have., you know how to live... but nevertheless, read through this post)
My way of remembering them would be.,to collect souvenirs.It may be a trophy from the incident or jus a date-sheet from a daily calender with a scrawny note at its back.Something that would bring back the whole happy incident before your eyes.I've had a pretty good collection of them. Whenever i feel a bit low, i used to take a peek into the box.It'll make me feel," Some good moment is around the corner, as always" Contents of my treasure box?? It ranges from date-sheets to exam hall tickets to a fresh 10 rupee note to greeting cards to.....so on..(Obviously wouldn't make sense to others)All these keep my happy moments fresh and alive in my memory..
Most important keep 'em safe in a private place.They're jus for you.When you feel low, relive those ecstatic moments..!! So watr u waitin for..??

Happy Treasuring..!!
-- Passionnant Pour être Vivant (Excited To Be Alive).,
Jk..