Strawberry

I found a beautiful yet simple fable to illustrate a lesson.
A monk was being chased by a tiger and ran and ran until he got to the edge of a cliff. With the tiger in pursuit he jumped but instead of crashing to the water he luckily caught a branch. While hanging on to the branch he noticed a small bush of strawberries beside him. With the tiger above him, the water below him and the branch giving out on him the monk ate a strawberry and enjoyed it. The lesson: no matter what's behind you or in front of you always enjoy the strawberry.

Sleep

Was reading a book called "Brain Rules". The author stresses 12 principles based on research and science which he emphatically states will increase the efficiency and capacity of your brain to its maximum potential.
One very important principle is sleep.
For your brain to function well for the day as well as in the long run you need to sleep well. Have a good night's sleep and wake up fresh.
Depriving your brain of sleep over a long period of time will cause irreversible damage to some parts of it. It will kill brain cells and some of your skills along with it. So keep this in mind and learn to sleep well. Do not wake up late to watch movies or TV or to waste time on your computer or even to play games(card games etc).
It is simply put, the absolutely topmost priority for your brain's longevity. Try to imagine yourself unable to process even the simplest of things as early as 50 yrs...that would suck. So sleep well and do that daily.
Sweet dreams!

Simply inspired

What seperates you from the greatest achievers on earth?
Well...a lot of things, maybe. But one thing, and probably the most important of those things is the amount of time which an inspiration stays with you, drives you.
People call this perseverence, patience, and other things. But this is what I call it: inspiration. We do everything in life for something. That something is what becomes inspiration when you try to achieve something.
Great quotes give you inspiration. Your Dad's words, people's achievements, someone's attention :), sometimes even a humiliation gives you inspiration.
Some people start working vigorously when they get that inspiration, some decide to work, some just get inspired and go on with their life as usual or just don't care about it.
You will achieve something only if you are in the first or the third group. The second strategy never works out.
The achievements of the first will then actually depend on how long that inspiration stays with him. It is this quality that differentiates great people from the not-so-great. If you read the biographies of great people, they never forget the events and things in their lives that inspired them, changed them. That is why they become what they are.
The third kind will include people who get inspired by themselves and nothing else. This is another group of people who can achieve great things, though it is very difficult to inspire yourself all the time and especially when the chips are down.
Whatever be your category, self-inspired or externally inspired, how long you can stay inspired is what will decide how much you can achieve.

Some crap -2

Some time pass ones from me…..(inspired by a similar mail)

Socha main Ghar jaaon aaj cycle par,
To kampne lage mere pair thar thar thar thar …

Jaaon kahan bata eh dil..
Jaaon kahan bata eh dil..
Clinton ka First name hai Bill.

Chupke chupke maine use dekha…
Chupke chupke maine use dekha…
Meri favourite actress hamesha rahegi Rekha.. :P

Yeh joke jo maine logon pe feka,
Koi na hansa mar ke thahaka.
Gusse mein aake jo de diya maine ek ko mukka,
Sare logon ne mil ke mujhe jee bhar ke thoka.
Ek bande ne cheekh ke sab ko roka,
Fir kaha ki yaaron break le lete hain, main ho gaya thoda thaka!
Mauka dekh ke main jo wahan se bhaga,
Jaise aa gayi ho mujhme ek PT Usha.
Bhagte hue raste mein tha ek police ka naka,
Pakadne ek mujrim ko, jisne dala tha daka.
Mujhe dekh puliswale ne apna lath feka,
socha ki main hi hun jo bhag raha tha dal ke daka.
Lathi se bachne ke liye main jo bhagte hue jhuka,
mere piche aata hua banda ho gaya hakka-bukka.
chat se maine paas ek auto ko roka,
aur bola " Chal bhai, le chalo mujhe ghar, yehi hai mera mauka"
Ghar panhuch ke kampte kampte maine TV jo ON kiya,
Pehli hi gend pe mar diya sachin ne zabardast chakka.
Fir Sehwag ne mil ke jo Australia ko dhoya,
Aaj ke sare dukh dard main khushi khushi bhool gaya.
Yehi hai apne is kahani ki seekh,
ki har dard ki dawa hai Sachin and sehwag ki crickeeet.

Shukriya... Shukriya....

The attraction of the pencil

For the past few weeks, months even, I've been kind of attracted, absorbed and in fact totally consumed by this unstoppable passion to write cursive handwriting using pencils. Its absolutely addictive and ridiculously enjoyable, and I am unable to focus on my life in any small amount. I've got these wonderful notebooks in the Microsoft campus which look more like diaries than notebooks, and then there are these pen-pencil type pencils which you click at the back to make a litle more lead come out of the front of the pencil and then write with it.
I've always been fascinated by beautiful cursive writing and I have always dreamed of writing those beautiful letters...with my own hand, and as much as I want, whenever I want.
I am trying to make that dream come true. I write all my tasks for the day using that pencil in that beautiful notebook and then write descriptions for each task and then, elaborate on how I am going to go about doing it and go to great lengths, using the most flowy, the most verbose language that I can use, to describe all that is going to be done by me and what I am going to assign the team and God knows what not. I love writing with those pencils so much. My manager sits beside me and I won't blame him if he thinks that I am a freak. More than 50% of my day is spent bent over that notebook. I hope I will be able to write those magically beautiful letters in the same magically beautiful style some day. I think I am going to start writing those olden days snail mails again.
-To beautiful cursive handwriting!

The importance of dreaming

"I still dream -- without dreams, life is flat, you stagnate." -Sachin
Excellent words! One needs to understand the importance of dreams to go forward in life. To be happy, to look forward to every new day with enthusiasm, they are one of the most important ingredients.
Without dreams, there is no passion. Without passion there is no true effort, without effort there is no movement. and without movement, stagnation results. Stagnation in the short term can be viewed as contentedness. But in the longer run, it leads to confusion, frustration and ultimately an unsatisfied life.
So never stop dreaming, and never stop pursuing your dreams.
-Kirthi

Some crap

Why does anyone write a blog?
Why do I write a blog?
Just to say what I want to say and read it myself, and also let others read it and enjoy or know me or just to air some view or just plain write something when I feel like.
You know for loong, I have been concerned with how my current blog might effect my current image and future relations and my own feelings and image of my past self when I see the blogs in the future. Its unnecessarily complicated to think and now it seems truely dishonest if I miss to reflect my correct current thought process. But, I also know that this is not my diary, so it is alright if I don't publish everything I write.

Well, thats all! This episode of "Some crap" ends here.

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar

It is fitting that the player regarded world over as the best one day player ever scores the first double ton in ODI history.
To be able to do what he has done over the past 20 years is phenomenal, unbelievable and for most people, the definition of unattainable. He has reached the limits of the humanly achievable and now toying with the unthinkables. His records now stand as a city of walls that people can only dream of breaking. It does not seem possible that another man will ever be born who can surpass him in even half the areas he now leads the world in. No matter how much praise you pour on him, it will never really express the feeling that people have for him. That is the greatness of Sachin. On field as well as off-field, he is respected and looked up to. He is a man fit to be called a true Champion of this world. The moment people see him, they find joy in their hearts. He gives them hopes, he gives them cheer. His presence is a panacea for cricket lovers. Tragedy, disease, disability, everything blurs when people watch him play. He is a hero. He is a true genius. He is, deservingly, the man, who people call GOD.