Friday, December 30, 2005

Awesome Year

Saw snippets of the BEST and Worst of the year in most websites so came up with this post about my year.
In 2005 I :

  • Finished my post graduation and with that hopefully came to the end of the road of my academic career.
  • Conned Wipro, Intel, MBT, Vistasoft, IBM, Covansys and I-Gate into giving me job offers. 7 offers to work (never knew I was so wanted)
  • Started working and more importantly EARNING.
  • Started taking a Bath everyday and a shave every two days (unwelcome change from IIT days when the periodic activity for the same was fortnightly and monthly respectively).
  • Got my first Bonus.
  • Bought my Mom a Really Nice Present.
  • Learnt Cooking with successful results.
  • Cut down on excesses due to a Bad Back aka Slip Disk (Now you can speculate about what excesses are :-D)
  • Saw a VERY Close friend get married and put his life in order.
  • Tried playing Cupid with mixed results
  • Spent a year SINGLE and loved every moment of it. (i.e. Became a bigger Geela)
  • Joined a GYM for an obscene amount and went there thrice ..to date.
  • Invested in Mutual Funds and Insurance (Ahem…running out of things to write)
  • Started BLOGGING

In Effect…grown up (both mentally and physically)
Hope the coming year will be as fruitful (AHEM) to you.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Wednesday, December 28, 2005

Awesome Blog

Do not want to sound as an advert for other blogs but this one is seriously awesome.
Especially the Mahabharata Series.

Monday, December 26, 2005

Merry Christmas

Well a whole lot of firsts for me this Christmas weekend.
Cooked for Mom.
Cooked for cousins.
Did not screw up.
Got compliments.
Could not finish a book on a weekend.
No plum cake and Wine.
No Mistletoe (Not a first but who cares anyway)
Well atleast it was not all misery but a whole lot of merry with family (Hope to see them in the nick of health even after my cooking).
PS. That’s my Christmas Wish.

And hope all of you had a fantastic Christmas.

Friday, December 23, 2005

Nice article

Well another great article from Gaurav.
Hardly surprising but this one interested me so cos i have a sustained interest in both named companies. I work in one and hope to work in another.
So read it .

Friday, December 16, 2005

Life

I have lost interest in blogging, again. Damn !!

Well I have a lot to share but most of it is under the blanket of what he/she will think. And the rest of my life is slowly becoming too routine and bland. I am bored at work, home and elsewhere. So there is nothing to write about. Comes from having no girlfriend for the past $ months, giving up smoking/drinking for the last 3 months, living like a monk, reading books like “The monk who sold his Ferrari” and not having a Ferrari.

Result : too much thinking and no Action.

Yeah, I still could watch movies and write reviews but honestly it’s boring for me(quality of movies) and frankly who can actually read all that crap. I could visit places and write about the journey but have neither the time nor the inclination to ask my boss for a vacation. I could take pictures and post them but my camera is not suited for still photography.

But I truly don't have anything else to say. Nothing new, nothing meaningful, nothing fun so I shall crib today and then go for a drive in the company of Pink Floyd. LIFE ROCKS

Wednesday, December 14, 2005

LOL

Gals Pls pass on this and try to forgive me, while the Guys can enjoi. Really Really funny!!!!

Thursday, December 08, 2005

Conversation between a teacher and a student

Now if you are really busy, Please refrain from reading this as it may be a bit verbose.
But if you are truly VELA, Please do read it.

An atheist professor of philosophy speaks to his class on the problem science has with God, The Almighty. He asks one of his new students to stand and....
Prof: So you believe in God?
Student: Absolutely, sir.
Prof: Is God good?
Student: Sure.
Prof: Is God all-powerful?
Student: Yes.
Prof: My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to God to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But God didn't. How is this God good then?

Hmm? (Student is silent.)
Prof: You can't answer, can you? Let's start again, young fella. Is God good?
Student :Yes.
Prof: Is Satan good?
Student : No.
Prof: Where does Satan come from?
Student : From...God...
Prof: That's right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?
Student : Yes.
Prof: Evil is everywhere, isn't it? And God did make everything. Correct?
Student : Yes.
Prof: So who created evil?
(Student does not answer.)
Prof: Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don't they?
Student :Yes, sir.
Prof: So, who created them?
(Student has no answer.)
Prof: Science says you have 5 senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Tell me, son...Have you ever seen God?
Student : No, sir.
Prof: Tell us if you have ever heard your God?
Student : No , sir.
Prof: Have you ever felt your God, tasted your God, smelled your god? Have you ever had any sensory perception of God for that matter?
Student : No, sir. I'm afraid I haven't.
Prof: Yet you still believe in Him?
Student : Yes.
Prof: According to empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, science says your GOD doesn't exist. What do you say to that, son?
Student : Nothing. I only have my faith.
Prof: Yes. Faith. And that is the problem science has.
Student : Professor, is there such a thing as heat?
Prof: Yes.
Student : And is there such a thing as cold?
Prof: Yes.
Student : No sir. There isn't.
(The lecture theatre becomes very quiet with this turn of events.)
Student : Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don't have anything called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no heat, but we can't go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy.
Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it. (There is pin-drop silence in the lecture theatre.)
Student : What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?
Prof: Yes. What is night if there isn't darkness?
Student : You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light.... But if you have no light constantly, you have nothing and its called darkness, isn't it? In reality, darkness isn't. If it were, you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn't you?
Prof: So what is the point you are making, young man?
Student : Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.
Prof: Flawed? Can you explain how?
Student : Sir, you are working on the premise of duality. You argue there is life and then there is death, a good God and a bad God. You are viewing the concept of God as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, science can't even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that
death cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life: just the absence of it. Now tell me, Professor. Do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?
Prof: If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of course, I do.
Student : Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?
(The Professor shakes his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument is going.)
Student : Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavour, are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher?
(The class is in uproar.)
Student : Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor's brain?
(The class breaks out into laughter.)
Student : Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor's brain, felt it, touched or smelled it?.....No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established rules of empirical, stable, demonstrable protocol, science says that you have no brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir?
(The room is silent. The professor stares at the student, his face unfathomable.)
Prof: I guess you'll have to take them on faith, son.
Student : That is it, sir.. The link between man & god is FAITH. That is all that keeps things moving & alive.
Do you know who the student is....?

That young man was ALBERT EINSTEIN.

Monday, December 05, 2005

Change of Girth

As far as I can remember, Mom and Dad were always concerned that I was too thin. In fact Mom’s favourite story is that Dad had asked the doctor who delivered me for a tonic/medicine/Magic portion which would make me one of those chubby cute babies. Now this was 2 hours after I graced the world with my presence. :D And I had stayed thin all my life, so it was with not a very pleasant surprise that I discovered I had moved to waist size 34. I fact till third year engineering, I was a bit less than 28 and used to ask hazard salesmen why size 27 was not stocked.

Well I guess HAL has been nice to me and I see it as a sign of prosperity. Joining the gym today never the less!!!!!