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Irony??

12 Sep 2008 2 Comments

by amruta in Just a thought!, Keeping my eyes open!, Man is a social animal!, What I hear, n what I read........, Zor ka jhatka!('Current' Affairs) Tags: capital punishment, Children, Children cinema, Iran

Read an article in The Times of India yesterday ( You can read it here ) . It said that Iran leads the list of countries which still allow capital punishment to children and minors. Well, horrifying, yes….. but all the more so, given the fact that Iranian children’s movies are well-known all over the world for their sensitive presentation of the world of children!!!

Irony, anyone??

Thought for the day!

29 May 2008 10 Comments

by amruta in Blogroll, Comical tragedies, Just a thought!, Keeping my eyes open!, Man is a social animal!, Zor ka jhatka!('Current' Affairs) Tags: Life, Money, Work

Do not devote too much of time thinking about how unfairly you are dealt with at work!

There are many things to be done in life, and work, is just a means of getting the money to be able to do them!

A tribute to the most used product of the decade!!

21 Apr 2008 25 Comments

by amruta in Blogroll, Just a thought!, Keeping my eyes open!, Man is a social animal!, Zor ka jhatka!('Current' Affairs) Tags: food, hunger, instant noodles, IT, Maggi, noodles

Guys, wondering what that is?? Yes, it indeed is: Maggi Noodles!!!!!

Surprised?? Well, enter s/w pros, staying away from home in rented apartments/PG accos. What comes into your mind first when you think of getting a quick bite??

Ofcourse, maggi noodles!!!

What do you think of cooking after a tiring day at office, and your return to home at 10 pm?

Ofcourse, maggi noodles!!!

And yeah, esp. for the guys, what is the cuisine you are best at preparing?

Ofcourse, it is maggi noodles!!!

Mannnn!! What would we do without maggi noodles!!!!

Perspectives, perspectives……… (2)

21 Nov 2007 2 Comments

by amruta in Just a thought!

Just remembered a conversation I had some time back with a friend. He had forwarded me a pic of 10000 galaxies, captured in 1 image using some high-fundoo telescope. And I replied saying it was an ammazzing pic. Not stopping at just that, I went on to add that when we see pictures like this, we start feeling how small we are as compared to this huge huge universe!! Dwelling further on it, I added, that at the same time, we should also feel really big, since we can see all these galaxies, so what if only in a photograph. After all, we invented the camera!!!

Ohhh…perspectives!!!!!!!

Just look around!!! There’s so much to learn!!

09 Oct 2007 15 Comments

by amruta in Blogroll, Just a thought!, Keeping my eyes open!, Man is a social animal!, Random sightings, What I hear, n what I read........

Was returning home from office yesterday, when I stopped by at the key maker’s. There were a couple of other elederly men there, and were discussing current affairs, as usual. Because of the lack of options, I reluctantly started overhearing their conversation. Little did I know, that this would turn out to be the most sensible talk that I would heard in the entire day, or may be in the entire week too.

The key maker was kinda working late, so an elderly man there were asking him to hurry up. As an analogy, he said that “it is the law of nature, see, even birds go home when the sun sets. Only a few work late, like eagles, kites and vultures, but they too, only till a stipulated time.” This sentence kinda caught my attention. Then the conversation drifted to whether one can see such birds these days, and the same guy said that yes, you can easily find them at Parsi crematoriums, where the funeral rituals include laying up corpses of the deceased in empty wells, where they are preyed upon by kites and vultures, and eagles. “Strange are the ways of some”, he said. The other two people there laughed acknowledgingly. But then the man said, “There’s nothing wrong in that too….In some communities they burn, in some they bury; Parsis feed them to birds: So even after they are dead, they are used in feeding hungry birds. So what if it sounds odd, Parsis make difference to the world even as they leave it!”

Isn’t that insightful? I mean, being so much educated, and supposedly fitting into the ‘intellectual’ category of people; I had not even thought about why Parsis could be cremating their dead bodies that way; let alone thinking about them so profoundly. But an elderly,lonely, probably not very educated country man woke me up from my delusions. Philosophy, my friends, isn’t the copyright of Paulo Coelho or Ayn Rand; or even the myriad Yogis and sages. Philosophy is delivered by any one who wants to think, and say his thoughts aloud!!!

Well, I am generally delighted when I get to know anything that is informative and at the same time intelligent and insightful; and given that, the man surely made my day!!!

Angry? Don’t count till 10, count the prime numbers!!!

17 May 2007 7 Comments

by amruta in Blogroll, Just a thought!, Random sightings

An age-old practise says, that when you are angry, do not react immediately, wait and count till 10….. as counting till 10 gives you the best thing to prevent anger….time! Once you overcome that one moment of anger without reaction, you realise that the situation did not really need any reaction.
Hmmm, quite a true saying,but does it really work? For one, its too old to keep implementing time and again. Two, its too short, takes approx. 5 seconds to complete, which is too short a time period for certain people(sometimes like me..hehe). Three, its boring, and all the more so if you increase it to 100 for getting more time. I in fact even tend to brush through these numbers so fast, that they are barely comprehensible.. Now, it’s not that I need to revise my numbers and so have to say them slowly, but then just the real purpose of counting vanishes!!!

Kavya Vishwanathan, the creator of Opal Mehta (the nerdish heroine of the much-talked about book “How Opal Mehta got kissed, got wild, and got a life..”) gave me another alternative to this, and a nice one, too! When Opal Mehta got nervous or anxious in the book, she made her rant prime numbers, until she calmed down again…. Too nerdy you think?? Naah…. I gave it a try, and it really works.
One not so fine day( ) , I was really irritated and wanted to burst out on somebody. Luckily, there was no one around, so I had to look out for some other way. I saw the copy of this book in front of me, and remembered Opal’s technique. “Why not give it a try”, I thought. So i went, 1, “No..No..Wat nonsense, 1 is not a prime number!!”, I laughed. The first ounce of anger dissolved. Then, 2,3,5,7,11,13,17,19,23,29,31, ………………………. 37, 41, 43, …………………………………..53, 59……………………………………………….., I went on scratching my brain. Just in a minute or so, I forgot why I was trying to recollect prime numbers, and got immersed into the task of rcollecting them.
The mercury levels of my hot hot brain dropped to normal, and I realised I was really enjoying this task of recollecting prime numbers. It was like a challenge to me, I wanted to see how much I can stretch myself….Yeah you do get bored after some while, but your purpose is very much served!! The flip-flop of your mind gets reset, and ready to dive into some other more important thoughts!!(Other than the reason you got angry for, not just other than prime numbers…heeheehee.. )

Looking at this whole situation, don’t you think that the depth our feelings is just a measure of how much importance we assign to it? Or how much of other important stuff is happening in our lives??

Is money equivalent to Happiness?

28 Mar 2007 Leave a Comment

by amruta in Blogroll, Just a thought!, Keeping my eyes open!, What I hear, n what I read........

So true is the above sentence, isn’t it!! just happened to see the above picture stored somewhere on my PC, and it started a chain of memories in my mind. Just jotting down a few of them here.

When i was in my 3rd year of Computer Engineering, We had a debate in my Principles Of Economics and Management class, titled “Money motivates!” We were supposed to refute the argument, so my main argument then was…

“Why does one want money, to buy luxury, to feel the prestige, and such things, all basincally leading to what? Getting Happy!!! So the main motive in one’s life is not getting rich or earning money, just for the sake of it…If he could get happy by some other means, he would very well do it, and not care a damn about money!!”

“Point taken”, agreed many……

Well this also reminds me of another story that i’d read long ago in Marathi. Will attempt to translate it here. Its called, “Happy Man’s Shirt”

Once upon a time, there was a man who wanted to know the secret of happiness. He was ready to go to any lengths to do it. So he prayed, and meditated, and fasted, for a long long time. Finally, a holy sage appeared before him. “What do you want son?”, he asked. “I want to know the secret of happiness..”, the man replied. “Fine, I’ll tell it to you”, the sage replied,” but before that u will have to bring me a shirt worn by a man who is truly happy..” “Ok sir, that i shall do immediately….how long will that take!!” , exclaimed the man.

And lo, he started off…He went to his friends whom he thought were happy, and asked them if they were.. They replied in negative. He went to the rich and famous, but no luck there too….As a sharp contrast, he tried the poorer ones, but to no avail. He went to places, travelled to many countries and cities and towns, but he did not find anyone who admitted that he was totally happy!

Tired and frustrated, he was walking through a forest. A river flowed nearby. On the banks of the river sat a man, humming the most cheerful tune he’d ever heard. He played with the waves in water, he called out to the birds that flew past…Overall, he seemed very content, very HAPPY. Skeptical, yet somewhat homeful, the man went to him, an asked him whether he was happy. “Ofcourse, I am very very happy. I have no complaints about life.” The man was overjoyed, and just as he was about to ask the happy man for his shirt, he realized, that the man wasn’t wearing a shirt at all!!! He asked the man about it, and he replied,”Shirt!! well I never wear one at all!!”

Nice story na!! And worth giving a thought, too!

Well these are just a few thoughts that occured to me when i saw that pic…More about this, later!!

Dream #1

13 Feb 2007 2 Comments

by amruta in Blogroll, Comical tragedies, Just a thought!, Trudging down the memory lane

And there…..the world was coming to an end!!!! Well if not the world, atleast my city!!! There was flood everywhere!! People were running(naah..swimming) helterskelter to save their lives!! The water levels were rising fast and furiosly!! And the water….it was not the usual color(<less>), it was dirty, yellow in color….It was the color of the evil!! It looked as though the Almighty was washing away all the evil from the city!! With commotion all around, a few of us managed to catch hold of a canoe!! If we could somehow reach out of the city safely, may be we could avert the danger…may be…just may be we could be the only survivors of the Dooms day!

And so we proceeded, rowing the boat ferociously amidst the deafening chaos of humanity(if any) trying to battle the devil’s fury!!

And suddenly!!!! And oh so suddenly, appeared the Devil, himself!! All of us shuddered, cringed, drew back….Standing right opposite us, the devil started threatening us!!! “I will kill all of you!! you humnas don’t deserve to live!!! I WILL KILL YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!”

All of us were stunned…We didn’t know what to do….Just a while back we were evenly spread around the boat, rowing it to safety, and now, we were nothing but a collected mass of people at one end of the boat, looking dreadedly at the demon on the other side…

Suddenly I whispered to my fellow- ‘mass’…. “Lets all jump together, the demon on the other side of the boat will be thrown off!!Spread the word…” The word spread…

We all looked at each other……1…………2…………………3!!!! And there we went!!!! The devil was thrown up in the sky, and we started rowing the boat as fast as we could so that he would not fall back in the boat….The boat changed directions…..the huge bosy of the demon was being pulled down by gravitation…”Cmon….a li’l more”, “Oh my God..He’s coming”, “Row Row Row!!!” and thud!!!! Fell the demon…and not in our boat! And although we worked hard for it and narrowly missed failure, it was still sweet success!! We all were rejoiced, and started rowing our way to safety, and creation of a good new world!!

“Uhh..What was that!!” I woke up with a start! Whoa!! What a dream!!:-D

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