Quotes ... which are quoteworthy

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Worry does not remove the troubles of tomorrow,
it only robs the strength of today.

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If you have one leg in the past and the other in the future,
the only thing you can do to your present is: piss on it!

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An egg broken from outside is the end of a life;
An egg broken from inside is the beginning of a life;
All great things in life start from within.

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All that is gold does not glitter,
not all those who wander are lost...

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I may disapprove of what you say,
but I will defend till death your right to say it.

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Bum Sheets!

Old year, New Year, Resolution, PJ etc.

Well, so another year(2007) passed away surreptitiously. And a new year has arrived . In fact, 3 days of the new year have already passed. Now I don't want use that old cliche, how time flies (I have used it anyways :-) !

With new year comes its traditional companions like "New Year Resolution" etc. To be true, I have mixed feelings about it: on one hand I have this firm belief that you don't have to wait till new year's day if you want to make a resolution; do it when it comes to your mind, irrespective of the date. But on the other hand, I know the importance of the necessity of psychological tricks one has to make use of in order to control oneself (the mind is so darn hard to control using logic!). So in totality, I have nothing against the popular practice of making New Year resolutions and indulge myself too.

Yesterday, one of my friends asked me, 'So buddy, what's your new year resolution'. One joke I heard sometime back somewhere came to my mind and I replied "800 by 600". Well, by the face of him, i understood that the moment of wit had been wasted. I had to indirectly explain to him that I was referring to computer monitor resolution and it was a joke! Well it's not that my friend was an illiterate villager from some remote corner of the countryside, but was a well educated modern person. Now, this does not mean anything, since I am too aware of my own sense of geeky humour. But the point is, it pains to find the right ambiance every time I want to enjoy the effects of a PJ!

So people, upgrade yourselves and improve your GQ(Geeky Quotient)!

My ever lasting love for books...

As they say, "books were my first love". At the risk of being accused of using a cliche, I say the same. Well, honestly, not that I have many "love"s in my life where the chronological order becomes significant, but the fact remains that I have always been, and will be, fascinated by the world of books.

When I was kid (of age around 10-12 years), I still remember the great enthusiasm I felt while entering the annual Book fair that took place in the district stadium. It was like opening up the doors to the vast knowledge world (had I known at that time that soon there will be something called Internet and Google :-). Funny enough, I always envied the sales guys of big book stores. What baffled me the most was, why they never took advantage of their "privileged" position and read all the books before selling them! (As a geek, it is not comprehensible to me how knowledge and learning may not be a temptation to every living soul in the universe.)

I consider the event of my touching the first computer of my life to be one of the biggest defining moments. The second would be the day when I discovered the Internet. The concept of having the whole knowledge base of the world at your finger tip is , well, mind blowing! Today I remember the days, when knowing the distance the distance between the earth and the moon was such a big deal and was a such a token of genius! The quiz books simply sold like hot cakes. I wonder what happened to publishers after the Internet took over.


Now what was the topic, well yes, books. But even now, when I have dozens of firefox tabs open in front of me, I still have 2/3 books in front of me with book marks at various stages. So the point is, even the great Internet has not made me forget about my beloved books. How can it! To the contrary, I use the internet to get me books (eg. order online, download pdfs etc). In fact, why should one thing of the Internet and books as competing media? Isn't the Internet the great open book of the universe?

Beaty in words ...

I may not be a great conversationist , as I have myself proclaimed [ see the other post .. dumb,dumb,dumb] , but I do seem to have some way with words ....

Proof ? Let there be light ....
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Yeh manjar varkarar rakho yaaron, kahin hidayat ka shikanja na kas jaaye ...
Yeh battiyan bujhaaye rakho yaaron, kahin pyale me apni hi shakl na dikh jaaye ...
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Aao koi Ghulam bana lo humko, hukumat ki tamanna hume aur nahin...
Aao koi rona sikha do hume, mushkurane ki tabiyat hume aur nahin ....
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Ye kambakht jajbaat aise hain ki haale dil chupaye nahin chupte,
Main mushkurane ki koshish to karon, par yeh aankhon ki nami hataye nahin hatte
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ya khuda yeh kaisi bimari hai, ab gham me maza aane laga,
hasne ka naubat nahin aate aajkal, rone se sukoon milne laga ...
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Shikayat kaise karon uski jisko aankho me bithaya tha ek din,
Bas mudda is baat ka hai yaaron, ki ab jiya jaaye kaise uske bin.
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meri jaan hai tu, yeh jaankar bhi aise dur rehke mukhko na sata,
mera dil lele, jigar lele, ruh lele, aur kya chahiye, apna LIST to bata
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Apne hisse ki jindagi pe apni marzi chalata hun,to kya bura karta hun,
Khud raaste banake apni sawari chalata hun, to kya gunah karta hun...
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Sirf dil hona kaafi nahin, ehsaas bhi to jarrori hai,
Sirf pas hona kaafi nahin, suhbat ka sukoon bhi to jarrori hai
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[Extreme negativism]
Gul na khil saka, to kyun na chaman ko hi tabah kar doon,
Hasraten poori na huyee, to kyun na dunia ko aag laga doon...
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yeh jid hai meri ki tere yadon se hi umr bhar ka gujara hoga,
tere suhbat ka lutf hai nahin to gujre haseen ehsaas ka hi sahara hoga.

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Dumb dumb dumb....

Every living being who has spent time in my vicinity knows that I can take part in the "World's Dumbest person" competition. Here, "dumb" is supposed to mean its natural meaning ... not to be inferred as stupid or something .... and i'm very particular about it ..[ don't consider me to be that dumb either :-) ]...

So what is this I am talking about? It's about remaining silent and not contributing to the overall conversation for an unacceptable amount of time .. that's what i call being dumb and that's what is being talked about here .....

So I am like that ... cool ... but why ? that would be the next logical question , right ? Well, if I would like to be smart about replying to that, then I would say that, "That's my Natural Response, buddy ...". [ Being and Electrical Engineer by education does influence my vocabulary, mate, can't help it ]...

Does these all mean that i am a bad conversationist ? May be .. But , for heaven's sake, I refuse to be a meaningless chatter box . I'd rather observe a "Maun Brat" .. But I do get charged up at times. Specially when my wavelength gets resonated. And boy, then I get completely transformed. I am simply Wit God at such moments ...

Who am I?

I remeber reading this poem in , may be, class 1 , "I am in the Pistol, not in the gun, double in the moon but not in the sun. Who am I?"

Pretty simple to answer , isn't it? of course, it's the letter O....

But, seriously this question is not that starightforward to answer.. at least not for me....

So who am I? Whenevr I spend a few moments to think about myself, moments cross over into into longer moments .. then even longer moments ... still the question virtually remains ...not fully answered ... to my horror... it dawns onto me .... how little do I know about myself !!!!