Life n d power of affection

Life is what happens when we are busy making other plans.....
I saw this graphic, and in the first glimpse, it seemed a junkie outta d dustbin, but when I looked at it for sometime, I saw the beauty in its crumpled untidiness..... and realised that its its imperfection that gives it this "beauty", and its "uniqueness".....

Imagine a blank sheet of paper with the same letters "LIFE" written over it(u may actually do it practically) and compare this pic with it...m damn sure you'd like d crumpled one more!

N now some geeku inputs, ummm.... life is not the "digital" '0' or '1', i.e. "good" or "bad", the two loner states hanging out there...all alone!
rather its like a beautiful sine/cos curve(as a matter of fact, any curve) with infinitesimal moments of the "actual life" happening between the start and the end....

To enjoy life fully, we must enjoy these "seemingly tiny" moments, rather than wait for a particular time in infinity to arrive, and then...and then...and then!

I feel perfection is boring, and imperfection is interesting since once we are perfect, we can improve no more, although I truly believe in constantly working towards achieving perfection(with its threshold moving up, as and when I near the point).....

An example would be to bring a rose for your loved one..... not just on the oh-so predictable special days, but pouring in the affection at special moments.. esp when you think (now that's up to you how you gauge when these are needed!) and making the one feel special :)

The sheer joy of having thought of something like this would not just fill you with joy, but also be felt by your loved ones.

People spend their lives in "waiting for the right time", and end up realising all the time just flew by.....
So, give, before its too late! Give NOW! You won't think twice if you truly love someone- ain't it!

Life is beautiful!

I love this pic:) It sums it all!

Mai Kya mangu, fir kucch na raha!

Very soothing prayer (Shabad Gurbani)
Mai Kya mangu, fir kucch na raha.....

Satnam waheguru
He helps in taking the right decisions at the right time,
Feel the awesome light of God around you,
and the love of God surrounding you.

I have always believed that "zindagi me bahut sare relations se better hai ki relations me bahut saari zindagi ho", and that all are lovely souls connected together by awesome energies of the universe..... all caring, and sharing, and loving!

Blooms....

Ahan!..... went clicking around d campus ..... God made flowers to add colour to the monotony of life....








Not just that! flowers r the most beautiful and simplest way to express joy, love, care, and share!
Not just they are pretty but are vibrant, colourful and sensuous.....

Wanna send flowers to someone you care for? Ummm.... search for it...
d last I gifted was from Ferns n Petals - Gosh! so difficult to go to d awesome florists n select from exotic ranges - carnations, exotic roses, sunflowers, chrysanthemums, etcetera,etcetera,etcetera;) ....
I might be sounding mean.. but every time I wanna go n select flowers, I wanna
have 'em all for me :(( :P it takes a whole lotta "girly courage" to smiling part with those awesome beauties... **sigh** :-<

To add a personal touch, do do write in a special note (with your extra coochi-cooing ;) ;)) and see the magic ;) It works! Send 'em as surprises too :):) wow! After al life's beautiful ...so make it more na! hmmmmmm :)

Find out the "right" kind of flower for the "right" occasion (VERY IMPORTANT), and go ahead..... half the work is done!
Umm.... a very important, but less noted point-> if flowers are not home-delivered, and are hand given to your loved one, DO DO DO take care that s/he can carry 'em back properly and easily (ah of cours you could be chivalrous enough to drop 'em home ;) but for the "other" occasions :D) - have faced d problem myself so many-a-time :P :( - you wouldn't want the poor flowers reach home all battered...and the poorer "flower-receiver" all the more in a worse condition :( :P

jokes apart - great that they got it online also now :FnP

Anyways, I have even gifted a potted plant /bonsais (pretty difficult to find for gifiting unless you know how to maintain one, and try and gift 2 some one who can take care of that lovely plant :) )

Wish! one could make them last forever! Simple solution-> grow 'em (in d garden/pots 2 impress :)) )

Happy Republic Day!

Bharat hamko jan se bhi pyara hai :)

Bharat hamko jan se bhi pyara hai :)

Bharat hamko jan se bhi pyara hai :)

The Republic Day is celebrated every year on January 26.

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It was the Lahore Session of the Indian National Congress at midnight of December 31, 1929 - January 1, 1930, that the Tricolour was unfurled by nationalists and a pledge taken that every year on January 26 "Independence Day" would be celebrated and that the people would unceasingly strive for the establishment of a Sovereign Democratic Republic of India. We present India's first Prime Minister's reminisces about the Lahore Session.
President Rajendra Prasad's reply to the speech of the Doyen of the Diplomatic Corps at the Banquet in Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi, on January 26, 1950, after India was formally declared a Republic, strikes a formal note.

Some of the Best Patriotic Songs:

1. ae mere vatan ke logo, jara aankh me bhar lo pani
2. Film roja ka gana hai ’ bharat humko jaan se pyara hai, subse pyara gulsata humara hai’
3. ’Ae mere pyare vatan, ae mere bichare chaman, tujh pe dil kurbaan’
4. * ’Panchi nadiya pawan ke jhoke, koi sarhad na inhe roke’
5. * ’jan gan man adhinakyak jai he, bharat bhagya vidhata ’
6. * Vande maataram, sujalaam sufalaam, malayaj sheetalaam’

How I remember praticing and singing on each of the National day celebrations @school / college :D

Jai Hind!

गणतंत्र दिवस की हार्दिक शुभकामनायें

Use HIndi at Google Transliteration

Use hindi more :)

Ik Pal ka Jeena! dREAMZ uNLIMITED!

Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch, who is dying from pancreatic cancer, gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium. In his moving talk, "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams," Pausch talked about his lessons learned and gave advice to students on how to achieve their own career and personal goals.

hehe..... dat "dreams slide" is almost d same as mine ;)

So very nostalgic!
Dream on! :)

and how I relate to "Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech"
U c... ur heart just knows whats right!

Self-awareness Makes us Unique

We are a unique species.....

Are we the centre of God’s creation? In all our thinking and discussions about life and the universe, we seem to assume so. We have convinced ourselves that the array of living beings in the universe makes up a neat hierarchy. At the pinnacle of that hierarchy is the human being.
At the lowest rungs of creation are minerals. Then come the mosses, fungi and plants. Plants have only a sense of touch. Singlecelled and multi-celled microbial organisms feature the next stage of development. At the next higher perch are the reptiles, mammals, birds and animals. Finally, at the apex is the most evolved form of living being, the human, the most advanced and the most developed among all living creatures, the supreme glory of all creation.
Greek philosopher Aristotle proposed the interesting idea of a vital principle that guides the development, functioning or evolution of an organism or a hierarchy of beings. It was this vital principle that resulted in life-finding expression first as unicellular and multicellular organisms, then as plants, thereafter as birds and animals, and ultimately as humans, as sapient and sentient beings.
According to Aristotelian theory, humans are the most evolved form of thinking and feeling beings so far. What is more, we alone have the potential to grow and evolve into the spiritual dimension.
But what precisely, if anything, sets us apart from other living creatures? Is it the faculty of reasoning, the fact that we are rational? But reasoning does not and cannot teach us anything new. Socrates was a man, a mortal being. Therefore Socrates is mortal. You can see here that there is no new truth that the third and concluding statement expresses that is not clearly implied in the first two sentences.
The conclusion of any piece of syllogistic reasoning does not enable us to learn anything new other than what is already contained in its premise. You have the same limitation with inductive logic where you arrive at general truths from particular examples. [Yes! very true.]
The mind grasps reality by establishing relationships between entities that it perceives newly and the perceptions that it carries from the past.[Yes! very true.] Psychologists and neurologists explain that the human brain is large because a major part of the cerebrum is concerned with associating different perceptions and memories.
Newton formulated his celebrated laws of motion and gravitation by intuitively hypothesising a link between the fall of the apple on his head and the motion of the earth around the sun. But by the same token, the human mind is basically anchored in the past. Therefore, it pulls you back from letting yourself go completely with the flow of living reality here and now.
The distinguishing feature of humans lies in our capacity for self-awareness. Other living creatures may have the ability to perform a greater variety of tasks, or may have developed superior sensibilities in certain areas. But we alone have the capacity to look at ourselves and be aware of ourselves.
We can attain knowledge. But what is unique about us is that we can also get to know how we could attain that knowledge. A human being is like a computer that can see how it has been programmed and thereby transcend the programming itself.

Source - Indiatimes

Winning and Losing

Somehow... I have always learnt to be in and work towards a win-win situation rather than a win-lose situation.....
Felt like jotting down some thoughts which I had read a while ago....

After failing for the 2nd time, Edmund Hillary challenged Mt. Everest "I'll come again & conquer you, coz as a mountain u cant grow, but as a human I can"
(aww! leave d qoute aside.. i wanna go hiking right now :P)

I can accept failure.
Everyone fails at something...
But I can't accept not trying...
~~ Michael Jordan

The most important lesson I have learnt from sports is how not to be only a gracious winner,
but a goo loser as well.
Not everyone wins al the time, as a matter of fact.. no one wins all the time.....
Winning is the easy part,
losing is really tough.
But you learn more from one loss,
than you do from a milion wins (yups.. abs right!)

You learn a lot about sportsmanship.
I mean its really tough to shake a hand of someone who just beat you, and its even harder to do so with a smile....

Happy New Year 2008

Have a blessed and prosperous New Year 2008!

Okies... dats a fav graphic (Diwali)... but has d meaning of the Gaytri Mantra :)

You may listen to the awesome Maha Mantra here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIkEFYdXcWs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wozyuBsgCn8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx0Qzs1xqUg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=espTd2S-V8I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty2XLidTzfc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5t8kzbJVf4


and this Awesome poem by Rabindra da:

the great poem of Tagore which shall ever remind the Indians what kind of India the poet dreamed of :

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high,

Where knowledge is free,

Where the world has not broken up into fragments by narrow dogmatic walls,

Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way

into the dreary desert sand of dead habit,

Where the mind is led forward by thee

Into lever widening thought and action

Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake!

Heal the world

I relate to this song so much! Each and every thing that's said n sung

Check this out :) WE-The-Helping-Hands
Stop existing, start living :)

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