This world is a really small place

The world is really a very small place..
I was talking on phone while going for dinner at my PG.
At the dinner table a fellow guy asked, 'Kaha se ho?'
Me: Gujarat
He: aapki accent se laga mujhe
Me: aap kaha se ho?
He said 'main bhi Gujarat se hoon'
Me: Su vaat kare che ! kayu city?
He: Baroda
I frowned eyebrow in surprise and asked, 'area?'
He: tame pan Baroda thi cho?
Me: Yes, R.V. Desai road
He: Khanderao Market (thats is less than half a kilometer from my place)
Me: your good name?
He: Mehul. Yours?
Me: Varun. Atak su che?
He: Palekar
I said in surprise, kay goshta karto, bc !!
He: Marathi ahes ka?
Me. ho. Jamdar.
.......


This might seem a rare event. But it really tickles a happy bone when you meet some akin; especially when your are far from. (As far as 1400 kms)

I fantasize the day you would be with me

I fantasize the day you would be with me,
walking hands in hands,
Silence between the two of us,
Yet talk that never ends.

I might not be the best one for you,
But no man will ever love you like I do,

Bridging the gap that lies between us,
Its only words that make you realize my love, thus.

Promise to be there when life has worst to show,
Being the one that you can trust when the world begins to blow,

I wish to be your zeal that is fading away,
The thing that motivates to win whatever it comes in your way,

I wish to be the reason behind the spark in your eyes,
The hunger to conquer the impossible skies,

Hope is what, keeps all of us alive,
I hope you'd be the one that makes my perfect life,

However insignificant my existence may seem to be,
I would ask you to be rest assured, my intentions are genuine and guilt-free,

Carefree of thought, what they might have to say,
as in your arms my head finding solace, lay.

I fantasize the day you would be with me,
walking hands in hands,
Silence between the two of us,
Yet talk that never ends.

Life at DA

It has been since long I have been one with myself . Though it just has been something about 3 months, I feel it like a decade !!! Now, I am home and I am doing what I want to; spending time with family, roaming out with friends, reading the piled up rss feeds, etc

But before all this I have been doing what I am supposed to do and not what I want to do.. You might not know how it feels like getting into an institution totally different from what you would have even imagined, a totally new environment...

Initially, I was missing those UG days so badly, I repeat so badly; that I, throughout the week, was eagerly waiting for FRIDAY. Yes, friday is the day when I can catch a train back home, to Baroda. Actually we used to calculate days remaining for runaway, as we calculate for a big event.

But as time passed and I started adjusting, I felt, I was recalling that change is must in life. I used to think that every thing has its peculiarity and you should not look everything from the same prejudiced perspective. And I started looking at it with an open heart.

Slowly I started loving this place. I made some of the nicest friends even out of my batch. G'nagar has a calmness and serenity in itself and I felt it at its best when most of the students went home for Diwali and I was still in the campus. I admit being associated with placements is altogether a different experience for me.

And it so has become that my answer, "its fantastic !" to the question "how is life at DA?" is a real one; rather than being fake one that it once used to be. :)

A new world awaits

Taking together with me the cherished memories preserved in my heart, its time to move on to the next big thing !!

Lets see what life has in its chest for me,

What lies beyond the horizon...

expectations

"The perception of value of anything obtained easily is significantly less"
I reached onto this after tempest that raged in my head. An incident triggered it.

Starting with the definition of Karma: Its the concept of 'action' you do which affects the cause and effect cycle. Any deed you do is controlled by your free will. You have the full freedom to do it or not to; in this way or that way. It is said that its these deeds that constantly shape our present and future.

If a person does any action, what does he/she expects against it? Broadly the expectations can be:

1. Materialistic Expectation : Any material thing in return of the action. 
2. Sentimental Expectation : The expectation of Love; expectation of feeling of gratitude. Also the nominal expectation that the action should get noticed by or acknowledged by somebody. (may be for whom it might be done)

The Ideal expectation is null, it says "कर्म किये जा, फल की चिंता मत कर" i.e. keep dong what you are supposed to do, without thinking about the returns of your deeds.

Coming back to the experience I had, I said to myself that if I have done something for somebody, what should I expect? I neither expect anything materialistic, nor I expect thank you. But am I wrong if I am expecting my deed to be acknowledged by the one?
What might be the reason for such behavior?
My alter ego said, A probable reason might be that the value of the action done by you in others' perspective would not be as high as you see it. I said might be. Then he continued might be he/she unaware that u did something. I said might be, might be not. He also said that there are chances of being selfish. I said, well fewer.
Finally when I had a talk with experienced person, it cleared up my mind.
I was told, many a times it is  नेकी कर और कुंवे मे डाल.. also was told, the we all know philosophy, what have you brought that you will take with you? Separate yourself from the actions as well the results.

Talking pragmatically, You should have the guts to expect absolutely nothing; or speaking it loudly and clearly making all aware, demanding whatever you want, if need arises.

3) Women in beer

Recently, University scientists released the results of an analysis
that revealed the presence of female hormones in beer.

Men should take a concerned look at their beer consumption.

The theory is that:

Beer contains female hormones (hops contain phytoestrogens) and
that by drinking enough beer, men turn into women.

To test the theory,
100 men were fed 8 pints of beer each within a 1 hour period.
It was then observed that 100% of the test subjects:

(1) Gained weight.

(2) Talked excessively without making sense.

(3) Became overly emotional.

(4) Couldn't drive.

(5) Failed to think rationally.

(6) Argued over nothing.

(7) Refused to apologize when obviously wrong.

No further testing was considered necessary !!!

2) Women keeps promises

There was a man who had worked all of his life and had saved all of
his money.
He was a real miser when came to his money.
He loved money more than just about anything, and just before he
died, he said to his wife,
"Now listen, when I die, I want you to take all my money and place it
in the casket with me.
I want to take my money to the afterlife."
So he got his wife to promise him with all her heart that when he
died,
she would put all the money in the casket with him.
Well, one day he died.
He was stretched out in the casket; the wife was sitting there in
black next to her closest friend.

When they finished the ceremony, just before the undertakers got
ready to close the casket,
the wife said "wait just a minute!"
She had a shoe box with her; she came over with the box and placed it
in the casket.
Then the undertakers locked the casket down and rolled it away.
Her friend said, "I hope you weren't crazy enough to put all that
money in the casket."
She said, "Yes, I promised. I'm a good Christian, I can't lie.
I promised him that I was going to put that money in that casket with
him."
"You mean to tell me you put every cent of his money in the casket
with him?"
"I sure did," said the wife. "I got it all together, put it into my
account and I wrote him a check."

1) Women are smart

A woman and a man are involved in a car accident;
it's a bad one.
Both of their cars are totally demolished but amazingly
neither of them is hurt.

After they crawl out of their cars,
the woman says, "So you're a man.
That's interesting. I'm a woman.
Wow, just look at our cars! There's nothing left,
this must be a sign from God that we should meet
and be friends and live together in peace
for the rest of our days."

Flattered, the man replied,
"Oh yes, I agree with you completely!"
"This must be a sign from God!"


The woman continued, "And look at this,
here's another miracle.
My car is completely demolished but
this bottle of wine didn't break.
Surely God wants us to drink this wine
to celebrate our good fortune."


Then she hands the bottle to the man.
The man nods his head in agreement,
opens it and drinks half the bottle and then
hands it back to the woman.

The woman takes the bottle and immediately puts the
cap back on, and hands it back to the man.


The man asks, "Aren't you having any?"

The woman replies, "No. I think I'll just wait for the police...."


MORAL OF THE STORY:

Women are clever, manipulating creatures. Don't mess with them.

ActiveX disabled

Whenever I open Bitdefender, it did not display properly, just a white screen.
Also, windows gadgets were not working.

Error Statement -

One or more ActiveX controls could not be displayed because either:
1) Your current security settings prohibit running ActiveX controls on this page, or
2) You have blocked a publisher of one of the controls. As a result, the page may not display correctly.

I tried micrsoft support but it didnt solved the problem.

Solution is:

Delete 1 extra (parasite) zone from
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Zones\
with pseudo-graphic number, you'll see it before zone number 0.
It seems this is a bug of Adobe flash player update, though I am not sure.
P.S. By the way, this extra zone prevents desktop gadgets to be shown correctly.

I found solution at a forum

Analogy

A beautiful thought that ran through my mind when one of my friend complained about me that I do not satisfy relations..

Consider the analogy between stone and relationship;
viz. size of the stone = the strength of the relationship..
then Every person need to balance the number of stones he can hold in his hands against their size.
I.e. You cannot hold many stones in your hands unless you have compromised with the size(and made them pebbles).
Larger the size of stones you hold the fewer the number you can sustain.....

રાજનીતિ નો રોટલો

Today the full day people waited for the verdict, fingers crossed. Yes Iam talking about the Ayodhya verdict, which was postponed from 24th sept to today, 28 th.
But the desicion is out to come yet; on 30th.
The fact is that the desicion is to be given by Alahabad High Court. This means that the desicion is not final. Who ever loses;( I am not getting into a debate), will apply further say The Supreme Court,Single judge Bench, Divisional Bench, Full Bench.
That in itself is a hell lot of time consuming process, which may take, as such we know, many many years.
This is all politics. The only, who will benifit from this, are the politicians, nad those who want to create communal clashes.

10 things girls should know about guys

1. When guy says he doesn't understand you means you are not thinking the way he is..
2. When guy really likes you he will disregard your bad characteristics.
3. Guys go crazy when girls hold their hands.
4. When girl says 'No' guys hear it as "try again tomorrow"...
5. Guys would sacrifice anything to get you couple of roses and they love their mom a lot.
6. When guy tells his problem he wants one to listen and not one giving advice.
7. Guys true heartily love girls with brains more than those with miniskirts.
8. Guys tend to get serious with their relationship and become too possessive. So watch-out girls.
9. When guy says leave him alone, he means please come and listen to me.
10. Guys would waste their time over video games and football just the way girls would do over romantic novels and make ups..

Walk in Memory Lane

No poem, no beautiful thought ..!!
Just a tribute to time we fought...

Try and understand what this message says,
a few more days and then we part ways...

No insane talking then, no crazy pics,
Our meetings would be dependent on mouse clicks..

The parties would be corporate, the innonce would be lost,
We would be earning, but at a friend's cost...

We would be professional, we would be sane,
Then this would be no longer than a walk in memory lane....

Impact of mindset

Today we are spectator to one more incidence of catastrophic repercussion of mindset on performance.
The semi final match between Germany and Spain, though was a vehement competition, but  I believe that, what worked on the field in favor of the Spain was not the Spanish caliber but the pessimistic German mind-set.
Until the last game, Paul has been predicting Germany's games correctly which induced high German belief in it; and consequently when it predicted Spanish victory, Germans were crestfallen. I found that on the play briskness and vivacity was missing among Germans, a team who ferociously trounced the Argentine Juggernaut. 
But I also appreciate the German game because they didn't sulked like the nonconforming Argentinians.

Friendship

Friendship isnt about "I am Sorry", but its abt "kaminey sab teri galti hai",
Its not about about "I am here for you", but its about "kaha hai nalayak",
Its not about about "I understand", but its about "sab teri vajah se hua hai manhus",
Its not about about "I care for you", but its about "kamino tumhe chhod kar kaha jaunga",
Its not about about "I am happy for your success", but its about "lukkhe chal party de",
Its not about about "its your fault", but its about "sorry bol chup chap",
Its not about about "can I borrow this", but its about "oye maine le liya",
Its not about about "can I share your tiffin", but its about "tere liye ye thoda chhod diya hai",
Its not about about "how your studies going", but its about "abe kitna padhega",
Its not about about "bas kar kitna likhega", but its about "abe wo ladki ja rahi hai"....


a text from my friend.

Binary to decimal & viceversa conversion

This technique is useful while solving networks problems.

1. Binary to decimal

Select the first value from left hand side. If its 0, next; if its 1, we start.
If its succeeded by a 0, then double the number (i.e. 1 in this case).
If its succeeded by a 1, then double the number and add 1 to it.

Carry out the same procedure for all digits.

for eg. 11010110
1=>1
(1*2)+1=3          since followed by 1.
3*2=6                 since 0.
(6*2)+1=13       since 1.
(13*2)=26         since 0.
(26*2)+1=53    since 1.
(53*2)+1=107  since 1.
(107*2)=214    since 0.

final answer => 214.

2. Decimal to binary

This is little tricky but not that much you usually do.
Remember the range 128, 64, 32, 16, 8, 4, 2, 1.
The range specifies the position of bits.
For any bit to be 1 or 0, compareit with the remainder, if remainder larger than value put 1 at that position, else put 0.


select any no. say 189
1st  bit=>    is 189 >= 128 ?  yes.      So =>1                           189-128=61
2nd bit=>    is 61   >=   64 ?    no.      So =>0
3rd  bit=>    is 61   >=   32 ?  yes.      So =>1                            61-32=29
4th  bit=>    is 29   >=   16 ?  yes.      So =>1                            29-16=13
5th  bit=>    is 13   >=     8 ?  yes.      So =>1                            13-8=5
6th  bit=>    is 5     >=     4 ?  yes.      So =>1                             5-4=1
7th  bit=>    is 1     >=     2 ?  no.       So =>0
8th  bit=>    is 1     >=    1 ?  yes.      So =>1                              1-1=0

final answer => 10111101

Cross checking : Always remember, the remainder must be zero, then the conversion is correct.

2 Arrows of a Line

I think that, you must have atlest 2 kind of persons in your life.

1.     A person who is in a much miserable condition as compared to you.

 This is because, whenever you feel like there is nothing left in life, or you are in a very pathetic and pitiable condition, just compare yourself with that person. By doing so, you will realize that on this earth there is atleast 1 organism who is in a much discontented situation. This will cheer you up. If not atleast you will not feel alone, and would feel that you have a company.

2.     A person who is in superior situation.
This is because, this person will be the reason for your striving efforts to succeed, to grow. At times if you think comparitively making he/she the target to cross, yes you are sure to progress.