Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Saturday, June 12, 2010
It’s when you lose all hope you become Free: Fight Club!
OMG! Been long when anything sounded so real than this..
Watched Fight club, the movie is fab!
And it came at such a right time just when I was thinking Y cannot I not THINK! When will I be Free?
Knowing what you want and going after it is all this life is worth for, it will involve a hell lot of pain but two minutes before you die and when you can see the snippets of your life before your eyes, u wont regret going through that pain.
Strongly recommended for those who haven’t seen it yet! Talks about Power of Mind and most importantly Power of YOU..
Watched Fight club, the movie is fab!
And it came at such a right time just when I was thinking Y cannot I not THINK! When will I be Free?
Knowing what you want and going after it is all this life is worth for, it will involve a hell lot of pain but two minutes before you die and when you can see the snippets of your life before your eyes, u wont regret going through that pain.
Strongly recommended for those who haven’t seen it yet! Talks about Power of Mind and most importantly Power of YOU..
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Y do you always seek companionship!
Y does heart always seeks companionship? What sort of high do we get to be with someone especially when in the back of our mind we know this courtship might just be an illusion and can end up at any point in time? Is der something else besides all those chemical/biological reactions taking place inside us which governs our believes/actions.
Nothing lasts forever, everything is subjected t0 change, the notion that this change will bring something good seem to shatter so many times but still we keep lingering to it.
Is it what we call optimism or is it just a way to run away from reality? Is it why people have come up with the idea of “Living in the moment”, what exactly matters in the end, what is that never changes. Is the art of adapting to these changes called being realistic/practical. I wonder why pessimism has so many negative connotation attached to it inspite of having a sound logical reason attached to it.
Y after putting up an act of being practical so efficiently the core doesn’t budge and still seem to remain the same. Why does the core remain the same inspite of braving so many changes? Sometime I wonder do we actually “CHANGE” or is it just the plot which changes and makes us play different roles. Who actually have the power to change this plots/scenarios.Whos playing the role of director here/who’s plotting us and what does he gets out of it?
I’ve seen people assuming GOD as the supreme power and I wonder what is GOD!
And y does he always wants us to plead before him or be thankful to him.Y can’t he be someone like you and me who could be cursed and who could go wrong. Who has the power to penalise in case he goes wrong.Y is he called the supreme power!
It is us who go through all the changes he put us into and yet he takes away the credit of being GOOD/BAD to take us through happy/sad times. Y den when things are so out of our power and we do not have any say in the happening/not happening of events we expect things/companionship to stay the way it is. Are we mere actors being paid/taxed for our good/bad performances.
Nothing lasts forever, everything is subjected t0 change, the notion that this change will bring something good seem to shatter so many times but still we keep lingering to it.
Is it what we call optimism or is it just a way to run away from reality? Is it why people have come up with the idea of “Living in the moment”, what exactly matters in the end, what is that never changes. Is the art of adapting to these changes called being realistic/practical. I wonder why pessimism has so many negative connotation attached to it inspite of having a sound logical reason attached to it.
Y after putting up an act of being practical so efficiently the core doesn’t budge and still seem to remain the same. Why does the core remain the same inspite of braving so many changes? Sometime I wonder do we actually “CHANGE” or is it just the plot which changes and makes us play different roles. Who actually have the power to change this plots/scenarios.Whos playing the role of director here/who’s plotting us and what does he gets out of it?
I’ve seen people assuming GOD as the supreme power and I wonder what is GOD!
And y does he always wants us to plead before him or be thankful to him.Y can’t he be someone like you and me who could be cursed and who could go wrong. Who has the power to penalise in case he goes wrong.Y is he called the supreme power!
It is us who go through all the changes he put us into and yet he takes away the credit of being GOOD/BAD to take us through happy/sad times. Y den when things are so out of our power and we do not have any say in the happening/not happening of events we expect things/companionship to stay the way it is. Are we mere actors being paid/taxed for our good/bad performances.
Monday, May 31, 2010
Show Me the Money!
Well just when I got quite convinced about the quality and affordability of education today in India after reading one of the news headlines broadcasting selection in IIT-JEE entrance of all 30 students in a coaching institute in Patna (Bihar)
[http://www.ndtv.com/news/india/all-students-of-super30-crack-iit-jee-27918.php]
I was completely taken aback by the fees structure of the institutes back home in Jaipur/Kota. These places are supposedly considered as Grounding Havens for IIT-JEE and other engineering Entrance Exams, students from all over India Flock every year at these Havens with the dream of making it to IITs/NITs?
Every Year these private institutes seem to get bigger and bigger with their flashy advertisements, promoting their selected students and over-hyped faculty members. They seem to excel in the art of alluring ignorant parents and over enthusiastic aspiring students with their myriad courses claiming to be better than the other only if you can afford to pay more. The only rebate which you can get from such soaring course charges is when you are one of those school/board toppers who have scored more then 94-96% in BOARDS.
So, the students who happen to realize a bit late and dint score well in Boards are doomed to pay more for their late realizations.
I wonder how in today’s regulated world where media plays such a crucial and active role of a vigilant Watchdog these institutes have the audacity to charge such exorbitant prices for their courses. They have crossed every limit to torture the already bleeding working class with such hefty demands. Parents left with no choice end up borrowing and taking loans to make their child’s dream of getting into good institutes a reality and also to save their child from going through the embarrassment of being called “POOR” and being “Mocked AT “by his friends. Such is the power of MONEY (even if charged irrationally)
These institutes have managed to commercialize the teaching profession so much that in days to come I wont be surprised to see one of these entities getting onto Most Profitable Businesses List.
Bansal Classes 2 Year Course During Class XI Rs. 66500/- + Service Tax(as applicable)
1 Year Course
Rs. 67000/- + Service Tax(as applicable) + Rs.1000/- as Caution Money (Refundable on submission of photocopy of IITJEE-2011 application form.)
3 month Course Rs. 47,326/-[ Basic Fees Rs. 42000/- + Service Tax @ 10.30% + Rs. 1000/- Caution Money (Refundable) ]
FIIT-JEE 2 Year Course http://www.fiitjee.com/fiitjeejava/jsp/feecalc/FeeDetail.jsp.
The total amount payable after Service Tax is
Rs. 244806.0
1 year Course http://www.fiitjee-ftre.com/program_fee.htm
Rs.81005.0 (including Service Tax)
These are some of the course fees details I collected to sneak a quick look into the problem. Not just these two SUCCESSFUL institutes but lot others are charging more or less the same amount from each student who after paying this amount will be made to share the study space with 45-50 other fellow aspirants studying in the same batch as his, getting groomed by so called the BEST FACULTY, teaching round the clock, taking around four-five such batches in a day.
[http://www.ndtv.com/news/india/all-students-of-super30-crack-iit-jee-27918.php]
I was completely taken aback by the fees structure of the institutes back home in Jaipur/Kota. These places are supposedly considered as Grounding Havens for IIT-JEE and other engineering Entrance Exams, students from all over India Flock every year at these Havens with the dream of making it to IITs/NITs?
Every Year these private institutes seem to get bigger and bigger with their flashy advertisements, promoting their selected students and over-hyped faculty members. They seem to excel in the art of alluring ignorant parents and over enthusiastic aspiring students with their myriad courses claiming to be better than the other only if you can afford to pay more. The only rebate which you can get from such soaring course charges is when you are one of those school/board toppers who have scored more then 94-96% in BOARDS.
So, the students who happen to realize a bit late and dint score well in Boards are doomed to pay more for their late realizations.
I wonder how in today’s regulated world where media plays such a crucial and active role of a vigilant Watchdog these institutes have the audacity to charge such exorbitant prices for their courses. They have crossed every limit to torture the already bleeding working class with such hefty demands. Parents left with no choice end up borrowing and taking loans to make their child’s dream of getting into good institutes a reality and also to save their child from going through the embarrassment of being called “POOR” and being “Mocked AT “by his friends. Such is the power of MONEY (even if charged irrationally)
These institutes have managed to commercialize the teaching profession so much that in days to come I wont be surprised to see one of these entities getting onto Most Profitable Businesses List.
Bansal Classes 2 Year Course During Class XI Rs. 66500/- + Service Tax(as applicable)
1 Year Course
Rs. 67000/- + Service Tax(as applicable) + Rs.1000/- as Caution Money (Refundable on submission of photocopy of IITJEE-2011 application form.)
3 month Course Rs. 47,326/-[ Basic Fees Rs. 42000/- + Service Tax @ 10.30% + Rs. 1000/- Caution Money (Refundable) ]
FIIT-JEE 2 Year Course http://www.fiitjee.com/fiitjeejava/jsp/feecalc/FeeDetail.jsp.
The total amount payable after Service Tax is
Rs. 244806.0
1 year Course http://www.fiitjee-ftre.com/program_fee.htm
Rs.81005.0 (including Service Tax)
These are some of the course fees details I collected to sneak a quick look into the problem. Not just these two SUCCESSFUL institutes but lot others are charging more or less the same amount from each student who after paying this amount will be made to share the study space with 45-50 other fellow aspirants studying in the same batch as his, getting groomed by so called the BEST FACULTY, teaching round the clock, taking around four-five such batches in a day.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
“Over popularity: Devalue the currency”
Not just literally but in our day to day life as well, things which are easily available and are popular holds no/less value and unless and until you toil/fight for it the sense of achievement lacks in the possession and hence you tend to derail its importance.
Is this an irrational default setting in our mind or is it justified!
Why do we always appreciate things more which are difficult to achieve and not the things which are easily available and are equally important/or may be more sometime.
How often do we appreciate the taste of water just the way we do for a bottle of wine/whisky!
I might sound a bit weird here but Y does everything has some cost attached to it!Y isn’t things valued by its utility and importance alone.
Y do we get such high when we buy an expensive item and y does our confidence swells up with the mere association of exclusivity. This exclusivity is like a feather which differentiates us from the rest and thereby gives us visibility in the crowd.
Getting the best girl/smoking the best cigarette/getting a reputed job (mind it! No job is reputed unless they are paying you enough to compensate the everyday screwing you will go thru/so there’s a cost attached to you) writing the best blog /eating at the best place almost everything has a cost attached and hence you go shopping to feel good about the possession.
It’s plain and simple! The higher you reach in this possession ladder the more expensive you will become.
All other theories devised to explain the procurement are just sugar coated description of this simple fact. This process of valuation of things/relations and almost everything is something which I believe is their in our mind( it’s a default setting) , we do it without even knowing, it comes naturally until one day u wake up write a blog on it. This subconscious setting has been exploited by many marketers with their practice of “Subliminal Stimuli”; it’s a dimension and not dichotomy. They cannot exploit it openly coz otherwise it will throw away the whole mechanism of advertising which is to simulate believes unconsciously and thus not render the effect open to introspection.
I hope there’s some cost attached to this blog as well, and I manage to monetize it :)
Is this an irrational default setting in our mind or is it justified!
Why do we always appreciate things more which are difficult to achieve and not the things which are easily available and are equally important/or may be more sometime.
How often do we appreciate the taste of water just the way we do for a bottle of wine/whisky!
I might sound a bit weird here but Y does everything has some cost attached to it!Y isn’t things valued by its utility and importance alone.
Y do we get such high when we buy an expensive item and y does our confidence swells up with the mere association of exclusivity. This exclusivity is like a feather which differentiates us from the rest and thereby gives us visibility in the crowd.
Getting the best girl/smoking the best cigarette/getting a reputed job (mind it! No job is reputed unless they are paying you enough to compensate the everyday screwing you will go thru/so there’s a cost attached to you) writing the best blog /eating at the best place almost everything has a cost attached and hence you go shopping to feel good about the possession.
It’s plain and simple! The higher you reach in this possession ladder the more expensive you will become.
All other theories devised to explain the procurement are just sugar coated description of this simple fact. This process of valuation of things/relations and almost everything is something which I believe is their in our mind( it’s a default setting) , we do it without even knowing, it comes naturally until one day u wake up write a blog on it. This subconscious setting has been exploited by many marketers with their practice of “Subliminal Stimuli”; it’s a dimension and not dichotomy. They cannot exploit it openly coz otherwise it will throw away the whole mechanism of advertising which is to simulate believes unconsciously and thus not render the effect open to introspection.
I hope there’s some cost attached to this blog as well, and I manage to monetize it :)
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
The Art of communication!
What we gain and what we lose is the result of how well we communicate!
Lot has been spoken about Luck and Hard Work but I think the biggest culprit that decides ones fate/destiny is how well can one communicate!
I call it culprit here for the obvious reasons of me finding it difficult to exploit. Communication is an art which sometime demands exposing thy soul leaving it lie vulnerable in front of the receiver.
Communication which challenges you is the one that can either make your life right away or delay the process.To identify the right person, right time and right pitch is the most arduous task I’ve experienced till date. It manages to challenge your puffed up (bloated) confidence, it checks your mettle and sometime makes you feel powerless.
You don’t face these situations in your everyday life but when you do there’s no time to prepare, you just have to deliver coz the moment you think of pondering over it you just try to procrastinate the situation. It’s the time when you confront all your assumptions and thus the pseudo world of moderate environment you once created for your own comfort has the high probability of exploding.
Can you take that leap of faith in yourself is all that matters!Go live your assumptions for Real....
Lot has been spoken about Luck and Hard Work but I think the biggest culprit that decides ones fate/destiny is how well can one communicate!
I call it culprit here for the obvious reasons of me finding it difficult to exploit. Communication is an art which sometime demands exposing thy soul leaving it lie vulnerable in front of the receiver.
Communication which challenges you is the one that can either make your life right away or delay the process.To identify the right person, right time and right pitch is the most arduous task I’ve experienced till date. It manages to challenge your puffed up (bloated) confidence, it checks your mettle and sometime makes you feel powerless.
You don’t face these situations in your everyday life but when you do there’s no time to prepare, you just have to deliver coz the moment you think of pondering over it you just try to procrastinate the situation. It’s the time when you confront all your assumptions and thus the pseudo world of moderate environment you once created for your own comfort has the high probability of exploding.
Can you take that leap of faith in yourself is all that matters!Go live your assumptions for Real....
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
My Domain Name didn’t sell!
How many of us faced the problem of selling/buying things which we have no other way to sell but to filter out options from the pool of people we know and then personally know/meet the person to pitch our deal.
The whole process of finding right customer and the right seller is so troublesome and opaque that sometime you end getting into wrong transactions.
Lot of options many a times takes away the ability to think clearly, when your mind is cluttered with too many options you tend to splurge into everything and hence end up getting lost in the crowd.
I think so is happening with twitter/face book selling buying messages where people tend to get lost with their deals and end up collecting redundant comments spamming mailboxes with useless notifications.
Hell managing basic finances was not less tiresome for tyros like us, fresh out of college without any real time exposure of managing finances that this problem of finding house, furniture, gas and what not took away so much time and much needed respite from our lives needed after a long day at work. (Had I not been bunking classes in college and attending all my lectures sincerely I wouldn’t have had such hard time going for work everyday!)
Neways the whole point of putting it here loud out is:-
Are we missing classifieds??!
N yea regarding the title, I tried selling on face book one of the domain names I purchased but got no takers, just people with lot of questions and opinions on my activities!!!
The whole process of finding right customer and the right seller is so troublesome and opaque that sometime you end getting into wrong transactions.
Lot of options many a times takes away the ability to think clearly, when your mind is cluttered with too many options you tend to splurge into everything and hence end up getting lost in the crowd.
I think so is happening with twitter/face book selling buying messages where people tend to get lost with their deals and end up collecting redundant comments spamming mailboxes with useless notifications.
Hell managing basic finances was not less tiresome for tyros like us, fresh out of college without any real time exposure of managing finances that this problem of finding house, furniture, gas and what not took away so much time and much needed respite from our lives needed after a long day at work. (Had I not been bunking classes in college and attending all my lectures sincerely I wouldn’t have had such hard time going for work everyday!)
Neways the whole point of putting it here loud out is:-
Are we missing classifieds??!
N yea regarding the title, I tried selling on face book one of the domain names I purchased but got no takers, just people with lot of questions and opinions on my activities!!!
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