Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Ways to live, not exist
Nice thing i Read through digg. com . instead of forwarding and irritating the crap out of people i decided to put it on my blog.
"The proper function of man is to live - not to exist." -- Jack London
Too often we go through life on autopilot, going through the motions and having each day pass like the one before it.
That's fine, and comfortable, until you have gone through another year without having done anything, without having really lived life.
That's fine, until you have reached old age and look back on life with regrets.
That's fine, until you see your kids go off to college and realize that you missed their childhoods.
It's not fine. If you want to truly live life, to really experience it, to enjoy it to the fullest, instead of barely scraping by and only living a life of existence, then you need to find ways to break free from the mold and drink from life.
What follows is just a list of ideas, obvious ones mostly that you could have thought of yourself, but that I hope are useful reminders. We all need reminders sometimes. If you find this useful, print it out, and start using it. Today.
Love. Perhaps the most important. Fall in love, if you aren't already. If you have, fall in love with your partner all over again. Abandon caution and let your heart be broken. Or love family members, friends, anyone -- it doesn't have to be romantic love. Love all of humanity, one person at a time.
Get outside. Don't let yourself be shut indoors. Go out when it's raining. Walk on the beach. Hike through the woods. Swim in a freezing lake. Bask in the sun. Play sports, or walk barefoot through grass. Pay close attention to nature.
Savor food. Don't just eat your food, but really enjoy it. Feel the texture, the bursts of flavors. Savor every bite. If you limit your intake of sweets, it will make the small treats you give yourself (berries or dark chocolate are my favorites) even more enjoyable. And when you do have them, really, really savor them. Slowly.
Create a morning ritual. Wake early and greet the day. Watch the sun rise. Out loud, tell yourself that you will not waste this day, which is a gift. You will be compassionate to your fellow human beings, and live every moment to its fullest. Stretch or meditate or exercise as part of your ritual. Enjoy some coffee.
Take chances. We often live our lives too cautiously, worried about what might go wrong. Be bold, risk it all. Quit your job and go to business for yourself (plan it out first!), or go up to that girl you've liked for a long time and ask her out. What do you have to lose?
Follow excitement. Try to find the things in life that excite you, and then go after them. Make life one exciting adventure after another (with perhaps some quiet times in between).
Find your passion. Similar to the above tip, this one asks you to find your calling. Make your living by doing the thing you love to do. First, think about what you really love to do. There may be many things. Find out how you can make a living doing it. It may be difficult, but you only live once.
Get out of your cubicle. Do you sit all day in front of computer, shuffling papers and taking phone calls and chatting on the Internet? Don't waste your days like this. Break free from the cubicle environment, and do your work on a laptop, in a coffee shop, or on a boat, or in a log cabin. This may require a change of jobs, or becoming a freelancer. It's worth it.
Turn off the TV. How many hours will we waste away in front of the boob tube? How many hours do we have to live? Do the math, then unplug the TV. Only plug it back in when you have a DVD of a movie you love. Otherwise, keep it off and find other stuff to do. Don't know what to do? Read further.
Pull away from Internet. You're reading something on the Internet right now. And, with the exception of this article, it is just more wasting away of your precious time. You cannot get these minutes back. Unplug the Internet, then get out of your office or house. Right now! And go and do something.
Travel. Sure, you want to travel some day. When you have vacation time, or when you're older. Well, what are you waiting for? Find a way to take a trip, if not this month, then sometime soon. You may need to sell your car or stop your cable bill and stop eating out to do it, but make it happen. You are too young to not see the world. If need be, find a way to make a living by freelancing, then work while you travel. Only work an hour or two a day. Don't check email but once a week. Then use the rest of the time to see the world.
Rediscover what's important. Take an hour and make a list of everything that's important to you. Add to it everything that you want to do in life. Now cut that list down to 4-5 things. Just the most important things in your life. This is your core list. This is what matters. Focus your life on these things. Make time for them.
Eliminate everything else. What's going on in your life that's not on that short list? All that stuff is wasting your time, pulling your attention from what's important. As much as possible, simplify your life by eliminating the stuff that's not on your short list, or minimizing it.
Exercise. Get off the couch and go for a walk. Eventually try running. Or do some push ups and crunches. Or swim or bike or row. Or go for a hike. Whatever you do, get active, and you'll love it. And life will be more alive.
Be positive. Learn to recognize the negative thoughts you have. These are the self-doubts, the criticisms of others, the complaints, the reasons you can't do something. Then stop yourself when you have these thoughts, and replace them with positive thoughts. Solutions. You can do this!
Open your heart. Is your heart a closed bundle of scar tissue? Learn to open it, have it ready to receive love, to give love unconditionally. If you have a problem with this, talk to someone about it. And practice makes perfect.
Kiss in the rain. Seize the moment and be romantic. Raining outside? Grab your lover and give her a passionate kiss. Driving home? Stop the car and pick some wildflowers. Send her a love note. Dress sexy for him.
Face your fears. What are you most afraid of? What is holding you back? Whatever it is, recognize it, and face it. Do what you are most afraid of. Afraid of heights? Go to the tallest building, and look down over the edge. Only by facing our fears can we be free of them.
When you suffer, suffer. Life isn't all about fun and games. Suffering is an inevitable part of life. We lose our jobs. We lose our lovers. We lose our pets. We get physically injured or sick. A loved one becomes sick. A parent dies. Learn to feel the pain intensely, and really grieve. This is a part of life -- really feel the pain. And when you're done, move on, and find joy.
Slow down. Life moves along at such a rapid pace these days. It's not healthy, and it's not conducive to living. Practice doing everything slowly -- everything, from eating to walking to driving to working to reading. Enjoy what you do. Learn to move at a snail's pace.
Touch humanity. Get out of your house and manicured neighborhoods, and find those who live in worse conditions. Meet them, talk to them, understand them. Live among them. Be one of them. Give up your materialistic lifestyle.
Volunteer. Help at homeless soup kitchens. Learn compassion, and learn to help ease the suffering of others. Help the sick, those with disabilities, those who are dying.
Play with children. Children, more than anyone else, know how to live. They experience everything in the moment, fully. When they get hurt, they really cry. When they play, they really have fun. Learn from them, instead of thinking you know so much more than them. Play with them, and learn to be joyful like them.
Talk to old people. There is no one wiser, more experienced, more learned, than those who have lived through life. They can tell you amazing stories. Give you advice on making a marriage last or staying out of debt. Tell you about their regrets, so you can learn from them and avoid the same mistakes. They are the wisdom of our society -- take advantage of their existence while they're still around.
Learn new skills. Constantly improve yourself instead of standing still -- not because you're so imperfect now, but because it is gratifying and satisfying. You should accept yourself as you are, and learn to love who you are, but still try to improve -- if only because the process of improvement is life itself.
Find spirituality. For some, this means finding God or Jesus or Allah or Buddha. For others, this means becoming in tune with the spirits of our ancestors, or with nature. For still others, this just means an inner energy. Whatever spirituality means for you, rediscover it, and its power.
Take mini-retirements. Don't leave the joy of retirement until you are too old to enjoy it. Do it now, while you're young. It makes working that much more worth it. Find ways to take a year off every few years. Save up, sell your home, your possessions, and travel. Live simply, but live, without having to work. Enjoy life, then go back to work and save up enough money to do it again in a couple of years.
Do nothing. Despite the tip above that we should find excitement, there is value in doing nothing as well. Not doing nothing as in reading, or taking a nap, or watching TV, or meditating. Doing nothing as in sitting there, doing nothing. Just learning to be still, in silence, to hear our inner voice, to be in tune with life. Do this daily if possible.
Stop playing video games. They might be fun, but they can take up way too much time. If you spend a lot of time playing online games, or computer solitaire, or Wii or Gameboy or whatever, consider going a week without it. Then find something else to do, outside.
Watch sunsets, daily. One of the most beautiful times of day. Make it a daily ritual to find a good spot to watch the sunset, perhaps having a light dinner while you do so.
Stop reading magazines. They're basically crap. And they waste your time and money. Cancel your subscriptions and walk past them at the news stands. If you have to read something, read a trashy novel or even better, read Dumb Little Man once a day and be done.
Break out from ruts. Do you do things the same way every day? Change it up. Try something new. Take a different route to work. Start your day out differently. Approach work from a new angle. Look at things from new perspectives.
Stop watching the news. It's depressing and useless. If you're a news junky, this may be difficult. I haven't watch TV news or read a newspaper regularly in about two years. It hasn't hurt me a bit. Anything important, my mom tells me about.
Laugh till you cry. Laughing is one of the best ways to live. Tell jokes and laugh your head off. Watch an awesome comedy. Learn to laugh at anything. Roll on the ground laughing. You'll love it.
Lose control. Not only control over yourself, but control over others. It's a bad habit to try to control others -- it will only lead to stress and unhappiness for yourself and those you try to control. Let others live, and live for yourself. And lose control of yourself now and then too.
Cry. Men, especially, tend to hold in our tears, but crying is an amazing release. Cry at sad movies. Cry at a funeral. Cry when you are hurt, or when somebody you love is hurt. It releases these emotions and allows us to cleanse ourselves.
Make an awesome dessert. I like to make warm, soft chocolate cake. But even berries dipped in chocolate, or crepes with ice cream and fruit, or fresh apple pie, or homemade chocolate chip cookies or brownies, are great. This isn't an every day thing, but an occasional treat thing. But it's wonderful.
Try something new, every week. Ask yourself: "What new thing shall I try this week?" Then be sure to do it. You don't have to learn a new language in one week, but seek new experiences. Give it a try. You might decide you want to keep it in your life.
Be in the moment. Instead of thinking about things you need to do, or things that have happened to you, or worrying or planning or regretting, think about what you are doing, right now. What is around you? What smells and sounds and sights and feelings are you experiencing? Learn to do this as much as possible through meditation, but also through bringing your focus back to the present as much as you can in everything you do.
"The proper function of man is to live - not to exist." -- Jack London
Too often we go through life on autopilot, going through the motions and having each day pass like the one before it.
That's fine, and comfortable, until you have gone through another year without having done anything, without having really lived life.
That's fine, until you have reached old age and look back on life with regrets.
That's fine, until you see your kids go off to college and realize that you missed their childhoods.
It's not fine. If you want to truly live life, to really experience it, to enjoy it to the fullest, instead of barely scraping by and only living a life of existence, then you need to find ways to break free from the mold and drink from life.
What follows is just a list of ideas, obvious ones mostly that you could have thought of yourself, but that I hope are useful reminders. We all need reminders sometimes. If you find this useful, print it out, and start using it. Today.
Love. Perhaps the most important. Fall in love, if you aren't already. If you have, fall in love with your partner all over again. Abandon caution and let your heart be broken. Or love family members, friends, anyone -- it doesn't have to be romantic love. Love all of humanity, one person at a time.
Get outside. Don't let yourself be shut indoors. Go out when it's raining. Walk on the beach. Hike through the woods. Swim in a freezing lake. Bask in the sun. Play sports, or walk barefoot through grass. Pay close attention to nature.
Savor food. Don't just eat your food, but really enjoy it. Feel the texture, the bursts of flavors. Savor every bite. If you limit your intake of sweets, it will make the small treats you give yourself (berries or dark chocolate are my favorites) even more enjoyable. And when you do have them, really, really savor them. Slowly.
Create a morning ritual. Wake early and greet the day. Watch the sun rise. Out loud, tell yourself that you will not waste this day, which is a gift. You will be compassionate to your fellow human beings, and live every moment to its fullest. Stretch or meditate or exercise as part of your ritual. Enjoy some coffee.
Take chances. We often live our lives too cautiously, worried about what might go wrong. Be bold, risk it all. Quit your job and go to business for yourself (plan it out first!), or go up to that girl you've liked for a long time and ask her out. What do you have to lose?
Follow excitement. Try to find the things in life that excite you, and then go after them. Make life one exciting adventure after another (with perhaps some quiet times in between).
Find your passion. Similar to the above tip, this one asks you to find your calling. Make your living by doing the thing you love to do. First, think about what you really love to do. There may be many things. Find out how you can make a living doing it. It may be difficult, but you only live once.
Get out of your cubicle. Do you sit all day in front of computer, shuffling papers and taking phone calls and chatting on the Internet? Don't waste your days like this. Break free from the cubicle environment, and do your work on a laptop, in a coffee shop, or on a boat, or in a log cabin. This may require a change of jobs, or becoming a freelancer. It's worth it.
Turn off the TV. How many hours will we waste away in front of the boob tube? How many hours do we have to live? Do the math, then unplug the TV. Only plug it back in when you have a DVD of a movie you love. Otherwise, keep it off and find other stuff to do. Don't know what to do? Read further.
Pull away from Internet. You're reading something on the Internet right now. And, with the exception of this article, it is just more wasting away of your precious time. You cannot get these minutes back. Unplug the Internet, then get out of your office or house. Right now! And go and do something.
Travel. Sure, you want to travel some day. When you have vacation time, or when you're older. Well, what are you waiting for? Find a way to take a trip, if not this month, then sometime soon. You may need to sell your car or stop your cable bill and stop eating out to do it, but make it happen. You are too young to not see the world. If need be, find a way to make a living by freelancing, then work while you travel. Only work an hour or two a day. Don't check email but once a week. Then use the rest of the time to see the world.
Rediscover what's important. Take an hour and make a list of everything that's important to you. Add to it everything that you want to do in life. Now cut that list down to 4-5 things. Just the most important things in your life. This is your core list. This is what matters. Focus your life on these things. Make time for them.
Eliminate everything else. What's going on in your life that's not on that short list? All that stuff is wasting your time, pulling your attention from what's important. As much as possible, simplify your life by eliminating the stuff that's not on your short list, or minimizing it.
Exercise. Get off the couch and go for a walk. Eventually try running. Or do some push ups and crunches. Or swim or bike or row. Or go for a hike. Whatever you do, get active, and you'll love it. And life will be more alive.
Be positive. Learn to recognize the negative thoughts you have. These are the self-doubts, the criticisms of others, the complaints, the reasons you can't do something. Then stop yourself when you have these thoughts, and replace them with positive thoughts. Solutions. You can do this!
Open your heart. Is your heart a closed bundle of scar tissue? Learn to open it, have it ready to receive love, to give love unconditionally. If you have a problem with this, talk to someone about it. And practice makes perfect.
Kiss in the rain. Seize the moment and be romantic. Raining outside? Grab your lover and give her a passionate kiss. Driving home? Stop the car and pick some wildflowers. Send her a love note. Dress sexy for him.
Face your fears. What are you most afraid of? What is holding you back? Whatever it is, recognize it, and face it. Do what you are most afraid of. Afraid of heights? Go to the tallest building, and look down over the edge. Only by facing our fears can we be free of them.
When you suffer, suffer. Life isn't all about fun and games. Suffering is an inevitable part of life. We lose our jobs. We lose our lovers. We lose our pets. We get physically injured or sick. A loved one becomes sick. A parent dies. Learn to feel the pain intensely, and really grieve. This is a part of life -- really feel the pain. And when you're done, move on, and find joy.
Slow down. Life moves along at such a rapid pace these days. It's not healthy, and it's not conducive to living. Practice doing everything slowly -- everything, from eating to walking to driving to working to reading. Enjoy what you do. Learn to move at a snail's pace.
Touch humanity. Get out of your house and manicured neighborhoods, and find those who live in worse conditions. Meet them, talk to them, understand them. Live among them. Be one of them. Give up your materialistic lifestyle.
Volunteer. Help at homeless soup kitchens. Learn compassion, and learn to help ease the suffering of others. Help the sick, those with disabilities, those who are dying.
Play with children. Children, more than anyone else, know how to live. They experience everything in the moment, fully. When they get hurt, they really cry. When they play, they really have fun. Learn from them, instead of thinking you know so much more than them. Play with them, and learn to be joyful like them.
Talk to old people. There is no one wiser, more experienced, more learned, than those who have lived through life. They can tell you amazing stories. Give you advice on making a marriage last or staying out of debt. Tell you about their regrets, so you can learn from them and avoid the same mistakes. They are the wisdom of our society -- take advantage of their existence while they're still around.
Learn new skills. Constantly improve yourself instead of standing still -- not because you're so imperfect now, but because it is gratifying and satisfying. You should accept yourself as you are, and learn to love who you are, but still try to improve -- if only because the process of improvement is life itself.
Find spirituality. For some, this means finding God or Jesus or Allah or Buddha. For others, this means becoming in tune with the spirits of our ancestors, or with nature. For still others, this just means an inner energy. Whatever spirituality means for you, rediscover it, and its power.
Take mini-retirements. Don't leave the joy of retirement until you are too old to enjoy it. Do it now, while you're young. It makes working that much more worth it. Find ways to take a year off every few years. Save up, sell your home, your possessions, and travel. Live simply, but live, without having to work. Enjoy life, then go back to work and save up enough money to do it again in a couple of years.
Do nothing. Despite the tip above that we should find excitement, there is value in doing nothing as well. Not doing nothing as in reading, or taking a nap, or watching TV, or meditating. Doing nothing as in sitting there, doing nothing. Just learning to be still, in silence, to hear our inner voice, to be in tune with life. Do this daily if possible.
Stop playing video games. They might be fun, but they can take up way too much time. If you spend a lot of time playing online games, or computer solitaire, or Wii or Gameboy or whatever, consider going a week without it. Then find something else to do, outside.
Watch sunsets, daily. One of the most beautiful times of day. Make it a daily ritual to find a good spot to watch the sunset, perhaps having a light dinner while you do so.
Stop reading magazines. They're basically crap. And they waste your time and money. Cancel your subscriptions and walk past them at the news stands. If you have to read something, read a trashy novel or even better, read Dumb Little Man once a day and be done.
Break out from ruts. Do you do things the same way every day? Change it up. Try something new. Take a different route to work. Start your day out differently. Approach work from a new angle. Look at things from new perspectives.
Stop watching the news. It's depressing and useless. If you're a news junky, this may be difficult. I haven't watch TV news or read a newspaper regularly in about two years. It hasn't hurt me a bit. Anything important, my mom tells me about.
Laugh till you cry. Laughing is one of the best ways to live. Tell jokes and laugh your head off. Watch an awesome comedy. Learn to laugh at anything. Roll on the ground laughing. You'll love it.
Lose control. Not only control over yourself, but control over others. It's a bad habit to try to control others -- it will only lead to stress and unhappiness for yourself and those you try to control. Let others live, and live for yourself. And lose control of yourself now and then too.
Cry. Men, especially, tend to hold in our tears, but crying is an amazing release. Cry at sad movies. Cry at a funeral. Cry when you are hurt, or when somebody you love is hurt. It releases these emotions and allows us to cleanse ourselves.
Make an awesome dessert. I like to make warm, soft chocolate cake. But even berries dipped in chocolate, or crepes with ice cream and fruit, or fresh apple pie, or homemade chocolate chip cookies or brownies, are great. This isn't an every day thing, but an occasional treat thing. But it's wonderful.
Try something new, every week. Ask yourself: "What new thing shall I try this week?" Then be sure to do it. You don't have to learn a new language in one week, but seek new experiences. Give it a try. You might decide you want to keep it in your life.
Be in the moment. Instead of thinking about things you need to do, or things that have happened to you, or worrying or planning or regretting, think about what you are doing, right now. What is around you? What smells and sounds and sights and feelings are you experiencing? Learn to do this as much as possible through meditation, but also through bringing your focus back to the present as much as you can in everything you do.
Monday, June 18, 2007
Hmmm U have got to see this
Lately I have been down for some reasons...and I happen to watch Love Actually and Music and Lyrics.... people who know me well should know why Im watching these movies ...anyway Love Actually turned out to be be a really nice movie with all that british accent and all...I wish they had given rowan atkinson a bigger role.......
]well wat was good was the starting of music and lyrics ..... a made up pop video showing hugh grant as a 80s pop sensation and the song is called a cheezy "pop goes my heart" anyone would hate the song but the tune is jus so catchy and the video is so funny and old i had to post it...
hehe pop goes my heart....
well the main song of music and lyrics is also real nice;...i donno wat is ahppening to me but im in love with that song too...it was a decent movie with hugh grant stealing the show as a washed out pop sensation.....so heres the main song...hugh grant sang it himself....
its called "way back into love"
]well wat was good was the starting of music and lyrics ..... a made up pop video showing hugh grant as a 80s pop sensation and the song is called a cheezy "pop goes my heart" anyone would hate the song but the tune is jus so catchy and the video is so funny and old i had to post it...
hehe pop goes my heart....
well the main song of music and lyrics is also real nice;...i donno wat is ahppening to me but im in love with that song too...it was a decent movie with hugh grant stealing the show as a washed out pop sensation.....so heres the main song...hugh grant sang it himself....
its called "way back into love"
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Random Facts As on thursday 14/6/07
Hmmm debanuj im sorry but im copying ur style .....sorry for plagarising ur random fact thingy
*Im trying to save money....i have been living on change for 2 weeks....its soon that they will declare me bankrupt and homeless and call me a hobo.....
*Saw fantastic four yesterday....although u could see his nuts, silver sufer was really cool....but i always imagined wat was teh coincidence that some guy from another planet actually had something which was a surfboard(earthy thing)
I always like jessica alba....she is real cute..but her too blondified hair looked fake and it was irritating seeing her blue contact lens all the time...it was tooo easy to notice them....
I like the human torch the most....with his quippy comments and narcissism...reminds me of someone i know hehe
Stan Lee actualyl made another appearance in the movie as stan lee himself...hehe this man is a genius and he isnt that old
*I had seen oceans thirteen last week....well oceans 13 was way better than 12 and the thing is it featured a linear storyline......no julia roberts or catherine jones around but movie rocked and it was damn damn funny.....al pacino was good as usual....i think it was the best amongnst all the summer blockbusters
*Im in love with elisha curbert...i think i made a spelling mistake....i knew i know her from somewhere before...she used to be one of the kids from popular mechanics for kids....after watching 24 im totally in love with her......
*Im trying to save money....i have been living on change for 2 weeks....its soon that they will declare me bankrupt and homeless and call me a hobo.....
*Saw fantastic four yesterday....although u could see his nuts, silver sufer was really cool....but i always imagined wat was teh coincidence that some guy from another planet actually had something which was a surfboard(earthy thing)
I always like jessica alba....she is real cute..but her too blondified hair looked fake and it was irritating seeing her blue contact lens all the time...it was tooo easy to notice them....
I like the human torch the most....with his quippy comments and narcissism...reminds me of someone i know hehe
Stan Lee actualyl made another appearance in the movie as stan lee himself...hehe this man is a genius and he isnt that old
*I had seen oceans thirteen last week....well oceans 13 was way better than 12 and the thing is it featured a linear storyline......no julia roberts or catherine jones around but movie rocked and it was damn damn funny.....al pacino was good as usual....i think it was the best amongnst all the summer blockbusters
*Im in love with elisha curbert...i think i made a spelling mistake....i knew i know her from somewhere before...she used to be one of the kids from popular mechanics for kids....after watching 24 im totally in love with her......
El Mariachi.... The ultimate action hero
I dont think most people know it but the thing is Desperado was actually the second movie in the triology about El Mariachi(musician). The first one was calle "El mariachi" and was in spanish , the second and third were Desperado and Once upon a time in Mexico Respectively...
Somehoe the character Mariachi seems to be the ultimate action hero :
He carries a gun in one hand and a guitar case in another...how awesome is that...
He gets babes like salma hayek and eva mendes....hmmmmm
He plays the guitar awesfully well and I like the clothes he wears dark and well fitting
He has all possible hand guns in his arsenal ...a one man army...nothing can stop him
uzi,sawn off shotgun,silverballers,desert eagle wat else do u want
He is based in a cool country like mexico and actually has a fight during the parade of the dead to save the el presidente....
Check out these two videos if ur still not convinced about him:
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Wonder Years??
After 23 yrs of existing on this planet ....if u think about the old times u mostly remember only the good things which happened to you, how u got up excited every sunday to watch ducktales and talespin on dd2.......how everyday in school something really funny happened where u died out of laughter....there wasnt anyone to bother u ...it jus consisted of saving ur ass and having fun without any sense of judgement etc etc...things we did in school...while coming home in sharmaji's 1946 chevrolet bus which was literally falling into pieces....
hmmm lemme try to remember something funny from the past....
class 1 to 5
heheh all i can remember now is getting punished.......well used to go to school in this really really old bus and i used to be one of the last chaps the bus picked up cos i used to live nearet to school.....it was terrible standing at 7:15 in the morning for the bus specially in shorts during winter where my insides would freeze due to the cold.....I used to go to school with one set of people and return back with another set......with whom all i used to go where dipayan and shomi...i jus remember dip, shomi, dips brother who came later ....this retarded big dude called arindam who was 5 yrs younger to me and still as large as me and some guy called rasogolla cos he looked like one and i used to torment him tons for it....
class 1 to 5 as the shortest and the most underweight guy in my batch i had to spend time getting the shit kicked out of me.......i used to return home with shubharti, ronit(they were brotheres then)..devesh daga as i can rememebr and some real nasty senior chaps who always used to beat me for fun.... first they would kick my bag stomp on it and then after they had finished the bag they would move on to me...i remember distincly them asking me in class 3 "have u seen a blue film" and stupid as i was i said "yah i have seen the good son" the movie good son was a depressing movie with elijiah wood and mackl culkin and it was shot with a blue filter...they laughed at me and beat me again.....
hmmm lemme try to remember something funny from the past....
class 1 to 5
heheh all i can remember now is getting punished.......well used to go to school in this really really old bus and i used to be one of the last chaps the bus picked up cos i used to live nearet to school.....it was terrible standing at 7:15 in the morning for the bus specially in shorts during winter where my insides would freeze due to the cold.....I used to go to school with one set of people and return back with another set......with whom all i used to go where dipayan and shomi...i jus remember dip, shomi, dips brother who came later ....this retarded big dude called arindam who was 5 yrs younger to me and still as large as me and some guy called rasogolla cos he looked like one and i used to torment him tons for it....
class 1 to 5 as the shortest and the most underweight guy in my batch i had to spend time getting the shit kicked out of me.......i used to return home with shubharti, ronit(they were brotheres then)..devesh daga as i can rememebr and some real nasty senior chaps who always used to beat me for fun.... first they would kick my bag stomp on it and then after they had finished the bag they would move on to me...i remember distincly them asking me in class 3 "have u seen a blue film" and stupid as i was i said "yah i have seen the good son" the movie good son was a depressing movie with elijiah wood and mackl culkin and it was shot with a blue filter...they laughed at me and beat me again.....
Monday, June 11, 2007
I love mondays
Yah will sound weird but I do love mondays......see its easy to blame everything that goes wrong during the day on the day itself......forgot to bring item x..."oh its a monday thats why"
I donno maybe im in love with depression...it seem to follow me everywhere like a bright sunlit cloud(irony)...so had met some people in the canteen someday back who were actully justifying why its good to be depressed... i will objectively state their points without bothering to put in something good....
"happiness apparently has only one stage happy or not happy....there are several stages of depression which people can discover and enjoy......depression makes u appreciate music and literature like never before....there are many things you didnt take a second look at before now becomes so important because u can appreciate it cos ur sad and depressed"
disclaimer: I am not sad or depressed, so people plzzz dont send me messages saying i have more things to look forward to than boiled eggs for breakfast
another thought came to me..... most of my friends and me were after girls who were seriously unstable which led me to a conclusion that only cos these girls had deviant tastes , they were dating us...if they were normal with normal tastes they wouldnt even look at us ....hmmm gives my self worth a huge booost....
anyway convinced my prof to buy a nikon d40x for the lab ...hehe will have fun practicing on the camera......
hmmm i have been wasting too much time lately...doin some hands on work but not doin my reading much.....jus have to start reading from tommorow.....
I donno maybe im in love with depression...it seem to follow me everywhere like a bright sunlit cloud(irony)...so had met some people in the canteen someday back who were actully justifying why its good to be depressed... i will objectively state their points without bothering to put in something good....
"happiness apparently has only one stage happy or not happy....there are several stages of depression which people can discover and enjoy......depression makes u appreciate music and literature like never before....there are many things you didnt take a second look at before now becomes so important because u can appreciate it cos ur sad and depressed"
disclaimer: I am not sad or depressed, so people plzzz dont send me messages saying i have more things to look forward to than boiled eggs for breakfast
another thought came to me..... most of my friends and me were after girls who were seriously unstable which led me to a conclusion that only cos these girls had deviant tastes , they were dating us...if they were normal with normal tastes they wouldnt even look at us ....hmmm gives my self worth a huge booost....
anyway convinced my prof to buy a nikon d40x for the lab ...hehe will have fun practicing on the camera......
hmmm i have been wasting too much time lately...doin some hands on work but not doin my reading much.....jus have to start reading from tommorow.....
Sunday, June 10, 2007
Randoms Facts
I was goin thru my friend debanuj's blog and his random fact thingy looked smart and neat so i decided to let go of originality and follow his format......
hmmm random facts:
I am very very very very pissed with someone and that person knows it. My dignity is at stake and instead of letting it go I have decided to scrape up watever is left of my dignity.
Quote of the day...my friend told me online "I thought we were insensetive...woman are way more insensetive than us"
Did u know vodka martinis are tasteless ..I had one on friday...wat a waste of money...
Some interested people have decided to pay me for taking their photos....plzzz plzzz god let this work out...
Looking at my paunch with disgust I have decided to seriously start working out from tommorow.....no more softy only lean muscles
People used to make fun of my ass in school...lets see whose laughing now...i used to be called .... BUTTMAN-the assed crusader
I realized I cannot go out wiht any girl in this world...(No u bastards not cos im gay) its jus that i find every girl to be defective...some like themselves too much ...some dont take a shower...some like other girls....some are maternal...some are mental... some know the names of all the pastas(and they are not italian)....some are too "cultured" to like me
my prof's 20 mnth son isnt doin well health wise....i really really wish he gets better poor kid....
I have decided to take courses in both electric guitar and jazz piano lets see which one works out......
I decided to read a jeffrey archer (memeber of parliament) book....i used to see arjun in school reading "kane and able" 8 yrs have passed and finally now i decide to read one of those....also taken life of pi...hitchhikers guide from the library ....which one do i read first....hmmmm
never tell anyone that the person has potential...read a quote by frog eyed butt ugly crazy assed jerk philosopher satre that "saying u have potential means ur a loser....cos if u were succesful no one would say u have potential..they would ahve said u have dont it already"
I realized im not very ethnic....i hardly ever went to durga pujo....or a single bhai phota....or ever went to a temple...its not cos i dont respect tradition or im an atheist but jus like that.....ill thus have ease letting go of myself ebing bengali and become something else....for now sake ill be international man of mystery...ok thats rubbish
I should get well fitting clothes......either they are too big or too small.....but then again my size will change in next 1 mnth..i donno wat to dooo
had this cream of mushroom soup which i bought from marks and spencers...was realy really good....had a chicken chop and beef steak for luch so decided to have doi bhat for dinner.....give the liver some rest
hmmm random facts:
I am very very very very pissed with someone and that person knows it. My dignity is at stake and instead of letting it go I have decided to scrape up watever is left of my dignity.
Quote of the day...my friend told me online "I thought we were insensetive...woman are way more insensetive than us"
Did u know vodka martinis are tasteless ..I had one on friday...wat a waste of money...
Some interested people have decided to pay me for taking their photos....plzzz plzzz god let this work out...
Looking at my paunch with disgust I have decided to seriously start working out from tommorow.....no more softy only lean muscles
People used to make fun of my ass in school...lets see whose laughing now...i used to be called .... BUTTMAN-the assed crusader
I realized I cannot go out wiht any girl in this world...(No u bastards not cos im gay) its jus that i find every girl to be defective...some like themselves too much ...some dont take a shower...some like other girls....some are maternal...some are mental... some know the names of all the pastas(and they are not italian)....some are too "cultured" to like me
my prof's 20 mnth son isnt doin well health wise....i really really wish he gets better poor kid....
I have decided to take courses in both electric guitar and jazz piano lets see which one works out......
I decided to read a jeffrey archer (memeber of parliament) book....i used to see arjun in school reading "kane and able" 8 yrs have passed and finally now i decide to read one of those....also taken life of pi...hitchhikers guide from the library ....which one do i read first....hmmmm
never tell anyone that the person has potential...read a quote by frog eyed butt ugly crazy assed jerk philosopher satre that "saying u have potential means ur a loser....cos if u were succesful no one would say u have potential..they would ahve said u have dont it already"
I realized im not very ethnic....i hardly ever went to durga pujo....or a single bhai phota....or ever went to a temple...its not cos i dont respect tradition or im an atheist but jus like that.....ill thus have ease letting go of myself ebing bengali and become something else....for now sake ill be international man of mystery...ok thats rubbish
I should get well fitting clothes......either they are too big or too small.....but then again my size will change in next 1 mnth..i donno wat to dooo
had this cream of mushroom soup which i bought from marks and spencers...was realy really good....had a chicken chop and beef steak for luch so decided to have doi bhat for dinner.....give the liver some rest
Well that was a Saturday
Well it was another weird saturday. Got up in the morning (10 am) well .... spent till like 2 hrs sitting on the bed chatting with my brother. jumped directly to lunch ,..... kaushic had called me at 8 in themorning and i had shouted at him on the phone for waking me up.......
so well at 3 met kaushic and we had nothing to do sooo we went to the national museum ...i liked the blend of old and new in the national museum and always wanted to capture it in photos and i had got an oppurtunity sooo i jus went along with my cam....
wellll reached there took some pics(i ahvet processed most of them) nothing much was goin on so went to the art museum in the basement.......well i cant even rememebr wat i saw ....
so the first pic above is inside the national museum they have put glass facades over the 100 yr old structure making it look really good....took a pic in hdr...later pics will come...
after that went to water front opposite boat quay where the second pics was taken....i ahve bought a mini stand to take night photos and it really helps being so small and convinient...
after that i went home...bohooo so boring
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Sarah Silverman on Paris Hilton
Yah yah i know this is all over the net but those who missed it should see how sarah silverman(standup angry jewish female comedian) talks about parish hilton while she is present there...
Stevie Wonder Superstition and Mc Hammer Cant touch this
These are two songs I think which kicked ass when I was a kid ...so jus decided to put those videos here
Some 3 yr old pics
Found some really good pics from first year...they were in kaushics comp....hehe rememebered the time we took stupid pics using rishabs cam ....nice times... now everyones soo old and boring
Apparently this pic was meant to be that i cannot resist the call of my kin that is rishab is trying to keep me away from the lab animal holding place which is really where i belong taken at 4 am in the morning i guess.....
Studying at 3 am in the monring before physics exam 1st sem....elevated plane i guess...rishabhs room cos he had aircon
Yaaah my first year pgp room....rishabh playing games on my comp 2 am at night.....we never really had any sense of time then...
Apparently this pic was meant to be that i cannot resist the call of my kin that is rishab is trying to keep me away from the lab animal holding place which is really where i belong taken at 4 am in the morning i guess.....
Studying at 3 am in the monring before physics exam 1st sem....elevated plane i guess...rishabhs room cos he had aircon
Yaaah my first year pgp room....rishabh playing games on my comp 2 am at night.....we never really had any sense of time then...
Varun me and rishabh first year ...first time we went to raffles place i guess......pizza hut was closd and i got mad and puched karthik cos i was hungry hmmmm crazy
Jobhaters anonymous meeting
"Help me I hate my job, everything around me seems so dark....how I have been tempted to jump off my office building.... everyone in my office is soo boring.....i dont think im fit for this job.....how will i survive this.....this is not wat i meant my life to become....if u say "this is the begining of the rest of my life" ...ill kill u"
Im tired of hearing people complaining about their jobs and their high expectations of wat their job would be like ... wat the hell did they expect....when the graduate they will get bill gates job as cheif software architect of microsoft....even that would eb a trouble with my portly friend who has gas problems cos bill gates has to travel a lot.....
hey who had the perfect job at the first time....no one did....ifu are brave enuff to belive all this is not for u then stop working and start ur own company.....if ur not brave enough or "I need the money for settling down" kinda guy then jus look at the bright side of ur work.....
maybe some pretty girl who works with u....in house gym/...free food.....unlimited broadband for downloading stuff.......or even free sationary so u can scribble pics on it..(nah i know ur not pam from the office but wat would u do if u worked for michael scott)
so people stop complaininn about work.......abraham lincoln first job was in a dinghy office where there were no glass on the windows but oiled paper.........colonel sanders from kfc had to live in his car for 5 yrs at the age of 65 untile someone accepted his chicken recipe....wat if had given up......all the pricks wasting their fathers money at the park street kfc in calcutta would know how much effort has gone to make that chicken recipe work................
wellmaybe u can call be self righteous sourpuss grumpy man but wat to do this is wat i feel... without purugatory hard work there is no salvation....last year i ahd wasted my time like hell an now i feel the effects of it......
so people wat do u have to loose...imsure u have a good place to stay(people in singapore not included in this cos finding a good house is a real pain in the ass now) and u have nice friends...gfs bfs who really want to help you thru the bad times.. so why not give it a try instead of quitting.,....... as for me i have my lovely breakfast with 2 kaya butter toast and 2 half boiled eggs tolook forward to everyday .....
Im tired of hearing people complaining about their jobs and their high expectations of wat their job would be like ... wat the hell did they expect....when the graduate they will get bill gates job as cheif software architect of microsoft....even that would eb a trouble with my portly friend who has gas problems cos bill gates has to travel a lot.....
hey who had the perfect job at the first time....no one did....ifu are brave enuff to belive all this is not for u then stop working and start ur own company.....if ur not brave enough or "I need the money for settling down" kinda guy then jus look at the bright side of ur work.....
maybe some pretty girl who works with u....in house gym/...free food.....unlimited broadband for downloading stuff.......or even free sationary so u can scribble pics on it..(nah i know ur not pam from the office but wat would u do if u worked for michael scott)
so people stop complaininn about work.......abraham lincoln first job was in a dinghy office where there were no glass on the windows but oiled paper.........colonel sanders from kfc had to live in his car for 5 yrs at the age of 65 untile someone accepted his chicken recipe....wat if had given up......all the pricks wasting their fathers money at the park street kfc in calcutta would know how much effort has gone to make that chicken recipe work................
wellmaybe u can call be self righteous sourpuss grumpy man but wat to do this is wat i feel... without purugatory hard work there is no salvation....last year i ahd wasted my time like hell an now i feel the effects of it......
so people wat do u have to loose...imsure u have a good place to stay(people in singapore not included in this cos finding a good house is a real pain in the ass now) and u have nice friends...gfs bfs who really want to help you thru the bad times.. so why not give it a try instead of quitting.,....... as for me i have my lovely breakfast with 2 kaya butter toast and 2 half boiled eggs tolook forward to everyday .....
If u have a lemon,make a lemonade
For all those ignorant pricks who think self help books dont work jus cos ur damn egoistic to admit u even need help ...up ur pooper..
Ok most part of my life ...i had no one tell me im good or i had even the possiblity of doin something good....so when i was all alone and really no idea that i can even do moderately good stuff i found this book by dale carnegie.....stop worrying and start living....
yah for those who think this is all too chezzy stop fucking reading okkk.....
well i had always thought man was born with some predetermined capabilities which limited him to some level beyond which he cant go....all these limits have been established by our parents(who are limited themselves) and society and the teachers who said ill end up doin nothing ...one said ill never even school (may her bottom burn in hell)..... now if we listen too much to all these and stop believing in ourselves we are always limited by this invisible ceiling which doesnt let us beleive we can go further........
but the truth is no such limit exists.....no at all....my dad always amde fun of me being weak and not being able to lift stuff,,,,,and for 15 yrs i believed in it tooo.....but once i hit the gym i realized how wrong i was...we are not predetermined to be weak or strong wat we are is in our hands.....
the stupid world and the people around us always try to convince us that maximum we can become is like them...
well as this book says ..... make a LEMONADE WHEN U HAVE A LEMON.... most of u will go "huh i know this already"....
so listen donkeys .... life is not about capitalizing on ur profit but we gain the most when we capitalize on ur losses ...so make the best of the worst situations....
Ok most part of my life ...i had no one tell me im good or i had even the possiblity of doin something good....so when i was all alone and really no idea that i can even do moderately good stuff i found this book by dale carnegie.....stop worrying and start living....
yah for those who think this is all too chezzy stop fucking reading okkk.....
well i had always thought man was born with some predetermined capabilities which limited him to some level beyond which he cant go....all these limits have been established by our parents(who are limited themselves) and society and the teachers who said ill end up doin nothing ...one said ill never even school (may her bottom burn in hell)..... now if we listen too much to all these and stop believing in ourselves we are always limited by this invisible ceiling which doesnt let us beleive we can go further........
but the truth is no such limit exists.....no at all....my dad always amde fun of me being weak and not being able to lift stuff,,,,,and for 15 yrs i believed in it tooo.....but once i hit the gym i realized how wrong i was...we are not predetermined to be weak or strong wat we are is in our hands.....
the stupid world and the people around us always try to convince us that maximum we can become is like them...
well as this book says ..... make a LEMONADE WHEN U HAVE A LEMON.... most of u will go "huh i know this already"....
so listen donkeys .... life is not about capitalizing on ur profit but we gain the most when we capitalize on ur losses ...so make the best of the worst situations....
Sunday, June 3, 2007
Pics at Clark Quay
Went for lunch at Clarke Quay ...u know with all the expensive resturants... well went to this place called IVORY ...apparently its there in calcutta tooo...well i dont go or get invited to expensive resturants much cos nobody likes me enuff to invite me to something ..anyway went there cos my aunt was treating and was bored out of my mind...2 bloody marys helped a bit but even then the food made me sick.....i donno i have eaten fast food for so loong that posh resturant food is not good for me....anyway i had taken my cam wiht me gave me a chance to take a lot of pics....couldnt take many inside cos it was dark.....all was goin when this useless fat man with a nikon dslr came and stole my glory...
The usual pic ...i think people will realise it...donno how many jds i had in this place with kow...some intern friends etc etc...
The usual pic ...i think people will realise it...donno how many jds i had in this place with kow...some intern friends etc etc...
I like the way they build modern stuff on the existing building .... this is a hospital themed pub...heheget wasted and they will take care of u...
This is the pic of the people at the place.....i was happy enough that I was asked to take the pic because .....THEN I DONT HAVE TO BE IN IT...WOHOOO>..anyway i wont bother to explain who is who...cos i dont care
My half drunk bloody mary.....helped a lot to get my mind off the environment and focus on more imp things like ...wat if i had huge muscles...do grls like guys with more muscles....wat if i became a real photographer one day ..ho cool if my photos come in the newspaper and then...when can we even start eating
and this pic is for the people who have been to grain of salt to compared.....as for me i dont care about the ambiance and the food was like 5/10/////i have seen all big places dissapoint with the food donno why....i like good food ...dont care if im eating it on the road...rememebr those kati rolls i had with sreya they were amazing.......december was great
Friends Therapy-it really works
From now on I have decided to stop meeting people at all cos they seem to anger me and irritate me very much. Decided to be a total recluse so the only way people are gonna know wat im upto is thru this blog or the bad smell(will i smell bad??) when i die......
So this decision comes at a time when i have decided to focus on my aims and aspirations...events in the last year have diverted me from my goal of being ......... and thus I want to get back into track and focus totally.....I see i function better when i dont interact with much people...
well this change of being from a mildy social person to a hermit living in his room is hard for me sooo i needed somehting to feel good.,,,,,so i decided on FRIENDS therapy...no no not real friends but the sitcom friends u know with ross rachel chadler etc etc i was so much in love with monica once.... well friends therapy means that u keep on watching FRIENDS till u feel good ....so watched like 4episodes of season one and then 3 episodes of malcolm in the middle till i felt good....
so was an uneventful day today...had been in china town yesterday taking some HDR pics which i kinda liked...but most of them didnt come as good as i expected....hmmmm ....i sooo want to buy a new digital slr specially nikon..... also want some photographic assignment.....
so decided to go seriously into body building .... not in professional but build my body in the 4 yrs to a great extent and im talking full blown with whey protein and creatine,,,, finally i get an oppurtunity to do wat i want....
well freinds therapy wearing off i better go to sleep...
well another thing i read this hyped about book called the alchemist by some brazilian dude with a beard who is also doinn some hp laptop ad nowdays(wat the hell) and well i liked th books optimistic attitude...i mean believeing in goals and all....i hate depressing books ...wats the worth living if u dont have an feeling that things will go alright and thats why i liked the alchemist,,,,,
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