Go Dwivedi GO!!!

Amazing acomplishment by one of batchmates, ought to get a first hand account from him.
Hers's The Feat .

I open another account

Finally, I get to exercise my choice.
The process to get a Voter-Id was a bit tedious , but on the day of voting, it just took me 20 minutes. With the low turnout , I feel that my World's Laziest title is under threat.

24 !!

I turned 24 last week.
Looking back on the last 24 years and at how i would like the next few years to be, i have drawn up this list to be worked on and hopefully done by the time i am 25.
1.) Get out from this frakking job and find something to do in which you are really interested.
2.) Learn swimming and driving , these two still remain your Achilles heels.
3.) Get rid of the fear , the fear of the unknown.
4.) Go out and explore new things , maybe start playing tennis, just go out and try something new every month.
5.)Spend some more time writing up stuff , whatever might be going thru your mind.
6.) Complete a full marathon.
7.) Find something you are really passionate about and pursue it.
8.) Get structured , your current way of living is much too haphazard.
9.) Keep taking a good and careful look at your finances.
10.) Build up your confidence to a higher level.

Message to vathsav@24: All the Best!!

Message to vathsav@25 : If this guy doesn't keep up his end of the deal, throw him off the roof.

Who invented the Telephone??

Its kind of a "who hits the buzzer first" question, the answer is as well known as the fact that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. Imagine my surprise when i discovered that the answer isn't true anymore. I had undeniable proof before me, so there was not much time to dwell on dis-belief. Yes, it was a shock that something that has been accepted by people for a century isn't true.Just got an understanding of how History actually works, the truth of the past that we call history is something written for winners. It being true is as good as the reality shows now-a-days , and the facts (i am sorry!!, they are tales that we treat as facts) are either considered as truth by the generation of the period when the event happened or further generations which just want a simpler form of the past.In short , history tweaks the truth for general consumption , diluting the essentials and just leaving an essence for people so that they have a satisfaction of tasting the past.

It ain't about which year the battle took place ,or which king ruled what part of the earth, or the number of queens in a king's harem or the number of children the king sired , it really ain't about the riches of the court, the jewels , the untold and
uncountable wealth that once was the property of a ruler. Yes , i agree they may be facts , but all these are just numbers , which are of no use to anyone , except for winning points in quizzes. We have a history of 5000 years, but what have we learned
from it??. At the drop of a hat , any time, any place , when-ever we discuss about our history , our eyes gaze in amazement at the bygone era of planned cities, generous kings, spiritual personalities, material wealth which we once had, our imagination runs wild when our ancient lands are described in exquisite words by travelling foreigners. But , one question always creeps up on me, what have we learned??. They were genocides in the past and genocides can still be found plenty all across the world,what have we learned?

Of what use is knowing history , one filled with facts and figures, if it doesn't help us in recognizing symptoms of the diseases(none of them having a connection with medical health ) which have appeared through out human history and occur in a cyclic fashion.

When will we capable enough to understand that we can stop History from repeating itself??
Oh oh!! got a bit serious,:), it all started with the telephone, hmm ... lets see what the guys think when i tell them that the sun doesn't rise in the east.

The Question to Life, Universe and Everything Else

Hmm... lighting struck twice. On the same ride to work i think i cracked the big question, at least based on my own interpretation.

It has been decades since Douglas Adams propounded the Answer to Life , Universe and Everything else, something humans have been cracking their heads open for ages and maybe from the start of time itself. But the answer in 'Douglesque' style was baffling , a simple and straight '42' was the answer given by the 'Second Best' computer the universe ever had.

So, we have an answer but it does not make any sense until you ask the correct question.

And so after 4 years of yearning to somehow get an explanation (as you know these things cannot be arrived by human logic alone and also how can a mere element of the 'First One' find something for which the 'First One' itself was created.So , now you know the question wont help you it's just for me ). And without much ado let me ask the Question

How many years more can YOU live your life the way you want to?

I Thought a Quote

On the ride to work this week i got lucky and was seated for the whole journey.With the breeze hitting my face through the window i was in sublime mood , some thoughts cropped up and just following them i got a quote , probably i might make it a series if keep getting into the weird thoughts zone.So, here it goes

"One can know what type of a society we live in by looking at how 'normal' people live, one can judge how good the society is by looking at how 'abnormal' people are allowed to live"