Monday 20 February 2012

Quote Unquote.

Since I have some free time right now,(I have an exam tomorrow,but I really don't care),I think it would be a good idea to share some of my favorite quotations here.

"The key is deliberative practice: not just doing it again and again, but challenging yourself with a task that is just beyond your current ability, trying it, analyzing your performance while and after doing it, and correcting any mistakes. Then repeat. And repeat again. There appear to be no real shortcuts:"
Peter Norvig       Click to read an amazing insight into programming.


“Have a bias towards action – let’s see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.”
If you’re going to be biased, be biased towards making something happen today.  Tomorrow never comes, any progress to be made, must be made today.  It must be made right now!
If you don’t act now, you don’t have a future, just a longer today.  Gandhi said, “The future depends on what we do in the present.”
Indira Gandhi


All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible.
T.E.Lawrence



"I think for the most part, if you are really honest with yourself about what you want out of life,life gives it to you"
Ted Mosby
S02E22  How I Met Your Mother


"Kids, you may think your only choices are to swallow your anger or throw it in someone's face, but there's a third option: You can just let it go, and only when you do that is it really gone and you can move forward."
Ted
S04E06 HIMYM

On comparison
"Don't compare yourself with other people. It is a wasteful pursuit, and you could be doing something better with your time and energy. Know what you, personally, want and expect from yourself, and focus on attaining those things. The things that you want and expect from yourself don't have anything to do with how you measure up to others."

Thats all for now.Will keep posting as and when I am motivated enough.


Some more .......

Think hard about, and analyze, the past before you dream about the future.


You can do anything ,but not everything.











A Quick Thought

I just realized something.Everyone has a past.You may not see it,but it's there.
And furthermore everyone is haunted by their past.Some are just good at concealing it.

I would like to quote Russel Crowe ,who played John Nash,from 'A Beautiful Mind'.

Martin:What about the,....you know,are they gone?
Nash:No,they are not gone.And maybe they never will.But I have got used to ignoring them and as a result I think they have kind of given up on me. You think that's what its like with all our dreams and all our nightmares,Martin?You have got to keep feeding them for them to stay alive?
Martin:John,they haunt you though...
Nash:They are my past,Martin.Everyone is haunted by their past.

As an afterthought I would like to mention that this was the last movie that made me cry.

Thursday 16 February 2012

A Love Song.

Found this awesome song on the net,It's called 'Sham' from the movie 'Aisha'.
Usually I am not the person who listens to such songs but really,there is something about the song.I really don't know.The melody,the vocals,the guitars,the ambiance all just seem to fit perfectly to create a beautiful song.

                                            है खामोश दोनों, है मदहोश दोनों..

*The Hindi translation didn't quite come out as expected.I am still learning...
*I am also learning how to embed music to the blog.So maybe some time in the future,the song will play on its own.


The composer is Amit Trivedi,who also wrote music for 'Dev-D','Wake up Sid','Udaan','No One Killed Jessica ' ,which is also some of the best music to come out of Bollywood in recent times.The guy deserves a thumbs up.


Also writing is an incredibly relaxing activity.I am loving it :)


Wednesday 15 February 2012

Going Live.

Okay, so after months of procrastination and a lot of feeble half-hearted attempts to write a new blog entry,finally today the blog goes live.Believe me when I say that because from now on onward there will be a lot of activity on this blog.

As of now,the last (and the first) blog entry was nearly 7 months ago,written at Chandigarh ,when I had a sudden rush of adrenaline to start my own blog.Well the rush is back today and I must say that the past few months have been very interesting and I have got lots to write about.This and the fact that my mid-terms for the second semester are beginning this week ensured that I am sitting in front of my laptop and typing this at 5.30 in the morning when I should probably be studying or sleeping.

Anyways, a couple of days after the first entry,I started my 28-hour journey to Kharagpur,a sleepy(?!) town in West Bengal to study at the IIT there.And that's where I am going to spend the majority of my time for the next 5(now 4.5) years.There is so much I want to write about and I cant wait to get started!

Bye for now.Keep checking for real time updates.

Shubham