Here is how you have fun if you don't have a job or work to do!

Step 1 : get youself my version of long island ice tea

Recipe Narbhakshi LIIT (to be read long island ice tea)

You need

1 tea bag (preferably lipton yellow label)

2 teaspoon sugar

a dice of lemon

loads of ice

60 ml Cointreau (http://www.cointreau.us/#header, you must be above 21 to visit this site, if you are not I m really sorry)

Boil tea bag and 1.5 teaspoon of sugar in small quantity of water, when tea looses color take the water in a sleazy and sexy glass. Squeeze the lemon juice into the glass & add the dice of lemon so that it sinks to bottom (So that one cannot see that dice has been squeezed :P, topup with ice and add 60 ml Cointreau, ya I know but u gotta grow up kid before you add Cointreau.

Step 2: Arrange your home workspace as if you are working on something serious yet having fun (Something like this)

Step 3 Take a pic and use it to write a blog

Atleast you have produced a blog, useless I know ....but anyways when did you ever do something useful!

Now that the drink is over and you can see the squeezed out lemon...... it 'high' time I stop blogging ......

PS: Pun intended

Life in campus & beyond!

I miss college, those days were the best days of my life.......I passed out of my college in 2007.I live near campus and I happen to visit campus quite often. Every visit I would remark at-least once "Kya yaar kya din the!" But last time I visited I asked my-self what has really changed so much in life? Is it because I have to earn my own bread now or it is because IITB offered amazing facilities & environment which are not available to me now. All this and more wasn't convincing enough. And I firmly belive there is not much outside..... most of things are inside( My blog "relativity")


So what has changed inside? or to say what in world troubles me today which wasn't there in the campus? The one thing my campus offered me was freedom. I had tasted true freedom for the first time in my life. My parents were happy now that I was in IIT, they didn't bother much with my grades. My friends in campus were least concerned about who I am and how I perform in academics or otherwise. And even I didn't care because I thought worst part of my life is over. Everyone one around me was relaxing, someone by playing computer games, some in sports for hostel/institute, participating in impromtu, learning guitar, rock music, singing, movies, organizing festivals/events, publishing news letters, gyming, chatting in the hope to make a galfriend, some indulged in academics & research, etc. etc. etc.....but believe me everyone was relaxing. So even I started relaxing with no competition that I could be forced into. I did cross-country in my first year, then started learning basketball, I was in H-13 team and I served water to all my team-mates :) The fredom was amazing, it was a life in a new world. I slept only when I was utterly exhausted and woke only when I could sleep no more. Everyone carried a smile on their face, we would laugh our heart out on petty things. Fun was always available, we had to just locate something/someone funny and their would be friends around to share a laughter.

I remember the enthusiasm and energy each one of us carried. Everything was positive. Even failing in a subject popularly called facka/farra was funny. Everyone seemed to work very hard in whatever they did and no one ever recieved a penny for their contribution. I used to get 1500 rs as my monthly pocket money which sustained my mobile and bike all inclusive. That 1500 bucks were enough to buy me all the happines in the world.

College life which seems like a distant dream, came and went. Freedom is scarce or to say it exists only in few spaces on the globe. When we were free all of us did all the different things. Some studied some didn't, some took up research project some took up social cause, Some were creative some were exceptional in sports, some were brilliant organizers others were brilliant leaders, students took up different responsibilities and created difference in the life of other students, some were only bird watchers some had courage to go and talk to gals who visited campus during MI, some went around the city drinking n smoking some preffered their rooms and movies on their comps. But each one was unique and so was each ones story.

Today all those unique people around me are doing limited number of things. The list could be summed up into three words CAT, GMAT, CFA. Oh start-up is the new boy on the block. We are back to where we were. The same world where competition is the soul driver. Whether we are doing well in our job is determined by what our boss thinks of us. Whether we are doing well in our life is determined by the my pay cheque Vs pay cheques of my peer. My own self worth is determined by what others think of me. If I fail in CFA or CAT its not funny anymore. Either I am superior or I m inferior....their is no way I could be just myself. No body seems to relax, "Kal job hain , parson CAT hain , sala iss mahine mein koi chutti nahi hain."

I envy some my batchmates who realized that freedom is a function of ones hard work. They defined their area of hard work and made sure they had opportunity to continue to work hard in their space. Today they relax when they work hard, and I suffer when I work hard.

An amazing Poem!

I came across this amazing autobiographic poem of John D. Rockefeller

"I was early taught to work as well as play,

My life has been one long, happy holiday;

Full of work and full of play-

I dropped the worry on the way-

And God was good to me everyday."

Rockefeller is often regarded as the richest person in history. For many of his competitors, Rockefeller had merely to show them his books so they could see what they were up against, then make them a decent offer. If they refused his offer, he told them he would run them into bankruptcy, then cheaply buy up their assets at auction.

Rockefeller spent the last 40 years of his life in retirement.His fortune was mainly used to create the modern systematic approach of targeted philanthropy with foundations that had a major effect on medicine, education, and scientific research.

I was suddenly reminded of Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Andrew Carnegie.... all the richest people in the world have had one thing in common, they did everything to wash away competition, leveraged the monopoly and finally turned billion of dollars towards philanthropy. Did they do it to acquire the wealth from the riches and gave it away to poor?? or they feared being remembered as self centered monopolist, so they took shelter behind philanthropy....or they simply realize life is not about making money but about creating value for the fellow human beings
:)

How to make a critical profession choice!

Karl Mark in his writings has once described how a Young man should make his professional choice. This is a summary of “Reflections of a Young Man on The Choice of a Profession”. I recommend the original one. This one should give you some perspective in a glance.

Right Choice	Wrong Choice
Source of inspiration
Choice of position in the society Idea whose truth is thoroughly perceived Value for society / mankind Opportunity to get closer to Perfection in ones own sphere	Product of a moment which another moment can destroy Emotions, Imagination Self-deception and delusion Idea which might turn out to be false later
Perception & Judgement
Considered whole burden of profession Analysed responsibility & examined outcomes in cold blood Based on profound observation and experience	Fantasies & illusions Embellishment of profession Based of pure reason Chance dependent
Personal Attributes
Talents & bend of mind for the profession Possess capacity to do justice to the chosen position in society Physical constitution which is suited for the profession (Eg. Lifestyle, etc..)	Illusion about talents Based on personal feeling but haven’t demonstrated the capacity Physical constitution which is not supported by the profession (Eg. Comfort in life, etc.)
Society or Environment
Act independently in his own sphere of influence Approved by parents and experienced people	Mere servile tool in the entire value chain Profession that demands reprehensible acts as perceived by society

Is it media or is it population, wtf???

Hamare desh mein insaan ki value nahi hain ....... I have been using this line for quite sometime now. My mind boggles at the thought of what will happen if human beings continue to grow the way they are growing. I remember in one of osho's book he says "the will of human race to live is breaking and it is evident in the fact that we have weird things like AIDS, homoseuality, etc. etc. which didn't exist forever." When I read news these days I am always reminded of this line. Somehow this line makes more and more sense to me. Recently diseases such as SARS, Bird flu, and now swine flu ....etc, etc have led me to wonder whether world was always like this or this is a natures response to excessive human population on earth.

Some of the news headlines I came across today.....

67 YSR fans die of shock, son appeals for restraint
WTF???? 67 people die because of their leader's death???

12 killed in landslides triggered by heavy rains in Mumbai

Five more swine flu deaths take India's toll to 111

Trains late again, WR blames it on trespassing on tracks

TOI reports "Around 10 persons either get hurt or die in train accidents everyday on the Western line alone." Everyday???

that makes the total number approximately 20 because mumbai also has another central line.

Total 109 people people die ...of no particular logical reason!
Is it media or is it population, wtf???