Wednesday, November 05, 2008

A Tribute to "The Master of Nuances[1]"


A few quotes i think aptly paint Jumbo's bowling strategy and success...

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall"
- Confucius

"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."
-Calvin Coolidge

"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."
- Albert Einstein

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will."
-Vince Lombardi

Persistence...1 word describes how kumble added victims 1 at a time or rather 10 at a time incase of pakistan and got to 619. Be it his commitment {broken jaw incident} or his discipline {career} or his unwavering mettle in dealing with temper {did you see him sledge??} or the art of pace variance , he climbed heights unparalled with the same silence which he emerged and the same quiet he exits.
My hats off, as the cricket nation bears down, for this true cricketer.

Monday, August 25, 2008

Revived.....

Me: Well i am back...

You: So where have you been all the time?

Me: Frankly, I have been still on earth :) ...ok!!!
I should say Physically in beautiful Austin Tx (For
the most part), ......Spiritually always in India.

You: So what have been upto?

Me: Couple of things.... 1. Working with some fine folks
to build faster & efficient micro-processors so we
can serve your ever decreasing patience of waiting
on things , make you fat by enabling to brings all
things to you instead you going for them and other
cool things ....

www.amd.com

2.Helping build some devices to enable faster &
cheaper search/mapping/analysis of Heavens so
that we can find Extra Terrestrial intelligence
and be happy we are not alone...there is another
"life" whom we can communicate/trade/learn from/teach
/compete/fight when we are done doing the same among
ourselves and world becomes one small village.

soral.as.arizona.edu

You: Nice...

Me: Not that you care about why i am back...
just incase you do...Thanks & Keep coming back...
I plan on putting more posts regularly...

cheers...

Saturday, November 26, 2005

He wants MERCY now

"The TADA court hearing builder Pradeep Jain's murder case will record the statement of Abu Salem on allegations that he was tortured in police custody.

Salem's lawyers have filed an application saying the underworld don had a sleepless night and was threatened by the police that he would be killed in an encounter"

And what is he supposed to be given a royal guest's treatment? Do his lawyers don't think the 230 people killed in mumbai blasts and the innumerous people killed by his wicked "gang" doesn't have a basic human right to live and live peacefully. Why does anybody care about his human rights when he did not bother to care for other people's right. And believe me "though the last thing i would want to hear" there is going to be some pseudo-secular politician taking up his case tommorow...and all for vote bank politics.

I wish some rightist org takes care of the "bullshitting" lawyers and help keep their mouth shut.

Sunday, November 13, 2005

Rajani plays my guru today

My last post was when i was in the depressed "state" with nostalgic thoughts of the decisions which i made that went wrong down the road. Today i had a long chat with rajanikanth fondly we call as Dr. Jam.(That's derived from the first three letters of his surname and he is a doctoral student). Though we didn't talk in the context of my post on friday but the conversation was in kind a way forward from what my dilemmas were. He was quoting an essay of ralph waldo emersion: Compensation.

A few lines caught my eye and my thought. He talks about how nobody is perfect and how each object is full in itself.

"he world globes itself in a drop of dew. The microscope cannot find the animalcule which is less perfect for being little. Eyes, ears, taste, smell, motion, resistance, appetite, and organs of reproduction that take hold on eternity, -- all find room to consist in the small creature. So do we put our life into every act. The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb. The value of the universe contrives to throw itself into every point. If the good is there, so is the evil; if the affinity, so the repulsion; if the force, so the limitation.

Thus is the universe alive. All things are moral. That soul, which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration; out there in history we can see its fatal strength. "It is in the world, and the world was made by it." Justice is not postponed. A perfect equity adjusts its balance in all parts of life. {Oi chusoi Dios aei enpiptousi}, -- The dice of God are always loaded. The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself. Take what figure you will, its exact value, nor more nor less, still returns to you. Every secret is told, every crime is punished, every virtue rewarded, every wrong redressed, in silence and certainty. What we call retribution is the universal necessity by which the whole appears wherever a part appears. If you see smoke, there must be fire. If you see a hand or a limb, you know that the trunk to which it belongs is there behind."


and then he goes on to talk about how "wrong intentions" start giving you back the punishment called "fear" from their birth

"You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong. "No man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him," said Burke. The exclusive in fashionable life does not see that he excludes himself from enjoyment, in the attempt to appropriate it. The exclusionist in religion does not see that he shuts the door of heaven on himself, in striving to shut out others. Treat men as pawns and ninepins, and you shall suffer as well as they. If you leave out their heart, you shall lose your own. The senses would make things of all persons; of women, of children, of the poor. The vulgar proverb, "I will get it from his purse or get it from his skin," is sound philosophy.

All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are speedily punished. They are punished by fear. Whilst I stand in simple relations to my fellow-man, I have no displeasure in meeting him. We meet as water meets water, or as two currents of air mix, with perfect diffusion and interpenetration of nature. But as soon as there is any departure from simplicity, and attempt at halfness, or good for me that is not good for him, my neighbour feels the wrong; he shrinks from me as far as I have shrunk from him; his eyes no longer seek mine; there is war between us; there is hate in him and fear in me.

All the old abuses in society, universal and particular, all unjust accumulations of property and power, are avenged in the same manner. Fear is an instructer of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions. One thing he teaches, that there is rottenness where he appears. He is a carrion crow, and though you see not well what he hovers for, there is death somewhere. Our property is timid, our laws are timid, our cultivated classes are timid. Fear for ages has boded and mowed and gibbered over government and property. That obscene bird is not there for nothing. He indicates great wrongs which must be revised.

Of the like nature is that expectation of change which instantly follows the suspension of our voluntary activity. The terror of cloudless noon, the emerald of Polycrates, the awe of prosperity, the instinct which leads every generous soul to impose on itself tasks of a noble asceticism and vicarious virtue, are the tremblings of the balance of justice through the heart and mind of man.

Experienced men of the world know very well that it is best to pay scot and lot as they go along, and that a man often pays dear for a small frugality. The borrower runs in his own debt. Has a man gained any thing who has received a hundred favors and rendered none? Has he gained by borrowing, through indolence or cunning, his neighbour's wares, or horses, or money? There arises on the deed the instant acknowledgment of benefit on the one part, and of debt on the other; that is, of superiority and inferiority. The transaction remains in the memory of himself and his neighbour; and every new transaction alters, according to its nature, their relation to each other. He may soon come to see that he had better have broken his own bones than to have ridden in his neighbour's coach, and that "the highest price he can pay for a thing is to ask for it.

A wise man will extend this lesson to all parts of life, and know that it is the part of prudence to face every claimant, and pay every just demand on your time, your talents, or your heart. Always pay; for, first or last, you must pay your entire debt. Persons and events may stand for a time between you and justice, but it is only a postponement. You must pay at last your own debt. If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more. Benefit is the end of nature. But for every benefit which you receive, a tax is levied. He is great who confers the most benefits. He is base --and that is the one base thing in the universe -- to receive favors and render none. In the order of nature we cannot render benefits to those from whom we receive them, or only seldom. But the benefit we receive must be rendered again, line for line, deed for deed, cent for cent, to somebody. Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort."

Now i know when i make a decision all i have to think is: Do i need to fear anything when i take the action?

As i walk down the road ,
lost in the thoughts mode .
Under the bushy trees,
with full of hopes and dreams.
thinking of the decisions i need to make,
and the actions i need to take.
So that i don't need to fear,

for what all i do here.

fear is like a caustic in a glass,

eroding inner strength in a flash.

Aditya Prahlad







Saturday, November 12, 2005

My first blog

It's late night friday. My eye lashes were tapping too fast and slowly i was going into my sleep state. and momentarily a high activity started in my brain about what should be my first blog causing chemical reactions in the head....which i believe produced some chemicals and giving enough energy to bring me back into active state.

I am amazed that I am just a complex state machine with a "N" number of states. Traversing between theese states depending on the stimuli and giving out actions based on the state i am in which inturn push me into a another state. Actions in one state which seem perfectly fine then but only until i move onto another state when every of my actions seems irrational and immature. Then i move on to another state where i analyze how a perfectly correct action in one state turned to seem like the wrong action in another state and this brings me to the question : my ability in judging what is right and what is wrong?. I will become a SMART person if turns out to be right and a stupid if it turns out to be wrong. Now i start to think :So what exactly is right and what exactly is wrong. The thought goes on to evolve that it is all gray area and nothing can be said. But then how do i decide on the actions so that i do the right thing?
well goes my thought when there is nothing called universal right and universal wrong, for you cannot control the turn of events that life unfolds before you and it only does when you reach that moment. This makes me realise how limited i am. Then i decided that my actions should be with the "right intention" again as what i perceive. I should not worry about how it turns out. If it turns out good i will be happy and if i turn out to be stupid i still make my actions with right intention and hope i turn out be smart the next time. and now as i ponder over theese beautifull thing called "HOPE"......oops its sleep time.......Here i apply "The End" stimuli for today and forcifully drive myself to sleep state with a "Hope" i will be back soon to continue my currents.

As i walk down the road,
in the thoughts mode,
Under the bushy trees,
with full of hope and dreams,
of taking actions right,
without the failure fright,
And no evil intended,
for i am just limited.

---Aditya Prahlad