My small vacation

And.. there my (small) vacation ends..
This was one of the best vacations I have had. I did most of everything I had planned before vacation starts.

1st Day -
I had decided to buy a two-wheeler a month ago(Or even more..). And till friday morning there was nothing done besides the settling on a model to buy. I had decided to buy Pleasure. Accordingly I called in a Hero Honda showroom - the showroom that I had decided based on experience of people in my team. I went to see the model and to enquire about it. I had almost put the stamp on it that day, I could have booked the bike the same day, but my middle class mentality :D didn't allow me do that. I spent almost 4 hours in reaching there (thanks to Pune transport and more than that to my awareness of PMT buses and of Pune's geography.) and in enquiring. I knew that even next day if I had found any negative point about Pleasure, I wouldn't have changed my decision. Still, I didn't book it. :)

2nd Day-
With my room-mate who drives her Activa everyday, I went to showroom again. Again I hadn't gained much about the best PMT route for the same place. We went, booked the bike and while coming back we came to know that we had taken longer route and had wasted more than 45 min in the morning. We came back home and then I left for Mumbai, to be specific Navi Mumbai. (Some people want me to make it specific whenever I use the term Mumbai/Bombay. :P)

During the above 2 days I also had done the reading that I had decided to do. I could achieve not wasting even 5 minutes.

3rd Day -
Some guests were going to visit our place. So I had to help my mother. I did that, I also admitted myself in a driving school. Training started the same day. I decided to do only 4.5 hours of 10 hour course of 20 days in 3 days. Reasons? First, I don't have 20 continuous days . Second I might have got bored of such a slow training. 3rd day went in guests, training plus my reading. I had a nice sleep in the night.

4th Day -
Woke up early for training, rode bike for 2 hours. I did well as I know cycling quite well. This made my day. :)
I continued reading.
Next my mother told me about Marathi Literary Conference which was held in Thane. I couldn't say no to books and we went. We bought books like a mad there and brought them home. Wow! What a day it was!
I continued reading and in the night I was like completely burnt out. I love when I'm so.

5th day -
I went to get my Learning License with the people from driving school. Came back home and continued reading. Today I also read one of the books that I bought yesterday - "Vaachnaryachi Rojnishi" by Satish Kalsekar. That means - "Diary of a Reader". It's an interesting and an inspiring book. How crazy people can be for books! This book is about books and anything that is related to books. Whoever likes books, will love reading it.

Clever and Wise

Karla says - She does not think wise but she thinks clever.

There are 2 types of people (This is only one of all the keys of classification of humans) -

One is Wise people and the other is Clever people.

Wise people are practical. They give you the advice, probability of which to result into success is high. On the other hand, clever people are not always practical. They'll give you an advice which might not give success for what you are going to do the action. But you'll achieve something else which is more important only in the view of the *same* clever but unwise person.

I'm definitely not a wise person.

Creative People

The only thing that separates the creative from the non-creative is the fact that creative people are not content merely to have the experience, but insist on commenting on it. - EDWARD ALBEE

Thinker

Am I worsening?

I went through few of my old posts and I think I was a better writer, better thinker. Usually, whenever one goes through previous posts, he laughs at himself for writing idiotic things. Because as time goes, we improve. In my case I found it other way. So does that mean I have become a worse person? :( Did I stop improving? :(

Quotes from Shantaram

Friend is anyone you don't despise.

If fate doesn't get you a laugh then you just don't get the joke.

I can't believe he mentioned about Shivsena in Shantaram too. Shivsena is an inseparable part of Bombay. If you talk about Bombay and they didn't come into picture, it has never happened. But that is not a good sign for all Marathi people. In fact, if you ask me, I'd call it bad. For Marathi people that might not make much difference. But non-Marathi do have bad impression of it. Now I know why some of the non-marathi people, when came to know that I'm a Marathi and especially a Marathi from Bombay/Mumbai, changed their way of looking at me. Talking about Marathi is like supporting these guys. And that's why even if I like something about Marathi, I avoid expressing it in front of others. I feel more comfortable when I praise Urdu Shayaris than when I praise a poem by Sandip Khare or some Charoli by Chandrashekhar Gokhale. :(

reading

Reading touchy books must be same as drinking. After going through both, we lose the consciousness, we remember deeply hidden memories, we think or talk to ourselves about it and we look mad. We are no more practical. We don't think of benefits. And from some heaven we get the strength of bearing. I never drank. This can be only imagination. Who knows? Let's go back to reading; to get unconscious. ;)

काहीतरी असंच!

Today is of peace. I'm in "Leave me alone" state. There's nothing that happened the way I wanted to happen. But I'm not sad. Yesterday I wanted to do something, which I couldn't do. But I wasn't sad. I was normal. I was good. Yesterday night I had arguments with someone. I didn't ruin my mind with those thoughts. I continued being normal. I slept. Today I woke up like a very good, fresh person. My mind was empty. No imaginations. No dreams. No plans. No thought of the past nor of the future. It was completely void. I went out for work. I knew everything happening around me. Though everything was mundane, I concentrated on everything around me. I could concentrate even on walking. I skipped breakfast. Sometimes I like skipping meals. I checked for details of some conference. I decided to register for it. I felt it exciting. Then we had planning. I had hoped of getting something which I was not working on since long. And still I got what I didn't want to work this sprint. It didn't make me sad. I was normal. I accepted. I moved on. In the evening I did those things which I always feel boring, like cleaning my desktop. I disabled my RSA token twice today. Such things usually don't frustrate me. But today I was likely to get disturbed with even that. But still I was normal. Second time, for enabling it, I didn't get any response. I was normal. I found a way to sync up my files. Usually I would have felt excited about it as this was new. But I was normal. Today I planned to get internet. But for some reason, I couldn't go for it. I was very normal. I wanted to talk to someone for little long time. But I didn't get that. I was normal. Someone told me about the conference that it won't be beneficial for me. I accepted that and gave up on the decision of registering. I felt nothing bad about it. I came home, read some chapters from "Who'll cry when you die?". That made me more normal. And now I'm writing this.. I know this is all nuts for someone else, and still I wrote it; for myself. I'm normal and not feeling weird. What is it the effect of? I don't want to think about it. Probably this is some different day and that's it. No reason behind it. I accepted it. I liked it.

Test post from iPod

Test post from iPod

Lafange Parinde

Just watched Lafange Parinde on Colors. Overall movie is okayish but the theme is nice. I liked some dialogues from the movie like -
"Dekhne ke liye aankh nahi kida chahiye!" The scene is also good when this dialogue occurs. Deepika is blind and Neel tries to teach her to see without eyes. And her first lesson - He drawns her face into water where she badly tries to breathe. And he says - "Jis tarah saans lene ke liye tu tadap rahi thi usi tarah dekhne ke liye tadpegi to tuze dekhne se koi nahi rokega. Dekhne ke liye aankh nahi kida chahiye!"

The other dialogue I liked is "Jo log ka dimag khiskela rehta hai wohich upar jata hai. Shane log waadi me carrom khelte rehte hai." So true. Who says only formal languages and words bring the effect. This slang has all "dum" in it. Isn't it?

On "A Thousand Splendid Suns"

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


1st Comment - (22nd September 2010)

I have read first 2 parts of it. Both of them were thought provoking; both in their own respect. Mariam's was of sacrifice whereas Laila's was of independence. Hakim's thoughts appeared acceptable to me. I also liked the quote/sentence -
"Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly."

There's a lot in the book. People told me this book is not as good as The Kite Runner is. But I think both are incomparable. Both have different subject altogether. They both show you a different world.

*****

2nd Comment - (25th September 2010)

I read more of the book. In the third part, at most places I found that I needed time to digest the things going on. It is not like any mysterious book where you can't wait and you go on reading until it finishes. For this book, at certain places you need to wait, take a breath, and accept what you read, come to reality and then start it again.
People, who haven't read the book should skip the rest of the post, read the book first and then read the whole post.
The book is not at all to refresh you. It tells everything that happened in Afghanistan at some point of time. The incidents when Mariam goes to see her father in Herat, when she loses her mother, when she marries Rasheed – a man of three times age of her age or rather when Rasheed marries her (woman does nothing in Afghanistan, what she does is forced), when Laila faces the bomb blast, when Rasheed marries Laila, when Laila gets caught when she tries to run away along with her daughter and Mariam from Rasheed and how he punishes them, when Laila gives birth to her second child - Zalmai, when Mariam comes to know about her father's death (this was so touchy that I have no words.); all incidents talk about Afghanistan’s culture, but they also show you one form of human mind. Laila's smartness and strength is appreciable. It is hard to digest how at such a small age she can understand and handle such difficult situations. What Khaled Hosseini has said is correct - "There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood."
The rules that Taliban had imposed; we only had read them and felt disgusting. But it is more horrible to see how they can affect the people specially women. The incidence when Laila gives birth to Zalmai is disgustingly horrifying.
I still have pages to read. And I'm sure there will still be more to talk then.

3rd Comment: (8th October 2010)
I completed reading the book. In the last part of the book, Tariq (Laila's friend, love) comes back to her. Rasheed's anger for Tariq's coming back, for Laila's meeting him and for talking to him, his beating Laila to death, Mariam's dare to kill Rasheed; all is explained wonderfully. Not a single detail has been missed. Laila goes away with Tariq along with her children. Mariam stays back to face Taliban. The paragraph which talks about her execution by Taliban keeps you still. Her courage touches the heart. I thought about my last moment in this world. Will I know that I'd be dying? Will I get a moment to think of my whole life and to make myself content about whatever I will have lived? I want to get it. I want to live my last moment knowing that this was my last moment.

Back to the book: Laila's start of teaching and becoming the need of Afghanistan was the best end of the book. There can't be any other end. I learned what hope is. Same way I had learnt when I watched “The Shawshank Redemption”. And of course the last line - "...if it's a girl, Laila has already named her." Lovely!



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"And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too."
— Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner)

Retrospective

My special day went and I didn't get time to write about how I changed from last year.

Let me talk about the books that I read in this year. They were -

• Harry Potter - I read first 3 parts; 4th of which is still half read. I'm sure I'm not going to complete my resolution of completing all the books before movie of the 7th part comes. :D
• The best book that I read - Many Lives Many Masters
• The fastest ever read book which I completed in 12 hours - Sidney Sheldon's Tell me your Dreams
• One more book which I read fast - Two States by Chetan Bhagat. It proved the refreshing book for me.
• The book which brought interest of reading/studying/knowing history - Hitler's small book. Life and Times of Hitler
• The Power of Creative Intelligence - My second book by Tony Buzan.
• Who will cry when you die by Robin Sharma - I have been reading it since last year. Whenever I felt like killing myself (:D), I read this book. In last few months, I haven't touched the book. Does that tell me that I've improved? :)
• Diary of a young girl - Anne Frank - One more history-interest provoking book. I have bought History book of CBSE board of 9th standard. I want to read history in English now. My choice might not be good. There must be other better books. But I didn't find anyone suggesting me a nice book to start reading history. So I myself chose one of the simplest options. I started writing a history blog too, which doesn't have much yet.

There must be few more books - I probably don't remember. Or there might be nothing. The books which I started reading and left in the middle or in the start itself -
• Sachin Tendulkar by Vaibhav Purandare (Prashant took it from me and wholeheartedly I gave him :D) I haven't touched it, after he returned it. :(
• "Destination unreachable", "We need to talk about Kevin", "Scorpia", "Not a Penny more Not a penny less", "Shantaram" are the ones which I started and left in few pages only. Bad, Pranali. :( I have done injustice with them; perhaps with myself. So good books and I'm not getting time to read them.
• Technical reading was good. I still need to read much more. Also I got a nice chance to read things in more detail. I enjoyed whatever I read.

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Nice things that happened -
1) first time, my family went for some picnic. It was nice.
2) I bought a nice bicycle and did 2-3 long rides which is not enough though. All experiences were good. One was when I rode to IIT. The second was when I was going towards DY Patil stadium. I couldn't ride that far, but it was good. I vomitted on the road. That was amazing. :D
3) Following managers up, I achieved getting good work. Since last year my luck/work is going well.
4) We watched IPL final live.
5) My parents have gone to US and they are enjoying it. I'm staying without them for so long. :)
6) I think I have improved on my childish talking.

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Besides all this, I don't have anything except about my work. I finally got settled in my project. I'm enjoying working here. People around me are fine. Instead of only cracking jokes on each other like others do, we discuss about various topics - history, current affairs, languages and their differences, Nature of people based on sunsign (which I started believing now specially the Leo, Aries, Virgo cases), movies, books, Agile methodology etc during lunch.
I came incontinuous contact with many non-indians. Knowing about/observing them was an interesting thing.

I liked few people or more of an inspiration that I got from them.

• One of them was Moshe. I found one of very few non-Indians working late hours plus doing social work was he.
• The other was Alex whom I troubled like anything. And he still kept his temper cool. I liked the way he used to take my name in his Israeli accent. :)
• Recently spent some time we spent with Dave - an Aries. Amazing person. He has tried all those Indian things which I even am not aware of. He came here for 3 months and he went to many places. He also wore Sherwani in a wedding. He eats spicier than I and most of us can eat. He loves Pani puri, Veg Kolhapuri. Having all these qualities, he also has a great technical knowledge and nice ways to present it. Few years back, he lost more than 40 kgs by walking for 4 hours a day in 6 months. He shared very nice experiences with us. I don't know who told him that I read books and he gifted me few books on my birthday. Then I compared him with all Aries who I have met/observed, they all are inspiring people. I think now I can recognize if I meet some Aries person. Priyanshu, Sharan, Megha - all are inspiring. I also had read in some spam (:D) that Leos and Aries can be good friends. I couldn't spend long time with all Aries that I know. But they are good friends.

Khalid Hosseini's quote -

"I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night."


Doesn't this relate to this? I wonder if I'll get so mature; at least once? once?

A Thousand Splendid Suns

I'm reading "A Thousand Splendid Suns". It's not complete yet. But I'd like to write something about it.

I have completed 2 parts of it where first part focussed on a character named Mariam who was an unwanted child. Her life was of small restricted world and of sacrifice. She was short of all love that a child gets. And what she assumed to be the love was the betrayal. Her marriage to an old person threatens first, then relaxes and then again goes weird.

The second part talks about Laila, her childhood, her independent world, her friendship, her freedom of education for which the only reason was her educated parents and her maturity when she rejects her boyfriend's proposal.. It also talks about Afganistan's political situation of those times. Interference of Laila's mother into political discussions was little surprising but it showed that there was education freedom for at least some girls. It was a relief to see that there was no exception to "Exceptions' here too.

Now next part seems to have the climax where Laila and Mariam both are focussed. I'll post about it once read.

Enjoying reading and writing after long time.. :)

books

Books teach you a lot, books show you different world, books give you knowledge, books keep you being human, books make you understands thoughts in depth, books are friends, books can replace anything. To me, books also tell that I'm not the only person who did those foolish mistakes and that is so relaxing... :) I believe I'm an ordinary human who is no inferior to the world around me.

Trial 1

Ok. Let's try something now... I really doubt if I'll post it.

I have been little busy last few months; I agree. I spend more time in office work than anything else. Because of rains I couldn't ride my cycle for last 3-4 months. I read hardly anything that I can write in this blog. I read technical things, but I didn't blog even that. In last 6-7 months if I have read any book completely then that is Diary of Anne Frank. (I don't remember I read any other book completely.) I held many books in hand, read few pages of it, then found myself involved in something, after completing which, I had lost interest in the book. I hardly watched any movies. From all above it seems I have been behaving like a boring person. But I don't even agree that. I don't remember of losing smile on my face for long time. In fact I was always cheerful at least at an extent that people can notice it.

Lost? Where?

I don't find topics to write blog. If I find some I fall short of content. If I write something I feel no confidence to post it. I keep them in drafts. What's happening to me?

लहानपण हरवलं...

Passion and Compassion

One more thing I liked from "The Speaking Tree" section of Times Of India. It talked about the difference between Passion and Compassion.

When you are passionate about something, you are slave and when you become master, you are called Compassionate. You are not bound to the thing which you are compassionate about, instead, that thing is bound to you.

Nice, isn't it?
I think if we keep walking on the road of migration from passion to compassion, we grow up. :)

A child needs your love the most when he deserves it least.
- Erma Brombeck

Sometimes we like something a lot.. We are mad for it... We always go for it. Suddenly we realize that it is making us ignore something which was/is very important for us. And we start sopping our move towards this thing which we like a lot. We concentrate on the thing which is important. Suddenly after long time, we think of going for the same thing again as now we have given enough to the important thing. And we don't find it that interesting.. Most of the time we lose interest completely in it. Does it happen to me only?

How pathetic it is when you need to give complete explanation for the reason for what you like!

शहाणपण येणं ही पण एक गंमत आहे, नाही?

it reminded me of the slogan of some ad - "क्यूंकि बढ़ना खुबसूरत है"

Today's Oscar goes to...

साऱ्या सरी या माझ्याच पाशी
चिंब तू होईना

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. - Anne Frank


Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. - Anne Frank

refreshing myself...

Since long, I didn’t write any post. I read/did some good stuff, but somehow I could not manage to write things over here. Some of them were –

1) Difference between the lonely state and alone state that I read in TOI’s “The speaking tree” section. (I have a separate post on it, I might post it).

2) I’m reading Anne Frank’s diary in which she has written few good things. I appreciate the clarity of thoughts that she could have at the age of 13. I also started writing diary at around the same age. But I think what I wrote was just about the wishes, my dreams. I think one gets the clarity of thoughts going on his mind if he reads a lot. More you read, more does your vocabulary increase and of course knowledge removes the darkness.

3) I watched Inception. Fantastic movie. Watched a good movie after very long time. It will increase one’s power of concentration. ;)

4) (This I don’t call a good stuff) I tried so many medicines for my cough, and not even a single medicine has worked. Instead, I get a feeling of being in non-alert state. Particularly in the night, I feel like a perfect drunken. :D

I’ll stop here now; otherwise even this post will remain a half written draft which has 99.9626849% probability of getting forgotten by me. :D


P.S. Please don’t comment suggesting me the names of medicines for cough unless you are 100% sure it has worked on a person who has no in built immunity power for cough. :D But I’m also ready to give noble prize to the person who will cure my cough in rains. :D

People who are *always* ignored must be having cool life. Isn’t it? They are free. They can do anything, literally anything. If they want to do impractical things, they are free. Nobody would instruct/suggest/stop them. If they make mistakes, their mistakes are ignored too. They themselves improve them without even anyone’s notice. They make faces, nobody looks at them. They shout, they cry, they laugh, they fall and nobody cares. They do crazy things and nobody even looks at them. How simple the life is!

Just now I watched trailer of something “Everything is illuminated”. The main character is a collector; Collector of anything. He collects anything that attracts him. Imagine you think of doing something like this. And count the number of questions you will have to answer.

Tsamina mina eh eh, waka waka eh, eh...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRpeEdMmmQ0&feature=player_embedded

This is amazing. I have watched/listened it lot number of times.. and I'm in love with it. What an energy, what a music and of course the lyrics.. Today's or the whole last week's Oscar goes to this song.. Mind blowing, Shakira.. you rock!!


Update:
I also got the spanish version's lyrics too - http://www.museke.com/node/5098

You can make life simple by just ignoring your mistakes. You can make it a lot complicated by taking all your mistakes into account and making a hard effort to solve them. One more good thing about accpeting mistakes is when it is your partial mistake, you accept yours and relieve the other person who has partially mistaken and make his life a lot simpler than yours. If you want him to recognize it, just enter Bollywood movies. :P In real life you will never get recognized. You remain with only one option - to vanish.

Some more from Pressman

A meeting is too often an event in which minutes are taken and hours are wasted.

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

You can pay a little now, or you can pay a lot more later.

Change!

Any change, even for the better, is accomplished by drawbacks and discomforts.
- Arnold Bennett

Change is inevitable, except for vending "machines".
- Bumper Sticker

Hope never dies.

Write what good people did with you on rock and what bad they did to you on sand.

Accept your mistakes.

* ALL ABOVE IS FAKE when it is about dealing with people *

The whole problem starts when you are praised. More praises you get, more are the problems.

You are strong if you could hide your weaknesses.

You are what you pretend to be.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRWvdD4zmxQ&feature=player_embedded#!

This is my sister's friend. And my sister too did this! I also want to do it.... How thrilling it is! I only remember of the simple valley crossing which I had done in college.. :(

And this -
my favorite! -

हे भलते अवघड असते
कुणी प्रचंड आवडणारे
ते दूर दूर जाताना
डोळ्यांच्या देखत आणि नाहीसे लांब होताना

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbf8YJ2fyXM&feature=channel

lyrics is awesome if you understand it and feel it correctly.

Picturization would have been far better if a girl leaving her friend , both on railway platform, girl inside the train and the boy standing out near the window, girl not aware of her hidden love for him and boy aware of his feelings for her, hence being upset to say her bye and his condition would have been explained as it is clearly done in the lyrics. This is what I had imagined every time I heard the song. It would have justified the lyrics. Fantastic lyrics. I feel very good to know Marathi as I can feel what this guy (Sandip Khare) says in his poems. Fantastic, go on Sandip, go on! आजचा ऑस्कर तुलाच! :)

one more - fantastic!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyH7wdo2TC8&NR=1

Lyrics:
आता पुन्हा पाऊस येणार,
मग आकाश काळं-निळं होणार,
मग मातीला गंध फुटणार,
मग मध्येच वीज पडणार,
मग तुझी आठवण येणार.
काय रे देवा!

मग ती आठवण कुणाला दाखवता नाही येणार

मग मी ती लपवणार
मग लपवूनही ती कुणाला तरी कळावं अस वाटणार

मग ते कुणीतरी ओळखणार
मित्र असतील तर ते रडणार, नातेवाईक असतील तर चिडणार
मग नसतंच कळलं तर बरं असं वाटणार

आणि या सगळयाशी तुला काहीच घेणं-देणं नसणार
काय रे देवा!

माझी दोन मनं

त्यातलं एक मन नेहमीच दुसरयाबद्दल बोलतं आणि कुणी एक कवी कसं काय बरं ते मांडतो?

http://www.aathavanitli-gani.com/Song%20Html/1930.htm

The true realization of something is not when you express it to someone, but when you don’t get to express it to someone. :)

Few Quotes

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
-- Benjamin Franklin

I don't care if it works on your machine! We are not shipping your machine!
-- Vidiu Platon

You do not have to spend a lot of time and effort on those who strongly resist change. You only have to help and protect those who want to change, so that they are able to succeed. Put another way, your job is not to plant the entire forest, row by row -- it is to plant clumps of seedlings in hospitable places and to nurture them. As they mature, these trees will spread their seeds, and the forest will eventually cover the fertile land. The rocks, will, of course, remain barren regardless. ... once you have figured out who cannot be converted, you should not waste more time trying to persuade them.
-- David Hutton, The Change Agents' Handbook

Kites? or Runners?

Watched Kites! Fantastic bakwaas!
1) Nobody would understand why they gave it a name – Kites. So Hrithik speaks few dialogues to tell the reason.
2)An ordinary couple runs from here and there while others follow to kill them. But they can’t. All die but the couple. So in the end couple gets bored of people following them and commit suicide.
3)A person jumps from once place in the ocean. His partner jumps from the same place, in the same ocean after few days, but still they meet together. What a love! मान गए! आपकी पारखी नज़र और निरमा सुपर. दोनों को! :P

Both look well though!

In Eclipse there is a plugin named checkstyle. It is to check whether your code is as per the coding standards. For severe errors it shows yellow mark on error position indicator. And as the severity decreases the darkness of yellow mark also decreases. At some point of time it becomes so faint that you can even miss it. We can ignore them actually as they are not that severe.

One use of such decrease in visibility that I realized –
If you have less time to checkstyle your code, you can put your spectacles aside and start applying checkstyle. :D
Yeah, this is useful only for those who have spectacles. :P

सुख नकोसे झाले...

my wisdom (tooth) removal ;)

I just experienced something surgical first time in my life. I had got stitches twice when I was a kid which I don’t remember at all. So today was the first time. The doctors removed my wisdom tooth.

The whole operation took only 10-15 minutes, but they were amazing. Everything was new to me. Even both the doctors could realize that it was my first experience. Yes, I was worried. Before the operation started, I had thought it would be only a normal removal but then I came to know that it was not. One of the doctors gave anaesthesia at several places near the wisdom tooth. That hurt a bit. After that I the other doctor gently applied some gel or something on that area. There started the pain. But after 3-4 minutes it went off. My mouth is very small and it can’t open wide enough so that they can put their hands and all that equipments inside. He kept telling me to open it wider and wider. Oh my god! It is very difficult to keep your mouth wide open for long. Thanks to that suction equipment which helped me a lot! The moment when he removed the tooth was bit scary. But as that part of my mouth had lost all the senses, I didn’t feel it. After that the stitching started. Doctor told me to close my eyes. But I happened to see something ugly which he put in my mouth. Then I didn’t open my eyes again. While he was putting stitches, once I could not control myself and wanted to either swallow or spit. And the needle was midway in. He didn’t allow me to move, and I had to control myself. That moment was bit weird. And then it was finished. Huh!

Immediately he told me that I should not spit for next 24 hours. Oh my God! You have cotton in your mouth and you are not allowed to spit. The feeling of it made me crazy for few seconds, but what was I going to do? After 5 minutes I came out of everything and became normal. Now I’m carrying cotton and the portion of mouth has started getting senses again. I wanted to write this post before I get the senses back. I don’t know what is going to happen in next 5-6 days. I need to hold this pain. Yes with the help of some pain killers which are so powerful that they drag out all the energy out of me. Nice! Today, I’m keeping oath of silence; apparently though. ;)

What is the difference between a liar and a person whose truth changes from time to time?

As I was going through all the old posts of mine.. my quality of writing has been worsened instead of improving. It is not about language but about the topics I write. Older posts were the thoughts which directly came from heart. It is not that I don’t write now what my heart says. Probably I don’t write most of it. I start writing and then I realize – what rubbish I’m writing and leave it. Even this post I was bored of writing at this sentence. I was going to leave this too. But for a change I thought of keeping even if it sounds foolish.

Probably I need to respect my thoughts more whatever they are. But even it is true that when I respected all my weird thoughts and expressed them, people called me mad. I defended myself that time. But now I don’t feel to explain anything to anyone. I have accepted I think weird. I’m weird. But I don’t want to explain that even in weirdness I’m right.

The above part was written when I was in the mid of going through my all posts. Net was down. So I started writing. Then net was up and I went through all of them. And I’m writing this part after completing all. And then I realized even new posts are not bad. Or if they are bad, then old are bad too. So now there is not much change in me. I still respect my thoughts and express them though they are weird.

Sometimes we assume that we have changed. We are not as good as we were. But truth might be different. Reviewing the past might help. Blog is a nice way to keep your records and to review yourself. 

I was going through all the posts of mine..
I found one I had written but didn’t post it. I don’t know why.


This phase is to teach me new lessons. Lessons are not easy. Fortunately or unfortunately they are related to people.

*Lesson no 1: Avoid emotional attachments with people.

Purpose:
To transform yourself from an emotional person to unemotional. In real words, Kill your emotions.

Reason:
They are going to hurt you in any way. So don't give them such chance to do so. ;)

Ways in which they will hurt you:
1)They won't live as per your expectations.
2)You won't be able to live as per their expectations. :D
3)You both will fulfill expectations of each other. But destiny will separate you. Thenga!! :P
And many more... (List will grow as you will get more experiences.;) ) (Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. :P)


Conclusion:
Keep safe Distance.

*Lesson no 2: Forget the lesson number 1 when you are with your parents. :)

Purpose:
To make you love your parents more.

Reason:
They always live for you. Though you will feel them more interfering, they are just caring for you.

Ways in which they'll care for you:
1)They will ask you thousands of times, What are you doing my dear child? Have you had your lunch, dinner etc. Have some rest!! etc etc.
You get angry when they ask so. But if your friend asks you so (the one who is going to hurt you), you feel nice.
2)They allow you to ignore them. Still they ask you above questions.
3)Even if you hurt them at extreme level, they will come to you back asking above questions again.

Conclusion:
Respect your parents.

There was third lesson too which was again beautiful. But I don’t want people come with questions. :D

जिन्यावर अंधारात
घाईने ती जात होती
केस चुम्बायला गेलो
आले गंगावण हाती

it is a little naughty piece of a poem. I don't remember the poet's name. Its meaning is - She was walking on stairs in the dark. I went to kiss her hair but found myself with a wig in hand. hahaha!

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books, bike..

This week was nice. I read a complete book in a single day after so long. Its a Sidney Sheldon's book.

And I rode to IIT Powai. This was awesome! When I entered inside it, it was amazing to feel that I had come so far on my cycle. I did all wrongs and after wrongs all the rights and I reached. While coming back I hit the speed of 57kmph, I was flying. If it was 6 O’clock in the morning I would not have pressed the break of rear wheel. And I’m sure speed would have been more than 70kmph. Wow! Next time, I’ll leave at 530 to get that speed. The high jump from 12km total to 27km was good in all. And while coming back coincidently I met Pranit and his parents. That was an additional bonus of getting appreciated. ;)

Starting weekend early helped.

I didn’t talk about 2 books that I read few days back. One is Tuesdays with Morrie. Robin Sharma and I think that everyone should read it atleast once! The other book was Life and Times of Hitler – a small book. It influenced me to read history of India and contemporary world.

:)

I believed it again – If you wish something, just make a true desire of it. Bring all positivity into it; from all possible means. Read self help books, meet people who inspire you, read their blogs, read inspiring articles, feel the positivity, bring it from anywhere. And then make the true desire. Destiny will have to give it to you.
And if you don’t get it, if you think you are not able to get all the positivity with you, then that thing is not for you; atleast at that point of time. You might get it at right time. That time, nobody will have to tell you to make a true desire and bring positivity into your thoughts. You’ll do it automatically and you’ll get it. We need to wait! :)

It reminds me of a mail once a friend had sent me. It said – Some people are like bamboo. Bamboo takes 5 years to get the first leaf on it. It takes time to get the power to grow. But when it starts growing, it hits the sky in short time. Bamboo is the tallest grass. So don’t ever criticize yourself. Keep building the power inside you. Positive results will have to come out once.

One more example another friend had given me. Filter coffee. Why filter coffee tastes better than ordinary coffee? Because it has undergone all processing with no shortcuts and no adjustments of taste. It takes time to get prepared. But once it is prepared it tastes the best. Same way we have to put our efforts in whatever we wish to do. Don’t lose faith in yourself. Move at your own pace. One day will be yours. :)

Just like that! :)

Just now, I watched a scene from Wake up Sid on “movie on demand” channel.

It was the scene when Konkana goes with Rahul khanna for a musical program. She says she likes Bollywood songs because they can be easily sung. And with this sentence of hers, he calls her immature. And she gets upset. Before few days if someone called me a child by my behavior, it didn’t matter to me. Rather, I used to be happy that I still have not got all worries that all adults have. I still am not scared of doing impractical things which might be risky but will make me happy. I still do mischief with my friends, my parents and make them smile. I was happy to be a child. But now it is not the age to be a child. Because I have observed that children get ignored easily. They are taken for granted. Many times they remain unanswered. And most importantly, they are considered poor in knowledge or foolish. It is true. It happens with me too. It is a lesson for me. I need to grow up; for myself. Everyone realizes this at early age. I realized it now. Doesn’t matter. Better late than never. :)

The next part of the scene was – she reaches home with bad mood. Everything at home is just the way she wants it to be. But still she keeps talking with irritation to Ranveer. Then he starts pouring water on her face, hair and she starts smiling again. How true! Whenever something is wrong with us, every right thing looks wrong. We need to do some strange, childish but bliss-giving act. And we feel better. Childish things are not bad at all.. but for others. Not for that child. :)

Kung Fu Panda

Watched Kung Fu Panda.
Okayish movie.. but I liked few dialogues like –
“There are no accidents.”

“The mind is like dishwater, my friend. When it is agitated, it becomes difficult to see. But if you allow it to settle, the answer becomes clear.”
“There is no price for awesomeness”

“There is no secret ingredient in making special. To make something special you just have to believe it’s special.”

Also, you can find its nice review here
Read Problems and Solution fields of the above review. ;)

Start of the weekend

Saturday 645 in the morning– I left for cycling, went to ride on Airoli-Mulund Bridge and it was fun. Slopes upwards and downwards, adjusting gears accordingly, feeling the breeze of air, nice road, less pollution and my first ride to go towards Mumbai side; I enjoyed. It is very small bridge though; only 4.5 km. I covered it in 20 min. It was best on downward slope when speed reached 54kmph. I rode it at 18th gear. After riding bike on front 3rd gear, it is very boring to ride even on 2nd gear. Forget about 1st gear then. Today I could effectively enjoy the gear system. Otherwise, till now I always put it on 10th gear and forgot about it.

When I was coming back, I was riding it towards east. And it was the exact time of sunrise. Sun was looking like a red-orange balloon. And it started peeping from the mountains. And slowly it started moving up. Yes, sun rose the same way it raises usually. There was nothing new or unordinary. But still दिल खुश हो गया! I had almost fallen in love with the sun when I had read Mrutunjay. And today it reminded me of that again.

Odds and ends

Last 2 weeks.. They were different. They were full of excitement, depression, also the happiness. I was following different paths at the same time. Or was I getting all flavors on the same path? Who knows?

***

People will throw mud on you and won’t allow you even to clean it.

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We all forget to tell someone that he is very nice, he behaved bravely, he was very good at certain moment etc. But we can’t keep mum when someone is not doing, talking the way we feel is correct.

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My buy of bike was also different than usual. I hardly go for shopping (exception – books). And even if I go, my shopping finishes in one shop in very small time. But this time it was long journey. I actually checked models online, I tried few of them properly. I had to convince my parents. I had to bear the laugh of others when I brought out the topic of bicycle. One reason – my health. (Everyone thinks I’m not strong enough to ride bicycles for long) The other reason – I don’t want to predict it. People like to oppose for no reason. Anyway, I didn’t care of the second reason. But for first reason, I know how to overcome it. I think I *can* do it. So there was no reason to think on people’s opposition. How can I forget? There was one more reason I heard. It was so weird, I couldn’t stop laughing. The reason is that only dabewalas and kamwalis ride cycle in Pune. :P

And I am shocked with the people’s attitude about bicycle here. In Europe, many people use bicycles for their daily travel. In most of the western countries, it’s the same. Bicycles give you so many benefits. First, you get good exercise. Your stamina improves. You can reduce the pollution around you. Thus it is good for your health and for that of others too. And people laugh here on such an intelligent thing. My reason to buy cycle is that I like it to ride it. Unfortunately my parents are not allowing me to ride it on Pune’s rule breaking traffic. Otherwise it would have been very nice to ride it at least for 10km every day. Anyway, I’ll wait for that too. ;)

Till then I can enjoy it on Mumbai’s street. :)

***

Life is random; absolutely random. A single incidence can change the whole picture. We need to accept every picture and whenever it changes, we need to adjust ourselves to fill colors in it the way we want. Some people change the colors, brushes, directions and try to make it again the way it was. Some of them like the new one and continue with it without changing the colors, brushes and directions. Or some choose different options with different changes in the picture. Again, it is also absolutely random.

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Some doubted whether I’m really a software engineer. This was momentarily depressing. But I move at my own pace. Let people doubt anything. They can’t judge me on a single incidence. Still, निंदकाचे घर असावे शेजारी!

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When we ask some people if what we did is right or wrong, they will always say no, giving me all the reasons why I’m wrong. Whenever I will be in doubt whether I’m doing wrong or right I need to ask such people their opinion. I will get more confidence in continuing what I’m doing. ;)

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We hold some dream. We wait for it for long. And it comes true at wrong time. And we can’t accept it. In fact we refuse. The moment when we refuse it is a nice experience. We should keep getting it. :)

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Today I went with all my chandal choukdi.. I always feel nice when I meet them. :)

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Happy Valentine day to all!

एक वेड़ीची चारोळी

इथे मी सोडून
सगळ्या शहाणयांची वस्ती आहे
मलाही तेच हवय - मला वेड म्हणून का असेना
पण सगळ्या मध्ये वेगळ् उठून दिसायची मस्ती आहे

My Dhanno..

Finally, after convincing my parents for 6 months and in parallel surfing on net about bikes, trying some of the bike models, listening to some health care centers and some people who enjoy underestimating other people and specially girls when girls do something different than most other girls do, (Sharan, I’m not talking childish here. You should have been there when I got to hear such things), I bought new bike. \o/

If you want to have a look at it, click.

18 gears, light-weight (alloy frame) and all good things made it little (little? :D) costly. I was going to buy one with a price Rs. 4800 and just because of my height I kept on trying different models and bought this one.
I have never bought such an expensive thing for myself. My sister had bought laptop and cell phone for me. I didn’t realize it that time but today I could feel how our mind agitates when we spend more than what we had planned.

Anyway, all worry, agitation went when I rode it. :D I rode it for 9 km today. After longgggggggg I did so much of exercise and that on my favorite bike – wow! I’m gonna make my mom ride it. That’s it for today. I’ll write more when I’ll ride it more. :)

:)

You see a flower. You like it a lot! You hold it. You smell it. It fascinates you. You feel the bliss. You carry it with you. You already had a bag in your other hand. One hand carries the flower very carefully and other carries the bag. You don’t want to spoil the flower. You smell it again and again because you liked it a lot – it has become special for you. Now someone calls you up. You want to take out your mobile from your pocket. But both of your hands are busy. Oh! What will you do? You don’t want to throw the flower. But you also want to hold mobile. Now you feel the burden of your special flower. You speak - Oh I should not have carried it. I can’t throw it, I can’t hold it. (I can’t explain what flower had felt that time. I never talked to flower.) Now you say it is ok. You try to manage with it. Now you carry flower and the bag in one hand. Somehow you manage it. Wow! You still have the pretty flower. You finish your talking on phone. You keep the mobile inside pocket. Now your hand is free to take the flower. But you assume flower is safe. And it is better to have the hand free to hold something else; if needed. You keep walking. Sometimes you smell the flower but still keep walking with flower and bag in the same hand. Now you reach your destination. You keep the bag aside and check the flower. And there you see it – it is dry because you crushed it; unknowingly, unintentionally. Still you try to smell it – but it can’t make you happy now. It has died.


Was it a mistake of the flower that it became burden on the person who had no ability to handle it carefully? No. But we can’t even blame the person. It is very natural behavior of a human - to unknowingly destroy special thing and just move ahead without triggering his thought process on it. We all are like that. And why we are so – no one has the answer. But it is a truth without any theory. :)

Cohesion

I was reading the concept of Cohesion in Java and remembered of an incidence which was described in Five Point Someone.

It is a discussion between Ryan and Hari when Hari was impressed of Cherian.
Cherian gives an example of Shirt Factory, where he divides the task of manufacturing a shirt into 3 activities – cutting the cloth, stitching the shirt and sewing the buttons. And he explains how it’d we profitable to an industry if the complete task of manufacturing shirt is divided this way and given to 3 persons. He explains how it’d save time with the parallelism and also it’d need less equipments like for 3 persons, only one scissor will be needed as only one person will do cutting and blah blah blah. Of course Hari gets impressed but when he tells this to Ryan, Ryan feels disgust about reducing tailors into cloth cutters and button sewer.

How true! Business increases efficiency, productivity – but of what? Of its own. And that is how an engineer/artist becomes a worker. :)

The day your to-do list starts including activities of other persons which precede with “Getting” and end with “done”, then know that you changed the track. ;)

I thought of writing here.. http://phulpakharu.livejournal.com/

hehe!

'A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.' - Louis Pasteur

Trek Bike - Yeah! :)

Yeah! I rode an awesome bike today. I never rode such a fantastic bike. Once I had ridden Sharan’s, but it was just for 5 minutes and that at the parking space of Amdocs. I couldn’t even realize the difference between his and mine. I wish I had ridden it more.

If you want to see the bike I rode today – click.
For more info - click
I enjoyed it a lot, but not to the fullest. To understand its effectiveness and the difference with my fatichar (but my loving one :) ) bike, I need to explore this one more, I need to ride it on hillside area. Wow, what a thrilling experience it would be when I will ride it on hillside area. I remember when I went to Mahabaleshwar, looking at the area I wished I had taken a bike there. A bike on a hill; you are riding it; especially when you come down. Wow! I just can’t imagine. I’ll fly like a bird. :)

This bike is excellent. It takes care of itself very well and of us too. The one I rode today was bit tall for me. Still I could ride it properly. If I buy it for me for my height, I’m sure I’m going to be in love with it. Harshad, thanks a lot for showing it to me and giving me to ride. It is good that I couldn’t buy one for myself before 3 months. Otherwise I would have repented. Still I don’t know whether I will buy such an expensive bike or not. But once after riding this one, would I like to buy any other bike?

I know that all Health Care Centers around me are going to make faces when I will buy my bike. ;)

Butterfly ;)