Thursday, November 13, 2008

gurunanak jayanti


well i am a great believer in destiny and i think today was a very good example of it. Somehow i slept yesterday at 10 and woke up at 9(am and not pm). then i found santya's compu unattended and so i sat there and logged in gmail. as soon as i logged in, Shainky pinged me and we chatted for some time. she told me that she was planning to go to Langar held at gurudwara as it was Gurunanak Jayanthi and she invited me to come along with her group. I wasnt very interested at first, but later when she told that Sultan and Singla would go, i also thought of going. Then i invited Dabba to come along with us and so he also joined us, ofcourse with his better half,Dhakan.

We reached gurudwara and bowed in front of GuruGrantSahib, the holy book of Sikhs. Then we sat little while to listen to the songs that were being sung by the group at the dias. It was nice soothing music. After listening to it for 10 mins, we got up to join the queue for the people who were waiting for the langar lunch. Our plan was to become volenteers first, and after some time to have our lunch. However it wasnt as easy as we had planned. Very obviously there were many volenteers there and so we were asked to wait. The wait as always was very long and what made it longer was that the wait for really around 45 mins long. And after we crossed the first gate, we not only had to wait longer but we started suffocating also. However it was totally worth it.

Firstly, I got to see Baccha in suit and she really looked beautiful. Secondly, I got to do what i always like, volenteer. Thirdly, it reminded me my days in mangalore car festival where i used to volenteer to distribute food items. ofcourse there i used to distribute the one which is most easy, the laddo, u just give one to each and people are ready with their hands cupped to catch it. But with curry items, it is difficult as u have to serv the right amount and also keep asking if they require more of it. However today i selected the difficult part as there was no easy way out. So i started distributing daal. I distributed for around 15 mins and then sat for lunch myself.

Lunch consisted of roti, daal, aalo ki sabji, rice and prasad. It was very tasty and since we were very hungry, the food became more tastier. After lunch, i again started distributing for some time and then we came back to hostel.

If i had not slept early last night, i wouldnt get the chance to visit langar at all.

Monday, November 10, 2008

dabba's secret blog

i was thinking about should i also maintain a secret blog unknown to anyone other than me. but i didnt find any reason to do so. infact i found why it will be a mistake for me to do so. as far as i know myself, i keep very little secret inside my stomach and most of "should be kept" secrets are known to one or other friends of mine. so it is deffinetly not a reason for me to maintain such a blog. another reason why someone can maintain a blog is to write down some of the most bad things he has imagined or would like to do but isnt allowed to do in normal life. but then, i think, if those are bad things why should anyone think about it, more-over spend time thinking and writing about it in a blog. while thinking this is when i realized that the most horrible things done or imagined by one which he would like to keep it as a secret are the ones he committed when he was alone.

this reminded me of the shloka in sanskrit--" the crime committed when one is alone, is the one which haunts the person most".

that is one plus point i feel christianity has. their tradition of confession in church is very good to get free from such horrible experiences.

heaven so near

i feel like i am writing this from heaven. this might just be silly but i thought that i should mention it here. i luckily got a chance of laying my hands on dabba's philips headphone and i wanted to listen to kailash kher's saiyyan and tu meri jaan hai. Coincidentally the volume was maximum. the first line i heard made me reach heaven, that i swhen i thought i should enter this in my blog.

Sunday, November 9, 2008

being non-alchoholic

It seems that I might be the last person in our group who has not tasted alcohol yet. Well I dont say it as an achievement as I have not gained anything from this, other than a little self esteem that I still have some part of my brain under my control. However the war so far against so called bad habits (i no longer think controlled drinking and smoking is a bad habit but anything in excess is bad and i think smoking and drinking habits are more prone to reach that level) hasnt always been one-sided and there have been times where in the barrier was almost broken, but luckily that time has not yet come.

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

need to find out why this happens

courtesy ::: math point

Think of any 4 non-zero digits, where not all four digits are the same. Arrange the digits in descending order and ascending order and compute the difference. For instance, if the digits are 3,3,2 and 1,

3321-1233=2088

Repeat the above step by rearranging the result into ascending and descending order and compute the difference.

8820-0288=8532

Reiterating,

8532-2358=6174,

Strangely,

7641-1467=6174

The process terminates when the number reaches 6174. We can use another example,

9750-0579=9171
9711-1179=8532
8532-2358=6174

and Viola! We get the same result again! Can you figure out why this happens?

condition better than last time

last time i wrote in this blog, i was feeling very sad and disappointed with life. this time the situation has not improved any better. but i know the reason why i am feeling so. i havent been doing any good with my studies and that is why being treated as a waste body by everyone. however as always i am waiting for my time and i know it is going to come soon. just need to be very careful so that i dont do anything very foolish so that i loose any good friends. just want to complete my final year as soon as possible with some passing marks. have got bored of this daily life of leaving without any purpose. present plan is to start studying for CAT but again finding very little interest to do so. however the good thing that has happened between the last time i wrote in this blog and now is, i have gained good information about share market and trading. will try to collect more and more info about it.