Wednesday, November 4, 2009

passion

how do you feel when u get sick? how efficient are you with your work when sick? i generally dont feel like doing anything even when exams are just a few days away when i get sick. now if tomorrow, you get some serious illness and some doctor later diagnosed you with some serious life threatening disease and tells that there is no cure to this disease and u r going to spent your whole life in bed. what are u going to do? r u going to just sleep in ur bed and curse GOD for giving u such a pathetic life or u going to stop regretting abt your condition and start looking at things that u can still do. i guess most of us are are going to choose the later than former.

the reason why m talking abt such condition is because m going to talk alittle bit abt a guy who inspite of experiencing such life is doing extraordinary things. m talking of Prof. Stephen Hawkings. like everyone else he was born normal and later on his 20's he was diagnosed with a disease called motor neuron, a life threatening disease that paralyzed most of his body organs for the rest of his life. but this was not enough to stop him from doing what wanted to do when being in good condition, he continued his research(his passion) and published numerous papers and even wrote a bestseller book "a brief history of time". when asked abt how does he feel abt his disability he says that he fells normal, he does n't think abt his conditions and abt things that he cann't do which are nt many.

so, now i start to wonder why do many of us find it difficult to find passion in our live even though we have every part of our body in good shape. why cannt we live a happy life, why are we unsatisfied, why do we keep thinking abt things that we cannt do rather than thinking abt things that we do. whats keeps us away from finding our passion. is it because we guys always look at others and try to follow their walked paths? why cant we look at ourselves and make our own paths? the answer is all within us.

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

effortless yet requires an effort

many times in our life we come across problems whose solution are so simple yet it requires lot of effort and time to finally find that simple solution.same was the case with me, for the last 6 days i was trying to figure out the problem behind my inability to convert a file to an oxt file , which ofcourse i was able to change in one of my friends comp(just need to rename the extension). so, i started to do all sorts of searching in net and tried to find if any software is required to do the change. however, most of the sites mentioned the same i.e zip together the .aff file and .dic file and then change the extension to .oxt, which i already did, and didnt serve the purpose.

so now i started to find fault with my computer, i thought maybe it's because of my computer, as only a month and a half ago i formatted my laptop with an pirated xp cd. maybe due to this my lapi might have lost some software that were required to make the change compatible. so i did sort of lose hope that my problem would ever get solved.

the next two days , i didnt try to touch the problem. today, i thought why dont i try it again in one of my friend's comp, and i tried and guess what it worked.i tried to do the same again in my lapi, still not working. then after few minutes i realized that i wasnt actually changing the extension in my lapi, i was just renaming the file i.e from file x to file x.oxt (what a foolish thing to do) as the extensions were hidden(this was the real problem). after little bit of searching, i was able to undo the hidden extensions(go to the folder,then tools, click view then untick the hide extensions of known file) and then the problem was solved. had i would have known the real problem(which i should have been as a computer science student), the problem would have never existed or solved in few minutes. such kind of problem can occur to best of us, but the moral to be learned is to be prepared for such and keep trying to figure out the REAL problem......

Saturday, October 3, 2009

just a thought.....

well m excited this time abt going home, not just because i get some time to spend with my mom and dad, but because m going to spend this Diwali with my parents after a gap of five years. so i have already started planning abt what to do, how to do and etc etc. like some of u guys know my home town is in a place called kokrajhar (people do find it too difficult to remember, so they keep asking me every year).its abt some x kms frm ghy(i dont know even approximately), but 5 hrs by bus and 6 hrs by train. mostly i prefer going by bus than train not because its faster, but because i hate travelling by train,
why?

i hate travelling by train not because

a)it's crowded most of the time.
b)it's because its stops almost every station.
c)it's not very clean.
d)it's takes longer than bus to reach home.
e)all the above.

the reason, is that i fell guilty when i travel by train. every time i go to the station, i find children from slum areas nearby walking here and there and asking money from every person they crossed by. seeing these children and some just few months old sleeping at the station, makes me fell guilty every time i step at the station. i fell even more pathetic at not being able to do anything in spite of witnessing their condition. i remember the time when i was once a child, i used to say to myself that one day i will do something for these people. well the day is still to come...

sometimes i wonder how much one works hard to fulfill his dreams, the magnitude of pain he bears and the things he sacrifices just to come to a destined point in his life. for eg,the amount of hard work we guys do to come to IIT, to become a 10 pointer. why dont we guys also do the same in this direction. why do we guys need to keep pointing to the government when it comes to helping these section of the people. i know there is a huge difference in working to make his own life and working for other sections of people, the later as a whole becomes a political one. but still why dont we discuss and try some algorithms, instead of letting some great mahatma to come and solve it at one go(i doubt if it gona happen ever). why dont we try it iteration by iteration. i know its tough, its difficult and many obstacles to face, many barriers to overcome, and till we break all these constraints, i will continue to hate travelling through train......

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

My Friend' s GaL

its odd to write anything abt any of my friend's gf, but i guess its OK when ur friend itself comes and asked u to do so. though, i don't understand why he chose me. maybe he trusts me too much...so a week ago we met and he shared his story with me. now he wants me to share his story to the whole world(as if the whole world is waiting patiently for my next article). but he took my word to not to mention either his name or his gf's. so,this is how the story begins....

note:all names used here are fictional

once upon a time there was this romantic guy call say Prem. Prem, besides being romantic was shy too. i can recall from the school days once when Jenny asked for a pen to him, his hands were shivering giving away. he once told me that he had a crush on Jenny till class VII.

one fine day it was raining hard. it was already 9:15 am and he had to reach the school before 9:50 as our class starts by 10am(by the way we were in class VIII at that time). he and his brother were having a hard time finding a rickshaw. after walking for some distance, finally they saw a rickshaw, so he and his brother ran fast to catch it before some other guy takes it. when he reached there and was almost abt to get up, he heard a soft voice from behind "hey can i take this rickshaw, actually m kina late for the school". when he turn behind to say no, he was no more in this world, he was in a wonderland where he had found the angel of his life, from nowhere came the words "yes, ofcourse". so this is how our hero met his heroine for the first time.


a year past after the "Rain Day" and still a second meeting to be decided. he tried to find her everywhere but he couldnt find her anywhere. then one day, he went to his math teacher's house to talk for a tuition, there he notice something familiar, oh there she was, finally his search ended, he had found her. his teacher asked him to come from the next day and wonder what, he was in same batch as her, woh what a jack pot.....the LUCKY DAy....from this days onwards every night before going to the tuition, he used to plan abt how to approach her. each time he sees her he could hardly bring a word to her.this way days past and then months and then the 9th std. his 9th exams didnt go good, though nothing unusual in that but maths, the subject he used to do well even with less practice didn't go good. so in the 10 std, his tuition teacher put him in a batch which didn't had her(as she was good in studies). this upset him a bit, but not much though.that year he started to do those things that he never did in his previous years, he started take parts in all sports events(he was the house captain) and soon discovered that he was good in almost all the sports, and best at cricket. he even become sort of serious at studies too. but still every night when he slept, he used to think of her. every time he saw her on the road, his heart beat used to get doubled and his body get cold even on hot summer.

finally he completed his 10th broad exam, then she went to other city for higher studies. the feeling of not ever getting a chance to see her did make him feel sad, but he moved ahead, really ahead and today after 7 years he is sitting at CCD with his friends at IIM Bangalore discussing abt some case studies. by the way he graduated this year from IIT Roorkee. it amazes me very much when i analyze his life, his transition from a shye guy in school to guy handling a case studies at IIMB. well this is life, it all abt expecting the unexpected. but one thing is still the same to his school days, that is his still single, he hasn't talked to her since 10th. when i asked him what inspires him to aim higher and higher goals in life, he has just one answer- his love for the girl..........

Sunday, September 6, 2009

man from space


when i was a child, i used to walk at night counting the number of stars in the sky and used to wonder why don't i ever finished my counting. as i grew older i came to know that stars are like a sun, oh what have i said, i mean sun is a star which is closest to our planet than any of the other millions and millions of stars that exist in the universe(thanks to guys called Physicists). sometimes as a child, i dreamed if ever i get a chance to go to space but as i grew up i realized that going to space is not what i exactly want to do though it might sound really big. but yes even today, whenever i hear in news abt some astronaut going to space, it still gives me the same excitement as it was as a child. to become an astronaut is really a challenging task, not just because it requires multi-dimensional talent, but it requires a great management skills to use those talents.

so today, getting a chance to meet a NASA Astronaut was truly something which i never thought i would ever get in my life. it was really a honour, thanks to IIT Guwahati Techniche team 2009. his name is Mike Fincke (nam to suna hi hoga)and is a colonel of USAF too besides being an astronaut at NASA and holds the record of 365 days at space.he gave a nice lecture on life at space and how beautiful our planet looks from the space. it was a wonderful experience to get to know abt space from the mouth of the guy who has been there.it was really a life time experience, i dont know if ever i get such a chance more in my life.m falling short of words now(thats why i should not be journalist) and thank you Techniche,
jai ho Techniche

Sunday, August 30, 2009

CooooooooooooLneSSS

as i was abt to start writing this article, suddenly i felt some vibrations in my room, soon i realized it was an earthquake. since its a 3rd time in 3rd week and only a week ago i read in news abt the chance for 3rd quake to be a real one, by real i mean disastrous one, i start to wonder is this not the one. so i got up of my chair and went out of room hurriedly to find some open place but thank God, there was no need for this, it stop as soon as i went out of my room. it was a small one, infact smaller than the previous two. as i said earlier that i was abt to start a aritcle before the quake interrupted my start, so why not now i start. let me keep the title the same as i had thought before. I was abt to start this way:

living in a room besides the room of coolest man on this planet also makes u feel cool. i have been living in this room for the almost a month now, i got to know this cool creature in better way(though i known for the last 4 years)......this guy is unique in unique way(ofcourse all of us r unique as amir had already mentioned in TRZ).he sleeps early in the morning and wakes up in the evening,hardly keeps any hair in his head, rarely goes to class and hardly studies, attend quizess without any preparation, i doubt if he studies even before any semester exams, yet he brings better grade than me and many other studious guys. well the above were things that he doesn't do ,lets talk abt things that he does, he starts his day by playing bachcoo bala games, he even plays guitar and guys he plays it dam good(he is the main guitarist of the IITG rock band),and my friends even consider him to be the best guitarist of iitg. and when he is not playing guitar or games or sleeping, that => that he talking to his beautiful and hot girlfriend. he once introduced his gf to me, let me tell u guys she is really hot, really really hot, infact i was hardly able to throw any words from my mouth (when introduced). guys dont disturb him while he is on phone with his gf, thats one of the time he can lose his cool status and the other time being while he is sleeping. and yea once he is on phone with his gf and dont expect him to be free for the next 2 hours.....guys he holds the record of talking to his gf for 23 HOURS.......,UNBELIEVABLE, BELIEVE IT. I guess i have written a lot abt him so m gona sign off ......
gnt and ....oh i forgot to mention his name , his name is.....
why nt u better find out....

Friday, August 21, 2009

shillong trip





hey folks, m writing this article after quite a long time and about a trip that i had some month and a half ago. i was visiting Shillong for a 2nd time and the last time i visited if i can correctly remember was in previous century, i mean 1999. it was a wonderful trip, i along with two yaars - Deepesh and Jitu had a wonderful time.
Day 1
we visited elephant falls, army champ, view point, golf coast and some parks. on evening we had a nice walk at police bazaar feeling the cold breeze around. one thing i notice abt shillong, though it's not a big city as it is compared to guwahati(which has been my home for the last 5 years), but its very well organized and is really clean. but yes like other places in the world, this beautiful place too is becoming hotter. one of the reason for this can be pollutions, and other which contribute to the same and is the increasing use of Air Conditioners, in short AC. i don't understand why do some people need to use AC, when u like in a hilly and cold place like Shillong.

Day 2,
at 6am after having a lite breakfast(we had bananas), we started out trip to cherrapunji. we guys booked a taxi the day before so that we guys can stop at any place we liked and explore. when we reached cherrapunji, it was raining, not hard but not lite too, obviously we were happy that it was raining. on the way whenever we found some place that needs to be explored we stop the taxi and had a look at them. we had a great time at mawsmai cave, where guys spend maximum amount of time. its was really interesting and a prevellege to see such nature's made cave, interesting because inspite of all the earth's gravitational force, this cave has survived for so many centuries and prevellege as i dont know in my life how many such natural caves i gona see more.

cherranpunji is truly a beautiful place, its full of nature's gifts. it was my first vist here and honestly a great one. i never thought there exist such a beautiful place in north-east.we came back to shillong after a great time at C, and it was time to get back home.........
i have upload my pics here, have a c at them....

Monday, August 3, 2009

7th sem

its been already few days here at the campus and the beginning of the end of life at IITG. its been a wonderful journey so far, wonderful in the sense that this inst taught me so many things abt life than anywhere else in my life till now. i faced lot of downfalls here and also a some uphills.also met lot of friends from all over the country and became close friends to few.

this sem is important of all the previous sems, not because it's one of the sem of my final year, but because this sem has lot of events like - placement, BTP, CAT, MAT, GRE and i dont know what more......so in no way one can ever take this sem lightly, . classes have already started and the courses dont seam to be any easy....., so got to take things seriously......

i dont have any words to write anymore, m signing off rgt now....c u again....

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

first

as this is my first article of this new blog, i would like to start this blog with some new of my favorite quotes:

"every day is tiny little test"----------from Scrubs

"play every single point as a match point"-------------Rafa(tennis player and world no. 1)

"no individual player is bigger than the game"---------Roger Federer(tennis player and former world no 2)

"when u want something the whole world conspires u to achieve it"----old man from alchemist.