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......

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......