Correction

Yesterday a colleague of mine and I were discussing deep philosophy about life. I was trying to remember some joke to relax him. He was referring to some mistakes he thought he had done in past, which is still affecting his life.

Cut to a story I remembered.

There was a ship sailing. It was destined to reach Chennai in India. The captain was a very wise and old man. A freshman sailor was also in the crew, who was given responsibility of keeping the close eye on ship's direction at night, when most of the crew would retire to sleep. He was told to use the compass to do his job, and any change was to be reported to captain immediately.

Few weeks later, the ship reached near the land. Captain observed that it wasnt Chennai exactly. They found later it wasnt India at all. They had reached Sri Lanka. Immediately captain ordered entire crew on the deck. And started to find the cause of such enormous mistake. When he finished most of the crew with questioning, he suddenly remembered the fresh sailor for the night duty. He went to him and asked, "Was there any change in the needle of the compass?"
The sailor said, "No". Captain asked again, "Wasnt there even a small change in the needle direction?"

"Oh Yes", sailor remembered, "But it was just a fraction. It was not even changed to next smallest degree mark in the compass."

"Son, that small fraction has cost us more than 500 miles. Had you reported me that fraction of change in direction we would have corrected it the next day. Even it was small at the time in the direction of our destination, in the due time now you see, has put us far far away from our destination."

Back to our discussion, isnt it that we ignore small change which may distract us from our original destination? Since we ignore, we dont plan to correct it at proper time. And by the time we realize we might have reached Sri Lankan shores.

I love short stories, it takes away pain of consoling friends !

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20 January

Someone said,
"Love is one long sweet dream, and marriage is the alarm clock."

We are listening the alarm from 3 years, may the long sweet dream be longer, full of madness, love.

And as far as alarm is concerned, we have found the snooze button !

Happy Anniversary Dear !*

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*I hate pink color.

New Folder

How many "New Folder" do you have in your system?

Does it indicate we are not efficient in managing data in our system?

I've got 8. How many you've got ?

Try searching !

New Launch

Two weeks ago I started a new blog to put the content for reading which I liked from net or fwd emails. My idea was to put everything that I like to read including quotes, stories, jokes anything for reading. But so far most of the items have been only good jokes.

I decided to put a post everyday(only on working days!), and so far I have not missed any day starting from 5th June. Lets hope everybody get their daily dose of good read regularly.

Cheers.

Pahechano Kaun

After almost a decade, and following some learning from learn-to-draw, today I created my first drawing. Its far from what can be called even a good drawing.

I asked Purvi to recognize the face. After few try I told that this person is on the front page of today's Times of India.

After comparing the photos, she said, "yes, exactyly he is. Just need to improve little on the right ear, left cheek, upper head and lower lip."
She liked the eyes and suit anyway.

From her feedback I am just postponing the question to be asked to anybody for a few days.
Here is my creation.
He is not Andrew Symonds after a hair-cut.

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Please Explain

Last week it struck again. From a long time I am not able to figure out what following lines(red and bold) mean in the song?
Here is the full lyric of the song "Oh mere dil ke chain" from the movie "Mere jeevan sathi"

Oh mere dil ke chain
chain aaye mere dil ko dua kijiye
apnaa hi saaya dekhke tum jaane jahaan sharma gaye
abhi to yeh pehli manzil hai, tum to abhi se ghabra gaye
mera kya hoga socho to zara
haai aise na aahe bharaa kijiye

Aap ka armaan aap ka naam mera tarana aur nahin
in jhukti palkon ke sivaa dil ka thikaanaa aur nahin
jachta hi nahin aankhon mein koi
dil tumkho hi chaahe to kya kijiye

Yun to akela bhi aksar girke sambhal sakta hoon main
tum jo pakad lo haath mera duniya badal sakta hoon main
maanga hai tumhe duniya ke liye
ab khud hi sanam faisla kijiye.

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Wednesday On toh Mobile Off

After trying for a day, now its final. Every Week, Wednesday On toh Mobile Off !
When you got admitted to hospital for few days, and have nothing else to do other than watch glucose entering your body drop by drop from bottles and think over on some weird ideas. The situation gets more interesting by the fact that each drop takes 6 seconds to enter your body and one bottle is full of 4200 drops.

One of the weird ideas to be implemented was to reduce the amount of time you spend with your mobile. Now see, the mobile is with us 24 hours by 7. In the morning it wakes you up, reminds you your important dates, put you through voices and messages important to you(with some exception of credit cards and personal loan voices!). For some lucky people their company bars the use of mobile phone inside the office premises. But otherwise its always with you.

No more now. In the effort to reduce my friendship with my mobile, one day of the week is dedicated to "No-mobile-today-no-matters-what". And the day is Wednesday. And if it will permit, the other days of the week can also join with Wednesday !

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Weekend Special

What is the best timepass for the weekend after crushing ur head with tons of software code??

-Sleep till 11 in the morning.

-Go jogging.

-Watch a Movie.

-Go shopping.

No, get inspiration and then,

ladies and gentleman , here introducing the weekend special chef!

Item No:1 "Bhakhari Pizaa" (ભાખરી પિઝા)

Step 1

Prepare chopped tomatoes, capsicum, onion.

Step 2

Prepare bhakhari, a little thicker than normal.

Step 3

Fry the onion+tomatoes+capsicum+sauce(optional) with butter/oil.

Step 4

Spread the fried material on the bhakhari. u can spread cheese and other topping if required.

Step 5

Relish !

Item No:2"Dabeli"
Step1
Get dabeli masala(kuchh fame, available at many places). When u next time goto Gujarat remember this!

Step2
Go for shopping. But 2* packets of pav. (*conditions apply).

Step3

Boil potatoes in cooker. Peel them. Mesh them. Add dabeli masala. Add chilly. Again mesh them. The height of dabeli taste is directly proportional to ur ability of meshing ! If u can mesh it properly, u have won half the war.

Step4

Cut the pav. Put the aloo mixture in between. Now the remaining half battle starts. Put oil/butter on the pan and fry the prepared pav. Don't forget to "push" the pav, that's how it becomes dabeli !! make sure it doesnt get burnt.

Step5

Get ur self sauce(best enjoyed with khajur-amli ki chatney) and enjoy the hot dabeli. Toppings(sev, anaar, onion) will increase the taste.

Precaution: Keep the digestion tablets handy.

And after all this, u will get a more activity to bust the blues, write a blog about ur kitchen adventure!!

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14 out of 60

"Roll no 28?"

"Yes sir?"

"Fail"

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"14 out of 60"

"Roll no 29?"

"Yes sir?"

"52 out of 60. Good."


Unfortunately roll no 28 was mine. The subject was Mathematics. Standard was 10th. Exam was preliminary.

Fortunately it was the day when first, papers are only shown to students, 1 week prior to the results to be declared and parents are invited to view the papers. (That was great funda of my school that I didn’t like for obvious reasons this time.)

On the way home after the school, there were 10^2 thoughts why students all around the world (world was limited to 4 schools where my pals were studying and we all had same feeling about the subject.) hate mathematics.

In the evening union after I described my problem,
Ank: “Have u told home?”
Me: “No”
Bha: “Don’t worry yaar, this is just preliminary. You will definitely get good marks in board exam. You always get good marks among us.”

But my glorious score (14/60) had put all of them and me in doubt.

4 days later

It was the day when results were to be declared. And I had the famous “stomach pain” from the morning to avoid the news as much as possible. So I got my bunk approved from mom and dad. Dad suggested he can collect the result from school if required.
Forgetting my “pain”, I jumped out of bed and said, “No dad, you please don’t bother abut that. They may give me tomorrow. And this Saturday anyway we have to go and see the papers.”
Dad said, “Yes, that’s true.”
I said, (in prayer mode): “Yes, that’s true. O teachers; cancel the plan of showing papers for this year at least.”

5:55 pm the same day

I saw Hiren coming toward our home with the broad smile on his face. I knew he was a regular failure, and he must be happy this time that I am accompanying him. He stopped in front of the gate and before I can kick him away, he shouted: “Navneet, why didn’t you come to school today! You got 14 marks in maths.”

There was no question mark in the first sentence he uttered.

After the dinner the same day

I declared the result to my parents. (Mom was not home when Hiren shouted.)

No scolding.
Only few questions.
My honest answers.
New plan to study maths.
Hard Work. (not mine)

Result: 97 marks in maths board exam.

Many asked how i did that. i remembered one famous line :

In Mathematics you dont understand things, you just get used to them.

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