Digital cameras are very useful in making memories permanent, BUT do not allow us to form impressions.
The Eiffel tower looks great, especially in the night when the yellow lights suggest that the entire structure is made up of gold. BUT, instead of looking at it and reflecting upon its grandeur, all that I do is to click photos.
This is the bane of digital cameras. The owner shifts focus to making memories that perhaps last longer than the owner's lifetime, but suffers from a lack of personal impressions and memories. A price too great to be paid. It would be better to go and look at it, to wonder, to form impressions than to look at it constantly through the camera's lens and click photos.
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Monday, February 28, 2005
Tuesday, February 22, 2005
SHARCS - Paris
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
philosophy.......
S wrote this to me:
"theres something in Bhagawat geetha that says "Everything that happens, happens for the good" ....so not to
worry!"
I replied back:
I like the weakness in being
expectant, of having expectation.
for perhaps, perhaps, the joy in getting the
expectation fulfilled compensates the sadness in it
not getting fulfilled. moreover it provides that ray
of hope, to which we can cling on. and though we might
slip and fall down, we again perhaps look for another
ray of hope to cling on.
if everything that happens, happens for the good, then
I should have been a very happy man now.
so the Bhagvad Gita gives a simpler way to lead life, to
leave all expectations and all thoughts of the fruit.
yes, I agree, if one sacrifices the joy of
expectations being fulfilled, then how can there be
sorrow? that is also my complaint with that philosophy
(though I TRY to follow it), that, I have to sacrifice
all joys so that I do not feel sad.
while my aim was to not have sorrows only.
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"theres something in Bhagawat geetha that says "Everything that happens, happens for the good" ....so not to
worry!"
I replied back:
I like the weakness in being
expectant, of having expectation.
for perhaps, perhaps, the joy in getting the
expectation fulfilled compensates the sadness in it
not getting fulfilled. moreover it provides that ray
of hope, to which we can cling on. and though we might
slip and fall down, we again perhaps look for another
ray of hope to cling on.
if everything that happens, happens for the good, then
I should have been a very happy man now.
so the Bhagvad Gita gives a simpler way to lead life, to
leave all expectations and all thoughts of the fruit.
yes, I agree, if one sacrifices the joy of
expectations being fulfilled, then how can there be
sorrow? that is also my complaint with that philosophy
(though I TRY to follow it), that, I have to sacrifice
all joys so that I do not feel sad.
while my aim was to not have sorrows only.
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Sunday, February 06, 2005
The new apartment
when I landed here, went straight to the new home. It is block of apartments, high rise buildings with many people living, a representation of people in this city.
Its an ok place. Though not as good as the earlier wherein I had a BIG window for myself, where there were trees and lawns and benches (I had planned many a time to go and sit on them, but alas never could), where there were nice little streets with trees growning, ya that was a better place in terms of nature.
Here we dont have the dryer not the washer in the apartment. Have to go to the ground floor to get the clothes done. But that is not a big hassle.
Its been a week only and I haven't seen the whole place yet. But for sure one complaint is that my room (which I share) has a little window which anyway is where my roomie sits. So I dont have a window, no access to the sky, no exit from where I can fly.....
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Its an ok place. Though not as good as the earlier wherein I had a BIG window for myself, where there were trees and lawns and benches (I had planned many a time to go and sit on them, but alas never could), where there were nice little streets with trees growning, ya that was a better place in terms of nature.
Here we dont have the dryer not the washer in the apartment. Have to go to the ground floor to get the clothes done. But that is not a big hassle.
Its been a week only and I haven't seen the whole place yet. But for sure one complaint is that my room (which I share) has a little window which anyway is where my roomie sits. So I dont have a window, no access to the sky, no exit from where I can fly.....
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Friday, February 04, 2005
Life twists and life turns.....
As I sit and brood endlessly on the direction of my life. worry about what I want and where I am going, I suddenly see that there are a lot of people in the same boat.
Troubles and worries haunt many.
Be it the late night talk in the car with a friend or the talk to a junior in the lab, I discover the strifes of my friends.
Life surely keeps us on our foot.
And so,
Cheer up, life is ALWAYS a struggle, ALWAYS.....
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Troubles and worries haunt many.
Be it the late night talk in the car with a friend or the talk to a junior in the lab, I discover the strifes of my friends.
Life surely keeps us on our foot.
And so,
Cheer up, life is ALWAYS a struggle, ALWAYS.....
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Ruskin Bond
When did I read his first book? What made me a big fan?
Going back in time, my memory serves me to the days in school when I must have been in the 9th or the 10th standard and I picked up a copy of "Panther's Moon" from my school library. I guess that was my first Ruskin Bond. But I completely fail to recollect if that was the reason for me to become a Bond fan.
From recent years, just a few years back, in a II hand book shop, I chanced upon the compilation of all Ruskin Bond's works (which Penguin had brought out). That led to many a satisfied afternoons of reading. And undoubtedly since then, the passion for his works has continued and even increased.
Last month, one of my friends, C presented me with an autographed Ruskin Bond book!!! Ruskin Bond had written my name on it!!! Its a prized possession of mine.
Sadly now, when I find myself short of time to read his books and more sadly out of reach of his books, I will surely miss him, perhaps forget him for sometime in the hustle and bustle of daily life. But then, on some glad holiday afternoon, I shall remember him again, remember the hills, the forests, the trees and the drama unfolding there again, long to read another book of his again, yes, that I am sure of !!!
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Going back in time, my memory serves me to the days in school when I must have been in the 9th or the 10th standard and I picked up a copy of "Panther's Moon" from my school library. I guess that was my first Ruskin Bond. But I completely fail to recollect if that was the reason for me to become a Bond fan.
From recent years, just a few years back, in a II hand book shop, I chanced upon the compilation of all Ruskin Bond's works (which Penguin had brought out). That led to many a satisfied afternoons of reading. And undoubtedly since then, the passion for his works has continued and even increased.
Last month, one of my friends, C presented me with an autographed Ruskin Bond book!!! Ruskin Bond had written my name on it!!! Its a prized possession of mine.
Sadly now, when I find myself short of time to read his books and more sadly out of reach of his books, I will surely miss him, perhaps forget him for sometime in the hustle and bustle of daily life. But then, on some glad holiday afternoon, I shall remember him again, remember the hills, the forests, the trees and the drama unfolding there again, long to read another book of his again, yes, that I am sure of !!!
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