Went through the pictures of the winter Paralympics! and I feel so small!!!
Jaw dropping
and simple plain inspirational!!!
Everything that I crib about, feels so lame!!!!
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Category: General
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The year of Binary!
Today is
10 – 01 – 10One of the few days in the year of Binary! Infact the year started with a Binary date… 01-01-10And tomorrow happens to be another binary day!11-01-10 -
Small Talk!
So! what’s up?
Nothing?
YOU! nothing? impossible! Something?
Nothing!
Since when?
About an hour!
And before that?
Something!!
Ah! I see! I know! So what’s up?
Nothing!
Oh common! your nothing always means something!
Right! Everything means something! nothing means something too!
Everything is something, and nothing is also something, which kind of means, everything is nothing, or nothing is everything!
Whoa! that is something!
Or may be nothing! or everything! who knows!
Someone!
I think everyone!
or maybe No one!
Everyone has to know something about someone!
Someone would know everything about no one!
But they would claim that they know everything about someone!
No one knows everything about someone!
Someone does not know everything about someone!
What do you know?
Everything!
Everything about something?
No! something about everything!
So! What’s up?
Nothing!
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Mathematics for Dummies!
We did some multiplication in the last post, and it got me thinking about how I used to do my Maths orally when I was a kid… they say all Maths is based on one simple principle! The principle of “Addition”… all other calculations, BODMAS (Bracket, Of, Division, Multiplication, Addition, Subtraction), and so on and so forth is a function of how you apply addition to it… So much so, that if you want to subtract something, you apply addition of negatives to the original and VOILA you have a smaller value!!! To demonstrate my point for the uninitiated, here is how it worksWhat is 2X2? 4! Right? How do you reach that number, by adding 2 twice! So 2+2 = 4 and 2X2 = 4. Let’s talk more what is 13X4? (no calculators please)! It is 13 added 4 times, or to make it simpler its (10+3)X4 = 10X4 +3X4 = 40+12 = 52! Easy peezie Jappaneezee!
I remember doing all my mathematics this way!!! And that is why I could never remember the tables after 12… for some reason, I took a while adding 13 more than 5 times! Damn it!
The mantra is : Break it down into smaller blocks, and simplify to an extent that it seems to be the easiest problem ever!
This makes so much sense in the real world too… outside mathematics I meant!
Professionally, we apply the same fundamentals to do project planning, resourcing, effort management, strategy alignment and so on and so forth!
Personally!
We add (how much good we felt in the first meeting) to (how much we feel like meeting again) and reach (finding a way to meet the person again)
We multiply our (pleasure in meeting someone) to (number of times we met) and reach (liking)
We multiple our (liking) to (number of Goosebumps) and (percentage of increase in heart rate) to reach (excitement)
We know our parents love us because we add (ability to accept us like we grow up) to (selflessness of being a parent)
We add (how much we loved the person) to (how much negative love we got or how much attention/reciprocation we get) to reach (how much does it matter now) {{Of course you can be weak at mathematics and continue loving the person irrespective of the negatives that you get, screw your equations and get into a negative state of mind, where you cannot feel positive! Not even about being yourself and blame yourself for everything}}
And so on and so forth!!!
So like I said! It’s all mathematics! If you did you sums right when you were in kindergarten and ate your green leafy veggies, you might be able to handle life better! If not, too bad! Go teach a kid how to do his sums and learn something about Maths!
Life is better that way!
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At the elevator doors!
It was 6 in the evening…
He pressed the button for the lobby….
She pressed the button for the 12th floor….
Her elevator door opened first… She spoke with a sparkle in her voice,”I Win, but you are going the right way“
Li’il did she know, it was his last day at work… he was asked to leave!
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so what is it?
Confidence is not about speaking of things that you know a lot about, confidence is being able to speak about things you don’t have a clue of!
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The large and small!
I have been able to experience a few extremes with my stay in the US, and I really like that fact…
Things that I could only imagine, or maybe not, were there in front of my eyes!
Talking about large …
Being the country with more than 9 times zones all territories considered
Niagara which has close to about 561000 litres of water flowing down per second
Being able to drive the distance between New Delhi and Kanya Kumari over a long weekend
and the other extreme… small…
What would you call a 40 seater bus which makes awfully loud sound and can fly? no points for guessing that it’s called an aeroplane and this size is very popular for short distances in the states… my flight from Syracuse was a CRJ200 Bombardier Regional Jet with a seating capacity of 50 (2 pilots, 1 crew member, 42 passenger seats – 9 rows of 4 seats each, and 1 of 6 , I am not sure where are the other seats) and if this was small, there was another flight which had only 3 seats in a row, more rows though, and just enough headroom for me to stand properly… now the good part about these flights is that they have a good amount of legroom, and if you are not taller than 6ft you should be able to stretch your legs all the way… the bad part is that you might have to move around if the plane is empty to distribute the weight for a take off!!! It’s a plane, I understand a bit of the weight balance and aerodynamics but still found it amusing when I was asked to move the first time 😀
I think these planes make more sense to fly low traffic routes in India instead of the large Boeings or Airbuses. I wonder why they use large aircrafts all the time.
Taking about sizes, here is something for you to read and think about…
“On a diagram of the solar system to scale, with Earth reduced to about the diameter of a pea, Jupiter would be over a thousand feet away and Pluto would be a mile and a half distant (and about the size of a bacterium, so you wouldn’t be able to see it anyway). One the same scale, Proxima Centauri, our nearest star, would be almost ten thousand miles away. Even if you shrank down everything so that Jupiter was as small as the period at the end of this sentence, and Pluto was no bigger than a molecule, Pluto would still be over thirty-five feet away. (Bill Bryson – A Short History of Nearly Everything)“
And speaking of distances and history… some distances do get covered in due course of time and some milestones do become history… one of such is about to happen shortly while I am writing this!
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Hold on
Say the truth, the way it should be said
but hold on to your immediate reactions
check if the words are worth it, or the person is worth it, or is the time right!Also, keep your distance from the people
1. who are judgmental and like to jump to conclusions
2. who tend to swing like pendulums with their actions/words/feelings/emotions -
right place right time
Got a comment on one of the photographs that I posted on Flickr yesterday… The photograph is from Kanha, a weeklong getaway in Madhya Pradesh last year in March. The comment says, “u r always at right place at right time with right gear 🙂 “ and I have been thinking about it since I read it… my reaction to this comment was “Or let’s say there is something right about every place every time where I end up being! 🙂 ” Too philosophical, maybe impractical too, but something inside me has started believing in that very strongly for a while now! Let me put my Positive thinker hat on and write the rest of this post… no one needs to agree to anything that I say (though personally I want everyone to agree with everything that I say, every time I say it, but that’s a different matter)Had a unexpected break after I wrote the first paragraph and on second thoughts, I am just letting the gyan session go! Till the time I have brighter side algorithms figured out right for myself, I should be fine!!!
On a completely unrelated note, how many of you have heard the “Sunder Kand” of Tulsi Ramayan? Well, more popularly known as the RamCharitmanas! I love to listen to it, can’t make out even 10% of what is being said, and that when my Nani (mother’s mother) remembers almost all of it, my parents understand it fully. I might work on getting the Sundar Kand of Ramcharitmanas here on Chai ki Dukaan sometime in future!! Some of the reasons why I like listening to it are, the voice of Mukesh, the classical music and instruments, and the unexplainable peace that I get from it!
