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When Sachin Tendulkar traveled to Pakistan to face one of the finest bowling attacks ever assembled in cricket, Michael Schumacher was yet to race a F1 car, Lance Armstrong had never been to the Tour de France, Diego Maradona was still the captain of a world champion Argentina team, Pete Sampras had never won a Grand Slam.

When Tendulkar embarked on a glorious career taming Imran and company, Roger Federer was a name unheard of; Lionel Messi was in his nappies, Usain Bolt was an unknown kid in the Jamaican backwaters. The Berlin Wall was still intact, USSR was one big, big country, Dr Manmohan Singh was yet to "open" the Nehruvian economy.

It seems while Time was having his toll on every individual on the face of this planet, he excused one man. Time stands frozen in front of Sachin Tendulkar.

We have had champions, we have had legends, but we have never had a Sachin Tendulkar and we never will.

My 24th Birthday !!! -- I'm still discovering myself

Yesterday was my 24th birthday and though I am official 24 now but i still believe "i am growing up without growing old" ..which is other way of saying, i am still carrying the innocence, humbleness and a fresh attitude to learn like a 12 year old kid :) ... sorry for being narcissistic, but i can't help it.

Anyway, I won't talk about how I spent my birthday but about the things I discovered about myself in past few months and about the world around :)

Do we see what we think or do we think what we see ?....I personally believe that we see what we think since everything starts from our mind and that's one of the reason why I was so frustrated with my life coz i thought what i shouldn't have and hence did everything which I could have avoided or which could have been done in a much better way. The moral is... always have a control on what you think and the way to do is to have like minded people around you, if not people than stay connected to the things which keeps your thinking right & simple


Even if you are an Osama-bin-laden, its important that you are surrounded by terrorists and not by saints.

Since I write blog to share good thoughts, i won't share the frustrating part of my life but the things I learnt all this while, Don't take these as words of advice but as a learning experience of someone else. I am too young to advice anyone :)

--Never have a self doubt, thats the worst thing that can happen to anyone. There is atleast one thing about each one of us that made us achieve what we are, just stick to that. It can be anything..luck..cheating...never say die attitude..hardwork..intelligence or even copying someone else

--Never compete with someone in his/her strength, use your strengths to excel in life coz you can't beat someone's good luck with your bad luck, you can't manipulate system better than someone who has done it from past 20 years. If hardwork has worked for me, i would be stupid to try my luck without working harder

--The world around us is not as ugly as it looks like, we just need to look at the brighter side of it and learn from it. It is a saying that a drunk guy is always honest, so either you can learn to be a drunkard or you can learn to be an honest person. It is not at all necessary to be drunk in order to be honest. Choice is yours !!!

--There are no substitutes for parents & no fhortcuts for success. No one except your parents cares about your happiness, everyone else has a selfish reason attached, for you being happy. About success, Sachin Tendulkar still has to go out in the sun to score runs even though he is successful at it, how can we call ourselves successful by scoring more runs than him on a play station against highest difficulty level ?? Either we don't know the definition of success or we are too lazy to put efforts !!

--It not necessary to fail in order to succeed coz out of the 1000 individuals who fail, only one become Bill Gates or Steve Jobs or J.K Rowling. Avoid getting failed, there are better ways to learn as well. Prevention is better than cure...remember ???

--There are always three choices for everything and not two !!! We subconsciously ignore the third one.....should i read this...should i not read this.... & the third one..should i know why it is written !! First two are too easy to decide...third one takes a bit of thinking !!

--Try to make progress in life always but never forget what you have achieved and what you have !! One makes your future better and one makes your present beautiful ...both are equally important

-- Lastly, sharing and saying ideal things are much easier than doing ...but then "doing" is the only way to make it real ....thinking / hoping / wishing wont result in anything !!!

For all those who think I am intelligent, i am not...its the attitude to study for 16 hours a day got me into IIT...its the attitude to stay 24 x 7 online that made me meet and have good friends....its the attitude to learn from everything that came across made me what i am......i hope i will continue with the same attitude :)

Giving up is the last option on my list, so i will try till i can...to be a good person..to be a good friend and a successful human being !!!

P.S : Last couple of lines are just meant for me... :) ....and even if you can relate it to yourself... don't think that you want to be me...but think how can you be yourself !!!

P.P.S : Commenting on my blog is not at all compulsory from now on as if it was.. :P ...its an option...coz i anyway right about myself and for myself :)

Thanks to all those who are reading this & wished me on my birthday... :)

I am Alive

Hey guys,

I am sure no one would have visited my blog from last 4 months because even i didn't visit it :D but just wanted to share that i am alive and so is my blog :) ....i will be back to regular blogging soon (from next monday probably)

There is a hell lot to share ..something good..something not so good....what i have achieved and what is yet to be achieved.

The changes that have taken place, the friends who got married and who are planing to :P

So please be with me :)

P.S : I just bought Canon SX 110 :) and might just start with a photo blog of mine :)

Tag # 1

This is my first tagged post and I don't know what am I supposed to write. Anyways Sakshi tagged me here in her one of the post and since I don't have any girl friend, the kind of narcissistic person I am,I would strictly try to keep this tag to myself and as funny as possible :

All you have to do, is write down something significant about yourself next to each number one to ten.

1 -- No of times i have been tagged till now and this is the only one :)
One is also the no. of college i have studied in - IIT Delhi :)

2 -- Number of blogs I write (other being less frequent)

3 -- No of broken bones I had till now (Right hand,Left hand's ring finger,left ankle)

4 -- Number of memorable years @ IIT D

5 -- Number of times i have drunk beer :)

6 -- Number of guy in my friend circle in school as well as college (never had any girl around :P )

7 -- My lucky no. !! Its attached to almost everything in my life.

8 -- Number of grueling semesters at IIT, where exams used to visit us thrice in every semester

9 -- Number of blogs I am following anonymously :)

10 -- Number of digits in my mobile no. :D

Finalllyyy i have completed the tag and it took a lot of hard work to think about all the above points.

Now I am forwarding the tag to Smriti, Akansha,Hadez,Dev D & Yamini


P.S : This was a tough one, kindly tag me simpler ones from now :)

I have been quite busy with the work hence couldn't write, I do read the blogs so keep blogging :)

New Love

Just realized that I'm in love with Shreya Ghosal's voice :)

Listening some sweet songs ..even in office

..suggest some if you know !!!

sponti - 2

Continuing the habit of spontaneous lines, here are some, I had thought of lately :

1) Studies and Relationships, both requires 100% commitment !! (rest you can infer yourself) :

2) A group of girls are always attractive irrespective of any individual's "beauty" !!

3) Bad things always happen to good people because good people never see good things !!

---- To be continued----

P.S : can any one help me to add proper smiley as seen in YM on my blog ?

Continued....

In continuation of the previous blog, here are some of the reactions from different IIT's students on one of this site : http://www.zeenews.com/states/2009-03-22/517086news.html

• What is most astonishing is the way the administration tried to curb the movement of the students. The internet and the LAN in the college had also been cut off. The news article presents a one sided view of the police force & the administration. -Student - IIT Kharagpur
• This news is totally one sided. It seems that you have pictured students as some kind of criminals. The students didn`t go ballistic as first response. The protests were made when the management took the issue lightly. What exactly did you mean by ``The Director and his family members were safe`` did you think that students are gonna hurt the directer and his family. -Student - IIT Kharagpur - Kharagpur
• Director responded pathetically to the situation.He was making fun of the situation.Institute put a lan ban on the students to prevent them from letting the world know the true news .The condition of B.C.ROY Hospital is pathetic .Last year also a student died due to negligence of the authorities.When students went to talk to the director ,he thought we just wanted a holiday .He talked in an insulting language ```I appreciate your presence and sympathize with everyone here` - director with a smile on his face.then the students protested and made him resign -Arpan Kumar De - IIT KHARAGPUR

This is a site of IIT Kgp, rather a news paper..... http://scholarsavenue.targetiit.com/

Reading the article on the above site, I can just say "Fuck IIT System"

:-| :-( :'(

I was here to write something good that i have been feeling from last 3-4 days but then i read the exact news of what had happened to the IIT Kgp student who died a week back and things changed..here is the true story, the one that would never reach to media or out of IIT Kgp by any other means except IIT's students itself...read on

http://grassonfire.blogspot.com/2009/03/rohit-kumar-will-be-remembered.html

This is only one of the reaction of 100's of IITians :

http://antiquiti.blogspot.com/2009/03/iit-kgp-grease-monkey-ed.html

And as an Ex-IITian , I can believe that coz its exactly this way, students die and the gods at IIT cover it up. I have seen that when a junior of mine committed suicide and everything was covered up right then and there.

I don't know what else to write about this coz I hated IIT admin and still do, it is inefficient and "chalta hai" attitude !!

To learn from the mistake, one needs to accept the mistake and the arrogant IIT systems never does that !!!

Not so good days

I don't why but I am forgetting my own ideologies and rules..

........feeling insecure about things which I never wanted;
........feeling frustrated about the fact that my existence / non-existence wont affect anyone, in spite of knowing that I don't compare myself or my life with anyone else;
........trying hard to keep myself busy with work & studies even though I know I enjoy the both
........I am in a process to hate people / love / relationships and I was the one telling every one that life is too short to hate anything
........the loneliness and solitude that once was a source of inspiration is killing me these days

I have 100s of reasons to make mistakes but i am still holding on to make none...!!!

Sponti - 1

More then thinking about "what's the right thing to do", we spend more time thinking "what's not the right thing to do" and hence we assume that everything we have done is right

P.S : I am not frequent to blogging because I am not in a right frame of mind to write positive things

P.P.S : Sponti stands for Spontaneous, and since I am going through a series of thoughts every second I might end up making a century of these spontaneous lines :)