Who came to your house?King ? or beggar?

Lets give it a personality.
Opportunity is an emperor.

Opportunity knocks the door many times,

His aura can be noticed only by some wise people. He is actually the emperor.He disguises himself like a popper, to test your mettle and charecter.He would be able to judge your seriousness, by coming without any noise.
The moment he learns that you have no regards for small poeple, he decides you really dont deserve to entertain him.

He could give you another chance, to prove your charecter, but if you still dont understand that it was an opportunity given to you to prove yourself, you stand no chance.You will be englufed by his magnanimity.

I have to confess about many poeple, who are so lazy to go open the door. No body wants to move their limbs to reach out to something that comes to them. We have become so lazy that, we have started saying come in, keeping the door open.

If the Prince himself had given an intimation that he was going to visit our house, we would
stand next to the door awaiting his arrival. The point is how much importance you attach to something, matters. We attach no importance to a popper.We care not, even if he was dying of hunger. or do we?

Now what? Are we gonna sit down on our couches all day and warm them? or are we going to lift our bums and open the door when some one knocks?

Raaga Terrain

When life was looking dull and drab, when it was getting stale, when it was getting boring, when things were looking blurred to me, when every sound seemed like noise to me,Thanks giving was one holiday which gave me all the joy I wanted,I had time to spend with my friends.Best of all was, I spent the whole week listening to music.Its a pleasure to be listening to all my friends sing.We had been to Ohio for Thanksgiving shopping.Antakshari started in the car when we were traveling back.Then the same evening, there was a "music jam" in one of my friend's place. I was also invited.I was previliged to be among some great musicians from Lexington. Each one with some special talent.All of them who was present there participated with great amount of enthusiasm.It was thoroughly an entertainment.We all started at 5 Pm and the session continued till 2:00 am the next morning. It was fun to be listening to all of them sing songs.The first few hours we had a light music session,later it was carnatic. Shubha and Aarthi's performance that evening was remarkable.The Raagam, thaalam and bhavam at its best.With Sujan accompanying the singers made the session a very memorable one. Making no mistakes, proving again that "Practice makes a man perfect". Their aura making the whole space vibrant and reverberating. It was real fun to be a part of the show.I am glad I got an opportunity to be there.

Make your choice, want to be God or Devil?

Do you know it is true?
Just bring in a new born fish(jillo), bring it to your acquarium,and fix a barrier across Jillo's path.For the first few days of the week, he comes hits himself against the barrier and then returns.He comes till the barrier hoping to cross it.Over a period of time, he gets so much used to the distance he has traveled, he never even imagines to travel further.Now remove the barrier, Jillo returns at the place where the barrier was placed before.

Lets talk about an elephant,(bui bui)
A baby elephant is tied to a strong piece of wood with a chain.When he tries to move, he cannot because the chain is too strong for him to break open.Over a period of time, he gets used to it and stays there.Even after he grows, huge, hefty and strong he does not break open the chain.He still feels that the chain is strong for him.His thoughts are conditioned.

Why I took so much time to expatiate this is, to make it clear how thoughts can be conditioned.
So only if you believe, you will perform.

So are we and the society.
The society is like the chain or the barrier across.Every move we make to progress there is some one around you trying to say you are not really good at it, you are bad, you have no option but to struggle,why dont you try that? This is really not your cup of tea.OOOOOOps how many limiting thoughts, have I dumped in this paragraph.
There is some one who says hey, you know what, I tried doing it all the while, I have never been able to do it, so dont bother about trying it.

I always remember to mention Thomas Alva Edison.He is a phenomenon, he has proved to be a genius.His statement lingers in my head, when ever some one says "cannot".When had failed 9999 times in the course of finding an electric bulb, he was asked by the media about what he felt about all his failures, he said"I found 9999 ways,how not to make an electric bulb".This is a clich'e, but still, I don't want to miss an opportunity to put forth this point.

Enzo Ferarri was also told that he was not fit to be a part of automobile industry.I am glad you all know who he is.

McDonalds, Walt Disney, Einstein, Bill Gates, The dabba walas, Sir CV Raman, Adolf Hitler, Mahatma Gandhi, all these people are just a very few I have read about. I am sure, there would be n number of such people in this world, who would have made it to the pinnacle of glory even after being suppressed by the society.

I just want to make one point clear, we are society when we let down some one, and we are phenomenons when we inspire some one.Its all within you and what you want to be is your choice.

Why cant days get better?Isn't there an easy way out??

Woke up in the morning at around 7:30, It was really pleasant.I thought I would get some more sleep because I had slept only at 3:00 am.What a great joy, when you sleep more than what you can afford to. Its heaven.

The wind blowing really hard, the leaves of the trees rumbling to the wind
Mother nature singing me a lullaby
The fragrance of the soil, really sweet
What a nice time to sleep......
The left over work in my lab just too alarming
woke me up,
My dearest friend,Self sympathy said
Nick time for you to sleep, buddy
My enemy, my self, said
time for you to be up and working
Rise and shine
Throwing my blanket away, I woke up with all hatered
No, time to sleep,no time for myself, what am I living for?
What am I achieving, doing all the work?
Remains of my work-just frustration
thinking all this,I picked up my bag and ran along the green lawns spread across my school campus, the grass so lush, the leaves dropping of the trees, just too beautiful,
No time to admire all this?
What do I do?
Oh my god, pls give me some time to admire your creation...
ha ha ha,
I rush into my lab
looking at all the wires, hanging around
I start my day's work...
A cup of Ben n jerry giving me company
I check the mail box, I find I am already behind, my Prof has sent me a mail regarding what he wants....ooooooooooops, I rush, I do all the work, he has asked me to do,first priority.

I have done some work yeaah ,
He comes down and says, I am not in town, till Moday, please do the following...

loads of work, ha ha he he , ho ho
I start with all the courage,
One thing is for sure, I love to work,
so I take it with all positive attitude and start.I am done with half of my work
I just have another half remaining, which I could finish tomorrow.

Now I rethink all that I had thought this morning
I am here just because I deserve to be, I am gonna make it big one day.
That one day,needs a lots of days, like this

I remember one of my teachers saying this
"To achieve something, you need to make some sacrifices"

Music or Mu'sick'????

Define MUSIC,

It is the silence between two consequitive notes.
Concentrate on the gap you will relish music to the fullest extant.

No life is complete without dreams!!!

Long since I wrote a blog.I have been wanting to write one, I claim I had no time...he he he
It is the worst thing to say "I did not have time" because, Albert Einstein also had only 24 hrs a day.Though all those who are reading this blog might laugh at it.You might all say,"Hey Nick, you are not Albert Einstein." I would say, "Its nothing wrong if you imagine yourself to be one."
History has always spoken about those who were prominent and about those who knew how to sell themselves.I am sure there would have been n number of people with the same IQ level as Einstein,( just like me) just kidding.

I have no problem in dreaming big.Many smart people land up in small jobs,earning a regular salary with small annual pay hikes, taking loans for their housing.All those who claim to have topped their class, have not excelled in their careers.I don't claim that, you need not top a class to excel in your work.I am emphasizing on the fact that what makes you more successful is how big you dream to be."Dream, dream and dream till what you dream comes true"-Nick
There is no reason or excuse for failure.My last statement is completely faulty.I have got to correct myself.There is nothing called failure.Everything is just a feedback.You score low in a subject than the required to clear the paper.It gives you a feedback, you will be able to correct yourself by getting to know how much you know.

I repeat this almost every time, we are just like a kite."Even the kite has to overcome the adversities of the wind to fly high."

"Your work might just be a drop in an ocean but the ocean would be less without that drop"-Mother Teressa.

My analogy is very simple.Consider the ocean to be your life.Every step you take to work is a drop in the ocean.Your life would not be complete without that action.

I am really not sure if I have conveyed what I wanted.I am very confident that this blog will give each one of you a different perspective.Will certainly motivate me when I am down.
May be will help at least one of you.

Take care buddies.

When no one smiled, only destiny did!!!!

Smiling all day, I take all that comes my way
Facing every challenge like a warrior, so brave

Confusions galore,
Small and large, like a life consuming tide
Walking in solitude, I introspect
Realisation dawns, that no one really cares
I feel the dissipation of energy
I walk without any crutch, all day long
No one to talk to, no one to share
Lost in my own thoughts, I walk
Stumbled when I trampled on a stone!!!!

I felt I was a "one man army"
Facing a whole batallion all alone
shelling away all that I had, to wage a war against the reality of life
Hoping to win the battle
I started out with a rage
Feeling like a Puissant in the beginning!!!

Time passed by
I realised ,I had paved my path towards final destination
Now I feel, I am a destitute with no choice to make

Death smiled at me
I smiled back!!!!!