Eragon-Christopher Pa0lini

“The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can’t."

wonderful .. book ..
the act is what will decide our destiny .. choices and actions ...

Living

don't know what but ..new year is coming and i promised this year i am not going to hold back ..
this year i will try ..i will give it everything.. many may ask me don't you give it everything now .. i would say i will give even more than i have ..
this year i dig deep and find more to give ..
things to achieve..

strong programming skills in C/C++. The desired areas of expertise are- File Format, Plugins, Filters,COM, OOA&D, WinNT/CE, internet technologies, imaging and graphics.

wanna learn symbian os ..
economics and psychology have to start from the beginning to the end..

Origin of currency..

well the origin of currency is fascinating journey, during my formative years i thought the barter system was better and simpler.

Let us travel through the ages to Scotland in 1200 B.C , a huge man wearing a skirt with nails and hammer is heading towards a house.He knocks at the doors ,someone answers the doors ....they have an argument .. after sometime the other person gives the man a piece of meat and takes the nails and the hammer...
a trade is made ..
in ancient timesthe sower and the reaper were the same . The man making the nails and selling is the same.The rearer and butcher was the same person.Division of labour was a thing unheard of back then.
Well but most useful things are perishable stuff like food items .. it is difficult to find value of a commodity .. most things perishable have high value in use but very low value actually in comparison to a diamond .. but a diamond has little value in use but great value in exchange.

now we leave towards greece ..
and i hear people measuring by oxens .. like the armour of achilles is worth 100 oxens.... times are changing i see imperishable metals being used ..copper being used in rome to trade.Bars of copper used for trade .. sometimes iron was used.. in rich countries silver and gold.. .. now it is very diffiult to pay in rude metal unstamped metal cause we don't know the exact value .. weighing them always and then assaying them is not an option without the additional costs.And if u don't assay melt the metal then its have huge chance to get defrauded..
stamped rude bars came into effect but still metal is scarce commodity .now coins came into being.
Servius tullius incorporated coins in rome .. roman pound contained a pound of copper
troyes pound used in scotland contained copper .. pound sterling contained a pound of silver of a known fineness .Shillings were infact a measure of weight rather than currency..
avarice and abuse of power used by kings princes states to repay the debts to the subjects by reducing the amount of silver in the pound.
this way .. money became the universal intrument of commerce

Adam Smith ...

reading about Adam Smith and The wealth of nations.
Adam Smith was born on june 5th 1723
"An enquiry into the nature and causes of wealth of nations"

the often quoted passage

"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages."


the passage offers a useful insight to his work.Every individual works devotes resources to a cause that he thinks will increase his own security.A person works for his own gain and tries to maximize his own gain .Freedom desired by everyman is the cause of this reaction.In history we have seen charity and benevolence of the wolves ,we have seen wars fought for peace, and we have heard if not seen of great atrocities commited in the name of freedom.And we have cursed economics of this world for it.That is why we should never talk of them our own necessities but what use would there actions be use to them.


anyways 639 pages ...to go

Lifehouse

Desperate for changing
Starving for truth
I'm closer to where I started
Chasing after you
I'm falling even more in love with you
Letting go of all I've held onto
I'm standing here until you make me move
I'm hanging by a moment here with you

Forgetting all I'm lacking
Completely incomplete
I'll take your invitation
You take all of me now...

I'm falling even more in love with you
Letting go of all I've held onto
I'm standing here until you make me move
I'm hanging by a moment here with you
I'm living for the only thing I know
I'm running and not quite sure where to go
And I don't know what I'm diving into
Just hanging by a moment here with you

There's nothing else to lose
There's nothing else to find
There's nothing in the world
That can change my mind
There is nothing else
There is nothing else
There is nothing else

Desperate for changing
Starving for truth
I'm closer to where I started
Chasing after you....

I'm falling even more in love with you
Letting go of all I've held onto
I'm standing here until you make me move
I'm hanging by a moment here with you
I'm living for the only thing I know
I'm running and not quite sure where to go
And I don't know what I'm diving into
Just hanging by a moment here with you

Just hanging by a moment (here with you)
Hanging by a moment (here with you)
Hanging by a moment here with you

New Passions-Assembling a mobile phone

Suddenly thses days i am totally raptured by mobile phones ..


especially the nokia 91 and tmobile sidekick ..but really .. i think i would have to assemble my own mobile phone to have everything i want in it.

Assembling a mobile phone.. woooooooooooo

Sleeping in Class

just remembered the good old days of school..
there was a time i used to study all night sleep at 4 in the night get up in the morning at 7:30 am .. well i always had trouble sleeping too restless ..
going to school attending classes ..falling asleep in class not cause they were too oring but cause i tried my heart out ...studying the previous night..
five years down the line ... am i better or worse don't know ..more mature may be ...naah i am still the same fellow just with lot of more scars from battles ..
battles won and lost ,negotiated with dignity and respect .. one year in pec .. 3 and half year in iiit allahabad .. what am i .. is this a time for reflection or to just get on with it... get on with it my head says ..

Really Sick

oops .. i feel really sick .. dehydration .. feeling thirsty .. reminds me of those typhoid days .. i am still strong but . who know for how long..

LIFE

they say only death is free and it also come with a price called life ..
7th semester is over and i am back home wasting time as if it is there to be wasted ..
had a great presentation and all ,hoping for a great grade ..