LIfe's like that....

what do u say to a nine year old riding a Riksha in the middle of Allahabad civil lines, his father was ill and he was doing it in order to earn money for his medicines.. he asked me whether he could drop me anywhere ...
i wonder may be i should have gone someplace with him on his riksha.. i wonder if i was correct in giving him the money without using his services, was it the honorable thing to do,may be i could have paid him after using his riskha....may be
his father may be really ill and might be dying.. suddenly a nine year old is man of the house..
but life is like that sometimes we suddenly grow up to this world and our childhood are lost

The funniestt thing i ever heard.........

plz answer the question given below.. asked to father whose daughter is going for an MBA
"How are you letting her study an MBA.. where will you go for a more qualified husband for her now"..

my words.... first i laughed at it .. then i realised that this is no joke to lampooned at .This is the truth that is repeated day after day in the households of India.
tell me how many girls go for higher studies .. after the age of 23 they are thought of some commodity which has to be traded.I couldn't help wondering if me and my parents didn't encourage my sister to do an MBA would she have taken a stand to do it.
sometimes i stare at the stars to ask such questions which have no answers or questions which i don't want to answer,other questions which seem impossible to answer but yet can be solved .. will i do it won't i ...is it right or is it wrong .. is my percetion right or wrong..
in right and wrong whatever i choose ..thanks for power to choose

Googled

some questions from google fresher interviews included writing a haiku ..
1. Write a haiku describing possible methods for predicting search
traffic seasonality.

funny na a haiku on season traffic seasonality.... on search engines i hope

my take ...

search engines hits down this
summer .undergrad vacations on ..
na this would not qualify as a haiku ..
not original and not new perspective at all

take 2
search through times is increasing
happiness all around
I'm feeling lucky

..........

Where do u see yourself after 5 years?

ever been in an job interview .. one of the most irritating questions is
Where do u see yourself after 5 years?
Ans.[$%#@^%#@^*%&&($%^$()&^&] an array of bullshit

in interviews i discover that i am cassandra and after being cursed by apollo no one is going to believe me if i predict the future .So i acquiescence to my fate and lie and as predicted they believe me.
does an arrow know where it is going after it has been fired.. i say it is not his interest to know... that is for the bow of circumstances and the bow string of time to know.
in between if you are wondering about what other parts of the bow are they.... plz refer tothe pic above...
but today is the time to ponder .. how can a few question which tend to be so tautological decide the fate of a candidate..

An Equal Music -II

The thing about camellias you know ,is that when there about to die ,they won't tell you in time.If they lack water ,they don't look unhappy for a while,and show you they're suffering ,they just die.......
love in relationships also does not show but just dies.....
can u play without hearing the music .. an equal music u can play without needing to hear it.. i wonder my friend what musics would i have heard if i couldn't hear..
i can only wonder i guess...

An Equal Music

And into that gate they shall enter,and in that house they shall dwell,where there shall be no cloud or sun,no darkness nor dazzling ,but one equal night,no noise nor silence,but one equal music,no fears nor hopes,but one equal possesion,no foes nor friends,but one equal communion and identity,no ends nor beginnings,but one equal eternity.....
-JOHN DONNE

trilogy

These are from Trilogy Interview.

(i)Given Finite numbers of sets say S1 , S2 , S3 .... SM . Design an algorithm Find the element such that , it is a member of largest number of sets


(ii)Design a data structure for which Insertion , Deletion and Searching Takes O(1) time . The Data Structure must be such that it holds at the most N Keys. It must throw exception FUll() when there is no more space .(Dont assume anything about type,values... etc of keys )




well my idea is to use array indexed from [Smallest element...........Largest element]and then count the frequency of each elements . And then we can element with Larget frequency .

Largest and Smallest are the Largest and Smallest elements of the set X = { S1 Union S2 Union S3 U .... SM } , The Time complexity is O(N) , N=|S1|+|S2|+|S3|.....|SM| . But this idea is not good , if the numbers are not uniformly distributed in the range smallest to Larget , or if number of elements are less compared to the size of the range.


Another Idea is to use BST ( or AVL Tree )with a Frequency Counter for each node. which is O(NlogN)

Are there any Better Solutions... ? I Guess there are.

What doesn't kill u just makes u stronger

There are those who live in the boundaries of guilt and fear, in the limits of imagination. One must dance in the moment. Reach down and pull up a song. Spin and chant and forget the sorrow that we are flesh on bone



- Book of Osiris, Egyptian Book of Dead(taken from suze's blog)



lately in my life a lots been happening which has left me all a bit unsure of future,you might say that the future is fickle and can never be planned but what to say of the human mind ,it always wants to plan ,preplan and post plan and plan.i been wondering whether the notion of right or wrong is justified . what is right or wrong in a situation that is already based upon some preconceived notion which can sound abstract to most people.Meanwhile my active vocab has decreased cause of my stay at chandigarh.. well my friends kinda don't like me speaking english so i have to converse in punjabi ..
i am at the crossroads of my life from where one path is different from the other..
though i have chosen a path .. i really don't know much about it
yesterday i was talking to a very intelligent girl ,and it was about the title of this blog... survival life is all about it,surviving something will give you confidence and experience..in between while i am writing amdocs results(recruitment is going on though i didn't appear today ) have come and some of most brilliant people haven't made the aptitude tests(sometimes i feel as though pulling my hair out what is required to get through these tests)and my friend is lying on the bed besides me supined by the force of destiny.To live another day he must survive today and so must i

Mocha

me some old friends and new went to this place called Mocha...i met my old chess mate
cheema ..i know him from his turban days..great time with some great people .. kk ,sid akka tuppi ,pranavan akka peera.. and amit .. great guys .. and i had a great time..
after having some desserts hukkas we went to kk's place.. and decded to watch pulp fiction at around 2 in the night.. i kinda skipped it cause i knew i was in no mood to understand a tarantino movie after such a day..in the morning we had the
who will have a bath first competetion .. cheema came first at 9 ..after that amit around 12 then peera at 2..but kk and sid were in no mood to let up sid came last at 4 and we went to malls of noida to just chill out

BACK TO SCHOOL oops COLLEGE

now the summer holidays are over i go back to college...
the experiences i have gathered in chandigarh in the last month offer a practical insight into the working of this world.I played in a chess tornament after 6 years ..
first day went god 3.5 out of 4 .. that translates to 3 wins and a draw
the next ay i lost a match which normally i would have won.. and after that i lost my chance to win the tournament ..though in the next round i won against a rated player..
and finished with 5.5/7 score .. i thought i underachieved by not coming 1 or 2.

Alliance Franciase-le meilluer

today i write about my experiences learning french in alliance franciase
they say ... by they i mean the wise men saints philosphers etc

learning a new language changes the person.......
i ain't that divine as the person who said those words but i will second it

the first day we met the first of our instructors Madam Vandana Behl ..
typical teacher kinda reminds me of all my years in school..
the demanding types...
cool class started with introduction to french as a language
the country of france etc.. then we switched to greetings
au revior .. a bientot .. i felt i was being taught to speak
like being given the words again.. realised that it is the action rather than the words .. communication is non verbal first and then non verbal..
asking someone names
comment vous vous appelez?
tu t'appelles
...
they next day we met met the other instrutor devyani ..
pretty na! the look on all the guys faces
our hearts were broken when we learnt she is married and too top it all has two kids

any ways she helped us in the pronunciation part

the next day i had this weird problem in saying the word je
to be pronounced as in meaSure
je suis meilleur
so we started with our sentences and our tales of trying to translate

somehow we all feel to give words to things we understand
let us take for example love .. we have given a term to a feeling which some say cannot be described ..
so it is inherent in social life to give words to a particular expression ,relation ..
the same way even though we can understand what most words meant in the class we still chose to translate them .. for our benefit ..(give me the benefit of the doubt.. why cause i am the batsman oops ! sorry the writer that's the cricket blood in me speaking )
so we translated .. repeated after the teacher like irritating 9 year olds

speaking some words which at first doesn't make sense .. expressions such as
je ne comprende pas were my favourites during the duration of the learning process
but then i understood that a language i to be lived ..not learnt
au revior
a bientot

PRESQUE-VU

well it's been like two years when i fainted ,but i still remember the day .. i had 104 degreees centigrade temperature calling up my father and after talking to him .. i just dropped down in front of the PCO.
today in my french class one of my classmates droppped like a feather.. i just remember those days of pain .. of treatment and recovery of trying to run and falling .. of trying to play and don't have a stamina .. of trying to read but didn't see to understand a word
.. of sitting alone and preparing for re-exams
realising that i am not as sharp as i was..

anyways ....
it was something similiar

thanks for all those things

Notion of Simplicity

yesterday was like all other days ....
na it wasn't no single day is like the other ,they say there is nothing which is an exact copy of the original.Incidents accidents etc are all a part of life.
went to kick one of my friends away ..may be forever ..
at the station a blind man asked us for direction to get out of the station... well i just thought may be i can walk in darkness for a while and let him walk in light..
i went outside with him .. walking with him ,i actually never walked with such care before , my cavalier attitude to life suddenly went missing ,the insouciant suddenly became cautious...anyway i asked him where he had to go ,tried to look for a tempo ...
couldn't find one .. asked a riksha puller to take him whenever he want to go ..
or make him take a bus to his destination ...
well i had to go back my friend was there at the station...

well i went back to the station and my friend was there , well he didn't discuss my actions .. well may be he is too used to my thinking or too confused at my actions

in between
want to singing songs of farewell to friends
try The End by the Doors

This is the end beautiful friend the end
This is the end my only friend the end ,of our ellaborate plans the end
of everything that stands the end ,no safety or suprise the end
....
as i was singing and my friend was humming with me
the train starting
and he boarded ..
and a hug..........

...and solitude..........
a hundred years of it

Abstract

life in abstract
exams going on , presque vu with someone.Scope for improvement approaches infinity .

what is meant by being abstract ?
If someone calls you abstract what does it mean?
i gather it meant that i am impersonal in my views and attitude .That i always look at a situation without being actually in it.A outsiders views to personal problem.
Like looking at something without being involved in it.
guess that is why i am satisfied or look satisfied atleast to others, cause i never make it personal.Even when i am involved in something deeply i always act with detachment.Now the previous line seems as if it is contradictory.
What it does is decreases the amount of time to recover from a set back or a gaffe .Cons are that it can lead to another gafffe, never quitting is a very bad habit .though one thing tenacity pays in everything yup eveything and anything...........

Abstinence

Today i had a dream today
i am planning to give CAT this year ,so the IIM's are on my mind like 24-7.
So in the Dream i am admiited to IIM-bangalore ,but i pissed off at the IIM-A reject so still there is no respite feeling low.
So as i don't want to leave any stone unturned i decided to take a break from movies as well,most recently i stopped playing AOC(Age of Empires-that's a popular LAN game )
So i decided to practise total abstinence from vices implies deleted all the movies files on my computer like 20 gb space
no movies for me now, sobriety to be practised from now onwards ,work hard keep my head down .Talk less to people ,don't be so approachable.
keep it simple and straight that is the motto.
read the business page everyday ,be aware .and hope hope ..that you get into A

The Arthashastra

from the Arthashastra - Chanakaya
Hence by overthrowing the aggregate of the six enemies [lust, anger, greed, vanity, haughtiness, and overjoy], he shall restrain the organs of sense; acquire wisdom by keeping company with the aged; see through his spies; establish safety and security by being ever active; maintain his subjects in the observance of their respective duties by exercising authority; keep up his personal discipline by receiving lessons in the sciences; and endear himself to the people by bringing them in contact with wealth and doing good to them. Thus, with his organs of sense under control, he shall keep away from hurting the women and property of others; avoid not only lustfulness, even in dream, but also falsehood, haughtiness, and evil proclivities; and keep away from unrighteous and uneconomical transactions.

Not violating righteousness and economy, he shall enjoy his desires. He shall never be devoid of happiness. He may enjoy in an equal degree the three pursuits of life: charity, wealth, and desire, which are inter-dependent on each other. Any one of these three, when enjoyed to an excess, hurts not only the other two, but also itself. Kautilya holds that wealth, and wealth alone, is important, inasmuch as charity and desire depend upon wealth for their realization. Those teachers and ministers who keep him from falling a prey to dangers, and who, by striking the hours of the day as determined by measuring shadows, warn him of his careless proceedings even in secret, shall invariably be respected. Sovereignty is possible only with assistance. A single wheel can never move. Hence he shall employ ministers and hear their opinion.

A king who is not alert and strong is not respected by his vassals , No king can last without being strong
The strong only respect the strong, strength lies in a disciplined mind
a king cannot let distrust be born in his subjects
As they leader can only lead if he is himself the best
anyone saying otherwise is playing politics

tech news
geekman writes "NASA is paying Rice University $11 million to build a prototype quantum wire that can conduct electricity 10 times better than traditional copper cables at one-sixth the weight. Rice has four years to build a one-meter-long quantum wire, which will be made out of carbon nanotubes. Seems like a lot of money for a little wire, but then again, all the rocket scientists at Los Alamos have only ever been able to put together a four-centimeter nanotube.

CAN WE

Can we turn breath life into stone

can we change the world or just be lost in satires of dissent.We are young and while our youth exist we can think of changing the world.We hear of our country being the great democracy of the world.Cradle of civilizations ,we have a culture that is 4500 years old.Yet it has suffered 200 years of colonial rule and a 1000 years of invasion by tribes from Central Asia.Let me ask are we lambs bred for slaughter,the sapidity of peace forever in or mouths even when we are plagued by enemies by all sides.
Are we just playing dumb are we really effeminate(no offence to the female sex)
yes you can say we existed before them and we exist afterward also.But who guarantees such liberties when this world talks of nothing but power and money.
Can we change India and make it strong for generations.So that posterity can ponder upon our names with pride.

WAR STARTS FROM THE HEAD AND ENDS THERE.

Michelangelo

who was Michelangelo
http://www.michelangelo.com/buonarroti.html


these are his words on completing the sistine chapel

This comes from dangling from the ceiling–
I'm goitered like a Lombard cat
(or wherever else their throats grow fat)–
it's my belly that's beyond concealing,
it hands beneath my chin like peeling.
My beard points skyward, I seem a bat
upon its back, I've breasts and splat!
On my face the paint's congealing.

Loins concertina'd in my gut,
I drop an arse as counterweight
and move without the help of eyes.

Like a skinned martyr I abut
on air, and, wrinkled, show my fat.
Bow-like, I strain toward the skies.

No wonder then I size
things crookedly; I'm on all fours.
Bent blowpipes send their darts off-course.

Defend my labor's cause,
good Giovanni, from all strictures:
I live in hell and paint its pictures.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

The Birthday

Yesterday we had a party,saurabh birthday and it was great.I went to the temple before joining them and i was suprised to see so many people in the temple(i realised navratras(fasting time for hindus) are going on).Funny thing how people suddenly remember gods in exams ,in times of distress,and in festival times.There were lot of commotion and too many people to find peace but you can find peace and silence anywhere.
i reached Friends "the cafe" and everyone was playing dumb charades and it was all laughs for a while and then like all other days ,the day came to a end but not without a few hiccups -
like thinking you lost your mobile in your bag (heheheh, manasi- so cute na), naman and aakash (trying to miss the bus for a kulfi worth 2 rupees).
Some vedic maths in the morning
Just listening to some music in the morning ,there is nothing like listening to classic ock in the morning.U2 and Led Zepplin are great,vocals the music ,the pitch .

the song by led zepplin ,this song reminded of someone i know.

Stairway to Heaven


There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold
And she's buying a stairway to heaven
And when she gets there she knows if the stores are closed
With a word she can get what she came for

Woe oh oh oh oh oh
And she's buying a stairway to heaven

There's a sign on the wall but she wants to be sure
And you know sometimes words have two meanings
In the tree by the brook there's a songbird who sings
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven

Woe oh oh oh oh oh
And she's buying a stairway to heaven

There's a feeling I get when I look to the west
And my spirit is crying for leaving
In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees
And the voices of those who stand looking

Woe oh oh oh oh oh
And she's buying a stairway to heaven

And it's whispered that soon, if we all call the tune
Then the piper will lead us to reason
And a new day will dawn for those who stand long
And the forest will echo with laughter

And it makes me wonder

If there's a bustle in your hedgerow
Don't be alarmed now
It's just a spring clean for the May Queen

Yes there are two paths you can go by
but in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on

Your head is humming and it won't go because you don't know
The piper's calling you to join him
Dear lady can't you hear the wind blow and did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind

And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our souls
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How everything still turns to gold
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last
When all are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll
Woe oh oh oh oh oh
And she's buying a stairway to heaven

There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold
And she's buying a stairway to heaven
And when she gets there she knows if the stores are closed
With a word she can get what she came for

And she's buying a stairway to heaven, uh uh uh.

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thanks for all those things

Nameology

hey just got a mail from one of my friends and i was suprised how acccurate the anaylsis is.The anaylsis for the letter V is as given below.

Does your name begin with: V
You are individualistic & you need freedom, space & excitement. You wait till you know someone well before committing yourself. Knowing someone means psyching her/him out. You feel a need to get into his/her head to see what makes him tick. You are attracted to eccentric types. You believe that age is no barrier. You are good at responding to danger, fear & suspense.

i always pysche out girls before i commit,try to check their nerves before i am really interested,normally it starts with beiing cool then suddenly i am all over ,inside her head etc
age is no barrier comment is personified in me ;);)

fear (heheheh..... )danger (my territory........) suspense (hello what else is life0 well i really not bothered about them,they are for lesser mortals.