Read this somewhere....so true.....
Easy is to get a place in someone?s address book,
Difficult is to get a place in someone?s heart.
Easy is to judge the mistake of others,
Difficult is to recognize our own mistakes.
Easy is to talk without thinking,
Difficult is to refrain the tongue.
Easy is to hurt someone who loves you.
Difficult is to ask for forgiveness.
Easy is to set rules,
Difficult is to follow them.
Easy is to dream every night,
Difficult is to fight for a dream.
Easy is to show victory,
Difficult is to assume defeat with dignity.
Easy is to admire a full moon,
Difficult is to see the other side.
Easy is to stumble with a stone.
Difficult is to get up.
Easy is to enjoy life everyday
Difficult is to give up its real value.
Easy is to provide something to someone.
Difficult is to fulfill that promise.
Easy is to say we love
Difficult it to show it everyday.
Easy is to criticize others,
Difficult is to improve oneself.
Easy is to make mistakes,
Difficult is to learn from them.
Easy is to weep for a lost love,
Difficult is to take care of it so not to lose it.
Easy is to keep the friendship with words
Difficult is to keep it with meanings.
Easy is to read this,
Difficult is to follow it
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Being an IGIT Mechie
This blog is dedicated to being an IGIT mechie. 4th year now, I am getting nostalgic about my college. So here goes my blog. You realise you are from IGIT & specially from mechanical & automation branch when:-
1. You thought you were very lucky to be a girl, since IGIT was all girls.
2. You counted the number of girls before your rank in the counselling.
3. You were proud of yourself coz u alws thought IGIT was best clg in d university
4. The day you took admission in MAE, people started sayin "Ladkiyan mechanical mein kya karengi" & you already had 100 reasons to support yourself.
5. When you starting telling your college name to anyone "Indira Gandhi.....", without completely people said IGNOU & u wr lyk irrrrr......
6. From day 1 u realised that Mech was the coolest branch.
7. U always waited for a good ragging & hated the same old salwar kameez dress code.
8. You always complained of 1st year teachers being partial towards MAE coz u felt it wasnt ur territory.
9. During the first year you were always eager for going to Mechanical Block, on the other side of the ground.
10. You always planned mass bunks, but were hardly successful once or twice.
11. You always thought people in ece & cse were extremely padhaku.....
12. Every time when Ms Freshers wasnt from MAE u thought that judges were biased.
13. You were very happy to see so many canteens in the campus but then realised none of them was that good & finally landed up on the chole kulche outside.
14. You loved the chilli nutrela of Vita, even tried making them at home, & were extremely diappointed when realised that vita was permenantly shut down.
15. You always thought you will start studying for minors timely, but fianlly eneded up studying just a night before. After the first year you hardly bothered studying for minors.
16. You always thought you will study in clg before d minor but all u did was gossiping & laughing.
17. You were always envious towards y DCE ppl have jst one minor & we had 2.
18. The first place you visited with your friends after admission was Janpath.
19. You were always proud to be in IGIT, coz it was famous as the only all girls engineering college.
20. During the first year you were involved in publicity, creativity, technical & all the teams of xebec, impulse, zenith & were putting posters in various colleges of Delhi, coz u thought it ws good fr ur resume.
21. You were always made to believe by ur seniors that you have to work for xebec coz it ws ur department's fest.
22. You always wondered when will Zenith take place.
23. Half of the Jan- June sem went in some fest or the other.
24. You hardly attended Anugoonj for more then one day after the first year.
25. The toughest subjects you studied were thermal engg, heat transfer & the only wish u had before its paper was of scoring 50 marks.
26. There were atleast 10 rumours each sem regarding results being out & everyone was running towards net lab.
27. You always had a lot of fun on holi in college & thought of making it the best holi ever.
28. You always thought y cant they just let us inside the girls hostel.
29. Whenever anyone said about 75% attaendace, you just laughed & said. yahan to 50 ho jae wohi bahut hai.
30. You had 100000 reasons of y u didnt attend class.
31. You alws enetered the class after the teacher did.
32. 25 Jan, 14 Aug, 1st oct were gazetted holidays for you reason being Metro n buses r not safe these days :D.
33. 90% of the time you went to university canteen was to eat your lunch.
34. You had spent more time on the wall in front of mech deptt than the class.
35. You had pleaded the xerox shop wale uncle to do your xerox first.
36. Surprise tests was nothing more then a joke & assignments were meant to be copied. Practical files were one of the biggest thing in demand a week before the pracs.
37. You always wondered y there was no loo in mech block.
38. After first year, you went to the main building just to give exam or for book bank.
39 Book bank was a place where, you knew, you will hardly be able to find any book but still went there every year.
40. The IGIT admin block was located in another world where you went only to payfees, collect marksheets, or some official work.
41. You never bothered to collect your admit card coz you know they will come & give it to u after uttering few harsh words.
42. You always thought there was nothing more difficult than studying in a girls college.
43. You soon realised that the other coed colleges in campus were of no good & any eyecandy was a topic of discussion.
44. You attended the Anugoonj auditions & cheered for IGIT, but never attended the main event.
45. There were more guys than girls spectating the IGIT freshers.
46. You heard someone or the other playing guitar in the campus,
47. The major hangout zone was McD at KG metro station.
48. You always were proud of MAE department for having the best placements.
49. You always wanted to get placed in some core company.
50. Found the corridors of workshop area best for studying for pracs. You always wondered whether the machine tools kept inside the workshops even worked or not.
51. You hated long queues for fee submission & tried atleast once to get it paid from inside the bank through some source.
52. You had max fights during these four years.
53. You always wished to be in a coed college, reasons are very well known.
54. You attended classes just for attendance. You pleaded to teachers for giving extra attendance.
55. Final year was meant only for placments , entrance exams & for fun.
56. You clicked the maximum photos during the last year.
57. Teacher called your name in the class for laughing or talking & said that you wont get the attendance.
58. Classes were meant for sleeping, solving coaching institutes package, learning Barron words, transferring songs through bluetooth, making sketches or playing games.
59. The day you attended classes seriously you realised that you actually get to understand something.
60. Every year there was a rumour that campus will be shifting next sem but it never actually did.
61. You always left one chapter coz you knew you will have choice in the paper. End sems were alws a nightmare.
62. You realised that u will miss college a lot during last year.
I want to add more points & will do so as I keep on remembering.
1. You thought you were very lucky to be a girl, since IGIT was all girls.
2. You counted the number of girls before your rank in the counselling.
3. You were proud of yourself coz u alws thought IGIT was best clg in d university
4. The day you took admission in MAE, people started sayin "Ladkiyan mechanical mein kya karengi" & you already had 100 reasons to support yourself.
5. When you starting telling your college name to anyone "Indira Gandhi.....", without completely people said IGNOU & u wr lyk irrrrr......
6. From day 1 u realised that Mech was the coolest branch.
7. U always waited for a good ragging & hated the same old salwar kameez dress code.
8. You always complained of 1st year teachers being partial towards MAE coz u felt it wasnt ur territory.
9. During the first year you were always eager for going to Mechanical Block, on the other side of the ground.
10. You always planned mass bunks, but were hardly successful once or twice.
11. You always thought people in ece & cse were extremely padhaku.....
12. Every time when Ms Freshers wasnt from MAE u thought that judges were biased.
13. You were very happy to see so many canteens in the campus but then realised none of them was that good & finally landed up on the chole kulche outside.
14. You loved the chilli nutrela of Vita, even tried making them at home, & were extremely diappointed when realised that vita was permenantly shut down.
15. You always thought you will start studying for minors timely, but fianlly eneded up studying just a night before. After the first year you hardly bothered studying for minors.
16. You always thought you will study in clg before d minor but all u did was gossiping & laughing.
17. You were always envious towards y DCE ppl have jst one minor & we had 2.
18. The first place you visited with your friends after admission was Janpath.
19. You were always proud to be in IGIT, coz it was famous as the only all girls engineering college.
20. During the first year you were involved in publicity, creativity, technical & all the teams of xebec, impulse, zenith & were putting posters in various colleges of Delhi, coz u thought it ws good fr ur resume.
21. You were always made to believe by ur seniors that you have to work for xebec coz it ws ur department's fest.
22. You always wondered when will Zenith take place.
23. Half of the Jan- June sem went in some fest or the other.
24. You hardly attended Anugoonj for more then one day after the first year.
25. The toughest subjects you studied were thermal engg, heat transfer & the only wish u had before its paper was of scoring 50 marks.
26. There were atleast 10 rumours each sem regarding results being out & everyone was running towards net lab.
27. You always had a lot of fun on holi in college & thought of making it the best holi ever.
28. You always thought y cant they just let us inside the girls hostel.
29. Whenever anyone said about 75% attaendace, you just laughed & said. yahan to 50 ho jae wohi bahut hai.
30. You had 100000 reasons of y u didnt attend class.
31. You alws enetered the class after the teacher did.
32. 25 Jan, 14 Aug, 1st oct were gazetted holidays for you reason being Metro n buses r not safe these days :D.
33. 90% of the time you went to university canteen was to eat your lunch.
34. You had spent more time on the wall in front of mech deptt than the class.
35. You had pleaded the xerox shop wale uncle to do your xerox first.
36. Surprise tests was nothing more then a joke & assignments were meant to be copied. Practical files were one of the biggest thing in demand a week before the pracs.
37. You always wondered y there was no loo in mech block.
38. After first year, you went to the main building just to give exam or for book bank.
39 Book bank was a place where, you knew, you will hardly be able to find any book but still went there every year.
40. The IGIT admin block was located in another world where you went only to payfees, collect marksheets, or some official work.
41. You never bothered to collect your admit card coz you know they will come & give it to u after uttering few harsh words.
42. You always thought there was nothing more difficult than studying in a girls college.
43. You soon realised that the other coed colleges in campus were of no good & any eyecandy was a topic of discussion.
44. You attended the Anugoonj auditions & cheered for IGIT, but never attended the main event.
45. There were more guys than girls spectating the IGIT freshers.
46. You heard someone or the other playing guitar in the campus,
47. The major hangout zone was McD at KG metro station.
48. You always were proud of MAE department for having the best placements.
49. You always wanted to get placed in some core company.
50. Found the corridors of workshop area best for studying for pracs. You always wondered whether the machine tools kept inside the workshops even worked or not.
51. You hated long queues for fee submission & tried atleast once to get it paid from inside the bank through some source.
52. You had max fights during these four years.
53. You always wished to be in a coed college, reasons are very well known.
54. You attended classes just for attendance. You pleaded to teachers for giving extra attendance.
55. Final year was meant only for placments , entrance exams & for fun.
56. You clicked the maximum photos during the last year.
57. Teacher called your name in the class for laughing or talking & said that you wont get the attendance.
58. Classes were meant for sleeping, solving coaching institutes package, learning Barron words, transferring songs through bluetooth, making sketches or playing games.
59. The day you attended classes seriously you realised that you actually get to understand something.
60. Every year there was a rumour that campus will be shifting next sem but it never actually did.
61. You always left one chapter coz you knew you will have choice in the paper. End sems were alws a nightmare.
62. You realised that u will miss college a lot during last year.
I want to add more points & will do so as I keep on remembering.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Is Silence a language?
Language was a tool developed by our ancestors to express our thoughts n feelings to others. We can write & speak to tell what we are feeling whether good or bad. But however languages one may know there are some feelings which can not be expressed in words. The feeling of happiness on achieving something, feeling of sadness on leaving something, a mix of these feelings etc. You can never express the feeling of happiness in any language but just a big colgate smile shows it all. Such a way you can never express your deep sorrows in words, a tear rolling down your cheek shows it all. Does this mean language is an ineffective tool. No, it helps you to tell the world reason for your feeling but cannot describe your feeling.
Is silence a language. I believe it completely is. But a language which only people close to your heart can understand because when someone is close to you then there is no need of words. Our mom's are the best example of this, even from kilometres away she can judge that we are not behaving normal how-much we try to. Many a times in life we want people to understand what we are going through without even saying a word. This silence is the best & the most difficult language. Best for the person expressing it & difficult for the person he is expressing to. It is this language of silence which helps us to talk to ourself. We dont need words always to say what we feel.
A language which has been provided to every living creature, Silence is the best tool of expressing yourself because people who cant understand your silence will never understand your words.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Priorities
I read an email few days back which left me thinking. The email goes as follows:
A Professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up a very large and empty jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was.
So the Professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was.
The Professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded with an unanimous "yes."
The Professor then produced two cups of coffee from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar, effectively filling the space between the grains of sand.
"Now," said the professor, as the laughter subsided, "I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The golf balls are the important things--your family, your children, your health, your friends, and your favorite passions - things that if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full.
The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house, and your car. The sand is everything else -the small stuff.
"If you put the sand into the jar first," he continued, "there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls. The same goes for life. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that are important to you. Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Play with your children. Take time to get medical checkups. Take your partner out to dinner. Play another 18.
One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the coffee represented. The Professor smiled. "I'm glad you asked. It just goes to show you that no matter how full your life may seem, there's always room for a couple of cups of coffee with a friend."
Its not that we don't know about these things. We always know that our family is most important to us. But still at the end of the day before going to bed, I seldom wonder how much time do I give to my family. I might be going away from them in sometime then how much time will I have for them. 90% of my mind is occupied with my career issues, then how do I say my first priority is my family.
I don't know what I exactly want to write in this blog, may be its something deep inside me which always asks me "Am I happy this way". Within few months I'll probably be away from my family & my best of friends, meeting them just once in 3 4 months or so. Will I be happy that way. I know we always adjust to the conditions we live in but we somewhere forget what we always wanted. Why? may be because of better career prospects, better jobs, better money etc. I sometimes feel what is the use of money after which we cant stay up with our families, friends. What is the use of such job which doesn't even give a husband & wife to spare out time for each other or for their children. What is the use of such achievement which brings in jealousy between two friends. What is the use of such career which separates you from your loved one through the distance which can never be covered. Do we actually know the difference between what we need & what we want. Have you ever asked yourself "If I was a free bird what would I wanted to do?"
I am not saying we shouldn't concentrate on our career. May be I'll be the last person on this Earth to say that. Its just that our surroundings & peer pressure of the society has made us forget the difference between our needs & our desires. We want all what our neighbour has otherwise we will not be considered at par with the society. If I cant make it to the best college or best job it is just as bad as failing. I seriously sometimes feel I can relive my college life & make it the best time of my life & do all what I want to.
I seriously want to give the golf balls more importance then the pebbles & I wish I can make a balance between the two.
A Professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up a very large and empty jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was.
So the Professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was.
The Professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded with an unanimous "yes."
The Professor then produced two cups of coffee from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar, effectively filling the space between the grains of sand.
"Now," said the professor, as the laughter subsided, "I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The golf balls are the important things--your family, your children, your health, your friends, and your favorite passions - things that if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full.
The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house, and your car. The sand is everything else -the small stuff.
"If you put the sand into the jar first," he continued, "there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls. The same goes for life. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that are important to you. Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Play with your children. Take time to get medical checkups. Take your partner out to dinner. Play another 18.
One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the coffee represented. The Professor smiled. "I'm glad you asked. It just goes to show you that no matter how full your life may seem, there's always room for a couple of cups of coffee with a friend."
Its not that we don't know about these things. We always know that our family is most important to us. But still at the end of the day before going to bed, I seldom wonder how much time do I give to my family. I might be going away from them in sometime then how much time will I have for them. 90% of my mind is occupied with my career issues, then how do I say my first priority is my family.
I don't know what I exactly want to write in this blog, may be its something deep inside me which always asks me "Am I happy this way". Within few months I'll probably be away from my family & my best of friends, meeting them just once in 3 4 months or so. Will I be happy that way. I know we always adjust to the conditions we live in but we somewhere forget what we always wanted. Why? may be because of better career prospects, better jobs, better money etc. I sometimes feel what is the use of money after which we cant stay up with our families, friends. What is the use of such job which doesn't even give a husband & wife to spare out time for each other or for their children. What is the use of such achievement which brings in jealousy between two friends. What is the use of such career which separates you from your loved one through the distance which can never be covered. Do we actually know the difference between what we need & what we want. Have you ever asked yourself "If I was a free bird what would I wanted to do?"
I am not saying we shouldn't concentrate on our career. May be I'll be the last person on this Earth to say that. Its just that our surroundings & peer pressure of the society has made us forget the difference between our needs & our desires. We want all what our neighbour has otherwise we will not be considered at par with the society. If I cant make it to the best college or best job it is just as bad as failing. I seriously sometimes feel I can relive my college life & make it the best time of my life & do all what I want to.
I seriously want to give the golf balls more importance then the pebbles & I wish I can make a balance between the two.
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