The guy in the glass

I've found a wonderful poem , here at Infy. It was written in one of the handouts they gave us. This poem really touched me and its called "the guy in the glass".
I hope this poem will help you guys find a way of your choice ........


When you get what you want in your struggle for pelf
And the world makes you king for a day
Then go to the mirror and look at yourself
And see what that guy has to say.
For it isnt your mother, your father or wife
Whose judgement on you must pass
The fellow whose verdict counts most in your life
Is the guy staring back from the glass.

He's the fellow to please, never mind all the rest
For he's with you clean to the end
And you've passed your most dangerous and difficult test
If the guy in the glass is your friend.

You may be like Jack Horner and chisel a plum
And think you are a wonderful guy
But the guy in the glass says you are a bum
If you can't look him straight in the eye.
You may fool the whole world, down the pathwayof years
And get pats on the back as you pass
But the final reward will be heartaches and tears
If you've cheated the guy in the glass.

-Peter Dale Wimbrow

Time's almost up ..........

Hey guys........ Well to be honest , i really couldn't think of what to write ..... the feeling of emptiness has been around me for a past couple of days..... the feeling that ill be leaving family , friends and most of all mumbai for good......... and join infosys to start with a new life.....

I really cannot believe i've made this far in my life..... Well as a child i was very mischievous and people around me really didnt believe i would come this far, study this much..... But guess what i've made it..... I really cannot forget the expressions on my parents face when my 8th sem results came out .... I've yearned all my life to give them this moment of joy.....

Well ive had a pretty forgetful school days, no offence but cannot write nething else about it ....... Its these last 4 years that i will never ever forget.... Even though the college wasnt a great one and have always cursed it whenever I got a chance (no offence again) ..... But it those friends of mine that has made it the most fun filled years of my life........ Now the time's up .....

My gujarati gang..... always upto something...... everyone from mama(jugal) , chacha(bhavesh), story(sanghvi), kanya (dhawal mehta), dudh(keval), marwari (akash), bantu and chantu (bhavin and harsh) and for that matter even sketch pen (dipen), ...... All of em.... Though i doubt any one of u will read this blog or not.... but we surely had fun ...... all those night outs at story's place....... and those trips n all.... was a lot of fun..... we will miss it.......

Atri n siddesh too for the notes and writeups they have provided without them i guess i wouldnt have successfully got my termwork marks and would get this percentage...... Thank you guys [:)].......

Oh yea n senior citizen (chinmay) yep will miss u too...... Will miss the explainations i use to give u about various stuff...... and yea surely will miss that frog n rat fight.... u knw wat i mean ;) .....

This one is dedicated for the girls ....... The endless hours chatting on msn with gig(shweta), sccug(aditi) , rambo(trupti) , blobby (medha) and arch (archana) was totally fun way to tp ......we all could count on each other for tp if we were ever bored..... The last month was totally fun u guys ... will miss u guys a lot......

And two of my bestest friends arun n naresh.... they are the only ones i am in contact with since my school days.... cya guys.....

Yesterday i went to meet my cousins and had soo much fun...... but at the end of the day, when it was time to say goodbye.. that empty feeling came back to me again.... i will not be seeing them for some time.... Will surely miss those guys too

U knw guys for the first time ill feel a lot more responsible , since ill be alone n all..... Everyone's off pursuing their dreams n destiny..... and soo am i...... I hope everyone's dream comes true........

I am having a lot of flashbacks but if i continue to write them ..... ill miss the plane on 27th ...
just 2 weeks now to go ........
cyaaaa.....byeee....

The frog that lived ..........

Its been ages since i've written my last blog........ (Tuesday, July 10th to be precise :D ) ........ But today the thing that i witnessed was definitely a blogable topic for me :) .......
I dunno about u guys but ive not seen anything like this in my real life ..... In TV..... yes (Animal Planet :P ) .....

Ok ill come straight to the point.... I saw a rat like creature mercilessly attacking a frog .......

The whole story goes like this ....... I was with my friend chinmay discussing marks that people got in their last sem of engineering happily laughing away on jokes too..... :D
Suddenly out of no where i heard a loud squeal..... and chinmay who has a sharper eye than me spotted an animal attacking a frog..... He went like "holy shit look at that" (Well he said a more nastier word , but i m replacing holy shit with it.... a family blog u c ;) ).....

Probably it was a good night's meal for the creature..... But from what it looked like it was a planned attack (He could probably show a trick or two to our military forces on how to attack ) .... He went for the frog's legs first dragging him away from the gutter which meant freedom for the frog...... Boy that frog was squealing like anything...... after when the first leg was brutally injured he went for his second leg ..... (Man!! some plan he had huh) .... It was a 5 min struggle for life and death for the frog...... Just when the frog went still and wasnt moving ... We both thought it was all over for him (RIP .... God bless him) .......

And we went ahead for our rounds...... The major part is yet to come......
I dunno what happened but when we finished our round we searched for the frogs remains.... But we found out the frog itself who was alive....... Now how did it happened .... why did it happened .. were the first of many questions we asked ourselves ..... The rat was nowhere to be seen..... The rat came for its second round but did not found out the frog..... He was safe ..... ( i went like waaaaahoooooo :D )

I told chinmay this is nature.... It holds sooo many unanswered questions... Perhaps the frog was destined to stay alive (tho limping but alive)..... But most of all nature didnt want us to know how it happened.... We were literally cursing ourself about why we left the place......
Looks like itll be Long live frog (untill some wretched creature picks on him again)..... I'll say "The frog that lived"......... Cool huh ;) .....

Because it is said that - " Na Koi Marta Hai...Na Koi Maarta Hain..Yeh Main Nahin Kehta...Gita Mein Likha Hai..Main Toh Sirf Ek Nimiit Hoon! "

Meaning - " Nobody dies ...... Nobody kills..... this isnt me saying... its written in Gita.... i m only the instrument of what is happening" ....

Thats what happened today... we both thought the frog was destined to die and the rat like creature was just the instrument for full filling its (frog's) destiny...... But i guess nature had something else stored in mind........

PS : i wuldve taken the picture with my cell... but it was night time and even the night mode didnt work becoz of lack of light...... Mumbai street light sucks...

Twitter: A Whole World in Your Hands

There is a new site that i came across (here) that sets new standards for social networking... Its called twitter .


What is it?
Twitter is a community of friends and strangers from around the world sending updates about moments in their lives. Friends near or far can use Twitter to remain somewhat close while far away. Curious people can make friends. Bloggers can use it as a mini-blogging tool. Developers can use the API to make Twitter tools of their own. Possibilities are endless!

Its a social networking service or a micro-blogging service that allows users to post their thoughts in a few words ... It can also be used to post their current status as in "what are you doing now??"........

Plus its pretty accessible ... that is from web, phone or messenger... Now thats pretty cool :)....
You can make new friends ... Well some of my friends will love this site .. ;)

Things twitter can be used for??

1. Bloggers or webmaster can use it as a social book marking tool to increase their traffic..
2. More artistic type of bloggers can use it post some random thoughts..
3. Nice site to make some friends...
4. Developers can use twitter API to develop tools for their site or a blog.
   
5. Its an alternative for scrapbook on orkut ... :D
6. Tell the world "what are you doing now??"

Like i said possibilities are endless .... :) ....

PS: See the new twitter widget on my blog .... Can't see it.... Make use of urself and scroll down ... Dont be lazy now :P .. :D

Screenshots i took...

Blogging outta blogness .....

Frankly speaking i really dont have the mood to blog about nething new (Its just the not-blogging-for-a-long-time feeling again) .....
Oh yea Taj got selected in the 7 wonders ... waahooo i m happy :) ...
It seems the blogger in me must be outta blogness or something (the thing that powers every blogger!!!) .... You can see i m posting ne random shit!! .... Its just one of those days where u are outta topics and your mind goes completely kaput and then blank.. You begin your day by saying "mai kahaan hoon mai kidhar hoon" (meaning "where am i" ) ......
Whatever i blog about only a select few people who are in blog i knw section(in my blog) actually read and comment .... Man!!! I get like 10-20 hits a day ... all from different parts of the world. Damn!! why wont they comment.. It just takes a sec!!!... Plus its all in english not in zulu or something... People please do comment!! ...
Next time i hope i get something interesting to write ......

HERAT (a.k.a moonraker)
Over and Out!!!!