Dunga’s blog

• Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream.
• Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
• When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
• Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
• To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
• To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
• The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
• Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
• Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
• Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
• Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
• Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
• Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
• Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Only past week I started wondering how would it be going to the movies alone.

In the 22 years spent in Bhilai I'd have been to a cinema hall for not more than 5 times (2 of those times with parents :D), and in last less than a year's time would have been to the movies some 22 times...with either friends @ IBM, team mates, college mates, room mates, school mates, friends of friends, ... and then a thought struck me.. let's see how different an experience would it be going alone.

Didn't quite make much of a difference

There was this "IBM townhall meeting" at Le Meridian and man! was it amazing or what... I had only heard of IBM's grandeur all these months and about how they surprise the employees during various such events.

I went there with my team, expecting a boring presentation on FY '07 annual report and ofcourse for good food! But I must say there was more to it.. there was this cricket mimic artist, Vikram Sathe, who if you remember had shot to fame during xtraa innings... though you, just like all other viewers, are not to blame (if you can't place the name well) for it was Ms Bedi who had outright stolen the show!  I must confess I haven't laughed as loud and wild as I did last night... seriously, laughed my lungs kidneys heart everything out! :D He mimicked almost everyone you'd have ever wanted to be aped right from the master blaster sachin to gavaskar and shrikant, not to miss the angry young man, shreesant and the yester years' Wall of Indian team, Dravid. He even did a wonderful mimic of Indian politicians...and couple of bollywood stars!
All in all, not for more than 5 seconds at a stretch would I have not laughed in those 40 odd minutes of his stage presence !

Then there was Leslie Lewis playing re-mixes and couple of his own songs, with a female co-singer singing equally (if not more) melodiously. Only thing I'd have asked for was either lower decibel levels or a larger auditorium... I thought the artists were drumming right on my ear drums!
But it was so much fun, and I so wanted to record everything that since I didn't carry any recording device, I simply called up people and let them hear the show from the phone... only to be told later on that it all sounded like a radio show !

For the fans of Apple Inc., and the worshippers of Jobs... here's a good read from Sunday times

With the third semester results declared..another brick's been cemented into the wall..
..and I head towards sticking the label to my name... :|

If Ignorance is bliss... why are we striving harder and harder to climb the ladder of intellect?

Why do we go to school? Oh thats not enough, we move on to high school, then to the college to graduate and oh my! this aint enough either... masters is a must these days, is what everyone around would tell you.

What are we becoming by attending schools.. by attaching degrees to our names.. by wearing business suits and carrying laptops... Are these signs of a true intellectual?

Most of us are engineers, but how many of us are thorough with our basics?
Many of us are businessmen/business women... how often are we applying the 'biz concepts' from Kotler?

Is what we read what we need? And is it the need that is provoking us to read what we read? Or is it just for the degree that we read, and the money what we need...??
I'm reminded of the words...' we don' need no education... ' Not that I profess we dont need education, but I strongly believe that we educate ourselves of what we really need, of what is really adding value, of what is really applicable.

Inside our mother's womb, protected we were, ignorant we were... we knew not, what was outside...and happy we were. The moment we came out, we saw everything around and how did we react.... Oh did you say "CRY"
Hmm...so there began the story of our distress..of us bein forced to learn, and then our own quest to learn and slowly the urge to attain labels (which we better know as degrees).....

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