"A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates his life." ~ J Allen

... while i was mulling over the idea of packing my Sunday with the 'submission' process, i was advised by the youngest member of my present family to take one day leave and finish it off on a weekday... "u can visit the banks as well!" she reminded me... with zillion emotions entangled in my mind at any given nanosecond, i find solace in the fact that my younger sister can come-up with some real-world advice and ideas and suggestions and what not! ... so i decided to take the Saturday off and headed to my bank's nearest branch... with the document submission and all...

... that was one fruitful saturday i spent yesterday and this is the last sunday before the grueling starts!

[edit: setting this article free ... before this gets lost in the drafts backlog ~written sometime in october!]

..."Asking a pessimist his opinion is like asking a fire hydrant how it feels about dogs."...

it is not easy to make a habit... of anything... and once u have made some considerable effort and develop a knack of something it is not easy to lose that momentum... this is what they say... but then... once in a while... we develop a habit and then just can't keep up with the momentum... if u haven't got the whiff of it i am talking about the blogging... i mean my blogging... the thing is that this blog was the result of a silly whim ... but overtime it became a sort of repository of my daily routine... a diary where i can simply dump my thoughts... but then this is can be more than simply a dumping place of the thoughts...

... as i learned (rather realized) the retrospection is important... there is no point in putting everything here and then make it available to the strangers who wander in this world wide web ... mostly powered by Google... and some of them (poor souls) who were looking for something else and end up reading some thing totally unrelated... my point is that has to be a take away ... for me or anybody, who ended up on my blog thanks to some slick coding of the search engine programmers...

... the million dollar question is what take-away?

..."Animals are Trained, Humans are Developed"... ~ via Prof. Nathan

... it was one of those evenings... and i realised that i was taken for a ride... not by the local auto wallas or the glib talking insurance policy salesman... but by my own thoughts... somehow the Pandora's box was opened and they were flooding my 'vision' faster than monsoon can make that whirl-pool on the roads...

... sometimes i feel good that i have the luxury of spending some quality time with myself... :-) anyways... i found this excerpt from Jobs speech ... i know, i know... it is getting a little overwhelming but still...

"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life,"

"Because almost everything -- all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure -- these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important."

"Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart."