The Dead Poet

10. Silence

2018-04-18T22:55:00.001+05:30

Silence

The silence of the sun
when it shines red upon her,
The silence of the flowers
when they fall over her,
The silence of the land
as it holds her,
The silence of the clouds
before they poured their sorrow,
The silence of the lightning
when it strikes it agony,
The silence of the wind
as it grazes her hair anew,
The silence of the celestial
as they welcomed her,
made me wonder who she would be?
seeing her lying idle
made me realize that,
even silence has a sound...

-The Dead Poet

Jack of all trades - Origami

2017-11-26T20:46:00.002+05:30

Well I'm not actively doing any Origami but thought will add what ever I've captured in film to my blog anyways.

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1. Some Flying Bird (Jun 17-2011)

2. Horse (Jun 17-2011)

3. Pelican (Jun 17-2011)

4. Dragon (Jun 17-2011)

5. Giraffe (Jun 21-2017)

6. Swarm of Birds (Feb 27-2013)

7. Katamarm (Feb 27-2013)

Jack of all trades - Miniature Wood Works

2017-11-26T20:30:00.002+05:30

To my readers or click farm bots, here is the set of all miniatures which I have finished so far. Comments are welcomed as always.

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1. Drawers (Tue, Nov 14-2017)

My first miniature with my not so proper hand and limited & forgotten knowledge of how to cut and shape wood, trim and file them properly.

But as the saying goes, All master craftsman are once a rookie.

P.S., Those drawers are functional!

2. Books (Fri, Nov 24-2017)

I can't finish a book in a day or week like most of you but I did finished these books in a couple of days.

3. Bookshelf (Sun, Nov 26-2017)

All my books needs a place to be that's at-least the above made books purpose. Until I figure out whats my purpose in life...

Just when I thought I became a better craftsman I messed up with the paint job. Just when I realized Black + Burnt Sienna will never yield me Brown, I painted it all black.

4. Type Writer (Mon, Dec 5-2017)

The age old machine which helped me to type emails and document stuffs by watching TV

5. Baby Crib (Mon, Jan 1-2018)

For my cousin's baby boy :)

6. Guitar (Mon, Jan 8-2018)

A real gift to stuart minion his size guitar!

7. Bunk Bed (Sun, Feb 4-2018)

That double decker bed we wished for when we were kids :)

Now the only person who need it in my world is my friend Bala...

8. A Simple Desk (Mon, Feb 12-2018)

9. Record Player (Sat, Feb 24-2018)

Now how will I connect these record players with my 2X1 speakers ;)

10. Cabin in the woods (Mon, Feb 27-2018)

The cabin in the woods.. Technically its mint plants :)

11. Home (Thurs, Mar 8-2018)

Home is where the heart is... Where is mine?

12. Yet Another Drawer (, Mar 18-2018)

Close enough

13. Guillotine (, Apr 9-2018)

An idle brain is the devils workshop... I warn you people "I may be on the side of the Angels but don't think for a second I'm one of them"

14. Dinning Table (Sun, Apr 15-2018)

You are always invited to dine with me anytime anywhere...

Amarnath's Journal, Sep 2017 (This War Of Mine)

2017-09-06T00:28:00.001+05:30

This War Of Mine

The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place, and I don't care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward; how much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how wining is done...

- Rocky Balboa

This is a short story about a mortal boy who is left all alone in the beautiful yet cruel battlefield called life and his journey through the battles he has seen and gone through; the miracles he has witnessed; the traits he has learned.

In this relative universe where time travels at the speed of light where someones past is someones present and someones present is others future, this is just a small flash which I've seen and vaguely remember, the first time I saw this boy went something like this... I saw him with smile on his face and sorrow on his eyes. The familiar glimpse which I'm used to now with the earthly beings. Instead of awes and glitters all I can see in his eyes are sorrow and questions. When I walked close to him he was beaten to his knees and stood in no man lands in his battlefield.

As I try to walk towards him I can see all the battles he has gone through many of which he has suffered a heavy defeat and I can't help but observe he is taking part in others battle as well. He dropped his head and starts to see all the battles he has gone through and seen. Where he struggled hard between desires and values, where he has been used simply as a tool in others fight which he took part. Where he was torn apart not because of what he is doing or done just because of where he came from. The fight he is having with the human society which is a hungry bread which uses its allies and the moments he felt that the society won't be lonely without him.

That ain't saddening him because he know he gets the world he deserves, but the questions he has on why bad things happen to the good soul. And his ultimate struggle to fill in the void which he has what is the purpose of all this!

But its not only darkness which surrounds him. There are bright sparks in his dark sky. Like the comet on the sky, which you won't see often but you know its there brightening someones sky. He had true allies from the time he started his battle and friends from unusual places who are like a comet or the sun's bright ray in the sunset sky. Those miracles made him realize what the purpose of life should be and what he want to be with rest of his time from his view of space-time fabric.

He know what has happened is all wrong to the good people in this war. By rights they shouldn't even be here. But they are, it's like in the great stories, the ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you don't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was for them when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, the boy do understand, he know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something. That there's some good in this world and it's worth fighting for.

With a weak and weary bran when he is about to forfeit his war, I saw him wake up with the purpose and hope that his life will mean something to somebody other than himself. He realizes if he don't do the things that he is supposed to do peoples life's will suffer. When I get closer to him I can see he is trying to clear his conscience and to live in service not to himself but to live in service to humanity, to live in service to family & friends, his city, his country and to the world which is the purest form of joy. If you are not making someone else's life better then you are wasting your time. He is not scared to die for the truth, the truth is the only thing that' ever gonna be constant. This is what he believes and what he's willing to fight and die for.

...Now if you know what you're worth, then go out and get what you're worth, but you gotta be willing to take the hits and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain't you. You're better than that!

- Rocky Balboa

As I start to continue my infinite journey across this vast expanding universe, crossing different battlefields and various soldiers; I heard him whisper:

This war of mine which I can not win;
This war of mine which I should not loose.

There and Back Again - Kudremukha, Aug 2017

2017-08-08T23:47:00.002+05:30

There and Back Again - Kudremukha, Aug 2017

Like the tall and strong mountains, Life always gives us the harsh blows; it might be the terrain or the weather but it also gives us a chance to feel strong. I don't know much about the mountains but that's the way life is and now I also know how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong but to feel strong and to find yourself facing the odds with only your own hands and your own head along with some special friends.

This part of my life is called 'ADVENTURE'

Kudramukha - Literally meaning Horse Face is the third highest peak in Karnataka. It's not too high but the peak stands tall at 1892 meter from MSL. Like all our other dreams this was in my bucket list for a long time. One fine night I just called my friend and told him about this and reserved a seat for two in the coming weekend. Finally I'm going to Kudremukha!

Aug 4 2017 2200: We were picked up by the mounteering club from Bengaluru and we started to head to the base camp. Like any other adventure it didn't had a good or subtle beginning.

Aug 5 2017 0415: The small bus was travelling round and round the ghat section enroute to the base camp and all hell fall loose for me! Everything inside my stomach came out one by one :p starting from the dinner, the green bile juice and when nothing was inside my gut would've came out but my friend stopped the bus and I relaxed a bit. That's how well my beginning was!

Aug 5 2017 0630: We reached a place and started to travel on a 4X4 jeep to the base camp. That ride is the most thrilling one in this whole trip, there is no road and a single slip will topple the jeep all the way down. Unfortunately nothing like that happened!

Aug 5 2017 0830: We refreshed a bit in the base camp had some breakfast; that time I was not strong but I had to feel strong. All I thought that time was, I came this close not to stand on the kudra mukha. We started our ascend onto the peak. It is estimated to be 11 KM from the base camp one way and to our surprise we had a warm welcome from one of the locals of that forest. Mr.Leech. We spotted one guy crawling on the forest department check post and thought There Will 'definitely' Be Blood.

We entered your home and I don't mind feeding two of your cousins

Well hereafter I lost track of time for some time :)

We started to walk through the rough trail left by fellow trekkers with one thing in mind, just follow the trail it will lead you there! As we entered further in we were greeted (I like to put that way) by a group of peacocks from a distant place.

We were crossing through thick vegetation and small small water streams; from which I catch hold a small bamboo stick and trimmed it to fit my size. Being a fan of Bear Grylls we started to shoot dual survival videos featuring Amar and Bala. Uncensored version of it will soon be posted here.

Then we witnessed one of many mother natures beauty lush green grass land covered by pure white cloud/fog. Just in-front of that starts the real trial for us we have to start climbing steep cliffs. Where ever you turn your head the scenery is the same unfiltered grass land laid over mountains like a carpet and clouds coming in and showering down water to the carpet.

My words can't explain the beauty of this place so I'll simply feast your eyes :)

Aug 5 2017 1245: Finally we reached are on the horse back, no more slippery slopy hills its flat grass land on the top and as we near the head torrential rain and wind made my hands so pale as if I could've joined The King in the North along with him in the undead category. We reached the peak at around 1245 and had our lunch sitting on rain under the clouds listening to the winds and feeling the frost.

The Horse back

Adding fuel into fire, I become so numb!

Kudremukha

Aug 5 2017 1330: We couldn't stand any further with our outfit in the top we started our long march down through the muddy path seeing what we saw already again which didn't bore us. It was that feeling which one will have its worth all this wait and the trouble just how Harvey Dent puts it.

The long march started we couldn't wait to get back to the base camp and rest for a while.

Aug 5 2017 1715: We reached the forest checkpoint and I started to run to the home stay downhill and took a cold shower sat in-front of the charcoal stove which was blazing in red. We slept inside a cozy sleeping bag for almost 9 hours of undisturbed sleep.

Aug 6 2017 0930: Before we leave the beautiful place where you are completely cut off from WWW we took a deep breath of the fresh air and listened to the rumbling of fresh water and left the it feeling strong to return into civilization.

Until next time!

Wait we came to know that Aug 6th is friendship day once we reach bangalore :) Life is like a box of chocolate, you never know what you're gonna get! Bring it on life we feel strong now.

Amarnath's Journal, May 2017 (An Open letter to the elected and the electorate)

2017-05-07T23:21:00.000+05:30

Amarnath's Journal, May 2017:

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people
but the silence over that by the good people.
-Martin Luther King Jr.

In continuation to my old blog Election Fever thought of compiling (Most of the sentences are from Neil deGrasse Tyson's interview) and writing something to the present day politics, the politicians and about the common people.

I was reading through the Constitution of India, the supreme law of India! and few lines caught my eyes and I wish to discuss those points and some beyond that.

LIBERTY of ~~thought~~, expression, belief, faith and worship

I'm striking through Liberty of thought for now!

LIBERTY of Expression:

The Hindi Imposition by the ruling party contradicts to the Liberty of expression which was coined in the constitution. India is a country which takes pride in her diversity, I'm learning new words because of this new plots, homogeneity! That doesn't mean the states or the people who oppose are against any language in particular. I have seen many people whose mother tongue is not Hindi learn and speak it fluently as if its their mother tongue why can't others adapt the same instead of forcing an imposition?

This is one example I can think of.

LIBERTY of belief, faith and worship:

In a free country, which atleast we believe and tell ourselves we live in one, I don't care what people believe, let people believe whatever they want; the problem comes about if some people are in denial of something and those small group of people wield power over legislation then that's a recipe for disaster.

Let people continue to believe what they want but as a citizen of a country that is not founded on a religion, which was founded with a sort of secular construct in a way to protect whatever religion you want to express; this is protected in the constitution, the constitution doesn't actually mention god rather controversial in its day because they don't want legislation to tell you what god to worship they knew this, they knew how governments can persecute people who had belief systems that didn't agree with the state, they knew this so they created those freedoms and so we have these freedoms. But if you are going to create the legislation that has to apply to everybody and you're now putting in your belief system into legislation that is not a free and open democracy.

Somethings missed in the constitution:

The Subtle difference between the past and future

To quote an statement from NDTV article dated February 23rd 2017 "India will spend 3600 crore rupees or $530 million on the controversial memorial to 17th century Hindu warrior king Chhatrapti Shivaji. Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone in December".

That is a lot of money and whether we need to spend it to honor an great icon who is already an immortal into some temporary structure? I don't think so! think of what all can be done to enhance the future of this great nation which is lagging in R&D. The problem with not budgeting towards R&D in most of the fields of science, saying that we don't have enough for this or simply ignoring R&D is that the distribution of money that they are spending or their thinking is warped in some way, they are removing the only thing that gives people something to dream about tomorrow. These stuffs will make us stop dreaming, tomorrow is gone. They are playing for the quarterly report and for the next election cycle. That's mortgaging the actual future of this country. We once had such dreamers who envisioned India in this new millennium.

BTW I don't want to beat the ELECTED folks over the head (They are elders to me, so respect), you'll never see me arguing about politics because I simply don't care about the politicians and modern day politics. Politicians are duly elected by a community of people THE ELECTORATE, all I wish to do is let people know about what is rightfully there's and what they are stripped out off so that they could then vote people into office who can make sensible legislative decisions that can affect us all and not derive from their personal private belief system.

The supreme law is coined by our true leaders who fought with their blood to get us the independence we enjoy today, don't follow anyone so blindly ask questions, Life is a game of chess every move counts and there is something behind each and everyone of those move don't forget this!

All I want is that our children and their children should also read in their academics text book that India is a secular nation as we did once.

Amarnath's Journal, December 2016(How I'll always Be)

2016-12-20T01:32:00.000+05:30

Amarnath's Journal, December 2016:

Yaan Petra Inbam Peruga Ivvayagamum

Let the world rejoice the bliss I've realized

- Tirumular

Tirumular, One of the sixty three Nayanars (Teachers of Siva) and one of the eighteen Siddhars of CE Era and the person who coined the phrase/principles of our modern open source community; share what you know and let others benefit and contribute back to you.

A year without blogging means I'm not contributing anything to my world, so I thought let me share why I'll always be like how I'm now and what made me so. And why everyday I struggle how I'm going to live with myself if I don't stay true to what I believe. My beliefs are not religious but why men like Tirumular coined religion in the first place, its backed up by some rationalization thoughts of old and current generation philosophers, scientist, poets. I would like to share my beliefs on how to innovate or do what you do best in this modern universe.

This modern universe! yeah universe, like every kid I was more interested into Astrophysics and cherished those small one hour shows in infotainment channels every now and then. One show grabbed my attention to the fullest "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey" by Neil deGrasse Tyson which is a follow up of one of Neil's mentor Carl Sagan television series "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". At the last episode of Cosmos comes the best thing I've ever heard about how we came to this place where we are now as a civilization and about science and how one should think; I'm simply narrating Neil deGrasse Tyson's word here and it goes like:

"It was the work of generations of searchers who took five simple rules to heart.

1. Question Authority

No Idea is true, just because someone says so, including me!

2. Think for yourself. Question Yourself

Don't believe anything just because you want to. Believing something doesn't make it so.

3. Test Ideas by the evidence gained from observation and experiment

If a favorite idea fails a well-designed test, it's wrong! Get over it.

4. Follow the evidence, wherever it leads

If you have no evidence, reserve judgement.

5. And perhaps the most important rule of all Remember, You Could Be WRONG.

Even the best scientists have been wrong about some things. Even the best scientists have been wrong about some things. Newton, Einstein and every other great scientist in history, they all made mistakes. Of course they did - they were human.

Science is a way to keep from fooling ourselves and each other. Have scientists known sin? Of Course, we have misused science, just as we have every other tool at our disposal and that's why we can't afford to leave it in the hands of a powerful few.

The more science belongs to all of us, the less likely it is to be misused."

We might already know what we want to become in this tiny blue speck in this vast universe which we call home; a scientist like Neil deGrasse Tyson or Carl Sagan but read what Neil has to say about Carl Sagan, this point I will add to the top five as the sixth and the most important like our sixth sense!

"Carl Sagan guided the maiden voyage of Cosmos a generation ago. He was the most successful science communicator of the 20th century, but he was first and foremost a scientist. Carl contributed enormously to our knowledge of the planets. He correctly predicted the existence of methane lakes on Saturn's giant moon Titan. He showed that the atmosphere of the early Earth must have contained powerful greenhouse gases. He was the fist to understand that seasonal changes on Mars were due to windblown dust. Carl was a pioneer in the search for extraterrestrial life and intelligence. He played a leading role in every major spacecraft mission to explore the solar system during the first 40 years of the Space Age.

But that's not all he did.

This is Carl Sagan's own calendar from 1975. Who was I (Neil) back then? I (Neil) was just a 17-year old kid from the Bronx with dreams of becoming a scientist, and somehow the world's most famous astronomer found time to invite me to Ithaca, in update New York and spend a Saturday with him.

I (Neil) remember that snowy day like it was yesterday. He met me at the bust stop and showed me his laboratory at Cornell University. Carl reached behind his desk and inscribed this book for me.

"For Neil, with all good ... & a future astronomer - Carl Sagan"

At the end of the day, he drove me back to the bus station. The snow was falling harder. He wrote his phone number his home phone number on a scrap of paper and he said, "If the bus can't get through, call me and spend the night at my home with my family" I already knew I wanted to become a scientist, but that afternoon, I learned from Carl the kind of Person I wanted to Become.

He reached out to me and to countless others, inspiring so many of us to study, teach and do science. Science is a cooperative enterprise, spanning the generations. It's the passing of a torch from teacher to student to teacher, a community of minds reaching back to antiquity and forward to the stars.

Now come with me.

Our Journey is just BEGINNING!"

Amarnath's Journal, August 2015(Prisoner's of our dreams)

2015-08-15T22:43:00.001+05:30

Amarnath's Journal, August 2015:

All that we see or seem. Is but a dream within a dream

- Edgar Allan Poe

August 14, 2015

The day before the world's largest democracy celebrates it's 69th Independence day and a Friday too. A new trend of celebration started from corporate to small shops everywhere and most of the people got a sense of patriotism in them. People started to dress in ethnic wears and wearing and buying flags. Such a nice scene to see people celebrating our independence or it could be that they got another day to celebrate!

Warm wishes everywhere, even I got few wishes. I asked my friend in a funny manner "when is your independence day?" The reply I got from him is funny but full of fact. One can sense truth in that reply. He told "I don't know man, may be I won't have an independence day, EVER!"

Alas, my grey cells started to wonder why I got that reply and started to relate random incidents and started to wonder about what people want to do, to get what they dreamt off.

The dream of buying a new home, which is every Indian's common dream and the things they do to achieve it by burdening themselves with debt and sacrificing many things to save money to get it. The dream of a person waiting for his dream girl/boy, and missing the one's who might be the perfect match for them very close to them and regretting it at later point of time. And the stuffs we do to get into our dream job or get something we dreamt off and later realize what we have done to reach or get there and the question we ask over-selves "whether it is really worth the time and effort I spent? I could've done many things which would have brought some joy and pleasure in me than just this!"

But still we will dream our next dream even after asking those questions. Why people do those sort of thing which makes them sell their own freedom and making them a prisoner of their own dream? Why can't people confront the vast reality which is ahead of them filled with whole lot of fun, joy and surprise by stepping out of their unmeasured dream? I don't know. Just trying to understand why we keep making the same mistakes... over and over. May be just may be these are those questions which can't or shouldn't be answered. Why can't we simply evolve over the course of time.

I don't say do not dream but your dream should be reachable and measurable and most of all it should worth your time & effort and make not only yourself happy but the people around you as well.

But, for all that man wants to see or seem. Is but a dream within a dream and remain a Prisoner of his own dreams.

Amarnath's Journal, February 2015(Wish I was ever this young)

2015-02-27T20:26:00.001+05:30

Amarnath's Journal, February 2015:

Most people think Time is like a river, that flows swift and sure in one direction but I have seen the face of time and can tell you they are wrong. Time is like an ocean in a storm, you may wonder who I am and why I say this, sit down and I will tell you a tale like none that you have ever heard.

Blahh, I am neither a time traveler nor a fortune teller but one who saves time and make it into an ocean and visits that ocean there and back again in my own storm. I may suffer from amnesia, if you ask my friends but if I catch hold of something I'll remember it forever with at most detail and its not a voluntary action, I would say it is my gift and my curse. Ok, enough of the whirl with words let me take you to my ocean and make your time with me somewhat interesting..

I am almost going to celebrate my silver jubilee which isn't that bad but everyday all the things happening to me either small or a big deal, good or bad adds up like a drop to my ocean of time. Well you can say if its drop how you made your ocean? What is an ocean but a multitude of drops! When I travel in the storm I am not afraid that I would get sink but all through my voyage I'm smiling even in the deepest trench Oh ghosh! Just look at what you did, how you did and most importantly the persons you were with. I never felt a single sadness in that voyage it is like life is not where you'll be five or ten years from now like people say, its not working your way up to the top backstabbing or honestly :) it is those small small moments which you spend with the people around you and imprinting their image in the water. People used to say its impossible to write on water well I would ask them to think again. For I've imprinted them on my ocean.

That first boat ride with my uncle and cousins, my brother and me fighting with hot wheels car playing video games, those school vacation where we would rush to our grandparents to be with cousins, those last minute assignment which teachers think it would keep us busy during the vacation, the first B/W computer with MS-DOS, the moment you do something smart and simple when you are young which amazes the elderly, the sports you play with your friends and the hangout you've with them. Everyday crossing familiar strangers and wondering how it would be if they are really familiar to you :)

Now all that I have is my ocean increasing in magnitude but slowly I'm starting to realize that the deep ocean is more lively with full of vibrant color and vivid images even though science say light can't enter that deep!

I wish my voyage to be boundless as the sea where I want to hide my compass somewhere deep and dark with sharks circling that area and lose the co-ordinates where I hid it. But, every now and then I had to come to the shore and take part in reality to carry few more drops back.

When I am in reality and when my heart pumps out all the blood out of it, my brain starts to say "Time is indeed like a river, which flows swift and sure in one direction" but I wish I was ever this young!

Amarnath's Journal, November 2014 (The Change)

2014-11-30T18:39:00.000+05:30

Amarnath's Journal, November 2014:

Life will begin to get bored once you've fallen into the comfort zone; it's like doing what you are really good at every day without a twist in the tale, Well, I don't know about you but it did get a toll on me. When I turned back and see what had changed in my life? The answer was pretty simple nothing! I was the same kid who stepped out of college trying to be fair to everyone. Being good is not a bad thing to complain but if you were in my boots it wasn't that fair for me. There is no good in being good, the one thing I realized in this part of my life. So I set out to be the change who I wish to be in my world again all alone. I thought if anyone can change me, can make me not me but I wasn't that good to anyone to be on my side. For all my days so far I was good being alone and suffer in silence.

So first I thought to step out of my comfort zone and got it done after compromising some things. It was hard leaving your old place but at the same time there will be a excitement about the things ahead. So I just buried my past and hoped that the future have something for me and started to work on the present. Then something really fascinating happened (at-least to me). I thought of taking a week off before heading forward and traveled back to home. And took a sleeper class bus and lied down beneath a cool November sky. Found myself watching by the moon in a star less sky. The craters on its snow white face seemed to be smiling at me. I couldn't take my eyes off the moon starring on me out of the darkness. It was like the saying, "Once there was only dark. If you ask me, the light's winning". I took it as a good omen, I did and walked on towards my change.

9. I Don't know

2014-09-13T19:26:00.000+05:30

I Don't Know

Whirling wind howling at dawn
wandering restless for her to wake;
watch her beauty as she yawn
whispering to me who is she

Frowning rose the sun with its rage
freeing the land from mist
frail to red seeing her wince
forfeit shed its ray upon me with a gist

wind withering the leaves along
our path; Queried autumn ain't now,
wondering stood still earth all along
shifting day and night somehow

Tides rushing others in shore
murmuring to one another
who is she on the shore
drenched me for the answer

My poor elements, spelled
by her whence they met
smiling before them stood
I and told, I don't know yet

-The Dead Poet

Amarnath's Journal, April 2014 (Election Fever)

2014-06-10T14:36:00.002+05:30

Amarnath's Journal, April 2014:

It was election fever, choosing the prime man of the world's largest democracy. Parties spending what they have looted in their last term hoping to loot again. And media the most powerful thing of modern era is full of election news.

The funny part I want to share in this election period is neither the parties nor the politicians but the sudden craze people had after the advent of social networking. Most of the people started to share and post some election related stuffs; whether they know it or not is a secondary detail which we shouldn't look into and also we shouldn't judge them :). I think on the day of election as soon as the special ink has been applied on their finger to mark their participation people started to snap that pic and started sharing it in social networking sites saying I've done my duty before even they've caste their votes. It was a funny day seeing how much importance people are giving to social networking nowadays.

And the worst part when I met some of them in person is, they started asking why didn't you caste your vote buddy, its your prime duty. I never gave any reason or excuse to anyone. But this is what I had and having in my mind In a nation so corrupt, whose there to trust, whose there to lay the future of the generations to come. A nation ruled by religious party which is home to many religion by birth and other party acting like a team of puppet and puppeteers, whose there to bring change to a developing nation where most of the money rest in the hands of few percent of population. Whose there to restore the balance. Of course you have to believe in someone but I can't believe anyone as of now.

But people had a favorite, the question now is will he bring change or is he yet another politician who just throws away lies and fill the people with false hopes; we have to wait and see.

Amarnath's Journal, March 2014

2014-03-19T09:09:00.001+05:30

Amarnath's Journal, March 2014:

Don't scold or get mad at anyone directly or in-directly

Help people in need but there should be a limit

There and Back Again - Hogenakkal Feb 2014 (Roadies)

2014-02-24T18:54:00.000+05:30

There and Back Again - Hogenakkal, February 2014:

Following the consecutive trip to hometown, nothing special seems to happen to me. Change, the only virtue which does't changes seemed to fail me for quite some period of time. Every morning I used to wake up get ready, reached my work place, returned home and did the same thing again and again it was like a clock work; round and round. Ever wondered why time seems to be too long, stretchy or boring when we are starring at the clock or waiting for someone, because the clock does the same thing over and over again, there is nothing so special about it. It just moves some hands at a specific rate at a specific time difference but if we marinate time with some interesting activity and add people as topping to hang around with, that will add up the flavour which we need and make time so special. Its like dipping fries into ketchup! And to marinate and add topping we need Chef. Change's help or indeed it can be yourself but in-turn that would be our chef implicitly.

Whatever...., for me my long awaiting change had happened at last. It's not what you think it is, I am waiting for that special delivery from Chef for quite a long long time. But this delivery is a road trip which I wished to go but didn't get any roadies to accompany me. Somehow few joined with me and we are set to start the first of our many road trips (Hopefully).

The sun starting to kill the fog

It was a ride to Hogenakkal waterfall, in south India on the river Kaveri. I know it's not the best season to visit a falls as winter had faded away spring has arrived, starting to kill all the leaves from trees. Still we were steadfast to go. It was a two hundred and eighty kilo meter ride as a whole and we planned to start early on one sunday. We gathered around 0600 hours in the morning which was planned to be 0530 and we started around 0630. But it was still cool in the early morning we didn't felt anything bad. There were 9 of us in 7 motor bikes, the first forty kilo meters were more or less a high way ride where you couldn't enjoy the show. But the rest hundred kilometres was not a isolated road but its not the favourable route to reach that location. We set out on that route and as suspecting the scenery might be awesome if they were some greenery in the vegetation en route! But for a change this is more than what we expected. Half the journey was a plain road ride and the rest half some hilly ride not so dangerous but still there was a place which created a adrenaline rush well my muscle reacted very quickly than I expected.

Coracle anchored at the beach d:

We reached the waterfall around 1030 after taking breakfast break at a small town on the way and took some pics on the way. What supposed to be down pouring with water of river Kaveri seemed to be a rocky barren land. We are not disappointed at all everything was part of the plan. We hired a coracle and started our tour around Hogenakkal, there was a tiny fall still pouring some water, we got drench at that fall when we crossed it in our coracle and we rode through the canal which the fall had crafted for some many centuries. And we beached the coracle in a sand silt somewhere away from the fall where the water escapes and started to walk up river to find a deep shallow place to take a bath. We had a nice bath after that long bike ride in the sun and got tanned completely. It was a nice change even though we were not able to view the beauty of hogenakkal at her fullest we enjoyed visiting her. Somewhere around 1530 - 1600 we set our journey back home.

While riding back, the road seemed to be deserted as it was when we travelled in the morning but one thing fascinated me which made this ride a memorable one. There was this eagle or vulture or hawk (I am not able to figure out which bird) sitting on the middle of the road scavenging some dead thing. I noticed it and thought it would fly away from the road, but to my surprise it started to fly on the road and we both were riding in parallel, the bird was like a aeroplane preparing to fly as its rolls on the run way to gain some speed. I applied some brakes and then the best thing happened, all of a sudden the bird flapped its tail wings down and lifted to a high altitude at a blink of an eye just in front of me. Wow that was like Discovery and Nat Geo show telecasted especially for me. After that spectacular show we reached our place at 1900 tiresome had something to eat and went to bed.

So after all our chef isn't bad enough but still he is not the great yet....(:

Amarnath's Journal Jan 2014 (A look back)

2014-01-19T20:23:00.002+05:30

Amarnath's Journal, January 2014:

Twilight

The days following my trip back home were different from my usual routine life style. A friend of mine who doesn't know how to drive a car bought one. I and two other buddies risked our lives going out for a ride with him. What was supposed to be a scary ride turns out to be a fun filled and scenic one. We rode to the outskirts of my city where there are nothing but lush green farms and small mountains stood as a guard to those fields. An another friend has a farm with a huge well, coconut tress and so on in the outskirts of our city; by chance ewe meet him and we accompanied him and roamed for a while. He has asked his brother to cut down some tender coconut from his trees. By 7 at night we reached his farm, it was pitch black we have to walk some 100 - 200 meters to reach his farm and that huge well and a small hut beside it off the roads. We took asylum from darkness inside that hut and started to drink those special delivery tender coconut. Its whats called a perfect reunion. We started to chit chat and posed like gangsta with the blade in the darkness. That evening worth the visit home.

Welcome to the Family

After a week long stay at home I returned to my usual living there I could see myself seeking explanations for the tiniest bit of details, happening and actions; I couldn't think straight anymore and go off with accepting what people have to say, my brain started to look for options the second choices in everything. I kinda liked it. Then within a fortnight period of time I returned again to my home town for a festival, a reason to ask for leaves I would say festive times. This time I didn't paid any attention to any of the so called human natural behaviors even if some occurred just before my eyes as usual. I didn't neglected it though. This time it was whole different set of funny friends we can Ed n Edd who will laugh for anything when those two are together. And I am like the drill master keeping things in control when we all in the band of brothers. It was real fun having them together we played some games and I showed my tricks at times in those but once they caught me but not in cold blood, I turned in guilty just to keep things more funnier.

So I realized even if the world I live in is so bad and crooked but the world that surrounded me once that tiny speck that was once mine all the time and which still is mine at times nowadays is still the same...

Amarnath's Journal Dec 2013 (The Night)

2013-12-27T22:46:00.005+05:30

Amarnath's Journal, December 2013:

Yet another day with the cold morning breeze and the morning bus journey to work, the hot light breakfast and the sore Friday work; an ordinary day of an ordinary soul! The lunch chat with friends makes the bitter day a bit better. Then comes the interesting part, there used to be some sort of session where people will be sharing some technical topics the perfect thing to do after lunch, But everyone seems to have a spicy lunch altogether. People around me couldn't distinguish between the conventional terminology and the analogy the presenter is using. People superior to me in-terms of age, position and knowledge, they were starting to stick to their boot and not in the mood to rationalize things. The so called session slightly switches its course and becoming a debate a useless one though! That session never looked so lively apart from today. Where there is a conflict of ideas and thoughts arise there lays the foundation of a good relationship among-st people., So passed the Friday's working hours.

Then around nine in the night where cold air filled my lung and my tiring feet waiting for the bus to reach hometown. A small girl having her dinner fed by her mother inside the bus and her elder brother having some snack brought that childish joy inside my heart. The bus was stationary waiting for the passengers to board. A busy Friday night at the bus terminal. But all of a sudden the joy was swept away like the mist surrounding me. Her mother just forcing the girl to wash her hand with water outside the window where many people are rushing to catch their bus. What I thought just happened, the water just splat on a person I just stood helpless watching this and at the same time her brother just throws the snack cover out of the window which fall before a elderly person. What happened next was the interesting part, all three of them with their mother command they ducked in their seats, both the victims just saw me who was noticing it, I just stood sorry and shook my head. Then my bus arrived, I signed in, left my bag inside and waited out till they get started hoping the past won't repeat twice. My conductor looked a nice person helped everyone guided on going passengers to their respective platforms, it was quite a thing which he did during that rush hours. But he too is crooked. There were some vacant seats in my bus and that guy is giving tickets depending on how much extra amount a passenger is willing to pay him. Well apart from the climate, that day was another day in paradise!

It is not God who created the difference among people. Not fate that helps the children learn bad habits or destiny that feeds the conductor with corruption.

It's us.

Only us.

The World That Surrounds Me

2013-07-27T20:29:00.001+05:30

Terra, Gaia, The Blue Marble, Dirt, Planet Earth the only planet known to man where intelligent life form exists. May be the only in this entire universe who knows! Our planet is one of the gifted planet among the others where you can find life ranging from microscopic single cell organism to macro complex mammals like the blue whale. And these life forms don't only live on one particular regions of our planet they are spread across land, water and air. Each had its peculiar animals who dominated their region until there arises an intelligent life form on planet Earth; the so called Homosapien started to covet all of these with the ignorance of such a thing will lead to his destruction only.

To quote from Agent Smith,"Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but we humans do not. We move to an area and we multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way we can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what that is? A virus. Human beings are disease, a cancer of this planet. We're a plague and I don't think so there will be cure"

My world is not that kind, even though the entire human race is moving towards extinction, I live in a small world surrounded by pretty common folks with whom I have to spend my whole day. Even that small world which surrounds me is full of evil which only cares about it not the things surrounding it. That world in which I live right now is exactly like a virus, it will kill anything or anyone in its path to sustain itself or himself alone!

Herbert Spencer coined the phrase "Survival of the fittest" along with Charles Darwin in their Evolutionary Theory but that phrase is today commonly used in contexts that are incompatible with the original meaning as intended by its first two proponents!

Dante Alighieri cited them as the seven deadly sins in his poem "The Divine Comedy". I live amongst those who constantly look into others progress and complain how come he can be praised not me without thinking what they are lacking; they Envy on other growth. Then there are those people who will stay quiet and long for something quite a long time in their life and when it comes to them, they don't just stop there; they have the tendency for more and more even when they have enough; Gluttons aren't those who always keep on eating something, that word also suites these people. Believe me I have seen people changing like this in my short life.

These people don't belong in my world yet but I've came across few who have this unusual desire to property, goods, or objects with the intention to keep it for themselves far beyond their basic survival and comfort; greedy are those life. There is thin line separating Gluttony and Greed hah! Then there are those who could have done the same job as what others have did but they will take immense pride in that small day to day deed and on their appearance too. They lack that composure which will make a man grow without him knowing it.

Some Mr.Always correct are there, not some but many are out there, whom if you try to disobey or contradict their saying, they will get offended and it get extreme anger or they'll rage upon you, they won't think in other perspective ever and they never understand even the other person has his own share of troubles to deal with; wrath is very common nowadays. And there are souls whom will beg you and come around you till they need something from you, once it is done you are nothing but a soulless worm to them and other with their power and authority tries to fool, blind and control people against their will unfortunately for the victim they've no other options.

Upon absorbing and living through all these day to day in my life, I thought is people in this world changing or am I too naive to notice these coming? Then I found out its the later by myself.

But there are few ordinary folk with their everyday deeds keep the darkness at bay...with their small act of kindness and love. When I am afraid that gives me courage and makes me move on without falling into the evil, as Mythrandir says.

Terra, Gaia, The Blue Marble, Dirt, Planet Earth the only planet known to man where intelligent life form exists. May be the only in this entire universe who CARES! Most of the people are busy with their life thinking about themselves!

Video Games and Me !!

2012-12-25T14:53:00.005+05:30

VIDEO GAMES AND ME!!

Video Games, I would say, the best invention man has ever done. It is something that transforms man's imagination and his limitations come true virtually. It paved ways of how one could re-frame what one is meant to be. Computer the invention of the 20th Century was meant to do calculations at first and later started to simplify man's work. But man re-framed its sole purpose and brought into a new domain called the gaming domain.

Video Games are not only about entertainment or time killing activity as many 60's and 70's people will think of it but if you ask the new generation they have a whole new story about it. The one which will fascinate you if and only if you are one among them. The things kids learn involuntarily by playing video games are many. But every thing in nature is like a coin, may be or not I doubt that's why god have meant man to create it in the first place. It also has its bad side too but let us be more optimistic after all we are trying to good in this world.

My Inception into gaming:

When I was about 12 my dad bought a PC pretty old one B/W monitor, 750 MB HDD, I don't know on what processor it ran. It is a MS DOS machine. And the first video game I played on it was you know "Prince of Persia" that 13 stage game including Jaffar's final stage where the Prince have to save the princess in a span of one hour. It was like man a paradise for me. I was really fascinated how one could design that, if you ran through spikes you are hooked up and if you drank the poison pot your power will be reduced, its difficult to distinguish which is good pot and bad in a B/W monitor. Then the secret paths where we will have to fight through tough opponents skeletons and make our way through traps to get the big jars which will increase our power meter and while fighting also you shouldn't be always offensive, you have to learn when to defend and how to strike. It was pretty interesting. And finally the moment of success, that long run which we have to make after killing Jaffar to get to our Princess.

Not to forget Mario, Contra, 1942 Tank, etc.,

Consoles I have played with so far:

The first and the foremost is the hand held digital video game with tetrix and tank game. It was quite fun for a kid of 7 - 8 at the late 90's to play with it. It had that beeping sound and can run with just 3 Volt. A good time killer at that time.

Then the TV video game, where we will have a console like today's hi-tech xbox or PS-3 which you have to connect to the TV and insert a chip in which games are pre-loaded and play with the help of a gamepad. Me and my cousins used to play till the power adapter burns. My cousin and me once played tank and with out losing any life we reached 75 stages in two player mode, I don't know even god had thought how did they do it and all of a sudden the power went off and we were furious. Then comes our Mario and Lugi, and contra, both of them being a 8 stage game it was pretty fun (Not to forget Mario is a 8 World game and saving princess at each level). We had our own records, me and my brother once finished contra without losing any life from the beginning. Then Mario bros, where Mario and his bro Lugi have to engage with the tortosie in a small arena with power to stun them and all. We almost had as many of those chips and played so many games at times the AV pin and the RF pin at the TV got broken because of us changing the pins whenever we want.

Then, the computer, whatever you play with even compact or big with so many accessories like Gamepad, Joystick. I bet you that the feel when I keep my left hand on the keyboard and hold the mouse at my right is the greatest of all. Earlier it was only keyboard I have to say that. I played the black and white games like Prince of Persia, Dave, Lion King, Doom, etc and it follows me like my shadow to today's latest releases. Whatever console man may invent or I might have played, I always liked and like to play in a PC.

Sony a popular firm which when asked to a gamer what strikes your thought when you hear this name? his answer will be Play Stations. I hardly played only 2-3 games in PS-1 but played many in the PS-2. And the best of them is the brutal God of War where we will be featuring as Kratos, the human who will defy gods. It was a awesome game with great graphics, game play and story line. Honestly, I learned Greek Mythology from that game to a extent. Then in multi-player we have FIFA, BurnOut, King Arthur, etc.,

I thought why not go more portable with sony stuffs with their Play Station Portable, it's a pretty good experience for a portable console, with good audio, you can listen to music, read E-Books, watch movies, surf through the internet using its Wi-Fi provisioning and take Pictures if you have the camera mount all of them on the go. The titles released by sony for PSP had great graphics, good gameplay compared with other releases.

My Top 10 Game titles:

Assassins Creed:

A Game based on two different groups The Assassin's and The Templar's each with their own cause. One trying to stop the other from enslaving the people and corrupting them. It all start my most like character Alatir Ibn la Ahad, who defies the three rules by which the assassin's live 1. Stay your blade from the flesh of the innocent,.2. Hide in plain sight. and Never compromise the brotherhood. And his journey through the Holy Land. Then comes Renaissance about a reckless teen named Ezio Auditore da Firenze having his revenge, then continue his journey to find justice and later on to seek Answers was quite thrilling with Leonardo Da'Vinci coming in the first two voyage of Ezio and then the new world where Connor Kenway fights for liberty till death. But, while playing the game we all will forget the real meaning of what Desmond Miles and the assassin's are looking for.

There is a fascinating fact about this game is who ever you assassinate, they were really assassinate on that day and on that place but the way might be different, UBI have put a lot of effort than we really thought.

Call of Duty:

Activision's Call of Duty first started with some world war mission then it took a dramatic change from Modern Warfare and World at Wars. The modern warfare continued with Captain Price and Soap Mac'Travish till MW3 had a realistic game-play and storyline what if things went wrong between the so called two biggest powers in the world. Then, World at Wars and Black Ops man one of the best storyline for a video game. I was amazed when I came to about the things Mason is going through, I wished these games would last forever but they got over sooner than I expected or else am I played them without any break, I don't know mates !

Bother's In Arms:

Sgt. Matt Baker a squad leader with 13 men on his shoulders from not getting killed and 13 families relying on him thoughts at the beginning 13 is not a lucky number. So, it is not for those 13. The series the struggle of those 13 and how they fight to stay alive and win a ticket back home. Not all 13 were lucky some sacrifice themselves for others and when ever one dies I don't know what happened to me I will get a rage and till I cool down I don't know from where I will get that skill I will not die and will move forward killing my AI at the blink of a eye. When I played it I was one of them they meant me everything at that moment. 13 I don't know whether it is lucky or not!!

FIFA:

Football the game, I am good in real life didn't left me alone in virtual also. It all started with FIFA 99 i suppose, you know the starting video was magnificent at that time I still remember it. Then I played almost every version of it but only EA FIFA not any other thing. The Manager mode, tournament, Be a Pro they were really amazing but FIFA 13 brought with it a whole new feature's you can actually experience the game-play like a real manager with international calls, players interacting with you and lots more things. The multiplayer mode was the real fun where you can compete with human counterparts either offline or online and test your level against each other or smash the AI by teaming up as one. It is the game which you can play over and over and over again.

Medal of Honor:

The first world war game I ever played. This is the game which taught me about Operation Overlord(Normandy) before Saving Private Ryan. The first 3 parts where really great for a game that got released at that time Allied Assault, Spearhead, Break through and MOH Pacific Assault gave a flight simulation mission which was one kind of a experience not to forget the detail and graphics of MOH Airborne. This game really showed how the airborne where influential during the war. And the latest aws Medal of Honor and Medal of Honor War-fighter is all about the new treat to man kind and the people struggling to fight it. It also gave a good experience but compared with its counter part it lacks something !

Prince Of Persia:

Persia, a kingdom flourished with wealth by the mighty Tigris–Euphrates rivers had the magnificent medieval empire. As you know empire means Kings and especially princess, so many wanted to covet the princess and the rich empire but when ever one does so, there arises a prince to fight against evil and restore peace. The first version was about rescuing a princess and the later one POP sands of time, warrior within and Two thrones came with it some means to changes time but the prince couldn't change his fate even he can role back to time. Then comes a love story where a tomb raider came into help a princess who is trying to restore her father's mistake and when they does so, our tomb raider fall in love and releases the ancient evil he tried to capture all long for Elika. Then comes two brothers who are trying to defend their kingdom from enemies while the elder one releases a trapped evil thinking it will stop the invasion but slowly it turned out that their kingdom is being destroyed from inside and at one stage the brother himself becomes the evil and the younger one with the help of an oracle kills his own brother to stop the evil. But still I'm awaiting for a gripping storyline in POP.

Age of Empires:

A history lesson for kids that what I will say about this game. Starting from Age of Empires, Rise of Rome, AOE II : Age of kings, Conquerors Expansion, AOE III, War Chief and Asian Dynasty each have their own civilization at different period of time and different campaign you can learn many things. You have to strategically attack enemies and concentrate on every thing like economy, military, etc., you have to to choose a kind of militia or cavalry or archery not to forget the siege machines to attack specific enemies and have to fortify your defense with towers and castles. Its a one kind of experience for me. Not to forget Age of Mythology and Rise of Nations which tells you about myths and Nuclear Armageddon respectively. AOE I wonder why Microsoft Gaming studio's stopped its production.

Resident Evil:

A mutation starts at Raccoon city by the famous Umbrella corp. and a local city Leon S Kennedy fights his way through the puzzles and zombies in his own city that how it all began then comes Jill Valentine and Leon and capcom is going to launch its sixth version sooner. Its a game with thrill, mind blowing puzzles. Leon have to say the most stylish character I have played with Resident Evil 4 was amazing the graphics, story line and puzzles with ashley and Ada Wong shows up after Resident Evil 2, it was nice. If you have guts in your heart and brain this game series is for you.

Mafia:

Nothing much to say about this, its a reincarnation of Good fellas and Mario Puzo's Godfather with a little change in the story line, the first part even the gameplay looks like a bit slow because of the early 90's cars and weapon, it was nice and the Mafia II, gripping gameplay and story with two friends knowing not what to do after the war and begins to rob end up in jail meets a don and takes jobs from him and so on. The Jail mission was really awesome, it will be like watching shawshank redemption. Mafia for Godfather's.

Need For Speed:

Viola, every kids fantasy will come true in this game. Mine started with its first part which is like of a sprint race not like a circuit and NFS SE 2 was marvelous with split screen mode where two players can compete with each other in the same machine with our dream cars. I will always prefer McLaren F1. Then EA came up with hot pursuit, most wanted which was thrilling with cops at our back trying to chase us down but fail as they do in real life. EA not only created this game with nice world and all but the cars featured in them have the same performance and look and every detail as in real world. What ever your dream may be Audi, Ford, Mitsubishi, Subaru, Chevrolet, Lamborghini, Bugatti, Lexus, McLaren, Ferrari, Porsche, pagani, Bentley, Maserati,.. you name it they have it. Its the best racing game I ever played so far.

I hoped there would be more space for Max Payne, Crysis, Deus Ex, Mass Effect, World of Warcraft, Grand Theft Auto, The Witcher, etc.,

8. O'Heart

2012-11-04T21:06:00.005+05:30

O'Heart

O'heart my dear heart,
never thought a day I
to see thyself this way
in the mortal life of men.

O'heart my worried heart
I voyaged with thou, my first mate
to guide me at times of storm,
but never met a one, that hit you.

O'heart my baffled heart,
thou aid me at times of misery
with wonder words of wisdom
I have not none for you now.

O'heart my patience heart
thou taught me to remain calm
but i'm puzzled after your deeds
weird is what nature's occurrence!

O'brain my concerned brain,
never thought I, to see thou so naive
thou art the complex thing known to man
but thou doth know i'm imaginary!

-The Dead Poet

My Favorite Quotes !!

2012-09-03T16:32:00.002+05:30

"It's not who i am underneath, but what i do that defines me.."
  - The Batman Begins

"Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire"
- Schindler's List

"Let us forgive each other and be free.."

"Nothing is TRUE and Everything is PERMITTED"
- Assassins Creed

"A Life lived for others is the life worth living."

"Be conservative in what you do; be liberal in what you accept from others"

"For men may come and men may go but I go on forever"
  - Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Life will knock us down, but we can choose whether or not to stand back up.”

   - The Karate Kid

"Rise and Rise again until Lambs become LION"

  - Robin Hood

"I thank whatever gods may be

For my unconquerable soul

I am the master of my fate

I am the captain of my soul"

  - Invictus, William Ernest Henley

"You'll never walk alone"

  -LFC

"To infinity and beyond"

- Toy Story

"Little by little, through patience and repeated effort, the mind will become stilled in the
Self."

  - Gita

"Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary."

  - Gandhi

"It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence."

  - Gandhi

I am convinced that my Life is 10 % what happens to me and 90 % how I react to it.

  -About my Attitude

The only true wisdom is in knowing that you know nothing.
  - Socrates

Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family
- Don Vito Corleone (Mario Puzo)

You cannot say 'no' to the people you love, not often. That's the secret. And then when you do, it has to sound like a 'yes'. Or you have to make them say 'no.' You have to take time and trouble.
- Don Vito Corleone (Mario Puzo)

It's just business nothing personal...
- Mario Puzo

If you satisfy your needs, you are a mortal and if you satisfy other needs then you become IMMORTAL !
  - The Dead Poet

Propaganda is written by the Victor. History is written by the Observer.
  - The Keepers (Thief Game)

Perhaps its good to have a beautiful mind. But an even greater gift is to discover a beautiful heart.
  - John Forbes Nash, Jr.

I don't believe in fate. Because I don't like the idea that I am not in control of my life.
  - Neo (The Matrix)

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching.
  - The Bucket List

You can hold back from the suffering of the world, you have free permission to do so and it is in accordance with your nature. But perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could have avoided
  - Franz Kafka

There are as many loves as there are hearts
  - Leo Tolstoy

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
  - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nothing happens to anyone which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
  - Marcus Aurelis

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards
- Soren Kiekegaard

7. Alone

2012-07-10T21:46:00.000+05:30

Alone

A day came, the day believed
As a god born, at dusk that day
Advent celebration everywhere, but I cried
Amid these, something struck me that day

Neither I felt it, struck
Nor realized it'll affect
Naive my tender days left
Nonchalant my heart ignoring its effect

Danced and played every day
Dream't and lived in my world
Dawn till dusk spent with friends
Days and all went this well

Dances and plays cant be seen
Dreams and fantasy turned to dread
Disdainful thought my friends
Days and all turned this dark

Afterwards realized the advent of the stroke
Amiss felt I, alas found I'm
Alone in my heart
Alone in my soul

-The Dead Poet

6. My Princess

2012-06-26T14:35:00.003+05:30

My Princess

Men may dream, dream that they'll

see the sun's ray every dawn

Mortal ain't I, wish to

see you, your vivid face till eternity;

Heard never I, felt never, a calm so deep,

That of a ceased rain, thy voice;

Lightning magic is thunder, but

Thy eyes strikes lightning in my heart;

Heavens steps need not I,

Thy presence maketh hell heaven;

God's grace pity I, as

Thee his angel minds me more;

I don't need the world, when

I have got you my princess !

-The Dead Poet

5. Why That Once

2012-06-26T14:34:00.002+05:30

Why That Once

I dwelt your knees dawn till dusk
I did, as I believed you, what
I didn't you failed me once

I put on wishes, you bestowed them
You replenished I wished and gave surprises
Then why not that one

I knew all my wishes won't be answered
But had faith; you'll do this
But, why that one

I hope your deed were right
You await me the best
Yet, Why that Once my God!

-The Dead Poet

4. My Friend

2012-06-26T14:32:00.004+05:30

My Friend

I admire Aphrodite for the beauty she affirmed you
I greet Apollo for the health he gave you
I bowed Aries so that you'll be unbowed before your enemies
I envy Eros for the love you enjoy
I pled Poseidon for you to possess the power of seven seas
I guide Hera in giving you your other half
I disturbed Hypnos not to disturb you on your sleep
I overbribed Hestia to overprotect your home
I take Hades if he thinks of taking you
I defy Hermes only to deliver good news to you
I regicided Zeus to give you his throne
I begged Athena to help my hero at all costs
I ask them to do as I wish, and
I thank them for you are my friend!

-The Dead Poet

3. Way of Living

2012-06-26T14:31:00.004+05:30

Way of Living

Every dawn we have a dream
Either small or big; possible or not
Each day we walk on towards that
Every step we take may land in burrows
ENDURE that my friends, we may think
Change can’t be brought to natural happenings,
Could our embattled heart bear that, No!
Change is nature, on that fine day
COMPOSURE is the one we should bear
Admire the pain of defeat and joy of success
Fools like I can write about it, but
Fellows like you can live on these...

-The Dead Poet