The Business Of Life

Lighting Love

2006-11-15T22:31:00.000-08:00

Love is like lighting, they say it never strikes the same place twice and those who so speak, speak in ignorance.

Greatest Unknown

2006-05-09T23:13:00.000-07:00

Sometimes we as humans give up our sense of reasoning for a sense of belonging. Often times causing our mind to shuttle between what is wrong and right. We change who we are; our thoughts, our beliefs and even ourselves. Then there comes a night when the changes go full circle and we feel like we woke up from a dream, not knowing why this has all gone around. Of the many unknowns known to us, the greatest unknown maybe our knowledge of ourselves.

Own Reality

2006-01-26T16:44:00.000-08:00

Every wrong is right in its own reality!

Love Knowledge

2005-12-07T17:40:00.000-08:00

Knowledge, like love, grows only by sharing.

Q & A

2005-12-06T14:54:00.000-08:00

Dont ask me questions you are not ready to hear answers for!

Losing Fear

2005-11-19T10:58:00.000-08:00

Always scared of losing, you scared yourself into leaving.

Only As Good

2005-11-10T18:09:00.000-08:00

I am good, only as good as my knowledge.

Bear Facts

2005-10-18T17:53:00.000-07:00

and the best way to deal with a bear is to not to deal with a bear.

Money

2005-10-12T08:39:00.000-07:00

Money is either working for you or you are working for it.

A Circle ?

2005-10-06T21:23:00.000-07:00

lust still love dawns,love till lust dawns.

My Scar

2005-09-11T00:30:00.000-07:00

This my scar dear friend, and without this I am not who I am.

Quiet Understanding

2005-09-06T09:46:00.000-07:00

What you're after is the companionship of those you understand and who understand you almost without needing to speak.

Great!

2005-08-23T14:13:00.000-07:00

Only greatness can follow greatness!

Liar

2005-07-28T08:31:00.000-07:00

Overheard:

I am not a liar; I only lie about my lies.

Limits

2005-07-21T16:19:00.000-07:00

There is personal life and then there is social life, mixin em up is like drinking and drivin. I still havent figured out to which life I should limit the women in my life.

Delusion

2005-07-19T08:44:00.000-07:00

The Omnipresent does not take note of the virtue or the sin of anyone. Knowledge is enveloped in ignorance; hence it is that beings are constantly falling prey to delusion

Source: Bhagavad Gita (5:15)

Oneways

2005-07-17T10:34:00.000-07:00

Overheard:

This city is filled with oneways and the other roads go the other way!

Overheard # 2

2005-06-26T19:55:00.000-07:00

If God ain't fair, why the f*** should I be?

Overheard # 1

2005-06-20T17:05:00.000-07:00

Overheard in a NY city cafe:

There are only 2 things I hate in this world : my life and the thought of my death !

Insomnia

2005-06-19T09:37:00.000-07:00

Insomnia is not a disorder, Its a way of life!

Self Control - Undefined !

2005-06-11T00:36:00.000-07:00

Love, I heard, is indulgence, when conjugated as a union of body and soul, an indication of the lack of self-control.

And so what defines self-control and how does it impact a mans quest for greatness?

Here are some quotes :

->Let self-control be guarded as a treasure;there is no greater source of good for man than that.

->Knowing that self-control is knowledge, if a man should control himself, in the prescribed course, such self-control will bring him distinction amoung the wise, thus leading to greatness.

What I have heard on this subject makes me realise that the actions or inactions of a man are not limited to love. This too being one of the many paths to the greater good, oneself and beyond.

A Path

2005-04-29T20:27:00.000-07:00

Therein is found no speech, no mind, nor the mode of goodness, passion or ignorance; there are not the elements of the greater reality - the vital air, the intelligence, the senses and so on - nor are there the gods or is there the arrangement of the different planets.

There is not the sleeping, the waking or the deep sleep, no water, air, ether, fire, earth or sun; that, defying all logic being like a void , is the substance serving as the root .

A phase when the energies helplessly merge, completely dismantled of time, in a dissolution of all the material desires in this nature, the unseen original person, in a path to see the unseen master

Green As An Ogre

2005-03-27T14:31:00.000-08:00

An old expression says : We are what we eat !

This maynot be literally true, although there is a real-life case on record of a man's skin turning orange after he'd subsisted on a strict diet of carrots for a long time( it was the carotene , a natural pigment that had its effect on him).

Now my recent diet habits have taken another major change, I have once again become a temporary vegetarian. Lots of green stuff. Soon my americanised name "Shrek" will fit perfectly.

Lets see how long it takes me to be green as an ogre! (p.s: the position of donkey is vacant, send in your applications :-) )

Kayaking Moves

2005-03-25T13:57:00.000-08:00

Its spring now, it’s a teaser before summer. Spring gives you the warmth of the sun with the cold breeze of winter. But its the summer that the adventurer in me waits for.

This summer I have made plans to go kayaking. Dress up in my newly bought neoprene boots, waterproof pants, yellow life jacket, Oakley sunglasses and that really cool looking helmet I picked up.

I have even decided on the place where I will make my first kayaking ride. Its a small creek deep in the state on Pennsylvania in West Chester county, the Brandywine Creek. Its small, shallow and twists and turns like a flag in the winds.

This kind of adventure is new to me. I have seen those seasoned paddlers dropped into those nimble, single-seat kayaks that seemed to connect perfectly to their torsos. Those guys make kayaking look to damn simple. I am not sure if we need any special training for this stuff, but i will first give it a trial run.

One thing still bothers me, what to do when my kayak topples? I guess I will just have to find out when it happens. But I am sure it will be fun. Maybe I might take a liking for this and upgrade myself to kayaking in San Francisco bay or under the city lights of Manhattan at night.

Look To Create

2004-11-28T13:03:00.000-08:00

Engineering is all about improvement, and so it is a science of comparatives. Larger engineered systems will be promoted for their comprehensive and competitive edge.

If everything is new, improved versions of the older technology, why do so many products fail, proposals languish and systems crash?

Re-engineering. That’s the new buzz word. The new breed of engineers are actually re-engineers.

Success gives us confidence that we are doing something right, but they do not necessarily tell us what or why.

Failures on the other hand, provide incontrovertible proof that we have done something wrong. That is invaluable information.

Re-engineering, whether a product or a business process - on successful models should give designers an advantage: They can pick and choose the best features of effective system designs. Unfortunately , what makes things work is often hard to express and harder to extract from the design as a whole.

Things work because they work in a particular configuration, at a particular scale and in a particular culture. Trying to reverse engineer and cannibalize a successful system sacrifices the synergy of its success.

Let us, the new breed of engineers stop this circle of re-engineering and become engineers. Let’s create. Let history read our names as creators.

Procrastinators are Perfectionists

2004-11-18T09:12:00.000-08:00

There is an evil in all of us to find reasons not to do even the easiest of tasks.

I have been studying many procrastinators and their ways. I have come to a strange conclusion: Procrastinators are Perfectionists!

The procrastinators are the most creative minds. The true time abusers possess a skill to creative reasons and situations to avoid completing the actual work at hand.

They are selectively confident, often highly skilled, Pre-occupied and trapped in unrealistic goals.

Unlike procrastinators, the well known Perfectionists have their tasks well cut out, and they complete it perfectly to the requirement or even exceeding expectations with some creative improvements. But when you take a closer look , we find the path to perfection of the much acclaimed perfectionist is not a perfect one. The perfectionist in his quest for a perfect finish often makes compromises and works with and around the many imperfect situations.

The procrastinator is more or less an extreme perfectionist. He will deliver the same perfect result or even exceed expectation provided the ideal situation to the task. They refuse to let go of their perfectionist outlook in time of crisis. They believe the road to perfection must be perfect.

Procrastinators start with giving genuine reasons for their delays. Often reasons are taken as just reasons and nothing is done about them to improve the situation. The procrastinators then choose the next perfect path, the easiest path or the path of least resistance. The path of total negligence.

The best way to beat Procrastinators is to lower their high expectations and bring them closer to the real and imperfect ways of the world. Time abuse is a serious problem. And Procrastinators hold the key to eradicating this malice.

The journey to self mastery

2004-11-11T07:44:00.000-08:00

The journey is never ending. The journey to self mastery.

I have seen men and women fall on their tracks to this over rated achievement. Often failing to see the treasures in hand they search and journey far and wide, in mind and in this world. The journey to self mastery.

Men and women hope to become righteous though their journey. The intend is righteous, the path is righteous, the deeds are righteous, sad but true, the outcome is questionable. The journey to self mastery.

The term 'mastery' by itself is ambigious. Throughout my journey I have heard and quoted many differnet definitions to mastery.Sometimes even contradictory. Some take the path to mastery through acqusitions- often knowledge, money or power. And the new age thinkers emulating their counterparts from the much forgotten history try and reach mastery through disposition.Then ofcourse the ever growing popular breed of middle minded visionaries, then claim to have regulated the starnge balance of acquistion and disposition in their journey. The journey to self mastery.

For what is may be worth. My words to wisdom: Your Journey is Your Journey, Your Destiny is Your Destiny. Dont mesh them.

Why Do We Write?

2004-11-08T21:08:00.000-08:00

Think of yourself as the inspired scribbler. Scribbling your thoughts in prose and poetry.

What dictates ones work as being novice and others being professional and literary masterpiece? I too write with hope. Hope to bring a smile. Hope to bring a positive change.

The treasures that are stored in paper, only an arms reach away. Its hidden secrets, hidden codes and truth tossed to and fro in search of a story that will teach, will learn , will spread and will grow with you as the days go and nights end.

Many out there hate to read others views. We feel reading would cause us to lose our individual outlook. At the same time we always have this urge to write. Write for those out there who think like us. For those misinformed who hate to read what others write.

Here lies our dilemma, the ones we write for dont want to read what we write for or what we stand for.

So why do we write? So why do we read?

Its like asking why do we think? or Why do we dream?

Its to complete the circle of our knowledge. We think, We read, We dream, We write, We think.

We are doing our thing to design a better world. With our Thoughts, With our Words.

Indulge Yourself !

2004-11-04T13:37:00.000-08:00

Its the Holiday season. Festivals and cherished traditions , beautiful music, bright lights and love all around. what a beautiful time of the year.

Most often the intended peace and joy of this season are compramised by the riddling equation of daily living. Money matters increase tension, frantic rush to stay on the target dates, beauty fights with your loved ones , all this self imposed intricacies only create and add to the existing anxieties.

If you are too busy to be kind to yourself You are doing a dis-service to yourself, your family and everyone around you.

Gift Yourself! Indulge Yourself! Love Yourself!

Isn't indulgence harmful? Dont self-indulgent peopl neglect important responsibilities? Werent we taught that being selfish is wrong?

Be Selfish ! Love yourself ! The more you love yourself, the more you will love the people around you.This will make you become a positive role model for others. By trully enjoying your own company, people will soon begin to enjoy your company.

There is some wisdom somewhere within all this self indulgence. If you dont ensure your own happiness first, you endanger the happiness of the people around you.