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  • license to kill

    A license to kill gives one a legal immunity, where one can kill someone else without it being considered as a crime. James Bond has no qualms in shooting down ‘bad’ guys with a gun, and gets away without it without a trace of any criminal record 🙂

    Now James Bond may be just some character in a story/movie – but doesn’t this happen every day – we don’t use bullets, but we use words instead, to hurt or even kill (metaphorically) anybody whom we judge as ‘bad’ at that particular situation.
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  • best days were school days?

    Usually this is true for most of us. In school days we had the most fun – because we learnt the most! Not just in the classrooms (of course some classes were pretty boring! 😉 ) but everywhere else as well. We learnt new games like cricket and football and then we learnt how to bat and bowl better, we learnt how to tackle and kick (and also swear 😉 ) better! Learning was always playful… it was continuos learning all the way!
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  • 10 day prison that started to free me

    In 2001, some stranger I had a chance encounter with told me of a 10 day camp residential camp. Out of curiosity I found out more about it eventually – that it has a rigorous daily timetable from morning 4 AM to night 9:30 PM sort of like a prison! After all the procrastination I finally made it in Oct 2001.

    In the course of the camp, I realised that I had unknowingly been like a prisoner in the world all along, and now I really felt much more free! 🙂

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  • 'hectic stressfree life' not an oxymoron

    I’m discovering this more and more out day by day nowadays! Feeling more alive, invigorated, useful, contributive, affectionate, caring – than ever before.

    Still a lot more to work on my integrity – which I’m rediscovering is the basic foundation behind everything. Will write in more detail as things settle down.

  • yet unexplored features of a hi-tech phone…

    What if one had a Nexus/iPhone or some hi-tech sophisticated phone…

    and only used it to make phone calls…?
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  • secretiveness versus openness

    I have occasionally been advised on and off right from childhood: be secretive about what you know. If you tell others, they will learn from you, utilise that knowledge, and become better than you, and you will lose out! There is a proverbial tale of the cat that teaches a tiger to hunt, and one day the tiger decides to eat the cat, but the cat climbs up a tree. The tiger can’t follow and questions the cat – how come you didn’t teach me to climb trees…!! But the cat is happy that that’s the one bit of knowledge it kept secret and DIDN’T share with the tiger, so its saved now aahaaahaaaa 😉
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  • alt-ctrl-del after blogging pause

    Had been more active on facebook and twitter for a while… this had drastically reduced my writing habits.

    Now I feel in my guts its time I resume writing again.

    A LOT of things to write about.

    As a freelancer I’m finding great joy in discovering the vast possibilities with jquery. A reader had asked to elaborate about employee to freelancer transformation, I think I’m in a better position to do this. Also a long pending post of list of ideas for those who’re learning software engineering. (One immediate suggestion: watch the film 3 Idiots)

    As a father I’m finding a lot of joy in the way my son is the one person in the entire world who is most responsive to my curiosity and my enthusiasm for life than anybody else.

    My so far mine (and my wife’s) mostly dormant dreams of working for children, have started manifesting into reality. Initiated with facebook of all things, which connected me to one of the founders of Sikshana.org, who happened by a wild coincidence to be my neighbor! Several other developments on this front as well, will be sharing at appropriate time in the near future…

  • Marigolds at sunrise

    Early morning walk

    Marigolds at sunrise

    Flowers greet morning

  • Sixth Sense Technology

    Just unbelievably impressive – “I want to tell you that you’re one of the 2 or 3 best inventors of the world right now” coming from a TED conference of global thinkers! Not only is this man intelligent, his wisdom is inspirational, he just wants to open source the whole thing, and wants it to be not just secluded in some lab but to reach the masses!

    ‘SixthSense’ is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information.

    ~ Sixth Sense project by Pranav Mistry

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  • elephant and a dog

    This is an interesting wildlife sanctuary story, where an elephant and a dog befriend each other. Its just amazing how much concern the elephant shows when the dog gets injured once. Also about how gently it acknowledges the dog’s presence.

    “Just two living creatures who somehow managed to look past their immense differences. … If they could do it, what’s our excuse?”