success or whatever you call it.....

Its been a while since i wrote my last post..10 days to be precise!! so hi everyone!!
yesterday night i was sitting with my friends having a conversation when suddenly one of my friends had this thought on his mind...he said "sancho don't you think we have underachieved"
and then i asked him "underachieved with respect to what??" then he answered "academics!!"
he said "we could have been in Harvard,Stanford but here we are in Manipal"...then i asked him"are you not happy with what you have??" he said "i am not sad but i am not happy either..."
i dint know what to say to him because deep down i knew he was right...but then i thought is there any starting point for success that i failed to see....haven't i started the race already?? but there is no starting point...the simple fact that my friend was thinking about what he did not have in life indicated that he was on the right track...its a fact..."whenever we think more about our dreams than our previous achievements we are moving forward...heading towards success..." so many of us wake up everyday and think about what we can achieve in the next 24 hrs...this simply shows that we are on the right track...maybe we don't have what we want the most..maybe we have underachieved...some of us need more money..some of us need more time...some of us need a sense of achievement...and then some of us just want things to be how they are...and most of us work hard towards what we want the most...yes most of us procrastinate but if we think about the future..if we have a purpose we are on the right track...and by no means i call that under achievement...
my whole post can be summed up by this simple statement"if you can see that loser in yourself and can confront him face to face you are heading for victory"

my cup of tea!!

hi guys :) ....its raining outside...the weather is amazing...and i just cant stop myself from writing something....so here i am ....sipping my coffee..and listening to bob dylan....cant think about "terrorists" in this weather...religion doesnt cross my mind at this moment..nor does the economy...one thing that does provoke my thought is coffee!! well most of us are addicts to these beans...addicts to this hot potion which seems to do magic with our thought with our energy and makes us do the most important thing required to attain a goal...well yes it helps us to start!!....in fact some of us are so addicted to coffee that if we are to list some of the indregients for success we will list coffee as the first one!! :) ...tea and coffee have been an integral part of our culture right after the british promoted them in the country....in fact the britishers used to distribute ciggarettes and tea in hill stations first of all and then they started doing the same throught India....its true that they wanted to spread the addiction to our ancestors but some might argue that they actually gave us a gift maybe not ciggarettes but surely tea....tea is infact a source of livlihood for so many people in India and Sri lanka that a lot of the underdeveloped part of our country especially the eastern parts gain from it...sri lankas economy depends on tea exports....and i bet a lot of software engineers in our country are addicted to tea and coffee..which surely helps the Indian economy!!..and its a fact that most people wont pass exams if there was no coffee...maybe its a mindset of students these days that they cant study without coffee or tea but the point is they do try to study after having it!!....most people might argue with me that tea is bad for health and i agree with them..it is...but still its a part of my life :) and i cant imagine starting an important day in my life without my cup of tea or coffee...

wake up everyone...

hi everyone....today i am gonna write about a really important issue in our economy...
I have been reading this book "The World Is Flat" by Thomas Friedman(editor,New York times)...
and in that one book i have learnt more things about my country and the tremendous impact we have on the global economy...its to such a large extent now that if India and China stop exporting their services to the USA it will result in chaos and crash of the US stock market.....the world depends on us more than ever before....the youth of our nation are a new force in the world...that software engineer in Bangalore...that civil servant in Bihar....that young industrialist in Calcutta....that actor in Mumbai...and that young student in Delhi who works in a call center to get some quick money...all of these people represent the new Indian generation who is a lot more smarter than their American counterparts....a lot more ambitious than them....and last but not least a lot more hungry for success than the US...."SUCCESS COMES WHEN YOU NEED IT MORE THAN AIR "....and i think thats how we crave for it these days which is a great indication of our resolve to change ourselves as a nation...to move forward in this all new competitive world and give all the other nations a run for their money....but........
if we are so ambitious,so determined,so hungry for success...wat's stopping us?
the fact is that 70 % of India still lives in slums...imagine the resources we are wasting there....there might be another bill gates...another Steve jobs...another Ambani somewhere in those slums because the mind knows no boundaries....but these people still don't have the basic infrastructure which is needed for a living...the highly currupt nature of our government is not allowing that part of India to come forward and give its contribution....there was this very astonishing instance Friedman has described in his book about a software firm in Bangalore....the firm has two offices in Bangalore separated by 3 km's and there is a slum in Bangalore between these two offices so if you want to call from one office to another you have to call new jersey first and the call is forwarded from new jersey to the other office because there is just no direct phone line connection between the two offices because of the slum in between....and this really shocks me...the divide between the underdeveloped India and the developed India...a lot of us say that i wanna be the next Bill Gates but bill gates is so much more than money and software...the philanthropist work he has carried out for the world is phenomenal and he will be more known for that..now how many of us actually give money in charity or seriously feel like doing something for that small village near your house....to be candid even i don't....and if you do there my friend is a budding Bill Gates.....

Leaving home

hi everyone....so here's my first post of the day...
to leave or not to leave is the question here....thats right i am talking about going abroad after we complete our education..."the brain drain" as they call it is something that bothers me...everyday i look around and see so many smart people who are a lot better than me in doing things...better in maths..better in programming...better with people(ya thats a skill too!)...now my question is if the Indian brains are respected globally for their technical and mathematical genius...where's that developed self sufficient nation we have been looking for??why does every innovation and every invention that changes the world come from US??where's that iphone??where is that ipod touch??where are those google maps which are supposed to be in our phones?? the point is our education institutes produce people who are good at science great at maths but who really don't go out and think about what their education can give them...all of them including me think of big money early on in our lives and the best way to do it is "get out of here!!"....even i may do the same if my career calls for it...infact i had planned to leave once my engineering was over but everything changed when i talked to this french guy who was sitting next to me on a flight from Delhi to Goa....the first thing he told me was...."people are friendly here brother"....then he told me that he used to work in the US airport before....then i asked him this one critical question... "why do the people in united states treat people from India as inferior?" and he replied "because they never go back to their own country"...and i replied "yeah they don't" and that changed my decision...sometimes going abroad is a popularity issue...an issue of pride....when will we people stop being artificial??(i cant get the correct word for this...wait a minute...wannabe's???)....i see people who have lived in india forever and still have accents...its something that actually shows how much some of us crave to go to the states...India is one nation where development and poverty are at their peaks...the question is who will win the race first...and the answer lies with us.....

ANGER MANAGEMENT

ok so this one is for everyone who thinks anger and frustration is a part of their lives...

how many times hav you had the urge to tell someone to "SHUT UP!" but you could not...and how many times have you felt the urge to tell someone "I hate u...get out of my life!!"...but you really cant...can you....so this eventually results into depression...your sole cant take it anymore...you are sick of it..its all around..its chaos....and here's the solution for all of this....
do something to release it...something you like...and that doesn't mean watch a movie!!...NO!!!....do something!!...go run.and keep running for miles and miles..until you leave that person or that situation behind..go play..and every time you score you score over that annoying human being in your life...go punch that big red bag in the gym thinking that its someone you really hate....and if you are a nerd...go make a program which gives you a sense of elation...a sense of being different from everyone....the point is...do something that makes you forget about everyone in the world except for that one annying person.......go ahead and try it...and tell me if i am wrong...and i still wont agree with you....

FAITH

Ok everyone..so here goes my first post...
today morning i was going through the editorials in one of the news sites...and i found one about "radio jockeys" and i started reading it out of curiosity....bt it was a lot more meaningful than i thought it was...in brief it talked about hindus endorsing muslim faith and the muslims doing the same(its not that evident from the title is it)...a car driver turns off the music whenever the car passes by the durgah....and the owner of the car( a female) really does not understand the need to do so...and is surprised too because he never used to do the same before...but she considers his faith and does not say anything...one day when the driver passes by the durgah and does not turn off the music she says "bhaiya FM band kar lo"....thus she learns to endorse muslim faith and the driver not failing to do the same turns off the music when he sees a temple..and the female says"bhaiya iski koi zarurat nahi hai"...
60 years have passed and we are finally learning to understand each other...
not only understanding each other but also praising each other for the efforts we have put up for the country...making India the centre of the revolution called "globalisation" because in no other place in the world so many people so many languages so many religions coexist and this fascinates the rest of the world...thus making the west click with the east...the developed to click with the developing....

hi everyone

I was sitting in my room listening to music and this thought cropped up in my mind..(START A BLOG!!) and here i am writing things i feel about the current issues that all of us think about sometime or the other...by the way i am per suing computer science engineering in MIT,Manipal,Karnataka...and all of you are free to express your opinions here...