PART:I
You have a strange fulfilling sense when you have lived every day.
When you have huge anticipation for something, it never turns out to be what you expected. But that should never stop you from anticipating
things or planning for events because that provides you a benchmark for how
well the experience actually was. And when the experience outweighs your
expectation you know you rocked the day.
Never before, the lanes of my memory
have been so stocked as if stories are in perpetual grapple in my mind to reach
my pen. It is as if you can pick a day and I can associate a piece of memory
with it. I won't be lying if I say there was a time when I considered writing
this blog post as a log of events but then my preference for classification
over chronology dominated my writing style.
"Earn and Spend"
This is the fourth postulate of my philosophy for
life which I did come across this summer and my vacation simply remained an
exhibition of this principle. If I may elaborate upon it, I believe that money
only has significance for an individual, when it is being realized in some way
either earned or spent. If life is some sort of a journey with a definite end,
all you can do is to explore more within that time in attempts to extract the
maximum out of it. Now, to appreciate things there must be things to be
appreciated and thus to strike this balance you have to add before you take and
thus money chips in. For me, money loses its charm if it had not been
earned by doing something that others might appreciate and then spent on
something that you do. Money should always be in transition i.e. liquid; earned
and spent.
Intern of the Summer:
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| No, its not what happened to me. |
In spite of all the fun I had while coding with my best pal Swapnil, InMobi
still stands out to be the best intern. There is multitude of reasons for this:
first exposure to corporate culture, the amazing people I met there (Nitya
stands out to be the best of them) and vision that it inspired in me. But, most of all, why I loved this intern has
nothing to do with the intern per se; it was because of the efforts that I put
in to get this intern imparted in me a sense of privilege that simply engulfed me
every time I stepped into the office. After all Shawn Achor was definitely
correct: It is something within you that makes you feel good or bad about
something.
PUSH and PULL:
Oh no, I don't work out! I am still in a perfect shape which now resembles a
bamboo. InMobi lasted for 5 weeks and remainder of my vacation was spent making
pushes and pulls in GitHub. Well if the codes had not been so confusing,
server-side programming do has some charm especially when you are doing it
while sitting your best buddy. I believe everything turns out to be fun if you
do it while being indulged in top notch bakaiti.
Chill maddi! Enjoy maddi!
“I don't exactly know what I am required to say in order for you to have intercourse with me. But could we assume that I said all that. I mean essentially we are talking about fluid exchange right? So could we go just straight to the sex.” -by John Nash in A Beautiful Mind
I don't know why I had to include this quote but I
loved it when I heard it and I just wanted to put it somewhere. It has no
connections in what I am going to write in this blog (I won’t write stuffs
where it might have some) so I would just brand it as my favorite dialogue
this summer.
I watched precisely ten movies this summer. OK I watched nine I wasn't watching
the last one. To my misfortune, every time I came out of the hall I felt like I shouldn't have watched this one. The only relief is that my feelings were always
shared by someone else as well. It is good to have company when you go for
movies either you enjoy the movie or you bore the company. I have no idea why
every filmmaker decided to dump his crap on the screen this vacation but I kept
on watching and being tormented till the last drop of hope was oozed out of me.
After all, what can a die hard movie fan do other than to suffer?
Hangover III was definitely the best movie I watched. With no movie being any
good with its story, at least Hangover was entertaining. I might also add that
my decision slightly biased because of the company I had ( Abhishek and Vishaly
) and how it led to a night out in Bangalore and eventually I ended up sleeping
in church(Even if it sounds crazy, it wasn't . It’s not that I didn't have any better
movie experience, only that in that I barely watched the movies. There was a better
person to watch and even better things to do ;-) .
I would definitely like to recall my meeting with Aditi here probably because this was
the only one that didn't go too well. It was on the day succeeding my night
out. I woke up at her call and I said "If you haven't yet come, please
don't come" and what I received from the other end sounded like 'I am
already there'. If you have ever gone out with a girl while you are dying to
sleep you can relate to it. I don't suppose she enjoyed it much nor do I
remember how I felt at that time. But, what I do remember is I bought six books
that definitely helped me enjoy my time later.
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