Sunday, August 22, 2010
Monday, August 16, 2010
Speech by Mr Chetan Bhagat at Symbiosis
Don't just have career or academic goals. Set goals to give you a balanced, successful life. I use the word balanced before successful. Balanced means ensuring your health, mental peace are all in good order.
There is no point of getting a promotion on the day of your breakup. There is no fun in driving a car if your back hurts. Shopping is not enjoyable if your mind is full of tensions.
Life is one of those races in nursery school where you have to run with a marble in a spoon kept in your mouth. If the marble falls, there is no point coming first. Same is with life where health and peace are the marble. Your striving is only worth it if there is harmony in your life. Else, you may achieve the success, but this spark, this feeling of being excited and alive, will start to die.
One thing about nurturing the spark - don't take life seriously. Life is not meant to be taken seriously, as we are really temporary here. We are like a pre-paid card with limited validity. If we are lucky, we may last another 50 years. And 50 years is just 2,500 weekends. Do we really need to get so worked up?
It's ok, bunk a few classes, scoring low in couple of papers, goof up a few interviews, take leave from work, fall in love, little fights with your spouse. We are people, not programmed devices.
Don't be serious, be sincere, have fun!!
There is no point of getting a promotion on the day of your breakup. There is no fun in driving a car if your back hurts. Shopping is not enjoyable if your mind is full of tensions.
Life is one of those races in nursery school where you have to run with a marble in a spoon kept in your mouth. If the marble falls, there is no point coming first. Same is with life where health and peace are the marble. Your striving is only worth it if there is harmony in your life. Else, you may achieve the success, but this spark, this feeling of being excited and alive, will start to die.
One thing about nurturing the spark - don't take life seriously. Life is not meant to be taken seriously, as we are really temporary here. We are like a pre-paid card with limited validity. If we are lucky, we may last another 50 years. And 50 years is just 2,500 weekends. Do we really need to get so worked up?
It's ok, bunk a few classes, scoring low in couple of papers, goof up a few interviews, take leave from work, fall in love, little fights with your spouse. We are people, not programmed devices.
Don't be serious, be sincere, have fun!!
Tuesday, August 03, 2010
Amazing Proposals
Quite some time ago, I witnessed a live public marriage proposal which sent me on a proposal-hunting spree on Youtube. Here is a bunch of interesting ones that I found:
1. on the Scrubs set
2. Disneyland musical
3. using a Harry Potter book in the Eiffel Tower
4. Super Mario
5. cute cellphone-edited video
But my favorite is this video. It was the "movie trailer" a guy made that he made to play in a movie theatre so he could propose to his fiance. I thought it was already extreme until I saw this list. Here is the breakdown, you can read in more detail on the site. Now excuse me while I cry a bit.
1. The man who proposed at Gravity Zero
2. The man who proposed virtually at Halo video game
3. The man who got on fire before kneeling down and proposing
4. The man who proposed at 20,000 feet just before skydiving
5. The man who raised money on the internet to buy TV ad space to propose
6. The man who hacked his Girlfriend's computer game to pop the question
7. The man who popped the question with umbrellas
8. A camera man who asked Tom Cruise to pop the question
9. The man who hired a £10,000 theatre company to play his proposal
10. The man who created an art exhibition to pop the question
1. on the Scrubs set
2. Disneyland musical
3. using a Harry Potter book in the Eiffel Tower
4. Super Mario
5. cute cellphone-edited video
But my favorite is this video. It was the "movie trailer" a guy made that he made to play in a movie theatre so he could propose to his fiance. I thought it was already extreme until I saw this list. Here is the breakdown, you can read in more detail on the site. Now excuse me while I cry a bit.
1. The man who proposed at Gravity Zero
2. The man who proposed virtually at Halo video game
3. The man who got on fire before kneeling down and proposing
4. The man who proposed at 20,000 feet just before skydiving
5. The man who raised money on the internet to buy TV ad space to propose
6. The man who hacked his Girlfriend's computer game to pop the question
7. The man who popped the question with umbrellas
8. A camera man who asked Tom Cruise to pop the question
9. The man who hired a £10,000 theatre company to play his proposal
10. The man who created an art exhibition to pop the question