Posted: 24th July 2010 by admin in My Perception
Tags: life
Need Vs Want
Sometimes I am confused about whether a particular thing is my need or my want. I think it is natural and many others also often categorise their needs as wants and vice-versa. When it is about buying an iPod or having a dinner at an expensive restaurant, it is ok (or better) to ignore a perfect need-want analysis. But, I think we must know what we really need in our life as a whole.
What we want to do in our life is often not the thing what we need to. Choosing a career to earn money is our need and it is often very difficult to make a good career out of your hobby or interest. Sometimes I come across people who can easily identify (or may be they just pretend to identify) what exactly their needs and wants are. I come across people who have plans in terms of hours (or may be minutes) for months from now. These people seem to be very systematic in everything they do. But, is not that very similar to the way machines behave?! As human beings, one of the most powerful things which makes us different from machines is our emotion. It is emotion which gives us the courage to take chances – bunking classes of the deadliest of professors to play computer games with friends or to go for a 11pm movie show without having any idea how to return home. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: 17th July 2010 by admin in My Perception
Tags: technology
Disclaimer : The content below does not aim at making any statement about anything living or dead. Anything like that merely is a coincidence. This post is more like an entry in a personal diary. I am writing more for myself now.
It's me... or perhaps You too
My lecturer who was teaching me ‘Programming in C’ had made one thing very clear to me – that I will never be comfortable with programming and it would be very difficult for me to pass the final examination keeping in view the knowledge and attitude I have towards programming. Anyways, those words gave me a kick on my back and somehow I was able to get a ‘C’ in ‘Programming in C’. It needed the combined effort of me and my room-mate Mahesh.
I was very comfortable in C++. I got an ‘O’ in my lab. I liked studying RDBMS and somehow found it very interesting. Don’t take me otherwise, but it really is 
. Again I got an ‘O’. Then I took my first out-of-curriculum language course in summer, 2007. It was for Java. At that time, eight people (including me) were sharing a single PC to practice programming after the classes. I was catching up with things very easily. While studying the advanced Java part, I learned HTML and I liked working with it. My friends made me believe that I am really good with these things.
After six months I was the one who was supposed to design the website for the tech-fest of my college. I tried applying JSP for this but things did not come out to be so easy. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: 22nd May 2010 by admin in iSuggest
Tags: technology
Samsung Corby Mate
When I found that I had to buy mobile phone, my first choice was Nokia C3 after visiting some cellphone websites. But when I knew that C3 is yet to be launched I started looking for something new. My basic need was a qwerty keypad keeping in mind the facility of sending 500 free SMSes a day provided by my network provider .
And I came across this model and found it quite interesting at first. The first thing I could notice about this cell was its cool qwerty keypad with a stylish slider design. The next thing was its light weight. The number strip at the face makes it look like a unique piece. Then soon I decided that this was going to be my new call-mate. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: 5th April 2010 by admin in My Perception
Tags: society
Time to question ourselves...
Few days back, while travelling in a local train I saw a little girl cleaning the floor of the compartment. She might be around 4-5 years. After completing what she was doing with utmost sincerity (what I could notice), she came to all the passengers one by one demanding what she thought she deserved. If you travel in local trains, this is a common scene for you.
People pay to visit idiots who can declare themselves as the avatar of God. Even in some places there is an hierarchy of the extent to which you can have the company of that idiot and likewise is the fee. People still pay. People pay the beggars who could easily work and get food for themselves with prestige, but the little girls like the one I mentioned are still left with nothing.
Former Iraq President Saddam Hussain had a plan for the biggest mosque in Iraq. His daughter, after watching the model of the mosque structure, asked him if there was nothing better for the citizens of the country spend the wealth to. He counter-questioned with a smile “Just imagine what the king of Jerusalem would have answered to a question like this!.” People are busy in building and demolishing religious structures. People pay to build theirs and to destroy others’ even in the countries where people die hungry. Read the rest of this entry »