To My Friends…

One morning you will never wake up
Do all your friends know you love them?
I was thinking…I could die today, tomorrow or next week,
and I wondered if I had
any wounds needing to be healed, friendships that needed rekindling, or
three words needing to be said. Let every one of your friends know you
love them. Even if you think they don’t love you back, you would be amazed at
what those three little words and a smile can do.
And just in case GOD calls me home before I see you again……
I LOVE YA!!!

—- Probin

Animator VS. Animation

Animator vs. Animation by *alanbecker on deviantART

Must watch creation and thinking of artist.

I just love the idea.

NOTE: For more from same artist, please visit provided link.

A Ghazal by Mirza Ghalib

1. arz-e-niyaaz-e-ishq ke qaabil naheen raha

jis dil pe naaz tha mujhe wo dil naheen raha

[ niyaaz = desire/an offering ]

2. jaata hoon daagh-e-hasarat-e-hastee liye hue
hoon shamma’a_kushta darKHur-e-mehfil naheen raha

[ hastee = life/existence, shamma'a_kushta = extinguished lamp, darkhur = worthy ]

3. marne ki ‘ei dil aur hee tadabeer kar ki main
shaayaan-e-dast-o-baazu-e-qaatil naheen rahaa

[ tadabeer = solution/remedy, shaayaan = worthy, dast = hand, baazoo = shoulder ]

4. bararoo-e-shash jihat dar-e-aaina_baaz hai
yaan imtiaz-e-naakis-o-qaamil naheen rahaa

[ bararoo = in front, shash = six, jihat = direction, imtiaz = distinction, naakis = cuing, qaamil = intelligent ]

5. waa kar diye hain shauq ne band-e-naqaab-e-husn
ghair_az nigaah ab koee haayal naheen raha

[ waa = open, ghair_az = other than, haayal = obstacle ]

6. go main raha, rahee na sitam haaye rozgaar
lekin tere KHayaal se ghaafil naheen raha

[ sitam = oppression, ghaafil = unaware/careless ]

7. dil se hawa-e-kisht-e-wafa mit gayee ki waan
haasil siwaay hasrat-e-haasil naheen raha

8. bedaad-e-ishq se naheen darta magar ‘Asad’
jis dil pe naaz tha mujhe wo dil naheen raha

[ bedaad = injustice ]

with courtsy from smriti.com

Imagination

This was the Day.

Tony had been waiting for this day for his entire life. He had his share of sorrow all through his life but now the moment waited him which would change his life forever. He was 22 and had seen so much in these years. He never knew what a mother’s warmth was. She died giving birth to him. Soon after her death his Dad started seeing other women. Tony hailed from a very rich and prestigious family with generations having served the poor through the medical fraternity. Everyone was a doctor or a PHD but not his dad. His dad didn’t take up the medical profession, in fact never tried to earn a penny.

Tony had a lonely childhood until Jane entered his life. He could still remember the day when Jane moved to his neighbourhood.He had found a true fried in her. Jane’s company covered all his sorrows, he stated smiling, laughing and more importantly enjoying his life. And now he was going to ask her to marry him. This was his last day of college and he had been preparing for this moment for a while now. He had visualized the scene a hundred times in his dreams.” Will you marry me Miss Jane?” He had memorized this simple plain line.

As he was waiting for Jane in his garden he heard Uncle Jack calling him. Uncle Jack was the one who looked after him for all these years. Mr. Jack was a Psychologist. He was very dear to Tony. “Can I speak to you for some time, Tony?” “Now? Actually Uncle …” Before Tony could complete his statement uncle jack said “Tony this is really very important. I always wanted to speak to you about this but was afraid. Now you are older and you will be able to understand…”

“What is it all about…” Tony asked with a tensed voice. “Not here… Let’s go inside the living room and will have a talk there” Tony followed Uncle Jack into the cottage. Tony was very anxious and nervous. He had never seen his Uncle this way. “Tony before I talk to u about it please promise me you won’t panic and whatever happens always remember that I am with you.” “God! You are making me too nervous. Tell me uncle jack what is it about”. Tony wanted to get through this as early as possible. “Jane must be waiting for me” he thought.

“Tony you need to keep your calm. Know it will be very tough for you to understand..Tony, remember the day when you told me about Jane moving to the cottage next to ours?”

“Is it about Jane…?” he shrieked, his heart was pumping fast…

“Listen Tony There is no one living in that cottage for years now…”

“whhhat ?? How’s that possible I have been there myself so many times….what are you talking about? I just can’t understand”

“Please listen Tony. You were alone those days and were very upset with life. You didn’t have friends then…You went through lot of things…You wanted to be happy but were unable to you didn’t had anyone to talk to” Uncle jack moved closer to Tony and put his hand on Tony’s shoulder. “And in such situations your brain plays bad games with you. You started imagining Jane as your friend…There is no Jane; Tony you are just imagining her…”

“Just just just imagining her…how can you say that …I have touched her even kissed her cheeks. It’s you who are crazy and not me…”

“Tony I know it’s hard to believe this. But it’s the truth. I always wanted to tell you this but you were too small to understand…” “No that’s not possible…..you are lying …” “No son it’s your own mind lying you…please Tony keep your cool everything will be fine …just trust me”

Tony rushed away from the living room. He ran to meet Jane in the Garden. But no one was there. He went to Jane’s house hoping to find her there…he tried ringing the door bell but it didn’t rang and how would it? The place was locked for 17 years now. He entered the Cottage through a broken window.Eveything was deserted. The sofa on which he and Jane sat chatting for hours was covered with layers of dust…

He was almost crying now…he moved to the terrace to find the rose plant they planted together. There was nothing only some rusted furniture and dust. He went back Uncle Jack. “Son, I am sorry but you need to get out of this…” Tony couldn’t believe what had happened to him. The girl who he loved the most and wanted to marry didn’t exist. She was fake, a thought, and a piece of imagination….

It took around a month for him to digest his fate. He was finally recovering. And that day before going to sleep he took those tablets which he took for last 15 years. He always wondered why Uncle Jack kept giving him those tablets. Now he knew the answer. He was sick. Sick mentally.

As he was about to sleep he heard a knock on his door.

It was Jane.

“Jane you cant be here…you don’t exist…”

“What’s that? Is this some kind of Joke, Tony? I came here to say sorry. I had to leave that day without informing you because my mom died in a car accident…I tried to reach you but somehow I was not able to…”

“Noooo! this is not true” said Tony. “There is no one called Jane in my life…I know that now…Just get away from me… “

“Whats the matter with you Tony? I am Jane your sweetheart your love…”

“No that’s not true….” Tony closed his eyes for a moment hoping his dream would end….

Jane held his hand….Tony was shivering he could feel the touch.His brain was playing Bad games with him he knew it.

“Come here my baby you are not well…you need some rest”

“Go away from me …just go…” Tony was breathing high now…He tried keeping his cool and took a deep breath. He knew this would be over once he convinced himself that there was no Jane.

“Jane you are my imagination…I made you…”

“Tony you can’t hurt me …you love me so much …we had such a great time together”

“No Jane, I had a great time with myself…” What am I talking! I am going nuts..

He rushed into the kitchen. He came back with water all over his shirt… He could still see Jane standing there…weeping.

He was well aware of the bad games of the Brain now. He went closer to her… “Jane i made you …now i will destroy you…” Zap zap zap… three stabs…Jane was bleeding… Tony could feel the red liquid …bad brain games he thought…

“Uncle Jack. Where are you? I am cured now. There will be no Jane from now on…where are you Uncle Jack?”

“There is no Uncle Jack. I wanted to tell you this… All these days…” Jane gasped.

Breathing her last breath.

Source: E-mail

It is not a Photo

You may not believe your eyes but the image above is not a photograph, it’s just a painting of a non-real person done using airbrush, not even Photoshop.

Dru Blair took around 70 hours to paint this beautiful photorealistic image – look at the eyes, skin tones, hair curls.. they look so real. Really Amazing

Dru has the details on how he completed this painting dubbed “Tica” – Photorealism at its best.

Source: http://www.drublair.com/comersus/store/tica.asp

Collected Quotes from Albert Einstein

• “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.”
• “Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
• “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”
• “I want to know God’s thoughts; the rest are details.”
• “The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.”
• “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
• “The only real valuable thing is intuition.”
• “A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.”
• “I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice.”
• “God is subtle but he is not malicious.”
• “Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.”
• “I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.”
• “The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.”
• “Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.”
• “Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.”
• “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
• “Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.”
• “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”
• “Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”
• “Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.”
• “The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”
• “The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.”
• “God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.”
• “The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.”
• “Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.”
• “Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.”
• “The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.”
• “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”
• “Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.”
• “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
• “Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.”
• “Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.”
• “If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.”
• “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the the universe.”
• “As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.”
• “Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”
• “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
• “In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.”
• “The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.”
• “Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.”
• “Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism — how passionately I hate them!”
• “No, this trick won’t work…How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?”
• “My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.”
• “Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.”
• “The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking…the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.”
• “Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.”
• “The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”
• “A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.”
• “The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.”
• “Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
• “You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.”
• “One had to cram all this stuff into one’s mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.”
• “…one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one’s own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.”
• “He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.”
• “A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest… a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
• “Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.” (Sign hanging in Einstein’s office at Princeton)

Copyright: Kevin Harris 1995 (may be freely distributed with this acknowledgement)

FUNNY QUOTES ABOUT THE PROGRAMMERS AND PROGRAMMING

FUNNY QUOTES ABOUT THE PROGRAMMERS AND PROGRAMMING

“I invented it, Bill made it famous.”
David Bradley (wrote the code for Ctrl-Alt-Delete on the IBM PC)

“As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn’t as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.”
Maurice Wilkes discovers debugging, 1949.

“Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs”
James Gosling, co-inventor of Java

“Keyboard not found. Press < F1 > to RESUME. “
Source unknown (appears in many common BIOSes as a real error message)

“There are only 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don’t.”
unknown

“There are only 10 types of people in this world. Those who know ternary, those who don’t and those who confuse it with binary.”
unknown

“A language that doesn’t have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do”
Dennis M. Ritchie

“Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later”
F. Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month.

“Always program as if the person who will be maintaining your program is a violent psychopath that knows where you live.”
Martin Golding

“Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.”
Bruce Brown

“Base eight is just like base ten really, if you’re missing two fingers.”
Tom Lehrer

“Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable.”
Ralph Johnson

“Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.”
Donald Knuth

“bug, n: An elusive creature living in a program that makes it incorrect. The activity of “debugging”, or removing bugs from a program, ends when people get tired of doing it, not when the bugs are removed.”
“Datamation”, January 15, 1984

“C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.”
Dennis M. Ritchie

“Coding styles are like assholes, everyone has one and no one likes anyone elses.”
Eric Warmenhoven

“Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.”
Brian W. Kernighan

“Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.”
Dick Brandon

“Don’t get suckered in by the comments— they can be terribly misleading. Debug only code.”
Dave Storer

“He who hasn’t hacked assembly language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain.”
John Moore

“I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: ‘Dijkstra would not have liked this’, well that would be enough immortality for me.”
Edsger Dijkstra

“If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.”
Edsger Dijkstra

“If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong.”
Norm Schryer

“Managing senior programmers is like herding cats.”
Dave Platt

“Memory is like an orgasm. It’s a lot better if you don’t have to fake it.”
Seymore Cray (on virtual memory)

“Once you’re done writing the code, never open it again unless you want to see how uncomprehensible and utterly ridiculous it really is.”
Raphael Sazonov

“Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.”
Isaac Asimov

“Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.”
Michael Sinz

“Software Engineering is that part of Computer Science which is too difficult for the Computer Scientist.”
F. L. Bauer

“The evolution of languages: FORTRAN is a non-typed language. C is a weakly typed language. Ada is a strongly typed language. C++ is a strongly hyped language.”
Ron Sercely

“The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.”
Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

“The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That’s where we come in; we’re computer professionals. We cause accidents.”
Nathaniel Borenstein

“The ultimate metric that I would like to propose for user friendliness is quite simple: if this system was a person, how long would it take before you punched it in the nose?”
Tom Carey

“The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should therefore be regarded as a criminal offense”
Edsger Dijkstra

“Writing in C or C++ is like running a chain saw with all the safety guards removed.”
Bob Gray

 

Sunjay Dutt’s Conviction

From the day Sanjay Dutt get convicted for 6 years under illegal Arms Possession Act, most of the Indian public is quit outraged from the decision given by the TADA Court.

Well, there is no question about the ‘guilty’ and ‘not-guilty’ in this case. Sanjay himself admitted (in his sentence) that, “I made a mistake 14 years ago”. So punishment for mistake and that too such a severe (connected to Mumbai Blasts) is obvious.

After the court session when Sanjay got convicted, some felt relieved and some felt ‘Oh! No..’

If we look way after his release just after 16 months from jail (in past), he has gone through major faces of life. He faced a lot tension and undergoes through a long period of distress, but learned to live. But deep inside his heart he must be always trembling with the fear to getting jailed. Something inside his heart was making him weak to face the (cruel) reality. Non other then Sanjay himself knows what he deserve and what he got. But through the eyes of the common public, he (in today’s scenario) should get flexible treatment.

What I think is nobody is a born criminal, but crime should be treated accordingly. Like it said,“You reap what you saw”.

Should this might be in his mind…

Socha nahin tha taqdeer yahan laayegi
Manzil pe aate hi jaan chali jaayegi
yeh to Sikandar ne bhi nahin tha socha
Aane se pehle khushi laut jaayegi
Humne socha tha kya, aur kya se kya hua
Jaa rahe hai aaj yeh zamaane ko bataake

Yeh kya ho gaya rama re, yeh kya ho gaya maula re

Tera qusoor tha ya mera qusoor tha
Tera guroor tha ya mera guroor tha
Rabba main itna bura nahin hota
Tu jo agar bewafa nahin hota
Itna bata mujhe, kya mila tujhe
Gham ke yeh kaante meri raahon mein bichhaake

Yeh kya ho gaya rama re, yeh kya ho gaya maula re

 

 

Finally the court had proved that under the law all are equal .

NOTE: Above written is totally subjected to writer’s own view/thoughts. This in any case should not be considered favoring/opposing any judicial/law judgment or anyone personally.

Proud to be an INDIAN

Have a look at this

Salary & Govt. Concessions for a Member of Parliament (MP)

Monthly Salary : 12,000

Expense for Constitution per month : 10,000

Office expenditure per month : 14,000

Traveling concession (Rs. 8 per km) : 48,000 ( eg.For a visit from kerala to Delhi & return: 6000 km)

Daily DA TA during parliament meets : 500/day

Charge for 1 class (A/C) in train: Free (For any number of times)
(All over India )

Charge for Business Class in flights : Free for 40 trips / year (With wife or P.A.)

Rent for MP hostel at Delhi : Free

Electricity costs at home : Free up to 50,000 units

Local phone call charge : Free up to 1 ,70,000 calls.

TOTAL expense for a MP [having no qualification] per year : 32,00,000 [i.e. 2.66 lakh/month]

TOTAL expense for 5 years : 1,60,00,000

For 534 MPs, the expense for 5 years : 8,54,40,00,000 (nearly 855 crores)

AND THE PRIME MINISTER IS ASKING THE HIGHLY QUALIFIED, OUT PERFORMING CEOs TO CUT DOWN THEIR SALARIES…..

This is how all our tax money is been swallowed and price hike on our regular commodities…….

And this is the present condition of our country:

855 crores could make their life livable !!
Think of the great democracy we have………….

STILL Proud to be INDIAN

Ek Chidiya Anek Chidiya

Here below is a video, one of favorite. This video was used to aired on National Television (DD-1) in 1990s.

The reason behind liking this video is that it teaches the concept of unity.

Selected Quotes of Swami Vivekananda

 

Inspirational quotes of Swami Vivekananda

1.We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the
blame, none has the praise.

2.Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot,
fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.

3.You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

4.When we really begin to live in the world, then we understand what is
meant by brotherhood or mankind, and not before.