Writing our goals

Everyone of us wants to achieve something in this world. But it is very common for us to feel bad they we are not doing anything fruitful to make our dream come true. The implication from this is that it is very easy to dream but on the contrary it is very difficult to accomplish it. I am currently facing this kind of a problem. When I analyzed what I am doing I drew a big blank. I have somehow fallen a victim to procrastination. Recently I came across an article by Anthony Fernando on his website Dare to Dream, http://www.anthonyfernando.com/2007/01/17/staying-on-track/ , which I would like to share with you. In that he suggests us to have a written goal, in that process he wants us to be more specific with our goal, and keep it with us. So every time we take an action we have to classify it as either Opportunity or Distraction. We must try to avoid that action if it proves to be a distraction. This is a wonderful little article by him. :)

To put it in a nutshell,

Take the time to write down our specific goals. Whenever we come across a new opportunity, read our goals and ask ourselves, "Is this an opportunity or a distraction?". Take action accordingly. 

Why education is very important?

For everything in this world we use a tool. For example, to clean our tooth we use a brush which is a tool, to cook food we use various utensils as tools, to move from one place to another we use a car which is a tool. Similarly we need some tool to develop and enlighten us and that is the EDUCATION. Without some form of education we are just like any other creature in this world.

There are two types of education - Formal education and Informal education. Formal education is the one which we obtain by going to schools and colleges and the informal education is which we get by experience and not going to colleges or schools. We got to have at least one among these two. However putting into perspective the two education I feel Formal education is more vital; that is because with informal education we only have a Vertical expertise (that is we specialize in only thing and barring that we don't have a broad horizon of knowledge) whereas with formal education we can have an Horizontal Exposure (Knowledge that spans through a wide range of spectrum i.e knowledge about many things) and in the process we can develop Vertical Expertise.

Sometimes we get the sense of feeling that this education is only a hindrance to my ambitions and I got to be a drop out of the school to reach heights (Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg did so, and so will I). But the fact is these are just illusions. The probability of achieving without proper education is very very less and we must be wise enough to understand it. This makes me remember the quote said by Mr.Dhirubhai Ambani (Founder of Reliance industries) 'Without education I became the No.1 in India.  But had I got education, I would have been a numero uno in the world  by now.' In fact those persons who came to various high positions without formal education have made it a point that their children get quality education from top universities in the world. So it is our duty to get the best out of our education. And remember that every single thing that we learn will help us in one or other way at any particular moment in our life. So our education never goes waste. Spiritual experts says that our 'gynam' (meaning Knowledge) will always be carried over by our soul, gets accumulated and helps in the process of evolution.

Multiple Voices in a Democracy

Multiple voices are an essence of any democratic establishment. In fact the crux of the system itself is that a new favorable solution would come only via these various voices. At this point I would like to bring the current situation or to be more precise the confusion that is seen in the current regime of Indian Politics. By saying Indian Politics I mean that it is inclusive of all parties.

First we had an Anna Hazare who started a movement for demanding the implementation of a regularly denied Lokpal Bill. When he had started a fast which no one would have imagined it would later on turn out to be one of a revolutionary movements of all time in India, on par with what had happened in Egypt very recently barring the violence. From a truth perspective it was a great success, in fact it managed to unite the people of India as it was during its Independence period. The government had no option but to accept their demand for a committee to overlook the issues in drafting the bill plus their wish for the inclusion of "civil society" members in it.

Although the fast was a success the progress after approximately three months haven't given much satisfaction. The government members and the civil society members have been at loggerheads ever since the first meeting. While such a situation is now existing, we have got another fresh controversy building over the "Godmen" Baba Ramdev's fast. While skeptics of him continue to say he is a proxy of some opposition parties, the government shocked the nation by a brutal attack on the supporters of him at Ramlila Maidan in New Delhi. All these happenings are unfortunate and I personally feel it is a tactic of Divide and Rule that is being played by some influential politicians  who somehow wants the Lokpal bill to be stopped. All these fiasco must somehow end and we must now put our efforts on speedy implementation of Lokpal bill and make sure that it doesn't have any loophole rather than putting ourselves in a difficult situation. Well in this case, whether these "Multiple voices" are doing good or bad, only time can answer..

System Software Exam

Well I am gonna face the real test tomorrow. 3 days completely devoted to studying System Software and this is one of the subjects for which I have put my best efforts into (this semester) , and I hope everything goes well. God please give me what I deserve.

Desperately Waiting for December 1

Its being on for a quite a while now. First the model exams then the Semester Practicals and now the biggie is still going on and scheduled to get over by early next month...:(

Tired of Studying for Exams...Desperately waiting for December 1 as I Need some break and gotta prepare myself to the most crucial year of my life 2011...Have a hell lot to learn and I mean 'Learning' and not 'Studying', both has got a difference..

Next Generation Indians

I wonder why is that revolutions like Google, FB, Wikipedia all orginate from the United States...Take the list of Nobel Laurates and you can find that Majority of them are from the US..And obviously many Best Schools in the World are in US...

I always feel bad why there isn't much originating from our Country??

But we still wander saying 1 Indian equal to 2 Japanese, and we discovered Zero...But the fact of the matter is "WHAT ARE WE DOING RIGHT NOW ?? ".. We gotta find an answer to this and show who we are...

We the Next Generation Indians are really capable of changing the fortune of our Nation in terms of Economy, Technology, Education, Social Welfare etc..



So whats Holding us??..Lets go do some Work...

G.Vivek Venkatesh

Age No Bar

"AGE NO BAR for Learning." - Most of us would certainly agree with it. At this point I would like mention about my Grandfather's recent interests and what's the lesson for me in it.

Few months back my grandpa who is little more than 70 years of age, informed me that he is gonna buy a second hand laptop and all he wanted from me was to teach him how to operate computers. Well initially it seemed funny to me, an old man who is over seventy and haven't used computers till then in his life , all of sudden showing inquisitiveness in learning computers. I casually said yes and eventually failed to keep up my word as I thought it would be of no use teaching him considering his age. He got kind of fed up asking me repeatedly. Few months passed away and one day, I was surprised to see a friend request from him in Orkut and Facebook. Then I came to know that he himself somehow manged to learn the basics of turning on and off the computers, use the mouse, the OS, browsers and gradually entering into Social networking sites.

Well all it took was nothing more than his interest and he proved that age no bar for anything. If a 70 over old fellow can learn something about a gadget which was completely alien to him, me at 20 can definitely achieve what I want. Thats the lesson I had learned from this.

And the funnier part comes now, yesterday I went to his house to spend some time with my relatives. There I saw a 'Java Complete reference book' which I initially misinterpreted to be mine and was wondering how my book came there. Later I came to know it was not mine and that it was his book which he had bought after coming to know there is something famous called Java. I was really surprised to see this old man, sitting with actually two laptops and wondering what was Java. Although I am very much confident this time that it would be a Mission Impossible for him to explore java, I still got to learn something from this...

PS: The book which he was having was Third Edition, while the one which I am currently using is Second Edition..LOL..and I got that paper to pass in this Semester...:P...