Saturday, 12/31/2005

Happy New Year...and Goodbye!

In retrospect, another year has whizzed by. In reality, parts of the year did drag e.g. during exams, pathetic films I should NOT have wasted my non-existent bank balance on and many other such delightful moments! Although I have not done much blogging in the latter half of the year, a lot has been going on in my life. I intended to shut this blog down a few months ago but have been procrastinating as per usual! I figured that I would take New Year's Eve as an opportunity to blog one last time. Various commitments have resulted in my not having time to blog anymore and lack of inclination has ensured that I don't make the time for the same. I thoroughly enjoyed my blogging days but, at this juncture in my life, blogging about my personal life seems juvenile and posting intellectual and informative data time-consuming. I still enjoy reading my various blog buddies' blogs and hope that you continue the good work. Here's wishing you all a Happy New Year and many more to come!

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve.  Middle age is when you're forced to.  ~Bill Vaughn


An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in.  A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.  ~Bill Vaughan


Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits.  ~Author Unknown


A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.  ~Author Unknown


Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.  ~Benjamin Franklin


No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference.  It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left.  It is the nativity of our common Adam.  ~Charles Lamb


New Year's Day is every man's birthday.  ~Charles Lamb


The merry year is born
Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.
~Hartley Coleridge


Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.  ~Hal Borland


Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.  ~John Selden


New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights.  ~Hamilton Wright Mabie


The Old Year has gone.  Let the dead past bury its own dead.  The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time.  All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months!  ~Edward Payson Powell


Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.  ~Oprah Winfrey


Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
~Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1850


The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.  ~P.J. O'Rourke


Every man should be born again on the first day of January.  Start with a fresh page.  Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.  ~Henry Ward Beecher


New Year's Day:  Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions.  Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.  ~Mark Twain


The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.  ~George William Curtis


For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
~T.S. Eliot, "Little Gidding"


We will open the book.  Its pages are blank.  We are going to put words on them ourselves.  The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.  ~Edith Lovejoy Pierce


Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath.  Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever.  ~Mark Twain


People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas.  ~Author Unknown


And ye, who have met with Adversity's blast,
And been bow'd to the earth by its fury;
To whom the Twelve Months, that have recently pass'd
Were as harsh as a prejudiced jury -
Still, fill to the Future! and join in our chime,
The regrets of remembrance to cozen,
And having obtained a New Trial of Time,
Shout in hopes of a kindlier dozen.
~Thomas Hood


Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past.  Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.  ~Brooks Atkinson


Each age has deemed the new-born year
The fittest time for festal cheer.
~Walter Scott


Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.  ~Oscar Wilde


Glory to God in highest heaven,
Who unto man His Son hath given;
While angels sing with tender mirth,
A glad new year to all the earth.
~Martin Luther


A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it.  ~Mark Twain, speech in New York City, 31 March 1885


But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty?  I live according to twenty-year-old habits.  ~Andre Gide


I do think New Year's resolutions can't technically be expected to begin on New Year's Day, don't you?  Since, because it's an extension of New Year's Eve, smokers are already on a smoking roll and cannot be expected to stop abruptly on the stroke of midnight with so much nicotine in the system.  Also dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover.  I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second.  ~Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary


New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot.  Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.  ~Jay Leno


We meet today
To thank Thee for the era done,
And Thee for the opening one.
~John Greenleaf Whittier


One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this:  To rise above the little things.  ~John Burroughs


Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.  ~Charles Lamb


A happy New Year! Grant that I
May bring no tear to any eye
When this New Year in time shall end
Let it be said I've played the friend,
Have lived and loved and labored here,
And made of it a happy year.
~Edgar Guest


It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets.  ~William Thomas


We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched.  Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives... not looking for flaws, but for potential.  ~Ellen Goodman


May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions.  ~Joey Adams


He who breaks a resolution is a weakling;
He who makes one is a fool.
~F.M. Knowles


The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year.  It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes.  Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions.  Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. ~G.K. Chesterton


I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the year's.  ~Henry Moore


Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year.  Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.  ~Thomas Mann


I made no resolutions for the New Year.  The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.  ~Anaïs Nin


New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.  ~Mark Twain


Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.  ~Jean Paul Richter


The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel.  Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.  ~W.H. Auden

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Wednesday, 10/12/2005

Evidence for Ramayana?

This was sent to me by Pradeep:

http://www.rense.com/general30/nasa.htm

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Tuesday, 10/04/2005

Am I Your Friend??

via SV

I AM NOT YOUR FRIEND IF.....
you have to think before you speak to me! 

I AM NOT YOUR FRIEND IF.....
my presence ever makes you feel uncomfortable! 

I AM NOT YOUR FRIEND IF.....
you have to thank me for everything i do for you! 

I AM NOT YOUR FRIEND IF.....
you have to say sorry for everything that you don't do!

I AM NOT YOUR FRIEND IF.....
you have to ask me for favours! 

I AM NOT YOUR FRIEND IF.....
you think i would not be curious to know your new philosophy of life! 

I AM NOT YOUR FRIEND IF.....
you go by what i say and do not understand what i don't say! 

I AM NOT YOUR FRIEND IF.....
you think that listening to your dreams would put me to sleep!

I AM NOT YOUR FRIEND IF.....
you think that seeing you in pain, would not bring a tear to me! 

I AM NOT YOUR FRIEND IF.....
you think I do not remember the first time we met! 

I AM NOT YOUR FRIEND IF.....
you don't see the thousand ways I try to make you happy! 

I AM NOT YOUR FRIEND IF.....
you don't realise how your smile brightens up my day! 

I AM NOT YOUR FRIEND IF.....
you would rather keep quiet when you really wanna talk! 

I AM NOT YOUR FRIEND IF.....
you hesitate to ask me to stay back when you think we should be together! 

I AM NOT YOUR FRIEND IF.....
you take too much time to tell me what I mean to you!  

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Monday, 09/26/2005

Blood brothers

Pretty cool song!

http://www.rukusavenue.com/BB_Web_sub_bug_large.wmv

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Sunday, 09/04/2005

My Dil Goes Mmmm...

It has been a while since I've heard such a sweet song...I'm in LOVE (with the song, that is!).

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Friday, 09/02/2005

Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish

'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says

This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.

Continue reading "Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish"

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Thursday, 08/25/2005

Amazing Photos

I thought this site might be of interest:

http://www.photo.net/photodb/member-photos?user_id=427851

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Monday, 08/22/2005

Oprah's meeting with Maya Angelou

In April, Oprah interviewed Maya Angelou on her 70+ birthday. Oprah asked her what she thought of growing older. And, there on  television, she said it was "exciting." Regarding body changes, she said there were many, occurring everyday...like her breasts. They seem to be in a race to see which will reach her waist, first. The audience laughed so hard  they cried. She is such a simple and honest woman, with so much wisdom in her words!

Maya Angelou said this:

"I've learned that no  matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be  better tomorrow.

"I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.

"I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your  parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life.

"I've learned  that making a "living" is not the same thing as "making a life".

"I've  learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance. I've learned that you  shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back.

"I've learned that whenever I decide  something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.

"I've  learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. (Very true!)

"I've  learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a  warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.

"I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

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Tuesday, 07/26/2005

Que Sera, Sera

Once again, I am putting off the writing of an actual post...!

via SV

When I was just a little girl/boy,
I asked my mother, "What will I be ?
Will I be pretty/handsome ?
Will I be rich ?"
Here's what she said to me :
"Que Sera, Sera
Whatever will be, will be,
The future's not ours to see,
What will be, will be."

Then I grew up and fell in love,
I asked my sweetheart, 'what lies ahead?
Will we have rainbows, day after day?
Here's what my sweetheart said:
Que sera, sera,
Whatever will be, will be
The future's not ours to see.
Que sera, sera,
What will be, will be

Now I have children of my own
They ask their mother what will I be
Will I be handsome, will I be rich?
I tell them tenderly
"Que Sera, Sera
Whatever will be, will be,
The future's not ours to see,
What will be, will be.
Que Sera, Sera"

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Friday, 07/08/2005

Before you speak..

Before you speak, ask yourself, is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve on the silence?

Before you speak, ask yourself, will what I say cause damage to a relationship with people important to me? Which is more important to me; to say what I want to say, or to continue a positive relationship?

Before you speak, ask yourself, will what I'm going to say be considered a criticism? If so, shouldn't I wait until a more suitable time and place? Shouldn't I say it in private?

Before you speak, ask yourself, will what I plan to say bring sunshine to a dim place? Or will it bring darkness? Will it open a window of opportunity for someone or some idea? Or will it close a door in someone's face? Will it create or kill?

Communication has consequences. You may say, "I take it back." But you really cannot. It's better that you don't 'give it' in the first place. It's better that you think before you speak.

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