Can two people stay happy together?

Here’s what I had written back.

It’s not easy. Look, the best thing you can do is to find a person who loves you for exactly who you are — good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, this habit, that habit — the right person will always think you’re the best in the world, no matter what.

Sometimes it’s hard to see the good in other person because you’re so involved with what you are thinking, because you are focusing on what you are feeling more than you remember how much you love the other person. At times like these, you might even get into a fight with the other person, and even think that the love is gone.

You have to remember that LOVE is not about how the other person makes you feel — it’s about how you make the other person feel no matter if the other person even acknowledges your love. It’s a one-sided affair — from your heart to the person you love. The lucky ones get loved back. Don’t insult your love by expecting a return — it’s not a bank account, it’s love!

• LinkedIn: It’s perhaps the only serious social network for professionals.
• Orkut: It’s very popular in India and almost everybody I know outside work is on there.
• Facebook: I have only recently started taking it seriously. However, it’s a good ‘missing-link’ between a ‘meant-for-professionals’ LinkedIn and totally-bindass Orkut.

Aside: I have also started Tweeting. Follow me.

Nice, huh?

I am really really sorry, that I wasted your time and my energy, I forgot that only the sleeping ones can wake up not the dead ones. Your inner child, your will to live life is dead. I am sorry for you. and ya sure you enjoy your sorry life, cause this is the only thing you have “Sorry”, in few months you will get married, and then you will live happily ever after, but remember the only thing then you miss will be hanging out with us, you will not be able to go on long drives on bikes cause then there will be some one else, who will become your responsibility, you will go on long drives for sure but in a steel cage, and I thought slavery is dead and we are free. We are still slave of our sorries.We are not free cause we love to live in cages, cages of steel, cages of concrete, cages of fear.

Enjoy your sorry life!

People! Don’t let your life pass you by in the daily grind. Grab the opportunities that present themselves to you for they are rather selective of who they present themselves to and the chances of them doing it again are slim and grow slimmer by the day…

The editorial puts an interesting spin on capital punishment.

But the same logic you apply to urge Indians to look down upon capital punishment, almost calling it immoral but at least suggesting it to be inhuman, can be applied to any punishment…

Why should state have the right to ‘murder’ a criminal you ask. So I ask:

• Why should state have the right to ‘try’ anybody for any crime?
• Why should state spend my tax money to feed and tend to ‘criminals’?
• Why should state lock up anybody?

Just because capital punishment ‘kills’ you call it murder from your standpoint of this notion of right of life. So doesn’t locking up prisoners infringe on their right to be free? Who is a judge or a law to decide if a person will be allowed to roam free or locked up in a small room, and for how long?

You say capital punish is not an able deterrent. Is any other punishment? So why have punishments at all? Let’s just keep a public record of reprimands a person has been given for committing what we, for now, call ‘crimes’ and hope that public embarrassment will keep people from committing them. But then, somebody will write a song about how somebody got inspired into collecting most such reprimands and you will label this system a failure too, perhaps even calling it an inhuman infringement of a person’s human right not to be publicly embarrassed.

If you dare dismiss the above with a wave of your hand, perhaps calling it an over-reaction or irrelevant, or try to walk the fine line of how it is OK to do anything but take one’s life or be ‘barbaric’ in meting out punishment, I question you on your definition and notion of this inhumanity. If it’s inhumanity to you to infringe a person’s right to life, perhaps to some so is the infringement of a person’s right to freedom. Where does it stop?

So who are you to suggest a person’s life be spared when that person did not care in taking another’s in whatever emotional state of being? Call capital punishment revenge or call it state sponsored murder if it gives you satisfaction and a moral high-ground from where to scream at us barbaric inhumans while we rejoice when a killer is killed in revenge/justice.

All hostels in Panjab University, Chandigarh are disallowing independent access to the Net to residents, irrespective of their departments or level of education, because they are “not mature enough to access the Internet”. These pearls of wisdom belong to none other than the Dean, Student Welfare, Prof. Nirmal Singh, who opines that, “All they do is open bad sites.”

It makes me wonder if those in power to take such decisions and have them implemented are really so clueless, or is doing so more like an ego-trip for them, since whatever be the reason, in the end, only the end-user suffers and the organisation’s image (whether it be a University or a country) that takes a hit.

IAPT organises two Physics exams every year:

• National Graduate Physics Examination (NGPE) for B.Sc. (Bachelors) level students of Physics, and
• National Standard Examination in Physics (NSEP) for +2 (Pre-Grad) level students.

Approximately 30,000 students registered to write the NSEP examination held in November ‘05. The top 1% from those who gave the exam were selected for Indian Physics Olympiad (InPhO). The top 60 students from there went into a selection Camp in HBCSE, Mumbai out of which the top 30 participated in a 7-10 day camp from where the team of 5 was chosen to represent India in the International Physics Olympiad (IPhO) held in Singapore this month.

Raghu Mahajan, one of the team members, is from Chandigarh. I remember the day he visited us to get my father’s advice on practicals (Vijai Singh, who (Update: teaches) has taught Physics in IIT, Kanpur and is the National Science Olympiads coordinator, referred him over).

Each member of the team won a medal—2 golds and 3 bronzes in all (Official IPhO results).

When you break the rules, you’re in Rome, doing as the Romans do. When others break the rules, they’re moronic idiots who’re spoiling the very essense that keeps us civil.

Why don’t people realise the importance of saying goodbye?

Why do people pretend that it’s not the end and make a ghost out of what could be a monument?

Are we such cowards or so driven by our pretentious pride to show how unaffected we are that we become unkind enough not to state in clear words and communicate to a person our appreciation of their role in shaping us?

My company’s HR manager has moved on in her career and yesterday was her last day in office.

About 2 years ago, when I met her for the first time, I was a very different person from what I am today. A considerable amount of my conscious decision to be a better manager and a better person was a result of the chain reaction she set off in the company. We had a lot of fights initially and though things quietened down as we developed a mutual respect and a ‘hands-off’ approach toward each other, things never really became rosy (we had a verbal duel just a fortnight ago). She dropped the right phrases at the right time, discreetly pointed out the direction to take, was a patient mentor when it came to handling people and in general, taught me some valuable lessons.

I am going to miss her in this office. I wish I had said my goodbye better.