Speech by an IITian writer !! - Chetan Bhagat

Speech given by Chetan Bhagat (the famous IITian writer) in Symbiosis ...must read.....
Short but has great depth in it. Do not miss to relish the true essence of life.

"Life is one of those races in nursery school where you have to run with a marble in a spoon kept in your mouth. If the marble falls, there is no point coming first. Same with life, where health and relationships are the marble. Your striving is only worth it if there is harmony in your life. Else, you may achieve the success, but this spark, this feeling of being excited and alive, will start to die.

One thing about nurturing the spark - don't take life seriously. Life is not to be taken seriously, as we are really temporary here. We are like a pre-paid card with limited validity. If we are lucky, we may last another 50 years. And 50 years is just 2,500 weekends. Do we really need to get so worked up?

It's ok, bunk a few classes, goof up a few interviews, take leave from work, fall in love. We are people, not programmed devices........." :)

"Don't be serious, be sincere." !

-Chetan Bhagat...

GENERAL MOTORS reply to BILL GATES

DON'T CHALLENGE MECHANICAL FOR IT.

General Motors REPLY TO BILL GATES
 

At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated,
"If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon."

In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release Stating:
"If GM had developed technology like microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics (and I just love this part, esp 7th point and 10'th point):
1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.
2. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car.
3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this.
4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.
5. Macintosh would make a car  that was powered by  the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as  easy to drive - but would ! run on only five percent of the  roads.
6. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single "This Car Has Performed an Illegal Operation" warning light.
7. The airbag system would ask "Are you sure?" before deploying.
8. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna.  (Read CTR-ALT-DEL)
9. Every time a new car was introduced car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.
10. You'd have to press the "Start" button to turn the engine off. "

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An Interesting Conversation - Must Read

!!An Interesting Conversation -- Must Read

An atheist professor of philosophy speaks to his class on the problem science has with God, The Almighty. He asks one of his new students to stand and.....

Prof: So you believe in God?
Student: Absolutely, sir.

Prof: Is God good?
Student:  Sure.

Prof: Is God all-powerful?
Student: Yes.

Prof:  My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to God to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But God didn't. How is this God good then? Hmm?
Student is silent.

Prof:  You can't answer, can you?
Let's start again, young fellow. Is God good?
Student:  Yes.

Prof:  Is Satan good?
Student:  No.

Prof: Where does Satan come from?
Student:  From...God...

Prof:  That's right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?
Student:  Yes.

Prof: Evil is everywhere, isn't it? And God did make everything. Correct?
Student:  Yes.

Prof:  
Student does not answer.

Prof: Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don't they?
Student:  Yes, sir.

Prof: So, who created them?
Student has no answer.

Prof: Science says you have 5 senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Tell me, son...Have you ever seen God?
Student:  No, sir.

Prof: Tell us if you have ever heard your God?
Student:  No, sir.

Prof:  Have you ever felt your God, tasted your God, smelt your God? Have you ever had any sensory perception of God for that matter?
Student:  No, sir. I'm afraid I haven't.

Prof:  Yet you still believe in Him?
Student:  Yes.

Prof: According to empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, science says your GOD doesn't exist. What do you say to that, son?
Student:  Nothing. I only have my faith.

Prof:  Yes Faith. And that is the problem science has.

Now the student said can I ask something to you Professor.

Student: Professor, is there such a thing as heat?
Prof: Yes.

Student: And is there such a thing as cold?
Prof: Yes.

Student: No sir. There isn't.

(The lecture theatre becomes very quiet with this turn of events.)

Student:  Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don't have anything called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no heat, but we can't go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.
(There is pin-drop silence in the lecture theatre.)

Student: What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?
Prof:  Yes. What is night if there isn't darkness?

Student:  You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something.
You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light... But if you have no light constantly, you have nothing and its called darkness, isn't it? In reality, darkness isn't. If it were you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn't you?

Prof:  So what is the point you are making, young man?

Student: Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.

Prof: Flawed? Can you explain how?

Student:  Sir, you are working on the premise of duality. You argue there is life and then there is death, a good God and a bad God. You are viewing the concept of God as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, science can't even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life: just the absence of it. Now tell me, Professor. Do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?

Prof:  If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of course, I do.


Student: Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?

(The Professor shakes his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument is going.)

Student: Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor, are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher?

(The class is in uproar.)

Student:  Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor's brain?

(The class breaks out into laughter.)

Student: Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor's brain, felt it, touched or smelt it? No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established rules of empirical, stable, demonstrable protocol, science says that you have no brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir?

(The room is silent. The professor stares at the student, his face unfathomable.)

Prof:  I guess you'll have to take them on faith, son.

Student:  That is it sir... The link between man & god is FAITH. That is all that keeps things moving & alive. .
 

WANT TO KNOW WHO THAT STUDENT WAS?  

 

This is a true story, and the student was none other than


DR. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam , Former President of India.

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Memorable days in our life

Gone are the days!!

When

The school and college reopened in June,

And we settled in our new desks and

benches!


When we queued up in book depot,


And got our new books

and notes!


When we wanted two Sundays and no Mondays, yet


managed to line up daily for the morning prayers.


We learnt writing with


slates and pencils, and


Progressed To fountain pens and ball pens and then Micro tips!


When we began drawing with crayons and evolved to


Color pencils and finally sketch pens!


When we started calculating


first with tables and then with


Clarke's tables and advanced to


Calculators and computers!


When we chased one another in the


corridors in Intervals, and returned to the classrooms


Drenched in sweat!


When we had lunch in classrooms, corridors,


Playgrounds,


under the trees and even in cycle sheds!


When all the colors in the world,


Decorated the campus on the Second Saturdays!


When a single P.T. period in the week's Time Table,


Was awaited more eagerly than the monsoons!


When cricket was played with writing pads as bats,

And Neckties and socks rolled into balls!


When few played

"kabadi" and "Kho-Kho" in scorching sun,

While others simply played


"book cricket" in the

Confines of classroom!


Of fights but no conspiracies,


Of Competitions but seldom jealousy!

When we used to

watch Live Cricket telecast,

In the opposite house in Intervals and Lunch breaks!

When few rushed at 3:45 to


"Conquer" window seats in our School bus!


While few others had "Big Fun", "peppermint",

"kulfi", " milk ice !" and "sharbat !" at 4o Clock!


Gone are the days


Of Sports Day,

and the annual School Day ,

And the one-month long

preparations for them.

Gone are the days

Of the stressful Quarterly,

Half Yearly and Annual Exams, And the most

enjoyed holidays after them!




Gone are the days

Of tenth and twelfth standards, when


We Spent almost the whole year writing revision tests!


We learnt,

We enjoyed,

We played,


We won,

We lost,

We laughed,

We cried,

We fought,

We thought.


With so much fun in them, so many friends,

So much experience, all this and more!



Gone are the days


When we used


to talk for hours with our friends!


Now we don't have time to say a `Hi'!

Gone are the days


When we played games on the road!


Now we

Code on the road with laptop!


Gone are the days

When we saw stars

Shining at Night!

Now we see stars when our code doesn't

Work!

Gone are the days

When we sat to chat with Friends on grounds!

Now we chat in chat rooms.....!


Gone are the days

Where we

studied just to pass!


Now we study to save our job!


Gone are the days


Where we had no money in our pockets and still fun filled on our hearts!!


Now we have the atm as well as credit card but with an empty heart!!

Gone are the days

Where we shouted on the road!


Now we don't shout even at home

Gone are the days

Where we got lectures from all!

Now we give lectures to all... like the one I'm doing now....!!

Gone are the days

But not the memories, which will be


Lingering in our hearts for ever and ever and

Ever and ever and ever .....




Gone are the Days.... But still there are lot more Days to come in our
Life!!


NO MATTER HOW BUSY YOU ARE,


DONT FORGET TO

LIVE THE LIFE THAT STILL
EXISTS.

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I Love PPP - PayPerPost, WHY?

PayPerPost or also known as PPP has asked me a question in the latest opportunity about the company that they had given out. They asked whether I love PayPerPost and if so, tell them why? Since I have signed up for the service a few months and the program itself has given me a great experience making money online from writing product reviews, I would say yes and it’s kind of pleasure for me to do the review.

p.s: Of course the love wouldn’t surpass my love for God, gadget, blogging, web designing, programming, family, etc. So what I want to tell you now is why I have my mind thinking about them when talking about paid blogging and what x-factors did they have.

First and foremost, PayPerPost isn’t choosy in accepting blogs. Even though it’s seldom for the big guns to join them, PayperPost still want to give the best opportunity of making money to all bloggers who registered to the program if you read my previous review. Anyone can take an opportunity depending on how hard they managed to improve their blog traffic, page rank, and Alexa ranking so it’s a win-win situation for both bloggers and advertisers. When anything goes wrong, you have tech support in hand. The harder you work, the more you will earn.

Sometimes, PPP will also give out a special opportunity like this where blogger will blog about the company, blog about how much they earned but for this type of opportunity, you won’t need to rush to take it since everybody will get the chance.

I’ve earned more than 300$ from joining this program so far and I must say that it’s not bad at all, at least it allows me to buy some hardware, software upgrades or use better web hosting service for this site in the future. Some even has made their living from this program. No question about that since it’s quite easy to earn money with PPP or vice versa, to do blog marketing. For bloggers, you can post up to 3 paid posts everyday but for newbies I would advice don’t overdo it with just one blog as it will annoy your readers.

Things I don’t like about PPP? There are few but overall they won’t damage my experience using their service. Firstly and the most important, the loading speed of the website can still be improved. PayPerPost is quite slow to access during the peak time but I believe they are working on it.

So, if you have a blog and want to earn some money from it, don’t hesitate to try PayPerPost if other advertising programs such as Text-Link-Ads and Google Adsense didn’t work for you. Already a user? Then share me your experience.