Que Sera, Sera - Whatever will be, will be

If we ask ourselves, what is the one aspect of life that you keeps us on our toes each day rearing to go and what is the one aspect of life that frightens us the most? I would say, that answer for both questions is the same - 'The Unpredictable Nature of Life'.

I find it very fascinating, that each day, each minute is a new experience which we have never felt before.  Each day, we have a chance thrown at us to achieve something wonderful. At the same time, we cant take anything for granted and be complacent. There are always a divine set of parameters that cant be controlled by us mortals. Space-time continuum may not behave in the same way as we want it. One may quote Murphy's law for the same. 

Doris Day, a blessed singer recorded a song 'Que Sera, Sera' (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azxoVRTwlNg) which means - 'Whatever will be, will be' . (Today happens to be her 91st birthday anniversary as well :) Happy Bday Dear Dorris!) It continues to say, 'Future is not ours to see.." Such simple words, yet having very deep meaning. Even may well parallel some of the similar thoughts of Sanskrit philosophy on this topic. 

There a poem in Sanskrit literature that talks about the same topic. 

गत शोकं न कुर्वीत |

भविष्यं नैव चिन्तयेत्|| 

वर्तमानेषु कार्येषु |

वर्तयन्ति विचक्षण: ||

Don't repent over past incidents, nor spend too much time wondering about your future prospects. The wise men are the ones who work purposefully in the present without any distractions.

This thought process attracts several critics who counter - 'Learn from past', 'Have farsightedness', "Work with futuristic goals in mind". But, when one re-reads the verses, he may recognize that it is inclusive of all these, and understood (read between lines).

After all this introspection, the conclusion we reach need not be explained by just materialistic/rational or a spiritual/meta-physical monism but, a sum total of all. 

As thought by Krishna, we need to live in this world like a Lotus leaf, "Grows in water, but never moistened by water". Let us lead a life - "Hands to Work, Heart to God". Above has been explained very well in "Paper on Hinduism" by Swami Vivekananda.

Hello my digital ears! Missed you since long

Well, its been a long time. It always is like that. Post after a long time with a promise to update the blog regularly and then before long, it ll be a long time since last post. :P That's life, i guess.

I missed my digital ears, the one who listens to any thing i say :) the place, where i can virtually look back and understand my thought process and where i went wrong before.

Swami Vivekananda quotes in his speech at World Parliament of Religions - "Child is Father of a Man". Indeed, we learn from our past and that experience alone can teach us to be better person today and days to come.

Varun has come a long way since a teenager who started this blog to a person in mid twenties. A better man than he ever was before.

Best Wishes

Worth a Fall

This year's Raksha Bandhan was a special occasion for me as i had gifted my sister bicycle from my own pocket. It was astonishingly satisfying and i felt good abt myself...

til abt half a week back, Chaitra my sister was still on one foot while on bicycle... and all of a sudden a few days back, she had none of her 2 small feet on ground! Yes. She had learnt to cycle... :)
While she was learning she fell many times.. few times in the same place... yet she stood up and tried her best to learn... and today she has learnt...
All i can say is Its worth the fall.... :)

Funny Incident in College

I was online, googling and was totally engrossed in it along with chatting with my friend who was sitting besides me... and suddenly.. i heard a cry for help from behind...followed by huge burst of laughter !!!It was in my College, Computer Networks Lab !!

And the cause of the cry from behind was a small 3.5 inch long RAT !!! hehehe :D
Yes!! It was a rat...

As i turned back, the poor rat which had got into the last row of the lab was puzzled by us the people in its home :D so it had to take drastic measures to escape from people who were actually scared of it... lol

its always strange that smallest of things give us biggest of trouble...

Most of my classmates were jumping around their seats when the rat headed towards them... few MEN came fwd to SOLVE the situation.. but alas, their bravery was short lived as the rat came near them, they jumped with all the fear in the world !!

And then the rat was getting tired.. but it could nt stop, it had to try to escape.. and we had to get rid of it...
all in all it was a catch 22 situation....

ther was a lot of chaos in the lab for those 10 minutes... while the people who were near the rat were scared, others enjoyed the weakness of their peers... each taking turns...

While all this was going on , i had returned back to my companion lovely old google :) but... somethng drived me to join the fun and enjoy the moment...

so i set out to do somethng...i didn know wat to do initially... bt i realised only thng whch i can do is to CATCH the RAT :) yes... i really wanted to catch the rat and put it in a safe place...

so i took the last page of my only note book i had brought to class, and went in search for the little mice..
within 2-3 minutes... i was able to corner it and then bring it out in open and i put my paper over it and carefully caught it by the tail .... :) then friends took few snaps of me slong with the rat :) :)

i put it out of lab in a safe place away...
Mouse happy and we also happy :) :)

When i came back into the lab... i was cheered by a round of applause .. made me feel gud...
:) Thanks to the rat, i found a reason to smile.....

Small Glimpse of Joy

As is my addictive habit these days...i was editing my resume and for once i tot it was kind of ok and jus gt a feeling y nt jus upload on scribd where i ve hosted few of my docs.... so i uploded on 15th oct night and went to bed...

16th was a normal busy day for me, i went to coll,attended class, had a small meet with project mates and while coming back home around 430 pm or so, stopped to ve a chat wit few college mates after few mins when i chked my cell for msgs (i keep mob in silent and non vibrator mode)i saw a missed call from a new number..

anxious to kno who had called me i called back to the same number... to my pleasant surprise it was a company's HR person wanting to recruit me as a full time web developer/programmer !!

it took me few seconds to sink in.. and i actually asked him to repeat to make sure wat i was hearing was rite...

He also told me tat he got my resume from where i had posted my resume the previos nite!! from scribd ..... :)
he had overlooked a key point in the resume whch made me un eligeble for presntly taking up a full time job..and tat obviously was i m still studyin :D

i told him tat i m still a student ...and he replied me to contact him aftr my course :) { i ve a back up if i don get placed anywher lol :P }

for a brief few seconds i felt happy when i found out frm him tat i m worthy of a job :) it still puts a small involuntry smile on my face :)

My Resume