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There are weird days when you wake up, and you want to throw something. The day goes on. You hate everything around you. You've dreamt of your own funeral. And guess what happened in my dream? Right, so they find me lying in my room, a mess on the floor. Then they place me in this big black coffin. Then all the people I've ever known and loved are there, making speeches, or just crying, or acting like they cared, anyway.
It was just a dream, but you cried in it, and you gave a speech. For the first time in my life I felt like I meant something. Not just a stupid crumb of cheese or a blot of mustard.
There are days when you wake up, and you think the world is beautiful. There are days when people call you up, and they're nice to you, they just want to ask how you're doing. It feels nice to be thought of, doesn't it? It feels nice sometimes, to just look at your boring old 17th century cell phone and see a 'one message received' It feels nice, sometimes, to receive one line mails from someone, even if they're just telling you to go onto their blog.
It sometimes feels nice to know you're being thought of, whoever it's by. It sometimes makes all the difference in the world to know that once you're gone, there may be people who'll miss you. There may be people who'll think of you, and maybe shed a tear or two. There maybe be people who could love you, your parents, for instance. In the long run, you forget to thank them everyday for doing all that they do for you, don't you? It sometimes feels nice to just have someone to talk to. It sometimes feels nice to be by yourself, then sweetly have that privacy lost.
Life is long, isn't it?
I just realised, I am a REALLY awful writer. And to think I was hoping to be editor. HA!
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Ok, so women in India were held under subjugation for a long period of time. Fine, there were no suffragette movement, and whatever position the women have gained, is because of their role in the freedom struggle (thank you Panicker), but does that mean it is supposed to be celebrated like this? Do we celebrate and pedestalise people like Sanjeev Kapoor for being one of the best cooks in India, because cooking is (traditionally) a women's department? What kind of idiosyncracy is this?
Any self-respecting woman will explain her motivation to foray into a field as her want to tread those waters, and make a name for herself. Not because women everywhere are matching men in every sphere, and hence she is also trying to do her part in putting women up at par with men. I have heard 50 year old aunties give this as a reason for managing businesses and becoming names in the corporate sector. Is this really what the women of India want to be known for? That they threw over the regime which was controlled by men (another ballyhoo in my opinion), and revolutionised the way people saw the womenfolk? Why do women still call themselves the fairer sex, and underpriveleged ... when there are men now who are trying to fight for there right to leading a respectable life?
We create reservations in our parliament for women, so that they can have an equal say and participation in the ruling of the country. What this does is reduce the number of people who are qualified from taking those posts, because that seat is supposed to hold a woman's ass, not a man's! Reserving for the backward classes is a different thing (debatable, but different), but appointing a person just because she is a woman, doesn't show progress ... it shows a lack of judgement, foolhardy and reactionary tendencies.
Please people! Wake up to the fact. Women who think they are held under subjugation and oppression need to learn to look out of the box, and try to come out of the shell, instead of sitting there and crying that they aren't given a chance. Its not like men are served jobs and posts on a silver platter. We have to work for it too you know! But the most saddening aspect of this whole situation is the fact that there are some shameless women, who use these laws and norms to their advantage. Who threaten authorities with a lawsuit stating bias against women as a reason, when clearly they are nowhere near to being qualified for even consideration. They are the true scum of the earth!
We must see what restrictions and laws like these are doing to the country. And yes, seeing women treated equally was Gandhi's dream, but he's dead and gone. Plus, he was nothing more than a clever politician. He did well for the country, but for selfish motives. Glamourising a natural step towards progress doesn't only kill its who purpose, but shows what a shell we live in...
[Don't call me a chauvinist ... I call 'em as a I see 'em!]
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i have only one thing to say:
men are chauvinistic pigs :P:P:P
you ask women why they don't come out from their shells? yeah, they weren't ALLOWED to. look at the SATI and the PURDAH system and the ban on widow remarriage, the dowry, WHAT ABT THOSE PROBLEMS? our society (in some areas) STILL suffers from them. and you ask the government to remove reservations for women, so we can put more idiotic men on the front? women are required for every aspect of development. there is a great variation in our country for creating opportunities for us. let me give you an example: my ex editor thinks criminal law is not for women. simply because we ARE women. there you go.
men are suckers! (no double meaning intended, you :P you know we love you)
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okay, now since Aditya seems to be an integral part of a "pack", i thought it would be good if his "pack" knew more about this google prodigy, seeing as how the posts are just not central enough. :P:P ahem
now, to begin with, i shall describe aditya vikram mukherjee to you. skinny. REALLY skinny. has glasses, which he wears (and looks MUCH better in them) occasionally. has very very ruffly hair, which thankfully he's grown thanks to reference from yours truly. now. i will begin with the good, the bad and the ugly sides to aditya mukherjee. aditya is really really simple and down to earth. he knows what he wants out of life. he's humble, and sweet, and caring, and there for you, and doesn't shut up when he knows there's something that you're not telling him. at times, he can really get on your nerves, but then there are times when it's like he's the nicest guy in the world. he's there for you. it's as simple as that. there are times when just talking to him can change your entire outlook of the day. there are times when not talking to him can make you want to throw something. there are times when you talk to him, and he's just rambling on about google and stuff, and the things he says actually interest you. there are times when you really just want to get to know him. there are times when you're so mad at him you wonder HOW you know him. there are times when you feel you're lucky to know him, there are times when he can be the nicest person in the entire world, and there are times when he can really really hurt you and not even know it. but i guess that's something that's to everyone, right?
he's one of the smartest people i know, even though he starkly denies it. he's really logical, and really AWESOME at all weird tech-oriented things, and he knows how to make cookies and bookmarklets and god knows what. he's one of the best musicians in our entire school. AND he has an awesome voice. but there's a lot more than that. he's just a plain--awesome human being. and i'm really proud of knowing him. and i have no idea why i'm writing this, i guess it seemed more appealing than writing an analysis of the Ahmediya Movement, something i was originally intent on doing :P:P:P okay, and since i'm probably never going to see him again, i just wanna raise a toast to one of the nicest people i know! cheers! :D nemesis
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and here's my gift to you for being so nice! and an amazing friend! :)
all the best to you, in whatever you do!
Seeya around! :)
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The assumption is, that the possession of material commodities is what makes men happy. It is thought that a man who has two rooms and two beds and two loaves must be twice as happy as someone who has one room, one bed, and one loaf of bread.
Now seriously! What gave him that idea? No matter how many rooms or beds you have, you will end up using just one! So how does that make you happier? If at all, it will make you sadder to see how alone you are when the next room is empty, and the next bed is unused!
When a man moves into a large house in a more genteel quarter, he reflects that 'better' people will call on his wife, and some unprosperous cronies of former days can be dropped. When he sends his son to a good school or an expensive university, he consoles himself for the heavy fees by thoughts of the social kudos to be gained. /p>
Now, its pretty obvious that the thought that people have a heart might not have struck Mr. Russell. Couldn't it be that the man sent his son (which I'm surprised the CBSE didn't change to daughter) to an expensive school because he wanted him to get the best education possible? And why will he want people to call on his wife and not him anyway? A larger house can be bought for better comfort, don't you think? Why does it just have to be to show off? Some people might genuinely feel more 'spaced' out!
The greater ferocity to modern war can be attributable to machines, which operate in three different ways. First, they make it possible to have larger armies. Secondly, they facilitate a cheap Press, which flourishes by appealing to men's baser passions. Thirdly - and this is the point that concerns us - they starve the anarchic, spontaneous side of human nature, which works underground, producing an obscure discontent, to which the thought of war appeals as affording possible relief.
Huh!? No, I literally mean HUH?? Which anarchic side is he talking about? The one which makes us go 'Whooptidoo!' at 12:30 in the morning? Oh wait! Normal people don't do that! What are man's baser passions? To create war? I don't think so. If he needs a change, there are a thousand things to be done except fight. Video Games! XBox, Playstation! Every heard of those things? Television! C'mon, the football game Saturday evening! Which planet are you from boy!!
But orthodox psychoanalysis has unduly simplified our unconscious purposes, which are numerous, and differ from one person to another.
Now, who the hell talks like that!? Oh wait! I know....! 3 Clues! He's white, his idea of dancing is Neo's style of dodging bullets, and we all call him horsey! Any guesses? ;)
Bertrand Russell once wrote an essay on An Outline Of Intellectual Rubbish. Now I don't know if he wrote that before he wrote this, but surely something is amiss over here! The rest is just werid ballyhoo which I really don't want to type out and analyse! All this struck me when I was reading the chapter, and to save myself from falling asleep, I decided to share these sudden realisations with you all! Please feel free to rant about this essay, I shall print them and mail them to CBSE if I have enough! :)
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i hate the CBSE too :P:P:P:P
and i haven't talked to you the entire day! where are you?
its hard enough trying to keep myself awake while reading that, but we have to understand it too! and be able to answer questions on it too!! juses christ! what are they doing to us!!!
*ahem*
thanks for your mail.. i have my very own version of ranting about the CBSE, which i put up on my blog a day before the english pre board...excepts from "the face on the wall" just follow the link
http://april-ethereal.blogspot.com/2006/01/warning-cbse-rant.html
good luck for the exams!
Who has the time to come up with so much nonsense.
Those CBSE guys are all loonies.
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First they face lawsuits from Perfect 10, and now these kinds of ads are showing up... are Google actually seeing a market in pornography, and trying to make some money out of it? Obviously this is not expected of a company with Google's reputation. The worse part being that these ads show up in Google Groups, which can be accessed by many kids and elderly alike. I guess they'd have a filter for blocking all this somewhere, but I haven't looked into it!
In anyway, we expect Google to show some more sense rather than start posting such ads! Shame on you Google! :P
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There's this little box of crayons I've grown up with. When I was six, I loved scribbling in my "Join the Dots" book. I'd scribble, all over the dots, with my big red crayon. Then I'd turn nasty, and scribble with the ugly black one all over my beautiful red dots.
Then came the era of Magic Painting. Alas, water all over my books, and BRILLIANCE! COLOURS! The thrill of it all... even now, whenever my baby cousin has some new magic painting books, half of them are covered by MY beautiful impersonifications of Timon and Pumbaa or crabs or whatever.
They've helped me a lot, I've learnt a lot from them. Sometimes I wish I could just go back to being six, and colour with my crayons. But I guess it seems too far away...
An important lesson I learnt from crayons was... There are all types of them. Long ones. Short ones. Ugly ones like Burnt Sienna. Pretty ones like Fuschia Pink. Fat ones. Thin ones. Ones I used more, Ones I broke more. But at least they've all learnt to live in the same box.It's time my Time Machine started working. Nemesis
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1. my name is akanksha chawla.
2. my alter ego is nemesis.
3. you are one of my good friends, hence you should KNOW this.
4. what are YOU DOING ON PIKU'S BLOG? UNLESS you're some other yaashna.
5. and why are you asking ME who I am?
now. if you must comment, and if you must talk to piku in those comments, don't comment on MY POSTS. you are welcome to visit my blog. www.jainaxe.blogspot.com
that will be all.
god bless.
Yes! At some point of time, we all want to go back to our past and wish we could have those days back again! Look at me? I wish I was back in class X right now :P We just have to understand that time once gone, doesn't come back. You don't understand this when you're smaller and can have fun and you don't ... but when you're older, you get a firmer grasp of the concept, and hence should make the most of it ... (instead of whining :P)
y r u on dis blog
aditya..how do u no akki???
acha..im making a blog. also aditya cn u make me a member of ur blog also plzz..like akki.
thxx byee
good luck with your blog. except you might not like to make it black.
peace
akanksha
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For us coders, its not an easy task. Building flashy content, easy to use web pages with maximum functionality does come at a cost! The huge amount of raw code! Now, if you're like me (and have a blog on blogger), you would be editing your template a good deal of the time ... and using blogger's online template editing form to do so. Isn't it a pain to add and remove stuff from it? You can't indent anything, and can't search for anything either.
Recently, I spent about half an hour trying to add a new hack to the blog (which i posted about), and the only reason I spent that much time was that my template code was a wreck ... and it was impossible to see it after two months and figure out what was what, and what did what! I eventually figured out what was happening, and from there it took me a minute to implement the code.
What this did was add the guilty feeling of having a cluttered blog template. So now its been cleared out, anyone who comes to my blog and wants to see how I've done what to implement what, can view the source, and they'll be presented with a neatly formatted template which is easy to understand and reproduce. Such a step makes it easy for people to learn from your advancements, and saves you the time of explaining each and everything to them.
I hope my fellow bloggers and coders will agree with me on this, and try and adopt a similar approach for their blogs! There are quite a few out there which do provide some good case studies for features and addons! :)
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It says 'Loading...' and informs the user that this page looks best in firefox and opera, and in any other browser it might not render correctly! :)
it was meant to be for people will slower connections, but I can see there are enough people with speeds more than 500kbps :P
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OK. Piku (aditya on the posts, aditya on the comments) asked me to blog here. So, doing it now. I have to say just one good thing about this day:
Thank God it's almost over.
Right. So I hear you ask, why? I'll tell you why: (or as ms mitra would say, developments/evaluation/reasons/causes/wtf i really couldn't care anymore)
- Those morons refuse to give me my admit card.
- I have been told to suffer from OCD.
- I also officially suffer from Bird Flu.
- My nose and cheeks feel ketchupy.
- I'm talking to STUPID PEOPLE'S GIRLFRIENDS WHO ARE TELLING ME ABOUT THEIR STUPID VALENTINE'S DAY CELEBRATIONS WHERE THEIR STUPID BOYFRIENDS TOOK THEM OUT TO STUPID MCDONALDS AND THEIR TRUE IDEA OF LOVE IS SUPERSIZING THEIR FRENCH FRIES.
- That stupid chatwal wedding. yeah, my uncle catered for it, so ALL THE FOOD HAS COME TO MY HOUSE. YOU WOULD THINK THAT'S A GOOD THING, BUT GUESS WHAT, I FEEL LIKE I'VE EATEN ENOUGH TO FEED AN ARMY.
- Stupid STUPID STUPID MOTION OF CONDUCTOR QUESTIONS.
- Stupid wedding plans with last year's head boys, who piss the shit out of me by saying they THINK I SHOULD WEAR A SARI. FOOLS.
- Stupid, stupid ketchup.
- Stupid idiotic ashutosh kumar fans with stupid ashutosh kumar display pics and girls that just keep going "he's soooooooo polite.. isn't he?" want to shove my banana split up their noses.
- Stupid music.
- Stupid lame text messages from MORONS ASKING ME "what's the cube ROOT OF pi??? what's the charge on a positron?? what's a superconductor?" i mean dude, god forbid you should just ask me what TEXT BOOK THE NCERT RECOMMENDS.
- Stupid, stupid pre menstrual syndrome.
- Stupid mentioning it.
- Stupid, stupid life.
- Decided to go kill self, but GUESS WHAT. TRIED TO JUMP IN FRONT OF CAR, AND GUESS WHO CALLS MY NAME OUT JUST THEN? HOT GUY. SO I GUESS I CAN'T EVEN DIE IN PEACE WITHOUT BEING HAUNTED BY POTENTIAL HOT GUYS.
AMEN. I TOTALLY DESERVE TO ROT IN ANTARCTICA. GOOD RIDDANCE TO THIS STUPID STUPID WORLD.
AKANKSHA CHAWL
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wnted 2 ask.. how d u make a blog.. n how do u add al dese features 2 it..
mail me plzz.. yaashna_rulz@hotmail.com
thx
or can i add u.. gimme ur add plzz.. i wnted 2 make a blog 2..
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It struck me as to how powerful the abiility of an appreciative word is. If someone appreciates what you do, and encourages you to continue doing it, or go higher if possible ... there are literally no limits defined to which you might be willing to streth yourself, if only to reach their expectations. But then again, this holds true only if the person encouraging you means something to you. Ofcourse, someone off the street who shows belief in you, will immediately become that much closer to your heart, and a part of your mind which you'll remember for a while. The best way to befriend someone is to appreciate them. Its the only weakness that every human being on the face of the earth has. Some know how to handle it, but some fall victim to it.
Appreciate what people around you do for you, for there are people who have lived all their life without getting even 10% of the encouragement that they deserved, but they still have survived and led happy lives. You are lucky to have people around you who can see the result of your efforts before you do yourself, and push you to reach there faster. And after all, you aren't supposed to make efforts because of the results ... you make efforts for your own satisfaction. But that is a different story and post altogether! :D
The human mind thrives on support. Even one person supporting you gives you the amount of security you might need to work harder. Your motivation factors get divided amongst the thought of the final result, the expectations and belief put in your by the person, and the confidence in your actions that you hold for yourself. Suddenly, instead of just you believing in yourself, you have a few other people believing in you. Since man, as they say, is a social animal ... the knowledge that they alone don't think a certain way, and there are people around them who think the same way, and are willing to invest time and patience in them, is enough for most people to be pushed into putting extra bit of work. It might be your supportive boss, or your parents, or even your friends. It could be anyone at all ... because at the end of the day, the pat on the back is just a sign of reassurance that there is someone there who knows you are capable of big things.
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-the peacetitter
keep up the good work, dude.
cheerio!
this post is something that comes as much from personal experience, as it comes from learning from others mistakes!
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The first thing to understand is how Blogger writes comments to your blog posts. It utilises the tag <$BlogCommentAuthor$> to write out the details of the author of the comment with a link to the profile. This is the bit of code that you need to tap. But for my hack to work, your entire comment (including the body with the <$BlogCommentBody$>) has to be included in one element. The author details can themselves be included in a subelement (span for my blog), with the respective style attached to it, but one comment block should be in one element. It doesn't matter what that element is, just has to be one which is not used randomly in the entire blog ... so that it can be referenced without creating too much interference with other similar elements. Now comes the dirty part. The Javascript code...
I'll write out the bit of code first, and then we'll understand how it works!
function author_change(){
var str=/*your profile number*/
var d=document.getElementsByTagName('*element name containing your comment author tag*')
for(var i=0;i<d.length;i++){
if(d.item(i).innerHTML.match(str) && d.item(i).id=="comment"){
/* use CSS to Javascript properties to change the values, or assign it a different
class using the 'className' property as d.item(i).className='something' */
}
}
}
[Edit]: Sample Comment Display Code to make the above code work:
<BlogItemComments>
<a name="<$BlogCommentNumber$>"></a>
<div id="comment">
<$BlogCommentBody$>
<span id="byline">By <$BlogCommentAuthor$>, at
<a href="#<$BlogCommentNumber$>"><$BlogCommentDateTime$><$BlogCommentDeleteIcon$></a>
</span>
</div>
</BlogItemComments>
The variable str holds the bit of data that you want to search your elements for, which is your profile ID. You can get it by going to your profile page, and selecting the entire set of numbers at the end, and pasting it there. The variable d, will hold an array of the element which you enter here. Notice that for my blog, my comments are stored in a p element, so my element searched for here is p. NOTE: The quotes are part of the syntax, do not remove them! Just replace only the coloured text.
The next stuff is pretty straight forward. Its completely automated, and all you have to do is enter the steps it should take everytime it finds your comment. That goes into the red part, and it will apply those settings everytime it finds a match!
Thats it! Simple! Now all you have to do is, in your body tag, you have add this bit of code: onload="author_change()"
You are set! Save and republish your blog. Then go to the individual post pages, and see if your comments are coloured or not! If they are, congratulations ... if they're not, drop me a line! :) Enjoy!
[Edit (5/3/2006)]: I realised that not a lot of people figured this out. This hack is only for inline comments, as has been implemented on my blog. There's a nice little tutorial to do that from Blogger (here), so first change your template to have that. The only way to use this hack on the existing comments page is to use a Greasemonkey script and Stylish for Firefox. I'll work on those later! :P
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Thats like the most amazing look of the blog !!
Excellent work !
Keep it up !!
the blog just gets prettier and prettier like every freaking day
aaahhhhhhhh..the blue is soothing to the eyes.
lol you loser you're just too good with this stuff.. *green with envy*
and not to forget my original reaction
OMFG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS
IS
FREAKING
GORGEOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
lol.. i seriously have officially hit myself on the head now.
the element which holds your comments, include them in a master element, and set its style display to none. you might want to set this just for the Main or Archive page by using the tags <MainOrArchivePage></MainOrArchivePage> so that the comments are on by default for your post pages. set the id to '<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>something', so that each post has its own set of comments stored under different id for each post, but all comments of one post will have the same comment element.
now define a function which will change the display property of the element when the X Comment(s) is clicked. call that function putting a onClick event handler in the link to your comments, and set the href to whatever, prefixing it with a hash ('#'). I use #here for all these kinds of links, which don't anything, just change element states
Hope that helps! :)
Could you give an example? And does it go in the style sheet?
don't know what's wrong...
what a beautiful blog!
of the javascript?
The element name container part should have the name of the HTML element which holds all your comment tags from Blogger. If you view-source this page, you'll see that the tag is a P, so i put a P in there (in quotes).
Anyway thanks!
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Formed in 2001, Prestorika have been an active part of the Indian rock scene for all these years. It has been a long journey indeed. Whether it be belting out hard hitting riffs, to executing a high energy set they do it with sheer formidable force. Making their presence felt each time they take stage, they surely are the new stalwarts of the rock scene. Their recent performances includes winning MTV campus rock idols (The biggest battle of the bands of the country), Mood Indigo IIT Mumbai, British Council (New Delhi), their ride strongly on the musical front with their feet firmly on the ground. Prestorika over the years has evolved as a multivitamin capsule disseminating tons of energy at the audiences, leaving them chanting for more. Inspired by the classical metal acts and tastes varying from each individual they have come in terms with their original sound.

Guitars, are just a listener's dream. With most of the solos I heard yesterday being played by Lokesh, and Gurtej adding a few here and there ... they truly were maestros at work. The riffs were fast, with every technique in the book under heavy use. Seeing someone shred and use harmonics not more than a 50 yards away from you, makes you leave each and every act, thought and just just look. Thats what happened to me. A 10 minute head bang session to one of their riffs has left me with a stiff neck, but the half an hour performance by these genius' was worth anything at that time.
Its so heartening to say that such a band came from Delhi residences, and has reached where they have. Their album Emergence is available for purchase at RSJOnline, and its one album which I will recommend to any fan of modern rock with hints of and influences of the holy grail of classic rock. I loved them as easily the best performance above bands like Demonic Resurrection and Zero, and I'm sure you'll love them too! :D
[edit]: next update, news from the frontlines!
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slowly the leaves of my memory fall... gently i collect and gather them all... today, tomorrow, and every day through, i shall always be thinking of you.i'd really like to find out WHO invented this word, then SLAP them HARD across the face. period. i'll just end with this thing i heard once:
"to meet and part is the way of life, to part and meet is the hope of life".but what do you do if the thread of hope is just not strong enough to hold on?
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| There's a silence surrounding me I can't seem to think straight I'll sit in the corner No one can bother me | I think I should speak now I can't seem to speak now My words won't come out right I feel like I'm drowning | I'm feeling weak now But I can't show my weakness I sometimes wonder Where do we go from here | Why won't you talk to me You never talk to me What are you thinking What are you feeling | Why won't you talk to me You never talk to me What are you thinking Where do we go from here |
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"but that is only because I have seen people regard me as a 'cribbing' and 'selfish' person when I've tried to say something to them about me and what I go through."
Frankly,either such people are not capable of understanding you or they're just making a mistake in their attempts.
As for your question..here's myquestion
Do you really think it's worth calling a person a friend(etc.) when you're afraid of sharing your feelings with him/her?
While silence can be very powerful(dont underestimate that) at the right time..i just want to say that by being silent about ones feelings is not being heroic (nor is it a stoic feat) it's just refusing to face the reality and falling victim to self-pity, which probably seems the only companion at such a time.
However, one must share ones feelings with those who can understand them and accept them.
Hope that was helpful (and not as boring as it seems to me lol)
At the end of the day, we are alone ... no matter how many people are there around us. And that is the truth that not many people understand and accept!
You are probably, right ... that such a person shouldn't be a friend. But what if you can't hel p but be in love with a such a person ... no matter how bad, mean or insensitive they are ... because at some point of time, they were the sole reason for your happiness. They were the reason you'd look forward to a day ... how do you not care about someone like that...?
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The Decision: What Google Is Doing in China The deliberative process and analysis outlined above led to the following decisions.Thanks guys!(1) Launch Google.cn. We have recently launched Google.cn, a version of Google’s search engine that we will filter in response to Chinese laws and regulations on illegal content. This website will supplement, and not replace, the existing, unfiltered Chinese-language interface on Google.com. That website will remain open and unfiltered for Chinese-speaking users worldwide.
(2) Disclosure of Filtering Google.cn presents to users a clear notification whenever links have been removed from our search results in response to local laws and regulations in China. We view this a step toward greater transparency that no other company has done before.
(3) Limit Services Google.cn today includes basic Google search services, together with a local business information and map service. Other products – such as Gmail and Blogger, our blog service – that involve personal and confidential information will be introduced only when we are comfortable that we can provide them in a way that protects the privacy and security of users’ information.
Next Steps: Voluntary Industry Action
Google supports the idea of Internet industry action to define common principles to guide the practices of technology firms in countries that restrict access to information. Together with colleagues at other leading Internet companies, we are actively exploring the potential for guidelines that would apply for all countries in which Internet content is subjected to governmental restrictions. Such guidelines might encompass, for example, disclosure to users, protections for user data, and periodic reporting about governmental restrictions and the measures taken in response to them.
Next Steps: U.S. Government Action
The United States government has a role to play in contributing to the global expansion of free expression. For example, the U.S. Departments of State and Commerce and the office of the U.S. Trade Representative should continue to make censorship a central element of our bilateral and multilateral agendas.
Moreover, the U.S. government should seek to bolster the global reach and impact of our Internet information industry by placing obstacles to its growth at the top of our trade agenda. At the risk of oversimplification, the U.S. should treat censorship as a barrier to trade, and raise that issue in appropriate fora.
[Update]: here's something more to show you how much Google cares! (link)
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In China, Google.com leaves it to the government censors to do the censoring. This leaves the opening in people's minds that maybe their government is more repressive than other countries. Google.cn adds little more than speed to what a state-censored Google.com or Baidu can provide. Internet users can now get their oppression served to them faster and more efficiently than with the competition. And when served by a liberalized, free, western corporation based in a democratic nation, acting in accordance with its own freely chosen policies, the nuanced agonizing that led to a tortured decision between two imperfect choices will not register with the chinese citizen end user.
And why not?
BECAUSE HE CAN'T READ GOOGLE'S STATEMENTS ON THE MATTER. For all intents and purposes this controversy doesn't exist. The only reality is that "supposedly" "freer" entities are no more idealistic than anyone else.
Google.cn adds no data that the censors won't allow. Google.cn adds much legitimacy to the CCP. That's a net loss for freedom. That's doing evil. Eliminating Google.cn will not increase restrictions on the flow of data into China. It will restrict the perception that the CCP is no less "free" than a western, free-market, non-government corporation.
Google did not chose the lesser of two evils. Google got in bed with the devil and left the bedroom door cracked open for the children to peer inside.
(1) http://www.rsf.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=554
Yes! I will admit that Google will have certain self interest points to account for this effort, but at the end of the day, the chinese are getting nothing more (or anything lesser) than they would without Google.cn. I'm also sure that a copy of the testimonial (in chinese) would be available to the people of China so that they have a clear idea of what is going on.
This leaves the opening in people's minds that maybe their government is more repressive than other countries
Is this notion wrong? If a government wilfully keeps information from its own citizens, do you think such an organisation is fir to be known as a government which supposedly is in control of the country, and is working towards its betterment? We all know that the biggest resource of a country is its population, and the biggest resource that people have (after health) is awareness and knowledge. Maybe this will wake the people up to realise what they have been facing, and maybe they'll have the guts and enough self-respect to do something about such an oppressive regime!
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Google.cn do not support local GMail, Blogger, Groups, and its search service in Chinese is not so good as what in English too. It should set up individual editions, which Yahoo! had done in China.
I am very confused why Google put so much attention to spread the American value system.
Everyone has his style of life, and most Chinese do not believe what most Americans believe naturally.
Google's service in China is not as good because they're restricted by local laws, and that was what the whole ruckus was in the first place. However, they have given their clearances at more that one occasion, and the people have accepted.
Sometimes, something is better than nothing. And it is not like the chinese aren't getting their share of information that is supposed to be getting blocked by the government. Thats the magic of proxies! ;-) Yes! Everyone has a different style of life, but information and awareness shouldn't be restricted by lifestyle. Every person has a right to information, no matter who he is or where he is.
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Men have physical needs, and they have emotions. While physical needs are unsatisfied, they take first place; but when they are satisfied, emotions unconnected with them become important in deciding whether a man is to be happy or unhappyEveryone is constantly trying to find new and exciting ways to break away from this reality that we've managed to chain ourselves into. Which is why books, pieces of literature, media ... anything which manages to deviate from the path of the realm of the real, no matter how pathetic an attempt it might be, gets recognition because the writer/author is said to have exemplary imaginative abilities!
The main focus with this is to bring to light the nature of video games, which constantly border on crossing over completely over the horizon, and show us a world which only exists in our minds, not in front of our eyes. When such a world is finally presented to us, and we can feel our presence almost to the level of reality, we can't help but get sucked into it. This was probably the initial selling point of my favourite game to-date, Half-Life. The game caught you by your neck, and plunged you into an environment of chaos, where everything you did changed something ... and it managed to blend in reality with the make-believe to such a level, that though being nothing great technologically (except the artifical intelligence, which was frighteningly realistic and aggressive), was one heck of an experiece to play and enjoy! A very good way to get the adrenaline going and your brain working overtime! The game really put your senses to their maximum alertness ... an effect your job would never do (unless you work for the defences!).That is why fantasy books and the genre of fiction, is so well recieved among people -- kids mostly, because the hectic school life, parents badgering, friends fighting and arguing ... they need some time off. And nothing better than getting transported to a place where magic and powers exist! :) I know the feeling, being one of the biggest fans of the Lord Of The Rings trilogy!
So! Find ways to make your life interesting. Nobody else is going to come and make it fun for you! Learn to keep yourself busy, and you'll (guaranteed) be happier and more cheerful than you have been all this while! :D
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And why do only women have to turn to chocolate, if the reasons are the same as you allude to? why do women have to always be considered the sensitive gender, the ones who feel all the pain...?
ok phenol is C6H5OH
yeah
ethyl is of course CH2
amine is NH2
so C6H5OH-CH2-NH2??
totally did this myself btw
um.. well, it's been ages since we've been considered the "weaker sex" will not comment upon that..let's just say ive been eating a lot of chocolate lately...
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Today, everyone offers tagging and 'social' bookmarking at some level. Even Google joined the fray (article). And companies like ma.gnolia, though not offering anything unique (atleast in the beta) are trying to come up with a better and faster interface than others. I just got invited to the beta test, and their bookmarking is slightly more tedious than del.icio.us'. But it got me making my own bookmarklet, because the one that they gave didn't work. You can grab it here if you want! (ma.gnolia ). Webosphere is touting ma.gnolia as the del.icio.us killer...! I won't go as far as that, especially after seeing its beta phase features and offers.
Flickr lets you bookmark photos, and now a company called Dabble, is giving you the option of tagging and organising videos. They offer a sleek interface, with audio and image bookmarking options coming soon.
All these services only clutter the space, in place of innvating. They are going Microsoft's way, and the reason people don't like them too much. They are trying to rewrite what exists, instead of building on it and making something more useful and amazing. I hope they realise this sooner, so that we can benefit faster and the web 2.0 burst continues longer!
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I agree wid ya totally on that one...just losing its focus!
btw ur blog looks amazing now! the best part of it is that it's neat and convenient..*thumbs up*
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Why do we fall in love with other people? What is it in them that we find so attractive that we agree to devote most of our concerns and care to their well being? What is it tht sets them apart from others, and makes you love them, and the not the person behind them?
Why do we love?
I refuse to believe that love is just a reaction of a few chemicals in the brain, simply because love in itself is such a complicated feeling that people have died for it. Surely a chemical alone is not responsible for it! Is it in a quest to complete ones'self? Or keep that one person so close that you'll know that you aren't alone fighting this world and trying to live a life...? Is it just the feeling of being loved that drives us to love others? If it is all this ... then why look for someone else's love, when all these feelings exist within your house and amongst your family?
Surely its not because of the physical aspect of a relationship? That is not love then ... is it? If that is so, then the only difference between your family and your spouse is sex ... which does sound absurd! Its blatantly confusing. I guess we'll never truly figure out what drives us to seek love outside the four walls of our house (more than four for the architecturally challenged :P)
At this point of time, I'd prefer my parents and my family's love to anyone elses, because atlesat my family's love is fixed. Its content and constant. I won't lose it because of the way i dress, look or talk to them. Similarly, I don't love them because of the things they buy for me ... I love them because they are my support system, who are always there to help me and lookout for me whenever I might need them. And I am willing to do the same, as soon as I am capable of doing such a thing...
I don't think we'll ever realise why is it that we love ... family or anyone else...!
[edited] i realised how dangerously close this comes to Valentine's Day. this is not meant to diss anyone who might enjoy celebrating the day with their 'loved' one. This also has no connection to any person living or dead. Any similarities is accidental and unintentional. [continuation of Love Is Only A Feeling]Sorry for the inconvenience! :(
i mean. why do we think that there are certain people "worthy" of our damned cardiac tissue. why just them man? why can't i fall in love with mani ratnam? or johnny depp?
this is too much!
Defn..ones family is always gonna be a major support system ..and they're among the very few who'll always love you for who you are as a person..you must cherish their depths of love and their sacrifice..you'll probably never feel alone then :)
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If you see from a biological point of view, the heart is just an organ which pumps blood to all the different parts of the body. The sensation of pain, is felt when that certain part of the body is not getting enough supply of blood, or some external agent is causing its function to be oppressed / not be easily performed / needing more effort than it can muster. Now, we hear the phrase 'broken heart'. Where did that come from? Does the heart reduce the blood flow to a certain part of the body, causing us to feel pain? Does the heart think, and understand like the mind? Does the mind itself feel, and hence send signals to the heart which causes the restricting action?
Who was it that associated feelings with the heart? I'd love to know, because that person would not be very good at biology ... if he thought that the heart could feel. We know that the only intelligent muscle in the body is the brain. Its intelligence lies in the different parts of the body its connected to. A brain works as a rerouter of signals. It takes the signal from a limb or a sensory organ, and routes them to a different part, which results in an action. That theory, is based on my understanding of the brain (I do not have biology as a subject! :P)
Every feeling is connected to the other, we all know that. If you feel happy, you won't help but feel sad about something, even though the dominant emotion at that moment is happiness. So, if feelings are connected, shouldn't their sources be too? Shouldn't there be a connection (even if its as thin as a thread) between the mind and the heart, which causes a human being to maintain rationality in the face of emotional crisis?
Too many questions ... Any answers or counter theories anyone?
[to be continued]
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http://aspectofgold.blogspot.com/2006/02/heart.html
how long is it before this ice cream finally melts?
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On Friday, 10 February, Google released the third version of their Desktop software (in beta), with more features to increase usability, ease and raise eyebrows. The feature heavily in question is their new Search Across Computers (more info). This feature allows one to search the files on their computer from any other computer that has Google Desktop installed, and they have access to. Google achieves this by storing a copy of the files on their servers, so that they are available for viewing and searches. The feature is completely optional. Now isn't that cool?
Not! This poses one of the biggest privacy and security threats ever, and for our sake (and Google's), I hope Google is going to divert most of their security checks to keep all that data secure. Google claims that the details of the files in your account will not be sold or opened to anyone else but you.
Your HTTPS web history will never be shared with your other computers, whether or not you allow indexing HTTPS items on one of your computers.(Desktop Features Page) Although, concerned authorities think otherwise!
Digital civil rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation is warning that the latest version of the Google Desktop application may pose a serious risk to your privacy. But the EFF says that the laws protecting data held in this manner are far from robust. In fact, it becomes much easier for legal parties to get hold of your data by forcing Google to hand it over if it is keeping a copy of it, particularly governments.(courtsey PC Pro) That being the case, I have doubts as to if the motives of offering this feature are completely consumer driven. If you remember, a while back the Bush Administration had asked Google and other leading search companies to hand over their copies of the search terms and queries to supposedly track down illegal pornography (story here). This might be something of an aftermath of that lawsuit, which Google is trying to hide under the covers of a 'new feature'. Who knows what Google is upto? But whatever this is, the ease of usability and added convenience is amazing, and I am sure those who know that they've remained on the right side of the law, will gladly welcome this feature since it gives them the convenience of storing the important files from a secure and easy to access storage spot! Now, if only they would come out clean and tell us what their main motive behind this new feature is... Filed Under: google
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To love is to give someone else the power to destroy you, but trusting them not to!It's a very well said line, and always comes back to haunt me everytime I think about my 'that-special-someone'. Love, as far as my thoughts guide me, don't give meaning to life. Rather, the lives of two people give meaning to the love between them. This play of words may get very interesting for few, boring for others, but if you can, try and make sense out of it. Love is never the final destination, it is rather the journey. Many people might misunderstand this concept. They think that by 'going-out' with a person (or the love of their life), they will be together through thick and thin. It's really good to hear, but then nothing on earth comes for free. Everything needs some amount of work to be put in, and love is no exception. By 'going-out', you're actually starting of a journey, which will test both of you. You're in for a treat and the time of your life! Its not easy to see yourself through, and many have been driven to do things they never thought they would, especially for another person, but then again, love is the realisation that someone other than you is for real! Its only the strong and determined who eventually succeed. Even if they don't, at the end, have the person they like with them, they have the experience and feelings which make them a better person. Only good can come out of good. What makes a difference, is what you perceive that good to be ...
I am a very paradoxical person. Who knows, in a fit, I might oppose everything that I've written down in this little post. Who knows? But the fact still remains. You can't take love for granted. Even if love does give you a reason to look forward to the day, a sense of satisfaction that at the end of the day, you'll dream about that special 'someone' and everything will seem alright, its only electrical signals interpreted by your brain! Love is really not giving you the meaning of life, its giving you a support system to hold your life up to. Kind of like a creeper needing to be able to grow. I'll leave you with one final quote I have remembered...
You should not look to your love to complete you as a person. If you do, then you'll invariably end up with two incomplete souls.
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