A Life for Sale

So apparently, this Australian guy wants to sell off his life on E-bay....
In his own words...

" ..........I have had enough of my life! I don't want it any more! You can have it if you like!No, I'm not contemplating suicide, I am going to sell my life!! I have my reasons......
....... However, I am still not sure whether this is inspired madness, complete foolishness, or just some sort of mid-life crisis. Whatever it is, it's all going up for sale in one big auction. Everything I have and everything I am. On the day it is all sold and settled I intend to walk out of my front door with my wallet in one pocket and my passport in the other, nothing else at all, and get on the train, with no idea where I am going or what the future holds for me."

Go check him out at http://www.alife4sale.com/

I found this here . Think about it..

What do people mean when they speak disparagingly of "a whore"? Someone who sells her or his body? I have news for you: Unless you're a ghost who still draws a paycheck, you use your body to make a living, too. Ever been nice to a customer you really didn't like, or acted enthusiastic about something you really didn't care about, just because you were getting paid? Congratulations, you're a whore, too. You're just not getting paid as much as I am.

When you're young, your whole life is about the pursuit of fun. Then, you grow up and learn to be cautious. You could break a bone or a heart. You look before you leap and sometimes you don't leap at all because there's not always someone there to catch you. And in life, there's no safety net. When did it stop being fun and start being scary?

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(Quoted from Sex and the City)

Back Again.....

Yup, Thats the Road

Got back on campus from Jamshedpur yesterday. Decided to catch the early morning bus 6 o' clock bus to Ranchi.

The roads have,sadly, gotten worse with the oncoming rains, and the bus driver was in his I-feel-like-Schumaker-today mode, which meant i was hanging onto my seat handle while he drove at blitzy 60 kmph (mind you, thats a bus i am talking about). And before you scoff at that, do understand the fact that the roads are narrow, bumpy, and in the rains, extremely and treacherously unpredictable....,Hell, I have seen so many accidents on the turns out here I have lost count.

But thats not what this post is about. What I really want u ppl to kno is that, though the road had deteriorated from what it was a couple of years ago, the early-morning, slightly-drizzling beauty of this road is breathtaking. Scroll up to the pics below, and trust me when I say, they dont do any justice to the glory of the hills the road wades through.

One of the rare times in my life when i have had absolutely no regrets about waking up at five in the morning....... ahh nature...

Hey again...

Nothin much to pen up right now.... Just some really interesting stuff I found while browsing today.

Do visit this link. I found a real novel approach to the worlds food problem, and the common pre-final year I-gotta-mug-up-this-3000-high-frequency-word-list before my GRE/CAT/Placement Tests.

http://www.freerice.com/index.php


Another interesting article I found on Prateeks Blog, and I had been planning to write something ona similar note, but he more or less sums up the case against Narendra Modi and his crucifiers.
DO check this one out.... and I'm saying this coz I'm from Gujarat too...

http://prateekvidya.wordpress.com/2008/06/12/the-case-of-narendra-modi

Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish......

Ahhhh...... Nostalgia !!

So its been almost five days now since i have been off my campus..And guess what, am kinda missing it...

Dont get me wrong, I love being home. Moms food....ahhhhhhhAnd I am having a great time catching up wid friends....

But a sublime part of me yearns for my college campus too.... the hostel lobby, the fun bakar session every night wid friends, some of the absolutely pathetic PJs cracked by some special friends, and of course, that special some one....

A week back we had the convocation ceremony for the 2k2 batch.....And i can feel wht it must be like, the euphoria of meetin up old friends and batch mates, coupled with the bitter sweet memories of the place that, in a way, having taken your degree, you are finally completely leaving.

All the while, when having passed out, and slogging at your jobs, you still had that one thing to look forward too...
Now thats done too..
How do people handle it??? How do I leave a place that has become my home away from home, and in a way on par wid my own home sweet home???

Questions, questions, questions......Thats the way life makes you learn. It gives you the exams first, and the lesson afterwards, right??

Well, still a year on campus, and I'll hope to cram every second of this year with beautiful memories sweet enough to last me a lifetime...

And to all my seniors, who left the campus this year, we'll miss you, as you'll in your own ways miss the campus, and us. Coz your imprints will stay with us as memories....

Right from gettin ragged the first day on campus, to helping us out with the placements till the end... Thanks to you all.

Hello World...

So i know, I've been a li'l irregular in postin out here (if u can call a taking close to a year off as irregular),
but hell, people, gimme something to motivate me u know.... like a kind comment or two....(wink wink)

Though, to be optimistic and hope someone other than me, and google is actually reading this page, if you are there..
Hi to you...

So like i said, i have my excuses, all the usual ones u kno, college authoroties finally taking the pains to repair our Fibre Optic Cable which was broken some aeons ago... U dont want me to go into that.

Then the mid sems, and then the end sems, and blah blah...


So today i sat down to check my orkut scrapbook....
You see , it was my birthday a couple of days ago...
So, i sat down and saw so many scraps wishing me a happy birthday.

Felt good, but then i got down to thinkin, does it all really matter??
I mean , who doesnot love getting birthday wishes. Also, the fact that Orkut makes it possible to miss none of your friends birthdays.

But then, isnt that what counts????

Isnt the feeling u get when someone calls you up and wishes u, so good. The fact that they actually remembered?? That they took the pains of calling you up on your special day and making you feel good...

Isnt Orkut, in a way, making it all so impersonal...

Or maybe thats the ways things are going.....

I mean, to remember birthdays, most of us use Calenders, or Diaries, right???
Isnt orkut just another, better extension of the same??

Technology is all pervading, and am myself a big fan of it....Hell, i swear by technology.

But small things like this, make me pause sometimes, and wonder..... is it all the right way to go??

Maybe we should leave some aspects of our life away from technology...

Then again, maybe we shouldn't..

Wotsay???