I had a busy weekend. Received some amazing gifts throughout this week! I got a bag, boots, perfume and jewelry! All were so beautiful and totally me! It fit me so well. I was completely surprised. The perfume is lovely…and it smells so good.

I have been thinking a lot about 2005 and what I want from 2006.

Happy Holidays!

I bought this reef from this little guy that came to the door. He was so cute that I couldn't resist.

Yikes-another amazing book!

Great Book! [Radical Careering by Sally Hogshead]
What a cute little amazing book! 100 truths to jumpstart your job, your career, and your life. I loved all the advices and also the pictures in the book. The pictures are from: getty images. This totally made me want to take more pictures.

Group Work/ television vs reading/ no electricity!

I had a wonderful day today. Got to school early to finish talking to various people and meet my biology group for our project. We were working on how caffeine intake affects our blood pressure. Our hypothesis was that caffeine intake will increase our blood pressure as other researches shows. So we all met, seven of us, at 9 a.m. to measure our blood pressure. Then we all dashed to a nearby coffee place to drink down 16 oz. of coffee. It was great to see all of us nonstop talking about various things and mostly about our future. I am sure the crowd in the coffee shop thought we all have been friends for such a long time even though we have only known each other for the past month! It was just great conversation, ideas, team work! Beautifully done.

I was reading an article about the affects of television and reading. Some quotes that stood out were:

A defense of Reading, by Marie Winn. The Plug-In Drug: Television, computers, and Family life, Penquin Books, 2002

“Television captures the imagination but does not liberate it. A good book at once stimulates and frees the mind.”

“Television images do not go through a complex symbolic transformation. The mind does not have to decode and manipulate during the television experience. Perhaps this is why the visual images received directly from a television set are strong, stronger; it appears, than the images conjured up mentally while reading. But ultimately they satisfy less.”

“The television child has fewer opportunities for learning to sustain concentration than the “book” child of the past.”

Is a little embarrassing they keep referring to children but I know many adults have trouble turning the television off...me included!

Electricity went out for about two hours today and I went crazy! How much I depend on technology to keep me company. I was having lunch and watching television. I wanted to heat my food again but nope..no microwave. I thought let’s get on the internet…NO! I felt empty without my electricity..haha. I talked on my cell for awhile and got extremely bored..so I went shopping!! Holiday shopping has began!

Memoirs of a Geisha

I loved the book. This week the movie is opening and I can't wait to see it. The preview looks...magical. I found this site with tons of pictures of the movie and the actress Zhang Ziyi. The picture is from this site too. [Click Here]

Click on the image or here for a bigger version. I been thinking about the events of this year so I made this.

What a beautiful day. It has been snowing all day. I woke up pretty early (5:30 a.m…that’s really early for me) I had plenty of time to drive to work. On the way I had time to enjoy the snow. For the past hour I have been doing some searches on NYC. I am planning to attend the Conan O’Brien show and was searching for the address to send for tickets. My professor suggested doing something creative so it would get their attention…let's wait and see what I come up with.

NYC.COM

Time

Got my first issue of Time today! I was so excited to see it in the mailbox. I don't know why the excitement...I read it like million times before. I am waiting for the weekend to come so I could read it without any distraction. Been busy finishing up this semester and haven't really had any time to focus on anything else. I want more snow to come so I could go skiing hopefully during the break.

That time of the year again.

I can't believe is the holidays again! Got the christmas wrapping paper out but haven't had time to put the christmas tree yet...next weekend. Had a great thanksgiving..a lot of desserts..!!!

Time/Nayakan

Time magazine constructed All-time 100 Movies list.

 

The Complete list

 

Nayakan (1987), a tamil movie, made the list!

 

Please watch it.

This is the scariest movie I have seen! yikes!

 

EPIC 2014

 

New York

I am planning to go to New York city for spring break with an art class from school. Even though spring break is not for a few months (March) I been getting tons of e-mails. A lot of suggestions and group activities are provided by our professor in charge but they are giving me a lot of times in the evening to explore New York City. So I received this e-mail few days ago and wanted to have a easy access to all the links so I am putting in on the blog:

Our hotel is in the heart of the Theatre District, 1/2 block from Times Square. Edison hotel
Museum of Modern Art- MOMA
Exhibiting during my visit in March: Edvard Munch
The Metropolitan Museum- Met museum
The Guggenheim Museum-Guggenheim
Chelsea Neighborhood Gallery Tour - cohanaandleslie , Yossimilo

Free Time:

A stroll through Strawberry Fields: Central Park
Cheesecake!!: carnegiedeli
Chinatown: China

I really have to organize if I want to get everything out this trip. I don't want to have too many plans but don't want to have none either for my free time!

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents. -Eric Hoffer

For the last couple of days I been cleaning my room...yes, it takes many days to clean my room..IS SUCH A MESS!  My brother and mom

threatened to throw everything out of my room if I don't clean it and my brother even offered me money to buy something to organize my room (clean freak- my brother).  I have way too many things...So instead of just making my room look nice by hiding the mess (in one week having a messy room again) I have decided to really think about what I need and throw the rest out. Let's see what the result will be.

 

I love gmail!  I just realized how great it is when I was typing an important e-mail to my brother-in-law.  And Since I liked gmail a lot I have decided to use this to do my blogging. I have a special e-mail just so I could publish post directly to this site through gmail.  

 

I watched a wonderful movie Whale Rider this weekend.  It has been out for a long time..and I wasn't going to..but a friend said it was really good...and IT WAS.  Beautifully crafted movie!  It seems like I watch a lot of movies these days...that's because Blockbuster has given me some great coupons that expires soon..so I am trying to use it up.

 

Parents..

They believe in their children more than themselves
They look at you with admiration for they have raised you to be great
They believe you can do anything and give you strength to face anything
They believe in you even when you feel as if there isn't a reason to believe
They strive to give you the best
They make mistakes and show you they are human
At times they can take on any age - with insercurities, self-doubt, frustration
yet they believe in you
They believe in the impossible for you
They ask for help when they need it
Without their belief and hopes
where will you be?

I found this saved as a draft almost a year ago...I still feel this year most of the times :-) as I am sure (hopefully) most of you feel about your parents.

Funny Or Not?!?

This is kinda funny...Even though I feel kinda sad to laugh about it.
Here I go:

1. Go to google
2. type in failure
3. then press the button: I'm feeling lucky

Is it funny?

focus on your life... not hollywood!

Lately I have been really annoyed with TV shows such as: The Insider, Entertainment Tonight, and any other shows that primarily focus on Hollywood. I am so tired of movie stars getting so much publicity over nothing. We are wasting our brainpower by focusing on people who really don’t do anything…I understand if we focus on Steven Spielberg who have established a name for himself in the movie industry but topics like “Paris Hilton-What’s in her bag…ohhh Find out Tomorrow”! Are so sickening. I rather stare at the wall for that half of hour than watch these shows! Also stars who say “I never let anyone see my bedroom but since its you I am” yea right whatever.

Don’t get me wrong. I think there is a limit to everything on television but these shows are everywhere. A week ago my sister and I were having dinner and we were talking about Brad Pitt as if he was a friend…how horrified we were! We stared at each other dumbfounded and said how the hell we got to this topic. I refuse to look at magazines, shows, and everything that has to do with pointless ponderings! It’s been hard but if anyone catches me talking about actresses and actors please slap me! I am going to invest more of my time to good television, books, and other forms of educational medias. I’ll watch the movies. That’s the work of the entire crew...So much work.. but NO to pointless Television shows! Let’s invest more of our time on PBS!



This is a cool picture...the two flowers are all the way at the bottom. The plant is 5 feet.

Spielberg

Did you know Seven Spielberg did not have the grades high enough to get him into film school? He released Jaws in 1975 which brought the idea of big-budget summer action movies. Hollywood adopted the mentality "Big budget equals big blockbuster". Spielberg won two Oscars and of the top 25 all-time movie hits, four of them were directed by Spielberg!

Keep dreaming...keep going.

It has been a busy day. I came back from work and edited my cousin's wedding DVD for three hours...but the damn thing is not exporting properly. Then my brother-in-law was showing me around Scottrade and the basis of trading stocks.

Dear Frankie

Watched a beautiful movie yesterday: Dear Frankie. If I had a chance to create something as beautiful as this movie...I would be so lucky! Busy day at work doing nothing at all. I wanted to do a lot of school work but had a headache the entire time so I didn't get anything done.

Anti-War protest

Yesterday a protest was held at the U against the war. I got off class and was curious to know how an anti-war protest was being conducted. So I was standing in the crowd listening to the speeches being given. The usual: listing of how much money, lives, and resources are being used in Iraq when they can be put to a better use in the states All I know is: I don’t know! I don’t know about the war… it bad or good? I mean it’s a war…but can something good come out of this: freedom for Iraq? I know I should be more informed about war and should have a stand on it…but I don’t. From what I heard from the officials at the rally: it was a good turn out.

I got this in my e-mail and thought it was interesting:

undecimal (UHN-des-uh-muhl) adjective
Based on the number eleven.
[From Latin undecim (eleven).]

Some people do have undecimal hands: they might have eleven fingers. The bonus digit is called supernumerary. Supernumerary parts don't have to be fingers. For example, instead of a binary arrangement, some people are gifted with an extra nipple. You could call them "supernumammary".

-Anu Garg
gargATwordsmith.org

"A modern though little realised example of undecimal counting is seen in the ISBN of published books. Any ISBN comprises ten digits. If you multiply the first by ten, the second by nine, the third by eight, and so on, summing the results as you go along, the result will always be divisible by eleven."

William Hartston; What Are The Chances Of That?: Fabulous Facts About Figures; Metro Books; 2004.

(Try this on the ISBN of my new book: 0471718459. -Anu)
Anu Garg's new book:
Another Word A Day : An All-New Romp through Some of the Most Unusual and Intriguing Words in English Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Looks like winter is coming soon…Friday snow? So this will be the last time to pick roses from the front garden. This winter I really want to enjoy the snow. Go skiing, sledding, walk on the lakes when it’s frozen, everything snow related. Now all I have to do is find my jacket, gloves, and scarfs.

Italian Food!

Had dinner at Olive Garden on Saturday. What a great restaurant. This weekend I realized how much I like Italian food. I would be happy if I don’t go by another Chinese restaurant ever :--) I love eating out…not so much for food but for the conversations. I tend to have the best conversations over dinner at restaurants. Why is that? Doesn't most of us do? At work yesterday I was having my leftovers when an employee of the company recommended that I go to Victoria's Fine Italian Cuisine in Rochester. He said that its run by Mexican chef and the best Italian food he had!

Wow. Is it only me or is it getting harder to have a simple disagreements with your parents? As they get older---they are stubborn and are not willing to listen to anything others have to say…especially if they are wrong. Is their way or just have to deal with it.
Most of the times my parents are fine…not trying to make them seem like some bitter people…but some days just no idea what to do.

I think everyone has a choice as to what attitude they are going to have about a situation. My parents have to train their mind to have a clam and peaceful outlook about the future. Learn to relax! Know that you can’t control everything that goes around you and learn to accept things for what it is. Maybe they’ll take it easy in a couple of years…once all of us a settled down.

Got to change with life.

Beautiful day!

Fear

I had to dissect a rat today in class. The actual dissection wasn’t bad…but it had to be RAT! I don’t like any type of animals…especially rats. I can’t believe I had to hold a rat and the tail was so long……….All day I been in some weird mood because of this lab. I kept thinking what if this was the million dollar Fear Factor episode…I had to do it. If I could face my biggest fear then there is no excuse for anyone else to not do the same. Right? No Excuses…just results..

If I see a rat would I still run like there’s no tomorrow…DEFINENTELY! All it matters is I did the lab.

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
--- Frank Herbert, Dune - Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear

I was searching for some fear quotes when I came up on The Phobia List.

LINK:

THE PHOBIA LIST

Who knew there’s a name for every type of fear you could have.

Heliophobia- Fear of the sun.
Venustraphobia- Fear of beautiful women

????
There is too many to list so check out the link.

Veer Sharma
FEAR:
F--FALSE
E--EVIDENCE
A--APPEARING
R--REAL

Days seem to go so fast! Remember those days when three months of summer vacation seemed like a long time…now I have no idea how a month goes by!

Tao Te Ching #22

If you want to become whole,

first let yourself become broken.

If you want to become straight,

first let yourself become twisted.

If you want to become full,

first let yourself become empty.

If you want to become new,

first let yourself become old.


Tao Te Ching - Written by Lao-Tzu

Cells Phones/Seniors

I always wondered what to do with my old cell phones. Now there is a program which takes used cell phones and gives it to older adults. In an emergency they can access 911 with their cell phones. The monthly service fee is not required to use 911! They can take it anywhere!

GREAT IDEA!

woman

Last night I watched the movie CRASH (2005). It is easily one of the best movies I have seen in a long time. A Brilliant movie --POWERFUL!

SL

I am really enjoying my volunteer work at the library. I wish I could devote more time than the 2 hours a week I am putting in…I really don’t have any other time. Even though I enjoy it a lot I didn’t realize it’ll be challenging at times. How do you tell a fifth grader how to do simple math problems without just telling him the answer? How do you make them think about the problem? I knew from the beginning it would be no use for them if I didn’t make them think about the problem…so as of now I start by letting them make any mistakes as I sit there watching their step-by-step thought process. Then I go and tell them why a particular step was wrong. It is definitely rewarding just to see them actually understand the bigger concepts which will help them for years.

We’ll see what I learn next week.

KNOWLEDGE IS SO POWERFUL!

Sometimes I panic…thinking whether I am wasting my time not learning anything/everything.

"When dealing with people, let us remember that we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion." -Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

UofMN

Interesting FACTS

Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind was turned down by 25 publishers before Macmillan Published it. The book still sells about 50,000 hardcover copies a year.

I was thinking about this fact when I typed in "Interesting Facts" on Google search. I am pretty sleepy so I don't have too much time today to look at the other sites Google provided. But the one I had few minutes to look at was…..interesting. Here's the address:

General Interesting Facts

Steve Jobs

This is a commencement address given by Steve Jobs (CEO of Apple Computer and Pixar Animation Studios) at Stanford University this year. I thought it was good so here is the address:

'Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.'

What makes some people successful and others not?
Why are there people who are happy to go to work in the morning and others who don’t even want to get up?
Why some people are so passionate about their lives and others go through their entire life not feeling that even one bit?
Is it just being in that one place at the right time…makes all the difference?
Is it ALL luck? Attitude? Mindset?
How much control do we really have on what type of life we will have in twenty years?

Have no idea. But going to try as hard as I can to get close to how I want to be in twenty years?
Is that all it takes? Hard work. Is that enough?....................

Volunteer

I started volunteering at the local library so I could fulfill my requirements for the page scholarship. I started helping this overly active 7 year old who kept wanting to kiss me and play with my hair…was he there for tutoring or what? He was so cute though! He wants to be a firefighter and a ninja when he grows up. For most of my time I was helping this older Nigerian man with his sixty page research paper on an African tribe Olgba. All his information was good but he didn’t know basics of the Microsoft Word program! He could type but didn’t know there was spell-check, page break, that he only needed one space in-between words.

I really admired his patience, passion and… just hard work!

What’s up with men and heels? Not men wearing heels...but looking at women wearing heels? What do they see that they don't see otherwise?

Why is it that most of the times people see something in us (something powerful) that we don't see in ourselves...or even want to see.

school school school = life
School has been the only thing on my mind. Every time I just sit to do something else I am thinking about the deadlines I have to meet for the upcoming week. I am actually enjoying this commitment.

sort of looked over the book "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out"...the librarian was more excited that I was checking it out than I was. I read few chapters so far is really good. The book is by Feynman, Richard Phillips -- Physicist who won 1965 Nobel Prize for his work on quantum electrodynamics.

The other book I had on my shelf for a long time that I just can't get through is "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey..if anyone want to take the responsibility to read it and tell me about it that would be appreciated :-) Maybe is a good book on a plane because I saw a passenger a year ago reading it nonstop for like 12 hours.

HOW TO SUCCEED IN PROF. BARANY's ORGANIC CHEMISTRY CLASSES...WITH REALLY TRYING

WOW. Bit scared but also really excited to see how I'll do! So far Organic Chem. is going fine. The chapter problems.. once you get started on them become an addiction. Yesterday I was doing the problems at work three hours straight..without even being aware of anything else.

Never miss an opportunity...if you can do it.
because you'll never know what missing that one moment took away from your life.

I am in my class today and like every other day few Cell Phones go off in the middle of lecture. There was this one cell that went off that sounded like a fight! So everyone in the class thought there was a fight in the room.
?!?!!?

I am always looking up and amazed at what I see. So Natural. The sky is easy to take pictures of...it just stands still..unlike people. This I took on my way to Toronto..no one could figure it out...I could of taken it in my backyard.

Today I learned that I need to learn more about cars..atleast know something/anything about cars. I been having many problems with my car ever since I came back from Toronto. I couldn't start it for four days. My brother and cousin figured out that is the battery...so $40 to get a new battery..but still my car would shut off by itself!! So i had to bring my car to the mechanic this morning...and I didn't know how to explain anything..that I actually ended up saying "I think there is a ghost in my car..and is doing weird things to it". The guy just started to laugh!

hate being clueless.

Well is actually a fuse that he replaced ..another $40. grrr..

My Word program is not working...so no spellcheck today.

"A thriving society must have a thriving press". -Christiane Amanpour

Farewell Toronto

I am back from Toronto! The wedding was so hetic. I am not going to Toronto anymore :-) Even if I have to I am flying in a day before a wedding and getting out of there day after!


Here are some pictures. Sun's Wedding I can't find any digital shots of me. I guess since I was taking the pictures..I am not in any.

So Beautiful!

I added more quotes to the sideblog.

My work is so boring when I don't have school work to do or I didn't bring anything to read. I don't know how others who are not in school get through eight hours of just sitting and staring. It takes a lot out of you...bordom does.

Check out this site if you have time:
www.watchmechange.com

is PG-13 :-)

crazy scrapbookers!

I spent most of my day at Archiver's-The Photo Memory Store. There were so many people working for hours on their scrapbook! First off I didn't know there were so many people interested in scrapbooking. Most people must be experts because their scrapbook was about 500 pages while mine is like 15!!! They kept looking at my scrapbook because they definitely knew I was a beginner! It was almost like a race to finish pages!! When you see people come into this workroom they look like they are going to the airport because everyone has suitcases of scrapbooking stuff that they bring.

The store itself is fabulous! They have quiet a bit of stuff you could use for free and if you need something you could get it at the store. The unique part about it is that when you first go in you could start an account for that day and when you pick up stuff you just let the cashier know and once you are all done for that day you pay. This makes it more relaxing so you don't have to go with your wallet every time you need a sticker.. :-) if you are into stickers.

My 15 page work of art is somewhat unique compared to the others. I don't like buying everything pre-made and just sticking it to the pages. No fun in that for me...but it saves a lot of time to do this...
I rather make it my own not something someone working at Archiver's could put together.

It was great to see people spending so much time on what they are passionate about.
you are never alone in this world.

Textbooks for sale!

All day I have been on Half.com searching for my textbooks! What an amazing site! It's great! I have saved so much money on my books for this semester. I got excited so I ran out to the trunk and got all my old textbooks. And now they are online for others to buy and I was surprised with the recommended selling price for the books...it was higher than I thought they would be! Even the books I used three years ago are still being purchased for reasonable price. Now I just have to wait and see who will buy them!

Is great to be learning something new and easy everyday!

purple sky

i'll write more!

Sorry for not posting anything for so long!! I have been extremely busy with taking three classes and completely being focused on school and work. It has been an awesome summer!! Met so many people with the same goals. I am going to be writing on this site again and posting more pictures so please come back…

Mahatma Gandhi

Seven deadly sins

Mahatma Gandhi said seven things will destroy us:

· Wealth without work

· Pleasure without conscience

To learn to give and take, to live selflessly, to be sensitive, to be considerate, is our challenge.

The ultimate costs of pleasures without conscience are high as measured in terms of time and money, in terms of reputation and in term of wounding the hearts and minds of other people who are adversely affected by those who just want to indulge and gratify themselves in the short term.

· Knowledge without character

As dangerous as a little knowledge is, even more dangerous is much knowledge with a strong principled character.

· Commerce (business) without morality (ethics)

· Science without humanity

· Work without faith is like an attempt to reach the bottom of a bottomless pit.

· No matter how insignificant the thing you have to do, do it as well as you can, give it as much of your care and attention as you would give to the thing you regard as most important. For it will be those small things that oyu shall be judged.



A person cannot do right in one department while attempting to do wrong in another department. Life is one indivisible whole.

aren't they beautiful!

Weather.

Weather!
I was walking to a restaurant after class today and all of a sudden the sky turned to Turquoise and very dark! The sky was like something I never saw before…and I wished I had my digital camera! I got inside the restaurant before it started to rain! My friends and I were sitting and just watching people running around trying to go into the stores. There was a huge flood because the drainage system was covered with all these garbage that were floating on the street…so the cars that were parked in front of the restaurant were covered with water about half way. Then the restaurant ceiling started to leak!

My Birthday! June 15th

What a busy week! My classes are amazing and I am learning so much.!!!! For my 21st birthday my sister made this cake for me...isn't she sweet! Is so hot to go outside so I am stuck in the house all day. Another exciting week to look forward to. I am definitely high on life :-)

Is going to be one busy summer!
I think I am taking too many credits…my home is going to be the U all summer!
Grrrr!
Must focus!

always wanted to take a picture like this.

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My sister went to California for her honeymoon. Some of the pictures from her trip were so beautiful that I had to put it on here!

I am back!

I am back from Toronto. What a busy week! Crazy! This time I got to drive around Toronto and learn the places so now I could go around by myself. We were just in and out of stores getting what we needed for the wedding. Everything was just a huge rush! One of the nights at the hotel my sister and I got into the Jacuzzi, which was so relaxing!! I don’t think I have spoken so much Tamil in a week before. Learned so much about Hindu weddings! The wedding turned out to be so beautiful.
Every day was a long day with number of things that needed to be done. So many people to see and so many times to arrange. The entire wedding day was depended on other people making things happen. That day everything was out of our control. I kept on thinking how life moves so fast. I guess everyone thinks about these things when there is some milestone event happening right in front of you. It was a great one week!
The hotel I stayed in was perfect! It was such a relaxing place yet so many activities going on outside...
the best time I had in Toronto. Met some great people!

My fav. picture of the bride and groom....HINDU STYLE...hahaha Since I was taking a lot of the pictures...I am not in too many of them...hopefully the professionals that were hired took some of me!

I took this picture while I was waiting for my sister to get some documents filed for the wedding.

Nicki: did you say the white house is another museum?

Is kinda hard to capture rain. But the rain drops on the leaves are a nice touch..I thought. :-)

boredom result in taking pictures of your own site :)

I should not have the need to be bored because I have so many things I could be doing...but I am. I blame it all on the weather. Is the coldest May day in 40 years! Is been raining all day..and the house was freezing until my dad came from work to turn back the heat.
I guess this is what I wanted yesterday when my last exam ended but now...I am so bored.

just need this link for the future.

Blogger Template Tutorial

I am done with the semester. This semester has been so long! After my last exam I was so tired that all I wanted to do was sit around the house all day. But I am taking summer classes, which start in a month so I'll be back in school soon.


I went to Blockbuster to get a movie. I been noticing how is becoming harder to get tapes of movies. All the movies are on DVD's and the DVD's all have so many additional features. Is really a waste for me since I don't have time to listen to all the commentaries, interviews, and making of the movie.

The day is starting out to be not so good. I left all the windows open in my bedroom last night and this morning is so cold that I woke up freezing! What a day and is only 8:30 a.m.! UPDATE: situation at work with my nose ring…NOTHING. I heard from others that it was a big issue a week ago but now not so much? No one contacted me about it so I guess I’ll just shut up.
I was reading some magazine other day about a guy MARK JEN who used to work at Google. He was let go from his job for disclosing some sensitive information…it seems like Google doesn’t want anyone to say anything about working at Google. NOTHING.
His blog.
This is pretty much old news to others but I thought it was pretty interesting.

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I have been so busy with finals that I am not even thinking about my sister's upcoming wedding. If I think too much about it my head will be in Toronto. So two more days to go! Hopefully the hotel I'll be staying in has internet connection..but then would I really have ANY time to be on the net?!? I doubt it.
okay..here I go again..thinking about it.
must stop.................................................too hard................................

Updated the quote section. Powered by: sideblog

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Nothing is going on to write about...
I am still trying to catch up on the sleep I missed few days ago.
Trying to better manage my time....is still not going too well.
Maybe i need to get some books on it..

Why is Yucca Mountain one of the most researched sites in the world?

Yucca Mountain Project

I was up till’ 4 a.m. working on a project yesterday…and it was assigned so long ago. Procrastination is really…making me mad…not to mention tired!!!!
I have to learn to manage my time better.
No more staying up to work on something I had so much time to do.
The project I was working on turned out so nice though
I had the opportunity to use a lot of my digital camera pictures to correlate with the stories I read in literature. Those who saw my portfolio thought the pictures were from some far away places!
No More putting things off!!

Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

-H. Jackson Brown. Jr.

I hate driving these days. I am always running out the door the last minute and driving crazy on the road! I have a headache every time I am out the car. Maybe is the music I listen to and thinking about way too much. Driving used to be relaxing. I have to be in the moment.

Must take care of my time.

I don't think Blogger has the best spellcheck program.
I am sure I have a ton of spelling mistakes.
ohh well

Got my left nostril pierced a week ago. It hurt so much that when I came out of the room I was in tears. Not that I was crying because of the pain but it was just automatic tears. The lady kept telling me to take a deep breath..and I did...but because of the pain I couldn't exhale till' I was out of the room.
My boss gave me some trouble about it though. He said is against company policies. I am wondering if they are going to fire me because of my nose ring. Is so small you can't even see it? I am just gonna fight to keep it till' they tell me otherwise. I just need about six months to heal it then I could take it off for work. I wonder if they'll give me six months? I am sure the big man is going to be calling me tomorrow...I hope he doesn't leave a message at home about this because my parents would be concerned. My boss likes a confrontation but i refused to give it to him. He gets all his energy when people make him mad so I thought I'll be smart about this situation. I want to keep my nose ring for six months...that's all...is not going help me if I get him mad. I guess is his job to tell me and he did. grrrrrrrrr...job well done. No hard feeling.

I am just going to fight it...hopefully the fight last six months :0) Must write a letter about this to my boss tomorrow and explain the situation.

conversation of the week:

I am little annoyed when people meet me they ask if I am Hawaiian.
No I am not.
I am from Sri Lanka.
Where is Sri Lanka?
Now go away and stop flirting with me :0) I am not interested. haha

I want to travel to South Africa. I met some people from my class and they been telling me so much about it. My look of Africa is lions everywhere and people with face paintings. How clueless am I ... ? My friends describe it to be so beautiful and just hearing them talk about Africa makes me want to go.

Was it snow I saw today? May 1st SNOW? But then it was raining..

All The Quotes So Far...

April 20, 2005

We must be the change we wish to see in the world - Mahatma Gandhi

Courage means doing the impossible within the possible...-Elie Wiesel

Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going todie tomorrow -Mahatma Gandhi


April 16, 2005

Nothing is certain.Knowledge is something that can never be taken away from you

knowledge empowers you...-unknown

April 3, 2005


Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart -Ralph WaldoEmerson

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but ahabit. - Aristotle

If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished - MevlamaRumi

Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positiveone - Hans Selye

The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. Thepaths are not to be found, but made. And the activity of making themchanges both the maker and their destination - Marcus AureliusAntoninus


March 28, 2005

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always findopportunities enough, and if they do not find them, they will makethem.

The beginning is always today!

The longest journey is the journey inward

Joy is not in things; it is in us

Just trust yourself then you will know how to live


Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself.Be yourself. Imitation is sucide


If not now, When?


It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also forwhat we do not do.

Follow the river and you will arrive at the sea- french proverb

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about themafterward - Baltasar Gracian

Doing the best at this movement puts you in the best place for the nextmoment -oprah


Are you in hell? Keep going - unknown


The Beginning is always today.


Understand that the right to choose your own path is a scared privilege.Use It. Dwell in possibility. -Oprah

The basic difference between an ordinary person and a warrior is that awarrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary person takeseverything as a blessing or a curse. -Carlos Castaneda

Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it with use. -Ruth Gordon

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we mustdo.
-Bruce Lee

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly. -Robert H. Schuller

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness...never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.-Lord Chesterfield

One of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.-James A. Worsham

Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.-Edwin C. bliss


Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is there adequate perception of the world. -- Hans Margolis

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. -- Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (1840 - 1917

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever... -- St Francis de Sales, 1567-1622

"Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe." -- Robert Service

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Ever since I got the digital camera I been noticing so many little things that I never noticed before. I was just driving home and noticed this small tree a block away from home.

Google Killer--Why Google Scares Gates!

I was so bored studying my chemistry that I picked up Fortune 500 for May 2005. Had an interesting article on how Bill Gates is on a mission to build a Google Killer.
Could read part of the article here.

GATES VS. GOOGLE :Search and Destory

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My feet. Definitely need a pedicure…hahaha..I was just so cold…since it has been raining all day…that I had to take this picture! It’s too cold for slippers today. That’s my weather forecast for today.

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This month Oprah magazine had few pictures little like this. The article titled "The Trees that bloom in the Spring". Ever since I saw those pictures I been keeping an eye on the tree that is in my backyard. From the kitchen window I didn't think anything was bloomed yet...but as I got closer...It has! In a few weeks, I am sure the entire tree will be in bloom! Then it'll be in full green.

who knew?

Did you know that there's a sea in which you can't swim? In the Dead Sea, you can only float. The salt concentration is 10 times the amount of normal seawater, making it heavier and denser. Watch out if you have a cut or scratch, because it burns!

The Things They Carried

I never been a big fan of war stories but "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien is a good one.

"It was very sad, he thought. The things men carried inside. The things men did or felt they had to do".

Possibilities

Recently it just dawned on me that I have everything I want. Everything I ever need or want I am getting. Maybe is because I don’t want too much. I don’t want too much…I don’t want something just because other people have it. Anything I ask for my parents they will try to get for me but more importantly my parents have made me able to get most things on my own...which is the greatest gift of all. Independence! The belief I can get anything in this world…or just to have the possibility of working toward something I want. If I want to travel…I can. Yes, I might have to sacrifice time and money but the possibility that I can pick up and go somewhere at this moment…is shall I say it…AMAZING. So there isn’t any excuse for me is there? Complaining about not having something to reach somewhere. The possibility to be exactly who I want to be...I can be anywhere, be anything…the question is…where do I begin?

Disappointment

One of my favorite movies is The Pianist. I am still waiting for Adrien Brody to act in an another good movie :-) What a disappointment it has been...he's a really good actor so why doesn't he pick good roles. I love movies! All the hard work and the creativity that goes into making movies! I really don't like those billion dollar production...I rather watch something that doesn't focus on the money it'll make but rather the worth of the movie. 24 Grams (not 24 but 21 GRAMS) is good one too. Even though the person I went to see it with didn't like it at all!
Once school is out I should take the weekend off and rewatch all my favorite movies.

correction: The movie is not 24 GRAMS rather 21 Grams! I was probably watching the show 24 while I was typing this. NICKI: thanks for the phone call :-) ..remember most of the movie.. can't get the title...grrr

green finally.

"I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me."
— Anna Quindlen

time

more I do with the time I have
the less I complain of having no time.
time.
No more complaining about the lack of time
because is all there.

Had a long night yesterday...
so this morning I didn't wake up till' 8...but GUESS WHAT?! My work started at 8:00. I was in a total panic..trying to dial my coworker to let him know I'll be coming in at 8:30. He was pretty nice about me coming in late...even though I had few issues before about him coming in late :-) Yes..that's me making trouble at work.
The thing is I hated that I let myself get in a situation like this...going in late for work... If any other work I wouldn't mind too much but I have to relief my coworker before he could get out of the building. I didn't even set my alarm clock...what did I think the rooster was going to wake me up?!
It was a total rush this morning but the day turned out to be amazing. yes..AMAZING! isn't everyday amazing?

behind work. I like the tree!

what is going on? The battery on my camera needed to be recharged..i guess there wasn't much light...it was rainning....strange how this picture turned out...I don't know if I like it or not. Is it a good picture or bad one? I guess is different...

Einstein Quotes

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.

If we want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited, imagination encircles the world.

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.

I think this picture turned out nice..and the thing is.. I didn't have the camera on landscape setting. It was rainning..and was hard to take the picture with holding an umbrella.

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I want this too...

Let's Return to a Belief in the Power of the Mind

By: Elizabeth Rock

When education and intelligence have become a cause for suspicion, not respect; when we prize aggression over thought; when Salinas County is closing its libraries, but there is always funding for sports stadiums; when our scientists and engineers are coming from other countries because our students find those subjects too "hard"; when we give the same weight to unproven ideas as we do to hard science; when we tolerate mediocrity and errors, thinking "it's good enough..."; I say it's time for a huge resurgence in the power of the mind.

It's time to put a premium on intellect again.

I want all of us to aspire to greater brainpower. I want us, and especially our kids, to want to be smart--really, really smart----again; to admire smart people the way they admire rich people. I want kids to want to be smart the way they want to be professional athletes and rap artists.

I want young people to devote the kind of energy to their brains that they devote to eating worms on "Fear Factor." I want young women who can't be bothered to read, but will devote months to pretending to love someone for his money, to want to find the cure for ovarian cancer just that much. I want us to spend as much time on the strange shadings of Thomas Jefferson's complex world as they do on the slightly less-nuanced world of Nick and Jessica.

I want us to innovate again. I want us to export something besides the concept of bling and "Wife Swap." I want Shakespeare to be the new hot sex talk. I want brains to be the next bling.

We need to be critical thinkers again. Because once we wake up, kick our brains into overdrive and stomp on the gas again, everything else will fall into line.

Connected World

I was watching Today for a few minutes this morning . They were talking about how the world is being more connected than ever before. When someone calls from the states to a company, likely they are not talking to anyone in their country rather people in India and China are answering the phones. I am sure everyone has come across this before... I know I have. Last three phone calls I made to my Visa were all answered by people with Indian names (so now I am guessing they are in india).

The interesting comment made by the reporter: something like.

I used to tell my two girls to eat their dinner because people in India and China are starving for the food. But now I tell my two girls to finish their homework because people in India and China are starving for their jobs.

Golden Rice [picture]

genetically engineered rice

Unknown human impact when we consume genetically modified organisms.
No long term information

FAO

"The UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) estimates that we already grow enough food to provide everyone on earth with well more than the 2,770 calories per day needed (on average) for a healthy, active life. Yet an estimated 815 million people are chronically undernourished, meaning they routinely receive less than 90 percent of the minimum caloric intake needed for normal growth and development, and a healthy, productive life. One person in five in the world's developing countries fits this description."

"According to the FAO, 55 percent of the 12 million child deaths each year are related to malnutrition. The UN World Food Summit in Rome in 2002 called on rich countries to commit $24 billion per year to halve the number of hungry people by 2015."

Realization

To know that you can't make decisions for others even when you know they are making mistakes. This is the worst feeling: Watching someone you care about making mistakes and unable to do anything about it.

Terri Schiavo

I can't believe the family of Terri Schiavo were not able to come to a decision by themselves. Here is something that might have helped the family make a better decision:

Living Will

Learned Lesson

When people give you advice, you don't have to take it but if you just truly listen to it then it will save you from a lot of regrets. When you truly listen to others you could learn so much. Often the advices might seem irrelevant at that time for you but just listening and thinking about it could save you a lot of wasted time. I wish I done this more in the past. When people gave me advices before I would often think that I'll never get myself in a situation where I would need to use this advice...but you'll be suprised how things turn out...I sure was! I just wished I realized I was human and sometimes things could happen to me even if I don't plan for it. When you take what other people say you could actually be conscious about a particular situation and plan for it!

does this make sense? I am not going to list all the things I regret even though there were resources that could have helped me not make mistakes but I didn't listen/see! Somethings will happen regardless but you should always be willing to listen to others and learn from their mistakes before it happens to you.


*if you are reading this ... but not really THINKING about what I am saying...then you are not getting anything out of this post. Be wherever you are 100%!

. Whenever the society forgets the duties and goes to chaos, I take birth to uplift Dharma.