Kuldip Patel

Aya Naya Daur Hain

2011-04-04T23:51:00.000-07:00

Bazar se mohalle ki sadak aaj bhi chithre haal hain.
Bandh naale mein bahe maila paani woh aaj bhi ek khayal hain.

Bai apane bachcho ko aaj bhi hain kaam pe bhejti
Aur neta ki biwi ki chachi ki ladki ki bhatiji bhi pahenti haar beshkeemti.

Aaj bhi pet bharne ke liye kheenchta insaan insaan ko hain
Aur kuch log kahete hain ki aaya naya daur hain.

Mumbai wale chacha aaj bhi office jate local train se latak ke.
Bole, achha hain main Bihar se nahi, warna maarte log patak ke.

Train ka aarakshan ka dibba hain aaj bhi saarvjanik
Aarakhsan kaam karta kahin aur is par guar farmaye tanik

Shadiyon ke liye aaj bhi hote swayamwar hain
Aur kuch log kahete hain ki aaya naya daur hain.

Gaon to chhodo shahro mein bhi hota hain power cut.
Aur gaon ki shala ke madhyahan bhojan hote hain safachat

Rahim ko hoti hain dikkat aaj ek flat lene ke liye
Aur ram ko hona padta hain badnaam ek mandir ke liye.

Pahele ki tarah aaj bhi Raja karodo mein khelte hain,
Aur kuch log kahete hain ki aaya naya daur hain.

Aaj kal padosi bhi dete hain shubkamnayein email par
Aur Bai maangane lagi hain chuuti apane mobile phone par

Aaj Common wealth se hote bade bade khel
Aur Sone ke bhaav bikey yeh mitti ka tel

Bazar mein bikane lagi yeh pyaz sev ke bhaav hain
Main bhi ab manane laga hoon ki aaya naya daur hain.

Ab to hone lage hain gotaale mein bhi aadarsh
To main bhi karne laga hu thoda sa vichar vimarsh

Superchor kiye jate hain reality show par nimantrit
Aur Doctor Binayak Sen kiye jaate hain ajeevan niyantrit

Chinta karne wali baat to ab yeh hain
ki main bhi ab maanane laga hoon ki aya naya daur hain.

-Yours Truly

AIDS - Jago

2009-09-17T05:27:00.000-07:00

Co-produced by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Four short films by four Indian directors on AIDS awareness.
Must see for all.

Vishal Bhardwaj's Blood Brothers
http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/broadband/video/Special-Features/ZogyBB60/3/Vishal-Bharadwaj-s-Blood-Brothers.html

Santosh Shivan's Prarambh
http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/broadband/video/Special-Features/ht39Jo71/1/Santosh-Sivan-s-Prarambha.html

Farhan Akhtar's Positive
http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/broadband/video/Special-Features/JytPVI75/3/Farhan-Akthar-s-Positive.html

Mira Nair's Migration
http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/broadband/video/Special-Features/qt16M539/2/Mira-Nair-s-Migration-On-AIDS.html

Spread the awareness through this entertainment!!!

Movies/Plays we watched in last year of time

2009-05-01T09:24:00.000-07:00

Disappointed with the count. Could not make a century :(. Aiming a double this year.

English
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Kill Bill 1
Kill Bill 2
Pulp Fiction
All about Eve
Reservoir dogs
Saw I
Saw II
Saw III
Saw IV
Perfume
Batman begins
Prestige
Illusionist
Following
Psycho
Vertigo
Little Miss Sunshine
Juno
Lost Highway
Blue velvet
Parzania
Ferenheit 9-11
Taxi Driver
School of Rock
12 Angry men
Cast Away
Memento
Trainspotting
No country for old men
The man who wasn't there
Conversation
Lion King
American Gangster
Shoot'em up

Hindi
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Ardh satya
Black Friday
Salaam bombay
Hazaroon Khwaishen
Salim Langde pe mat ro
Ankur
Shor
Aakrosh
Do Aanken Barah Haath
Humdum
Ek Chalis Ki Local
Waisa bhi hota hain part II
Kagaz Ke phool
Mr & Mrs 55
MR & Mrs Iyer
Superstar
Muskurahat
Gardish
Raaz 2
Khosal ka Ghosla
Strangers
Gardish

Regional
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Happy Days - Telugu
Pather Panchali - Bengoli
Manavi Ni Bhavai - Gujarati

In Theatre
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Jodha Akbar
Black & White
Wednesday
Wall -E
Slumdog
Dark Knight
Jaane Tu
Jannat
Sajjanpur
Fashion
Gulaal
DevD
Delhi6
Ghajini
Rab ne
Tashan
Aamir
Race
Firaaq
Rock On
Luck By Chance
Tahaan
Bachana ae Hasino
Dostana
Oye Lukcy Lucky Oye

World Cinema
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Tale of two sisters - cantonese
Two guys -chinese
Anonymous - French thriller
Tzameti - french
Children of heaven - Iranian
Song of sparow - Iranian
Taste of chery - Iranian
Throne of blood - Japanese
Amilie- French
Wallet - French
Veronique decides to die - French
Nikita - French
Orphanage - Spanish
After the wedding - Danish
I am not scared - Italian
Irreversible - Italian

Plays
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Best of Luck
Good Doctor
Hotel Room
Ek se badkar Ek
30 days in september
Prem no Public Issue
Kaanti Tofaane chadyo

Got a goldstar award @ MS

2009-05-01T09:08:00.000-07:00

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PFC day two movies

2009-01-05T21:46:00.000-08:00

My movie at position 6

PFC One Movies

2009-01-05T00:53:00.000-08:00

You can watch mine on Day-2 i.e. 6th Jan !!!

Have fun

As much as you can`

2008-11-17T02:27:00.000-08:00

One of my most favourite poems.
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As much as you can

And if you can't shape your life the way you want,
at least try as much as you can
not to degrade it
by too much contact with the world,
by too much activity and talk.

Try not to degrade it by dragging it along,
taking it around and exposing it so often
to the daily silliness
of social events and parties,
until it comes to seem a boring hanger-on.

Constantine P Cavafy

Oye Lucky Lucky Oye

2008-11-06T01:40:00.000-08:00

There is this lucky bastard around called Imran Hashmi. No I am not calling him lucky for being a serial-whatever but for grabbing films having chartbusting music. Almost all of his movies have hit tracks. Earlier our Kaka and Sallu Miya were sitting on that crest.

Another such lucky but hardworking chap is Abhay Deol. All critically acclaimed films have come across his way and a couple of more( DevD , OLLO )are in his kitty. Envy you dude!!! Good luck anyways :)

Rangoli

2008-07-28T05:20:00.000-07:00

Our effort !!!

The following one was at the entrance!!!

The Veiled Rebecca

2008-05-19T01:46:00.001-07:00

Last weekend we visited Salar Jung museum here in Hyderabad. In my opinion it is the best place to visit in this city, However, there are plenty of cool places here but museum is awesome. You can spend whole day overthere. We could not finish it fully in 2.5 hours. It has art objects collected from all over the world. The best of all was the statue of "The Veiled Rebecca" a biblical character. The Italian artist, Giovanni Maria Benzoni , has brilliantly created the lady in transparent veil with a milky white glowing marble.

You can find the more details here.
http://www.berkshiremuseum.org/galleries/art_sculpture.html

and the picture over here.
http://www.thehindu.com/2006/04/19/stories/2006041921010500.htm

The other attractions of this museum are

- The embellished actual weapons of Qutub Shahi dynasty
- The mechanical musical clock with 350 parts.
- The Chinese & Japanese art gallery
- India's painting gallery
- India's miniature painting gallery
- Western paintings, porcelain and clocks gallery

and lot more...

I recommend all of you to visit the museum and also the Golkonda fort if you happen to come to this city.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salar_Jung_Museum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golkonda

In bachho ka baap kaun hain kaun hain kaun hain!!!!!

2008-05-16T02:03:00.000-07:00

These days the ads have become so creative ki kabhi kabhi serials bhi dekh leta hoon breaks ke bich mein :)

Some of the cool ads I have come across in recent times.

1) DLF indian premier league , Mano-Ranjan ka baap
2) Monster India.
3) Bachpan se mango ko hum sirf ek hi naam se jaante hain- Frootie
4) First choice car.
5) Pulsar Mania- Visual treat it was
6) Vodafone series
7) Idea - that monkey ad
8) Reynolds markers - That vermilion one.
9) TIMES NOW- That blah blah blah ad

and many more.

and above all this happydent ad http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibUDycXUmVg

Just a thought

2006-11-20T09:00:00.000-08:00

To feel & To express. I am glad that the supreme being has made me better at the former one.

aah! What an excuse to stay hibernated from the blog sphere ;-)

A Poem

2006-03-17T06:15:00.000-08:00

On the occasion of holi, just thought of posting the Holi-Poem I had composed 2 yrs back in IITK.

HOLI KE NAYE NAYE RANG HAI
HUM YAAR DOSTO KE SANG HAI
SAB KE HATH MEIN BHAANG HAI
LOG DEKH KE DANG HAI.

AAJ NA KOI GORA HAI, NA KALA HAI.
SAB KOI LAL, HARA, PILA HAI.

SAB KA JIVAN AISA HI RANGIN HO YEH DUA HAI MERI RAB SE
AUR GANA "TU HI TU SATRANGI RE" YAAD YA RAHA HAI FROM "DIL SE."

YAAR DOST MILKE GA RAHE HAI KAWWALI,
AUR USME BHI AA GAYI WOH LAL CHUNARWALI.
ROZ HAIRAN HOTE THE DEKH KE UNKE GALO KI LALI,
AAJ HUMNE HI BANAI HAI UNKE GALO KI LALI.

AGAR MAI BAHEK JAU TO SAMBHALNA MERE YAAR,
KAHI MAIN KAR NA BAITHU APNE PYAR KA IZHAAR.
KYUKI ABHI KARNA HOGA THODA INTZAR
WARNA WOH MAREGI THAPPAD CHAR.

ISHQ NE KIYA HAI HUME NIKAMMA VARNA HUM BHI AADMI KUCH KAAM KE THE
KUCH BHI KAAM KAR NE SE PAHELE HUM BHI DIMAAG SE SOCHTE THE.
AB TO SIRF SOCHTE HAI DIL SE.
AUR PYAR KARTE HAI SIRF UNSE.

HIMMAT JUTA KE KAR HI DALA HAAL-E- DIL BAYAAN.
IKARAAR SUNKE UNKA, AAYI HUMAARI JAAN MEIN JAAN.

KHUDA KARE YEH HOLI KA TYOHAAR AAYE BAAR BAAR
AUR HAR EK KO KAHENE KA MAUKA MILE EK BAAR.

LOG BOLENGE YEH TO KUCH JYADA HI FILMI HO RELA HAI.
TO IDHAR KAUN SENTI HO RELA HAI.

APUN TO AISE ICH LIKH RELA HAI,
ARRE YAAR KOI TO BOLO "KULDIP RANGEELA HAI."

I Lost My Heart In Vrindavan.

2006-03-06T03:28:00.000-08:00

I Lost My Heart In Vrindavan.... Do I mean it? Don't know but I have the T-shirt with this lable on the backside now and the visit was great. Yesterday I was looking at some books at the un-manned counter at the entrance of Hare Krishna temple in Vrindavan( FYI, I visited Agra and Vrindavan(again) with my hometown friends who are just out of a series of nightouts for the preparation of their Gujarat Medical PostGrad Entrance Exam. Fortunately, they could clear and will be getting into surgery hopefully). and I picked up a book and murmured, "Iski price kahan likhi hain", while looking for a price tag. "Phandara Ruphe(15 Rupees)". Somewhat unusal sound but my mind interpreted the meaning. I raised my eyes, there appeared a white lady in a Saari with a mala(necklace, You know the better word? great, drop me a mail, I would appreciate) in her right hand. "Phandra Ruphe" again, but to another indian visitor/customer who just picked another book from the counter. "Yeh ved kha(she meant 'ka') shaar hain aur yeh yog khe liye hain", informing the person who is next to me. "Aap ke liye yeh chhoti book, geetha shaar achhi rahegi". "Aap log aaye hain tho aarathi khar khe jana, abhi thhodi der me shuru hogi". while scanning at all of us with a smile.

My mind started poping out many questions after listening to these words. I coudn't prolong to be in the same state. so here goes the conversation I have had with her.

Me : Hare Krishna.

She: Howre Khrishna.

Me : You speak hindi very well.

She: Thank you.

Me : How long you have been here?

She: 25 years.

Me : 25 yrs? ( with making eyes like an owl). and you are from?

She: New York.

Me : and what you were doing before indulging in to Hare-Krishna activities?

She: I was studying in a medical school. I was in Ohio State University. ( http://www.legaled.com/medschool100.htm ).

Me : And what made you to come to India? or to join ISKON activities to be precise.

She: I was in the first year of my medical when I heard the first lecture of Shree PrabhuPad(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prabhupada). In his preaching he gave an example, an anlogy actually. He said you are going to be a doctor and what you will be doing all your life would be saving the coat of a man drowning in a water, The man drowning is a soul and the coat you are holding is his body. You will be a doctor of a body, dont you want to be a doctor of the soul?

That one example changed my life. I started reading his publications and after some time I decided to join ISKCON(International Society for Krishna CoNsciousness).
....and you are from?

Me : I am from Gujarat. Closer to Ahmedabad.

She: oh, Kem cho? Mujhe bhi thodu thodu gujarati aavade che.

Me : Oh Really? (again an owl faced.)

She: I am also active in Ahemedabad ISKCON activities, and My Husband is Gujarati. He is the president of ISKCON Ahmeadabad. His name is Janak Joshi and He is an engineer.

Me : cool, and you stay in Vrindavan?

She: Yeah, because my younger daughter is studying in Gurukul here. It's an english medium school with the special attention towards Yog, Ved and Krishna Consciousness. The older one finished her schoolings from Gurukul-Vrindavan and now studying in a medical school, UCLA, University of California Los Angeles, She is brilliant, she never had a taste of a 2nd rank. She has got a scholarship from UCLA. She does chanting mantras and reads Gita daily. Everyone in her college asks her, "how you are so much active, stay stressless and happy?" and She keeps making people aware of ISKCON and Gita.

You know that a heavy chunk of people commit sucuide, Deppression is all around, especially in US. Anti-depressamts are one of the largest selling drugs. When I was US, I was doing great in my career, but I was not happy, I was depressed. Here I do chanting Mantras, Reading gita daily, I am a volunteer in this temple and It makes me so happy. It is such a bliss.

You should also start chanting Hare-Krishna, You can't estimate the reward , you have to expereience it by yourself.
...If you get sometime then do visit ISKCON Ahmeadabad and meet my husband, he is such a brilliant man.

Me : Yeah sure, I had visited the Ahmedabad temple once.

She: So are you trying to go to USA? cuz most gujarati's do. :)

Me : No ma'm. I am not that crazy about going abroad. I am not against it but not as crazy as others. Would love to visit though.

She: Good. What's your name by the way?

Me : Kuldip Patel,

She: Phatel? There are lots of Patel hotels and motels in US.

Me : Yeah I know, and yours?

She: Julie. So, do you know all about Krishna's life and read the Bhagwad Gita too?

Me : Yeah I know most of the things about him and the synopsis of Gita, but haven't studied it in depth yet.

She: Then do it as early as possible. I read it daily, its a food for the soul.

Me : Have you read Bible?

She: Yeah, I have been reading it for 12 years before coming here. But I tell you one thing, The Bible is ABC while Gita is PhD.

Me : True, True! Gita is a superset of all..... Meet my friends, they all are from your discipline.

She: Hello, Hello. Hare Krishna!!

Ajay: As you were talking about treating souls, Which book among these I shall recommend to my patients, for the same treatement?

She: Well, there is not such a specific book I can recommend,but one should start with this small book, GitaSaar. "Aur unkho ek mala lekar hare-khrishna kha jap kharana chahiye". So how many of you do chanting with mala?

Yatin: Yeah I do. 5 times in the morning.

She: which mantra?

Yatin : Swami Narayan Mantras.

She: Swami Narayan is all bogus, I have visited Akshardhaam temple they have placed the SwamiNarayan on the place of God. He was just a monk, "aur Bhaagawaan Khrishna khi photo ko dhhoop mein rakhha hain". Christianity is also bogus, Jesus was a good fellow but claiming that he was God. "Aur uskhe liye cross pe chad gaye". "Bhagawaan aisa kharathe(she meant karte) hain khya?" Yeh Khalyug(kalyug) hain, khalyug mein bahot log khud ko bhaagwaan khahethe hain.

So do start chanting hare-krishna, Slokas of Gita.

Abhi Aarathi hoga, hare-khrishna dhoon bhi hoga, aap nacho, gaao. leen ho jao. aur prasadam lekhar jana. HareKrishna!

Yatin,Me: Hare Krishna. It was such a pleasure meeting you Ma'm, Hare krishna and goodbye!!

She: Hare Krishna, Aavjo :)
Me : Aavjo :D

Disclaimer:- No offences meant to any religion or anybody, I have written whatever she spoke during the conversation.

Voila !!!!

2005-10-07T02:24:00.000-07:00

Finally, Got all the loop related testcases compiling succesfully. Kingshuk was little unhappy with my efficiency cuz I was damn slow in running gdb. Never used it b4 and when started using it, running it on someone else's code. It sucks! At times, I used to spend a full day for a single test case to find the func call that leads to a crash . Thanks to Shomit for his help, ek hi shot mein saare testcases out!!

COMPROMISE...

2005-09-05T04:55:00.000-07:00

Compromise... The most dirtiest and terrible word in the dictionary.

Compromise with your dreams.........Selling your mind.
Compromise with your ethics............Selling your soul.

At present I am doing the former thing. I am selling my mind in 40K bloody bucks.

Kab aayega woh din jab, I wud be the one who is gonna decide my work. When When When?

I wasn't born to do the things I am doing rightnow. :(

If I would have been a good writer this blog would have been the longest amongst all its sibblings, or I might have written a big book on this damned word "compromise". Or It might be in existance by someone like me.

SMS...... "Short Message Service" nahi re.....It's "Save My Soul"......

The Rising...

2005-08-15T04:01:00.000-07:00

"Discover the birth of your independence...." wonderful tagline. Most suitable rather.

After such a huge gap( 4 years ) , Aamir is back to rock the screen, did he? yes! He could fulfill his fans expetations. The best thing about this man is his dedication. Whatever project he takes in his hand, does exhastive research on the same and achives the target he has set. Its needless to mention that Lagaan was included as a case study in many business schools. When first time Ashutosh went to Aaamir with the script, Aamir told him to zoom in to script a bit more, few days later Ashutosh met him with the detailed script and Aamir told him that I would take it to the Oscars, and this fellow did it. Anyways, I m not here to talk abt Lagaan.

"The Rising " starts with the last scene of the movie like most of the blockbusters and then flashes back. The substance wasn't much due to unavailability of authentic sources of facts about Mangal Pandey ( as Amir says on radio mirchi ). So movie can't become an all time great movie like Lagaan. But whatever available to the filmmaker, he portryed it very well. Rani did her job well in the movie, and Supporting actor Toby Stephen who played the role of Mangal Pandey's friend catches the eyes of audiance. Amisha's role was not long enough to comment on it. Aamir is outstading as usual. Movie shows how a simple man realizes the present situation of his land and his people due to greedy policies of east india company and becomes a spark of the Independent India Revolution. The weak point abt the movie is the music. Not Rahman at his best. But yeah the song... "Mangal Mangal... " is very meaningful and sung verywell. Tune is also good. Rest of the tunes are not easy to be cought on public lips.

All-in-all the movie is good.
Rating: ****

Noida Sucks!!!

2005-08-02T00:02:00.000-07:00

You won't believe that before coming Noida I didn't know what an Inverter is, which comes at the lowest level of Maslow's hierarchy of human needs here. If you don't have a refridgerator or TV then also u can survive but u can not live without Inverter here. Roz raat ko power jaata hain yaar. Moreover it goes down when the sleep is in its peak time. Paani bhi yahan ka pine laayak nahi hain. Most of the people use Bislery here. Noida sucks!!! Planning to buy inverter in next few days. I will get one for four of us, Rajiv will get fridge, Nitya will get a computer and Nitin will be getting an Aquagaurd I guess. Yeah, there few good things about Noida ... Shopping malls and the Wide roads. We had a wonderful weekend at Shipra Mall which includes a decent lunch, purchase of some cloths and a movie( Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya ) at the cinema hall which is inside the Mall.

Movie was good, It would make u laugh contineously. Its a typical David Dhawan Movie. The flavour of Hrishida's formulla of comedey was apperent in this David Dhawan flick also. ( Do I need to say that Hero No 1 was completely inspired from Bawarchi? ). Priyadarshan is another director who fills the place of HrishiDa in the film industry. HeraPheri, Hungama & Hulchul are evidances of the same.

Ok, baby! I won't start writing movie trivias overhere.... Just go watch MPKK.... Njoy!!!

Mr & Mrs Smith

2005-07-19T00:16:00.000-07:00

Watched this flick a week ago at Centerstage Mall , Noida. Brad Pitt is my fav so I was very desparate to watch it. The comedy was good but the fight sequences were pathetic. Very often we criticise hindi movies for the undigestable fight sequences ( say Gadar ) and why we overlook Hollywood movies? Moreover I paid 150 Bucks for an english movie, which is too much. For Hindi movie its okay to pay 100 or 150 rs. In Ahmedabad I could have watched the same movie in a better cinema hall just in 30 bucks. I think the reason for higher rates here is the availability of audiance. As far as Multiplexes are concerned Ahmedabad Rocks!!! But yeah, Jolie was ;-) ;-)

Sarkar and DUS are in the pipeline. Let me see when I can find a free slot out of this hectic schedule.

Swimming ain't no kid's play

2005-05-22T06:12:00.000-07:00

One should try everything in his life except doping because its against the law :D he he, No I mean seriously one should give a try to anything available to him. Till now I have not tried billiards, who knows I could be in the shoes of Geet Shethi. After knowing that I will have to stay at iitk for more 20 days I decided to join swimming, although I may not be a champ after this short period but atleast I can save my life someday. Somebody told me that it takes a month to learn swimming but I was confident that I would learn it within 15 days only, I thought I would be right at this time also as I was in the case of car driving. Few years ago my uncle came to home with his car and I asked for the keys and told him I know how to drive a car, eventhough I never held steering wheel ever before. I took the car and did wander in my town like a regular driver. However, the engine stopped once during the whole trip as it happens with newbies because of not maintaining enough pressure on accelerator. I was confident in this car driving case because I used to observe the taxi drivers everytime I got a chance to sit right next to them. Later on I drove the car on national highway during night and on the overcrowded roads in the city alone. Also the cars were diffrent everytime. So now I am confident enough to drive a car anywhere. But in the case of swimming I was a bit over confident, although I am still a fast learner compare to other fellows, but it isn't a child's play. Its now over a week and I am facing a problem in inhaling the O2 in alternate cycles. I still need a halt to reach to the other end of the swimming pool, but I am sure before leaving my alma matter IITK, I would be a tyro swimmer atleast.

Thesis Writing...

2005-04-29T15:08:00.000-07:00

Abstract

one page stating what is this fraud is all about

Chapter 1: Introduction

Problem Statement

Problem Hi Problem Hai Kya State Karein? :( sob sob

Motivation

Why the heck I had choosen this topic, Koi Bachaaooooooooooooooo

Goals / Objectives

Bas M Tech Ki Degree Mil Jaaye...

Contributions

Ek aur raddi paper CSE dept ki repository mein.

Thesis Outline

fraud kahan kahan maara hai....

Chapter 2: Background / Related Work

Humanoids Across The Globe

Ek bhi robot khud ba khud(autonomously) chal nahi pa raha aur naye naye bantate jaa rahe hai.

Related Work

Why people do such goddamn boring work???

Chapter 3: Methodology/ Problem /Simulation

Neural Network
GA
Bezier Cruves

Yes Yes Yes.... Kuch to yaad hai.... atleast these three words.

Chapter 4: Results

Likhne ke liye pahele results hone to chaahiye !!!!

Chapter 5: Conclusions and Future Work

Conclusion

It is impossible to make a biped robot walking autonomously!!!!

Future Work

Bhai log koi bhi aage se is topic pe kaam mat karna.... bahut buri halta hogi ..... mujhse bhi buri...

Bibliography / References

Kaahe ki bib Kaahe ke references, Kuch padha ho tab na.

Appendix

Abhi tak to hui nahi hai, Hogi tab Operation Karwa loonga!

The Shepherd

2005-04-13T03:18:00.000-07:00

It was mere a happenstance that I read the book "The Alchemist" first and then gave a watch to a movie "Good Will Hunting". There is nothing common at all in both of the fabulous creations except the word "Shepherd" but I would say the gist of both the stories is the same, that is "Follow your heart(dreams) and be honest". Watching "Good will hunting" was kinda treat for me. I would suggest the reader of this chronicle to read the book "The aclhemist" first and then to watch the movie. If I would have watched the movie Without reading the "The Alchemist" first then the movie wouldn't have been as slushy as it was for me. There are two snippets I really liked from the book are...

1. "Gods shouldn't have desires because they don't have destinies"

2. "What is the worlds greatest lie?" the boy asked.
"At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie."

Heralding the movie... It is about a guy named Will Hunting, a janitor at MIT, has a gift for mathematics which is discovered, and a psychiatrist tries to help him with his gift and the rest of his life. The role of Will hunting is played by Matt Damon. When I finished the movie, I felt that the guy who has written the script must have gone through a hi-fi institute, instantly I went to IMDB and u know what? It was Matt Demmon himself(who has dropped out of Harvard 12 credits short of graduating to pursue his acting career). He was given an acedemic award for best original screenplay. The role of Psychiatrist was played by Robbin Williams, who is always the supreme choice for this kind of roles(remeber Dead Poet's Society?). He was given an oscar for the best supporting actor that year( 1997- the year when Titanic was released).

There is one more book on the same theme as above, named "Success vs Joy" by world champion billiards player Geet Sethi and his best buddy Sunil Agrawal. Be yourself. Do not get sucked by social norms. That is the message from this book.

Concluding this annals by excerpting a part of an e-article about their work...

43-year-old Sethi and Agarwal, who graduated from premier institutes IIT Delhi and IIM Ahmedabad, said the book is a result of their experiences in their respective domains. For Sethi, who fell in love with the solo sport at the age of 13, what matters the most is the joy of the `sweet spot' - a perfect stroke. "Hitting that sweet spot repeatedly and relishing the joy of the sweet sport is what I constantly aspired towards", said Sethi, an MBA.

A sweet spot is possible in every human endeavour - whether one is a chef, plumber, cook or gardener. "To me success is a 'job well done'. For society, the formula of success is money, fame and power", he said.

The book, which attempts to interpret the meaning of success and the meaning of joy, is a result of an intense, introspective journey which the two traversed together in five days of absolute seclusion at a village near Ahmedabad.

Forty-six-year-old Agarwal said though he achieved the necessary social status in corporate life, a feeling of inadequacy and failure dogged him. This was due to his lack of accomplishment in the area that he considered his true passion -- the billiards table.

While Sethi always did what his heart told him to do and succeeded, Agarwal, it was stated, chose the secure world of upward mobility. Says Agarwal: "Given a choice between happiness and success, I had chosen success".

Cheers
Kuldip