...... Until you start believing in yourself, you ain't gonna have a life.

I have not written these lines.. I read them somewhere.. They are from the movie Rocky Balboa. He is speaking to his son..
I like the frankness and direct approach apart from the pure fact in them...

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I fight my way in ... and i wanna fight my way out of this world ... that's all I wanna do!!

Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't how hard you hit; it's about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward. How much you can take, and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done. Now, if you know what you're worth, then go out and get what you're worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hit, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you are because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain't you. You're better than that!
...... Until you start believing in yourself, you ain't gonna have a life.


-- Rocky Balboa
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Phew... What a relief..!!!

This "end-of-exams" phenomenon has something magical about it. :) What a great relief one feels immediately after completing his/her exams! and end-of-semester is adding sugar to the milk.. :)

No lectures to watch, no pending assignments to do, no boring project reports to prepare & no more those seemingly fundu but impossible to understand IEEE papers to read-n-review...

Life is much simpler now... Laze around, facebook, watch HIMYM pending episodes, cook something new, catch up with pals, office work at nights.. Life is back-on-track.. :)

...... only until next semester starts...... :(

And the Chicken Biryani is here....

So... We were able to pull it off.. on this beautiful Sunday afternoon..

With expert help from 'BABA', master chef Pappu and chief assistant Suhail present....... Our very first Chicken Biryani....!!! (drumrolls......)

Exams... Exams... & Exams..

Man... I have fall semester final exams in 3 days & what am I doing? I am reading news-paper, surfing unnecessary stuff on web, facebooking, cooking meals, and what not.. Why this always happens, when you have something important/urgent coming up, you are reminded of & are intrigued to do all other stuff which were pending for long time and you always pushed them saying 'Aaah.. it can be done later...'
I think this is nature's way of teaching you that 'everything has it's own correct time & it should be taken care of then only'. If you keep pushing small small non-critical stuff due to your laziness, it will haunt you when you have real important task at your hands..

BTW, now we are preparing chicken biryani!! Milind came up with this idea today morning & obviously, I jumped in. He did the necessary shopping & now we are onto cooking some Biryani... Let's see how it comes out!! :-)

What is the ultimate purpose of life.......?

Tonight, suddenly at this late hour, I am reminded of this eternal question... What is my purpose in life? Why am I here? Why are we all here..

Can't say why this thought came to mind suddenly, but it has certainly occupied me completely. Can't continue study and can't even sleep...