If you are not part of the SOLUTION, you are part of the PRECIPITATE

I scored 51, How about you?

Below is Dr. Phil's test. (Dr. Phil scored 55--he did this test on Oprah-she got a 38.) Some folks pay a lot of money to find this stuff out. The following is pretty accurate and it only takes 2 minutes. Don't peek, but begin the test as you scroll down and answer. Answers are for who you are now...... not who you were in the past. Have pen or pencil and paper ready. This is a real test given by the Human Relations Dept. at many of the major corporations today. It helps them get better insight concerning their employees and prospective employees. It's only 10 simple questions, so...... grab a pencil and paper to keep track of your letter answers. Ready..... GO!

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1. When do you feel your best?
a) in the morning
b) during the afternoon &and early evening
c) late at night

2. You usually walk...
a) fairly fast, with long steps
b) fairly fast, with little steps
c) less fast head up, looking the world in the face
d) less fast, head down
e) very slowly

3. When talking to people you...
a) stand with your arms folded
b) have your hands clasped
c) have one or both your hands on your hips
d) touch or push the person to whom you are talking
e) play with your ear, touch your chin, or smooth your hair

4. When relaxing, you sit with...
a) your knees bent with your legs neatly side by side
b) your legs crossed
c) your legs stretched out or straight
d) one leg curled under you

5. When something really amuses you, you react with...
a) big appreciated laugh
b) a laugh, but not a loud one
c) a quiet chuckl! e
d) a sheepish smile

6. When you go to a party or social gathering you...
a) make a loud entrance so everyone notices you
b) make a quiet entrance, looking around for someone you know
c) make the quietest entrance, trying to! stay unnoticed

7. You're working very hard, concentrating hard, and you're interrupted...
a) welcome the break
b) feel extremely irritated
c) vary between these two extremes

8. Which of the following colors do you like most?
a) Red or orange
b) black
c) yellow or light blue
d) green
e) dark blue or purple
f) white
g) brown or gray

9. When you are ! in bed at night, in those last few moments before going to sleep....
a) stretched out on your back
b) stretched out face down on your stomach
c) on your side, slightly curled
d) with your head on one arm
e) with your head under the covers

10. You often dream that you are...
a) falling
b) fighting or struggling
c) searching for something or somebody
d) flying or floating
e) you usually have dreamless sleep
f) your dreams are always pleasant


POINTS:
1. (a) 2 (b) 4 (c) 6
2. (a) 6 (b) 4 (c) 7 (d) 2 (e) 1
3. (a) 4 (b) 2 (c) 5 (d) 7 (e) 6
4. (a) 4 (b) 6 (c) 2 (d) 1
5. (a) 6 (b) 4 (c) 3 (d) 5 (e) 2
6. (a) 6 (b) 4 (c) 2
7. (a) 6 (b) 2 (c) 4
8. (a) 6 (b) 7 (c) 5 (d) 4 (e) 3 (f) 2 (g) 1
9. (a) 7 (b) 6 (c) 4 (d) 2 (e) 1
10. (a) 4 (b) 2 (c) 3 (d) 5 (e) 6 (f) 1

OVER 60 POINTS: Others see you as someone they should "handle with care." You're seen as vain, self-centered, and who is extremely dominant. Others may admire you, wishing they could be more like you, but don't always trust you, hesitating to become too deeply involved with you.

51 TO 60 POINTS: Others see you as an exciting, highly volatile, rather impulsive personality; a natural leader, who's quick to make decisions, though not always the right ones. They see you as bold and adventuresome, someone who will try anything once; someone who takes chances and enjoys an adventure. They enjoy being in your company because of the excitement you radiate.

41 TO 50 POINTS: Others see you as fresh, lively, charming, amusing, practical, and always interesting; someone who's constantly in the center of attention, but sufficiently well-balanced not to let it go to their head. They also see you as kind, considerate, and understanding; someone who'll always cheer them up and help them out.

31 TO 40 POINTS: Others see you as sensible, cautious, careful & practical. They see you as clever, gifted, or talented, but modest. Not a person who makes friends too quickly or easily, but someone who's extremely loyal to friends you do make and who expect the same loyalty in return. Those who really get to know you realize it takes a lot to shake your trust in your friends, but equally that it takes you a long time to get over if that trust is ever broken.

21 TO 30 POINTS: Your friends see you as painstaking and fussy They see you as very cautious, extremely careful, a slow and steady plodder. It would really surprise them if you ever did something impulsively or on the spur of the moment, expecting you to examine everything carefully from every angle and then, usually decide against it. They think this reaction is caused partly by your careful nature.

UNDER 21 POINTS: People think you are shy, nervous, and indecisive, someone who needs looking after, who always wants someone else to make the decisions &who doesn't want to get involved with anyone or anything! They see you as a worrier who always sees problems that don't exist. Some people think you're boring. Only those who know you well know that you aren't.

My City

I am Free!

Life

Best Poem by an African Kid

Disclaimer: I did not write this poem. Just posting here for record. I liked it very much...

When I Born, I Black
When I grow up, I Black
When I go in sun, I Black
When I sick, I Black, and
When I die, I still Black
And U White fella,
When u born, u pink
When u grow up, u white
When u go in sun, u red
When u cold, u blue
When u Scared, u yellow
When u sick, u green, and
When u die, u gray
And--------- -----
You calling me coloured ??? 

Let's go back to Fixing ways

dmr

Sir Ritchie passed away on October 12, 2011 at his home in New Jersey, where he lived alone.

The Digital Technology world will be indebted to him for life because of his creations and contribution.

Here are some of his quotes, links, photos.. My tiny effort to pay homage to 'The Genius"

"I am not now, nor have I ever been, a member of the demigodic party"

"Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson"

"UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity"

"I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things"

Dennis Ritchie obituary

Dennis Ritchie's Home page at Bell Labs

Wikipedia

Swami

Stand up, be bold, be strong.

Take the whole responsibility on your shoulders,

and know that you are the creator of your own destiny.

~

It is the coward and the fool who says, "This is fate" - so says the Sanskrit proverb. But it is the strong man who stands up and says - "I will make my fate".

~

Strength is life; weakness is death.

Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery; weakness is death.

~

Anything that makes you weak physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject as poison; there is no life in it, it can not be true. Truth is strengthening. Truth is purity, truth is all knowledge.

-- Swami Vivekananda

Ouch!

I cut my finger (right index) today while wiping off blade of a knife..

I realized one thing few moments later...
Upon cutting one's finger, if the first reaction comes - "shit! How will I be able to complete the project and office work on time now?", know for sure that you are working too much!

:( :(

It is a short short life..

It is a short short life, why not spend it doing what you love?
It is a short short life, why not live it to the fullest?
It is a short short life, why waste time in regrets?
It is a short short life, why not give it your best?

It is a short short life, why refrain from trying?
It is a short short life, why give up?
It is a short short life, why not go for it & make impossible possible?
It is a short short life, why limit yourself? why cover up?

It is a short short life..

It's all Engineering.. isn't it?

I vividly remember the lines of my favorite App-Mech teacher back in the days of first year of engineering -

"सुबह नल खोला तो पानी आना चाहिए, That is called engineering"

When Prof. Dixit said this in his (in)famous mechanics class, what he meant is that an engineer's job is to make things work! However trivial they may be, however unimportant they might sound. It takes engineering to make things work in this world.

• Rotate lever of a door knob & give a gentle push to your heavy door, it opens smoothly! Not many will notice this right away, but it takes clever use of appropriate fulcrum point to multiply the mechanical force which moves your door like it's a small drawer.
• Press few switches on the wall, whole room gets illuminated with bright light, temperature of air gets controlled, your favorite music starts playing & what not! Correct use of electrical engineering to wire up your house connecting all kinds of electrical gadgets & instruments makes this possible.
• Open a tap, water should start flowing out of it at next instant! Sounds simple? but it takes careful study & flawless design of pipeline system - fluid engineering!
• A couple of clicks on computer and the knowledge of whole world is at your disposal through internet! A revolution brought to you  by computer & communication engineering.

And the list could go on & on & on.... giving much more significant and complex examples from everyday life. These small to big examples from our daily lives prove beyond any doubt that we live in a world full of engineering marvels. We take their help to ease our life, we rely on them, we need them, we survive on them. It is near to impossible in current times to imagine a life without any engineering involved in it. I think we were meant to discover all this, learn from nature it's basic rules and ways of employing them to solve our problems.

I often wonder if these rules of engineering also apply to human behavior? to our actions/reactions? to our instinct? I guess they would..

...... 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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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...