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Funny but creative stuff, specially during the time of Tibetian protests in Beijing Olympics

Asked a defence personnel, why do you have war games?

His reply - “sweat more during peace, bleed less at war”

Was thinking over his reply, had much more deeper meaning.

kwippy !!

KAA (K.A. Anand) my batchmate at IIT Bombay has been working on this concept. For a person like me new to microblogger, I found this very interesting. This is what he explains about Kwippy

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What is kwippy? - a micro/nanoblogging webapp + IM status logger + social network

Why another microblogging app when there are already plenty out there? - There is twitter, pownce, jaiku, and 10 other similar ones. Though all of these promote small posts, each has a different kind of social network. Read the rest of this entry »

“There is no difference between good manager and good politician..both play with people to obtain result”  - one of my professor

I felt that people of Baba Amte’s calibre are so rare in our world and yet provide such an inspiration to us all that it is important that their stories should be told… a man who has consistently put others before himself; a living example of true compassion in action. - His Holiness the Dalai Lama, about Baba Amte on November 16, 2004

Baba Amte one of the India’s most prolific social worker passed away today. He has been active on various social fronts for last 50 years. In Maharashtra, he has been operating world’s largest leprosarium where he has been working to provide leprosy and handicapped persons a sense of dignity and self worth. “Work Builds, Charity Destroys” his teachings have been inspiring many others. Read the rest of this entry »

Today we had a seminar about financial restructuring. The event was coordinated by Dr. George. In the end of the seminar he showed us a 10 minute presentation he had made, which touched me a lot. It was about - 7 Habits of Eagle and things to learn from them. The presentation was as follows,

Why is Eagle logo in National Symbol of US? Why was it symbol of Hitler, Napoleon or Julias Ceasar? Why did not any of them use any other animal? Eagle has always been symbol of leadership and power.

Eagles always fly alone at high altitude. It takes courage to fly alone at high altitude. It is similar to a business situation which calls for setting high standards even if there is no one near to those standards. Read the rest of this entry »

Went on one day trek to Gorakhgad with Swapnil and Nikhil Deshpande. Nothing planned.

A quick short trip to Dadimaa with Vinay and his friend. Nothing much to write.

It was a cold and misty morning. One could hear the sound of water falling from the Wilson dam. Diesel engine of the boat was pumping in rhythm and throwing puffs of smoke. It seemed to be a dream, with mountains all around moving in a boat in a lake with a fog layer over it. The boat started slowly advancing towards Ratanwadi from the Shendi village at the banks of Bhandardara lake. This was indeed a beautiful start to our Ratangad to Harishchandragad trek!We had started the earlier night from Thane taking a bus to Igatpuri and early morning bus from there to Bhandardara. It would have been a long trek, so had to start early. After a hour in boat ride we land at the base of Ratangad fort near Ratanwadi village. I had brief memories of this place, list time I had visited couple of years ago. It didn’t seem a long time for me, with memories of the solo trek still fresh. Read the rest of this entry »