Personal MCT

I joined SMU for MCA Distance Education.
I have been given some bunch of books and a list which speaks about 12 odd contact sessions which I can attend for solving doubts. I have paid more than 10,000 bucks (for each semester, total semesters being 6) for just around half a dozen books., and just a dozen contact sessions.

I know about PersonalMBA.com
I think there is ample room for making a Personal MCT (Masters in Computing Technology).

The reasons are:

• You just need around 20,000 INR to buy a machine
• You don't need to buy any proprietary software, You get all FOSS tools
  
• You don't even need to buy hard copies of books, All FOSS manuals are available (Also Wikipedia Books)
  
• You get ample support from FOSS Mailing Lists and User group. And MIT and institutes have also put all of their courseware online for free download.

Whatz stopping any Free Software User Group from creating such an institute to be created?

Heroes - You Don't have to be a soldier to love your country

This Diwali special was the movie, "Heroes - You Don't Have to be a Soldier to Love Your Country". I saw it twice. Its a very nice nice movie.

I have heard the song Mannata more than 100 times. And the other song Wats up my bro is also cool.

I really had tears in my eyes when I saw the movie for the first time.

Life is full of life. Again

I always wanted to be the best software engineer. I enrolled myself in one of the supposed to be best ;-) colleges in Pune. But it turned to be a very sorry experience. I also joined NCST, but even there I was not happy as a student and as they themselves said we won't teach basics.

Now after some years when I have time and dime, I have enrolled myself in a distance education MCA course. I have exams in January. The syllabus and books are still to come. But I think I will be fine.

Life is full of life again.
I go cycling in the morning. I play basked ball after that.
I go to office. Come early. Do some studies.
Read books on UX and books of my interest.
And learn Guitar on weekends.
I am also starting to learn Vedic Maths from this Saturday.
May be start to learn flute also.

3 Months less in 15 Years of DYS

14 Years and 9 Months of my life have been total DYS.

I have done everything else, made websites, did web-hosting, enrolled at pathetic colleges & institutes, organized events, met great icons and complete DYS.

Classroom coaching is a big no for me, because I am either too strong or too weak in my Social Engineering aspect. Strong/Weak whatever but I fail because I get swayed or lost or I cannot comprehend and take action, I leave things on their own and then what happens is not less than disastour.

Now I am restarting the system and rebooting myself. The first activity I will do is write a book.

Lakshya

Preity Zinta: "Uske Zindagi Mein, Wo Kya Kehte Hain, Lakshya Nahin Hai."

After 5 Years now I find myself saying that my old dream was really my only dream.

"Lakshya Ko Har Hal Mein Pana Hai."

To Read

Updated on 14-October-2008

1. Ink Heart (Oct 14 2008) (Currently Reading)
2. The Secret
3. Its Not About Bike. Its my journey back to life. 
4. A Christmas Carol
5. The First Circle
6. The Big 5-0
7. On The Road
8. The Dharma Bums
9. Big Sur
10. The Subterraneans
11. Visions of Cody

Zeitgest

I finally made my mind that I have to do MBA asap, and as my wordpower is very weak, I subscribed to Dictionary.com's one word per day by email. It was when I was looking at the archive of the word of the day, I saw the word Zeitgest which means "The Spirit Of The Time".

As knowing the meaning of the word is not enough, I went through the sentences available as I had to understand the placing of the words so I could construct my own sentences later. The last sentence ignited a curiosity in mind to know more about Mr. Jack Kerouac. The sentence was:

Like other figures who seem, in retrospect, to have been precociously representative of their times, Kerouac was not simply responding to the Zeitgeist, but to the peculiarly twisted facts of his own upbringing.
-- Jack Kerouac: The Beat Goes On, New York Times, December 30, 1979

On reaching the Wikipedia page of Mr. Jack Kerouac ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kerouac
 ) I saw that therez some great resemblance in his and my snap.

I have added all of his works in my to read list. Its not just the resemblance in the posture that leads me to read his works but its the line, "but to the peculiarly twisted facts of his own upbringing".

I used to always believe that reading Novels is a waste of time. One should read biographies of great achievers only. But after reading like 5 chapters of InkHeart, I want to read & just read more and more. 

The pathway interestingly is not the love of literature, but is resemblance in some shades of the plots, authors and backdrops, which is making me curious to know more of their works and understand them better and may be then chisel some character sketch for myself. :-)