Nine Lives

Reading 'Nine Lives' by William Dalrymple. Its a nice book about nine people from different spectrum of life in India. 


Interesting revelations about dead-body skull eaters in West Bengal. And their supposedly powers. Another interesting character, a MBA working in FMCG in Mumbai, shuns everything and become sanyasi. He takes this decision in a fraction of second. 


Dalrymple has good repository of knowledge about India. 


Another book I had read which was as interesting as this is 'Holy Cow' by Sarah McDonald. 

Songs Lyrics

"shining in the sun, like a pearl upon da ocean.
come n feel me..come n heal me.


hua jo tu bhi mera mera..tera jo iqraar hua...
to kyu naa main bhi keh doon keh doon..
hua mujhe bhi pyar hua..


tera hone laga hoon, khone laga hoon, jabse mila hoon...

tera hone laga hoon, khone laga hoon, jabse mila hoon.


shining in the sun, like a pearl upon da ocean.
come n feel me..come n heal me.


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waise to mann mera , pehle bhi raato mein, aksar hi chahat ke haan...sapne sanjota tha....


pehle bhi dhadkan ye, dhun koi gaati thi, par ab jo hota hai...wo pehle naa hota tha..



hua hai tujhe jo bhi jo bhi, mujhe bhi iss baar huwa..to kyu naa main bhi keh doo.. keh doo.huwa mujhe bhi pyar huwa...

tera hone laga hoon, khone laga hoon, jabse mila hoon...

tera hone laga hoon, khone laga hoon, jabse mila hoon.


shining in the shade ov sun, like a pearl upon da ocean.
come n feel me..come heal me.
thinkin bout da lubing ,making n liking sharing.
come n feel me..come heal me.."

Ideal Day

Select one day of the week or month wherein you commit to yourself that you will speak truth the whole day no matter what, will not do any loose talk, will not do or think about violence and anger (There are 84 types of violence. Even the thought of harming anyone is considered violence). If possible try to help someone. Block out any bad, immoral, unethical, negative thought from the mind and control your senses.

After doing this exercise for whole day, there will arise a sacred, very enjoyable and satisfactory feeling in the heart. One will wonder if such heavenly experience ever existed.

Clean stomach

Having honey and half lemon mixed with lukewarm water as first thing in the morning helps in stomach problems. It should be taken before going to rest room. It also helps in getting rid of the urge to have tea/coffee.

Sites

Buying a domain name and developing a site is easier than I thought. Even yahoo, rediff etc have services to buy domain names and host your site.

I bought my site from justhost.com. Using it for last 4-5 months. Their services has been good and prompt. As of now it just hosts static html pages. But I plan to build some business intelligence. I paid around 5K per year for this site. I am told by their customer service that renewal after 1 year will be discounted.

The thing I don't like about justhost is that they provide only RUBY, ROR (Ruby on Rails) and PHP frameworks to develop business applications. Yahoo is even worse, they provide only PHP. Coming from java/j2ee background, I wish they support at least Grails if not jee (j2ee).

For jee (jsp , servlet etc) there is a site called eatj.com. I can host my jee applications (war and ear files) free there . They provide mysql database too. But I read the free hosting is limited and eatj.com is suffixed with the site name. For example, site name would be like skhurana.eatj.com. This is fine for learning and playing around.

I wonder if there a is business opportunity for me as I can develop and maintain sites :-) ?

Periodic works

We have to do so many periodic repeated things in a week / month / year that its easy to forget and skip. For example, every month electricity bill, credit card bill etc have to be paid. In Bangalore, if you forget to pay electricity bill on time BESCOM will disconnect the power connection without even a single warning.

Then you have school fees for kids, insurance premiums payments and so on. Having lots of work in office makes you forget these easily. I found a simple solution for this.

I have google account. I created events in google calendar. I get an email reminding me of these one day before I have to take action on it. So less chance of me skipping these. For yearly payments e.g. insurance premium payments I repeat the event yearly on particular dates.

And yes, I added calendar widget to igoogle so that I see tasks as soon as I open the browser.

Now I don't have worry about forgetting such tasks.

Feeling Happy

I am happy because it rained today. The rain drops falling from tree leaves remind of white pearls playing on a beautiful woman's neck. I am happy because a new morning came after the night. It reminds me everyday that after dark comes light, for sure. I am happy because I feel lucky to have born in this beautiful world. I feel happy because nature has so much beauty that my eyes are not sufficient to enjoy it. It needs my heart to connect with It to assimilate It. I am happy because I have realized that I can not compete with book-worms, people who claim to work on weekends. I realized that rest after weekdays hard work is very satisfying. I feel happy because I know that its the journey rather than the end which is enjoyable.

I am happy because I choose to be.