Ann's Abode

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

My perception of me was thus. It shook yesterday, i came to terms with the reality of my existence.

The fact that i am just a fresher sunk in : Inexperienced and raw and that others expect nothing much of me, so i took the liberty of reducing my expectations of myself (finally!).

It did not come at an easy price. Debugging your own programs is never easy and this was years and years of malfunctioned programming that had gone into making me and my Mountain-sized ego.

Everything good that happened to me was a reinforcement of it , while every failure crushed it!

It was either exhilaration or grave depression for me.


That explains my fits when anyone insulted, blood boiled even when i did deserve it.

The Reality check has gotten me to start to actually live in the moment rather than in some fantasy land where i am the Next Bill Gates/Miss Universe/Donald Trump.

i am just anu, a nobody,
someone who might be somebody someday
and i could'nt be there tomorrow, if i was'nt here today so
i am very thankful for being here and for who i am today.

If at all i am proud of being me, it is only of my ability to Debugging my own programming ;)

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.
Oprah Winfrey

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Albert Einstein

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
David Frost

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Bill Gates

Failure is success if we learn from it.
Malcolm Forbes

Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.
Mortimer Adler

To understand is to perceive patterns.
Isaiah Berlin

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
Plato

He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
Plato

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

To Love and Win is the Best Thing;
To Love and Lose is the Next Best.

For people who understand that, Sawariya is a beautiful movie.

Sanjay Leela Bhansali himself said in one of his interviews that
Unrequited love is his favourite form of love.He believed that, it
was the only way Love lasted forever and that romance begins to fade
when people begin to take their loved ones for granted once in their
hold.

I agree with him in the fact that there is a different beauty in
losing your love as long as you know they are happy.The dull ache in
the heart is something i know i miss when i recover.

Ah! So Great minds do think alike after all. ;)

Its a beautiful picturesque movie, exactly what Hollywood calls a musical.

The breaking into a melodious songs happens for a good reason each
time and not just for the sake of it -> A True rarity in Bollywood,
not just the timely occurence of songs but also the melody contained!

i heard it took 3 years for Monty Singh compose the music, years well
spent i say.
Me thinks whether this one sets the cash registers ringing or not,
it sure has a chance of bringing the coveted Golden statuette home.

He could have easily shown the idyllic picture of the hero and the
heroine walking away in the sunset which the average indian audience
is so accustomed to seeing that every time it does'nt happen,
something in us revolts, Remember Titanic? and scores of other such
movies which makes us want to yell out 'Why did it have it have to end
that way?'


It sure takes guts to defy convention and especially when crores of
rupees are at stake.

I salute the man for having the courage to follow his heart which sure
will give him a sense of pride in his product;
Something even tasting Box office success Bigtime cannot bring if one
has compromised one's product just to make it more commercially viable.

Have a good day
Signing Off,
Ann3004

Trust me, i have enough expertise to write this so i thought i'll share my knowledge, i am finally laughing at myself through this and THAT as far as i know is the first step to moving on ...

U can treat this as a comprehensive guide to WHAT NOT TO DO... enjoy!

1) Get the often repeated Aptitude test paper of the previous years and base all your hopes on it, don't study anything else and Voila! The format gets completely changed for the first time ever exclusively for you!

2)When you hear about negative marking of 0.25 , take extra care about positive marking and mark only the answers which you are certain are correct even if those answers lie in only one section which leads you to exclaim after the paper "oh sh**, is there sectional cut-off?"

3)In the last round after you have been promised the job, when the interviewer (a biggie of a small but very successful company) asks you why you want to leave your previous job say "There is growth, but this branch i am working in is not huge " which leads him to say "My company is also not huge, so that means you'll leave me!"

4) When asked "Where do you see yourself in 3 years ?" say -> Working abroad in the technology you are training me in!

That's all i have for now ... but will surely update this with more of my pearls of wisdom!

Lesson learnt: Complacency does KILL!

Life has always been about ... Win some
Lose some

The Ultimate aim though is -> To Win all
but until then i can keep laughing at myself and yes, u can keep enjoying at my expense! :P