The Darkside !

Almighty!

After watching "Evan Almighty" and "Bruce Almighty" I have been able to derive few important conclusions about God
1. God is one (as it is played by the same character in both the movies) :)
2. God is a Free man (Morgan freeman)
hahaha....:)

but anyways both the movies are good........ "Bruce almighty" is much better then the other

What I Learned

This is a email I received from a friend of mine, ..........almost all of it sounds so true.



I've learned that we don't have to change friends if we understand that friends change.

I've learned that no matter how good a friend is, they're going to hurt you every once in a while and you must forgive them for that.

I've learned that true friendship continues to grow, even over the longest distance. The same goes for true love.

I've learned that you can do something in an instant that will give you heartache for life.

I've learned that it's taking me a long time to become the person I want to be.

I've learned that you should always leave loved ones with loving words. It may be the last time you see them.

I've learned that you can keep going long after you can't.

I've learned that we are responsible for what we do, no matter how we feel.

I've learned that either you control your attitude or it controls you.

I've learned that regardless of how hot and steamy a relationship is at first, the passion fades and there had better be something else to take its place.

I've learned that heroes are the people who do what has to be done when it needs to be done, regardless of the consequences.

I've learned that money is a lousy way of keeping score.

I've learned that my best friend and I can do anything or nothing and have the best time.

I've learned that sometimes the people you expect to kick you when you're down, will be the ones to help you get back up.

I've learned that sometimes when I'm angry I have the right to be angry, but that doesn't give me the right to be cruel.

I've learned that just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.

I've learned that maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you've had and what you've learned from them, and less to do with how many years you have lived.

I've learned that it isn't always enough to be forgiven by others. Sometimes you have to learn to forgive yourself.

I've learned that no matter how bad your heart is broken the world doesn't stop

The Journey that Chose Me!

Somebody said "You choose some journeys and some journeys chooses you"........that's quite true, we all choose what we want do,........ we make our choices......but still life or destiny or whatever u call it has already chosen the path for us to walk.
The sharp turns on this journey cannot be foreseen. U may be headed in one direction and very next second u realise your whole purpose for living has changed and u are headed somewhere else.
There are no guide books written on how to handle all these changes and if u don't take care of yourself and be prepared it can lead to depression , frustration and lot of other bad things........
My father had always been my guide whenever my life took any bad turn......... helping in his own way. I think his philosophy was not give food to the hungry but teach him how to feed himself.That has always prepared me take anything head on.
But recently my life took such bad turn that nothing could get it back on track.
Not even my Father..........as it was him.....he was gone forever. after battling with leukemia for over 3 months.
this was my biggest loss ....... void which can never b filled.
it is something i never expected to happen to him, as I had never seen him seriously ill or weak throughout my life!
The day it was tested positive for cancer till the day he was freed from his suffering have been the toughest......and even more tough for my mom who was with him day and night !
they were filled with pain ......Hope.....Confusion
I learned very important secret of life, U may live or die the Very next moment ........nothing maters........ how much money and material wealth you have never gives u any satisfaction .......only people and relationship are the biggest wealth and nobody can take that way from you.....and if you have right life partner even in those most troubled times you always have the desire to survive.
My father was rich in these two things........ I was touched and greatly indebted by the all the selfless help by all his friends ,our relatives and the doctors.
But nothing can stop what had to happen.......n I have to move on the journey which has chosen me!

Hall Of Flags @ UTA

This is how it looked about a year ago at Hall of flags in Nedderman Hall. now there is only empitiness as you look at ceiling ................ I wish they put all the flags back atleast during graduation ceremony!

Random!

ok I m just writing this cause my previous post was just something i picked from somewhere n dumped here.........n now i feel guilty as it did not involve any effort from my side.
so I thought I will write some random thoughts on my Crap Log.
hmmmm....... now what? my mind is kinda frozen.....whenever u want it to think it never does n when u want it stable it does exactly opposite.
but anyways life is going by n nothing interesting happening these days.......just waiting to move into my new apartment. I will miss my old apartment cause have been staying here for almost the entire time I spent in Texas.
Texas is interesting place ...... vast open flat land.......(there again, thought process froze )
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ok I guess thats enough to cover up the guilt feeling........ will write more soon:)

Live Like You Were Dying - Really Nice Lyrics

He said I was in my early forties
with a lot of life before me
when a moment came that stopped me on a dime
and I spent most of the next days
looking at the x-rays
Talking bout the options
and talking bout sweet time
I asked him when it sank in
that this might really be the real end
how’s it hit you when you get that kinda news
man what’d you do

and he said
I went sky diving
I went Rocky Mountain climbing
I went 2.7 seconds on a bull named fumanchu
and I loved deeper and I spoke sweeter
and I gave forgiveness I’d been denying
and he said someday I hope you get the chance
to live like you were dying.

He said I was finally the husband
that most the time I wasn’t
and I became a friend a friend would like to have
and all the sudden going fishin
wasn’t such an imposition
and I went three times that year I lost my dad
well I finally read the good book
and I took a good long hard look
at what I’d do if I could do it all again

and then
I went sky diving
I went Rocky Mountain climbing
I went 2.7 seconds on a bull named fumanchu
and I loved deeper and I spoke sweeter
and I gave forgiveness I’d been denying
and he said someday I hope you get the chance
to live like you were dying.

Like tomorrow was a gift and you got eternity to think about
what’d you do with it what did you do with it
what did I do with it
what would I do with it?

Sky diving
I went Rocky Mountain climbing
I went 2.7 seconds on a bull named fumanchu
and then I loved deeper and I spoke sweeter
and I watched an eagle as it was flying
and he said someday I hope you get the chance
to live like you were dying.
To live like you were dying
To live like you were dying
To live like you were dying
To live like you were dying
------------------------------------Tim Mcgraw

One of the Best Summers ----- 2006 Part 1 Atlanta & Knoxville

Summer 2006 was one the best summer after coming to US, filled with lots adventures.......was Happy to be free from the college Life (though now I feelt it was much better then the working life) any Master's student knows what it means to be free from all that trouble:).......as MS student your lifevery restricted ..... only places u know are apartment and Department and only things u can depend on are Advisor and Budwiser(unluckily I dont drink so I had one option less:( .......)

So I wanted to get out of this place called Arlingpuram (Arlington).......decided to go to Atlanta n Knoxville to meet my friends there...... so the first trip began just few days after grad ceremony.

don't know what made me decide to travel in GreyHound ....but I did .....My longest journey in a bus ever.........it looks like forever till the bus reaches the A town. I would never take it up again its better flying over Alabama and Mississippi:)

Atlanta has a different feel than Dallas......more crowded I guess.....Parking is a big problem ......I m lucky to b in Texas for that matter everything is Big In Texas:)

Day I reached there thought of going to Molina to see the Meditation Ashram there find the inner peace.
driving all the way on 75/85 to south of downtown Atlanta is beautiful...... (at least for us in Texas.....If we see 2 trees within a mile of road we consider it to be scenic) and Molina itself is really beautiful n quite place....with a hill top ashram away from the noise of the civilisation.
could not click many pics ....... as I was driving alone and did not have a very good camera.

then the next day was visit to Knoxville....... its a drive with lots of opportunities to break the speed limit:)......... I think Chattanooga is the only big town u come across while travelling from Georgia to Knoxville TN. Initially was stuck in traffic for 2 hours just outside Atlanta....... tried to click pics as I was driving at about 1MPH....but not anything interesting......except a big boat.....




So for the first time I had travelled from the Flat lands of Texas to Smoky Mountains........ they r big or may be they looked so cause I had not seen any mountains for past 2 years:).....we decided to go to the highest point of Smokey's .......Cling Man's Dome but the weather suddenly changed lots of wind n rain we managed up to new found Gap........ (I could not find the Gap it was too foggy)

So I returned home dejected...... but the plan to visit Smokies again had already started cooking in my Mind! never did I know at that time that it would be one my most memorable trip ever:)

It Begins

So here I am, finally got my lazy self to write something.
My life so far has really been good with its ups and downs. All of us go through it and that single moment of happiness makes us forget all the trouble we had to bear to get there.
Now about myself, I am not usually used to writing about myself........dont know why?.......may be lack of self confidence:). but now exception to that rule.........
I like to dream about lot of things.....would like outdoors better than watching TV anytime, photography is my Hobby......... and I am always planing the next road trip or some adventure trip:)
now why have I started writing in a blog?.................
hmmmmm....... I m just bored nothing else to do!:) .....aha but its not like I m free , the workload is too much that I dont get do anything else.....
so I thought this would be a good way to get out all the crap lingering in my brain, so dont expect some extraordinary or sensible things written in this blog......and if it continues getting more crapier i may decide to change the blog name to Crap Log......anyone .....(i mean if anyone has manged to read so far upto this line......hmm u really did.....either u have absolutely nothing to do in this world or u really like me)can suggest to change it much b4 if need be.