Aha

We all have our own 'Aha moments' or 'Eureka moments'. Some of my aha moments are:
The instant i learned to balance a bicycle, when i learnt to swim, when i prepared a manageable chicken dish, day i got my first salary, finding obvious among the non-obvious, admiring feminine beauty etc etc. Basically the moments which leaves you Touched, Moved and Inspired. This piece of article explains the cognitive science behind it and gives a clear realization.

This above article states those which all the confused souls can very well connect with and they need to be aware of. Certainly sambozia had serious intentions of writing something of this sort some day...

TGIF

Be the first to reach at work and start blogging. This is how i want to celebrate my Fridays. World looks different on this day. Food and water tastes different and air around is deceptive. I try to hover around while waiting fastidiously for the 5.30 bell to ring. Next two days are going to be different from the previous five while i will have my own twists with survival stuff. Since the advent of summer, i have changed my loyalty from Aloo paranthas to Rawa onion dosa and i am quite content with it. Some times i bump into stuffs like Lassi , Chocobars or Mango Shakes but i never give them due importance. The tough part is to tolerate my newly appointed maid aunty whose hindi is a bit less ordinary. My flatmate deals with her and myself instead of succumbing to irritation, i prefer to communicate with her symbolically. Time passes by and all equation changes after 48 hours and the story gets different.

Surviving Uncertainity

Events happen and they carry a connotation with them which is left to our own imaginations.These days i am reading 'Fooled by randomness' a book which stresses upon a simple fact. Everything is random and chaos and it all depends on the window we are in.Not an easy read and i am going through it at snail's pace. Events spanning for a shorter duration can have different outcomes than the longer ones.But being rational beings we try to find a pattern in it and we tend to confine ourselves to deterministic boundaries. More the uncertainty involved, more is it thrilling and more strenuous. One example is to compare the adrenaline levels involved in a soccer match against a test cricket match. Probably this is the reason Analysts or Bureaucrats have tough times as they have to deal with issues built on human pshycology in their calculations. But there is a limit to this analysis and predictions and sometimes one has to go by gut feel when things are too uncertain. In due course one should take care not to be a prey to ignorance. This can happen when one deals with lots of variables and finite chances of some slipping out if one is not careful enough. One example of ignorance can be:
In the movie Sholay every time Jay tosses the coin and Viru loses. Viru wasn't a victim of probability but a victim of ignorance which costed him Jay's life in the end. I believe the best one can do is to have his/her actions synchronous with contemplation and chances are that one may hit upon a better alternative while trying to simplifying it.

Some years back, i was listening to a Microsoft Engineer at a seminar in Mumbai. He had said " An Engineer should enter office premises with folded sleeves, to show his eagerness to deal with unpredictable". I was highly motivated and till date i never forget to fold my sleeves whenever i am in a full shirt. Being an Engineer, its our religion to make things look simple no matter how complicated or uncertain they are. We are unlike those theoretical scientists who will make others feel claustrophobic both with their pages of equations and their physical appearances. Neither are we are like poets and philosophers whose job is to make simple things look complicated while writing pages after pages on life, love, sunset, rains etc etc