Another interesting decision to make

A very good paying job or a full scholarship to study in one of the
top colleges in far away Sweden.Decision time!. As they said -life is
full of choices- it turns out the way you choose it to.
I hope that I don't make a bad decision now.

Happiness

When people are pretty down, as I am most of the times(and even now) I
listen to music. Music is the greatest thing that keeps my spirit
alive. I wonder what else could I do.
There was a question in The Guardian,London about depression(in the
magazine section, yesterday's Issue) and I found it exhilarating.

HP Pavilion 7850 Problem

I have found a odd problem with an old HP Pavilion 7850.
After pressing F1 for entry into BIOS, the computer doe-
s not do so, but it stalls and stalls with the black screen
on, but as soon as the bios setup option is not used ,the
computer boots into Windows Xp.
Some problem that.
robin

Basic Principles of Life(Continued)

Relationship is a strong word.It may mean a million thing to million
different people.And I know that most relationships start randomly, as
almost God(if there is one) provided the thrust. I believe that asking
for a date from an unknown person, if you think that person is
somewhat interesting is all right. But pursuing a relationship which
is leading nowhere is inane and foolish. The most important thing that
I have learned from my quarter century of relationships is that you
should care about only those who care about you. Running after ( or
trying to maintain) a person of interest is ridiculous.
Thus
CARE ABOUT THOSE WHO CARE ABOUT YOU
and
YOU CAN'T CHANGE OTHERS
That means
CARE ABOUT THOSE WHO CARE ABOUT YOU BUT IF YOU WANT TO MAINTAIN THAT
RELATIONSHIP DON'T EVER TRY TO CHANGE THAT PERSON ,IT SIMPLY WON'T
WORK.

That you know is life.
Robin

My basic principles of life

Sarah used to tell me that life is an university, learn from it. In
this quarter century of my life I have learnt some things -which I
have made the basic principles of my life- the way I judge people and
the way I think that the world should be run. They are
1)The root cause of unhappiness is expectation.As long as I am
expecting something from somebody I will always be in the pangs of
unhappiness.However much I love the guy/gal in question ,I would try
never to expect anything from anybody.As they say nothing comes free
in life.
2)You can't change others. You can only try to influence others.The
rest is upto them.But even then you can't change the basic inherent
characteristics of people ,no matter what.A troglodyte is always a
troglodyte, a procrastinator is always a procastinator, a mendacious
guy will always be mendacious, and a totally selfish one will remain
the same throughout his/her life.An iota of change does not mean that
the person has changed .If fact it will never happen.
3)I am alone and will always be. That is because of the fact that
everybody is inherently different.Nobody actually lasts as a friend.
4)I am what I am. The reebok's ad has a message.Whoever says that
he/she couldn't do anything because of something is giving an excuse.
I am what I am , and will always be so.
As in the theme song of One tree hill, I don't wanna be anything
except what I am.
Robin

Back to square one

I am writing after a long time.In this time I have already started my
graduate course in a so called "prestigious" college. Since the course
that I am doing is directly relevant to the current technologies,I am
pretty sure that if I could successfully complete this course,I will
at least be materialistically successful in the standview of the
world. In the meantime I have lost the one girl that I care about and
that would make my world little more interesting.

Crazy demented 2

Today I did some real crazy stuffs. But that could seem natural to me ,isn't it.

Crossroads of life

I have come to this crossroads of life, the direction forward I know
is dependent upon me.I think of life retrospectively and I think of
myself as an iota of hope. I lived my life on hope,but never had hope
dictated my life.Now I know that I am in love with somebody ,though
she deserves somebody a million times better than me.Whatever I have
done or not done has come back to hunt me, remind me of the fatality
of life.Decisions ,decisions : which decide what I do or not.Every
decision ,every lie, everything that I have done has come back
sometimes to hunt me, sometimes to deride me, sometimes to make fun of
me, sometimes to just give an iota of hope .And that iota of hope is
what that keeps me alive.I almost had given up completely.I was
thinking of suicide, then thinking about the amazing achievements I
had gained without any support from anybody in life. I may not be
exceptional but I am certainly above average in certain stuffs. And I
may not be the worst ,but I am certainly well below average in things
like communications and socialization.I always claimed that I could do
it alone, I don't need friends ,I don't need anybody to support me
,but I came to know that the recluse is speaking, I need attention.I
don't want to be a cynosure,but I do need friends with whom I can
talk,I need people to listen in.And I don't have that,probably I can
never have that.
I don't know, maybe because I am black or maybe because I am a geek in
a true sense of word, I intent to live that way. I am completely
progressive and my political feelings sometimes paint
the horizon sometimes encompassing all possible scenario of mutuality
with somebody I would probably want to talk to.
Sarah is different,but I can't say anything.As I said she deserves better.

Sweden Got a Pro-piracy party

From a news item in slashdot ,
"Tired of being called criminals, a group of Swedish filesharers have
started a new political party, The Piracy Party (Piratpartiet in
Swedish). The party wants to abolish all intellectual property laws,
reverse the data retention directive passed by the EU last month, and
protect privacy with new laws. The party expresses no opinion on other
subjects. The Piracy Party's webpage is so far only available in
Swedish, at piratpartiet.se The party's goal is to get into to the
parliament, which requires 4% of the votes, or roughly 225000 votes.
Elections are held in September"
Well for me I am not pro-piracy, I believe in intellectual property
rights, but believe in concepts of free speech and freedom to live and
behave as one desires. That means I don't support government
interference, and somebody telling me how I should I live or not live
my life.
It must also be kept in mind that piracy is the only way through many
in the third world can afford expensive softwares and books. You can
download softwares and even necessary books from IRC or some P2P
network more easily than you can even get them legally. Most books are
not even available in libraries of third world nations.
So the $100 dollar laptop (developed by MIT scientists) could not only
lessen the digital divide ,it may also give an opportunity to people
from third world nations to actually read good books.
I believe that the copyright laws are stringent and patents
/copyrights should expire in say 10 years so everyone could share the
amazing stuffs that gets into a developed country's market every year.
So this might be the right move towards this direction.