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Steve Jobs passes away at 56 !!

Steve Jobs!

The sound of this very name brings in front of the eyes a powerful, innovative, a unique image of the personality that made digital world close to the people.

Its not the same anymore. On hearing the name now, what accompanies the image is the feeling that a star has lost the light in it. It was on the 5th of October, 2011 that Apple announced the passing away of this great, yet a humble man.

Jobs passed away due to pancreatic cancer and he had announced this in 2004.

(The cause of death has not yet been officially confirmed, but is generally believed to be pancreatic cancer)

His family issued a public statement "Steve died peacefully today surrounded by his family."

Further it thanked the people who shared their wishes and prayers during the last year of Steve's illness and said a website would be provided for those who wish to offer tributes and memories. It also humbly requested people to respect it's privacy at the time of grief.

And from the now orphaned Apple, an official statement voiced, "We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today. Steve's brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably better because of Steve. His greatest love was for his wife, Laurene, and his family. Our hearts go out to them and to all who were touched by his extraordinary gifts."

And now suddenly, the question arises as to "Why was Steve Jobs unique?"

We knew Jobs as the man who rapidly caused huge changes to occur in the world of technology. It may be his apple computer or the iPhone or the iPad, this man was one genius human being being.

Steven Spielberg was quoted as saying "Steve Jobs was the greatest inventor since Thomas Edison. He put the world at our fingertips."

Facebook's current CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg wrote on his wall “Steve, thank you for being a mentor and a friend. Thanks for showing that what you build can change the world. I will miss you.” 

They are indeed right, Jobs was no less than any inventor for his remarkable achievements helped reduce the "digital divide" (not sure about the iPhone but it surely is in case of all our personal computers). It is a well known fact about him that, he never would compromise with the quality of work for another thing, may be even profitability or reputation.

Apple was unique. Until today. 

And now? 

They’re just another manufacturer that knew they had a problem, but were so arrogant that they decided to release their product anyways. Jobs says that the Bloomberg article “was a crock”, which begs the question of what kind of testing did Apple actually do?

So, Jobs’ answer to the masses? “Let them have a free case!”

Its a commonly known thing that he went on about releasing a product only once he had achieved the satisfaction.

Jobs was not blindfolded to go about the conventional method of market searching for enhancing customer satisfaction and thereby the company in overall. He used to say - "You can't just ask customers what they want then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new."

This was what I liked most about his ability in seeing the people's mindset, and implementing his overall ideology and bringing out the best products of the world.

This is regarded one of the key reasons of his success.

Could we just wind back the clocks and see this?

Before the iPod appeared in 2001, there was relatively little interest in MP3 music players. Those products that did exist were chunky, often fiddly to use, and were largely bought by early adopter tech enthusiasts.

But when Apple put it hands into trying this field, it saw a huge positive change. So appealing were gadgets such as the iPod, iPhone and iPad that the public quickly engaged with them.

That was due, in no small part, to Steve Jobs' ability as a salesman, a man with farsightedness - explaining his products simply in a way that everyone could understand. Jobs sure was an outstanding competitor in every place he set his foots on.

Jobs was a person of simplicity when it came down to personal aspects.

And although he was a personality people looked upon in the society, Jobs had minimal tastes. For the past decade, Steve Jobs almost always wore the same outfit. 

This was the same even for official interviews with even Bill Gates!

From top to bottom, it was a black St. Croix mock turtleneck sweater, blue Levi 501 jeans, and New Balance 991 trainers shoes. Like I said, the items may reflect his minimalist tastes, or perhaps his flair for personal as well as corporate branding.

Steve Jobs was undoubtedly a product of 1960s and 1970s counter-culture California. As a young man, he traveled to India to stay in an ashram. Eastern philosophy would continue to be a part of his life, and he remained a Buddhist for the rest of his life. This might be accounted for his simplicity i guess.

Money appeared to matter little to Steve Jobs. His words told to the Wall Street Journal: "Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful. that's what matters to me."

And a fascinating trend he sometimes presented was to save the best to last. Jobs regularly did that when launching products. Having unveiled a raft of new gadgets, just as guests were getting ready to leave, he would utter the now famous words 

"One more thing..."!

When he did so, there was always a mischievous smile. It was part of his genius as a showman. He would then go on showing the gadget in spotlight of the event - iPod, Facetime Video calling, etc.

Coming back to the recent present, we know that it was a breaking news when he resigned as the CEO on Aug 24 2011. Personally I felt that there was a possibility that he was in his final stages. Therefore, he decided to resign in a way to make sure Apple wouldn't lose shares when its CEO died if was still continuing.

We might say that the challenge for Apple is to maintain this culture and Steve had already put a strong team in place.  Apple Inc's shares just fell less than 1% on Oct 6, 2011.

So obviously we know Jobs left the company in strong shape. How thoughtful he was to carefully mentor and leave his company in the capable hands of new CEO Tim Cook and others.

Tim Cook and Steve Jobs

Hats off to you Steve !!

Well guys.

We must never fail to learn that though he was having a disease that had very little scope for treatment and conventional healing, he was a person the world would never be able to forget, his works always memorable.

Indeed he was a great man.

I think I really do not have anymore to share with you guys.

Let us pray for his soul. God give their family strength to bear the grief.

RIP Steve Jobs.

I wish his footsteps lead us towards a higher degree of making wonderful things possible.

Let's talk about Google+ (Google plus)

Hey guys. How you doing?


Took some time yesterday to know what was really going on with the much hyped Google+, a new social networking site from search engine giant, trend setting company in world mobile market through it's Android, email and blog service provider and many more other products' owner - Google.


Being a Google fan myself, I couldn't resist to take all the tours and promotions that were ongoing for quite sometime. Am happy with the development and the idea behind it. Well, that's my personal opinion.


So want to know what is Google+ all about and why Google calls it a "Project"?


Go ahead.


Yes, as you might be well knowing by know, search engine giant Google has just announced its Google+ social networking platform that's set to rival Facebook. That is quite a big plan. Now we know that, Google doesn't have a strong history about it's tryouts in social networking services (both Google Wave and Google Buzz failed to meet the company's expectations). But now, the big question is should Mark Zuckerberg worried? Lets just take a peepy look at Google+ to see what it has in store for us.

By doing a little bit of a research, I got to know the details a bit closer. First and foremost, development of this project is codenamed "Emerald Sea". And it is believed that Google+ is basically Google's latest attempt in creating a social network. The company calls it a "project", rather than a "product", perhaps to avoid comparison with its less successful social products. Google reckons that current online networks (there were no names mentioned under this, so bear with my lacking of in-depth research) simply do not cut the mustard and that's why it's launching its own version. I visited Google's official blog to find out what ways of seeing the Google would like from the people towards it.


"Today, the connections between people increasingly happen online. Yet the subtlety and substance of real-world interactions are lost in the rigidness of our online tools.


"In this basic, human way, online sharing is awkward. Even broken. And we aim to fix it."


The first reactive question that I had in mind: Is Google following the paths of Nokia and Microsoft, who are slamming Android and its fans? Well, to discuss about that, we would want a new post here. But, that's another story.


We learn that Google focuses on this to bring down Facebook from its throne, by making every existing Google product socially compatible. Now, that's a smart idea, isn't? But Google certainly has a lot to work with, including Picasa, Gmail and Google Maps and information and functions from all of these will be integrated into the Google+ experience so that you don't have to sign into different services to share your photos and let your mates know what you're up to. The blog said.


We all use or have used products from Google in one way or the other at some point of time. How would it be to have all of them together at one place at the click of a button?


That was the best feature I really liked about Google plus, besides the innovative profile fields.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/introducing-google-project-real-life.html




Each Google+ profile will centre around whats called the "Stream", which is essentially the same thing as our Facebook's news feeds - where all of our info and updates are rounded up and constantly updated. The Stream will be joined by four core elements - Circles, Hangouts, Huddle and Sparks - with Google pointing out that these are the starting block for future developments.


The Stream will look something like this -

Google+ can currently only be accessed with a special Field Trial invitation, which Google has been sending out at random to Gmail users. Who knows, you may be one among them, check your inboxes now, friends. And it seems that there is no set date for a full launch, but we would guess that it won't be too long before Google+ goes live to everyone. In the meantime, you can check out the demo, as long as you have a Google ID. Yes, really!

Overall, I feel that Google+ looks good and the new features, especially circles, could just make the difference between it being a Facebook killer or another Google social failure. Nobody knows that, for now. But, do we really need another social network? Do we really need as much control of who we share what with as Google thinks? It might look just fine on the surface now, but getting to it for now from the conventional-made Facebook profiles might not seem real charming!!

Facebook & Mark Zukerberg

The web has already questioned why Google has chosen to soft launch a product that isn't entirely ready yet. Yes, lots of people have put their thoughts on forums and blogs! With most online services launched in beta form prior to a full roll out, the answer seems blind-fully obvious - so that it can fix bugs and put out any kinks before the project goes global.

Getting people to shift over from Facebook is going to be a tough one. Early adopters and tech fans may well want to try out the new project asap, but getting reluctant Facebook newbies to make the switch isn't going to be easy. The inevitably long transition period while users wait for their entire social groups to migrate from one service to another could be a step that the public just aren't willing to make, not when that already have a social platform that already works.


Facebook.


But I wish that come true. Soon.


Anyway, we'll find out more when Google+ goes public and starts on a mass platform, don't we?


So, what do you think guys?
Do you want a Google+? Do you think Google really has future with their last hope on capturing the social networking market?


Feel free to share your thoughts about the hype.


Thanks.

Taking back a little interest

Hello dear readers.

So how are you people? I guess you are great and having good times, possibly rocking?

Well, talking about me, I am doing good too. And I am write this post with a little hesitation because of my lack of touch in writing. However, I have taken the privilege of giving you guys some trouble. So bear with me (Laugh) !!


Its was too late that I wrote here, its been almost 7 months.


And the reasons for my taking such long vacation? I might credit them to some busy schedules at college, and also due to my nature of having a variety of interests in things that are too different. I mean to say that I get attracted to learning about a particular stuff, say about snorkeling your jeep, and after that, musical composing may have struck me with delight (I do not like to mention that I suck at them, please).


I remember I started writing here in this blog last year, with anything that I felt I wanted to. Last year was good year for me, for I've had the chances of many satisfactory moments - which I believe is enough to live a good life. I mean, we can always have some soul searching right? Um, that may seem a big term, I will prefer "Get to know your needs to be happy", as a suitable and simple verbal expression. I do not intend to divert my goals on that itself, though.


And yet, its hard to figure out for someone who is as jobless as me to really know what I want from "Life". I also happen to have thoughts that say "Do not be philosophical, just stop this non sense". I believe that's true, I hope so. Its not about what anyone can achieve, but the way he/she has to achieve it with. For that matter, the 'anyone' can be simply anyone who is on his way to do his stuff, and I feel that the ways of his doing widely affects the other things such as his future, impression, environment, etc.

Improvising the idea of life, we come to halt right to the place from where we started our journey. Well, who would have thought that? If we are to carefully realize what the above words mean, we would have felt surprise/joy/sadness/disappointment or anything depending upon the situation. Totally we conclude into an unchangeable thought that "Life has nothing much to offer". Well, there you go! That's also one hell of a thing eligible to claim the tag "Achievement". I do not say this with experience of my own or the others around me, but this is what strikes any mind that's unable to carry itself further to broaden its degree of thinking.


So, we could finally see ourselves return to what we did before these changes took place. The idea is not to change, but to lead through our paths with unavoidable changes. I really do not know what I have got to conclude, but nevertheless, are we always expected to have conclusions?

But then again, who am I to say otherwise, my friend?


Sometimes people deserve more. They deserve better. And we can't take control of our lives, at least totally. Sometimes it becomes the best choice to leave things as they are without having to strain ourselves by analyzing them, by measuring them, by feeling them. Hell, feelings sometimes become our enemies more than our friends.


Anything can happen to anyone, and that is why we need friends to share them, care for us, love us, take care of us, show us some light in the places filled with fearful darkness, like our own minds and hearts. I intend to put out everything from my heart here after what happened to one of my friends.


 With no particular reason, I write this to share what could be the different effects we might have on our 'Lives' in a game. A game played by time. And we sure might have something lose if we don not fear it and change ourselves in order to get up to our feet and going.

Finally, I just hope that you people have already got in your shoes and chasing your dreams, trying to make them your achievements, your "Satisfactions', and your strengths!


And I really wish you do! Life is, and will be good, always.


Take care.


Your friend.

The Power of Love!

"Um, what's the most powerful thing on the planet?"


I had this highly anticipated thought in my high school days.


A simple question like this simply came up to my immature mind, only because we had a kind of an argument going on that day, during the lunch break. The two people, who were in this audience-backed debate, was myself and my friend.
The argument at the school was just a trigger to me to get the rusted ball-bearings and the worn out pistons in my scarcely used mind, back to for a job like this...




A Hydraulic Brake



I was holding the side for Engines as the most powerful thing and my friend was supporting the "hydraulic brakes" thing. I very keen on making me believe that I really wanted to get all my points in the argument convinced to my friend and to finally make an impression that I would win..


But what happened to me was a magic, and it still remains a wonder even to this day!


The next day, I had come to school with fully known facts about powerful diesel engine's and their capacity in doing Herculean tasks which couldn't be much efficiently by anything else in specific fields, the cost efficient working, advantages, etc.

The way I entered the class was much like a star-scientist, who comes into the place like he found a solution to a 500-year old science theory's contradictory concept! I even oversaw my friends who said  "Hey, Good morning punk! What about your debate?".

The thing was I couldn't let my focus and attention be drawn out by some of the silliest things and, which means to me a sure failure at the debate after having quite a challenging task and a show-off thing that would eventually come to a downfall if I did fail!


Suddenly, a female voice in the background of my thoughts! "Hi, Kashyap! Good morning."!

What's that? Something in my mind itself? Or is it someone for real?  "I don't feel good today. What's wrong with me?". I was determined to show off as I said earlier. But, this feeling of an uneasy going of time made me a little awkward, in a sense, I was starting to regret why I took this strange, unwanted trouble on myself.

And again the voice broke out - "Busy with your debate thing?.. Well, good luck for that!".


Now, my mind was making me turn my head back to that voice that was kind of disturbing me, but had been giving a smooth start for the day. "Look who it is!". I said to myself. "Oh! today is my lucky day, whether I win or lose the thing with that debate guy! Damn that thing, man! Today is my luckiest day!"


You might wonder what the hell happened to me after a short time gap passed between my thoughts. Well, the girl who was talking to me from behind, in a one way conversation was my CRUSH. She was my love, in my heart, which never ever dreamed of any such thing and had only spent its 16 years of service, along with giving place for things like the love for muscle cars, classic bikes, especially Royal Enfield Bullet and Indian(the American motorcycle which had been stopped since long decades!) and all the things that related to wheels.

And now, I really appreciate if you didn't ask her name here. The simple reason behind this, me, as a first-time love struck guy, with not a single idea of what true love was,  is a simple thing! THE POWER OF LOVE!

What happened to me later that day still remains a wonderful magic, like I told you before, mate!

I turned to her and I replied - "Hi, good morning! Sorry, a little hurried up today! Don't mind...". She seemed to grasp every tone off my voice and I knew that I shouldn't possibly let her know that she was my first crush and I didn't mind  treating her like a Goddess of Life and even worshipping her! That would distort my reputation about my character, with which I was well-known for, with all my show-offs, negligence towards the idea that, love stories, all liked by everyone, and school students earned their first experiences with that in school!


An irony as it may seem, I now totally wanted to scrap idea about the debate issue, for which I was standing on the edge my toes, and really wished time to bring us together until my quench for spending all the time of my life with her came to quite a satisfying climax! I wanted to talk to her for centuries and wanted to keep staring her innocent, cute, for a hundred millenia! Stupid love, huh?!

It did happen, bro! There was a change in the time table and the strict geography teacher, whom we all kind of disliked, was to come to the class for his hours! My place on the bench was on an unwanted side by me, because it was the most favourite and most wanted place for the teacher! Sorry, Mr.Geography Sir; I am shifting my place to the one diagonally behind her place!


 "Thank God! Today, I ll take all the favouring times and try to stay near her. Whatever may happen! I couldn't miss her sight. I couldn't miss her even for a second! Let me accept that I am in love, Kash!".

I couldn't believe myself! I was sitting just behind the most lovely and beautiful girl on the planet:-) Lol. I really loved every second of time, every moment of my life now! What more could I ask Him for?


All of a sudden, we could see our sir coming. "Awe. Come on, Sir!. Why so soon? It's been a couple of seconds since I came here!". At least I was happy that he wouldn't call me and make me sit in his favourite spot! That was the feeling right now that was coming out of my heart! "Place is first dude! Girl, comes only if this place is mine!". I could hear myself loudly grumbling this. Huh, what else could a poor guy like me pray for? He couldn't live his life if the girl was not in sight, literally!

I don't know how the whole hour got over in a short time, like 5-10 minutes!? Was it the whole 40 minutes that I spent seeing this Beauty that was glaring to my eyes like an angel? Or didn't Sir see that I was not at all present mentally in his class?? - I didn't even bothered to know what had happened in the past 40 minutes of my day dreaming, or love dreaming rather! As I said, it was really a lucky day!


It was lunch. And suddenly my friend with the debate issue was dragging me to our daily place where we used to have lunch, for the debate! His eyes shone like he had already edged me out and was on the hoods of his triumph over a dumb-head like me! I really didn't want to waste my time in a debate and miss my feelings which were all flying in the air!

I told him - "Pal, I don't feel good! Let me go to and get freshened up!", after I felt sudden uneasiness, having no idea what the reason was.


"What happened Kash? Is everything alright? Here, let me come along."


"No man, its alright. Just a headache it should be. I can manage. Carry on with our guys, bro. I ll meet you at our "adda"."


"Alright Kash. Come soon. Careful, alright?"


"Yo", I thought I almost bid him a good farewell and walked away.

I was now in the wash room getting myself a cold wash with the face. I did my hairstyle with the wet hair. I came out, looked into our geography Sir's old scooter in its mirror. After I was looking good enough to talk to her, I went straight back to the class.

"Where the hell is she!?". My eyes looked at each and every corner for her sole existence and in disappointment, turned back! I thought it was all over. By the time she comes, the right time, mood and feelings wouldn't be there with me! Crap!


I was about to leave class and came up walking slowly towards the door only to take my exit. I came out of the class and now pushed my hands into my pant pockets, like a guy who comes out of a railway station after he embraced his girlfriend for the last time.


"Whoa! Its her, isn't it?"


 She was talking to my another best friend leaning on the walls of the parapet, that were standing at the balcony's edge, in order to support the short grills of the floor where our classroom existed! I took a little curiousity, even though I felt a bit dejected deep inside!


It really would have been odd if I simply joined their conversation which I was curious as to what it was about. Now, it was really difficult to see them together!


"What's this? She and my best friend, together? My friend never talked to any girl in his whole life, and this girl who is destined to me is enjoying the time with this fellow! The hell with my fate!".


God! That was an unusual reaction for myself! I hardly used to worry about anything at all?


And now, "Am I taking this matter seriously? This can't be true!"


I didn't hesitate to join them in desperation to meet her very badly! God, LOVE IS POWERFUL! Ain't it, dear?


The next is little dramatic as it may seem, but that really was what happened that day! The scene still dwells in my heart, rather memory, even today, so strong that I feel like I am enacting the same role even at this moment!


"Hey Kash, heard you have a headache. Howz it now, man?"


"Yeah. Its alright now. So, whats up? You didn't join the boys at the "adda"?", I turned to "my" girl, " Hi. Had your lunch?". I felt so stupid now! But I didn't have anything in mind to put out as an other question! I said to myself - "Chaltha hai!, these two are not supposed to be together today, that too at this time". Of course, it was an important time for me! I was considering the talking to her about love and her stand on it, added to the casual talks.


"How did your debate go?" , she asked me.


"No, that's still not given a head start" , my tone was hardly audible.


"I have some news for you", my friend said now, keeping his hand on my right shoulder.


"Oh, whats that, man?" .


"We are committed, bro!!" .


I was not sure whether what I heard just now was a real thing or I was daydreaming!


"Yes Kashyap, I had crush on him from 3 months. It was growing everyday. And today, I happened to propose him instantly! I only prayed God that he accepted ! He did, Kashyap!" . She took her turn too.


Both of them now, set their eyes on mine, very curious to know what reaction I would give at the first place!

I couldn't still believe that a best friend of mine could be ever related with a girl who gave me the feelings of first love for the first time in this entire playful, cool, kiddish life!


I was divided into two! One with almost a couple of tears that would start rolling down the face in a few seconds. The other holding the facial reaction from within and giving a false smile.


I had to pull myself together and respond to the long waiting "couple" and show myself the way out of the scene. I finally did. I knew that I was about to return to my old life of kiddish,playful and irresponsible behaviour and stay with the same feelings forever.


"Hey! Really?! I couldn't believe what you are saying guys! Come here man, give me a hug! CONGRATULATIONS you two!!!!" , I hugged my friend with a hard feeling for myself. After all, he was really lucky! I didn't find any reason to continue standing there and be a trouble for the world's luckiest pair!

"Damn!"

The next minute, I was walking out of the main building, my hands still in my pant pockets. I walked towards the place where our "adda" was, and found my friends enjoying their time with each other. I missed the sight of my best friend who was with "her" , and would be expected to be missing in our company for most of times in the whole future, since he was a "committed" guy now.


I came to the place and my friend saw me. "How are you now, Kash?". I now, realized the true emotion in the voice of my friend. I now knew that he had a great concern to me. Its not that I mean that my best friend didn't have a feeling of care to me. But its just that, I had never seen this much of a comfort and a feeling of "my people" till today. May be its that I saw this "underrated-ly" in the cover of the mad love I had for the so called MY GIRL.

"I am better now!", I had a dull dark face now.


"Alright, come on. Lets get you some lunch. Take rest in the English hour, dude and it'll be cool!" , trying to bite his big chapati roll.


"Did you get to know about them? , he asked referring to the thing which had happened just today.


I said - "LOVE IS POWERFUL!".


"Damned right, Kash! Nobody ever thought that guy could get a cool girl ! He is damn lucky!"


"No, she is the lucky one!"


Now, everybody fixed their eyes on me, a little confused.


"Are you saying that he is more deserving to someone like her? Are you nuts?"


I didn't know what to say. I only said so because, I had gained the experience of how it would be like to have the desired person one loves to himself. One who gets that person at any point of time in life, is luckiest according to me...


"Love is Powerful!", I commented on and I remember all the guys packing up their bags and looking at the noodles in my hot box I was just opening.

Today, they are still committed and are quite a made-for-each-other couple. I am still friends with both of them. And strange is that, they both and everybody of our class knows the truth that she was my crush!

I never had a feeling love or crush again in my life till today. We all are and will be together, enjoying every moment we get to share! Because everything we love and share gets a meaning to our lives.

P.S:

After all,

Love is Really Powerful.

Regards to all "My People".

National Aerospace Labratories

Well, since I have no other thing to do this week, other than seeing movies, TV shows and listening to yet another new crappy album by a young wannabe star, I have decided to blog about my visit to NAL last Sunday!
(Who wants to talk about that Ayodhya issue, its too damn boring for my tastes :P.. Anyway because of that I've holidays for 4 days in a row!! Don't know whether to rejoice or grumble!)


It was our beloved Rajshekhar Sir who gave us this oppurtunity of a plan about the educational tour to this venue and it was something none of us had ever thought about, considering that nobody else in the whole faculty had really taken up such information oriented programmes..


So, there's this vote of thanks to Sir from all our guys and girls who were part of this programme.

Thank you, Sir.

It was a technological exhibition day at NAL organized as part of the Foundation Day celebrations of CSIR - Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. So my classmates and me made it to their Kodihalli campus by 9 in the morning. To enlighten everybody what NAL is, its a high technology oriented institution concentrating on advanced research in aeronautics and related disciplines.

 

There was this Kodihalli campus' cricket field, where there was the real highlight of the event, meant for most of the audience which consisted of parents and kids who expected some kind of flashiness and not just the boring scientific talk which went on inside the Belur campus. It included live flight demonstrations of NAL developed MAV's (Micro Air Vehicles) and radio controlled UAV's (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles).




 

The M.A.V that was used for the demonstration. Functions within a 2 k.m. range!


     
MAV is an autonomous flying vehicle capable of carrying a payload and a miniaturized video camera which can locate nearby enemy troops, support military and civilian missions, weather observations and help in anti-terrorist operations, much like a drone. The different maneuvers can be done by a skilled operator.
Anyways, if you have seen the air show on Independence Day on TV, its very much the same, except on a small-scale and there are no human pilots inside the vehicles, not that one can actually fit in even if they try!!The day long event was hosted by NAL's Belur campus.

Collaboration between the different fields of mechanical, computer science and electronics was highly stressed at the event.
When they first told us to board their buses and go to Belur, we were like WTF!!! It would take most of the day just to get there! And what will they show there, historical statues and tourism spots!


I heard someone say - "No thanks, we have seen all of it!". Then they put some sense into our very over excited brains saying it was just another campus some distance away.


The NAL's technological innovations and recent achievements were on display as well. The exhibits included tapping of wind energy, power generation from solar ponds, support to India's space program, smart materials and structural health monitoring materials, among many others.

In the above picture found in the internet database, there are a few people from our class including myself! Pure coincidence with the photographer guy

That was all of what was there for the day! And while coming out at the end, the people there, who volunteered the programme with the demonstrations and interactions for the NAL, gave everybody some snacks like biscuits and frooti's and that almost seemed quite a recollection of the old times, as kids when national fstivals were celebrated at the schools; but this time it was a fresh introduction with the highly technical oriented and an experience with the real models and exhibit displays...

That was a good day out there, for everybody :-)


We hope we will get much more informative and nice trips in the near future.


Kudos! Ciao.

Idea of Life

What's life? Ever thought about getting a precise meaning to it? Well, here goes the well known fact that the definition of life never existed in a precise meaning. You ought to broaden the fields of the thinking mind to feed it with an efficient answer...



What I see life will be different from what the person sitting next to me in a bus traveling to the same destination that we both have to go sees, and what he sees life, may be the same as a person who may be in the other part of the world....Life is common to each and every creature that breathes on this very planet, but what matters so much about it is, the approaches that each entity in this vast space takes it as.

Biology is one subject that explicitly deals with the attributes that are concerned with life and this subjects too begins with the question to its pupils - "What's Life??"....; there is really a small buzz that goes with this topic because everybody else start to think in a way which goes like - "What's the big deal in it, anyway? I live and I live it happily and enjoy every moment dude, for what you are scratching your dumb head..!"

He is right! I am taking my mind to work for a thought about life, instead of being happy that I have a cool life, full of joys and things are awesome around me & stuff...!


Point taken. You often get advices that life is for enjoying and we ruin it with unnecessary show offs ,etc. What I am trying to place here is that, what ethically life has to be done with?? There is a group of people who are righteous in every moment of their righteous lives and they have, ultimately attained the perfect feeling of fulfillment, along with the satisfaction!

 

There you go Mr.! I am driving my discussion towards that and there is "MY" part of being content or satisfied or getting a fulfillment..


There are things that matter, more than you enjoy your life. Its simply because we live in a place as a part of it and nobody lives his life independently. The true idea of life is a 1:1 time with everything you see around you! That's the best YOU can give to all those things around you. Humanity gets its basic meaning too, from here! Think about it!

 When you show concern toward an animal, a plant, a man trying to cope up with everyday life, a tree being fell for an never achieved success called development, a fellow friend who is having even small amount of downfall in his trials in becoming a businessman, an abandoned ailing old man who waits for his never-turn-back son,a street-side labour who does anything you command him for, to get a piece of bread, then YOU ARE LIVING YOUR LIFE. According to me, when you attain the feeling of content, after dealing with these things around you, you have enjoyed every moment of your LIFE and the happiness that you have "earned" at the ultimatum is what you call "BLISS"....


Take it from yourself folks!

This feeling, I bet, will have had been taken a residence in your hearts at least a minute in your lives, where you had the real enjoyment that you never forgot till this minute! This discussion gets a value only when the reader tends to think something about his own lifetime incidents and in future, tries to think a way bit more maturely!


I truly respect that life which had the chance to make its own meaning worth 'LIVING'!