My idea of illumination: Randomness. This was taken at a mall where I was hanging out in the last week of 2012, sitting idly and just looking at something to click. Completely random. I’m fascinated by lights and such decoration, but this tells the truth as per my perception.
Well apart from that, my precious laptop too 😀
Honestly evaluate the way you respond to crisis situations. Are you happy with the way you react?
Another interesting daily prompt. If I were to evaluate myself on how I handle situations, it widely varies. My immediate reaction tend to be very spontaneous, while I tend to analyze the situations at other times. I tend to overdo it sometimes though.
I’m more of the leader-entrepreneur types so I don’t tend to look back after I’ve taken a decision. Well no point in thinking afterwards right? Life is no RPG where you can always reload and choose a different option for a different outcome.
So far I’ve managed to get away/solved, whichever applicable. So I do okay I guess, not taking into account most shitty instances though 😛
And wish I could do this:
Most of us are excellent at being self-deprecating, and are not so good at the opposite. Tell us your favorite thing about yourself.
Now that is not entirely true, haven’t you seen those narcissists (groups) everywhere?
While coming to myself, I don’t know what to say. I just like being myself (just look at me).
To me, ultimately, [martial arts] means honestly expressing yourself. Now, it is very difficult to do. It has always been very easy for me to put on a show and be cocky, and be flooded with a cocky feeling and feel pretty cool and all that. I can make all kinds of phoney things. Blinded by it. Or I can show some really fancy movement. But to experience oneself honestly, not lying to oneself, and to express myself honestly, now that is very hard to do. – Bruce Lee
Do you have a favorite quote that you return to again and again? If so, what is it, and why does it move you?
I have already answered this sometime back here for a previous daily prompt.
Instead here I would like to mention this:
and let also would like to share my old man’s most favourite one here:
Rule #1: Never lose money.
Rule #2: Never forget Rule #1.
– Warren Buffet
Sounds about right.
Religion and Politics, two topics among the most controversial ones today. I personally don’t know what to answer to the above question, though I cling more to the nay side.
I read a quote which read:
Rationality should be the only Religion.
…to which I completely agree with. Personally I wouldn’t engage in such a conversation with someone I hardly know or just met, as more than half the time the ‘discussion’ can turn sideways. Not that I hesitate to, I’d rather reasonably not lose a (potential) buddy or rather not get beaten for being reasonable (yeah strange world we live in). As I said, I won’t get into it on my own, but I wouldn’t hold back when ‘compelled’ to.
On this topic extended check out my other post here which perhaps you would like more.
There was a dream, of a better world, A world where people are connected and free. Connected by a space covering most of the planet (?) called the Internet. Cyberspace. Not created by some god, but by some men, throughout time, from the machine hardware to the personal computer, the internet to the world wide web, all being shaped bits and pieces, another world created by these ‘founding fathers’ and millions billions of people.
This is a story of one of these men, or more precisely a young man. Just like many of us, interested in computers and the ever changing each moment, ever growing Internet Culture. He who as a boy made it easy for you to get all your news, politics, hobbies, blogs and all interests in one convenient place for you to read, aka RSS whose first specification he had co-authored. He helped create the internet’s (unofficial) front page of the Internet, reddit.
The young man didn’t stop there. When the world continued going down drain at an accelerated rate, when freedom of expression was being threatened everywhere, just as we have soldiers protecting our lands, he one of them who was trying to protect our second world. When the rich, the corrupt tried crossing the lines, there were some like him who opposed the oppressors.
But not all tales end with a happy note. The man who fought against SOPA/PIPA, who tried to make information and knowledge free for the public got trapped in controversies and conspiracies and faced charges for fighting for this world’s freedom. Depression made him away go away, no one might know what was in his mind before he departed.
On January 11, 2013, we lost this fighter. A friend. RIP Aaron Swartz. Your work will continue and never be forgotten by the countless faceless ones.
You can check out what his family, friends, colleagues and others have to say here.
This post was made for the Daily Prompt: Ripped from the Headlines! after seeing my favourite daily digest news blog Mashable, and with thanks to that my small tribute to him.
Explore the room you’re in as if you’re seeing it for the first time. Pretend you know nothing. What do you see? Who is the person who lives there?
Viewing today’s daily prompt on my laptop 😀
So I’m in my living room now, often (or rather mostly) called ‘hall’ in the Indian tongue. My laptop and other (related) things occupy a table adjacent to another table which has my home desktop PC which is adjacent to the front door. All this to my left. To my right lies another chair and my bed where I sleep. So you can say my maximum moment is between where I’m seated (now for instance) in front of my laptop and the bed which is hardly a meter away 😛
Precious bed is precious.
In front of (and above) me is the huge glass cupboard (don’t know why it’s called that as more than half the thing is wood of some sort) which is filled with books, books and books, along with some other crap here and there. I wish I had a dog and not just a big stuff toy gathering dust which you can see in the picture. Same story with other sections of the house, which also has some pairings, statues of various sizes of deities and others, various decorative pieces and all crap which I’m not bothered about. My house is not the cleanest of places, but still decent enough though.
When I turn my back I can see The Dark Knight Rises poster in all its glory which is the first thing visible when entering my home, on which I already mentioned few things in yesterday’s brilliant daily prompt. Two (more!) tables between them is a chair and on all of them (this time) are my sister’s junk. And some of my mother’s. And somewhere over there is the way to the other places in the house.
Total table count in living room = 4. I wonder myself, really?
While writing this I just remembered the ‘evolution’ of the living room, when things were changed, moved, thrown out, new stuff b(r)ought in. Like that my favourite Club Furniture sofa. As time passes, became more congested, just like our world. And since this is the living room, safe to say everyone in the house ‘lives’ here.
I wish I had my own room (which I don’t) And thankfully (for you?) the question was about the current room I’m at and not the most important room of the house, otherwise I would have (without a second thought) posted a image of my toilet/commode. Hey that’s true right?
Run outside. Take a picture of the first thing you see. Run inside. Take a picture of the second thing you see. Write about the connection between these two random objects, people, or scenes.
Today’s daily prompt is one of the most interesting so far, which actually made my lazy ass get up and do something. It is late evening now and I don’t have a great smartphone or camera, and me being a passionate photographer planning to get one soon, this is the best I could do at the moment.
Descend
Just opened my door and this is the first thing I saw. Stairs leading down from my home. This reminded me of one of the most famous rock songs of all time, Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin. I think I should name this Stairway from Heaven, or rather Hell, I don’t really know.
Rise
This is the first thing which is visible after entering my house. Got this as a gift in December ’12 by my secret santa via redditgifts. On my living room wall ever since.
The Connection
Now before I could think of a connection between the two, and write some arbitrary stuff, to my astonishment I didn’t even have to think of anything! The connection is so clear (or I would like to think of it that way). The first image (outside my house) the stairs down. In the title why I preferred descend rather than fall from the epic The Dark Knight, though that did strike my mind first, I just felt we mostly likely fall at one or even more than one point of time in our lives we will fall but to my interpretation here that depicts in life we must get out of our comfort zone (ie our home in this context or any other in general terms) and descend to move ahead. We don’t fall willingly and falling down the stairs is pretty bad too (saying this with a lot of experience)
The second image, the poster of one of the best films made in our history, The Dark Knight Rises, and also my most favourite, is the second ‘stage’ or however you might put it. No matter who or where we are, to succeed we must make effort and Rise. The way back home, the stairs up is also a pretty dam relevant here. And Rise not only in the world, but also within (inside home).
So much connection metaphoric to life in just two simple images I took within 5 minutes following this challenge. Now I’m astonished myself.
Also this is directly the themes of The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises, the second and third films of the epic The Dark Knight Trilogy. Another degree of connection.
(Begins). Fall. Rise.
That would be interesting really, After a bit of thinking, yes I would read it. While we remember a lot from our lives, no matter what we evidently forget lot which has happened over time and it would be good, no matter how pathetic it is, to read it all again and reflect over it. Once finished from the start to NOW, things will get interesting, might be boring, exciting, some things glad while some not digestible (for the moment) others and even perhaps bit awkward. I mean, will the book say “And now you are reading your life story from the beginning, you have reached the present and continuing further…[ ]… after finishing you say to yourself ‘holy fuck!’ and faint.” Now that would be funny 😛
While many would be of the opinion (even me in quite some circumstances) that not knowing what lies ahead would be better, exciting and a challenge to face, I’d personally rather read it and be able to change what I want, and be prepared for which I can’t change. Well if I’m able to know what lies ahead, odds are very well can. Life would be perhaps a lot better, if not interesting, and well the very fact knowing things might change the probabilities of something happening and how. Alright, I got too much into probability and science (fiction?).
If it were possible, I would like it to be a graphic novel 😀 as that is more of my tastes. And of course would like to ‘see’ all the ‘beautiful’ aspects of life behind and forward too 😉
Chocolate.
Always been my most favourite. Apart from them I like Vanilla and Banana. Occasionally Strawberry and Blackcurrant. I wonder what different flavours are there since these ones are the most common on the planet.
And since me being from India and thus speaking British/Indian English, don’t mind the ‘u’ in flavour and the different (or rather ‘extra’) spelling in most other words 😛
Speaking of ice-cream and desserts, this is (a part of) what I had in December at Barbeque Nation. ‘Dam Awesome’ would be an understatement.
This was the first time I took a pic of something which I ate (that too after almost being done) as I find people posting pictures of what they are eating highly annoying. I wanted to give write something about this place so the pic.
The food overall was amazing. One of the best restaurants in the Mumbai, be sure to go there at least once (enough to make you go again, mostly) The starters and in this context the desserts were delicious! I’m already growing fat thinking about it, and need to go there again. So anyone wants to treat this poor soul?
(From Infinity Mall, Andheri West to Barbeque Nation)
The Nameless One 