..not another EXCERPT

I was dead and now I live
You took my hand

I blindly died
You took my hand

You watched me die
And found my life

You were my life
When I was dead

You are my life
And so I live

~Harold Pinter (Nobel Prize Winner for literature)

......no its not...its not just another excerpt.

Note to self: Add-To do list-watch Harold Pinter Theater Plays in Tampa

Damn!

Approximately a month (or may be two) back I was in NYC

He was very happy
I was lost
But He was there with me
He was there for me
He had a paper submission
But he sat down...
had a lot of beer..whispered words of wisdom till 4 in the night
He ended the conversation with LIFE HAS TO GO ON
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Today I'm happy...
He is lost....
But I'm not there...I'm a 1000 miles away from him
I have my job to keep and with two projects on my head and 10 hr work days almost everyday there is only that much I can do
All I did was talk over phone....repeat almost about every word he had told me...I ended our conversation with THE SHOW HAS TO GO ON
I think I let him down....I think I've let myself down :(
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Sometimes I wonder if I really deserve such friends....friends you can blindly trust..friends who will be there no matter what the situation is...friends who pull you out of your misery in a min. I think I'm blessed to have such friends.
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Hang in there bud, let me see if I can catch a flight to NYC this Friday.

Be Strong...be KF Strong! :)

~Niki

Heroes

We all have our own heroes.

My story is less than perfect, my heroes have changed with time and choice of different heroes depicts my maturity or thats what i believe.

In school I terrorized my parents for endless toys, they ranged from GI-JOe's to He-man. My favorite hero then; was Batman. This may be the reason why I still love my comics.

I was then, like any high school kid introduced to Rocky Balboa. I always wondered how his hard punches and his soft heart co-exist. I tried becoming strong, joined karate for a day quit but never gave up on trying to have soft heart.

Then got into college, it was about time I had a sport hero. There was Lance Armstrong, though not a big fan of cycling I just admired his determination and will to win. It just got embedded in me a thought- that nothing is impossible and never did any loss leave me unsettled. Never learnt to cycle fast, in fact I take 9 min to cycle 3 miles but I learnt to never give up.

Recently, everything changed. Finally, I have not just one hero but heroes. Hemant Karkare, Vijay Salaskar and last but not least Sandeep Uni Krishnan. These names are not famous as any of the names mentioned above, but these people have shown that the very essence of humanity-sacrifice-still exists and is very alive. They laid down their lives today for our tomorrow in the recent Mumbai Blasts. No amount of writing or praise can equal their sacrifice.It also reverberates that every ordinary person who answers his call of duty with utmost honesty automatically makes him a hero. It also reflects how important community service is.

I dont know if these people have, in any ways changed you, but one things for sure these people have made me more patriotic. It gives me another reason and I take pride again to call myself an Indian today. May the force always be with HER.

JaiHind!

When Worlds Collide

Finally my dream has come true.

Cant wait to get my hands on this.

Baraka: Why so serious?

Oh-bama

Required magical number 270

Obama 338

McCain 163

This is what I call a clean sweep, heard of driving a nail straight to the head.

In the end

All you need is a dream

1-Arrogance

He did achieve everything she thought he could not.....

Its not an end but a continual process.....

Repentance is sometimes costly...

LIVE

LOVE your LIFE

A techie's Schadenfreude

Calls C and K....

Was never interested

Friends did call him stupid!!

He went along with his life...

He always wondered how his friends started with a $150K or a $200K job

He knew all this was too good to be real!!

A fake economy..an artificial facade a.k.a The Wall Street

Reality-the habitual-normalcy returns...truth be told

Friend calls..dude how did you know all this

A bitter laugh....

Just says it was not a non stochastic process...both laugh

Master Nikesh Dhar

Me against

Mr. Statistical Thermodynamics ,

Mr. Mit and Thermal Genius

Mr. Heat Transfer

Average Master Thesis Defense Presentation 45 min, my defense 2.5 hrs

But whats Important is

I survived!!, I dodged their bullets.

I muscled through I'm a MASTER!!

Applied Mathematics here I come!!!

Win

Everyday is a war...

and

in a war

Victory

is assured

only

if you move towards

the sound of GUNS

So I Think I Can Dance

This is what inspires me to Dance now.

This is what inspired me to Dance back then.

If theres something Ive not considered/taken seriously, its my Dancing. I promise I will give Foxtrot a shot.