Another nice quote

• The world is what we perceive it as
• You exist... hence the world does

Another nice quote

Work hard till your surname becomes unit of a measurable quantity

Nice quotes by me

I respect a person not for who he/she is but for what he/she does

Log Taarif bhi karte aur gaali bhi dete. Tum bas apna kaam karo.

Which means:
People around praise as well as criticise you. Keep working.

Word suggestion story

Hi!

Now I'll post a story here. This was written by me on phone not by using the keyboard but by just word suggestions. These kind of stories tell a lot about what you type in phone everyday.

I am having problems with my phone number. The person who has asked me if I can get the link below to verify that the cadbury silk road is not mentioned in your proofs. The question whose name is a choice regarding uploading the artificial sweeteners to kritin is not der in the middle of the question. Hi and welcome to the automated email which Biswadip Barua is not safe and also how true. 

I will be joining cognizant technology solutions to help us with vijaykumar to go to US Treasury department. The options are available for your reference books from the COE office to go to US.

Hi and thanks again for your time till now. I have no clue what is the equivalent percentage of marks on campus accommodation. I am interested in attending the meeting on Monday morning and then we'll see how you feel like. 

The question of whether she was given to the telugu version of this message was sent to you and your family in the same building. 

Hi baite to kritin biswa and also how true this is Goutham? I am having a great day ahead of me and I hate the same from all over here before choosing the batch to go to US Treasury department.

Steps to follow:

1. U give the initial word.                        
2. Mine are hi, I, the .                       
3. Then u choose the next word.                        
4. Then so on making sure the sentence makes sense.

Thanks for reading

Goutham

I have walked past the GATE

Yes

Today I attempted Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE). In spite being in my college for project work, I came to Hyderabad by train on 3rd February and revised a bit of communications, analog and digital electronics. Being with my mother during crucial times makes me feel secure. Feelings before and after the exam are contrasting. Let me elaborate:

Pre-exam:

• Nervousness and inability to fall asleep
• Higher heart rate 
• Preoccupied with books

Post-exam:

• Sudden feeling of emptiness and responsibility
• Normal heart rate
• Preoccupied with PC

I did not forget not to get tense this time as getting so in these type of exams has costed me. I did deep breathing 20 minutes ahead of the start and it helped me stay calm for the next 3 hours. I read about a 4X4 method in a fitness website. It says you continuously inhale for 4 seconds and then exhale for 4 seconds when faced with a stressful situation.

Thanks for reading.

Goutham

A good quote by me

"Time is the ultimate independent variable. Everything we see, including ourselves are just functions of it"

- Goutham Sharma

Information deluge

Hello!

Happy new year!(If you didn't think it's too late to wish now). I have lot of hopes from this year. I posted just five times last year and it may be worse this time. Reason being this year is crucial for me (B.tech final year = final project + placements + higher studies) and I will not have time to think about stuff to be written here. You can conclude that sporadic postings here will be a result of deep thought or frustration.

I recently came across this strange case in newspaper where a person got addicted to Wikipedia and spent weeks just reading while ignoring basic needs. He was diagnosed with serious compulsion disorder. It was reported that he didn't step out of his home for a long time and had social anxiety issues.

I had issues similar to the above with online forum Quora, which was meant to be a great Q/A resource but disturbing and frivolous stuff started getting into the feed like these:

• What are some great random facts?
• What are some amazing pictures?
• What are some awesome movie facts and details?
• What are some interesting campus recruitment stories?
• What are the most amazing facts about "xxxxxxxx"?
• What is it that we Indians do wrong collectively?
• What is sad about yourself?

All these were entered here as I see my feed in tab next to the blog editor. Answers for these questions have 10k-20k upvotes. Worst thing is the feed in this forum does not end as you scroll downwards (Just like any social networking site). You keep reading all the nonsense till your mind gets jammed. I prefer a clean mind to a cluttered one. I am starting to doubt if it is necessary to read newspaper every morning. All extra information that gets poured into the mind everyday is simply not worth it. I wonder how people could keep scrolling down their Facebook feed endlessly to 'keep up' with what's happening. Survival is the most basic instinct of man and he need not waste time in knowing stuff which does not serve this.

Back when I was in my secondary school, Facebook entered Indian cyberspace and we adolescents were excited to be always connected. It felt great chatting with a cousin staying abroad. It felt good when my posted picture got 10 likes. Things aren't the same now. This 'keeping up' turned into an obsession when people took 'Facebook friends' seriously. Real relations are just one thing: 'friend' or 'not a friend'. A guy is considered friend of another when his request for 'friendship' got accepted. This is not a marriage proposal! This is about feeling there's something common in between.

Gone are the days when we played, sang and danced. Compulsion to check and reply to a WhatsApp text message now predominates curiosity to converse with a stranger. This was well explained in The Hindu open page article well: The 'death' of conversation. We are living in age of information. Big data and data science are today's buzzwords. News got more disturbing as 2016 passed. Unrest and chaos were two words which can describe my state of mind after I bought my first smartphone (somewhere in July). I was not used to high inflow of data ever before and it made me feel that this world is much more complex than I assumed. Being intimidated is the worst feeling, believe me.

Information is power. But our control and perception about it is what that shapes us. I prefer texting only vital info over WhatsApp. It helps me save the thrill of meeting someone again after long time.

Goutham

Musings about life

Hello!

I am posting after a long time.

Every now and then I have views popping up to few hundreds per week. I still doubt if the 'viewers' read the stuff here. Whatever you are about to read in this post, please bear with me. I am going to expel all my feelings accumulated ever since I got placed in that 'mass recruiter' named Cognizant technology solutions.

If you are mature enough, this thought must have kindled in your mind at some point: "What is the purpose behind all this struggle?". Sorry for reminding, I do not mean to disturb your feelings. Struggle can be at college, workplace, home or in relationships. Now I will share my insights about life and well being.

Ego
We all have our ego, right at the center of our body i.e at center of mass (b/w chest and abdomen). At this position a person is believed to be in equilibrium. If he/she is disturbed/depressed ego sinks to bottom i.e. towards feet and rises up to head if he/she is haughty/proud.

Happiness is a different aspect. It leads to a brighter ego i.e. ego shines more in a happier person. All conflicts in this world are intimately related to status of ego. Life is all about maintaining equilibrium as well as brightness of ego.

Life and Purpose

"No pain, no gain"

This is what I believe as the ultimate truth. Success needs hard work, victory needs sacrifices. Nothing is free in this world. You get for what you pay.

Life is all about purpose. One purpose. 

That is it!

Just another post

Hello!

As mentioned above this is 'just another post' to ruminate on recent happenings.

Things are not going fine...
Life is becoming unfair...

When all those computer science graduates are turning into hotcakes of
the market, I am lead into identity crisis i.e. not sure what I am
going to become in future. Yes, I accept making computer do your
bidding is today's need but we are forgetting the basics. Every now
and then I get intimidated as when I get a recruiting company of my
choice.

Forget recruitment... lets talk about my bygone wish of getting into
IISc/IIT i.e. GATE, I have close to five months left which also
include the semester final exams and other obligatory stuff like lab
work, mini-project and assignments. How much did I progress in these
two months? Well, Just attending weekend classes and glancing
glossaries isn't helping me cope with the huge syllabus.

I have many things in my mind and not able to do them at all.
Thanks to my new smartphone. Now its easier for a friend to
disturb me (and even for me to get so).

I promised you that the next post would only surface after first month
of 2017. Now I send a distress signal en route my destination(which
still stays unknown).

Goutham

Anouncement: No posts for a while

Dear Readers

I would like to ignore this blog for a while as I am preoccupied with other works to which I give more priority. No posts will be published till the first week of February, 2017. All events that will happen meanwhile will be shared later.

Thank you for visiting this site and I am ending this post by sharing a video which I often watch for some inspiration. 

Click here

Regards
Goutham

PS: Success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration

Bhim Nirula - Next post teaser

Next post discusses about this guy:

 

BTW this is the 100th post of this blog. Hurray!
Watch out for it
Goutham

New year bash!

Hey!

Lately I found this advertisement in a reputed newspaper a week prior the start of new year:

Its showing a telugu movie star called 'DSP'. That means Digital Signal Processing to me and to someone not aware of this guy, it means he is probably going to take classes on this subject at
Gachibowli stadium in Hyderabad. That is funny!

I know I am posting this too late to wish you a very happy new year. I was engaged with exams and laziness for a week(they don't mix well). Now that I have three more to write and there is a lot more to experience this semester like
*Tight schedule
*Minor project
*GATE preparation
*Cold nights
*Pillow assisted sleep(Yes, I bought one)
*No Android phone & WhatsApp


I never made a new year resolution before. This year I made three
*Ordered behaviour
*Delayed gratification
*Avoid comfort zone

I feel these three will make this year surely a great one. First let me share how I started the year.

It was my cousin's wedding on 1st January(nice date to have wedding anniversary) and we all cousins cut a cake at strike of midnight. We murdered(stabbed it many times) the cake and few faces even got cream-smeared.

Foreground: Abhilash; Middle(from left): Vasista, Bharadwaj, Goutham, Vaishnavi, Anusha, Divya(seated); Behind: Abhishek

Its been two years since I deleted my Facebook account and Macbook Abhisek today made me feel good in LinkedIn(started using six months ago). He became the first person to endorse my skills and recommend me by saying this:

"One of the most calmest and the patient person I've ever worked with. I don't think I've met anyone more able than him when it comes to electronics and soldering. He is always my electronics guy. "

I felt great reading these words in a email today evening. Thank you Abhisek! You can have a look at my LinkedIn profile here.

Last week I've decided to do away with my Android phone as its tending to go crazy at times. It switches off without my notice and even enters command mode out of blue. This may even go to the extent of self-destruction someday in my pocket. So I have planned a fitting 'goodbye' for it this week. Kritin, Biswadip* and myself will dissect it for technical knowledge purpose. Hah :-D I will not forget to cover the autopsy here.

This is the notice released by my college regarding the upcoming even semester I was talking about:

You can conceive how hard it is for someone used to having lot of free time to blog his heart(sarcastic mention..... I know)

Now it is time for some random pictures:

 

Alan V Oppenheim: Confused

Captain Price(Retd.) speaking at a conference

* = I never mentioned Biswadip before. I will focus a post on him sometime later.

That's all
Goutham