Extending Gavaskar's logic

Gavaskar: “Dravid is not going! After playing for so many years with Tendulkar and spending time in the dressing room, Dravid should know what sort of a person Tendulkar is. He would never cheat. Dravid should have accepted the catch and walked.“

Lets try and extrapolate Gavaskar's logic.

After spending more than 10 years together in dressing room Zaheer, Harbajan, Sachin should have known what kind of people Kumble and Dravid are (or vice versa). Dravid can bat for all 5 days and Kumble can take all 10 wickets. Mumbai Indians should have accepted the defeat and should have never walked into the ground.

give me another chance, i wanna grow up once again.

"give me another chance, i wanna grow up once again" - who doesn't ask for a chance? for we learn our mistakes only after we commit them and face the consequences.

there are so many things in life which i feel i shouldn't have done and wouldn't do if given another chance to grow up once again. but life isn't so easy, you simply don't get a chance, nope!

given another chance, i would still bunk engineering classes but not spend that time in hostel, canteen, down's or grandpa's!

given another chance, i wouldn't have thrown plates towards friends and would have controlled my anger!

given another chance, i would have listened to my friend when he said "don't light that cigarette, you will never stop"!

given another chance, i would have read that shit to score 80% and win the bet i lost!

there are more such lines which i would love to write, but don't want to because another day in future i might end up saying "given another chance, i wouldn't have written that blog".. ;)

10 movies i will force you to watch before i die!!!

Here is a list of movies that i keep talking about and keeping forcing my friends to watch. The order of movies in the list does not reflect anything, all of them have the same value.

1. Accident (Kannada, Shankar Nag)

9. Aa DinagaLu (Kannada, K.M.Chaitanya)

15. Inti ninna preetiya (Kannada, Suri)

3. Mungaaru maLe (Kannada, Yograj Bhat)

7. Lakshya (Hindi, Farhan Akhtar)

7. Dil Chahta Hai (Hindi, Farhan Akhtar)

9. Taare Zameen Par (Hindi, Aamir Khan)

11. Pallavi Anupallavi (Kannada, Maniratnam)

9. Nayagan (Tamil, Maniratnam)

7. Sholay (Hindi, Ramesh Sippy)

15. Forrest Gump (English, Robert Zemeckis)

4. It Happened One Night (English, Frank Capra)

10. Lord of War (Andrew Niccol)

7. Atithi (Sheshadri)

12. America! America!! (Nagatihalli Chandrashekar)

1. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (Guy Ritchie)

10 in hex is 16 in decimal. In a very unlikely scenario, if you are wondering about the numbers you see before each movie name, they are the first 16 digits of golden ratio when represented in hex and represent in decimal here.

I am an engineer and i did my engineering in a way which i would never suggest anyone to follow. For all the four years i never saw the morning, because i had the habit of getting up exactly at lunch time. I never attended classes, never did any assignments, was daring (thats what i preferred to call it in those days) enough to bunk internals (all three of the options given). And i got through everything and finished engineering with a great success (thats what i thought when i walked out of college with 75% marks in aggregate and offers from two of the most preferred companies). 'College life is golden life' - i thought i lived a platinium life, only to realize after 3 years that how foolish i was in those days.

Yes, it took me 3 years to realize that i have spoilt myself to the worst in 4 years of college life. One fine day (somewhere in august, 2008) i woke up, yes i woke up because i had a strictly monitered and discplined life before walking into the college. I was forced, later got used, to get up at 5.30 am. Schedule of day used to be very beautiful. 5.30 am - get up, 6.00 - 6.45 am - physical exercise, 7.20 am - assembly at school, 7.30 - 9.00 am - first two periods of class, 9.00 am - 9.20 am - breakfast, 9.30 am - 1.30 pm - classes continue... (lots more, details not important). Wat i love about the time-table is the tight-packing of tasks, there is no wastage of time (even though as kids we managed to steal time to waste). I was forced (for initial 2 years, got used for rest of 5 years) to follow the time-table for 7 years from 6th to 12th standard.

When i woke up few months back, i started following a more planned and disciplined time-table. 7.00am - get up, 9.00am - reach office... (details not important). Getting up early and following a strict displine doesn't mean i don't waste a single minute and use all the time productively. But advantage with having a disciplined time-table is that i tend to get disciplined in everything, when i work, when i drive, when i eat, when i talk to people. I can say i am working much more productively after setting up a disciplined time-table for myself, rather than when i enjoyed the freedom of being in a start-up.
Thanks to my school (Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Gajanur is the name), thanks to everybody# involved in forcing me to follow the time-table, after 7 years (4 in college and 3 while working) of screwed up time management i could still recover to a disciplined life easily.


# Special thanks to:

• Mr. V.S Hegde - Preeti house's house master for not forgiving even a single mistakes that i did as long as i stayed in Preeti house.
• Mr. Arifulla Khan - Physical education teacher for never letting us escape from following the strict schedule of morning PT (we used to call it mass-pt, i don't know who invented it).
• School leaders from 1994 to 2001 (Nagaraj Gogre, Umesh S, Satish, Amitananda, Vinay MM, Sharathchandra, Harish H S, Aditya N G) for blowind whistle so badly that there was no other option at 5.30am but to get up.