Believe

I believe the sun should never set upon an argument
I believe we place our happiness in other people's hands
I believe that junk food tastes so good because it's bad for you
I believe your parents did the best job they knew how to do
I believe that beauty magazines promote low self esteem
I believe I'm loved when I'm completely by myself alone

I believe in Karma what you give is what you get returned
I believe you can't appreciate real love until you've been burned
I believe the grass is no more greener on the other side
I believe you don't know what you've got until you say goodbye

I believe you can't control or choose your sexuality
I believe that trust is more important than monogamy
I believe your most attractive features are your heart and soul
I believe that family is worth more than money or gold

I believe the struggle for financial freedom is unfair
I believe the only ones who disagree are millionaires


I believe forgiveness is the key to your unhappiness
I believe that wedded bliss negates the need to be undressed
I believe that God does not endorse TV evangelists
I believe in love surviving death into eternity

These are not exactly what i believe. ;-)
These are lyrics of 'Affirmation' from Savage Garden.
Felt good after hearing them. so i posted it.
BTB, I too belive in most of them :-)

Change

The only thing that never changes is CHANGE itself.

That was the punch line of one of the university dramas during my post graduation.
That night i really thought about the changes that can come in my life.
I couldn't see much except for obvious ones like career and minor change in style of living.
But if really look back, i was really wrong. Hardly the time wheel has rotated,
yet a ocean of change in me. There are many parts in the life's sphere.
Some are work(not career), social, spiritual,health,personal discipline,feelings for others,
aspirations,food, balah,blah,blah. ALL HAVE CHANGED.

Am i feeling happy for the current changes in me?
..

I am back, again

Yep, I am back.
wanna scream like the backstreet guys "U can run u can hide, but u can't escape my ...." but i am controlling myself ...
Yes i am back , i am back to normal life. An ordinary software engineers life.
After a tiring training in which i ain't learn anything, after a lot of mixed happenings in my life, i am back to pour out my feelings and thoughts.
Yes, to pour out the feelings from my heart and thoughts from my mind ,
ironically which hardly match each other now a days..

ok .. what was happening all these days in my life ??

1. I finished my training in my new company and joined my team.
Not a great beginning, for i was not at best in the first few days in the company. Forget the best, i was not even normal on the first day. Total contrast compared to my previous company .Anyhow things are working out fine now ...


2. My friend's Engagement in kerala. Had a nice trip to Gods own land. Can't tell more on this ... I may out up a seperate post on this, later.


3. Bought my BIKE, atlast. Its a unicorn. My roomie and me have similar bike, similar color, similar helmet.Hope our taste similarity ends here ....
Also I learn't a valuable lesson in the whole bike buying exercise.

4. Started becoming more organised, thanks to robert and outlook. Started planning a bit. Also on the financial inflows and outflows. If not in 10s, but atlease in 100s, i can figure out where i spent !!.

5. Yesterday my friend was proudly telling me that by december 5th, he will have two lakhs in his account.Felt happy the way all our lives are taking. Just a year back, when we both shared the room, we used to plan how to economize our office travels. Also he will be travelling to US in april.

6. planning to take a insurance policy which won't take much premium , but gives good returns :-)


Thats all for now.
Definitely more to come ..

A 20$ Bill

A well known speaker started off a seminar by holding up a $20.00 bill.
In the room of 200, he asked, who would like this $20 bill?

Hands started going up.

He said, "I am going to give this $20 to one of you but first, let me do
this." He proceeded to crumple the dollar bill up. He then asked, "who
still wants it! ?"

Still the hands were up in the air.

"Well," he replied, "what if I do this?" And he dropped it on the ground
and started to grind it into the floor with his shoe. He picked it up,
now crumpled and dirty. "Now who still wants it?"

Still the hands went into the air.

"My friends, we have all learned a very valuable lesson. No matter what
I did to the money, you still wanted it because it did not decrease in
value. It was still worth $20. Many times in our lives, we are dropped,
crumpled, and ground into the dirt by the decisions we make and the
circumstances that come our way.

Sometimes we might feel as though we are worthless. But no matter what
has happened or what will happen, you will never lose your value: dirty
or clean, crumpled or finely creased, you are still priceless to those
who love you.

The worth of our lives comes not in what we do or who we know, but by
WHO WE ARE. You are special - Don't EVER forget it."

Remember that amateurs built the ark.
Professionals built the Titanic .

The Thin Line

This post is inspired by a statement from a movie.

Lemme get directly to what i intend to put.

There is a very thin line of diffenerence between Confidence and Arrogance.

A person who is confident will say "I Can Do it" while an arrogant one will say "ONLY I CAN DO IT" .

We need to be very carefull in not crossing this line ... unless one really wants to.

 

Diwali and four days

In a way, this diwali is a unique in a for me.i learnt a lot during this period(No i am not listing them here).

Firstly, this is the second diwali after getting a job. But this is the first time i had a awareness that i should give something to my parents for diwali.

So I started to plan !! wellin advance :-). I started thinking about the things i need to buy. Aroud this time i was under going a activity management workshop

in which the trainer was emphasizing on planning. Consequent of that is my use of outlook tasks...

 

I decided to buy a gluco meter for my father. Many reasons and incidents influenced me to take that decision.

I told my friends regarding this and suprisingly none said its a bad idea. Even my sil suggested that.

I started to look out for brands and the best available brand in my range was accu check.

It costs 2400. Comes with 10 strips and 10 needles. Needless to say that the strips and needles are for single use.

The usage is simple. But i would have liked it if the blood removal process is also automated. Any case it was a needy buy and i did it.

Then i bought lot of dvds , both spiritual and movies.

 

The onward journey was a pain. The morons in ksrtc filled the special buses first before booking the normal ones. I paid some 120 extra for a normal bus.

Over that the buses were not allocated. The times scheduled in tickets were like 22.45, 22.52,23.10 , 23.15 ,  23.18 , 22.22 .  but ony buses for22.45 and 23.15 were there. others were missing till 11.00 in the night ! i don't know what they did.

 

Return was fine. Got a side lower so i didn't sleep.

 

FAMILY : Diwali Gyan

A nice story ...

I ran into a stranger as he passed by, "Oh excuse me please" was my reply.

He said, "Please excuse me too; I wasn't watching for you."

We were very polite, this stranger and I. We went on our way and we said goodbye.

But at home it is a different story how we treat our loved ones,young and old. Later that day, cooking the evening meal, my son stood beside me very still.

When I turned, I nearly knocked him down. "Move out of the way," I said with a frown. He walked away, his little heart broken. I didn't realize how harshly I'd spoken. While I lay awake in bed, God's still small voice came to me and said,

"While dealing with a stranger, common courtesy you use, but the family you love, you seem to abuse. Go and look on the kitchen floor, You'll find some flowers there by the door.

Those are the flowers ur son brought for you. He picked them himself: pink, yellow and blue. He stood very quietly not to spoil the surprise, you never saw the tears
that filled his little eyes."
By this time, I felt very small, and now my tears began to fall.

I quietly went and knelt by his bed; "Wake up, little one, wake up," I said.

"Are these the flowers you picked for me?"
He smiled acknoledgingly , "I found 'em, out by the tree.I picked 'em because they're pretty like you. I knew you'd like 'em,especially the blue."

I said, "Son, I'm very sorry for the way I acted today; I shouldn't have yelled at you that way." He said, "Oh, Mom,that's okay. I love you anyway."

I said, "Son, I love you too, and I do like the flowers, especially the
blue."

-----

Are we are aware that if anything happens to us tomorrow, the company that we are working for could easily replace us in a matter of days, but the family we leave
behind will feel the loss for the rest of their lives. And come to think of it, we pour ourselves more into work than into our own family, an unwise investment indeed, Don't you think?



So what is behind the story? what u thing i want to tell by this story ? As i said, when we all go home for diwali, lets us keep these in mind and make our parents happy.

Do you know what the word FAMILY means?

FAMILY = (F) ATHER (A) ND (M) OTHER (I) (L) OVE (Y) OU

on leave

Oops .. I am really Busy with my training(started mid-aug). I really started hating it but i have no option. So no blogging till 20th nov :-(

Impossible isoften untried

Faith

One day I decided to quit... I quit my job, my relationship, my spirituality...

I wanted to quit my life.I went to the woods to have one last talk with God.
"God", I said. "Can you give me one good reason not to quit?" His answer surprised me...
"Look around", He said. "Do you see the fern and the bamboo?"
"Yes", I replied.
"When I planted the fern and the bamboo seeds, I took very good care of them.

I gave them light. I gave them water. The fern quickly grew from the earth. Its brilliant green covered the floor.

 Yet nothing came from the bamboo seed. But I did not quit on the bamboo. In the second year

the Fern grew more vibrant and plentiful. And again, nothing came from the bamboo seed.

But I did not quit on the bamboo." He said.
"In year three there was still nothing from the bamboo seed. But I would not quit." He said.
"In year four, again, there was nothing from the bamboo seed. I would not quit." He said.
"Then in year five a tiny sprout emerged from the earth. Compared to the fern it was

seemingly small and insignificant... But just 6 months later the bamboo rose to over

100 feet tall. It had spent the five years growing roots. Those roots made it strong

and gave it what it needed to survive. I would not give any of my creations

 a challenge it could not handle." He said to me.
"Did you know, my child, that all this time you have been struggling,

you have actually been growing roots?"
"I would not quit on the bamboo. I will never quit on you."
"Don't compare yourself to others." He said. "The bamboo had a different

purpose than the fern. Yet they both make the forest beautiful."
"Your time will come", God said to me. "You will rise high"
"How high should I rise?" I asked.
"How high will the bamboo rise?" He asked in return.
"As high as it can?" I questioned
"Yes." He said, "Give me glory by rising as high as you can."
I left the forest and bring back this story. I hope these words can help

 you see that God will never give up on you.
He will never give up on you!
So… Have faith in God....
 

18 Rules for Life . .

Here r few rules which neeed not be broken, just because they r rules :-)


1. Pursue Achievable Goals
2. Keep a Genuine Smile
3. Share with Others
4. Help Thy Neighbors
5. Maintain a Youthful Spirit
6. Get Along with the Rich, the Poor, the Beautiful, & the Ugly
7. Keep Cool under Pressure
8. Lighten the Atmosphere with Humor
9. Forgive the Annoyance of Others
10. Have a Few Pals
11. Cooperate and Reap Greater Rewards
12. Treasure Every Moment with Your Loved Ones
13. Have High Confidence in Yourself
14. Respect the Disadvantaged
15. Indulge Yourself Occasionally
16. Surf the Net at Leisure
17. Take Calculated Risks
18. Understand "Money Isn't Everything . . ."

Quotes on Computer ....

Here are few things for musing  frm amby ....

"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense." - Edsgar Dijkstra

"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg." - Bjarne Stroustrup

"There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - CAR Hoare

"If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?" - Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing

"#3 pencils and quadrille pads." - Seymoure Cray (1925-1996) when asked what CAD tools he used to design the Cray I supercomputer; he also recommended using the back side of the pages so that the grid lines were not so dominant.

"Interesting - I use a Mac to help me design the next Cray." - Seymoure Cray (1925-1996) when he was told that Apple Inc. had recently bought a Cray supercomputer to help them design the next Mac.

"The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late." - Seymoure Cray

"UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity." -- Dennis Ritchie.

and here's some thing to muse about ...

"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."  --- Pablo Picasso.
 

Practice: Don't Preach

Here is a nice little poem forwarded by amby. Just contemplate on it :-)

I'd rather see a sermon
than hear one any day;
I'd rather one should walk with me
than merely tell the way.
The eye's a better pupil
and more willing than the ear,
Fine counsel is confusing,
but example's always clear;
And the best of all preachers
are the men who live their creeds,
For to see good put in action
is what everybody needs.
I soon can learn to do it
if you'll let me see it done;
I can watch your hands in action,
but your tongue too fast may run.
And the lecture you deliver
may be very wise and true,
But I'd rather get my lessons
by observing what you do;
For I might misunderstand you
and the high advice you give,
But there's no misunderstanding
how you act and how you live.

Flexible or Indecisive

Am I a personality of Indecisiveness or Flexibility ?.
This is the question that is eating my brain since two weeks.What am I.
Lot of happenings in this month. Lot of important decisions to be made.
Decisions involving my career and my life. Decisions affecting me and my
friends
Decisions involving my parents too. But am I happy with the decisions.
Firstof all am I taking Decisions?? or am I leaving to time to take its
own course.
Lemme attempt to find out ...
Its all started when I joined my job in Bangalore. Till then, I was a
happy-go guy living life as it is.
After joining in Blore for job , I was happy for two months. I went
around for trips,treks with my good friends and everything was totally
fine.
Then I became uncomfortable with the job. I am not exactly sure what
made me uncomfortable.
Was it that all my other friends were enjoying their life with cool jobs
and me getting fried even on weekends.
Or was it that my friend was convincing me every other night that
Regression is junk and development as good.
Or was it that my heart really wanted a cool / development job in big
company ??
Or was it that I wanted to get out of my house , making job-shift as a
reason ?
I really don't know.
But I started disliking my job for reasons which I feel silly now..
I really went weary of my current job in the initial months itself not
because job was bad but due to a lot of other unnecessary factors
Only thing , I felt them unnecessary only a bit late. But I started the
job search and after xsome ups and downs I got one in com1(say).
com1 is in new domain but has the lucratives of big banner and
comfortable job.
I definitely needed some rest and time for myself since my current job
robs both of them.
Then I informed my current company regarding my decision and sort of
declined the profile change offer
which is what exactly I initially wanted. I really didn't give time for
myself to make a decision.
I informed in current company because incase i need to join com1 , i
need to give one month notice.
When I informed my company , I wasn't sure i want to shift my job
(Irony??).
Now I want to stay in this domain itself. So I applied for Com2 which
works in this domain.
I really didn't do well in their interview. Still they are ready to
offer me.
Now Where should I go. Com1 gives good sal and a good brand. Com2 gives
good work domain.
Do I really know what I want. Will I take a decision atleast now ??

The second Indecisiveness/Flexibleness is in Househunt.
I can either stay alone in Whitefield or with a friend in Marathahalli.
I am flexible that i can stay alone or adjust with someone.
I am indecisive whether i really want to stay alone or with someone.
When I was totally unhappy with my current house (sometime last
september/october) I made an emotional
decision that I will stay alone. I took a decision because noone can
pain me when i am alone.
After a long time , after the wounds are healed, after i learnt to
survive dominators,
things were changed to the extent that the room became a happy place to
live.
Then a good friend of mine joined us in our room. Now I have an option
of sharing house in a new place.
Actually that is what exactly I wanted one year back. I wanted him to
come early so that I can move out with him.
I was even praying that he should get job very fast so that I can decide
on house shift !!!.
Now when there is an option of we sharing a house, I am confused.
The option is whether to share with him or go alone to whitefield.
Going alone looks fine when I think of peaceful life, learning a lot for
life like cooking, health, games, Gym.
I can buy things and keep collecting them.
Sharing with him is better because thats is what I really wanted.A good
roommate is definitely is a gift.
I can still in touch with jai and other friends, in touch with city, etc...
But I am confused? In a indecisive ? In other words, I want to keep my
options open. ?????
Anyhow I asked him for a time frame so that i will not waste his
plans.So a quick decision will be made shortly.

God , Please be with me .Give me options only in those things were I can
take proper decisions... :-)

Third thing is the most imp decision to take. This is for life. May be i
will put it on words some time later ...

I'm the man :-)

The awkward first phone call..

The Scene:
The Girl is a 23 year old investment banker, working in New York. The Boy is doing his residency in Boston and was given her number by his mother, who is a friend of the Girl's aunt's brother-in-law's cousin's uncle's wife in Chicago.

Time:
Monday night, 10 pm

Girl: Hello?

Boy: Shit, she's home! Umm, hi! Is this Pooja?

Girl: Speaking.

Boy: My name is Karan. I don't know if you know who I am. God, what if she doesn't know who I am? I don't even know why I'm doing this!

Girl: Oh, you live in Boston, right?

Boy: Yeah. Ok, so she was told about me, that's some relief. I wonder what she was told - "He's a resident, tall, and fair and he graduated from Ivy League school!". God, she probably hates me already!

Girl: Yeah, my mother mentioned you had my number. I can't believe he actually called!

Boy: So, how are you? Oh yeah, that's real original, but what the hell else I am supposed to say- Umm, hi, I don't know you, but do you want to be my wife?

Girl: I'm fine. And you? Ok, this is off to a great start

Boy: I'm good. Ok, think, think! So, I heard you're an investment banker? Oh, that's a real winner. Now I can be a bad conversationalist and an idiot!

Girl: Yes.

Boy: Ok, she is not helping me at all! Where do you work?

Girl: Merrill Lynch.

Boy: Hey, that's a great firm! I sound like a complete moron. I should just hang up except my mother would somehow find out and kill me!

Girl: Yeah, it's a nice place to work. God, this guy sounds like a complete loser

Boy: So... Stall, Stall!

Girl: So you're doing your residency in cardiology? Like my mom didn't tell me that 500 times already!

Boy: Ok, I can handle this... Yeah, I'm in my second year. Alright, now say something else, but what do I say? Do you drink? Cause if you want to marry me, you can't be one of those goody goody Indian girls who think that if they kiss a guy, they've practically gone all the way So, what do you like to do in your free time?

Girl: Umm... get wasted... Oh, you know, hang out with my friends, go to movies…

Boy: Where do you like to hang out in NY?

Girl: Shit, what am I supposed to say? This guy could be some religious freak! I can't say bars - I'll say clubs, you can go to clubs and not drink... Oh, sometimes we go to the movies, or there's a couple clubs that are good... That was good, I made it sound like I like clubs, but I'm not really into them...

Boy: Ok, she goes to clubs, that's a good sign. If she was really religious she wouldn't do that. Yeah? I like to dance also.

Girl: He likes to dance- that's a good sign. He can't be that stiff! So where do you hang out in Boston?

Boy: Should I say it? Alright, I'll say it, what the hell! Umm, the same, bars, clubs, stuff like that.

Girl: He said bars! So he probably drinks. Good sign. I should explore this further... Are there any good bars in Boston?

Boy: Yeah, there are some nice ones, I mean, I'm not a huge drinker, but I like having a good time. Ok, that gives the impression of someone who enjoys drinking but is not an alcoholic - pretty good, if I do say so myself

Girl: That sounds really positive. This guy sounds kind of cool. But if he's so cool why is he calling me? Shouldn't he have a girlfriend? Or not need to call random girls his mother tells him about? God, what if he's completely ugly? Yeah, me too. Although I hope my parents never find out.

Boy: Yeah. I know exactly what you mean.

Girl: Ok, so he didn't freak out at the living a double life reference- another good sign. I just wish I knew what he looked like... So...

Boy: Or she could be really fat with a huge mustache. Well, there's only one way to find out! So… I know this sounds a little crazy, but I'm visiting some friends in NYC next weekend and I wonder if you'd want to get together for coffee sometime.

Girl: Coffee. That's totally safe. If he's totally nasty I can have a quick espresso and run like hell! Yeah, that sounds great.

Boy: Alright that went pretty well. Coffee's pretty harmless. And who knows, maybe she'll be cool. Now I have to get the hell out of this conversation... So I have your e-mail, should I just e-mail you soon and we can figure it out?

Girl: E-mail is sooo much better than the phone. Thank God for e-mail! Yeah, just e-mail, I check it all the time at work, so - God, this is getting painful

Boy: Alright, I'll e-mail you soon. Meaning in two days, cause I don't want to look too desperate, but at the same time I don't want to look like I'm trying not to look too desperate

Girl: Cool. Well, I'm glad you called. I think...

Boy: Me too. Well, I'll see you soon. Please be hot, please be hot!

Girl: Alright. Bye. I can't believe he called! Too late to back out now. Besides, maybe he's cool. He didn't sound so bad on the phone.

Boy: Bye. I did it! I am the man. I think she wants me. Yeah, she definitely wants me…

Where do I fit in

The Little Square departed the world and culture of squares and was sent out into the wider world of all sorts and manner of geometric shapes and sizes.

He spent time with circles, orbs, eliptics, rectangles, and triangles, with hexagons and pentagons, and even spent time with those strange and foreign octagons that lived far, far away. As he rubbed together with them, taught them, and spent time with them showing them fascinating new insights and truths, they in turn rubbed back by sharing things with him that taught him and made him better.

He was a happy Little Square.

But by and by, the Little Square’s work was done and he returned home to his world of squares.

What he hadn't realized was that all that rubbing had rubbed off some of his nice, crisp square corners!

He discovered to his surprise, that he was no longer a very square square!

Alas, his shape had changed forever. He was a bit of a circle here, and a bit of a triangle there, and a bit of a pentagon over here. He was even octagonal in some ways!

Well, the squares in his hometown were very dismayed. The Little Square no longer fit in. He was somewhat strange and foreign—other worldly. They no longer understood the Little Square. He tried to fit back in but they shook their heads and wandered away, sick that the Little Square was so troubled and lost.

The once Little Square had returned home and found that he no longer fit into his little square hole. He had become an Oddball...not really fitting in anywhere...not completely.

So he sat down and began to cry. He felt alone, lost, of no use or value...he had no...home.

He was an Oddball, and he would always be an Oddball.

But then, he heard the Voice.

It said, "Stop crying Little Square. I wanted you to become the shape that you are now. Because you are now my shape. I made you an Oddball because I don't want you to fit into that world. You fit perfectly into my world."

"Who are you, Voice?" said Little Square.

"I made you, Little Square." replied the Voice, "And I have shaped you to become an Oddball because I have a very special job just for you."

Little Square was happy once again, and was glad that he was different - an Oddball!

So, he got up and set out to do what the Voice had called him to do...to go and help other Oddballs find their way to the Voice.

There is always a better way

Read this story somewhere . Worth duplicating on www ...


A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign which said: “I am blind, please help.”

There were only a few coins in the hat.

A man was walking by. He took a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by would see the new words.

Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy.

That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognised his footsteps and asked, “Were you the one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?”
The man said, “I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a different way.”

What he had written was: “Today is a beautiful day and I cannot see it.”

Do you think the first sign and the second sign were saying the same thing?

Of course both signs told people the boy was blind.

But the first sign simply told people to help by putting some money in the hat. The second sign told people that they were able to enjoy the beauty of the day, but the boy could not enjoy it because he was blind.

The first sign simply said the boy was blind. The second sign told people they were so lucky that they were not blind. Should we be surprised that the second sign was more effective?

There are at least two lessons we can learn from this simple story.
The first is: Be thankful for what you have. Someone else has less. Help where you can.

The second is: Be creative. Be innovative. Think differently. THERE IS ALWAYS A BETTER WAY!

The Broker ....

Long back i decided to keep track of Novels, I read.In my Previous Post Read to live,not live to Read I listed the books and the motivation behind them. So adding to the list is "The Broker" by one of my favorite authors John Grisham. I like Grisham , though most of my friends are not. His style is different. A creative naration. For example The Testament is a real classic novel thought the story can be told in exact 2 lines. But its a good read.

The Broker is cool. First time , I thing Grisham ventured in to spy rackets, mosards etc. Usually it used to be Archer's or ken follet's stuff. But Grisham was really good in his plot. There is/was a Broker. A power Broker. He had his empire, built by him. As in real life it too collapsed when he left for jail. There was a security scandal on his name. Shut into jail for 20 years. Then suddenly CIA want to digout the truth. so they get a pardon and ship him off to Italy. They watch him closely to find out which of China\Russia\Isreal\Saudi will kill him first. Then the broker's instincts were back and he is back into the game.
Fairly done by Grisham. Possibility of picking up couple of Italian language and names of dishes .
One unbelievable thing (or atleast my heart didn't agree) is that the Neptune was cracked by pakistanis ;-) . But what heck ? They too have brains and belong to our subcontinent. We were same once .

ok do read Broker to spend ur valuable time ...

I am currently reading Digital Fortress

So my new list says
Michael Crichton

1. Jurassic Park
2. The Lost World
3. Congo
4. TimeLine
5. Airframe
6. The Andromeda strain
7. Disclosure
8. Sphere
9. The Terminal man
10.The Great Train robbery
11.State of Fear
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John Grisham

1. A Time to Kill
2. The Firm
3. The pelican Brief
4. The Client
5. The Partner
6. The Testament
7. The Brethren
8. The Summons
9. The Last Juror
10.The Broker
11.
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Jeffrey Archer

1. Not a penny more Not a penny less
2. Kane and Abel
3. The prodigal Daughter
4. Shall we tell the President
5. First Among Equals
6. A matter of Honour
7. Honour among Thieves
8. The Eleventh Commandement
9. Sons of fortune
10.

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Eric Segal
1. The class
2. Love Story
3. Oliver's Story
4. Doctors
5. Acts of Faith
6.


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Sidney Shelton
1. If tomorrow Comes
2. Memories of midnight
3. The Other side of the midnight
4. Tell me your Dreams
5. Master of the Game
6. Nothing Lasts for ever
7. Rage of Angels
8. Morning noon and night
9. Dooms day conspiracy
10.

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Ken Follet
1. Jackdaws
2. The Eye of the Needle
3. The Third Twin
4. Codeto Zero
5. Hornet Flight
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Dan Brown
The Da Vinci Code
Angels and Demons

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Frederick Forsyth

1. The Day of The Jackel
2. The Devils Alternative

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Robert Ludlum

1. The Bourne Identity
2. The Sigma Protocol

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James Patterson

1. Along came a spider
2.
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Others:
1. The Rule of Four : Ian Cladwell and Dustin Thomason
2. The touch of a Stranger :
3.

to be added.........

Things only women can understand !!!

Why it's good to have seven pairs of black shoes.

The difference between cream, ivory, and off-white.

Crying can be fun.

A salad, diet drink, and a hot fudge sundae make a balanced lunch.

Why discovering a designer dress on the clearance rack can be considered a peak life experience.

The inaccuracy of every bathroom scale ever made.

A good man might be hard to find, but a good hairdresser is next to impossible.

Why a phone call between two women never lasts under ten minutes.

AND THE NUMBER ONE THING ONLY WOMEN UNDERSTAND:

OTHER WOMEN!

The Intersecting Lines

This is a story of two young people, whose lives happened to cross at a point, nothing more and nothing less.

He was in the search of the meaning of his life; as any other human being, in his early twenties. He had the talent, hailed by the society,
but he himself wasn't confident of accepting it. He yearned for more,more of what he did not know. He asked questions such as he himself
could never answer. He did not know where the life would take him, and for that matter, did not even care. Sometimes, he found himself trapped
in the web that he himself had woven, inadvertently. The people around him noticed, praised and talked of him. And he quietly enjoyed the talk,
always wondering all this is for /who/?

She was a youthful bud. Free as in Freedom. Swift as a cloud on a windy day. Fluent were her thoughts as the turbulent blue waters of a stream
in the forest. Bright was she as the sunshine on a day in March. And how beautiful!

It wouldn't be odd if they met one fine day. But until and unless that actually happened, sentences such as those would be meaningless. What
would such two people find in common? Appreciation for one another! Strange are never the ways of fate, that they happened to meet one day.
Out of the blue. And later, they laughed over the matter of their first meeting, for they couldn't make out /why/ they had to meet.

Some things do not have any explanation. And some things do not need one.

The life continued its own course. Changing a bit here and there for the conveniences of these two. They spoke of many things. Of ideals, of
socialism, of books and of songs. Of rainbows, of fireflies, of sand-dunes, of stars they spoke. If it ever came to his mind, he never
spoke of the puzzle that was consuming very much of his processing power. And she never thought so much about it anyway. The time was
spinning its wheel, and perhaps his mind was being freed by her. She, life's perfect admirer, could appreciate and accelerate the talents he
had so far kept buried within himself (for no reason whatsoever). And he was aware of that. He, on the other hand could simply be amazed by the
reach of her mind, the depth of her thoughts, the heights of her imaginations. He knew he had found the meaning, finally.

There were long dialogues exchanged, funny things debated and laughed at heartily. The others around them continued to enjoy what these two were
offering them : joy! The weathers changed, the moon continued with its 15-day tours, the clouds came at the times expected and the rains poured
sooner. The flowers never missed the blooming season. Everything about everything was just too perfect. Including these two.

One may be forced to think that perhaps, then, these two were made for each other. But that's a different story. That may happen in some other
story, but not in this one. And that is not the point of the story after all.

The greatest adventure that life is, it miraculously brings out so uncountably many straight lines, some parallel, some intersecting, some
short, some ever lengthening. And a few merge and become one after a certain point. Many meaningless lines never intersect, not that they are
parallel but such a crossing never happens. And then there is no definition of parting for such lines too.

The geometry of life is not so straightforward.

The merry weather continued all the same. The stars shone on them and the moon cleared any darkness that was left in him. Time continued. Joys
overflowed. Breeze hummed, and trees swayed. And after such a wonderful length of time, the two lines departed. For no reason, as there was no
reason for there meeting. Without any emotion that can be described as sadness. Without shedding any drop of tear, without bidding any
goodbyes. Without any promises of meeting again. Perhaps, life simply and cruelly turned its attention to another such pair of unrelated lines.

It is probably not so important how these two lines fared later, but what is important is the point they left on each other's paths. A line
may be made up of infinite points, but not all of them can be so privileged as those of the intersection. Intersection, such as this.

Indeed, the geometry of life is not so straightforward. But then it is not pointless as well!