WD-40

Rambles...

2011-01-09T23:20:00.000+05:30

Lone firefly glows happily in...

A cloak of darkness-

The light of the world!

Just...

2008-08-04T19:14:00.000+05:30

Thoughts flitting by my mind...

1. Is it possible to be without thought? To just be? Like when you first see the sunrise... just SEE it. Not judge it. Not comment on it. Not even an 'It's SO beautiful!' That one moment of no thought is what I live for!

2. Isn't the state of the mind attention? Isn't thought inattention? What is it to be in attention?

3. What is hurt? YOU are feeling the hurt... it was your reaction to someone or something. You can choose to be or not to be hurt. It's a choice. So, why hurt yourself at all? Unless you're completely masochistic? :)

4. When you're feeling something, feel it COMPLETELY. And watch yourself feeling it. Don't oppose it. Don't intellectualise it. Just feel it. And in that feeling and observation of the feeling, notice what happens. The feeling may dissolve, disappear. Or it may grow stronger. But the important thing is to observe.

2008-05-09T22:21:00.000+05:30

Here are some interesting photography-based sites you could check out...

http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/

http://www.annegeddes.com/

http://www.webshots.com/

More soon...

Waking Life

2008-05-09T21:57:00.001+05:30

I watched this movie, 'Waking Life', some months back and it is THE most thought-provoking movie I have EVER seen. It weaves together issues like appearance and reality, free will, our relationships with others, and the meaning of life. Along the way the film touches on other topics including existentialism, situationist politics, posthumanity, and the film theory of André Bazin.

Also, the imagery in the movie is BEAUTIFUL! It was made using Rotoshop and the effect is brilliant!

A technical masterpiece and a bizzare yet amazingly beautiful and indecipherable story. VERY STRONGLY RECOMMENDED.

Pensive... in one of my moods.

2008-04-18T18:52:00.000+05:30

I sit with my knees up close to my body,

A certain sense of stillness pervades my consciousness.

And a little teardrop, like a silver fairy,

Rolls down a face brimming with sadness.

But then the moonlight catches

The beauty of a flower,

Bright yellow, like the sun,

Yet soft and gentle like a dropping feather.

And just then a thought,

Like a child peering into a room of toys,

Flits into my mind.

And brings with it memories of people loved and adored,

As close to my heart as my own soul.

And in that one moment of reality,

I recognised what I had long sought,

Found what I had most wanted

And got what I had most needed-

Sublime joy that never dies.

P.S. The picture was taken in The Valley School, KFI, Bangalore.

Bonjour!

2008-04-18T18:24:00.000+05:30

Hello everybody!!!

Some little bird twittered some encouragement in my ear some days back and here I am to supply some cud to chew... :) So, be on the lookout for some (hopefully) interesting posts in the coming days!

Au revoir!

~The Intellectual~

P.S. The picture is one of Mumbai's Chowpatti Beach. Breathtaking in real life, diminished in magnificence yet beautiful on reel.

Another Blog of interest

2006-05-24T23:57:00.000+05:30

Check this one out...haven't explored it yet...seems interesting!
http://mylifewithbadenglish.blogspot.com/

The Mary Magdalene magic continues...

2006-05-23T10:29:00.000+05:30

Visit this site to delve into further DVC controversies...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12893635/site/newsweek/?GT1=8199

Check it out!
Cheers!
The Intellectual ;)

Interesting blogs

2006-05-21T20:14:00.000+05:30

Hey!

Do visit this AWESOME blog, bring back the old memories...
http://classicanimation.blogspot.com/

Also, in case you're thinking of a career in writing, here is a blog that might help...
http://wanderingscribe.blogspot.com/

Here is another interesting read...
http://joaoribas.blogspot.com/

And, if you're in the mood for some really well designed musings, you've found just the place at:
http://rustedgate.blogspot.com/

Thats all for now!

Back soon with more fun...

These are a few of my favourite things...

2006-05-20T11:01:00.000+05:30

I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out.
-Nora Ephron

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep
And miles to go before I sleep.
-Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

The last class of my old professor's life took place once a week in his house, by a window in the study where he could watch a small hibiscus plant shed its pink leaves. The class met on Tuesdays. It began after breakfast. The subject was The Meaning of Life. It was taught from experience.
No grades were given, but there were oral exams each week. You were expected to respond to questions, and you were expected to pose questions of your own. You were also required to perform physical tasks now and then, such as lifting the professor's head to a comfortable spot on the pillow or placing his glasses on the bridge of his nose. Kissing him good-bye earned you extra credit.
No books were required, yet many topics were covered, including love, work, community, family, aging, forgiveness, and, finally, death. The last lecture was brief, only a few words.
A funeral was held in lieu of graduation.
Although no final exam was given, you were expected to produce one long paper on what was learned. That paper is presented here.
The last class of my old professor's life had only one student.
I was the student.
-Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie

You're lucky if you can find even one thing in a lifetime that inspires you to push beyond the accepted, to fight the established, to run the razor's edge and discover your limits are only what you make them. But if you ever do find such a thing, dig your teeth into that sucker like you're a pit bull and hang on as long as you can.
-Dave Haynie

Learn how to live, and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll learn how to live.
-Morrie Schwartz

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
-Albert Einstein

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
-Albert Einstein

Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
-Albert Einstein

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
-Albert Einstein

Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
-Albert Einstein

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
-Albert Einstein

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
-Albert Eintsein

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the former.
-Albert Einstein

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
-Albert Einstein

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
-Albert Einstein

A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
-Albert Einstein

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
-(Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)

Optical Illusions at their best...

2006-05-17T11:00:00.000+05:30

Hey Everybody,
Do visit this AWESOME blog I found...
http://mightyillusions.blogspot.com/
Until later...
The Intellectual (That means, 'The Intellectual')

Useless yet Interesting Trivia!

2006-05-16T23:41:00.000+05:30

Abraham Lincoln, who invented a hydraulic device for lifting ships over shoals, was the only US president ever granted a patent.
According to the Gemological Institute of America, up until the 1730's, India was the only source for diamonds in the world.
Antarctica is the only continent without reptiles or snakes.
Australia is the only country that is also a continent.
Baskin Robbins once made ketchup ice cream. This was the only vegetable flavored ice cream produced.

WD-40

2006-05-16T22:59:00.000+05:30

WD-40 literally stands for Water Displacement, 40th attempt. That's the name straight out of the lab book used by the chemist who developed WD-40 back in 1953. The chemist, Norm Larsen, was attempting to concoct a formula to prevent corrosion -- a task which is done by displacing water. Norm's persistence paid off when he perfected the formula on his 40th try.

Now don't you feel better knowing that?