Some days back I was reading a famous speech by Steve Jobes ,CEO of APPLE , which he delivered as commencement address in a University on June 12 , 2005.
I felt after reading this, that nothing has shaken me as vigorously as this piece of text. I don't remember exactly as how many times I have read that speech . But I know for sure that this was something that my ears were expecting to here
for a long time .
The central idea of the speech is something about 'Doing what you really love'.
'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says...
Here are some lines which I found striking,(I am sorry that it will be difficult to make out anyhting without the complete text...)
"you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."
"It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly
important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."
Well , It raised several questions in my mind..
Number one ..
1) Am I doing something which I really love ?
Number Two..
2) Will I have the guts to follow my heart in the future ?
Happily, I found the answers to these questions as positive.
I am certainly doing something which I really enjoys. I still gets excited at the topics from my subject Computer science and Engineering..so no regrets in that regard, But I am disappointed at the way the whole academic drama is scripted. I feel that I am a very bad actor in this play. But once freed from the thought of GPA ,then its a wonderful experience..the joy of learning, the ecstasy of experimenting..And of late I have build the courage to do only those which I really loves..The consequences are sure to be felt in the coming end sem results...But truly I dont care . Kishore once said "Dont rely on your GPA , but on your skill and knowledge to get a job " , and I liked it.
Answer to the second question requires a lot more thoughts and I would like time to answer it...
Signing Off
RK
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Monday, April 6, 2009
Ragam Updates..
Ragam09 , the third ragam of my life was over a few days back..
Here are the stats(you won't see this anywhere else)..
Some 1395 external participants, 71 colleges.
Final standings..
With about 350 participants CET rocked the campus..Thanks to one and all from CET..Special thanks to Sanu S Nair ,their team captain...With about just 48 participants, previous champions GMC thrissur came second. SCT under Lijo Mathew came third.
I don't know what was the exact budget of the event..But it is something between 25 to 30 lakhs. A mammoth sum , indeed..
So it is time for a small interospection.. Is Ragam growing ? Or is it moving in the right direction ?
The numbers shows that it is certainly growing...From about 1110 participants,
it moved on to 1395. Number of colleges increased from 60 to 71.
But the saddest part is that Ragam owes a lot to the above 5 colleges for its existence..Minus these colleges , I am afraid that It is a big zero..Certainly these are painful confessions.. Ragam has become a professional college festival. The Arts and science colleges seem to ignore it. Or the other way.
If Ragam was all about pro shows , I would not have complained.None from Farook college , Devagiri college ( Calicut university Inter zone champions ) did turn up..If 1000 plus participants can come from the Thiruvananthapuram district, Why not atleast one from a college that is in the viscinity ? It certainly disappointed me..I was expecting something around 3000 , but not even half turned up..
It is high time we recognise our faults and make corrections.A detailed review later..
Signing Off
RK
Here are the stats(you won't see this anywhere else)..
Some 1395 external participants, 71 colleges.
Final standings..
| College | Points | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | NITC | 402 |
| 2 | College of Engineering Thiruvananthapuram | 265 |
| 3 | Govt. Medical College, Thrissur | 263 |
| 4 | Sree Chitra Thirunal College of Engineering, Pappanamcode | 184 |
| 5 | Mar Baselios College of Engineering & Tech., Nalanchira | 97 |
| 6 | Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kollam | 83 |
With about 350 participants CET rocked the campus..Thanks to one and all from CET..Special thanks to Sanu S Nair ,their team captain...With about just 48 participants, previous champions GMC thrissur came second. SCT under Lijo Mathew came third.
I don't know what was the exact budget of the event..But it is something between 25 to 30 lakhs. A mammoth sum , indeed..
So it is time for a small interospection.. Is Ragam growing ? Or is it moving in the right direction ?
The numbers shows that it is certainly growing...From about 1110 participants,
it moved on to 1395. Number of colleges increased from 60 to 71.
But the saddest part is that Ragam owes a lot to the above 5 colleges for its existence..Minus these colleges , I am afraid that It is a big zero..Certainly these are painful confessions.. Ragam has become a professional college festival. The Arts and science colleges seem to ignore it. Or the other way.
If Ragam was all about pro shows , I would not have complained.None from Farook college , Devagiri college ( Calicut university Inter zone champions ) did turn up..If 1000 plus participants can come from the Thiruvananthapuram district, Why not atleast one from a college that is in the viscinity ? It certainly disappointed me..I was expecting something around 3000 , but not even half turned up..
It is high time we recognise our faults and make corrections.A detailed review later..
Signing Off
RK
Seeking your blessings...
Finally, the feared has happened..This vishu is going to be the first without my muthassan, without his routine 'kaineetam' and without the vishu sadya that we (I and my brother Syamu) normally takes sitting besides him...
It was on second April 2009. I had a miss call from my father by about 10 am.
An unusual call..perhaps that indicated everything.
I called him back..He conveyed the usual statement used in such occasions.."Condition is critical.It is better you turn up fast.."
I knew that everything was over and I hurried home..
Later I realised that only Syamu and Ammomma were beside him in the last moments.It might have been extremely terrifying for a fourteen year old, yet he handled the situation quite maturely.They sent for a doctor and by about 11am it was all confirmed.
The body was taken to Pambady Ivar Madam after I reached home.There you get to see the professionalism by which even deaths are handled in this 21st century. The 'chitha' was awaiting the body and in no time, it was ignited.
With rich tributes
RK
It was on second April 2009. I had a miss call from my father by about 10 am.
An unusual call..perhaps that indicated everything.
I called him back..He conveyed the usual statement used in such occasions.."Condition is critical.It is better you turn up fast.."
I knew that everything was over and I hurried home..
Later I realised that only Syamu and Ammomma were beside him in the last moments.It might have been extremely terrifying for a fourteen year old, yet he handled the situation quite maturely.They sent for a doctor and by about 11am it was all confirmed.
The body was taken to Pambady Ivar Madam after I reached home.There you get to see the professionalism by which even deaths are handled in this 21st century. The 'chitha' was awaiting the body and in no time, it was ignited.
With rich tributes
RK
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