Came across this beautiful article on the Teach For India Blog. Must read.
Unravelling the Mystery of God in a 2nd grade classroom
This testifies how pure kids are at their heart, unadulterated by the adult opinions of the world. A couple more such excerpts I completely loved:
"Kids are wonderfully honest. Kids are also fantastic actors. Kids are transparent. Kids also hide. But, the beauty is, for every kid who is an actor, there are many others who’d want to impress the Teacher by telling the truth." :Part of a post on the TFI blog
"All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
- Pablo Picasso
Monday, November 1, 2010
Sunday, October 31, 2010
From the Bhagwad Gita...
"There is no end. For the soul there is never birth nor death. Nor, having once been, does it ever cease to be. It is unborn, eternal, ever-existing, undying and primeval..."
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Music Saves My Soul
Whatever would happen to me, if there weren't any music. So many times have I thought of making a list of all my favorite songs. Just to keep a track of which one I am mesmerized with currently, may be I should constantly post the ongoing favorites. Here's the one I am humming right now:
Main Tenu Samjhawan Ki, Na Tere Bajhon Lagda Ji... by Rahat Fateh Ali Khan.
Awesome Song with equally awesome lyrics. Though I hardly pay attention to the lyrics of a song, this one completely beholds my soul for the time it flows.
Main Tenu Samjhawan Ki, Na Tere Bajhon Lagda Ji... by Rahat Fateh Ali Khan.
Awesome Song with equally awesome lyrics. Though I hardly pay attention to the lyrics of a song, this one completely beholds my soul for the time it flows.
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Iterations of My Self
I was thinking today if I would want to go back and re-live my life till this moment; Correct all the mistakes that I ever made; set right all those instances that can be improved and relive all those moments I enjoyed to the fullest. I realized that I won't.
The worst experiences in our lives teach us the best lessons. Lessons that change us completely, make us a different person, change our definitions and make us feel glad to have had those bad days at the first place. Given a chance to go back and edit them, would I do that? No, because then my learning won't be the same anymore, my experience wouldn't be commensurate anymore, my roots wouldn't be strong any longer. I don't regret most of the mistakes I ever made, don't want to change any of the most awful experiences I sustained. Because with each of those gales, I know, I just grew a little stronger, a little bolder, a little wiser and a little kinder
The worst experiences in our lives teach us the best lessons. Lessons that change us completely, make us a different person, change our definitions and make us feel glad to have had those bad days at the first place. Given a chance to go back and edit them, would I do that? No, because then my learning won't be the same anymore, my experience wouldn't be commensurate anymore, my roots wouldn't be strong any longer. I don't regret most of the mistakes I ever made, don't want to change any of the most awful experiences I sustained. Because with each of those gales, I know, I just grew a little stronger, a little bolder, a little wiser and a little kinder
Monday, September 13, 2010
The intent of our lives...
"The purpose of life is not to be happy - but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all." -Leo Rosten
This quote doesn't mean that the intention of our lives is to be sad either. All it portrays is the difference between directing our actions to our happiness and procuring happiness automatically as a result of our karma, the reason for our existence.
This quote doesn't mean that the intention of our lives is to be sad either. All it portrays is the difference between directing our actions to our happiness and procuring happiness automatically as a result of our karma, the reason for our existence.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
My Facebook Internship Saga
Without any experience in the professional world, without ever having stayed at another country, but with knowledge that instigates any undergraduate computer science, I got this extraordinary opportunity to work at one of the biggest web giants of the Silicon Valley, Facebook. Being an ardent user of this addictive site, I always wondered how things worked behind the scenes: how did they build stuff, monitor statistics and dealt with the herculean challenge of handling humongous amounts of data. Getting this matchless prospect to work in the heart of the internet was akin to a dream come true.
Wadding up my stuff in early May, I had no idea about what to look forward to. It was only during my first week at Facebook that I realized the extravagant bonanza in store for me. At Facebook, I was given complete freedom to decide what project I wanted to work on for the major part of my internship and shape it the way I wanted. Brainstorming with other engineers about cool features we could enhance the site with were part of the diurnal conversations. And the impact I was making was astounding. My tasks within the first few weeks itself involved deploying some functionality on the live site, impacting the experiences of more than 500 million users globally. Not before joining this splendid place had I envisaged such an impact as possible, specially when I hardly had any prior web development knowledge. Virtually all the languages and tools I was playing with were novel to me, I hadn't even heard about a number of them before but comprehending them was made so much easier with the abet and encouragement of all the engineers around. Adhering to Facebook's motto of 'Move Fast, Break Things', during my 3 months of internship, I enhanced my web development skills colossally and learned innumerable intricacies of social networking!
A major contribution to my remarkable experience was made by the people I was working with. At Facebook, you get to work with the smartest people on earth. Everyone around is an ace in their work and extremely enthusiastic about whatever they are building. The energy in the company is just amazing! I remember listening to the VP of engineering for Facebook during the Grace Hopper Conference 2009 in Arizona. He said, the best thing about your job should be to love what you do. It was during this summer that I realized how true this is. Nowhere else in this world do you get to sit and work with the best coders on earth, have meals with the veterans in the company, play high school sports with your managers or have barbecue at the CEO's house. Facebook is truly amazing.
I had oodles of fun meeting with people from all over the world and participating in intern events like Scavenger hunt, Go Game or Beach Boardwalks. Taking a shot at all those things I ever wanted to do was incredible. Rafting, Skydiving, acquainting my taste buds with every existent cuisine on earth, Facebook Summer Party celebrations and a 3 day long Hackathon provided the icing on the cake. I have clearly had my best summer ever. Having such a great time with a limitless personal and professional enrichment all the time, I can say no less than, Facebook is awesome! And now that I am back, I am much more energetic, revived and excited to be learning so much more. With so much freedom, independence, awesome mentors, smartest co workers, impact, web presence and unlimited fun, I am absolutely sure I couldn't have asked for a better start to my professional journey! :)
Wadding up my stuff in early May, I had no idea about what to look forward to. It was only during my first week at Facebook that I realized the extravagant bonanza in store for me. At Facebook, I was given complete freedom to decide what project I wanted to work on for the major part of my internship and shape it the way I wanted. Brainstorming with other engineers about cool features we could enhance the site with were part of the diurnal conversations. And the impact I was making was astounding. My tasks within the first few weeks itself involved deploying some functionality on the live site, impacting the experiences of more than 500 million users globally. Not before joining this splendid place had I envisaged such an impact as possible, specially when I hardly had any prior web development knowledge. Virtually all the languages and tools I was playing with were novel to me, I hadn't even heard about a number of them before but comprehending them was made so much easier with the abet and encouragement of all the engineers around. Adhering to Facebook's motto of 'Move Fast, Break Things', during my 3 months of internship, I enhanced my web development skills colossally and learned innumerable intricacies of social networking!
A major contribution to my remarkable experience was made by the people I was working with. At Facebook, you get to work with the smartest people on earth. Everyone around is an ace in their work and extremely enthusiastic about whatever they are building. The energy in the company is just amazing! I remember listening to the VP of engineering for Facebook during the Grace Hopper Conference 2009 in Arizona. He said, the best thing about your job should be to love what you do. It was during this summer that I realized how true this is. Nowhere else in this world do you get to sit and work with the best coders on earth, have meals with the veterans in the company, play high school sports with your managers or have barbecue at the CEO's house. Facebook is truly amazing.
I had oodles of fun meeting with people from all over the world and participating in intern events like Scavenger hunt, Go Game or Beach Boardwalks. Taking a shot at all those things I ever wanted to do was incredible. Rafting, Skydiving, acquainting my taste buds with every existent cuisine on earth, Facebook Summer Party celebrations and a 3 day long Hackathon provided the icing on the cake. I have clearly had my best summer ever. Having such a great time with a limitless personal and professional enrichment all the time, I can say no less than, Facebook is awesome! And now that I am back, I am much more energetic, revived and excited to be learning so much more. With so much freedom, independence, awesome mentors, smartest co workers, impact, web presence and unlimited fun, I am absolutely sure I couldn't have asked for a better start to my professional journey! :)
Sunday, May 9, 2010
An Interesting quote I read...
People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within.
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