Q

Recently..i was part of this long Q... waitin 4 my turn 2 get a pic taken of 'urs truely'... to u know get that official permission frm the govt of the country to get fined lesser for breakin the traffic rules..

had a test drive b4 this joining of Q..
drove a bike n a Chevrolet Tavera... to show that i can actually drive...here i didnt need to stand in a Q... coz supposedly my uncle was some1 frm the anti-corruption's bureau. was he... btw which uncle...
all d same.

so i get to do this...test drive shud i call it..

this bike...it has a history of its own...really ...
coll famous as Dobu's bike..it has world class features...

1 has 2 literally stand on the rear wheel break to make it effectively come into use..
n the front wheel ..thats almost just for adding beauty to the bike...

then agn...the keys to the bike is a ..well let that b.that i ll tell u in person..is kind of controversial news..

hmm then agn..the bike...
headlight...glows every once a while... seldom enough to consider it dead.. but frequent enough 2 persuade me, u n dobu..to do nothing abut it... it works aftr all..

n then the grand finale..
u stop the bike.. breaks do work..not totally useless..
then u switch it off...
whats this..the engine still running on..
hain...

the idea is, u have to tilt the handle to the left..kind of when its parked n..it needs to feel that parked feel b4 it says goodnite to the engine..

so that was a successful test drive on Dobus bike.. :)

yeah abut this Q..
when i joined it i ..was obviously the person last in it..
then we crawled ..ahead inch by inch..
i was hungry...... agn... so bought myself a biscuit pack..Aapnu TIGER..
by then a Mr. had adjusted him in my place..ie at the end of the Q..
nevermind i went and stood beside him..
he passed a smile..dunno y..was i to say..dude...i m also here..n now u r behind me..or was it..y dont u join behind me... motive same..attitude diff..not that i really cared..
i munched a biscuit...
then we crawled more..by now some men..big men with even bigger bellies..or is it..bellys..had joined behind us...
hmm now thr was no wind that cud squeez thru them n relieve us of the heat...
hot hot gandhinagar..at 4 30 PM.

then we moved along a little more..
frm somewhr an old KAKA appeared just behind us..n this guy beside me..went somwhr.. 4 a walk or something in the sun..man was he wierd..
when he returns..kaka wont budge...
kaka claims he was behind me all the time... so a scene starts to built up..
now then this kaka looks frail n all but was really willing to lay down his life rather that budge a single step..
so every1 then stood at that 1 place...nxt to each other..i guess we had made a Q.. now... refer to the shape of the letter..

then the problem that started was..ppl to, u know, get ahead in the Q started pushin just a little ..little by litle.. just enough ..so that it appeared that we were all movin along at a good pace ..when actually all that was happening was that... it was gettin crowded up thr..
i guess kaka had this feelin that if he was physically close to the end of the Q..he ll get the job done faster.. wierd thot..but thats what it was..
in fact quite a few of them wanted to u know..come up..front...
thin guys..got squeezed..belly guys...squeezed..i ...well..i went out of the line...the line turnd left a few feet ahead..n thr was room thr..so i went n stood thr..
ppl were so tightly jammed in thr..
no reason...seriously no reason...wud take the same time if they were to stand in order n with some space btwn 4 some air to keep them happy..
but naah..no way..
nyways..we now really really crawled..coz thr was no space to crawl...
all d same then agn this issue of who was behind me n was that Mr behind me or ahead..n whr did kaka stand..came up...
thats at the left turn..
this turn took 1 into a small room..whr ur digi pic wud b taken..n u get ur Driving License..
the pic..dont remind me..i look like a terrorist in it.. ;)

yeah at this turn..i guess somehow mutually it was agreed that i was ahead of this Mr.
kaka would not budge..
then frm somewhr this tough lookin rough speakin guy...comes n throws his weight behind the Mr.
Kaka protests..but in a lower volume.. things subside now...4 the good guess..cud have got messy..
hmm so i finally get to have my pic taken..n as i said..

was uncombed..was wearing a lal kurta..Gunjan's..
unshaved...

when i got to the other side of this room to get my Smart card..4 the license..the system hangs..has to b rebooted..
another few mins..b4 it actually gets done..
this guy who reboots..didn't know how to reboot... the other guy told him how to press the big button n switch it of... not the conventional click on turn off comp or shutdown to switch off ur come..
then tells him to press the big button agn..

so much so 4 technology..
then when he starts a Database..n makes an entry..he makes a spelling error..i point it out..n he looks at me like i had ..dunno.... abused him or what..
i thot..thr goes my license.. woooops

but then it was ok i guess..
he gave me mine...some 5 mins later..

man do i look like a terrorist..all ready to shoot some1 or ... blow up some1..
that done..i proceeded back. to coll..
n guess what..
averted the biggest possible accident that i cud have been apart of till now..
trust me not my mistake..i was riding long strt on dobu's bike.. fast..
n yeah the bike has no speedometer..

just then an ambulance - a maruti Van makes a turn n is like right in frnt of me...
taan tan tanaaannn

Breaks..poora...zoor se...pichla chakaa ghissaaa.. cheeeeee that sound u all know abut...bike woggles..makes several S shapes on the road..
but i managed..
these S shapes r still thr on the road..4 ur reference.. :)
n then when the guy crosses the road n is in the Gali nxt ..shouts at me..as if i was the 1 crazy to shoot into his van head on with my bike.. liek a terrorist
no time 2 fite dude..they were 2 n me 1..outnumbered...
i ride along..
was happy..dunno y.. coz had averted that acc, or coz of something else..
dunno really dont care also.

being happy is good..

so much so 4 the Q n everything b4 n after it..

the big rocks...priorities

A man stood in front of a group of bright , accomplished students. He said,"It's time for a quick quiz" . He pulled out a wide mouthed gallon jar and set it on a table in front of him.Then he produced a dozen fist-sized rocks and dropped them one at a time in the jar.
When the jar was filled top the top and no more rocks would fit inside, he asked "Is this jar full?" .
Everyone in the class said "YES."

"Really?" the man asked. He reached under the table and pulled out a bucket of gravel. He poured some gravel into into the jar and shook it, causing pieces of gravel to work themselves down into the spaces between the rocks.

Then he asked the group agn,"Is this jar full?", By this time the class was onto him."Probably not," one of them suggested.
"Good," he replied. And he reached under the table and brought out as bucket of sand.He started dumping the sand into it and it went into all the spaces between the rocks and the gravel. Once more he asked the question, "Is the jar full?"
"NO" the class shouted in unison. Once again he said, "Good"Then he picked up a pitcher of water and poured it in until the jar was filled to the grim.Then he looked up at the class and asked, "Whats the point of this demonstration?"

One student raised hi hand and said, "The point is no matter how full ur schedule is, if u try really hard, you can always fit some more things into it."





"NO" the speaker replied, "thats not the point at all.

The lesson is this:
If u dont put the big rocks in first, u ll never get them in at all !"

few people establish ever in thr minds, what the big rocks are in their lives.

Even when we have our priorities straight in our minds not all of us are adept at keeping them in orderin our hearts-that is in actual practice.

the batchelor cycle

single.. eyeing some1....
in some cases> seein some1{that same 1}... am i interested ?? ...date :)....date rooz.....date done time...oops...aaur koi kyun hai uske saath......
yaar kahan the ab tak..pichle 3 min se intezaar kar raha tha..kitna late karte ho..i was worried.....

yaar kahin door chale chalte hain..jahan koi aaur nahi...

i really really like u... i like bein with u all d time....cant live without u...
n then.....

then...

bang..things start gettin over....

btw.. 'i love u' beech me insert kar sakte ho as per ur taste...

PS: this is an abridged version... poori book k lia please feel free to ask ...confidentiality will b maintained .

How to Determine Value

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A lot of the time u cant. But the usual business answers -' What some one is willing to pay' or 'what it costs us to make' - are often worse than no answer at all. Consumer product businesses are particularly guilty of this: pricing becomes a function of manufacturing costs.
In determining the value of what u r selling it helps to ask urself some of these questions:

how unique is it ? Can they buy it for less from my competitor ?
If so, are there some real competitive advantages of my product ?
Can i sell it for more to thier competitors ?
How badly or how quickly do they need it ?
What would it cost to replace it ?
Are there any precedents that can help me ? Is there a 'passion factor' ? Suppose u r craving to buy an ice cream cone, and when u get to the shop u discover the price has doubled. Are u still going to buy it ?

Is this a one time deal or is this the future ?

When u have a pretty good idea of value, dont be afraid to name ur price. In fact, this is the negotiating instance where it may b to ur advantage to go first. Have ur "back-up" at ur finger tips.

-McCormack





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CSO lab..1st sem

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1st sem.. CSO lab.. something goin on.. .oohh its so hot man..
just exactly what i was thinkin...
when Mr. Bhargav..Deepesh Bhargav, CSO TA.. some past janam ka dushman..{as i thot then.. } askd me something...

Gawd now what..a question...
Of all courses in the sem this was like.. eahhhh yuckkk.... n neither the faculty nor the TA's made it ny better...

CSO lab was like 2 hrs of imprisonment..
though some people ..strangely enuf seemed to like the course... ohh nevermind , dont think of them..they wud like ny course..

yeah so i was asked a question...
I guess he had been tryin to explain something to the group..60 guys... must b tough 4 a guy to do....{refering to the guy who has to sit 4 those 120 mins in the lab..even though he's least interested.. alas...not the TA..the guy on the other side..}

Mr Deepesh Bhargav was... not a legend.. a normal man.. flesh n blood n all..but i kind of preffered to u know..change my route/path in case he seemed to come ny where near it.. n it seemed to me..or rather i can bet on it.. that he liked me..really loved me..if not wishin to have me on his side all the time..
so that he could use me as a punching bag...
n keep givin in those punches..dishum..dishum..

y...is the question that will b asked..
simple..i was 1 of those simple guys u know..who believed in the 11th hr theory...
a gr8 theory..in principle it says... a person is most effective in the 11th hr of completion of a job..therefore maximum percent of the job should be accomplished then..
guy was a genius who gave this theory..
btw ny1 can easily prove it.. i have...infinite number of times.. :)

yeah so i believed in this law... so in the lab ie much b4 the 11th hour.. i wud be set up to answer questions..by him...
now to do such petty things i cant change my principles..u c..i m a man of principles..
so every time he wud do it..i wud... u know... stick to my principle.. stand bold n ..err quite.. in front of him..
i guess it gave him a certain sense of ecstasy..a sense of heavenly bliss...or may b just a sense of being 1 up against me.. {addin these 1 ups..he must have scord a century... }

yeah now comin 2 that day..
that particular day was nice n bright.n hot n ..it had a CSO lab...huuhhhh

i was asked a question..directly related to what was being taught... he shot at me > point blank .
i was...welll i was errr confident...yeah..n i ..was just abut to give that answer..was framing the exact words that wud take him cmpletely by surprise ... as they say..
uske pairoon k neeche se dharti khiska deta...

n just when the 1 word was abut to ..hit the vocal chords ..n thoughts were about to convert to frequency..
i recalled..the 11th hour principle...
..... y shud i answer..its not the exam..not a test..its not the 11th hour... just to make him happy cud i go against my principle..no...sorry mate..so i kept my frequencies to myself...
stood thr like a rock..said nothin... i had an inner sense of joy..i had beaten him..just when he thot he had me... yeah i am a winner..

ooo i was so lost in these gr8 feelin..when i heard..some1 shouting... i looked around..Mr. Deepesh was ooo soo angry with me...
"This is completely not expected Rajiv..." how did he know my name.. "u cant answer what u have been hearin 4 the last 30 mins.." so this is what he had been tryn to tell...such a waste of time... n thr were may more such one liners bombarded at me...I ... :) shrugged them off :) :)
when , i guess he was done, i took my seat...
tough lab man...

Thinking:> tough day ..need some water..but who ll ask him 4 water..he ll just kill me.. oo so hot..y doesnt the ac work in the aftrnoon..
aahh such a tasy tasy lunch i had..n then here..i cud have well slept 2day.. wud have been s gr8..sleep..oo i already feel sleepy...whats the time man...hes still thr... how much longer..water...sleep...o oo so hot..

"RAJIV... RAJIV.."
my name.. "Yes Sir"
hmm "now can u please explain this to the class..."

'THIS....' "What is this 'THIS' " OMG....
i did not used the OMFG term them..
yeah so..OMG... i seriously had no idea...
what cud it be..
never seen it before...thats what hes been teachin???
com-mon he cant teach that in 1 lab... hes gotta b kiddin me..shud i say..'sir u r kiddin me.., u cant really ask that.' oo noo i cant say that...he ll have me shot dead...
man y CSO..really bad day..need to remember this date..4 references in future years...

"I DONT KNOW SIR "..

"U DONT KNOWWWWW..." the KNOWWWW was quite extended, as if sayin i m givin more time b4 i kill u... n that was at a very high volume... something like full volume..
followed by.."HOW CAN U NOT KNOW".. a half the initial volume..still 2 much by human standards...shud i tell him this...
noooo, he ll realize... doesnt make much of a diff even if he doesnt... i ll manage...
"THIS IS REALLY PATHETIC" ..now come on..y is this so pathetic...ok i didnt remember or dont know..so what...

"ATLEAST THIS IS NOT EXPECTED FRM A 1st YR STUDENT. "
hey com-mon i m a 1st yr student man..not a nobel prize winning scientist..its ok mate..kool it...

Just b4 i cud come up with ny words, he came up with these golden lines...

"THIS IS JUST WHAT I HAD ASKED U 10 MINS AGO, TOLD U THE ANSWER. hOW CAN U STILL NOT KNOW"
"U R NOT PAYING ATTENTION AT ALL, THIS WILL NOT B TOLERATED... blah blah blah..." i had stopped listening..

Is this what he asked last time..man..am i lost...
how did i do it..that i so wonderful..now i can b totally lost frm ny place...phisical presence is immaterial..WOW..am i gr88...

"RAJIV"...
i had just become real famous in my group...yippiieeeee
good start to coll i guess..

"THIS IS UR LAST WARNING, IF EVER SUCH A THING HAPPENS AGAIN , I LL HAVE TO TALK 2 THE PROF."

chill dude...its ok man, being less attentive was not part of the plan..it just happened..but was nice... :)

i still maintained my principles,n maintained my routing principles if he were to b cited..
but for some time now i have been in contact with him..hes not a bad guys frnds..hes just..u know..nice guy who wants u to improve..n keep improving constantly..thats where our u know... things clash up....so... things happen...
CSO wasn't a bad course..just that the prof n TA's... never liked them really much...
all d same..whats gone is gone...

That was 1 hell of a lab..
there were more to follow..through the nxt 3 yrs...




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what u can learn from working in the mail room

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U wont learn humility. U wont learn respect. U wont learn the company inside out or from the bottom up. What u will learn is something very important, and perhaps a little frightening, about yourself.
The people who get ahead have a need, are driven to perform a task well, no matter what the task is or how mundate it may actually be. They bring to each job an attitude which actually transforms the job into something greater. Carpenters who became contractors, at one time had a need to drive a nail straighter and truer than anyone else. Waiters who end up owning restaurants were at om time very good waiters.
Some executives had they started in the mail room, would still be sorting mail-and misrouting most of it.

-Mark McCormack.. entrepreneur extraordinaire
(Founder IMG {International Managemant Group} IMG is the world's premier and most diversified sports, entertainment and media company.)



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1st love...

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All my frnds know that cricket was my 1st love..well thats not entirely true...
well she was a sweet sweet little girl...didnt know d name..not that i have 4go10... didnt know simply..

it was the beautiful city of Shillong...decades back..some.. 1.7 decades i guess...
i was studying...n like all students wud have felt real good 2 have been in a co-educational.{.as they call it.}.school..
I was in St.Peters BOYS high school..one of the best in Shillong...but..alas...
yeah now abut how..
she was my hindi teacher..... excuse me but i presume u no thinkin that She was the 1...na na..she was mummy to her..
hmm now then...this sweet girl used to study in St Marys school...which ..bhagwaan ki daya se was on the way to my school..gr8 parents i had...ghar ekdum sahi jagah pe...they took.. ;)
1 day this ma'am..hindi teacher...decided to come along with me n my mom to get her daughter..frm school..
btw..n shillong thr were not many hindi speakin ppl then..so we became frnds soon..

we != me n her.. ..we = mom n ma'am
:-p poor me then..

haan ...so i was sayin..she came along... n her daughter..standing at the school gates...
i was yorked... {cricketin term..meanin completely shamelessly pathetically clean bowled...} n i was....Pehla nashaaa pehla....

life looked so beautiful...
it aftr all was worth living...was i in jannat..was she a hoor??
what punya had last janma me i did,..to be here...

Clue number one was when you knocked on my door
Clue number two was the look that you wore
N thats when I knew, it was a pretty good sign
That something was wrong up on cloud number nine

or was it...

me...
(Pyaar hua, ikraar hua hai
Pyaar se phir kyoon darrta hai dil) 

she...
(Kehta hai dil rasta mushkil
Maaloom nahin hai kahan manzil) 

aaaahhh..whr was i....
n then...then we parted ways.... :( :'( yeah thats a tear rollin down...some young girl can still catch it..n i wud b really grateful... ;)
that was tough...stil remember it...ok dont ..but must have been real tough..think of it...
my innocent heart...stabbed...was 7..or 8 i guess then..
all d same...
i went home with mummy..n she with hers....
i cud c our love in her eyes also... i believe i did... now u dont need to raise an eyebrow...
ok i thot so..may b nothin was thr...
optimism is a good thing..may b the best of things... some gr8 person said that... ok hope it was..not optimism...
but both equally fit well here.. :)

hope it was then..with a few grains of optimism..

well that was all.... never saw her agn though...
wrkd real hard in hindi...got max marks.. no didnt get a 100 / 100..got the most in the class...same difference.. thot ma'am wud through a party 4 me call me home..n i wud meet her... tell her how i felt..n then... we wud be happily ever after..remember i was class 3 -4 mayb... Optimism?? day dreaming?? how does it matter..
now dont ask what happened..
acha ok..u can ask...
she was a little ..shud i say mean..she never threw a party 4 me.. :( i got those marks man...
no luck ... thats what u sayn na... consolation is also good..

but yeah...thr 1 thing..been happpily ever aftr since then...
many time..in btwn mush have had similar feelings.. these singin feelin... ekdum dil se...yeah..trust me...
but u know what..
once a batchelor..always a batchelor...

STOP TERRORISM..
STAY SINGLE .....


PS: all this above here is totally fictious..not an original work..some 1 hacked into here..n did all this...
believe at ur own risk...




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loneliness...now i have breakfast everyday.. ;)

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loneliness is a virtue..
4 some time now..esp since i have come back to the coll..
with not many ppl arround ...
lonliness acts like a discipline i guess..atleast 4 me..
u do things on time n r able to give more time to everything..suddenly u have more hours...
n ur work gets over faster... sighs..
things like breakfast which u had never done in 4 yrs...are a must now...so that u can kill some more time..at a different kind of activity..
workin out...n that too in the mornings... when at a time u didnt find the time to go gym...be it whatever hr of the day...
life if seen by 2nd person looks really organized...coz u spend time organizing it...
this.. the organizing part..in itself is such an activity..that u give it enuf time everyday...in my case even 2-3 times a day...meaning..everyday ...3 times i spend thinkin... what i have to do 2day..interesting... ;) kills a lot of time..
esp coz i ..like most guys...niormal guys have rissen frm the ashes of inorganization...total chaos was my style dude..
wud wear the same jeans every day 4 ..dunno when..
coz....didnt find another..n who wud ...whats the diff mate..this jeans or that..
both unwashed..
but yeah..lonliness has made me believe.. that its possible to live like most humans ..ie non nocturnal ppl..the daytime is not such a bad time...
n yeah work..u actually find time 4 work..n u put a lot of effort into it...
the other day...sittin the lab since 10 in the mornin..havn taken a brk only 4 lunch...at 7 i thot of takin a brk.u know..the worked all day ab i deserve a holiday type brk...
but me ..of all hardworkin ppl in the world..{ ppl close 2 me know that i wud do nything to just u know..stay away frm the smallest of works given 2 me...justification..doesnt interest me..y shud i do it.. :-p ..}
all d same..i ...was not able to leave it n go...no it was not that i was workin on something.. that wud revolutionize the world..of avert a world war.. simple...readin pprs n workin on a design..
cudnt ..coz..thr was nothin else to do..literally.. so ...work it was... :(
good 4 me i guess...
yeah u realize things..which otherwise only god himself cud have convinced u...
that.. in my case.. that i can work...phew.. :-o
n that too effectively u know..
ask me to plan anything ..whatever that b..i ll come up with the best of plans u know.. n options which will just all b real good...
may b real stupid also once in a while..
but the point is that i was never good at execution..
u c ny work can b divided into 2 parts...

plannin n execution...

the problem with the execution part is that..
it requires...what shud i say.. non-laziness as a virtue in u...n more importanly requires u to EXECUTE ur plan...
to execute requires to..work...that same word agn..
thats whr i wud u know.... sit back n like to c ppl work..mostly to draw inspiration...to work..but by the time i had enuf inspiration n was ready 4 perspiration..it was over..
so not entirey my fault at things...
but now things r diff...

u c..rite now also..work callin..gtg dudes.. ;)




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impossible is nothing.....

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4 yrs..what it does to some1...
when i think of this... i wud like 2 tell u abut this sweet fellow..
i find this guy totally changed..
what he was in 2003 is totally different frm what hes right now...
that guy who thot that all things in life r good ...does not exist nymore...some1 else exists...
down in 2003..he was u know...the guy who wud do nything 4 u...u just needed to ask..whoever u were...;was fond of makin as many frnds as possible...he understood..more frnds= more happiness...;
had this sense that he had to b a part of everything that was happening around..active..really active..i wud say...
the 1st yr it was... every day he wud find a new frnd.... guy was new in coll...freedom was new 2 him...n drowned him i wud say..
...trust was like an in built charecteristic of a person...he thot... if someones good 2 u on ur face..thats the way he is...
stupid wud u say..or naive..whatever...
thrs more abut this guy....
wanted 2 be noticed..b thr in the limelight... life was an oppurtunity...he wanted to make maximum of it...
then he found real kewl frnds u know...real ones..who were life for him...
coll meant them,...cudnt do without them...
things were lookin real rosy in life...well 4 the time being...
trust..faith..true blind devotion...
can sometimes b real bad...u gotta test..b4 u really get close to him..make him ur frnd...
...thats what he tells me now...
i believe..
but things became really messy slowly...
u must have heard.. "change is in-evitable.."

what he thot was his,...moved real away frm him...didnt know "who" were his so called close frnds...

might have been his fault also. uknow...too much of a crefree guy...did what his instincts told him..never put thot to the fact that the other person... was not likin him at that same time 4 it...but was keepin it to him..
it was real simple 4 him u know...if u didnt like something..u tell it...thats the wa it works.. well may b not...so he was happy that u were happy... wrong formulaes he used 4 life.... stupid...

his choices became 2 b called his bad decissions...that he shudnt do it...
this real close frnd of his once told him...real close i mean..4 something he wanted...n deserved..more than ny1...he wasnt worth it...n that this fellow didnt want r guy to have it..
n THAT was right. the fellow said...
y... coz the fellow felt so...felt real bad then...says he..
guy knew his frnd was wrong then n knows it now as well...but takes it in his stride now...
now knows not to take every other guy so serious...they r just talkin...
all d same...he lived along..still is a nice guy...

i guess the problem with the guy was that he always thot frm his heart..never used his mind... or shud i say brains... :P
always wanted to b the social guy..if he cud do nythins 4 u.....he d ....
1 more thing...this guy kind of played the clown sometimes..just to keep every1 around ..u know...cheerful...1 of his frnds told him 1ce that it was the reason y ppl didnt take him so seriously... he didnt think much abut it...wrong choice i guess...

now then ..when coll is over....every1s goin along his/her way...
he finds few who r his..ppl close to him..what we call frnds...thr r some real special...
in btwn thr was this gr8est thing in his life... went away as fast as it came...made him so much a happy man...frm the melancholy person that he had become...
he strted believin in self...felt real strong...
Brain adams 1 said...n we keep repeating it... "those were d best days of my life. :) :) "
2day he i guess understands ppl better ..i guess... knows more specifically what is to b done in life...
all dat glitters is not gold...
was this rehabilitation..lifes way to teach ..son u gotta understand...
u just cant n dont need to do everything 4 every1...thr r things u shud do n others u shudnt...n its not wrong ...

this guy..r frnd ... knows that he has it in him..to do what he wants...
to him.. impossible is nothing...
he just needs to know..which he incidently does... that he has to do it... :)

as i said.. " Impossible is nothing "

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