<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5377670182906311011</id><updated>2012-02-17T01:03:25.866+05:30</updated><category term='Vellarimala'/><category term='Einstien'/><category term='Quotes'/><category term='Microsoft'/><category term='Steve Job'/><category term='Harry Potter'/><category term='Change'/><category term='first'/><category term='Apple'/><category term='inspiration'/><category term='nasdaq'/><category term='Trek'/><category term='Ads'/><category term='Life'/><category term='Stanford'/><category term='starting'/><category term='Railway Trek'/><category term='speech'/><category term='Inspirational'/><category term='Sakleshpur'/><category term='Music and Lyrics'/><category term='attitude'/><category term='writing'/><category term='Blog'/><category term='OST'/><title type='text'>Mind Space</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mindspace-published.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5377670182906311011/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mindspace-published.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Balaji</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08227467825440828863</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_Jt1zyuzExug/R8bfyt9AigI/AAAAAAAAA-8/dpdAzKxMmHw/S220/IMG_0166.JPG'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>14</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5377670182906311011.post-2068205909052687320</id><published>2008-02-28T22:32:00.004+05:30</published><updated>2008-02-28T23:17:24.746+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ads'/><title type='text'>Cool ads..</title><content type='html'>Some of the nice ads which I came across recently...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Very nice ads...will put a smile on your face for sure..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Centea doing more&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xgTtCqFLsr8"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xgTtCqFLsr8" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Centea is in Belgium known for Banking business and insurances. The bank managers work harder for their clients because the managers are all independent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Advertising Agency: Darwin BBDO, Belgium&lt;br /&gt;Creative Director: Gaston Kooijmans&lt;br /&gt;Art Director: Maarten Hofman&lt;br /&gt;Copywriter: Katrin Van Eycken&lt;br /&gt;Photographer: Kurt Stallaert&lt;br /&gt;Aired: January 2008&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Playing EnergySavingLighting.com.au: Beauty pageant&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0wp-RhOU9f4"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0wp-RhOU9f4" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Copywriter / Director: The Club, Australia&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5377670182906311011-2068205909052687320?l=mindspace-published.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mindspace-published.blogspot.com/feeds/2068205909052687320/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5377670182906311011&amp;postID=2068205909052687320' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5377670182906311011/posts/default/2068205909052687320'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5377670182906311011/posts/default/2068205909052687320'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mindspace-published.blogspot.com/2008/02/cool-ad.html' title='Cool ads..'/><author><name>Balaji</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08227467825440828863</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_Jt1zyuzExug/R8bfyt9AigI/AAAAAAAAA-8/dpdAzKxMmHw/S220/IMG_0166.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5377670182906311011.post-4756940659995624206</id><published>2008-02-28T21:16:00.003+05:30</published><updated>2008-02-28T21:31:06.085+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trek'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sakleshpur'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Railway Trek'/><title type='text'>Sakleshpur Railway Trek</title><content type='html'>An awesome trek with a group of 35 people!!!....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This trek easily qualifies as one of my best and memorable outing...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Detailed post about the trek is available &lt;a href="http://sachennaitrekking.blogspot.com/2008/02/sakleshpur-railway-trek-feb-08_26.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5377670182906311011-4756940659995624206?l=mindspace-published.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mindspace-published.blogspot.com/feeds/4756940659995624206/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5377670182906311011&amp;postID=4756940659995624206' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5377670182906311011/posts/default/4756940659995624206'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5377670182906311011/posts/default/4756940659995624206'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mindspace-published.blogspot.com/2008/02/sakleshpur-railway-trek.html' title='Sakleshpur Railway Trek'/><author><name>Balaji</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08227467825440828863</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_Jt1zyuzExug/R8bfyt9AigI/AAAAAAAAA-8/dpdAzKxMmHw/S220/IMG_0166.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5377670182906311011.post-9004005610817379300</id><published>2008-02-23T12:33:00.006+05:30</published><updated>2008-02-23T16:47:55.060+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trek'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Vellarimala'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='writing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Blog'/><title type='text'>let me write...again...</title><content type='html'>Its been quite a while after I stopped updating this blog...let me start it again..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now I am also writing a bit in our SA Trek blog...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://sachennaitrekking.blogspot.com/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can check my blog about vella trek &lt;a href="http://sachennaitrekking.blogspot.com/2008/01/within-few-days-after-coming-back-from.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5377670182906311011-9004005610817379300?l=mindspace-published.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mindspace-published.blogspot.com/feeds/9004005610817379300/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5377670182906311011&amp;postID=9004005610817379300' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5377670182906311011/posts/default/9004005610817379300'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5377670182906311011/posts/default/9004005610817379300'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mindspace-published.blogspot.com/2008/02/let-me-write-again.html' title='let me write...again...'/><author><name>Balaji</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08227467825440828863</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_Jt1zyuzExug/R8bfyt9AigI/AAAAAAAAA-8/dpdAzKxMmHw/S220/IMG_0166.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5377670182906311011.post-2241927761602733677</id><published>2007-08-18T13:53:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2008-02-23T16:48:54.769+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ads'/><title type='text'>Two amazing ads....</title><content type='html'>Here are the two amazing ads, which are exceptionally good in presenting truth...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;WWF - The Bird&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;very nice ad...well taken...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xoSrunO9voI"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xoSrunO9voI" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Advertising Agency: Ogilvy &amp;amp; Mather, Mumbai, India&lt;br /&gt;Executive Creative Director: Piyush Pandey&lt;br /&gt;Creative Director: Abhijit Avasthi&lt;br /&gt;Art Directors: Shankar Kamble, Samir Sojwal&lt;br /&gt;Copywriters: Yogesh Mani Pradhan, Rajneesh Ramakrishnan&lt;br /&gt;Production Company: Campfire Tales, Mumbai&lt;br /&gt;Director: Binay Pradhan&lt;br /&gt;Cinematographer: Binod Pradhan&lt;br /&gt;Music: Deep Pradhan&lt;br /&gt;Via: 10ad&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Playing Inen Cancer Awareness: Calculation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LQnkBHSO5lU"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LQnkBHSO5lU" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Advertising Agency: Pragma DDB Lima, Peru&lt;br /&gt;Creative Directors: R.Chadwick, A.Naddeo, E.Diaz&lt;br /&gt;Copywriters / Art Directors / Directors: Jaime Chehade, Alvaro Naddeo&lt;br /&gt;Editor: Daniel Ayllon&lt;br /&gt;Producer: Post-Café, Toshio Ikeda&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' 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ads....'/><author><name>Balaji</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08227467825440828863</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_Jt1zyuzExug/R8bfyt9AigI/AAAAAAAAA-8/dpdAzKxMmHw/S220/IMG_0166.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5377670182906311011.post-9145632158719480284</id><published>2007-07-28T19:50:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2008-02-23T16:49:37.323+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ads'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Apple'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Microsoft'/><title type='text'>Apple's take on Microsoft</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_Jt1zyuzExug/RqtRGqSYH7I/AAAAAAAAAow/WkCiIzb9ViU/s1600-h/apple1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img 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href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5377670182906311011/posts/default/9145632158719480284'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mindspace-published.blogspot.com/2007/07/apples-take-on-microsoft.html' title='Apple&apos;s take on Microsoft'/><author><name>Balaji</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08227467825440828863</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_Jt1zyuzExug/R8bfyt9AigI/AAAAAAAAA-8/dpdAzKxMmHw/S220/IMG_0166.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_Jt1zyuzExug/RqtRGqSYH7I/AAAAAAAAAow/WkCiIzb9ViU/s72-c/apple1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5377670182906311011.post-7498321894458115488</id><published>2007-07-28T19:27:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2008-02-23T16:50:11.862+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Harry Potter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ads'/><title type='text'>Height of Creativity</title><content type='html'>A book shop in srilanka did this to promote the sale of Harry Potter book...awesome creativity...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Evn5nRL8o3c"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Evn5nRL8o3c" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5377670182906311011-7498321894458115488?l=mindspace-published.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mindspace-published.blogspot.com/feeds/7498321894458115488/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5377670182906311011&amp;postID=7498321894458115488' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5377670182906311011/posts/default/7498321894458115488'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5377670182906311011/posts/default/7498321894458115488'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mindspace-published.blogspot.com/2007/07/height-of-creativity.html' title='Height of Creativity'/><author><name>Balaji</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08227467825440828863</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_Jt1zyuzExug/R8bfyt9AigI/AAAAAAAAA-8/dpdAzKxMmHw/S220/IMG_0166.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5377670182906311011.post-8652766072315557177</id><published>2007-05-03T21:42:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2008-02-23T16:50:49.506+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Quotes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Einstien'/><title type='text'>Collected Quotes from Albert Einstein</title><content type='html'>* "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."&lt;br /&gt;    * "Imagination is more important than knowledge."&lt;br /&gt;    * "Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."&lt;br /&gt;    * "I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details."&lt;br /&gt;    * "The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."&lt;br /&gt;    * "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."&lt;br /&gt;    * "The only real valuable thing is intuition."&lt;br /&gt;    * "A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."&lt;br /&gt;    * "I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice."&lt;br /&gt;    * "God is subtle but he is not malicious."&lt;br /&gt;    * "Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."&lt;br /&gt;    * "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."&lt;br /&gt;    * "The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."&lt;br /&gt;    * "Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."&lt;br /&gt;    * "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."&lt;br /&gt;    * "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."&lt;br /&gt;    * "Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."&lt;br /&gt;    * "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."&lt;br /&gt;    * "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."&lt;br /&gt;    * "Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it."&lt;br /&gt;    * "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."&lt;br /&gt;    * "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."&lt;br /&gt;    * "God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically."&lt;br /&gt;    * "The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."&lt;br /&gt;    * "Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."&lt;br /&gt;    * "Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."&lt;br /&gt;    * "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."&lt;br /&gt;    * "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."&lt;br /&gt;    * "Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school."&lt;br /&gt;    * "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."&lt;br /&gt;    * "Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater."&lt;br /&gt;    * "Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity."&lt;br /&gt;    * "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."&lt;br /&gt;    * "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."&lt;br /&gt;    * "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."&lt;br /&gt;    * "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."&lt;br /&gt;    * "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."&lt;br /&gt;    * "In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep."&lt;br /&gt;    * "The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."&lt;br /&gt;    * "Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves."&lt;br /&gt;    * "Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!"&lt;br /&gt;    * "No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"&lt;br /&gt;    * "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."&lt;br /&gt;    * "Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever."&lt;br /&gt;    * "The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker."&lt;br /&gt;    * "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."&lt;br /&gt;    * "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."&lt;br /&gt;    * "A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."&lt;br /&gt;    * "The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge."&lt;br /&gt;    * "Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."&lt;br /&gt;    * "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."&lt;br /&gt;    * "One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year."&lt;br /&gt;    * "...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought."&lt;br /&gt;    * "He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."&lt;br /&gt;    * "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."&lt;br /&gt;    * "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5377670182906311011-8652766072315557177?l=mindspace-published.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mindspace-published.blogspot.com/feeds/8652766072315557177/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5377670182906311011&amp;postID=8652766072315557177' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5377670182906311011/posts/default/8652766072315557177'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5377670182906311011/posts/default/8652766072315557177'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mindspace-published.blogspot.com/2007/05/collected-quotes-from-albert-einstein.html' title='Collected Quotes from Albert Einstein'/><author><name>Balaji</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08227467825440828863</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_Jt1zyuzExug/R8bfyt9AigI/AAAAAAAAA-8/dpdAzKxMmHw/S220/IMG_0166.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5377670182906311011.post-4224357085224462022</id><published>2007-05-01T20:12:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2007-05-01T20:22:01.815+05:30</updated><title type='text'>My new laptop</title><content type='html'>I am writing this blog from my new laptop…yes…I got a new laptop… New shiny HP laptop…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I always wanted to buy an Apple ibook, but its kind of costly which I cannot afford  now. So I finally settled with HP Pavilion. This also looks good, except it has the problem of over heating…but apart from that it has all the good features…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Computer(Laptop) is personal again… :-)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5377670182906311011-4224357085224462022?l=mindspace-published.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mindspace-published.blogspot.com/feeds/4224357085224462022/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5377670182906311011&amp;postID=4224357085224462022' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5377670182906311011/posts/default/4224357085224462022'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5377670182906311011/posts/default/4224357085224462022'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mindspace-published.blogspot.com/2007/05/my-new-laptop.html' title='My new laptop'/><author><name>Balaji</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08227467825440828863</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_Jt1zyuzExug/R8bfyt9AigI/AAAAAAAAA-8/dpdAzKxMmHw/S220/IMG_0166.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5377670182906311011.post-6573632450024164069</id><published>2007-03-30T16:54:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2008-02-23T16:51:56.341+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Stanford'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Steve Job'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='speech'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspirational'/><title type='text'>Steve job's speech at Stanford</title><content type='html'>Steve was always inspirational...here is the speech which he delivered in Stanford..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first story is about connecting the dots.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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. Let me give you one example:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Again, 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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My second story is about love and loss.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My third story is about death.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank you all very much.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5377670182906311011-6573632450024164069?l=mindspace-published.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mindspace-published.blogspot.com/feeds/6573632450024164069/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5377670182906311011&amp;postID=6573632450024164069' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5377670182906311011/posts/default/6573632450024164069'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5377670182906311011/posts/default/6573632450024164069'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mindspace-published.blogspot.com/2007/03/steve-jobs-speech-at-stanford.html' title='Steve job&apos;s speech at Stanford'/><author><name>Balaji</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08227467825440828863</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_Jt1zyuzExug/R8bfyt9AigI/AAAAAAAAA-8/dpdAzKxMmHw/S220/IMG_0166.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5377670182906311011.post-8602287500470295325</id><published>2007-03-28T22:36:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2008-02-23T16:52:40.753+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nasdaq'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ads'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspirational'/><title type='text'>Nasdaq ads....</title><content type='html'>These are the Ads made for Nasdaq...they are really intersting and inspiring...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NASDAQ - Visionaries: Microsoft (Steve Ballmer), Dell (Michael Dell) and Starbucks (Howard Schultz)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/fkcIwEMprlw"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/fkcIwEMprlw" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NASDAQ - Visionaries: Intel (Craig Barrett), Cisco (John Chambers) and Staples (Tom Stemberg)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/mBQb5GISHMY" width="425" height="350" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NASDAQ - Leadership: IAC InterActive Corp (Barry Diller), VeriSign (Stratton Sclavos) and Bed, Bath &amp;amp; Beyond (Leonard Feinstein, Warren Eisenberg)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7hidlLzYGH0" width="425" height="350" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NASDAQ - Leadership: IAC InterActive Corp (Barry Diller), Amgen (Kevin Sharer) and Nissan (Carlos Ghosn)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/rdLVxJ0D40E" width="425" height="350" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NASDAQ - Possibilities: Sun Microsystems (Scott McNeely), Jet Blue (David neeleman) and WWP (Sir Martin Sorrell)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/S25d7gZw1Lo" width="425" height="350" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NASDAQ - Possibilities: Amazon.com (Jeff Bezo) and Maxim (Jack Gifford)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4s6g4ziXKW8" width="425" height="350" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NASDAQ - Possibilities: Electronic Arts (Larry Probst), PesMart (Philip Francis) and Monster.com (Andrew J. Mckelvey)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/NJufGKwGjlU" width="425" height="350" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NASDAQ - Innovation: Amazon.com (Jeff Bezos), Flextronics (Michael Marks) and Linear (Robert Swanson)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/mJ592yBnP6A" width="425" height="350" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NASDAQ - Inspiration: Starbucks (Howard Schultz), Costco (Jim Sinegal) and Staples (Tom Stemburg)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/gjaKQDqpniU" width="425" height="350" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NASDAQ - Opportunity: Qualcomm (Irwin Jacobs), Network Appliance (Dan Warmeahoven) and Sanmina (Jure Sola)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/odz5SO4NMvM" width="425" height="350" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5377670182906311011-8602287500470295325?l=mindspace-published.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mindspace-published.blogspot.com/feeds/8602287500470295325/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5377670182906311011&amp;postID=8602287500470295325' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5377670182906311011/posts/default/8602287500470295325'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5377670182906311011/posts/default/8602287500470295325'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mindspace-published.blogspot.com/2007/03/nice-video.html' title='Nasdaq ads....'/><author><name>Balaji</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08227467825440828863</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_Jt1zyuzExug/R8bfyt9AigI/AAAAAAAAA-8/dpdAzKxMmHw/S220/IMG_0166.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5377670182906311011.post-3423922519070288369</id><published>2007-02-22T13:39:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2008-02-23T16:53:22.648+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Music and Lyrics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='OST'/><title type='text'>Way back into love...</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;I started to like this song, from the moment I saw it on the movie...Drew was the main reason on that moment ;-)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;After that I started to listen from 'you tube'…I listened with the lyrics...the lyrics was sooo beautiful and the music also...this is a song where music and lyrics will mix together and make u completely immersed...and the song is from the movie "Music and Lyrics" :-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here are those wonderful lyrics...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Way Back Into Love  &lt;/strong&gt;(Adam Schlesinger)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" face="arial"&gt;I’ve been living with a shadow over my head&lt;br /&gt;I’ve been sleeping with a cloud above my bed&lt;br /&gt;I’ve been lonely for so long&lt;br /&gt;Trapped in the past, I just can’t seem to move on &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" face="arial"&gt;I’ve been hiding all my hopes and dreams away&lt;br /&gt;Just in case I ever need ‘em again someday&lt;br /&gt;I’ve been setting aside time&lt;br /&gt;To clear a little space in the corners of my mind&lt;br /&gt;All I want to do is find a way back into love&lt;br /&gt;I can’t make it through without a way back into love&lt;br /&gt;Oh oh oh &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" face="arial"&gt;I’ve been watching but the stars refuse to shine&lt;br /&gt;I’ve been searching but I just don’t see the signs&lt;br /&gt;I know that it’s out there&lt;br /&gt;There’s got to be something for my soul somewhere&lt;br /&gt;I’ve been looking for someone to shed some light&lt;br /&gt;Not just somebody just to get me through the night&lt;br /&gt;I could use some direction&lt;br /&gt;And I’m open to your suggestions &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" face="arial"&gt;All I want to do is find a way back into love&lt;br /&gt;I can’t make it through without a way back into love&lt;br /&gt;And if I open my heart again&lt;br /&gt;I guess I’m hoping you’ll be there for me in the end&lt;br /&gt;There are moments when I don’t know if it’s real&lt;br /&gt;Or if anybody feels the way I feel&lt;br /&gt;I need inspiration  Not just another negotiation &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" face="arial"&gt;All I want to do is find a way back into love&lt;br /&gt;I can’t make it through without a way back into love&lt;br /&gt;And if I open my heart to you&lt;br /&gt;I’m hoping you’ll show me what to do&lt;br /&gt;And if you help me to start again&lt;br /&gt;You know that I’ll be there for you in the end&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ce_DxJFdgM4"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ce_DxJFdgM4" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5377670182906311011-3423922519070288369?l=mindspace-published.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mindspace-published.blogspot.com/feeds/3423922519070288369/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5377670182906311011&amp;postID=3423922519070288369' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5377670182906311011/posts/default/3423922519070288369'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5377670182906311011/posts/default/3423922519070288369'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mindspace-published.blogspot.com/2007/02/way-back-into-love.html' title='Way back into love...'/><author><name>Balaji</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08227467825440828863</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_Jt1zyuzExug/R8bfyt9AigI/AAAAAAAAA-8/dpdAzKxMmHw/S220/IMG_0166.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5377670182906311011.post-1794556710490925760</id><published>2006-12-21T20:44:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2006-12-21T20:50:41.241+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='inspiration'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='attitude'/><title type='text'>This stuff is inspirational !!!</title><content type='html'>Really this one is very inspirational...I still have this mail in my Inbox :-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read this....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;John is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good mood and always has something positive to say.&lt;br /&gt;When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, "If I were any better, I would be twins!"&lt;br /&gt;He was a natural motivator.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If an employee was having a bad day, John was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up and asked him, "I don't get it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can't be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a&lt;br /&gt;good mood or ...you can choose to be in a bad mood. I choose to be in a good mood."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or...I can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it.&lt;br /&gt;Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or... I can point out the&lt;br /&gt;positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Yeah, right, it's not that easy," I protested.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Yes, it is," he said. "Life is all about choices.&lt;br /&gt;When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people&lt;br /&gt;affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;It's your choice how you live your life."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I reflected on what he said. Soon hereafter, I left the Tower Industry to start my own business. We lost touch, but I often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Several years later, I heard that he was involved in a serious accident, falling some 60 feet from a communications tower.&lt;br /&gt;After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, he was released from the hospital with rods placed in his back.&lt;br /&gt;I saw him about six months after the accident.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I asked him how he was, he replied, "If I were any better, I'd be twins. Wanna see my scars?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I declined to see his wounds, but I did ask him what had gone through his mind as the accident took place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The first thing that went through my mind was the well-being of my soon-to-be born daughter," he replied.&lt;br /&gt;"Then, as I lay on the ground, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live or...I could choose to die. I chose to live."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Weren't you scared? Did you lose consciousness?" I asked.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He continued, "..the paramedics were great.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the ER and I saw the expressions on&lt;br /&gt;the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read 'he's a dead man'. I knew I needed to take action.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"What did you do?" I asked.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Well, there was a big burly nurse shouting questions at me," said John. She asked if I was allergic to anything.&lt;br /&gt;'Yes, I replied.' The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a deep breath and yelled, 'Gravity'."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Over their laughter, I told them, "I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude... I learned from him&lt;br /&gt;that every day we have the choice to live fully.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Attitude, after all, is everything.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."&lt;br /&gt;After all today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5377670182906311011-1794556710490925760?l=mindspace-published.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mindspace-published.blogspot.com/feeds/1794556710490925760/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5377670182906311011&amp;postID=1794556710490925760' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5377670182906311011/posts/default/1794556710490925760'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5377670182906311011/posts/default/1794556710490925760'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mindspace-published.blogspot.com/2006/12/this-stuff-is-inspirational.html' title='This stuff is inspirational !!!'/><author><name>Balaji</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08227467825440828863</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_Jt1zyuzExug/R8bfyt9AigI/AAAAAAAAA-8/dpdAzKxMmHw/S220/IMG_0166.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5377670182906311011.post-4090645124024976331</id><published>2006-12-17T16:40:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2008-02-23T16:54:58.398+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Life'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Change'/><title type='text'>Changes in life....</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;I always wonder in life, why we keep on missing some thing in life...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But that’s the way we have to accept the change in life. We always miss some thing in life at any point of time. While going to school-we miss the home, in college-we miss the school days, in first job-we miss the college days, after marriage-we miss the bachelor life and it keeps on going....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That’s the time we have learn how to accept the changes in life. The book “who moved my cheese” tells you the most important thing about life, "Anticipate the change". Yes... anticipating the change will prepare yourself for the change... but what ever we do, we can't stop without thinking about the past...&lt;span style="font-family:Wingdings;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;J&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was a hard fought transfer for me from Bangalore to Chennai...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As soon as I reach chennai, I was very happy to be back at home...But it was only for few hours.&lt;br /&gt;I started to think about the life I had in Bangalore...16 months I lived there...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I started missing many things, the lonely walk which I used to walk from Udupi garden to my room, the days spent happily in the room, the breakfast in the Melodies hotel, Bang3 cafeteria, the amount of time spent in cafeteria, cooking in our room, the weekends spent in our room, movies watched in PVR, etc....the list keeps on going...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was a wonderful stay in banaglore for 16 months, even though I had many problems like health problems, problems with auto guys...etc…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;At some point of time we have to accept the change, we can't keep living in the same place...time has come for me to move on...so I have moved back to chennai...&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;More importantly I miss the personal space, I miss the loneliness and that freedom, but the life is different here, even though I miss some things, I get many things here. As the time goes the life will get settled here also.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the memories will live forever...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5377670182906311011-4090645124024976331?l=mindspace-published.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mindspace-published.blogspot.com/feeds/4090645124024976331/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5377670182906311011&amp;postID=4090645124024976331' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5377670182906311011/posts/default/4090645124024976331'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5377670182906311011/posts/default/4090645124024976331'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mindspace-published.blogspot.com/2006/12/changes-in-life.html' title='Changes in life....'/><author><name>Balaji</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08227467825440828863</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_Jt1zyuzExug/R8bfyt9AigI/AAAAAAAAA-8/dpdAzKxMmHw/S220/IMG_0166.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5377670182906311011.post-3046623269840688571</id><published>2006-12-13T20:58:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2006-12-13T21:04:03.856+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='first'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='starting'/><title type='text'>Finally..</title><content type='html'>Blogging....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally I am into writting blogs...for many day I used to think of starting my blog but it got delayed by some how...and now I am here started my blog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So what will be the name of my blog hhhmmmmm...yes this blog will reflect me and different states of my mind in different times, so I selected the title to be mind space :-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here today I am starting my blog, which will reflect me for the people who read this....&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5377670182906311011-3046623269840688571?l=mindspace-published.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mindspace-published.blogspot.com/feeds/3046623269840688571/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5377670182906311011&amp;postID=3046623269840688571' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5377670182906311011/posts/default/3046623269840688571'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5377670182906311011/posts/default/3046623269840688571'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mindspace-published.blogspot.com/2006/12/finally.html' title='Finally..'/><author><name>Balaji</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08227467825440828863</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_Jt1zyuzExug/R8bfyt9AigI/AAAAAAAAA-8/dpdAzKxMmHw/S220/IMG_0166.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
