read this quote today....
If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around.
Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble; that's
as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for
you'll see a lot of it and you had better be on speaking terms with it.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
liked it... by trouble of course i think he means trouble that we come across in our life that we can't control.. things that happen to us...
there's another sort of trouble which we cause to ourselves by the choices we make.. if those choices were made because we didn't have enough information, we can make better choices in the future based on our experience.. so its good..
if the choices were made because we didn't think, then we live with the consequences and/or choose to think before we make choices the next time..
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
Monday, May 04, 2009
my book review
i remember i wrote a book review for my school newsletter years back n i was trying to trace it... here it is:
Book Review — ‘Something Fresh’
For those who have read Wodehouse, ‘Blandings Castle’
needs no introduction. Pelham Grenville Wodehouse –
‘Plum’ as he is known affectionately – was one of the
greatest and most prolific of authors of humor novels and
short stories and plays. One of his fictional creations was
‘Blandings Castle’ – a place which was always the center
of action, the hustle and bustle of activity, where young
sundered hearts were sent on exile if they fell in love
with matches who the elders did not find suitable, where
the visitors bumped into relations they would rather
avoid, and yet where peace reigned as far as their host
Lord Emsworth was concerned.
The story of ‘Something Fresh’ (U.S Title: Something
New) however begins in a cul-de-sac in London, where
Ashe Marson finds himself cooped up, restless and unsatisfied
with his life as an author of ‘Gridley Quayle, Investigator’
a monthly series of detective stories. His thirst for
adventure, spurred on by the encouragement from a
young lady Ms. Joan Valentine staying in the same establishment,
leads him to accept a job as a valet to an
American millionaire who wants Ashe to steal back a
‘Scarab’ from the house of his host and father of his future
son-in-law Freddie Threepwood. Like all American
millionaires in Wodehouse’s creations, Mr. Peters suffers
from chronic dyspepsia and an extremely short-temper.
The plot becomes thicker, when Ashe finds himself accompanied
by Ms. Valentine herself apparently as the
parlor maid of Ms. Peters. They set upon a journey to
Blandings Castle, where Ashe is startled by the confoundedly
complex system of hierarchy among the servants of
the castle. When he manages to survive Beach, the butler
there are many things he has to conquer before the
scarab is within his reach. Rupert Baxter, the efficient
personal secretary of Clarence, the ninth Earl of
Emsworth, proves himself to be a pain in the neck to
Ashe as he does everything in his capacity to stop Ashe’s
plans of purloining the curio.
The other guests of the castle, meanwhile, ignored by
their host and having no means of amusement yearn for
a break in their dreary lives, when nothing less than a
shooting incident in the middle of the night presents itself
when the first daring attempt of Ashe is foiled by the
watchful Baxter. The rest of the story is about the totally
unpredictable series of events which lead to the displacement
of the much-sought after scarab to its rightful
place.
Wodehouse has reduced readers to convulsions of laughter
with his subtle and profound humor. ‘Something
Fresh’ is among the first books that introduce the life at
Blandings, the absent-minded and potty Lord Emsworth,
the blundering Freddie and the peaceful village and inhabitants
of Market Blandings, which will continue to hold
the special place it does in a Wodehousean’s heart.
Book Review — ‘Something Fresh’
For those who have read Wodehouse, ‘Blandings Castle’
needs no introduction. Pelham Grenville Wodehouse –
‘Plum’ as he is known affectionately – was one of the
greatest and most prolific of authors of humor novels and
short stories and plays. One of his fictional creations was
‘Blandings Castle’ – a place which was always the center
of action, the hustle and bustle of activity, where young
sundered hearts were sent on exile if they fell in love
with matches who the elders did not find suitable, where
the visitors bumped into relations they would rather
avoid, and yet where peace reigned as far as their host
Lord Emsworth was concerned.
The story of ‘Something Fresh’ (U.S Title: Something
New) however begins in a cul-de-sac in London, where
Ashe Marson finds himself cooped up, restless and unsatisfied
with his life as an author of ‘Gridley Quayle, Investigator’
a monthly series of detective stories. His thirst for
adventure, spurred on by the encouragement from a
young lady Ms. Joan Valentine staying in the same establishment,
leads him to accept a job as a valet to an
American millionaire who wants Ashe to steal back a
‘Scarab’ from the house of his host and father of his future
son-in-law Freddie Threepwood. Like all American
millionaires in Wodehouse’s creations, Mr. Peters suffers
from chronic dyspepsia and an extremely short-temper.
The plot becomes thicker, when Ashe finds himself accompanied
by Ms. Valentine herself apparently as the
parlor maid of Ms. Peters. They set upon a journey to
Blandings Castle, where Ashe is startled by the confoundedly
complex system of hierarchy among the servants of
the castle. When he manages to survive Beach, the butler
there are many things he has to conquer before the
scarab is within his reach. Rupert Baxter, the efficient
personal secretary of Clarence, the ninth Earl of
Emsworth, proves himself to be a pain in the neck to
Ashe as he does everything in his capacity to stop Ashe’s
plans of purloining the curio.
The other guests of the castle, meanwhile, ignored by
their host and having no means of amusement yearn for
a break in their dreary lives, when nothing less than a
shooting incident in the middle of the night presents itself
when the first daring attempt of Ashe is foiled by the
watchful Baxter. The rest of the story is about the totally
unpredictable series of events which lead to the displacement
of the much-sought after scarab to its rightful
place.
Wodehouse has reduced readers to convulsions of laughter
with his subtle and profound humor. ‘Something
Fresh’ is among the first books that introduce the life at
Blandings, the absent-minded and potty Lord Emsworth,
the blundering Freddie and the peaceful village and inhabitants
of Market Blandings, which will continue to hold
the special place it does in a Wodehousean’s heart.
Sunday, May 03, 2009
indestructible....
was watching the movie 'X-men Origins: Wolverine' last friday night.. i loved this dialogue that came in the movie... it more or less goes like this: 'to make you indestructible we are first going to have to destroy you'.. of course they meant that to make wolverine indestructible by adding adamantium to his exoskeleton they would have to tunnel into his bones.. but it means a lot more when u think about it..
the harrowing experiences that we go through actually make us stronger.. we have to get destroyed at least once or twice before we become indestructible.. :) then if i think about this towards the end we r going to be the strongest and the calmest coz we have seen everything... right? :D
the harrowing experiences that we go through actually make us stronger.. we have to get destroyed at least once or twice before we become indestructible.. :) then if i think about this towards the end we r going to be the strongest and the calmest coz we have seen everything... right? :D
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