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How a Password Change The Game & invoke me to Write a Book!

This Incident happened two month earlier, Most of my day (not everyday) begins and ends at my computer screen. It was all great, until once  i saw this message (while approaching to read my RSS feed):




From longer time you have not change your password. Click 'Change password' to change your password.

No shit. I thought clicking 'Change password' was gonna do one more problem of remembering one more password.

I read this dumb message in my mind with angry demoniac voice: The damn password.

The most interesting thing is here.....
                    Use at least one UPPERCASE character, at least one lower alphabetic character, at least one symbol and at least one number. Oh, and the whole damn thing can't be less than 8 characters. And can't use any of the same password i've used in the last 2 months.

So there was... This input field with a pulsating cursor, waiting for me to type a password that i'll have to re-enter for the next 15- 30 days. Then, letting all the fire go, i remember a tip i have read from somewhere ( i don't remember from where).
I'm gonna use a password to enhance (or, may be to 'change') my life.

Of course, there were clear indicators of what i needed to do -or what i have to achieve- in order to enhance my life, but we often don't pay  attention to these clues. but, being a geek and introvert there was a  chance to do something.

My password became the indicator. My password reminded me that i shouldn't let myself be victim of Facebook and WhatsApp. I am gonna do or create something.

My password became: "Read2write@pc"

I've changed the password of my whole account. I had to type this statement several times a day. Each time my computer would lock or goes to sleep,to access my rss feed, to check my email  and to create post on my blog.

In my mind, i went with the mantra that i didn't type a password.
In my mind, i wrote "Read to Write" everyday, for one month.
This simple action changed the way of my reading from normal reader to a writer.

One month later, my password became "Redy2pblsh@mrkt"

And guess what happen. i was in search of publishers. but it didn't work for me because of money problem since, in my pocket there was 0-penny. To publish a simple book you have to invest Rs. 20000/. min.

Then i read a lot on "how to be a self-publisher" and it works. The result is: My first book is in market and very soon it will be available on Flipkart and amazon.






haha, from nothing to a writer sound like BS but its true and amazing.

Here is an extract of what some of my passwords have been in the last 2 month:

No@fb4onemonth :-? quit fb for one month.(it worked)
Save4book@flipkart :? save money to publish my book on Flipkart.
Ask@her2talk  :? (never worked!)

Now, why i am telling this incident to you? Am i jerk or crazy?? The list of reason is:


  • I believe in sharing
  • I like if someone get inspired and create something.
  • If we create something it helps other.



Take the example of Facebook and Google. Now, our life is incomplete without these creation. its true that Facebook and Google earn million and trillion but its also true that these site made many millionaires. 

Take another example of a book, its true that an author earn lakhs and crore from a single book, but we can't deny the fact that its changing our life, without book we cant imagine a true education. that single piece of book gives us hope to survive and motivate us to do hard work or to create something.

So, so, so.... next time change your password to change your life and create something that helps others. may be its a book or something else. "Sign-ing-out"

Pass the trick to those who might need it. 
link to my book: click here

Learn an unusual Trick and hack your Past Life in 3 second

This only takes 3 seconds to do everyday, but you will love it!

Step 1: Take out your phone from your pocket.
Step 2: Record a short clip of what's in front of you.
Step 3: Repeat everyday.


Step 4: Snip 1 second out of each clip and stitch them together.

At the end of every year you will be watching a 6-minute video of the super-condensed version of your annual life. 

Time machine doesn't exist but this is the next best thing. With each second playing, you travel back in time to that day when you were younger and making your mark in the world. 

You will remember that sexy date you had on the beach, that boring day  when you had nothing better to do than to eat a pack of instant noodle,  or just how beautiful the rainbow was after the rain. 

Everything.  Vividly.

here is a video of my friend who shared it to me.I also started in december after getting the idea from this TED Talk One second every day):


It's  amazing the amount of information 1 second clips can contain. I don't know how it looks like to you, but to me I could almost physically see myself standing holding my phone and remember the whole day. From just that 1 second. Reminiscing has never been this easy and sure as hell I'm going to do this for the rest of my life.

Some people take pictures, but pictures only engage your vision sense. Videos, on the other hand, convey the human movements, the sounds of birds chirping, etc and hence are much more memorable. 

In 30 years you will be watching your whole life flashing back to you in a beautiful 3-hour video. Can you imagine what an awesome digital trip would that be? 

Time is the only dimension that human beings haven't been able to manipulate, but with this you can revisit all the good and bad times you had without actually bending physics.

Just a few tips if you are going to do this:
1. Take landscape clips, not potrait.
2. Don't worry if you don't know how to edit videos, just take the videos first and learn how to edit them later. I only learned how to use Adobe Premiere after I had some of my 2013 clips. It took me 1 hour to learn from Youtube videos and 2 hours of actual editing. It will only get faster!
3. Record 4-5 seconds of multiple events in a day if you want, so you can choose which clips you want to include at the end of the year.

Enjoy!


A real story of a girl, who never resigned herself to her fate!

story of a Girl,


There was a young girl who was raised in circumstances where three meals a day was a luxury. Her family was so poor that she couldn't afford footwear or books. She would wear overly long dresses to school so her class mates wouldn't notice her bare feet. 

Her father had old fashioned ideas about how sons vs. daughters should be raised. Education did not figure in his priorities for his daughters. However, a sympathetic colleague of his at work would sneak his daughter paper that was used only on one side. The girl would then sew them into a notebook and use those at school. Since she couldn't afford textbooks either, she would borrow them from her classmates in return for helping them with their homework, and would copy by hand every word and every diagram from each textbook into her homemade single sided notebooks. 


She could have bemoaned her fate and quit school. Instead, she chose to look at it as extra practice and never complained.

Invariably, she would graduate at the top of her class and eventually made it all the way to high school, fighting tooth and nail against her circumstances all the way, every single day.

It was the night before finals. She was putting the finishing touches on her biology lab work journal, updating the diagrams, dotting the i's, crossing the t's - that kind of thing. It represented an entire year's worth of her work. She was so engrossed in her school work she forgot to look at the clock. It was her father's dinner time and she had not warmed his food yet. That was enough to drive him to such rage that he grabbed her journal and stuck the entire thing in the wood stove. Through blurry eyes, she watched her entire year's labor go up in flames. In order to make that journal which had to be submitted to external examiners for grading, she had specially gathered sheets of paper with pencil writing on one side, and erased every pencil mark using erasers so small they were discarded by their previous owners as unusable. She then measured and hand cut each sheet so they were all the exact same size before starting work on the journal of 100+ pages.


She could have crumbled and spirit crushed beyond hope at this point. Instead, when life handed her lemons, she decided she's going to make the best damn lemonade anyone's ever tasted.

She served her father dinner, and after he went to bed, she set about re-creating an entire year's worth of work overnight by the light of an oil lamp, because her father would have her hide if she wasted electricity studying. This time, she was racing against the clock and didn't have the time to identify and erase sheets with pencil marks and trim them all to precisely the same size. This cost her when her work was graded. She still ended up topping her class anyway.

She graduated high school with perfect scores and the highest honors in Math, Physics and Biology and with one point less than the perfect score in Chemistry. She was under immense pressure to accept the job offer from a local bank to work as a teller, the family really needed the money. But she dreamed of going to college. She was convinced education was her one way ticket out of poverty. She had her heart set on medical school. When her father heard that, he refused to give her money to buy a stamp till the last day the application was due, and on the last day, refused her bus fare so she could drop off the application in person.


She could have resigned herself to her fate and become bitter. Instead, she decided to use what resources she did have.

She used her legs as her mode of transport, and walked three hours each way to the University offices to drop off her college application defying her father.

She was accepted of course, and was given a cut-off date to pay the fees in order to register. Her father wasn't going to spend a penny on his daughter's education. Instead, he agreed to let her go to college on the condition that she somehow bring home the same money she would have earned had she accepted the job as a bank teller.

Registration date came and went. The girl had no way to pay the fees and therefore could not register.


She could have given up at this point and consoled herself that her dreams were beyond her means. Instead, she told herself that winners never quit and quitters never win, and pursued her dreams anyway.

She would walk three hours every day to the Dean's office on the University campus, and wait for him outside his office from 8 AM to 5 PM every day hoping he would agree to see her and give her a chance to plead her case. On Day 5, the Dean relented and asked her to come in and tell him why she was camped outside his office all day for the past week.

She accepted the invitation and told him her story. The Dean heard her out and asked her to come on Monday and begin classes. She assumed she had been awarded some sort of student loan and went home counting down hours to first day of class. The Dean had been so moved by her story that he not only wrote a personal check to the University each year to cover her tuition, he also gave her a monthly stipend equal to the pay she would have made as a teller, that she could take home to her father every month. (She only found out about this incredible act of kindness after she graduated, and went to the University office to find out what she owed and was told she owed them nothing.)

Fast forward to year 2 into medical school. The girl's vision began to deteriorate. She had been planning to specialize in neurosurgery and all of a sudden, she could hardly read anything except for the largest fonts no matter how close she held the book! An eye exam revealed a rare degenerative condition that causes loss of vision. It could not be reversed, but it could be halted. At the point at which they found out and managed to stop the loss, her vision was 20/200, considered legally blind in most places. And that was the good news.

This was the first ever eye test she had had in her life. Only at this point did they discover that she was practically blind in the other eye, and had been using her one good eye all along to compensate.


She could have finally thrown in the towel at this point and concluded that this was just not meant to be, and blamed her luck for her misfortunes. Instead, she decided to roll with the punches. 

She could not possibly become a neurosurgeon with a 20/200 vision. Bummer. But who said she can't be a radiologist? Many did, but she chose to tune them out.

She went on to graduate from Medical school with a specialization in Radiology. 31 years after starting her professional career, she retired at the age of 62, a world class doctor, Head of the Department of Radiology at an acclaimed hospital, internationally recognized for her contributions and pioneering work in the field. Her vision is a little worse now than when she started out, and she has since been officially diagnosed with a vicious form of Scleroderma (an auto-immune disorder), but she consults for free when family or former colleagues seek out her expertise, or on especially tricky cases where indigent patients are involved.


Most common habits of Indian youth that I find irritating?

List:-
















1. Hey Wassup? Howzz life?? I am chillin... how ya doin - as if speaking broken English signifies how cool you are.


2. Using Dude/F**K /Bro and other random jargon in every sentence.

3. Listening to "Honey Singh" even when you don't understand Punjabi and then even claim "good taste" in music. (forgivable)



4. Buying an SLR camera, create a photography page and watermark the images and claim themselves to be photographers, even when they have no knowledge about Photography.

5. While touring or visiting a new place, taking photographs rather than enjoying the place.
Clicking photographs is so, so, so annoying. It's like people go to a place just to take high quality photographs so that they can store them on their computers [may to Upload it on Facebook], instead of enjoying it with everyone which will give much better memories.

6. Watching MTV roadies and stupid TV soaps which are awful to describe.

7. Fighting with parents for buying an expensive smartphone, so that he/she can boast the same within his/her friend circle.

8. Buying expensive branded clothes, thinking that it sets them apart.

9. Starbucks, McDonald, Pizza hut every weekend to show off.

10. Not spending time learning and creating but proving the society and everyone their so called "Myths".

11. Comparing their life with IIT and IIM graduates, thinking that they are lucky, and that they have no sorrows and  their life is all set.

12, Trying to win a boyfriend or girlfriend (not love) and putting all their energy into it, as if their survival depends on it.
In a random party, some random guy with his girlfriend comes up and says - "Hey, where is your GF?". I said - "I don't have one". The look on his face as if I am a criminal / alien and that he is so sorry for me

13. You are boring if you don't smoke or drink or have never tried drugs or never had a girlfriend/boyfriend. How do you guys have fun in life? They don't understand that some people don't need these things to make themselves interesting. According to them you  are not 'man enough' to do this.


14. Support any Political party blindly without taking the pain to go through facts and figures.


15. And the most irritating of all. . .Chatting/playing on the mobile when surrounded by all friends and in public functions as if he/she is too busy to enjoy the present occassion.


16. And the heights of all, applying Body deo's & strong perfumes just like the models  in Axe - adds making it a adventurous to sit beside them(not all but most)


17. Best Books       - By chetan Bhagat only

18.  Best Youth        - Possible only if one has Girlfriend / Bf

19. Smoking and Drinking as a means to show off manliness.


20.Making movies like Chennai Express a hit. (This sin is unforgivable). 

some lesser-known must-see movies of the 21st century!

1. All The Real Girls

All the Real Girls (2003)
Okay, this movie is the biggest motivation for me to write this answer. I want all you people out there to go and watch it! It’s the universal story which happens to everybody wrapped in a charming little movie. Believe me, you are/were either the girl or the boy. Or the brother.
Also, haven't seen a better opening scene. Or a better kiss.

2. The Constant Gardener
The Constant Gardener (2005)
Is it just me or the most romantic movies are placed in a totally different genre in IMDB? Like this gem here. People would disagree if I say The Constant Gardener is about love but it is, more than anything else. Also, brilliant acting by Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz.

3. The Painted Veil

The Painted Veil (2006)
I think after Ralph Fiennes, Edward Nortan is the most romantic person on this planet and this movie is a testimony to that. This and The Illusionist.

4. Closer

Closer (2004)
Brilliant, brilliant movie. Deals with the complexity in the lives of two couples involved in adultery.  Also, seekers of the whys and hows of adultery, you won’t be disappointed.

5. Celeste and Jesse Forever 

Celeste & Jesse Forever (2012)
Ever justified staying in touch with your ex by faking we are too cool to get affected by break-up attitude? This is a movie for a trip down the memory lane for you.

6. The Next Three Days

The Next Three Days (2010)
I am a sucker for prison breaks and Russell Crowe totally aced this movie. A brilliant underrated movie of the decade.
 
7. The Winter's Bone

Winter's Bone (2010)
This is Jennifer Lawrence uninhibited for you. Enough said.

8. Brick

Brick (2005)
This is a lesser known, brilliant movie of Joseph Gordon Lewitt. A classic who dunnit story interspersed with love in its yet another beautiful form- grief.

9. The Five Year Engagement

The Five-Year Engagement (2012)
Officially, a romantic drama, but brilliantly funny. 

10. Easy A

Easy A (2010)
Finally, a clever teenage drama.
What if I say I finally found a teenage movie that evokes both laughter and feel good nostalgia of our school days in equal amounts. Emma Stone’s best movie so far.

11. The Cove

The Cove (2009)
This made me bawl my eyes out at the inhumanity that has crept into our society. It utterly broke my heart at how we have grown to accept things that, at introspection, shatter our nerves and convincingly persuade us to leave the life we have and live for a cause. I have never been the same again.

12. Speak

Speak (2004)
All who thought Kristen Stewart cannot act are sure to eat their words after watching this one. A coming-of-age masterpiece.

13. Incendies

Incendies (2010)
Okay, I agree this is not one of those lesser known movies like I promised. It did garner a lot of attention and accolades it justly deserves. I only added it for those who have missed it until now. And also, couldn't resist.

14. A Separation

Jodaeiye Nader az Simin (2011)
A gem of a movie. Haunting drama that will stay with you for hours, hell, days after you are done watching it.

That's all folks.
Will update if I recall more.

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