Monkey making machine

Why I want to study further?
I want to know more about management. I want to know about how people think. I want to know about business administration and planning, entrepreneurship, project management, Six Sigma, startups and other things that fascinates my mind. I want to start a business.

What will I get when I enter a college?
I'll get placements as advertised, uniform thinking needed by a machine like employee, meeting deadlines set by immediate superior, mental pressure to sustain in corporate ladder. I'll be trained to be perfect employee!

Are colleges really institutions where we learn? or are they just the monkey making machines acting as employment exchanges? We need a change of thought. We are humans not resource just as other organizational resources. We are unique. Yes, everyone of us is unique in their own way. Just like paintings or sculpture. No artist can copy each other.

I am lost and ruined because of studying in an employment exchange. I'm not a monkey made by the machine. If these people want to call me human because they helped me evolve, I wont call myself human! I'll be happy without education which creates labour market or human resource. I want the education which will enlighten me.

Management Quiz: Vigour 2008-09

College Name: Vidyalankar School of Information Technology
Project Name: Management Quiz - Vigour 2008-09
Date of Project: 22nd January 2009 and 23rd January 2009
Project Location: Vidyalankar Campus, Wadala, Mumbai
Cost of Project: N. A. for individual section of festival
Participants: 15 participants, 40 spectators
Volunteers: Revant Nandgaonkar, Kaushik Yeole, Sumit Mohadikar, Shyamli Gunjan,
Description of Events: Eliminations were conducted on 22nd January and all the 5 participating teams entered into the Final Rounds,
4 Final rounds were conducted on 23rd January eliminating each team in each round and last team standing was declared as winner.

From inhibitions to exhibitions

B.M.S, course from Mumbai University demands enthusiasm from students. I am such student. I have term work for all subject and it needs certain human skills to complete it on time. First I need to interact with the world to gather data, I interact with my group to compile data and make it presentable. Finally, I come on stage and present.

It is not easy as it seems. Most of the time I got rejected by the people I approached for gathering information. Incomplete data, further adds to complete lack of confidence. I planned 15 minutes of presentation, on stage it becomes 5 minutes and voice starts breaking. I can see the class least interested in what's going on presentation slides. The presentation is over. Then I climb down from the stage to join the class in not listening to 10 other presentations.

Worst things to come, I can forget lines, I can forget topics and I can even get blank on stage. To add up this, public will throw stones in form of questions. This is a situation for a semester, then we learn to get it done, and I mean we barely get the presentation done. Why? I think this is because of lack of these skills.

This is where training comes in. There are many options for me to be trained for human skills. I can find a training program and pay for it, I can find a mentor, I can ask professors and lecturers, but in the end I lack direction due to endless information and sermons. If I pay a chunk for being trained I get the unfair advantage over students who can't afford. Heck! who cares about that in unfair world? And after all, these options are not available for every student.

College understood the problem and Dale Carnegie Training for students was arranged. This program raised the competition bar by raising the initiative amongst the students. Dale Carnegie Trainers have their own way to motivate students to take part in the program. Now, every student is polished in human skills. What is the magic they do? Memory techniques, conversation and human interaction skills, presentation and public speaking skills, stress management, goal setting and time management.

Students now participate in delivering seminars, arranging events, group debates and discussions. Everyday there is new challenge to be accepted instead of just barely getting things done.

For further information about Vidyalankar visit vsit.edu.in and visit www.dalecarnegieindia.com for information about Dale Carnegie Training, India.

Karma and Janma: My thoughts

Imagine...

What if I cease to exist this moment? What will really happen? While I am alive, I stop my breath, I can't keep holding it for more than a minute and I need to breath. What if it stops now? I'll hallucinate, I'll be unconsciousness and my mind will start dreaming. If it's a sweet dream, I want to sleep forever. If it is a nightmare, I want to wake up to react. I will have to wake up whenever I get scared, I will have to wake up to fight back or react to the nightmare. BUT I CAN'T! because I'll have no body if I die.

My search for existence will begins. I want to live to fight my nightmare. I want to exist just like a bee. No! Like a fearless tiger? Or bear! Or a bull? Some life I want to exist. I want to be here in a body to find peaceful dream.

perhaps I am dreaming and I am alive just to satisfy that forgotten dream?

I can imagine the following after assuming my body and my mind are two separate entities:
The only thing which makes me (my body) perform karma and face the consequences is my mind's desires. The only thing I can remember after my birth is that i have had mind since then. The only thing I can imagine after me i.e after my death is something imprinted in some level of mind. That time I won't call it my mind. Mind is the only level I can reach up to now.

I don't know why my mind wants to perform karma? It might be due to my previous karma or some other reason but that reason, I cannot satisfy to stop my mind from demanding more.

Whatever done by an individual is due to his desires. These deeds have a place in his mind and his mind has a place in the universe. This is because mind is like a drop of water, after the body is discarded this drop unites with the sea - Mind of the universe. Thus the karma is a written log in this universe created by mind and its desires.

State of mind is closely related in creating karma. The mind desires to be in a body to enjoy worldly pleasures. If actions are free from the influence of mind, it does not create karma and there is no desire to be born or enjoy the pleasures.

Death is a state for mind and a end for body. If state of mind is without reason you are free from the karma cycle.

That was just my imagination. Karma might be false. Janma might be false. But I am alive because of my birth and I'm doing actions desired by my mind.

This is my foolishness!
Thanks for your interest :-)

A Commet on my college

My college "Vidyalankar School of Information Technology" has posted my comment on it's website under the "Students speak" section. You can visit it here.

I've also written a feedback/log for VSIT (Vidyalankar School of Information Technology) about Dale Carnegie Training which I got privilege to attended because of my college. This feedback was about "Dale Carnegie Training" and how helpful it was for me.

I thank my college for arranging such workshop.

Mozilla Weave 0.2 on Ubuntu 8.04

Follow the steps to install Mozilla Weave 0.2 on Ubuntu 8.04

1. Uninstall Weave from Firefox. Close Firefox.
   
2. Install working builds of libnss3 and libnspr:
   
   Command-line
   

   sudo apt-get install libnspr4-dev libnss3-dev

   Graphical User interface
   
   

   System > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager Search and select libnss3-dev and libnspr4-dev and Apply all changes.

   
   
3. Install Mozilla's version of Firefox.
   
   Get the tar.bz2 from here.
   
   Open the .bz2 file, and you will see that it contains a 'firefox' folder. Double-click the firefox folder, and you will see the folders inside that. Press Ctrl-A to select all, then click extract and browse to "/usr/lib/firefox-3.0". Make sure you are extracting 'selected files' and not 'all files', then press extract. You are basically overwriting Ubuntu's version of Firefox with Mozilla's.
   
   
4. Open Firefox, and install Weave 0.2. Restart Firefox.
   
   Follow the wizard and create a new account or login with your user name. You should be able to login now.

Its all with me

Food is with me,
The mind to give food is with me
Cleanliness is with me,
Enthusiasm is with me,
Capacity to protect is with me,
Capacity to earn food is with me,
Strength to chant manthras with out fault is with me,
Fame is with me
Strength to recite properly is with me,
Enlightenment inside is with me,
Heaven is with me,
The spirit of the soul is with me,
Aapana is with me,
Vyaana is with me,
The soul is with me,
Thought is with me,
Things known by thought are with me,
Words are with me,
Mind is with me,
Eyes are with me,
Ears are with me,
Strength of organs for gaining knowledge are with me
Strength of sensory organs are with me,
Strength of soul is with me,
Strength to defeat enemies is with me,
Span of life is with me,
The old age is with me,
The soul inside is with me,
Good body is with me,
Pleasure is with me,
The Armour to protect the body is with me,
Strong stable organs are with me,
Bones are with me,
Joints are with me,
Fame is with me,
Capacity to head is with me,
Internal anger is with me,
External anger is with me,
Fathomless mid is with me,
Pure cold water is with me,
Capacity to win is with me,
Capacity to be honoured is with me,
Immovable assets are with me,
Sons and grand sons are with me,
Deathless progeny is with me,
Pleasure of wealth is with me,
Growth of knowledge is with me,
Truth is with me,
Attention to detail is with me,
Assets are with me,
Wealth is with me,
Capacity to attract is with me,
Luster of the body is with me,
Sports is with me,
Happiness coming out of that is with me,
Whatever has been made is with me,
Whatever is being made is with me,
Praise of gods is with me,
Good deeds are with me,
Saved money is with me,
Whatever money I will earn is with me,
Earned assets are with me,
Assets, which I am going to earn, are with me,
Places, which I can easily reach, are with me,
Good paths are with me,
Good results of sacrifices done are with me,
Good results, which I am going to earn, are with me,
Assets earned by proper ways are with me,
Good capacity to carry our things is with me,
Capacity to foresee is with me,
And stability to manage is with me,
Pleasures of this world are with me,
Pleasures of other world are with me,
Liking is with me,
The desire due to that is with me,
The result of the desire is with me,
Relatives sweet to the mind are with me,
Security is with me,
Great fame is with me,
Good habitats are with me,
All good luck is with me,
All wealth is with me,
Teacher showing the way is with me,
One who carries me like father is with me,
Protection of assets is with me,
Courage is with me,
Good to all are with me,
Reward is with me,
Knowledge of Vedas and science is with me,
Capacity to teach is with me,
Capacity to order is with me,
Capacity to get work done is with me,
Wealth of cattle is with me,
Destruction of blocks in my path are with me,
Fire sacrifices and other good deeds are with me,
The good result of such action is with me,
Freedom from tuberculosis is with me,
Freedom from small fevers are with me,
The medicine for life without sickness is with me,
Long life is with me,
The state of all people being my friends is with me,
Absence of fear is with me,
Good conduct is with me,
Good sleep is with me,
Good mornings are with me,
Good days are with me,
Food is with me,
Good words are with me,
Milk is with me,
The essence of milk is with me,
Ghee is with me,
Honey is with me,
Taking food together with relatives is with me,
Drinking together is with me,
Agriculture is with me,
Rain is with me,
Land which gives victory is with me,
Production out of plants and trees are with me,
Gold is with me,
Gems are with me,
Greatness that wealth brings is with me,
Health is with me,
Wealthy harvest is with me,
Fame that the harvest brings is with me,
Many good things that harvests brings are with me,
Further and further growth is with me,
Completeness is with me,
State above perfection is with me,
Deathless state is with me,
Maize is with me,
Rice food is with me,
Wheat is with me,
Black gram is with me,
Oil seeds are with me,
Green gram is with me,
Other grams are with me,
All types of wheat are with me,
Masoor dhal is with me,
Lentils are with me,
Sorghum is with me,
Millets are with me,
Red rice is with me,
Stones are with me.
Mud is with me,
Hills are with me,
Mountains are with me,
Sand is with me,
All that grows from soil is with me,
Gold is with me,
Steel is with me,
Lead is with me,
Zinc is with me,
Black iron is with me,
Other metals like copper are with me,
Fire is with me,
Water is with me,
Climbing plants are with me,
Medicinal herbs are with me,
All, which is cultivated, is with me,
All produce, which is not cultivated, is with me,
All that is in villages is with me,
All that is in the forest is with me,
All animals are with me,
All material required for fire sacrifice are with me,
All assets inherited by me are with me,
All assets of children and friends are with me,
All my assets are with me,
All movable property is with me,
All immovable property is with me,
All religious duties are with me,
Strength to do duty is with me,
Good results of duty are with me,
Pleasures that can be attained are with me,
Methods to attain such pleasures are with me,
Attainments are with me,
And all these are with me,
Because I worship the O N E.