What if youths dont get motivated to learn and be social beings?? What if the generation stops going to schools and colleges?? I dont think any youth will be against it. They just want to enjoy life,,may be the life they wish to be or may be the life they can. Walking around in Kasargod one full day,, i got to see bunch of guys, of age around 19 to 20. They were all hanging out  near a school ground. I got to know that these guys do nothing productive during the day. The are never interested in learning, they are never interested in any kind of productive work.   Imagine the case of a stupid person. He do all the worse things, the way he wishes to,, he jump around and walk around. People laugh at him. Is he similar to those guys i mentioned earlier?? I say no, because a stupid when do all stupid stuff in front of others, people laugh at him. He is a source of entertainment. Of fun. Can he be called a social waste?? i dont think so. ah,, i dont have a clue about what am saying.. anyway am stoping it now.. This wasnt the topic i wanted to tell ,,

Globules of human existence

Mad people are not actually mad. If you notice them closely u will get to know that they have a world of their own. They have a happy life there. Its a small world but they have the complete control of what and who should stay in and who should not. They have created the life because they dont want to face the real world. What if we all get such a life. A life where we can choose instances of happiness and opt out what will ruin our life.. If the earth was not the only place for us to live, everyone would have created their own world and stayed happy. Then there wouldn't be any sad faces,, there wouldn't be any fights. The small globules of human existence floating in the universe. few are big, with lot of people in it,, staying together.. but some may be small with few people in it.. and few others will be singularly occupied. The lone wolfs, the thinkers. If existence wasn't a curse, then people would lived for the days they wish and then terminate themselves when they want to. They are the creators of the world, they are the godfathers of their world.

Why should Pizza reach faster??

I know posting this will not do any good for the issue that i put up here. May be millions of people have tried it their hard time to find a way out of it. And the reason behind putting up such a title for this post has just one intention, to create a inquisitiveness as Pizza is something that everybody looks for.

Click this link and read a report on Wikileaks.. then come back for the rest of the article..
Plz do read whats in the link. 

And now that you have come to know that this post has nothing to do with Pizzas, keep reading. =)
We, or may b the Indian govt is not thinking or at least giving a try to such a survey to group and list out matters of concern. We are just so busy with internal matters,, corruption, and all dirty politics. India's 2G spectrum is famous all over the world, an american reporter stating it " historical" and  putting India in 128th position out of 195 countries in a survey which looked upon the difficulties one faces when starting a business. Now that India has succeeded in  the bid for 3G and better broad Band facilities,, the TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) is confident in providing Broadband for a larger spectrum of people. Ha, spectrum was the word that came in my mind for describing people,, let it stay that way... But the thing is There are more basic facilities that Indian people are deprived of. I dont think broadband can ease hunger.. can they??
         I got a mail last day. It was funny at the same time,,something that we should think of.
"India is a country where Pizza reaches home faster than Ambulance, where Mobile Phone SIM is free and  a kilo of rice is costlier, where a  Shooter gets a gold medal at the games, he is the pride of India and he gets crores and another shooter dies for his life at the borders when he gets a mere pay. More was there to it, i dont remember....

         With the dawn of the year round the corner,  I call it the World Corruption Downfall Year because i think there were many cases of corruption being caught red handed, with the media playing a major role. Am referring to the world scenario , not just India. Pakistan Cricket board had to nab the bugs in their team. India competing with it with the 2G spectrum, and other land scams in Tamilnadu brought to light recently. And many more to come in the close vicinity, which i dont want to put up here.

Ok, so thats all for now,, the interesting thing about this post is that a major part of this post was typed by my very intelligent PC,, using the Speech Recognition Software by Windows. I just had to dictate it or speak out what i wanted. And its so easy and reliable. It just had to spend some time with me learning my style of talking and its picking up so fast. Tell the PC to "start wordpad", a new word pad file opens up. U tell it to "click start,application,games, freecell" u get the freecell game open on your screen. u tell it to "stop listening", he will not obey your orders. U needn't have to pronounce it the "American English" way. Windows  picks up our pronunciation and keeps an archive of it. For example if you pronounce the letter R as "aaar", or "arrrr", it asks for correction just once. Again you make the same sound, it knows that you meant R.   . I now feel like commanding my book on the table to come to me. " Click book, Come here"

Give it a try..=)

101 Things Someone wouldn't Learn in Architecture School

This is one big post people... But truly interesting, but even that is relative,,  keep reading..

1] Even if your boss is your friend he may have to axe you to save his business.

2] Read the book, On Bullshit, by Harry G. Frankfurt. Carry it with you. It’s pocket-sized.

3] Do not drink at work and especially do not get toasted around your colleagues under any circumstances.

4] No matter how highly you may think of yourself you may still be a minion in the eyes of others who hold more power than you.

5] Once you leave architecture school not everybody cares about architecture or wants to talk about it.

6] All eating habits and diets acquired during school should be jettisoned.

7] The hygiene habits you kept in architecture school are inappropriate for real life; bathe regularly and change your underwear.

8] The rush and exhilaration you experience in studio may be inversely proportional to how much you will enjoy working for a firm.

9] It’s architecture, not medicine. You can take a break and no one will die.

10] Significant others are more important than architecture; they are the ones who will pull you through in the end. See 49.

Keep reading after the break.

11] Being smart and having advanced degrees can make you a better designer.

12] The industry underpays. Push for what you are worth.

13] Mind your internet traffic at work unless you are certain your office does not have someone monitoring. Of course you should be working every minute, so this goes without saying.

14] Go home to your family.

15] Call your loved one’s frequently.

16] If you are working overtime, the firm buys dinner.*
*Contingent on office policies, of course.

17] Don’t keep a mayline screwed to your desk. They are not cool and they date you. The same goes for colored pencils.

18] Get the biggest monitor you can.

19] Do not, however, ask for two monitors. Even though it makes you look like a bad-ass you will be expected to do twice the amount of work.

20] Make sure team roles are clearly defined.

21] Know what your role is.

22] Be careful with emails. If in doubt, don’t send.

23] At times respect and civility seem to be scarce commodities in architecture.

24] Be cautious of “opportunities” that do not pay.

25] Sometimes the most critical person on your jury might actually be right.

26] Understand how your office is run as a business and how they go after projects.

27] It is best to keep your outside activities quiet.

28] Your boss reads your blog.

29] Pyromania, car soccer, and other antics you made up to amuse yourself at 3 am are not actually normal. See 49.

30] There are no architectural emergencies that should make you completely give up your life on the outside. That may have been the ethos in studio, but don’t carry it into the office.

31] Be suspicious if your firm expects you to work long hours of overtime for no compensation. Be doubly suspicious if they justify it by saying things like, “It’s just part of the learning curve” or “We had to go through this, too.”

32] If a police officer pulls you over on the freeway for doing 90 mph on a Sunday morning while heading into the office, it’s time to re-evaluate your priorities.

33] Know who the decision-makers are.

34] Don’t dress like an intern. See 72.

35] Read Dana Cuff’s Architecture: The Story of Practice.

36] Expect to be regarded with suspicion if your undergraduate degree is not in architecture.

37] Don’t be seduced by mere appearances.

38] If your firm is outsourcing work to save money, be concerned.

39] Architecture firms can have multiple glass ceilings. Be aware of them all.

40] If a principal of a firm sees making coffee or moving boxes as beneath him/her, consider looking for another office.

41] If a principal doesn’t say good morning when you say good morning to him/her, consider looking for another office.

42] When firms advertise themselves as think tanks or research labs, ask them specifically what it is that they do. And most importantly, make sure they pay. Well.

43] If you are invited to be on a jury, don’t trash the student just to make yourself look good or to contradict a rival on the jury. Be constructive and try to help the student. This is the point.

44] Subvert the signature of the software, unless you consciously want the architecture to convey this signature.

45] Architects are in a service industry. They provide services to clients.

46] In proportion to their pay, architects require the most education, most training, and the most exams to become licensed professionals.

47] Don’t be a Typhoid Mary. When sick, stay home.

48] Embrace the business-side of architecture.

49] If you are an architect you should automatically qualify for psychotherapy and medication.

50] Most architects believe they were destined to become architects because of their early childhood experiences. They showed signs of architectural greatness at a very young age. This is a myth that reinforces an unhealthy hero complex. See 49.

51] Architecture in the academy is completely removed from the profession. Likewise, the values within the academy are radically different from the values within a firm.

52] Be cautious about applying theory to space.

53] Do not take design strategies or operations learned in studio too seriously.

54] Know the difference between architectural celebrity and actual worth.

55] Read books with words, not just pictures.

56] All firms are different. Shop.

57] To save time, assume your wife is right.

58] Do not date an architect unless you are certain he/she is able to maintain a healthy life outside of architecture. See 49.

59] Architects should not intermarry. Inbreeding is not good for the gene pool. See 49.

60] If you are married when you go to architecture school, studio ends at 7:00.

61] Do not buy into the fashion of the moment and simply dismiss certain architects without examining them for yourself.

62] Architects who do not build things also have important things to say and should be listened to.

63] If your studio instructor is a recent graduate, be alarmed.

64] Do not obsess about sustainability to the exclusion of other factors.

65] Renderings done in China are so last year.

66] If you start a think tank make sure you have some thoughts to put in it.

67] Read Rem Koolhaas, but do not obsess and fantasize about being him. Delirious New York is still relevant.

68] Archi-babble does not make you sound cool.

69] Keep in touch with everyone you know, especially if they aren’t in architecture.

70] In fact, make friends who are not architects.

71] Do not wear the same shoes every day, They will start to smell.

72] Make sure your jeans are up-to-date. No acid-wash. No baggy.

73] The economically distressed urban zones you can afford while in school are not gentrified just because you and your friends have moved in.

74] If you must read Italo Calvino, read more than just Invisible Cities.

75] Expect a period of post-traumatic stress disorder after you graduate. Do not make any important decisions during this time.

76] Don’t get a dog just because you are lonely.

77] Architecture is fueled by fetishes—rectilinear designer eyewear, for instance.

78] When trying to decide if a theory book is good, check the bibliography first.

79] Listen to your elders. They are wise.

80] FAIA can mean different things to different people.

81] If you already have a B.Arch, consider further education in a different field. Your M.Arch. can’t make a real contribution to the field if you’re just showing off software skills.

82] Always back up your hard drive.

83] Embrace social media, but don’t be its bitch. Only tweet/post when you have something important to say.

84] Architecture firms should consider forming economic alliances similar to OPEC.

85] Even if you don’t like the look of someone’s architecture they may have something valuable to teach you.

86] Great architecture, like great art, tends to arise from deep psychological issues. See 49.

87] The eighties and postmodernism were not all bad.

88] Being avant-garde is a choice that should be evaluated.

89] Architect’s web pages are often out of control and take too long to load.

90] In one’s life there are a finite number of all-nighters one can pull. You probably used them all up in school.

91] Understand the contexts from which modernism arose.

92] When the economy is good architects can rely on experience to run firms, but when the economy is bad they need advanced business skills they may not possess.

93] Architecture is dependent on boom and bust cycles.

94] Good design is not necessarily the most important factor in running a successful architecture firm.

95] Branding is important.

96] In a corporate firm, those at the top are not necessarily the best but they may have been there the longest.

97] Being good at software does not make you a good architect.

98] Architecture is cliquish.

99] Many architects do not live in houses designed by themselves or other architects.

100] Architecture office parking lots communicate success. There should be at least a couple high-end luxury cars. If there are a lot of beaters, be wary. If all cars are beaters, don’t go in.

101] Be concerned when you are too idle at work.

Courtesy: Archdaily.com 

Author:  Guy Horton

I just found it so interesting thaat i couldnt stop putting it up in my blog.. Dont blame me for plagiarism..  =)

An atheist professor of philosophy speaks to his class

An atheist professor of philosophy speaks to his class on the problem science has with God, The Almighty. 

He asks one of his new students to stand and..... 

Prof: 

So you believe in God? 

Student:

Absolutely, sir. 

Prof 

: Is God good? 

Student:

Sure. 

Prof: 

Is God all-powerful? 

Student 

: Yes. 

Prof: 

My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to God to heal him. 

Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But God didn't. How is this God good then? Hmm? 

(Student is silent.) 

Prof: 

You can't answer, can you? Let's start again, young fella. Is God good? 

Student:

Yes. 

Prof: 

Is Satan good? 

Student 

: No. 

Prof: 

Where does Satan come from? 

Student:

From...God... 

Prof: 

That's right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world? 

Student:

Yes. 

Prof: 

Evil is everywhere, isn't it? And God did make everything. Correct? 

Student:

Yes. 

Prof: 

So who created evil? 

(Student does not answer.) 

Prof: 

Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don't they? 

Student: 

Yes, sir. 

Prof: 

So, who created them? 

(Student has no answer.) 

Prof: 

Science says you have 5 senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. 

Tell me, son...Have you ever 

seen God? 

Student: 

No, sir. 

Prof: 

Tell us if you have ever heard your God? 

Student:

No, sir. 

Prof: 

Have you ever felt your God, tasted your God, smelt your God? Have you ever had any sensory perception of God for that matter? 

Student:

No, sir. I'm afraid I haven't. 

Prof: 

Yet you still believe in Him? 

Student:

Yes. 

Prof: 

According to empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, science says your GOD doesn't exist. 

What do you say to that, son? 

Student:

Nothing. I only have my faith. 

Prof: 

Yes. Faith. And that is the problem science has. 

Student:

Professor, is there such a thing as heat? 

Prof: 

Yes. 

Student: 

And is there such a thing as cold? 

Prof: 

Yes. 

Student:

No sir. There isn't. 

(The lecture theatre becomes very quiet with this turn of events.) 

Student 

: Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. 

But we don't have anything called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no heat, but we can't go 

any further after that. 

There is no such thing as cold . Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of 

heat .We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy . Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it . 

(There is pin-drop silence in the lecture theatre.) 

Student:

What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness? 

Prof: 

Yes. What is night if there isn't darkness? 

Student : 

You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright 

light, flashing light....But if 

you have no light constantly, you have nothing and it's called darkness, isn't it? In 

reality, darkness isn't. If it were you would be able to make 

darkness darker, wouldn't you? 

Prof: 

So what is the point you are making, young man? 

Student:

Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed. 

Prof: 

Flawed? Can you explain how? 

Student:

Sir, you are working on the premise of duality. You argue there is life and then there is death, a good God and a bad God. You are viewing the concept of God as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, science can't even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one.To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life: just the absence of it. 

Now tell me, Professor.Do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey? 

Prof: 

If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of course, I do. 

Student: 

Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir? 

(The Professor shakes his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument is going.) 

Student:

Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor, are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher? (The class is in uproar.) 

Student:

Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor's brain? 

(The class breaks out into laughter.) 

Student 

: Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor's brain, felt it, touched or smelt it? No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established rules of empirical, stable, demonstrable protocol, science says that you have no brain,sir. 

With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir? 

(The room is silent. The professor stares at the student, his face unfathomable.) 

Prof: 

I guess you'll have to take them on faith, son. 

Student:

That is it sir... The link between man & god is FAITH . That is all that keeps things moving & alive. 

NB: I believe you have enjoyed the conversation...and if so...you'll probably want your friends/colleagues to enjoy the same...won't you?.... 

this is a true story, and the 

student was none other than......... 

APJ Abdul Kalam, the former president of India 




This is a mail that i received today from a person from in my class i respect so much. May be for her faith or may be for the fact that she still has faith in god more than anybody i have ever seen. I wanted to put up my views on this very same topic. But due to various external pressure i would call it, am refraining from it. But all i have to tell is that only because Abdul Kalam used to give good inspiring words and thoughts, it doesn't mean all what he say is to be accepted. Moreover, he just told his views to support his ideology. Point no2: he was a student at that time.


Thats all for now,,  
   


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