what makes a man, the man he is

what makes a man, the man he is - is the choices that he makes and how he chooses to end them - courtsey - Hellboy !

I like Hellboy - I really do admire him for the kind of arrogance that he has towards life - that shows his mental strength and ability to sustain any kind of barrage - mental or phisical and his readiness & willingness to sustain it and his confidence that he will get thorugh any shit!

I think it is this kind of mental strength that makes super heroes. It is the same kind of strength or will that you see in those Quentin Tarantino movies. kill bill for instance - be it gogo, Elle, bill or the bride herself. it is this strength ! that clear unwavering mental strength. probably thier excellence in whatever they do, follows this strength. thier ability to sustain through the torturous traning sessions and ability to constantly motivate themselves to be on top of whatever they are up to.

plan in place

after a long bout of procastination, finally got my GMAT prep rolling, as per current extropolation sept 1st week looks to be the ideal test date after about 10 weeks of prep. Also got my physical fitness program rolling and I seem to have lost abt 5 lbs in a week - way to go !! finally my (ur)anus in retrograde seems to be having some effect !!

spent the weekend playing some bad tennis - got the serve going on saturday but it totally let me down on Sunday and my game seems to be as bad as it was! probably it is because I try to play all those shots that I see on TV without having tried even once before in real life - get real man ! and ofcouse my religious jogging around the Sun Microsystems office has been going on nonstop - though still it is more of walking than running, I am sure I will get there. All I need is some practise and some real motivation.

'Phir Hera Pheri' - saw this on friday - it was amusing to some extent - cant say it is a outright good movie but paresh rawal and akshay kumar had some moments when they the funny bone tickling. But most of it was inneed cliche.

I was looking at rudresh's flickr photos http://flickr.com/photos/thoughtography/ - amazing how he shot those fireworks. That shot of auto in motion is just amazing.

got to study some basics to put mu Rebel XT to some use atleast !

travesty of my travails...

nooo! these are hardly my days of travails as I am having one hell of a ball in life, enjoying the pleasures of thoughtless living, unhindered sleep/loafing, unlimited eating and as a result of putting on couple of permanent layers of fat around myself, etc. Well what the heck, apart from the fact that probably NYSC is going to make some money through my efforts to shave off those extra pounds and abercombie is one happy man after half my wardrode has his label.

Alas there is a catch as always and thats where the travesty lies and my possible travails in an effort to remedy the situation. I dont think I am really happy or is it that something is eating me out hollow from inside! What is that - that is missing? probably it is because I have stopped thinking and also the lack of challenge perhaps?

I guess "The Fountain Head" by Ann Ryand - poisoined my blissfull ignorance by poking those long buried thoughts - thoughts of achieving something in life.

I am not really the peter keating but one of those perfect caricatures who have stopped thinking and have accepted what has been enforced upon them. Taking the fruitless path of often trodden with the known