The Palm Trilogy, the world’s largest man-made islands…

“The Palm Trilogy” amazes me…
[The official website:
http://www.thepalm.ae/ ]

The vision, the amount of planning, the painstaking execution and the troubleshooting! The scale of operation however is the most awe-inspiring part of the construction. It is a laudable effort and once completed will be one of mankind’s astonishing accomplishments.

Strange as it might sound, it reminds me of the painstaking and coordinated effort with which ants build their homes! Not just ants, come to think of it, a whole lot of animals, insects and birds exhibit such fantastic behavior.

So I wondered (as I always do :) ) what’s the difference between humankind’s endeavors and those of the other species?

Is it true that “Nature fascinates Humans replicate”?!!

However the animal kingdom executes Nature’s programming but we choose our own objectives…We have THE 'WILL' which is unique to our kind!
Now THAT is a difference! Or else, all of us would have been carrying bricks and cement around!

Random Question and my RANDOMMMMMMM answer!!!!!!

Hey Google gave me a random question and I HAD TO write a story! Well I am so proud of my story writing skills, I thought I should post it!

RANDOM QN:
The children are waiting! Please tell them the story about the bald frog with the wig..

MY ANSWER:
Once there lived a bald frog named Baldy. He saw Ghoda, the horse and grew jealous of his mane. So he bought himself a wig. But wen he returned, Ghoda had shaved clean!Because "Bald is beautiful" now, coutesy: Aamir Khan!
Popat!

So....
Morals children:
1) Dnt be jealous of Ghoda.. B jealous of Bhaloo(???)
2) The mane looks greener on the other head(??? agn)

(Wat a story?!!!!!! Oh my God wats with me! I am becoming brilliant by the day! Send your children to me and they will never ask you for a story again!)

CHOOSE YOUR WAY!

(Well.... I scribbled these words 3 months back.... N thanks Mom for preserving the piece of paper! That’s y these words are here now!)

When there is a lull,
And the goals that once excited seem dull,
Hold on to the hull,
For it is time that, over your life's ambitions you mull…

Don't sulk like a bear and be a bull.
It is in your hands to make a life that is full.

If you are the wind, then life is a windmill,
It tests your strength to move it to its fill.
You may choose to take the hero's path that winds its way uphill,
Or choose to look at the peak, sitting at your window sill!

WISDOM

The demure exterior is a farce often mistaken for austereness. It takes acumen to set apart a knoll of worthless refuse and opt for a mountain of everlasting fortune.

We, The Tam Brams - The lost lot?

Where are we in our elements? In Tamil Nadu, we are ashamed of our own status, while the noose called ‘reservations’ tightens around our collar. In Mumbai, we try to lose ourselves in the midst of Gujjus and the Marathi manoos. In the US we manage to build a few temples / communities and man, are we proud! The rest of the world is an escape into oblivion!

Branded Idli vada sambhar and thayir saadams of the world, we are tagged “intellectual types”. Education given top priority, but told we lack the risk appetite to enter the entrepreneurial arena. Stuck between chanting the traditional slokams and fitting into the new age cultural plethora, we are a new set of gyanis with absolutely no clue what to do with all the gyan.. So we give away our gyan to the entrepreneurs or more boldly to the venture capitalists and hope somewhere to break ground and make it big. Hope a few of us really change the trend (not me!) and show some originality.

The Right Vision!

( A friends wondering made me think:
"Sometimes I wonder" http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=107842160083&f&index=0 )

It always pays to ponder.
To each his own, be it the goal or be it the pursuit itself.
Happiness is an absolute state of mind. But I do not believe that you cant be ambitious without having to give up your core goodness and happiness.
Many do believe that ambition dies when there is satisfaction / contentment and satisfaction is what brings happiness. But to me, ultimate happiness is something which remains even in tough times when all is not going well. When the going gets tough, one draws upon the inner strength and optimism.

When you believe in “Ask and it shall be given unto you,Seek and you shall find. Knock and it shall be opened unto you ” you can do what you want to do without an ounce of doubt that it will ultimately lead you to your vision of yourself, there is no reason to be unhappy. It is just a matter of time and effort, which are self motivated.

The hurdles don’t trouble you anymore because they are to be expected, though they cannot be predicted. Every experience is a process of growth. Ultimately the belief and vision of what you want to be will find ways to materialise into your life. Just that many a times, we don’t clearly see what we want to be, visualise the wrong things and hence end up being the dissatisfied person that we visualised. So its all about the right vision!

So I guess for me its.. dare to dream and see your dream being constructed in front of your eyes into reality with nothing but your faith.