Gates' Speech

11 rules your kids did not and will not learn in school

 

Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it!

Rule 2: The world doesn't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.

Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.

Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

Happy New Year

I always woke up a little late, not that i like it but it does happens unfortunately. Well its kind of a middle of month, and i am posting my New Year message. You see there are lot of things to get not doing what that should be and i agree to it heheh...
The dawn of the year didn't have bashing welcome but, a nice bath around midnight and tidy and neat home( i actually call it home; feel good at home in.hehe..), as the best ones are far away, i didn't celebrate it with pompous and trumpet along.

Well before anything its Pongal today and Happy Pongal to all.

So as i say i need a little more time to come back where i haven't been. I need to hold on till the next dawn and then i could say. 
Well the resolution, i will try to maximise time and minimise space. I will try to buy joy and spend money.
I actually don't have a lot of resolutions per se.

So thats it... heehe.... Happy New Year..

My Pride

Round and round, i go up and down,
Merry, little fairy, and a delight.
In whose crown i took my pride;
and all enemies i shook with smile.

The coward dies many times,
thought i still miss the ugly times.
Sweet are the grapes, from thin slender hands;
the more i felt as wary i am.
With bloods all around,
as stars they say "shall die, one day".

Moments of task, it spread
I bow'd in thee, head down.
Mystery it is, i ponder.
for peace, is none but all absurd.
You live and die for them to be.
I know the bitter, still i merry.

For its gone in once,
when all its shown.
And i retire in deep slumber
then shall i rise, for me and again.

To a Skylark

On a young summer sky,
Among woods and among trees,
When the journey never hath halt,
for a change, doth never open,
A sudden feeling maketh me surprise.

When mighty sun seems so pleasing,
A distant silver caught me blind,
as it smiles, doth on me.
As she hovers at noon sky,
makes me wonder, and a delight.

The days are deary and night so long,
for i ponder and i sought.
beside the fountain, and the hillock,
with silver shinings and velvet breast,
caught me wilder, i saw it again.

The land of fairies, and of lords;
the land of peoples, and of soul;
the fountain of love;
and the pleasure of soulmate;
And memories i harvest in thy land.

Thine eyes as clear as water;
and stillness o' the night;
With little foams dancing along rocks;
thy melody streches miles along.
for a hard man day and his night.

The beauty of life a wonder
In thy words, yet still unknown.
for i count in joy and balance
by virtue, and the beauty
for quest of the lesser known.

By brook and the foam
thy song so sweet and the still;
and oft in times amongst places,
thou if i hath ever known,
O wonder Thou art, the skylark.
 (contd)