Blog 073 - Read My Mind

It's past midnight but you can't sleep. Listening to the same song over and over again. 'Kafka on the Shore' and 'Read my Mind' sums up a lazy yet beautiful weekend :)

I never really gave up on
Breakin' out of this two-star town
I got the green light
I got a little fight
I'm gonna turn this thing around

Can you read my mind?
Can you read my mind?

The good old days, the honest man;
The restless heart, the Promised Land
A subtle kiss that no one sees;
A broken wrist and a big trapeze

Oh well I don't mind, if you don't mind
'Cause I don't shine if you don't shine
Before you go, can you read my mind?
-Read My Mind


"... Once the storm is over you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed
to survive. You won't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is
certain. When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in.
that's what this storm's all about."
-Kafka on the Shore

Blog 071 - Quarter-Life Crisis

I have have been reading this and re-reading this. Whosoever, wrote this, got it all so right.

Extract from Quarter-Life Crisis -

You are beginning to understand yourself and what you want and do not want. Your opinions have gotten stronger. You see what others are doing and find yourself judging a bit more than usual because suddenly you realize that you have certain boundaries in your life and add things to your list of what is acceptable and what is not. You are insecure and then secure. You laugh and cry with the greatest force of your life. You feel alone and scared and confused. Suddenly change is the enemy and you try and cling on to the past with dear life but soon realize that the past is drifting further and further away and there is nothing to do but stay where you are or move forward.

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Read the entire article over here.

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Blog 053 - 'Wrong Decision' - Paulo Coelho

Extract from Maria's Diary before she decides to risk a comfortable life to take a plunge into the unknown..

Wrong Decision

Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back where I came from because I didn’t have the courage to say ‘yes’ to life?


I made my first mistake when I was eleven years old, when that boy asked me if I could lend him a pencil; since then, I’ve realized that sometimes you get no second chance and that it’s best to accept the gifts the world offers you. Of course it’s risky, but is the risk any greater than the chance of the bus that took forty-eight hours to bring me here having an accident? If I must be faithful to someone or something, then I have, first of all, to be faithful to myself. If I’m looking for true love, I first have to get the mediocre loves out of my system. The little experience of life I’ve had has taught me that no one owns anything, that everything is an illusion - and that applies to material as well as spiritual things. Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever (as has happened often enough to me already) finally comes to realize that nothing really belongs to them.

And if nothing belongs to me, then there’s no point wasting my time looking after things that aren’t mine; it’s best to live as if today were the first (or last) day of my life.


Extract from Maria's diary, 'Eleven Minutes' - Paulo Coelho.

Blog 029 - The Problem with Programming

Bjarne Stroustrup, the inventor of the C++ programming language, defends his legacy and examines what's wrong with most software code. A two part interview on Tech Review

Read the interview at Tech Review.
Part 1 : The Problem with Programming
Link : http://www.techreview.com/InfoTech/17831/

Part 2 : More trouble with Programming
Link : http://www.techreview.com/InfoTech/17868/page1/