INR 5 Million

I had been considering, for the past few years, about buying a house. Not just any house - but, that house, that specific one which I have had in my mind.

Anyway I had been thinking about it. While I was in the library, yesterday, I thought that perhaps I should my first move. Today, I spoke with one of the owners of this house and he is fine with it. At the moment, that house is not for sale, but when it will be (which I am sure, will be within less than 5 years), I will be one of the potential buyers.

And the rough estimate stands at 50 lakhs. WOW!

Till date, I have never paid much attention to money - I knew, it comes and goes. But I have made sure that the money worked for me before it left me. I also have been boasting that money is one of the easiest things to make - if you have skill and will.

Life is beautiful, right? It takes you to/through different situations and makes you speed up or slow down the things you do; It changes the way you think, turns your concepts upside down; etc. In my case, my life is making things clearer and clearer in my mind. And this decision (about house) is one of such things which got cleared and I am stepping up to act.

It's a house, kind of farm house, surrounded by large, green compounds and it is by the side of a river. It's an old house, with black-cement/red-cement/tiled floor , wooden roof, poomukam and what not!

And what would I do with that house? To put it simple: whatever I would be doing in future, I'll take sabbaticals and go there to write the books which I would be doing during the sabbatical. Of course, my children would come with me too. hmm..... I'll not force her, but she will choose to join me :) [what a confidence! :)]

That's all for now! I searched for a picture of that house and couldn't find it. I have it somewhere in the hard-disk which fell down yesterday :( - 'll show you later.

That's all for now. Signing off, Sands.

PS1: Update on life. If you consider the saying "A diamond is nothing but a piece of coal which did well under-pressure", I am turning to a diamond very fast. Had a decent experience of tearing off a part of my heart - last week. No more details. [song for the moment - Pinneyum Pinneyum Aaro Kinavinte :) ]

PS2: Today is my birthday. The best one till date. :)

Make me alive again?

My grandma used to say that, for monkeys, all types of fruits taste sweet; and that every type of leaves taste good for  goats too.

I was talking about my food habits to a friend of mine. My wife would be really lucky - I'll eat everything she cooks, without any complaints. Because, everything tastes good to me. At least, there is nothing which tastes bad. Some things like "Leberkäse" and "Speck" which are a little too salty though.

As I child, I had problems with many many vegetables - quite a number of them.

Once, while having "puttu", I'd eat "puttu" only with sugar and "kadala" was allergic to me - or at least I thought so. My father, against his usual "no-compulsion(leave him free)" tactics, forced me to try kadala and of course I resisted.

Finally he said - "if you die because of eating this, I'll make you alive again".

Well, that time I was small boy and nice too (unlike now). I used to obey :)

And surprisingly, the kadala didn't kill me and I have liked it ever since. Smile :)

Now tell me, considering the first paragraph, which category should I belong to? ;)

Signing off, Sands.

PS: Slept enough after a few days of lack-of-sleep. The sunny Sunday is asking me for a date :) - I'll take a walk to Isar, the river flowing just half a km from my home.

Beautiful Nights and Miracles!

Aren't night outs wonderful? I might have written this earlier - that I love to receive the morning, after waiting for it all through the night.

It's 7 degrees below zero outside.. but I am going to go out. As I wrote in the previous posts, lately, I am in the best of my moods. And I am thrilled about going out now. While I will be out, sun will rise..., then I'll go straight to my office - start my day!

Even when I wrote about unleashing myself, it is not yet fully functional. But I can really feel it coming...

Was thinking of a nice thing... we four friends - Dinil, EP, Sam and Myself -- We were together at IIT. Now all four of us are pursuing PhD in computer-science. That too in neighboring countries - France, Netherlands, Switzerland and Germany respectively. Can we call this a coincidence?

Apparently, I am the the laziest, most outgoing, most extravert, craziest and the youngest of all - but the senior most! :). 

But with PhD, may be I am the slowest. With all these superlative adjectives, can you call me an extremist!?

|--- a small question -- and how/why? ---|

Now, do you believe in telepathy? or in Miracles? Actually I don't. I have had experiences, when I and my mother spoke the same thing same time.

But with some one else .... that too, too many times! THE SAME THING at THE SAME TIME - both of us say, think - truly amazing. I still don't believe in miracles.. but then I don't know how to explain this experience.

Hey, I should be going out now. Let me get my thermal wear, pull-over and jacket. And of course muffler too.

Signing off, Sands.

PS: My grandma would be glad to know that I didn't sleep all through Shivarathri (or is it applicable only to unmarried young ladies?).

UPDATED LATER: By the time I reached university after that walk and taking some snaps with my mobile, there was not even an inch of my body - which was not frozen. I shouldn't have kept my mantel in the cellar, I should have known - where are my gloves hiding! But as a whole, it was a terrific morning - I enjoyed a lot.

Yes I am doing it.... Unleashing!

The song for the moment - Kannetha Dhoore Marutheeram....  [Thazhvaaram]

Yes, I am unleashing myself. I am starting a new phase of my life now - lot of new things - lot of new thoughts - new energy. I am getting the changes I needed badly. I am in terrific mood - excited, energetic, euphoric, enthusiastic - and what not!

My dear readers (?) might wonder - what on earth is happening with me. I just moved to a new place and lot of things happened in my life - which require me to re-think lot of stuff.

There are only three things I have with me which I am going to invest - to reap a lot of benefits. My capital investment:

my brain, will and time.

Now, what do I want? There are mainly two things which really turn me on - intelligence, and knowledge. I cannot get the first one, but I can make lot of knowledge - as much as I want. And I am going to do exactly the same. Wouldn't it be nice if I list them out?

1. Mathematics - I need in depth knowledge - real deep knowledge - just learn lot of it. Probability - which I need; Algebra - very much; Number theory - necessary; And all the interesting stuff.

2. Latin or Spanish: Latin could help me understand the not-so-friendly words in different texts. Spanish would be useful when I make a trip to South-America - sometime

3. Read a lot - which I am doing quite well now itself.

4. Violin - Restart practice, I just need someone to help me with reading the notations - then I can use Suzuki-Method of learning

5. Scheme/LISP - in depth - for the horror of it.

6. Salsa - I don't know why! I just want to.

7. Learn to play pool/billiards/table-football well. Yeah, the last one, I am an average+ player though.

8. Painting professionally - (want to do some nude paintings too) [FEYN1]

9. Lock picking - doesn't it sound sexy? [FEYN1]

Of course, I am not planning to do all of them simultaneously. Maximum of two/three things at any given time and the first one is there always.

So, now hereby I declare that I have unleashed the beast - to the new phase. Will keep you posted.

[FEYN1] - "Surely you are joking, Mr. Feynman" - wonderful book.

signing off, Sands.

PS: And dude, welcome back, I still believe that life is multidimensional. But I am definitely keeping it as straight and focused as possible - but not at the cost of living! [I know, you understand this - and I will take my time out like you - when that time arrives]