Meet my friend - Mansi

Mansi has been a class mate and a good friend  all four years. It would have been foolish of me not to introduce her to you, so here goes the intoduction -

First day in college was that
Every student wore the introduction hat,
standing in each class, they revealed their names,
Heard Mansi's intro, felt she is not meant for ordinary games.

What should I tell about her,
she's an intellect tank,
I agree anything I write about her would be too less,
and I submit before all readers, for a spank.

Though she's a nice and loving friend,
but keeps on pulling my leg without fear,
and its my turn now to reveal,
how things went with her over the past 4 years, year by year.

First year was about boring subjects,
Mansi seemed to be all a girl who used the pages of books to make paper jets,
but I was proved wrong once again,
when I found her to be a Mathematics power brain.

First year and the months passed by,
we bid 2 sets of professors a very good bye,
but instead of professors being in talks on air, it was her fancy,
her name was written ahead of me, as Gupta Mansi.

By the second year her exuberance was well known,
her giggly laugh and a smile like the first leaf of a plant freshly sown,
the aura she exuded is worth a mention,
she always lived her life to the max, believing life gave no pension.

Friends give gifts, she gave me a name,
all through the four years I have been known as Guchu,
smartness donated by her highness, hence I never afforded to be lame.

The third year dawned like a long career fair,
she was firm on her take, wanting to roll a Business chair,
making sure she had nothing in future for sadness to dye,
she started her entrance preps, it would be too less to term them as a mere try.

She has come out with flying colors,
has put on the IIM Bangalore Business rollers,
An Engineer by God's grace, she will also be now known,
after umpteen number of early show ends during exams, she has shown.

All said and done,
she is among the only ones,
those who are honest to themselves,
those who manage to get good grades, without messing much with bookshelves.

She is smart, she is beautiful,
her sense of humor adorable, never near being dull,
she's fast, always on a ferrari,
takes challenges as they come, never worrying about them apriori.
.
I am going to miss a precious friend,
specially when having true ones is out of trend,
Mansi, I assure you,
forgetting you would be a personal loss to 'Mou',
Lord, give her success in all walks of life, happiness in all times,
may she exemplify successful women, and becomes the soul of hundred such rhymes.

Catcha: ‘Mou’ is the latin for ‘Me’.

 

Gursharan, 14th June, 2006, New Delhi. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Life Demystified

Following is an excerpt from a talk between my mind and soul. Whenever these two talk, philosophy is spilled out. Here it is!

 

Its like water in the palm,

left open feels cool and calm,

childish of me to try to posess it forever,

tried to close the fist, forgetting it will seep and will stay there never.

 

Its like the beauty of the flower,

beauty filled in the air trying to defeat the beauty in the color, to get higher,

infantile of me, plucked it, desired to keep it with me,

it spread its fragrance only with its roots, as crafted by its Saviour – Thee .

 

Its like the play of a child,

described by innocence and steps that go wild,

childish of me to confine it in the discipline defined by emotion,

forgot that though small and frail , the child is an impression of  His execution.

 

Its like the river that flows swiftly,

supported by the mountains, holding them tightly,

infantile of me to ride on religion to take Ganges in a container,

for it was Ganges only with the stream and I remained as always, a mere complainer.

 

Life has always been beautiful,

only the emotion tank has been at times empty, half or full,

childish of me to measure life in terms of happiness and satisfaction it gave,

for it was meant to be cherished let free, allowed for its own ways to pave.

 

O Lord, Life seems to be Demystified,

the mist has cleared and nothing feels like sacrificed,

I have grown up to reality now,

childish was I, help me improve, make me undersand how?

 

Gursharan, 10th June, 2006.

 

 

 

Is it necessary?

Those who leave the ground, touch the sky,

to have ground beneath your feet, ask yourself, is it necessary ?

 

Flower beds blossom in wet and soft mud

 to stand like a Mountain, ask yourself, is it necessary?

 

Flowing waters make the future of land and soil fertile

to remain stagnant for nothing, ask yourself, is it necessary?

 

The mind and soul look beautiful in synch and rythm

but I seek a reason to rapture, asking myself, is it necessary?

 

I feared all my life for the thing that never happened

and when heart sails in the sea of emotions, even the moon frees those tides from its whip ,

but then I realized I was in the middle of the ocean, asking myself, was it necessary?

 

Who says everyone dies and so will I,

I am a flowing river, O’ Lord my sea, I shall mix and enter into You.

 

Gursharan, 9th June, 2006.

 

 

 

 

Thank you Thee

Life is fun, I realized it,

When on my way to Amritsar, the tyre got punctured,

and missing in the car was the toolkit.

 

The road was dark, the place secluded,

What I could only say was,

I am in a fix, six others included.

 

I waved to the few passing by

the situation was serious and futile was my try,

when suddenly an old man came,

and things were never the same.

 

In the blink of an eye,

he himself replaced the tire,

and in another moment,

vanished away like oil in fire.

 

I have been wondering since then,

who was “He”,

to help me reach His place safely,

was it THEE?

 

Gursharan, 6th June, 6:30 PM, on way to Amritsar from Ludhiana.

 

 

 

About me !

This is an “about me” I wrote at orkut. Enjoy!

 A lonely meteor in the sky,
in search of a sea to enter and pacify,
heard that 76% of earth is water,
still fearing to get the 24% of the dry.

Found a sea in one of those eyes,
happily changed the way in life and my flies,
thought that things would change for good,
but those eyes now seem to shoot me from the hood.

The pearls I termed them to be,
help me, I can't remember how I did it Thee,
leave apart the pearls, I can't breathe that air anymore,
but still I crave for the "thing" to come in galore.

This is about me that you should know,
meet me and let me have something to show,
a clean heart and wishes to the sky
and hey, please don't be another one coming in front, and time and again passing by.

Gursharan, 30th May 2006.

Thank you fans!

After my last two creations (wow that sounds like GOD, but I am not even a zarra), I have received so many messages about the goodness of those. I assure you I am still writing, but I can’t post all of them here, somehow, I don’t know why. It isn’t that I am into writing obscene content, those are also as pure, but, theres a but that I cant cut. Sorry mates. But I will make sure that I write more of open ones. Thanks.

Afraid of World?

Beauty is a bliss,

please understand dear miss,

you wouldn’t get serious admirers,

hold on, dont shoot so many firers.

 

When I look at you,

the heart even forgets to sink,

and if you give me a wink,

ahh…the world for me is just pints.

 

Appreciate and embrace the feeling,

please don’t do a silent killing,

or Thee shall punish you,

but that will again hurt ‘Mou’!

 

Oh C’mon dear,

they say, life goes on and it never ends,

eyes of stone observe the trends,

but I know from deep inside,

that theres also some light kindled at your side.

 

If its a toll to say,

remember, you must only park at your heart’s bay,

for life is too uncertain for even a minute to stay,

but in my heart, even after life, will be your say.

 

Discover your own self,

forget the left and right and those otherly uprights,

look into your own eyes, or for that matter mine,

and seize the Rythm Divine.

 

World has never understood the emotions,

who do you care for, have some might,

If you are afraid of the damn world,

tell me, I will be your knight.

 

Catcha: ‘Mou’ is the latin for “me”.

 Gursharan, 30 May, 2006, New Delhi.

 

The Urge Deep Inside

That smile revealing the pearls,

That look in the eyes, revealing the innocence and truth,

The aura and the perfume air failed to mitigate,

I can’t sense it anymore.

 

The everyday willinglness to say it,

those attemps to muster the courage,

Courage, you said why?

‘Coz the innocence they say is divine,

and the feeling of win by happily failing everytime,

I can’t have that willingness anymore.

 

The dawn and dusk sharing the untold  grief,

Wanting to have that heavenly look, anytime, even for a brief,

your sensing of my feeling and ignoring it,

and my believing in ignorance is bliss.

That feeling of ecstasy on spotting you,

that telling of stories of liking you,

being sleepless with stars as your replacement,

I can’t feel it anymore.

 

Lord! I have a deep urge inside,

to say it, at last,

to relieve my heart,

to pacify the tide of emotion,

to satiate the evokation.

 

But with so many can’t anymores and no mores,

I have been asking myself,

is she the same, or is it for a change?

Is it to help me to forget,

or is it high time for thy ownself to introspect?

 

Theres a deep urge inside,

even if she sits forever by my side,

Will I be able to savor the pride?

Pride is lost, the feelings sold at dirt-cost,

Was I a fool? 

But now, to empty the immense emotional pool, Theres a Deep Urge inside !

 

Gursharan, 29th May, 2006, New Delhi.

 

 

 

 

 

Einstein, the man, the philosopher...

I had only read in text Einstein’s idealogy, but now have got in his own ryhmic and philosophical form. Awesome, is the next word that comes out. You can also enjoy it at :

http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~cheshire/EinsteinQuotes.html

Cheers!

Live it, to the Max!

News on websites? They are as boring as they have always been. Information overflow & bad presentation have always hit the online news providers. Welcome to reality. The so very presentable and lovable, Max is here! Presents news in a way you would like to read. Also has an album  maker and a cool picture annotation tool.

Check out www.microsoft.com/max

 

Googlepages

This comes as the latest web stunt from Google. yourgmail.googlepages.com is ur own personal webspace thats easy to build, and fun to customize. Check it out.

Hey, check this out, the new Moto Q has been announced - doesnt this looks like the latest iPaq ?

-Gursharan

 

Longhorn Release

The next version of Microsoft Windows code named "Longhorn" beta1 is on its release trail now with the official name Windows Vista.

 Sounds cool eh!

was wondering why dun they give such cool names to windows CE? Like, Windows Robot System or the Windows ChipDeCarpeDiem !!

 

Check out the official naming ceremony at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/jul05/07-22LHMA.mspx

 

Enjoy!

Cool App

Was watching the CNBC Bill Gates talk. He foresees  Win CE / Mobile as a potential product from Microsoft in near time( by potential i mean something like XP). While watching him say about camera stuff on smartphones, a very smart idea for an app took birth. Imagine a web service that can give all the historical monument info by taking its picture as input. So you go to Statue of liberty, click its pic, process it locally( as can be given to the web service) and send it OTA. The web service in response to the pic sends back a whole book worth of info to you. Pretty cool Nah!

Think over it….

-Gursharan

 

Your stats

Check it out…..Works fine????

 

http://www.danasoft.com/sig/gurshi.jpg

 

INDIGO

Heard about it at the techEd. Came across nice tutorial in the WHIDBEY release notes. Indigo as MSDN says is the new standard for building and running connected systems. Like previous distributed technologies like web services, Remoting, MSMQ etc, it is a Service oriented programming model built on .NET framework. Will be available for Longohorn natively, and requires some SDKs( right?) for win XP and server 2003 development.

Sounds like next big thing!

-Gursharan

 

BillG - the STANDING man!

 This is BillG at the inaugral ceremony and the flag off dinner talking to the contestants at the WESC . His presence was for around 15 mins, and nobody dared to blink!!

 BillG briefing about the foray of Microsoft into embedded and the future of winCE. At back is Ivan Joseph, Product Manager, Academic, the great organizer of WESC and a wonderful guy to talk to….

Windows CE in Automobileeee

So, while reading Paul Yao’s( great guy to meet) master piece, I came across this info that windows CE is being presently used by Intermec, Psion Teklogix, Symbol Tech for board scanners. By Viewsonic, Philips and Silicon on displays and by BMW( with help from Siemens VDO), Citroen, Fiat, Mitsubishi, Subaru, Toyota and Volvo in AMobiles. Hope the VxW guy reads this!:-)

MS TechEd Over!

So the TechEd 2005 at New Delhi was over today with hands on sessions which were good. Ravi Soin from Microsoft Redmond was found to be the most active tutor! Was good. So, alls well that ends well is all what I can say right now (tired hell) . Next update soon !!

-Gursharan

 

Microsoft TechED 2005 great question

From past two days, I have been attending each track of the Mobile and Embedded devices group talks and in crux it was , Mind Boggling! The intensity with which Windows Mobile and CE is shooting ahead is tremendous. People from the globe were discussing how is Windows CE better than vox 330 or RTLinux. The guy giving talk on win CE was Asang Dani from Kanetkars insti in Nagpur – Dcube s/w I suppose.( former Dow Jones and Microsoft Employee). A VxW employee buckled him at the point that is Windows CE a Hard or a Soft RTOS and he was  like……. I took pleasure in clarifying and told him that Windows CE Automobile edition is on way now and is already being used by Lego robots…..Again he asked the same question. I wonder how smart employees VxW has. Its catastrophic for a Robot to have a soft RTOS !( Am I right? – comments appreciated)

 Visit for win CE Automobil http://www.winplanet.com/article/1153-.htm

 

-Gursharan