Here comes the sun... err... umm.. no... the next 10

Be sure that there will be one person who doesn't cry at your wake and that be you.

Beliefs should be like wine glasses. They should be kept clean, protected, cherished and handed down as family heirlooms. But when the right wine and the right moment comes along, they should be consigned to the flames of the hearth in celebration of newly found ones.

I am the result of 3 billion lines of code.
P.S. Send all bug reports to God!

I refuse to be part of a movement. I wish to be the movement.

It doesn't matter how you got here. What matters is what your next step is going to be. What you choose it to be is going to define where you go from here.

It's not about the half full glass mate... It is about the whole beer fridge.

Just because I am not famous doesn't mean I don't have a story to tell.

People want others to believe that their values are constants. But they actually declare them as variables.

Space is the final solution to wars. Why? Because annoying neighbors are less of a concern for someone who has the ability to vacation in a foreign land.

There is a fine line between being naive and being delusional. I think I am on the right side of it.

Past 200...

Most people know that I go by the name True Realist. Very few know that my middle name is "Cynic and Bitter"

Such is the beauty of ideas and research, that tend to materialize at the most inopportune times, when all that may be at hand is toilet paper.

The most dangerous secrets that we have are the ones we keep from ourselves.

There are ways and then there are ways. It is not about the ways we choose but rather the ways we don't.

The light at the end of the tunnel is just a decoy. The hidden sycthe is what's meant for you.

There are stereotypes and then there are stereotypes. The one stereotype that has never failed me is that most humans, by themselves, are jerks.

We wear masks because all of us are afraid of mirrors...

Whoever suggested that when going through hell the best option is to keep going, clearly never heard about U-turns!

Copernicus proved centuries ago that the Earth is not the center of the Universe, much less so is an insignificantly minute entity residing on it. And by that, I meant you,

I swam through a sea of perfumed revelry, of sweet nothings, of happy endings & new beginnings, of gay abandon without the worry for tomorrow. I emerged onto the sands of my penance, arid & hot, blown not by a gentle breeze but that of the hot breath of fleeting time. I touch my brow, to wipe off an odd droplet, find none has clung to me and only chance upon a stoic realization, "Wow! God really made me water-proof!"

In a moment of astounding clarity, I dawned upon a question. What if the soul was still matter, just not bound by the Higgs field? The Higgs field is what makes matter as we know it, unyielding and unwilling to share the same space. If the soul was the matter free of the Higgs field, it could traverse anything and everything at the speed of light or maybe more? And that makes the ancient wisdom talking about freeing oneself of the materialistic plane of existence a lot more sensible. It asks the soul to be able to free itself, not unto death, from the matter that binds it within the body and thence explore a whole new universe of possibilities that lie beyond it.

The unnoticed 200...

24 February 2010 was a landmark date in history of cricket. The most famous man of modern day cricket (Bradman was from a prior generation) had entered his name in the annals of history by notching up 200 runs in an ODI. Tributes and praises flowed like a flooded river on a rainy day. A few days later, something else happened too. Something that started out on 19 January 2007 and finally reached a similar numerical mark on the 9 March 2010. So while no one will quote that it took 1145 days to get there and while it didn’t garner so much attention, here it is anyways...

The 15 that bring me to my 200^th quote:

A little fantasy is necessary for the sanity within reality. The trick is to know where to draw the line.

Edison is known less for the 2000 failed experiments with the light bulb than he is for the 1800+ patents he filed. Bottom-line is, it is ok to fail only if you eventually succeed.

Education doesn't teach us how to deal with the harsh realities of life. When faced with these, it teaches us that we ourselves are to be blamed.

I don't want to believe in life after death because I don't want to see God standing at the end of the white light with a smirk on his face that says, "You got it all wrong!"

I like real women. Unfortunately all the ones I've met so far are complex.

If you hit rock-bottom hard enough, you might just get lodged there.

It is never the end of the world, except unless it is actually the end of the world.

I've got all the trappings of a genius, except maybe the intellect.

Just because it has been all bad so far, do you think everything's gonna turn round and become positive? What do you think life is? An integer?

My pet peeve about smart-phones is that they fool some of their users into believing that having one makes them smarter.

Some describe a lifetime in a sentence. Others describe lifetime as a sentence. I wish to do neither.

The colour of an object is the one which the object rejects and reflects out. Even in nature you are best known by what you don't do.

The necessary conditions for saving the earth are that the process is either fashionable or economically profitable to do so.

What we are, is the sum total of all the hurts we've received.

When the grapes are sour, get into the vinegar business!

You cannot change the world. You can only change the world.

The first 10 for 2010

Being your own doctor is about knowing when to self-medicate on alcohol.

Fashion is not about beauty. It is about ugliness. For beautiful is perfect and doesn't need to be changed. Fashion on the other hand, needs to be changed every now and then.

I know the horizon is not real. Yet I chase it so that one day I'll be able to run fast enough to get past it!

I won't ask why it rains on me though I do want to know where I can find my umbrella.

It's unbelievable as to how people hope that the new year is going to be wonderful and great whilst they have just seen its predecessor beat all records of crappiness.

Never say no to an offer that will never be made!

Relationships are easy. Just like 5th grade maths. The only problem is that most of us aren't past the 2nd grade.

The easiest way to a man's heart is through is stomach because it is ridiculously hard to cut through the ribcage!

The trick behind being intelligent is about knowing when to be stupid.

Going beyond the obvious at times just requires a good look at the obvious itself.

The new 10

These ones are here because someone pinged me and reminded me that I had not posted new ones for quite a while. So with a thanks to the follower, here goes:

If you want to run away from everything, then you gotta run towards nothing!

Adversity is God's way of telling you that having something is not a right but only an earned privilege.

Does someone continually pin-pricked by grief deserve it any more than someone shot point blank by it?

Evil thoughts need no welcome mats, good ones though demand a red carpet!

Give me the courage to speak up when speaking matters the most, the smartness to shut up when silence is what matters, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

If you are only as smart as the company you keep, then would it make Einstein dumber or his peers smarter?

Love is like a living velociraptor: despite your movie-fueled lifelong neurotic obsession, unlikely to be found in your environment even if you are at the Disney World's Jurassic Park ride.

There is always a great year ahead of you, just that it shifts ahead by a day everyday!

What do you do when you know that doing something is not going to make you happy and yet not doing it is also not going to make you happy.

When you think, "Am I the only one?" there are at least 1 billion people thinking just the same as you... creepily at the very same moment! http://www.xkcd.com/610/

10 in 5 months...

Blessed are those who only see one side of the truth. It leaves them with very little to contend within.

Calling you honey is not a term of endearment. It is my way of calling you the excrement of an insect!

Just because you don't fit in doesn't mean you were meant to stand out.

My doc wants me to stay off anything sweet, even sweet dreams.

Reading a book is like getting a tattoo, even if you hate it later, it still identifies you as who you are.

Some times the best thing to do is nothing at all. Knowing those times is the only thing I need to learn.

The only advantage of bullshit is that as it matures, it becomes manure!

The only reason, why I tread an oft trodden path, is because its harder to see the trail of destruction I leave behind!

The reason why reality always wins over illusions is because it pretty much well lasts longer.

The world accepts genius with the same enthusiasm as a 110V bulb accepts being plugged into a 220V source.

Any interaction with me always involves a little bit of Google. It is when I'm doing the Googling, that I enjoy the conversation more than usual.

Because there are no happy endings, just an illusion of the ones which were and the ones which were not.

Bugs are immortal. Programmers unfortunately, arent.

Definitive proof that 136 is less than 36: A pair of 36Ds dangling in front of a IQ: 136...

God probably invented the Devil to hide the fact that life is an autocratic regime!

I reject the concept of religion because it fails to separate faith in God from fear of God.

It is amazing to see how complicated lives people live. I find it hard just to handle the lite version of life itself.

No matter how much you say you are right and I ain't, I know this is the way up and you are standing on your head.

Not all adhesives can hold up against the vagaries of nature and the vagaries of destiny alike.

The mathematics of life doesn't care about the divisor or the quotient, only the remainder

The only thing standing between me and a billion dollars is an idea!

Your manager is like a hot air balloon. Stoke him well, he'll take you to dizzying heights as an underling. But don't forget, you are ballast, the first to be cut when he starts sinking.

The new batch

The time people take to warm up to me is exceeded only by the it takes me to warm up to them.

I live life on Absolut terms. One part Absolut and three parts water!

I am ready to take life as it comes, but it seems life doesn't want to take me as I come.

You cannot get to the unimaginable technology of the future without imagining it today!

I dont know about your purpose on earth, but I guess mine is just to make up the numbers.

Addiction to substances is best prevented by addiction to the stuff that buys the substances!

Plants remove the nasty CO2 from air. Animals eat plants. Non-vegeterians eat animals. Vegeterians eat plants. Pray tell me who are the better environmentalists?

Whenever a girl says she's looking for character, I hand her a keyboard and leave her to find it herself.

I don't have the answer to every question. Guess God knows I am not Google.

The biggest lie taught by our society is that the good always triumphs. More often than not, it ends up with visitation rights to triumph.

Betwixt a job and a book...

As long as there is land and man to walk upon it, there will be strife to possess it.

Awe and genuine surprise are essential for vitality. If nothing amazes you, you are all but dead.

Every nation can sling something at its enemy.That 'something' being muck or missiles determines the efficacy of its message and intent.

Everyone has a right to be a jerk. Its the ones, who make it their duty, I dislike

Her love for me was a benign growth easily plucked out. Too bad mine for her metastasized.

I code, therefore I am... programmer!

I've learnt nothing from life because I never learned how to learn from life.

Life so far: All gall no glory

Stressed spelled backward is desserts. When combined, they annihilate each other in a burst of
pure happiness!

The greatest human weakness is that we can be convinced too easily to kill or be killed for the flimsiest cause.

The only complaint against the computer age is that it removes the simple age old distinction of black and white, the bad and good, turning it into a 24-bit grayscale with 8 bits of transparency.

What's wrong with the world? Its spinning... How do you expect humans to think straight with all that spinning...

You are like a single malt whiskey, classy, smooth and unique. I guess God just wants to play the master blender with us here :-)

Your love is like a breeze of fresh air. Too bad, my gills can't stand it.

The dozen that took a 100 days (almost)

Tolerance is a virtue when exercised in moderation.

Howz life? Like an electron between the 's' and 'p' shells.

Life is a one way street with a dead end!

Every great man has failed once. But it is not a sufficient condition for greatness.

Life of a corporate... tottering 1,2,3... a perfect 10 and then chapter 11!
(on Lehmann's collapse)

She found happiness in the 'e'.. guess she was the true mathematician!

The stock exchange of life rates me as a sleeper scrip...

I agree that everything science tells us is wrong. But I strongly disagree that it can be attributed to the current concept of god.

The problem with today's world is that there is too little incentive to be good and too few consequences of being bad.

God may be in the business of running the Universe. But I'm willing to bet he's not into quality control.

So... is it time to buy guns, gold, bullets, canned food and water? Maybe not... but surely go lookup the places where you can buy those in a hurry!
(on the current financial crisis)

I am involved in a big study on the effects of exercise... I am the control group!

Existing if not alive...

With time being dedicated to my next book coupled by a crappy net connection, there have been very few updates... to make it to ten... so here they are:

Hope floats. But it makes a really lousy lifejacket

I excel at perfect imperfection.

Work, to me, is like an insanely beautiful woman. No matter how much I am tired, I can still do them.

Tolerance is a virtue only when exercised in moderation.

Most of the world's problems just need a little Google

Life is, at most times, a Potemkin village.

I don't mind people telling me that something better is in store for me. What I do mind is them not telling me which store it is in!

God has something better in store for me and I can't help imagine that he's probably searching for the keys to it.

Are you sure that language is supposed to simplify communication? With 555,000 words in English and 40,000 characters in Chinese, I think the objective of languages is to confound and not to communicate.

Can a hypochondriac claim to have hypochondria?

Man, I am so hungry that if you threw a horse past me, not even its tail would make it across!

p.s. In case you noticed... yes, second book... the first one could see the light of the published day someday... maybe not today...

A quicker run upto these 10...

How's life shaping up? Like an amoeba!

Ego? I have a ton of it. But since it weighs a ton, I mostly leave it at home.

Don't mind it if this doesn't sound acerbic enough. My sarcasm cartridge is running low on toner.

What would I ask if I was face to face with God? I'd ask for a refund!

I hate the present... the past coz it has been present and the future coz it is going to be present ...

Whoever said I need chicken soup for the soul? I'll settle for chocolate!

Work is like shit. It always pays to dispose it off quickly.

What remains when one dies? With the vessel of his existence returned to the elements, the sum total of all his interactions with those around him is all that remains ingrained in multitudes of memories. Like a grain of sand in the oyster, a pained presence blessed by fortune that lingers on to become a pearl, a gem to be gazed upon and passed down the generations, each adding a veneer of myth till it no longer resembles the original self. Yet again just a grain of sand, more oft than not forgotten, amongst the innumerable grains that the crumbling rock of life gives up against relentless sea of time.

My grip on reality is tenous, more oft than not almost non-existent

It's not about who will cry when you die... but who will smile while you live.

As if it matters...

Lotsa crap going around... that I lost track of time...

so here's the new set albiet only after nearly 3 months:

I learn from my bad experinces only. I don't expect others to make the right mistakes!

Believing in miracles is like believing that God bets on you while cheating at dice.

I'd run the Marathon... if only they were to drop the 'k' out of it.

Relativity is not about how fast time flies. It is about how fast the mind sees it fly.

I dont rely on hope... I rely on the mathematical equivalent of it... probability!

I am not entirely faithful to reality. I sleep with dreams almost every other night!

Happiness has a very very short half-life

Instincts? If I were to live by those, I'd have become extinct long ago!

The equation of life, differentiated time and again, has no constants. So my friend, lets try and integrate!

Albert Einstein came up with the famous equation: E=mc^2 while he was working as a patent office clerk. That means he was slacking off at his real job. Seems like there's a lesson to be learnt in this.

I ponder the philosophy of a single drop whilst the ocean of knowledge passes me by…

Gets better...

Less than 1.5 months to create 22 quotes... that's pretty good...
Here's the 10 unrelated ones...

God created man... Then he created woman... after that they could never stop debugging the code…

Good times don't last. Neither do good people.

I never claim that I am the good guy. I know that I am just different.

If artificial means man-made, then isn't every man artificial?

Law of Averages states that if you have had a good morning, the rest of the day will be crappy.

Life is a democracy. Not everyone, who gets elected, is the right choice.

They say love is blind and then they expect you to fall in love at first sight?

Men are from Mars, women are from Venus... and they should never have come to Earth!

Never mess with a man holding a knife. Especially if he's your surgeon!

People battered by life tend to become better or bitter. The latter more often than not.

The longest yard yet...

Almost two months for 10 more lines... this is getting really bad.

I err, I fail, I fall behind... Maybe it is alright... In the end, we all cross the finish line.

Life's not a bed of roses. It is more like..."here's the soil, here's the showel and here are the seeds... now get working!"

Life.... shouldnt be rocket science!

Dream big, achieve bigger, settle for only the biggest!

Epiphanies are God's way of playing shrink with you!

I'll have Life... Shaken not stirred!

The destination is gonna be pretty disappointing... so make the most of the journey!

There is no such thing as a soulmate. It is just a marketing gimmick.

Things always go your way... it's just that at times they go faster than you!

The sun is always rising somewhere in the world... that means there is some lousy bum hammering the snooze button on his alarm clock right now...

Writer's block

That's what I've been going thru... With nothing worthwhile penned for almost 2 months... this is the longest it has been... Here's the latest 10... (last one is not original)

I always thought that there was something out there trying to get me... They just found a name for it... It is called delusion

I was having a good day till the 'd' dropped out of it!

I start every day with a ‘g’ and a ‘d’, but it takes you to make it a good day!

Living life in the "what else" clause...

An eye in the land of the blind is a disease

Ever felt for a mayfly born on a rainy day? No? Then you just experienced what God feels about you.

Life hits at 3600 secs/hour and not one gets away alive!

The brain is smart... by calling it 'matters of the heart'... it absolves itself of all the mess it creates...

Life in all its glory is just simulated reality

I am on a see-food diet these days... I see food and I eat it - Anon

The dirty dozen...

Why? Coz there are twelve of them this time...

Did you ever notice that when you are out with a pretty friend who is just a friend all you see around you are couples? It is like sitting in at a crowded bar and God, the bartender hands you a glass of milk!

Man, you are so dumb that you should do evolution a favor and desist!

Going by your gut's feeling is dangerous... That's the one that makes all the shit!

Clumsiness: A temporary state of behaviour induced by beautiful human objects at close proximity.
Corollary definition: Beauty: State of existence of certain humans (read feminine), the degree of which is directly proportional to the clumsiness of other humans around.

Incompetence: The general state of the world when you are having a really bad day.

The world is your oyster… Kinda sucks when you are allergic to shellfish.

I have a slim waist... it's just hiding behind the spare one I've got around it!

To know your shortcomings is knowledge... to live with them, is wisdom

Fear a man with no reason... for it is reason that spawns the fear of loss... absence of fear means there is nothing to lose... and a man with nothing to lose is the most dangerous of them all...

Someone once said that asking an author about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about a dog... But given the satisfaction of showering a well-meaning lamppost, make me a dog... er.. critic anyday!

Shakespeare said, "The journey ends when lovers meet"... it is then that you suddenly realize that your luggage got sent somewhere else and that you took the wrong train!

I am addicted to change… Can’t you see I am already getting the withdrawal symptoms!

The closet full of skeletons...

Life’s a closet full of skeletons. Just today I was digging through some documents to find a rebate form and this scrap of paper fell out. It was something that I had penned down a long time ago when the pastures over my head were lush and my heart had an occupant. I was wondering if these were noted from other sources (read plagiarized if I were to put them up here) and so I honestly googled for every single one of them. Not one turned up. Hence assuming that these are original…here they are…

My contribution to humanity? A lot of crap and this quotation!

I don’t know why people talk to me. Given an option I wouldn’t

I like quotations that are funny and humorous. The rest I can write myself anyday.

I know what Java is. I had it for breakfast once.

Disbelievers, by way of distraction, prevent religious believers from clubbing in each others’ heads.

It is not that I never met a girl to fall for. It is just that I never met a girl dumb enough to fall for me!

Save Petrol! So that someone else can waste it!

Only difference between a restaurant and a marriage is that you can’t say, “ I’ll have what he’s having!” in marriage.

Strong disagreement usually springs from inner agreement to the disagreeable opinion

Is it worth dying for? I don’t know. I have never died for anything before.

Why do people cheer at a lame man trying to run while they laugh at a fat man trying the same?

The most powerful people of their time? Historians, because they write the history.

I would admire your guts. Especially if they were laid out on an autopsy table.

Life is a funny bumper sticker on a car which you are too busy trying to overtake.

Humanity is too messed up an operation to be attributed to the divine entity called God.

I don’t mind you not laughing at my jokes. You need to have a level of IQ for that.

Another update... 10-Mar-07

Love is like Vindaloo curry. It takes the roof of your mouth off, it makes you cry in the morning. But when you see it on the other table in the evening, you say, “God I really miss curry!” -- This one is credited to the soap Dr. House MD... rest are original

I don’t need tears to cry because my tears are not for you to see.

The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do... Damn it people!!! Say that I can't do something!

Ideas are like shit... The noisiest splatters are easy to come by... but the real stinkers are the hardest and most painful to push out!

People don't like me and I don't like people... It is a pretty mutual understanding

Life's a box of chocolates... sometimes someone has already eaten through it...

Life's a well-written play... damn... someone forgot to send me my script...

Some more quotes

I ain't fat, I just burn food more efficiently!

Love me when I deserve the least for that is when I need it the most!

I don't despise vegetarians. Apart from not wanting my chicken biscuit, I've heard they make a good crunchy snack!

People often refer to knowing things like the back of their hand. Can anyone tell me how many hairs do they have on the third finger?

The mind unfettered by the chains of destiny that bind the body soars to the sky.
It is free and hence the feels not the bondage the chains provide.
But when it is not free, it still does not feel the shackles since it is dead already.

I avoid judging people. To weigh them against some utopian measure of virtue or quality is being unfair not to them but to oneself. The true judgment of a man is that he does not judge people but accepts them as they are. For in this acceptance of his, he has truly measured up to being human as he can be.

Relationships are like a house of cards. The bigger you build the easier it is for a zephyr to turn it to shambles.