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Saturday, May 13, 2006

Notes to self

I. Research:
1) Publish Publish Publish
2) Finish experiments, Finish thesis, Finish student life
3) GRADUATE GRADUATE GRADUATE

II. Bachelorhood:
1) Beware Watch out Don't Fall again
2) Beware Watch out Don't Fall again
3) Beware Watch out Don't Fall again
4) Let parents find a girl, meanwhile don't think about it
5) Beware Watch out Don't Fall again

III. Poetry
1) Write write write
2) Rewrite rewrite rewrite
3) Paint all the pages blue,
use less words, emotions true
4) Punctuate, paraphrase, and kill those bloody, vicious, useless, bulky, unneeded, wasted, descriptive adverbs and adjectives.
5) Rephrase: kill adjectives and adverbs.

IV. Novel
1) Read less write more
2) Think less write more
3) Read what you write more
4) Your prose need not have rhyming sentences.

V. Friends
1) To a friends house, road is never long
2) The more the merrier
3) Girls are girls.
4) All men are equal, but some are more equal than others. Each one is not worth his weight in gold (else fat ones will profit), but each one is priceless.
5) All women are equal, but some are just more fat, or more talkative or more irritating or more pleasing than the others. Each comes with baggage, and unless the baggage has same name as you, RUN. Else RUN FASTER.

Essence:
1) Publish publish publish
2) Guard bachelorhood
3) Read less write more
4) GRADUATE GRADUATE GRADUATE

5 comments:

rubypint said...

Good read :)
I liked this line:
"All women are equal, but some are just more fat, or more talkative or more irritating or more pleasing than the others. Each comes with baggage, and unless the baggage has same name as you, RUN. Else RUN FASTER"

PS said...

Dude, your girl-obsession reminds me of my days in college :)

I read somewhere that a man's life has phases of singlemindedness
Phase A: play play play
Phase B: sex sex sex
Phase C: money money money

But cheer up. These days, there is virtual solace at hand - you can have a temporary digital consort in a fantasy world like secondlife or something, maybe? Those come with no strings attached, you know, and may help you in your struggle to stay grounded in brahmacharyashram.
FYI (some tech developments that I have been keeping tabs on) -
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,69367-0.html
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,67378-0.html

Harper Cohort Chicago GSB said...

Bhai, you forgot all about the yoga:

Breathe Breathe Breathe.
Stretch Stretch Stretch
Om Om Om

:-)

Good snapshot of what life is looking like for you right now:-)

rubypint said...

Amit's comment reminds me of a joke/pj(if you want to call it):

How does a Sadhu resist women?
By saying Ohm Ohm Ohm

Vivek Sharma said...

Thanks guys for wishes:)

I hope to finish my PhD. After five years in graduate school (with two MS garnered in the meanwhile), and overall more than two decades of schooling, I demand a release from my studenthood.