Last night I watched "Don't say a word" with Michael Douglas -- mediocre movie, not much a psychological pursuits, not a really good action (full of mistakes), not scary, not anything really. Michael Dougles (one of my favorites) had better times.

Wisdom of Rahul's CS professor:
"The most important thing in life is to watch out when you cross the street so the truck won't hit you; everything else is secondary."

The verdict is still out on what is the most important thing in life, but I will surely consider. The satement above definitely brings you to reality; those things that we consider so important just weren't.

Reclaiming Myself

Sometimes, I feel insignificant, as if I’ve become a shadow of who I once was. This moment, writing these words, is proof.

Where did that fire go?
The drive, the passion that once made me feel alive?
I look back and wonder—have I spent my days chasing someone else’s definition of success?
Trying to impress, conform, keep up—instead of just being myself?

I won’t find happiness in the expectations of others. That much is clear.

Resolution:

I want to escape the noise, reclaim the stillness, and remember what makes me me.

Marriage jokes and aphorisims

You have two choices in life: you can stay single
and be miserable, or get married and wish you were dead."

At the cocktail party, one woman said to another,
"Aren't you wearing your wedding ring on the wrong finger?"
The other women replied, "Yes I am, I married the wrong man."

A lady inserted an 'ad' in the classifieds: "Husband wanted".
Next day she received a hundred letters. They all said the
same thing: "You can have mine."

When a woman steals your husband, there is no better revenge
than to let her keep him.

Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The
rest cheat in Europe.

A woman is incomplete until she is married. Then she
is finished.

A little boy asked his father, "Daddy, how much does
it cost to get married?" And the father replied, "I don't
know son, I'm still paying."

Young son: Is it true Dad, that some parts of Africa
a man doesn't know his wife until he marries her? Dad: That
happens in every country, son.

Then there was a woman who said, "I never knew what
real happiness was until I got married; and by then it was
too late."

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

If you want your spouse to listen and pay strict attention to
every word you say, talk in your sleep.

Just think, if it weren't for marriage, men would go through
life thinking they had no faults at all.

You know the honeymoon is pretty much over when you start to
go out with the boys on Wednesday nights, and so does she.

First guy: "My wife's an angel!" Second guy: "You're lucky,
mine's still alive."

Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the
street with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they
are attractive to the opposite sex.

programming, managing and sales

Coding is a commodity; not unlike clueless managers, the only differences are that we have more of later around here, also, you cannot outsource wish writing to India.
Good programming, on the other hand, is a rarity, but our managers would not know this make-it-or-break-it difference. With the Internet-tech company where boss thinks the salesperson is an idol and programmer is an idiot, maybe in the near future the skills most in demand will be resume writing and interviewing, but isn't that sales after all?