3 days of pause and 2 stories to tell

its not often that somedays mean something. Its not often that someone inspires you so much that you think of what you're currently doing.

Today, was one such non-often day. And so was yesterday and the day before just that i didnt realize it.

on 11th i have my exam , exam? not really .. more like exams! 2 of them to be precise but here i am, so bloody happy and writing this experience of mine when some peoples will argue that i should just shut the laptop and go study, Meh. Buzz off (those) peoples.

It all started off with a requirement. Like anything else, like any software program, like any thing that requires some work. The requirement was a video that had to be made. For a promotional purpose. And i, was chosen to be the lead and being frank, at first i wasn't very excited.

And in came 'someone' and his team. For all intents and purposes, let us just call him - Mr. M. He prposed an idea that took me aback and that 'first-not-being-excited' me was completely replaced by 'second-excited-and-nothing-more' me. For security reasons (i never thought that i'd ever say stuff like this :P) i cannot disclose the video or the idea.

But what i'm going to tell you is more that just about a video or an idea. Its what they call a 'life story'

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Before that. In codetalk, you saw a passion of mine. There is one more that i haven't spoken about - Media - Photography, videography, graphic designing and things on those same lines. Now i'm saying all this so easily because the 'life story' is something that makes all these passions of mine smaller than ever.

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Coming back. 3 days of shooting with Mr. M, as awesome as they were wasn't even as close to awesome as those 20 minutes in the luxury of the Honda Civic. He runs a video production company in Bangalore and is one of the most successful corporate film makers and in my view, is just plain vanilla awesome!

With him, he had 2 stories to tell me . And i, was just rethinking everything by the time he finished. I hope it is not copyright problems Mr. M but i am going to tell them these 2 stories.

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Story #1

How dedicated do you think you are ? How much do you BELIEVE you can achieve ? How much do you think you've already achieved ? How much do you think that you've achieved that you're proud of . If you're reading this, then the answer to all those questions is - NOTHING.

Mr. M has had this company for over 20 odd years and 10 years ago , along came a night watchman from an agency . Regular old night watchman putting pegs, chasing dogs, knowing no englist, going to sleep.

But 10 years later today . He stands to be the backbone of Mr. M's company.
And 10 years later today . He was appraised by his boss as "It would fall without him ya"
And 10 years later today . He was dedicated enough 10 years ago to bother as to what was happening inside the place he was watchman-ing and not just care about the night.
And 10 years later today . He can converse with the clients in pure english and handle things by himself.
And 10 years later today . A man who used to probably walk/bus in to work, has bought himself a bike that he can use.
And 10 years later today . An ex-night-watchman, nay a professional video editor takes care of his brothers studies and has got his sister married.

And i ask you once again 10 seconds after you've read all that

"have you done anything that is significant?"

think about it.

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Story #2

He started off with a video library renting out tapes that he went up to Delhi to buy.

He moved in to videographing birthdays and weddings

He started off a little by little and moved into the professional way of doing things

He has done linear editing with 2 tape reels and editing MANUALLY.

He has done graphics with "4" colours, yes not 4k or 4B or 4M colours , just FOUR.

He is one of the most renounced corporate film makers now.

He was with me for the past 3 days.

He is Mr. M

There is no limit to what i learnt over these 3 days . There is no limit to what i will be learning more from you .

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I'm afraid i have to say that he tipped my interests 51% to 49% in favour of Media over Programming.

Lets see if that still stays by me or someone else comes by me to make that a 50% 50% like how it was till the civic ride.

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I'd just like to say Kudos to you Mr. M and thanks for everything.

It was a pleasure shooting with you and learning from you .

Mr. M, i salute thy !

m(_ _)m

Codetalk

if there is 1 thing i havent written about in here .

it is the 1 thing that i love doing the most.

it is the 1 thing that i've neglected

simply because i know i'm really good at it.

simply because we're obstructed by boundaries

simply because i have no whiteboard

i write this at 1:30 . at one of the most productive times in my day . at one of the most productive times in our day.

our ?

well , theres one other person that i expect to read this post. theres one other person who is as passionate as i am. and yes i've only seen one other person.

theres a passion we share.
theres a light that burns somewhere.
theres a place we need to get to
and that place is yet to be seen too.

but get there we will
simply because we know we will
and fuck you all we say
because we know that we'll stay

we live in different place
we live in different companies
and we do different things

but somehow it seems as if there is this 1 thing that we were meant to do together

but lets keep that talk for another day.

if there is 1 thing i havent written about in here .

means that i treasure that thing the most .

but something today made me to write it .. and i think i'm gona come out and say it ..

Many people , many readers of this post might at this point of time think that i'm jsut another guy who lives his life.

but i beg to differ.

i am not just another guy
i just act like one.

simply because it aint time to tell you all who i am .
and the other part of 'our' know who i truly am .

why you may say ?

Many people, many readers of this post might at this point of time think that he is just another guy who lives his life.

but he begs to differ

he is not just another guy.
he just acts like one.

thats why i say .

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i dont know how far before. But there was one point of time that among the people i respect , my dad showed me this line of code. This programming language that seemed to interest me .

This #
this includes
and this main()

something there .. was my calling .

something there .. was my life.

something there .. made me who i am today .

i dont really know what i saw in that but the amount of things you can do with those predefined set of statements is something truly amazing .

But there are restrictions - the boundaries we cant jump over.

we're forced into 1 way .
we're forced into a way that they claim has been perfected.
we're forced into 3d id cards
and we're forced into bad interfaces .

we already know who we're talking about.

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What is so confusing in this ? My dad asked .

I said . "This functions aint even getting in to my head!"

today ,

its what i use the most .

Modularization is one of my most favourite concepts.

oh hell ya . code

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I'm not sure when you got this nac of yours from

maybe its from getting the 10 Rupees and telling your dad that if there is less that 3 Rs left over , its yours .. else it'll be given back to him

today ,

thats still what you do .

Make deals

oh hell ya . Talk.

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Encryption , cryptography and writing something thats really hard to understand have always fascinated me ..

Hell even this post is cryptographic .

But who needs to .. will know what i mean and will know whats going in mah head right now.

darn it .

i so wish i had 9840024961 and a whiteboard. an actual one.

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screw them
screw them

we'll walk alone

and i'm sure more'll join

i'm sure that there are people who think like us . who act like us simply cause society has put hurdles on their paths too.

lets break em open.

lets talk them out of it .

or lets GOTO them to a different place.

lets start at 0

lets go to qswawdes.

maybe not now .

because now is still too early for us to GOTO and to talk .

lets start slow .

lets start patiently .

but let it be us.

like i already said

we is who we were meant to be.

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what do you say?

nevermind_a ?

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

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Thats the reason for changing back to this super simplistic template ^^

till a find a better, more functional one - I'm sticking to this ^^

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peace for now :D

A tribute to an old pal

I'd love to ask everyone who is reading this post to go over here and read the whole thing. I dunno why but something in that post just spoke to me.

There have been times when i have gone thro such days, weeks and sometimes (i ain't exaggerating) even months. But i'm proud to say i've always come out of it and maybe i always had that auto driver in my head to tell me to see the silver lining.

That blog btw is written by my friend Deepti :) and from that post itself, everyone and i can truly say - "She is one heck of a writer" :D

Love your blog Dee :)

Ps: what happened to that post ? :P

Ooh and super Ps: just felt like making something after i read that post, so decided i'd make you a new banner for your blog ^^ use it if it touches your heart ! :D If you want any changes, do ask me ^^ (click on it to enlarge)



Have fun :D

final Ps: ok i'll stop with this :P , know that there is always a Silver Lining :)

Someone's Looking new :P

Hey guys !

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Gmail you've helped me so much and i'll never ever forget you

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Just another thing #1

People form a very important part of our lives. Never forget who stood by you when there was no body for you. Never forget those who did you a favor, small or big, they still did something for you. Never forget to be by people when they need you because, utimately it doesn't matter if you say something or not to them. Its the fact that you were there with them when they needed you.

To the person who stood by me when i needed someone. To the people who are with me now when i need them. To the people who have lit a fire in me to move on , to believe in myself and to be myself but most importantly, to the person who will be with me forever -

I will never forget you.

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