Dussehra and Navratri and Fafda-Jalebi

Today is Dussehra the 10th and final day of 9 days festival called "Navratri". This festival is celebrated by different names in different parts of India. In East it's called "Puja" wherein people celebrate and worship the powers of "Devi" or "Durga" the female goddess in Hindu religion.

In Gujarat and neighbouring states the festival spans for nine days ooooppss I should say nine nights wherein people come together and dance to the tunes of folk songs. Wearing traditional colorful dresses watching these people dance is fun and enjoyment. It gives immense pleasure to enter the arena and dance to the beats. Well you may miss in the first try but you won't resist doing it either.








And on the final day prayer and worship is offered to God asking for peace and brotherhood and prosperity. But what's so peculiar about this festival in Gujarat is the food. "Ravan dahan" may also be seen at many places.
The history behind the festival is that on this day (Dussehra) God Ram killed Ravana who had kidnapped Devi Sita, wife of Ram. This day is celebrated for the victory of Good over Evil.


"Fada and Jalebi" worth more than 3 crores are sold on a single day all over city. This name is not unfamiliar for an Indian. And for Amdavadis and Gujju people these delicacies are something to savor upon on this day.
So being a "pundit blogger" I typed "fafda jalebi" in google and came up with this blog have it's name as "Fafda Jalebi"

Well it's these festivals and culture that make India a great country and place to live at. You have each and every moment to enjoy and cherish.

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Nice Comment

This related to my post on Dilemma.
Kanan gave very nice suggestions that I think all should know about it.

"Begin by brain storming. That's one thing I learned from my technical writing course. I am like you described. Love to do what I want (hobbies that fall under the 'pai ni pedash nahi ne ghaDi ni navrash nahi' category) to do than what I need (homework assignments that have pressing deadlines) to do, specially when the assignment that's due is boring and I have no idea where to start. I remember hating my technical writing course so much and dreaded the writing assignments but some of those same techniques I learned there have come to my rescue at times like this.

If you think you can not concentrate, go away from the place you are in, change the location. Like if you think ideas are not coming sitting at home on desk, go out and sit in a noisy park or next to a busy elevator where people keep coming and going or wherever you feel you have so many other distractions that you're forced to look at the pen and paper in front of you and start writing your thoughts. Try to limit them to what the assignment is about. Let them be as random as possible but make sure they’re related to your assignment. If you cant think, look up at those busy people around… now that’s one source of endless ideas. Once you think you have exhausted all the thoughts and thrown them on that piece of paper (did I already say use more papers if you need to? Yes do that if you like), start looking for the ideas that have something in common and begin grouping them. Eventually these will become the paragraphs in the paper you’re writing.

Now if you're out of ideas altogether, what to do? Discuss with classmates or family/friends and if that’s not possible, well, google is my life-line at that time. I just start putting in all the keywords related to my project/assignment and see what others have to say for them. If google gives random pages, start grouping the words. e.g. Searching for “Abhishek Bachchan” with double quotes around it gives more precise and accurate results than just Abhishek Bachchan. ;)

And last but not least, think of it this way… once you finish that boring assignment, you will have all the time in the world to do what you love to do!! That is to sketch, write flash scripts, and reading books!"

Embedding flickr slide show in blog

Dig those flash Flickr slideshows? All that’s needed is a bit of code to embed them within your website to give your readers something dynamic.

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Place this somewhere on your website or within a blog post. Change user_id from 12345678@N00 to your flickr id, which you can find out with this idgettr. Also replace foo with the tags of the photos you wish to display.

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My new post

I bought this from a super mall. At the first sight it allured me and I wanted to buy this little thing which can keep you busy for hours. And it's compact so can be carried anywhere. It can be your key-chain tag or hand band or head band and what not. The bright colors are promising moral uplifters.

Success or Failure

I was just thinking. Is it that you must always succeed at the end of an experiment? After 1000 failed experiments as Edison said that he learnt 1000 ways of not approaching a problem can we also not propose the same thing in our projects?
I agree that Industry will not let you do this as their money is at stake but what about academics? Isn't their role to educate rather than form competition between peers. If a person is coming up with something that says a thing cannot be done in a way he has done because it might lead to failure doesn't that count? Or more appropriately if a person fails in a project/experiment and documents it well can't that be counted a well written paper or thesis.

Can't that failure color also be green. Infact failure should also be directed towards success??
What say? Well this philosophy completes the fact "each failure is a stepping stone towards success". But can't failure itself become a success story? This point needs to be well thought upon.
Well relax this thought just spawned out of mere thinking process.

Dilemma

At times you enjoy what you are doing. You get involved in it so much that you bother to look at other work, things, happening in your surrounding. But it's something that you should not be doing!! Let's say you have to complete your assignment. But you get involved in doing some other work say, sketching and you enjoy it much. And it's not that you are wasting time sketching. You are learning and you prefer doing it at this time than completing assignments. What do you do then? Dilemma. Big dilemma.
I am in the same situation right now. I'm feeling like reading lots of books and do programming (long hours). I have my project presentation in the coming week and I am very much tensed as what to do. I'm lured by other things. Programming, flash scripting, sketching and reading books.

Well one of the reasons is that I'm stuck in my project at ideation stage. Feeling no idea coming to my head. Even if some come they are slaughtered by logical reasoning and questions of feasibility. It' very necessary to detail them out. But above dilemma takes me away from doing it.
huh.
What should I do?