The crazy Nick

It was a new dawn. A bright new day. More than feeling he’d lose himself in the jungle forever Nick believed he will find a way out someday. Even 12 days of isolation in that predatory jungle, he didn’t lose hope. He thought he has become quite familiar with the animals for he had spotted a tiger from about 200m distance, a horde of deer and a few elephants, without any mutuality between him and those jungle creatures, which he thought he’d become given some more days in this place. He set out to roam in search of some food but the afternoon rush of warm air made sure his lethargic habit stays intact. After feeling more hungry than lazy, he finally went in search of something to eat. He walked a few miles and went on eating all the edible stuff he found on the way. The energy bar shot up and so did the desire to have fun. He went animal spotting and had a small 0.18 glock with him in case any tiger ever sprang upon him, he carried it full bullets and hadn’t used it even once. There were less trees and more open fields which aided sighting of any animal or movement in far distance. Just when he zoomed in his binoculars, Bingo! A cheetah! He had always dreamt of seeing a cheetah in front of him. He decided, there couldn’t be a better opportunity if he let go this one. The cheetah seemed to be taking an afternoon nap. He went further, more further and soon he was just a few foots away from the fastest running animal in the world. In oblivion with or just in the amazement of the moment he forgot that fact. Slap! He slapped the cheetah hard and started running, the cheetah – as much in shock as Nick was in. Just when he thought he couldn’t run any faster, which happened just a few seconds after he played a joke on himself by slapping the cheetah. Shoot! Shoot! He shot the cheetah twice and he sprang upon the land with helplessness, his agility gave up and the cheetah felt unable to run any further, he lie there with the failed desire to have caught the freshest meat in days. The confident yet painful eyes of cheetah said, be back once and I shall rip you apart. But Nick ran further, looking back at the ailing animal. Looking back at his supposed death by his favorite animal, he ran amazed looking back at his escape from mortality. He went back to a tree that provided shade and peace. Behind that tree was carved something that struck him hard and which made him shameful of himself. “Learn from your mistakes”. It inspired him great deal by what had happened today earlier and decided to learn from what he had mistaken. He tightened his lace and started his practice to run faster the very next moment without wasting his any precious time.

P.S: Nick was hunted down by a cheetah few evenings after while he again tried to slap and run. The last thing he learned before dying was that one should always keep their gun reloaded while attempting to slap a cheetah and practicing to run faster.

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Seeds of Success

Success is happiness may not be always true but happiness is always success, remember that. There will always be advices, tips, and techniques to a happy and successful life but until you apply and live your life with those principles, everything is a waste. So don’t just read but feel the stuff in your context of life.

Everything that happens to us is because we let it happen. Until we think every problem as our own, we will only mess it further. So try to believe and inculcate a habit that everything that you go through in life is a result of what you sow. Sow good things and reap better things.

Some seeds follows.

1. Place yourself in a good environment or if you can’t do so, create a good, happy to live environment. This enhances the way you think, and the way you think is in direct relation with what you are. It’ll help you prosper, be at peace and will keep you inspiring for more successful things.

2. Work on yourself and it’ll reap you more things than wasting your precious limited time. More than changing the people around you try to change yourself. Hone your character so well that situation has little effect on it. Imbibe new values through what you do see, hear and do. Know what is good and what is bad, you’ll know it through experience and it comes from choosing the wrong things and the results that come along. Be gentle enough to know what you wronged, and being true to yourself it is easy. Have your character build up so strong that when there is a prompt demand of any situation to make a decision, you make a right one.

3. Problems are the biggest opportunities and it indeed is. When you sense a problem, be happy for you have got an opportunity to grow and learn. Much above, you’ll experience something new that’ll teach you great things. These times shall test your character, and if you do possess a good one, you’ll be the one shouting eureka. And unfortunately if you don’t, you have the next moment and the whole life to improve only if you are willing to keep going.

4. Read good literature, self-helps, even fiction helps a good deal in shaping how you think. Invest in knowledge and it’ll be the best investment you’d ever make. Reading lets you think thoughts with new dimensions, it presents you with a world of ideas that can strike an inspiration any possible time, and most importantly it helps you keep your mouth shut.

5. Build fantastic relations with everyone you get along. They say true, life is short. Be kind in your intentions and innocent in your thoughts. Speak nice words that serve to harm no one. Lend them your ears to listen through what they have to say more than you rant about your own adventures. Be mutual and be kinder than you are expected to be. Don’t depend emotionally on anyone because we don’t really know what life has for us. But trust the people you know you should. Love them, respect them and treat them nice, after all you need people to speak good things at your funeral.

6. Visualize the things you are supposed to do next or are preparing for and you’ll be not new to something you are little aware about. Visualization is neglected the most by everyone, because you don’t see any materialistic thing happening through it but ask someone or yourself who had been successful and they’ll tell you visualization as one of the most important aspects of success. Visualize yourself in the midst of any circumstance and imagine how you would tackle or go through it, this will make sure your courage remains intact at the right time. And be adaptive to changes and sporty enough to be surprised on your way because life would bore you if you knew what came next.

7. Initiate what you think would be a good idea, a good project, a good book or a good song. Initiating will inspire you to do more, to complete what you wish and will give an initial impetus for what you desire. Take the first step, start walking and the path will create itself. You’ll be exposed to more things, you’ll see yourself improve and you’ll know the difference for having initiated walking a path.

8. Do the things you wish you could. Don’t stall it for the next week, day, hour or minute and if you do so feel happy to have it undone forever. This is through sheer experience and knowledge that doing things now has a difference, and a big one. It is indeed difficult in practice but such is success. Every valuable thing lies there within thorns.

9. Respect the people better than you, either in your field or in some other. Being envious to them or hating them will affect your own judgement, your choices and will lead to wrong decision making based on what you think about them rather than what you think about yourself and your own work. Run your own race and be happy for other people because they inspire you, because they are doing a splendid job, and you too will.

10. Expect failures along the way you work. There’ll be punches breaking your nose and kicks breaking bones and that’s where you would need some patience and focus to keep going. Persevere for what you think is being successful. Only the weakest souls quit.

11. Detach yourself from results and this is the finest advice on being focused enough while you work and getting lesser disappointed the next time you experience something. Whatever bad things happen you call it experience and whatever good things happen you call it success. As soon as you finish up your work, feel happy because you did what you set out to do and just getting the right amount of time to rejuvenate yourself, throw yourself on a new adventure and enjoy the tread. You’ll rightly know if you did your best or need to improve if you are honest to yourself, so why care for the outcome.

12. Motivate yourself or it gets all boring. Know who your people or the people that inspire you are and read their biographies, watch them giving speeches, watch them live happy. Reading impacts greatly in motivating you, read inspiring stuff and write inspiring things if you wish to.

13. Believe if not in God, than in yourself, in some mighty universal force that would help you, support you, and be with you in your good as well as bad times. Pray for things to happen and then work for it, you’ll get it. And if you don’t, you’ll learn something much valuable than you would have in succeeding.

14. It’s Okay if you don’t make it. Just laugh at yourself and start anew. 

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Elder's pride

How often it happens that someone asks you something in a kind, polite manner and you answer them with your famous rude remarks. When that someone being your mom, your dad, or your granny’s, it becomes simpler, easier to answer in a way that is upsetting. Of course you don’t care and why should you, when they are giving you all the love without you putting any effort. Your girlfriend asks for a thing, and you get it from miles away. Your mom asks for a pouch of milk from that shop two minutes away from home, and you ask herself to go get it because you know she’ll love you anyway and feel no hate for you, after all you are her son, how can she not love you. She’ll ask you for what you want to eat and she’ll cook some delicious food you’ll nowhere get and what she gets is her teenage son ranting over the choice of clothes she made for her son. Can’t say it without sounding clichéd but she suffers so much for you and all you do is feel only good riddance when she leaves the room and you can watch something you couldn’t in her presence. Your dad wants to ask something about the school, or college or studies or the site you are surfing from the money he has hard earned and guess what, you say you won’t understand it dad and he stays silent because he loves you, because he believes his son knows more than he does what if he has gone through twice the childish life you live, because he believes you’ll outdo him with your success what if he is more successful than anyone you know and he is happy about that, he wants that, he works hard for what he believes about you. And you think he is not as good as you, because he doesn’t knows about the film released last Friday or about the game you play so well on your console but he is fine with it, because he loves you. Because he loves a guy who won’t show respect to his wife and parents neither by his words nor with his actions. Your grandparents are what your parents are because you too are what your parents are. They have lived most of their lives and want nothing but happiness from their kids and naughty grandsons and cute granddaughters, your parents fulfill them but you again feel they are too orthodox to understand what you do or say or think. This maybe to some extent true but you’ll know that when your own grandchild would think the way you now do. They are the least respected people and you are no exception in raising that bar. Doesn’t it feels good when someone younger shows you respect just because he knows you are older, treats you good because he knows you have lot to offer if given an ear. Give that same feeling through you. Just do that to people not only older than you but to everyone because you are a good human, you know that giving respect is the only way to get it back, thereby maintaining the decency we always should. Grow up guys, not just physically. Respect them for they love you like no one else; for they believe that you’ll make them proud. So they no longer have to go through the mental trauma and social disgrace they feel when you do stuff that isn’t acceptable and still give you a chance to improve as a son, as a daughter and as a person, because they love you. They want their child to be happy and you make them happy, reciprocate the kind love and be an elder’s pride.  

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Like this and like that..

The times I miss you and the stars in the sky.

The deepness with which I sob and the depth of the sea.

The moist in my eyes and the clouds about to rain.

The memories of my past and the cactus in the desert.

The tenderness of the night and the warmth of the sun.

Like the way you are and like the way I am.

How to prepare for Std. 12th boards - A guide.

Glad to know that you are aware of the need to prepare from the beginning for your boards. Know that Std. 12^th is not as Std. 10^th that will get you through good marks only by preparing in the last months. Because this year will shape your career, will let you choose your career – rather than bad scores ruin up your ambitions. Work hard and reap the benefits when your parents pat your shoulders and hug you; for you have made them proud. So hit the ground running and start your preparations right here, right now.

I was in 12^th standard last year and no veteran in teaching or coaching. There are things that I couldn't do before the time ran out and regret it now. And also things that I did right and later thanked myself for it – this article is an amalgamation of both. It’s easy, if you start now, believe me.

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Physics:

Most important Chapters: Oscillations, Stationary waves, Kinetic theory of gases and radiation, Electrostatistics, Electromagnetic induction.

Easy chapters: Gravitation, Rotational motion, Elasticity, Surface tension, Wave motion, Wave theory of light, Current electricity, Magnetic effect of electric current, Magnetism, Electrons and photons, Communication systems.

Problems play an important part in physics and almost all the chapters have them. A nice way to practice problems is to read the respective chapters thoroughly from the textbooks, remember formulae’s and then try to attempt them. This will be a more conceptual method and will result in strong grasp of concepts as well as the problems. Solve the solved examples given in the textbooks and the unsolved ones by referring to a good reference book and as far as possible try to solve them all in a single go. This will enhance your understandability and with daily practice you shall rule them. Just remember that ignoring them for the last months will only result into volatile solutions. They carry 20 marks in your board exams so you know how important they are.

Concentrate on the concepts and try to link them, instead of rote learning. There are few diagrams in your textbooks, give them a look, practice them once or twice and you are good for your exams.

There are many derivations in physics and they are important. Writing and practicing is a key to master them.

There are dimensions and units to most of the physical quantities and knowing them will give you an edge, not only in your boards but in your entrance exams too.

Physics generally seems tough to many students, and the toughest paper has been physics from last many years. No worry, practice it daily, be thorough with the concepts, solve problems to ace them, give derivations their time, there are laws – rote them and you are a champ.

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Chemistry:

This is the lengthiest subject in your syllabus, so it needs more attention and time.

Part I

The first five chapters in this section has problems and they are easier with direct applications of formulae, though some require good amount of practice to get through. The same method you applied to tackle problems in physics applies here, first the concepts – the chapter as a whole and then problems. The solved examples here are given in between topics, so it aids you in practicing them conceptually. They account for 10 marks in your section 1 of chemistry board paper so a good amount of practice doesn’t hurts.

Solid state: Much theory part in this chapter, learn them thoroughly. There problems and almost all of them are based on a single formulae, so this should be easy.

Solutions and Colligative properties (Easy): Learn all the colligative properties and their relations with molar mass, they are important. Problems vary with each colligative property, so solving them as you learn a property is a good idea.

Chemical thermodynamics and energetics: This is one of the most important chapters. There are different derivations and laws so know and practice them well. All concepts are important. Problems vary with concepts and there are a lot of them, so practice them.

Electrochemistry: Definitions, laws are important. Different type of cells and their constructions as well as the reactions involved in the cell. Problems are not as varying as in the above chapter and can be learned by a good amount of practice.

Chemical kinetics (Easy): This is one of the easiest chapters in this section. All the concepts and the problems are simple, learn them quick and with ease.

General principle and process of isolation of elements: Definitions, names of ores, processes of their extraction, reactions, and Ellingham diagram are important. Not accounts for much marks in paper, still important for those aiming high.

P block elements: The lengthiest chapter in your syllabus. This chapter can be mastered by learning through groups and their elements. The different properties, preparations, uses and electronic configurations of elements are important.

Part II

This section has reactions and reactions should be practiced their names, catalysts and reagents involved and temperature forms an important part in every reaction.

All the named reactions are important in this section and it would help you if you write them together and then learn or practice.

D and F block elements (Easy): Positions, electronic configurations, characteristics and trends of elements are important. Preparations and properties of K₂Cr₂O₇ and KMnO₄ are important. Same for F-block elements and the differences between both as well as lanthanides and actinides.

Co-ordination compounds: Be thorough with all the concepts. Names of co-ordination compounds and CFT are also important.

Following few chapters are high with reactions, so you gotta be higher to react them nice.

Halogen derivatives of alkanes and arenes, Alcohol and Phenols, Aldehydes Ketones and Carboxylic acid, Compounds containing nitrogen: The studying method for all these chapters are same. Properties, preparations, reactions and uses of the compounds in respective chapters. Be nice in these things and you are done with this chapters.

Biomolecules, Polymers, Chemistry in everyday life: These are the easiest chapters in chemistry. Learn them all, with easy concepts. Uses, names, definitions – rote them.

Go slow but steady with chemistry. The more you learn, the easier it gets. Study them not just for you are supposed to do so for exams, but for learning something new and this excitement is hard to beat.

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Maths:

This is probably the easiest and fun to learn subjects because it delights you when you get a thing right with the skills you learn. So enjoy it

Part I

Chapters are short and simple with basic methods.

Most Important Chapters: Trigonometric Functions, Vectors.

Easy chapters: All of them except Trigonometric functions requires a little extra effort but, it is simple too. So this section can easily score you full marks as you practice nice.

Part II

This is little difficult and lengthier than part I and will require more amount of practice.

Most Important Chapters: Differentiation, Integration.

Easy chapters: Probability distribution, Binomial Distribution.

There are many formulae’s in this section as well as previously learnt formulae’s and practicing by writing them is a sure way to learn them quick.

Part II needs immense practice but once you are aware of the concepts and the methods to solve them, you’ll cruise through it.

Different types in Integration and Derivatives are important.

Theorems in both the part should be nicely practiced as most of them are easier and help in scoring easy marks.

Solve all the textual sums and learn the different types of sums and the methods to solve them. Maths is best practiced with this mindset.

Daily practice is a key to success with Maths as it is with all other subjects.

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Biology:

Biology is all theory and you’ve got to learn and memorize things up. Diagrams are an important part in biology and needs practice so you are good with diagrams if you practice them with the theoretical part.

There are various cycles in the subject so that needs practice too.

Remembering the names of species, bacteria’s, parts, etc. is the only way you can get good with them.

Gulp down biology as it is, do it your way and do it nice.

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Before I conclude, remember that MCQ’s hold an impressive amount of marks and get your hands on as many as you can, not much effort, right.

This is it. It was an exhaustive list of things to do but as the time passes you’ll know how important it was to start early, I have experienced. Instead of fretting with regret later, work now. One thing that is important is being consistent in your studies rather than going all at once and later lying tired. Study in small portions but study effective. Motivate yourself – you are grown up enough to do that. And it is no rocket science man, take it easy, take it cool, be proud of yourself and make your parents do so… Rock the year!

 P.S: As I said I am no expert neither have I been in coaching. I am a student and just a year older than you. I have experienced a year and tried to share it with utmost kindness. If you feel the above stuff lacks something, let me know, it will be nice learning from you. Comments and advices appreciated. 

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A farewell letter..

Dear Sir,

                All the days along, we always knew there would come a day when we had to go, to write our futures, to seek further compulsions and to reap a life based on the foundation you so handsomely laid. This day would rather have come two years back, but some momentary forces held us for two more years to learn - not only what you taught – but the things that can never be learnt but imbibed - values. The small little talks, the randomly said words, the speeches that you made, always contained a treasure full of wisdom enough to sustain a good life, if given a thought. Not only the infectious smile that you bear but also the charm you possess is something anyone who’d been with you would be envious of. It is only a rare amalgamation in a person that he can be effective yet humorous both at once. With the sheer will, energy, positivity, determination and - what you do best – hard work, every dream you dream for; May that dreams become something you count in your proud achievements. Besides that, the place that you have engraved in the hearts of many futures is something not many can achieve in their lives. Success, money, adulation, achievements has not won over your kindness and gentleness; it still remains the same as it ought to be in the days to come. It seems just a day or two, when we started together, lending our academics to you. But you highly over grossed our expectations by enriching and grooming us so much in these years that we had a lot more in us at the end, than we had previously believed. Ours was much more than a standard student-teacher relation; it was an emotional attachment that we believe will last for what we call a lifetime. In return, we could only try to give you a little happiness, a smile, gleaming eyes with a sense of pride when you look back at us; Hope we didn’t fail in accomplishing that. We, with our truest hearts pray God, may he grant all that you desire for, all that you dream for, all that needs to happen for you to lead a life full of happiness, good health and loads of wealth; that infectious smile too. And one last, very last thing – We will miss you.
                                                                                         Yours adored,
                                                                                             Students.

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She - A glimpse

The night in her tenderness, the sky dark, the wind as cool as it could be, I stand there in middle of a vacant yet fulfilling land. When the moon casts its light, I search for a revealing shadow. There she comes. As white as the moon, as beautiful as the night. She walks to where I stand, as she walks she smiles. She smiles and I gaze without a blink. In her eyes I see myself. And I realize that her eyes make me look good. Like I was never before. I don’t know who she is but her face resonates of what I had always imagined. When a sudden gush of wind passes through me, I see how beautifully she manages her hair. I want to walk ahead and reach her but I stand motionless where I was. My eyes bewildered for her smile, her eyes, and I think which is more beautiful. After a moment she stops, she looks into my eyes as deep as me. I wanted to say come closer, closer to me. But she didn’t, her fragrance is so amusing that I felt I could breathe it for a living. I felt I could spend my life living with her without caring for who she was. I wanted to ask her who she was, but killed the thought for I didn’t care. Beauty was how I imagined her the way she looked. I experienced euphoria for the first time then. She calls my name, my name sounded nicer, it tickled my heart the way she called it. I couldn’t speak but I wanted her to call me again for once, at least. She smiles again, and this time tears hovered my eyes. She starts walking back, looking at me, waving at me, I wanted to hold that hand and could imagine the way it would feel. I wanted to scream her to return, but she shook her head for some reason I didn’t knew. I suddenly run for her, and she vanishes. 

She - The unknown
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Bid adieu..

As another one passes away leaving his art, achievements and goodness. Lets hear it for the man who, with his profound words amazed us every time he shed ink on paper. This one for Gabo.. his own words bidding him adieu..

“Be calm. God awaits you at the door.” 

“The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.” 

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.” 

“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”

“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.” 

“There is always something left to love.”

“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”

“Always tell what you feel. Do what you think...” 

“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.” 

“...the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy love” 

                                            This world stays a fan of your words..

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Problems or opportunities?

You fear problems? Indeed you do, who doesn't? Our human brain is wired, crazily wired, to fear situations that seem foreign, that seem difficult (or assumed to be so), that which lack our expertise and that which is problematic. Result : We opt out of such situations claiming the very famous no loss-no win policy. But what about the opportunities? What about the chance to grow, to learn? We blow it off without a whim, forgetting that the most highly successful things, be it business, enterprises, companies or forms of entertainment including books and movies have been the result of raking in opportunities that seem to be in obscurity. Opportunities are everywhere, they need someone to have the ability to find them, hone them and persevere with them as they turn into successes or at least give you an experience beneficial enough to be successful the next time they knock your doors. And they best hide in the places you fear the most - problems. They know you won't search them there because you fear problems. It scares you! And they know you aren't courageous enough to tackle your fears, and then they laugh at you. Then there is born someone who hates to be laughed at, hates to give up and hates to fear. When they find him who is able enough to go past his fears, take his problems heads on with his life-experience and knowledge; they scare him more. But he is brave, he has the courage, the grit, the gusto to be the change he wishes to see, to change this world for better, much better and be a part of it. He does so by the problems he faces and battles them into opportunities with a grin on his face. And when he meets someone filled with fear, "What do you see?" he asks, "Problems or Opportunities?"    

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Lets begin

Writing, they say, is the greatest form of telepathy. It has the power to make you laugh, cry, smile, sob and generate emotions by mere words. To simply know that it is possible just to read and feel, amazes me. It is as great a pleasure to read as it is to write. One creates while other consumes. Both equally admirable in their own ways. To create, to bring something into existence, has its own pleasure. While, to be a part of something that exists, to reap in someone's creation has its own. To put your feelings, your emotions, your thoughts into words is an art. An art that only few specially talented one's among us bear. To understand, grasp the feelings, the emotions, the thoughts of someone else from words is also an art. An art that too only few of us bear. So lets begin a journey, lets do what we do best. I'll write and you read.

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