A Juggling Act!

Yes, you heard that right! It's a juggling act! It is, it always has been and always will be!
What if someone offers you a 1000 bucks to juggle a vase, a clarinet and a sausage. Would you give it a try or would you refuse the offer? You would probably earn the money by successfully juggling if you are used to juggle in your day-to-day life!
But surely, the point is that nowadays we are required to perform "above ourselves". To exceed expectations and surprise everyone-TA DA. I ask you, do you find it difficult to meet deadlines, do you often crumble under pressure when the days schedule is hectic, do you find it hard to cope with rigorous work and get stressed! Don't blame yourself because its not your fault. We squirm under the thumb not because we are incapable but because our approach is wrong. Things are not always straightforward. Sometimes you have to twist and turn, flip it around, toss it up a little and you will find that even the toughest nut can be cracked. It is upon us to deliver and if we know how to engage in manipulation, well...then we can kick-ass! Yes, ladies and gentleman, I am talking about a way out of misery, an ointment for the suppurating wounds, the nectar of a camellia flower for the hummingbirds, a light for the cigarette!
So if you happen to be in Mcdonalds, and you go to the cashier at cash-counter and ask her what it means to be a cashier, she won't say its taking orders and making change. No, thats not her job description at all. "Its a juggling act!". "A juggling act? You mean metaphorically?". "No! I mean you got people coming at you from the front, from the back, from the side, people at the drive-throughs, kids on bikes and they are all depending on......guess who? So you gotta be 150% on your toes, 150% of the time!" So you gotta know how to juggle, how to hold and balance precariously.
To further exemplify my point, I would like to tell you a little about the history of jugglers and jugglery. The earliest evidence of jugglery is a panel from the tomb of an unknown Egyptian prince which shows female dancers and acrobats throwing balls. Many ancient cultures such as Indian, Chinese, Egyptian and Norse had juggling as a profession. It used to be a respectable profession until the decline of Roman Empire, after which it fell into disgrace. Religious clerics frowned upon jugglers and other such performers, calling them 'gleemen'. They were accused of base morals and even practicing witchcraft. As a result of this propaganda propagated against jugglers, they would only perform in streets, marketplaces, fairs and drinking houses. In 1768, Philip Astley opened the first modern circus and few jugglers were employed to perform acts along with other circus performers. Since then jugglers have been associated with circuses.
Coming back to the discussion at hand, it is imperative to balance everything, careful not to tilt on one side, or in other words, multi-tasking.
The last but not the least is the holy trinity of condiments. After all, without all the constituent ingredients, a pizza isn't a pizza. Picture this - you are walking down the street wearing cowboy boots and hands inside the pockets, you smell something good and strangely enticing. You dont know what it is and yet here it is. A line of locals crowd around the place. Its fast, its cheap and its the true face. The heart and soul of wherever you are. I would jump off like a rusky butter knife across my best friends throat, just for this. Its what we, in India, call a Khichdi! Because whatever you are doing, if you make a khichdi out of something even for once, the rest assured, you have caused damage beyond repair. The moment you make a khichdi out of something, you have stepped beyond the point of no return. Once you are into a khichdi, there is no coming back from it.
So I hate to state the obvious but either you juggle it well or make a khichdi out of it. The end-product will either be more apetizing than the name seems to indicate or it will be a nexes of all things generic and aweful. And just one more tiny thing: dont ever sneek on anyone! not your friends, not your enimies! Until next time, happy juggling!!

How far have we come.........

I have heard people talk about their dreams, their aims and what they are willing to do for them! But how far have they got from the starting point.......how much further is the finish line......we get so engrossed in our lives and our daily activities that we sometimes forget our dreams and ambitions. Recently, I met a friend who had planned to buy an electric guitar. That was before the summer vacations. During the summer vacations he had many engagements such as the industrial training, shopping and spending quality time with family and friends after four months in college. That was all well and good! When I met him, the first thing I asked him about was the guitar because I was so enthusiastic about it. And he had absolutely forgotten about it. Thats what I am talking about. We all talk about doing so many things, very few of us really get finish what we started. Like so many of us decide in the begining to do our best to get a 9 or 8 gpa or those who decide to give up smoking or drinking by the year-end or even those who make the promise of togetherness to their girlfriends! But how far did we get.......maybe serious studies till the first sessionals when we dedicate ourselves completely to pc games and football..............or two weeks without a puff or the 30ml affair till someone comes along with a lighted cigarette or a trip to the pub........or only a month till she is unfaithful and his love for her is gone! The issue at hand is not much different from the peace commitments between India and Pakistan! We have been hearing about peace between the two countries for years but some how they always fall short of getting it! Or easing legal restrictions on homosexuals! Many of us have trouble accepting gays into the society but we actually don't have problem with them as individuals but because they don't conform to normal social norms. Or child abuse or child atrocities or pollution, you name it! We commit and then we all of a sudden we walk away! Very few of us make it to the end of the journey.
Its a world of our own creation. We make the mistakes and we face the consequences! We are victims of our own suffering! Perhaps if Israel wasn't created, the middle-east wouldn't be the the epicentre of religious violence. Maybe if G W Bush didn't become president, Iraq and afghanistan wouldn't be innundated. We often see activists going on anti-war protests which guarantees more ugliness and violence. But how is it that we never see a pro-peace march, is it really so difficult to forgive than to just senselessly pit ourselves against them!
I am a student but I am also an individual! To be blunt, I am an individual who is well aware of whats happening today in this world and who also merely happens to be a student.If, God forbid, the day comes when I have to choose between being a quiet and compromising, innocent, compulsively nice student who just stands by and watches; and a responsible, powerful individual in touch with his spirituality and consciousness who is completely capable of taking matters into his own hands, which, if happens then the world may slip into mayham and anarchy..........I think you get the idea! Because so often we see, don't we, these clever people who just can't wait to tear down and destroy this world of ours. But do they ever have anything to put in place of what they destroy......no its just pure, quantum destruction!

P.S. - Well..............yes, what I have written is definitely a bit of an exaggeration but sometimes you really have to wonder whats happening to this world, you really do!!

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End of The Dada's Era!

In between his century in the debut Test in 1992 and the Bradmanesque exit for a duck in the final innings, Ganguly's has been an unputdownable story with umpteen twists and turns and in the end of it all, the 'God on the off-side' walked out with his head held high.

His retirement, topping Anil Kumble's exit after the third Test, was timed with the same precision that has been the hallmark of his batting. With the departure of these two, three of the 'Fab Five' -- Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman, will still continue to don the Test cap for India.

Whether the controversial soccer-style shirt waving from the Lord's balcony or the easy-going manner that got him a sobriquet 'Lord Snooty', Ganguly had his own style that also often him in controversies.

His brush with new coach Greg Chappell got him out of the team and he also picked up a fight with his mentor Jagmohan Dalmiya only to make up with him later. He staged a come back into the national team after cooling his heels for nine months.

In the midst of media speculation over the 'Fab Five', Ganguly also hit back saying he knew when to go but when the actual announcement of his retirement came before the start of the series, it did come as a surprise to many. He will now play in the Indian Premier League -- domestic cricket with internationals stars. In an era dominated by Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara, Ganguly was also one of the best batsman around, both statistically and aesthetically. Each of the 18,000-plus runs he scored, mostly piercing the off-side, showed he knew how to put the bat to the ball.

His weakness against the short-pitched stuff was well-documented but he was neither the first nor the last batsman with a clear discomfiture for the chin music.

And for a batsman, who at one stage was considered almost paraplegic to anything pitched on the leg, Ganguly overcame this flaw as well in the subsequent phase of his career. He may not have been as effervescent like Lara on the leg but Ganguly was effective nonetheless.

Quitting with a 40-plus average in both forms of the game and 38 centuries against his name, Ganguly surely carved a niche for himself as one of the greatest ODI batsmen ever.

While fans will fondly remember his silky cover-drives and soaring sixes, Ganguly the skipper is likely to overshadow Ganguly the batsman in the history of the game.

Ganguly inherited the team at a time when Indian cricket was struggling to shed the match-fixing slur and by the time he was through with it, Ganguly had established himself as country's most successful captain, courtesy those 21 wins that came under his stewardship spanning 49 Test matches. Once his highly successful partnership with coach John Wright came to an end with the affable Kiwi returning home, Ganguly's subsequent career was marked by umpteen intrigues and irony and the left-hander, credit to his resilience, survived it all.

Ganguly played a key role to get Greg Chappell as the new India coach but soon sparks flew as two men of equally strong personalities found it difficult to go together.

Subsequently, Ganguly first lost captaincy and then his place in the side to vanish into the wilderness and few believed him whenever he talked about the possibility of a comeback.

But for someone who always derived some pleasure out of proving people wrong, Ganguly kept his word and clawed his way back into the side and with a new-found consistency and ironically it was Chappell who eventually had to quit after a tumultuous stint.

Since his comeback, Ganguly hardly put a foot wrong. He returned with an altered batting philosophy which put industry before incendiary and application before aggression. Those lofted sixes or uppish cuts were less frequent as Ganguly saw the virtue in patience.

Ganguly never hid his disappointment after getting axed from the ODI squad and once he was ignored for the Irani Cup, the left-hander probably saw the writing on the wall. For someone who dictated terms all along, Ganguly wanted to go on his own terms. Although talks about cricket's version of Voluntary Retirement Scheme did the rounds, Ganguly insisted he was going on his own.

A charismatic leader who had a wholesome hatred for Australia's hegemony in world cricket, India shed their 'poor traveller' tag under him and learnt to win Tests abroad.

Turning up late for toss, figuring in many an eyeball-to-eyeball confrontations, doing something as outrageous as taking off his shirt and swirling it at the hallowed balcony of Lord's -- Ganguly evoked both admiration and irritation but never boredom.

The English press dubbed him 'Lord Snooty' while Australia fumed at his 'delaying tactics'. But for his legions of admirers, Ganguly was the captain courageous, who backed his teammates to the hilt and never indulged in regionalism that plagued Indian cricket for long.

Legend's last songs and epitaphs

Have you ever wondered what songs the legends sang just before they died? Did they feel that something was wrong and the end was getting closer? These questions are impossible to answer since we can never know if Lennon was whistling any of his latest songs while he was walking towards his apartment were he was shot or if Cobain was singing anything before he pulled the trigger...But at least we can follow the clues and interpret their psychological situation on the day they died and this may help us to learn much about them.

You know you are right-Kurt Cobain (Nirvana)
(Feb 20, 1967-April 5, 1994)



Cobain wrote this song as a sarcastic reference to his wife Courtney Love, at the time when their relationship was on the rocks(days before his death). Its title and predominant lyric: "you know you are right" and also "nothing really bothers her, she just wants to love herself", both refer to Kurt's frustration with Courtney.

On April 8, 1994, Cobain's body was discovered at his Lake Washington home. A suicide note was found that said, "I haven't felt the excitement of listening to as well as creating music, along with really writing.......for too many years now". High concentration of heroin and traces of valium were found in his body.

Although Nirvana had recorded these songs, they didn't release it after Cobain's sudden death.


Voodoo Child-Jimi Hendrix
(November 27, 1942 - September 18, 1970)



This was the last song Hendrix performed live. On September 6, 1970, 12 days before his death, he performed it at a concert in Germany.

Hendrix's last public performance was an informal jam at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in Soho with Burdon and his latest band, War.

Early on September 18, 1970, Jimi Hendrix died in London in a Hotel under the circumstances which have never been fully explained.


Redemption Song - Bob Marley
(February 6, 1945 - May 11, 1981)



Marley completed his last album in the summer of 1980. He was suffering from the cancer that would eventually kill him at age 36, but was very productive in his later years. He refused traditional medicine because of his Rastafarian beliefs and chose to make music and perform as long as he could.

This was the last song Marley performed. He sang it from a stool at a show in Pittsburgh on September 23, 1980.

"Won't you help to sing
These songs of freedom? -
'Cause all I ever have:
Redemption songs;"

To Live is To Die/Anesthesia Pulling Teeth - Cliff Burton (Metallica)
(February 10, 1962 - September 27, 1986)

Fresh from their triumphant UK tour, Metallica had headed once more for Scandinavia where they'd played three shows at the Olympen in Lund (September 24, 1986), the Skedsmohallen (September 25, 1986) in Oslo and at the Sonahallen in Stockholm (September 26, 1986). The last song of Cliff Burton was also his latest solo bass performance "Anesthesia Pulling Teeth" in the concert. It was approaching dawn on Saturday, the 27th of September 1986, and Metallica's two tour buses were on their way to do a fourth show in Copenhagen. The were traveling along a god forsaken road between the Scandinavian cities of Stockholm and Copenhagen. Apart from these vehicles, the route was deserted, there was no one else traveling at that early hour of the morning. Suddenly, for no apparent reason, just before dawn, at about 5:15 am, one of the coaches swerved violently to its right and started careening wildly down the wrong side of the road. It was out of control, and a crash was inevitable. Cliff Burton was thrown through the window of the bus, which fell on top of him causing his death.

Swedish police arriving on the scene of the accident immediately arrested the driver as a matter of routine. They later released him without charging him after further investigation revealed that the cause of the accident was black ice on a nasty bend in the road.

James Hetfield later stated that he first believed the bus flipped because the driver was drunk, claiming he had smelled alcohol on the driver's breath after the accident. Hetfield also stated that he himself had walked long distances down the road looking for black ice and had found none. Local freelance photographer, Lennart Wennberg, who had attended the scene of the crash the following morning, when later asked in an interview about the likelihood of black ice being the cause of the accident said that it was 'out of the question', stating that the road had been dry and the temperature around zero degrees Celsius. This was also confirmed by the police who also found no ice on the road.

"To live is to die" is a tribute to Metallica's bassist Cliff Burton. It is instrumental except the spoken word piece near the end - this was a poem that Cliff wrote before he died.

When a man lies he murders
Some part of the world
These are the pale deaths
Which men miscall their lives
All this I cannot bear To witness any longer
Cannot the kingdom of salvation
Take me home

Walking On Thin Ice - John Lennon
(9 October 1940 - 8 December 1980)

On the night of 8 December 1980, at around 10:49 p.m., Mark David Chapman shot Lennon in the back four times in the entrance of the Dakota and Lennon died immediately on the event scene.

The last song of his own that John ever recorded was "I Don't Wanna Face It," recorded on September 2nd but never fully finished by John; it appears on the CD Milk and Honey. The last song Lennon played on was probably Yoko's "Walking On Thin Ice," which appears on her album Season Of Glass; he was working on it at the time of his death. The last recordings he ever made at home, however, were four new songs recorded as demos at his Dakota residence on November 14th. Two, "Pop Is The Name Of The Game" and "You Saved My Soul," have never been officially released. The other two, "Dear John" and "Serve Yourself," were released on 1998's Lennon Anthology.. The lyrics of "Dear John" consist mainly of this verse:

Dear John,
don't be hard on yourself.
Give yourself a break.
Life wasn't meant to be run.
The race is over, you've won.

Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain - Elvis Presley
(January 8, 1935 - August 16, 1977)

Presley's final performance was in Indianapolis at the Market Square Arena, on June 26, 1977. According to many of his entourage who accompanied him on tour, it was the "best show he had given in a long time" with "some strong singing".

Another tour was scheduled to begin August 17, 1977, but at Graceland the day before, Presley was found on his bathroom floor by fiancée, Ginger Alden. According to the medical investigator, Presley had "stumbled or crawled several feet before he died"; he had apparently been using the toilet at the time. Death was officially pronounced at 3:30 pm at the Baptist Memorial Hospital.

Although Elvis appeared pale, weak, and overweight, as he had with increasing regularity, there was nothing to suggest his impending death -- indeed, there was nothing unusual about his show on the tour, except that Elvis for some reason introduced practically everyone from his life on stage that night. Some take this as "proof" Elvis knew he was in his final days; others maintain that he was worried about the imminent publication of Elvis: What Happened?, a tell-all biography by former bodyguards Sonny and Red West that publicly broke the story of his drug abuse, and what those revelations might do to his image.

The last recording Elvis made was a vocal overdub on "He'll Have To Go" on October 31st, 1976 in the "Jungle Room" at his home at Graceland.

The last song Elvis performed in private was a rendition of "Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain," on his piano in Graceland hours before his death.

In the twilight glow I seen her
Blue eyes crying in the rain
When we kissed goodbye and parted
I knew we'd never meet again
Love is like a dying ember
And only memories remain
And through the ages I'll remember

Blue eyes crying in the rain

Adolphe Bridge

Adolphe Bridge in Luxembourg City is also known as the New Bridge. At the time of its construction it was the biggest stone arch-bridge in the world. It is used by both traffic and pedestrians. It has become an unofficial national symbol, representing Luxembourg's independence.

After the Luxembourg city expanded to south the need of a new bridge was necessary. The Adolphe Bridge was built in the years 1900 to 1903, during the reign of Grand-Duke Adolphe. It was design by Paul Sejourne, a Frenchman, and Albert Rodange, a Luxembourger. They used reinforced concrete and sandstone for the construction. It was opened on 24 July, 1903.

The bridge is 153 meters long nad 17.2 meters wide; its height is 42 meters. A big double-arch has a spread of 84.65 meters and it is surmounted by eight smaller arches of 5.4o meters. Two side arches that flank the central arches are 21.6 meters wide and there are further arches of 6 meters outside the medium-sized arches. It stands over the Petrusse valley and connects Boulevard Royal, in Ville Haute and Avenue de la Liberte, in Gare.

Throughout its exsistance the Adolphe Bridge was renovated several times. The first renovation was in 1961 and the last one so far from September 2003 to August 2004. The major renovation is planned for the year 2009.

As you sit and sip your cup of tea

Now, as you sit and sip your cup of tea
And leave the rest alone to rail and worry,
We are sufficient now, you must agree.

How soon the time, I think, to cross the sea
Severing us from land and hour, I'll hurry
Now, as you sit and sip your cup of tea.

And in this time, your voice now calling me
To double speed , to make it fast, to bury
All, to make sufficient now, I must agree

To spent my time now learning, how to be
Able to stand my ground amidst this furry
Now, as you sit and sip your cup of tea.

There will be time, that when my soul is free
And burdenless, and not for other's glory,
We shall be sufficient. Now you must agree,.

That as we pass each day, and pass each hour
Until a time when this is merely memory,
Now as you sit and sip your cup of tea,
We are sufficient now, you must agree.

Love is Blind

They have found that feelings of love lead to a suppression of activity in the areas of brain controlling critical thought.
It seems that once we get close to a person, the brain decides that the need to access their character and personality is reduced. Nothing matters then!
The study was conducted by University college in London.

The researchers found that both romantic love and material love have the same effect on love.

Love is not just physical attraction. It is every thing the other person is. Every word she says, every single step he takes, every move she makes. Love transcends all limits, all boundaries, even expectations....

Will war resolve the problem?

The Mumbai attacks have been dubbed 'India's 9/11' and there are calls for 9/11 style response, which is to go on war with Pakistan. Instead, our country must fight terrorism with justice. After all the wars that have taken place in the 20th century we should know better than engage battle. The collective conscience of the society will only be satisfied by the government taking concrete steps for the homeland security. But I believe our priority is to fight terrorism not Pakistan. The terrorist training camps, the fire-breathing mullahs and the maniacs who believe that Islam will, or should, rule the world are the ones who should be punished. And their ire rains down on Pakistani government and Pakistani civilians as much, if not more than it does on India.

As tension in the region builds, US has warned Pakistan that if it didn't act fast to arrest the "Bad Guys", India would be compelled to launch air-strikes on terrorist-camps in Pakistan and Washington could do nothing because Mumbai attack was India's 9/11.

But November isn't September, 2008 isn't 2001, Pakistan isn't Afghanistan and India isn't America. So perhaps we should reclaim our tragedy and pick through the debris with our own brains and our own broken hearts so that we can arrive at our own conclusions.

If at this point India decides to go on war with Pakistan, then perhaps the descent of the whole region into chaos will be complete. The debris of a bankrupt, destroyed Pakistan will wash up on India's shores, endangering us as never before. If Pakistan collapses, we can look forward to millions of "non-state actors" with an arsenal of nuclear weapons at their disposal. And rest assured the terrorist will not distinguish between rich and poor. They will kill them both with equal cold-bloodedness as we have already seen in Mumbai.

In circumstances like these, air-strikes to take-out terrorist training camps may take out the camps, but certainly will not "take out" the terrorists. Neither will war. (Also, in our bid for high moral ground, let's try not to forget that the LTTE of neighboring Sri Lanka, one of the worlds deadliest terrorist groups, were trained by the Indian army.)

Thanks largely to the part Pakistan was forced to play as America's ally first in its war in support of Islamist Fundamentalist and then in its war against them, its territory is careening towards civil war. As recruiting agents for America's jihad against the Soviet Union, it was the job of the Pakistan army and the ISI to nurture and channel funds to Islamic Fundamentalist organizations. Having wired up these Frankensteins and released them into the world, the US expected it could rein them in like pet mastiffs whenever it wanted to.

How should those of us whose hearts have been sickened by the lose of lives in the Mumbai attack extract revenge and what other options are left? Homeland security has cost the US government billions of dollars. Few countries, certainly not India, can afford that sort of price tag. The fact is that this vast homeland of ours cannot be secured or policed in the way the US has been doing. We have a hostile nuclear weapons country that is spinning out of control as a neighbour, we have a military occupation in Kashmir and an impoverished and shamefully persecuted minority of over 150 million Muslims who are being targeted as a community and pushed to the wall. Were the youth of the Muslim community, who see no justice in the horizon, to totally lose hope and radicalize, they would end up as a threat to not only India but the whole world. If 10 men can hold of the NSG and the police for three days, and if it takes half a million soldiers to hold down the Kashmir Valley, do the math. What kind of homeland security can secure India?

Nor for that matter will any other fix. Anti-terrorism laws are not meant for terrorists; they are meant for people who are disliked by the government. That's why they have a conviction rate of less than 2%. They are just a way of putting inconvenient people behind bars without bail and then eventually being released. Terrorists like the ones who attacked Mumbai hardly likely to be deterred by the prospects of being refused bail and sentenced to death. Its what they want.

What we're experiencing now is a blow back, the culminative result of decades of quick fixes and dirty deeds. The carpet is squelching under our feet.

On the international hunger index, India is ranked below Sudan and Somalia. But of course this isn't that war. That one is still being fought in the Dalit bastis of our villages; on the banks of Narmada and Koel Karo rivers; in the rubber estates of Chengara; in the villages of Nandigram, Singur, Chattisgarh, Jharkhand, orrissa and Lalgarh in West Bengal; and in the slums and shantytowns of are gigantic cities.

We have to stop war mongering and think about how a war will adversely affect our future. We are standing at a fork on the road. One sign says justice, the other says civil war. There is no third sign and there's no going back. Choose.

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I am a quantumplative guy seeking answers to the mysteries of the universe both outside and within.

Pyramids of salt




Here is an interesting Fungus




Change is inevitable




She sells seashells down by the seashore.




Seems like an interesting place to build your castle




Nice hideout.




A lovely place to visit. Such a peaceful setting.

The Fairytale Castle

This fairytale castle doesn't have a very long history to brag with, but its beauty makes all of us admire it in silence (and without taking photos of the interiors). It started its life in 19 th century as homage to Richard Wagner. After the death of Ludwig (the king who commissioned it), the castle was open for the public. the grounds have a theatrical aura to them which only helps to bring more and more visitors every year (about 1.3 million annually).
Does this castle also look familiar? It should because it featured in many movies and was the inspiration of Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland Park and the Cinderella Castles at the magic Kingdom and Tokyo Disneyland.
In order to get to the castle, you should first get to Munich (either by plane or train). Then you need to take a train to Fussen and then a bus in the direction to Schwangau until you reach the stop Hohenschwangau. From the bus station you can walk to the castle (about 30 minutes)

The Street Artist

Montreal artist Roadsworth is famous for his street art. Street can be a powerful platform for reaching the public, and frequent themes include adbusting, subverting and other cultural jamming, the abolishment of private property and reclaiming the streets.

Roadsworth simply saw urban space as an untapped format of personal artwork. One could not miss the sarcasm hint in his handywork.

Roadsworth street art created controversy, some opposed his use of the streets of Montreal as his canvas, and some others supported it. In 2006, he was arrested for vandalism charges which were not supported by concrete evidence.

In my opinion, he changed the face of the cold urban environment and made it alive. It was a kind of public art but art that wasnt funded nor officially supported, art that would make you think, and smile.

Why am i fighting?

"Why am i fighting to live, if i am just living to fight

Why am i trying to see, when there aint nothing in sight
Why am i trying to give, when noone gives me a try
Why am i dying to live, if i'm just living to die?
someone tell me y"



Tupak Shakur

Poet, lyricist, rapper, MC, actor, producerand screenwriter.
Tupak also radiated a cultural consciousness
that made him easily adaptable to young and old alike.

"A dream Within A dream"

Take this kiss upon the brow!
and, in parting from you now,
thus much let me avow-
you are not wrong, who deem
that my days have been a dream;
yet if hope has flown away
in a night, or in a day,
in a vision, or in none,
is it therefore the less gone?
all that we see or seem
is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
of a surf tormented shore,
and i hold within my hand
grains of the golden sand-
how few yet how they creep
through my fingers to the deep,
while i weep-while i weep!
oh God! can i not grasp
them with a tighter clasp?
oh God! can i not save
one from the pitiless wave?
is all that we see or seem
but a dream within a dream?

My Thoughts

When I get an apple with a spot on it, remove the spot with a knife; 99% of the time, the spot is not very deep. A spotless apple is very expensive. My friends are just like apples. I try to remove their weaknesses with my "Mental Knife" and use their strengths to mutual advantage.
The past is history. The future is a mystery. The here and now is a gift. That is why it's called the present.
Keep your heart open to dreams. For as long as there's a dream, there is hope, and as long as there is hope there is joy in living.
Like birds, let us leave behind what we do not need to carry
pains, sorrows, grudges, fears. Always fly light,
life is so beautiful!

Memories play a very confusing ROLE.....They make you laugh when you remember the time you cried together! But make you cry when you remember the time you laughed together!

Our interest is in the future because we are going to spend the rest of our lives there!