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Recently I purchased two books: Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person by Hugh Prather The Other Side of Me by Sidney Sheldon  Both the books are worth reading. Will write a detailed review about both these books later. Notes to Myself is a book that you'll read and read and re-read it. The book gives us an insight into the sweet, small moments of our lives that we tend to neglect. In today's world, we overlook small things. We are worried about our future and tend to forget today's happy moments. As the author says - " I don't need a reason to be happy. I don't have to consult the future to know how happy I feel now. " The writing style of author is soothing and comes from heart. Buy Notes to Myself from Flipkart.com   The Other Side of Me starts with the story of how Sidney Sheldon, as a young guy wanted to end his life by consuming sleeping pills with whiskey and how his father finds it and advises him to reconsider his decision. He says - Li

The first biological lesson of history in life is competition. The above quote is from the book "The Lessons of History" by Will and Ariel Durant. A man has to compete right from his birth. No matter how much we may wish that there should be equality - in wealth, in health or in any worldly things; but mother nature likes inequality. She yearns change, she wants everyone to be different, she makes us different and that's the rule of nature. And hence we have competition. Competition for wealth, love, things, etc. We should respect nature. We should respect the change. We should respect inequality. We should follow the nature's rules rather than fighting and dissipating our energies. If we keep faith in nature's way of working and let it work the way it wants, then and only then, we'll be happy. So we should stay cool and play life as a game which is full of surprises and up and downs.

Last week on Saturday, while I was on vacation, I and my engineering friends of had a small get-together. It was a long pending get-together. So after many discussions on WhatsApp and a few calls, a few of us decided to meet at Baroda. The participants were - Rahul & Soniya, Hemal, Sandhya and Myself. Apurva & Swati couldn't come due to some reasons. Kinjal also couldn't come. First, we went to Hemal's new house in Pashabhai Park and had snacks. After a while, we went to Inox just a few yards from Pashabhai Park and watched the new movie Raanjhanaa starring Dhanush and Sonam Kapoor. Didn't liked the movie much. However, the music of A.R. Rehman was good. After movie, we roamed in the Landmark store besides Inox and later decided to have dinner. Most of the restaurants were flooded and we had to wait outside. Finally we could manage to have South Indian at Sankalp. In all, we enjoyed the day and felt great. Missed a lot many classmates. I take this opportunity to

Atul Chitnis has aptly written a post for all those guys joining as freshers. He has written 20 tips for the freshers. Here's the link . 

While I understand that all things must come to an end, whether it's a television advertisement or one's life or the world itself, it doesn't make it any easier to deal with. ~ John Hodgman These days I hardly watch TV. And whenever I get a chance to watch, the ads seem to be so endless that sometimes I forget which program I was watching on the TV channel. However, there's a good news too. According to the link, TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) has started making attempts to regulate the advertising time. So its good news for regular TV viewers. However, this is going to hurt the channels. And this will also increase the ad rates which will directly affect small players.

I've always admired Chetan Bhagat as a writer. Have read all his books, my favorite being "Five Point Someone." Off late, other than writing novels, he's also popular as a speaker who talks about life, ' spark ' and other topics in general. He's also seen more as a youth icon amongst the youngsters. Today he tweeted about some of the lessons he've learnt in life. Here's the tweet. some life lessons i've learnt: twitter.com/chetan_bhagat/… — Chetan Bhagat (@chetan_bhagat) June 12, 2013

Being an engineer from a college affiliated to Veer Narmad South Gujarat University is itself a matter a pride. All VNSGU people would agree with me. ;-) Before the Gujarat Technological University was initiated, all the engineering, pharmacy and management colleges of the state were affiliated to the respective zone wise universities like the Gujarat University, Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University, Saurashtra University, Sardar Patel University, etc. Comparing VNSGU with GTU, I would like to mention a few stark differences that I've seen: We Always Used Reference Books : We, the students of VNSGU, never used to have books written by local authors/publishers that were merely copy-pasted summarized versions of the reference books. Even Gujarat University and Sardar Patel University had some books written by local publishers/authors. Studying from reference books, that too by foreign authors was too difficult for those students coming from Gujarati Medium. I still remember a b