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Moonlight

It seemed like an eternity when I watched the moon yesterday. I felt as if it was in yesteryears when I saw the glob shining amid the darkness. I realized how mechanical the life had become which debarred me from the beauty of nature.

Yesterday, I tried to sleep early and quickly went to bed.  As I lied in my bed, I saw a beam of light. Obviously I had turned off the light.  Then I noticed a round glowing figure outside the window. My body almost quivered with guilt. I was oblivious of the moon. I had forgotten that there is a world beyond electricity, tube light and laptop. The life after I came here in college has transmuted me into a virtual robot. I remembered if I had hardly looked over the sky even once since I have come here? When was the day when I got up early in the morning to feel the cold air blowing against my face or to draggle my palm and my feet against the dew?  I had no memories when I went to the terrace of my hostel and saw the clouds changing to any shape I wanted.

The blame is totally on me. But on the back of my mind I wish there were some motivations from the college as well. In addition to all the skyscrapers, I wish college could adorn its premises with a garden with few trees and flowers or may be a small pond with some ducks and fish in it. The humdrum of going college, labs and all the daily homework is so grudging that anyone needs a break from it.

Anyways, hail the nature. Hope it keeps inspiring, at least for another blog entry

working out

The t-shirt is wet. And the odor coming out is not that pleasant. May be the deodorant couldn’t waft out of my clothes. And my limbs are indifferent to move. I am lying in bed and allaying the pain. Nevertheless, my heart is quite frolicsome. The euphoria is erupting, and this post has just come out of one of the explosions. Finally I have done something which I longed to do for a long time. I went to gym and did some workouts.

My resolution of the past two new years, new semesters and new academic years always included the intention to go gym. But there were always some factors that deterred my feet from going there. Satires, invectives were fusilladed but I was not motivated. I knew I was getting fatter and the fear of getting obese always resided in my heart. But this fear was always quelled once I had to take insurmountable endeavor. 2 years passed but I stepped in the SAC only once [for my salsa dance in first year because staff club was packed].

To my luck and thus a gift to my body, Yoga classes started a few days ago. I was reluctant before. The pending works and planned works never allowed the thought to enter my mind. I don’t usually propound the philosophy of tasting and testing everything in life however, I just wanted to get an experience of yoga after all so much is said about it. So I finally stepped in the gym. The gym class was not started so Binod suggested me to do some workouts and the rest is history for me.

Every night the pain brings me the satisfaction of what I have achieved. After all, as my yoga guru says, the machine does everything for you and it’s my duty to do something for it. Nowadays I look at my body and the curved belly seems to smile happily at me. May be its saying “lesser I curve, more curved is your smile”. 

commands #3

1] speak up

Let the machine speak what you type

echo "hello folks. enjoy punj33.blogspot.com and i am really into these bash commands today. "|espeak -s 140 -v english

Then the machine speaks whatever is written within the double quotes. If this doesn't work try this

echo "hello folks. enjoy punj33.blogspot.com and i am really into these bash commands today. "|

espeak -s 140 -v english -w test.wav

So the sound is stored in the file test.wav. So use any commands to open that file

cvlc test.wav 2>/dev/null & #remember it runs in background

totem test.wav 2>/dev/null &

2] play with terminal

If you are set to use just your keyboard and that without shortcuts, then here are some commands to change your window size

resize -s 40 80

where 40 the number of lines [row no.] and 80 is the number of columns . As a fun, we can just create a bash command which takes row and column as arguments and resize the terminal accordingly. 

For a new terminal in maximized form,

gnome-terminal –maximize

and for a new terminal window in full screen

gnome-terminal –full-screen

3] hexadecimal to decimal

One of the simplest command to convert hexadecimal to decimal

printf "%d\n" \0x64

But I think the same can be done easily with some shortcuts using vim/gvim. But today is the day of no shortcuts.

Lets not juxtapose all the commands here. Anyway, follow http://www.commandlinefu.com for ultimate bash commands. The commands above are the contents from the same site.

Keep inspiring.

Adios

eclipse’d

If somebody asks me if I am an atheist then I decline. But it doesn’t necessarily imply that I am a piety. But I do have belief in god. I am a firm believer that there exists some extra power that is far within the reach of human, extra-terrestrial or supernatural [drape all the conspiracy theories for the time being]. I pray before I travel or before exam because that provides me self belief and motivation within. I don’t volunteer myself to visit a temple to pay a homage to god but the scenario in temple, the humming prayers, fragrance of agarbatti, the sound of bells allay any tension or pain. I attain tranquility. What I really feel is the faith is a path that egresses an impasse. It’s a light amid darkness. It’s the only force that urges you to think that there are higher powers that can mitigate the problem. 

But I really want to talk about faith, tradition and superstition. As always an event triggered me to think about it. 2 weeks back I was in my friend’s house during the solar eclipse. The solar eclipse. The time when every action should be taken care of from sleeping to drinking. But on that day, everyone was observing one of the biggest festivals in Gujarat, Uttarayan. And even I couldn’t resist myself from flying kites . But I couldn’t dare to watch the sky and couldn’t stop my feet from going towards the terrace.

A decision was just imperative. I didn’t know whether I was ridden by superstition or fear but I was tenacious about not sitting in the sun. When I tried to close my eyes so that I could decide, all I could hear was people shouting for their kites. That was when the belief of hundreds of people already there in the terrace overpowered my own belief, my fear. Shortly after, not only my own kites were sky high, the experience out there was so enthralling that every second seemed to ratify my decision. I don’t know what that decision will incur on me but I really want to be grateful to people who made me believe harder and believe positively.

anecdote cum enlightenment

Few days ago my friend had planned his trip to New Delhi. He had planned well: managed money in crisis, booked his ticket beforehand, sorted out the itinerary and was quite excited about the trip. If I say he had reservation in Garibrath Express, one of the busiest trains in India where you have to reserve at least before 45 days, anyone could be assured of his preplanned activity. Then suddenly, out of the blue he finds that his friend doesn’t want to meet him due to time constraints and all. Well, ingenuous he was. He cancelled the ticket with heavy heart. So heavy that he even had to pay back the cancellation charge in such crisis. But, he was taken back when he heard from his friend a few days later that actually ‘the’ friend wanted my friend to come there, just that she didn’t want to say that to him then or to bring it to her mouth. Poor my friend !!

I remember my school day when my friend had a t-shirt printed ‘I’d solve any maths problem but not a girl’s mind’. I wondered if I could solve at least all my maths problem from the book , perhaps I could atleast have a try on a girl’s mind. But my hope scrubbed when I saw actually the proverb was by almighty Albert Einstein. It was then I thought I ‘d live long to solve it, to demystify, to do at least something that AE couldn’t. But every time, my attempt comes cropper and my praise for AE become s bigger.

Researches intrigue me. And I am happy to be in such a dynamic and prolonged research.

commands #2 feat. Windows

Let me continue the series

1]  scare your friends
this displays weird symbols, and no command line. clear won't work either
cat /dev/random
yes, ^C will quit the program but play with your friends with some innovative ideas
like, display the contents of /dev/random in 5 terminals at once. macabre feelings !!

2] save your packages
knew about this from rikil shah. save all your codecs and packages as an .iso file
APTonCD
try installing it
sudo apt-get install aptoncd
really helpful if you have to reinstall your whole linux again. you dont have to install your necessities all over again

3] backup your whole system
this is somewhat i have virtually tried. i tried remastersys, it took my 4 hours, but finally it said the file is too large. though i provided me some personal benefits, i would rather recommend  sbackup
click here, if you want to try remastersys
else try sbackup
credit: rikil

4] windows

I fear my friends won't read this post just because they love windows. So its for them
Wonderful 25 Windows Tricks
Greatest Windows Tips of All Time