Hope..

          If you win a lottery, people say that you are lucky. What are you if you have won it after having lost for hundred times? Are you still lucky? If you were, then you would have won it much earlier. Why would you have to wait for such a long time? Patience?? Oh! You don’t tell me that because no matter how patient you are, you are never sure that you are going to get it one day. So what could be it? It is.. that you never give your hope despite the uncertainty of your win. Anyway, you got it, won it. Congratulation!! But have you ever considered your half an hour that you use to walk from your office to the lottery shop each time the lottery opened? Have you considered the cost of a single lottery included your lunch for a whole week? Have you ever considered the fact that how desperately you use to turn the pages of newspapers to see the result of your so much anticipated lottery? What if all of these outweigh your lottery you have won? Are you still lucky? One thing that I am almost sure is you are not going to give your hope and still you will opt to buy the next lottery, aren’t you?  

          I am neither a pessimist nor I have any intent of suggesting anything of that sort. I write what I see which you may have seen as well. I have seen many fathers playing cards, drinking and leaving no money for their families and I have seen mothers still not giving her hope that one day their husbands will be responsible and their children will take them out of their impoverished life. In this sense, hope seems to be leading and fuelling their life. But by the time mothers’ hope turns into a reality, they are already old. If only had they got what they longed for a bit earlier… Don’t say I am a feminist as well. I have seen this and I have also read about it in my social-study book in my school and it’s true. I have seen some people who, having lost all their hopes, still trying to create a new one. As long as there is life, there will be hope.

         

Part 2 - An end of the series

Hats off to J. K. Rowling. Hats off.

To make every part of the series a big hit and to take each and every character, name, spell, location and magic to the hearts and minds of the people, must require an extraordinary power which no man in the world but J. K. Rowling possesses. People who don't know Hogwarts can be counted despite the fact that there is no such a place where you can send your children to learn some magic, but still it exists in the minds of people and most of the children go through "Kings Cross Station from platform 9 & 3/4" and come back home from Hogwarts through the same station.

"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2" Trailer 2

From youtube.com

To a huge follower of Harry Potter Series like me, release of the last part of the book (Deathly Hallows) had brought both happiness and sadness. Happiness, because I expected it to come soon and it finally came and sadness, because no sequel would be there after that release. But still I had a thing to expect.. yeah movies which now also has brought the same feeling in me as I had once some years ago. DEATHLY HALLOWS is in theaters now. Once again I am gonna go through Kings station and I also know when I have to return through the station, there would be no going back. 

Fan

I have learnt that when it comes to appreciate someone, you should not appreciate him so much that one day if he tells anything bad about something of which you cannot hear any bad words and you therefore would lie in your bed for a whole day doing nothing or crying or getting upset. Recently, I got to see many people getting very sad and hurt and the reason was a famous celebrity who had been a bad-mouth regarding their nature and nationality. Needless to say that music, movies, dances, songs, dramas etc. play how much a significant role in the life of a person. In one or the other way, people get attached to at least one of them. In the mean time, people start giving love and respect to the actors, singers etc. Their works start getting well appreciated and these famous people also start to be the part of the life of the general people. People include them in their conversation, sing their songs, some try to look like them and the bottom line, as has already been mentioned, is 'people respect them'. So, when making any comments about their fans and followers, should they not think before they speak?

en la fiesta de las peliculas

I went in the hall and luckily found a seat, although not at the back ( though at the very second row.. haha) at least I found a place for myself. It had been a long time that I hadn't watched any movie in a hall. The movie started and the very first scene of a poor family with a heart-touching sweet bothering of a very very sweet and cute girl to her young mother started to draw attention of everyone inside the hall. What actually happened in the film was the father of the girl secretly had eaten her food and after discovering that there was nothing to eat, daughter was complaining to her mother. Son of the family, who might just be a year older than her sister, comes later complaining about some other thing. The film was able to show the bond of love and care between the mother and her children and this compelled some (including me..) to shed some tears.

One night, when the parents were out in their work and when the baby girl and baby son were sleeping quietly, the earth began to tremble, houses and buildings started to make noise, roofs started to fall down and slowly the whole society turned into a rubble. Father lost his life in his attempt of saving his children and the mother got unconscious as she could not bear the terrible death of her husband...... The second time, audience wanted to cry.

The mother wakes up with a sore throat still mumbling her daughter's name and searches her family in the rubble. Ah.. she finds her son, she could hear her son's voice. A concrete slab, lying over his body, didn't let him move his head and talk face-to-face with her mother. Mother asks about his sister and he tells that she is alive but  had stopped speaking. What could be the most terrible, horrible, heart-aching.... moment for a mother when she has to choose the life of one of her two children? The concrete slab was in such a position that on trying to remove would kill one of them for certain. She begs to the people for the life of both. But at last she made a decision to choose one of them. Ah..... it hurts. The third time I cried. When the about-to-be-dead daughter hears her mother's decision and says 'Mamma', it.....................................................

I could not watch the whole movie and came out of the hall. The mother, who was pregnant as well, had said, "God, you bastard". I thought for a while. The movie made me sad, yeah I do not like watching movies of this type, I happened to watch it. 

Abstract of my FYP "Electronic Guitar Tuner"

I would like to post the abstract of my FYP for my friends who wanted to know about it and as a tribute to those who directly and indirectly were the part of it.

Abstract

“Electronic Guitar Tuner” is an effort of making an instrument for measuring how well tuned a Guitar is. For stringed instruments like guitar, proper tuning of the strings carries a significant weight in the production of a good music. It is an endeavor to make the tuning of guitar cost and power effective. This project is a microcontroller based project which aims to provide a user an opportunity to know whether the strings of his Guitar are well tuned or not. By having the previous knowledge of fundamental frequency of each string, the tuner is designed to inform the user about the tuning-status of guitar. The methodology used in the project comprises of three stages. In the first stage, it amplifies the guitar signal. In the second stage, it band limits the signal. This stage also determines the minimum sampling frequency required to prevent signal distortion from aliasing. In the final stage, sampling and analog to digital conversion of the analog signal takes place in a microcontroller. The microcontroller is also used to implement six different digital filters for each string of a guitar and for calculating the frequency of the string being tuned. The algorithm to find the frequency employs the counting of the zero-crossings of the signal.

About google+

Features like huddle, sparks, circles, hangouts in Google+ are wonderful. Interface is awesome. Who would not like to be a part of the project if it really is going to deliver on its promises? One thing for sure about people is that they are more social in social networking sites and we have been observing this in Facebook, Twitter etc. But Google+ seems to be lot more than nowadays networking sites. Let's see if it can prove itself or not when it becomes easily available for everyone.

A thought...

I remember the day when he had asked me, "What happens when everything seems to work against you?". Though much junior than me, he used to ask such vague and strange questions and I could hardly answer even one of them. I still wonder whether I had satisfied him with my answers. Most of the time I used to avoid those moments. It has been some years that we haven't seen each-other. He might have found someone much better who could answer his questions. Ha ha..

But today, after a long time, I remembered him. I remembered his questions so much that I longed to see him again, not with the hope that he will ask them again but with the hope, as some years have passed, that he could answer some of them. When a person is left with few options and the outcomes of them are not guaranteed, though having tried them and still being not assured, then it looks like everything working against her. I don't bother to know what happens then, rather want to know what she should do. Should she console herself that whatever happens next will be good or should she succumb to the failures or should she leave what she is up to and try something new? A single question led to many questions but not to an answer.