“Secret of Success”… As Meredith Grey puts it.

Meredith Grey is a fictional character portrayed by actress Ellen Pompeo in Grey’s Anatomy, a very popular TV series i believe. I haven’t been able to stand anything other than Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister. However, my attention was diverted this quote by somebody who knows I cant stand sitcoms.

And for all the crapping that these sitcoms usually do, this character spoke some sense. Its something all of us know (even if some of us don’t really do anything about it).

Here’s the quote in question.

“A couple of hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success. Never leave that till tomorrow, he said, which you can do today. This is the man who discovered electricity. You think more people would listen to what he had to say. I don’t know why we put things off, but if I had to guess, I’d have to say it has a lot to do with fear. Fear of failure, fear of rejection, sometimes the fear is just of making a decision, because what if you’re wrong? What if you’re making a mistake you can’t undo? The early bird catches the worm. A stitch in time saves nine. He who hesitates is lost. We can’t pretend we hadn’t been told. We’ve all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us to seize the day. Still sometimes we have to see for ourselves. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. We have to sweep today’s possibility under tomorrow’s rug until we can’t anymore. Until we finally understand for ourselves what Benjamin Franklin really meant. That knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beat the hell out of never trying.”

Last time i tried writing something, i ended up screwing some chap’s well written blog on the same topic which came to the same conclusion. And then i realised If i write something trying to make sense of all this and make it sound fundoo, I will end up writing gibberish as I always do.

Enjoy the quote.

Cheersh

Jais

Jam tomorrow

Jam tomorrow

Meaning:

Some pleasant event in the future, which is never likely to materialize.

Origin:

This derives from Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (1871), in which the White Queen offers Alice ‘jam to-morrow’:

‘I’m sure I’ll take you with pleasure!’ the Queen said. ‘Twopence a week, and jam every other day.’
Alice couldn’t help laughing, as she said, ‘I don’t want you to hire ME – and I don’t care for jam.’
‘It’s very good jam,’ said the Queen.
‘Well, I don’t want any TO-DAY, at any rate.’
‘You couldn’t have it if you DID want it,’ the Queen said. ‘The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday – but never jam to-day.’
‘It MUST come sometimes to “jam to-day,”‘ Alice objected.
‘No, it can’t,’ said the Queen. ‘It’s jam every OTHER day: to-day isn’t any OTHER day, you know.’
‘I don’t understand you,’ said Alice. ‘It’s dreadfully confusing!’

The phrase caught on quickly and jam tomorrow became a synonym for a ‘pie in the sky’ promise of good things in the future with a few years of the book’s publication.

( Courtesy: http://www.phrases.org.uk )

I understand.

Cheers

Jais

There’s some good in this world… and it’s worth fighting for.

Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers

Frodo: I can’t do this, Sam.

Sam: I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.

Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam?

Sam: That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo… and it’s worth fighting for.

Persevere.

Jais

I dig Music…

I dig music… i honestly do. Oh well, i want to anyway.

Have put my winamp on shuffle mode for the past couple of days with all the English tracks on (which would also explain the tracks which were considered for the name of this stupid blog). And the results are interesting…

Up Around The Bend by Creedence Clearwater Revival, Chichina from the soundtrack of Motorcycle Diaries, Beatles – You Like Me Too Much, Simple Twist of Fate by Bob Dylan, Beatles – I saw her standing there! (devine…), Ryan Adams – Starlite Diner, Baby Blue by Badfinger from the soundtrack of Departed, The Guns Of Brixton by The Clash, Bruce Springsteen – Better Days… Skipped quite a few tracks in between.

The thing is, i hadn’t heard most of the tracks in a long long time. Baring Beatles and departed soundtrack rest all are as good as new. at least listening experience wise. to me at least… and they are good. really really good!

Lets discover some music.

Cheers

Jais

PS: the quote “i dig music” is ‘borrowed’ from the movie “almost famous”. Amazing movie. Amazing soundtrack.

Could have…?

Dear Interested readers. This is my third post in 12 hours! wonder how long this blog craze will last. Knowing me, i will delete it within the next 24 to 48 hours. Or might probably take it as a challenge and keep for a while longer. 72 hours perhaps. Decisions decisions!

Saw this as the gtalk status of a first year. Probably hes the only first year i know… anyway, it was as follows:

“The saddest summary of lyf contains three descriptions: ‘COULD HAVE’ , ‘MIGHT HAVE’ and ‘SHOULD HAVE’.”

Would i have liked it any other way? Probably. Can i do anything about anything that ‘could have’, ‘might have’ or ‘should have’? Nope. That puts an end to the debate, doesn’t it? Sometimes its easy to deal in absolutes.

However, coming back, definitely an interesting status. but in the end doesn’t really matter. As Gandalf put it in lord of the rigs: fellowship of the rings, “all you have to decide is what to do with the time given to us’ (or something to that effect).

And considering the time that has been given to me, I wouldn’t want it to be any other way…

Or would I? Hmm…

Cheers

Jais