Category: Life

  • Opportunities

    Opportunities

    வாய்புகள் அமையாது!நாம் தான் அமைத்துக்கொள்ள வேண்டும்! (Opportunities do not happen! We should only set them up!) – Kochadaiyaan, Thalivar Rajinikanth Contradictory to “Opportunity will knock your door only once”? How about making the opportunity knock your door at your will? Sounds ridiculous? Let me break it down. Direction of effort Do you really want to wait…

  • Never Give Up!

    Never Give Up!

    Endurance – the ability to withstand hardship or adversity – always seems impossible until you have no other choice. Before you even realize, the situation is already out of control and all you can do is find a way to get through it. At that time, worrying about how you ended up there is only…

  • The Other Side of the Coin

    The Other Side of the Coin

    I know it has been SIX months since the last time. A lot has transpired since then. I will try my best to capture some of the experiences in the coming weeks. For now, here’s what I started back then and left midway. Every coin has two sides. Every sheet of paper has two pages.…

  • The Spring

    The Spring

    It’s been a while since we compared life to The Coaster. Let’s take another thing we all have almost definitely seen – The Spring. Not the season, the mechanical object (of course! 😝). Being an engineer, that too from Chennai, the season is not the first thing that comes to mind. All we know is…

  • Newton’s Laws of Motion

    Newton’s Laws of Motion

    Physics Class-ah!?! Oh! No No! Don’t worry! This will be deeper than simple Physics. We will look at the laws, but apply them to life instead. 😝 The Law of Inertia Every body continues to be in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line unless compelled by some external force…

  • The Coaster

    The Coaster

    You’ve probably heard life being compared with a roller coaster ride. You go up, then come down, twist and turn unexpectedly, sometimes even do a backflip (andhar balti, if that’s relatable). Same with life, right? Okay, I can hear you say “புதுசா எதாவது சொல்லு டா” (“tell us something new da!”). Stay with me, let’s break…