State of Education in US?
Aug 30, 2007 Thoughts and ramblings
Epic! The response to the question by Miss teen South Carolina during a recent beauty pagent was epic! I saw the video a few days ago and couldn’t help but laugh. Perhaps not at the girl (she is quite good looking! perhaps beauty and brains don’t really go together, though I have seen enough pretty girls who are damn intelligent to know there is no truth to that), no, I wasn’t laughing at the girl but at the education system that produces such intelligent beings. If you haven’t seen the video, watch it:
Tags: Education, Thoughts and ramblings, US
mysql – identifying number of duplicates in a table
Aug 16, 2007 mysql
So my little query adventures with mySQL continues. Here’s another unique problem: There are duplicates in the table as there is no field that was setup as primary index. So how do we know how many do we have?
Well assume that the duplicate values happen on the “Phone Number” of the client. Here’s the query you would run:
select `BUSINESS PHONE`, count(*) as ‘Num of Dups’
from mytable
group by `BUSINESS PHONE`
having count(*) > 1
ki puchhde ho haal fakeeraaN da!
Aug 9, 2007 Poetry, Punjabi Poems
A masterpiece in my opinion by Shiv Kumar Batalvi! Such sadness in there and such a beautiful Ghazal in Punjabi.
ki puchhde ho haal fakeeraaN da, saaDaa nadiyaaN vichhRe neeraaN da
saaDaa hunj di jooN ne aayaaN da, saaDaa dil jaleyaa dil-geeraaN da
eh jaandeyaaN kuj shoKh jahe, rangaaN da hi naaN tasveeraaN hai
jad haT gaye, asi ishqe di, mull kar baiThe tasveeraaN da!
saanu lakhaaN da tan labh gayaa, par ik da man vi naa mileyaa
kya likheyaa kise, muqaddar si.. hatthaaN diyaaN chaar lakeeraaN da
taqdeer taaN apni sauNkan si, tadbeeraaN saathoN na hoiyaaN
na jhaNg chhuTeyaa, na kan paaTe, jhuND laNg gayaa ainj heeraaN da
mere geet vi lok suninde ne, naale kaafir aakh sadinde ne
maiN dard nouN kaabaa kah baiThaa, rab naaN rakh baiThaa peeRaaN da!
Tags: geet, nazm, punjabi poetry, shiv kumar batalvi, song
vo jo ham meiN tum meiN
Aug 8, 2007 Poetry, Urdu Misc Poems
oh this ghazal can so easily make you think about time gone by. you can just read the words, listen to them in the voice of many Ghazal singers who sang this…. and then just get lost…
wo jo ham meiN tum meiN qaraar thaa, tumheiN yaad ho k na yaad ho
vahii yaanii vaadaa nibaah kaa, tumheiN yaad ho k na yaad ho
vo naye gile vo shikaayateiN, vo maze maze kii hikaayateiN
vo har ek baat pe rooThnaa, tumheiN yaad ho k na yaad ho
suno zikr hai kaii saal kaa…koii vaadaa mujh se thaa aap ka
vo nibaahane kaa to zikr kyaa, tumheiN yaad ho k na yaad ho!
vo jo lutf mujh pe the beshtar, vo karam k haath mire haath par
mujhe sab hai yaad zaraa zaraa, tumheiN yaad ho k na yaad ho!!!!
jise aap ginte the aashnaa, jise aap kahte the baa-vafaa
maiN vahii houN ‘momin-e-mubtala’ tumheiN yaad ho k na yaad ho
Momin Khan Momin
Tags: ghazal, Momin Khan Momin, urdu poetry
Consciousness
Aug 8, 2007 Thoughts and ramblings
[...]that to be too conscious is an illness[...]
This is part of one of the quotes that is always displayed on my blog. I was just online today, looking at my blog and seeing how inactive it had been lately and I read this quote and I realized how true these words are.
I frequently run into arguments with people about issues, present, past or perhaps even future issues that plague our world or have plagued our world. Why? Perhaps I think too much about these things, or perhaps I know or I THINK I know more about certain things? I feel passionate about certain topics – and these are as diverse as I could ever imagine!
What is it? Am I too conscious? And I feel that although I have more control over my outbursts, I lose patience when I see someone not seeing my point and I tend to escape the argument now. I wasn’t like that before. I would persevere. I would argue argue argue till I had nothing else to say, till I had repeated myself again and again and yet I would argue more because I knew I had a valid point. I would try and show the others light about certain things, especially things that I felt passionate about. So what is it now? Why have I become more passive? Have I lost the passion or am I simply seeing the futility in trying to make people see the light? Is it futile?
Karma Yoga – Do what you have to do and don’t think about the fruit of your action. Easier said than done eh? Ignorance is prevalent in this world. It is impossible to break through the veil, no matter how flimsy that veil may seem to the one who is making the attempt to break through it. There’s this brain-washing going on in the world. What has been fed to them for years and years through our education system, through media, through propaganda, can not be removed, can not be overcome no matter how right you are, no matter how justified, logical and rational your views are. Fyodor said it: – Consciousness is a disease indeed.
Tags: Thoughts and ramblings
