KG Birthday 2012

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"You know the hardest thing about being smart -- I always pretty much know what's gonna happen next. There's no suspense."

Billy Bob Thornton - From the movie : Bandits

This is actually a perfect description of me. Seriously.





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Charikonda Day Trip

Charikonda is a small hamlet about 75 km from Hyderabad.
Nestled among the Nalgonda hillocks, we got to see these farmers work on Cotton Fields during harvest season ! They gather about a large sackfull of cotton bolls in a days work, with all the family members pulling together.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thought Bubbles

Thought bubbles are like club-soda bubbles along the glass. They gather momentum and air then move upward, as they burst to the surface. Sometimes if you shake the glass they rise faster, while some bubbles just take their own sweet time.


Stages of wisdom and passing it on. 

The giver's intention being to give a heads-up and save trouble, the recipient thinks that the giver is cramping their style .

At first it is stubborn and self-seeking, then comes a stage of semi-understanding. And finally a fuller knowing, which grows into actively seeking wisdom.

I'm not sure if this process can truly be accelerated... 

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Climbing and Spiritual Peaks

This morning's conversation with Deepa. 

Spiritual awakening is a journey and cannot be a destination because it is vast. A seeker is like a climber. He climbs a peak and has his first "A-ha" experience, but he cannot assume that this is all there is. 

There are multiple peaks, there are peaks of differing heights, there are different views from the top too, depending on which face of the peak has been scaled.  There are also different climbing trails and pathways to the top. 

Some people get to a peak and assume they've "reached". They think that they have to stay there and shout out to all those below that they must climb up to the peak that they themselves are on. 

Sometimes they shout to others on other peaks and tell them that their view / peak is wrong, and that the one they're on is more beautiful / correct / rewarding.

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Quote from Movie "Stay"

"Bad art is tragically more beautiful than good art because it documents human failure." 




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Piano Grade Exams

The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music’ was founded in 1889 in response to a proposition by Sir Alexander MacKenzie, principal of the Royal Academy of Music, to Sir George Grove, director of the Royal College of Music, that their two pre-eminent musical training institutions unite to create an examining body ‘inspired by disinterested motives for the benefit of musical education... which would genuinely provide a stimulus and an objective for a high standard of achievement’.

On 31st Oct 2012, Armaan & Alisha both took their Piano Grade Exams.
Alisha took Grade 1 and Armaan took the Prep Test.

Armaan was awarded his Certificate the same day, while we are waiting for Alisha's results to be declared in about a month.

** UPDATE 15 DEC 2012 **
Alisha passed her grade exam with Merit !

We are so very proud of them both !!

Lyrics from Tunnel Of Love

It ought to be easy ought to be simple enough

Man meets woman and they fall in love

But the house is haunted and the ride gets rough

And you've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above

if you want to ride on down in through this tunnel of love

 

- Bruce Springsteen : Tunnel Of Love