Well another year has passed leaving behind some beautiful memories. The year 2006 was not quiet a eventful one but it was a year that made me reunited with some of my very old friends and gave me some new ones. Its the year in which I joined Orkut!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ha! Ha! Ha!. Well that is something to be talked about...........Its the year in which i got back my form in cricket. Got back to music. It was a getting back year for me. Met some beautiful girls who were always missing from my life.Ho Ho Ho!. I had an all round development of my potentials in this year. OOPS!!!!!!!! forgot about studies. So that is something that I have to do in this coming year.
We all walk in our own path. Each one of us has different paths to travel. But all of us have only one destination. Whatever be the path it has to end and it ends with our death. So here I am walking on the path of life year after year. On my way to the destination I found, find and will find others like me walking on their own path. Some of them will go ahead of me, some of them will lag behind me and some of them will walk beside me. Lets see .................................................
Sunday, December 31, 2006
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Interesting Words
As I was going through the meanings of certain words I found that there were few words which really had interesting origin.
bowdlerize:- In 1818 Dr. Thomas Bowdler , an English editor , published The Family Shakespeare, an edition in which"those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family."To bowdlerize, therefore , means to expurgate a book by leaving out or changing words and passages considered (by the editor) indelicate or offensive. An extended meaning of to bowdlerize is to render weak by omitting forceful parts.
draconian:- As far as I can remember I came across this word while read The Da Vinci Code.
Draconian devil. In about 621 B.C Draco (or Dracon) compiled the first written code of laws in ancient Athens. Death was the punishment he assigned to almost all crimes, even petty ones, so that the saying arose that his laws were written in blood, not in ink. Hence draconian means very rigorous and severe.
Synonyms: cruel, drastic, harsh, immitigable, rigid, stern, stringent
fabian:- Quintus Fabius Maximus, appointed dictator in 217 B.C to lead the Roman army against Hannibal, decided that cautious delaying tactics would be more successful than engaging the enemy in pitched battles. He therefore harassed Hannibal's army, cut off its supplies, and raided its lines. Fabius earned the appellation of Cunctator, or ,"The delayer"; today , such a policy, in any field , is described as Fabian . In politics ,Fabianism means gradualism, a slow step by step evolutionary change.
maverick:- Samuel A. Maverick was a Texan rancher of the 1840's who did not bother to brand his calves. At first the word maverick was applied only to unbranded calves, but later, since such animals were different from ordinary run of animals, the meaning of maverick was extended to apply to anybody who does not follow the common herd. A person of independent turn of mind, an individualist who does not conform , an unpredictable politician who does not always follow the dictates of his party may be termed as maverick. The word is also used as an adjective.
Synonyms for the adjective: recalcitrant, refactory, unorthodox.
bowdlerize:- In 1818 Dr. Thomas Bowdler , an English editor , published The Family Shakespeare, an edition in which"those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family."To bowdlerize, therefore , means to expurgate a book by leaving out or changing words and passages considered (by the editor) indelicate or offensive. An extended meaning of to bowdlerize is to render weak by omitting forceful parts.
draconian:- As far as I can remember I came across this word while read The Da Vinci Code.
Draconian devil. In about 621 B.C Draco (or Dracon) compiled the first written code of laws in ancient Athens. Death was the punishment he assigned to almost all crimes, even petty ones, so that the saying arose that his laws were written in blood, not in ink. Hence draconian means very rigorous and severe.
Synonyms: cruel, drastic, harsh, immitigable, rigid, stern, stringent
fabian:- Quintus Fabius Maximus, appointed dictator in 217 B.C to lead the Roman army against Hannibal, decided that cautious delaying tactics would be more successful than engaging the enemy in pitched battles. He therefore harassed Hannibal's army, cut off its supplies, and raided its lines. Fabius earned the appellation of Cunctator, or ,"The delayer"; today , such a policy, in any field , is described as Fabian . In politics ,Fabianism means gradualism, a slow step by step evolutionary change.
maverick:- Samuel A. Maverick was a Texan rancher of the 1840's who did not bother to brand his calves. At first the word maverick was applied only to unbranded calves, but later, since such animals were different from ordinary run of animals, the meaning of maverick was extended to apply to anybody who does not follow the common herd. A person of independent turn of mind, an individualist who does not conform , an unpredictable politician who does not always follow the dictates of his party may be termed as maverick. The word is also used as an adjective.
Synonyms for the adjective: recalcitrant, refactory, unorthodox.
Saturday, December 23, 2006
Walking down the memory lane
As I walk through the ghats of Varanasi alone with a scoreful of years behind me I feel as if I am strolling through my memory lane. I trudge by the weight of the thoughts which have besieged my mind. I stride forward remembering my past which is responsible for my present and cogitate on my present which is going to be responsible for my future. Cloistered in the world of my own as I walk and look around I come across few milestones. Some of which are still prominent. Some have managed to keep their heads high but obscure to my eyes and most of them lost in the layers of the sub conscious realm often trying to barge out of it. These milestones makes me remember those sweet and bitter moments of my life which has shaped my character. The path starts from the garden of paradise surrounded by beautiful flowers. As I grew up the paradise turned into this world in which i live with thorns reminding me of the reality. Right from the child inside me to the perplexed teenager and the struggling adult see their reflections. They talk with each other and sing the songs that I had sung all the way and my ears listen to all of them, sometimes the happy notes, and sometimes the plaintive numbers flow. Afterall life is a song and we are the composers, sometimes composing the sweet melody and sometimes the melancholy ones. But at the end of it its such a beautiful feeling.
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