"COMPUTER PROGRAMMING"- A big nut to crack?

It was Monday. We the people of "Pre-final" CSE (as we term the 3rd year B.E. graduation) had gathered after a short semester holidays. It was a traditional practice that classes will be left free during the first day of the semester (some sort of time for recovery from holiday mood). We had a staff for handling the second hour who was an alter for some other staff on leave. She asked us to write a C program which was actually very easy. We all shouted "Ma'am......... please NOOOOOOO". But she insisted on writing it. "I hate programs" I said to my neighbor and started scribbing inattentively. Then we all started again with "Ma'am......... please NOOOOOOO". The staff was irritated. She asked us "Don't you know to teach an illiterate?". Surprised by the sudden irrelevant question, I stopped scribbling and lifted up my head. "Then why don't you teach the computer? It is an illiterate!". I felt a sense of shame creeping inside me. "My God!!! Am I incapable of teaching an illiterate?" I thought to myself. I looked around to see all faces hanging down in shame. "Ooh! All are ashamed" I thought relieved a bit. We all then started working down with that program. I don't hate programming anymore. Do you???!!!

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Strange way of greeting

It was a dark night. The world seemed still. I fell asleep amidst the silence. I was hugging my pillow tight as I slept. Suddenly a hand pulled the pillow out of my hand. "My God!!!! Let it not be a ghost...." I prayed. The same hands put the pillow on my face. I felt the pillow squeezing me. I clutched the hands. Oh! how rough it seemed. I could neither scream nor help me out of the pillow. Struggling hard, I pushed the pillow aside. Opened my eyes to see the face of my 'attempt murderer'. I could hardly see who it was. When a voice shouted "Good morning........". There stood my brother with a big grin showing that he was back home. I jumped out of the bed, sprang on him and beat him as hard i can. "Ooooooo. It wasn't a ghost anyway", I thought relieved.

WORDS OF SWAMI VIVEKANADA

1. Man is born to conquer nature and not to follow it.

2. When you think you are a body, are apart from the universe; when you think; you are a soul, you are a spark from the great Eternal Fire; when you think you are the Âtman (Self), you are All.

3. The will is not free — it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect — but there is something behind the will which is free.

4. Strength is in goodness, in purity.

5. The universe is — objectified God.

6. You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

7. The root of evil is in the illusion that we are bodies. This, if any, is the original sin.

8. One party says thought is caused by matter, and the other says matter is caused by thought. Both statements are wrong; matter and thought are coexistent. There is a third something of which both matter and thought are products.

9. As particles of matter combine in space, so mind-waves combine in time.

10. To define God is — grinding the already ground; for He is the only being we know.

11. Religion is the idea which is raising the brute unto man, and man unto God.

12. External nature is only internal nature writ large.

13. The motive is the measure of your work. What motive can be higher than that you are God, and that the lowest man is also God?

14. The observer in the psychic world needs to be very strong and scientifically trained.

15. To believe that mind is all, that thought is all is only a higher materialism.

16. This world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

17. You cannot teach a child any more than you can grow a plant. All you can do is on the negative side — you can only help. It is a manifestation from within; it develops its own nature — you can only take away obstructions.

18. As soon as you make a sect, you protest against universal brotherhood. Those who really feel universal brotherhood do not talk much, but their very actions speak aloud.

19. Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

20. You have to grow from inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

BrAiN - ThE BrilliaNT!!!!!!!!

olny srmat poelpe can raed tihs.cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg.

The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy,

it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!