The One With the Strange Soup

Tune Jo Na Kaha, from New York (rendered by Mohit Chauhan)
I had the chance today to return to my campus after the span of a year, which is a long time when you consider the chunk of time we as students spend in our college campuses. I always loved my college campus. As I’ve written [...]

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In memory…

My thoughts and prayers go out to the families affected by 9/11. A moment of silence for all those who lost their lives that cruel morning.
One of the papers I was reading for class today had this quote…
xiu shen, qi jia, zhi guo, ping tian xia
If there is light in the soul, there will be [...]

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Rabbi’s Lyrics (aka Avengi Ja Nahin, Part II)

Lyrically, Avengi Ja Nahin has several songs that seem singularly female-sympathetic, an attitude that is refreshing in a young male singer, and important in our generation. While the first album had songs that chose a woman as their heroine, like the girl wandering around the country searching for answers and finding more questions in Jugni, [...]

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Thank you, Randy.

Randy Pausch, who influenced the lives of millions of people with his Last Lecture, died today, Friday July 25th, at his home in Virginia. Everyone knew it was inevitable, but if its affected all the strangers who had been touched by his words and wisdom, like myself, I can’t imagine what his family is going [...]

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Randy Pausch and Hope

I was watching Oprah today and, because he’s everywhere on the news, Randy Pausch was on. Along with Dr. Mehmet Oz. If you haven’t heard of either, you haven’t been watching the news. Wikipedia ‘em both. Randy Pausch is the famous professor dying of pancreatic cancer, whose powerful last lecture has become famous universally. Dr. [...]

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“That’s How We Live.” aka About Who Are You

“If your legs are tired, you stop. If you can’t walk, you sit down. If you sit down, someone might come to hold you up. That’s how we live.”
(Il Gun, in 두구셰요/Who Are You, as translated by Javabeans at www.dramabeans.com)

Fortunate Son, by 이송열/Lee Seung Yeol, on the OST of 두구셰요
I think that quotes’ pretty excellent. [...]

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What if?

Actress Park Jung Ah’s mother has been in a debilitated state for a long time now. Her collapse left her without any awareness of her surroundings and unable to communicate…she also last half of her memory (slight error in translation…not one minute, but one half).
Its true, you always wonder “what if.” What if [...]

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True….

“Sometimes we must get hurt in order to grow, we must fail in order to know, sometimes our visions are clear only after our eyes are washed away with tears.”
(Read it somewhere. Its pretty amazing and strangely calming. Makes a great deal of sense).

What I’m listening to: Gi Da Rim, by Lee Seung Yeol (who [...]

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Inspiration Isn’t Hard to Find :)

Tablo, lead rapper of Epik High. 

Here’s a guy who followed his dreams and made it happen….its inspiring enough, and consider how brave he was to leave Stanford and struggle for years. He never knew if it would work out or not, and all odds were against him, but he kept trying and [...]

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The Heart…

“One day, the body asked the heart…..
When I’m hurt the doctor heals me, but if you’re hurt then who will heal you?
So then the heart said….
I have to heal by myself.
Is that why whenever someone is hurt, they have their own special way of healing it?”
(My Lovely Samsoon)
Amazingly simple yet touching words….
how do I [...]

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