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World of Tanks

One fine day, after knowing my madness for gaming, one of my friend suggested me to try World of Tanks. At first, it was just another game for me. Tried it for couple of days, but I couldn't manage to kill a single tank. And so as normal human tendency goes, I was frustrated with it in just under 2 hours. Next thing: Shift + Delete. Wasn't that hard. Meanwhile I started getting some good reviews of the game from various online sources. It was being praised from all the people who knew about it. After a couple of months, I was attracted to WOT again. But I didn't have a good internet connection back then. Hardly received 125kbps. And at that rate I decided to download the game. It took me 2 weeks to download 6 GB of data at an average rate of 12 hours/GB. The speed reduced drastically as I surfed other web pages. But finally, after a long wait and a lot of hard work in downloading, I managed to play it. Again it was a nightmare getting used to the controls as I ...

Personality Development Session

Today I attended a personality development session which aimed at improving the GD (Group Discussion) skills by braking down the students into groups and ask them to discuss on topics like "Natural disaster vs Man-made disaster" and "Women Empowerment". I did come across various views on both topics ranging from earthquakes, nuclear attack to Sonia Gandhi and Sheila Dixit. People did have a lot to convey but the only thing which prevented them from putting their point forward was lack of confidence. This I guess was common among majority of the students. The topic doesn't matter more than the level of confidence with which you present the few things you already know. There are many areas which can be improved by attending such discussions like leadership quality, time management, focusing the point, general awareness, etc.  And I got to learn all of that. Indeed a good experience.

Change

Work done by the team of Satyamev Jayate was marvelous. Right from the sheer thought of creating such a fantastic show till the broadcasting of the same has been top of the line. The endurance of the thought of change is the need of the hour. My apology. have been reading british novels lately. And in particular I blame Jeffrey Archer. Good job with "The sins of the father". But 'Change' is what everyone craves for today. Right from the son of an ordinary farmer to a retired army officer. We want change. We don't know how, but we do desire. Just finished with "What young India wants" by Chetan Bhagat. Its the same story retold again and again with different garnishings. But are we really ready to work for a change! We ll, sadly - NO. Let me elaborate with an example. I live in Anand. The milk capital of India. And I'm pursuing Master of Science in Biotechnology at ARIBAS located in Vallabh Vidhyanagar, which is in close vicinity to Anan...

Mahabharat was not wrong

If I recall correctly, Krishna advised Arjun to kill his own family members in the battlefield because they were wrong and Arjun was just taking the side of dharma. So if that is not wrong than we can speak to our elders with a high tone if we find them taking the path of adharma.