One blog a day, keeps boredom away!!
(Saying applies until the time project starts...)
Two blogs a day, keeps everyone away... Hmmpphh... people dont prefer loquacious specimen whose gender spells 'female'
--DiDo
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Hmm...Well..."Strange" strangers as critics..
Yet another day...whereas the delimitations for aspirations in life is considered one of the self-deciding component of one's blithe living; there are scaffold where you tend to articulate your aspirations as writing to forums/blogs and such awfully engrossing leisure spots...(here by "aspirations" we gladly tend to embrace wide contrasts of things like::: your aspiration to become a surgoen or astronaut, or to jog everyday, or to eat the Rs 99/- unlimited pizza at Alwarpet and make the pizza place owner bankrupt to such an extent that he can't afford to buy even an ounce of 'maida', or the most gloriously potrayed aspirations ever, to "date" men/women or both(?)...and the list baloons further.....)
But what really happens is that on you penning down such stuff, you tend to invite snare, glares and so on from fellow populace...(here by "fellow" we mean people similarly recording such riveting(!) stuff through words).
So the undeniable event of encountering some one who in a hardly impeccable sentence formation patterns of the English language sent a morsel (morsel=scrap...actually we dont publicise networking sites here...so dont expect me to add the explanation for 'morsel' again), stating that the specimen actually liked the "attitude" displayed in the profile but came out with a yet another not-at-all-required advice that one should not get too ambitious...well..er..translating to basically to::: u can display any amount of feat (any people will evetually like it) but u mustnot actually pursue on that line to 'achieve' anything...(as people may not like dat)
PS: I couldnt find the gender of the specimen. But looking at the probablity of events such this, and based on the untold norms of male-female behaviour, i certainly would have liked to blog about HOW-the-male-gender-cant-endure-ambitous-female counterparts...(but one of the rule of our blogging standards strongly extempt me from writing in this angle..the rule states: avoid generalisations and the standard-formats which are terribly the speech fallacies and ga ga...)
--DiDo
But what really happens is that on you penning down such stuff, you tend to invite snare, glares and so on from fellow populace...(here by "fellow" we mean people similarly recording such riveting(!) stuff through words).
So the undeniable event of encountering some one who in a hardly impeccable sentence formation patterns of the English language sent a morsel (morsel=scrap...actually we dont publicise networking sites here...so dont expect me to add the explanation for 'morsel' again), stating that the specimen actually liked the "attitude" displayed in the profile but came out with a yet another not-at-all-required advice that one should not get too ambitious...well..er..translating to basically to::: u can display any amount of feat (any people will evetually like it) but u mustnot actually pursue on that line to 'achieve' anything...(as people may not like dat)
PS: I couldnt find the gender of the specimen. But looking at the probablity of events such this, and based on the untold norms of male-female behaviour, i certainly would have liked to blog about HOW-the-male-gender-cant-endure-ambitous-female counterparts...(but one of the rule of our blogging standards strongly extempt me from writing in this angle..the rule states: avoid generalisations and the standard-formats which are terribly the speech fallacies and ga ga...)
--DiDo
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Vanity Bites...
whoa....lemme tell you how the over-confidence of having enormous money and position got as a legacy rather than self-effort; give a certain epigenetically (!) disturbed mental disposition to certain people. An epitome for this is my personal witness of the person at the VISA interview who had all airs about her from the time her feet thumped into the embassy premises. On her turn for the interview, she was observed by us, (the mute students …one of which would eventually literate the community about this “unique behaviour” through the blogging process...he he!!) to have a certain pattern of highly disturbing rather irritating body language, a false accent, a made-up attitude…All this was further put to use by the person in describing a not-at-all-required detail of her being the great-grand daughter of a business magnet in the country. On questioning about the inadequacy of her documents needed to support her VISA application she merely went on to say about the wealth her great-great grandfather had left behind, which was ‘obvious’ according to her, saying ‘come on…I belong to the X.D.Z family…And we obviously have lots of money’. The most 'sorry' position was for the official who interviewed her and was dumbstruck with the ruthless audacity with which the lady spoke..So ultimately we students couldnot get over the temptation to gossip and stir the premises out of its meditative state…we ultimately concluded that she was stoned….rather stoned with the mysterious drug of vanity…actually overdose I must say…..
--DiDo..
--DiDo..
The Expanding Lines of This Blog
On the unavoidable circumstances of the thoughts overpowering and jumping outta the idea of a originally being blog for abroad studies, I hereby declare this blog to be a scaffold for any-many thoughts, ideas and such similar cousins of philosophies…(specific note to Jithu a.k.a JJ , this..)But let the name of the blog be the same as Shakespeare beautifully blurts – “What’s in a name??”
--DiDo..
--DiDo..
MY Japanese name is:::
MY Japanese name is:::
“Hiroko Sasaki”
Source: http://www.blogthings.com/japanesenamegenerator/
Hence forth the blog can also be complicatedly named as - Hiroko Sasaki and Yoshiyuki Suzuki’s abroad geezer’s blog..
Friday, August 10, 2007
(Picture::: Giacomo Balla - 1923, modern art on "pessimism and optimism")Some excerpts from a Survey of Doctoral Education and Career Preparation I came across in the world wide web;;; Like:::
"Be extremely careful selecting your advisor. Make sure they have the following qualities:
1. successful graduation of students from their lab
2. good funding
3. good publication record
4. good recommendations from former students
5. good people working for them
6. time to meet with you.."
"Be prepared for failure of experiments most of the time.
Also be prepared to stay in the graduate program for a really long time. 4 years is not the norm--more like 6 or 7"
"Make sure you know why you are there and what you want to do with your degree. Then make sure your advisor knows, too. Make a plan with your advisor that will both satisfy his/her requirements for your degree, and still get you out in a timely manner so you can go on to the next phase of your life."
the link is::: http://www.phd-survey.org/advice/molecular_biology.htm
dido says:: but beware the survey has inputs from jus-outta PhD or students pursuing PhD and has major fallacies and generalisations like:
"If you are a woman and want a family as well as a respectful career in science, forget it. Maybe you'll be a respected, successful scientist if you give up all other hopes and dreams, but this is not a guarantee. If you happen to become both, a mother and a scientist, one will suffer. Usually it's motherhood and the children. Most scientists are crappy parents. Our society does not encourage bright, talented women to breed. Particularly in science, women are punished for breeding. Neither sex is encouraged to be attentive parents, active members of their community, or maintain outside creative interests/hobbies. "
dido says:: A generalisation as in here is absolutely drastic and pushingly pessimistic....but it definitely holds true if u r basically not destined with good managerial skills (here we intend to actually refer to the siamese twins of livelihood - managing home and career)!!!
PS1: Hence this survey material isnot of diagnostic nature or to be taken as the touchstone for deciding abt ur choice for a PhD..Remember each of us have our way of living..
PS2: I remember the time when we were contemplating on career preference between PhD or not, after Masters; there was this similar kind of argument that was sent by a friend as an email forward...i still remember and recall how somebody's views sent as forward drastically changed the career decision of a collegue, who decided not to pursue doctorate studies...Well..er..such are life's dearies and the impact of some Mr.X's views sent as email attachment...Its better to look into YOUR heart and YOUR life...Again :;Remember each of us have our way of living..
--DiDo
"Be extremely careful selecting your advisor. Make sure they have the following qualities:
1. successful graduation of students from their lab
2. good funding
3. good publication record
4. good recommendations from former students
5. good people working for them
6. time to meet with you.."
"Be prepared for failure of experiments most of the time.
Also be prepared to stay in the graduate program for a really long time. 4 years is not the norm--more like 6 or 7"
"Make sure you know why you are there and what you want to do with your degree. Then make sure your advisor knows, too. Make a plan with your advisor that will both satisfy his/her requirements for your degree, and still get you out in a timely manner so you can go on to the next phase of your life."
the link is::: http://www.phd-survey.org/advice/molecular_biology.htm
dido says:: but beware the survey has inputs from jus-outta PhD or students pursuing PhD and has major fallacies and generalisations like:
"If you are a woman and want a family as well as a respectful career in science, forget it. Maybe you'll be a respected, successful scientist if you give up all other hopes and dreams, but this is not a guarantee. If you happen to become both, a mother and a scientist, one will suffer. Usually it's motherhood and the children. Most scientists are crappy parents. Our society does not encourage bright, talented women to breed. Particularly in science, women are punished for breeding. Neither sex is encouraged to be attentive parents, active members of their community, or maintain outside creative interests/hobbies. "
dido says:: A generalisation as in here is absolutely drastic and pushingly pessimistic....but it definitely holds true if u r basically not destined with good managerial skills (here we intend to actually refer to the siamese twins of livelihood - managing home and career)!!!
PS1: Hence this survey material isnot of diagnostic nature or to be taken as the touchstone for deciding abt ur choice for a PhD..Remember each of us have our way of living..
PS2: I remember the time when we were contemplating on career preference between PhD or not, after Masters; there was this similar kind of argument that was sent by a friend as an email forward...i still remember and recall how somebody's views sent as forward drastically changed the career decision of a collegue, who decided not to pursue doctorate studies...Well..er..such are life's dearies and the impact of some Mr.X's views sent as email attachment...Its better to look into YOUR heart and YOUR life...Again :;Remember each of us have our way of living..
--DiDo
Monday, August 6, 2007
Some exciting shopping tips for the geezers...
Though this site specifies shopping neccessities for students moving to USA, it is also applicable to students moving to other european and german countries....
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)