The Pursuit of Happiness

 Happiness is a state of mind. What is the aim of life? To be happy or to be rich? Does happiness comes with wealth or it is independent of the amount of wealth a person has. How important are friends and relatives in being happy?

  So many questions! Being happy depends on having satisfaction in what you have and where you are. One must not have craving for something which one does not have. Aiming for high goals and working hard to achieve them is one thing, constantly complaning and crying for something you do not have is another. Be satisfied in what you have and you would be happy.

 These are some simple lessons, but it may be difficult for over ambitious or over confident people to unnderstand in one go. They just want everything in life. Are you of that type? Constantly asking for more than what you have? It is a bad thing to be and may not lead to happiness all the time.

 This post is coming after quiet a while. I have got settled in my job at Amdocs now and back to working in shifts. This is the first week of working in shifts and hopefully I will get time to work on my Untitled Series sci-fi novel. Also I am approaching 100 posts in my blog, this is number 98. The 100th one I am planning to cover all the previous posts.

 What else is happening in life? IPL 5 has started. MAncheter United are 8 points clear at the top of EPL and looking to win the title easily. Facebook is doing good, not much bugs and new full screen image viewer looks slick. Also good decision on buying Instagram, payed them more than required though I guess.

 Saw the movie Kahani last weekend. Very nice movie, the plot is good and the climax is very nice, good suspense movie and excellent work done by Vidya Balan.

 As I mentioned IPL5 has started, it is not that exciting as it used to be. There is gonna be the T20 world cup too, clearly there is an overdose of cricket and people are getting bored of it. Speaking of getting bored, its surprising, facebook is still able to entice its users and going strong with all the tweeks and modifications. They added Angry birds game and that is fun to play. However, I still believe facebook won't be there forever, 5 years tops I say!

Facebook lives on...

 There is something about life, it lives on. There is something about time, it goes on, and now one might very well add, there is something about facebook, it lives on. Facebook now has 800 million strong users and is looking to come out with an IPO to generate $100 billion, which is truly an estimate of the popularity of this website.

 There was time, when I was making claims that Google plus would beat facebook before the beginning of new year 2012. Well my claims have been proven wrong. Millions of people did register for Google plus, however it is not being used that much compared to facebook.

 Another big point in the above assertions is the fact that, facebook is making constant efforts to improve itself and bring out new features. Facebook now has the facebook timeline,facebook cover photo and the subscription features to name a few. Also the new image viewer does appear descent compared to the old one.

 Today's generation is very busy and online all the time. These two factors have resulted in flourishing of social networking domains like facebook and twitter. People find friends online and stay in touch online, however for me a simple call to a friend from the humble cell phone still means more than online conversation.

 Enough about facebook and Google, India is suffering from a miserable tour down under. Had to endure a 4-0 white wash in the test series. The new Oz skipper Micheal Clarke aka Puppy, surely is enjoying captaincy. He scored a double and a triple century and was in remarkable form. India lost the first T20 game yesterday, however it was a completely new young side and they were showing notable seriousness and commitment. The reason for the loss, was that Australia was just the better of the two side on the day and hopefully India will give some descent performances now.

 There were many attacks on the star studded Indian batting line up and rumors about Dhoni been asked to give up captaincy. However, Dhoni has done a lot of good for Indian cricket, he has won every single possible tournament for the team. There are times, when team may get out of form, one must still have faith in the team and the captain. Don't forget, this is the same team which finished 2010 as number one test team, won the 2011 ODI World Cup and also has won the 2007 inagural T20 world cup, all under the leadership of Dhoni!