02
Jul
09

Nightwish – While your lips are still red

Songwriters: Holopainen, Tuomas Lauri

Sweet little words made for silence
Not talk
Young heart for love
Not heartache
Dark hair for catching the wind
Not to veil the sight of a cold world

Kiss while your lips are still red
While he`s still silent
Rest while bosom is still untouched, unveiled
Hold another hand while the hand`s still without a tool
Drown into eyes while they`re still blind
Love while the night still hides the withering dawn

First day of love never comes back
A passionate hour`s never a wasted one
The violin, the poet`s hand,
Every thawing heart plays your theme with care

Kiss while your lips are still red
While he`s still silent
Rest while bosom is still untouched, unveiled
Hold another hand while the hand`s still without a tool
Drown into eyes while they`re still blind
Love while the night still hides the withering dawn


23
Jun
09

Mathematics of choas

Interesting….

10
Jun
09

Notice of cessation

I m not going to make excuses that I m busy, or that I m tired or bored or anything. This is just to tell those that do come here to take my bullshit, that I m not going to drag them through it anymore.

I love this place and I met some really great people here who changed my life for the better. I m grateful and in your debt. I named this blog Ice 9, because I read the name in a Kurt Vonegut novel, (I read the novel because of the movie ‘the recruit’) and in the novel, Ice 9 was a water molecules that changed every other water molecule it comes in contact  into ice. In the novel, the wholes world turns to ice because almost all the water on earth is connected one way or the other.

Well, I probably did nt change anything into ice by being here, but you guys surely did change me into something else. And who knows I might come back one day and continue. But for now I m off. So Godspeed with your respective lives and Thank you once again for bestowing me with your acquintance.

Best wishes,

Syed Safiullah Hussaini

07
Jun
09

on something or the other

I pride m self to be the cold, logical ass. I take pride in my work and I like to do it to the best of my ability. But some while back I was a completely different person.

I usually dont talk about my feelings and myself. I usually talk about the ideas or notions that I find iniriging. I know that makes me a very boring person and the evidence is this blog to say the least. I also dont befriend many people, but I am loyal and honest and concerned about those who I do, and not for the obvious reasons as I ll explain later. 

So now that I m waiting for some things to pan out, I have a lot of time to ponder about various things. So I wrote this ‘thing’ on my iPhone the other day just spontaneously, and it turns out that I could nt stop, and whats more, it was about people. And since it was me writing it, you can expect it to be cynical and boring, ravings of the same old mad man. I decided not to post it here as it was just crazy long and no one ever comes here to read anything, so I decided to write this. A summary for just my benefit, so that I could number and modularize my life.

What sort of relationships intrigue me the most? Well this question was asked by someone quite close to me a long time ago and I did nt have an answer then, but I do now. Actually the question was slightly different and my interpretation of the question was even more different back then. But in retrospect, this seems to be a more appropriate question to answer. And now that this question is only the remnants of a memory, like a few other shelved into the category of dead ends, I think I should answer it and close this case file once and for all.

So  what I know now is that, I like to anticipate, I dont like the now but the whats-to-come, and when I have that whats-to-come, it looses all its grandeur just because I have it. I dont appreciate the things I have yet I appreciate the things I dont, And I work hard to get them. The things I dont get to have ultimately, are the things that I cherish the most. So, what does this have to do with relationships? Well, it would follow logically that I dont like the ones I have and I like the ones that I dont and probably can never have.

I tend to not like or open to people easily, but when I do, I tend to form a bond, and sometimes I may misread the bounds during this period, but that is besides the point. The growth of the relationship when people tend to learn about each other (or the so called the thrill of the case) is what I enjoy the most. And when I think I have learned enough, they become boring and mundane. At such a juncture I dont cut people off, I just stop paying attention.

So what sort of relationships do I like? I dont like them at all, I probably just like the thing that I m going to learn the next day. I would probably like to talk to the person who is at a distance minding thier own besiness and not talking to anyone at all. I ll probably talk to them because they look interesting or attractive. And I ll probably talk to them enough to want to meet them the next day and learn something new. But here is where things get really interesting.

What if I dont meet them tomorrow? What if I dont learn that thing I was supposed to? Then it starts to eat at me and consume me like an obsession. I need to know the why, I need to know the reason I did nt get to meet them, or the reason why I lost them. And it turns bad, and I get sucked into an abyss where I just keep on thinking and speculating what happened and what could have happened and what should have happened. And after a while, I start blaming someone, me or the other person. Thats where things become ugly. I start shutting of pathways leading to me, just to keep away either me from that person, or that person from me, depending on who I end up blaming.

So there it is, the anatomy of my relationships, be it my parents, my brothers, my relatives, cousins, acquintances, even myself or part of myself. So its either I loose interest, or I turn into a…. I dont know what to call it. People, look for their soulmates, I probably look for the next intrigue. People look for love, I look for the next best things. People look for some thing, I dont even know what I look for.

Maybe I really am as crazy as they say I am.

02
Jun
09

Survivor – Eye of the Tiger

 

Who has nt heard this song?! Ok I ve been a BIG Boxing fan, and believe me, I dont like the SIX (Imagine!!! SIX!) Rocky movies, But whenever I see them or listen to this song, I want to just box!

 

 

01
Jun
09

Jefferson Starship/Starship – Nothing gonna stop us now

 

 

This song was one of my favourite songs when I was just a kid (Read 6-10). But sadly I lost it, I could nt remember the name of either the band or the song lyrics. and When I came across this song layer on, I failed to catch the name again. But last night, out of the blue, it just hit me. 

And just so you know, starship/jefferson starship is an off shoot of the famous jefferson airplane.

31
May
09

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24
May
09

help wanted

Need a person to read my six monthly status report which I have to submit to the school and is mandatory (read necessary for survival) for my candidature.

Responsibilities:

1) Read the report.

2) Check the report for linguistic, semantic and syntactic errors.

3) Write comments as to the material presented.

4) Just criticize enough to the point of ridicule, so that I actually come around to changing it!

Attributes:

1) Able to read english.

2) Able to write english.

3) Able to critisize.

Perk:

Must be able to work for free…

Ok I ll buy lunch!

23
May
09

Dr Robert Goddard

I hate people, who do something unimpressive, yet are hailed for a nonexistent intelligence, intellect or courage. And history especially the one close to present has many such examples. Lately I have known such people amongst my acquintances, but that is besides the point.

I also hate people, when they riddicule a person of great intelligence , wisdom and vision. And this personality is one for whom I hate people for turning his life into a joke, yet he was not just a genius, but a visionary who I hail since I was a little boy! His name is Dr Robert Goddard.

For most of you this name would be unknown, but for me, it brings not just tears to my eyes, but fills my heart with praise and the drive to be like this great man, the father of rocketry and the dreamer of man on the moon! A dream for which he was not just turned into a folk joke, but (somewhat) banished from the community (the scientific community)

Today I write this in his honor, as if it were not for him, I would have lived a childhood with out a dream. 

His numerous accomplishments in no intended order are:

  • Liquid propelled rockets.
  • Inertial Navigation Systems.
  • Ion thrusters
  • Giving me and every other wide eye stupid dumbass kid the dream to go to the moon, the starts and beyond!

He has a Crater on the moon named after him, as well as a Space Flight Center. But during his lifetime, he was scorned upon till his death. A few beautiful qoutes by the great man himself are as follows:

  • “It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.” (From his high school graduation oration, “On Taking Things for Granted”, June 1904)
  • “On the afternoon of October 19, 1899, I climbed a tall cherry tree and, armed with a saw which I still have, and a hatchet, started to trim the dead limbs from the cherry tree. It was one of the quiet, colorful afternoons of sheer beauty which we have in October in New England, and as I looked towards the fields at the east, I imagined how wonderful it would be to make some device which had even the possibility of ascending to Mars. I was a different boy when I descended the tree from when I ascended for existence at last seemed very purposive.” (Written later, in an autobiographical sketch)
  • “Every vision is a joke until the first man accomplishes it; once realized, it becomes commonplace.” (His response to The New York Times, 1920)

[Wikipedia]

21
May
09

Don’t stop believing – Journey

This song is from a show called hlee and its beautiful!

Here is the original