Long Road Behind, Long Long Road Ahead.....

Technology: “To connect everyone to an online world that improves the human condition.” Create an online world having the exceptional property that it advances the capabilities of the many people that use it, and by doing so affects and transforms them in a positive way.
Though working here at nights may be hard and sometimes frustrating, it is inspiring to pursue such a venture. I think the importance in looking at our history and then looking at how we need to change in the future to best fulfill that wordings.

While I was pursuing my training, I have been fascinated by the work of being able to create an online world that was truly an alternate reality - a place where you could do anything. I was very into computers and science. So in my mind, the ultimate thing you could do possibly do with computers was to simulate reality - to create a place where you can make anything you can imagine and share it with others. Virtual worlds, in their broadest form, will be more pervasive that the web, and that means that their systems will need to be open: extended and operated by many people and companies, not just us. And also we need to have new and different ways to communicate more often and more clearly with the people around. Make people believe that Virtual worlds are finally real.

So what should come next? Taking a look at the last few years, I’ve seen many of the critical features working and scaled the world just enough for people to believe. I’ve seen lots of challenges, and I think, though they’ve been hard, people been able to weather them:

Thanks very much for listening.

Imagination factory

Hey Friends!

I can't believe it's been over a month since I posted. Well, scratch that. I can believe it. It's been CRA-ZEE around these parts lately. I'm sure you all know the feeling. It doesn't help that I recently became obsessed with started reading about life's of professional footballers. Whoa. The promise of seeing the hunger games past weekend. After a fantastic UEFA Champions League 2012 trophy to Chelsea FC, I ended up blazing through all coming summer transfers in a couple of days. Not my usual type of read, for sure - but let's just say I'm glad I stuck with it! I am the first to admit I'm a bit addicted to my electronic devices (keep it clean, ladies! I'm talking about my Mac, Phone, internet, etc...) but every once in a while it's nice to unplug and curl up with a good read. Oh! I bought online a wrist watch this week and I’m so excited about it. I am loving it! (I know, it’s pretty vain to say one of my favorite things this week is my new wristwatch, but I feel so much better.)

Before I go on, I must address my previous post, A silent debut after years of quite toil.  I was actually a bit hesitant to post it because I really do like to keep the focus of my blog completely positive. Things like silence and the emphasis placed upon it was one of the reasons I found myself at a crossroads a while ago and became the impetus for this blog. Though I don't want to dwell on it, it is a harsh reality of our life and addressing it seemed the right thing to do. Your supportive comments were so needed and appreciated, so thank you for indulging me in a little rant!

So, I am back to reality and ready to face and I'm counting my way down to this summer. My spiritual-brain is still spinning with thoughts of His Holiness Dalai Lama's visit to Leh this July. What the what, now??  As I'm packing up I'm thinking about how I might arrange things differently this winter. I actually have a cute idea for holidaying in the beautiful island of Lakshadweep that I'll be sharing in a few days.  Just plain crazy, but that's par for the plan lately. Such is the life of a voyager!

Spring has sprung

Yes. Hello, sorry, apparently I feel my blogging suffers either way: whether I've got nothing to say or loads to catch you up on. So, yes, this is remarkably like my other webpages, picasa, that I hadn't updated in a very long time.

Is that weird? Is that what other people do? I'm sitting in my room, listening to silence (I was listening to music just a little while ago; I've found I don't really like silence as it makes far too much room for my thoughts), and it's absolutely gorgeous outside (fresh snowy peak is pretty from inside your cozy warm room) and I just started going on about how pretty it all is in my head. I think that's part of the reason I like to blog--and also part of the reason I haven't found a story to write that is my story to tell.
However, the last few hour of frustration has made me all the more aware of how lax I've been with my internet use and identity. I probably shouldn't have started getting into fandom at this stage in life. Now the days are growing ever cooler. Summer of 2012, this time around, I suppose I'll be a bit less strict in my writing; no posts with bibliographies, just thoughts on interesting things I learn in life and the beautiful pictures I click my way. Oh, and about Leh.

So this is me, saying hello again. Stick around, we'll have a fun time.

A silent debut after years of quiet toil

Here I am now. Attempting after a long hiatus, to step back into the world that was once familiar territory. I can hardly believe it has been little over three years since I last posted on this blog. I'm hoping to return and again make this blog a part of my life. First, thank you to all the many readers who viewed this blog and sent me messages. I feel deeply honored to have perhaps you all for stopping by and hitting across!

Let me catch you up...
Over the few years, life has taken on a few new twists and turns (life sure has a way of doing that sometimes, you know)? In addition to my regular busy schedule trying to manage my work, my family, and life in general, I am blessed with a young man into our family. This surely has been the most beautiful thing that has ever happened in my life. He has grown now and slowly adapting with the ever competitive world outside!
Over the last two years, my little, gentle, peaceful world turned into a wild roller coaster ride; a ride that has you hanging on for dear life! It is a ride that is literally about experiences, meeting people and the adventure in this part of the barren world... Leh!

Life is settling down... not too much, but enough that I believe I will have time to get back to this blog!

Blessings of love and peace to all,

Have I told you lately..........

Phew! My computer screen was starting to glare at me for not posting often enough.

"Thou shall post every day” is the most fundamental and most well known principle of blogging....
Originally when I first started my blog over two years ago, I was posting and pushing posts through in a frantic pace practically weekly; re-hashing news from other sites. It takes me way too much time to do my posts as well as research, creating the Flash simulations, preparations, etc and I'm surprised that I was able to do it so crazily then. Generally I didn't post unless it's something that I find interesting.
I sustained that feverish pace for a while until I was feeling the tension of always trying to push something "on time". I was starting to get burnt out, and didn't want to write anymore since it was such a chore, etc. Then, I decide to take it a bit easy and try posting less frequent until I finally think I've settled on posting once a month. Later I've learned to keep it topical and try to come up with original content.

This is something that's been floating around in my head for about 3 or 4 months now. I have been so busy at work and been travelling, I haven't posted on a weekly/monthly basis as I used to... and lo! and behold! my traffic didn't suffer a bit. I soon developed the new found opinion, eh! "Write when you have something worth saying, write to your audience, and do your best to write well. It can't get any simpler than that".
Every new blogger is warned about “the” ultimate rule and is confronted with the pressure of a day going by with no new post. Every one has in mind the examples of successful bloggers, like Robert Scoble at Microsoft, who post several times a day. Daily posting shows that you are serious about blogging, generates traffic and drives reader loyalty, as readers come back daily to check your new posts. You cannot be successful if you do not go by the rule, right? RIGHT?

Wrong. Daily posts are a legacy of a Web 1.0 mindset and early Web 2.0 days (meaning 12 months ago!). The pressure around posting so frequency will ultimately become a significant barrier to the maturity of blogging. It engages with the audience you want to have a relationship with is a much smarter strategy than posting frequently and also the pressure of the first months to write frequently certainly contributes to people abandoning their blogs. As the blogosphere matures, the measure of success will shift from traffic to reader loyalty.

So now as for me, I will continue to post only when I have something to say!

HAPPY LOSAR FOLKS!!

The day has finally set in.... Ladakhi LOSAR!!

HAPPY LOSAR (New Year) to all my readers.

Whoever you are. Now that’s out of the way. What will the new year bring I wonder, apart from the four seasons, birthdays, work, the sun rising and falling, and the polar ice caps melting faster than an one can imagine, watching Meg Ryan again in her new Avtar, eh!
Losar festival is celebrated to commemorate the advent of yet another new Lunar year. It is the Ladakhi or Tibetan New Year. Losar is the most important of all the socio-religious events of Ladakh. The actual Losar celebrations creeps in with Namchot, a socio-religious event celebrated to observe the birthday and the Buddha-hood of Tsongkha-pa, the Tibetan saint-scholar and founder of the Geluk-pa school of Tibetan Buddhism in the 14th century. The New Year festivities at all homes begins with the 'Metho' ceremony during Losar eve, when a processions of people carrying flaming torches pass through the Monasteries, villages, bazaars and lanes, chanting prayers to chase away evil spirits and hungry ghosts believed to have accumulate during the year as a result of bad Karma (deeds). An interesting display of fire and light is created by the whirling of the flaming torches which are then thrown away in a gesture to bid farewell to the old year and to welcome the new year ahead. The New Year day itself starts with making offerings at the shrines of personal gods and clan ancestors and with greetings to family elders, relatives and friends. This festival is full of music, dancing and merry-making.
This LOSAR festival has an interesting history. In the 17th century, King Jamyang Namgyal decided to lead an expedition against the Balti forces during winter. He was advised that any expedition before the New Year celebrations by two months would be inauspicious, establishing a tradition that people still follow - celebrating Losar on the first day of the eleventh month of every Lunar year. To quote Ladags Melong a local magazine: "according to historians and the Pod-Gya Tsigdzod Chhenpo, it was the Tibetans who changed their Losar date and not the Ladakhi's and other Himalayan cultures used to have the same Losar date. When Genghis Khan conquered Tibet in 1227, he made the Tibetans celebrate it as the New Year. This is why Tibetan months are also called Hor-lza (Mongol-month). The Mongols also started the system of numbering the Tibetan months. Until then there was no tradition of numbering the Tibetan months tangpo, ngyispa, sumpa (first, second, third). Instead months were called by their names.
Therefore it is interesting to note that the Ladakhi Losar is the original Losar date and if we dropped the system of numbering the months (due to which our Losar seems to fall in the eleventh month) then there would be no confusion. In fact certain other Himalayan regions such as Sikkim, the Sherpas in Nepal and the Khombo region of Tibet also celebrate Losar at the same time as Ladakh."

For all Buddhists, Losar is a sacred time and a time for feasting and celebration. It is a time to be with the family, and a time to ensure that bad omens are not carried into the new year.

New year... A new month... A new week... and yes... a new day ! mmm guys I must say that the days are simply going great with me out here. I am enjoying no matter I am being away from my home this time.. missed my family sooooo much but what to do coz Life is changing.....

I have wished my self already.. :) so.. Wish you all a blessed LOSAR!!

...haven't had too much to update lately...

I have written much in my blog lately - mostly because I've been busy with some stuffs, sometimes because I just don't know what to say anymore. Blogging- my newfound passion. Not too obvious, hehe. I wasn’t able to write down some of my thoughts the past few weeks. Anyways, here I am again. If I could just put into writing everything that works up in my head right now… But let me just begin by saying I miss writing down my feelings. I miss writing down how happy I got during the time I was at home with friends. I missed writing down what’s working up inside me when I received a pat on my shoulder for some of the good things I have done. I missed writing down some other important things that has happened to me. But everything that has happened to me this time is embedded in my heart…

Be with me as I begin my trek to forever…