Eightfold path.

Monday, December 7, 2015

Dear Diary,

  People are so mean in this world. Today we were playing a game at recess and by mistake I hit him one of my friends in the head with a snowball and he complained about me to my younger cousin who is in his class. Now when they hit me with a snowball I just let it go and the matter is closed over there. What I don't understand is that everybody including me is self-centred and I personally don't like it. It may be because in a way we become selfish about ourselves which isn't a good thing.

 I am gonna answer one of the DMAQs (Dad's most asked questions), the question was that if you could solve one problem in all of this world, what would be it? Today I have got my answer, it is to make everybody stop being self-centred. I am telling you, if we could solve this problem, all the problems on this Planet Earth shall disappear. As I told you about Problems full form that Problems are Purposeful blah, blah, blah, we can install that basic meaning into our lives and, believe me, I can forsee it from sitting here that our lives shall be so much better.

One of the things I like the most is the eightfold path by Lord Buddha. Although I have not made any attempts on applying that path in my life but I whenever I read it I am filled with so much peace inside me. Even as I write it down I have filled with som much peace. They are:
1. Right Understanding (Samma ditty)
2. Right Thought (Samma san kappa)
3. Right Speech (Samma-vaca)
4. Right Action (Samma Kam manta)
5. Right Livelihood (Samma-ajiva)
6. Right Effort (Samma Vayama)
7. Right Mindfulness (Samma Sati)
8. Right Concentration (Samma-samadhi)

Notice that every point starts with a right which is another substitute for "near to perfect". Thus in just a few words it lays out the whole path of life we should follow. To shorten a long explanation its just genius.

Food for life.

Sunday, December 6, 2015

Dear Diary

   You know life is full of surprises. Sometimes they can be good and sometimes they can be bad. I once read a poem which explained the cycle of good times and bad times. It said in very simple words that after you have been through a bad period of time it is sure that you good times are on its way. Speaking of good times right now I am in my good time period. I am relaxed and I am enjoying my stay over here.

Today I had a very good idea about a mobile phone that I wanted to design. Here's a picture of it:

I know it's a very crude drawing but in reality if it is produced it would look great and revolutionary. My dad was very excited when I showed him this thing. I am also excited about it too. I was also thinking of a name, but I don't know what to name it. I thought of a few, but none of them interested me. So I am still thinking.


If there is one thing in the world that I like it is thinking. You can say the force that keeps me alive is thinking. I like to keep thinking about why a thing happened or how can we solve a problem. For me, The definition of PROBLEMS is Purposeful Roadblocks Offering Beneficial Lessons to Enhance Mental Strength. This is what I consider as my food for life.

That's all for today folks :).

One of the best moments of my life.

Saturday, December 5, 2015

Dear Diary

So as I said next stop Stardom, I first read that over here in a comic-book and I laughed so much that my stomach started aching. Reading comic books is a way of my life. Although I haven't read Archie or any other old days classics but I have of course read Tintin, Calvin & Hobbes and last and the best Big Nate comics. They are the funniest and he best. I have almost read all of them. 

Today at school we did draws for our secret Santa game. I got my partner, but I am not telling anyone who it is because it is supposed to be kept as a secret. As they say, that secrets are supposed to be kept secret. or secret Santa we have to get gifts that are at least $5. So I wanted to do it and I signed up. It will be a very good experience for me. 

So nowadays I am also doing an enrichment course because I am very good at math and to keep me challenged I have to do these. So yesterday I got my first booklet of about six pages with 6 questions each and today I finished it. It was that easy. I love doing math! It's one of my favourite subjects besides science. By the way, we had an assembly today and I and a few other people who won Science fair in their category got $15 worth of gift card from Mcnally Robenson. I felt very good when I got the prize. It was one of the best moments of my life :).

What I think.

Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Dear Diary

         You know one advantage of coming to Canada is that I have started liking to go to school. In India, one school day was equal to six hours of complete boredom. Over here things are always fun and easy to understand. Every day you wake up you feel like you want to go to school. You don't feel like "oh no I forgot an assignment to do!" and because the teacher will scold me I don't want to go. The last person I want to get scolded by is a teacher. 

Nowadays we do dance in gym period as a part of fine arts curriculum and, believe me, they are pretty hard to do. I don't exactly remember their names because they are pretty long. A few of us do it very nicely including me, but a few of us don't get it at all. It's that hard. Some easy ones are the chicken dance, the bunny hop dance and the macarena dance. Personally if you ask me do I like it, I would say yes because it's good to know different stuff and it helps create your understanding of different cultures.   

You know I do a lot of stuff on what my dad wants me to do, for example, my taekwondo black belt that I I got, partly for writing a blog and most of the time he asks me to write  a mail to him every day. Every mail of his sent to me is preserved like a diamond in a safe. He keeps giving me new projects and keep trying to fulfill them. 

You know at school people call me the walking know it all. I don't mean to brag about anything but yeah it feels kind of good. If you look at it from my perspective it's everything that I studied in India now if the studies are way more relaxed over here then I have a clear advantage over everything. There is no hard work from my side so technically I shouldn't get any credit for it. What I know is the normal curriculum of India. So technically I should be in grade 8. That's what I think. 

When I compare myself to a special needs student I find that I have few qualities like them, though, I am a proper student without any disabilities. I wonder what's true.

My parent's hard work.

Tuesday, 1 December,2015

Dear Diary, 

        I was thinking about something today while we had a free period. I was thinking that we coming to Canada and all that has happened till now I have started being independent a lot, I have started taking care of my studies myself, I have started to take initiative to clean my room, try eating new things like subway, pizza, etc. Which in a way mom feels worried about maybe because she doesn't trust me enough to take care of myself, for example a few days ago I had started losing some weight all of a sudden and mom got worried about it. 

But my main question was that if I didn't get the correct teachings from my parents I wouldn't stand a chance in this country. For example if my dad didn't teach me about moral values I wouldn't have any friends because over here friendship is actually being friends rather than being just friends for namesake. Then my mom inserted the meaning of being a good human being, to being respectful to other people and being kind also. But most important one that both of them did was giving me a lifestyle which was both easy and beneficial for me. I sometimes miss old friends from India but when I look back I don't have the will to go back and stay in India, maybe because I have changed from what I was before I came here. Another thing how my dad helps me is by sending me inspirational stuff through gmail. For example today he sent this to me.

Further, my characterization of a loser is someone who, after making a mistake, doesn’t introspect, doesn’t exploit it, feels embarrassed and defensive rather than enriched with a new piece of information, and tries to explain why he made the mistake rather than moving on. These types often consider themselves the “victims” of some large plot, a bad boss, or bad weather. Finally, a thought. He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once. And someone who has made plenty of errors—though never the same error more than once—is more reliable than someone who has never made any.” 
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder 

And that is what helps me, by drilling things that I don't understand in my brain through persistence. 

Today I asked a few of my friends what they do on the internet, and I have been hearing this answer for a while, you know what it was, same old video games and listening to songs, etc. and I felt kind of nice because I write a blog everyday and thus improve my writing skills and all that stuff but most importantly:

                       I write because I like to write!

The Phenomenon I don't understand.

Monday, 30 November 2015

Dear Diary

1.      Today something very awkward happened today, we had to group study and I went to ask a group that if I could join them. You know what I got for an answer, they said that I was too smart to join them. I was baffled! I ended up sitting alone and studying but I found that being smart also has its drawbacks, which I thought weren’t there. I don’t mean to say that I am the smartest kid in my class but yeah I didn’t expect to hear such an answer.

2.      Today I started playing a game which I hadn’t played in a while: Asphalt 8 Airborne. I love this game very much because it kinda fits into me. I told you I am a lot into cars and that stuff so basically I love racing.

3.      As I was talking about drawbacks, another one of winter is that Its very snowy in here so I cannot bike which is one of my favourite sport.

4.      So now what do I do, I just keep thinking about what to write in my blog, it has kind of become a way of my life and I like it because I get to write my feelings somewhere, otherwise imagine yourself in between a desert with nobody and nothing, how would you feel, I would certainly feel depressed because it’s a human nature to socialize, to interact, to be friends with people.

5.      One thing I don’t understand about this world is that when you read the biographies and autobiographies of great people they all were born in a poor or mediocre family. For example I was reading about Thomas Alva Edison known by all as ‘Genius’.He was the son of a U.S refugee who had taken part in the Mackenzie War of 1837. Now if you read about him you see that he was relatively poor but in his whole lifetime he had done so much work that he has 1093 U.S. patents in his name. Another great example is the 16^th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. He was also born very poor in Kentucky. He suffered the most setbacks in his life than anyone else I know but still is regarded as one of three best presidents of the U.S. He suffered the loss of three sons out of four, which took Lincoln into melancholy and his wife later after Lincoln died was admitted to the mental asylum.

6.      Still leaving all of that behind he became a great President. I never understood this phenomenon of the great people being poor at first. Well looks like I might be a great person according to my graphs of ‘the phenomenon I don’t understand’. J

The second day

Sunday, 29 November 2015

Dear Diary

                  They say that the best time to grow a tree was twenty years back, well it's only my second day on my 20 year long journey. I sometimes sit alone in my recess at school and ponder about innovative ideas like how to create a mini engine to power a small model plane and make it fly. I only get ideas when I am at the right spot of thinking for example ( it's a very humorous one for me and by the way I solved my first mirror cube while sitting on it) the commode, some people get it while daydreaming, others get it while they are in silence, etc. You know while sleeping today I realized something, just try remembering a scene from your life doesn’t matter its old or new. Now when you do that you can remember what happened nicely but take a closer look at the recording as it plays in your mind don’t you see the picture getting fuzzy just like it was back in the old days when the T.V. antenna didn’t pick the radio waves on the channel. I first thought that it was just lack of my concentration but when I tried harder to concentrate it didn’t improve at all. I was shocked! I wondered why didn’t it work. I discussed it with my mom and then I shortlisted it to two possible reasons. Maybe it is because this world isn’t real. Everything we see, feel, hear isn’t real at all. It's just a simulator and what isn’t real we can’t reproduce a copy of it in our brain as clear as it was. Maybe its because we only control 10% of or brain and we may need the whole brain to make the picture clear in our mind. Its very confusing for me. They also say that if you can control upto 85% of your brain you can also predict the future. Which makes me very excited as it would be awesome to know somebody’s next move. Well for now its all thumbs up for me. Next stop: STARDOM.

The first day of the tree

Saturday, 28 November 2015

Dear Diary

             Today was a very boring day and I was kind of tired. I feel that my cousin is sometimes kind of repulsive towards me but I don’ tell anyone. I feel that what’s the use of telling, I have done that a lot of times and it only makes the victim hate you more. I don’t understand what’s happening to me. Its kind of a strange country to me and a few days back I was not able to understand what to do. In India it was way more casual about friendship, over here the studies are way more relaxed but moral values are most looked into. Friendship over here are made on moral values not on how cool you are. I don’t understand why I keep wasting my time on cheating myself, I sometimes like keep these khan academy and duolingo as a cover for what I am doing, and I don’t get what I am doing it for, is it to get entertainment time or am I being greedy. Its hard on me to keep moving from on place  to place because it is hard to make good friends in this country.  But to tell you the truth I just have the capacity for two more moves. Nowadays mom thinks that I don’t spend enough time speaking with her, I think that’s kind of true because I am getting attracted to all useless stuff and not concentrate on important studies. Mom also thinks that I am getting lean because of not eating well, and that’s true because I lost about 1 and a half kg of weight. Right now I am at 40.8 kg from 42.5 kg. I don’t know why that is happening, the only reason I can think is that I am not taking a good diet. In the time I get bored I read about futuristic vehicles like tesla model s, toyota mirai etc. I have a few friends but the first time I went on a kind of  play date was when I met one of my friend, thomas near the lake and biked with him but I ended up injuring my finger badly and that kind of sucked. But still I need to focus on what I do and deserve, not on what I want. Oh and one more thing I have a new home and new start to make, so lets get rolling.