Anya: Its good to drink!!

Beautiful Cool Evening Jp!!

Kerstin and Iris: Ready for the Photo!

Adam Erik and Madeleine!

After 14 Days!

The last time I had written.. I never thought I would be writing only after two weeks..

The frequency of snowfall these days has increased.. surprisingly it is sunny today... I went for Thanksgiving dinner organised by an american colleague last evening.. it was fine.. but for the fact that I started feeling little out of the crowd.. everyone was eating the big roasted TURKEY.. (other than me ofcourse.. I am vegetarian these days..).. The dinner was one of the most expensive dinners I had in Germany.. ha ha.. next time I should find an american sponsorer for 'ThanksGiving'..!

The first snowfall ..

For the first time in my life,...I have seen snow.. wow...yesterday when i was travelling to Goettingen the climate was normal ..the temperature dropped to sub zero degrees today.. and the entire lanscape is filled with ice ..snow is falling continuously from heavens above and my heart exhuberates immense joy as i see snow everywhere.. I am now in the train on my way back to Jena from Goettingen and am writing all this on my new DELL Laptop..

The thinker in me..

I came to Goettingen with an intention to attend a short course on M Estimation. I came to the lecture room and knocked the door..apparently I was late for the class.. to my utter surprise I found that no one was opening the door.. and it was locked.. I went to the professor's room just to be told that the gentleman who was supposed to lecture had an accident the day before and hence the course was cancelled..

Goettingen was much colder this time.. i can even see the cold wind blowing.. i didnot meet anybody in Goettingen..not even my professor.. I am sitting on the platform number 8 of goettingen railway station as I write this..

There are two ways of living in this world when it comes to the way we perceive things around us..one which makes us see the bright things of life ... the other makes us see those things that are wrong and not so comfortable truths that people experience in life.. one leads to optimism and the other to pessimism and every human unconciously chooses his way of perception..
Our perception of life appears to be the most honest opinion of life that any human can have in this world.. we are justified when we cry and when we laugh.. both co-exist to make an elixir of this life that we are a part of..

Is the world a mere perception of our cognitive faculties, is it a illusory construct of our thought or is there a realistic basis for it? Does the world cease to exist when we cease to exist(for us)?

Bible Discussion..

Are you not surprised? I went for a Bible discussion yesterday.. It was fun to see people worrying about a place in the heaven.. i tried to tell people that there are other religions in the world as well and there are many paths to heaven .. and was severely criticised for having such opinions!

'Be a King in Hell rather than being a slave in the Heaven' .. used to be my philosophy .. but now i have come to a decisive conclusion that Hell and Heaven exist only in our minds.. not as figments of imagination but as realities that we live in every day!