READ THIS IF YOU ARE 50+ ALREADY AND GOING TO BE 50+ SOONER OR LATER

PLEASE READ THIS IF YOU ARE 50+ ALREADY AND GOING TO BE 50+ SOONER OR LATER (THIS IS TRANSLATION OF AN ARTICLE IN CHINESE)

Because none of us have many years to live, and we can't take along anything when we go, so we don't have to be too thrifty...
Spend the money that should be spent, enjoy what should be enjoyed, donate what you are able to donate, but don't leave all to your children or grandchildren, for you don't want them to become parasites who are waiting for the day you will die!!
Don't worry about what will happen after we are gone, because when we return to dust, we will feel nothing about praises or criticisms. The time to enjoy the worldly life and your hard earned wealth will be over!
Don't worry too much about your children, for children will have their own destiny and should find their own way. Don't be your children's slave. Care for them, love them, give them gifts but also enjoy your money while you can. Life should have more to it than working from the cradle to the grave!!
Don't expect too much from your children. Caring children, though caring, would be too busy with their jobs and commitments to render much help.
Uncaring children may fight over your assets even when you are still alive, and wish for your early demise so they can inherit your properties and wealth.
Your children take for granted that they are rightful heirs to your wealth; but that you have no claims to their money.
50-year old like you, don't trade in your health for wealth by working yourself to an early grave anymore...
Because your money may not be able to buy your health...
When to stop making money, and how much is enough (hundred thousands, million, ten million)?
Out of thousand hectares of good farm land, you can consume only three quarts (of rice) daily; out of a thousand mansions, you only need eight square meters of space to rest at night.
So, as long as you have enough food and enough money to spend, that is good enough. You should live happily. Every family has its own problems. Just do not compare with others for fame and social status and see whose children are doing better, etc., but challenge others for happiness, health, enjoyment, quality of life and longevity...
Don't worry about things that you can't change because it doesn't help and it may spoil your health.
You have to create your own well-being and find your own place of happiness. As long as you are in good mood and good health, think about happy things, do happy things daily and have fun in doing, then you will pass your time happily every day.
One day passes without happiness, you will lose one day.
One day passes with happiness, and then you gain one day.
In good spirit, sickness will cure; in a happy spirit, sickness will cure faster; in high and happy spirits; sickness will never come.
With good mood, suitable amount of exercise, always in the sun, variety of foods, reasonable amount of vitamin and mineral intake, hopefully you will live another 20 or 30 years of healthy life of pleasure.
Above all, learn to cherish the goodness around... and FRIENDS... They all make you feel young and "wanted"... without them you are surely to feel lost!!
Wishing you all the best.

A Perfect (Detached) Love

Girl: Since the day I left you, you don't seem feeling any sort of pain. This means, you were not actually in love with me. So, all the love you showed towards me was false, right?

Boy: No. In fact, I am more in love with you. Actually, I feel pain only when you feel pain. Since, you are happy with your new boyfriend, and as you are not in pain, I am not feeling any pain.

I never asked God to give me what I want...

because, I don't know whether what I want will be good for me or not in future. Whenever I pray God, I always ask him, "Give me what you feel I deserve the most". Sometimes, I don't even ask anything from him because I think God is mature enough to find what I want before I ask him. I feel sad hearing people asking God to give them immediately what they want. If not given, they scold him, and the least stop praying him. I always have the feeling that God has grandeur picture in his mind, to execute the tasks that are good for all, not to specific individual. If God gets biased to individual requests, he may not execute his grand plan efficiently (Assuming that God has given us freewill to ask whatever we want from him). In short, whether you ask God or not, he will give you what you deserved.

Freedom of speech and questioning

Whenever I ask a question: how can you prove the existence of soul? I get countered: how can you disprove it? I stopped the discussion then because asking a counter question is not answer to a question. I see lot of such counter questions in day-to-day life. Why people feel hard to say these simple words: "I don't know". Instead they defend it as if they own it. We are not founders of Hinduism, and there is no point in defending it. Just because we are born to Hindu family, we don't have right to defend it, instead we should dare to question your parents, why they believe what they believe. Some parents agree that their parent's told them to do so. Some try to defend it and scold you for questioning them. The freedom of speech stops from the home, why bother govt stopping you. The basis of science is questioning, which we already proved to the world we lack it: just see our scientific progress.

Are you questioning?

Do you believe that if I said I sold my two bed-room normal flat for two billion dollars? Do you believe that while I was walking on road, director Spielberg stopped by and asked me for acting in his next film, as a main character? You don't right, if I say. But you may possibly believe if your father says so. You will definitely believe if your father said these when you were kid. Here, we observe that anything that didn't fit to your rationality, you would tend to suspect, right? My question is, why do you think Jesus resurrected on third day, and two women saw it; he was then seen by his followers, and disappeared to heaven, fits into rationality? Is it because you father said so while you were kid walking miles with him to church every Sunday? To extend that, why don't you think the Jesus story was cooked-up? We all know Jews were going through hard times under high priests, at the time of Jesus. Is it not rational to think that the only way to overpower high priests is to have an historical incident, which of course the Jesus resurrection? Wasn't this recited the mob to rebel against the high priests, and threw them away?

A Colored Theory

We have as many theories as there are colors in the universe. Because, people repaint old theories with new colors and propagate them as new, like painting a box with a new color and showing it as new. And worst of all, they take credit for doing so.

Some notes from CTO

1. The next huge markets will be India and China, and the Product Management in US has no clue about the local dynamics in these markets. They tend to apply what work in US, but fail terribly. The reason is that, for e.g., China is going through technology skip. So, you can't sell handsets to them, where everybody has mobile nowadays. Indians can better understand Indian market. So, you guys (us) have a benefit of being here, over a long run, if you exploit the opportunity.

2. He said a very interesting process of generating innovative ideas. Once in a while, he sends an email to 8 random people, who don't know each other ideally, and ask them to gather at a place, and discuss about what they are working, and what improvements they would like to see. This will help generate cross-pollinated ideas. After such meetings, he starts getting very innovative ideas, which he didn't get when he conducted a meeting of top distinguished engineers in the company. This is very innovative way of driving innovation.

3. The only way to sustain growth in India is to work-hard...China is growing rapidly.