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Most of my childhood I had spent in solidarity. I learned to entertain myself with toys, riding my bicycle around the house in a confined space, and watching all the cartoons I possibly could. Many try to engross themselves in books having such a childhood. My dad had this obsession with buying books, not many fiction novels but mostly general knowledge, DIY books, magazines, etc. Though surrounded by a vast catalog of books I never really felt like reading any. Except glancing through the numerous car magazines just for the pictures. I despised reading books, the number of textbooks and especially English literature books sufficed the need to read a book. Ironically, I was made a bookkeeper during my 7th grade for the class library. Though I never read any of them I used to get. The only books other than textbooks I remember reading were the Harry Potter series. Why? The Hype.  Most of my family enjoyed reading books but I never did.  Even up until my teenage years, textboo...

Measuring Success We all have been at a conference or some kind of seminar where we see the anchor reading out a list of achievements of a person and introducing them to the crowd. And at times, the keynote speaker doesn't need an introduction because they might be famous. But what makes them eligible to give out talks to the public or audience? Success?  Many would say because of his achievements, experiences, or success.  I once had a small chat with a TEDx event organizer and asked them about their eligibility for being a speaker at such events. The answer, you have to be successful in your own field. We always look at achievers as successful people. But being successful, is it really that hard? What is being successful in life? Having earned a million dollars, is it a success?  A millionaire turning a billionaire, is it a success? Reaching the top position at a Fortune 500 company, is a success?  Becoming a head of state from a humble chai wala, is ...

S oci A l dis TAN cing CORONA VIRUS. It is everywhere and in discussions with everybody every day. All the media trying to present the situation to maintain their ratings. Please don't try too hard, people have nothing else to watch. Explaining the situation or talking about it is superfluous. But the situation and various videos emerging on social media opened up a new perspective to me about life.  I came across some emotional videos on Instagram of soldiers returning home from deployment. Being away from their loved ones for a really long time, with barely any contact possible at times, and the family waiting eagerly to see them. Just brings tears. Their purpose, serve their country and people. Doctors and nurses, A BIG THANK YOU . I came across a video of a doctor who was in the epicenter of this pandemic. She distanced her family when she got to know she would be treating the COVID patients and she contracted the disease after a while. Nobody has any idea ...

Long Drives It has been quite some time since I wrote something here, I guess the motivation was a bit off with other things in life bothering. People with the slightest idea about me know how much I love automobiles and driving. And just the past week, I embarked on a much-awaited drive. A 1300 mile drive covering bits and parts of 6 states in the United States. As the saying goes, sometimes the best therapy is a long drive and good music. Well, it is true in my case, driving has always been a getaway for me.  Img Source I always try to find analogies between life and everything else. This drive had me thinking about two things. A planned journey always takes us from point A to point B. Life is all about trying to get from that point A to B. We tend to use a map as a guide for the journey but at times, what if we tend to switch off the navigation and take the road by intuition. We have many people around to guide us to get to our destination in life, but there are tim...

Chicken-Hearted It's been ages since I sat down to write something. Brave-Hearted, having a brave heart i.e. having or showing mental or moral strength to face danger, fear or difficulty. What is chicken-hearted? It is kind of an antonym of brave-hearted, cowardly; easily frightened. Shouldn't we be talking about being brave then?  People all around the world try to motivate you through quotes, speeches, stories. But most of them try to empower you with positivity. Rarely do people talk about the negative feelings in us. Why not empower with positivity through something that is negative. The universe does attract the opposites, right? They say all it takes is one person to believe in you. But at times in the phases of life, even though there is more than one person who believes in you, do we have the same belief in ourselves? Some instances in life break our faith in ourselves. We start doubting ourselves. A sense of fear instills. You really judge yourself whether ...

The AUDI R8 is my all-time favorite supercar. The love is such that, I have 7 Audi R8's in my collection so far and another one is coming soon. Since most of my collection is back home and I have access to a very few models that I purchase here, I haven't been uploading many reviews. Let's get straight into the extensive review of the model. The Audi R8 needs no introduction since I have talked a lot about it in many of my previous blog posts. It has a V10 engine with a 610hp in the plus version. The scale model here is a 1:18 scale V10 plus in the beautiful vegas yellow (and my favorite shade on the R8 too). It is a dealer edition since it came in an Audi Sports official box. Though the brand is supposed to be iScale (only they had the vegas yellow version and later was discontinued), but the box clearly has Kyosho Deutschland Gmbh. Not sure if iScale is a subsidiary company. Starting with the huge plus point of this model, the paint quality. It is simply...