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the best solution is to KNOW and have a perspective on everything, read about diverse subjects, and keep your thinking hat on.

Don’t be a spectator in life. Always be ready to put on a dog and pony show.

If you don’t fight back against injustice, you will lose lot of credibility.

• Watch an American Football game
• Watch Cricket World Cup Final when my country is playing

• Fly an airplane
• Drive a race car
• Rock climbing
• Drive a Lamborghini

• Italy
• Greece
• Scotland
• Australia
• Ireland
• Brazil
• India cultural trip

• Study Buddhism
• Study Bhagavad Gita

• Own a diner or a bar
• Live in a coastal town, work on the beach

1. If you think you’re too small to make a difference, you’ve never been in bed with a mosquito.

1. Only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.
2. Reason is the slave of the passions – Hume

• NPR

http://www.talkers.com/main/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19&Itemid=44

• Dennis Miller
• Al Franken
• Dennis Miller
• Bill Maher
• Jay Leno
• David Letterman

• Rush Limbaugh
  – half hour news hour
• Bill OReilly
• Matt Drudge
• Ann Coulter

• Russell Peters

Einstein

Commonly used categories for metaphors and analogies -

• Sports
• War
• Business

• Kids
• Women
• Teenage kids
• Old age parents
• Neigbours
• Pets

• Government
• Utility companies
• Life events

• Famous Personalities
• Large cities
• Famous Structures
• Stereotypes
• Movies

• Science, physics
• Weather

1. There’s no such thing as right and wrong; just popular opinion
2. You are a total nutcase, completely deranged, delusional, paranoid. Your thought process is all fucked up. Your information tray is jammed, man!
3. There is no such thing as bacteria or germs. Germs is a plot made up so they could sell disinfectants and soaps

If someone is mean to you, diffuse it by acceptinig it, revert it back on the mean person, shift the topic, or shift the attention to someone else -

1. “Ohhh, is that how you feel ? What else do you feel”... try acting like a psychiatrist…. looks like you need some counselling. Let me give you a number…”
2. “Oops…Did I touch a raw nerve there ?”
3. “Ooh…there’s some hidden sensitivity there…”
4. Are you always mean and caustic, or do you just envy me ?”
5. Congratulations ! You are the first one to spot that. Let me give you a dollar for that discovery”
6. “Hey, your nose reminds me of an anteater”
7. “Why does your mouth look like an active volcano” Is it just me ?
8. “Help, help, somebody save me ! somebody put out the fire”

1. “How much do you weigh ?”
2. “What school did you go to?”
3. “Why exactly did xyz marry you ?”
4. “Are you still married?”...
5. “You used to be alrite when we first met..what happened since then..”
6. “Are you having a bad day?”
7. “Are you angry ? You need some cold water?”
8. “What male habit of yours annoys your husband more ? Picking your nose, or scratching your butt”
9. “This is great food….for seagulls”
10. “Your body resembles an economy size toothpaste in a teenager girls bathroom. Squeezed impatiently from random places, it acquires a shape of its own, difficult to be described by the most accomplished geometrician”
11. “I am amazed that xyz is still married to you”

1. “I can’t bear fools” – “that’s weird. Your mother could”
2. “If you were my husband, I would put poison in your tea” “If I were your husband, I would drink it”
3. “The first rule is not to write like xyz (or not to offend xyz)...the 2nd and 3rd rules are the same”
4. “Going to war without the French is like going deer hunting without the accordian”
5. “Americans always try to do the right thing. After we have tried everything else”
6. “America is a melting pot. The people at the bottom get burnt and the scum floats to the top”
7. “The difference between LA and yogurt is that yogurt has a culture”
8. “I know why the sun never sets on the British empire. God wouldn’t trust an Englishman in the dark”
9. “Poor Mexico. So far from God and so near US”
10. “If I owned Texas and Hell. I would rent out Texas and live in hell”
11. “In India “cold weather” is merely a conventional phrase, and has come into use through the necessity of having a way to distinguish in some way between weather which will melt the door knobs and weather which will only make it mushy” – Mark Twain
12. “You can always reason with a German. You can always reason with a barnyard animal, too, for all the good it does”

1. You arrogant, sour, chauvinistic egomaniac.
2. You stupid, fucking, bastard.
3. You have many talents, all of them meaningless though
4. You are good at so many things, all of them put together don’t contribute to the society though.
5. “Do you have to leave so early”
   “No but I choose to”
6. May be its your teeth, may be its your hair, may be its your tummy, something about you really bothers me…wait, I know its your stupid brain (or fucking ego).
7. His ears make him look like a taxicab with both doors open.
8. Why do you sound like your mouth is full of toilet paper.
9. You are opinionated and a chauvinist.
   - Are you trying to get a sympathy vote here ?
   - Pack your bags and get the fuck out of my house.
   - Why don’t you shut up and get the fuck out of my face.
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• Benjamin Franklin
• Devil’s dictionary

1. The hypocrites … love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men.
2. For what profit is it to a man if he gains the world and loses his own soul?
3. The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.
4. Since God knows what’s best for you, you should gratefully accept the way He has fashioned you. The Bible says, “What right have you, a human being, to cross-examine God? The pot has no right to say to the potter: ‘Why did you make me this shape?’ Surely a potter can do what he likes with the clay!”
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Topics : Politics, Religion, Life, People, Science, Cultures
Selection criteria : Easy to remember, reusable, meaningful, not a cliche,

1. I do not believe in God, because I believe in man.
2. America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. ~ President Abraham Lincoln
3. The free market is ugly and stupid, like going to the mall; the unfree market is just as ugly and just as stupid, except there is nothing in the mall and if you don’t go there they shoot you. ~ P.J. O’Rourke
4. If pro is the opposite of con, then isn’t progress the opposite of congress? ~ Keith Avery
5. I was raised in a Montessori environment. I believe in people. I think Barack can make a fine president. He’s potty trained, right – Dilesh
6. In Switzerland, 500 years of democracy and peace. And what does it produce? The cuckoo clock. ~ Graham Greene, The Third Man
7. There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise – Gore Vidal
8. The more money an American accumulates the less interesting he himself becomes.- Gore Vidal
9. Humans can train horses. Who can teach humans ?
10. The two greatest obstacles to democracy in the United States are, first, the widespread delusion among the poor that we have a democracy, and second, the chronic terror among the rich, lest we get it. ~ Edward Dowling, Editor and Priest, Chicago Daily News (28 July 1941)
11. Communism was a great system for making people equally poor. In fact, there was no better system in the world for that than communism. -The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman.
12. Why is it the Mongols of this world always tell us they’re defending us against the Mongols? ~ Edward Whittemore, Nile Shadows (1983)
13. I feel the happiest when I can light my American cigarettes with Soviet matches. ~ Mohammed Daud Khan, President of Afghanistan, 1973-1978
14. Diplomacy might be boring, but it’s a hell of a lot cheaper than war
15. The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
16. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting that vote (Benjamin Franklin)
17. Self governance is preferable to Good governance ~ Bhagat Singh
18. All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. ~ George Orwell
19. Few men desire liberty; The majority are satisfied with a just master.
20. We’re the first society in history with the option of living in a world without poverty. The fact poverty still exist says more about our political leaders than I can. ~ Clint Borgen, architect behind the movement to make poverty a political priority.
21. If we do not believe in freedom of speech for those we despise we do not believe in it at all. ~ Noam Chomsky
22. When I came to America from India to steal an American’s job, I was a democrat. After 10 years, when I became an American citizen, I became a republican and started hating the Indians who will trying to steal my job – Dilesh
23. Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. ~ George Orwell
24. When women are depressed, they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It’s a whole different way of thinking. ~ Elayne Boosler
25. Nationalism is having the ego to think of the 191 countries you could have been born in, you happened to be born into the one that is the best
26. Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies. ~ Groucho Marx
27. Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
28. They [the people] may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. ~ Carl W. Buechner
29. Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
30. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. ~ Albert Einstein
31. The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. ~ Albert Einstein
32. The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
33. Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. ~ Albert Einstein
34. The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service. ~ Albert Einstein
35. War does not determine who is right — only who is left. ~ Bertrand Russell
36. I asked for universal health care and all I got was this lousy stealth bomber. ~ a protester’s plaque
37. My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators. ~ Dick Cheney
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• Avoid casting like a fishing rod by suddenly forcing the club down (usually happens due to strong grip and bending the left arm. Keep left arm stretched)
• Practice Drill – Swing like you are holding a whip. Let the clubface lag behind your hands on the backswing. On the downswing, the lag will create extra leverage.
• Before starting the downswing, shift body weight to the left foot.
• Drill : Step to the left with the left foot before starting the downswing.
• Listen for the perfect pitch. When you loosen up the grip and let the club lag, it will create a high pitch swishing sound. Like a whip.
• The clubhead needs to be accelerating at the point where the clubhead hits the ball.
• At impact get the “right” arm fully stretched. Also start flexing the right knee.
• Don’t buckle up the left wrist at impact (read Hogan)
• Don’t try to roll the wrists to get the clubhead straight to compensate for the slice.
• Follow through with right arm stretched.
• Don’t try to slow down your swing post impact.
• Start moving the weight forward to your left foot. And move the torso forward.
• Swing the body as much as you can (just like a back swing) to complete the plane.
• A good swing should recoil back again after the complete down-and-forward swing
• Hold that position for sometime before the next shot. Let the body register the swing, muscle movements subconsciously.
• Don’t worry about the speed of swinging. If you have the right one-two rhythm, the tempo will take care of itself.

• Heavy shot (hitting the ground behind the ball ) happens if the hips have moved forward and the sternum is leaning away from the target.
• Flick the wrists at impact (puck release) like we do in Cricket. (per Nick Bradley) – debatable technique ?

• While rotating your body, remember to keep the belt vertically level at all times. Visualize pushing a car with all your body weight. Don’t tilt your hips up or down.
• Keep the knees from turning.
• Keep looking at the ball.
• Keep the elbows close to the body. Don’t raise the right elbow. At the top of the backswing the right elbow is just slightly away from the body. The two elbows are at same height at the top of backswing.
• Go up slow and smooth. Clubhead – arms – shoulders – torso – hips.
• Hips turn about 45 degrees and shoulders wind about 90 degrees.
• Half swing is when the left arm is parallel to the ground. 3/4 swing is when the extended back of the club shaft aims at the ball. Full swing is when the extended left arm aims at the ball.
• If you don’t feel the tension and recoil in your body, something went wrong.
• Don’t break the backswing.

• Balance the body weight between heels and balls of feet. If you top a lot, put more weight on balls. If you get under the ball, put more weight on the heels.
• Stretch your body. Maintain 2 curves. One behind lower back and another behind the neck. Push your hips out. Stretch your back straight. Drop your head from the neck. But don’t go all the way to the chest.
• If you stand with parallel feet, you will not get balance.
• Turn both knees inwards a bit (Per Ben Hogan)
• Drill : Keep the left leg a foot behind the actual stance to keep the right knee quiet during the swing.
• Position the ball inside your left heel (or armpit) or 2-3 inches further right.
• Don’t shift the ball in your stance. This will lead to inconsistency of loft and distance. Shift the width of your stance by moving only right foot closer to the left and higher up towards the ball as you move from driver to long irons to short irons to wedges. Also move your weight from the right foot to balance to left.
• The right shoulder will automatically be slightly lower because of the stance
• Link your arms (from the elbows) to the body in preparation of the back swing.

• Use natural facing of your hands, when you freely suspend your arms by your sides, to grip the club shaft. Not exactly parallel. But at about 45 degrees like holding a motorcyle handle. No back hinging of the wrists.
• Don’t stretch out the left thumb. Form a pincer between thumb and forefinger (separate out the forefinger a bit from the other fingers)
• Hold the club in the fingers (not the palm) of the left hand.
• Slide the hand high up to the end of the shaft.
• Don’t have too tight of a grip
• Align the V’s of the hands

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http://www.confidencemanual.com/self-confidence.htm

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May 5 – Golf swing seems like its improving. Helped boost the morale.

May 6 – My boss told me a senior exec at my company thinks I am not applying myself enough. Part of this is internal politics. Partly unfortunate series of circumstances. But I still got annoyed by this “criticism”. I need to continue to keep my morale high. Today was a bad day. Driving range was closed. And my toastmasters speech today sucked. I got all nervous and it was showing.