When you will be Citizens of the World instead of Citizens of Country

As citizens of a country, we have a lot of expectations from our government, Some are fulfilled Some are not.

In a flight of fancy I suppose the best scenario for citizens in the world would be when crossing borders is an easy process and Nations have to attract citizens for work. In that scenarios governments will vie with each other to attract talented citizens.

How to root your Mi pad

I am running Mi pad 1 (Global version 7.5.2) and wanted to root my Mi pad
The benefit of rooting your Mi pad is getting super user access which can be used for
1. Allowing other apps to access sd card
For ex. ES File Explorer is not able to delete files on sd card on Mi pad 1 but once you root your phone. ES File explorer can delete files even on sd card

2. Moving apps from internal memory to sd card memory
We have huge sd cards where huge games (such as Asphalt 8) can be moved using FolderMount app but FolderMount requires rooted device. Hence the need to root your device.

What will this root procedure do?
This rooting will provide you super user access. Also it will change MIUI version from 7.5.2 to 7.3.1. I don't see any difference in performance between both versions. Both are Kitkat versions.

How to root your  Mi pad

The following is tutorial created by an MIUI Elite Member RahulTheVirus (Don't worry that's just his online name)

Step 1: Download update.zip (1.93 MB size) from the link below
update.zip

Step 2: Put update.zip into the main folder of your internal memory (The folder you see when you select internal memory in Explorer on Mi pad)

 

Step 3: Open "Updater" app your Mi pad and click the vertical three dots on top right corner. Select "Reboot to Recovery mode"

Step 3: Now your Mi pad will boot into Recovery Menu where you will be using volume up down keys to navigate and Power key to select

Follow sequence number 1 to 7 shown in figure

 

Sequence step 1: Navigate to English. Select English.

Sequence step 2: Select "Install update.zip to System One"

Sequence Step 3: Select "Yes"

Sequence Step 4: It will quickly install update.zip (in a few minutes) showing 99%

Sequence Step 5: Select "Back"

Sequence Step 6: Select "Reboot"

Sequence Step 7: Select "Reboot to System one (latest)"

System will reboot. You should see a new user app called Super user. This app provides you super user access.

So when any of your app requires super user access (such as ES File Explorer and Folder Mount) You will see a dialog asking for super user access. Click "Grant".

Comment if this helped you. :)

How to uninstall softwares from ubuntu - I am not able to find the software in Ubuntu Software centre

I had installed adobe reader on ubuntu but it was not working on my machine. So how do I unistall it.

Ubuntu Software Center was not showing the software to remove but It was there when I searched the Dash

So I opened the terminal (The icon with black screen and arrow) and installed Synaptic manager using the following command

sudo apt-get install synaptic


Once Synaptic manager was installed. I opened Synaptic manager searched for "adobe" marked the package for removal. Applied the change.


Viola! 200 mb free and adobe is removed.


Do comment if this helped you. :)
P.S> Programs are called packages in Ubuntu. I believe The tutorial can work for other linux systems also.

I am high class

Someone I know told me once "I am high class"

This got me to wonder - How do you become High class?

Do you become high class by
1. You are more educated than the other person.
But then Bill Gates did not complete college. How can he be excluded from the category.

2. You have more money that other person
But then money moves from one person to other. It's in the nature of money to keep moving. Someone may be rich one day and become poor some other day. So does that person move from high class to low class due to this?

3. You have more values than other person
Say you are honest and loyal. That is a quality that takes effort to maintain. May be that is what high class can be. :)

Discipline and Freedom

“Discipline and freedom are not mutually exclusive but mutually dependent because otherwise, you’d sink into chaos.”
— Paulo Coelho

Be careful

Be careful!
Read the text on a bike

What was left unread in that caring voice
B'coz I am careless

- From hospital bed ;)

How to install Android Studio on Ubuntu

So I recently moved from Windows to Ubuntu 16.04

Here is a tutorial on how to install android studio on Ubuntu

Step 1: Install java version 8 on ubuntu

Open Terminal (Keyboard shortcut: Alt + Control +T or open via Dash just type Terminal and click)

Run the following commands on terminal one by one

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer

Finally set oracle java as default

sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-set-default 

Now proceed to install android studio as follows

1. Download Android Studio from here, use All Android Studio Packages
   
   I downloaded the package through firefox in default Downloads folder. If you are downloading to any other place, provide that location in next step
   
2. Extract the archive file into an appropriate location for your applications, For example - I am unzipping android-studio-ide-145.3537739-linux.zip in /opt directory
   

   sudo unzip /home//Downloads/android-studio-ide-145.3537739-linux.zip -d /opt
    

   should be substituted with your username on ubuntu
3. Now to launch android studio we need to navigate to opt/android-studio/bin
So type in terminal
cd opt/android-studio/bin
4. Now you are in right directory type the following to execute
./studio.sh

Viola! Android studio should launch. It may ask to download files to update. It will create a shortcut for android studio on Ubuntu dash.


Do comment if this tutorial helped you. Happy coding! :)

Source: http://askubuntu.com/questions/634082/how-to-install-android-studio-on-ubuntu

Jal Jivan Hain

In my country it is said - Water is life, apparently.

The water tanker in picture seems to be spreading life as it goes around.

Ad vs reality

Ad - Melting chocolate filled muffins

Reality -

Becoming the best version of myself

https://www.quora.com/What-can-I-do-to-make-sure-I-am-becoming-the-best-version-of-myself/answer/William-Beteet-1?srid=nUqM&share=5ef09f9e

1. It’s Bigger Than Sex - Porn and Rom Coms have caused us to spend a majority of our lives chasing love and sex. These things are great but chasing them can be distracting and exhausting. Reattribute some of the energy you spend pursuing love to accomplish some of your larger goals.
2. Figure Out What You Need to Master First - Focus on mastering one thing at a time. Start with the thing that you are most insecure about. If you’re insecure about how much money you make - start with mastering business. If you ‘re insecure about your weight - focus on mastering fitness. This will allow you to make fast gains in the place where you feel most weak.
3. Ask yourself this question - When you are unsure what to do ask yourself “What would the strongest version of myself do?”
4. Think Do - When my life is going fantastic I am in a constant state of thinking and doing. The second a thought arises for me to do something beneficial, I immediately do it. That way I don’t talk myself out of doing the work.
5. Don’t Let Your Ego Get in the Way - Here is a video I made about your ego getting in the way of you becoming the strongest version of yourself.

6. Ask For Exactly What You Want - Be shameless, the people who progress the fastest in life ask for exactly what they want. It will be hard at first, you will feel awkward doing it, but in the end you will be in a lot better position to succeed.

7. Always Look For How You Can Offer Value - Look at how you can make other people’s lives better. Especially those who you want to impress. Constantly think about things you can offer people (Besides money) that makes them want to have you around.

8. Write What You Learned and Read What You Need to Learn - I love answering questions on Quora because it helps me relearn lessons I’ve already learned. I love to read/listen to audiobooks because they show me what I need to learn. Doing both of these things everyday will help you stay focused.

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Valentine's Day wishes

Here is wishing Sur, Happy Valentine's Day!

May she find her way back to me. I want to have a ballroom dance with her, which I believe is incredibly romantic. :) And a happy valentine's day to you who is reading this. If you don't have a life partner at the moment, No harm there. Be in love with yourself. :)

A beautiful song

Tere Sur aur Mere geet

Dhadakan mein too hain samaayaa huaa, khayaalon mein too hee too chhaayaa huaa
Duniyaa ke mele mein laakhon mile, magar too hee too dil ko bhaayaa huaa
Mai teree jogan too meraa meet dono milakar banegee pareet

Muz ko agar bhool jaaoge tum muz se agar door jaaoge tum
Meree mohabbat mein taasir hai, to khinchake mere paas aaoge tum
Dekho humaaree hogee jeet dono milakar banegee pareet
Dekho humaaree hogi jeet

Link to listen : http://raagtune.com/song/pu7m50rb/Tere_Sur_Aur_Mere_Geet.html

My expectations from life partner

1. Watch movies, TV series with her

2. Listen and appreciate songs with her
3.  Browse through funny and sophisticated photos with her

Cockroach theory

At a restaurant, a cockroach suddenly flew from somewhere and sat on a lady.

She started screaming out of fear.

With a panic stricken face and trembling voice, she started jumping, with both her hands desperately trying to get rid of the cockroach.

Her reaction was contagious, as everyone in her group also got panicky.

The lady finally managed to push the cockroach away but ...it landed on another lady in the group.

Now, it was the turn of the other lady in the group to continue the drama.

The waiter rushed forward to their rescue.

In the relay of throwing, the cockroach next fell upon the waiter.

The waiter stood firm, composed himself and observed the behavior of the cockroach on his shirt.

When he was confident enough, he grabbed it with his fingers and threw it out of the restaurant.

Sipping my coffee and watching the amusement, the antenna of my mind picked up a few thoughts and started wondering, was the cockroach 

responsible for their histrionic behavior?

If so, then why was the waiter not disturbed?

He handled it near to perfection, without any chaos.

It is not the cockroach, but the inability of the ladies to handle the disturbance caused by the cockroach that disturbed the ladies.

I realized that, it is not the shouting of my father or my boss or my wife that disturbs me, but it's my inability to handle the disturbances caused by their shouting that disturbs me.

It's not the traffic jams on the road that disturbs me, but my inability to handle the disturbance caused by the traffic jam that disturbs me.

More than the problem, it's my reaction to the problem that creates chaos in my life.

Lessons learnt from the story:

I understood, I should not react in life.

I should always respond.

The women reacted, whereas the waiter responded.

Reactions are always instinctive, whereas responses are always well thought of, just and right to save a situation from going out of hands, to avoid cracks in relationship, to avoid taking decisions in anger, anxiety, stress or hurry.

A beautiful way to understand............LIFE.”   

Why do poor people deserve welfare benefits?

We don’t provide welfare because people deserve it; that isn’t the point. We provide them because that’s the kind of society we want to have. Without them, we’re back to finding orphans frozen to death on the streets on winter mornings, and people begging in rags, and children being put to work so as to earn enough to pay for their own food. All the lovely features of pre-welfare Victorian society.

This is a real picture from the United States, and two of the children were in fact sold into effective slavery, in which they were kept chained up in a barn and abused. This was in the 1940s.

Large numbers of the people who are poor are not capable of working. They are children, the elderly, the physically and mentally disabled. They aren’t responsible for their poverty, but they’re poor all the same. We can decide if it’s OK to let them starve, or we can choose to look after them because it’s the decent thing to do.

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How to be happy in life

A mentality I’ve adopted that has really improved how I view life is the “two cakes” approach. A couple of years ago I stumbled upon it in a comic that’s circulated Tumblr quite a few of times.

Although this is really useful as an artist, I’ve found it applicable to all areas of living.

I think a lot of our current, modern society is based upon this idea of linear progress, that we should keep working to get better, to have better lives, to improve things - which of course leads to constantly comparing yourself to others. In actuality that’s just not how life works!

It’s so liberating to realise that whatever you put forward, no matter how small, is still a valid contribution to the world and can make people happy regardless of how satisfied you feel personally with what you’ve done.

From there, as you continue to make things, in whatever profession you pursue, you’ll get closer to closing the gap between what you want to be making and what you are making. And that feels pretty great as well!

Don’t get disheartened by the progress of the people around you, the world is a better place when your unique contributions are a part of it.

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Franklin Veaux answers - What will you regret?

“I don't believe you.”

I said it in the last conversation that I ever had with a woman I loved very, very much, who I will call “Ruby.”

Ruby (not her real name) and I were amazingly close friends, then partners. We dated for less than a year, a very long time ago. I was crazy in love with her, absolutely feet over teacups.

Until this point in my life, I'd never felt jealousy, so I naively believed I was immune to it. Ruby and I were non-monogamous (I was still with my first wife when we met). She started dating a friend of mine, and I absolutely flipped out.

I was buried up to the eyeballs in this incredibly powerful hurricane of destructive emotions I'd never experienced before, but of course I didn't recognize it for what it was, because I was immune to jealousy, right? Right?

So I assumed that she must be doing something wrong to be making me feel these bad things, so I did one of the single most damaging things it's possible to do in a romantic relationship: I started giving her the cold shoulder. Not acknowledging her when she walked in the room, that sort of thing.

She called me on my bullshit. She said we should talk. We had a long talk, sitting in the front seat of her car while the rain came down around us.

She told me she loved me.

I said, “I don't believe you.”

I broke her heart.

She broke up with me, and I was absolutely devastated. It took a long time for me to realize it was absolutely, 100% my fault.

That is one of the scars I carry on my heart that will never, ever heal. That happened in 1992, and it still hurts today. I would do almost anything to be able to undo the harm I caused—in fact, that conversation, in that car, in the rain, was one of the defining moments of my life, and I have taken what I learned into every one of my relationships since then.

But even if I live to be a thousand years old, there will never come a time when I stop regretting it.

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Money and satisfaction

"I’m somewhat ashamed… That I’ve profited from being shrewd with money is not by itself satisfying to me. To atone, I teach and try to set an example. I would hate it if the example of my life caused people to pursue the passive ownership of pieces of paper. I think lives so spent are disastrous lives. I think it’s a better career if you help build something. I wish I’d built more, but I was cursed at being so good at stock picking. ‘The man is the prisoner of his talents.’ You can laugh, but I’ll bet this room is full of people who are prisoners of their talents. It tends to be the human condition.”

Charlie Munger

A love poem

Stand by your man

And show the world you love him

Keep giving all the love you can

Stand by your man

-Tammy Wynette

P.S. man and woman both.