Skyward Fire

This one is based off what my bestie came up with on Twitter. Full credits to her for the idea.

1. Parents are always right. They say what they say for your own good, and they do what they do for your own good.

2. Life is an adventure. Treat it like one.

3. Never expect anyone to return your feelings. Just because you feel your world revolves around them doesn’t mean they feel the same way about you.

4. To err is human. People make mistakes. To forgive, is the best thing to do.

5. “Just because I don’t talk to you often, or don’t see you often doesn’t mean I love you any less.”

6. Karma is a bitch, and it works in a cycle. You will always get what you deserve.

7. As hard as it might be for some people, don’t change how you feel about a person if you really love them and want in your life. They will come around.

8. Shut up when needed. You might think someone close to you needs to know everything about you, but they don’t.

9. Listen to your doctor. If he has an advise for you, compile.

10. Do what is to be done on time. Wasting it has never done anyone any good.

11. Career comes first. Everything else comes eventually. And contradictory to the fact that some people think you need to be emotionless to make sure you succeed career-wise, it’s wrong. Everything has a place of it’s own.

12. Brace yourself for a lot of No’s in life, specially from people you love the most.

13. Insecurity is not a bad thing, unless in high dosage. It just shows how much you love someone despite of what they might think.

14. Family first. Always, family first.

15. Cold water showers >> Hot water showers

16. Avoid eating at fast food chains. Go for restaurants that use local ingredients.

17. If you really like someone, forgive and forget. Apologize even when not needed, you don’t want them out of your life.

18. Give other people space. Not so much that they feel you’re not around, and not too much that they feel you’re forcing yourself upon them.

19. Compromise for your besties. Change the rules, go off the road, do things you wouldn’t do otherwise. For them. You know who you are, all 4 of you. And specially, the one who inspired me to write this post.

20. Don’t believe something just because it’s word-of-mouth.

21. Stay off people who think highly of themselves, who think they are in command, who hog the limelight, who’re self-centered and expect good behavior from you despite how otherwise they treat you.

22. If you say something, mean it. If you promise something, honor it.

23. Coffee and Red Bull don’t always work. Indian classical music to rule them all.

24. Thank God for what you have. He has given you sufficient to lead a proper life.

25. If you feel something about someone, let them know.

That’s it for tonight. I will post more eventually.

Has it really been a whole month since I blogged? Amazing. Well, the past one month has been jam-packed with a whole lot of personal issues, including an accident that I had and another session of running around here and there concerning my admission into a good college. Both of that didn’t really give me much time to get involved in anything else, including one thing that I was really looking forward to – playing around XNA, since I scored a Creators’ Club membership not long ago. Within a couple of weeks, I’ll be finishing reading a couple of books regarding developing in XNA and I’ll be ready to go. I can only wish my 360 wont die on me with an RROD, considering the way it has been acting up on me over the past few days. For that to happen right now would just be bad timing.

I started off with a couple of private projects of mine on C, but both got stalled for aforementioned reasons. For those of you who’ve been around this blog of mine, you probably know how much Winamp has fascinated me for years now. That was the first computer software I had ever seen in action, and this was way back in 2003 when I was in middle school. Lately, I’ve working on plug-ins for Winamp, and one amongst those was the light-weight Last.fm scrobbler. Since there were better alternatives, I took that project off my register and it’s not in development any more. I then went on to draft a scrobbler for a friend’s iriver, and that wasn’t too bad either, except for some bug fixes that I could never sort out because of the limited knowledge I had, so that had to be pushed out of the window back then too. But now, I’ll be reviving that too. So iriver owners, rejoice! You have the best and feature-laden Last.fm scrobbler coming your way this holiday season.

As far as the other projects are concerned, I wont be picking up anything anytime soon because of my jam-packed schedule. I was hoping I could finish a simple arcade title for the 360 by the end of summer, but that is still lagging and I have a long way to go till that comes into initial formation. Oh well, if not summer, it’ll be done by September. This will also happen to be the first full-fledged component of my digital portfolio so I’m committed to this. I tried to assemble a team of coders and designers for the same, but it’s difficult to find people my age in India who’d be willing to do such a thing, Getting out of the theory shell and into practicality is a far cry. Well, considering the very unpractical & chaotic education system India projects, who can you really blame?