all it takes...

ALL IT TAKES...

'all it takes' is the punch line of which company?

This was the first question at the General quiz preliminary round, CVR College of Engineering ( 9^th March 2007). This was the question which troubled us most... we even had people asking us “ayyaaaaaa, you didn't know it? how come?”

I couldn't take it, all I could do was remain silent, I could see an immediate change of body language in Uday and Vijay (more explicit in his case). For a moment I remembered those days when we were a bit more warm-blooded.

Somehow that tag line hinged itself to my mind. It meant something... ALL IT TAKES... almost nothing I could think of right away. Finally, I made some sense out of it yesterday.

all it takes is mental strength, courage, emotion, hunger, obsession, determination, passion, pride, bravery, comittment, honour, ego, vanity, thrill, belief, dream, valour, perfection, persistence, killer instinct... and finally, according to Andy, perhaps the best of things HOPE.



How can we be so passive to a defeat, humiliation, a plunder of our self-respect ,... ? How can we be so patient in waiting for something more pleasing

We don't feel the pinch... do WE? neither are we interested in delivering one..

come on guys... its been a long time. Its been a long time since you proved you were worth something, something you were made for, something no one could dare doing...

Leave behind those moral stories that told you to respect to people around you. All it counts is where are you... the first or last (good bye to those podium finishes and those bloody console (ation) prizes). Open up.. rule the world, enjoy your opponents defeat, let them feel the pain...

All these years of my studies have taught me one thing at least (if not many!!)... how ever well you prepare, write exams... All that matters in the end is how much you scored... No one bothers about how you got those marks once you are out of the exam hall... you copy, you impress the teachers, you change answers after you get the papers... NOTHING matters... NOTHING. Today, I feel ashamed to write in my CV that i scored 82% in intermediate. I didn't copy, didn't by-heart anything, didn't impress teachers... I am not going to write all this in my CV...Its just that 82 that matters for people.

After writing this, I can see an emperor in the making...

In the dusty, hardly visible future

I see,

An emperor in the making,

An emperor who would never lose,

Some one for whom all that matters is the challenge,

Past no longer counts,

Its a never ending war

a War for pride and ego.

-- buddi


24th March, 2:55 am

Well the emperor could be me.