We are Back !

Hello Everyone!

It really feels great to connect back with all of you. We are sure many things have changed. It so happened that we got stuck with family and career. But we are back with something new this time, for all of you. You will love it. It is a MOOC ! MOOC means “Massive Open Online Course”.

The Title of the MOOC is “Mathematical Economics” It is not just a course but there is lot of learning and learning with fun.

The world we live in, is full of wonders and mysteries. One of the Mystery is Mathematics. This is what we have been exploring and learning for the last three years.

Do you know that Mathematics is not a subject but a Language, just like any other language? Do you know that Mathematics and Economics is everywhere around you, right from the time you wake up till you fall asleep?

If you are curious to know more, join us in this journey. Click on the link https://swayam.gov.in/nd2_ugc19_hs41/preview

Enroll immediately and join us in this exciting journey of life-long learning!

Enjoy Life and Keep Learning !

Know Our World

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This is part of Share Your World hosted by Cee’s Photography. Questions are asked every week. Here are the questions for 2015 and our response to those questions that will give you an insight about us. Here is an opportunity for our readers to dig into Our Unique World. Enjoy!

2015 Week 1:

Q. 1. How do you get rid of pesky phone calls from telemarketers?

Answer.  Hello…hello….hello…… 😛

Q. 2. What are you a “natural” at doing?

Answer. Dreaming 😀

Q. 3. How often do you get a haircut?

Answer. Whenever hair and time permits! 😀

Q. 4. What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word “fun”?

Answer. Do whatever you want to do! 🙂

Q. 5. Bonus question:  What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?

Answer. Oxygen 😉

2015 Week 2:

Q. 1 Are you a hugger or a non-hugger?

Answer.

We’re crazy travelers and passionate photographers;

Sorry to say dear bloggers, we’re not huggers. 🙂

Q. 2 What’s your favorite ice-cream flavor?

Answer.

Not one, not two, a long list we’d like to show;

If you go to the store, let us know if there are more!

Q. 3 Do you prefer exercising your mind or your body? How frequently do you do either?

Answer.

Body and mind are the jewels of mankind; face, heart and soul makes a man refined;

Exercise them all daily, very skillfully; they are the five aspects of harmony.

Q. 4 Are you more of a dog person or a cat person? Why?

Answer.

Flora and fauna we admire; they are creations that inspire;

Compassion we’d like to show; to all living things, as we grow.

Q. 5 Bonus question:  What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?

Answer.

Oxygen again! Because without it, there’s nothing we can gain. 🙂

2015 Week 3:

Q. 1 Given the choice of anyone in the world, whom would you want as a dinner guest?

Answer. We would rather give the choice to you! Who would love to have dinner with us? You’re welcome! 🙂

Q. 2 When did you last sing to yourself? To someone else?

Answer. Oh! Just few seconds after reading this question. Why miss the opportunity to pamper the self? 😉

Q. 3 If you could wake up tomorrow having gained any one quality or ability, what would it be?

Answer. Ability to wake up every morning with quality of our choice! 😀

Q. 4 What, if anything, is too serious to be joked about?

Answer. Seriously nothing! 😛

Q. 5 Bonus question:  What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?

Answer. Two molecules of Oxygen and we don’t ask for more in the coming week too. 

2015 Week 4:

Q. 1 Where did you live at age five?  Is it the same place or town you live now?

Answer.

Five is a number so tender; the life of an offender, defender and pretender;

None other than parents we did surrender. 

Now is the time to look around; go ahead and take that stride; 

Near or far, to follow our dreams, we plan to travel worldwide.

Q. 2 You are invited to a party that will be attended by many fascinating people you never met.  Would you attend this party if you were to go by yourself?

Answer.

If we are Invited to a party of fascinating people we would never go to that party. Rather we would prefer meeting those people alone. 🙂

Q. 3 Did you grow up in a small or big town? Did you like it?

Answer.

Growing up is part of learning, we admit it!

Small town or big, we lived our life and we liked it!

Q. 4 As a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?

This is simple. An adult!

Q. 5 Bonus question:  What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?

Oxygen steals the bonus again!

2015 Week 5:

Q. 1 Do you prefer shopping or going to a park?

Answer. Why not both? Go to a park, then shop and come back. 😉

Q. 2 If you were a shoe, what kind would you be and why?

Answer.  One that fits no one! That, which can be used as a show piece for decoration at home. Why? We don’t wish to get soiled, but admired and handled with love and care. We don’t wish to get replaced in the long run. 😀 

Note: We are passionate travelers though, but would never wish to be used by anyone so. 🙂

Q. 3 What’s the story behind a time when you got locked out?

Answer. Locked out? Not a big deal. Break the lock! 🙂

Q. 4 Do you prefer eating foods with nuts or no nuts? 

Answer. Not old enough to dislike nuts. 😀

Q. 5 Bonus question:  What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?

Answer. Oxygen and Carbon dioxide for our survival so that we can exist in WordPress.  🙂

© 2015 Ahmad and Ahmad

Luxurious Moments!

Feeling Fancy Or Nothing at all !

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Let us assume that we were given unlimited funds to plan one day full of any and all luxuries that we normally can’t afford.

Unlimited funds to use luxury and just one day? Not fair!

If unlimited fund is given to us, we would have asked for unlimited time to fulfill all our earthly dreams and wishes. 

On one hand, unlimited funds in hand will be a huge burden in the head! And spending that money for the luxuries we generally can’t afford; that too in one day; will be another headache! Why waste the time running around like fools trying to purchase or avail the luxuries? Too many of them !

There is no definition of luxury. It is a relative term. Suppose we had sufficient fund to go to the Moon; a desire to travel round the rings of awesome Saturn would be a luxury for us. Further, if we could make to Saturn, how about a day’s trip of the infinite Universe! Therefore, our luxury knows no bounds. And having everything will land us in a situation where we will find our self having nothing. We will gradually be drifted away from the more meaningful and most wanted moments in our life. Luxury will no longer be luxury but a misery.

‘Moments’ are something we generally overlook, even though we always have it with us. They are our only possession. They are the most luxurious of all because even unlimited money can’t buy these moments for us. After having everything, all that we will seek are: time to spend with our near and dear ones, time to relax, breathe free and the time to spend and enjoy every bit of natures’ wonders.  Therefore, we would be better off having nothing rather than have everything and get lost in infinity.

© 2014 Ahmad and Ahmad

Listen to that Voice

Food for Thought:

When’s the last time you followed your instinct despite not being sure it was the right thing to do? Did it end up being the right call?

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This photograph was taken in the awesome Ajanta Caves, Maharashtra, India.

Thanks to WordPress for selecting our topic of discussion on Gut Feeling for the Daily Post. Glad to be a featured blogger in Daily Prompt. 🙂

While we were trying to recall the last time we followed our instinct, what provoked us was: if its our instinct, we have to be sure about it. If we are not sure about our action, it will definitely not be the right call. And our post follows…

It is a difficult task to differentiate between intuition (instinct or gut feeling) and thinking. There is a very thin line of distinction between the two. While Intuition is the ability to understand something immediately, without the need for conscious reasoning; thinking is the process of using one’s mind to consider or reason about something and arrive at rational judgement.

Following our intuition is like that shooting star. Just like a shooting star passes by leaving no traces behind; our intuition is our conscience, that inner feeling or inner voice viewed as acting as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one’s behavior giving us a glimpse of what should or should not be done. What we have observed from our life experiences; intuition never goes wrong! At least it did not go wrong with us, so far we could identify between that instinct and our thought. What we believe is, after following that instinct if things went wrong or did not materialize; then we probably missed our intuition and what was guiding us was our calculative mind.

We have encountered many instances when we followed that first voice from within, in any tricky situation. However several times we have even tried chasing that voice in vain because we never knew when it crossed by! What happened several times again is, when we ignored that first voice and tried to reason out the things, everything went wrong. After something went wrong, we regret not following that first voice.

To a great extent we have tried to master the art of catching the first voice. What we learnt is, the mind needs to be calm; and self belief, positive thinking and faith are the guiding factors to catch hold of that instinct.

Many of our posts created here in WordPress are the results of following our instinct, including the current one. 🙂

© 2014 Ahmad and Ahmad

Way of Life !

“Do not worry about going fast; you are not in a race. Do not think of going far; you cannot defeat death. Just walk. Enjoy the journey.”     —- Ahmad & Ahmad

This post is part of two challenges: Cee’s which Way Photo Challenge: 2014 #23 and Nurthuring Thursday

In response to the Challenges, we share below few of our photographs that actually describes the Way Of Life!

Here they are:

1. Beautiful

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Clicked at Birla Institute of Applied Sciences, Bhimtal, Uttarakhand, India.

Our life is sometimes beautiful, straight, smooth, supportive (represented by the green tress, if you could not guess that) and with available directions to show us the way to our destination.

 2. Indecisive

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Clicked at Terrace Garden, Chandigarh, India.

In many instances life puts us in a situation where we are not sure which way to go; whom to follow, whom not to follow. The choice is ultimately ours! 

 3. Twists and turns

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Clicked at India- Nepal Border (Dharchula in India and Darchula in Nepal)

Sometimes our life changes its direction as we climb up the path of growth. This is seen through the changes we undergo, in our thoughts, behaviour and way of living as we cross childhood, adulthood and old age.

 4. Challenge

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On way to Munsiyari, Uttarakhand, India.

Our life offers us many hurdles. These hurdles may be in the form of depression, rejection, fear or failure. It is up to us if we wish to go back, wait or go ahead and face the challenges. 

 5. Struggle

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Inside Bijrani, Jim Corbett National Park, Ramnagar, India.

Life is not always smooth. (represented by the gravels on the road). Though we know the way, it demands hard work and patience as we move ahead. 

 6. Unsolved Mystery

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On way to Pithoragarh, Uttarakhand, India.

Finally, life is an unsolved mystery. However smooth or straight the way is, or far it may stretch, after a point it goes out of view. To relate, we are heading towards infinity, towards the unknown!  

How would you describe your way of life? 

© 2014 Ahmad and Ahmad

No Time! Are you sure?

This is the clock we  purchased recently. Since then, we have enough time to do anything and everything. Time is a matter of our choice.

“If you do not have the time to do something, think again! Remove the damn battery from the clock. This is how clocks work. Isn’t it? So, Relax, life is too short to worry about time”. 🙂

Whatever

© 2014 Ahmad and Ahmad