Thursday, November 13, 2008

After a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooong time I’m back to my think tank site.

Really I’ve developed a serious problem of memory shortage. I tend to forget so many things. For each and every thing I write down the task to be done on my desk using a whiteboard marker so that I don’t forget it. This has lead my friends to make fun of me saying I’m turning out to be a la “Ghajini” the short term memory loss prone guy(well, I don’t know whether it is a good critic or not ;) )I hope I can recover from this problem soon. No idea as such how I can help cure myself. Well what was I talking about all this while…???? Oh ya, short term memory loss….. J

Before the power goes off now, let me quickly list the main imp things that happened in this gap……….. hmmm… if there is anyone who doesn’t believe in coincidence in life I request them to challenge me in what happened just now. The moment I wrote the first sentence of this paragraph, the power went off. But there are several things which I want to list and hence was pulled back to write from where I stopped before the power cut.

I attended a training conducted for one banking certification by my company. The faculty Mr.Manjunath was Chief Manager, Security division, SBM, B’lore. He had 28 years of experience in the field of banking. I am still unable to recover from that awesome lecture class. He was really an ocean of knowledge. By rough estimate, his age could be somewhere in the range of 55-60. But the thrust he had to share knowledge, to contribute to the field of banking is really matchless. When he entered the training room I was like “oh-no-not-another-oldie-lecture”, but I was ashamed of myself when I saw his enthusiasm to teach, to encourage us fire question at him… no, I cant really explain the brilliance that he was. I want to record here that I’m happy to have answered a question thrown by him at class. The question was a real incidence that he had faced in his banking life and he asked us to apply the banking laws to solve the problem. I was able to answer that and was really happy to see the sparkle in his face once I answered it. That was really a moment I will savor in my life. Apart from Mr. Manjunath, there was one more faculty Mr. Nagaraj who is a professor in Christ college in the dept of Accountancy who handled the Accountancy class. He too was a class of his own.

A significant change happened in me. I’ve started admiring Sachin Tendulkar and Sonu Nigam thanks to my friend who helped me understand what a real gem they are. Well though I was not a critic of them, I never took pain to understand what they are actually. Both have contributed to their respective field in their own ways and I hope they will continue to contribute in still huge way in years to come. Congrats sachin for scoring 40th test century against the bullish Aussies, teach those dogs good lessons in years to come. Sonu, I’m awestruck by your new song “Phir Milenge” in Rub Ne Bana De Jodi.

Last week I was attending a mark-your-attendance kind of call for my project. My onsite coordinator was chatting about the project and after a short gap she suddenly started telling about how happy she was for Barack Obama for becoming the president of America after winning the elections. She shared all the pains her fellow Americans are going through because of the economic slowdown in America, the fruit or child of George Bush’ ill fated Economic policies of 8years. She didn’t had any shyness to even say that she had tears in her eyes after seeing the results. At this point I got a question which any Indian citizen above 10 years of age and with average IQ will get “Do we have at least 10% of such emotional attachment towards our nation?” Let me not continue further, I will fall into the world’s highly dirty stinking drainage called “INDIAN POLITICS”.
Hey and it was my birthday on Nov 9th. I completed 23 years of orbiting around the SUN. It was really God given boon for me to having visited two famous temples on this day, the Nimishamba temple near Srirangpattana and Melukote Temple near Mandya. We spent the whole day traveling in our car, with my Dodamma. Lots of friends called to wish me. The day ended with a treat from my Aunt in a posh hotel.

How can I ever forget this incidence that happened just a couple of days back. We were sending a chain mail to our group of 4friends. Suddenly I felt like playing prank and replied to that mail from my friend’s mail id that serious actions will be taken for sending such chain mails. Gosh!!! One of the friend in group Shilpa was so scared that she really got too much terrified. I, a dumb guy still couldn’t understand her emotion and still added the salt to the wound saying that I discussed the issue with my senior teammate and they told that a senior manager will take us to task for having done this. “THE END” “SHUBHAM” The story ended there. She disconnected the call when I told her that I played the prank. Consequence – No talk for 2days. Later she recovered and the next day she explained how critically sentimental girl she is and pleaded not to do such things in future. Man I still didn’t understand why she got scared so much. To that she gave one small example, she has the CD of the movie Mungaru Male (Block buster movie in Kannada). Every time she visits her home she will make it a point to watch that movie full at least once and each time she will cry at the climax. This was really enough for me to go mad. I asked her to stop. And fell into the ocean of thinking, “good to meet and talk as many people as possible in your life, you will get to know, see and feel the diversity of Nature’s creation”