I had this thought in my mind from a long time. Especially after joining my company. I don’t know how far I’m correct in saying this. I always feel that there are two types of opportunities in this world. One which will come in your way when you are least expecting it. The other one is which you achieve with your hardwork. Your sweat and dedication will earn you the opportunity which will take you to your dream destiny.
Example for first type would be, getting some recognition or perk or some thing which you never would have imagined in your dream that it will come to you. And Example for 2nd one would be some achievement in your life, dream, target, which you set for yourself and then work hard to reach there.
Well, now time for debate. I’m 100% sure that not a single soul on this earth will have any objection to the First type of Opp. The debate is only on the 2nd type. The most basic question which I myself get is “Why is there any limitation? If the opportunity hasn’t come in your way, go and achieve it. Why leave it to fate?” let me stop here. otherwise whole article will contain only questions. There should be some good explaination for these questions. If you ask me, my answer would be very simple- “Not every person in this world will get everything as the other. There should be some distinction. What we get and what we don’t is not in our hands in some matters. And instead of cursing ourselves for not getting it, we should be happy with what we have(but never be content, if you are content you wont think of improving yourself) and aim for further”. Let me end this debate here.
Last week my friend Shilpa got rolled off from the project. She would be moving to another location of our company here. She is the only female in our all male friends group which meets only during lunch. Poor girl, she always was our subject of fun. Be it making fool of her(I’ve a separate blog on one such experience), her taste in movies, (Abhishek Bachan, Chetan from A Dinagalu etc yuck ppl), her engagement, fiancée, marriage…. The list will never end. We decided to go out for dinner on Wednesday last week. Myself and Vivek went from office directly there and she joined us there- “Halli Mane” at Malleswaram. It was nice evening. We really enjoyed a lot that evening. Today was her last day in this facility and she got really emotional before leaving(but she made it a point not to show that, least we would make fun of her). All of us were really sad. My group has now reduced to only 2 (from 5 at one point of time). But only good part as of now is that we all will meet again during her marriage on April 17th this year. I’m really looking forward for that day. There are many firsts on that day. This is first friend’s wedding that I would be attending, first time going out of city to attend friend’s function, etc…… I wish and I pray to god to keep us all united in future also.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Sunday, March 1, 2009
We Don’t have time for anything.
I had to think about this topic a lot. Not about the contents what I need to fill in. But whether I need to write this or not. Day in and out we read in newspapers, magazines or see in TV, how deteriorated our life is becoming. When I come across such stuff anywhere, I just avoid them saying to myself “We have to suffer it anyways, now why waste my time in reading or seeing about it again?!” But now I’m here writing about the same topic. There is a reason behind why I’m writing this. My belief is that if there is something disturbing your inner soul from long time, bring it out of you and face it. That is the only way to fight with it. So I’m here now waging a war against the topic-of-debate which has taken the form of a soldier.
I promise that I will try to keep the discussion as different as possible, and will try to abstain myself from blaming anyone.
Unlike the authors who have written their biography, I’ve a very weak memory. I can’t recollect many a things that happened in my childhood. At least till the class of 9th. But somewhere in my mind, one of the statement which my mother told me is deep etched. “look son, from here onwards I will not interfere in your studies. I will not ask how you are reading. But remember one thing that if you work hard and study, it is for your good only. Otherwise you have to sell the bhel puri on road side. Myself and your father have saved some little money with which we can take care of both of us. So whether you study or not is left to you. You need not feed us if you earn fortune, nor we will feed you if you fail”. This line has not got erased from my mind till now. But in spite of such a powerful sentence, I was always fortunate for not being pressurized to read. I always had ample time to mingle with my friends and do whatever I want. But only thing was that I used to study myself without any coercing from my mother or dad(hardly possible, given his hectic work)
But when I look at today’s children, I feel very fortunate for having born 22 years back itself. Not that I’m blaming today’s children for being pampered with lots of facilities or things like that. But I think on the changes that has happened, we have raised bar on everything everywhere. This underlined statement is what worries me, makes me think. Studies – less than 95%? Get lost. Sports – not within top 3? Get lost. These are just couple of examples that I’ve mentioned. But there are lots of such stuff. I feel like we have just made their living a hell. Childhood is the best phase of life. And if the children don’t enjoy that stage how we can imagine creating a society of happiness, togetherness?
Let me pull myself back from blaming. It is not just the children whom I want to target here. I want to address here all sections of society. We have a tendency to get adjusted to some particular way of style in life. We get up in mrng, read newspaper or go out for jogging(strictly for those working in non software industry) get ready and rush to office(this phrase minus the previous one is for s/w proffessionals ), follow the work routine there, come back, relax, have dinner and sleep. Without our own knowledge, we will fall into this way of life. This of course is very easy to follow also. And if you are not dreaming to achieve more, no harm in disturbing this lifestyle also.
Try changing anything in the above routine. Pat comes the reply “I don’t have time ya”. The answer will change depending upon the audience. It is not just applicable in the cases where you ask yourself to take up some exam or some certification or something. But it is applicable even in the cases where you ask yourself to change the lifestyle so that you can practice yoga, go for a jog, meet your friend or relative on weekend, go to temple, etc etc. remember that all these were amusing you a lot before you had joined the work. See the change!!!
We have lots of things which help us to cut down on our time spent on useless things and use it for useful work instead. We have mobile phones which helps us in connecting with our near and dear ones. But the same instrument is increasingly used to stay connected with our company colleagues for work matter rather than using it for calling up your friends. We have bikes, cars etc available for traveling from home to office, but the same has created the traffic chaos making the travel time eat our useful hours. As the technology has improved, our needs have also improved in same pace. Thus maintaining the equilibrium in nature!
I saw a movie called ‘Luck By Chance’. I Liked one particular sentence the protagonist makes there. In order to achieve something, it is imp that you make a move in that way. The success will come only if you ensure that you are working in that way. Otherwise you need to accept how your life is now, and forget about the change. You will not stand a chance to win the lottery(strictly confined to ad lotteries like “slogan bharo aur fridge jeeto” kind of stuff. No controversies please, don’t pull in play win or other lottery stuff) if you don’t mind to put it. So if you think you can do one extra thing to break the monotonous routine and fill in some life in your style, please work in that direction on a smart way.
Well I kind of like that a lot. Aptly applies to all of us I can say. Whether we have loads of money and luxury or not is not something which can be used as a metrics to measure our happiness. Whether we are leading our life by challenging our comfort zone is what we can use as metrics. The happiness what we get by achieving what we did by fighting with our limitation is something which no words can describe. Keeping faith in almighty and promising ourselves about the confidence in our own potential is the need of the hour.
Last but not least, I would like to mention the list of things which I ensured not to come in my discussion above
Name of cities, list of things in life which have changed badly(this is very very broad category), and finally the INDIAN POLITICS(something which really made me spend more time in editing the article, than writing).
I promise that I will try to keep the discussion as different as possible, and will try to abstain myself from blaming anyone.
Unlike the authors who have written their biography, I’ve a very weak memory. I can’t recollect many a things that happened in my childhood. At least till the class of 9th. But somewhere in my mind, one of the statement which my mother told me is deep etched. “look son, from here onwards I will not interfere in your studies. I will not ask how you are reading. But remember one thing that if you work hard and study, it is for your good only. Otherwise you have to sell the bhel puri on road side. Myself and your father have saved some little money with which we can take care of both of us. So whether you study or not is left to you. You need not feed us if you earn fortune, nor we will feed you if you fail”. This line has not got erased from my mind till now. But in spite of such a powerful sentence, I was always fortunate for not being pressurized to read. I always had ample time to mingle with my friends and do whatever I want. But only thing was that I used to study myself without any coercing from my mother or dad(hardly possible, given his hectic work)
But when I look at today’s children, I feel very fortunate for having born 22 years back itself. Not that I’m blaming today’s children for being pampered with lots of facilities or things like that. But I think on the changes that has happened, we have raised bar on everything everywhere. This underlined statement is what worries me, makes me think. Studies – less than 95%? Get lost. Sports – not within top 3? Get lost. These are just couple of examples that I’ve mentioned. But there are lots of such stuff. I feel like we have just made their living a hell. Childhood is the best phase of life. And if the children don’t enjoy that stage how we can imagine creating a society of happiness, togetherness?
Let me pull myself back from blaming. It is not just the children whom I want to target here. I want to address here all sections of society. We have a tendency to get adjusted to some particular way of style in life. We get up in mrng, read newspaper or go out for jogging(strictly for those working in non software industry) get ready and rush to office(this phrase minus the previous one is for s/w proffessionals ), follow the work routine there, come back, relax, have dinner and sleep. Without our own knowledge, we will fall into this way of life. This of course is very easy to follow also. And if you are not dreaming to achieve more, no harm in disturbing this lifestyle also.
Try changing anything in the above routine. Pat comes the reply “I don’t have time ya”. The answer will change depending upon the audience. It is not just applicable in the cases where you ask yourself to take up some exam or some certification or something. But it is applicable even in the cases where you ask yourself to change the lifestyle so that you can practice yoga, go for a jog, meet your friend or relative on weekend, go to temple, etc etc. remember that all these were amusing you a lot before you had joined the work. See the change!!!
We have lots of things which help us to cut down on our time spent on useless things and use it for useful work instead. We have mobile phones which helps us in connecting with our near and dear ones. But the same instrument is increasingly used to stay connected with our company colleagues for work matter rather than using it for calling up your friends. We have bikes, cars etc available for traveling from home to office, but the same has created the traffic chaos making the travel time eat our useful hours. As the technology has improved, our needs have also improved in same pace. Thus maintaining the equilibrium in nature!
I saw a movie called ‘Luck By Chance’. I Liked one particular sentence the protagonist makes there. In order to achieve something, it is imp that you make a move in that way. The success will come only if you ensure that you are working in that way. Otherwise you need to accept how your life is now, and forget about the change. You will not stand a chance to win the lottery(strictly confined to ad lotteries like “slogan bharo aur fridge jeeto” kind of stuff. No controversies please, don’t pull in play win or other lottery stuff) if you don’t mind to put it. So if you think you can do one extra thing to break the monotonous routine and fill in some life in your style, please work in that direction on a smart way.
Well I kind of like that a lot. Aptly applies to all of us I can say. Whether we have loads of money and luxury or not is not something which can be used as a metrics to measure our happiness. Whether we are leading our life by challenging our comfort zone is what we can use as metrics. The happiness what we get by achieving what we did by fighting with our limitation is something which no words can describe. Keeping faith in almighty and promising ourselves about the confidence in our own potential is the need of the hour.
Last but not least, I would like to mention the list of things which I ensured not to come in my discussion above
Name of cities, list of things in life which have changed badly(this is very very broad category), and finally the INDIAN POLITICS(something which really made me spend more time in editing the article, than writing).
Monday, December 22, 2008
Finally I am out of study-jail. Liberated and free. Sense of coming out of Hibernation feeling. After 2+ Months of Slogging skin and studying for atleast couple of hrs daily, I managed to clear the JAIIB exam (the exam which I remember in my life for its simple questions but killing, notorious answer choices which really made each cell of my brain to get up and start putting in some effort to bail me out of the battle field of this exam. I bet some of the cells in my brain had worked for the first time since their birth, given that I had never faced this kind of killing objective questions) I feel like I’m free now…. A feeling which actually is so great for short time.
I would like to re-quote what Abhinav Bindra had to say after winning Gold in Olympics for India. “I feel like there is absolute emptiness now. When you achieve your goal in life and reach the top where you had dreamt off, you feel like there is nothing more to get in life. Nowhere to reach now.” Well I am really not trying to tell that I’ve achieved something greatest of sort. Never. Hundreds of people pass this exam and so have I. nothing great. But I feel that the statement is true very much. I too felt same for a while (couple of hours atleast) after I finished my last exam. The joy, exciteness, what comes at that moment is something which will not come very often.
All I want to say here is that it is just because of the greatness of God, the blessings of God, the blessings of my Mother, the well wish of my close friends are the real driving force behind this success. My Previous TL Seshu (who is in Onsite now), Ravindra are the people in my office who I would like to mention here for their direct and indirect support. This success is just the timely synchronization of everything. Hard work of mine(if any) comes last in the line.
At this moment I would like to restrict myself and don’t want to stretch anymore here since I fear whether I boast a lot about myself. As I always say, we can’t be totally flaw-less in life. We are always in process of correcting ourselves till the last day in life. So is me. I might not want to say anything great about me, but unknowingly the excite ness inside me might compel me to say something of that sort. So I have to leave everything to time here. Joy, Happiness,Sorrow,sadness everything diminishes with time. So may be after a couple of days when I settle down, and come back to normal, I will write more and share more about life.
I would like to re-quote what Abhinav Bindra had to say after winning Gold in Olympics for India. “I feel like there is absolute emptiness now. When you achieve your goal in life and reach the top where you had dreamt off, you feel like there is nothing more to get in life. Nowhere to reach now.” Well I am really not trying to tell that I’ve achieved something greatest of sort. Never. Hundreds of people pass this exam and so have I. nothing great. But I feel that the statement is true very much. I too felt same for a while (couple of hours atleast) after I finished my last exam. The joy, exciteness, what comes at that moment is something which will not come very often.
All I want to say here is that it is just because of the greatness of God, the blessings of God, the blessings of my Mother, the well wish of my close friends are the real driving force behind this success. My Previous TL Seshu (who is in Onsite now), Ravindra are the people in my office who I would like to mention here for their direct and indirect support. This success is just the timely synchronization of everything. Hard work of mine(if any) comes last in the line.
At this moment I would like to restrict myself and don’t want to stretch anymore here since I fear whether I boast a lot about myself. As I always say, we can’t be totally flaw-less in life. We are always in process of correcting ourselves till the last day in life. So is me. I might not want to say anything great about me, but unknowingly the excite ness inside me might compel me to say something of that sort. So I have to leave everything to time here. Joy, Happiness,Sorrow,sadness everything diminishes with time. So may be after a couple of days when I settle down, and come back to normal, I will write more and share more about life.
Finally I am out of study-jail. Liberated and free. Sense of coming out of Hibernation feeling. After 2+ Months of Slogging skin and studying for atleast couple of hrs daily, I managed to clear the JAIIB exam (the exam which I remember in my life for its simple questions but killing, notorious answer choices which really made each cell of my brain to get up and start putting in some effort to bail me out of the battle field of this exam. I bet some of the cells in my brain had worked for the first time since their birth, given that I had never faced this kind of killing objective questions) I feel like I’m free now…. A feeling which actually is so great for short time.
I would like to re-quote what Abhinav Bindra had to say after winning Gold in Olympics for India. “I feel like there is absolute emptiness now. When you achieve your goal in life and reach the top where you had dreamt off, you feel like there is nothing more to get in life. Nowhere to reach now.” Well I am really not trying to tell that I’ve achieved something greatest of sort. Never. Hundreds of people pass this exam and so have I. nothing great. But I feel that the statement is true very much. I too felt same for a while (couple of hours atleast) after I finished my last exam. The joy, exciteness, what comes at that moment is something which will not come very often.
All I want to say here is that it is just because of the greatness of God, the blessings of God, the blessings of my Mother, the well wish of my close friends are the real driving force behind this success. My Previous TL Seshu (who is in Onsite now), Ravindra are the people in my office who I would like to mention here for their direct and indirect support. This success is just the timely synchronization of everything. Hard work of mine(if any) comes last in the line.
At this moment I would like to restrict myself and don’t want to stretch anymore here since I fear whether I boast a lot about myself. As I always say, we can’t be totally flaw-less in life. We are always in process of correcting ourselves till the last day in life. So is me. I might not want to say anything great about me, but unknowingly the excite ness inside me might compel me to say something of that sort. So I have to leave everything to time here. Joy, Happiness,Sorrow,sadness everything diminishes with time. So may be after a couple of days when I settle down, and come back to normal, I will write more and share more about life.
I would like to re-quote what Abhinav Bindra had to say after winning Gold in Olympics for India. “I feel like there is absolute emptiness now. When you achieve your goal in life and reach the top where you had dreamt off, you feel like there is nothing more to get in life. Nowhere to reach now.” Well I am really not trying to tell that I’ve achieved something greatest of sort. Never. Hundreds of people pass this exam and so have I. nothing great. But I feel that the statement is true very much. I too felt same for a while (couple of hours atleast) after I finished my last exam. The joy, exciteness, what comes at that moment is something which will not come very often.
All I want to say here is that it is just because of the greatness of God, the blessings of God, the blessings of my Mother, the well wish of my close friends are the real driving force behind this success. My Previous TL Seshu (who is in Onsite now), Ravindra are the people in my office who I would like to mention here for their direct and indirect support. This success is just the timely synchronization of everything. Hard work of mine(if any) comes last in the line.
At this moment I would like to restrict myself and don’t want to stretch anymore here since I fear whether I boast a lot about myself. As I always say, we can’t be totally flaw-less in life. We are always in process of correcting ourselves till the last day in life. So is me. I might not want to say anything great about me, but unknowingly the excite ness inside me might compel me to say something of that sort. So I have to leave everything to time here. Joy, Happiness,Sorrow,sadness everything diminishes with time. So may be after a couple of days when I settle down, and come back to normal, I will write more and share more about life.
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”
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”
Monday, October 20, 2008
As i was walking down the stairs from Caffe to my place back alone today evening in my office, i saw my image against the tinted glass of the Giant window. The Photo ID cum Security access card was hanging and swinging from my neck as i took the each step downwards. Soon I was lost in memories of my college days a year back around same time. Way back then, the only mission and dream in my life was to travel to my office in big bus bearing the name of the IT company with the photo ID hanging around my neck.(The SRK of Swades movie contributed more to this fascination of mine).
Switch to current day scenario. I hate to hang it on my neck in mrng while getting down the shuttle. So much so that i wait till i reach the gate of the office before wearing that. And will remaove it the moment i step out of huge glass doors(not even wait till i reach the Gates). All that Corporate proffesional dreams seems to be stupid now. Whatever i wanted to acheive is almost available now at my disposal. But i never seem to thank the God, the almighty who i requested way back then at the time of placements in my college to give me an opprtunity to work in my dream world.Never, as far as i remember from the day i joined the company i.e 1-8-08 till today, i've not bothered to even mention a easiest syllable "THANKS" to the almighty.
Why? The innocent answer that i can give here is that i stumbled upon this question only today and so may be in a couple of days i shld be ready with the answer. Jokes apart, the seriousness that the question has pushed me into is quite high. Though it is true that we should not be content with whatever we acheive in our life ( I dont know the person but i still remember his famous line "The day u r content about your acheivement, think that u r dead"), it doesn't means that we should forget the GOD who hears our prayers and grants our wishes. There might be several reasons for me to hate wearing the Company badge or even work there. But i shouldn't forget that it was my own wish to be working in a reputed firm which earns me not only bread and butter but also the much needed stuff in INDIA, the "Social Respect". The current global finacial crisis has brought so many people and industries to Road, but we are totally insulated from this impact, thanks to the almighty for placing us in such institution.
I had thanked god profusey after getting placed. I visited so many temples in just a couple of days after getting placed. That's it. There i closed my chapter of acknowledging God for his help. Tata Bye Bye said my subconcious mind a couple of months later. From the day i joined the company, ther was one issue above the another, and the time factor which together decided to insulate my brain from thinking about acknowledging the Lord who had granted my wish exactly an year ago. My brain was made bad condouctor of conscience.
This sudden fall into the ocean of memories in the evening made me realise my mistake. It is time now to thank the Lord, the unseen divine Force, the almighty, the guardian of every living and non-living being (and which doesn't comes under either of the classification) of this entire creation. Thank You my Dear Lord. Thanks a lot for granting my wish and making me a true proffesional. Kindly Continue to bless me in all my future endeavours. Give me strength and dedication to disperse my work at the best way without any flaws and help me grow humanly, responsibly, financially, mentally and never again make me forget to wish you for granting any small wish of mine in my life. THANK YOU VERY VERY VERY MUCH.
Switch to current day scenario. I hate to hang it on my neck in mrng while getting down the shuttle. So much so that i wait till i reach the gate of the office before wearing that. And will remaove it the moment i step out of huge glass doors(not even wait till i reach the Gates). All that Corporate proffesional dreams seems to be stupid now. Whatever i wanted to acheive is almost available now at my disposal. But i never seem to thank the God, the almighty who i requested way back then at the time of placements in my college to give me an opprtunity to work in my dream world.Never, as far as i remember from the day i joined the company i.e 1-8-08 till today, i've not bothered to even mention a easiest syllable "THANKS" to the almighty.
Why? The innocent answer that i can give here is that i stumbled upon this question only today and so may be in a couple of days i shld be ready with the answer. Jokes apart, the seriousness that the question has pushed me into is quite high. Though it is true that we should not be content with whatever we acheive in our life ( I dont know the person but i still remember his famous line "The day u r content about your acheivement, think that u r dead"), it doesn't means that we should forget the GOD who hears our prayers and grants our wishes. There might be several reasons for me to hate wearing the Company badge or even work there. But i shouldn't forget that it was my own wish to be working in a reputed firm which earns me not only bread and butter but also the much needed stuff in INDIA, the "Social Respect". The current global finacial crisis has brought so many people and industries to Road, but we are totally insulated from this impact, thanks to the almighty for placing us in such institution.
I had thanked god profusey after getting placed. I visited so many temples in just a couple of days after getting placed. That's it. There i closed my chapter of acknowledging God for his help. Tata Bye Bye said my subconcious mind a couple of months later. From the day i joined the company, ther was one issue above the another, and the time factor which together decided to insulate my brain from thinking about acknowledging the Lord who had granted my wish exactly an year ago. My brain was made bad condouctor of conscience.
This sudden fall into the ocean of memories in the evening made me realise my mistake. It is time now to thank the Lord, the unseen divine Force, the almighty, the guardian of every living and non-living being (and which doesn't comes under either of the classification) of this entire creation. Thank You my Dear Lord. Thanks a lot for granting my wish and making me a true proffesional. Kindly Continue to bless me in all my future endeavours. Give me strength and dedication to disperse my work at the best way without any flaws and help me grow humanly, responsibly, financially, mentally and never again make me forget to wish you for granting any small wish of mine in my life. THANK YOU VERY VERY VERY MUCH.
Monday, October 6, 2008
Long time after I’m visiting my blog page. Nice to be here. Nice to c my thoughts being penned down and collected stored and preserved safely.
Yesterday, two things happened worth to be mentioned here.
We buyed the microwave Oven atlast. It was a long cherished dream (well…. 3 Months Old to be precise) to own a MW oven. Finally after ransacking my pocket and looting the precious hard earned money of 5 grands from it, and adding another 5.8 grands to it from my ma’s treasury, we got one beautiful SAMSUNG Convection + MW oven. Feels good to see that in Kitchen(with same amount of bad feeling when I look at my bank balance). I tried and experimented a bit on it till 11 in night.
One more thing was that we went to watch this Dance jatre at chitrakala parishat near Hotel Ashoka. Man, such an absolute beauty it was. The way they performed group dance was absolute brilliance. I was so spellbound that I was just standing there without even tilting my neck to any directing even by minutest angle that can be recorded by any sophisticated device on earth. Really, I’m not exaggerating this. What you can learn from that group dance performance is that, the tuffest part in life is to learn team work. You can be a master in any art. Performing that solo is very different than group performance. This applies to all aspects of our life. Take any minor to major examples in life, you will be really surprised to find that it applies to all of them. That too what amazed me a lot is that none of them were looking at each other while dancing, still such a sync was there between all of them!!!!!!!!!! This is really heights I would say. For a person like me who was bought up by just studies, fun etc., I seriously felt that I could have tried my hands on any similar art like this.
The programme has left a huge impact on my mind. Really I’ve decided to watch such kind of stuff in future whenever I get a chance. Let me enjoy the art if not practice it and learn the virtues from it.
Well last but not the least, the day ended with me roasting some peanuts in the new oven. Yum it was. And I was issued a notice by the honorable Judge “Ms. MA” of the supreme court of our House that, from here onwards I should cook the rice whenever her majesty is out on some work. Otherwise the punishment would be no food for that day!!!!!
Yesterday, two things happened worth to be mentioned here.
We buyed the microwave Oven atlast. It was a long cherished dream (well…. 3 Months Old to be precise) to own a MW oven. Finally after ransacking my pocket and looting the precious hard earned money of 5 grands from it, and adding another 5.8 grands to it from my ma’s treasury, we got one beautiful SAMSUNG Convection + MW oven. Feels good to see that in Kitchen(with same amount of bad feeling when I look at my bank balance). I tried and experimented a bit on it till 11 in night.
One more thing was that we went to watch this Dance jatre at chitrakala parishat near Hotel Ashoka. Man, such an absolute beauty it was. The way they performed group dance was absolute brilliance. I was so spellbound that I was just standing there without even tilting my neck to any directing even by minutest angle that can be recorded by any sophisticated device on earth. Really, I’m not exaggerating this. What you can learn from that group dance performance is that, the tuffest part in life is to learn team work. You can be a master in any art. Performing that solo is very different than group performance. This applies to all aspects of our life. Take any minor to major examples in life, you will be really surprised to find that it applies to all of them. That too what amazed me a lot is that none of them were looking at each other while dancing, still such a sync was there between all of them!!!!!!!!!! This is really heights I would say. For a person like me who was bought up by just studies, fun etc., I seriously felt that I could have tried my hands on any similar art like this.
The programme has left a huge impact on my mind. Really I’ve decided to watch such kind of stuff in future whenever I get a chance. Let me enjoy the art if not practice it and learn the virtues from it.
Well last but not the least, the day ended with me roasting some peanuts in the new oven. Yum it was. And I was issued a notice by the honorable Judge “Ms. MA” of the supreme court of our House that, from here onwards I should cook the rice whenever her majesty is out on some work. Otherwise the punishment would be no food for that day!!!!!
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