As I earlier mentioned I was looking out for a book by Robin Sharma " Who will cry when you die ?". I did find the book and purchased it. I even read 30-40% of the book, but I did not find this book as interesting as " The Greatness Guide ". I felt a little bit disappointed. Either my reading skills have gone down or may be I did, really, not like the book. I don't know. Now I am feeling I should have read the " The Greatness Guide" for the 7th time in a row instead of buying this book.
Never mind.
I will try to concentrate a bit more, for the remainder of the book and see if I find it good.
Apart from this, I can say there s a half price sale @ Benetton Outlet @ Kathriguppe. Let me see if I can rope in 2-3 half sleeved shirts tomorrow. :)-
To blog or not to blog
Well over an year ago, I was wondering whether to blog or not to blog. But I have carried my love for writing, for over an year now and hopefully would like to carry for many more years to come.
Here s an interesting comment posted by one of my buddies almost over an year ago, which makes a lot of meaning. I was just going back in time, to see what I actually had written over an year ago. I found this, hence posting a snap of this over here. I hope its crisp and full of meaning.
[ I am absolutely lying about why I went back in time to read my old posts. In other words I have found some new audiences of this blog and I wanted to absolutely make sure my employment is not under threat because of this blogging. Hence went back to re-check and re-edit any stuff which I have mistakenly written. To be honest, I dint edit even a single old post. So you can be rest assured, I ve not committed any offence !!!!]
Pls check out posts in the month of July 2007 to find out the context of this comment.
3 day weekend !!! Time to celebrate!!!
Well....looks like after a loooong time I am getting to see a 3 day weekend. Its independence day. Proud to be an Indian....
Its a 3 day weekend and I have 3+ reasons to celebrate. Yes, its true. Here are those:
1. Independence Day. ( Proud to be an Indian and here s a salute going out to all the people who have made me realize I am independent )
2. Gym is closed on August 15, in the evening. So my lazy bones, can remain lazy for the whole day.
3. Since Gym is closed in the evening, I get to see the Great Indian Laughter Challenge on Star One, without any fuss. Usually I tend to get struck in the gym, unable to get home or settle down by 9pm. So, I hope tomorrow there wont be any hiccups.
4. Tomorrow is an auspicious day, considering that, there is a door frame laying ceremony early @ 8 am. Hopefully I capture some photos of it and also of my (would be) study room.
5. Lots of time to read about technical stuff, check out new books which have arrived on stands, (btw I have only Rs 1000 left). Hopefully I grab a copy of a Robin Sharma book, which I love and also some technical books.
6. Half Price Sale on Big Bazaar it seems, but I prefer National Market instead. (Avenue Road, Sapna Book stall on the way).
7. Hopefully I catch up with my friend on the weekend. (Thinking of having some Bhel puri etc etc).
8. Thinking of the movies which are on the offering this weekend.
9. Do lots of chatting on yahoo msgr and watch tonnes of videos on Youtube.
My Pick of the Week Song :
Band : MatchBox20
Song : Unwell.
Well.. above mentioned are the 3+ reasons to celebrate.
Cheers.
Its a 3 day weekend and I have 3+ reasons to celebrate. Yes, its true. Here are those:
1. Independence Day. ( Proud to be an Indian and here s a salute going out to all the people who have made me realize I am independent )
2. Gym is closed on August 15, in the evening. So my lazy bones, can remain lazy for the whole day.
3. Since Gym is closed in the evening, I get to see the Great Indian Laughter Challenge on Star One, without any fuss. Usually I tend to get struck in the gym, unable to get home or settle down by 9pm. So, I hope tomorrow there wont be any hiccups.
4. Tomorrow is an auspicious day, considering that, there is a door frame laying ceremony early @ 8 am. Hopefully I capture some photos of it and also of my (would be) study room.
5. Lots of time to read about technical stuff, check out new books which have arrived on stands, (btw I have only Rs 1000 left). Hopefully I grab a copy of a Robin Sharma book, which I love and also some technical books.
6. Half Price Sale on Big Bazaar it seems, but I prefer National Market instead. (Avenue Road, Sapna Book stall on the way).
7. Hopefully I catch up with my friend on the weekend. (Thinking of having some Bhel puri etc etc).
8. Thinking of the movies which are on the offering this weekend.
9. Do lots of chatting on yahoo msgr and watch tonnes of videos on Youtube.
My Pick of the Week Song :
Band : MatchBox20
Song : Unwell.
Well.. above mentioned are the 3+ reasons to celebrate.
Cheers.
Power Cut @ Gym, reminds me of my childhood days..
As you all know, there s lot of load shedding, happening in Bangalore, these days. Incidentally, when I was running on the treadmill, suddenly to my surprise the treadmill came to a abrupt halt, thanks to the powercut.
My gym does not have backup power, there is one emergency lantern. I could not continue running on the treadmill, but continued with other exercises. This scenario of working out in a poor or little lit area reminded me of my childhood days.
I grew up playing hide and seek. And the best part was I enjoyed hide and seek, the most when there was a powercut. We, a group of 12-14 people would play hide and seek in kind of dark or poor lit surroundings. We were kind of helped by headlights of passing by vehicles.
So as you can see, the situation today reminds of my childhood days.. Yup worth making a note. Some things are really close to my heart which I wont necessarily like to forget....
One of them is the childhood instance mentioned above.
Life s never gonna be the same. No worries of earning. Only playing, studying no tensions, no Form 16 s , no work related meetings. All for yourself. In other words its called A A W A A R A.
Cheers...
My gym does not have backup power, there is one emergency lantern. I could not continue running on the treadmill, but continued with other exercises. This scenario of working out in a poor or little lit area reminded me of my childhood days.
I grew up playing hide and seek. And the best part was I enjoyed hide and seek, the most when there was a powercut. We, a group of 12-14 people would play hide and seek in kind of dark or poor lit surroundings. We were kind of helped by headlights of passing by vehicles.
So as you can see, the situation today reminds of my childhood days.. Yup worth making a note. Some things are really close to my heart which I wont necessarily like to forget....
One of them is the childhood instance mentioned above.
Life s never gonna be the same. No worries of earning. Only playing, studying no tensions, no Form 16 s , no work related meetings. All for yourself. In other words its called A A W A A R A.
Cheers...
New Look and Feel
A new look and feel to my blog. After having the same template for over a year now. I am changing the template. (don't know why I took more than a year to do that)
Check it out....
Check it out....
Trip to Ooty
I had been on a 2 day 2 nights trip to Ooty which I feel was a great change for me.
Visited Lots of places, saw a whole lot of wild animals and got some amazing awesome snaps.
Thanks god for making it happen.
Love your JOB
Love your job, not your company,
Because you never know, when the company stops loving you.
I think these were the words of Mr N R Narayan Murthy, not sure though.. Hmm...
I just wanted to write about an incident that happened to me some months back. Not sure whether it relates to the above quote. But never the less, worth a read.. Of Course..
The day was 3 March 2008. It was my last day @ one of my workplaces. I was working out of [***** content supressed*****] Campus. I guess last day @ an office is always crucial.
You need to get relieving letter, experience letter and some info on Full and Final Settlement, and as usual Form 16.
So I was also trying my level best not to mess up things over there, since my joining date in the other company was [***Content Supressed****].
Well.. I was done with most of the necessary things . There was this point of time where in I needed to submit my ID card and access card back to the security. Here was where I messed up and landed myself in an embarrassing situation.
One of my friends who earlier had quit the job, had surrendered his ID card, taken a temporary employee badge and entered the building to say goodbye to others. I thought of following the same way.
Here s where the real story begins.
I left my baggage in office itself.
I surrendered my Id to the security guys and signed in the registry saying I am done with it. I asked for a temporary badge, to my utter display the security said, we have stopped issuing those kinds of badges and you need to get a visitor pass.
Though it was my last day @, I am still the employee the EOD, and I am being paid for that, you see. But naaa, the security guys would not budge. I assume they did not want to give me the Employee Badge.
Btw, How can I be a visitor when I am an employee ? Is there no differentiation between an employee and a visitor. If an employee forgets to bring his Id Card will he be granted Visitor Pass ?
This is #1, I feel it was utterly humiliating and disappointing.
Here starts part 2 of the story.
I said OK.. Let me get a visitor pass at least. I need to get my baggage back and I am out of here. When I entered the room where visitor passes are issued, I found a lady who was issuing passes. As usual, she asked me who are you, I said " Today is my last day @ [***********] and I have surrendered my Id card, I need a visitor pass to get in and bring my baggage out ".
Guess what the madam says, " Why can 't you bring out your baggage and then surrender your card, why did u leave it inside the office campus ? ". This shows your actual worth. Till yesterday, the company was ready to send late night cabs to your house. Within 5 mins of you surrendering the ID, you are not even allowed to enter the campus. You need to face embarrassing questions like " why you left your baggage inside?". And guess what for a visitor pass you need a person whom you are going to visit, right ? I needed a person who could come and say yes, this ex-employee is going to visit me. I called my friend, and everything was done , I joined the other company on [**************] and the rest is history.
But now you can recollect how true is the saying
" Love your job, not your company,
Because you never know, when the company stops loving you. "
( 5 mins after surrendering your Id card, on your last day, you are a visitor to the company).
I dont call it disrespect. Its there, since the security level is so so high. But still its embarassing, you have worked there for 1.5 years and all of a sudden you are in the middle of no where. Phew.
Because you never know, when the company stops loving you.
I think these were the words of Mr N R Narayan Murthy, not sure though.. Hmm...
I just wanted to write about an incident that happened to me some months back. Not sure whether it relates to the above quote. But never the less, worth a read.. Of Course..
The day was 3 March 2008. It was my last day @ one of my workplaces. I was working out of [***** content supressed*****] Campus. I guess last day @ an office is always crucial.
You need to get relieving letter, experience letter and some info on Full and Final Settlement, and as usual Form 16.
So I was also trying my level best not to mess up things over there, since my joining date in the other company was [***Content Supressed****].
Well.. I was done with most of the necessary things . There was this point of time where in I needed to submit my ID card and access card back to the security. Here was where I messed up and landed myself in an embarrassing situation.
One of my friends who earlier had quit the job, had surrendered his ID card, taken a temporary employee badge and entered the building to say goodbye to others. I thought of following the same way.
Here s where the real story begins.
I left my baggage in office itself.
I surrendered my Id to the security guys and signed in the registry saying I am done with it. I asked for a temporary badge, to my utter display the security said, we have stopped issuing those kinds of badges and you need to get a visitor pass.
Though it was my last day @, I am still the employee the EOD, and I am being paid for that, you see. But naaa, the security guys would not budge. I assume they did not want to give me the Employee Badge.
Btw, How can I be a visitor when I am an employee ? Is there no differentiation between an employee and a visitor. If an employee forgets to bring his Id Card will he be granted Visitor Pass ?
This is #1, I feel it was utterly humiliating and disappointing.
Here starts part 2 of the story.
I said OK.. Let me get a visitor pass at least. I need to get my baggage back and I am out of here. When I entered the room where visitor passes are issued, I found a lady who was issuing passes. As usual, she asked me who are you, I said " Today is my last day @ [***********] and I have surrendered my Id card, I need a visitor pass to get in and bring my baggage out ".
Guess what the madam says, " Why can 't you bring out your baggage and then surrender your card, why did u leave it inside the office campus ? ". This shows your actual worth. Till yesterday, the company was ready to send late night cabs to your house. Within 5 mins of you surrendering the ID, you are not even allowed to enter the campus. You need to face embarrassing questions like " why you left your baggage inside?". And guess what for a visitor pass you need a person whom you are going to visit, right ? I needed a person who could come and say yes, this ex-employee is going to visit me. I called my friend, and everything was done , I joined the other company on [**************] and the rest is history.
But now you can recollect how true is the saying
" Love your job, not your company,
Because you never know, when the company stops loving you. "
( 5 mins after surrendering your Id card, on your last day, you are a visitor to the company).
I dont call it disrespect. Its there, since the security level is so so high. But still its embarassing, you have worked there for 1.5 years and all of a sudden you are in the middle of no where. Phew.
New posts from my side
--> Love your job, not your company
--> My trip to Ooty, a detailed write up(if possible)
--> Some pics
Not such a good day for me !!!
Well today was not such a good day for me.... I am quite upset with my own behavior. It happened so, that, there was a session @ office and I was at my worst behavior. Some of my team members found me laughing, giggling very very much and even my lead observed it. I should not have exhibited such a behavior since one of my closest buddies was handling the session. I wish I could undo some or majority of my behavior. But its too late.. Here s hoping I would not repeat the same in future..
Love your job
Wanted to post about a small topic yesterday. But could not due to the power failure factor in Bangalore. Hence trying to set up a reminder post ( from my office ) so that I come back and post it sometime in future, may be 4-5 days later.
I can post from office but..... I dont want to ...
I can post from office but..... I dont want to ...
I got a study room
Well.. since you all know, my parents are constructing a new house atop my current house. So there was a need to build a platform or some kind of structure to hold up two overhead tanks. My father said instead of building a supporting wall, lets go in for a room of height 7 ft above which two tanks can be placed.
I insisted I wanted a room with a little bit more height. To my utter disappointment he said "No". Today to my surprise he told me the room height will be 10 ft or so and the cost overhead will be less than 50K. I even asked for some place to sit atop this room between or to the side of two overhead tanks. Answer :" Granted "...!!!!!
I am damn happy. After so many years I can say I have a dedicated study room.
I dont study that much, but still a dedicated study room, where there s no comp, mobile , TV etc etc , just me and some book, looks an awesome picture to me. Life is so beautiful !!!!
Still 6 months to go before it turns into reality though!!!
I insisted I wanted a room with a little bit more height. To my utter disappointment he said "No". Today to my surprise he told me the room height will be 10 ft or so and the cost overhead will be less than 50K. I even asked for some place to sit atop this room between or to the side of two overhead tanks. Answer :" Granted "...!!!!!
I am damn happy. After so many years I can say I have a dedicated study room.
I dont study that much, but still a dedicated study room, where there s no comp, mobile , TV etc etc , just me and some book, looks an awesome picture to me. Life is so beautiful !!!!
Still 6 months to go before it turns into reality though!!!
Forgot to thank god - Thanks God For Everything
Well.. its literally two weeks, since the laying of concrete for our new first floor house has been through. Just wanted to thank God for the same..
The Judgement day was 7th July. It was RCC time. I was really nervous. It was raining like anything, every alternate day. But this time the concrete work went awesome. Thanks to God. There was sunshine a plenty on that very day. Everything went well.
The RCC has been laid, can i say to perfection, yes. I really was very happy when I heard my father say 50% of the house construction work is completed.
The rest is little bit of monetary decisions here and there. I am proud of my parents !!! Any doubts.
I hope the almighty continues to support us in future as well.
Thanks Lord.
Cheers.
I am excited
Boy O Boy!! Am i excited.. yes I am .. After literally 6 months, I get to go out of Bangalore one more time.. This time to Ooty. Yes the date I ve decided is 25th July night and coming back on 27 night. Hoping to spend some quality (priceless) time with my cousins , relatives etc etc. I would love to write more about it!!
But after one week !!!
Cheers...
But after one week !!!
Cheers...
Listening to the radio after a looong time
Hello, hello, yes its midweek crisis... Aaaahh.... No clues what to do... I am back listening to the radio after a looong time. Radio Indigo 91.9 FM. The thing is I feel, Radio City 91.1FM has stopped playing English music. Thank god there is 91.9 FM.. Well, some cool songs over here Natalie Imbruglia, Def Leppard etc etc.... Btw can you hear BEP - Black Eyed Peas singing Dont Lie??? I can, awesome band, awesome song... Fergie, Will I am and gang..
Do you believe, I got a Moser Baer DVD of the movie Jab We Met.. courtesy my brother..I love movie, have watched it 3 times already. Love to watch it over and over again.... What say....
Cheers,
Do you believe, I got a Moser Baer DVD of the movie Jab We Met.. courtesy my brother..I love movie, have watched it 3 times already. Love to watch it over and over again.... What say....
Cheers,
Weekend, weekend, all the way
These days, I am not blogging regularly. don't know why.. whenever I do blog, I only write about my weekends... So here another one.. This weekend was kind of ordinary. Totally lazy, no work.. I did study a little bit. Watched Austin Steven's on Animal Planet, after that was lucky enough to find out that, The Chronicles of Narnia Part 1 was being shown on a disney channel. Well I wish I could have seen that fully. I did manage to see a bit of the movie , say 25%, but as my mom was scolding me for watching the television for so long,I had to give up. But one thing is for sure. I love the movie, esp Part I.
In the evening at dinner time, I also watched a part of the movie, Anaconda.
Well quite a ordinary as well as interesting weekend for me. So till next time..
Cheers,
In the evening at dinner time, I also watched a part of the movie, Anaconda.
Well quite a ordinary as well as interesting weekend for me. So till next time..
Cheers,
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