Got these from pravsworld.
> Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.
> Memorize your favorite poem.
> Don’t believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want.
> When you say, “I love you”, mean it.
> When you say, “I’m sorry”, look the person in the eye.
> Be engaged at least six months before you get married.
> Believe in love at first sight.
> Never laugh at anyone’s dreams.
> Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it’s the only way to live life completely.
> In disagreements, fight fairly. No name calling.
> Don’t judge people by their relatives.
> Talk slowly but think quickly.
> When someone asks you a question you don’t want to answer, smile and ask, “Why do you want to know?”
> Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
> Call your mom.
> Say “bless you” when you hear someone sneeze.
> When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
> Remember the three R’s: Respect for self; Respect for others; Responsibility for all your actions.
> Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
> When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
> Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice.
> Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.
> Spend some time alone.
> Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.
> Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
> Read more books and watch less TV.
> Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll get to enjoy it a second time.
> Trust in God but lock your car.
> A loving atmosphere in your home is so important. Do all you can to create a tranquil harmonious home.
> In disagreements with loved ones, deal with the current situation. Don’t bring up the past.
> Read between the lines.
> Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.
> Be gentle with the earth.
> Pray. There’s immeasurable power in it.
> Never interrupt when you are being flattered.
> Mind your own business.
> Don’t trust a man/woman who doesn’t close his/her eyes when you kiss.
> At least once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.
> If you make a lot of money, put it to use helping others while you are living. That is wealth’s greatest satisfaction.
> Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a stroke of luck.
> Learn the rules then break some.
> Remember that the best relationship is one where your love for each other is greater than your need for each other.
> Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
> Remember that your character is your destiny.
> Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.
Time for everything
Phew, I had a rocking 4 day off-work, just to find myself in a situation, where I was actually having a ball. I took 2 days leave 14th and 15th May 2008, to attend my cousin sister's wedding, on 15th May @ Dharwad.
I ended up not only attending the wedding but doing a whole lot of things, most of it was not really anticipated. Like,
> Trip to YellammanaGudda.
> Traveling in luxury vehicles, free of cost.
> Spending 4 days, @ an AC room almost free.
> Laughing my heart out,
[ oh my gosh, there was a moment where I started complaining of chest pain after laughing for 20 min completely. I thought something was wrong with me. But I realized my cousin brother also complained of chest pain. It meant, the chest pain was because of continuous laughing infact laughing our heart out. ]
> Walking on a lonely road with no lights @ 10: 30 during night, just looking out for a meal, ending up with some super cool pictures as well as some cool food (rice, dal, sambar and whole lot, infact worth the 2.5 km walk we did during the night.)
> Dancing my heart out during the wedding.
> Meeting whole bunch of relatives, who had come all the way from Hubli, Dharwad, Belgaum, Pune, Mumbai. Yup.
I would like to thank god, for putting me thru this situation, which I thoroughly enjoyed. Feels so good, to be part of a wedding. Just love it.. !!!!!
Lemme post some pics of it..
I ended up not only attending the wedding but doing a whole lot of things, most of it was not really anticipated. Like,
> Trip to YellammanaGudda.
> Traveling in luxury vehicles, free of cost.
> Spending 4 days, @ an AC room almost free.
> Laughing my heart out,
[ oh my gosh, there was a moment where I started complaining of chest pain after laughing for 20 min completely. I thought something was wrong with me. But I realized my cousin brother also complained of chest pain. It meant, the chest pain was because of continuous laughing infact laughing our heart out. ]
> Walking on a lonely road with no lights @ 10: 30 during night, just looking out for a meal, ending up with some super cool pictures as well as some cool food (rice, dal, sambar and whole lot, infact worth the 2.5 km walk we did during the night.)
> Dancing my heart out during the wedding.
> Meeting whole bunch of relatives, who had come all the way from Hubli, Dharwad, Belgaum, Pune, Mumbai. Yup.
I would like to thank god, for putting me thru this situation, which I thoroughly enjoyed. Feels so good, to be part of a wedding. Just love it.. !!!!!
Lemme post some pics of it..
Little Wonders - Rob Thomas
This song really peps me up. I never knew a few simple selected words could end up in such an awesome inspiration song. Yep, its true, I just love this song.. No second thoughts.
Cribbing
Generally I hate to write about cribbing. But I had a conversation where in my friend was cribbing about his work place, this so called recession and its effect on him. I would like to write about the strange situation in which he is in at the moment.
My friend incidentally happens to work for a neighboring IT company. First let me write some points about the recent recession.
> Managers tend keep an eagles' eye on the team-members performance.
> The so called friends (before recession) tend to outsmart each other,.
> People generally do not want to make mistakes, especially in their work.
> Individual work is preferred over team work. After all you need to separate the milkable cows from non-milkable ones. Also easy to fire individuals rather than entire team.
The situation my friend is in, is kind of a strange one. His team comprises of an individual (Lets call him A ), who is unsure about his role. He is either trying to demoralize the entire team to save his job, or he is trying to outshine the rest of the team members.
Assume my friend is given a piece of work, which he might take 2 weeks time to complete. But this particular individual " A ", tends to shout out loud in the meeting saying, this work can be done in 4 days.
This particular individual " A " after the meeting is done, is not even bothered to help, to complete the task in 4 days, he is only interested in his part of the work.
My friend's concern is during this time of recession, what will the manager feel about him. A task which can be done within 4 days, is being done in 2 weeks. Does the manager feel, is this guy, a non milkable cow. So my friend feels he is the one in the line of firing, just because of this so called individual " A ", who incidentally happens to pass sarcastic comments about others work and try to find fault in others work.
All I can say is I am quite lucky not to be in such a team.
My friend incidentally happens to work for a neighboring IT company. First let me write some points about the recent recession.
> Managers tend keep an eagles' eye on the team-members performance.
> The so called friends (before recession) tend to outsmart each other,.
> People generally do not want to make mistakes, especially in their work.
> Individual work is preferred over team work. After all you need to separate the milkable cows from non-milkable ones. Also easy to fire individuals rather than entire team.
The situation my friend is in, is kind of a strange one. His team comprises of an individual (Lets call him A ), who is unsure about his role. He is either trying to demoralize the entire team to save his job, or he is trying to outshine the rest of the team members.
Assume my friend is given a piece of work, which he might take 2 weeks time to complete. But this particular individual " A ", tends to shout out loud in the meeting saying, this work can be done in 4 days.
This particular individual " A " after the meeting is done, is not even bothered to help, to complete the task in 4 days, he is only interested in his part of the work.
My friend's concern is during this time of recession, what will the manager feel about him. A task which can be done within 4 days, is being done in 2 weeks. Does the manager feel, is this guy, a non milkable cow. So my friend feels he is the one in the line of firing, just because of this so called individual " A ", who incidentally happens to pass sarcastic comments about others work and try to find fault in others work.
All I can say is I am quite lucky not to be in such a team.
Back to blogging
Over the past month, I have not been able to blog anything infact. There are loads of things which have happened over the last month, I also have learnt quite a lot of things.
Firstly I had problem with my computer, so could not blog anything.
I could have blogged from a cyber center, but as usual I am quite a bit lazy.
Secondly after working on a project for over an year now, I got released from the project. I did need a break, which I definitely got after this move.
Thirdly, I will be going to Dharawad, on May 14 to attend a marriage. So hoping to have a great time @ the marriage party.
Cheers..
Firstly I had problem with my computer, so could not blog anything.
I could have blogged from a cyber center, but as usual I am quite a bit lazy.
Secondly after working on a project for over an year now, I got released from the project. I did need a break, which I definitely got after this move.
Thirdly, I will be going to Dharawad, on May 14 to attend a marriage. So hoping to have a great time @ the marriage party.
Cheers..
Handling active criticism
You may be wondering, when you look at the last few posts of mine, that, Am I cribbing a lot??. I also removed one of the posts, thinking that, I was criticizing a lot. Hopefully I will write more about more myself and some of my experiences, acquaintances.
In one of my all time favorite books, there is a line saying, there is a solution to the aging problem. It is learning. Yes its true. Mark my words, its a brilliant line infact.
You can learn a whole lot of things.
> Work related.
> Professional life related
> Personal life related. etc etc.
You can also learn from a variety of sources
> Books.
> From people who are kind enough to share their thoughts and insights.
> From internet.
> Also from your critics.
In this post I would like to write, about handling active criticism. How do you react to it. Or you can rather say, how did I react to it??
Over the past few months, I have been lucky enough to be at the receiving end of some great criticism, advice @ workplace. But all was not quite well over the past few months.
Infact I hated criticism, I hated it, when people said, this could have been better. Why, why? I do not know, nor did I make any effort to analyze the whole thing. Things just whizzed away, I always kept running away from critics. I was indeed afraid of them.
Critics, were some of my friends, colleagues. Sometimes I would even lose my temper and angrily say, this is the only way I can do it. (How bad I feel, when I recollect that day, when I said this.)
Now after few months, things have changed. I am ready to listen and adapt as per even my friends advice. Its a remarkable change, I thought today, when all of a sudden I started to think about it.
When I tried to understand what really caused the change, I was shocked to learn that, when I was not so confident, not so well equipped with knowledge, on/about a particular task, I turned my backs on the advice or criticism recieved.
But once I found a better approach of doing things, I gained more confidence, I found myself listening to the advice of other people, started to debate on different ways to do things.
Yes, that is what I want to infer, the more you are confident about yourself, your approach, the more you can handle criticism. But also you need to be willing to work hard and be disciplined to be confident.(that is the catch point).
I would like to say sorry to all my friends who have been so kind to share their insights and advice, but inturn I turned my back to their advice, sometimes even raised my voice, in dis-agreement. Hope you have forgotten it guys. :)
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Cheers.
In one of my all time favorite books, there is a line saying, there is a solution to the aging problem. It is learning. Yes its true. Mark my words, its a brilliant line infact.
You can learn a whole lot of things.
> Work related.
> Professional life related
> Personal life related. etc etc.
You can also learn from a variety of sources
> Books.
> From people who are kind enough to share their thoughts and insights.
> From internet.
> Also from your critics.
In this post I would like to write, about handling active criticism. How do you react to it. Or you can rather say, how did I react to it??
Over the past few months, I have been lucky enough to be at the receiving end of some great criticism, advice @ workplace. But all was not quite well over the past few months.
Infact I hated criticism, I hated it, when people said, this could have been better. Why, why? I do not know, nor did I make any effort to analyze the whole thing. Things just whizzed away, I always kept running away from critics. I was indeed afraid of them.
Critics, were some of my friends, colleagues. Sometimes I would even lose my temper and angrily say, this is the only way I can do it. (How bad I feel, when I recollect that day, when I said this.)
Now after few months, things have changed. I am ready to listen and adapt as per even my friends advice. Its a remarkable change, I thought today, when all of a sudden I started to think about it.
When I tried to understand what really caused the change, I was shocked to learn that, when I was not so confident, not so well equipped with knowledge, on/about a particular task, I turned my backs on the advice or criticism recieved.
But once I found a better approach of doing things, I gained more confidence, I found myself listening to the advice of other people, started to debate on different ways to do things.
Yes, that is what I want to infer, the more you are confident about yourself, your approach, the more you can handle criticism. But also you need to be willing to work hard and be disciplined to be confident.(that is the catch point).
I would like to say sorry to all my friends who have been so kind to share their insights and advice, but inturn I turned my back to their advice, sometimes even raised my voice, in dis-agreement. Hope you have forgotten it guys. :)
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Cheers.
Is it luck ?
Last month, I was reading a book, which is one of my all time favorites. I have read it many a times, thought lemme read it once more.
There is an interesting event mentioned in one of the chapters.
A woman meets a famous painter in a busy street. She greets him and asks him to sketch something for her. The painter immediately comes up with a sketch and hands it over to the lady.
He also tells her, its worth a million. The surprised lady immediately asks, worth a million?, it took only 30 seconds to draw that out, to which the painter replies, it took me 30 years, to draw it in 30 seconds.
Cute, very cute isn't it.
There are many such incidents where in I have repeatedly done the same task again and again to gain familiarity with it. But the real twist in tale comes here. What if we do not have the opportunity to try the second time.
Assume a programmer is trying to code a bit @ workplace. He fails first time, betters second time, but still fails and starts for the third time. But what if his first/second time failure is fatal? What if there is no second/third time chance for him, since he may have lost his job by then.
I feel here luck comes into picture.
You need to be lucky enough to find a proper place and your enthusiasm to try must not come down. Else, the case can be drastically different
There is an interesting event mentioned in one of the chapters.
A woman meets a famous painter in a busy street. She greets him and asks him to sketch something for her. The painter immediately comes up with a sketch and hands it over to the lady.
He also tells her, its worth a million. The surprised lady immediately asks, worth a million?, it took only 30 seconds to draw that out, to which the painter replies, it took me 30 years, to draw it in 30 seconds.
Cute, very cute isn't it.
There are many such incidents where in I have repeatedly done the same task again and again to gain familiarity with it. But the real twist in tale comes here. What if we do not have the opportunity to try the second time.
Assume a programmer is trying to code a bit @ workplace. He fails first time, betters second time, but still fails and starts for the third time. But what if his first/second time failure is fatal? What if there is no second/third time chance for him, since he may have lost his job by then.
I feel here luck comes into picture.
You need to be lucky enough to find a proper place and your enthusiasm to try must not come down. Else, the case can be drastically different
Interest... How do I make myself interested??
Interest is a superb word. I have been been fascinated by this word, a lot more since I joined the software industry.
By the time, I realized I was interested in studies or not, I completed my schooling. I did not hate studies that much. I think right through my school days, I just studied and studied, never wondered whether I am really interested in studying the subjects or not. How bizarre, but actually its true. [I can write loads about this whole thing, but some other day.]
By the time, I realized I was interested in programming, I completed my engineering. Well, I was anyways interested in programming that is a different issue.
So I thought, before any task let me make myself interested in the task, and then try to approach it. [Assume: I have a book in front of me, let me make my mind to think that, the book is interesting.]
The result was a total flop.
My mind failed to accept thing as interesting. [Though I find coding very interesting, but I cant force myself. I may sometimes lose interest in that too. ]
So it was literally impossible to force my interest into something.
I only wish to make my mind interested in a task, and do the task and check the outcome. I feel the outcome will be super success.
I think more than dedication, you need interest in the first place.
Also I feel, trying to hold interest is like grabbing sand in your hand. The more tight you hold it, the more it falls off.
Example, you can see my number of posts on my blog, its a result of interest, by the way.
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Cheers
By the time, I realized I was interested in studies or not, I completed my schooling. I did not hate studies that much. I think right through my school days, I just studied and studied, never wondered whether I am really interested in studying the subjects or not. How bizarre, but actually its true. [I can write loads about this whole thing, but some other day.]
By the time, I realized I was interested in programming, I completed my engineering. Well, I was anyways interested in programming that is a different issue.
So I thought, before any task let me make myself interested in the task, and then try to approach it. [Assume: I have a book in front of me, let me make my mind to think that, the book is interesting.]
The result was a total flop.
My mind failed to accept thing as interesting. [Though I find coding very interesting, but I cant force myself. I may sometimes lose interest in that too. ]
So it was literally impossible to force my interest into something.
I only wish to make my mind interested in a task, and do the task and check the outcome. I feel the outcome will be super success.
I think more than dedication, you need interest in the first place.
Also I feel, trying to hold interest is like grabbing sand in your hand. The more tight you hold it, the more it falls off.
Example, you can see my number of posts on my blog, its a result of interest, by the way.
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Cheers
New album
I am hearing a lot about U2's new album " No Line On the Horizon". I have not heard any songs of the album, but heard about the album, on the radio. The Rolling Stone magazine calls the album the best in last 18 years.
My observation
My reading habit for the year 2009, seems to be going good, since I have read almost 5 books in the last 3 months. I recently was reading an autobiography. I wish not to disclose the name. To be honest, I just love AUTOBIOGRAPHIES. There are just unparalleled. I learn loads, from autobiographies of great people. So I wish to read as many as I can.
Recently I completed one such autobiography, of a very impressive personality. I enjoyed the book thoroughly no doubts about it. But it was a line, in one of the chapter, which literally puzzled me.
The author goes on to write, quoting that, he himself has an indentation towards aiming high, achieving high and being a great performer.
The only thing which came to my mind was that, is the author boasting? I always feel, its for others to judge whether a person is a high performer or not. (after reading the book)
After all, its the author's book, he can write whatever he may want. After reading the book, I hoped to get a feeling of appreciation towards the author, thinking him as a great achiever.
But in between if he tends to quote himself as a high achiever, doesn't that look a bit weird. Or may be I have not read many autobiographies. There may be other persons who would like to openly proclaim that they are high achievers.
I do not know.
Disclaimer :: This post has nothing to do with my current or previous employers.
Recently I completed one such autobiography, of a very impressive personality. I enjoyed the book thoroughly no doubts about it. But it was a line, in one of the chapter, which literally puzzled me.
The author goes on to write, quoting that, he himself has an indentation towards aiming high, achieving high and being a great performer.
The only thing which came to my mind was that, is the author boasting? I always feel, its for others to judge whether a person is a high performer or not. (after reading the book)
After all, its the author's book, he can write whatever he may want. After reading the book, I hoped to get a feeling of appreciation towards the author, thinking him as a great achiever.
But in between if he tends to quote himself as a high achiever, doesn't that look a bit weird. Or may be I have not read many autobiographies. There may be other persons who would like to openly proclaim that they are high achievers.
I do not know.
Disclaimer :: This post has nothing to do with my current or previous employers.
Its not liking what you have, its wanting what you like..
I just came across this line, in one of the books, I was reading over the last weekend.
It says, [May be my wordings are not that all correct, but still]
" A reasonable man, tries to adjust himself to the world,
An unreasonable man, tries the world to adjust to himself,
The progress of world however depends on the unreasonable man."
I have nothing against this particular quote.. It just sent me thinking and thinking for an answer, which I do not have at this moment in time, not sure whether I will I have it or not.
My only doubt is, " Should a person, go on doing things which he loves, or should he do things which are presented to him in the most fabulous way ".
Assume the scenario of a person working in a company, [Just Another imaginary Company]
The person may or may not be interested in the work what he is doing.
---> Should the person continue to work for the company, with whatever tasks that have been given to him, (which he likes or dislikes), just thinking about a better position he may land in the same company after a few years / months ?
---> Should the person, quit the company and do things which really fascinate him, forgetting about the so called career which he may build up after a few years of service.
In both the cases, the person may end up on the losing side..
In the first case, he may think, I have lost all my years, doing things which I do not really like, and the so called career which I have built up does not look any more interesting.
In the second case, he may think, I have lost out on a career, and may be ended up jobless, in pursuit of things which he was really interested into.
Now where do we and how do we strike a balance, between the two.
How do we enjoy things what we are doing, and how do we do things which we really enjoy.
Should we compromise on any one of them.. Well.... I have not even a single clue...
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Cheers...
It says, [May be my wordings are not that all correct, but still]
" A reasonable man, tries to adjust himself to the world,
An unreasonable man, tries the world to adjust to himself,
The progress of world however depends on the unreasonable man."
I have nothing against this particular quote.. It just sent me thinking and thinking for an answer, which I do not have at this moment in time, not sure whether I will I have it or not.
My only doubt is, " Should a person, go on doing things which he loves, or should he do things which are presented to him in the most fabulous way ".
Assume the scenario of a person working in a company, [Just Another imaginary Company]
The person may or may not be interested in the work what he is doing.
---> Should the person continue to work for the company, with whatever tasks that have been given to him, (which he likes or dislikes), just thinking about a better position he may land in the same company after a few years / months ?
---> Should the person, quit the company and do things which really fascinate him, forgetting about the so called career which he may build up after a few years of service.
In both the cases, the person may end up on the losing side..
In the first case, he may think, I have lost all my years, doing things which I do not really like, and the so called career which I have built up does not look any more interesting.
In the second case, he may think, I have lost out on a career, and may be ended up jobless, in pursuit of things which he was really interested into.
Now where do we and how do we strike a balance, between the two.
How do we enjoy things what we are doing, and how do we do things which we really enjoy.
Should we compromise on any one of them.. Well.... I have not even a single clue...
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Cheers...
Wondering why ???
I am kind of having a perfect weekend. Perfect weekend for me means, getting to do things which I love to do.
It includes a bit of television, whole lot of reading, time to spend with myself all alone, and a bit of blogging just to tingle some thought process in my mind, (Idle mind is devils workshop, so why let it idle??? :P)
Here I am reading 3 awesome books, simultaneously, trying to finish them as soon as possible.. I am not reading one book to completion at a time, coz I am finding it difficult, I am rather juggling between these three books at the same time, reading few pages from one book for sometime and the other and other.
If you ask me which are those three books ... They are:
> Business Maharajas
> ********************************* [Name removed due to some reasons]
> Greatness Guide 2 by Robin Sharma.
Time and again I try to analyze and re-analyze my reading pattern. I am trying to find a defect in the way I read a book so that I can correct myself, but its still elusive.
There are some books which I can finish within 3 hrs, the writing is so good, I just cruise through the book in no time.
There are some books which I start reading but 3/4 through the book, I find that, this book is not for me and totally abandon it. (Though these are very small in number, may be 1 in every 15 books I read, its still a bad sign of losing interest easily or bad selection.)
There are some books which I reading completely but not at a single stretch. ( I have no regrets about that. )
Now I am wondering why my reading speed cannot be same across all the books I read? I am still trying to find an answer to this particular question.
But I did find one clue today while I was reading the book The Greatness Guide 2. In 3 hrs of continuous reading I could only cover 68 pages (The page content was not too much though) . You may be wondering why. But I have an answer. The book is so good that, I ended up thinking and thinking. Instead of reading the book to completion, at the end of each chapter I ended up doing so called reverse engineering. I started wondering whether " Have I been in such a situation? Have I done this before". That reverse engineering went to that extent, that, I started pondering over my childhood days, days as a 4 year old may be....
After all, this is what I expect from a book, a lot to think about, a lot to ponder over and above all a lot to learn and improve upon.
At the end of this post, all I have to say is, there is no pros and cons of reading a book quickly within no time. I feel reading it slowly has its own say.
For example,
>How do you feel when you find yourself in Wonderland amidst Alice, while reading Alice in Wonderland.
>How do you feel when you recollect those precious moments in time that you have spent with loved ones while reading a book from Sudha Murthy.
>How do you feel to be in the jungle while reading the Jungle Book.
>How do you feel when you figure out the lessons learnt from mistakes you made previously, while reading a book by Robin Sharma.
>And not to forget, How do I feel, when I re-read the post I put up few months ago, about being @ Bandipur forest @ 2 am in the morning!!!!!
Just priceless. Ain't the feeling just beyond my dictionary of words of description... It is.. May be I am losing the time over here, just to feel the feeling, instead of running through the pages. ("Feel the feeling", Phrase courtesy - Arvind.)
Thats what reading some books give me or do to me.
So now its time for " Hello Kaun Pehchan Kaun " on Star One and then back to Robin's book. I have some more moments to relive... Yippy ... What a weekend...
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Cheers
PS: Sorry guys the post was meant to be something and it ended up being something, coz in midway I just got a whole new idea, courtesy the super books I am reading, couldn't resist putting it here, else I may forget. So now the post is like inconclusive.
PPS: And regarding my reading pattern. Who cares or may be some other time , I am enjoying the book wholly, reading it as slowly as I can, re-reading the same thing again and again and pondering over those golden moments.....
PPPS: May be, that is why I have read the book by Robin Sharma, 10 times and I will sure read it again and again may be in multiples of 10, just to ponder over those golden moments, again and again, involving, the wonderful people and those mistakes which I have made, who / which have helped me, to be myself and tune myself into, what I am today. Miss you guys..
It includes a bit of television, whole lot of reading, time to spend with myself all alone, and a bit of blogging just to tingle some thought process in my mind, (Idle mind is devils workshop, so why let it idle??? :P)
Here I am reading 3 awesome books, simultaneously, trying to finish them as soon as possible.. I am not reading one book to completion at a time, coz I am finding it difficult, I am rather juggling between these three books at the same time, reading few pages from one book for sometime and the other and other.
If you ask me which are those three books ... They are:
> Business Maharajas
> ********************************* [Name removed due to some reasons]
> Greatness Guide 2 by Robin Sharma.
Time and again I try to analyze and re-analyze my reading pattern. I am trying to find a defect in the way I read a book so that I can correct myself, but its still elusive.
There are some books which I can finish within 3 hrs, the writing is so good, I just cruise through the book in no time.
There are some books which I start reading but 3/4 through the book, I find that, this book is not for me and totally abandon it. (Though these are very small in number, may be 1 in every 15 books I read, its still a bad sign of losing interest easily or bad selection.)
There are some books which I reading completely but not at a single stretch. ( I have no regrets about that. )
Now I am wondering why my reading speed cannot be same across all the books I read? I am still trying to find an answer to this particular question.
But I did find one clue today while I was reading the book The Greatness Guide 2. In 3 hrs of continuous reading I could only cover 68 pages (The page content was not too much though) . You may be wondering why. But I have an answer. The book is so good that, I ended up thinking and thinking. Instead of reading the book to completion, at the end of each chapter I ended up doing so called reverse engineering. I started wondering whether " Have I been in such a situation? Have I done this before". That reverse engineering went to that extent, that, I started pondering over my childhood days, days as a 4 year old may be....
After all, this is what I expect from a book, a lot to think about, a lot to ponder over and above all a lot to learn and improve upon.
At the end of this post, all I have to say is, there is no pros and cons of reading a book quickly within no time. I feel reading it slowly has its own say.
For example,
>How do you feel when you find yourself in Wonderland amidst Alice, while reading Alice in Wonderland.
>How do you feel when you recollect those precious moments in time that you have spent with loved ones while reading a book from Sudha Murthy.
>How do you feel to be in the jungle while reading the Jungle Book.
>How do you feel when you figure out the lessons learnt from mistakes you made previously, while reading a book by Robin Sharma.
>And not to forget, How do I feel, when I re-read the post I put up few months ago, about being @ Bandipur forest @ 2 am in the morning!!!!!
Just priceless. Ain't the feeling just beyond my dictionary of words of description... It is.. May be I am losing the time over here, just to feel the feeling, instead of running through the pages. ("Feel the feeling", Phrase courtesy - Arvind.)
Thats what reading some books give me or do to me.
So now its time for " Hello Kaun Pehchan Kaun " on Star One and then back to Robin's book. I have some more moments to relive... Yippy ... What a weekend...
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Cheers
PS: Sorry guys the post was meant to be something and it ended up being something, coz in midway I just got a whole new idea, courtesy the super books I am reading, couldn't resist putting it here, else I may forget. So now the post is like inconclusive.
PPS: And regarding my reading pattern. Who cares or may be some other time , I am enjoying the book wholly, reading it as slowly as I can, re-reading the same thing again and again and pondering over those golden moments.....
PPPS: May be, that is why I have read the book by Robin Sharma, 10 times and I will sure read it again and again may be in multiples of 10, just to ponder over those golden moments, again and again, involving, the wonderful people and those mistakes which I have made, who / which have helped me, to be myself and tune myself into, what I am today. Miss you guys..
IT industry - Dilemma at its best..... Judgement @ its worst....
Disclaimer - Whatever I have written in this post, is completely my own individual opinion and has nothing to do with any individual, any company in particular. I have no hatred against anybody as such. If the reader finds some co-incidences relating to a particular individual or a company I can only say its fictitious. I do not want to put even myself as the actor in the scene.
So please keep in mind this post is just an elaboration of a thought which struck me in the middle of the night, when I was finding sleep hard to come by, since I had slight fever and a sore stomach, acidity or gas, I do not know.
The title of this post may add a little bit to the reader's thought process. But I am sorry this is the only title which I can think at this moment of time. Pls excuse if I am wrong...
Introduction to characters -
X -
This is the imaginary IT company in picture in the post.
PersonA -
He is a software engineer by profession, who is relatively new to the IT company. Joined less than a year ago. He earns his bread by coding and introducing new bugs (of course :P).
PersonB -
He is a manager by profession. He is a veteran in this Imaginary Company. He earns his bread by managing people, projects. (There may be an additional source of income which you will come to know later in the post.)
PersonC -
He is a system administrator by profession. He is also quite new to the imaginary IT company. He earns his bread by managing the computers in the Imaginary IT Company.
End of introduction -
Typical day to day routine of PersonA and PersonB
PersonA - codes and debugs for most part of the day. He has some songs to keep him company, just to make his coding experience a better one. He listens to songs mostly through online streaming. There are some sites available which provide the user to listen to songs online.
PersonB - Manages people and projects, gives updates to the management, makes top notch decisions about the project / projects. He is an active investor in stock markets, investing and selling on a regular basis. Even though he might not be investing, he might be actively monitoring the markets, BSE/NSE, whatever. Here comes the additional source of income. He is trying also to make a fortune out of stocks and shares.
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On one fine day PersonC approaches PersonA.
PersonC: "I would like to seize your desktop."
PersonA: "Could I know the reason?".
PersonC: " For listening to songs through streaming, which is not allowed".
PersonA: " But the mp3 website is not blocked. Hence I thought it to be valid".
PersonC: "No Sir, it takes most of the bandwidth, so its not allowed".
PersonA: " So what is the next course of action ".
PersonC: " Immediate meeting with your manager, followed by an integrity + ethics training + test".
[ PersonA in his mind : "Now what ... I think I should fall on his(managers) feet for this one .. err??". ]
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Sitting few rows to the side of him is this particular manager who is actively monitoring the stock market, investing money doing everything which is not allowed, but still at the end of the day, its the coder who gets screwed.
[Ok Ok, you may be wondering, whether listening to mp3 while working is ethical or not. I feel its unethical, or may be I am trying to make excuses via this post, I accept that, but the fact is why only few people hog the limelight for wrong reasons. Why do some people just get away or does every organization encourage to have an additional source of income via share trading?. I do not know, but inequality just hurts..]
There might be loads of people in a company who are investing and selling / buying shares, but ... you are in trouble only because of the bandwidth issue. May be the bandwidth occupies higher position than the Ethics , Conflict of Interest and Integrity or may be there is another twist.
I want to know what is the reason.
> Does the person s loyalty to the organization come into picture. If a person is in a organization for 10+ years does it mean he can attend conference calls on his speaker phone from his place.. whilst disturbing others (OF COURSE YOU DO Mr).
> I feel its the person who at the leaf node suffers whatever may be the case. I sincerely feel it. In most cases such people are relatively new to the organization and are highly vulnerable.
POST ENDS HERE ***************************************8
I have nothing against any person in this world. As I have already mentioned, this post is nothing but imaginary. If you strongly feel you as a person has been depicted in this particular post, please leave a comment, I would either remove the post or edit it as per your suggestion.
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Cheers
PS: I never imagined this post would end up being so long. Now I need to use different fonts else everything looks scary and unreadable
PPS: I ve added to the visitor count by editing and re-editing the same post again and again. It shows up in the FeedJit thing. Also to the visitor from Gurgaon. Do I know you. Can you please introduce yourself !!! (just getting curious :P)
So please keep in mind this post is just an elaboration of a thought which struck me in the middle of the night, when I was finding sleep hard to come by, since I had slight fever and a sore stomach, acidity or gas, I do not know.
The title of this post may add a little bit to the reader's thought process. But I am sorry this is the only title which I can think at this moment of time. Pls excuse if I am wrong...
Introduction to characters -
X -
This is the imaginary IT company in picture in the post.
PersonA -
He is a software engineer by profession, who is relatively new to the IT company. Joined less than a year ago. He earns his bread by coding and introducing new bugs (of course :P).
PersonB -
He is a manager by profession. He is a veteran in this Imaginary Company. He earns his bread by managing people, projects. (There may be an additional source of income which you will come to know later in the post.)
PersonC -
He is a system administrator by profession. He is also quite new to the imaginary IT company. He earns his bread by managing the computers in the Imaginary IT Company.
End of introduction -
Typical day to day routine of PersonA and PersonB
PersonA - codes and debugs for most part of the day. He has some songs to keep him company, just to make his coding experience a better one. He listens to songs mostly through online streaming. There are some sites available which provide the user to listen to songs online.
PersonB - Manages people and projects, gives updates to the management, makes top notch decisions about the project / projects. He is an active investor in stock markets, investing and selling on a regular basis. Even though he might not be investing, he might be actively monitoring the markets, BSE/NSE, whatever. Here comes the additional source of income. He is trying also to make a fortune out of stocks and shares.
**********************************************************************
On one fine day PersonC approaches PersonA.
PersonC: "I would like to seize your desktop."
PersonA: "Could I know the reason?".
PersonC: " For listening to songs through streaming, which is not allowed".
PersonA: " But the mp3 website is not blocked. Hence I thought it to be valid".
PersonC: "No Sir, it takes most of the bandwidth, so its not allowed".
PersonA: " So what is the next course of action ".
PersonC: " Immediate meeting with your manager, followed by an integrity + ethics training + test".
[ PersonA in his mind : "Now what ... I think I should fall on his(managers) feet for this one .. err??". ]
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Sitting few rows to the side of him is this particular manager who is actively monitoring the stock market, investing money doing everything which is not allowed, but still at the end of the day, its the coder who gets screwed.
[Ok Ok, you may be wondering, whether listening to mp3 while working is ethical or not. I feel its unethical, or may be I am trying to make excuses via this post, I accept that, but the fact is why only few people hog the limelight for wrong reasons. Why do some people just get away or does every organization encourage to have an additional source of income via share trading?. I do not know, but inequality just hurts..]
There might be loads of people in a company who are investing and selling / buying shares, but ... you are in trouble only because of the bandwidth issue. May be the bandwidth occupies higher position than the Ethics , Conflict of Interest and Integrity or may be there is another twist.
I want to know what is the reason.
> Does the person s loyalty to the organization come into picture. If a person is in a organization for 10+ years does it mean he can attend conference calls on his speaker phone from his place.. whilst disturbing others (OF COURSE YOU DO Mr).
> I feel its the person who at the leaf node suffers whatever may be the case. I sincerely feel it. In most cases such people are relatively new to the organization and are highly vulnerable.
POST ENDS HERE ***************************************8
I have nothing against any person in this world. As I have already mentioned, this post is nothing but imaginary. If you strongly feel you as a person has been depicted in this particular post, please leave a comment, I would either remove the post or edit it as per your suggestion.
~~~~~~~~~
Cheers
PS: I never imagined this post would end up being so long. Now I need to use different fonts else everything looks scary and unreadable
PPS: I ve added to the visitor count by editing and re-editing the same post again and again. It shows up in the FeedJit thing. Also to the visitor from Gurgaon. Do I know you. Can you please introduce yourself !!! (just getting curious :P)
Talking behind a person's back or straight on the face ???
I was watching Jab We Met with my relatives over the last weekend. I ve seen the movie 9 times but still cannot get enough of it.
During the latter half of the movie, one can see, in the Shimla hotel, Kareena shouts at Anshuman, using a foul language. Well foul language may come second in this particular context. I want to focus more on the aspect of taking out your anger on a particular person.
You can also observe, Kareena feels a little bit better after she finishes shouting at Anshuman.
I have seen orkut profiles of many people, they say, they hate people who speak behind their back.
I have so many observations against such messages:
> Firstly if a person is humble, down to earth, unbiased, I bet, no one will talk behind his back. If a person thinks people can speak behind his back, he must be getting it wrong somewhere or the other. Right?
> Secondly, as you can see from the movie, Jab We Met, if speaking behind back (atleast not on the face) can make you a bit relieved off tension/headache, what is stopping you then?
Part 2 of the post...
In this part of the post I just try to give a thought whether to speak behind the back of a person, or straight on his face..
I think both the sides are equally balanced.
You speak straight on the face or speak behind the back, you end up being a loser on either case.
Firstly, if you speak straight on the face, you may end up losing your job (at the max).
If the person, is doing wrong and you remain silent and speak behind the person's back, you may end up being a silent spectator and may even get screwed up once that guy gets noticed.
Whatever may be the case, just make sure, your head is free from such silly stuffs..
And regarding Jab We Met, the movie rocks !!!!
Conclusion::: In a corporate world, if you want to survive, then I feel, keeping mum is a better option.
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Cheers
During the latter half of the movie, one can see, in the Shimla hotel, Kareena shouts at Anshuman, using a foul language. Well foul language may come second in this particular context. I want to focus more on the aspect of taking out your anger on a particular person.
You can also observe, Kareena feels a little bit better after she finishes shouting at Anshuman.
I have seen orkut profiles of many people, they say, they hate people who speak behind their back.
I have so many observations against such messages:
> Firstly if a person is humble, down to earth, unbiased, I bet, no one will talk behind his back. If a person thinks people can speak behind his back, he must be getting it wrong somewhere or the other. Right?
> Secondly, as you can see from the movie, Jab We Met, if speaking behind back (atleast not on the face) can make you a bit relieved off tension/headache, what is stopping you then?
Part 2 of the post...
In this part of the post I just try to give a thought whether to speak behind the back of a person, or straight on his face..
I think both the sides are equally balanced.
You speak straight on the face or speak behind the back, you end up being a loser on either case.
Firstly, if you speak straight on the face, you may end up losing your job (at the max).
If the person, is doing wrong and you remain silent and speak behind the person's back, you may end up being a silent spectator and may even get screwed up once that guy gets noticed.
Whatever may be the case, just make sure, your head is free from such silly stuffs..
And regarding Jab We Met, the movie rocks !!!!
Conclusion::: In a corporate world, if you want to survive, then I feel, keeping mum is a better option.
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Cheers
I love TWITTER...
I think I just love twitter. There is no doubt in that. As I was glancing through many blogs over the internet, over the past few months, I noticed many bloggers had a link saying " follow me on twitter" in their respective blogs.
I generally used to open those twitter pages and in my first few instances I could not make out what TWITTER was all about. You may call me a dumbo. But the fact is I was more interested in the bigger blog posts than the few character twitter updates.
But somehow all of a sudden, a thought struck my mind, why not me also on twitter. Frankly speaking, TWITTER is just awesome.
Sometimes random thoughts flash across your mind. You may not be able to blog them, as you may find them silly or you may not find suitable title for them, or may even forget them. There comes TWITTER into picture.
This whole new thing of microblogging has just left me fascinated. Let me see, how I keep posting on the blog as well as TWITTER.
From now on you can follow me on twitter at :::
https://twitter.com/sandepku
PS:: Twitter Rocks...
I generally used to open those twitter pages and in my first few instances I could not make out what TWITTER was all about. You may call me a dumbo. But the fact is I was more interested in the bigger blog posts than the few character twitter updates.
But somehow all of a sudden, a thought struck my mind, why not me also on twitter. Frankly speaking, TWITTER is just awesome.
Sometimes random thoughts flash across your mind. You may not be able to blog them, as you may find them silly or you may not find suitable title for them, or may even forget them. There comes TWITTER into picture.
This whole new thing of microblogging has just left me fascinated. Let me see, how I keep posting on the blog as well as TWITTER.
From now on you can follow me on twitter at :::
https://twitter.com/sandepku
PS:: Twitter Rocks...
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