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Earlier this day, I was reading a story of how a business tycoon started a bank and somehow i was reminded of an episode of the famous comedy soap of 90's Hum Paanch . Well, yes even I was surprised by my memory. I always feel that childhood memories are like the photo albums. Some of the incidents gets clicked by our mind and the picture is refreshed some time in future in some relative environment. Any how, Hum Paanch was a comedy soap about a family - Anand Mathur, a simple professional aspired a simple life in his regular income with his wife and five daughters. But God had other plans for him, and his life is more of a adventure every day as his daughters using their creative ability used to always put him in some trouble. The particular episode which clicked my mind today was when the five girls decide to open a bank as their entrepreneurial venture. What most strikes me behind the whole concept of the serial is the fact that the girls of a middle class white collar wo...

Its December. The month of Christmas. As a convent school graduate, I have a very fond memories from my childhood of this time of the year. The Christmas celebration in the school! It was one of the most awaited event in my school time. The Christmas tree decoration competition. Then the play, the very same play each year. But was never worn off from participating in it or from watching it. Singing "Silent night, Holy night" and "Joy to the world" each year in chorus! It was undoubtedly the best part of the winters! Sadly after school I miss the carols and the tree decoration but I still get the rum-cake nonetheless! :) I wish there were phone cameras available those days. I do not have a single photograph from that time. Except for once when I became one of the 11 kings in the play 'The fourth Magi' at the silver jubilee celebration of our school! But then I guess this is exactly why it was simpler and beautiful days filled with innocence. Here is the pictu...

I reached the 23rd milestone of life yesterday. Now running towards the 24th. The journey from 22nd to 23rd was one year which had many surprises for me along the path. And not all surprises were pleasant! This 1 year run was like a advance stage of a video game I had weapons but I had to be careful, as some nasty creatures could come from any direction and yet fighting with them I had to be aware of balls of fire and pitfalls! But as it happens in the video games I earned a lot of points (read wisdom), life (read friends) and the ultimate courage as I reached the end of the stage! Now I am all set for the next stage; I know the dangers in the next stage are even more grave and beyond my expectation. But I have the points and life earned in the previous stages to support my journey as I try to win the game....

After a lengthy observation I have noticed that mind power is indeed a mighty one. How things that you take your way turn up depends petty much on the mind set with which you execute it. For times I have been confident of some task, executing it has been easier with fairly good outcome. But whenever I have done some work with the equal amount of calibre but with a negative or low mindset the outcome has not been that good. There are times when you are supposed to leave back something/someone and move on; it all takes up in your mind. If you choose to stick to old memories and 'think' that nothing can replace them; actually nothing comes your way to replace them. Now I can vouch for this, as I have seen this happening with people. As for me, I have been one of those person who does not happen to attach herself with the materialistic part of life but that is compensated by my superfluous emotions for all the vital non-materialistic things in my life. So while I have an easy time ...

What is it about music? Whenever I find myself perturbed and fidgety in thoughts; I play this collection of instrumentals by The Richard Clayderman . And with a success rate of 100% I have managed to reach a state where my mind gets far away from the numerous thoughts that were pestering my soul. Mind flies away to some unseen land. Yes, it sounds like hypnotism, probably there is some scientific explanation to it. This evening I was physically in a passive mode when my mind was too active in being upset about a thing and mad on some one; touched by an incident and moved by words. My brain was suddenly like the idiot box with numerous channels, all reflecting different emotions. I almost could not understand my own thought process; I was fast approaching saturation. At this moment the bitTorrent application threw a pop-up to signal the completion of download of my favorite instrumental album. And it was no less than a divine intervention. I played it in the background and continued wi...

Ooty trip. 24th - 25th October 2009. Most memorable trip! This trip was my escape plan! My birthday was falling on this weekend and I didn't want it to be like the birthday routine (mostly at food court 5 - oasis) of the Infosys, Mysore campus. So when I heard Sachit (who was from my college but had come to know him during training as he sat one seat beside me) planning a trip to Ooty with all his friends. I showed my interest in joining them clearly stating how I didn't want to be in the campus on my birthday falling that Sunday. He agreed. That is how I happen to go on this trip with Sachit, Sharad, Shikha and Varun. All were new to me! Before this trip I have hardly ever exchanged formal greeting with them and now here I was going to a beautiful hill station on a weekend! We left early morning for Udhagamandalam. On the way we had to cross Bandipur National Park. We stopped there and decided to take a Safari ride. Well it happened so that we missed on the early morning Safar...

Maybe its my "back from Mangalore " affect. It rained cats and dogs 'in Jaipur' from 4:30p.m. till 10:00p.m. And not only that, rains were associated with winds ( the Mangalore kind ). I took a halt by a hotel in front of Subodh College. But dear rains calculated the perfect angle to meet me! I so thought while coming back from Mangalore that I was done with the torrential rains. But apparently Jaipur rains have set some records straight today! Fully drenched I took a decision to visit my Mausi (maternal Aunt) who lives nearby. At her place, I changed into dry clothes when Anjali called to yell that she has been waiting for more than an hour at JKK . So I quickly prepared and enjoyed the tea with Mausi and then left for JKK in the borrowed clothes. There I finally met Anjali three days after coming to Jaipur. I sat there long in the company of Anjali and later with Arvind sir waiting for rain to stop. Finally at 8:30 p.m. I gave into my fate and drove ...

Had an intention to be at Infosys office at Kottara, Mangalore for the Toastmasters Meet at 6:30 a.m. sharp. I failed and I realised it when I woke up to the call of Ravi at 7:15. After witnessing the coveted meet where all the Toastmasters clubs of Mangalore had come together, I gladly participated in the photo shoot event! :) Then came the time to meet everyone there as I leave for the airport. This was the most special last handshakes in this week; as these are the people being with whom I had actually been in the presence of my interest! I was and said what I love to. Still I don't feel like saying that 'I will miss them'. Maybe 'cause I still don't realise that I have parted from them. But there is some kind of strong feel I have that I won't be missing them because somewhere I know I will be meeting them again for sure and not for once but like will keep having these casual ( read Toastmasters ) meets! :) With this happy feeling I started off for airport ...

Tonight was my evening with all my office lunch partners! Planned at 7:30 all managed to arrive by 8:30. And so the traditions is kept alive! I was made to wait! :) Manoj was the only one to reach on time rather even before me and so we waited for over 45 minutes for the rest of the us to join. Joining us were Prachi, Kajal, Guru, Neelesh and later on by Preeti, Sunny and Nikhil. It was like always a good time to be in company with all. And they all happened to decide before hand and picked up some mementos for me. :) It was the high point of the evening when i was asked to take out each and every gift and they all patiently watched my reaction unfold! :) Picture of this party will soon be uploaded.... :)

Tonight was the turn to hangout with all my college friends plus couple of other who became friends during my training days at Mysore. The best part of the whole event was that laughing never ceased! I was laughing incessantly like a teenager! We all got together at Chutney Restaurant for the party and got this place in the restaurant garden where it was just our group. That made the environment much more free for us to say anything and for me to laugh at as high pitch as possible! :) Hitesh, Aneesh , Puneet, Nikhil, Jasraj, Pankaj, Kunal, Abhishek, Lata, Rohit, Neha, Neelam and Neetu all came to grace my party and to have fun probably for the last time for me at Managlore. Also not to forget, I have to thank them for the beautiful gifts they presented me! :) Thanks all. And especially Jasraj for picking up a pen-set which is such an iconic present for me at this juncture of my life! Thank you all for such a wonderful time. I never laughed so hard!! :) And of course not to forget for a...

That is what I said at my party as I stand today having resigned from Infosys and now going back home to search for a job I would like! I am reborn! Its not that I am seeing my proffessional life as something which will have fresh start but also relations. People come up with complete other side to themselves when they know that one of them is leaving and that there is a possibility that you might not meet that person again. Last three parties post my last day at office have been such experiences and it has made me richer! :) On tuesday after office I went out with all my toastmasters friends! Toastmasters was the only thing which kept me busy in "true" sense at office! And so it was special. I was been surprised with this lovely cake they all got for me : After decently having cake, I was being warned that if the cake would not finish I would have to face the fate and so it was.... And these were the culprits .. And so after all present there had their part of fun we all we...

Its the most difficult one. You know it the its not the end yet but its neither far away from the end! It was my second last day at Infosys office! Not that I got all sentimental about it but it was a strange feeling. After much digging up I could say the things that made me happy here will always be with me wherever I go. The friends I made here, memories of few trips I have been on, my free time in cubicle doing all random search on the Internet . Not for a second will I miss work or anything related to it. So today at least I felt content. A rare feeling! Office where it was a big burden to even pass time till lunch and after lunch every second seemed to be a torture; at the same office today I was active like never before meeting all the people and was shocked to see that it already was 5:30 in my wrist watch! Nothing can be better than a Happy Ending!! Can't wait for tomorrow! :)

Packing and moving is one of those activity which involves both being happy and sad at the same time. An emotionally charged activity where one is excited to see what future beholds but as the human tendency too attached to let go off the present! I am now packing off to mark an end to my journey at Mangalore and at Infosys at large. I too have the low times knowing that I won't be a part of Infosys network to be easily communicate with my friends over communicator , won't be in the K arnataka zone to make those easy intra -state calls to plan to meet friends in circle, no more pings calling for lunch, no more party @ fc mails, and so much more. But this is exactly why I am leaving because all I will miss is the 'having fun' part. I won't miss a quad of my project times. I am too young to be so sad! :) Well back to the packing stuff. I have never been averse to packing, rather I think I love it. Because it involves a promise of some exciting experience in fut...

Last weekend I went with few of community Toastmaster Club's (Winner Club's) members to an engineering college in Ujire for a demo meet. My objective to join them was to give my Project 2 speech there. Ok this all might sound vague to most of the people reading the blog. So I would rephrase it and say my objective to go for this demo meet was to meet new people and have fun as I check a place on my travel list. And indeed it was fun. Had the most amazing discussion at both the ends of the journey. Got involved in some real intellectual one to for a change! :) And the major reason was that I was blessed with the company of some very experienced people and they were kind enough to shower their wisdom on us. Meanwhile as far as I am traveling in south, photographs to banti hai boss! :)

On 23rd July, that is two weeks back I started off for Bangalore probably for the last time. This thought was sinking in me when I boarded the 9a.m. bus on friday. I have so many friends there and all are there for one reason, job in IT sector, from which I have planned to depart. I felt odd for numerous reasons and one of them was it might be the last of such lonely travels I will make to meet my friends. As is supposed to be the journey was eventful with something going wrong with the bus and hence getting delayed adding on to my very vexation. But beautiful sights on the way made sure that the smile on my face won't phase away. Although I tried but could not get the best picture clicked of the most beautiful scene from the moving bus. Still, here is what I could grab: Finally reached Bangalore at sometime around 6 p.m. and the gala event of meeting with friends started that ended up only on Sunday night. I almost tried to meet up with every single person possible and still had t...

This is just to compliment my last blog! This is an impromptu video that I shot on one of the many days when it was windy and rainy at the Mangalore SEZ office of infosys (also called as Nethra).

As a primary school student many a times I got the topic - 'A rainy day' for essay writing. And being from the desert land of India, only a thought of it used to make me happy and I could write the innocent stories of rainy days from those childhood times. But now given a chance to write an essay on a topic as this, I would rather have some horrific water-drenched stories of broken-footwear-every-other-day, rain-smelling-clothes, devoid-of-sunlight-since-ages, and umbrella-flying incidents to fill up the essay. Such has been my experience here at Mangalore . No, holding umbrella opposing the direction in which rain is falling; does not help. Why? Because here rain knows no direction! It is like that ruthless enemy in the war where you are trying to defend yourself with umbrella but all in vain as it can attack you from any side at any moment! But to tag it as completely a torturous experience won't be an honest act. Although traveling to office via city buses in such kind ...

Last six days I was completely off the blog; and the reason was that my Laptop was facing relationship crisis. My laptop - Inspiron was trying hard to patch it up with Windows 7. But its OS won't budge! It was like a sudden break up for the laptop. It pleaded a lot and tried all the ways to restore the relationship but Windows 7 won't feel the mercy which Inspiron truly deserved. After 2 days of relentless persuasion Windows 7 gave up. It felt like life without soul. It new it existed but its purpose and dimensions were lost. Seeing Inspiron in such a sad state, Mint who always knew how breed of Windows do this to their counterparts gave in a new hope to Inspiron . Such kind of a gesture was not knew, after all that is why world knows it as Mint. It has incessantly indulged in giving fresh beginnings to laptops. And it is because of brave Inspiron and caring Mint that I am back on the network. This blog is dedicated to both of them with utmost love and respect. Cheers! :)

There are days when before going to bed you say impromptly that you had a busy day; and then you take a minute to realise that where exactly were you busy?? I call these days to be gone in fluke! Today was an addition to this series! And personally i don't enjoy it much! Especially when at the end of the day you realize that there were many important work that actually skipped your memory! It is kind of vexing to ackowlege the number of days you waste in such a way! And the maths of the hours spent in such a way just makes me go furious at myself! I just hope the days ahead won't be like this and will have some productive elements so that I can write something really substantial here! Signing off with hope!

I don't know what this corporate sector does to you but weekend seems awfully lazy!! I am a guilty victim of this phenomenon! Well the best act of being lazy is to watch a movie while munching on high-on-carbohydrate snack! And so the movie for the day was The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Well when about a year and a half back it had won the Oscar, I had had a tough time remembering its title. So all this while being a couch-potato (which kinda suits my weight now) I caught hold of the effective dialogues from the movie. It happens all the time when you see a movie, one or two line more-often-than-never by a protagonist gets clicked by your mind. And it remains in there forever; only to be used at the appropriate time. And this movie sure as hell had such lines: One very effective one liner by the protagonist Benjamin Button was: "Your life is defined by its opportunities... even the ones you miss!" And of course the most enduring was when Benjamin narrates in hi...

I heard somewhere that, “Reading books takes away originality within you.” Is it? I tend to disagree with it. Having experienced myself, I feel, we as humans get influenced too easily. And I really don’t understand what’s really original in us? I mean to me the concept of originality is similar to that of time. Initially it was believed that time is an independent element. But later Einstein proved that indeed even time is relative. And so I believe that on similar grounds originality is a relative thing. Relative to what or who has influenced the person more. Every individual is different and that decides the factors that influence them in life. A person who is gullible has varying parameters of influence in contradiction to seemingly unperceivable individual. Having said that, I believe reading books is just one of the parameters. When one describes himself as ferocious reader; indeed inherently the person is succumbing to books to influence his mind in a dominant way. Books, Talks, ...

June 24 th , 2010 11:50 am We all are aware of this famous dialogue/saying/truth that "the real power lies in letting go!" Don't know about this, but sure as hell the act of 'letting go' gives you immense feel that you possess certain power, a control over fate. I feel myself insignificant being of the universe when I read and listen to these things. I have no intention to possess this over-rated feel of power. But many a times I feel that i will feel real power when every minute of each day i spent in doing what gives me happiness at the end of it. And I feel it is possible... it is possible by making the right choices in life (as goes one of my favourite quote: Only thing you have control on is the choices that you make in life !). Power to You!!! :) :)

June 18th, 2010 12:42 pm Recently recieved this forward mail, which had synopsis of all the upcoming movies. And essentially all the love storys in that mail had one common element in theis storys. And this is - "not realizing that you love him/her"! This forces a question in my mind. Is it really so that we otherwise intelligent species, always tend to make a fool of ourvselves in the matters of heart??

June 2nd, 2010 This weekend sitting on the sea side, for more than 2 hours, I thought endlessly. I was there with a close friend of mine. We went to spend some good time together. And we did have a good time, just that we spoke almost to the bare minimum. Words were unnecessary. The waves from the seas, each time it hit the rock, it actually hit a wave of our mind and set us to thinking. Having so many deep thoughts I startled myself with the realization and asked my friend "This is so beautiful, yet I am scared I will not be able to recollect this scene I am seeing. I am not able to grasp it at once. Why is it so?" And there came the reply, "Its because even before grasping it all the vastness of this scene forces a thought in you mind!" It was so true... even before i could take each pixel of the beautiful scene, i was already exercising my brain with my subconscious fears and unanswered thoughts. But having said that, today I still am able to recall that scene in...

Last night I read somewhere : "Only artists and hermits hate weekends!" Is it true? Do every single person other than these two despise weekends? Is there no one in our company who wishes for the weekend to get over; so that he/she can return to their sweet cubicles and lovely code bugs! I am sure there must be some exceptions. But what makes me sad that they are indeed exceptions! I remember a speech in Toastmaster's club when one described his enrty into the infosys as selling out his soul to the corporate world! Its sad! Why do we do things voluntarily that we don't like.. that we don't want to get back to? What is the fun in earning any amount of buck if the process of it makes u happy only on the salary day! Sadly, I am also one of teh culprits who has sold her soul to the corporate... But I intend to earn it back with honour!

You feel freer in disguise, You do things you won’t do otherwise. Being your self is not easy, Fear of society always kills the real wise. Disguise: A word we generally associate with darker side of things. Generally, linked with the act of elopement, absconding and sometimes even with diplomacy, the disguise’s positive side seems to be out of sight! Is disguise always a tool for hiding out of guilt? Don’t our favorite actors disguise themselves into the roles we love them so much for! They masquerade for our entertainment and indeed it is called ‘Art’. The very art which is revitalizing factor in our society, even called as the mirror of the society. And the base of every artist is disguise. Some disguise in costumes and emotions while other’s use colors for the same. A painter disguises his muse in his creations enlivening with different shades of colors. Apart from using the art of disguising for all the artistic talents, the same contributes in many other ways. Disguise can be used...

18th April 2010 3 a.m. Just got off from ph call/video chat (audio was not working for us on gmail L ) with my best buddy! That was a nice convo between us in months. After shutting my computer off, I went to my room to finally sleep! But for some how sky was mad with anger and it was loud and clear. And then the cloud growled and many of them above cried. Still nostalgic with technically-supported meet with my best buddy I msgd him, “Sky is screaming and weeping. Its scary and beautiful. Its so like life!” Yes we had spoken a lot about life then. After all being at a stage where your professional and personal life both are yearning to take a definite path, is a difficult time. And then you always get into discussion about “LIFE” with your closest people. So after sending the text message, did I realize then that yes that is what life is. It scares you because essentially you have no control over future still we keep planning our future and then when time shows how your planned follies...

Classroom teaching is organized learning where in words of many researchers and analysts decide what content will be taught and in what manner. As a child everybody has had their times of despising classroom either for selective subject or like me, simply for all of them. But 20 years past one realizes how essential indeed were those classroom sessions. And that is cause of the natural phenomenon that one understands the importance of something in life when that goes away from you. Have come too far from classrooms. And the most painful part in all of this is the fact that learning is not seized. Lot of things we are still suppose to learn in the daily course of action. But these lessons do not come from well structured course books illustrated by a teacher, it come to us the hard way. Hours after any incidence you analyze and understand the triggering factors for the event and their effective impacts. And then you really introspect that what & how exactly one was supposed to do in...

Sometimes when we hang out with friends and suddenly the whole group bursts in laughter, there is always that famous and adored most funny character in the group behind this ga-ga! This phenomenon is almost ubiquitous! But how many times is this adorable funny character a female? Why is it so, that always the wittiest comment comes out from a male side? And taking it further, how many females are tabooed my their comic roles in any film industry? Why is that in the perfect match characteristics, 'sense of humor' is a characteristic generally expected from males but not the females? Why is that we females tend to take things more seriously than may be what is required? Why do females have lesser quotient of tolerance when it comes to laugh on oneself? This all made me just think.. and personally for me I just asked myself: Why is it that I can't see the lighter side of things?