Its well said by someone, "If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it"..yes, it happens with me many times..especially when I remember my childhood days;the golden days of my life(infact everybody's), given a chance,I want to live those days again and again!
Gone are those days when I used to get things before I ask..when I used to prove myself right even after beating my sisters..when I didn't know what difficulty means, when life has no other meaning than sleep-eat-play-and (little) homework..when everybody was so fond of me..when Amitabh was my icon(ye baath alag hai ki thodaa height me maar kha gaya ;-) ).. when every festival was so special..when festivals meant sweets and new dresses..when I used to wake up at 2am saying "hungry" to my mom..when saturdays meant half-days..when playing in sand was so fun..when a single cry was enough to get me a cycle..and a single page of home-work used to get me a jumbo size cadbury.. when the days used to end with cute prince-princess stories,when I used to run behind tom-n-jerry, when I used to buy bread just for the different car posters in it,when number of spiderman collection with me was directly proportional to the number of friends I have..when neighbours used to fight with mom for breaking their glasses while playing cricket on the roads,when I used to hate my (high scoring) friends (for a bit of time) after exam results..when I used to pray for fever for getting a chance to eat different kinds of biscuits..when I used to pray for rain to get school holiday..when making paper boats was so fun, when low-flying planes used to catch our attention,when we all friends used to run behind "kathi patang",when wednesdays meant "Chitrahaar",when radio meant "Vividh Bharathi"..when everything was low-lieing fruit..when everything seemed so right...............
By the grace of God,now I am capable of earning my bread myself..to tell you frankly, I still miss those days when my parents used to bring me new things for every occasion(sometimes even without any occasion)..when they used to get me everything I wanted..the things which I buy now with my own money, make me less contented as compared to the things I used to get from my parents..
I just wonder,whenever I cry in my childhood,my mother used to give me "Jadoo ki jhappi"..(haan haan Munnabhai waala) and give me the 9th chocolate saying this is the last one..I casually asked my wife recently, "what will you do if I start crying whenever I need something", she told she will take me to the psychiatrist!!!!! chapter close!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I comprehend that I am grown up now ;-)
And Radio Mirchi started.....Jaane kahaan gaye woh din....Woh Kagaz Ki Kashti woh baarish ka pani Mohalley ki sub se purani nishani......
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Wife definitions.... by some wonderful persons!!
DavidBissonette
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
Sacha Guitry
After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can't face each other, but still they stay together.
Socrates
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Anonymous
Woman inspires us to great things, and prevents us from achieving them.
Dumas
The great question... which I have not been able to answer... is, "What does a woman want?
Sigmund Freud
I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me.
Anonymous
"Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays."
Sam Kinison
"There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage."
James Holt McGavran
"I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me, and the second one didn't."
Patrick Murray
Two secrets to keep your marriage brimming
1. Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
2. Whenever you're right, shut up.
Nash
The most effective way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once...
Anonymous
You know what I did before I married? Anything I wanted to.
Henny Youngman
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
Rodney Dangerfield
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
Anonymous
A man inserted an 'ad' in the classifieds: "Wife wanted". Next day he received a hundred letters. They all said the same thing: "You can have mine."
Anonymous
First Guy (proudly): "My wife's an angel!"
Second Guy: "You're lucky, mine's still alive."
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
Sacha Guitry
After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can't face each other, but still they stay together.
Socrates
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Anonymous
Woman inspires us to great things, and prevents us from achieving them.
Dumas
The great question... which I have not been able to answer... is, "What does a woman want?
Sigmund Freud
I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me.
Anonymous
"Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays."
Sam Kinison
"There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage."
James Holt McGavran
"I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me, and the second one didn't."
Patrick Murray
Two secrets to keep your marriage brimming
1. Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
2. Whenever you're right, shut up.
Nash
The most effective way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once...
Anonymous
You know what I did before I married? Anything I wanted to.
Henny Youngman
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
Rodney Dangerfield
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
Anonymous
A man inserted an 'ad' in the classifieds: "Wife wanted". Next day he received a hundred letters. They all said the same thing: "You can have mine."
Anonymous
First Guy (proudly): "My wife's an angel!"
Second Guy: "You're lucky, mine's still alive."
Saturday, October 6, 2007
If I don't seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you.
Dying Professor's Lecture of a Lifetime
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07262/818671-298.stm
mms://wms.andrew.cmu.edu/001/pausch.wmv
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07262/818608-298.stm
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3633945&page=1
(copy-paste from post-gazette.com)
Randy Pausch set the tone early on yesterday at his farewell lecture at Carnegie Mellon University.
"If I don't seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you," said Dr. Pausch, a 46-year-old computer science professor who has incurable pancreatic cancer.
It's not that he's in denial about the fact that he only has months to live, he told the 400 listeners packed into McConomy Auditorium on the campus, and the hundreds more listening to a live Web cast.
It's more that "I am in phenomenally good health right now; it's the greatest cognitive dissonance you will ever see -- the fact is, I'm in better shape than most of you," he said.
And then, to the appreciative laughs and applause of his audience, Dr. Pausch dropped to the stage floor and did a set of pushups.
"So anyone who wants to cry or pity me can come down here and do a few of those, and then you may pity me," he said.
"What we're not going to talk about today," he continued, "is cancer, because I've spent a lot of time talking about that ... and we're not going to talk about things that are even more important, like my wife and [three preschool] kids, because I'm good, but I'm not good enough to talk about that without tearing up."
What he was there to discuss was how to fulfill your childhood dreams, and the lessons he had learned on his life's journey.
When he was a boy, Dr. Pausch said, he had a concrete set of dreams: He wanted to experience the weightlessness of zero gravity; he wanted to play football in the NFL; he wanted to write an article for the World Book Encyclopedia ("You can tell the nerds early on," he joked); he wanted to be Captain Kirk from "Star Trek"; and he wanted to work for the Disney Co.
In the end, he got to tackle all of them, he said -- even if his football accomplishments fell somewhere short of the NFL.
In his 10 years at Carnegie Mellon, Dr. Pausch helped found the Entertainment Technology Center, which one video game executive yesterday called the premier institution in the world for training students in video game and other interactive technology.
He also established an annual virtual reality contest that has become a campuswide sensation, and helped start the Alice program, an animation-based curriculum for teaching high school and college students how to have fun while learning computer programming.
It was the virtual reality work, in which participants wear a headset that puts them in an artificial digital environment, that earned him and his Carnegie Mellon students a chance to go on the U.S. Air Force plane known as the "vomit comet," which creates moments of weightlessness, and which the students promised to model with VR technology.
And even though his football career ended in high school, he said, he probably learned more from that experience than all the other childhood goals he did achieve.
Among other things, he learned the value of the coach yelling at him for his mistakes, because an assistant coach told him after one particularly brutal practice: "When you're screwing up and nobody's saying anything to you anymore, that means they've given up on you."
While he didn't get to be Captain Kirk, actor William Shatner, who played Kirk, did visit him at Carnegie Mellon in recent years.
"It's cool to meet your boyhood idol," Dr. Pausch said. "It's even cooler when he comes to you to see what you're doing in your lab."
And he got the chance to write the World Book's article on virtual reality.
Known for his flamboyance and showmanship as a teacher and mentor, Dr. Pausch talked Disney officials into letting him work on sabbatical at the company, helping design such virtual reality rides as the Magic Carpet and Pirates of the Caribbean.
More recently, he got the chance to intern with Electronic Arts, the video game company, and that relationship prompted the firm to give Carnegie Mellon the right to use its famous Sims animated characters as part of the Alice curriculum.
Near the end of his talk yesterday, Dr. Pausch surprised his wife, Jai, with a cake for her birthday on Monday, and persuaded the audience to sing for her. She managed to choke back her tears long enough to blow out the single candle on top.
To honor his life and career, Electronic Arts announced it was setting up a scholarship fund for deserving female computer science majors at Carnegie Mellon.
And the school itself said it would put his name on the footbridge that will connect the new Gates Computer Sciences Building and the Purnell Center for the Arts, symbolizing the way he linked those disciplines.
Dr. Pausch's ordeal began a year ago, when he began to feel bloated and his bowel movements changed, he said in an e-mail interview. When doctors did a CT scan to see if he had gallstones, they spotted a tumor.
"I got the news from my GP," he wrote, "who said 'There's a mass on your pancreas, and it's not fair.'
"As I later told him, it's unfortunate, and it's unlucky, but it's not unfair. As I always tell my 5-year-old, it's not 'unfair' when you don't get what you want. We all run the risk of getting hit by the cancer dart."
In a Web-based diary he kept of his treatment, Dr. Pausch concentrated on trying to improve his survival odds. He knew it would be an uphill battle. Despite improvements in treatment, the overall five-year survival rate for pancreatic cancer is just 5 percent. Even the one-year rate is only 26 percent.
The first step was surgery, which took place exactly one year ago today at UPMC Shadyside. Surgeons took out his gall bladder, a third of his pancreas, part of his stomach and several feet of small intestine.
As he recovered, Dr. Pausch discovered that M.D. Anderson Hospital in Houston was carrying out an experimental, highly toxic radiation and chemotherapy regimen for pancreatic cancer that might increase his five-year survival odds to almost 45 percent.
The treatments began in November and didn't end until the following May. The low point, he wrote, was on Christmas Day of last year: "My wife and children were in Norfolk, and I was in Houston getting poison put in my veins. I was never depressed, but that was the day I was really squeezing the lemons hard to get lemonade."
But later, less than a week after finishing chemotherapy and radiation, Dr. Pausch was playing flag football with his recreational league team again.
"First play of the game, I caught a 25-yard pass over the middle," he said in his diary. "Granted, I was sucking wind the whole game, but damn it's good to be back on the field."
In mid-summer, after tests initially showed he was clear of cancer, he added two rounds of treatment with an experimental cancer vaccine at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.
And then, just as he was finally feeling healthy again late last month, Dr. Pausch sent out this message to his diary readers:
"A recent CT scan showed that there are 10 tumors in my liver, and my spleen is also peppered with small tumors. The doctors say that it is one of the most aggressive recurrences they have ever seen."
He and Jai moved their family to Chesapeake, Va., so she would be near her relatives. They made initial plans for hospice care, and Dr. Pausch began palliative chemotherapy to give him some extra time.
"I find that I am completely positive," he wrote. "The only times I cry are when I think about the kids -- and it's not so much the 'Gee, I'll miss seeing their first bicycle ride' type of stuff as it is a sense of unfulfilled duty -- that I will not be there to help raise them, and that I have left a very heavy burden for my wife."
He is concentrating now on creating videos for his children. With his oldest son, 5-year-old Dylan, Dr. Pausch went on a recent trip to Disney World and to swim with dolphins, thinking Dylan may be the only child who will have strong direct memories of him.
His wife and children, he said, "mean everything to me. They give a purpose to life and a depth of joy that no job [and I've had some of the most awesome jobs in the world] can begin to provide.
"I hope my wife is able to remarry down the line. And I hope they will remember me as a man who loved them, and did everything he could for them."
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07262/818671-298.stm
mms://wms.andrew.cmu.edu/001/pausch.wmv
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07262/818608-298.stm
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3633945&page=1
(copy-paste from post-gazette.com)
Randy Pausch set the tone early on yesterday at his farewell lecture at Carnegie Mellon University.
"If I don't seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you," said Dr. Pausch, a 46-year-old computer science professor who has incurable pancreatic cancer.
It's not that he's in denial about the fact that he only has months to live, he told the 400 listeners packed into McConomy Auditorium on the campus, and the hundreds more listening to a live Web cast.
It's more that "I am in phenomenally good health right now; it's the greatest cognitive dissonance you will ever see -- the fact is, I'm in better shape than most of you," he said.
And then, to the appreciative laughs and applause of his audience, Dr. Pausch dropped to the stage floor and did a set of pushups.
"So anyone who wants to cry or pity me can come down here and do a few of those, and then you may pity me," he said.
"What we're not going to talk about today," he continued, "is cancer, because I've spent a lot of time talking about that ... and we're not going to talk about things that are even more important, like my wife and [three preschool] kids, because I'm good, but I'm not good enough to talk about that without tearing up."
What he was there to discuss was how to fulfill your childhood dreams, and the lessons he had learned on his life's journey.
When he was a boy, Dr. Pausch said, he had a concrete set of dreams: He wanted to experience the weightlessness of zero gravity; he wanted to play football in the NFL; he wanted to write an article for the World Book Encyclopedia ("You can tell the nerds early on," he joked); he wanted to be Captain Kirk from "Star Trek"; and he wanted to work for the Disney Co.
In the end, he got to tackle all of them, he said -- even if his football accomplishments fell somewhere short of the NFL.
In his 10 years at Carnegie Mellon, Dr. Pausch helped found the Entertainment Technology Center, which one video game executive yesterday called the premier institution in the world for training students in video game and other interactive technology.
He also established an annual virtual reality contest that has become a campuswide sensation, and helped start the Alice program, an animation-based curriculum for teaching high school and college students how to have fun while learning computer programming.
It was the virtual reality work, in which participants wear a headset that puts them in an artificial digital environment, that earned him and his Carnegie Mellon students a chance to go on the U.S. Air Force plane known as the "vomit comet," which creates moments of weightlessness, and which the students promised to model with VR technology.
And even though his football career ended in high school, he said, he probably learned more from that experience than all the other childhood goals he did achieve.
Among other things, he learned the value of the coach yelling at him for his mistakes, because an assistant coach told him after one particularly brutal practice: "When you're screwing up and nobody's saying anything to you anymore, that means they've given up on you."
While he didn't get to be Captain Kirk, actor William Shatner, who played Kirk, did visit him at Carnegie Mellon in recent years.
"It's cool to meet your boyhood idol," Dr. Pausch said. "It's even cooler when he comes to you to see what you're doing in your lab."
And he got the chance to write the World Book's article on virtual reality.
Known for his flamboyance and showmanship as a teacher and mentor, Dr. Pausch talked Disney officials into letting him work on sabbatical at the company, helping design such virtual reality rides as the Magic Carpet and Pirates of the Caribbean.
More recently, he got the chance to intern with Electronic Arts, the video game company, and that relationship prompted the firm to give Carnegie Mellon the right to use its famous Sims animated characters as part of the Alice curriculum.
Near the end of his talk yesterday, Dr. Pausch surprised his wife, Jai, with a cake for her birthday on Monday, and persuaded the audience to sing for her. She managed to choke back her tears long enough to blow out the single candle on top.
To honor his life and career, Electronic Arts announced it was setting up a scholarship fund for deserving female computer science majors at Carnegie Mellon.
And the school itself said it would put his name on the footbridge that will connect the new Gates Computer Sciences Building and the Purnell Center for the Arts, symbolizing the way he linked those disciplines.
Dr. Pausch's ordeal began a year ago, when he began to feel bloated and his bowel movements changed, he said in an e-mail interview. When doctors did a CT scan to see if he had gallstones, they spotted a tumor.
"I got the news from my GP," he wrote, "who said 'There's a mass on your pancreas, and it's not fair.'
"As I later told him, it's unfortunate, and it's unlucky, but it's not unfair. As I always tell my 5-year-old, it's not 'unfair' when you don't get what you want. We all run the risk of getting hit by the cancer dart."
In a Web-based diary he kept of his treatment, Dr. Pausch concentrated on trying to improve his survival odds. He knew it would be an uphill battle. Despite improvements in treatment, the overall five-year survival rate for pancreatic cancer is just 5 percent. Even the one-year rate is only 26 percent.
The first step was surgery, which took place exactly one year ago today at UPMC Shadyside. Surgeons took out his gall bladder, a third of his pancreas, part of his stomach and several feet of small intestine.
As he recovered, Dr. Pausch discovered that M.D. Anderson Hospital in Houston was carrying out an experimental, highly toxic radiation and chemotherapy regimen for pancreatic cancer that might increase his five-year survival odds to almost 45 percent.
The treatments began in November and didn't end until the following May. The low point, he wrote, was on Christmas Day of last year: "My wife and children were in Norfolk, and I was in Houston getting poison put in my veins. I was never depressed, but that was the day I was really squeezing the lemons hard to get lemonade."
But later, less than a week after finishing chemotherapy and radiation, Dr. Pausch was playing flag football with his recreational league team again.
"First play of the game, I caught a 25-yard pass over the middle," he said in his diary. "Granted, I was sucking wind the whole game, but damn it's good to be back on the field."
In mid-summer, after tests initially showed he was clear of cancer, he added two rounds of treatment with an experimental cancer vaccine at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.
And then, just as he was finally feeling healthy again late last month, Dr. Pausch sent out this message to his diary readers:
"A recent CT scan showed that there are 10 tumors in my liver, and my spleen is also peppered with small tumors. The doctors say that it is one of the most aggressive recurrences they have ever seen."
He and Jai moved their family to Chesapeake, Va., so she would be near her relatives. They made initial plans for hospice care, and Dr. Pausch began palliative chemotherapy to give him some extra time.
"I find that I am completely positive," he wrote. "The only times I cry are when I think about the kids -- and it's not so much the 'Gee, I'll miss seeing their first bicycle ride' type of stuff as it is a sense of unfulfilled duty -- that I will not be there to help raise them, and that I have left a very heavy burden for my wife."
He is concentrating now on creating videos for his children. With his oldest son, 5-year-old Dylan, Dr. Pausch went on a recent trip to Disney World and to swim with dolphins, thinking Dylan may be the only child who will have strong direct memories of him.
His wife and children, he said, "mean everything to me. They give a purpose to life and a depth of joy that no job [and I've had some of the most awesome jobs in the world] can begin to provide.
"I hope my wife is able to remarry down the line. And I hope they will remember me as a man who loved them, and did everything he could for them."
Sunday, June 10, 2007
Bangalore - paradise lost
Bangalore- Capital of Karnataka state, in South India, is now known as IT(Information Technology) capital of India.
Kudos to some of the Indian MNCs like Infosys,Wipro,TCS, who introduced Bangalore to the world.The technology developed in this very IT city is ruling the world. It has become a global city. You name an IT company, and it is there in Bangalore!! This tech-savvy city has become the silicon-valley of India..every American MNC has a development centre here. This city has the capability of shaking world's economy. If the companies in Bangalore stop functioning just for an hour, its millions of dollars loss to the IT Godfather USA, making NYSE sensex go for a toss!! It is a perfect cosmopolitan city- we find every language,every culture,every food of the world here! This city has acquired such a name in software that, foreigners who do not know about India,know Bangalore!! In my recent visit to UK,when I told my British colleague that I am from Bangalore,he was so impressed that I was finding myself with wings in his eyes! But his very next question cut my wings..his question was "heard that Bangalore has the highest number of pubs?" I tried giving him some useful information about the city,but in vain..he was more interested in pubs/bars.."Kudukan kanas nyaag baatli ne"(thatz in Kannada, saying Drunkard always
dreams of alcohol )..
Well, fame does not come alone..it'll bring its side-effects too.As the saying goes, if there is a nose..its obvious to get cold,this IT fame is making Bangalore to be a home for western lifestyle, which is much more different from our Indian culture. The city has reached to the limit where beer bottles are easily available compared to water bottles! Peolpe drinking coke-pepsi more, compared to water! Pizza-burgers are replacing rice-roti,giving birth to weight-reduction centres!! Recently I read an ad saying " Lose 10Kgs for Rs.10000..eat whatever you want"..what a business.....they earn money in people's flesh! "Charbi utarne ki business" ;-)
After Roti, let me come to Makaan(shelter)..dreaming a 30X40 house in Bangalore is like dreaming of Vidhan-Soudha..just out of reach of a normal person! Bangalore tops the list of the costliest Real-estate cities in the world! The rent rates for a 2BHK start with 5 figures!! The rent which I pay here is much more than enough for a
family in my home-town to live a comfort life! I can buy a 40X60 land in my home-town with the rent which I pay here yearly! What else to say?
If I throw some light on other social facts, I am afraid to write! Every now and then we hear about Bangalore being in the top list of terrorist attack!! Some 2-3 incidents have proven it too..gang-wars,rowdyism,murders,robberies,kidnaps,traffic-jams,accidents etc- are adding to the fear of this city..making people live on the edge of insecurity! My father,who once loved to visit Bangalore,is afraid to come now.
This city has changed a lot in very small span of time..its totally different than the time I visited some 10years back(during my CET counseling). If you make a person to visit Bangalore,who has stayed away from this city since last 15-20 years,he/she'll be lost totally!! I have seen old Bangaloreans' eyes filling with tears when they talk about bygone days of this city ;-(
Gone are those days- which once known as garden city of India,where every road was a jogging spot with no pollution/no traffic,where there were thousands of trees for every mile,where mornings were welcomed with birds' chirping,where people used to wear coats even in summer,where life was so safe,secured,easy and inexpensive..
I just wonder,is it possible now to live in Bangalore which once known as "pensioner's paradise", just with pension? I am afraid how other non-IT people are affording to stay here!!
I know,inspite of all these I have to live here,because this city gives me my bread,it has given me much more than I deserve!!..it is a city of opportunities,if a city needs to grow,it has to compromise with some natural factors!
Just like every Bangalorean, I would be very happy if this city develops in a more organized way taking into consideration its lost pride and beauty, where all classes of people can stay happily,affording every basic need.
I wish, I get a chance soon to write again on "paradise re-gained" about this city!!
Kudos to some of the Indian MNCs like Infosys,Wipro,TCS, who introduced Bangalore to the world.The technology developed in this very IT city is ruling the world. It has become a global city. You name an IT company, and it is there in Bangalore!! This tech-savvy city has become the silicon-valley of India..every American MNC has a development centre here. This city has the capability of shaking world's economy. If the companies in Bangalore stop functioning just for an hour, its millions of dollars loss to the IT Godfather USA, making NYSE sensex go for a toss!! It is a perfect cosmopolitan city- we find every language,every culture,every food of the world here! This city has acquired such a name in software that, foreigners who do not know about India,know Bangalore!! In my recent visit to UK,when I told my British colleague that I am from Bangalore,he was so impressed that I was finding myself with wings in his eyes! But his very next question cut my wings..his question was "heard that Bangalore has the highest number of pubs?" I tried giving him some useful information about the city,but in vain..he was more interested in pubs/bars.."Kudukan kanas nyaag baatli ne"(thatz in Kannada, saying Drunkard always
dreams of alcohol )..
Well, fame does not come alone..it'll bring its side-effects too.As the saying goes, if there is a nose..its obvious to get cold,this IT fame is making Bangalore to be a home for western lifestyle, which is much more different from our Indian culture. The city has reached to the limit where beer bottles are easily available compared to water bottles! Peolpe drinking coke-pepsi more, compared to water! Pizza-burgers are replacing rice-roti,giving birth to weight-reduction centres!! Recently I read an ad saying " Lose 10Kgs for Rs.10000..eat whatever you want"..what a business.....they earn money in people's flesh! "Charbi utarne ki business" ;-)
After Roti, let me come to Makaan(shelter)..dreaming a 30X40 house in Bangalore is like dreaming of Vidhan-Soudha..just out of reach of a normal person! Bangalore tops the list of the costliest Real-estate cities in the world! The rent rates for a 2BHK start with 5 figures!! The rent which I pay here is much more than enough for a
family in my home-town to live a comfort life! I can buy a 40X60 land in my home-town with the rent which I pay here yearly! What else to say?
If I throw some light on other social facts, I am afraid to write! Every now and then we hear about Bangalore being in the top list of terrorist attack!! Some 2-3 incidents have proven it too..gang-wars,rowdyism,murders,robberies,kidnaps,traffic-jams,accidents etc- are adding to the fear of this city..making people live on the edge of insecurity! My father,who once loved to visit Bangalore,is afraid to come now.
This city has changed a lot in very small span of time..its totally different than the time I visited some 10years back(during my CET counseling). If you make a person to visit Bangalore,who has stayed away from this city since last 15-20 years,he/she'll be lost totally!! I have seen old Bangaloreans' eyes filling with tears when they talk about bygone days of this city ;-(
Gone are those days- which once known as garden city of India,where every road was a jogging spot with no pollution/no traffic,where there were thousands of trees for every mile,where mornings were welcomed with birds' chirping,where people used to wear coats even in summer,where life was so safe,secured,easy and inexpensive..
I just wonder,is it possible now to live in Bangalore which once known as "pensioner's paradise", just with pension? I am afraid how other non-IT people are affording to stay here!!
I know,inspite of all these I have to live here,because this city gives me my bread,it has given me much more than I deserve!!..it is a city of opportunities,if a city needs to grow,it has to compromise with some natural factors!
Just like every Bangalorean, I would be very happy if this city develops in a more organized way taking into consideration its lost pride and beauty, where all classes of people can stay happily,affording every basic need.
I wish, I get a chance soon to write again on "paradise re-gained" about this city!!
Monday, June 4, 2007
Outstanding or standing-out?
I always dream of being an outstanding person......got puzzled? I told i just dream..what goes in dreaming....it doesn't cost much,just a nap!! Dream is not a past tense for me..its present-perfect-future tense.. ;-) I dream till I breathe last..that is the only feeling where I am what I am not now!!
Let me take you to my PU college days..most memorable days of my life.The life then was so easy and fun-filled..the time had made us hardly think of future life's difficulties..we were like free-birds..only knew to fly high!
RLS is one of the best colleges in North Karnataka,belonging to KLE society and established by his highness Shri.Raja Lakhamagouda of Vantamuri.A beautiful college with an extraordinary infrastructure. A perfect place to be an educational institute..well maintained,well organized! Located at the most happening place in Belgaum- college road/Bogar ves!
As the saying goes, "All that glisters is not gold", one doesn't become the best student just by studying in the best college! I am the best example! I still repent of not being so good student..not studying upto the expectations ;-( I dream,if I could live those days again(in a reformed way)!!
Let me put my feeling aside; as I said earlier,we had a gala time during those days.Our group-Mohan,Dundesh,Shankar,Kiran,Asif,Shivu and me, knew no limitations....just being happy and making fun! We're like 7 colours of the rainbow..7 notes of music!! Always colourful..always sound!! The time and place were just made for us- bunking classes,proxy attendance,watching movies,playing cricket,bird-watching in Lingaraj college campus ;-).....jaane kahan gaye woh din!! (I'll write more about my college days in my next blog)
Let me come back to my dream of being an outstanding student ;-)..Biology and organic chemistry periods were the most torturing classes for us..none of us was having interest in those classes..we hardly used to listen what the lecturer was telling!! One unlucky day,both(bio/chem) classes were in continuous periods..our group thought of bunking..but as we were top listed in less-attendance notice..we could not bunk ;-(...however, we set our mind to attend the class. The bio class started,hardly 5 mins were over that a joke was cracked in our group,I started
laughing..inspite of my attempt,I could not stop laughing..my other group members were very "chaloo"..they were so smart in handling such situations that even the person sitting next to them could not make out what was going on!!
To my bad luck, the lecturer turned to me and told to stand up on the bench..believe me,even that could not stop me from laughing..my God..my lecturer's face was watchable!! He was so disturbed that he told me to stand out of the class..
Next was chemistry class..we used to call that lecturer as "loud speaker".His pitch of teaching was just like military orders..loud and clear.The joke cracked in the earlier class was not leaving me only,I again started laughing.I was laughing so loud that I exceeded my lecturer's pitch....he was so impatient person,within a second,he kicked me out of the class and told me to stand out!!
Whenever I recall this incident,the same laugh fills my face..what a way of making a dream true!! I was made to stand out two times on the same day by two different lecturers!! Outstanding incident..isn't it? ;-)
Let me take you to my PU college days..most memorable days of my life.The life then was so easy and fun-filled..the time had made us hardly think of future life's difficulties..we were like free-birds..only knew to fly high!
RLS is one of the best colleges in North Karnataka,belonging to KLE society and established by his highness Shri.Raja Lakhamagouda of Vantamuri.A beautiful college with an extraordinary infrastructure. A perfect place to be an educational institute..well maintained,well organized! Located at the most happening place in Belgaum- college road/Bogar ves!
As the saying goes, "All that glisters is not gold", one doesn't become the best student just by studying in the best college! I am the best example! I still repent of not being so good student..not studying upto the expectations ;-( I dream,if I could live those days again(in a reformed way)!!
Let me put my feeling aside; as I said earlier,we had a gala time during those days.Our group-Mohan,Dundesh,Shankar,Kiran,Asif,Shivu and me, knew no limitations....just being happy and making fun! We're like 7 colours of the rainbow..7 notes of music!! Always colourful..always sound!! The time and place were just made for us- bunking classes,proxy attendance,watching movies,playing cricket,bird-watching in Lingaraj college campus ;-).....jaane kahan gaye woh din!! (I'll write more about my college days in my next blog)
Let me come back to my dream of being an outstanding student ;-)..Biology and organic chemistry periods were the most torturing classes for us..none of us was having interest in those classes..we hardly used to listen what the lecturer was telling!! One unlucky day,both(bio/chem) classes were in continuous periods..our group thought of bunking..but as we were top listed in less-attendance notice..we could not bunk ;-(...however, we set our mind to attend the class. The bio class started,hardly 5 mins were over that a joke was cracked in our group,I started
laughing..inspite of my attempt,I could not stop laughing..my other group members were very "chaloo"..they were so smart in handling such situations that even the person sitting next to them could not make out what was going on!!
To my bad luck, the lecturer turned to me and told to stand up on the bench..believe me,even that could not stop me from laughing..my God..my lecturer's face was watchable!! He was so disturbed that he told me to stand out of the class..
Next was chemistry class..we used to call that lecturer as "loud speaker".His pitch of teaching was just like military orders..loud and clear.The joke cracked in the earlier class was not leaving me only,I again started laughing.I was laughing so loud that I exceeded my lecturer's pitch....he was so impatient person,within a second,he kicked me out of the class and told me to stand out!!
Whenever I recall this incident,the same laugh fills my face..what a way of making a dream true!! I was made to stand out two times on the same day by two different lecturers!! Outstanding incident..isn't it? ;-)
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Lines revealing our current life style
I donno who has written these lines....but I am sure he/she might have written them with dampen eyes.....
Har khushi Hai Logon Ke Daman Mein,
Par Ek Hansi Ke Liye Waqt Nahi.
Din Raat Daudti Duniya Mein,
Zindagi Ke Liye Hi Waqt Nahi.
Maa Ki Loree Ka Ehsaas To Hai,
Par Maa Ko Maa Kehne Ka Waqt Nahi.
Saare Rishton Ko To Hum Maar Chuke,
Ab Unhe Dafnane Ka Bhi Waqt Nahi.
Saare Naam Mobile Mein Hain,
Par Dosti Ke Lye Waqt Nahi.
Gairon Ki Kya Baat Karen,
Jab Apno Ke Liye Hi Waqt Nahi.
Aankhon Me Hai Neend Badee,
Par Sone Ka Waqt Nahi.
Dil Hai Ghamon Se Bhara Hua,
Par Rone Ka Bhi Waqt Nahi.
Paison ki Daud Me Aise Daude,
Ki Thakne ka Bhi Waqt Nahi.
Paraye Ehsason Ki Kya Kadr Karein,
Jab Apane Sapno Ke Liye Hi Waqt Nahi.
Tu Hi Bata E Zindagi,
Iss Zindagi Ka Kya Hoga,
Ki Har Pal Marne Walon Ko,
Jeene Ke Liye Bhi Waqt Nahi.......
Har khushi Hai Logon Ke Daman Mein,
Par Ek Hansi Ke Liye Waqt Nahi.
Din Raat Daudti Duniya Mein,
Zindagi Ke Liye Hi Waqt Nahi.
Maa Ki Loree Ka Ehsaas To Hai,
Par Maa Ko Maa Kehne Ka Waqt Nahi.
Saare Rishton Ko To Hum Maar Chuke,
Ab Unhe Dafnane Ka Bhi Waqt Nahi.
Saare Naam Mobile Mein Hain,
Par Dosti Ke Lye Waqt Nahi.
Gairon Ki Kya Baat Karen,
Jab Apno Ke Liye Hi Waqt Nahi.
Aankhon Me Hai Neend Badee,
Par Sone Ka Waqt Nahi.
Dil Hai Ghamon Se Bhara Hua,
Par Rone Ka Bhi Waqt Nahi.
Paison ki Daud Me Aise Daude,
Ki Thakne ka Bhi Waqt Nahi.
Paraye Ehsason Ki Kya Kadr Karein,
Jab Apane Sapno Ke Liye Hi Waqt Nahi.
Tu Hi Bata E Zindagi,
Iss Zindagi Ka Kya Hoga,
Ki Har Pal Marne Walon Ko,
Jeene Ke Liye Bhi Waqt Nahi.......
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
"Percentage"
I have started realising how this magic mathematical term plays different roles in everyone's life.....right from our birth to death..infact many times this term relates to us much before our existence!!.....
Many of our well-wishers might have told our pregnant mother before giving birth to us about our gender in percentage!! You might have heard your granny telling someone that "this time 100% you'll be blessed with baby-boy or baby-girl".....you need
not be expert in mathematics to use this term.....its simple and common!!
This term will not leave you alone..be it your education,your job,business,finance,stock,your age,your performance and your death....everywhere it lays its icy hands!!
During our education,this term is like mantra for us and our parents.....we dream of getting good percentage(I am so bad in scoring marks that even in dreams,I dont get 100%)......our parents set some range of percentage for our needs.... "for cycle, you have to score above 80%, for bike,above 90%".....;-)....this percentage decides how people react with you....if you are a good scorer,you get good percentage of respect and vice-versa!!
This term also decides your higher education..the stream you get in, the college you get!!
Then comes the job-hunt phase,you have more opportunities if you have good percentage..In your job,this number starts stealing your sleep during appraisal time....you start calculating your CTC,take-home(common IT terms ;-0) with different hike percentages!! This term decides your career....whether to
jump to next company or stay-back!!
oooooo....I think I am forgetting to mention its role in the most important fact of everyone's life called "marriage"....If your luck percentage is good,you'll get your dream girl/boy..if its 100%(ideal case!!),you'll lead the happiest life!! but,do ideal things really exist in life?? ;-) I was impressed by a T-shirt print which I read after marriage(it was too late.....)-- "10% of people are happier,rest
are married" ......just kidding.....in this case my percentage is good!
Then comes "percentage of bank interest".......my God!! Donno about spouse,but this percentage is a real life partner in everyone's life!......then children,their education,pension.....the percentage cycle continues.......
One fine(!!!!!) day,while we are in our death bed counting our last days......we hear doctor expressing his helplessness to our near-ones in percentage.....saying "only 10% hopes, rest is in Almighty's hands!!"....and then the
hope percentage graph starts dipping.....the '1' in 100% disappears.....making our existence 00%....totally void !!
Wish you all 100% success....
Many of our well-wishers might have told our pregnant mother before giving birth to us about our gender in percentage!! You might have heard your granny telling someone that "this time 100% you'll be blessed with baby-boy or baby-girl".....you need
not be expert in mathematics to use this term.....its simple and common!!
This term will not leave you alone..be it your education,your job,business,finance,stock,your age,your performance and your death....everywhere it lays its icy hands!!
During our education,this term is like mantra for us and our parents.....we dream of getting good percentage(I am so bad in scoring marks that even in dreams,I dont get 100%)......our parents set some range of percentage for our needs.... "for cycle, you have to score above 80%, for bike,above 90%".....;-)....this percentage decides how people react with you....if you are a good scorer,you get good percentage of respect and vice-versa!!
This term also decides your higher education..the stream you get in, the college you get!!
Then comes the job-hunt phase,you have more opportunities if you have good percentage..In your job,this number starts stealing your sleep during appraisal time....you start calculating your CTC,take-home(common IT terms ;-0) with different hike percentages!! This term decides your career....whether to
jump to next company or stay-back!!
oooooo....I think I am forgetting to mention its role in the most important fact of everyone's life called "marriage"....If your luck percentage is good,you'll get your dream girl/boy..if its 100%(ideal case!!),you'll lead the happiest life!! but,do ideal things really exist in life?? ;-) I was impressed by a T-shirt print which I read after marriage(it was too late.....)-- "10% of people are happier,rest
are married" ......just kidding.....in this case my percentage is good!
Then comes "percentage of bank interest".......my God!! Donno about spouse,but this percentage is a real life partner in everyone's life!......then children,their education,pension.....the percentage cycle continues.......
One fine(!!!!!) day,while we are in our death bed counting our last days......we hear doctor expressing his helplessness to our near-ones in percentage.....saying "only 10% hopes, rest is in Almighty's hands!!"....and then the
hope percentage graph starts dipping.....the '1' in 100% disappears.....making our existence 00%....totally void !!
Wish you all 100% success....
Sunday, May 20, 2007
From "Pai" bus to British Airways
My life is known for sudden changes!! Its like casino wheel-who knows on which number I may win the jackpot!!
Things happen to me without a small clue also..From my exam results to job opportunity, everything happened against my predictions.....Now I have realised,I am not so good in predictions ;-)
And funny thing is....good things happen to me at a very slow pace ;-( ....Late but the best..I am satisfied....Thank God!!..Thanks for the blessings and prayers of all around me.I owe my existence to them.
Though I always dreamt of flying high,I had almost lost that hope in my recent job profile.With all my best performance that I could render,several rounds of talks with my manager(Jojee Thomas C),the opportunity was just out of my reach..I started suspecting my ability. ;-(
Every cloud has a silver lining: (first I thought of using the phrase "Every Dog Has Its Day"..then thought,let me not go to that extent ;-) )--One fine day,I got a call from my manager on my mobile..it was sunday..I thought of not receiving the call because I felt he was calling me for some urgent work in the office!! Whatz wrong in thinking so? Who wants to work during
week-ends? But I respect my manager,he is one of the best persons I have ever met in my life.I won't ignore him for any reason..be its professional or personal....I have got to learn lot of things from him!!He is the perfect manager!!So I received his call.."where do you want to go, US or UK?" was his first sentence. I was so amazed that I forgot that I was on phone..he knocked me understanding my silence and said its true and I had both the opportunities....I
took a deep breath of dream-came-true and said anything was OK. I was in a condition of "beggars are not choosers"..I was ready to go to Pakistan also ;-)....I was not particular of any country,I just wanted to fly!!
On 9th Jan,my dream came true.I flew to London in British Airways. It was such a pleasant experience! I was feeling on top of the world!!....I think I was....around 40000ft above ground level ;-)
Since then, though I am getting regular chances to fly,I still love the good old buses that take me to my hometown..to my sweet home!! There is no way better than the one that leads to sweet home.
PS: "Pai" bus is the private travel agency that runs buses between Bangalore and Belgaum(my home town).
Things happen to me without a small clue also..From my exam results to job opportunity, everything happened against my predictions.....Now I have realised,I am not so good in predictions ;-)
And funny thing is....good things happen to me at a very slow pace ;-( ....Late but the best..I am satisfied....Thank God!!..Thanks for the blessings and prayers of all around me.I owe my existence to them.
Though I always dreamt of flying high,I had almost lost that hope in my recent job profile.With all my best performance that I could render,several rounds of talks with my manager(Jojee Thomas C),the opportunity was just out of my reach..I started suspecting my ability. ;-(
Every cloud has a silver lining: (first I thought of using the phrase "Every Dog Has Its Day"..then thought,let me not go to that extent ;-) )--One fine day,I got a call from my manager on my mobile..it was sunday..I thought of not receiving the call because I felt he was calling me for some urgent work in the office!! Whatz wrong in thinking so? Who wants to work during
week-ends? But I respect my manager,he is one of the best persons I have ever met in my life.I won't ignore him for any reason..be its professional or personal....I have got to learn lot of things from him!!He is the perfect manager!!So I received his call.."where do you want to go, US or UK?" was his first sentence. I was so amazed that I forgot that I was on phone..he knocked me understanding my silence and said its true and I had both the opportunities....I
took a deep breath of dream-came-true and said anything was OK. I was in a condition of "beggars are not choosers"..I was ready to go to Pakistan also ;-)....I was not particular of any country,I just wanted to fly!!
On 9th Jan,my dream came true.I flew to London in British Airways. It was such a pleasant experience! I was feeling on top of the world!!....I think I was....around 40000ft above ground level ;-)
Since then, though I am getting regular chances to fly,I still love the good old buses that take me to my hometown..to my sweet home!! There is no way better than the one that leads to sweet home.
PS: "Pai" bus is the private travel agency that runs buses between Bangalore and Belgaum(my home town).
LBW-Life Before Wicket!!
For Indians,cricket is not just another game..its their part of life.You can find lot of instances where cricket has affected the lifestyle of most of the people.
For an average Indian,if you give an option between his daily bread and cricket,most of them go for cricket without a second thought..that is the extent of cricket in India!!
Talking about cricket in India without mentioning arch-rival Pakistan is like narrating Mahabharat without Kauravas!! If there is a match being played between India and Pakistan..you can feel that cricket fever in every house,corner,street,village,cities of India.No one is spared..this game of pride has its bloody hands on every person of both the countries!! It knows no gender,no caste.Everyone is in its trap!!
Its a game of heart-beats..for most of the die-hard cricket fans,the scoreboard is like angiograph..the graph fluctuation is directly proportional to the number of balls left!! Balls left Vs Required runs is like pawn movement in snake-ladder game..you never know who will hit a six or who will get a wicket..they do not lose the hope till the last ball of the game,till the last drop of the rain!!
My request to every fan of this wonderful game: Its just another game..be sportive..Cricketers get their bread even if they win the game or not..it is us who are wasting our days by discussing the time-killer game called cricket!! There is always another world cup..so go back to work..there is life beyond cricket..dont lose your life before wicket!!
For an average Indian,if you give an option between his daily bread and cricket,most of them go for cricket without a second thought..that is the extent of cricket in India!!
Talking about cricket in India without mentioning arch-rival Pakistan is like narrating Mahabharat without Kauravas!! If there is a match being played between India and Pakistan..you can feel that cricket fever in every house,corner,street,village,cities of India.No one is spared..this game of pride has its bloody hands on every person of both the countries!! It knows no gender,no caste.Everyone is in its trap!!
Its a game of heart-beats..for most of the die-hard cricket fans,the scoreboard is like angiograph..the graph fluctuation is directly proportional to the number of balls left!! Balls left Vs Required runs is like pawn movement in snake-ladder game..you never know who will hit a six or who will get a wicket..they do not lose the hope till the last ball of the game,till the last drop of the rain!!
My request to every fan of this wonderful game: Its just another game..be sportive..Cricketers get their bread even if they win the game or not..it is us who are wasting our days by discussing the time-killer game called cricket!! There is always another world cup..so go back to work..there is life beyond cricket..dont lose your life before wicket!!
Common talk between two software engineers
1.What is your CTC?
2.What is your take-home?
3.Which platform are you working on?.....sometimes I feel like saying railway platform ;-)4.Whatz week-end plan?
5.Are there onsite opportunities in your company?
6.Planning to shift company?
7.How much offer he got?
8.I have got release yaar..
9.Need to go to the office this week-end also..
10.Hey forward my CV yaar
11.Today also got stuck in traffic jam..
12.Monday is like devil yaar!!
13.Still 2 days for week-end
14.Thank God Its Friday(TGIF) ;-)
2.What is your take-home?
3.Which platform are you working on?.....sometimes I feel like saying railway platform ;-)4.Whatz week-end plan?
5.Are there onsite opportunities in your company?
6.Planning to shift company?
7.How much offer he got?
8.I have got release yaar..
9.Need to go to the office this week-end also..
10.Hey forward my CV yaar
11.Today also got stuck in traffic jam..
12.Monday is like devil yaar!!
13.Still 2 days for week-end
14.Thank God Its Friday(TGIF) ;-)
Some interesting Quotes I came across.....
1. "I hurt my back the other day.....lifting my Ego"
2. "I want to be anything but ordinary"
3. "Everyday I go through the list of richest people..if I am not there..I go to work" ;-)
4. "We can't make our dreams come true by over- sleeping"
5. "Talk is cheap till you consult a lawyer"
6. "I murmured because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet"
7. "ಬದುಕು ಎಲ್ಲಿ ಕಿತ್ತೆಸೆದರೂ ಚಿಗಿತುಕೊಳ್ಳುವ ಗಿಡವಾಗಬೇಕು"
8. "Give your son a fish..he eats today; Teach your son how to fish..he eats everyday"
9. "What you call dog with no legs?Don't matter what you call him, he ain't gonna come"
10."Everybody wants to go to heaven; but nobody wants to die"
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