I may not have told you that
I admire your confidence to do atleast 9 out of 10 things
I look upto your ability to not crib
I am moved by your habit of reaching out to someone when they least expect
I respect the effort you have taken to understand my idiosyncracies
I am happy to be with you, A. Always will be.
I may not have told you that
I admire your patience
I look upto you for all what you have taught me
I am amazed at your abilty to multi task
I respect the effort you have taken to groom me
I can never thank you enough for all the care. Love u mom
I may not have told you that
I can never imagine a bigger pillar of strength
I admire your honesty and simplicity
I respect the effort taken to give me a comfortable life
I am amazed at your strength to survive even the worst
I will never let you down. Love u Dad
I may not have told you that
You definitely are not the last priority
You will always be in my fondest childhood memories
You will always remain my confidante
You will always be looked up to for being the independent one
You will always be loved. Thanks for being there ,P.
Monday, January 19, 2009
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Office passtime??
Ok,.. Lemme not start this blog by declaring how long it has been....skipping that bit,..
Isnt it amazing that we humans can sit through meetings and meetings and not arrive at a decision. Well I am convinced we can, and even more convinced that this kind of thing can also happen every day! To put in the most simplest way, the corporate world should have laws against holding more than two meetings a day and not more than 5 a week!
Imagine one such discussion:
speaker 1: "So where did we stop last time?"
speaker 2: "we were discussing plan A, .........and I was thinking we could go about it this way"
speaker 3: silence
speaker 4: "yeah it is a good plan....
speaker 1: "Yes, i agree it sounds good, but why dont we do it this way as well....."
speaker 2: "But dont you think that is very difficult in terms of implementation...."
speaker 3: silence
speaker 4: Nods in unison
speaker 5: "Hey guys, sorry I am late......"
speaker 2: "Well we were just dicsussing how to implement plan A,....and this is how it is gonna
happen.."
speaker 3: "I agree"
speaker 4: silence
speaker 1:" Even if that sounds good,... somehow i feel the other idea of mine is quite
simple"
speaker 3: i think i am gonna scream
speaker 2: "ok" whatever!
speaker 5:"Guys, there is this Plan B that i have...."
speaker 4: "excuse me guys, I just got a call,... carry on"jesus! What a waste of time!
speaker 2: "I like X part about Plan A but I also like Y part of plan B, can we kinda merge them ?"
speaker 1:"But i thought we had finalised on Plan A.... But.... "
speaker 5: who cares about you , loser "yeah you were sayin... which part of Plan B did you not
like?"
speaker 3: " Are we not moving away from the topic?.."
SILENCE. YAWN??
speaker 2: "Not really ,.. i think plan B is kinda good. Plan A is also ok"
speaker 1:" No guys,.. I 'll tell u something,.. look at it this way,.."
speaker 5: "Ok, I'll tell u wat. Lets meet again tomo and discuss the pros and cons of both the
plans, then weshall take a call"
speaker 3: wow. this beats rocketscience!?!
speaker 2: damn, i cant leave early tomo too!
speaker 1: that prick, tomo i am gonna kick his ass!
speaker 5: i need to leave before that DVD store closes....
now this is an office reality or what!?
ok, a lil exagerrated. but wat the hell!! They are still bad. Aaaaarrggghhh!
Isnt it amazing that we humans can sit through meetings and meetings and not arrive at a decision. Well I am convinced we can, and even more convinced that this kind of thing can also happen every day! To put in the most simplest way, the corporate world should have laws against holding more than two meetings a day and not more than 5 a week!
Imagine one such discussion:
speaker 1: "So where did we stop last time?"
speaker 2: "we were discussing plan A, .........and I was thinking we could go about it this way"
speaker 3: silence
speaker 4: "yeah it is a good plan....
speaker 1: "Yes, i agree it sounds good, but why dont we do it this way as well....."
speaker 2: "But dont you think that is very difficult in terms of implementation...."
speaker 3: silence
speaker 4: Nods in unison
speaker 5: "Hey guys, sorry I am late......"
speaker 2: "Well we were just dicsussing how to implement plan A,....and this is how it is gonna
happen.."
speaker 3: "I agree"
speaker 4: silence
speaker 1:" Even if that sounds good,... somehow i feel the other idea of mine is quite
simple"
speaker 3: i think i am gonna scream
speaker 2: "ok" whatever!
speaker 5:"Guys, there is this Plan B that i have...."
speaker 4: "excuse me guys, I just got a call,... carry on"jesus! What a waste of time!
speaker 2: "I like X part about Plan A but I also like Y part of plan B, can we kinda merge them ?"
speaker 1:"But i thought we had finalised on Plan A.... But.... "
speaker 5: who cares about you , loser "yeah you were sayin... which part of Plan B did you not
like?"
speaker 3: " Are we not moving away from the topic?.."
SILENCE. YAWN??
speaker 2: "Not really ,.. i think plan B is kinda good. Plan A is also ok"
speaker 1:" No guys,.. I 'll tell u something,.. look at it this way,.."
speaker 5: "Ok, I'll tell u wat. Lets meet again tomo and discuss the pros and cons of both the
plans, then weshall take a call"
speaker 3: wow. this beats rocketscience!?!
speaker 2: damn, i cant leave early tomo too!
speaker 1: that prick, tomo i am gonna kick his ass!
speaker 5: i need to leave before that DVD store closes....
now this is an office reality or what!?
ok, a lil exagerrated. but wat the hell!! They are still bad. Aaaaarrggghhh!
Monday, July 21, 2008
The Busybody of Today!
Why do some people always make the promise of keeping in touch only to disappear from the phase of this earth never to be found again??
One of the biggest ironies!!
I unfortunately know some. Their favourite lines are:
"I am so sorry I have been busy, will call u back"
"Oh I was just thinking I should call you"
"I am a little busy, will definitely call you back"
The funniest one is " I was just talking to him/her about you" (Yeah, I was born yesterday to buy that crap!)
It is quite disheartening when you take the pain to constantly keep them in the loop, update them on your personal life, leave offlines and e mails and never ever get a response.
Everyone today love to use work as their biggest alibi for not having time for others. That is just so lame! Most of them dont realize that what goes around comes around. In such things, age, profession, geographical distance really DO NOT make a difference. It is such a happy feeling to catch with someone after a break, i have always enjoyed such converstaions and e mails. One of my closest friends, She stays like a few million miles away, and I am so proud of the fact that we practically know what each other is upto almost every single week. No, it is not because we do not have a social life or a career. Another ironic fact that i have observed is that you are more in touch w/ people who are the farthest in terms of distance than the ones in the same city!
Why on earth is that!?
Anyways its not like this post would make any difference to anyone of them! lol
For those who are reading this, hope you are hale and hearty wherever you are.
And for the nth time,.. Be in touch. :)
One of the biggest ironies!!
I unfortunately know some. Their favourite lines are:
"I am so sorry I have been busy, will call u back"
"Oh I was just thinking I should call you"
"I am a little busy, will definitely call you back"
The funniest one is " I was just talking to him/her about you" (Yeah, I was born yesterday to buy that crap!)
It is quite disheartening when you take the pain to constantly keep them in the loop, update them on your personal life, leave offlines and e mails and never ever get a response.
Everyone today love to use work as their biggest alibi for not having time for others. That is just so lame! Most of them dont realize that what goes around comes around. In such things, age, profession, geographical distance really DO NOT make a difference. It is such a happy feeling to catch with someone after a break, i have always enjoyed such converstaions and e mails. One of my closest friends, She stays like a few million miles away, and I am so proud of the fact that we practically know what each other is upto almost every single week. No, it is not because we do not have a social life or a career. Another ironic fact that i have observed is that you are more in touch w/ people who are the farthest in terms of distance than the ones in the same city!
Why on earth is that!?
Anyways its not like this post would make any difference to anyone of them! lol
For those who are reading this, hope you are hale and hearty wherever you are.
And for the nth time,.. Be in touch. :)
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Lazy Sunday??.....
shucks!! Been more than a month since my last post. Lazy Lazy ,.. so bloody lazy!! Lethargy once it creeps in, its the worst thing that can happen to anyone.
One whole month just buzzed past with two trips to chennai, a few million weddings attended, two great weekends of hectic shopping and ... well that pretty much swallowed almost all my time. Still i have two more Economists left to read, a half read novel by Karan Bajaj, and loads of e- reading! Sigh!..and a License Test awaits.
One Sunday is so not enough. This is the nth time i have been cribbing about a non existent weekend and somehow i realize i shud stop.
Today i must visit the Nautica and E spirit store,.. apparently there is an EOSS sale.
Then i need to drag my ass to some freaking corner of this city to finish some official work! God.. why me!!?..
Atleast a movie awaits me today evening at 4 pm... So much in one day!
"What is life w/ so much care when you have no time to stand and stare!?"
Arrrgggh!..........................
One whole month just buzzed past with two trips to chennai, a few million weddings attended, two great weekends of hectic shopping and ... well that pretty much swallowed almost all my time. Still i have two more Economists left to read, a half read novel by Karan Bajaj, and loads of e- reading! Sigh!..and a License Test awaits.
One Sunday is so not enough. This is the nth time i have been cribbing about a non existent weekend and somehow i realize i shud stop.
Today i must visit the Nautica and E spirit store,.. apparently there is an EOSS sale.
Then i need to drag my ass to some freaking corner of this city to finish some official work! God.. why me!!?..
Atleast a movie awaits me today evening at 4 pm... So much in one day!
"What is life w/ so much care when you have no time to stand and stare!?"
Arrrgggh!..........................
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Seeing is believing ???
Chapter 1 : Domestic Violence.
"What do you think it means.. Why dont you give me an instance?"
" When the girl is usually illtreated by the in laws because she did not bring in enough money and jewellery in the form of dowry" Nagaveni answered me immediately.
I have realized after my frequent trips to Samarthanam, The School for the Blind, that even if God didnt give them eye sight, he did ensure that they too had a "view" on almost all matters . I was truly amazed at a 16 year old blind girl's interpretation of Domestic Violence.She had spoken like any other 16 year old who may have read about these terms from books, TV, internet etc. I must confess that when i first went to Samarthanam as a volunteer, I was kind of expecting the blind teenagers to be not so well read and slow in their understanding and comprehension. But I was proved wrong the very first day. I wish to say that i respect the effort that they take to listen and learn whatever is being taught to them. They can sometimes sit for hours and hours at a stretch and listen to lectures. Sad, but true is the fact that the word distraction may not apply to them as they cannot see the distraction! After every paragraph read out to them, they would memorize and repeat the key words. They also have the exceptional ability to remember numbers. Give them a permutaion and combination of even 10 digit numbers, and they can memorize them with so much ease that can put a mathematician to shame! The girls are very loving and make you feel at home. Once in a while they would stop you in between classes to maybe ask a question like "How does a very big Banyan Tree look like?" I answer the question just to realize that most of us dont even stop to look at it more than once. Not just a Banyan tree, almost everything that we see around us are usually taken for granted. Arent they??
It has been around two months that I have been to Samarthanam and every time that I am there its like a reality check.
We, expecially I , I would like to say, crib about the silliest of situtaions. I have even earned pet names like "whiny wilson"
Imagine!
My classes with them have taught me many a thing, one of them would be to complain less.
"What do you think it means.. Why dont you give me an instance?"
" When the girl is usually illtreated by the in laws because she did not bring in enough money and jewellery in the form of dowry" Nagaveni answered me immediately.
I have realized after my frequent trips to Samarthanam, The School for the Blind, that even if God didnt give them eye sight, he did ensure that they too had a "view" on almost all matters . I was truly amazed at a 16 year old blind girl's interpretation of Domestic Violence.She had spoken like any other 16 year old who may have read about these terms from books, TV, internet etc. I must confess that when i first went to Samarthanam as a volunteer, I was kind of expecting the blind teenagers to be not so well read and slow in their understanding and comprehension. But I was proved wrong the very first day. I wish to say that i respect the effort that they take to listen and learn whatever is being taught to them. They can sometimes sit for hours and hours at a stretch and listen to lectures. Sad, but true is the fact that the word distraction may not apply to them as they cannot see the distraction! After every paragraph read out to them, they would memorize and repeat the key words. They also have the exceptional ability to remember numbers. Give them a permutaion and combination of even 10 digit numbers, and they can memorize them with so much ease that can put a mathematician to shame! The girls are very loving and make you feel at home. Once in a while they would stop you in between classes to maybe ask a question like "How does a very big Banyan Tree look like?" I answer the question just to realize that most of us dont even stop to look at it more than once. Not just a Banyan tree, almost everything that we see around us are usually taken for granted. Arent they??
It has been around two months that I have been to Samarthanam and every time that I am there its like a reality check.
We, expecially I , I would like to say, crib about the silliest of situtaions. I have even earned pet names like "whiny wilson"
Imagine!
My classes with them have taught me many a thing, one of them would be to complain less.
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