Me and my mind in conversation...

There's far too much to take in here More to find than can ever be found But the sun rolling high through the sapphire sky Keeps great and small on the endless round

Someday you just feel like standing out of yourself. Just watch yourself as the world does. Where are you? What is it that the world thinks you are? And most importantly, who are you for yourself. So what is it that you really are? And what makes you what you are. Is it the choices that you make? Or is it but a function of choices made by those around? Or is it neither? Do your choices, your decisions, your actions actually make a difference? Is free will for real? Is it really you who makes those choices, who takes those decisions. Or are these governed by this 4 letter f word. I mean fate. Is it fate that rules? Have you been planted somewhere for a plan to implement itself gradually. Coz they say everyone’s existence has a purpose. Or have you merely been sent to make plans and create a purpose for your life? Are there billions of other co-existing plans that keep colliding with and gelling into each other? As tightly knit as the clock’s gears. Or is it just The Plan that...

“Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.” - Doug Larson

Wow!!! What a Week!!! Rather what a fabulous month and a half. And there couldn't have been a better finish to this festival for a country which is united by one religion despite different beliefs. Yes it is the cricket World Cup 2011 that I am talking about. And yours truly is one of those lunatics who fast (read forget everything except one) even on Baisakhi, this one was like an extra extended Navaratri, so one can easily imagine the extent of my excitement during this month and a half, and the magnitude of joy when India won!!! Yes, India finally did manage to get the cup home after a wait of 28 long years. Here are snippets from a few News items I read recently. Surprisingly these are related to the World Cup but don't talk about Cricket. "Just before the Feb 19-April 2 tournament reached the halfway mark, the government issued an alert on Wednesday over a possible attack on the tournament being played in 13 venues across India, Sri Lanka and Ban...

We interact with a lot of people every day. Sometimes, we might irritate them. Sometimes we might even infuriate them. Do all of them react the same way, always? Well, not really. They may react. They may not react. They may react then. They may react later. They may smile. They may frown. They may even get angry, or might just walk away expressionlessly. But do those smiles or frowns really express the feelings within. Well, may or may not be. This varies with people, with situations. I have observed a varied set of immediate and delayed responses by various people, to situations where, I believe, one could get irritated or annoyed. Here is a list of categories I could classify people into, and objects I found them analogous to. 1. The Black Boxes : This, I believe, is the best breed of people one could come across. Like physical black boxes that absorb all light that falls on them, these people can bear anything you do to them. They are the most forgiving ones of the lot. They ...

Picked this up from another site... amazing.. "When watching Slumdog Millionaire, there was one thing a lot of people did not understand. In the movie the kids who were from the slums became tour guides and took white people around on tours. Everyone had the same question, how did these kids know English. If they are from the slums how can they pick up one of the most difficult languages in the world? Well here is a video of a kid from the slums who also happens to be selling peacock feathers and check out how many languages he knows. This video was a big hit a few years ago and they just found this kid again in his teenage year and he is still doing the same thing. Check out these clips."

On the way to Tirumala from Tirupati, we saw idols of various incarnations of Lord Vishnu. W were able to recognise a few, the rest we could not. so i called up my Dad to find out the names of all of Vishnu's incarnations in the right sequence. My dad told me not just the names but also the logic behind the sequence in which all these incarnations occured. 1. A fish, Matsya , a creature that lived in water. 2. A tortoise, Kashyap, a creature that lived both in water and on land. 3. A Pig, varaha, a creature living only on land. 4. Narasimha, a creature that was half animal, half human. 5. Vamana, the first completely human avatar. So the evolution happened from a creature living in water to a human. after this there were 4 incarnations, all humans 6. Parasu Rama 7 . Rama 8 . Krishna 9. Buddha The last one which is yet to come is Kalki.

It was lunch as usual when I overheard a conversation between Polo and Upasana about a possible trip to Tirupati. The idea of a trip itself was exciting, irrespective of the destination. I was pretty jobless with no classes at all for a few days. So I interfered in the conversation and passed the message to our broadcasting channel, namely, Miss Shikha Jain. Soon i get a list of interested people, and in a couple of days I booked the railway tickets. "But!" said Naveen, "Takloo (dats my nickname for my last hair style), where are the Darshan Tickets???" I didnt even know we got those tickets from Chennai, and that it was tough to get them. Just a day before we were supposed to leave, we went to the TTD (Tirupati Tirumala Devasthanam ) centre only to find that no tickets were available for 7th Feb, the day we had planned to reach the temple. Disappointed, we came back home, and thought about re planning the trip, but Mr. Aanand and Naveen suddenly find out from s...

Diwali brought a welcome break for me after a hectic 4th term here at Great Lakes. But since we had only 3 days before the next term began, I thought of saving some money by not going back home, and going to Bangalore and celebrate Diwali with cousins instead. Well, there is definitely something with me and Bangalore. Around the same time last year, when i was supposed to go to Bangalore for my cousin's engagement, i reached the station well in time, sans my luggage. This was because i got late at work and had to ask ma and pa at the last moment to get my luggage to the station. They did make it, just a couple of minutes after the train's scheduled departure time, but luckily, thanks the the ever so "punctual" Indian Railways and the relay between me,ma-pa and my cousins PK&DK, i got my luggage. This time around... the story was similar. Only this time I myself made it a little late to the station and Indian railways wanted to prove a point this time which meant I...

Well...What a relief!!!The only thing that a few of us here at Great Lakes had been thinking about for the last couple of months was the HR Conclave. The event conceptualized in one of the many meetings of our very own BPR committee...there were a few concerns about the time line. The college management thought it was a tough ask to plan an event of such magnanimity in just under 2 months. But...we did it..And..did we do it well??Well, the compliments that we received from the students, the guests, the management, the delegates, and from Dr. Bala, our dean, or Uncle Bala, as we fondly call him, certainly proved that our effort had borne sweet fruit.:) Our delegates included HR stalwarts who enlightened the delegates who were mostly senior and mid-level managers, and also all of us. Herez a brief summary of the day's proceedings. Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai organized its first Human Resource Conclave ( http://hrconclave-greatlakes.com ) on the 2nd of September 20...

22nd April - I start cruising....cruising in the Great Lakes. Well, i mean my MBA at Great Lakes Institute of management. 29 April - The ship's final hooter. The Jaycees had to get off the deck, it was the farewell party for our seniors called the Jaycees or the Junior Crusaders. With only a day to prepare for the grand party, which included a couple of dances, a skit, a few "melodramatic" videos, and of course 2 songs by the Sutta Gang...lol, there was a lot of hard work to be done... The night before the party all budding Kishore's and Elvis's got together in the favourite room of ours - Veeranam, and thought about..well..was any1 thinkin...every1 sang watever he or she liked... The next day...a different gang (Soumya the choreographer, Abhi, Vidith, Shikha, Janini, Kavitha, Roshini, Asim,KK, Gouri..sorry if i missed sm1) gets together at my house for their dance practice...well i was only a facilitator..i didnt want to risk the stage!!! Some of these dancers w...

Imagine yourself at your formal best in a board room. Soon after, you attend a friend's birthday party at a hip restaurant. Just as you guys think about calling it a day, the rain Gods make their presence felt. What do you do??? Do you take the parking lot as a large public bathroom, and make full use of the water supply. Or do you stand under a shed, and look at the other category of people and think "Oh! Probably they haven't taken a shower for weeks!!" Well... I belong to the former category, The child inside me is still alive!!! :) When a child in class 2 returns home, he is so very excited... "Hurray!!! i am home!!!!!" and so are the kid's parents। The other day I was at my friend's place when his elder brother, who is the HR Head of a software firm, came back home from work। He entered with a sigh, didn't even bother to say Hi, and I thought I heard my friend's mom cry.... Oh Hez Home again...Why!!! Well...all I am talking about...

The flight...change of Fortunes...is it??? Dizzying heights... A rift...not just in the clouds... It reflected the state of my mind... Sea of thoughts...or Clouds of slumber...??

Daytime it was..when I kept sleeping... you were here with me...waitin 4 me 2 wake up... whenever u tried to, i hushed u away... i shud hav woken up..u had so much 2 say... evening it was...i felt like getting out of my slumber... i saw u...pushed you away...told u to leave...it was my bad temper... i hav woken up now...but its darkness all around... i want you to be with me...but u r nowhere 2 b found... come back my love....come back to me... without you in my life...i don't feel like me...

Here I am...this is me ... M sittin miles away 4m home...m here 4 work...to learn...to earn...to get some xposure...some experience...to ensure dat d good start dat i've got to my career carries on..and i reach the destination i had in mind before i started off on this path.. its been almost 3 months since i'v bn in UK...things hav bn good so far..wrkd really hard for the first 5-6 weeks...then things became a little easier..i had a li'l more time 4 myself...weekends were off..and then one fine day i was told dat i have to go back as the task assigned to me was finished... Though initially i was a li'l disappointed to be going back so soon, gradually the disappointment took a back seat and I was happy to go back home..the countdown began...7 days to go..6 days to go..5..4..but dat was it... 3 daz to go before i could leave 4 india...and my manager comes to me and says you may have to stay here for a li'l longer...and how long is dat li'l longer gonna be..i stil...