Me and my mind in conversation...

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...

Life is a book, with chapters many You may move from one to another, but you cannot forget any Some chapters are read, some are ignored some are best forgotten, some are always adored Ours, my dear, is so close to my heart I never knew it'll close with you and me apart The chapter had begun when you embraced a fool Lessons i learnt many, in your intimate love school I was not a bright student, always lacked by just a bit But with you around me, my dear, I was sure to be a hit I wished i could pay back, you deserved to be pampered, my Princess I wish i could stay back. Though i still hope things might change I am waitin for a miracle, you'd say But am sure that'll happen am waiting for the day... You say it is the end already It ain't the end, i read, till it's happy Ours is a chapter that will close only when we unite, Only to begin another that together we shall write. Life is a book, with chapters many You may move from one to another,...

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...