My Closing comments of 2009 would be "Wow.. what an awesome year was this". Long list of "To-do" great this were attempted, though there is no vivid results to celebrate,the experiences and lesson learnt is definitely a big plus to carry on. Significant things to mention are
1. Reading of the book Alchemist. this action of mine invoked many sparks within me and made me try things which were long time reserved for the fear of failure.
2. Attending landmark forum. this fueled my thoughts of "why not" and as a whole changed my view of world. I would say the three days of forum is ever remember able and I would be taking forward all through my life. An excerpt to remember always is "Life is Empty and Meaningless and whatever meaning we give to it, it takes .."
there are so many other things which were my passion for many years and was not attempted, but its all done this year. result doesn't matter at all.
Anyway Past is past and lets all have a very happy and fantastic 2010.
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Its My Day .. One more time..
I am mature by one more year, the opening of the new world, new life, new thoughts, new insights and in a new office with new enjoyable friends. Of all the b'days till date, this year is something special, I am being in life I wished for, this is what I wished for all these years, The Ultimate Blissful adventurous life. everything around and for me are intact and as I wished for. There were couple of celebrations around me one @home with my friend n friends and the other at office with my colleagues n friends. I got in touch with most of my class-mates with who my contacts were withering out.I wish my happiness YoY grows exponentially, thanks to The Landmark Forum, which got me back to being in LIFE.
have a look at my previous B'day celebrations here and the celebration of my roommates here
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Be Happy - wikiHow
Thought its worth sharing, note the point why & when we feel bored and the reason to come out of comfort zone. A point to support my answer to many of my friends who always questions me on my doings. :)
Be Happy - wikiHow
from wikiHow - The How to Manual That You Can Edit
Be Happy - wikiHow
How to Be Happy
from wikiHow - The How to Manual That You Can Edit
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Height of Marketing
Recently when i went to one of the Big Bazaar outlets in bangalore, one of the product catched my attention. Bal and I were casually looking at the products and when Bal took a product from stationery section and asked me what it is. I took the product and after turning from side to side showed a blank face, it is when he asked me read the 'directions to use' i got to know the use of it. I can't control my laughter after reading the directions of the product. that is what is show in the picture.
The name of the product as written on the cover is "easy" initially i thought its a call bell used on the table , but after reading the 'directions to use' i came to know the actual use of that. Here are the directions to use as written in the product cover
1. Identify a difficult situation.
2. Locate the 'Staples Easy Button'
3. Press the Easy Button
4. Feel relaxed.
5. Repeat the steps whenever there is a difficult situation.
To tell you, when we press the easy button it simply say "Easy".
The product is priced at 200 INR. I wonder who would buy such a product at this price. Lesson for Marketing students. A classic example of anything can be marketed.
Customized version of this easy found in you tube in the below link
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/377612/hack_the_staples_easy_button_make_it_say_what_you_want/
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
SPJIMR interview
After a brief break there is something interesting to write. (I have very less time to write this and the flow and spellings are to be execused. Only the fact to be considered)
Its about my experience of SPJIMR interview in Mumbai on 16th of this month. Though i heard about the institution and course sometime before, the alumnus nor the pedagogy did not inspire me much to take a plunge into it. Reality bites :) after my GMAT and considering the age factor, obviously there is a reduction in aspiration level. Was in Fuzzy mode about applying and retaking, when My friend A told about this and asked to give a try. As expected was called for test on 26th Jul and surprisingly cleared the SPJIMR test.Its not so hard, but the IQ questions are really challenging.
After a week of the test, got a call for the interview from SPJIMR in Mumbai,I have been to Mumbai but only on transit and this is the first time into the city. SPJIMR was not too far, just about 5km from the airport. I was very apprehensive about the interview for the fact that the elective I have opted is out of my current industry and a new field of study. Reached at around 8 AM everything was fine till 0930, and this is the time I realized that I missed my certificate file safe at home in bangalore. For as minute everything went blank. The fact that i am here for an interview and the fact that sole purpose of me being here only to show off my file deterred me much. The only thing i could thing of is asking my friend who is luckily at home to send the marksheets through fax and did the same. By now I am so confident that I totally lost everything and there is nothing could be done. for a moment i thought of coming back immediateky, but the fact that i have traveled more than 1000 km made me attend the test and interview which foollowed it.
SPJIMR TEST & INTERVIEW:
There is a written test for 45 mins where a case study will be given based on the course of study opted and 15 mins for an essay. Again, the case study is not so easy to understand for the fact that its totally out of my field made it harder for me. But the essay was so smooth. Essay is about explaining about why MBA and your carrier so far and another about one of your non-academic failure and learnings from them. This was followed by an interview, I would say that the interview is not so hard for the fact that my mindset now has become to finish everything soon and wanna leave back home. After Interview was told that there is another round of interview with the Dean, by the time i wen for the second interview there are already 15 to 20 people waiting and after an hour of arduous wait went in and had a discussion for about 10 mins with the dean. I can't say anything about the interview as it went more like a discussion rather than Question and answer.
After the first interview i told that i don't have any documents to submit, the lady whos organizing the interview was so cool that she confirmed that it should not be a problem and i can submit the documents in later date.
Now waiting for the interview results to proceed further. One good thing about this trip is i got some new friends and got to to know about their industry.
Facts :
Number of Persons attended interview : around 60
First round of interview is an elimination round
Questions in the interview is focussed or knowing more about the person and the why the intention to do MBA.
Total process took about 4 hours.
I saw people who requested for change in time slot for the interview and granted.
Its about my experience of SPJIMR interview in Mumbai on 16th of this month. Though i heard about the institution and course sometime before, the alumnus nor the pedagogy did not inspire me much to take a plunge into it. Reality bites :) after my GMAT and considering the age factor, obviously there is a reduction in aspiration level. Was in Fuzzy mode about applying and retaking, when My friend A told about this and asked to give a try. As expected was called for test on 26th Jul and surprisingly cleared the SPJIMR test.Its not so hard, but the IQ questions are really challenging.
After a week of the test, got a call for the interview from SPJIMR in Mumbai,I have been to Mumbai but only on transit and this is the first time into the city. SPJIMR was not too far, just about 5km from the airport. I was very apprehensive about the interview for the fact that the elective I have opted is out of my current industry and a new field of study. Reached at around 8 AM everything was fine till 0930, and this is the time I realized that I missed my certificate file safe at home in bangalore. For as minute everything went blank. The fact that i am here for an interview and the fact that sole purpose of me being here only to show off my file deterred me much. The only thing i could thing of is asking my friend who is luckily at home to send the marksheets through fax and did the same. By now I am so confident that I totally lost everything and there is nothing could be done. for a moment i thought of coming back immediateky, but the fact that i have traveled more than 1000 km made me attend the test and interview which foollowed it.
SPJIMR TEST & INTERVIEW:
There is a written test for 45 mins where a case study will be given based on the course of study opted and 15 mins for an essay. Again, the case study is not so easy to understand for the fact that its totally out of my field made it harder for me. But the essay was so smooth. Essay is about explaining about why MBA and your carrier so far and another about one of your non-academic failure and learnings from them. This was followed by an interview, I would say that the interview is not so hard for the fact that my mindset now has become to finish everything soon and wanna leave back home. After Interview was told that there is another round of interview with the Dean, by the time i wen for the second interview there are already 15 to 20 people waiting and after an hour of arduous wait went in and had a discussion for about 10 mins with the dean. I can't say anything about the interview as it went more like a discussion rather than Question and answer.
After the first interview i told that i don't have any documents to submit, the lady whos organizing the interview was so cool that she confirmed that it should not be a problem and i can submit the documents in later date.
Now waiting for the interview results to proceed further. One good thing about this trip is i got some new friends and got to to know about their industry.
Facts :
Number of Persons attended interview : around 60
First round of interview is an elimination round
Questions in the interview is focussed or knowing more about the person and the why the intention to do MBA.
Total process took about 4 hours.
I saw people who requested for change in time slot for the interview and granted.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Wondrous trip to Ooty -13th, 14th Mar ‘09
One interesting thing about this trip was everyone in the gang was very apprehensive of possibility of this trip going real until last minute. Although this was planned well a fortnight ago, nothing was confirmed till the last minute. There were lots of mad discussions and marathon convincing sessions took place before it actually happened. Last minute stunt by shiv went very well as planned. We were batch of eight with three being fairer sex of the species. It was a planned 2 day trip to Ooty on a weekend which completely went unplanned.
We started here on 12th night and by the time everyone was picked up and the vehicle propelled towards Mysore it’s well past mid-night. We eight were in a mad TT cruising over 100 kmph recklessly on Bangalore-Mysore road. This driving mannerism tips off the attitude of the driver isn’t? With few pit stops along Mysore-Nanjangud-Bandipur road we reached Gudalur around 0600 hrs in the morning. Day break was awesome.
Journey between Gudalur and Ooty was memorable for two things. First being obvious scenic beauty with the curves of the ghat road accompanied by early morning chillness, and second for non stop nausea of some of the fairer sex. After stopping for a tea break on entering Gudalur, the driver assured to reach Ooty in another one hour, unaware of what is in the store for him :). We stopped more than 5 times intermittently to release the feeling of nausea thanks to those of fairer sex who made us enjoy the scenic beauty in spite of their hardship. Gudalur-Ooty stretch was wonderful, there were lot of view points to enjoy, its better to stop wherever you feel like, as each and every kilometer of this stretch is relaxing and refreshing during morning times.
In spite of drivers’ frustration, we managed to enjoy the stretch with short walk, a short jog, that’s only me and pkja and few awesome clicks enroute Ooty. We reached Ooty by 0830 hrs in the morning. With some small glitches in getting a hotel, we managed to settle in the Hotel Lake View.
To say about the hotel, our feeling was, it’s not worth the money we paid. There was neither room heater nor carpets on the floor. The floor inside the room is so chill, that we always want to wear our sandals. By 1100 hrs we started to Dodabetta and we (except Mr. Rangaraj (RR), I will come to that shortly) enjoyed the scenic beauty of the peak there, a simple lime tea in the government tea store was so refreshing and worth trying one. For Mr. RR, there is something always unforgettable for not enjoying the beauty of dbetta. He along with Raman, Vinay and Sharath started for a horse ride and while coming back RR was walking with no horse but with some bad bruises in his arms along with damage of some internal parts. He fell down from the horse as the saddle slipped off as there was some hungama with horse happened. (Sows’ comment was he might have spoken with horse as with us)
We were back to our room by 1400 hrs as a short spell of rain smashed our plans for afternoon. By 1600 hrs we were (except Raman and sharath, they were still enjoying sleep at room) in boathouse and we enjoyed a lot that evening spending time in the park along with boat ride. We took two two-seater peddle boats with me and shiv in one and vinay and pkja in another. RR and Sow were reluctant to peddle (aftermath of Dbetta) and spent time sitting in the lawn. Toy train, break dance and Tusunami (3D movie) were other things we enjoyed in the park at boat house. We returned back to hotel by 8 in auto and again the dinner we ordered through room service in the hotel came slightly after 2 hrs.
We enjoyed the late nights with walks along the roads accompanied by chill atmosphere- the trademark of Ooty and small fireplace in one of the room, served as a camp fire. With sharath composing view tunes with his guitar and some non stop non-sense well extended till late night.
Day 2 started not so briskly, we were hurried to vacate the room exactly within 24 hours (0830 in the morning) and told, would be charged extra for every 30 minutes of stay. We rushed to complete the morning chores and by 0930 hrs we were out of the hotel. Botanical garden was the only agenda for the day and we after finishing the breakfast in a hotel nearby we were into b garden around 1030 hrs. Again we spent some nice time there laughing and teasing as usual. We would have been in bgarden for an hour, soon after rain made us take shelter in snacks shop inside. Rain lasted for more than an hour and as we were standing along with all others simply watching the rain, Mr. RR planned for some entertainment and so we actively involved sow and shiv in our discussion and within 15 minutes we got the result as expected. In another 5 minutes sow and shiv were in two corners of the snack shop, thanks to RR and others for well planned execution of task. We had some entertainment with that for sometime. By the time we came out of bgarden it’s around 1300 hrs. After some shopping we all were in TT cruising back to Bangalore enjoying the rain of Ooty all along the way back.
In all this was a refreshing trip for 2 days away from hustle and bustle of Bangalore, and we all enjoyed a lot.
Some facts
Total distance as per TT reading was 820 Km. I would suggest for people planning an instant trip, its better to rent a bike after going there. We got to know that bikes were available for rent after going there. Journey time was more than 8 hours.
We started here on 12th night and by the time everyone was picked up and the vehicle propelled towards Mysore it’s well past mid-night. We eight were in a mad TT cruising over 100 kmph recklessly on Bangalore-Mysore road. This driving mannerism tips off the attitude of the driver isn’t? With few pit stops along Mysore-Nanjangud-Bandipur road we reached Gudalur around 0600 hrs in the morning. Day break was awesome.
Journey between Gudalur and Ooty was memorable for two things. First being obvious scenic beauty with the curves of the ghat road accompanied by early morning chillness, and second for non stop nausea of some of the fairer sex. After stopping for a tea break on entering Gudalur, the driver assured to reach Ooty in another one hour, unaware of what is in the store for him :). We stopped more than 5 times intermittently to release the feeling of nausea thanks to those of fairer sex who made us enjoy the scenic beauty in spite of their hardship. Gudalur-Ooty stretch was wonderful, there were lot of view points to enjoy, its better to stop wherever you feel like, as each and every kilometer of this stretch is relaxing and refreshing during morning times.
In spite of drivers’ frustration, we managed to enjoy the stretch with short walk, a short jog, that’s only me and pkja and few awesome clicks enroute Ooty. We reached Ooty by 0830 hrs in the morning. With some small glitches in getting a hotel, we managed to settle in the Hotel Lake View.
To say about the hotel, our feeling was, it’s not worth the money we paid. There was neither room heater nor carpets on the floor. The floor inside the room is so chill, that we always want to wear our sandals. By 1100 hrs we started to Dodabetta and we (except Mr. Rangaraj (RR), I will come to that shortly) enjoyed the scenic beauty of the peak there, a simple lime tea in the government tea store was so refreshing and worth trying one. For Mr. RR, there is something always unforgettable for not enjoying the beauty of dbetta. He along with Raman, Vinay and Sharath started for a horse ride and while coming back RR was walking with no horse but with some bad bruises in his arms along with damage of some internal parts. He fell down from the horse as the saddle slipped off as there was some hungama with horse happened. (Sows’ comment was he might have spoken with horse as with us)
We were back to our room by 1400 hrs as a short spell of rain smashed our plans for afternoon. By 1600 hrs we were (except Raman and sharath, they were still enjoying sleep at room) in boathouse and we enjoyed a lot that evening spending time in the park along with boat ride. We took two two-seater peddle boats with me and shiv in one and vinay and pkja in another. RR and Sow were reluctant to peddle (aftermath of Dbetta) and spent time sitting in the lawn. Toy train, break dance and Tusunami (3D movie) were other things we enjoyed in the park at boat house. We returned back to hotel by 8 in auto and again the dinner we ordered through room service in the hotel came slightly after 2 hrs.
We enjoyed the late nights with walks along the roads accompanied by chill atmosphere- the trademark of Ooty and small fireplace in one of the room, served as a camp fire. With sharath composing view tunes with his guitar and some non stop non-sense well extended till late night.
Day 2 started not so briskly, we were hurried to vacate the room exactly within 24 hours (0830 in the morning) and told, would be charged extra for every 30 minutes of stay. We rushed to complete the morning chores and by 0930 hrs we were out of the hotel. Botanical garden was the only agenda for the day and we after finishing the breakfast in a hotel nearby we were into b garden around 1030 hrs. Again we spent some nice time there laughing and teasing as usual. We would have been in bgarden for an hour, soon after rain made us take shelter in snacks shop inside. Rain lasted for more than an hour and as we were standing along with all others simply watching the rain, Mr. RR planned for some entertainment and so we actively involved sow and shiv in our discussion and within 15 minutes we got the result as expected. In another 5 minutes sow and shiv were in two corners of the snack shop, thanks to RR and others for well planned execution of task. We had some entertainment with that for sometime. By the time we came out of bgarden it’s around 1300 hrs. After some shopping we all were in TT cruising back to Bangalore enjoying the rain of Ooty all along the way back.
In all this was a refreshing trip for 2 days away from hustle and bustle of Bangalore, and we all enjoyed a lot.
Some facts
Total distance as per TT reading was 820 Km. I would suggest for people planning an instant trip, its better to rent a bike after going there. We got to know that bikes were available for rent after going there. Journey time was more than 8 hours.
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Bapu's Letter
oflate there are lot of publicity in getting mahatma's tokens, and the worth of it and discussions on how to get back to india. In that line, I am proud of possessing (at least the soft copy)one such thing personally written by Bapu, the great.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
The Haunting Experience
The day started with a bash, he was expecting a message from her, as usual. His friends observed some obvious difference in his behavior for past one week. He feels energized, was seen all around with smiling face et-all positive signs accompanied by sullen behavior at times. His friends in office were surprised to see him leaving exactly at 1700 hrs nowadays. For him he was in totally different world. And finally, he decided to open up. He met her in the bus stop that evening, she was chattering, he was mum, which is unusual for him and after a brief lull he broached the topic, “Hi D, I wanna say you something”, “yeah ..” she replied casually “I think, I can’t be without your company ... It’s arduous to be without you” …. . ‘Gimme sometime’ she said.
He was restless the whole night; for their friendship which was so well for years shouldn't be in toss. Next evening, when they met she started, “how long is this? and why this is now ?”, “Don’t know from when exactly, but felt it more recently” he answered. After a while she told “Sorry. I have other commitments”. Though he expected that he can’t bear that. But she was so lovesome and soothing, she explained him all her situation which however he is already aware of for her not to accept him, he understood and that’s the moment he “Laid his First Love in Coffin”.
He was restless the whole night; for their friendship which was so well for years shouldn't be in toss. Next evening, when they met she started, “how long is this? and why this is now ?”, “Don’t know from when exactly, but felt it more recently” he answered. After a while she told “Sorry. I have other commitments”. Though he expected that he can’t bear that. But she was so lovesome and soothing, she explained him all her situation which however he is already aware of for her not to accept him, he understood and that’s the moment he “Laid his First Love in Coffin”.
The enormity of the accident was so terrible. It’s sure it takes ages for the trauma of this accident to be cured off. Let his First Love Rest in Peace, in Hades until Judgment day.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
The Drawing
Above picture is an extempore drawing by boss (shortly surya), when we were at banerghata national park on january 24th 2009.
the picture depicts the typical scene at the park. we three sitting in park bench, a couple playing disc, and kids playing cricket.(although this is not much visible) and trees all around.This is an electronic picture drawn using in mobile drawing pad. Thanks to asus p320. Not too bad uh ...
Sunday, February 1, 2009
And finally the search Ends ...
2008 had been a year of change.shifted my company,shifted my home and lot of changes mentally too.of that search for a house was a mixed experience,happened to meet people of diverse nature. may be this is my largest encounter moving with strangers. the reality is i understood the need to know atleast 2 native languages being in a country like india in a hard way. other point to mention is that our search criteria is very stringent, which made our search a bit hard. the locality, the people around, the look and feel of the house etc matters a lot unlike 3 years ago.
we started searching a month ago and would have seen around 20 houses and enquired about 100 houses over the phone.finally we resorted to a professional who helped us in less than half an hour, which made us think .. should we have done this before ?
Ironically the house finally we settled in was the one unknown to external world, the owners of the house never speak any language other than their native language, and propbaly have no exposure to available media to publish the availabily of their house.Internet is a far distant for them.
2008 winded up quite well.. hoping for better and more things in near future.. welcome onboard ..2009
we started searching a month ago and would have seen around 20 houses and enquired about 100 houses over the phone.finally we resorted to a professional who helped us in less than half an hour, which made us think .. should we have done this before ?
Ironically the house finally we settled in was the one unknown to external world, the owners of the house never speak any language other than their native language, and propbaly have no exposure to available media to publish the availabily of their house.Internet is a far distant for them.
2008 winded up quite well.. hoping for better and more things in near future.. welcome onboard ..2009
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