Mentors.....

Had thought about writing something on this long ago but was not able to put to gather respect in words. It's just that every time i sat down to write, i felt paralyzed. Where should i begin? every time i started to write something, i'd read over it and it didn't seem right. So i'd tear it up and promise that i'd start over again the next day. But one day just kept turning into the next and then , too much time had passed.

I would like to start the post with a short story. 

"It was hostel canteen of an engineering college. As it was semester end examination time everyone was busy preparing and discussing exams,subjects and course content. Karan was one of those student present in the canteen. But he was lost in some thoughts. He was thinking of skipping semester end exams with a fear that he was not ready for it. It's not that he has not read anything or he was dull. But he just came back from home completing last rituals of his dad. He was brilliant student and had learnt the whole subjects through out the semester But i would say it was the lack of confidence. He was part of crowd but was lost in his own world of thoughts with lots of confusion.

There was one more person existed in crowd with having thought of skipping exams. He was Ravi . He was having same confusion due to some other reason. Both were sitting opposite to each other busy eating their lunch. Suddenly Karan asked Ravi why don't you have any reading material with you, have you completed everything? Ravi replied in low voice that he was planning to skip exams. He had make sure that no one was listening him. Skipping exam in first semester of engineering was equivalent to crime. Karan replied that he was to thinking on same line. 

After completing lunch both them went outside of campus. They have watched movie , have roamed around city and had dinner at some highway dhaba. Both returned to campus late in night. Exam in engineering college is like festival. Most of the students were gathered in single room of friend and were preparing for the exams. These both guys have decided to skip exams so they went back to their room and collapsed on bed.

Aarif was student of 7th semester of same college. He had excellent record in college and already been placed in some multinational. Aarif and Karan were from city and they know each other. News of Karan was skipping exams reached to Aarif next morning. Campus was like home for students and they were like family such news can spread faster than 3G speed. Soon after hearing news Aarif rushed towards the room of Karan. He was still sleeping on his bed as he didn't want to attend exams.

Aarif had woke him up and asked him to wear shirt and follow him. In engineering college campus seniors gets more respected than Professors. Without arguing much Karan joined Aarif with puzzled look. It was 9:00 and exam was scheduled on 9:15. Aarif have rushed towards the exam hall with Karan. He had drawn 2-3 pens out of his pocket and asked him to attend the exam and write down  what ever you know.

As soon after reading first question Karan was like yeah...i know bit about this let me write it down first and then second and third. He had completed paper with a great satisfaction. He has attended almost 80% question. Same was the case with other paper. Karan has completed the semester with B+ grade and completed his engineering with same. He is now working with some very good company with handsome package. It was due to Aarif. He had mentor Karan on right time. When on the other side Ravi didn't get that much needed mentoring . He had skipped the exam and went in depression. He didn't completed his engineering and lost somewhere in the crowd of unemployed youths."

The story ends here. But there are many Karan's and Ravi's are there but very few Aarif's. It's important for every Karan's to get mentors in form of Aarif's. 

I too have many mentors in my life (touch wood). I have always been lucky to get someone to mentor me as and when needed. Be it school, college or company.  

Many time i have tried to cry when i couldn't take it any more.

 But they have helped and taught me to get back and roar....

 I would like to mention their initials....( ab,db,sv,no,uc,tp,ht,hp,sj and last but not least mg.)

Thanks guys to be there for me.... at some stage of my life.

Innovation competition - Part 1

Innovation competition

So after a long time got a chance to write and publish on this topic.

Had thought about writing something on this long ago but was not able to put to gather those magic moments in words. It's just that every time i sat down to write, i felt paralyzed. Where should i begin? every time i started to write something, i'd read over it and it didn't seem right. So i'd tear it up and promise that i'd start over again the next day. But one day just kept turning into the next and then , too much time had passed.

It was the first time i have took part in such competition. Even it was the first such competition held at my office. Competition to find innovative ideas, discuss it and present it in front of jury.

It was just my good luck to be part of such unique team. As per one of the member ours was the complete team with lots of diversity. We had one developer, one QA, one documentation expert and one architect in our team. We all were cab mates and one fine evening one of the member came up with idea that why don’t we participate in it. We were travelling from GNR to AHD and without much discussion all were agreed to it and we had beautiful days and life long memories.

We used to spend 2 hours daily in travelling and we have decided to utilize those two hours to discuss the idea. One of the senior member had suggested that first we have to zeroed down on problem statement. Then we can start thinking about solution of that problem. Let me correct bit innovative solution of that problem.

So we had started looking for problems we used to face in our day to day life... There were plenty of them but i don’t remember all of them or say all of them were not that much important. I have listed down few of them which had some funny discussion associated with.

First one is traffic problem. One of the team mate suggested that in Ahmedabad we have very big issue with traffic. Certainly all were agree with problem statement. So after that we had started discussing about solution and that discussion was the one of the funniest part of the competition. One of the friend suggested that traffic issue is result of our typical Ahmedabad mentality.

For normal people....

Red light - stop, yellow means stop watch and go.....green means go.

For ahmedabadi people....

Green means go....yellow means go fast and....red means.... (check if anyone is looking otherwise) go very fast...

So very basic solution is to stop them forcefully at traffic signal. What normal people think about the situation...well that’s not important we were not normal not at that time at least. One member of team came up with idea. Let’s install spikes at each traffic point. When signal turns red Spikes will come up on the surface so vehicles can't break signals. Just like German cops use to stop criminals. I don’t know how this spike turned into iron grill which block the road entirely. Now that was the rule of discussion that when one team member suggest solution other team member have to throw counter arguments about solution. So one more member had said that what if street cow or dogs tries to cross the road. In this case we will have barbecue :p. I just have small smile while writing this but believe me we had a quite 5 minutes laughter on this during that time of discussion.

I don’t exactly recall all the point of discussion but at one point of time we also had one of my friend suggested idea of creating fighter train. She was just like we have fighter plane...fighter ship...but how come no one had idea of creating a fighter train. All of us were just listening and suddenly I woke up with statement like "but train runs on track...its route will be very predictable and how can it fight...."... I know it seems very normal to read this line but again you have to believe that the expression on my face and that situation was damn funny. Again we had quite good laugh on this topic at that time and many a time down the line during this last one year.

There were few more funny topics like smart fridge and bio luminous something something....but i don’t recall any funny incident related to those topic. Only funny part i remember is the image of Chinese girl which one member had shared with us. I can also recall one more incident and destructive idea but someone will kill me if i write it over here.... :p

Then we also had lots of fun after zeroed down on topic . But let me limit this post to topics we have not considered for presentation. I will cover that topic and funny moments associated with them in my next post.

Thanks a ton for giving me few memorable moments of my life.

P.S. I have tried many time but was not able to write .....I have started many times but abandoned idea soon after writing few lines. Right now I am uploading this while sitting on highway having coffee in hand. After fantastic start of week i have spoiled it. Starting of the week was so perfect that I can never imagine but as always i have spoiled it.... regretting it now.....there are many happy moments associated with this and I don't wanna loss any of them by any chance.....

Rambling of my over worked mind (3)

          It just started night before. After spending 3 long hours on bed without sleep I have woke up and decided to read something. Now the next question was what to read and I have zeroed down to reading old text messages from my cell phone. There were plenty of text messages stored in my phone date and occasion wise. I didn't know when exactly I fall sleep but certainly it was very late. But still I woke up early with some fair collection of a crappy dream.

          The entire day unfolded in front of me in extra slow motion. Starting from office …Tricky deadlines, unwanted argument with someone, unwanted calls for distractions, annoying calls from agencies, faltering technology (basically this stupid damn idiot workstation allocated to me), mounting depression complete with nosy relatives talking about my marriage. I think this was the day designed by the devil.

          First time in almost 3 years of my professional carrier I had some work related arguments which otherwise don't bother me at all, I don’t give damn to such issue after office hours at all but it was that kind of a day where everything distressed me.

          Now comes to the evening, I think this time I had let go the day slipping out of my hands. Don’t get me wrong, it wasn't anything special or drastic that happened. But my office work apart than project has always been demanding and I generally don’t say no to this type of charity work. Still, this was one of those days when all the reasoning and logic goes for a toss and I felt very weak, helpless and vulnerable at that moment.

Just then, I have turned up radio and it goes like….

"Rehna Tayar pichhe…kitana bhi koi khiche
Tas hey na mas hey ji….
Jid hey to Jid hey ji…..Chak de…chak de India"

Immediately I had smile on my face and I was like … Hey they are playing song for me… J

          Do you know what…? I think Music has a strange, strong power over us. It can make you happy or sad. It can make you feel things which you don’t do generally. Music can make or break things (especially heart). I think I can proudly say that “I am 24 year old and Music is my life”.

          I listen music when I am happy…I listen music when I am sad…I listen music when I am frustrated…I listen music when I am sick…I listen music when I feel energetic….We have music for all the occasions and all kind of feeling human being can feel.

          I just want to mention one song from our own Bollywood movie from Mission Kashmir “Rindposh something something” composed by “Sanker Ehsaan Loy” which has lyrics like “…sangeet me hey Geeta Quran….sangeet main hey…allah or Ram….sangeet tute dilon ko jodta hey…. And so on….

          Huh….Another weird post of mine…sorry for that ..... Started with from some crappy dream and ended with discussion about Music… Many spelling and grammar mistakes….but still….it feels good to be here once again… J

Happy Holi - Common man is burning!!!!

                     We had t-shirt painting competition at Office and the theme was Flames. I am not that much creative with paintings and never had participated in any such activities during my school or college time. But we had bit hectic schedule in last few months so just wanted some change so i have just decided to go for it. Fortunately didn't have to wait for long for team.

                     We had small discussion about theme during lunch time day before of competition and after that crazy one hour i was so sure that what ever the result will come we are going to have complete masti and fun for an hour. One of us was expert in making sketches so we have zeroed down on painting a cartoon. We had quite a lot ideas about sketches but we also had to consider theme of the competition that was "Flames".

                     Ideally when someone think about painting competition with theme flames first idea will struck to mind would be "The Flame Art" . But we were not common people and competition arranged in IT company always have some tinge of seriousness. We were sure that everyone will try to make something meaningful serious art with some message and we were in mood of 'Dhamal Masti' . 

                     We have zeroed down on cartoon with some message so it can serve the both purpose. Cartoon was about a common man running away from flame. Flame of corruption,inflation, price hike and many other general issues. So idea was about to giving a message with funny cartoon with some tinge of sarcasm.

                     We had lots of fun and fight while painting. There was one moment when all three of us had brush in hand and seriously painting suddenly had a look at painting made by others and we were gone mad. We had stopped painting for sometime and had good amount of laugh at others work. Obviously here other means among three of us otherwise other competitors were seriously busy in painting.

                     We were gone mad at each other at the last 5 minutes of competition the star painter among us was panicking and crying and coordinators were shouting to keep us away from our work. Few friends were helping us to complete work by motivating. Then we had small round of photo session like if it was more imp than competition

                     Here is the painting made by us during competition......

                     
                     Funny enough.....right? Obviously we didn't win any prize in competition but participating in it was nothing less than prize. But as being IT people we have to retrospect our failure. So we had small discussion in cafeteria about reason for not winning competition. Discussion goes like this....

• Reason  - It was about Common man :- We have choose the topic about common man and in this country no one is appreciating efforts of common man. Either you have to be star to get attention and resolved your issues with stardom or you have to be weak so that you can gain sympathy from others and they can fight for you. 
• Reason 2 - It was about Man :- We have choose the man to represent our work others have choose topic related to save women or daughter with tinge of feminism. I also have soft corners for women and as being brother and son i know how strong they are , so no offence against it. It's good that everyone is trying to spread awareness with using the whatever platform they get. Be it a Rangoli,poster making or any other competition but we always see few creations with this topic. Anyways that was not my thought and will write about it sometime else.

P.S. We also had lots of fun with paint brush.. post the competition.

Myths Facts About Introverts

I was in very happy mood and suddenly it has ruined away my mood. Incident was about FB and some of my actions on it. Friend of mine was asking "Why did i have delete that comment from her post?". They called it weird and they have every rights of it to say so. If you see it from my perspective i have just deleted comment to avoid unwanted notification of comments made on the post below my comments. This was apparently occurred in past too as i am using FB from the cell and by chance it doesn't give option to unfollow post from cell phone application. But they don't my part of story and called it weird and some other  fellows had joined too.

Then at night while sitting in balcony with my favorite coffee, i was thinking about this incident and reason behind people's behavior. It was the "ME" and my first image of an "Introvert" has lead them to think or over think about my such actions. So just wanna get rid of some of the "myths" about introverts in this post.

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Myth #1 – Introverts don’t like to talk.

This is not true. Introverts just don’t talk unless they have something to say. They hate small talk. Get an introvert talking about something they are interested in, and they won’t shut up for days.

Myth #2 – Introverts are shy.

Shyness has nothing to do with being an Introvert. Introverts are not necessarily afraid of people. What they need is a reason to interact. They don’t interact for the sake of interacting. If you want to talk to an Introvert, just start talking. Don’t worry about being polite.

Myth #3 – Introverts are rude.

Introverts often don’t see a reason for beating around the bush with social pleasantries. They want everyone to just be real and honest. Unfortunately, this is not acceptable in most settings, so Introverts can feel a lot of pressure to fit in, which they find exhausting.

Myth #4 – Introverts don’t like people.

On the contrary, Introverts intensely value the few friends they have. They can count their close friends on one hand. If you are lucky enough for an introvert to consider you a friend, you probably have a loyal ally for life. Once you have earned their respect as being a person of substance, you’re in.

Myth #5 – Introverts don’t like to go out in public.

Nonsense. Introverts just don’t like to go out in public FOR AS LONG. They also like to avoid the complications that are involved in public activities. They take in data and experiences very quickly, and as a result, don’t need to be there for long to “get it.” They’re ready to go home, recharge, and process it all. In fact, recharging is absolutely crucial for Introverts.

Myth #6 – Introverts always want to be alone.

Introverts are perfectly comfortable with their own thoughts. They think a lot. They daydream. They like to have problems to work on, puzzles to solve. But they can also get incredibly lonely if they don’t have anyone to share their discoveries with. They crave an authentic and sincere connection with ONE PERSON at a time.

Myth #7 – Introverts are weird.
Introverts are often individualists. They don’t follow the crowd. They’d prefer to be valued for their novel ways of living. They think for themselves and because of that, they often challenge the norm. They don’t make most decisions based on what is popular or trendy.

Myth #8 – Introverts are aloof nerds.

Introverts are people who primarily look inward, paying close attention to their thoughts and emotions. It’s not that they are incapable of paying attention to what is going on around them, it’s just that their inner world is much more stimulating and rewarding to them.

Myth #9 – Introverts don’t know how to relax and have fun.

Introverts typically relax at home or in nature, not in busy public places. Introverts are not thrill seekers and adrenaline junkies. If there is too much talking and noise going on, they shut down. Their brains are too sensitive to the neurotransmitter called Dopa mine. Introverts and Extroverts have different dominant neuro-pathways.

Some nice lines

We never know why we like someone more than others....!

Why we love someone without any reason....!

Why we feel happy thinking about their presence.....!

Cause Some feelings has no "Explanation" or "Definition"....♥

Just like that lyrics  of that Bollywood song....

"Kya hey ye...kyu hey ye... kya pata...ha magar...Jo bhi hey...Bada achha lagata hey...."

Quit writing ???

               I have lost that enthusiasm and it's directly reflecting with my updates here. I have not seen dashboard in last one and half month. It seems like ages. I have not read any blogs either was more busy with work which i have piled up and also i was in sorting out everything kind off mood. Wanted to correct many mistake i have made during starting of this year.

               I am wondering it is same place where i used to write about anything like travelling or about spending weekend at some random place. It used to give me kick when i see someone , who is interesting and had lot to offer which can make a brilliant post. I know in back of my mind that i can not write anyway near to her but i have tried. It didn't matter for me that how many mistake i have made while writing those posts. I just wanted to write and i had done it.

               Today, things have been changed too much,i have to think... think before opening this dash board. Think before opening my diary. It's not that i am not having any subject. I don't know what exactly it is but i think motivation is the word. I love to write...be it a blog , orkut , facebook or my diary. But when i used sharing here with friends (stranger friends) and they read it and comments, Yes I love comments . It always feels good when people reads, let me correct people who don't know you reads and leave comment behind. But as i have made it private for sometime after some incidents i don't expect people to visit here and read it regularly.

P.S. : I used to feel happy when I write anything here. It can be about any random topic, extremely lame or smart, funny or philosophical any damn thing in the world. I used to write something every single day and save it as draft. Here, on this space it used to feel like home. I think it's been my home for more than 3 long years. I think it owes me many thing. I also think that it has a soul too, just like i have one. This place has given me hope, heart break, happiness, sadness, dreams, night mares , lots of love and extreme hatred. It's just like a parallel life, I have created for my self, with my words, with my imagination and sometimes for some people.

Women and shopping not so offensive post!!!!

 Man discovered COLORS and invented PAINT..

Woman got inspired from PAINT and invented MAKEUP..

Man discovered WORD and invented CONVERSATION..

Woman got inspired from CONVERSATION and invented GOSSIP..

Man discovered AGRICULTURE and invented FOOD...

Woman got inspired from FOOD and invented DIET....

Man discovered FRIENDSHIP and invented LOVE....

Woman got inspired from LOVE and invented LOVE TRIANGLES..

Man discovered TRADING and invented MONEY...

Woman got MONEY and started SHOPPING...

Thats it!

Thereafter, man has discovered and invented a lot of things...

WHILE WOMEN ARE STILL SHOPPING... !

About Me - First page of my diary

I was travelling to office and someone has returned me a novel. While putting back it in my bag my hand touched a hard cover of my diary and couldn't resist myself from taking it out. And just lost in reading at the very first page I have written about me few years back when I was in college.

After reading it twice and thrice and so on…only one thing was striking on my mind. Do I really know myself?

Either I have changed myself in last few years or say I was not knowing myself when I have written this. It’s just topic of debate and right now not able to decide but the words in diary exactly go like these……

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Hey...y r u readin dis??:O
==>>U knw me??
==>>U wna knw me??
==>>Readin widout ny rsn..!!:P

Wt so evr is ur reason bt u hv already spent some of ur seconds in readin dis...So allow me to steal few more seconds frm ur lyf...:D

M kinda person who belivs in "ME" only...
I knw some Ppl cl me silent....but i believe in doing it then...talking abt it....
I knw, some Ppl cl it attitude..bt I cl it Self-respect,nd I think evry1 shd hv it...!!

I cn say dat M Enigmatic..nd I dnt lyk 2 b solved.
I nvr take my words back,4 me 1s its no means 'NO' 4evr.
Dnt lyk Compromises nd cnt forgt nythin easily,,,,,If U hv done smthin wrong wid me...Dnt Xpect absolution.

I strongly blv dat I mst nt cry 4 d othrs cz dey r nt fit 4 my tears.. & those who r fit 4 my tears wl nvr allow me 2 cry..
I care 4 those who realy deserve it..cz m nt a m/c 2 entertain evry1.. :P

U cn trust me cz I cn keep ur secretz...bt better dnt share wid me
Cz dnt wna b involved in ur personal matters,,,Nd yaa dnt try 2 interfere in mine..:P

U cn lie..bt nt infrnt of me cz I hate Liarz..:@
M Unpredictable - So dnt try to judge me
Jst ask me nd I vl try mah bst 2 solve ur doubts.
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This one is for all of my closer ones... :-

"I care for you on my own strange ways......perhaps you will never know....perhaps i will never show....... ".
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U may continue wid ur work nw!!!B)



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P.S.  At the time of writing this in diary i was thinking that these are the best combination of words to describe me. I have also tried to copied it in FB and Orkut and G + everywhere. But never get a chance to revised it or never anyone has bothered to read it. But i think it's time to release version 2.0 of About Me. :p

That's how it exactly feels :p

Letter To "Jab Tak Hey Jaan" Haters!!!!

          I was on short vacation after exhausted week at office and while discussing random topic at home someone has suddenly raised topic of this recently released movie "Jab Tak Hey Jaan" and few friends just started blabbering about movie that it's worst and boring movie. SRK has done worst performance and blah....blah..blah... So just wanted to raise some point in favor of SRK and movie. Don't take it as offensive but you can raise same points against the movie in comments but be logical and don't abuse :) .... So here it goes....

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Dear anti-SRK people,

            I know you have a lot of problems regarding Shah Rukh Khan .... I know....a lot of you can't stand him,&according to you, his latest movie Jab Tak Hai Jaan was a flop. According to you, SRK sucked, Katrina was terrible, Anushka is a bore & Yash Chopra has delivered his worst film. OK...fine.....

           I never said that this was SRK's best movie, or was Yash Chopra's.SRK has delivered some awesome movies & will continue to do so.....but to say the storyline was weak!! Sure.... you people clap when a baby is delivered using a vacuum cleaner(3 idiots)... but you can't accept the fact that someones strong belief in God stops someone from loving someone!

           You can accept that someone can leap on a plane from a motorcycle(Ek tha tiger)but you can't see somebody doing many jobs in an expensive place like London to make ends meet!! To all those people who think Shah Rukh is romancing women half of his age... Salman Khan & Aamir Khan are not actually romancing their grandmothers...they r doing the same...... all of them have movies with the same actress dis year!!

          The point of this long letter is, whether you like it or not : Jab Tak Hain Jaan rocked!!! It simply rocked! I'm not a huge movie critic or anything, but please stop beating empty barrels to make noise, people! SRK's uniform was wrong, SRK looks old....shut up people!!

          At least you didn't have problems understanding the story..... .at least its not another confusing one (Dhobi Ghat)!& the less i say about Salman, the better!! I'm still waiting for a movie in which Salman has a story!

         SHAH RUKH KHAN is the KING KHAN of bollywood!! PERIOD!!FULL STOP!!

Yours truly,
A Devoted Friend of a Devoted KING KHAN fan..

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