Brawling threads in my code left me with frayed nerves and exasperated mind ...
Not to mention , an irritable mood with low tolerance and a nagging boredom that just refused to go away. A quick remedy was bird watching .I guess this works as a cooler for many of us and as for me , some of my friends know that it just works out wonders for me ;)
Well so a weekend getaway it was , a day trip to Ranganthittu Bird Sanctury . It is a place close to Mysore and some 150 kms from Bangalore so we decided to ride till the place instead of taking a cab.
Route: Bangalore -> Ramnagaram -> Bidadi -> Maddur -> Mandya -> Srirangapatta -> Ranganathittu .
We decided to start early in the morning which didnt turn out to be really early eventually and we were on our way 45 minutes past six .Total disarray of plan. I wanted to reach Ranganathittu by 8:30am so as to take the first boat, but we weren’t even close , so we decided to stop to grab quick breakfast at Kamat in Maddur . Dashed to reach Ranganathittu by 10 am finally ....
Ranganthittu a bird lovers paradise was basically the brainwork of Dr. Salim Ali. who, during his survey of the birds of Mysore, advocated for the establishment of such a sanctuary. Thousands of birds thronge on the small six islets . We took a
ticket (50 Rs per person) for a boatride and since the sun was getting harsh , we straightaway headed for it and decided to take the rest of the tour later .
Most common migratory birds include painted storks, open billed storks, white ibis, darters, spoonbills and night herons. winter is the best time to visit when it is full of migratory birds so we were able to spot some local birdies and missed on watching pied kingfisher , river terns .
We could spot painted stork, herons, darters, cormorants etc...crocodiles are in plenty and you can often see them sun bathing s ... there was a huge tree which was home to some thousands of bats ....I am yet not done with feasting my eyes with the sight of pied kingfisher and river tern .. may be next time .
After the boatride we went for a stroll , had a brunch by opening up the packed food
we carried and then settled on a bench chirping for quite a while .So overall Ranganthittu was an awesome experience with scores of birds around ... So if you are a person of interest in winged creatures , certainly Ranganthittu is the place .Best time would be around winters , you can also go for a boatman who has knowledge of birds , give him some extra 100 bucks and add more vibrant colors to your tour .It would be great if you carry binoculars or a high zoom camera .
Saturday, April 09, 2011
Monday, March 28, 2011
Job 'less'
Life has been pretty trying for me for last few days ... Work life being pretty stressful not because there's too much of work but coz of the fact that there needs to be work but there isn't any leading me to devour on arbit works adding nothing but randomness and making me feel sick .
I want to write my gmat exam and have somehow been taking preparations real slack .Sometimes I feel so miserable that i am not able to give my 100% I feel like quitting my job and just study . But our jobs mean more to us than we think they do. If our jobs could talk, they would give us a piece of their minds. They would remind us that they do not ask for a lifelong commitment from us, and yet they bring us a sense of achievement and challenge. All they ask of us is sincerity at whatever we do.And of course, they pay the rent.And perhaps at time, we forget to give them the respect they deserve.We don't take them up when we should.We don't quit them when we should.
So hi 5 to jobs everywhere. To jobs of every kind. To jobs that mean so much to us.
To jobs that make us who we are !
I want to write my gmat exam and have somehow been taking preparations real slack .Sometimes I feel so miserable that i am not able to give my 100% I feel like quitting my job and just study . But our jobs mean more to us than we think they do. If our jobs could talk, they would give us a piece of their minds. They would remind us that they do not ask for a lifelong commitment from us, and yet they bring us a sense of achievement and challenge. All they ask of us is sincerity at whatever we do.And of course, they pay the rent.And perhaps at time, we forget to give them the respect they deserve.We don't take them up when we should.We don't quit them when we should.
So hi 5 to jobs everywhere. To jobs of every kind. To jobs that mean so much to us.
To jobs that make us who we are !
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
As time goes by ...
It's still the same old story
A dream to reach paths of glory
A case of do or die.
The world will always welcome you :)
Even if you get an year older ..
And you sit and poder ...
As time goes by.
Had a very subtle start of the day which grew from "simple" to "simply amazing" .
This time after long I was at home to celebrate my birthday courtesy bout of
miserable jaundice .It was a very different birthday where unlike treating my stomach I decided to give my body a chance to indulge and went for a body spa :)
On this birthday I do think that I have gained some more worldly wisdom or perhaps not ...
The girl with shimmering dreams , pleasing whom was no mean feat ...
Candy floss , chocolates and nutties who would let adults talk of tooth decay
close her eyes and float away......
To the girl with myriad thoughts on her mind astray ...
Wondering why things have to go this or that way ...
I welcomed my day with thoughts sublime ...It was a great day with lots n lotsa fone calls messages and finally a rocking eve interspersed with some household chores as my mum wasnt in the pinkest of her health :( :(
I was constantly thinking of all this vagueness, of explaining everything that doesn't agree by ,"Well you can't be sure. That's another world view", is disquieting. May be, I am just becoming indesicive, lazy. May be, I have gone too far and its time to constrain a few things, become sure about them.
One thing I am least sure about is other people's feelings. Many people are so inscrutable. They will keep smiling through cyclones. And its becoming more and more important to understand those feelings, for more and more people come into my life from circumstances- present and past, and motivations that are not in sync with mine and therefore they may react quite differently from me to the same stimuli. Nor do I have time and occasion to know their circumstances and motivations, given the little time we spend together. Its difficult as time goes by .
But I do think that with this year I have started becoming a bit decisive ,neways being decisive is not my forte and after the initial sally, progess has been that of a sail boat in the doldrums. Let's see
Oh yeah about the birthday it was a bful one :) where I got my fav Dairy Milk :) :)
Lotsa other chocs , closest to my heart - Ganeshji ,pretty greetings , lovely wishes and blessings pouring down ..
and a much cherished evening get together with family n cousins after loong on my bday :)
A dream to reach paths of glory
A case of do or die.
The world will always welcome you :)
Even if you get an year older ..
And you sit and poder ...
As time goes by.
Had a very subtle start of the day which grew from "simple" to "simply amazing" .
This time after long I was at home to celebrate my birthday courtesy bout of
miserable jaundice .It was a very different birthday where unlike treating my stomach I decided to give my body a chance to indulge and went for a body spa :)
On this birthday I do think that I have gained some more worldly wisdom or perhaps not ...
The girl with shimmering dreams , pleasing whom was no mean feat ...
Candy floss , chocolates and nutties who would let adults talk of tooth decay
close her eyes and float away......
To the girl with myriad thoughts on her mind astray ...
Wondering why things have to go this or that way ...
I welcomed my day with thoughts sublime ...It was a great day with lots n lotsa fone calls messages and finally a rocking eve interspersed with some household chores as my mum wasnt in the pinkest of her health :( :(
I was constantly thinking of all this vagueness, of explaining everything that doesn't agree by ,"Well you can't be sure. That's another world view", is disquieting. May be, I am just becoming indesicive, lazy. May be, I have gone too far and its time to constrain a few things, become sure about them.
One thing I am least sure about is other people's feelings. Many people are so inscrutable. They will keep smiling through cyclones. And its becoming more and more important to understand those feelings, for more and more people come into my life from circumstances- present and past, and motivations that are not in sync with mine and therefore they may react quite differently from me to the same stimuli. Nor do I have time and occasion to know their circumstances and motivations, given the little time we spend together. Its difficult as time goes by .
But I do think that with this year I have started becoming a bit decisive ,neways being decisive is not my forte and after the initial sally, progess has been that of a sail boat in the doldrums. Let's see
Oh yeah about the birthday it was a bful one :) where I got my fav Dairy Milk :) :)
Lotsa other chocs , closest to my heart - Ganeshji ,pretty greetings , lovely wishes and blessings pouring down ..
and a much cherished evening get together with family n cousins after loong on my bday :)
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Paisa Bolta Hai
Corruption , this word is such a commoner for us but how many times do we actually
get inflicted by it , how many of us and how many times do we really get hit directly ...We just discuss that yeah so much of corruption is there and then just let go ...
I recently had to get some RTO work done and throughout this entire process I felt stupid and to a certain extent I felt impotent and miserable . Certainly this experience have been really instrumental in teaching me great virtues - patience and tolerance. But at what price??? wasting hours standing , extremely rude behavior and what not ...
I had to get NOC cancellation done alongwith transfer of vehicle in my name which
costs around 300 bucks and the process completion takes around 30 days completely.Many of my friends , relatives,parents told not to get into this hassle and get the work done by an agent who would charge say 3000 but then at that time with my energy levels high decided not to BRIBE and in my mind was its we who MAKE or BREAK.
Boldly I headed to KormAngala RTO with now i would say extremely high hopes .The first counter I interacted with was very good and the lady there helped me go to the correct person. I was asked to finish up with my inquiry at another counter from where it all started .
I was asked to show a receipt(which I didn't have ) to a person who was sitting at the back side of the office desk. This person asked me to wait till he gets a receipt number .I tried calling the agent who this owner has engaged to get the number but I was lucky that day , that agent has switched his fone off. So I wanted to know of an alternative from this guy but even after my multiple attempts in reaching out to him he kept telling me that he was busy. While waiting, I saw a person (possibly someone like me) giving 200 rupees to this officer's sidekick and saying aloud in very clear words that he will pay him a 100 more after the work gets done ( All this was said in kannada and I know this bcoz an agent told me the same that these officers will never talk to you but only to us and its the money which speaks , wat u say" paisa bolta hai ") After making me wait for more than an hour my lucky moment came and the officer called me, asked me the vehicle number , checked the status online and told the process is very difficult and could be done but it DEPENDS .This entire task took him less than a minute for which I spent my hours .
The process is deliberately designed in such a way that a person is completely lost about what he is supposed to do and compelled to offer bribes and I too had to succumb to my limitations (vehicle owner was leavin bangalore in next 5 days so i had to complete the process in that time span) and I hired a tout and paid him 3500 bucks and came to office .
In my office when I narrated the entire story of this injustice and expressed my strong desire to launch some complaint , take at least some action such as filing a complaint, meeting higher ups like RTO officer or even reporting it by some means to higher (who, by the way, are not elected), the MLA /MP /ward officer or other elected individuals who supposedly have far too many other grass routes problems & for a huge variety of people, particularly the poorer sections since they are the ones that vote, mostly. My problem will thus seem quite insignificant to them since their voters do not have free piped water, no drainage, expensive power, no proper roads to settlements, etc & these become much more important priorities.My issue pales in comparison on this priority list for those elected, though they still are accountable /answerable to all classes of people, including me.
Why is it that people who are supposed to interact with the public are sitting at the back of the office? Wont it be more efficient and transparent if all such counters are in the front?
NOC process does not look complicated for it to make a citizen deal with multiple counters. Why is it that all the formalities cant be completed at a single counter?
Instead of giving me a flimsy receipt, why am I not given a clean and clear acknowledgment which says they have received everything needed so that if needed I can hold them to account?
Why is it that the entire process is not put on the RTO website in clear terms?
Why am I compelled to BRIBE to make someone do his job for which hez already paid ?
One should do a lot of things. In the end it all boils down to what fight to pick.
For me my fight was to pick or not to pick the tout and I lost my battle :( but
I will surely win another one and its WE who can win it together by not promoting these touts !
get inflicted by it , how many of us and how many times do we really get hit directly ...We just discuss that yeah so much of corruption is there and then just let go ...
I recently had to get some RTO work done and throughout this entire process I felt stupid and to a certain extent I felt impotent and miserable . Certainly this experience have been really instrumental in teaching me great virtues - patience and tolerance. But at what price??? wasting hours standing , extremely rude behavior and what not ...
I had to get NOC cancellation done alongwith transfer of vehicle in my name which
costs around 300 bucks and the process completion takes around 30 days completely.Many of my friends , relatives,parents told not to get into this hassle and get the work done by an agent who would charge say 3000 but then at that time with my energy levels high decided not to BRIBE and in my mind was its we who MAKE or BREAK.
Boldly I headed to KormAngala RTO with now i would say extremely high hopes .The first counter I interacted with was very good and the lady there helped me go to the correct person. I was asked to finish up with my inquiry at another counter from where it all started .
I was asked to show a receipt(which I didn't have ) to a person who was sitting at the back side of the office desk. This person asked me to wait till he gets a receipt number .I tried calling the agent who this owner has engaged to get the number but I was lucky that day , that agent has switched his fone off. So I wanted to know of an alternative from this guy but even after my multiple attempts in reaching out to him he kept telling me that he was busy. While waiting, I saw a person (possibly someone like me) giving 200 rupees to this officer's sidekick and saying aloud in very clear words that he will pay him a 100 more after the work gets done ( All this was said in kannada and I know this bcoz an agent told me the same that these officers will never talk to you but only to us and its the money which speaks , wat u say" paisa bolta hai ") After making me wait for more than an hour my lucky moment came and the officer called me, asked me the vehicle number , checked the status online and told the process is very difficult and could be done but it DEPENDS .This entire task took him less than a minute for which I spent my hours .
The process is deliberately designed in such a way that a person is completely lost about what he is supposed to do and compelled to offer bribes and I too had to succumb to my limitations (vehicle owner was leavin bangalore in next 5 days so i had to complete the process in that time span) and I hired a tout and paid him 3500 bucks and came to office .
In my office when I narrated the entire story of this injustice and expressed my strong desire to launch some complaint , take at least some action such as filing a complaint, meeting higher ups like RTO officer or even reporting it by some means to higher (who, by the way, are not elected), the MLA /MP /ward officer or other elected individuals who supposedly have far too many other grass routes problems & for a huge variety of people, particularly the poorer sections since they are the ones that vote, mostly. My problem will thus seem quite insignificant to them since their voters do not have free piped water, no drainage, expensive power, no proper roads to settlements, etc & these become much more important priorities.My issue pales in comparison on this priority list for those elected, though they still are accountable /answerable to all classes of people, including me.
Why is it that people who are supposed to interact with the public are sitting at the back of the office? Wont it be more efficient and transparent if all such counters are in the front?
NOC process does not look complicated for it to make a citizen deal with multiple counters. Why is it that all the formalities cant be completed at a single counter?
Instead of giving me a flimsy receipt, why am I not given a clean and clear acknowledgment which says they have received everything needed so that if needed I can hold them to account?
Why is it that the entire process is not put on the RTO website in clear terms?
Why am I compelled to BRIBE to make someone do his job for which hez already paid ?
One should do a lot of things. In the end it all boils down to what fight to pick.
For me my fight was to pick or not to pick the tout and I lost my battle :( but
I will surely win another one and its WE who can win it together by not promoting these touts !
Friday, July 02, 2010
Kyun Ho Gaya Na
Love is a beautiful feeling which I used to think to be the toughest one to interpret.One dreams about his/her special one all the life and suddenly they start loving someone they never imagined to be with.I always was of the view that i want mischevious guy with bright shining eyes; intelligent enough to understand my witticisms; sane enough to complement my insanity ... But love doesn't happen in such a regular and ordinary way. It has to tread on the path we never imagine to walk on and with the person we never can imagine to love at the first stage ....and den we hear people say "kyun ho gaya na " :D
Impeccable is the one word which aptly describes him , every word he says or every thing he does seems to have a meaning though that doesnt stop me from breaking into disagreements or going about silly crazy fights ... this guy is beyond trust and true to heart :) Dream of love may not necessarily align with the dream of the special one. Now with him, the dream is indeed fulfilled. But when I look at the dream I used to have once and when I look at him, I feel he has brought more than what I dreamed. More than perfection, the picture looks complete. Sometimes, imaginations exist only till the extent you don't feel. When you begin feeling, imagination ends at its very beginning. Thats what happened to me in love.I spent more time of life with words and silence always been his favourite. So different and away we were, yet so closer we ended being. He and I are just one soul naah he and I are worlds apart.
He's patient and systematic , I'm jumpy
He's quiet, I'm chatty ..... he's the sensible types, I'm the crazy types
He's a geeky nerd or a nerdy geek.
He's into java and me in C
He's into metallica and I m into enigma.
He's into kadak chai , me a coffee lover who has finally learned to settle with tea :)
He's way fitter than me and good at sports .
He never turns up anywhere on time and I am miss punctual
He works till very late making me wait
He is too tall, even for my highest heels
In the last 1 year that I have been friends with him, I have told him
about all of my 3 million crushes, but he has only told me of 2 (of
which I am not the one)
He comes up with weird nicknames for my colleagues tonesh being one :D
He doesn't get haircuts on time not even when his parents were visitin
He begins sentences and doesn't end them.
He claims to be a cook but he can make only one dish that is his
chhamakwa khichdi
He chides me for being careless with money all the time .
He makes me cry buckets and then takes me on ride to cloud no 9 ...(tears r precious ;))
His PJs are worse than mine (I know it's hard to believe).
He irritates me, grins and then says "I irritate you so much na?"
He hates shopping and doesn't let me shop 2 (sob sob )
He woos my cousins and sibling over with ten-minute chat
conversations, and then they tell me that they like him more than they
like me huh
He at times disagrees with correct English and actually makes it sound incorrect.
This is what the mean fellow says :
She is a writer, me a reader
She is the talker, i am the listener
She is smart, i am smarter(although she is quicker in solving DI Qs, but then she has also had lots n lots of practice)
She is into C, i am into java too :)
She is nerdy, i am the cool types
She is a narcissist, am a bigger narcissist.
But in spite of all this our chemistry was a once in a lifetime find for us both. I have never known two people more in tune with one another or meant to be together, he gets me totally and that's why he gets me :)
Impeccable is the one word which aptly describes him , every word he says or every thing he does seems to have a meaning though that doesnt stop me from breaking into disagreements or going about silly crazy fights ... this guy is beyond trust and true to heart :) Dream of love may not necessarily align with the dream of the special one. Now with him, the dream is indeed fulfilled. But when I look at the dream I used to have once and when I look at him, I feel he has brought more than what I dreamed. More than perfection, the picture looks complete. Sometimes, imaginations exist only till the extent you don't feel. When you begin feeling, imagination ends at its very beginning. Thats what happened to me in love.I spent more time of life with words and silence always been his favourite. So different and away we were, yet so closer we ended being. He and I are just one soul naah he and I are worlds apart.
He's patient and systematic , I'm jumpy
He's quiet, I'm chatty ..... he's the sensible types, I'm the crazy types
He's a geeky nerd or a nerdy geek.
He's into java and me in C
He's into metallica and I m into enigma.
He's into kadak chai , me a coffee lover who has finally learned to settle with tea :)
He's way fitter than me and good at sports .
He never turns up anywhere on time and I am miss punctual
He works till very late making me wait
He is too tall, even for my highest heels
In the last 1 year that I have been friends with him, I have told him
about all of my 3 million crushes, but he has only told me of 2 (of
which I am not the one)
He comes up with weird nicknames for my colleagues tonesh being one :D
He doesn't get haircuts on time not even when his parents were visitin
He begins sentences and doesn't end them.
He claims to be a cook but he can make only one dish that is his
chhamakwa khichdi
He chides me for being careless with money all the time .
He makes me cry buckets and then takes me on ride to cloud no 9 ...(tears r precious ;))
His PJs are worse than mine (I know it's hard to believe).
He irritates me, grins and then says "I irritate you so much na?"
He hates shopping and doesn't let me shop 2 (sob sob )
He woos my cousins and sibling over with ten-minute chat
conversations, and then they tell me that they like him more than they
like me huh
He at times disagrees with correct English and actually makes it sound incorrect.
This is what the mean fellow says :
She is a writer, me a reader
She is the talker, i am the listener
She is smart, i am smarter(although she is quicker in solving DI Qs, but then she has also had lots n lots of practice)
She is into C, i am into java too :)
She is nerdy, i am the cool types
She is a narcissist, am a bigger narcissist.
But in spite of all this our chemistry was a once in a lifetime find for us both. I have never known two people more in tune with one another or meant to be together, he gets me totally and that's why he gets me :)
Friday, June 25, 2010
Making workouts work out !!!!
So its been like over some 3 months I have been gyming :) ,so hows gyming coming along ? don't u get bored ?
Well till now it hasnt been , someone once told hey gym is a great place to meet "the" dudes , now that's different that I havent came across even a semi hunk ...sigh ! but one day I'll, so, that keeps my gyming going !!!
Another is the hearty laugh i have , a dude who comes to gym ,looks at himself in mirror , left right center and leaves !!! I try hard not to laugh, but you know how incredibly funny it is when guys are checking out their own bodies in the gym mirror.
The dude who makes weird sounds when he lifts weights, "Aaahhh!!", "Ohhhh!!" inviting strange looks from people around him.
Then next in the queue we have is the instructor who goes screamin keep up the pace if u want to get a girl with lace or for d girls who want to wear a lace
Then u get a funny sight when the cool guy awaits his turn on treadmill and tries out all the weird possible exercises on earth - ok we know u r cooool !!! :P
Moving on we have two females entering in jus lyk the ladies' chit chatting all set to work out , now that work out is not about tread mill or cycling , huh all dese go moonlighting when comes to the gossiping which makes everythin work out for them ;)
Then u have a guy who can keep you updated with the latest style statement by coming in funky n funkiefr shorts every next day :D
So my 20 minutes in gym arent that boring ... what say ?
Well till now it hasnt been , someone once told hey gym is a great place to meet "the" dudes , now that's different that I havent came across even a semi hunk ...sigh ! but one day I'll, so, that keeps my gyming going !!!
Another is the hearty laugh i have , a dude who comes to gym ,looks at himself in mirror , left right center and leaves !!! I try hard not to laugh, but you know how incredibly funny it is when guys are checking out their own bodies in the gym mirror.
The dude who makes weird sounds when he lifts weights, "Aaahhh!!", "Ohhhh!!" inviting strange looks from people around him.
Then next in the queue we have is the instructor who goes screamin keep up the pace if u want to get a girl with lace or for d girls who want to wear a lace
Then u get a funny sight when the cool guy awaits his turn on treadmill and tries out all the weird possible exercises on earth - ok we know u r cooool !!! :P
Moving on we have two females entering in jus lyk the ladies' chit chatting all set to work out , now that work out is not about tread mill or cycling , huh all dese go moonlighting when comes to the gossiping which makes everythin work out for them ;)
Then u have a guy who can keep you updated with the latest style statement by coming in funky n funkiefr shorts every next day :D
So my 20 minutes in gym arent that boring ... what say ?
Wednesday, May 05, 2010
Change !!!!!
Everything changes ... have heard it like zillions of tyms by zillions ...
friends ... relationships ... talks n walks .... ur chemistry ... ur priorities
So the only constant is CHANGE which keeps driving so called life and it goes on ...
New things start replacing the old ones and old ones simply start getting passive , sinking deep down getting tagged as memories !!!
Then these memories will come up cropping with the recurring events ...Ironically now when you meet ur close friends err rather erstwhile close friends you are left with nothing but a prefunctory "Hi ... " with an awkward silence taking over ...then to break this silence would come some cliched oxymoronic talks "Aur batao kinds " just for the heck of striking conversations in the name of 'social protocol ' .
Surprising that those friends with whom you would talk of silly thoughts of small deeds ...everything that once answered to your needs the thoughtless but kind ...now simply goes all blind ... weird but true ...everything fades away .The talks with them now lead you into an awkward state and you just don't find words .... and finally comes a bye with a sigh !
You don't even realize how swiftly old things get replaced by new , new by newer ...
I wonder why some people fail to submit to the realities and would harp on ..."lets meet " thingie when they may actually not want it ..may be that's again in the name of social protocol inviting awkward silences ... BUT then there still remain exceptions and there are get togethers which u eagerly await ...
may be there should be no let go's or there should be ... umm confusing ...
Oh well, life goes on and so does work
Time to get back to work and say bbye ......
friends ... relationships ... talks n walks .... ur chemistry ... ur priorities
So the only constant is CHANGE which keeps driving so called life and it goes on ...
New things start replacing the old ones and old ones simply start getting passive , sinking deep down getting tagged as memories !!!
Then these memories will come up cropping with the recurring events ...Ironically now when you meet ur close friends err rather erstwhile close friends you are left with nothing but a prefunctory "Hi ... " with an awkward silence taking over ...then to break this silence would come some cliched oxymoronic talks "Aur batao kinds " just for the heck of striking conversations in the name of 'social protocol ' .
Surprising that those friends with whom you would talk of silly thoughts of small deeds ...everything that once answered to your needs the thoughtless but kind ...now simply goes all blind ... weird but true ...everything fades away .The talks with them now lead you into an awkward state and you just don't find words .... and finally comes a bye with a sigh !
You don't even realize how swiftly old things get replaced by new , new by newer ...
I wonder why some people fail to submit to the realities and would harp on ..."lets meet " thingie when they may actually not want it ..may be that's again in the name of social protocol inviting awkward silences ... BUT then there still remain exceptions and there are get togethers which u eagerly await ...
may be there should be no let go's or there should be ... umm confusing ...
Oh well, life goes on and so does work
Time to get back to work and say bbye ......
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Aur batao !!!!!
Five recent conversations and all of them invariably boiling to "aur sunao ....."
Two friends.. now distanced by time and place… communicate mainly on gtalk and occasionally on phone… with every coming day, each one of them starts getting busy in his own world, with lesser and lesser common topics to chat on…
One fine day they meet on gTalk, and here is their conversation…
1: “Hey Neha! whats up !!”
2: “Oh, I am good, whats up with you ?”
1: “Yeah me too, doing good…”
1: “kaam n all kaisa chal raha hai”
2: “Yeah, its good”
2: “And how is life”
1: “Never been better :) “
this followes by a pause, both of them get back to there work for a few seconds hoping that other guy will write something, 1 thinks to break the ice & starts fiddling with what to write… but is not able to think anything
So he just starts typing: “Aur sunao…. ” only to see that IM window is already flashing with a new message from 2, and it reads…..
2: “Aur Sunao, Kya chal raha hai…”
Isn’t it common to most of us.. It has become such a natural phenomenon, whenever we don't have anything to say, we just pass the ball to other court, and the standard question is almost everytime just a variant of “Aur sunao ?”
This “Aur sunao”, actually means that tell me something which I don't know about you or tell me something which I know about you but don’t want to ask.
Like:
Is your love life rocking or on rocks ?
Whats the latest gossip ?
Whats the name of your latest crush?
How about your chances of appraisal?
When are you planning to change your job?
When are you planning to go for higher studies ?
When are you getting married?
How is the progress in your startup?
In short, lets catchup buddy and tell me how is life treating you?
So everyone out there, whoever is reading this post:
“Aur sunao, kya chal raha hai ?”
Two friends.. now distanced by time and place… communicate mainly on gtalk and occasionally on phone… with every coming day, each one of them starts getting busy in his own world, with lesser and lesser common topics to chat on…
One fine day they meet on gTalk, and here is their conversation…
1: “Hey Neha! whats up !!”
2: “Oh, I am good, whats up with you ?”
1: “Yeah me too, doing good…”
1: “kaam n all kaisa chal raha hai”
2: “Yeah, its good”
2: “And how is life”
1: “Never been better :) “
this followes by a pause, both of them get back to there work for a few seconds hoping that other guy will write something, 1 thinks to break the ice & starts fiddling with what to write… but is not able to think anything
So he just starts typing: “Aur sunao…. ” only to see that IM window is already flashing with a new message from 2, and it reads…..
2: “Aur Sunao, Kya chal raha hai…”
Isn’t it common to most of us.. It has become such a natural phenomenon, whenever we don't have anything to say, we just pass the ball to other court, and the standard question is almost everytime just a variant of “Aur sunao ?”
This “Aur sunao”, actually means that tell me something which I don't know about you or tell me something which I know about you but don’t want to ask.
Like:
Is your love life rocking or on rocks ?
Whats the latest gossip ?
Whats the name of your latest crush?
How about your chances of appraisal?
When are you planning to change your job?
When are you planning to go for higher studies ?
When are you getting married?
How is the progress in your startup?
In short, lets catchup buddy and tell me how is life treating you?
So everyone out there, whoever is reading this post:
“Aur sunao, kya chal raha hai ?”
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Sex No Bar !!!
I think I seem to be maturing heck too slowly for my age!
Yes i'm 20+ and still in the stage where you have crushes once in a while (not the serious type ,that's one!!!). It's more or less like a teenager or whatever ....
And it is the most inappropriate type of crush - a guy elder to me (roughly by 10 yrs), working at a higher hierarchy level, and last and the most blasphemous - married! No, i don't have a thing for married elder man. Don't judge me dammit :P
well he's surely not the usual crush-at-first-sight types. but then I don't say I m not weird ,he's gone ahead with the kill-by-attitude and behavior style. it's just the way he talks. it's just the way his face lights up like a 500watt bulb when he smiles.
So now we go talking and sipping coffee ..me skipping a gazillion beats
So this guy says , so how is it working here , u in nfs -dev right (thats the name of my team) and then we talk and talk and suddenly the conversation lands to no girls in your team and a question pops up- how is it like with just all the guys around
Well couldn't have said voila and then i headed the conversation telling him everything right from the beginning , just recalled my starting few days at netapp!!!!
We had our new hire orientation program , a training stuff ... first day twas the time for lunch and i see all the new joinees going for lunch , tracing the groups and i see all girls heading together forming a group .I get scared of fully female company (unless I know all of them very well, and I like them, which would make them at least a little bit similar to the kind of girl I am).For me who has like spent most of her childhood hanging out with the guys my cousins and friends, climbing trees, spinning tops, flying kites, and balancing atop the narrow parapet walls, and most of her adult life (so far) with a group of guys pursuing engineering, this was scary. Now don’t get me wrong here. I am not anti-girl or anything. I am all for the ya-ya sisterhood.But,I at that time chose my course and went ahead with 2 guys from my college who were ehh to my surprise pretty good a company .(no flattering , coz i know both the guys would be reading this post ).
So k,another question which would have popped up was why do I run in the opposite direction when I see an all-girls' group? Well, here’s the thing. I believe (rather strongly at that) that girls bring out the worst in each other. For one, girls are complex just realized this when my cousin harped on the same fact a thousand times yesterday.Yes they are,let's just face it .They are. They cry. They say one thing when they mean just the opposite. They can't make up their minds. And then they play games with guys, and politics with each other.
On the other hand, guys are relatively simpler to understand. They have no hidden agenda.They don't judge you on every little thing. In fact, for most of the time, they are lost, clueless creatures who don't get why we cry, why we make those incredibly complex hard-to-decipher statements, why they can’t talk to us while surfing a sports website, why we try to find the 'hidden meaning' in their words (when there isn't any) and why we expect them to be able to read our feelings. Not to even mention how freaking difficult to understand we are. And if all this is not enough, we have those days with mood swings. That’s a lot of things they have to deal with!
So frankly speaking, when there are too many girls around me, I actually feel weird ,may be the talks, maybe I am afraid that my hidden girly traits will take over and I will turn into one of those typical girly girl.
To all guys whom I've confused and annoyed (to the point of utter frustration) with certain extreme girly behavior at times and of recent, I want to apologize. I would like them to try and understand that much as I sometimes it is hard to shake off all girly characteristics, and some of them do surface now and then.
So I told that some of my closest friends have been guys and most of my groupie's and now colleagues and I find it perfectly fine.Let's face it now , we girls can't live without guys. And I am not just talking broken tubelights that need to be fixed or bags which i had to dump in the shelf cabinet some 10 ft high, today morning... I'm talking about the absolute need to have different viewpoints, different talks,different ways of thinking, and different ways of reacting to situations. The Venusians need the Martians.
To all those who say that in ten years' time, women will no longer need men, here's my reply. Bull !!We need them as much as they need us and that's the whole truth.
Think about it ,we really give them a tough time, and yet they still manage to love us.
So all the Ladies, let's cut the men in our lives some slack :) .
Yes i'm 20+ and still in the stage where you have crushes once in a while (not the serious type ,that's one!!!). It's more or less like a teenager or whatever ....
And it is the most inappropriate type of crush - a guy elder to me (roughly by 10 yrs), working at a higher hierarchy level, and last and the most blasphemous - married! No, i don't have a thing for married elder man. Don't judge me dammit :P
well he's surely not the usual crush-at-first-sight types. but then I don't say I m not weird ,he's gone ahead with the kill-by-attitude and behavior style. it's just the way he talks. it's just the way his face lights up like a 500watt bulb when he smiles.
So now we go talking and sipping coffee ..me skipping a gazillion beats
So this guy says , so how is it working here , u in nfs -dev right (thats the name of my team) and then we talk and talk and suddenly the conversation lands to no girls in your team and a question pops up- how is it like with just all the guys around
Well couldn't have said voila
We had our new hire orientation program , a training stuff ... first day twas the time for lunch and i see all the new joinees going for lunch , tracing the groups and i see all girls heading together forming a group .I get scared of fully female company (unless I know all of them very well, and I like them, which would make them at least a little bit similar to the kind of girl I am).For me who has like spent most of her childhood hanging out with the guys my cousins and friends, climbing trees, spinning tops, flying kites, and balancing atop the narrow parapet walls, and most of her adult life (so far) with a group of guys pursuing engineering, this was scary. Now don’t get me wrong here. I am not anti-girl or anything. I am all for the ya-ya sisterhood.But,I at that time chose my course and went ahead with 2 guys from my college who were ehh to my surprise pretty good a company .(no flattering , coz i know both the guys would be reading this post ).
So k,another question which would have popped up was why do I run in the opposite direction when I see an all-girls' group? Well, here’s the thing. I believe (rather strongly at that) that girls bring out the worst in each other. For one, girls are complex just realized this when my cousin harped on the same fact a thousand times yesterday.Yes they are,let's just face it .They are. They cry. They say one thing when they mean just the opposite. They can't make up their minds. And then they play games with guys, and politics with each other.
On the other hand, guys are relatively simpler to understand. They have no hidden agenda.They don't judge you on every little thing. In fact, for most of the time, they are lost, clueless creatures who don't get why we cry, why we make those incredibly complex hard-to-decipher statements, why they can’t talk to us while surfing a sports website, why we try to find the 'hidden meaning' in their words (when there isn't any) and why we expect them to be able to read our feelings. Not to even mention how freaking difficult to understand we are. And if all this is not enough, we have those days with mood swings. That’s a lot of things they have to deal with!
So frankly speaking, when there are too many girls around me, I actually feel weird ,may be the talks, maybe I am afraid that my hidden girly traits will take over and I will turn into one of those typical girly girl.
To all guys whom I've confused and annoyed (to the point of utter frustration) with certain extreme girly behavior at times and of recent, I want to apologize. I would like them to try and understand that much as I sometimes it is hard to shake off all girly characteristics, and some of them do surface now and then.
So I told that some of my closest friends have been guys and most of my groupie's and now colleagues and I find it perfectly fine.Let's face it now , we girls can't live without guys. And I am not just talking broken tubelights that need to be fixed or bags which i had to dump in the shelf cabinet some 10 ft high, today morning... I'm talking about the absolute need to have different viewpoints, different talks,different ways of thinking, and different ways of reacting to situations. The Venusians need the Martians.
To all those who say that in ten years' time, women will no longer need men, here's my reply. Bull !!We need them as much as they need us and that's the whole truth.
Think about it ,we really give them a tough time, and yet they still manage to love us.
So all the Ladies, let's cut the men in our lives some slack :) .
Thursday, January 14, 2010
I spy , Ice water ,Kites Vs NFS , AOE ....
Had a kid around in office today morning and yay i see him all amused and confused with his eyes searching for something in my aisle n here we go talking :)
Speaking to kids always always brings me a smile that tad bit wider. They know just how to perk up a downward bound day and turn it around.
And each time I talk to them, it brings back so many memories!
Memories of holidays spent together with my siblings. Of our organized midnight sessions,playing tictac-toe ,dot-dot where invariably we would be the only ones awake and thus the only ones to eat the chocolates stolen from the refrigerator ahem ! in the end .The big asoka tree with next to boundary wall for us to climb from… The countless cycle races… Our n number of club and competitions we'll arrange … The picnic three of my friends plotted about for ages, before finally settling down to eat the goodies right on our rooftop… Our mock housewarming where I promptly melted the tiny play cup while attempting to boil milk over a candle flame… Devising ways and means to run away from bed in the afternoon with mom holding hand tight ... Walking past the vegetable vendors and finding it ridiculously funny to mock them …… Our frantic trips to the library and get all comics to make sure we had ammunition for the night to come... The pact to go have ice-cream from Cool Corner every evening … And then, weeping bitterly on the last day of the holidays.....
Darn! Those were fun days. How much we used to play! I don’t remember stepping into the house until it was dark and/or we were too exhausted to lift a finger. And such fun games they were too. Cops and robbers, hide and seek, blind man’s buff, tag, lock and key, dodge ball, cricket, shuttle, flying fighter kites...Oh I m so missing kites today :( :(
But today I look at kids around. They still stay in the same amazing place. But they are so tuned out of all that beauty. Or is it, say, a lack of imagination? Is our Ashoka Tree just an old trunk for them? Our Fairy Forest a scratchy thicket perhaps? Our Memory Lane just a silly grass path?
They don’t read. They don’t play in the mud. They don’t run around the house like we used to, laughing like mentally retarded hyenas. They don’t jump from furniture to furniture pretending to be pirates escaping from crocodiles. They don’t organize plays, magic shows and poetry recitations (with the boundary wall of our rooftop as our stage) for the family and charge the adults for tickets to sit patiently through our valiant efforts (lol! )
Today all the kids turn their noses at all this. They like their TV’s. Not to mention computer games filled with machine guns and sports cars (somehow I like the pillow fights Kittu and I used to have much better that projected ones). Their wish list reads like a Japanese shopping list. They like Beyblades and what not . (What on earth is a Ni Hao, Kai-Lan by the way? I was too embarrassed to ask :D )
Sometimes I feel like I’m a kid and they’re the grown ups. Anyway, if they’re happy, then I suppose it doesn’t matter what they do. But every now and then, I can’t help wishing that they would run outside and actually PLAY! Get dirty… Get yelled at… Laugh uncontrollably… Just be CHILDREN and not the grave little adults they are today.
PS : this post contains excerpts i shared with quite a few friends since last few days with nostalgia striking in .....
Speaking to kids always always brings me a smile that tad bit wider. They know just how to perk up a downward bound day and turn it around.
And each time I talk to them, it brings back so many memories!
Memories of holidays spent together with my siblings. Of our organized midnight sessions,playing tictac-toe ,dot-dot where invariably we would be the only ones awake and thus the only ones to eat the chocolates stolen from the refrigerator ahem ! in the end .The big asoka tree with next to boundary wall for us to climb from… The countless cycle races… Our n number of club and competitions we'll arrange … The picnic three of my friends plotted about for ages, before finally settling down to eat the goodies right on our rooftop… Our mock housewarming where I promptly melted the tiny play cup while attempting to boil milk over a candle flame… Devising ways and means to run away from bed in the afternoon with mom holding hand tight ... Walking past the vegetable vendors and finding it ridiculously funny to mock them …… Our frantic trips to the library and get all comics to make sure we had ammunition for the night to come... The pact to go have ice-cream from Cool Corner every evening … And then, weeping bitterly on the last day of the holidays.....
Darn! Those were fun days. How much we used to play! I don’t remember stepping into the house until it was dark and/or we were too exhausted to lift a finger. And such fun games they were too. Cops and robbers, hide and seek, blind man’s buff, tag, lock and key, dodge ball, cricket, shuttle, flying fighter kites...Oh I m so missing kites today :( :(
But today I look at kids around. They still stay in the same amazing place. But they are so tuned out of all that beauty. Or is it, say, a lack of imagination? Is our Ashoka Tree just an old trunk for them? Our Fairy Forest a scratchy thicket perhaps? Our Memory Lane just a silly grass path?
They don’t read. They don’t play in the mud. They don’t run around the house like we used to, laughing like mentally retarded hyenas. They don’t jump from furniture to furniture pretending to be pirates escaping from crocodiles. They don’t organize plays, magic shows and poetry recitations (with the boundary wall of our rooftop as our stage) for the family and charge the adults for tickets to sit patiently through our valiant efforts (lol! )
Today all the kids turn their noses at all this. They like their TV’s. Not to mention computer games filled with machine guns and sports cars (somehow I like the pillow fights Kittu and I used to have much better that projected ones). Their wish list reads like a Japanese shopping list. They like Beyblades and what not . (What on earth is a Ni Hao, Kai-Lan by the way? I was too embarrassed to ask :D )
Sometimes I feel like I’m a kid and they’re the grown ups. Anyway, if they’re happy, then I suppose it doesn’t matter what they do. But every now and then, I can’t help wishing that they would run outside and actually PLAY! Get dirty… Get yelled at… Laugh uncontrollably… Just be CHILDREN and not the grave little adults they are today.
PS : this post contains excerpts i shared with quite a few friends since last few days with nostalgia striking in .....
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