Sunday, October 29, 2006

joy forever




A thing of beauty is joy forever

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

preparations for new project and me

i have been assigned the task of visiting the client's place and study the systems over there. i don't have prior knowledge in this area. my experiences in the previous organisations is limited to accounting, rather than these kind of exercise.
the way, my organisation is preparing me is not so impressive. i feel people who are dealing with the client is not having a structured migration progress. the way situation is being handled is haphazard and is confusing me. even the way they are organising my travel arrangement...well...i have the least to mention about it.

my friend who is visiting UK this weekend...is not sure about the trip until the moment he steps on to the plane..

well...i m having my fingers crossed...let me see

anyways here is a site which is a sort of search engine..a big bandwith might be helpful to load this...
http://www.msdewey.com/


Sunday, October 22, 2006

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Dennis behind me...

My son is more willing to do the job for me than allowing me to do it myself. he is interested in moving the mouse around and typing the letters for me. when he was in the womb i prayed that he should be like the comic character Dennis the menace...and my prayer was answered. even now he is shaking the mouse and pulling out the cd-rom. now when i shout at him...he kind of shows fingers and sticks at me threatening me to dire consequences. frankly i have to learn from this kid...he has lots up his sleeves. the magic he spuns around the neighbours...the charms he exhibits on the strangers...the smile which will cool the sun...and a lot. he comes out of any kind of situation..thats my son...the creativity or working knowledge he exhibits with little knowledge. he surely knows my weakness....

Monday, October 16, 2006

Break or laziness

well, it was long, long time since I have visited this site to post my musings. matter was that there was no musings all thru' these day, since there was lot of changes happening in my professional sphere. going ahead, i expect some paradigm shift inside me. days are fast approaching for me to prove a point or two to myself. my work culture now involves lot of discipline and the ability to grasp things as fast as possible...with this knowledge i m approaching with greater vigour...i wish myself 'best of luck'

well, the above was not the reason for lapse in posts...it was due to laziness...talking about discipline...

Saturday, October 07, 2006

I try...no I will


Everyday i try to be new, stronger person,
everyday i try to battle it out...
everyday i believe the struggles
i m going thru' is worth the effort...
everymorning when i open my eyes..
i expect the positive rays of sun will
wash away the negative of yesterday..

everyday i try to control the pain..
i will not let it control me..
as it did a few months back...
i am in control...i am in total control..
and i will not allow anybody into my inner sanctum..
b'coz i know they will leave one day and also
it's a place no body can handle..

i will keep trying to win the impossible odds against me.
i will... i must...

Thursday, October 05, 2006

favourite quotes...

This is my take on favourites quotes...condensed from another site with my won inputs....

01. Love. —The Prophets

Jesus, Gandhi, Buddha. All the world's religious saints and prophets hold love as a central value, the glue that anchors the universe.

We hear, "Love makes the world go round," and "Love heals all wounds." These are familiar themes: love of friends, ideas, and self. Love of God and of country. Even love of life itself. If I could only have one word for all eternity, love would be my choice.

2. Know thyself. —Socrates

In career development, self-knowledge is everything. In a career, you can be two or three degrees off course and walk into a wall, instead of through a doorway. You don't have to be far off to have it fail.

Career unhappiness often results from lack of focus, and lack of focus stems from limited self-knowledge. But self-knowledge takes time, introspection, and effort. So it's easy to avoid. I am quit bad at it.

3. Inches make champions. —Vince Lombardi
Making that extra move that other’s failed to do….that makes a lot of difference. I have my own experience of instance wherein I had given up and a last thought asked me to travel an extra inch to achieve the unachievable.

4. Nothing gold can stay. —Robert Frost

Now CAREER = CHANGE. You'll have five careers in a lifetime, maybe six. Perhaps you'll do part-time, project, interim, or consulting work. And even if you're in your ideal dream job today, that might change tomorrow. Nothing gold can stay. Change is constant thing with our life. In these era….good things come in small packages.

NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY — by Robert Frost

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

5. Work is love made visible. —Kahlil Gibran
About 80% of people are unhappy at work, and 20% are happy. Our culture has separated work from passion, and taught us to prefer a higher paycheck to higher happiness. That mistake costs us our souls. The goal of career development is to uncover one's gifts and passions, and to link them to the practical needs of the world. We call that "being in the right place," "finding a good fit," or "making the best use of one's talents."

High compensation and high happiness are not incompatible. It's not that we shouldn't seek money, and lots of it; many of our clients do. But we should first seek to love, or at least to like, what we're doing. That's the realization of our highest calling.

6. No great thing is created suddenly. —Epictetus (A.D.200)

We live in a McDonald's culture. We want everything instantly and without effort. And we bristle when others around us appear to be getting more, sooner. Waiting for rewards or results is out of favor. It is so uncool.

The sudden ‘puliotharai’ or ‘briyani’ is not equal to the laboriously prepared ones by my mother. They are adequate, functional, or practical improvements. Greatness requires thought and time, effort and sacrifice. Especially sacrifice.

Stellar careers aren't built overnight. Think about Edison, Einstein, or Galileo, or anyone else you might admire. None of them got there overnight.

Great careers are built upon hundreds of thousands of small efforts, undertaken daily, that eventually grow into a series of satisfying wins. An ad for Paul Masson Vineyards picturing a bottle of wine said, "Nothing good happens fast." I framed it, and hung it in my office.

7. Well done is better than well said. —Benjamin Franklin

This is a variation on "Actions speak louder than words" and on Shakespeare's superb quote, "Talkers are no good doers." An executive search consultant who recruited 500 bank presidents told me, "There are two kinds of candidates: tap dancers and superstars. Tap dancers go through the motions and superstars get the work done. I recruit the superstars."

8. No wind favors he who has no destined port. —Montaigne

The cliche, "If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there," is valid. And many careers are broken by lack of direction. Corporations define this concept as having a mission or vision, and organizations lacking vision usually flounder. "Career Planning" speaks to the idea of creating a blueprint for your future. That is, having a goal, a destined port—fulfilling your destiny. Stephen R. Covey said it well in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People when he advised us to "Begin with the end in mind."

9. Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. —Seneca

I've been there. You've been there. Sometimes life is hard. You hit a career roadblock or dead end. Nothing seems to be working. You're fired or laid off. Or worse yet, you and your spouse are both unemployed. It happens. And it happens more frequently than you might imagine, to good people, qualified candidates, because of circumstances beyond their control. I like Churchill's words, "Never give in, never, never, never, never; in nothing, great or small—never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense." And I especially like the quote by Edmund Burke, who said: "Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair."

10. Do first things first, and second things not at all.—Peter Drucker.
It's so easy to do what's familiar, comfortable, or fun. It's so difficult, sometimes, to tackle the highest priority. And sometimes it's difficult to even know your top priorities; hence, the phrase, "I can't see the forest for the trees."

We suffer from over-choice: 67 varieties of toothpaste, 487 styles of shoes, 186 brands of cell phones with 137 telephone companies. We demand more variety than we could possibly need or want; and as a result, we get lost in options, opportunities, and choices. There are 87 varieties of lawyers, and 75 specialties inside medicine. The world of work can be a confusing landscape.

When you're flooded with career possibilities, or "swimming up Niagara Falls," it's good to spend time answering questions like, "What is the best and highest use of my talents?" and, "How can I make a bigger impact?"

If you can't establish clear career priorities by yourself, use friends and business acquaintances as a sounding board. They will want to help. Ask them to help you determine your "first things" and "second things." Or seek an outside coach or advisor to help you focus. Because if you don't know what your "first things" are, you simply can't do them FIRST.

Your friend,

vinukv

Saturday, September 23, 2006

catching up with the day

when i have lot of time to spend, i wonder how to spend it and at the end of the day, i brood over wasting time. time management is a skill and plenty of discipline goes into it. towards the end of the week, the pace of life gradually reduces. just imagine the vigour with which we start the monday morning....it is more like the start of 100 metre race. the expectations, deadlines and tensions of our profession makes it more interesting and worthwhile...probably that adds pep to life. just imagine a life without all these tensions, its a vacuum out there..life is out.

Friday, September 15, 2006

Solitude



this picture was shot at Chavakad beach near Guruvayur. on the way to the beach, i found that there is nothing exciting about the place....but once i saw the shore, it turned out to be the most beautiful place i have ever visited. it had kind of hawaiian luk with lots of coconut trees lined up near the shore...it had a tropical environment. i was alone there and my loneliness suddenly seem to less matter to me. the emptiness of the beach seem to symbolize me and the waves seem to be my rising thoughts. i saw throngs of people playing and dipping and testing the pulse of the mighty sea.

multitude of waves
and a lonely me
multitude of thoughts
and a lonely decision


there is a reason why i love to be on the road...as i travel further i leave behind the memories..flashes of places and glimpses of changed expressions pass through me...as i travel, i feel like a cloud that mingles with everything...the fellow clouds, trees, mountains, etc and never will i unite with any of this..

be a cloud...!!!!

Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Quote of the day

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

- Herman Hesse, German novelist

Sunday, September 10, 2006

On love...Helen Fisher

an interesting link on love through ramzlinks.



Helen Fisher is an anthropologist with Rutgers University, specializing in gender differences and the evolution of human emotions. Her most recent book is Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love. In this wide-ranging talk, she outlines the bio-chemical foundations of love (and lust), and discusses the natural talents of women, and their new significance in the modern world. (Recorded February 2006 in Monterey, CA. Duration: 24:13)

Thursday, September 07, 2006

Today

Hmmmm....end of the day and I am wondering what has happened with me today that can be called as 'life-changing' or 'life enhancing'. The induction programme with my new company went off well; actually it got started yesterday and I was not particularly enjoying it. I had to sit for 8 hours and listen to the lecture delivered. It had lot of sense in it, but then sitting for 8 hours...reminds my school days. Out here, it is totally a different culture...one which I was not used to it. It is customer-oriented. I find there is lot to learn in this area. I see myself as an entreprenuer and the knowledge from this organisation will be helpful to me in my future endeavours..

as always....gud luck to me.....

Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Things I consider in life….

01. feeling great about life and the thought that life is gift to me to be lived
02. coming out of situation that I consider as a bad predicament
03. feeling the positive in everything
04. my love for anything abstract
05. sometimes beer acts as a prozac
06. I believe that I have good grasping power and is especially able to understand any systems
07. I feel both control and controlling is illusion and convincing is a better act. Egomaniacs control.
08. genuinely feel that respect for individual is hallmark for any good relationship

Saturday, August 05, 2006

pick the one vch makes sense

Some anonymous creature has written this...pick the ones vch makes sense to you....


1. Science has proven that the domestication of animals has resulted in a progressive erosion of their mental facilities. The domestication of humans has led to similar effects.
2. Your life is passing in front of you, you are getting old. You are going to die, and you're never going to be on television.
3a. Get drunk and have sex at 4 am on a Tuesday in the back of a running cop car while the pig's in the Chinese restaurant shaking poor Johnny Wong down for Chow Mein leftovers. Call in sick to work tomorrow.
3b. Stop being afraid of everything.
4. It has been structured so that we "need" money to survive. Most options for "earning" money involve us trading a large portion of our limited lives. Our "work" usually involves meaningless repetition that runs absolutely opposite to our human nature. Not only is our "work" boring, it is enforced with strict behavioral rules and the constant fear of being "fired". It has been rammed down our throats that this is a "reality", and that the benefits of this planned system outweigh the negatives. It is becoming increasingly clear that this may not be the case.
5. Being cool to people gives them hope. It gives you hope too. Help anyone who needs it and pay back every favor given to you in spades. Assholes are their own punishment.
6. This is my body. I'm the one who moves it around and I'm the one who makes it do amazing things. I will take full responsibility for the actions of this body. I will not be controlled by the body of another.
7. There is no priest, no politician, no boss, no cop, and no concerned citizen who will ever convince me that they are performing functions necessary to my continued existence. They do not matter, they only impede. There are no masters and there are no gods. There are only people who demand life, and people who demand control. Whose side are you on?
8. There is nothing sexy about mass production, hamburgers, or soda pop. American consumer 'culture' must continue to be ignored at home and worldwide. Yankee go home, and take yer shitty food with you.
9. Sex is awesome. So is a good burrito. So is a round of drinks with friends. So is reading. So is sleeping late. You shouldn't feel bad about constantly enjoying yourself. Misery loves company. So does boredom. Ignore the telephone.
10. Freedom is the only important thing, personal liberty the only pathway to dignity. Anything that stands in the way is the enemy, no matter what costume it wears. Stop being afraid of everything.
11. Nobody knows anything. Everyone is lying. Look out for each other.
12. Do Not Pet The Tiger. The Tiger is Sick.
13. It is an easy power to ridicule everything with sarcasm and irony, anyone can do it. It's much harder to give things a chance and try to understand. As smart as you are, there is always something to learn, and, conversely, always something to unlearn. Stop being afraid of everything.

Timeless classic

Subject of the matter is hindi songs. Over the years, hindi songs have evolved into termendous form. I have been connoissuer of hindi songs since my childhood days, when our vividh bharati played 'aap ke fankar' programmes. those days i was forced to listen to it due to my father's interest. especially during the holidays, my afternoons were filled with songs of yore...i was dragged to my afternoon nap listening to these songs. right now, while listening to these songs i get connected to those moments of that life. Anand & Abhimann were big favourites of me. nostalgia perks up, when i listen to those songs now.

Sunday, July 16, 2006

Dennis...we have him here

When my son was in my wife's womb...I prayed that he should be more like Dennis the Menace. In fact, God answered my prayer and now I am suffering the consequences. I love Dennis...basically b'coz of his aversion towards oldies. Oldies, who are having difficulty in catching up with this generation...SMS generation....anything more than 4 words is categorized
as lecture.



Saturday, July 15, 2006

Love is

an all pervasive, potent force that sometimes strikes you without our knowledge. There is no reason, why somebody should love somebody…it strikes us just like that…without any prior knowledge or data. It can not, but only have divine meaning attached to it….it is some sort of cosmic revelation. It brings in you that belief that everybody is inter-connected and are in some form or the other divine.

It is morning in Africa

I happened to read this wonderful short poem and which just about sums up all our lives...

It is morning in Africa and
As the sun rises over the plains
The gazelle awakens knowing that
If it cannot outrun the fastest lion
It will be dead.
It is morning in Africa and
The lion awakens knowing that
If it cannot outrun the slowest gazelle
It will die.

It is morning in Africa and you had better start running.

Anyways....I have decided to start jogging from tomorrow morning....

Thursday, July 13, 2006

Cutest prayer


Sounds sensible to me...hope the elders listen to this first rather than God..

Sunday, July 09, 2006

Signs of Welfare state

do i have to take a avatar of a journalist to report this? actually this is not of much concern but sometime when value of time goes up and you find the traffic rather slow and acting as a obstacle to reach your destination...you tend to get out of the bus and slap the creators of this mess. as usual i was passing through prathanana theatre in ECR and the traffic at that hour was horrible to worst.

i think when the governent hands out permission for some commercial activities to take place in a public place..it should act rather diligently...it should analyse the implications of there action on the general public. I think, having a theatre right on the main road...it is utter nonsense...it disrupts of flow of the traffic. There should be some acts or rules in this regards...like for example in France, or any other sensible country for that matter,all the petrol bunks are located 1 km away from the city limits..this is what you call a welfare state.