WOW!

College to corporate world was a drastic change in my life. Teachers teaching how to study,solve problems, learn apptitude,whatever to mentor/bosses teaching,sharing the experience actually, about 'creating the WOW factor' amongst your collegues. Not much fundas in my current organisation,Siemens Ltd with, my boss,Rahul,a very artistic person, an ideal in himself. By saying artistic it ofcourse includes the so called art in it,painting to be specific,but I would like to address him as an artist of his life in totality. He is aware of and pays attention to the smallest of the small things. Practically speaking, it is not possible to be an ideal artist of life, but but he is one,to the extent one can be. These were office hours.

What about the WOW factor under our shelter? Lives have become so fast in these 'cities' to the extent that you spare time first to tell your expectations,problems,fun,happenings,sorrow or ask the same.Descending comes the step of the solving if a problem, realising if an expectation or enjoying if fun or happenings. Gone are days,in time and space too,when partners or so called closed ones realised the fun,sorrow,happenings,expectations,by merely looking onto them,their gestures and their 'nayans'.Though, people say, love can be sensed by looking into each other eyes, but that is a exaggeration,at least to me,now. I doubt whether there is any WOW factor in relations existing in this world ,this world circumscribe in its scope the busy city lives. Nowadays, you judge the quantum of drinks you gulped down by staring at the lovers/partners eyes. Not that this wasnt a case in the days back,but it can be said that such conclusions are drawn exclusively when 'nayan' are in context."Jaanu,tere naino me daaru dikh rahi hai!"

Now comes the term 'fidelity', which is playing in and around the knots existing in todays relations,especially couples. The importance of fidelity cannot be understated today, typically for couples. Far away,in space and time,people have and had time, to set expectations and then realise it,as stated above. This bolstered the relations making them grow healthier. But,now, it is undemanded fidelity that keeps the relations healthy and rich. Fidelity,just fidelity rather,can put couples to slowly witness distance amongst themselves,morally. They tend to feel that the partner is demanding,suspiciously or kind of ruling us.But,undemanded fidelity,in itself, the greatest stimulant to make the beautiful rose blossom and spread the essence of love blossom.

I had in no way intended to sway my thoughts into what about fidelity I wrote above. But, I was just now having a text chat with my weird girlfriend. She has been alloted to some data archival project under BNYM by Cognizant and was just introduced to her team with 2 girls and 4 boys. This looks a simple line, but it took me 5 interrogative texts , to 'extract' this information. Did I mention weird? Yes, he he ...This is beacuse, I am in a meeting, she calls and starts talking and talking and talking , without even knowing, rather caring to know, where I am. Everybody stare at me, constantly, unless I cut the call. Now, here, I need just one exclamation text, to stop her, keep her on hold and continue, when I am free. A gemini girl, Linda goodman says, is actually 12 personalities into one. I guess I know about 4-5 out of the 12. Agreed!

I digressed a lot, WOW to a girlfriend! LOL! It isnt laugh out loudly, it is lots of love!

Enrouted to eternal peace?

If the youth today cannot sustain mere three minutes of meditation, how can they enjoy 3 hours of a idiot movie, hours in front of something around 20' desktop playing games and hours of staring into so called lover's eyes?

Sentience of home…

          It can be anywhere in the world. As long as you get the feeling of belonging. Sometimes this happens by meeting and connecting with new, wonderful people,visiting another city or country that really feels comfortable to you. You cannot exactly describe why you get that nice, warm fuzzy feeling, but you know that you get. That’s true, far more than true!
          In the world of today more people than ever are relocating, moving, immigrating and traveling. It always comes along with “Do I get that same feeling of belonging again”?

Many people may advocate that one’s home is a geographical location, four walls, a huge TV, an air conditioner, a false ceiling and the interiors which have become a status-quo factor now, all the techie gadgets, etc. A place where you get all the comfort, though material, inside four walls. You can live in this material for decades together.

But, there are some whoi advocate a ‘home’ ,within the soul characterized by family and memories, or somewhere that safety and love abound. Home may exist on several levels, such as cultural, societal, familial, and/or political.

          Material objects and the physical actions of making and using them are a fundamental part of how forced migrants, far from being passive victims of circumstance, seek to make the best of – and make a home in – their displacement. But, there is also something, an inner feeling of insecurity which keeps us killing, provided me have time to think. Lives have become so fast that we do not even think of taking a pause and think and ask ourselves where we are heading to, what do we want, what do we need?

          The ratio of people changing the state of living a life at home from moral to material is increasing exponentially as the materials are taking over morals, in ma ny cases. You gradually start adapting yourself to these modern lives, unknowingly or knowingly, the change fascinates you, and your actions now start aiming towards ‘achievement’ of these goals. This is inevitable! I can say that  ‘this life’ has become the ‘life’ of the our generation.

          Although, there are very few, who run  behind what they wanted their life to be without succumbing to the lucrative material around. Sad to say, out of the few, very rare are ‘happy’ and ‘proud’ that they are living the life they wanted, and they had dreamed iof far before and not,just before. Because there is a thin line between far before and just before, on which you pull the plug of life or you end up being pulled up by life!

          The  line, the thin line, is everything you should be aware of. Everyone, in his lifetime, goes ‘through’ this line, time passes and then you realize how you lived the ‘thin line’ and that decided how you will be living then after!

Welcome to the future...What after marriage?

Some days at Mumbai, with nothing noteworthy to do except wait for the Monday to arrive so that I can join Siemens, allowed my mind to rush through the delicacies of life...My mind pondered over many things. Let me put them down in brief. But, it is surely interested and captivating topic for humans like us, in our early 20's!

It is my Siemens who says, ‘we answer to the toughest questions’…

I wonder how things changed within so such a time frame. Think of the life span of our grand parents who lived to their fullest in their married lives and earned then. They had more than 'ample' time to give to their soul mates. 

Next came our parents who were neutral in this regard and they had to perfectly balance both married life and earning/job. And they did. They had ample time to give to the soul mates and to earn their living too.

Next, it's our turn to prove ourselves. It is now the time to prove that, 'Yes! We have the time to marry and we will do it!' Where married life, rather the life with our dreamed/loved ones is a better phrase nowadays, is on one side and our jobs/incomes on the other. It is very hard to hold both the things tightly and it will intrigue others if we do so.

Needless to say that side, with earning income, is almost touching heights. Time is not far when there will be no time with us to 'invest' in marriages and they will be held through emails. And that too in the leisure office hours. The rituals will be performed through youtube and google videos. Necklaces and rings will be sent as jpg images, and yes, in encrypted formats so that nobody could steal it. Lunch for the families and friends will be clubbed with those of some festival or might be, god knows, it might happen that lunch transforms into 'marriage coffee' or 'marriage tea' instead of marriage lunch/dinner, to save time obviously. Yes, there will be various coffee's for various 'class' functions. Simple coffee for the lower class, filter coffee or cappuccino for the middle class and here comes for the high class, the CCD coffee, anything can happen over a coffee. Worth a tag line!

It may happen that the 'muhurt' will depend upon the 'network availability' and of course will be at weekends and the photographers will be the then century webcams.  And guess what, guests will be sent an e-invitation card, which is not new nowadays. But the present cards have 'Your presence is the most valuable gift' at the bottom. Time is ahead when it will say 'Please avoid obscene chats and direct personal comments during the function'. Surprised??

These are simlple transformations of the words which are not far ahead.

1. Function hall -> chat room or the group chat.

2. 'muhurt' -> 'network availability' 

3. Marriage Lunch -> marriage teas or coffees

4. gifts -> e-order of the gifts.

5. rings or necklaces -> jpeg images, of course encrypted

6. Photographers -> Webcams

7. Patrika -> CV

But, what about the emotions and feelings, at least of the newly married couple if not of the family members. Who will take care of them??

Do not worry. Technology answers everything. Hugs and kisses will be sent, as they are now, through emoticons. More to it, you can always send files with whatever you want to write.

But, my only fear these emoticons things may not just stop to hugs and kisses, but go ahead to Ahh's and Ohh's. Might be true, but what after these emoticons?? What next??

Welcome to the future...

Let us wait and see what lies ahead but it is for sure that it is time to think on how to 'culture' our next generation!

Intel dual core processors, 'Whooo hoooon'!

Sporty Leaders of sports...

Hockey coaches teach hockey, they guide the players to play hockey. But,the concern here is this happens 'sometimes'.Sexual misconduct allegations against national field hockey and weightlifting coaches are plaguing the news nowadays. What are the leaders up to? Where are they leading, not only themselves but the subordinates???

It's alias, The New Delhi Commonwealth Games (C.W.G.)has been in the news for the some of the prominent achievements! Achieving highest figures possible in the financial scams. They are in the spot light for every possible reason,by delays in the construction of infrastructure and venues, which should have been finished months ago for test events but instead, are just starting to come on line now, cutting it fine with competition set to commence on October 3, for the financial scandals, etc.

But, I give due respect to the name C.W.G -> Common Wealth Games. Very true. The 'game' played with the 'Common Wealth' on the board and the threads in the hands of our Hon'ble Mr. Suresh Kalmadi!

After all, the CWG song itself says,

"Yeh toh khel hai

Bada mail hai

Milaa diya… milaa diya!"

I just wonder to which game the word 'khel' in the song refers to and what does it mean when it says ' Milaa diya...milaa diya'!

Cheers to Indian Sports and the sporty leaders of this Sport!

Existing battle for existence
         ...If it is heads, I win; If it is Tails, you lose!

I'm back after a long while..

Recently, rather yesterday, a very captivating, though very bad bad, news struck my batch-mates. It went on like this..

A boy named XYZ had received the joining date of ABC company (for this very reason that didn't yet receive the joining date he was very nervous and frustrated). Couple of days later, somewhere around mid week, he was over excited hearing the news that he had been called to join ABC on Monday, tomorrow. He was happy and made himself busy in the joining the company preparations. I'm saying here that he was happy because this is what we friends perceived from his very acts and behavior then. Things were going smoothly, everyone busy in their own lives and XYZ calling some heads rarely, as he usually did, saying that there was fear prevailing in him about the new company, the new city, the new life. Our friends tried their best to erase this orthodox thinking lines from him and they were successful, at least, seem to be.

Suddenly, on Sunday afternoon, everybody's phone rang and the news that XYZ had committed a suicide spread much more than wild fire. Nobody, including I, want to pen down how the process of so called 'Suicide' was executed as it is much much more than just pity.

This post is not just to mention the incident or for the sake of posting a Breaking News or for any intentional News spreading motto. But, being a citizen of India, I have something to say with authority. Rather, I've something to express my concern about. This series of student suicide is becoming popular in lines as of the TV serials 'Kunku' or 'Chaar divas Sasuche' (Marathi) or 'Taarak Mehta ka Ulta chesma'(Hindi) etc. This train of student suicide is also running on a parallel track to the one of farmer suicides.

But my deepest concern is that where the popularity of the TV serials is just an illusion or it has no direct relation to the mortality of a country and in regards to the farmers suicide, there are means which if followed by the governing body might curb the rate farmers suicide, if not reduce drastically (Although the issue of, the means 'to be' followed by the governing body is of much more concern), there are no such means which the governing body can follow which can help to reduce, and not only curb, the mortality of this young red blood. I can base my views on the fact that making the youth 'strong', is an individual responsibility rather than shirking i onto the governing body. It is the responsibility of the parents, who are the very reason of increasing the head count of a nation by one, to teach the new being, the way to 'live'. And this should be done, right through the childhood and not when the youth start flying away from their very ones and very things and become independent, at least try to be. When it comes to suicide, the strength of the individual comes into the picture and by saying strength I mean to collect all the strengths one can have under one canopy, the mental, emotional, ethical, logical, psychological, etc and physical coming at the last.

I healthily urge the parents, to imbibe in their children, the very fact that

'This World is a very better place, unless you think so..' and teach them appropriate way to live. It might happen that this is difficult, as the way to live are very few which can be put into the young minds but the counter parts, ways to die are countless...It is the battle of the existence and of the non existence, the later trying to behold the former is all possible ways...