Shocking Six

Six is always a fun in cricket especially in IPL matches where six sixes are the favorite to the player as well as to the spectator.
But here six sixes is a different story....
2008.... January to July, the shocking six months.........and the shocking six news...

Crude prices going up... and up... and up.... not only that prices are surging but the country is also facing the fuel crisis. Now if you go to a petrol pump there is 50 % chance that you will get the fuel for your engine. what's the option ? Shall I take a bicycle??? Is it a hint that the life thousands of years ago is coming back again ?

IT services going slow.... and slow.... and slow... This is the area where we were on the transition of "developing" to "developed" nation. This is the area which contributes most to our GDP. The downsizing of the workforce is also an area of concern to the country where unemployment is a barricade to the development.

Inflation going up... and up... and up.... from a mere 5% at the start of the year to record high of about 12% in mid of the year. What is it's effect? when I asked to my married colleagues they told me that "apart from the rise in prices of the commodities, the shopkeepers are even charging for the polybags per commodities"!!!

Political stability is coming down...and down... and down...left withdrawing support and in the trust vote congress losing the credibility although it wins.

Then the serial bomb blast yesterday in bangalore. Not one not two but eight blasts at different places!! Although a very few casualties were reported but still people are shocked. Believe me I got more number of calls yesterday in the past few months. Friends, relatives, home... call from everywhere... but message is same, "R u ok and don't go anywhere"A friend of mine resides at one of the places where blast took place and he told that "bomb ke dher par baitha hu"...

Today again in the evening the news was more shocking.. This time it was in the beautiful city Ahmadabad and the number was double than what was yesterday here. Yes, Sixteen!! and all of them in the throng places. The actual scenario cannot be predicted but as per the news, it seems that effects are more devastating, if not exaggerated.

What's going on in the past six months in this country?

I guess no one has the answer but the silver lining in this gloomy situation is that people have "hope".
Hope that all the problems will be solved.
Hope that the life will be peaceful.
Hope that people will be happier.

"a positive hope" --this is where we are ahead of any country in the world... it worked in the past and will continue to be so..
I hope everything will be back to normal!!!

Song of the day....

kahin na laage mann..
kya hai yeh sunapan...
mujhe tum bata do..
koi to wajah do..
har ghari ab khayalo me..
kah raha hai koi...
har ghari mere khwabon mein..
aa raha hai koi....
A beautiful song I like from the movie "kismat konnection"..... listened today 12times!!!!

Channel change !!!

If u guys don't know then let me first tell u I have a TV in a corner of the hall... Most of the time idle. It gets jealous sometimes to my laptop (she now takes most of my time and win over my old friend TV...) suddenly I thought "What do I watch on TV?"

Channel 1: Set Max- Sometimes good movies come, but I don’t remember I ever completed one. Long ads>> Change…

Channel 2: Aaj Tak- It’s really terrible. Anything apart from news I can see here. The topics are being so elaborated that I used to forget the main topic. Only circular analysis is being done forgetting about the center of the circle. The dialogues are surprising: “agar chain se sona hai to jagte rahiyeeee”. Programs like dhongi babas, Kaal kapaal mahakaal ...huh>> Immediate channel change….

Channel 3: CNN-IBN Here I rely on some good news. The analysis on current issues and world affairs is deliberate and easily comprehensible. Especially in the debates, it goes to the crux of the situation to spread the message to the society. A socially responsible channel.

Channel 4: Sony- The boogie woogie show is great in weekends. I love the spirit in the contestants that comes out from the sense of competition.

Channel 5: Zee studio: I love this channel. The movies are gr8. The message of each movie is great and it’s something new to learn..

Channel 6: World movies: The movies from each part of the world… Spanish, German, Italian, Chinese… No, I don’t know these languages but thanks to the word written down the screen. The expression of each dialogue is different in movies of different countries, especially Spanish have their own different way of expressing romance…

Channel 7: Pogo- Mr Bean appears and I have no better reason to laugh with his wacky facial expressions without uttering a single word. Amazing!!!

Channel 8: Music channel: I am not bothered from which channel it is coming. As long as it’s a good song, I enjoy it, After that>> channel change.. Other song!!

Channel 9: Sports channel- If it’s live, it’s gr8 to watch else not much interested.

Channel 10: Nat Geo- The few programs are incredible to watch. On Monday, “The aircraft investigation” and other related sessions are a must watch. The simple analyses behind the complex technologies are something that I can’t resist to watch.

I hope after this much of word my TV got relief and now smiling :)

What’s next? The red button on the remote (It curses me for repetitive pressing!! tired and demands rest) and me back to work on my lappy!!!

"Excuses" and "Explanation"

A bit confused always about the two words written with the fifth letter "E"!!

Life is full of situations where we have to act..act smartly... perform better... improve daily..

Everyday life is full of interaction with people.
Return>>a ton of questions... in multiple disciplines... technical, personal, humorous blah blah blah... and it demands I have to think and reason it.. How can I do that?

Well there may be two choices I have: I can think of "excuses"... thousands of tons of them...
In lieu I can think of one best "Explanation"... one best!!
Several times such situation comes.. I take it. Sometimes It comes in advance "what I have to do"? Sometimes it comes later "what I did"? Excuses or explanation? No answer. Not before not later!! Sometimes later it comes "why do I worry" Situation is over...

Now what's the difference?

One involves emotions, quite defensive, guilty, a bit selfish too...

Other gives confidence, quite comprehensive and naturally convincing.

If someone doesn't understand there must have been something wrong with my words. I might have taken it in the direction of excuse. Once it got the way I might have searched for another excuse to support former and so on.. then into an emotional ocean... obviously not convincing...

Why? Because there is always only "one best explanation" to a situation.
Just to interpret a psychological research study It needs only innocence and a bit of knowledge to "explain", but to excuse, a lot of traits is to be mastered. That's why I guess it's simple!!! Try it...

The Rat Race^^^^^^^^@

Morning 7:30AM: The transfer of mind from unconscious world to conscious world. Yes from beautiful dreams to reality full of illusions. Yes you get it right: the alarm in my phone rings exactly on same time everyday!! at least something is punctual and perfectly doing it's job. I hate that ring especially on monday after two full free days of myself but I can't do anything :(....

Just the start of the RAT RACE^^^^^@

Morning 8:30 AM: By this time I am already out of my dreams and promising my mind to come back later spending a lot of time.. and believe me it's hard to convince her!! same as convincing an stubborn child to do your work with promise for few more chocolates next time. Now after lot of words and promises I finally get ready for the office.

This is the peak time for the rat race... Everybody riding on the two or four wheels wants to reach as soon as possible overtaking anything on the way. It's really irritating when traffic jam adds the flavor to the process of Chuha daur!! Phir v bhaag chuhe bhaag.....

Mornig 9:00 AM: Reaching to the office and thinking of getting some relief from the rat race just completed... but to my surprise again it's starting... some day you have to be a silent spectator and watch other's racing, sometime it comes to me... Whether it's a meeting, review or discussion. But this time thank god the rat race is of the brain!!!! at least some relief.

Well addition of flavors are here too!! guess what?? Right: the criticism and interference of few gr8 people into your work....It happens but cream of the milk is to avoid or ignore these sapidities. The more you involve, more is the chance to become a bureaucrat straying from the goal.

Noon 12:00: Again a rat race for the appetite. People rush like anything to quench their exhaustion of four and half hour rat race. So do I.. some food with a glass of mausammi or sugarcane juice and getting again ready for the rat race...

Evening 5:00 PM: Time to pack up after 5 hr since lunch. These 5 hrs are sometime hectic in the lab or in a testing or in front of PC.. Then again a rat race with two legs or four legs on the road. It takes some time to stabilise and realise that today's rat race is over :)

Evening 6:00 PM: At least some peace finally on reaching the quarters.. Sitting with newspaper or watching news again gives a final realisation that the rat race which I covered today was nothing in comparision to what 6 billion of the world are racing.... dreadly, brutal and violent for some...

Then comes the rat race for few personal committments untill sleeping time reaches....

And now it's time to keep my promise what I did to my mind in the morning.. and she also promises to take me for the next few hours hell out of this rat race into an exquisite and peaceful world of dreams.... And I always smile at her innocence.....
Having believed her, I hope to have a good experience finally before one more rat race begins!!!! Good night... :)=<

After a very long ........... time........

I guess reading the title u will look at the date of the post I published last.. Yes you looked at it right... It was last on 22nd june 2007..... huh...
After a very long time (about 5 days short of one year), I realised today that I have missed myself in that period....
Starting something after a long gap needs some reason.... Let me find some!!!

Why not start with answering a question "why should I start writing again?"
The life needs time to go on.. But time management is also as important as our other commitments are...and I guess I am not good at both....Need a lot to work on it....

Now coming back to the question one simple reason is that "there is always ample time to start anything we want" Time is not short but it's the forced thinking which makes time short for any activity... By forced I mean the circumstances that we ourself create for our desires....

Next>> Everyone feel good to write and recieve a comment... so do I... Thnx guys for encouraging me... It gives me a different angle to think about my thoughts and feelings...

I don't know much of it's benefit as my friends asked me several times "wht do u get out of writing all this?" nor do I want to know... but it's my wish to capture all the memorable moments of my life....

A silly but final reason may be I have my lappy with me just before going into the dream world...
The perfect time to write something!!!!
Hope to continue............@@@@@................

Melancholy for Break---/----Up Relationship

Do you think that only human beings or more precisely living beings are suffering from a break up relationship? Well it’s not true. The emotional sorrow after separation from someone you are close with, is for nature too. Have you noticed the bad weather and rain in most of the part of the world in the past few days?
Everyone on this earth is elated with happiness with the news of coming back of Sunita Williams to earth. All are celebrating and praying in their own way for safe return of the Indian origin flight engineer in NASA. The brave woman has made her record by staying 195 days in space—a remarkable achievement. It’s not only the matter of staying but it’s a matter of contributing socially and technically to the world. It’s really a pride for the human being, which always struggled for its existence through an only precious resource called brain.
But it is only the space, which is not happy of new kind of in space break- up relationship. How can one come up from such a gloomy situation when its 195 days old? The eye-wetting is obvious as we see generally in the break-ups. In few past days, the sky was bursting with rain full night showing its sentiments of separation. Not only it is sobbing with rain but also keeping itself in the dark during daytime exactly similar to the human tendency of setting him/herself alone in the darkness with melancholy thoughts and eyes filled with tears. In these situations the main problem is everyone will come to you for showing sympathy and giving suggestions but no one will wipe out your tears. Some of them always wait for these occasions and act as butter in the fire!!!
Practically if we see our past, there is always some kind of separation in our lives for satisfying our everyday growing needs and comfort. Whether it’s a separation from family or from organization or break-up with friends, there is always gloom and despondency in the life for some period of time depending on the extent of emotional sentiments attached to the relationship. After that period of time everything comes back to the normal accepting this separation as a rule of nature.

Sh..ri..nk..ing... English

One day morning I got a message on my cell, it writes: "Thnx 4 ur hlp". Well it's sure that you can't find the word of the written sentence in any of the lexicon, but if u ask anyone they will not only tell you the meaning, but it may be possible that they will reply also in the same manner with few more shocking shrinking words.

I am very much in support for the use of these words afterall the main purpose of any sentence is to commnicate the meaning. As long as the other end person understands, its ok.

Then I started thinking that from where this culture has started. Actually the culture of shrinking the english was also there in the past. You can see it in the form of abbreviations everywhere. But now a days for the past two years it has picked up it's pace like anything. People now a days uses alphanumeric words to communicate in short. Just think about the creativity of people who initiated such things.

Take the first sentence again but this time formal " thanks for your help". Total words=17, where as with the shrinking words the same purpose is achieved by 10 words. That is saving of 7 words.

We can simply write "gr8" for "great", saving two words.

Now think how can you shrink " your question is wrong". I will write it as "ur ? is X".

One reason could be the growing telecom industry where people have so much of interest in messaging within restricted number of words.

If this culture will be adopted formally everywhere then I think it can save lots of time and money also by utilising less number of pages, inks etc. Just imagine the documentation work in India and then think of the saving...

But this shrinking should not be so fast or too much that in future we should be left with only blank papers....!!!

100 % Confidence

Sometimes I am surprised by the people saying " I am 100% confident". I think confidence is a trait which comes to a person based on his experience & knowledge. If I am correct there is no one in this world having 100% knowledge. There are so many detail things for even a small topic that is difficult for a person in one lifetime to grasp. As our knowledge level increases, progressively confidence increases like 50% to 60% to 80% to 90% to 99% and so on...

It should not be 100% otherwise there will not be any scope to increase our knowledge.. and most important thing if it will be 100% then next natural thing will be an infinitesimal increment to it, which we call as over-confidence. Over-confidence as we know is not a good quality of a person. So better to be less than 100% confidant.

Denying help: Is it a natural tendency

I was quite confused about this topic. I will tell you an incident in a train journey last month. I was coming back from one of my official mission. There was a well educated girl travelling by same train in fact in the same compartment after finishing her MBBS. She was going to her hometown. In the morning at around 10 Hrs, I planned to charge my cell. There was only one charging point at the gate. The girl was already there to charge her cell. After 5 minutes she came back and started reading some medical book. Her cell was still charging there. I also started listening music. Then after some time the attendant came from other side and told something to her and she went with him to the gate. When she came back I asked her how long will she charge coz my cell getting discharged. Then she told it is no longer there, it's lost! I just asked how then she smiled & said that "there is no problem, I am loosing my cell every four months and that was with me for around 5 months".
During our talk I came to know that she is one of my school friend's batchmate. Then I told her if she wanted my cell to call her family... but again she smiled and said " no thanks, my father would have known by this time that I have lost my cell". She talked to me nicely whole journey but not taken any help.
Earlier I was thinking that people doesn't take help from strangers. But it was really of different kind. May be it's the showy nature of a girl or self esteem of her which had prevented her from taking help or may be enough careless or may be she is rich enough to forget that event avoiding any action or complaint.
If it was the last case then I would suggest she should donate her cell once in a 4 month to poor people so that she will get some blessings in return!!