Bangalore Durga Puja

Last week it was festive season all over India and guess what is it-- It's Durga Puja. I am with my full family for the first time in bangalore this Durga puja.

I must tell you that here Durga puja celebration is mostly done by some bengalee associations. Very well managed clubbed with some gr8 cultural programs....

We all went to Ulsoor RBANMS ground for puja on 26th... It was about 12:30 Pm and my mother and wife did puja there. Also as it was the golden jubilee year of the bengalee association, they have arranged mahabhoj --- free for all with hygienic menu (khichdi, aloo dum, mixed veg, aam chutney, rasagoolla, kheer) and it was unlimited...Please control your tongue...

Next day we went to different places but this time in the evening... Pandals fully adorned and filled with devotees.. Different types of cultural programmes have been arranged at different place.. viz somewhere garhwa, somewhere dandia, somewhere rockband bla bla... but the spirit of the people were same--- and that is "to enjoy fully and involve actively"..

For the last three four years I was totally away from this festival even though I was in bangalore.. but the fact was that I was alone.. It was something like coming back to child age and have a "chalo mela dekhne" feeling... wish someone could have given some money also :)

Lastly thanks to the continous official holiday (with saturday and sunday) that I could have all such kind of feelings :)

WORK-LIFE balance

It's quite difficult to maintain a work life balance, however not impossible. What plays here a crucial role is the will not the skill. If you want, you can.... try it !
"Priority" is another factor which varies from person to person. Well for some, Career is their priority whereas for some it is social relationship, family, money bla bla bla...
but its better to have a well defined priorities in advance.....It will help to create a work life balance....

Is Everything Comes At A Price?

I am not an economist. But I have a basic question regarding the current financial crisis.

Why the financial system of a country is liquid? To put in other way why a country cannot increase the volume of its currency to overcome financial downturn? 

Every country has its own currency. That currency is also released by its own country.  Then why is  it not possible? It sounds rediculous.. Even thinking about it I laughed at myself!!!

Let me put it by an example. Suppose a country has a total of x unit of its currency. All this currency would have been printed or manufactured by an institution of that country. A general person or lets say bank has y unit of that currency. If that institution releases additional nx unit of currency and distribute it to that person or bank then the total currency with them will be proportionally incresed by ny amount. Now they can invest or spend ny amount in other countries as the currencies are interchangeable. People want money to fulfil their basic needs as well as to do what they want. They can do anything with this money as the world is open.

I agree that we have limitation of our exports. We cannot export money in lieu of commodities. Every country has the limitation of its resources but an independent country can release money to buy anything they need from a country where that resource is in surplus. What is the limitation? Everything comes at a price!! Some at high cost and some at low.

Well the answer may be here. Population is increasing and resource is limited. We cannot stop time to make population stagnant. Nor we can increase the resources of the world as a total. A country cannot export more by reducing its consumption lower than a threshold. So the total consumpion is limited to make resources sustainable for future use. If inbalance occurs it may create havoc in the world. 

But coming to the present situation in US, the crisis is due to unavailability of liquidity. Can America do this tricky thing to overcome its crisis? Who will regulate? If they print huge amount of dollars and inject it to bank then everything will be fine for them. Can they do it for short term solution to make suffer other developing countries in long term? Let's wait and watch!!!

A Poem in the dream

Oh! my cute little dreamgirl.

its the best moment of each day,

that you come and take me,

to the way away from this fake world,

on the shore of an blue ocean,

Perplexed by the mystery of ocean end,

and the desire to see where sky meets ocean,

Everything gets simple when I see you,

All the riddles that nature hides is now open, 

Never let your smile stop,

which keep my heart ticks,

Thou should not close your eyes,

where I see the purest of the world,

At times,I get jealous by the breeze,

that freely waves with your hair,

And It's the colour of your lips,

that makes even the red rose to feel shy,

Oh! my cute little dreamgirl,

its the sad moment that you are going,

Even after your promise to come again,

I can't express how much I miss you,

Being with you It feels more than heaven,

I had nothing to offer you as a gift,

but still you love me a lot and come again,

The care that you do is everything for me,

I feel I am being myself with your soul,

With all the powers that you bestow on me,

I will fight to the world till we meet next.

Oh! my cute little dreamgirl,

I will wait like ocean waiting for sun,

Please come soon to take me away,

Never leave me in my dreams alone,

oh! my cute little dream girl, come soon..

Oh... u are a king...

October this year is a festival month. Started with Dussehra and then ending with diwali. Lot of holidays than any other month... 

but it is getting over.. the king of months is going soon.. how can i bid farewell to it happily? But i had to as it has given me a lot.. 

time to relax..

time to analyse my mistakes..

time to meet my friends..

time to devote myself to worship god...

time to initiate jogging n a bit of exercise to keep myself fit...

time to execute my routine works in better way...

and the list is incessant...

so many are there.. 

thank you.. oh king...thank u very much... 

I wish all the members in your kingdom would have been like that..

Will surely wait for your company next year...

Please come soon with more and more holidays....

Today is diwali... i am inviting you for sweets and chocolates...  even i had few crackers tht will sparkle and guide you the way to my house... Please come and bless me...

B2BB

Back to bangalore and blogging too. I went to my hometown on a long holiday. Before going there were lot of speculations among my friend that I am going for my marriage without telling them. They were not ready to believe me. Now I am back single to bangalore. Hopefully they will believe now.

The trip was excellent and I loved it. I was very much excited to see my lovely home after a period of more than one year. The crowded city, the lovely markets and the perfect ambience.. all that I loved and missed. I have seen my school building (not a school now), my college and my favourite places where I used to spend time with my friends. But it was very tough to realise that those days have gone. The places are there but not the friends, memories are there but not that I can convert past into present like a sentence in grammer. 

Then I also travelled a lot to meet my relatives. Although I talked to them over phone, but meeting them was a great feeling. Spending time with my family is something which I love more than anything else. During my entire visit I missed bangalore for it's climate. Everywhere I found the scorching heat from the sun penetrating my body. When I was in Darbhanga, there was no power at the places wherever I stayed. But the fun was that power comes whenever I was about to leave one place to meet other relative. 

During the journey I have seen few old people sitting at the periphery of a deep hole at a construction site and looking deep into it. It was mid day and nothing was near two km around I guess. Curiosity forced me to ask them what they are seeing deep into it. They said that they are waiting for the construction to be over. It was a road construction that connects their village to the main road. A lot of development work is going on and people have hope now. 

I also came across the real scenes of flood that looks like an ocean with no end. The desperate faces still asks in silence to me "when will the situation becomes normal?"

I have no answer. Perhaps the nature do have... 

Beat me or chase me if u can!!!

Yesterday, in the opening ceremony of the Olympic, the China has shown something to the world!!
Mainly to the developed nations that what is meant by splendid opening to world level event.

It has shown to world indirectly that "I am on top!! Come beat me if u can... Come chase me if u can......"
Here I mean ---'u' in "beat me...." refers to developed nations
and 'u' in "chase me...." refers to developing nations....

I started watching it and I could not able to withdraw myself from the TV. I went deep into the virtual world. The level of technology depicted by Chinese spellbound many and I was one. Their hard work to reach the near-level of perfection was clearly visible. Everything was in harmony and perfect.

The revolving people in the air, the three dimensional equaliser and many more was just as seeing a sci-fi movie on the screen. But here it was in reality, a cause for fascination. I was mesmerised and confirmed again and again that it was a live show.

The developed nations would surely have noted the hypnotism shown by Chinese. And most importantly it would have given a perfect paradigm to the developing nations about "how much a nation can develop with the proper use of it's resources (mainly hardworking people)?"

I know it's a big question for many brain but not too big that we as Indian cannot reply to it in the next event of such kind in our country............

Not to have in first place

People wish something and get it when time comes. The luck factor (I believe it comes when preparation meets opportunity!!!) also comes into play getting those dreams come true.

How long?
Will it last forever?
If I get something, will it be with me forever?
Does it depend on the wish I make or the dream I have seen?

May be. May be not.

But one thing is for sure that loosing something always hurt. Why? Because there might have lot of effort before getting it. Also because of importance of that thing for people who get something easily or call it "by chance" (although I feel that reward would have come certainly due to his/her direct or indirect effort sometime in the past). Whatever may be the case, but after getting it there is a feeling of celebrating moment like being on the top of the Eiffel Tower to show that "Yes, I did it" with a hand pointing to the world.

The tower disappears when I loose!! It feels like someone has pulled the base where I am standing. Like someone has choked the throat or blocked the air around the nostril. Leaving me as if I am alone in the sea without any bank. At that moment, I want to be like a patch of cloud being carried away by wind to high in the sky.

Thinking all the time "Why I got?"
Is it that I didn't deserve that or
I had not done justice to what I got.

I will do the full justice next time. I will not let it go next time. I will do the best I can....

But for the time being it's gone....

My heart now force me to conclude that "It hurts much to have and loose than not to have in the first place".

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!!!!