Balloons & Butterflies

It was 3:30 P.M and the school bell rang. He came along with his classmates to buy handful of ber for 50 paisa. A 2 rupee coin was lying down. He immediately took it in his hands and put in his pocket before his friends noticed. There were thousands of plan that ransacked his mind. It was long time since he had the kuchi ice. He wanted to try the pink colored one this time. Then it stroked him to buy two caramel chocolate. One for him and the other for his sister. But he was asked to submit a project in social studies the next day. He already completed it and was left out with decoration of the book. He then thought he could buy a blue colored glass paper instead of the chocolate as he wanted to get appreciations. While he thought about all this, he also felt as if he was carrying a cactus with him. He reached his home and it was time to go to the temple near by. Daily he went there before he started with his home work. He had inculcated good values from his mother. The 2 rupee was dropped in the temple hundi. He felt he was holding balloons and he felt his heart like a garden with beautiful butterflies flying.

WoW Woman

Astro science says Venus reaches its maximum brightness shortly before sunrise or shortly after sunset, for which reason it is often called the Morning Star or the Evening Star.
They also say Women are from Venus .Goes without saying they are the brightest stars.
Well there are so many instances when every woman cribs for having born as a woman.
I am not an exception. But many times I have felt women are god’s best creation. He has carefully painted her. She is a loving daughter to her father, best listener to her friends,
Understanding wife, loving mom. She takes herself in various forms and does the best in every role.

I have come across many inspiring personalities so far. To me a woman means patience, perseverance, bold, acceptance, loving, caring, brilliant, responsible, sincere and smart.
To me real beauty is how smart she is and how well she handles things.

I started my career working in a team which was handled by Ms MK. MK was the account manager then. I have admired MK for her dynamic personality. She was known for the cute smile on her face. Extremely brilliant woman. One is always guaranteed for a smooth work.
MK was known for her best planning. She used to clearly instruct the team. At the time of crisis
MK was never impulsive. She assertively conveyed the plan of action to the team and gets them executed. I was proud at those times that MK liked me the most. She gave me excellent opportunities and brought out my talent.

I admired her for the way she had a work life balance. I have never seen her carrying work pressure to home and vice versa. I learnt from her how much she cared for her family and how she managed to be successful at work also. She identified a best project for me and wanted me to work in that. I remember the day when I told her about my dream project and the kind of exposure I expected. I was just a beginner in my organization then. She appreciated me for that and spoke to so many people and rightly placed me.
Without her I would not have bagged a best performer award for the year and visibility among the top management.

Today when I was rated as best performer, it reminds me the kind of excellent foundation that MK helped to get. The kind of confidence I have when it comes to delegation and the way to deal with the team members are things that I learnt from her.

I am sure MK must be director of a business unit by now. She is one of the smartest women I have come across.

Happy Women’s day readers.

Tagged Qns

Instructions:Remove 1 question from below, and add in your personal question .
I have modified 1 question.Make it a total of 20 questions, and then tag 8 people in your list them out at the end of this post. Notify them in their chat box that he/she has been tagged.

1) Who are the most & most important persons you like to meet in your life?
Mrs.Narayana Moorthy – For the wonderful service she does for the society.

Mrs Uma sivaraman – Chief education officer (CBSE board) and my English maam
In school .Want to learn how well she managed both her family and career. Inspiring personality.


2) Name Three Most Valuable Assets?
Parents, Sister, my perseverance

3) If you have the chance, what would you probably say to your beloved one?
It’s something that cannot be shared with anyone other than him.

4) If you were to be stranded on a deserted island, who are the 2 professional you would NOT take with you?
Of course software professional, the other one is also software professional.
(Got really bugged up. Getting me?)

5) Where is the place that you want to go the most?
Venice, eastern India (I have just been to Kolkata)

6) If you can have 1 dream to come true, what would it be?
I shall surely tell when it comes true.

7) Till now, what is the moment that you regret the most?
I generally work in a manner that I don’t regret.

8) Two things which you always wanted to learn but never did till date?
Formally learn keyboard, swimming.

9) What would you do if you found a briefcase full of money?
I would hand it over to a cop. I would always prefer to go by process.

10) If you meet someone that you love, would you confess to him/her?
Why not? I am not egoistic.

11) List out 3 good points of the person who tagged you.
Writes humorously. I donno anything beyond this.

12) What are the requirements that you wish from your other half?
Life is not made out of requirements. I believe in acceptance.

13) Which type of person do you like the most?
Humorous, make everyone smile whatsoever be the pain one undergoes. Empathetic.

14) What is your ambition?
Shall tell when it comes true.

15) What is the thing that will make you think someone is a bad person?
Back biting, ruthlessness, non empathetic, not being punctual.

16) What is the factor of importance of money for you? (My Question)
Money is not everything .It cannot get everything in life. But am sure the more I earn,
the more I can serve the society.

17) Something that made u laugh today?
Some of my coworker’s attitude.

18) How do you deal with a friend who has wronged you?
I am patient for a long time. But I burst out on one day from when on the next
Person will not be left for anymore lessons to learn. I also move away from them.

19) Name one favorite song of yours.
I can never be partial. There are so many.

20) If you are about to lose all your memory and you have an option to remember just one person, who will it be?
My mom. She is the best person who can understand me.

I would like to tag everybody who reads this.

Jodhaa Akbar

The movie was good overall. It’s worth watching once. But I felt I have to watch it once more so that I can remember the sequences. I wanted history, cuz I simply loved it.
But I should have gone back to my history books.
Do you get what I am saying? Yes the movie did not leave any kind of impression. At the same time I cannot say it was boring 3.5 hrs.

For some reasons, the bollywood was under an impression that sharukh and rani best suited for such roles. The convention was broken. Aishwaryaa was so gorgeous. I was awe stuck by her costume. She was like a perfect rajputh women. There cannot be anyone better than Hrithik to have acted as Akbar.
His actions were absolutely awesome. I was very much impressed by his gestures.

The Mughal era was usually described as a violent period with sword swinging and the kind of unimaginable ruthlessness towards Hinduism and its followers. But our history books never thought us the best part of Mughals. I neither went back to my history books nor did a research to find out if Akbar was originally as a person what was shown in the movie.
I even wondered if many of those were fiction.

Ashutosh Gowariker’s screenplay and direction was too good. The lingual difference between rajputh’s and mughals were brought out very well. The dialogue delivery was one aspect that made me feel to watch the movie once more.

Some scenes were really funny. The Maham Anga character was deceived. The kind of importance that was given to the character initially was in vein. Aishwaryaa learns urdu
And asks Akbar to read whatever she had written. Akbar asks her to read since he never learnt
to read/write. The entire theatre broke into laughter when we shouted “Abhishek”.
Kwaja mere song was too good. But the choreography was funny.

One should go and watch the movie to get the real essence I feel.

Funtoon

Disclaimer

Well, the idea of above toon was just to depict the scenario.
The article does not intend to point out any individual or his/her
food interests.

This is to promote vegetarianism for one’s good health.

P.S: Click on the image to have a magnified view

Google – V’day Logo

I am so interested in admiring the Google logo daily. Dennis Hwang is brilliant in depicting the importance of a day in terms of logo itself.

Today is a V’day special. I was quite impressed by the logo. It meant so much for me.
Oldies walking together with a walking stick and a rose in hand.

The idea of depicting old people together meant the depth of love. Walking together to enjoy the lovely sky depicts the happiness they must be having.

Don't you feel so?

Smilie smiles:)

I am sure by now most of them would have watched this movie. The description would be more appropriate for those who have already watched the movie.
Ram madhvani has done a fabulous job. Wowww the movie was excellent.
I have no words to describe other than that expression.

Ishaan nandhakishore avasthi was the kid who played the lead role in the film and the movie is based on his dyslexia. The kid was just amazing. I loved the kid. I could understand the kid loosing his self confidence when the entire world tells him duffer.

I developed a great respect for aamir khan after watching the movie. I literally cried for 2.5 hrs. But I feel it’s worth that crying. I enjoyed the way aamir put forth things to Ishaan’s parents.

I liked the following conversation:

Aamir: Do you know what Ishaan’s problem is?
Parents: He does not read / write properly. Do you think I can feed this kinda kid life long?
Aamir: I asked you, what is the cause and you r nuts who tell about the symptoms. “mere ko patha hai ki munna bukhar se bhimar pada hai.lekin mujhe ye samajni padthi hai ki, use bhukaar kyon hai??”
I felt like he was banging with a hammer 1000 times. What a 1000W question.

Ishaan was absolutely perfect in his acting. Wow 3 year old kid was portrayed amazingly.

I liked aamir’s way of explaining to the kid how to overcome the disability. Einstein is a person whom I have loved during my school days for his theory of relativity. I suddenly started crying when Einstein was benchmarked.

Life is so beautiful and aamir has reached horizons in his life. The climax was with the painting competition. I was like enjoying that scene. May be because I love paintings.

People, just rush and watch this film, if you haven’t so far. Don’t miss this wonderful movie.

P.S: This reminds me of kid (kutti) whom I met when I went to the school for mentally challenged kids. He was so brilliant and could understand whatever I tought. I am sure god blesses everybody in some or the other way.My friend says everyone gets a total of 100 marks in the almighty's court.Its just that the split up that varies.I remember this statement whenever I feel low.The film brought out the positivie thought so well.

Different People

I know it’s been quite a long time I wrote something here.
Happy New Year All.

I have been actually meeting different kinds of people over the past
few days. My friend keeps telling me, just don’t expect things to be rosy always.
People are not the same and don’t believe one can be there for you sometimes.

In the past few days what I learnt from this world was, these days many have lost
the art of talking. There are some people who think talking is like nailing on a
Wooden door. The politeness that one has to inculcate has become a bygone manner.
Recently I had to get in touch with few people for seeking their help. I was always
been replied with a mono-syllable answer. I could not conclude whether it was their
habit of answering or they really don’t want to take the pain of answering. I was not
in a mindset to be optimistic and consider them to be their habit.

There are these other people who always move in flocks. They remain to be in a team for
years together and try not to get out of their shell. Prioritizing a relationship does not mean avoiding or ignoring other relationships. Strange, people feel acquaintances are risk.
I think it’s often they look at the darker side of life thinking that they cannot get along with new people. They miss to give a thought that it could be the sweetest experience too.

There are these people who are extremely helpful. They are so broadminded that they can do everything for someone. They value relationships so much that it gives a comfort feeling for the other person. They are one among those great livings who empathize and are great helping hands.

There are these kinds of people who seem to be getting along well. But actually it’s the necessity that makes them or forces them to get along. I wouldn't say they are completely true.

There are these people who always think about the kind of impression that might get created among their friends when they step forward. They are good but are not bold enough thinking that their friends might not like them helping other than the one in the circle.


Ok, ultimately the crux is one forgets empathy, thinking s/he is very assertive. People are under a wrong impression that if one has to be assertive they should be extremely hard hearted. Well, being assertive does not mean one has to loose all those soft qualities or empathy completely. Sometimes I feel taking care of oneself is not only the purpose of our birth.It extends to so many qualifying deeds one has to render during his lifetime. Helping tendency, empathy, politeness are in fact an art of living. Small changes in ones attitude, manners and habits can multifold into many good things. Even if someone cannot be a helping hand still will not hurt.


Its formula that I thought of would bee too good. If you are helped at your critical time, just remember you are entitled to help someone in need another time. Count your blessings.

To A Friend

It has been close to 2 years I know S. when I joined the project, she was already part of it.
We worked together in the project and have also enjoyed many moments being together.

We were a good support for each other during those critical times in the project. We worked with passion. S and I had many common interests. We learnt designer jewelry making. We loved paintings. Some times when we found time over the weekend, we did paintings of different kinds. Both of us enjoyed those lively moments of cultural events in office and many more. We have love for blackforest cake and whenever I ate I remembered S. To get a good company and enjoying moments is a blessing. I count my blessings and thoroughly enjoyed being with S. And now S had to march towards better things in life. I am happy for her. But something makes me little sad also. I think I am missing her company. S,Thanks for all that you have been for me so far. I wish we continue to have this lovely friendship. I carefully chose my friends and you are one among the treasure I chose.

I believe, to her I mean the same.

Petrol Bunk and fruits

After a long time, I drove my pep over the weekend. The usual bunk where I used to fill the fuel was not active. So I went to another
bunk . I was carrying lot of "Ber"(not sure what is it called in english.Tamil equivalent=elandha pazham). The bunk had lot of girl assistants for fuel filling.One of them pointed me and spoke to her coworker that "Look, maam has got lot of ber". I asked her if she wanted some.She was blushing and I gave her handful. She said "maam just give me one". I realized her happiness when she got a handful of them.

There are still so many people in the society who can still not afford for even small things. The small deeds that we do can make a
difference.

Crackers-Diwali

The moment we hear about diwali celebrations, no doubt crackers add charisma
to it. During my childhood my sis and myself have had enough enjoyment and have had loads of fun burning crackers.
I usually chose burning the lighters ones. I am still quite scared about the noisy way of celebrating diwali.

It’s been close to 10 years I totally stopped burning crackers because I took an oath not to encourage child labour. I have a strong feeling that any social change does not happen all over a night and its tough for a single person to fight and put things to an end. So if every individual bring in a change and contribute for it there can be a change in the society. Though I was interested in burning crackers I took an oath and followed it till day. But today when I read krishashok’s blog where he had mentioned about crackers being sold with a label “Made without Child Labour”, I was little excited on reading it. I was taken away for a moment that probably there were some changes being implemented for social reformations.

But then I realised this is no less than “cigerette smoking is injurious to health” kinda label when cigerettes are being sold.

Mere marketing strategy!

Second Concert

Few months back my Sis and myself went for a near by saibaba temple kumbabishekam. Whenever we went there we sang songs for baba. The temple is actually in a devotee’s house. The aunty who runs the temple like both of us singing together and she often blessed us for the same. The first time we both sang bhajans for 1 hr during the pooja at kumbabishekam. Aunty blessed us and we got good applause from everybody.

Now its navrathri time and usually our colony temple trust organizes concerts in the temple. We both nominated for a 1 hr program. The evening was shared by some kids and the next 1 hr was our concert. We both prepared around 12 songs. The concert went on very well. The crowd enjoyed. We were given a 2 hr slot for a different occasion.

I think its all Sai baba’s blessing that we got a chance like this.

Driving Chronicles

Part III Concluded

I was finding comfortable time to learn car driving. I joined in a school last month.

Initially I was quite not comfortable. Initial classes were in mauriti. Then there was this master who thought me santro. He was very strict and kinda typical master who would scold for any mistake that I did. He used to tease me that I cannot learn driving successfully. The analogy that he had derived from his past experiences was that a software engineer cannot learn anything other than related to software. They are like dumbos and their brain is tuned to a selective frequency. He gave me enough impositions when I made mistake while I changed gears. But I learnt fair enough and finally booked for license test. I was under the impression that mostly everyone would get a license if we went through a school. I took it very easily and I also cleared the test. But I learnt some were also failed. Anyways I have to explore my learning’s in days to comeJ

God save the roads!