Trip to Ghati...

It was a lazy saturday evening when suddenly i decided to go to Ghati the next morning mainly cos i wanted to travel by bus and my parents wanted me to go there..Had plans of sleeping early and getting up early...neither happened..slept at around 3 and got up at 8..Reached Mekhri circle bus stop by 9:30..then from there got a bus to Doddabalapur..it was a nice feeling to travel by bus after a long time..Switched on my mp3 stick and enjoyed the cool breeze and the greenery around..After one hour forty five minutes was in the Dbpur bus stand..bought a couple of fruit-n-nut chocolate bars and found a small cab luckily i got a seat..the capacity of the cab was about 10 including the driver but actually there were nearly 40 ppl on the cab..Happens only in India..after a slow journey for about 25minutes on the bumpy mud roads reached Ghati around 12:30..Ghati is a small town with just 3 roads..one road which has about 30-40 houses and the other road which has a temple and around 20 shop cum houses ..i just left my shoes and entered the temple and stood in a long queue..stood in the queue for nearly 40 minutes just to have a glimpse of God for about few seconds..then came out..my phone had no network so had to find a phonebooth to call up my friends who were staying there for field work as part of their civil engg curriculum but the phones weren't working just as i was wondering how to contact them i came across a small house kind of thing and seeing one girl there asked if that is where Bms civil engg students staying but to my surprise she was one the friends i knew and soon the gang of friends came and took me inside..My kiddo friend Bhargs was too happy and excited to see me..started asking about my journey and started showing their survey sheets..then i gave the chocolates to them and we all finished it in minutes..I was really happy to see all these friends of mine who really enjoyed my visit there..then we spoke for a while and starting thinking for a place to have lunch and since there wasn't any good place there we decided to go to temple for lunch after a lot of debate among ourselves..then we stood in the queue for about 20 minutes and we had our lunch which was really really bad...then we came out had tender coconut and then i bid good bye to them and caught a small cab..now i was supposed to stand on the foot board the journey..i enjoyed it..holding the bus with only one hand and only one feet in the bus...It was too much fun..then took a bus back to Bangalore..It was a very good and relaxing day..Decided need to go to such trips more often..

Expectations....Changes...Whatever..Life goes on....

As my first post goes Change is eternal and the only thing we can do is adapt to the change quickly..

I am not sure if i will be able to put my thoughts into words but i will try..

In life we come across lots and lots of ppl..some friends..some acquaintances..some competitors..and many more..but do all of them be the same throughout..NO..cos every moment everything changes..just like time everything changes so there is no valid point in a person expecting all or any of these ppl to be the same throughout..I will just tell an example..On my first day at PU i had a fight with one of the guys and the grudge continued till we passed out of college..There wasn't a single moment where we could tolerate each other but after about 3 years he found my profile on orkut and we started chatting with each other as if we were the closest of buddies in college and missed each other so with time everything changes..

You don't feel much if a person who is not in good terms with you changes for good..You just feel surprised..But its not the same when a person close to you changes..Initially you start missing the person and start feeling alone..miss all the moments you spent with him/her..You start anticipating him/her to change back to normal every moment..You try to be passive about the changes for few days then you try to indicate it to the other person..then you accept the change and change yourself accordingly..but if the person after a while changes back to how he/she was before also the excitement and the intimacy of the relationship seldom relives....

Whatever..

Do something for the society..

I have always admired Tata..don't remember which one but the one who told Mrs.Sudha Murthy "Give something in return to the society"..and Mrs.Sudha Murthy has followed it and thanks to her generous work Bangalore is bearable in some fronts..the movie of 'Nirmala Bangalore' and 'Swacha Bangalore' are successful..We always look at Narayan Murthy and others and get ourselves motivated to have such big pay checks but why not just follow some of their good deeds..

We usually spend somewhere around say 1 to 1.5k every month on eating outside and stuff..and we spend most of our weekends either being lazy at home or loafing around..I am not saying spend little and donate neither am i saying not to take rest on weekends..but we can try to somehow contribute 1k on some noble cause like trying to sponsor education of someone needy right from his/her school age..or atleast give a bit of your time to the orphans at an orphanage..be with them..just interact with them..that gives them so much happiness..
and even on birthdays why can't we just give the kids of an orphanage a treat..i think that would give them immense happiness..
i have seen people spending thousands and sometimes even lakhs of rupees donating to temples and performing some poojas..why can't we just donate some amount there and spend the rest on someone needy..

I have just put out my thoughts but again i would like to follow my friend's favorite Swami Vivekananda's saying "Be the change you wish to see"..
Hope i can be the change and wish to see the change in others too..

Can we fight corruption?

This is a question i have been asking myself for quite a long time now..everytime i read something about corruption i feel this shouldn't be continuing..everytime i watch a movie about revolution i feel yes i should also do something like that but most of it isn't practical..fine..lets not fight it but we can atleast not contribute to it..Do you think its possible???nope..very seldom can we avoid it.. suppose you gottu register a new house or property..just try if you can get it done without paying money to a broker or bribing the officer..damn it..its just not possible..
you need to pay the police to make him sign for the verification letter to get your passport..Damn the world..I want to change it but how?????

New Sprite Ad..

From the time sprite ads sprang into existence i have been a fan of them simple because they are simple,funny and sensible....

The first ad where a guy will be drinking sprite lying on the college steps and another guy tries to explain all the different means of enjoying and ultimately the guy drinking sprite says 'tho ab mein kya raha hoo'...That was nice and humorous..

Then there was that 'jaadoo ke peeche' to mock the Mountain dew ad of "do the dew"..which was a clear hit to me...

Then the story of the thirsty crow was just the act of brilliance..

But clearly the recent ad is just too amazing..it has a moral to it as well..it always works out that it is easier to escape speaking truth than otherwise..very sledomly is truth put under scrutiny..

Ah!!! Lazy Sunday!!!

Being lazy for a change makes you feel too refreshed...after a long week at office and a long saturday of roaming around..being lazy on sunday actually helps rejuvenate energy required for the new week..

for me sleeping only is not being lazy..you gottu be awake and must not do anything..even eating..thats being lazy..and thats what i did this sunday (10 feb 2008) slept at 3.00am on sunday morning and then woke up at 8:00..just went to the other room..cuddled myself in the blanket..switched on the tv..cricket match started..was sleeping for a while and watching the match..then wrestling started so was switching between channels watching 2 of the most interesting things i would like to watch on tv...messaging ppl..receive calls and speak lazily..then had breakfast around 12..again came back and resumed watching tv...then went back to my room..watched some stupid movie..was so lazy that i didn't bother to change the movie ...then finally got up and took bath with loud music at around 3:30..went to big bazaar to get a shirt exchnaged..then had lunch at pizza hut around 5.00......Then came back and started watching another movie..power went off..had dinner around 10.00..slept off at 12.30..very early to my standards..Ah..indeed a lazy sunday...

Vague Blog...

what is our professions doing to our personal lives...we just get so involved in our profession that we forget that we have a personal life..everyone of us are interested in making a big name and chunks of money at the expense of our personal life and relationships..we sometimes have to wait for weekends to speak to our own parents staying in the same home..Thanks to us we can call our homes as houses now..Fine all this apart...I miss being lazy after joining work,lazy in the sense having something to do but not doing it..after getting into this profession my mind is always occupied with something or the other related to work and work only..even in my dreams i just keep thinking about work and how to perform better..yes i was the same during college too,i always was occupied with studies but then i used to hang out with friends and spend time with my parents..not able to do this now..may be my office timings are like that..yeah look at me i am just giving reasons..this is one bad thing among us.we always try to blame others for everything..
Just wanna conclude by saying we gottu make a clear distinction between our professional life and personal life and balance in such a way that we are happy on both fronts..