Just two moments... :-)

Do, pal ruka, khwaabon ka kaarvaan
Aur phir, chal diye, tum kahaan, ham kahaan
Do pal ki thi, ye dilon ki daastaan
Aur phir, chal diye, tum kahaan, ham kahaan
Aur phir chal diye, tum kahaan, ham kahaan

Tum the ke thi koyi ujli kiran
Tum the ya koyi kali muskaayi thi
Tum the ya tha sapnon ka tha saawan
Tum the ke khushiyon ki ghata chhaayi thi
Tum the ke tha koyi phool khila
Tum the ya mila tha mujhe naya jahaan
Do pal ruka khwaabon ka kaarvaan
Aur phir chal diye tum kahaan ham kahaan
Do pal ki thi, ye dilon ki daastaan
Aur phir chal diye, tum kahaan, ham kahaan
Aur phir chal diye, tum kahaan, ham kahaan

Aa... aa... aa...

Tum the aa khushboo hawaaon mein thi
Tum the ya rang saari dishaaon mein the
Tum the ya roshni raahon mein thi
Tum the ya geet goonje fizaaon mein the
Tum the mile ya mili thi manzilein
Tum the ke tha jaadoo bhara koyi sama
Do pal ruka, khwaabon ka kaarvaan
Aur phir chal diye, tum kahaan, ham kahaan
Do pal ki thi, ye dilon ki daastaan
Aur phir chal diye, tum kahaan, ham kahaan
Aur phir chal diye, tum kahaan, ham kahaan
Aur phir chal diye, tum kahaan, ham kahaan

Reality Dreams...

"There are some people who live in a dream world,
and there are some who face reality; and then there
      are those who turn one into the other."

Underwear Intelligence..

"Intelligence is like underwear.
It is important that you have it, but not necessary that you show it........"

Garbage!

"Every morning leave your worries outside gate,Because that's where they pick up the garbage"

It Drives Me...

The business executive was deep in debt and could see no way out. Creditors were closing in on him. Suppliers were demanding payment. He sat on the park bench, head in hands, wondering if anything could save his company from bankruptcy.

Suddenly an old man appeared before him.

"I can see that something is troubling you," he said.

After listening to the executive's woes, the old man said, "I believe I can help you."

He asked the man his name, wrote out a check, and pushed it into his hand saying, "Take this money. Meet me here exactly one year from today, and you can pay me back at that time."

Then he turned and disappeared as quickly as he had come.

The business executive saw in his hand a check for $5,000,000, signed by John D. Rockefeller, then one of the richest men in the world!

"I can erase my money worries in an instant!" he realized. But instead, the executive decided to put the uncashed check in his safe. Just knowing it was there and might give him the strength to work out a way to save his business, he thought.

With renewed optimism, he negotiated better deals and extended terms of payment. He closed several big sales. Within a few months, he was out of debt and making money once again.

Exactly one year later, he returned to the park with the uncashed check. At the agreed-upon time, the old man appeared. But just as the executive was about to hand back the check and share his success story, a nurse came running up and grabbed the old man.

"I'm so glad I caught him!" she cried. "I hope he hasn't been bothering you.  He always escapes from the rest home and goes around telling people he's John D. Rockefeller. "

And she led the old man away by the arm.

The astonished executive just stood there, stunned. All year long he'd been wheeling and dealing, buying and selling, convinced he had half a million dollars behind him. Suddenly, he realized that it wasn't the money, real or imagined, that had turned his life around. It was his newfound self-confidence that gave him the power to achieve anything he went after.

Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was. - Richard L. Evans

Today...

Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
Sing like nobody's listening.
Live like its Heaven on Earth…

Slow Dance

Copied from an email. Repost.

 

Have you ever watched kids
On a merry-go-round?
Or listened to the rain
Slapping on the ground?
Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight?
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?
You better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.

 

Do you run through each day
On the fly?
When you ask How are you?
Do you hear the reply?
When the day is done
Do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores
Running through your head?
You'd better slow down
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.

 

Ever told your child,
We'll do it tomorrow?
And in your haste,
Not see his sorrow?
Ever lost touch,
Let a good friendship die
Cause you never had time
To call and say,"Hi"
You'd better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last .
When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
It is like an unopened gift....
Thrown away.
Life is not a race.
Do take it slower
Hear the music
Before the song is over.

Kitni haseen zindagi hai yeh

Kitni haseen zindagi hai yeh
Hoton pe jaise kahani hai
Sadaa yahan kiska thikana hai
Un ki rawani mein jaana hai

Bahaaronn ne har sou, rang hai bikhairaa
Rait ka sehra, ek pal ka ghera
Ek din bikharnaa yahan

Dil bhi kahin hai pahadon mein
Thoda sa kahin hai kinaron mein

Phir ke chali hai thandi hawaaein
Kya tum miloge hum se jahaan leke jaaye
Bheegi bheegi palkhen, kamsin adaayein
Masoom chehra tera nahin bhool paaye

Tumhe bhi kabhi ye satate hain
Muskra ke dil ko churate hain
Jeene ko to dil yeh chaahta hai
Jaane phir kyon sharmaata hai

Rukta nahin hai, sab kuch bataaye
Chupta nahin hai, dil jaan jaaye
Ab rehna kisko yahaan

Bhanware Ki Gunjan!

Just heard this song.... Lyrics copied from some site...

 

Bhanwre Ki Gunjan Hain Mera Dil
Kab Se Sambhaley Rakkha Hai Dil
Tere Liye Tere Liye
Tere Liye Tere Liye

Mujhe Kab Se Thi Pyar Ki Justjoo
Meri Zindagani Mein Hain Tu Hi Tu
Main Aya Hoon Duniya Mein Tere Liye
Mere Dil Men Jhoome Teri Aarzoo

Bhanwre Ki Gunjan Hain Mera Dil
Kab Se Sambhaley Rakkha Hai Dil
Tere Liye Tere Liye
Tere Liye Tere Liye

Gagan Se Bhi Ooncha Mera Pyar Hai
Tujhipar Mitunga Yeh Ikraar Hai
Tu Itna Samajh Le Mere Humsafar
Tere Pyar Se Mera Sansaar Hai

Bhanwre Ki Gunjan Hain Mera Dil
Kab Se Sambhaley Rakkha Hai Dil
Tere Liye Tere Liye
Tere Liye Tere Liye

Environment day...

I stood at the other end of the crowd. A bit away. And kept looking at the crowd. Environment day celebration in my office.

 

It seems surprising that we are unable to correlate with the part of ourselves unless it has started giving me problems. (Like gobal warming?)

 

Some quotes that I collected just now...

 

 

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.  ~Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

 

Modern technology
Owes ecology
An apology.
~Alan M. Eddison

 

I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security.  Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad.  Otherwise what is there to defend?  ~Robert Redford, Yosemite National Park dedication, 1985

 

There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth.  We are all crew.  ~Marshall McLuhan, 1964

 

Newspapers:  dead trees with information smeared on them.  ~Horizon, "Electronic Frontier"

 

The packaging for a microwavable "microwave" dinner is programmed for a shelf life of maybe six months, a cook time of two minutes and a landfill dead-time of centuries.  ~David Wann, Buzzworm, November 1990

 

The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach.  Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows.  ~Paul A. Samuelson, Newsweek, 12 June 1967

Take nothing but pictures.
Leave nothing but footprints.
Kill nothing but time.
~Motto of the Baltimore Grotto, a caving society

The Five Finger Prayer

Five Finger Prayer

 

This is so neat. I had never heard this before. This is beautiful - and it is surely worth making the 5 finger prayer a part of our lives.

1. Your thumb is nearest you. So begin your prayers by praying for those closest to you. They are the easiest to remember. To pray for our loved ones is, as C. S. Lewis once said, a "sweet duty."

2. The next finger is the pointing finger. Pray for those who teach, instruct and heal. This includes teachers, doctors, and ministers. They need support and wisdom in pointing others in the right direction. Keep them in your prayers.

3. The next finger is the tallest finger. It reminds us of our leaders. Pray for the president, leaders in business and industry, and administrators. These people shape our nation and guide public opinion. They need God's guidance.

4. The fourth finger is our ring finger. Surprising to many is the fact that this is our weakest finger, as any piano teacher will testify. It should remind us to pray for those who are weak, in trouble or in pain. They need your prayers day and night. You cannot pray too much for them.

5. And lastly comes our little finger - the smallest finger of all which is where we should place ourselves in relation to God and others.  "The least shall be the greatest among you." Your pinkie should remind you to pray for yourself. By the time you have prayed for the other four groups, your own needs will be put into proper perspective and you will be able to pray for yourself more effectively.

Expect from yourself!

Expect more from yourself than from others. Because expectation from others hurts a lot,  
while expectation from yourself inspires a lot.

:-)

Bangalore Jam!

This post is a copy of someone else's writing. Due respect to the original author!

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Over these last few years of living in Bangalore, I have slowly grown to like the jams, which this city provides in abundance.  

These jams do build your patience and character. Is it a coincidence that India's most patient cricketers, Dravid and Kumble, hail from this city of jams? (Dravid is even nicknamed "Jammy"). Does it tell you something?  Sri Sri Ravishankar…does he get his daily dose of spiritual inspiration while in a jam?? And will I also get a halo after a few more years of this "character building"?? There are, I am sure, thousands of future Anands stuck in the Adugodis and Anand Rao circles, who are plotting their moves against future Kramniks… those poor little Kramniks stand no chance. And if you see a professor-like guy prancing around the Palace road jam, you can deduce that a postulate in Physics has just been proved.

A few days back, I had a thought - If we can have reviews of movies, which occupy only a few hours of our life in a month, why not reviews of traffic jams, which takes up significant hours of our day?? So here is my review of some of Bangalore's famous and not-so-famous jams(in no particular order).

But before that, a general comment -  As they say, the taste of food in a restaurant is dependent on the ambience ; similarly, the way I see jams, cozy inside the office shuttle or public transport, is different from the way the owner of the swank new SUV sees it. (btw, if you are the owner of the swank new SUV, don't run me down).

1. The Hosur Road Jam - Unarguably, the mother of all jams. We (ex-) Infoscions are proud of being (once) associated with a great company. We are equally proud of contributing in no small extent to this jam. This jam gives a great glimpse of the Other India - colorful music-blaring interstate buses, garment factory workers, highway trucks, smoke spewing lorries and such. Provides ample food for thought for socialist minds. (Rating: ***1/2)

2. The jams around K'mangala/Forum mall - Definitely the best jams in town. PYTs (Pretty young things), fancy cars, and fancy restaurants; this has it all. But you can't afford any of those. Never mind!! Your sadistic brain can take pleasure in the fact that the guy in the fancy car next to you is cruising around for a parking space, feasting his eyes on the PYTs , while his family is having dinner in one of the fancy restaurants. (Rating: ****1/2)

3. The KG Road jam - To be experienced in the evenings before a long weekend. Every auto/taxi in town seems to be stuck while going towards the City railway station - your hair stands on end, you start sweating, the heart beats faster, and you get the rush that a Michael Schumachaer gets on his last lap. And just as the auto moves, a movie show ends and a few hundred more vehicles pour out… Which was the train that hooted just now?? (Rating: ***1/2)

4. The Jayanagar jam - The puzzle-lovers jam; Jayanagar is maze of bylanes, one-way streets, no right-turns, no left-turns, traffic signals and whatnot. It is an establised fact that Point A to point B, in Jayanagar, can be reached in 6436 distinct ways. But whichever way you take, you are left with a hollow feeling that another route had a better and bigger jam? (Rating: **1/2)

5. The jams around Marathahalli/Whitefield - The IT professional's dream jam; As she sits in the office shuttle looking at other office buses, she can make her career plans. A typical evening in this jam goes thus:

Voice from Company A bus : "Any J2EE developers in your bus?". Three guys from Company B bus respond "Yeah" and get down. By the time, the bus crosses the Marathahalli bridge, the first guy is hired as a J2EE developer. The second guy, who didn't know what J2EE meant, is hired as a project manager and the third guy is rejected as he realised late that he has already worked for Company A last year.

(Rating: ****)

6. The Airport Road jam - Similar in taste and character like the Koramangala jam but has socialist twist. This jam treats the rich businessman, who will later travel business class on Jet, the same as a poor programmer, who had unusually come to office early in the morning, 3 months back, to buy one of those cheap airline tickets. (Rating ***)

7. The BTM 7th Main x 7 Cross jam - Close to my home, so close to my heart. But alas, the spoilsports at BDA finished the flyover at the Jayadeva circle and brought an end to this jam. But for a couple of years, this jam used to give me pure joy as vehicles of all types created a tangle in the small bylanes of BTM layout. The BDA is now planning a new flyover at the Udupi Garden junction; so there is still hope (Rating ***1/2).

We jam lovers - currently this club consists of only me - have petitioned the government to protect and preserve traffic jams as a cultural asset of Bangalore. Just so that traffic jams are not endangered in the future, we have these suggestions:

1. Build more flyovers - Flyovers do not reduce jams. They just transfer it to the next junction. And in the 2 years that it takes to build them, you are assured of some joyous jams. I am drooling...

2. No public buses - If everybody goes by buses, where will our culture go?

3. Make Tata's 1-Lakh car cheaper by making it tax free - Imagine every two wheeler replaced by a car...The prospects are mouth-watering.

Garden and the gardener

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.  ~James Allen

It is easy to realise the importance of this fact in carving your life. You can make as well as break things. Depends. :-)

 

Let's make things better. :-) And make everyone smile truly!

Accomplishment

"What a human accomplishes in a day depends upon the way in which (s)he approaches his tasks. When we accept tough jobs as a challenge. . . and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen. When we do our work with a dynamic conquering spirit, we get things done."

Talking with silence... :-)

raat humari toh
chand ki saheli hain
kitne dino ke baad
aayi woh akeli hain
samjho ki baati bhi koi bujha de aaj
andhere se jee bhar ke karni hain baatein aaj
andhera rootha hain
andhera baitha hain
gumsum sa kone main baitha hain
raat humari toh
chand ki saheli hain
kitne dino ke baad
aayi woh akeli hain
samjho ki baati bhi koi bujha de aaj
andhere se jee bhar ke karni hain baatein aaj

Talking with silence... :-)

:-)

Every change is for the better. I want to focus on my career at the present junction in my life. Do not want anything else to screw up stuff. Keep life simple! :-) And let everybody smile. I do not have any inclination towards anybody at this point of life. Want to be a little alone and in my own world with everybody present!

 

Life is a smile!

 

 

IF -

Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936

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'Brother Square-Toes' - Rewards and Fairies
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

Special today!?!?!?!?

There's something special in everyday! That makes things beautiful. :-) Its our job to find out what is the special stuff of the day!

 

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Google in ORIYA

 

 

Check out if you have the right font in your computer to see it in actual Oriya.

 

http://www.google.com/intl/or/

Sensible 90% ?? 70% ?? He he!

It happened the third time. Someone calculated my sensibility in terms of percentages. I really don't care about such thoughts but it seems the world takes it steps more carefully than I do. But then, I believe that to achieve some thing bigger than the what the world expects, it is necessary to go beyond careful steps. We have to take risks and make the achievement useful, and memorable.

 

Today this person said, I am 90% sensible. He he! I would like to remain the rest of myself as insensible. Though I do not agree that the number 90 is accurate enough. I have had the earlier answers as 70%.. What fart!

 

I get a great sense of satisfaction in being simple. This simplicity is a result of a lot of complicated thoughts. Simplified. :-)

 

There are times when you feel that you have not succeeded. It is a temporary feeling for everybody. It goes. Life is a sinusoid. Events keep coming randomly and we try to respond. Depends how robust we are in our response. And that robustness depends on the past experiences and the learnings out of it.