A Wednesday!

What happens when everything happens what heart wants…. The joy is unlimited…

THIS IS NO MOVIE REVIEW ... FYI

Let’s take today’s example: Work these is quite hectic although there is lot of fight going on between my mind and body. Body says relax relax relax.. But mind says you must be working. THE MIND WINS AGAIN. It was today morning(technically yesterday) I was thinking that it had been I haven’t updated my blog.

Work schedule 8 am to 11 pm with a break for lunch, snacks and dinner (3 hours inclusive of all) and final outcome of the mehnat- hard-work my code is more generalized and running fine (a little testing needs to be done)

Came back home riding bike at 80 kmph singing song and now updating blog with some of the fav songs.

Basically code worked. Feeling of happiness is back and blog updated.

Date: 10^th Sept

Again, a lucky co incidence - some birthdays turns out to be damn good for me.

18^th December - Got Job in my dream company – My Friend Roshan’s Birthday

25^th June – Got first Appraisal, grade up and Admissions to BITS MS course – My brother’s Birthday

23^rd July – Well nothing great here but my mom won some prize :P – My birthday

Haaaaah – Overall a Great Day !!!!!!

Too much of work or ... ?

Yes! After a long time I’m back to blogging and no shikwa-gila as I was busy and I’m proud of myself that I’m working quite nicely … Well that’s another topic totally.

Brain is a damn complex thing Hats off to upar wale baba – God. What a creativity boss

Exactly a year back (or may be 13-14 months back) I joined my first project in my “dream” company. Yes, the topic is dream again. So 13-14 months back when I joined my first project my team mate used to work on xml and xslt (Damn it is xml and xslt – the culprits… hmm will have to think about it) He used to dream of xml, xslt and he was sad that these file types have replaced Maria Sharapova in dreams. He is one year senior to me and almost after one year for me its Ayesha Takia and Lara Dutta whom xml and xsl have replaced, may I'm experiencing the same. But I’m not sad because I’m working and I’m enjoying my work. But funniest part was last night when I saw myself discussing xml and xslt with Chulbuli ladki who knows nothing about it and then playing a game of chess with her (chess - why the hell chess).

Well I'm still trying to find out the answer to the question in the title may be i might get help from ex-team mate and friend. Last night I worked till 3 am and woke up at 8am in the morning because of these dreams. Thank God its Friday and i definitely need a break. Hope, I get a good break.

Ciao!

Goa Goa Goa mmm... I'm Lovin it

It had been 44 days since I've posted anything. Well, here i go again... Summers in Goa are not that bad. I thought it would be difficult to come out of the shelter during mid noons but its completely different. Last weekend on Sunday i had no specific plan so basically i was idle. It was lunch time and i was little hungry and didn't want to go to some restaurant to spend more than what the food served is worth. So I thought should have some watermelon. Took my rampyaari(my bike) and vroomed...

It was 12.30 pm and was a bright sunny afternoon. In search of watermelon I roamed around the madgaon city twice but no success. All time on my bike it was cool breeze kissing my face, thats also a lovely part of Goa. If you are on bike even in the noon time you will damn pleasant with the cool breeze in-spite of sun above you shinning brightly. Beware! if you are beauty conscience this might be harmful to your complexion as you'll tan yourself bad. Almost all shops, restaurants and hawkers were at routine Sunday off. On my second round in one of the residential area I saw a fruit vendor - No watermelon there too but i had to settle on something so coconut was there to rescue.

Had a one round of coconut then while the noon journey was about to complete i saw a sugarcane juice hawker and went on for two shots of sugarcane juice. :)

Goa - God of all places.... Mmmm... I'm lovin it

Life, Books and learning

Recently, I have experienced one of the famous saying of the book "The Alchemist"

"One really wants to fulfill one's Personal Legend, the whole universe will conspire to help make it happen"

When I first read the book I felt it as a fantasy book with a happy ending story so that all the readers feel contempt of the money they invested in the book

Few instances in life proves the above saying in my life. I wanted to move out of hometown after school, while doing undergrads I thought of getting into my dream company(PSPL) where i work now, On my last Goa trip i came to Goa Dev. center of PSPL, I liked the place so much and from bottom of my heart i wished to work there and I'm here, and so on.

Alchemist author Paulo Coulho also focuses on relation between nature and man - Man talking to the desert so do I with the Sea when i visit the beaches. I also have few more Personal Legends which i really want from bottom of my heart if this one proves true to me. It will prove the alchemist's other saying

"True love is love that allows you to reach your Personal Legend!"

My parents taught me one thing which really keeps me going in high, as well as low times "Sunana sabki karna man ki".

Confusions in poor boy's life.

Who doesn't have confusions in life... Recently i came across a guy who has lot of confussions/Problems in his life:

Where is his life taking him?
Is he made to do the things he is doing?
Why is he tense on friends' absurd decisions of ending life ?
Why is he going away from the spiritual way?
Why is the landlord bothering him so much?
and weirdest of all
He wants to enjoy life and doesn't want to spend his money at the same time (should I give you my money)?

Now this guy needs my help, he behaves as if he has all the problems in his life.
How can I help him?

I told him Your problems are because of you and I or No-one can help you in this. Go and solve your problems on your own. Don't depend on me neither on anyone.

In her laps!

Expectation is a real bad thing when not met. It always happens that when you expect from a person a lot and that person doesn't fare up-to the expectation, It’s very disappointing than many things and also hurts sometimes. Similarly, I keep expecting a lot from many people but many don't turn up as per my expecting, which makes me quite sad.

The one who cares is Mother nature. Couple of weekends back my friends visited Goa and on a beach one of them told us; she was once lost in woods and she was talking trees. Just keep the debate up i was opposing her. But internally I was feeling that I'm too close to nature and I hope the same from nature. When the word Goa strikes in my mind, the first thing comes my mind is lovely beaches and is same for most of us. What’s so beautiful about beaches - for me the formation of waves, I can stare it for hours and hours. Last weekend I went to nearest place Colva beach, it was a lovely experience with cool breeze blowing all the time, sun-set, Coconut trees, rice paddy, Sand shining like gold in the setting sun - Purely Amazing.

Resting my head in mother nature's lap is the best way to feel close to God. In her laps I never get disappointment as its always the healing touch from Her.

Cheers!

Beautiful Quote

I read this beautiful quote long back on a beautiful girls' orkut profile i saw this quote after that many times in mail forwards and every time her picture flashed before my eyes.

"You never love a woman because she is beautiful,
She is beautiful because you love her "

Awesome... :)

Pros and Cons of the new place

Goa... Great Grand Goa...

A Heaven on earth, splendid tourist destination, awesome place to hang out. But as it is rightly said Nothing and no-one is perfect. Similarly there are pros and cons of every place. So Goa too has its own good points and bad points.

Pros: Natural Beauty, Mother Nature has pampered this place with awesome geography and Climate. With the word Goa the first thing that comes to mind is beaches here, ofcourse beaches are great here. Apart from beaches Churches, temples, calm backwaters, rice paddy, Coconut trees. I have been here in Winter, in monsoon and everytime i have come to Goa it has been awesome experience. Life's peaceful. Many people here are very loving and caring.

Cons: Last 5 years I was in a almost cosmopolitan City - Pune. Pune City which according to me never sleeps. In Goa life is otherwise everything shuts down at 9 at max 10. The staple food here stinks. City Sleeps early and I stand in the market a little helpless.

Well I need to change my colour according to the environment. :)

The Great Indian Faith

I'm not much a movie fan but i try that i never miss any good movie. The main motive of watching for me is to have 120-180 minutes of entertainment and extract some strong message from it. Recently, I saw a movie "Halla Bol". The movie was not a hatke type as far as my views are concerned but it wants/trying to convey a strong message that anything can be won by truth and faith.

The best parts of the movie were "Nukkad Natak", faith in God and not using minority issue as political reasons. The part of the movie that made me write this post is the Haji Ali. Being from a Jain family, I always follow my religion to the maximum i can and i respect all religion. More than the religion i respect the faith people have in God here in India. It has been almost 5 years here in Pune, Public walking past a temple, Mosque, church or Gurudwara (big/small) they'll take a second bow down and pay small small prayer to the God. Thats what I love here.

I feel so good and only one thing strikes my Mind we have His blessings on us(no matter in what form is He). No doubt man is little selfish sometimes and comes to God only when he is in need but he comes to Him for help.

Jai Hind!

Tech Dreams

Today, I went to one of my colleague's cubical. She was talking about some of her tech dream she had last night, what a co-incidence even I saw something related to time zones and suddenly thought of abhishek's post came to my mind. When I read his post i never believed how can anybody dream of code and IDE while you have so much of other stuff to think about like "Maria Sharapova" ;-). Well now when I heard she was thinking about the Portal Project. I understood this is what happens when you do same kind of work day-in-day-out and you do not have anything other than work. This reminded me of my 12th grade when i used to study chemistry (organic to be very specific), that time I always used to dream about the Benzene , Friedel Crafts reactions, Periodic table and many more stuff from the book by O.P. Agrawal quite often. A week back I was dreaming of Beaches in Goa and now timezones, iTimeZoneOffset, DateTime,etc, etc [:O]

Dreams you see are nothing but a real complex mixture of thoughts that come to your mind that day - In Short dreams are outcome of chemical locha.

Key to Happiness

I like to observe and study people. Since a long time i have been watching few people around me are very sad. Some are not happy at work, for some relationships not working, some are not happy in life.

What is the key to happiness?

I have the key to happiness and I’m ready to give it to who ever comes to me but there is one condition. I would like to narrate my condition through the small story which my Dadaji used to tell me and my cousins.

"A poor lady lost her young son. The son was just 12 years old. She went crying to Lord Buddha asking Him to bring back son to life. Gautam Buddha told her its not possible. She argued, cried before Him saying he is God and can do anything. Finally, Lord Buddha told that this can be done using only one method. He told her to get few wheat grains from a house where nobody ever died or the family members who have never seen any deaths. She went on door to door asking for if she can find such house. Whole day she visited all houses, shacks and places in the village and nearby places but couldn't find any house where the family members haven't seen any deaths. She came back to Lord Buddha and said she failed to get wheat.

Lord Buddha said ‘anyone that comes to life has to face death one or the other time - some face the death early some late’.

And the poor lady learnt the fact of life and death"

Life is full of ups and downs. Similar to above story we must treat downs in our life as a death of some good times and move on for the next life of happiness.

There is no key to happiness as such.

Enjoy!

Lotus in the Mud

This is not a nursery rhyme
You'll now or may understand with time,
will come in your mind with a thud
what i mean by the lotus in the mud.

The world has both sides of coin
this thought just came to mind of mine,
why roses lie on the bed of thorns
beautiful deers have hard horns.

The tender coconut enclosed in hard shell
horns n thorns protect beauty n sweet smell,
Its not all wrong
the way to the place they belong,
Its always for they care
who get them out, are those who dare.

To get the flower in the mud you dive
you'll get dirty but will survive,
Its about the effort i talk
to reach the destination you desire
might be worth the walk.

So make your mind and determine
Take the effort to pull out the flower
get wet in the happiness shower,
Hope you understand what i mean
by the lotus in the mud.

Oh its a new year!!!

Happy new year!!!

Welcome 2008. New year resolution time.

Well i tried to make many resolutions every year. I did work on some but couldn't work on all. I realized i must be determined to something.

So, new year resolution is to stay determined.

Life's little complex

Its quite difficult to look at life as its simple, but its simple to act as if life is simple. The simplicity to live life simple is simple funda make yourself a little complex by behaving very simple. Am I too complex here... no not at all. Lets stop the confusion here.

Bottom line is Enjoy!!!

Cheers
Life is like an ice-cream, enjoy before it melts. :-) [its cold outside still may be an ice-cream can help me]