My Expression!! My Life!!

We took off one day or rather night; on a trip at around 2:30 in the AM. We, as in Me, G and B. For certain “can’t-be-put-into-words reasons” the names are withheld…! :) It all started with Glen wanting to do something wild. And then my boss suggested going to Sri Sailam which is about 250kms from where we stay… A cool 5 hrs drive through half-highway half-wilderness… They had gone out earlier in the day to the Sanghi temple (G&B). And then Madame G started feeling restless and wanted to do something totally wild..! And so this trip was decided upon… they called up and asked me if I was game and I so was… :-)… the plans were made in a hurry; we decided we would leave at 2:30 sharp so that we would get there max by 8 and we can leave the place by around 4 in the evening.. So we got set, B told us he would come and pick us up at 2:30 and asked us to be ready… we were too excited to be asleep but still had to get some of those 40 winks and so we slept by around 12:30-1:00 AM. Both of ...

Very few times you listen to some songs that leave an indelible mark on your psyche… And this is not just the MUSIC that I am talking about… I am talking about the lyrics of these songs and in some songs some lines; here and there..!! Some of those lyrics bring an involuntary smile on to your face and it’s not necessary that there should be any rhyme or reason to it..!! It can be because of anything..!! They can bring to your mind a special person, some memory somewhere sometime… Some of the songs that I have heard in the recent times are an example to what I am talking about … Below are a couple of lines from certain songs that do the same to me..!! Most of them are from Tamil songs and the list is only partial… but they are close to my heart all the same for whatsoever reasons!! Yahan sab kuch hai maa phir bhi lage bin tere mujh ko akela – Lukachuppi – Rang De Basanti Jaise bina matlab ka pyaara rishta ho koi – Taare Zameen Par title track Bhoomi thodatha pillayin paadam – Pacchai ni...

I have brushed up on my reading skills after landing up here in Hyderabad… MBA left them a little dusty… as in I am talking about fiction here… don’t get me wrong... The reading of the other kind I did a lot in MBA… had enough of it as well… There are a lot of book sales here in hyd which sell second hand books or pirated copies of most fiction authors… have picked up quite a few for my collection ever since… but apart from them as well I frequent the good stores as well..Like Crossword, Odyssey, and Landmark which sets my pocket back by a few hundred books but still worth the money..!!! Check out these books by these authors….! Must read!!! :-) Khaled Hosseini – “A Thousand Splendid Suns” and “The Kite Runner” Both books make for amazing reading…! They are not the normal books in which expect to be glued to the book until it’s done but well they are very interesting to read… one speaks about the plight of women and the other about a man’s travails through life. Both are set in the bac...

In continuation to one of my previous posts on Cultural Sensitivity… not quite the same issue but somewhere along the same lines… Have you noticed how people react when u speak a foreign language..?? I mean a language that u actually dunno but are trying to learn..! Take my own example… I am not very fluent in Hindi, it being a language that I did not have much exposure to… Now definitely it is a lot better than what it was back in MBA… I still get confused with the grammar et al but anyways… that apart… back when I was in MBA I used to try to speak in Hindi trying to develop it but well where was the goddamn chance.. The very few times that I tried to speak in that language well I got ridiculed for my Tamilian accent when I spoke… and therein I got a little conscious of the way I spoke and stopped speaking or even attempting to speak in front of my friends..! And now here in the Telugu Desam, it is like a rerun of the same thing… Every time I try to talk in Telugu I am jeered at becau...

How many of us think of it that way?? I, for one, have a few regrets in life…!! And that too just in these past few months ever since I came to Hyderabad and took up my job in Satyam… I wonder how!! I used to be this happy-go-lucky character who never used to take anything seriously and who always was of the belief that you should never regret whatever u do because ultimately they teach u something about life… easy to say… hard to follow..!! I have tried it myself so many times… I mean… When someone asks for your advice on something to do… about something they wanna do or something they did… that’s what I keep telling them… you should never regret whatever you do b’coz they r all experiences and lessons learnt etc etc..!! Now I feel that’s a very hazy statement to make… Is there anyone who does not regret something that they did that went wrong..!! There are a lot of things that I did that I thought would not turn out the way they did! It’s very weird!.. Sometimes, even with the purest...

This is a piece of writing that i came across in satyam blogs..... It makes nice reading..! :) Do we all go through this??!??! Do we identify with this?!!? "It was 7:45 am and I stood there in the bus stop waiting for the office bus to arrive. I stand there in the same spot as I did a few years back waiting for my college bus. Little did I know then that things would change so much in 1 year; the tree under which I was standing seemed to be looking at me and smiling, perhaps the only living thing that stands as a testimony there, watching the transformation of a loud and bubbly person into a quiet professional! I wouldn't blame the professionalism for the change though. It is destiny, or maybe you could call it life. Yes Life, esoteric in the true sense, for one does not understand why you meet hundreds of people every day, work with so many, and still remain lonely. I am now in one of the corner seats in the bus, looking out of the window watching people trying to catch up wi...

This one is for you DAD… :-) You know one of my earlier posts, in the very beginning when I started my blog was about my MOM… and well.. back then .. it was so easy to write about my MOM… I dunno why… For appa.. I dunno where to start and I somehow feel that these words are not going to do him justice… My appa is my best friend in the whole world… only after him everyone else takes precedence (spare my mom!). I don’t call him a best friend in the same sense that I use for my closest friends… he is my best friend in the sense that I can share with him anything in the world ranging from what I feel till crappy jokes and we would still be father and daughter…!! I mean for how much ever I call him my best friend.. He will always be my APPA first and then anything else…!! I have heard a lot of people tell me that they share a great wonderful relationship with their parents and that their parents are very chilled out and they are more of friends rather than parent and child… I don’t agree to...

I've learnt the hard way, that sometimes, even with the purest of intentions, we make things worse when we do our best to make things better…

Cultural Sensitivity - The ability to adjust one’s perceptions, behaviors, and practice styles to effectively meet the needs of different ethnic or racial groups… Is that very difficult to understand?? I mean… just showing some respect for others’ culture and language…. Now how complicated is that? All you need to do when that happens is to keep your mouth shut or at least not say anything derogatory or offensive or nasty… But nopes… that’s not bound to happen is it…!?!? People have to be bias towards someone because of the way they talk, their styles, their way of living or just simply the place that they come from… how cheesy can that be??? Sheesh!!! We had a course during our MBA called “Business Across Cultures”… where in it was drilled to us that we have to be culturally sensitive to all sorts of people from various backgrounds… but somehow it never told us how to deal with culturally insensitive people… What do u do?? Do u just keep quiet? Do you walk away? Do you tell them what’...