Saturday, May 7, 2011
Motivation Matters !!!
Sunday, February 13, 2011
My friend Gopu..
eight by walking in park and Munaaf has been and will always be hopeless while Gopu (Sreesanth's nickname) was as usual aggresive and took the first and important important wicket of Watson. Though a little undisciplined before Sreesanth has put himself in Game now and had performed well today. I wonder why some people have problem with aggression of Sreesanth??? I ADMIRE IT. Infact, aggression is requisite after talent to win over strong oppositions in sports. It is better to try and fail but not try at all, Sreesanth does put 100%. I doubt selector's decision to rank him below lousy Nehra and lazy Munaf. I suggest he shall be ranked 2nd fast bowler after Zak in this WC. Critics and pros are welcomed.Apart from this, Dhoni's performance today with three stumpings was at par too. If you recall Nayan Mongia you will appreciate his performance even more, its like we have to run frame six time faster when Nayan did a stumping as compared to Dhoni's normal speed to make it look even. Gauti and Yuvi should find their form soon. Bhajji shall continue his performance.
Though not very promising but let's hope this win do boost India's confidence in this WC since entire nation is hoping God of Cricket (no need to say I am talking about Sachin) shall be counted at least once in WC winning squad. Talking about Aussies, we need Bhajji, Yuvi and Gopu to bring them on their knees.
I did make big deal out of things...
Friday, January 21, 2011
London
The best of part of the city is nobody bothers what you are up to as long as you are not offending someone. London has customs of its own. Its very unlike of how people taunt of west as "open-cultured" back home. People are very broad-minded but well cultured. If somebody gets in your way even at tube station they will say 'sorry'. Sneezing and coughing in office is awkward. You can kiss on the road but don't dare to stare at someone. Nobody on the job is servant here, they are all here to help.
Saturday, October 30, 2010
'Dream Quotient' of MBAs
For this analysis, I have considered only two kind of people: people from technical background and MBAs. I believe rest are so less in numbers they can be ignored.
What I have seen over the last few years is, people from technical background while studying technical degrees like B.E. or B.TECH. (CS), have thought of becoming a software engineer in a reputed MNC, which if they pass out from an average institute, eventually achieve in less than 2 years. Then what? Then they just follow the ladder which their manager has gone through or has setup for them. This would be called bottoms-up approach. I would call it as a myopic, unadventurous and poor in dream quotient. My gut feel data is 80% of IT professionals from technical background would fall in this category having poor dream quotient.
On the other side, what MBAs learn in B-school is always from a point of view of an organization or CEO. When we are studying we often come across words like "Will you ever as a leader would ......?" I would call it as top-down approach. Unfortunately, we never see any problem as an individual trying to keep ball away from his court (indeed it is a top quality in IT, but we would take that later). Even if an MBA starts from the lowest level in an organization, his eyes would always be at what top management is doing. Dream quotient of an MBA is very high.
Along with the dream quotient, there is a pile of things which I could be pointed out as different in these two sides such as communication, presentation, orientation etc. (later more on this)
In field of IT, you will find more no. of people who belong to the first side. If they reside at a leader's position, do hinder the growth of second side. This can happen if you are in a services company & are living in trap of billing from client.
I thought, this difference can be helpful for the new entrants and people sitting in placements choosing script writers of their future. So, shared it.
I at personal level, am confident enough to find a way out.
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Dussera in my childhood...
The anchor annoucing start of the games and crowd cheering loud for winners, really used to create an amazing environment. An hour later, to buy fresh floweres, make malas and put them on our home's entrance was once a year activity for me. Only on this holy day, I would worship my books/schoolbag. In history, this tradition originally came from farmers who would worship their instruments on Dussera. To me it came from my father and as a student I followed it on my instruments, of course those were books then :)
The best part would come in the afternoon, when I would make a Ravan of my own. I did this for years buying stuff from local stationary shop and putting crackers inside, with all my friends then watching it this will be a proof of my creative self for the whole life. I would keep it ready before I leave with my sis n dad for Dussera maidan for my 1st Ravan Dahan of the day. After the 1st Ravan Dahan on our way back we would bring home Sona-patti. And on return, we would kill Ravan made of rice on a table where all males of the family would kill it together with a knife and find a golden ring inside it..that would be the 2nd one. And then for 3rd, I would force my family and friends to join me and see my Ravan burning. It was kind of great with every one just watching and I putting it on fire. This whole day used to be very amusing, but now that's history.
Not sure if everyone knows Dussera is not a single but two days celebration, second day is called Basi-Dussera. On Basi-Dussera, younger generation takes blessings of their elders by giving them Sona-patti and bowing across them. In our days, this was a leave and we all friends would gather and visit each house of colony to give them Sona-patti and get blessing in form of sweets/eatables, at least those were the preffered ones :) This would help people know each other and create a friendly environment. In last 4-5 years, I have lived in places where I hadn't known my immediate neighbours.
Sad but those celebrations are a history now. It has been 8 years since I enjoyed Dussera and saw people celebrating, burning effigies of Ravan.
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Few hidden things in life
- A person walking on the road will always react to car swifting by causing him a bit of trouble as "There is no place for people to walk". While if he is driving the car and someone walking comes in his way he will get irritate and say "Can people see such a big car is coming behind, can't they make way?"
- In Gym, if you praise someone for his good physique, he will tight his muscles and say "should have seen six months back..." In Hindi "Che mahine pehle dekhni thi... ab toh kam ho gayi hai..." :))
- In a tenant-landlord relationship, landlord will always have upper hand. No matter who has a point.
- Husband/Boyfriend has to seek pardon first, doesn't matter whose mistake was it.
- You will always find most "difficult to talk" people in PR jobs where they are needed least. At least in Govt. of India :)
