Feeling Happy

I am happy because it rained today. The rain drops falling from tree leaves remind of white pearls playing on a beautiful woman's neck. I am happy because a new morning came after the night. It reminds me everyday that after dark comes light, for sure. I am happy because I feel lucky to have born in this beautiful world. I feel happy because nature has so much beauty that my eyes are not sufficient to enjoy it. It needs my heart to connect with It to assimilate It. I am happy because I have realized that I can not compete with book-worms, people who claim to work on weekends. I realized that rest after weekdays hard work is very satisfying. I feel happy because I know that its the journey rather than the end which is enjoyable.

I am happy because I choose to be.

Hall of shame

Memory

Heard a nice tip to increase the memory. Chew your food slowly (standard is to chew 1 bite minimum 32 times) and it will help in the memory increase.

Wish I had this patience and discipline.

Sad Heart

God

I dreamt of an angel. I asked him that I want to see God. He replied, you can not see God but can feel Him. I asked , how?

He said to me,  when nature is at its best, when early in the morning you hear the music of chirping of birds, when you see trees loaded with fruits and plants decorated with beautiful flowers, when you see the steady flow of water in the river conveying constant is nothing, when you feel the cold breeze filled with nature's fragrance passing you by and energizing your body and soul...

 

then open up your arms..and close your eyes..and hear..feel, smell..you would find God closer to you and listen to the messages being whispered into your ears then....

Sorrow

Life is rainbow of different emotions. One goes thru hundreds of emotions during the day. Everyone likes to be happy. But as nature has to keep the balance, the happiness is neutralized by sorrow.

But why does one feel sorrow ? If one analyses, then the root of this feeling is 'expectations'. When one expects anything from another human being, s/he is bound to encounter sorrow sooner or later. If one can make him/herself not to expect anything from anyone, s/he is going to be happy throughout the life. 

Dark clouds

Dark clouds are hovering around our great country. Enemies of our motherland are approaching our doorsteps very fast. Today they will conquer Islamabad and tomorrow Lahore. Then Amritsar is just 40kms from Lahore. 

The short-sighted rulers of our country having a foreigner leader seems to be sleeping. They had slept over the global financial crisis too. These italian foot worshipping cowards are Duhshashan (son of Dhritrashtra in Mahabharata) of India. They had taken and will again take our country to the bottom where life is not respected, people live on filth, violence by Muslims is encouraged but the voice against terrorism is deplored, poverty is respected whereas hard work, entrepreneurship is laughed at and discouraged.

Wish they are shown their proper place in this election and their proper place is the dustbin of history.

Beautilful and Precious

Like a pearl lying inside a sea shell at the bottom of a very deep ocean is serene, beautiful, glowing, heavenly and contented in its own world...

We humans too have something hidden deep down within us...which is likewise very beautiful, blissful and a gift of God to us....one needs to just feel it..

Challenge

Everyday you do the things which you know. Sometimes you take up a challenge and try to do some thing which is new and maybe not easy for you. You are being tested once you start such venture. In the middle of it you have the choice of leaving it in between or keep fighting till you succeed or till you reach dead end. 

If you find success, its best. This is what you strive for always. But even if, in rare case, the success does not kiss your feet then you would have a satisfaction of giving your best. You had taken out each sweat from your body and given the best shot. This process had made you stronger and taught you so many things. 

Human Vs Nature

We humans are attached to nature. Imbalance in the nature causes problems to us and imbalance in us causes problem in the nature (like terrorism etc). 

Love these lines of 'Wild Child' song from Enya. 

Let the rain fall down
Everywhere around you
Give into it now
Let the day surround you
You don't need a reason
Let the rain go on and on

What a day, what a day to take to

What a song it is !!!!!!!!!

Movies Vs. Society

It is said that movies reflect the society. I have been comparing 2 movies released some years back. One is Yuva and other is Rang De Basanti. 

In one movie, the students are directionless. They just eat, drink and make merry. They don't love their country, India, at all. Rather they seem to make fun of it. Someone else makes them realize that they are born in a great country and should respect it and make efforts to improve the things. Short sighted as they are, they choose the short cut and murder the culprit (the corrupt politician) And themselves get killed at the end. If one is to follow its message then it means that we should start killing people rather than improving the system.

In another movie, the students are involved in social welfare projects. They take the corrupt politicians head on via democratic means. One turns down offer for higher studies in US and another refuses the job in USA. They fight with local politician who is a murderer and corrupt via democratic means. They never plan to murder him rather they start working more energetically in telling people about their ideas and exposing that bad man. They take more painful path. They fight elections, even after all the troubles they face, and win. They become the part of the system so that they can improve it. They keep having 'that' fire burning in their hearts.

We all know which movie was hit. And we still keep blaming the politicians.  

Regret

Sometimes you do certain things for which you regret later. Similar thing happened to me yesterday. We had been to Ayurvedagram. We had taken appointment with the doctor earlier. We were told that at 4.30 PM doctor can see us.

When we reached there at 4.20PM, they told us that the doctor was on visit for resident guests. I was told to wait for 30 mins. I waited for 15 mins and kept telling them after that to phone doctor to come and see us.

He came after 40-45 mins. He told us that he was seeing a disabled patient. He had some issues. I felt really bad. It made me feel guilty. Maybe I could have had some more patience and waited for some more time instead of keep pressuring the reception to call the doctor.

Next time, will have more patience. 

inspiration

Can there be something which becomes inspiration, source of strength of your life? Human spirit strives for excellence, perfection. If aimed properly and efforts channeled in one direction, that direction and journey itself can become the purpose of one's life. It can be a blissful experience and can be a way to discover oneself.

For some its music, for some its painting , for others its their work...The key is to find which is it for one and live for it...

IPL

Lots of troubles have been created for Lalit Modi of IPL. Many of the charges against him are false. Then why is he in trouble? A hint, he was close to VijayaRaje Sindhia..ex-CM of Rajasthan from BJP. But now we have Gehlot, congress CM in power.

Does it explain? Typical Congress culture..

Billu in Fame

Been to Lido Mall. Watched 'Billu' movie there at Fame Cinema. I don't understand why Fame cinemas don't have Dolby system installed. 

I liked the National Anthem played at the beginning. Everyone in the hall stood up. Made me feel good that I am an Indian. I should confess that the Anthem was nicely shot too. 

Billu movie was full time pass. An average movie..

Good site example.

If you want to see how to make a good looking, good interactive and easy to use web site then check out famecinemas.com. Its so easy and seem to guide you well when you book movie tickets using this site.

On the other hand, the experience of booking tickets on pvrcinemas.com is horrible. Their 3D ICICI Payment gateway is damn slow and takes lots of time. Even then there is no guarantee that the payment will be successful. Have had such bitter experiences twice today on their site. This is example of 'how-not-build-a-site' . 

Just books

Been member of 'Just Books'. They charge 100 rupees and you can take 2 books at one time. (now from Jan they increased to 150 rupees). Can keep books as long as u like. 

More book you want at one time more money you have to pay.

Work Tension

Since yesterday have been working on one technical problem on the project. Spend hours yesterday to resolve it. But no luck yesterday. Ultimately slept very late at night. In the morning got up..and tried something..its worked !!!. How happy I am..

When I was in middle of problem yesterday, I was not attentive to anything else. My cell phone rang..did not hear it..my friends called me ..did not even hear them. Today after resolving the problem..I am contented.

For java guys..The problem was that thru a web service ( i exposed)I was doing jndi lookup for ejb3 stateless session beans. I was getting famous NameNotFoundException. I tried all combinations (e.g. hard coding naming context etc)..did not work. 

I just restarted the server in the morning and it worked. Strange are the ways of ...!!!

Tea

What would humanity do without tea? Tea is God's gift to the creatures of the world. When tired, having headache, feeling lonely, missing someone, feeling lack of something in life..

drink tea. Take each sip and feel the aroma and feel tea drops on your lips. Enjoy and cherish each sip of it. You can make or break your career with/without tea. You are tired in office, fed up with work or politics in office...drink hot tea and get down to work..and forget the worries. involve yourself in the work..and forget the living being, because living beings have been created to cause pain to you. Tea is a true companion of human..gives energy when u r down..and gives enjoyment when u r happy..

I like tea..hummmmmmmm....so tasty...

Life

Life is a song, life is chance to feel the bliss, life is an opportunity to go thru thousands of emotions, life is a feeling to be connected with each living and non-living being in the universe. Life is a chance to get corrupted, to feel one's incompleteness, to enjoy pleasures with the six senses God provided us. Life is to fight, to quarrel and then realize the futility of it. Life is to go deep down with oneself and find that the real treasure is hidden there. Life is to enjoy one's weaknesses and carrying on in spite of it. Life to to dream big, life is to enjoy small things. Life is to enjoy the tea at the dhaba of a road corner with old songs playing on a broken radio. Life is to enjoy the fruits of your hard work. Life is divine, life is to feel proud about yourself. Life is live life of millions of years in one moment.

Life is God. Life is me. 

Atria Hotel

Different hotels provide different services. I have had training in Chancellery, Capitol hotels in Bangalore for full days. At least these hotels provide free wi-fi connection. If you have your laptop you can connect to net and do some work in the spare time at these hotels. 

But this week I had training in Atria hotel at Palace road at Bangalore road. After having lunch I had some spare time. I thought of checking my emails. I asked reception about wi-fi connection. They said they will charge 50 rupees for 30 mins. Somehow I found it offending. It left an impression that they are way behind the time. They don't have comfort of customers

 in their mind. If I ever had any business, wont deal with such type of hotels at all. 

Vendors

Yesterday attended 'Service Leadership' training. During the course of the training the trainer told an obvious thing which we don't think about much. We get news papers and milk everyday morning without delay and without interruptions.

No matter how the weather is, how bad the things are and irrespective of any personal issue these vendors may have at home , they do provide service regularly. 

We must pause for a moment and think about these vendors and thank them in our heart. Maybe having some 'thanksgiving  day' once  year for these people will be a good idea