Funny Ponders

Its kind of scary to see myself growing 5kgs per year. The only organ that I cannot control in my body is tongue which makes me eat more and more. With the kind of paneer, cheese, pizza stuff I am eating, fat started accumulating and the paunch started protruding. I have decided sometimes to avoid cheese and fat stuff but I can say it persists only for few hours. My weakness is that I cannot sacrifice my food for any other reason. Even from childhood I have this tongue weakness. At my home its common that whoever are angry dont take food. When my mom fights with dad, she wont take food nor my father. When my father scolds my sister , she wont take food. But me a special person from a different planet dont care for any reason. If my father scolds me or beats me I used to consume more food. So no matter what, the only thing I cannot sacrifice is food. Finally its causing problem and making me to think to put my expanding body in to control.

So finally decided to go for a jog. Me and my room mate started and went for a week and stopped. Again I started with my colleague , went for a week and stopped. The problem with me is ….I inspire instantly and cannot stand with it later. Proper implementation lacks. Now I have decided again to go and keep going till 2 weeks. On the first day I have checked my weight before running on tread mill. It showed 70. Then I ran on the tread mill for 30 mins and checked my weight , it showed 71. How funny it was? My work out I am doing now at gym is to prevent my body to grow. So that I can eat as usual without worrying about my body.

Emotional quotient is little high for Indians. We will get emotionally attached easily to any thing in the world. Personally I feel being emotional to everything causes little damage. My room mate says…Indians gets attached emotionally very quickly  even to their pet dogs, cars.  They feel emotional or sometimes sentimental in selling their old car or when they lose their pet dog. I dont say one should not be emotional but should not be carried away with that.  By emotionally attached to something, You feel sad, disappointed when that ’something’ leaves you. Love anything but dont get too close to something that makes you feel unhappy without it. Basically its just your state of mind that plays this. After all the ultimate goal of everyone’s life is to be happy every moment. Why to accept things that makes you unhappy. We are the only passenger for our life journey. Nobody shares our destination either.  There is no point in being emotionally attached to someone or something. I wont prevent you if you are happy by being emotionally attached. But if not, dont lose single moment by not being happy.

Personally I am very sensitive guy and I used to attach to everyone whoever comes in my life and to things whatever I buy. I used to feel disappointed when they leave me and preventing the situation to happen. But later after so many such things happening in life I became observant and derived that emotional attachment is causing some amount of damage to me.  So why should I have a mindset that is making me unhappy. I decided to change as soon as I observed people who are happy without it. So love but not attach and be inseparable. Ultimately we are our saviors of our very own single life. This is not selfishness but self respect. Still some qualities come by birth and perish by death,  but who knows give it a try!!

The most happening place I am talking about is neither in US nor in UK but just the locality I am staying in pune. Its called koregaon park. This name just excites people who are staying in pune. Everybody would love to visit this place on week ends especially.  I am damn sure the any visitor might feel like he is in a foreign country. The reason is that most of the foreign population live in this locality ( paying fat rents which are almost triple the standard rates). One reason for this is there is a OSHO ashram in lane 1 for which many foreigners are attracted. There are two foreign families living right down to us and two  foreign girls right opposite. I sometimes wonder where I am in.  Its a no surprise that I see everyday 5 to 6 BMW’s, Mercedes, Audi, Porsche. The houses are so beautiful which the minimum cost starts in crores. Even a flat in apartment costs in crores. When I was new to this locality I have gone crazy by seeing people around on week ends. You can find hot chicks ever in this place. I can bet on this.  Everything looks so rich and so attractive. Pubs, restaurants makes this place much more cheerful. The place is full of traffic event at 12 in the night. Every week end makes me mad .  Every other person in the place (except my roommates and me) will be accompanied with their partner. Sometimes I feel shy walking on the road alone missing my better half on my side.   This place makes you feel like that.  You wont believe if I say that there are 5 cafe coffee days  within half kilometer and they are full always. People sit there and enjoy their chat, date, whatnot everything till the night loses its darkness.

I became quite observant these days about the basic elements that might make us unhappy and egoist. One of them that I am going to write down now is about misunderstanding. Sometimes we assume that something has happened because of somebody by just blindly and readily listening to our (intelligence) mind’s conclusion. This starts enmity with the other person virtually. We will have that in mind and we act accordingly with that person. This goes on and on ….and makes you unhappy and lead to vulnerable relationships. So before readily listening to your intelligence, if you just confirm that “why that has happened” you can avoid all the conflicts. So before assuming about any thing please confirm why something has happened before jumping in to conclusions. Misunderstanding is a result of your intelligence sometimes.

First time I am facing problem here and I could not able to put flow of my thoughts about this topic in to the blog. I will come back again in a different post to explain why we have to insult our intelligence :-)

Few days back I have written in my blog that my connection with flights is unfortunate. Laptop is one more which falls under this category. Its ironic that the things that I want to acquire fast will move far away from me. I guess god denies access to us until time comes. I have a long time fantasy about owning a laptop and do some innovative things which makes me happy (at least for some time). First obvious thing is to expect from the company. I waited…waited..waited..but no way, I did not get one. Failed so many times to get one from my manager. My room mate makes so much fun of me that other people (non techies) who are working in my company is getting laptop and much more benefits like trips, gifts like ipod -touch etc. But I dont have any. Sometimes he expresses doubts whether am I really a techie guy. Some questions are answered in silence sometimes. So now i thought of deciding to buy for myself. I have told my relatives abroad and they assured me that they will bring. But fate f***s me always and i could not get again. I am almost trying since one year and my efforts are fruit less. There is one final option that go to an Indian store and buy. But my relative and some close friends put me in dilemma saying that “for the same price, u can get better configuration in US”. Halted for a while and waiting to grab the moment that makes me spend time with laptop. Yesterday my hr friend told me that she got one laptop. I was embarrassed again as usual. Waiting for my room mate to make fun again.  Friends…listening…… bring me one if you are coming from US.  Mr.manager, give me one if ur reading this.  Hope my useless misery ends soon.

Yesterday I read the book written by vithal kamat  titled “Idli, the orchid and the will power”. It was a story of  vithal kamat who aspire to become entrepreneur.  He explains his journey from his childhood  to entrepreneur. I would suggest people to read this book. Its just only not for entrepreneur aspirants but everybody who want to be a human. He emphasizes the good qualities, discipline that everyone shud inculcate to prove as a human being. We can see the fruits of his kindness, discipline in the later point of his orchid journey. One thing that surprised me was the value he gave to his father. He was taking suggestions from his father every time till his father was alive. There was a moment in his life where he has decided to commit suicide. But his comeback to establish orchid was fantastic and worth reading. I was emotional while reading his hard ship days and few scenes like where he seeks blessings from his mother to get a loan worth crores.

There are so many things I want to write here but I cannot do so. The must mention specialty of the hotel is that orchid is a ecotel eco friendly hotel.  There was one chapter in the book that explains how each and every part in the hotel was made. Its really tough to understand as there is so much science involved in it .  Definitely environmental friendly hotel needs a lot of it of course. Their principle is  recycle, reuse everything.  Finally he proves that the business ideas and human values are equally important for an entrepreneur. After I read his book I can say that kamat deserves orchid. I will try to visit orchid if I go to mumbai next time definitely.

These links might help you when you are thinking about owning a startup

http://evhead.com/2005/11/ten-rules-for-web-startups.asp

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/startups/news/2007/12/YE_10_startups

http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=118998

I will keep adding as and when I find them. Please add one in the comment box if you come across any.

Its no wonder when my last flight journey canceled after I received a short notice from my friend at IIT. Reasons cannot be explained here though weird. So I have to cancel the ticket. Last time I traveled to chennai and it is so pain to travel in sleeper class especially in summer. So this time few days ahead I booked air deccan flight to chennai as per notice from my prof.  Three days after that I canceled. This has not happened first time that I booked and canceled. ACtually this is the third time. First time I booked for my synopsis meeting to reach chennai. Everything was set and I got a short notice that It has postponed nearly one month. So I have to reschedule it . So thinking for almost so many hours I scheduled my journey to Hyderabad on aug 14th. This is to enjoy the holidays that includes aug 15th holiday also. But due to unforeseen and unfortunate circumstances I have to cancel this also.  So I have booked flight journey 4 times in my life so far and could able to travel only once and rest the three journeys canceled and of course with bonus of money loss also. Next time I have to go to chennai, I am not going to book flight. I will book train so that I wont disappoint even it gets cancelled.

Will update soon. Stay tuned.

The days have changed. Once a fact that guys have much control and dominant over relationship with girls, but now, days have a different picture. Girls started to think and “its better to dump than getting dumped” was their tag line now. They have tuned their mindset according to current racy world. Now girls are in the same position whatever guys used to be in the past. They don’t care to date one more guy if they were not interested with the previous guy. The separation is initiated from the girl’s side if she is no longer happy. This is the same trend from a celebrity girl to a normal girl.  These days guys are being emotional and imbibing the qualities that girls used to possess.

Its no longer a surprise for me when super senior of my college asked me to inquire about a girl in some college before his engagement. Earlier girls or girl’s parents used to do the same job. In one my friends friend’s marriage alliance, the girl demanded salary slip. The guy was shocked and he would be expecting that in a different way from their parents. Girls have their own priorities and preferences as they realized that they are less to none and competing in every aspect. In one of my distant relatives alliance, girl rejected guy on spot (these things rarely happens in south. so its surprise).  When one of my friends is searching for a suitable girl in matrimony sites, almost every girl seeking bachelor settled in US, UK etc with CTC mentioned sometimes. Its a trend that one should not be surprised or shocked as it is going to prevalent across entire India very soon.

So guys….be careful. keep the momentum and make yourself fit in any situation.

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-A Poor Guy

(inspired by indiatimes article)