Ahh the title itself wud have drawn the ire of feminists....second sex!!!!why second???we are the ones who are the progenitors of entire male species..we are the reason of ur existence, still we have been meted out such a chauvinistic treatment by a nondescript writer like you whose credentials are not even trust worthy!!!!...inspite of this leap of faith whr now we are considered at par wid our counterparts how dare u address us like dis????
whoa......questions hitting me like a bucket of water!!!!!!First there's the shock of it... -BAM!... -right in the face. I'm writing there drenched in anxiety so let me clarify certain things at facevalue before delving any further....first of all what i feel is that we humans have coined up "ists"like "femisnists,sexist,chauvinist,centrist, sadist.."and god knows what nots!!!!! gimme a break guys...dre has to be just one "ist" and dre will be one "ist"called" humanist"...dats the all and end all.....from what experience i had with dis species called girls (yeah it wont be too wise to include women ovr her,so i refrain...)courtsey my various unusual conversations wid my girlfriends and female acquintances....inadvertantly i had nodded my head in disbelief more often than not....lemme surmise what i think about this "hood"called girl...(yeah invariably when it comes to voicing any opinion i donno, out of a blue ,how come such a camraderie is conjured up among dem in no time when they start behaving like not me ,not u..its about "us".......
1)women have this anti-intimacy force field around them. It is powered by sarcasm, humor, and aversion.u try to breach it and blimey u r in for a shock!!!!!i have seen this invariably wid all the girls...it reminds me of what Humphrey Bogart did in that old movie. What was it called? He was like, there are three ways to do things aboard my vessel. The right way, the wrong way and my way. If you do things my way, we'll get along just fine.so as long as u follow their so called code of conduct this anti-intimacy force will repel u for all the obvious reasons...and d moment the cookie crumbles(read u succumb)this anti intimacy force becomes attractive(defying classical physics).....with all arms open....whr whr u whacko!!!!was waiting for u all along!!!!!! Oh, sweet leaping Jesus!!!!and some odr blahs!!!!
2)There are no clearly defined rules between men and women. So, each side thinks they're playing fair and each side thinks they're being cheated. Maybe, this is why men and women have the innate ability to bring out the poison in one another.but one thing i know for sure that the rules of the game are heavily skewed in their favour....like take for a example the game of conversation between the two of dem!!!!!!!
How can a guy have a real conversation with a girl like this when we're made so helpless? In the animal kingdom, when two members of a pack stare at each other, it is a test of dominance. The first one to look away is considered the weaker. When this happens between a man and a woman, the cards are stacked against a man. 'Cause, let's face it, every time a guy meets a girl, he wants to check out her "ohh-sooo-tender-assets". A man must summon all of his will not to look down at those golden orbs, whose wonderous tips are upturned, aimed right at his eyes. Once a man loses his test of nerves, a woman knows she has a great secret power over him, and she can get him do anything she wants. Like a sexual sorceress,her will prevails......poor us..we lost even bfr it started....
3)women have this all pervasive feeling that emotional quotient and responsive stimuli are their
"prerogatives"..as if men cant be emotional,or evn if they have some latent feelings ,how dare you show'em in front of odrs inspite of my mild admonitary glance....dont u dare do it again....
which makes them all the more bossy and domineering which we men strongly protest as in the garb of reservation and empowerment an ulterior motive vests beneath.....to rule the world or did i say consolidate their position as "first sex"
4)i have this gut feeling that women stand for what they say generally.i have across ppl who say something and do something else which makes them slimey hippocrats..but candidly speaking this trait of women makes them all the more adorable.
5)they have this very hedious habbit of referring things from the past..like u said that and now u r saying dis....and the awestrucking part is they remember even the chronology of stmts which we have said and in no time they can reproduce verbatim!!!which kinda p***** boys as it makes our every odr step aimed for redemption look fickle as we had only said that and now we are saying this..cmn gals dre are lotta many things to remember .......these things may sound trifle but in turn it makes u all d more nagging creature ...so,mend ur ways its better late than never..
6)girls are the most patient creature alive on earth..and my thumbs up for that.....i will drive home my point by quoting a very simple example...take for ex shopping....a gals most endearing passtime...but have u ever wondered(hmm lateral thinking)the reason why dey shop for so long ????trying diff shops and purchasing nodin many a times????gocha...the reason is dey are patient enf to look out for various things instead of jumping prematurely to the decison of buying any particular stuff...now compare this vis-a-vis boys and i have no qualms in saying that we are clear losers when it comes to this litmus test of testing patience..we go the shop knowing that what we have to purchase...and then give the look .."see how smart my choice is"....guys really an eye opener....sometimes a vision can be myopic..stop making a jack a** out of urself guys....
7)i have to accept this fact that without girls life would have been very boring,dull and mundane."Flirting "a covetous art wud have died a premature death....as the famous "buddha"once said that beauty is fleeting,so make the most of it..which we boys have followed very loyally in various manifestations like "ogling and staring"...see we are not to be blamed,harmless creatures as we are.....so in essence,acknowledging this fact doesnt makes us feel any inferior as just like what god said to moses upon being asked who u are,"i am what i am"..translating it a tad bit further "we are what we are"...
many more things to say,many more things to write but as i said patience is running off...
bfr i conclude i wud like to write two lines of famous bard of early 20th century "maithilisharan gupta"
"अबला जीवन हाय तुम्हारी यही कहानी,आँचल में दूध और आंखों में पानी "
सौरभ सप्रेम!!!!!!!!
comments invited!!!!
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Friday, June 19, 2009
the joy of resignation!!!!!
This sounds weird but totally true...i have started my professional career with resignation....and even thinking about it while writing is giving me a lump in the throat..the way circumstances changes with a blink of an eye has really caught me by surprise.....the sequence of events which unfolded wud give even heisenbergs uncertainity principle a run for d money...but as the cliche goes "all is well that ends well"....so hre i am still alive(in all flesh and blood), kicking and looking forward to my new job......
My brief stay in "philips" was something which i will never forget...rite from the induction programme to the BOOTCAMP seesion(employee training programme)every single moment i spent dre was surreal...it speaks in volumes about the kind of phenomenal work culture which they have developed in due course of time at philips....somethings i will never forget about philips and which i find worth mentioning....
1)its flamboyant CEO ,a dutch guy,whose sublime personality,infectious energy and twinkle in the eyes will put many a youths to shame.....his commitment to work,his presence of mind and above all his sagacity really impressed me.
2)the sprawling PHILIPS INNOVATION CAMPUS ,whose vastness and design ,was in all sense insanely good...right from the fish aquarium in the sanctum of the campus to the super soooper big philips TVS placed hre and dre,everything was so planned that it seemed as if u have eneterd a small universe in itself...
3)the friends which i made dre during this brief stay....we did almost every possible thing in just 10 days togedr which very few ppl wud have even dreamt off.....we played chess near philips NXP(semiconductor division) building which was supposedly a showcase kinda thing and which ppl vre not supposed to tuch...to..things as trivial as me and my friends sighing deeply upon seeing any hot chick as dre was not a single worth looking chick in the new joinees pool...
4th)the souveniers which philips gave me(i mean all of us)like cadbury chocolates ..gosh dey have some secret collabration with cadburys i think.(anything happens dre and out of nowwhr appears a bag full of dairy milks....)and a group photo wid alexius(remember the charming ceo)and odr new joinees...
5th)a 2 hr session by one Mr. bhaskaran who was the head of india centre....to be a part of the audience when bhaskaran sir speaks was a dreamcome true for sure....the precious professional mantras which he gave wud go a long way in my career..
6th)last but not the least the "grossly over"makedup" receptionist"..i wunt forget her....as someone who firmly believes that a receptionist at the entrance is a face of the company...i wont say she was not beautiful...but seeing her in d morning after hopping out from the bus,was comical in its own ssubtle way...it seemed that she had just put the entire "vanity case"on her face....or lemme try to delineate her appearence for my readers....check dis one out....
a)base of her face ie the skin used to shine more than the PHILIPS CFL(and incandescent bulbs and tubes)...and that was courtsey the grossly misappropriate amount of "foundation"cream which she applied on her face...
b)i donno what gals call it probably "eyeliner" which godknows in what way she used ..it seemed to the onlooker that the natural facial features like eyebrows and all ceased to exist in her case..
c)thirdly and most importanly her evr-shrinking-dress-size was enf to raise many a brows and corrobarate the mantra which companies endorse in the times of recession called"cloth cutting"ooooopsssss dint i say cost cutting...
d)her high heels which can be exxageratingly compared to the petronas in malaysia.....it wud really give the physics enthusiasts food for thot that how come her ohhsoo slender heels wud bear her body weight........
ahh enf of description.....
so all in all it was a wonderful 10 days at PHILIPS INNOVATION.....anyways for now i m waiting for my next job joining which is supposed to be on july6th..till den its ..
"""""fultoooooooooooooomasti!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"""""""""""
My brief stay in "philips" was something which i will never forget...rite from the induction programme to the BOOTCAMP seesion(employee training programme)every single moment i spent dre was surreal...it speaks in volumes about the kind of phenomenal work culture which they have developed in due course of time at philips....somethings i will never forget about philips and which i find worth mentioning....
1)its flamboyant CEO ,a dutch guy,whose sublime personality,infectious energy and twinkle in the eyes will put many a youths to shame.....his commitment to work,his presence of mind and above all his sagacity really impressed me.
2)the sprawling PHILIPS INNOVATION CAMPUS ,whose vastness and design ,was in all sense insanely good...right from the fish aquarium in the sanctum of the campus to the super soooper big philips TVS placed hre and dre,everything was so planned that it seemed as if u have eneterd a small universe in itself...
3)the friends which i made dre during this brief stay....we did almost every possible thing in just 10 days togedr which very few ppl wud have even dreamt off.....we played chess near philips NXP(semiconductor division) building which was supposedly a showcase kinda thing and which ppl vre not supposed to tuch...to..things as trivial as me and my friends sighing deeply upon seeing any hot chick as dre was not a single worth looking chick in the new joinees pool...
4th)the souveniers which philips gave me(i mean all of us)like cadbury chocolates ..gosh dey have some secret collabration with cadburys i think.(anything happens dre and out of nowwhr appears a bag full of dairy milks....)and a group photo wid alexius(remember the charming ceo)and odr new joinees...
5th)a 2 hr session by one Mr. bhaskaran who was the head of india centre....to be a part of the audience when bhaskaran sir speaks was a dreamcome true for sure....the precious professional mantras which he gave wud go a long way in my career..
6th)last but not the least the "grossly over"makedup" receptionist"..i wunt forget her....as someone who firmly believes that a receptionist at the entrance is a face of the company...i wont say she was not beautiful...but seeing her in d morning after hopping out from the bus,was comical in its own ssubtle way...it seemed that she had just put the entire "vanity case"on her face....or lemme try to delineate her appearence for my readers....check dis one out....
a)base of her face ie the skin used to shine more than the PHILIPS CFL(and incandescent bulbs and tubes)...and that was courtsey the grossly misappropriate amount of "foundation"cream which she applied on her face...
b)i donno what gals call it probably "eyeliner" which godknows in what way she used ..it seemed to the onlooker that the natural facial features like eyebrows and all ceased to exist in her case..
c)thirdly and most importanly her evr-shrinking-dress-size was enf to raise many a brows and corrobarate the mantra which companies endorse in the times of recession called"cloth cutting"ooooopsssss dint i say cost cutting...
d)her high heels which can be exxageratingly compared to the petronas in malaysia.....it wud really give the physics enthusiasts food for thot that how come her ohhsoo slender heels wud bear her body weight........
ahh enf of description.....
so all in all it was a wonderful 10 days at PHILIPS INNOVATION.....anyways for now i m waiting for my next job joining which is supposed to be on july6th..till den its ..
"""""fultoooooooooooooomasti!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"""""""""""
Thursday, May 21, 2009
sojourn to the great "BONG"land of india.....KOLKATA!!!!!!!
Ahh finally a sense of catharsis prevailed.....after 4 months of needless slogging and doing donkey work at my office the destined day came when i had to catch the flight and leave for kolkata to meet my sis who had come from germany after 1 yr.....it was family gettotogether kinda occasion which had the chutzpah similar to some marriage function....As it happens with all of my trips,me being a bit too overcautious ,i reached the sprawling bangalore airport 4 hrs before the departure,because it was my maiden visit to the "state of art" bangalore airport and the fact that i had heard from the sources that it was 40 kms away from banagalore,forced me to be a tad bit prissy as far as my eagerness to reach dre was concernd..to be precise the moment i reached dre it seemd that my mobile was regurgitating a slew of welcome messages ..Talking about the location of bangalore airport i still cant fathom what was going inside airports authorities mind while building it so near(pun intended) to the city....given an opportunity i m pretty sure they wudnt have hesitated in starting an airservice to ferry people from bangalore to bangalore airport....People wud have to book airtickets to reach bangalore airport and then another ticket for the destination....!!!!!!lols......Amidst all the hustle-bustle and nervous excitement i somehow managed to reach "KOLKATA"..From the moment i sat my foot on the sanctimonius "bong"ground to the point i reached my home sweet home there was so many things which forced me to nod my head in disbelief....
The drama began when we wre ferried from cockpit to subashchandra bose exit terminal by the airservice bus when mobile phones of people around me started ringing.With the modus operandi of anxious relatives being,, to leave no stone unturned in making sure that they got their feelings of anxiety known to the entire world by calling umpteenth times....and the victim in picture ie the passneger(sadly but true!!!!!) swearing the statement again and again "aami ekhhun dhukchi aar tomi asbo na" (pleading not to come to airport to chaperoon them back to home),,everything looked so comical,that i was not able to prevent my sheepish smile..
Talking about kolkata,the first thing which stroke me was the overwhelming mass of people.milling,teeming,jostling,thronging,pushing,shoving and myriad of other preternatural human activities....other places in the world are crowded too but then people dre are engaged in some purposive activity but here hawking,spitting,peeing,crapping,digging their noses.hanging about without any goal..people not as human projects but as primal anatomy.....
but again at the back of my mind ,like a reverie thoughts wre overwhelming me at a prodigious rate...what is that which separates kolkata from the rest of india????was it the scent of parched earth drenched by monsoon showers or was it the accomodative jostle and bustle of the kolkata bazaar,with its myriad hues and tastes,sounds and smells ..while all these and a million other perceptions ,do make my impression of coming to kolkata ,what caught my attention was the "perennial scowling face which every bong made upon seeing u"???kee rey.......??????
nevertheless the excitement had just begun........
TO BE CONTINUED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
The drama began when we wre ferried from cockpit to subashchandra bose exit terminal by the airservice bus when mobile phones of people around me started ringing.With the modus operandi of anxious relatives being,, to leave no stone unturned in making sure that they got their feelings of anxiety known to the entire world by calling umpteenth times....and the victim in picture ie the passneger(sadly but true!!!!!) swearing the statement again and again "aami ekhhun dhukchi aar tomi asbo na" (pleading not to come to airport to chaperoon them back to home),,everything looked so comical,that i was not able to prevent my sheepish smile..
Talking about kolkata,the first thing which stroke me was the overwhelming mass of people.milling,teeming,jostling,thronging,pushing,shoving and myriad of other preternatural human activities....other places in the world are crowded too but then people dre are engaged in some purposive activity but here hawking,spitting,peeing,crapping,digging their noses.hanging about without any goal..people not as human projects but as primal anatomy.....
but again at the back of my mind ,like a reverie thoughts wre overwhelming me at a prodigious rate...what is that which separates kolkata from the rest of india????was it the scent of parched earth drenched by monsoon showers or was it the accomodative jostle and bustle of the kolkata bazaar,with its myriad hues and tastes,sounds and smells ..while all these and a million other perceptions ,do make my impression of coming to kolkata ,what caught my attention was the "perennial scowling face which every bong made upon seeing u"???kee rey.......??????
nevertheless the excitement had just begun........
TO BE CONTINUED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Friday, April 17, 2009
got LAID!!!!!!!!!
Without an iota of doubt i am damn sure that your stretch of imagination would have crossed all barriers and you would have surmised(even though prematurely)that the "LAID" in this context would have been something sinister.....aahh....pity on you or on me .....donno....yes my friends i got laid....off....(did i say laid off?????)
this reminds me of the epic mahabharata when the great yudhishtira upon coaxing by srikrishna said (((, "Yes, Ashwathama is dead"; but added in whisper, "I do not know whether he is a man or an elephant.")))to dampen the spirits of kaurvas and specifically dronacharya...the fact of matter being that Ashwathama who was killed was an elephant in the pandavas side.....so his announcement was enough to set the cat among the pigeons in the kaurava camp..... getting laid is something very similar in context to what yudhisthir said with the notable differences being
1st)i am the speaker( a blue collar professional who is knocking at the doorsteps of history and who wants his article to be rememebered as an adjective defying masterpiece or rather be engraved on his epitaph)
2nd)got laid here alludes to the fact of being shown the pink slip in the times of financial panic or lemme rechristen it as the great depression II and not what you fickle minded people had thought...(my apologies for the condescending reference)
3rd)this is supposed to set the cat among pigeons on the targeted audience called "my company "so that they found some semblance of anguish,pain and suffering which any employee like me would suffer upon being laid off.......and amidst all this alleged hullabulaoo(ya i am hoping it to have such pronounced repurcussion) get me my job back.......
legend has it tough times never last but tough people do......my grief cloaked in humour is a testimony of my strength(read tuoghness)beyond measures......i hope there are some serious takers who understand the plight of poor blokes like me who have to go through such a traumatic phase in life wherein inspite of giving your total commitment you are rewarded with misfortune and rejection.......in this time of monumental grief i would just like to share my empathies with all the people sharing my fate....may god give all of us the courage ,fortitude and tenacity to tide over this crisis....
amen!!!!!!!!
this reminds me of the epic mahabharata when the great yudhishtira upon coaxing by srikrishna said (((, "Yes, Ashwathama is dead"; but added in whisper, "I do not know whether he is a man or an elephant.")))to dampen the spirits of kaurvas and specifically dronacharya...the fact of matter being that Ashwathama who was killed was an elephant in the pandavas side.....so his announcement was enough to set the cat among the pigeons in the kaurava camp..... getting laid is something very similar in context to what yudhisthir said with the notable differences being
1st)i am the speaker( a blue collar professional who is knocking at the doorsteps of history and who wants his article to be rememebered as an adjective defying masterpiece or rather be engraved on his epitaph)
2nd)got laid here alludes to the fact of being shown the pink slip in the times of financial panic or lemme rechristen it as the great depression II and not what you fickle minded people had thought...(my apologies for the condescending reference)
3rd)this is supposed to set the cat among pigeons on the targeted audience called "my company "so that they found some semblance of anguish,pain and suffering which any employee like me would suffer upon being laid off.......and amidst all this alleged hullabulaoo(ya i am hoping it to have such pronounced repurcussion) get me my job back.......
legend has it tough times never last but tough people do......my grief cloaked in humour is a testimony of my strength(read tuoghness)beyond measures......i hope there are some serious takers who understand the plight of poor blokes like me who have to go through such a traumatic phase in life wherein inspite of giving your total commitment you are rewarded with misfortune and rejection.......in this time of monumental grief i would just like to share my empathies with all the people sharing my fate....may god give all of us the courage ,fortitude and tenacity to tide over this crisis....
amen!!!!!!!!
Saturday, April 11, 2009
The Seige within!!!!
The seige within aptly describes my state of mind at this point of time....yes since the day i felt myself mature enough to handle the famed ways of the world i had one complain against myself...i succumb to the lure of temptations very easily......i dont have the the virtue of self control over my senses........everything has a purpose, its on us to find it....there is nothin like starting self control or stopping my desires to inveigle me to do something,,,,, its about doing ,doing and nothing else..but as they say sometimes you have to loose your mind to come into senses ...i thought to exorcise the demons inside me......what i am doing right now is something very akin to loosing my minds...
i am trying to question the three basic rules of life paradox ,humour and change....i think the biggest paradox in the life is the life itself....needless to say its a mystery in itself...but i have realised that no purpose is served in unravelling the mystery ..rather be content with the present state of thing...did i hear someone say "ignorance is a bliss"..truly it is in this case...earlier i had this wistful longing to see my future in a crystal gaze which at this moment looks very frivolous to me...i wanted to see which way my relationship with people heading to???what are the implications of forging new relationships on me and my near and dear ones....but now i dont mull over these things at all..i have resigned myself to my fate.....something which is destined will happen come what may.......
the second rule of life according to me is humour ....i am a firm believer in the notion that humour is something which gives you a kind of strength beyond measures......it has helped me to tide over all kinds of crisis which i had been beset with at different crossroads of my life.....a person without humour is like a wagon without springs ,it is jolted by every pebble on its way.....
so essentially the kind of humour i like is something which makes me laugh for 5 sec but forces me to think for 10 min......three cheers for humour......
thirdly another of the most important cardinal tenet of life is change.....knowing that nothing will remain the same forever is the one thing which makes me awake all the time .... i dont want myself to be the product of environment..i want environment to be a product of my actions....my actions of change........the first step i guess should not be to give up what i love ,but to find love in whatever i do.....lets see whether i am able to change my life from the despair of winter to a spring of hope........
comments awaited!!!!!!!!!!
i am trying to question the three basic rules of life paradox ,humour and change....i think the biggest paradox in the life is the life itself....needless to say its a mystery in itself...but i have realised that no purpose is served in unravelling the mystery ..rather be content with the present state of thing...did i hear someone say "ignorance is a bliss"..truly it is in this case...earlier i had this wistful longing to see my future in a crystal gaze which at this moment looks very frivolous to me...i wanted to see which way my relationship with people heading to???what are the implications of forging new relationships on me and my near and dear ones....but now i dont mull over these things at all..i have resigned myself to my fate.....something which is destined will happen come what may.......
the second rule of life according to me is humour ....i am a firm believer in the notion that humour is something which gives you a kind of strength beyond measures......it has helped me to tide over all kinds of crisis which i had been beset with at different crossroads of my life.....a person without humour is like a wagon without springs ,it is jolted by every pebble on its way.....
so essentially the kind of humour i like is something which makes me laugh for 5 sec but forces me to think for 10 min......three cheers for humour......
thirdly another of the most important cardinal tenet of life is change.....knowing that nothing will remain the same forever is the one thing which makes me awake all the time .... i dont want myself to be the product of environment..i want environment to be a product of my actions....my actions of change........the first step i guess should not be to give up what i love ,but to find love in whatever i do.....lets see whether i am able to change my life from the despair of winter to a spring of hope........
comments awaited!!!!!!!!!!
Saturday, March 7, 2009
the zealous observer!!!!!
hmmm.........Some of you smart fellas must have noticed the irony which i have tried to highlight.....some of you must be scratching your head to understand the irony....let me make things easy for you.The irony which i hav tried to highlight is how can an observer be zealous????Aren't they supposed to be silent,observing you like an artist devoted to painting.???...just to purge your mind from this misconception i am penning down this article.....From quite some time i was thinking, to give myself the epithet of "the OBSERVER" precisely because of the fact that i have realised off late that i like observing people,the way they present themselves ,the way they communicate,their body language et al.....some of you might be surprised that in this fast paced world where people dont find time for themselves how can someone afford to observe others and get influenced by them.....but then everyone cant be the same...
I am not one of those breeds who believe that sitting in the cosy ambiences of your room and by just merely reading you become an experienced fellow...i am one of those effusive and demonstrative kinda guy who likes to communicate with people,who believes that being introvert is the trait of a coward and who likes to make the people around him relish his company....but then again the q "is it easier said then done???" Am i trully like that???Do i project myself in front of others in the way which i want them to feel about me????I have seen a paradigm shift in myself as a person in these last 2 months.....I used to be one of those person who was like "the grumpy and the grouchy kinds"who used to complain to god for anything which was denied to him...There is a sudden realisation of the"power of positive thinking"which has dawned on me.....i have started looking at life in a different way..i have met some real good people who unknowingly have suggested the lacuna in my personality par se...and to reform myself as a person has now become one of the guiding principles of my life....now the moot question is how do you relate my "observation" with meeting people???....i would just say that unlike other people who are busy caring about themselves(to the extent of narcissism)i take trouble in doing some introspection..talking about introspection,which has caught my fascination from quite some time i have just figured out that every person has some uniqueness in his personality which should be appreciated......it can be something very mundane but the point is sometimes the mundane also goes unnoticed.....
take the example of my roommate, whom i asked once "yaar tujhe gussa kyun nahi aata"???
he said "yaar jab tak mai dekh leta hun ki wo bearable hai, aur, jaroori nahi hai to mai gussa nahi hota...aur waisey bhi kisi sey jhagad key kya faayda ..kaun sa tumhey 1000 saal jeena hai jo sabkey against dushmani rakho....chota sa life span hai...kuch accha to nahi kar paaye buura kyun karein"..
it was an eye opener for me as i have this habbit of getting piqued at people occasionally which manifests into a cold war(at times).....and then subsequently results in severing of ties...i have lost many a good friends of mine because of my this habbit.....nonetheless i took stock of the situation and mended my ways....now you must be wondering that where was this insight for the past 20 yrs ...did i become an observer all of a sudden.?????...
no it was the maturity which was missing...it wasnt the ability to observe the rules of game called "life" (which everyone knows but still like an ostrich who digs his head in the sand upon seeing a prying enemy pretending as if it hadnt seen the enemy) but it was the failure on my part to just simply observe and let the positive thing to go away...i have discoverd the art of introspection which when coupled with observation makes a lethal combo(pun intended) ...now i am not at all passing a sweeping statement that i have become mature overnight..what i am saying is that with each passing day i am striving to become a good,mature individual....and to faciliate this cause i am having a tryst with my observation skills which has promised me that with each passing day it will help me in becoming a better person..........
amen!!!!!!!!!!!
I am not one of those breeds who believe that sitting in the cosy ambiences of your room and by just merely reading you become an experienced fellow...i am one of those effusive and demonstrative kinda guy who likes to communicate with people,who believes that being introvert is the trait of a coward and who likes to make the people around him relish his company....but then again the q "is it easier said then done???" Am i trully like that???Do i project myself in front of others in the way which i want them to feel about me????I have seen a paradigm shift in myself as a person in these last 2 months.....I used to be one of those person who was like "the grumpy and the grouchy kinds"who used to complain to god for anything which was denied to him...There is a sudden realisation of the"power of positive thinking"which has dawned on me.....i have started looking at life in a different way..i have met some real good people who unknowingly have suggested the lacuna in my personality par se...and to reform myself as a person has now become one of the guiding principles of my life....now the moot question is how do you relate my "observation" with meeting people???....i would just say that unlike other people who are busy caring about themselves(to the extent of narcissism)i take trouble in doing some introspection..talking about introspection,which has caught my fascination from quite some time i have just figured out that every person has some uniqueness in his personality which should be appreciated......it can be something very mundane but the point is sometimes the mundane also goes unnoticed.....
take the example of my roommate, whom i asked once "yaar tujhe gussa kyun nahi aata"???
he said "yaar jab tak mai dekh leta hun ki wo bearable hai, aur, jaroori nahi hai to mai gussa nahi hota...aur waisey bhi kisi sey jhagad key kya faayda ..kaun sa tumhey 1000 saal jeena hai jo sabkey against dushmani rakho....chota sa life span hai...kuch accha to nahi kar paaye buura kyun karein"..
it was an eye opener for me as i have this habbit of getting piqued at people occasionally which manifests into a cold war(at times).....and then subsequently results in severing of ties...i have lost many a good friends of mine because of my this habbit.....nonetheless i took stock of the situation and mended my ways....now you must be wondering that where was this insight for the past 20 yrs ...did i become an observer all of a sudden.?????...
no it was the maturity which was missing...it wasnt the ability to observe the rules of game called "life" (which everyone knows but still like an ostrich who digs his head in the sand upon seeing a prying enemy pretending as if it hadnt seen the enemy) but it was the failure on my part to just simply observe and let the positive thing to go away...i have discoverd the art of introspection which when coupled with observation makes a lethal combo(pun intended) ...now i am not at all passing a sweeping statement that i have become mature overnight..what i am saying is that with each passing day i am striving to become a good,mature individual....and to faciliate this cause i am having a tryst with my observation skills which has promised me that with each passing day it will help me in becoming a better person..........
amen!!!!!!!!!!!
Friday, March 6, 2009
changing shades!!!!!
Some of you might be surprised that a writer like me who has a penchant for writing flowery english is toning down his way of writing....yes people i have succcumbed to the relentless pressure besetting on me from all quarters,and finally i am contemplating in writing in simple english which the populace can relate to.........As a writer i have tried all the time to give my readers something which they can cherish,something which they can share with their friends,something which leaves them wondering even when they are not reading my blog,something which makes them realise that humour is the panacea for all the problems of the world......i dont know how far i have succeded but what i know is that i have been very committed and honest to my writing and i want that people should know this and for that eloquent language should not be a deterrent....
Some of you might be wondering that why all of a sudden i got this "antaratma ki pukkar"!!!people its just that i asked for my readers opinion and surmised(cmn guys jack up your vocabs) that many a times people have to use a dictionary to understand what i write which inturn mitigates their interest,which a tyro writer like me would never ask for....In this small sojourn into the world of writing i have seen almost everything ....from being lapped up by everyone for my writing skills to being at the receiving end of plaigiarism charges......So in a nutshell what i can say is that this conservative world cant bear iconoclasts..........People like those who are like them.....they dont want to take the trouble to raise themselves...i am no crusader and so it pains me and therefore its time, i give my critiques something to cogitate and let them know that even i can write simple english........but i expect my readers(critiques as well) to be tad bit patient,as this transition wont be abrupt,it will be gradual.....
jus THREE words left to say WAIT AND WATCH!!!!!
Some of you might be wondering that why all of a sudden i got this "antaratma ki pukkar"!!!people its just that i asked for my readers opinion and surmised(cmn guys jack up your vocabs) that many a times people have to use a dictionary to understand what i write which inturn mitigates their interest,which a tyro writer like me would never ask for....In this small sojourn into the world of writing i have seen almost everything ....from being lapped up by everyone for my writing skills to being at the receiving end of plaigiarism charges......So in a nutshell what i can say is that this conservative world cant bear iconoclasts..........People like those who are like them.....they dont want to take the trouble to raise themselves...i am no crusader and so it pains me and therefore its time, i give my critiques something to cogitate and let them know that even i can write simple english........but i expect my readers(critiques as well) to be tad bit patient,as this transition wont be abrupt,it will be gradual.....
jus THREE words left to say WAIT AND WATCH!!!!!
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