Truth Triumphs

Two days back a wonderful news made my day… When I joined my current company, I was very apprehensive while joining my first project. It was a domain which I didn’t have any knowledge about and with people whom I had never interacted with. But my team leader was a very understanding person, she not only gave me time to adjust to the domain, but would patiently answer all my doubts. Even if that meant working a little late than the scheduled time… Time and again I used to badger her with questions and she would patiently explain me.. And the more she explained, the more curious I became.We shared a good camaraderie till I got transferred to another project. What I took back from my earlier project was a mentor, a person whom I could relate to, no matter what my query was, personal or professional. Never had I seen such dedication and sincerity, especially in an industry where working on weekends seemed like a sin and working beyond scheduled hours a torture. Here was a person, who didn’t work, coz she was getting paid for it, but worked coz she revered her work. It was not mere duty for her, but was passion. Her dedication and work became a milestone for people like me and a sense of threat for peers. We live in an age, where competition doesn’t mean using your abilities to its best, a sense of healthy competition is almost dead....What remains back is a puddle of dirty politics and scandals… And the same thing started showing its hood… But with truth as her tool, my friend (I have the liberty to say so) went ahead, untouched by politics and undeterred by comments…. She worked coz; she loved her work and didn’t bother about reactions… Finally, her will power and hard work was noticed and she was awarded with a performance award. The moment I saw her name in the list, tears brimmed my eyes… Here was a lesson which I needed to learn, never give up... She never expected any rewards for her work nor did she bother when she got one.. I was touched by her magnanimity when she said that the award belonged to all the three of us who worked hard as a team and not to a single individual… I wrote her a lengthy mail, appreciating her work and I got back a reply saying, what I treasure is not my award but your sentiments for me. I am happy I got this award, coz, this way I could understand ur feelings and respect for me. That is my award.. Gosh!! In this selfish world, there are still people u can look upto and revere…


A Lesson worth learning and remembering….. Truth does triumph…Proud of u my friend…

Waitin for a Better Day!!!

I just had one of those worst days when everything goes wrong. It’s a Monday evening and I am dead exhausted. All day I have just been troubleshooting and trying to bring my dead servers up. At the end of the day all my work goes to dumps, as an electrical maintainence routine starts up and all servers automatically switch off with a *pop* sound….

It took me a lot of patience to keep quiet and maintain my cool today. It becomes really irritating when people try to sit on your head when there is a problem situation. Huh!! Neither do they understand the problem nor do they help solve it, they are however gracious enough to add salt and pepper to it. At the end of the day, I do not see any valid work going down my day, it looks like 9 hours of complete wastage.. I hate it when time gets wasted and nothing fruitful comes up. There was this senior of mine at college who used to always advise me that sometimes u need to just simply do nothing and it still feels very good. Hmmm.. Maybe I should give some thought to doing *nothing*.. 

I had a wonderful weekend as promised, I didn’t get a chance to watch the movie, but watched some amazing stuff in TV.. Cooked some yummy curry and rotis.. One of those days when my dad gets astonished to see me in the kitchen…Actually shocked is the word..  Sunday was even better..I lazily slept around the whole day, read some books, listened to music….Fun!!! I was very very fresh when I came in the morning.. And there goes my freshness withering away in the server room!!!

Hmmm… Wish tomorrow would be a better time…. “A New Day will come”….

A New Day Has Come

Finally a rather busy phase comes to an end and I am free ( longing to be one) and so time to plan new stuff.... I really want to do something exciting this weekend.. Lets see, plans still under construction... And while I was busy burying myself in my monitor screen, world around me seems to have changed, for the good of course... It is finally the end of the year...Time just flew away so fast....Doesnt seem that it is already a year done....So here comes time for confessions and retrospections...Time to look back and learn all our merits and mistakes..Time to forgive and ask for forgiveness...Time to wait for a new dawn, of resolutions and promises...
*Sigh!!! Things look so blurry at the end of the year.... nevertheless, the fun part of it awaits us...so fasten ur seat belts people, here comes a new leap into a dawn of joys and promises... :)

It just seems yesterday when I came back with all my "boriya" from Pune... A final good bye to my much enjoyed *hostel* life... The past 5 years of my life have been the best and the worst part of my life... I know thats AntiThesis but a memorable experience... It was worth the risk that I took... Someday I am gonna actually put all my memorable incidents during my hostel life into words and I am gonna title it as " A Rendezvous with Life" .... Hmm..One more task attached to my TO-Do List... Thats one list, which I start making at the start of the year, and never manage to finish it... :(

I heard a very beautiful song from Con Air this week "How do I live without u".... Simply amazing.... Its been a while since I heard a real melodious song. Today I decided to tidy things up and cleared up organised all my files and folders...such a painful task...

1 more hour before I leave for a happy weekend..... Might watch Om Shanti Om with friends this week... I am a bit curious of the 70's style....

Cheers!!!

Sweet memories of Childhood...

Today I read an article about the joys of childhood, the happy times of our life. Then there was a poll where people had to write in what they missed the most from their childhood days. Well most of the answers were populated with the most common desires, people missed their vacations, sweets, cartoons (one guy actually wrote in Mickey Mouse ), getting up late, new teachers, chocolates, school, early morning assembly.

Even the thought brings a smile. Long lost seem the days when we used to pray early in the morning for a heavy rain so we could get a holiday, or jumping in the puddles while coming back from school. Those little desires, which now seem so silly, like a new Raincoat every year, a new Uniform which we used to flaunt on the first day of school. I miss my Library the most. We had this reading room in our school where we were allowed to go even during our recess to read comics.. I used to give my tifin away to my class mates so I could rush and read my comics. The paper boats during the rainy season, and the pride when everyone else’s boat would sink and mine would remain upright haughtily. Little did my cousins know that I used to put small pebbles in them!!! Wicked, ain't I???

Somehow the rainy season was always my favorite season, colorful raincoats, dainty umbrellas… The roads just seemed so colorful.. We had a very huge Swing in our balcony and all my time after school, was effectively spent on the Swing, singing songs, sometimes dancing (for no reason of course)…. I was born and bought up in a joint family, so my childhood was a blast, with around 8 of my cousins around… Vacations were almost a picnic every day, we used to make tents in the terrace and sleep gazing at the stars. My mom being an astrophysics freak, I never heard fairy tales in my childhood. It was wonderful stories of comets and meteors, galaxies and asteroids….It was very recently that I read Jack and the Beanstalk with my Nephew.  I miss all those bed time stories where I used to wonder about all the stars….

Life has taken such a big U-turn now, there is no more dreaming about hols, all we can think early in the morning is the heavy task awaiting us. It seems as if I am living a Time-table… Everything is so artificial and fixed. All my cousins have moved out to different locations, some for studies and other for work. The charm and color is completely lost. But when I look at my nephews and my niece, they find more pleasure in watching TV than camping..Their idea of fun is so different than what we used to have… To them vacation is all about their “Piano classes” and Dance schools..... My nephews find better friends in Gizmo toys than in their families…They do not play in the rain anymore, but prefer playing Computer Games instead. Even spirituality is introduced as cartoons…I had to struggle hard to explain to my 5-year old Nephew, that Hanuman is not even remotely related to superman & that He doesn’t wear a mask. Kids these days want to go to Malls, watch movies in multiplexes, wear Branded shoes and play Gizmo games all the times… They just cant see a life beyond their X-Box.

We all certainly need some time off when we can become kids again & return to that heaven of fun and smiles.. Of truth and innocence… Of pranks and mischief….


“magar mujhko lauta do bachpan ka sawan
Woh kagaz ki kasti woh baaris ka paani”