Just Chill..Corporate..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_(film)

Corporate is about the vicious circle of ambition in the private sector, and how human emotions and life have no significance in it.

The movie starts off on a nice solemn note by Atul Kulkarni as we are introduced into the rivalry of the 2 big enterprises (soft drink giants ) and the story just moves Madhur Bhandarkar way, talking about the business tactics and manipulations, how companies use NGOs, the media, the religious institutions and politicians to their own advantage. And how the politicians use companies, film industry, swamis etc. It takes us into into a world of deceit, treachery and betrayal.
Rajat Kapoor plays Vinay Sehgal, Raj Babbar plays Dharmesh Marwah, respective heads of their business..

Performances by Bipasha and Kay Kay are cool. Bipasha is impressive as hard-worker who will do anything to get her work done. The transformation of Bipasha from middle class city girl to a working woman is amongst the most convincing aspects of the film. And for this, she had to pay dearly. Kay Kay is very realistic. There are Short comedy and jokes scenes in between , like people becoming public and private in companies, sleeping over the issue…between the peons in the office…

If you are ethical or emotional like the CEO Naveen, you will have to leave the company, and the best then is consultancy. Marwah Group's CEO Pervez, is easily charmed by Nishi, and therefore losses trade secret first, which cost him his job next. The impact, and the race for awards too is depicted here.

In corporate world, handful of men and women, hold in their hands the power to influence the lives of unsuspecting millions. Live their lives. Learn their lies. This film takes a deep insight in the mindset of these powerful people and attempts to find out what makes them tick. It explores the nexus between the corporate world and the political; and follows the trail of sex and corruption that hides behind a glittering and glassy exterior.

Also it throws a light on how the common men forget all that is dangerous in a product, and fall to the catchy tag lines and advertisements...

Thanks to Sarooo, could finally see this movie on the Idiot Box...

Friend, Just for you ~ Just for nothing!

~ Stop by the shore, where we shared memories, and broken bangles! ~


I will let you go;
Coz, your dreams are away
(Coz I know, you can’t go!)
And am scribbling this, just for nothing!

Its summer again; but without you!
It hurts harder than ever,
And I know, I will be burned to ashes
And am scribbling this, just for nothing!

Its winter again; but without you!
It congeals my thoughts again,
And I know, I will be buried in the arctic
And am scribbling this, just for nothing!

Its rain again; but without you!
It tramples my candle evermore,
And I know, I will recede in this deluge
And am scribbling this, just for nothing!

I will let you go;
Coz, your dreams are away
(Coz I know, you can’t go!)
And am scribbling this, just for nothing!

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A smile cannot hide the pain within. I hope you understand, what I mean. I miss all the silly things that we shared during work. I can’t tell you how much I’m gonna miss you, my dear friend. These words cannot show the real feeling flowing through my heart, when I say this.
I have whole lot of prayers for you; to give you wings to achieve the sky that you have dreamt for. I have whole lot of thanks for you, for all the positive spirits you sprinkled on my way. I have whole lot of dreams about you. Keep going, and keep winning hearts as you always do.


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Teachers used to say (and guess they still do)
listen is silent rearranged,
so, learn to b silent & you’ll learn to listen..
(and that is the way to success & blah blah..)

hmmm…well,
silent could be listen rearranged too..
so say something worth listening & you’ll get your silence J

Confused?!

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.. and here I’m sitting by my window,
Looking at the gloom spreading in the sky!
....listening to the wind howling around..

I dont know my dear Friend, how to Thank You for all that you are, and all that you have done...Hope you dont mind me putting all this here...

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Serenity

Something that I wanted to say, but could not put in words; dont know how could I thank Prafoooo and the Crazy 4 for this:

Let the sky fall on me; Let the sea evade me;

Let the wind sweep me; Let the God beckon me;



I’m here;

With myriad nails struck on my heart…

Take me..

Take me back!

Al-Vida..Sayonara…

Stealing the blue from the splashing seas,
A tinge of green from the youthful trees,
A bit of orange from the sunset hues,
With crystal white from the morning dews,
I have framed a bright and colourful wish
Just for you...............Best of Luck My Friend A--X.


If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.R-J-E-


Time is finite capital
Time cannot be stored for future use.
Time waits for none.

Follies in the past should guide us for moving carefully in the path ahead. R-N_J_T

You practiced simplicity which only rarest of rare can do. I realize, simplicity is a difficulty virtue to be practiced.
Wishing you all the best throughout your life.
Al-Vida Vij Put..


Continue dreaming and thinking as always you did. Be true to your talents.

We will miss you. Be true to your gift, you will not regret.
All the best … Give your best where ever you go. Vij..K

Thank you for all your hard work - it is noted & appreciated!

I wish you success in your future professional & personal life and also specific wished for your exams!

Please keep in touch! NR

Well you will not be easily replaced! But i'm glad for you
i'm glad that you have other opportunities available to you, but I’ll miss you!AG

Then there were so many farewells..gifts..books....

As the time has come to bid good bye I reminisce the associations I had ...


I have enjoyed working and I appreciate having had this wonderful opportunity to work with you all. Thanks are due to all of you for being so great to work with over the past year.



I am sorry, if any of my words or actions have hurt you or put you into any sort of difficulties.

Ithu vayikkumbo vishamam kond oru Omlet kazhikkan thonnuva…..

True Stories of the Second World War

This is a non fiction book published in 2003, written by Paul Dowswell, who specialises in children's information books.

Indeed Second World War, is as ‘As dirty a business as the world has ever seen…..’

Recounting the stories of some of the most heroic, devastating and pivotal moments of World War II, this book gives young readers a strong sense of the suffering, but also the bravery involved in the war. It also gives an understanding of the experiences which may have affected their grandparents.

The war involved a desire by the Axis powers (Germany, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria) to gain power over the Allies (Great Britain, USSR, USA). Also Japan’s military rulets sought to take over the Asian and Pacific territories fading European powers. The war began with the German Invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939.

From the voyage of the Bismarck (Germans greatest battleship) , and the Battle of Iwo Jima to Cracking Enigma, the Manhattan Project and attacks on Japan, this book proves an unpatronizing and approachable insight into this conflict.

In the Voyage of the Bismarck, there is the extraordinary scene, of Captain Lindemanns death, as the deck slowly turned over into the sea, Lindemann stopped and raised his hand to his cap in a final salute, then disappeared. In 1989, marine archaeologist Robert Ballard, have found that Bismarck’s hull remains intact, and the swastikas, on bow and stern have made a sinister reappearance.

The story of Violette Szabo, the sales girl/British agent who worked for the Special Operations Executive, was really touching. The atrocities committed on them, seems to be worse or akin to the one shown in the movie Kalapani…Her surviving coprisioner, Marie Lecomte described it, and was finally able to kiss each of her family members as was promised.

Then there is the brave story of the Russia’s women pilots, headed by Marina Raskova, commonly known as the Stalin’s female ‘Falcons’.

In the book-keepers storage problem, you get to read about the Adolf Eichmann and the Wannsee Conference 1942, with his boss SS General Reinhard Heydrich, an ‘Aryan’ (was the Nazi term for pure-blooded Germans)!!!! Planning to make Europe Judenfrei, or ‘Jew Free’. Jews were gradually rounded up. Some were shot, or gassed in special vans designed for the process. But most were placed on Freight trains, packed in their hundreds and thousands into cattle wagons, and transported to death camps-Treblinka, Sobibor, Majdanek, Belzec, Chelmno and Auschwitz-names which would haunt the lives of an entire post-war generation.

In the war of the rats, at Stalingrad, there is the incredible story of Vasily Zaitsev and Tania Chernova.

The lost hero, is about Raoul Wallenberg’s from Sweden, studied in US, with the mercy mission to Hungary .. There was frequent encounter with Euichmann..What happened to him is a question of much speculation, he was missing, after the war, and as per the most reliable records available, he was executed in his Moscow cell on July 17,1947. The war produced more than its fair share of senseless moments, but for a man who had saved anything up to 100,000 lives through sheer bare-knuckle courage, it was a desperately unjust fate…

‘…Like running through rain and not getting wet.’…Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima is a historic photograph taken on February 23, 1945, by Joe Rosenthal.


It depicts five United States Marines and a U.S. Navy corpsman raising the flag of the United States atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II. The photograph was extremely popular, being reprinted in thousands of publications. Later, it became the only photograph to win the Pulitzer Prize for Photography On February 19, 1945, as part of their island-hopping strategy to defeat Japan, the United States invaded Iwo Jima. Iwo Jima was originally not a target, but the relatively quick fall of the Philippines left the Americans with a longer-than-expected lull prior to the planned invasion of Okinawa. Iwo Jima is located half-way between Japan and the Mariana Islands, where American long-range bombers were based, and was used by the Japanese as an early warning station, radioing warnings of incoming American bombers to the Japanese homeland. The Americans, after capturing the island, deprived the Japanese of their early warning system, and used it as an emergency landing strip for damaged bombers, saving many American lives. Iwo Jima is a volcanic island, shaped like a trapezoid’

The destroyer of worlds, is about the Manhattan Project and the atom bomb attacks on Japan, in 1945. The chief scientist, Oppenheimer, mouths the words ‘I am become Death The Destroyer of worlds’ from BG, while trying in Alamogordo, New Mexico on 16th July 1945. Later the bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, from Enola Gay and B-29 Superfortress ; the bombs were named Little Boy and Fat Man respectively. There are arguments for and agains bombing…Some claim if not for the bomb, they would have died long before; You’ve got to kill enough people, only then they stop fighting. Some cried with relief and joy…Some say, Japan was ready to surrender, and it wasn’t necessary to hit them with that awful thing…

Alias ‘Uncle Ricardo’, Adolf Eichmann, 1945-1961, lived in exile for years…and then was hanged….Indeed…when you taken the life of one man for the murder of six million, you cheapen the value of the death.

From Technicolor to black and white, after the war ended…has a small poem by John Maxwell Edmonds, which was popular with both American and British troops,

When you go home,
Tell them of us and say,
‘For your tomorrows
These gave their today’


Have often heard of the Turkey blocking the way to the Middle East…was wondering how much have they contributed/saved the war? Indeed Creating blocks, is indeed very troublesome, whatsoever the motive….

The cause of any war is usually too complex to reduce to a simple explanation, and none of us want a war….but there is……either a cold or hot war….everywhere, every time….
War against terrorisms, family feuds, Can we stop them? Can there ever be so much of understanding to avoid wars?

3 Idiots....Aal Izz welll

Loosely adapted from the novel Five Point Someone by Chetan Bhagat, Three Idiots, is a bollywood movie, directed by Rajkumar Hirani, with a screenplay by Abhijat Joshi, and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra

It is entertaining, enlightening, everything... what more would you want from a movie?

The story is about three engineering students who share a room in a hostel at the fictional Imperial College of Engineering, Farhan Qureshi (R. Madhavan) Farhanitrate, Raju Rastogi (Sharman Joshi) Prerajulization, and Rancchoddas "Rancho" Shyamaldas Chanchad (Aamir Khan). It is framed as intermittent flashbacks from the present day, ten years after Chatur vowed revenge on Rancho for embarrassing him at the speech night and promised to become more successful than Rancho a decade later.

Rancho is the rebel among them always questioning things and believing that learning is more than just the usual mode of education, topping the class. He even manages to win the affections of the director's daughter Pia (Kareena Kapoor). But Rancho's greatest contribution lies is making his friends realise their true calling.


1. Never Try To Be Successful

Success is the bye-product. Excellence always creates success. So, never run after the success, let it happen automatically in the life.

2. Freedom To Life

Don’t die before actual death. Live every moment to the fullest as you are going to
die today night. Life is gifted to humankind to live, live & live @ happiness.

3. Passion Leads To Excellence

When your hobby becomes your profession and passion becomes your profession. You will be able to lead up to excellence in the life. Satisfaction, pleasure, joy and love will be the outcome of following passion. Following your passion for years, you will surely become something one day.

4. Learning Is Very Simple

Teachers do fail. Learners never fail. Learning is never complicated or difficult. Learning is always possible whatever rule you apply.

5. Pressure At Head

Current education system is developing pressures on students’ head. University intelligence is useful and making some impact in the life but it cannot be at the cost of the life.

6. Life Is Emotion Management Not Intelligence Optimization

Memory and regular study have definite value and it always helps you in leading a life. You are able to survive even if you can make some mark in the path of the life. With artificial intelligence, you can survive and win but you cannot prove yourself genius. Therefore, in this process genius dies in you.

7. Necessity Is The Mother Of Invention

Necessity creates pressure and forces you to invent something or to make it happen or to use your potentiality. Aamir Khan in this film, 3 idiots, is able to prove in the film by using vacuum pump at the last moment.

8. Simplicity is Life

Life is need base never want base. Desires have no ends. Simplicity is way of life and Indian culture highly stresses on simple living and high thinking, and this is the way of life: ‘Legs down to earth and eyes looking beyond the sky’

9. Industrial Leadership

Dean of the institute in 3 idiots is showing very typical leadership. He has his own principles, values and ideology, and he leads the whole institute accordingly. This is an example of current institutional leadership. In the present scenario, most of the institutes are fixed in a block or Squarish thinking.


10. Love Is Time & Space Free

Love is not time bound and space bound. It is very well demonstrated in this movie same love was demonstrated by Krishna and Meera. Love is border free, time free and space free.

11. Importance Of One Word In Communication

If communication dies, everything dies. Each word has impact and value in communication. One word if used wrongly or emphasized wrongly or paused at a wrong place in communication what effect it creates and how is it affected is demonstrated very well in this movie.

12. Mediocrity Is Penalized

Middle class family or average talent or average institute is going to suffer and has to pay maximum price in the life if they do not upgrade their living standards. To be born poor or as an average person is not a crime but to die as an average person with middle class talent is miserable and if you are unable to optimize your potentiality and die with unused potentiality then that is your shameful truth. One should not die as a mediocre. He/she has to bring out genius inside him/her and has to use his/her potentiality to the optimum level.

Life is not easy, baby!

VERY SHORT, MOST EFFECTIVE AND HOW TRUE...

"Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. You name them - Work, Family, Health, Friends and Spirit and you're keeping all of these in the Air.

You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back.

But the other four Balls - Family, Health, Friends and Spirit - are made of glass. If you drop one of these; they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged or even shattered. They will never be the same. You must understand that and strive for it."

WORK EFFICIENTLY DURING OFFICE HOURS AND LEAVE ON TIME. GIVE THE REQUIRED TIME TO YOUR FAMILY, FRIENDS & HAVE PROPER REST.



For the past two years, OPI was my family and AFL, Stanley and others were my friends…Now that it is time for the divorce, I am rembered of the MOST EFFECTIVE 30 second Speech by Bryan Dyson (CEO, Coca Cola)

Precise, valid, convincing, compelling, hard hitting,… but truth 

Sticks and stones may break my bones - and words hurt, too!


- An old usage, but truth!!


I could never be Complacent.

Life is not easy, baby!

Is'nt life richer for those who aspire to ever and ever reach higher and higher?

Have a peaceful and satisfying Twenty-Ten.

A New Book is opened ..Its Pages are Blank..we are going to put the words..Ourselves..! The Book is called Opportunity starting with New Year..a New Phase ..a New Beginning..!- Juhi Gupta...

Had Abhis wedding this New Year day...A double occassion to enjoy...



Also this was a part of something that I really missed, on the days before the wedding:

aathirayalle.. thiruvathirayalle..thiru vegappura bhagavaninnulsavamalle..
bhagavthikku noymballe.. thiruvathirayalle..


Like birds, let us, leave behind what we don’t need to carry… GRUDGES, SADNESS, PAIN, FEAR and REGRETS Life is beautiful, enjoy it.Riju Jose...

Is there a way to persuade and make them understand, those who cannot remove this, and others, who not only cannot remove this but also is busy brainwashing others!!!

Had to leave behind what I wanted to carry, with 2009, even my dearest little choti left us....to another state....she was sweet little pie of so many...who had conquered many a hearts within a very short span of time...

The year ended 2009 or the beginning of this year 20-10 was ‘Once in a blue moon’....!!!! There were two full moons in December 09…..

P2 G combo emails were real fun and inspiring…The one sentence stories, one word stories, and the pictures. above all, the comments on the pics send by P that keeps us wondering, so very original, quick, inspiring, that keeps us thinking…..

And there was again the beautiful poem from Prabhu....

Folks, thanks for being with me.. and for all the inspirations that you sprinkled in my lone alley!

It’s a new day .. A New Year!

May the New Year bring all the fortunes in your life!
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My FRIEND Alex Thomas's gift on Virtues....

Health is the first of life,

Wealth is the next of life,

Characters Courage is the best of life,

Respect is must in life,

Turning is the test of life,

God's blessing is the crest of life,

Love is crucial for life,

Happiness is the perfume of life,

Truth is the search of life,

Death is the rest of life...

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And ha...Money, though not everything, is something very important in life.

And from Sreerams Blog: You can read it at: http://criticatwork.blogspot.com/2010/01/festivals-how-important-are-they.html


What is there in festivals? If you have money, every day is a festival. If you don’t, you don’t care whether it is a festival or not.”

My manthra in life is very simple- “Enjoy your work, make enough money to enjoy your time off from work. If you are not happy with work, don’t sit and whine, move out as early as you can and find out something that will keep you happy (hopefully!)
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Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy!

Happiness Always!
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Xmas is nigh and S&C was back

Keeping the spirit of X’mas alive……we had a fun-filled X’mas celebration…….right @ OPI on 22nd Dec between 3.30pm to 5.30 pm with X’mas carol English, Malayalam…… Spanish, French, Latin or Polish was also allowed, but nobody dared to……..……. and santa (Shamu) giving chocolates.…….and we rocked!!

The Rule was simple:
Everyone should participate…….Everyone should have fun!!

All came dressed in one of the three colors: White, Red or Green!!

Venue for the celebration was just were we were ….



Our Carol Team of 20 energetic and lively members were the first runners up in the Infopark Carol Contest held on the 21st of December ……and gave a great wrap-up to the year 2009!! OPI Santa was Inforpark Santa….



We were happy, as was rightly pointed out by GM, in case we would have come first, it would have increased the expectation, and there would have been no scope for improvement next time...

2009 had been a very eventful year and all the efforts had made it a lucky year for OPI and we are looking forward for the coming year 2010 to be more promising more fun and entertaining!



Special thanks to Susan- the strength behind the Carol team, with her organ, and Biju's winning team at OPI without whom the event wouldn’t have been this entertaining!


Again borrowing from Pappu:
It is at Christmas, Santa comes to our door leaving red sack full gifts!

This year I saw him rushing away through the snow filled alley. But he did not look back. I heard the jingles fading away in darkness. I sat down on ..... Thank you, Santa!!

Merry X’mas, mates!

This Years gift from Santa...

Santa came at my door leaving a dairy full of Virtues for each month!

January:

One day you might see yourself walking alone on a new path. No one seems in sight. No one seems to have walked it earlier. Don’t give up midway. You’re on a right track. Go on. Reach your dreams.

“The reason why you do not see anyone is because, the world is following you.”

February:

We grow old filled with regrets-
For things not done;
For words not said;
For love not shown;
For Dreams not completed.

Life is short. Act today.
Do all that makes you happy. Now.



March:

There is no limit to what you can imagine.
And with commitment, with effort,
What you can imagine you can become.

Put your mind to work for you.
And you’ll find the ability to do it.

April:

Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders.
Know that you are the creator of your own destiny.
All the strength and success you want is within yourselves.
Stand up. Be bold. Be strong.
Make your own future.



May:

“ You have powers you never dreamed of.
You can do things you never thought you could do.
There are no limitations in what you can do
Except the limitations of your own mind”



June:

If you ever feel like knowing, how the people around look on you?

See reflections on the faces of the people you meet:
Read your images form their eyes.
All the faces in the world are mirrors.
You just have to learn how to read them.

July:

Face your past without regret.
Handle your present with confidence.
Prepare for the future without fear.
Keep faith and drop the fear.
Don’t believe your doubts and never doubt your beliefs.

Life is wonderful if you know how to live it.



If God brings you to it! He will bring you through it….

August:

Don’t look at a thing; Start it.
Don’t put it off a day; Start it.
Don’t pretend you must think over; Start it.
Don’t start half-heartedly; put everything you can.

September

Even though the sky seems dark, believe in the future.
The storm will pass over. The clouds will roll by.
Believe in the best though it seems hidden
Know that it will come though it’s not in sight.

Your faith will take you through the darkness.
Your belief shall prove that the sun will shine again.




This too will pass away….

October

I do not ask to walk smooth paths
Nor bear an easy load
I pray for strength and fortitude
To climb the rock strewn road

Give me such courage that
I can scale hardest peaks alone;
And then I shall learn to transform
Every stumbling block into a stepping stone.



November

Fears, like babies, grow larger by nursing them,

We should act in spite of fear
And not because of fear


December

‘Nobody will sympathize with a person
Who constantly lets chances pass by
Without making any efforts to salvage them
Lost time is NEVER gained again.”


I heard the jingles fading away in darkness. But I believe Santa will guide me live the virtues...

Thank you, Santa! Alex!


Merry X’mas, mates!

Contests..

Two years in a row, the second runnerup...had a nice time explaining the team, Thanks to the motivation form Biju sir...and the team work...it were long days, making the floural carpet, cutting the flowers, keeping together the accessories..

In 2008 it was: Athithee Devo Bhava and in English

In 2009 it was courtesy Jomon, the malayalam+ narrated when in Veegland...

.. those flowers

The remark: 'I think your words gave life to the pookalam and thus the prize!'

“Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary”


True: ‘Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. ‘ It was later reprinted together with other essays in the book Parkinson's Law: The Pursuit of Progress (London, John Murray, 1958). He derived the dictum from his extensive experience in the British Civil Service.

S&C brought to us, our 1st event of 2010…….”Republic Day Celebrations @ OPI”.

Here is what S&C has planned:

1. Republic Day Quiz-

How much do you think you know about India’s history……? Try it out!

The link was send on 25th Jan for your participation.


2. “Express your thoughts”- “I am an Indian”……we have used this phrase a 100 times before. But what does it really mean to us? “Being an Indian- what does it means to you?”………express it in your words (not more than 2-3 sentences). Thoughts to be mailed to S&C-Kochi by EOD 25th Jan or dropped in the Box kept at the reception
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And what was submitted ; dedicated to the crazy 4 is:
Born onto her, nourished by her heart, and willing to die on her shoulders, she is my Mother India, and I am her daughter…I am an Indian…

She is getting older, but the most beautiful of all, willing to accept everyone as her, loving and caring, I am her’s…I am an Indian…..

Hail to my Mother! Hail to my Motherland!!

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Also one of the memorable event was the lunch to the team sponserd by Sreeram Sir...in July/August..

The power of positive living….By Norman Vincent Peale….

1. Positive Thinking still works
• Nothing is impossible when two people are in love.
• Wrongdoers are often clever and sometimes they get away with their crookedness for a time.
• The thought is ancestor to the deed. It is the spark that ignites the action. And success or failure depends on whether that thought is positive or negative.
• Don’t decide things emotionally.
• Pray, and decide, which is thinking in its highest form. For then your thoughts are in tune with God, who sees a lot further down the road than you do.
• To sum up:
 A monumental event can happen any day. Be ready for it.
 Beyond positive thinking is positive believing.
 A thought can ruin you. But a thought can also make you.

2. Be a Believer=Be an Achiever

• Philosopher F.W. Robertson wrote: “To believe is to be happy; to doubt is to be wretched. To believe is to be strong. Doubt cramps energy. Belief is power. Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth the doing.’
• Raise others above the standard. Tell them, “I will not let you fail.” Today all over the land, educators are raising standards, teaching accountability to their students, demanding hardwork and getting it.
• You are somebody, Never build a case against yourself.
• How to become a believer:
 Unlearn being a non believer.
 Say to yourself, I am going to be successful.
 Have constant reiteration, constant assertion, and constant affirmation of the believing attitude.
 Have the guts to take a risk.
• To sum up:
 Believe in people-don’t use them.
 Replace negative attitudes with constant affirmation and optimism.
 Have faith that what you need will be given to you.
 Get rid of low self –esteem-believe in yourself.


3. Knock the T off Can’t
• Marcus Aurelius: ‘Our life is what out thoughts make of it.’
• Gautam Buddha: ‘Mind is everything. We become what we think.’
• Professor William James: ‘The greatest discovery of my generation is that human being can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.’
• Thomas A. Edison: ‘The principal use of the body is to carry the brain around; and the brain is what we are.
• Believe that you can, you can, you can. Success is lucking in your mind, let it out. Let it come to life.
• To sum up:
 We become what we thing.
 Be self-confident, have faith, and persevere.
 When we make our minds amendable to God’s will we can accomplish miracles.
 To cancel the “I just can’t” feeling, affirm the fact “ I can, with God’s help, I can.”
 And then go on and do it.

4. Do You Have What it takes to be Happy!
• Spiritual Experience
• Inner Peace
• Serenity
• Joy
• Excitement
• Struggle
• Health
• Love
• Money

5. Things may look Bad…BUT…
• Difficulties and problems can be handled if you become tougher than they are.
• To every disadvantage there ma be and usually is a corresponding advantage.
• Stop thinking only of yourself as a priority.
• Drop that ‘making it big’ goal as your great objective.
• To sum up:
 Don’t ever despair. Many successes have been born from seeming failure.
 Always see your assets and possibilities.
 Remember the power of the three-letter word: B-U-T.

6. Get out of Yourself!• The one person who most blocks you from a full, happy and successful life is you. Yes, you yourself!
• Loud, incessant talks of people are a cover-up for the true feelings, a form of whistling in the dark.
• HOME: Helping ourselves means education.
• Each of us can expect astonishing results when we seize the opportunity to help someone else. And in the right spirit, it makes us feel good.

7. Running on EmptyIt is on the solid foundation of faith in God…the other principles must be build….
 Think
 Learn
 Try
 Work
 Believe
And be a success in life!

It is on the solid foundation of faith in God, the other principles must be build.

8. Turned On to a Joy-Packed LifestyleAccepting new responsibilities are difficult. But God knows, what is best for us, much more than we do….

The rewards of joy and satisfaction are well worth it.

So stop fighting the truth…and discover untold joys…..

9. Let Go of Fear and Affirm Faith
Highly respected mental health clinic: Blanton Peale Institute was established.
Fear is the most subtle and destructive of all human diseases. Anxiety is the great modern plague. Only faith can save it.

When making a decision, think it out, then pray for God’s guidance, then believe, you will have the guidance, make the decision, and put it in the hands of God, and forget it.

When you keep your thoughts high and pray, for God’s guidance, that day is never far-off….

Things can be better, and not far….you would say “THINGS ARE BETTER”


10. More about the Healing Power within the mind
Incredible things can happen to anyone who mentally takes charge, constantly sending healthy thoughts circulating, vibrating and pulsating through the physical system. The general rule seems to be-and for a fact is- think right and feel right.

Condition your life so that you are able at all times and under all circumstances to preserve your tranquility and peace of mind.

Also more on this in the Health is the first of life, and Wealth is the next of life….

• To sum up:


 Remember the healing power of love and forgiveness
 Cultivate good will over hate and resentment
 Healthy-mindedness and care for our physical well-being much work together.

11. Your Comeback Power
When things start going wrong, analyse inner conditions. A good, sharp, honest analysis will often reveal the truth. Ask ‘What am I doing to make these things happen?’

Take moves of ourselves doing the good and bad period and compare them.

‘The critical thing is self-esteem, If that’s intact, you can weather any storm.’

Be a maximize. When you want to do something that seems impossible your biggest obstacle may be a low self-esteem. If you have an inferior feeling about yourself, you are a minimizer. Never be a minimizer. Always be a maximiser! Every one has greater power than we ever realize.

The optimist almost invariably has an edge over less enthusiastic colleagues.

• To sum up:

 Believe that you have it in you. Never doubt it.
 Your comeback power is always there, ready to work for you when needed.
 Just be a believer, a real believer

Remember this…when things go wrong, especially, this will give you courage..

12. The old, Ever New Secret of success
Each of us have a thought factory inside us. Take a look at your products. Fear, Worry, impatience, anger, doubt. Your factory is capable of taking the raw materials of experience, mingling them with faith, love courage, and compassion, and thus becoming a plant worth operating. Your thought factory should produce positive, self-confident thoughts which naturally lead to positive, successful results.

As per Henry J. Kaiser…Here are five rules to be successful:

i. Know yourself and decide what you want to make out of your life. Then write down your goals and a plan to reach them.
ii. Use the great powers you can tap through faith in God, the hidden energies of your soul and your subconscious mind.
iii. Love people and serve them.
iv. Develop positive traits of character and personality.
v. Work! Put your life’s plan into determined action. Go after what you want with all that’s in you.

The sure way to success is so simple, but it requires character, guts, persistence, the mastery of lower jobs to be ready for the better one.

Do every job well, plus think, work, study…

Change your thoughts. Open your mind to new ideas and see how your life changes for the better.

• To sum up:


 Ask yourself: ‘How can I expect to succeed if I have a negative self-concept.
 List your assets when you’re feeling hopeless or inadequate.
 Do every job-no matter how ‘small’- with care and enthusiasm.
 Go after your goal with faith-and image yourself achieving it.

13. Your Censor Knows-Trust it
Do only what you know to be right if you want to gain real happiness.

People, who think that they can have an easy, bendable moral attitude and get away with it forever, always find otherwise. Adherence to a proven moral code does not guarantee sweetness and light. But it does promise an enveloping feeling of rightness much more surely than when we bend the laws for pleasure.

Remember the story of the boy, who was afraid to pick the snake, but took it, when the snake said: ‘I will treat you differently. If you do this for me, you will be special. I will not harm you.’ The boy took the snake. And after its purpose was served, the snake bit the boy. And then said: ‘You knew what I was when you picked me up’.

There are people who stick to their words come what may. It’s just so reassuring to know that there are people in the world who are as good as their words…’

‘…..neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.’

‘Stand porter to your mind.’

14. Living is Believing-Positively
Listen to God and Obey! Life is full of hazards and traps. But if you keep yur eye on the pin and follow through with all your might, you’ll be champion at everything you do, even if you don’t win every time.

Mentally prepared to win is believing.

Thought stopping is an effective response to self-defeating thoughts and emotions. Each time a negative thought comes to mind, say Stop.

The freedom of America, the emphasis on the potential in the individuals, create a historical climate of thought in which believers thrive

How ordinary people become extraordinary is by thinking, believing, working, falling, picking themselves up, and trying again and yet again…

To every disadvantage, there is a corresponding advantage…

I Believe + I Can +I Will = I Did

• To sum up:
 Belief gets results.
 Belief works even under the most difficult circumstances.
 The answer to difficulty is to be a believer. Believe in God. Believe in yourself.
 Believe in the future. Believe that you can. Believe in people.
 Believe and keep on Believing.

15. Get the Fire of Enthusiasm Burning
A person wishing to cultivate a better way of thinking may act ‘as if’ he did possess it. And if that individual continues persistently to act ‘as if’, then he or she will, in fact become as acted.


Whatever you do, keep the fire of enthusiasm burning. And remember what Thoreau said so well: ‘None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm…

Always think positively and believe enthusisastically..That’s living…

A wonderful gift from Prafoooo

Two days of 'ESCAPE 2009'

A question to the audience, ‘THE PEN THE WORLD PREFERS’ is the tag line of which company, and apt came the reply from Yashin 'REYNOLDS' in the corporate fun fest – ESCAPE-2009 Mega event for corporates held on 5th & 6th December, 2009 .. Thus began the winning spree for OPI'ns in 'ESCAPE 2009' a Rotary club of Kochi Initiative.

Having reached the venue in the morning on the first day, after being in office till 4 am on Saturday morning, S&C team members were waiting for the solo song of OPI participants to start, in the fourth floor and there was Prabhu and Yashin, to support Susan in the Young mangers Contest in the second floor.

Keeping the spirits soaring at the beautiful venue in three different floors of IMA HALL, Behind International Stadium, Kaloor, Kochi, there was no looking back…


We were the runner ups , with Susan beating candidates after candidates, in four rounds and winning the best Manager award in Puli-Young managers contest. For this she was competing with thirty other Managers, in four rounds, which included a “sales pitch” and the grueling questions from the Judges and anyone from the audience, with a Pulse meter constantly measuring pulse of the participants to ensure that Young Manager was really calm and cool.

The near perfect rendition of latest hit songs by Revathy and Deepu in Solo Kuyil – Male and female Solo singing competition fetched the First Runner up prize amongst almost Forty six participants.



Strength of a chain is determined by its weakest link. Team work, enthusiasm, hardwork, determination and spirit made all the links equally strong in Kuyil Melam-Group Song. The Eight member Music group echoing the same tune without missing a beat headed by Biju V R singing an ever popular Onam Song. Eight member 'Dappan Kooth' Group Dance team led by Siyad Baker performing in total sync to walk away with another first announced to the whole Corp-festers, the hallmark of OPI team-work in action.Thus both the teams grabbed the first place in the respective events.

We had even showcased our talents in AdZap, and the beautiful Anthakshari having reached till finals, which had six rounds:
.First three normal song round for each language namely, Hindi, Malayalam and Tamil,
.Fourth was the matchmaking round, where in a song from one film was sung, the participants had to identify, the movie, and sing other songs from the same movie.
.Fifth was the Anupalavi round, wherein second para of the song was sung by the host, and the participants had to sing the first para.
.Sixth round was the background music round.

Having put to practice the faith that good is the greatest enemy of excellence winning had become a habit for OPI participants till the end and OPI grabbed the overall championship trophy.




Avinash was rocking and was the hearthrob of the day....

There were many ads, promotions and sales, of which one thing that I really liked was something, we could sing with:




But for the support and valuable inputs from the Management, nothing could have been possible.



Three cheers to S&C Kochi team for all their hard work and effort, especially to Jisha and Arun who were tied to the venue for two days of their happy weekend, and all others who were there to support, encourage, and help the participants, and to those who had worked hard for this, but could not make up for the event on the day....At the Venue OPI had the huge “ground support” provided by the young energetic OPI crowd who came in huge numbers on both the days to support their colleagues...Especially may be becuase they were missing the Bonwikk which was around this time last year....



Well I liked this quote, can you please identify, and name the person?

Be the change you want to see

Quite some time, wanted to post this...In fact before doing so, I wanted to see it once more in Youtube/orkut...but whenever I tried, my IE got disconnected??

A beautiful video...and the only one, on a road block, and people stuck on their way to their own destinations...in a hurry. And now they were here waiting, some enjoying, some tensed, some frustrated, some curious why? Some knowing the reason, waiting, with the thought 'This is not my job'. Somebody will set things right...

And then there was this boy on his way back guess from school, and he tried to move the big tree fallen on the road. Sure he was too young to do it alone, but then others, motivated, joined him and they moved the tree..

Quite interesting and motivating...Wanna see it? Check out in youtube or the only Video in Yashin's Orkut profile..Oh God! such an awesome Video shot...

Tum chalo to Hindustan chale Duniya ke iss runbhumi mai , Jab desh humara data hua hai , Le jaye jo Visha Shikhar par , wo nayak yahi kahi kada hua hai.
And the title comes from the Message from Abdul Kalam, in our office production floor, asking people to turn off the monitor when moving out of the office....


Indeed we need to be the change we want to see....Starters, Go Getters....

It also reminded me of the pic send by Paul, on the paining on the Indian Highway/pathway...




Thumbs up for people:
Who be the change they want to see...who step down, and give way to others...and when talking about this..I am reminded of Sonia Gandhi...

Who understand and do their duty towards their people, siblings, parents, friends and relatives, like my own parents, from whom I have learned most of the things and

Thumbs down for people:

Who be roadblocks, and hinderances with lust for power, wealth, and go upto any extend to keep it, even when it is time to move out.

Who keep finding reasons to prove that 'Why should I do?' 'Why not he or she?' or Keep saying 'I will not do'

True everybody cannot do everything...but indeed one can be the change one want to see......

Kerala Idol……

With reality shows being the family entertainment, and the Idea Star Singer…the desi version of the Indian Idol and the American Idol…celebrating its 150th day of the fourth series….there was this debate…who is the kerala Idol…the little masters…like Vishnu and Poornasree…The bold and the talented like Varun, or the little ones talented but cannot even reach till there….Are these reality shows really a boon or bane? Then there are people like Rajesh, working in software firms…going from Kanyakumari to Kashmir on bike…. Also the special guest for the150th day was Pritviraj….the young kerala Ikon, who is a star even in non Malayalam films. And there was this Sreesanth who had made a come back to the international cricket after a 19-month hiatus, and was declared Man of the Match…as his five wicket haul in Sri Lankas first innings was pivotal, and it also marked India’s 100th Test win…I was reminded of Jannath… There was this debate who is the kerala Idol of the two Pritvi, Sreesant or…???

Moksha

The 2001 release Moksha about law graduate Vikram Saigal (Arjun Rampal) wanting to start Nyaidarshan, with support from the bewitching smiled Ritika (Manisha Koirala) as he is not happy with his lot at all. She promises that in case she becomes a hinderance and cannot reconcile, she would die....He finds it impossible to find any other like-minded lawyers, his boss and his father (Suresh Oberoi), all consider his idea fantastic, but nobody is there to help him with money, and therefore hatches the plot to rob the bank....On the day of the bank robbery, a lady informs the bank authorities about the burglary

Vikram ends up doing annyai to himself, his better half, his profession, family, his pets being horse and dog, vehicle and others...Ritikas dream comes true.....and both of them are no more...and so is the end of the movie....cinematographi by Ashok Mehta was excellent...

I choose to watch the old ones... Fanna again the third time...dont know why it keeps attracting me... and Moksha....though there were a dozons waiting for me

Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani - This Ranbir Kapoor - Katrina Kaif movie is expected to be a classic coming from Rajkumar Santoshi the director of Andaaz Apna Apna,Jail - Madhur Bhandarkar movies are always looked forward to, Tum Mile, With Emraan Hashmi and Soha Ali Khan as the lead pair,Saif and Kareenas; Kurbaan with rumours going about that it has one of the longest kisses in Bollywood history, and an erotic thriller adding to the bare-back first look of the film , and Priyadarshans De Dana Dan, with the Hera Pheri team - in lead roles and lot of comedians....I am wondering, if it is the remake of any one malayalam movie or mixture of some..

And there was this 2012 which Saroja kept calling me for....lets see if possible next week....

Eid Mubarak, Swami Saranam, Merry Christmas

It’s the time for fastings and then feastings everywhere…. And all have the chanting of the beads....

As the human mind broadens, its spiritual steps broaden too…The time has already come when a man cannot record a thought without its reaching to all corners of the earth, by merely physical means, we have come into touch with the whole world, so the future religions of the world have to become as universal, as wide….

Blessedness, eternal peace, arising from perfect freedom, is the highest concept, underlying all the ideas, absolutely free existence, not bound by anything, no change, no nature, nothing that can produce a change in him.

Each one projects his own ideal and worships that. This external world is only the world of suggestions. All that we see, we project out of our own minds….The wicked see this world as a perfect hell, and the good as a perfect heaven. Lovers see this world as full of love, and haters as full of hatred; fighters see nothing but strife, and the peaceful nothing but peace…

I am happy to see people who see and understand all as one and the same….Advaita….from Vedanta….

Judaism, Christianity and Islam teach that Abraham was a model of how humans should live their lives displaying courage, faith, sacrifice, obedience, and trust in one supreme God. We believe that the “spirit” of this story is to see Abraham as a role model and to encourage all of us to live our lives with the same courage, faith, and determination to be the best person we can be. The Hindus divided humanity into three 'races': the "Aditya"s or the Hindu Gods , the "Daitya"s and the "Danava"s. The last two were held to be inimical to the Hindu Gods. All three were step-brothers derived from the same father Kashyapa. The mother of the Gods was Aditi, meaning the unlimited one, while the other two were derived from Diti, the limited one and Danu.

The Westerners (and Egyptians) were called Danavas in Sanskrit. The Greeks were known in Latin as Danao. 'O' is normally pronounced as 'v'. (Deo and Dev; Deodhar for Devadharu etc.) There is a Latin proverb "Timeo Danao et donos ferrentes; which means Beware of the gift bearing Greek.

Yayati's wives were transferred to Abram in the Jewish version. The first wife, Sarai or Sarah, carried the name of Brahma's consort Saraswati. The second wife in the Jewish story was also a slave. The story of Isaac is drawn from two Hindu sources. The first is the story of Daksha the son of Brahma who lost his head to the God Shiva and was revivified with a goat's head. Isaac, in Abraham's story was replaced by a ram for sacrifice at the bidding of God. The name Isaac is related to Eesha the Sanskrit word for the divine. The second story related to Isaac is the one of Ikshvaku who wanted to eat fresh meat on his death-bed and ordered his son to go on a hunt. The young man committed a minor infraction in rituals and was deprived of his right of succession. Isaac under similar conditions was persuaded by deception to pass on the mantle to Jacob who was later anointed Israel.

Noah was the Hindu Manu . The story of the Ark was a reproduction of the Hindu story of Matsyavatara or the fish incarnation, during the period of the Satyavrata Manu. The Jews called themselves Semites as descendants of Shem the son of Noah. Shem is perhaps derived from the Sanskrit term Shivam for pure. It is also the quality of another God, Shiva.

Then this diversity, was it just the passage of time, the differences in language and interpretation or something more?

No wonder there is so much to learn from History…

More Sentimental than Fundamental…..

The government approved gamble, as my roommate calls it….These days, I see most logging into http://www.nse-india.com/ first when in office…and then discussions among themselves….Do they realize or not that the Stock market is driven by sentiments too… Is there any way by which sentiments can be influenced or rather created? There are five ways companies can boost prices of their stocks: By announcing a bonus issue, stock-split, preferential issue, qualified institutional placement (QIP), and fund raising through issue of GDRs or ADRs. Is there any more ways??

Though these corporate actions generate a lot of heat, the hype lasts only for a short term. Ultimately, it boils down to the financial track record of the company. Hence, what matters is the company business operations, management credentials and future outlook.

Breaking the stride is the circuit filters, which only postpones the inevitable, by controlling panic especially driven by sentiments, by not allowing the prices to move beyond a limit. It could be market-wide or on individual stocks. It is designed to keep a check on stock market manipulation and protect small investors. As trading is halted, it is difficult to know the real value of a stock. Besides volumes could witness a sudden rise as investors rush to execute their orders and before the anticipated trading halt....

Going forward you may read more of it..as I have been reading the Journal, Capital Market, books like Making money in the wall street, and browsing these sites myself these days....

Nectar In a Sieve By Kamala Markandaya

This book took me to the thoughts of country turning into city, and the sea change in the lifestyle and pattern…..in the last century…

Kamala Markandaya born Kamala Purnaiya in a small town in Mysore in 1924, attended the University of Madras, beginning in 1940, where she studied history, and had settled in England since the age of 25, following her marriage to Bertrand Taylor. Her daughter Kim Oliver survives her. She left for her heavenly abode in 2004, at the age of 80, Sunday May 18 at her home in the outskirts of London. Fame and success came with her first published novel, Nectar In A Sieve (1954), a Book-of-the-Month Club Main Selection and bestseller in the United States.



The book is about generous and gentle, Indian Peasant women Rukumani married when she was 12, who is content in her love and admiration for her husband Nathan, , and their playful children, in her little South Indian Village, though she struggles for survival,….how knowing to read and write makes a difference…..

Growth is a constant wonder-from the time the seed split and the first shoots break out, to the first bloom, growing unconsciously, having very secret of itself, fragile, vanishing….How quickly children grow! They are infants- you look away a minute and in that time they have left their babyhood behind…Then on the wedding day, the girl is bruised by the imminent parting…in a few months time her new home would be the most significant part of her life, among strangers, the rest only a preparation….

Thoughts come of their own accord, although afterwards we can chase them away….

Nature is like a wild animal that you have trained to work for you. So long as you are vigilant and walk warily with thought and care, so long will it give you its aid, but look away for an instant, be heedless or forgetful, and it has you by the throat. The sowing of seed disciplines the body and the sprouting of the seed uplifts the spirit, but there is nothing to equal the rich satisfaction of a gathered harvest, when the grain is set before you…….

People will never learn! What was it we had to learn? To fight against tremendous odds? What was the use? One only lost the little one had. ‘Of what use to fight when the conclusion is known?’

What people will say! One goes from one end of the world to the other to hear the same story, Does it matter what people say? It matters to those about whom it is said?

Others like Kenny, helped, because they have the means, and because they have learnt of your need, but you must cry out if you want help, it is no use whatsoever to suffer in silence. Who will succour the drowning man if he does not clamour for his life? ‘Do not think spiritual grace comes from being in want, or from suffering? What thoughts have you when your belly is empty or your body is sick? Tell me they are nobel ones and I will call you a liar.” Who’s the blame then? Not I or you…

Blame the wind and the rain and the sun and the earth: they cannot refute it, they are the culprits.

To those who live by the land there must always come time of hardship, of fear and of hunger, even as there are years of plenty? This is one of the truths of our existence as those who live by the land know: that sometimes we eat and sometimes we starve. We live by our labours from one harvest to the next, there is no certain telling whether we shall be able to feed ourselves and our children, and if bad times are prolonged we know we must see the weak surrender their lives and this fact, too, is within our experience. In our lives there is no margin for misfortune.

In city, where shall a man turn who has no money? Where can he go? Wide, wide world, but as narrow as the coins in your hand. Like a tethered goat, so far and no farther. Only money can make the rope stretch, only money. Our people may not be ours, we learn even from children, and you have people who have no one like Puli…

Sometimes one loses, sometimes one gains, It evens itself out…..

Finally, it is a novel about the conflicts between a traditional agricultural culture and a burgeoning industrial capitalistic society. The novel touches on several important social phenomena: the importance of traditional cultural practices, people's reluctance to change, and the impact of economic change. There is so much packed into this little novel….I loved it….

Thank you all

Hey, so happy to have a long weekend for myself, really after long, though had earlier leaves for exam, those were too hectic… But now Thanks to the Thanksgiving day, celebrated primarily in the United States and Canada. …Traditionally, it is a time to give thanks for the harvest and express gratitude in general. While perhaps religious in origin, Thanksgiving is now primarily identified as a secular holiday….and am happy to have this one….,

Thanks for my job, thanks to my colleagues, Thanks to my friends, Thanks to my family and relatives, Thanks to my sibling and roommates, Thanks to my readers and critics, Thanks to the sunlight and rain, Thanks to peace and prosperity, Thanks for food and water, Thanks to the almighty, I know that there is a lot more that I am forgetting right now. But, let me just repeat, thank you all…on this Thanksgiving Day..



Thanksgiving or Thanksgiving Day, presently celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November, has been an annual tradition in the United States since 1863. Thanksgiving holiday weekend is one of the busiest travel periods of the year, and normally shopping for Christmas is done now….

On this day, great many of us roast turkey bird to a golden-brown crisp, or prepare it in some other way..The actual number of turkeys eaten on Thanksgiving, often reported to be 46 million —In any case, how many commercially raised turkeys do you think were the result of artificial insemination? The answer seems to be 100 percent. Why? Because Americans particularly love to eat the breast meat of male turkeys. So having yummy turkey in your tummy this Thanksgiving????

Make better decisions….

Our decisions today, will decide our life tomorrow…..It is easy to select between good or bad, but when you have to select in between two good or two bad…your decision really matters….It is all up to us to decide with our head or heart…..Courtesy Fanna…

This is the advice that Zooni receives from her father just as she is about to venture out into the world on her own for the very first time. Little does she know that these very words will shape her life. ..and again the movie ends with the same advice...Happen to see this movie again....



Whatever decision you make, you will at a point ponder on the road not taken.....

Decisions, like any other activity, won’t get better without systematic review. If you don’t know which of your decisions are most important, you won’t be able to prioritize improvements. If you don’t know how decisions are made, you can’t change the process for making them. If you don’t assess the results of your changes, you’re unlikely to achieve better decisions. The way to begin is simply to give decisions the attention they deserve. Without it, any success you achieve in decision making will be largely a matter of luck…..

Your decisions in your life are yours to make, and then you will have no one to blame on….Make better decisions….At times....isnt life all about the decisions that you make....

The Fox

Happen to read this by D. H. Lawrence published in 1923. The movie is also based on this book, Sandy Dennis as Jill Banford, Anne Heywood as Ellen March, and Keir Dullea as Henry Grenfield.

The story is about three protagonists in a triangle of love and hatred, Set in the Berkshire district of England during World War I.

Banford and March live and work together on their meagre farm, surviving hardship only by sheer determination and dedicated labour. Without the help of any male laborers, Nellie March and Jill Banford struggle to maintain a marginal livelihood at the Bailey Farm. A fox has raged through the poultry, and although the women—particularly the more masculine Nellie—have tried to shoot the intruder, he seems always to elude traps or gunshot. Banford is thin and frail, contrasting with her companion, and the one who had actually invested in the farm.

The farm is their world and a place of safety - that is, until a young soldier walks in and upsets the women's delicate status quo. Between Ellen and Jill came Paul... None could have predicted quite the effect his presence would have on their lives...

The Fox ... symbol of the male...Was it destiny? Jill was the first, to allow him to stay with them, considering him to be like her younger brother...And destiny took her life for her kindness...

Monsoon Wedding

Nope, not the movie, nope, not the rains, nope, not the weddings….Then what….

On this rainy day, had the opportunity of attending, the Visitation & first profession of my colleagues Sister, who was becoming Sr. Betsy Thomas FCC, on this children’s day.

It was like, being a saint, being a sister, was like choosing, Lord Jesus, as the soul mate, and the life partner…henceforth it would be the life of obedience, brahmacharayam and poverty…..




Her speech was so charismatic, though her parents were crying, there was strength, and light on her face. …




Though had to attend it at 2, there was heavy rain……So why not mention something about the mansoon and wedding....

Monsoon,

The monsoon, we find to our dismay, is not the best time to visit places, it has a toll on so many things…yet we all love it…..I personally like to get wet in the rain….As said, may be because, nobody will see me crying…..

Monsoons in Kerala are the most enchanting in India. With green pastures at its best we have it longer, Southwest monsoon is the main rainy season in Kerala, as the rains starts by the middle of the Malayalam month Edavam which begins by the end of May or early June with the outset of the southwest monsoon winds. The next few months are periods of torrential rain. Lying on the windward side of the Western Ghats and being the first state to be hit by the monsoon winds, Most of the rivers of Kerala are fed by the monsoons. Nila.. A rich and splendid river that has eventually shrunken into a trickle! Even it overflowed this monsoon!!

And now, also known as the Retreating Monsoon or the Reverse monsoons, we have the northeast monsoon, which hits Kerala during the return of the southwest monsoon winds. These rains as it rains during the Malayalam month of Thulam are in the months of October and November and sometimes lasts till December and is also known as Thulavarsham. Heavy afternoon rains accompanied by thunder and lightening are the main characteristic of the season, which is what we see now…..

Monsoon, ha…Edavam… Thulam….

Wedding:

As a child, when asked, nobody would say that their aim in life is to get married or wedded, yet most people dream..

After the solemnization of marriage, the bride departs with her husband. This is a very sad event for the bride's relatives because traditionally she is supposed to permanently "break-off" her relations with her blood relatives to join her husband's family….Well these days there is a trend towards westernization among, Indian too even in this areas…and at places, it is the groom who breaks off from his relatives…these days….thats …

Hey this year there were too many of them…..most of my friends from GMCS batch got wedded this year, including one couple within the batch, then there is the 5 year old brother and sis from Amlaki, finally tying the knot this month, cousins weddings and engagements….and most happiest event was meeting of my friend after 8 years, who had expressed his desire and accomplished it…wedded to his sweet heart…. This year there are so many weddings, and so many love on air stories breaking out....which I had just ignored thinking to be rumour..in and around...Incredible...

At times, I wonder why Monsoon Wedding, then I realize, sometimes it takes water, to kindle a fire…The Kerala tourism monsoon promotional advertisement..

The wedding I attended, was a wedding a fire that kindled the heart of a tender young girl, having completed her MBBS from a well to do family, to take this step....4 years ago....

This too will pass away…….This too has passed away…..

Here I am as promised, after a break, back to action or back from action? Both?




Learning from the mistake of myself and others, as I cannot live long enough to make them all myself.

Traveling light….Remembering: don’t think what others are doing or saying…..Do your duty, and live the rest to God…Be happy!!!

Strength of a chain is determined by the weakest link, Talents differ, all is well and wisely put…Mountain and the squirrel had a quarrel.

Sabu my local guardian, Go Getter, would not be there with me to remind: take it as a challenge, only hand full of people are ours and will remain ours….Barbers, postman or others….

Reduce contacts, increase concentration….else others will make fun of you, as GK said….

Laugh and the world laughs with you, cry and you cry alone….water in office, food in room, work….money

Leaving behind my childhood, when I set out on my journey into life, I wonder why not did I realized, it was all for himself and God for all….One word story, courtesy: PG

Foucs on where you want to be and not on what you fear…. Dont loose the forest for the tree...Knowledge alone is not enough you must apply it….Bosses at office….

What keeps you up at night??? Never take anything lightly..

Beaware of Brainwashers, Think right, Need: Controllersip; Continuous Emphasis and Continuous improvement.

Things appear, big or small, depending on where we stand and how we look at things. Having shifted to the nineth floor, from the new building, even the big coconut trees appear so small....And indeed, from top, things are really very beautiful...Though a bit difficult to reach there compared to how it was...Also you dont realise the dust and the dirt from the top, and the comments made just from there though from a broader perspective is bound to be wrong...the daily routine has to be faced to be understood correctly...Its a commonly applicable fact...

You are an independent, optimistic, assertive, idealistic person, The weighing machine in Trichy, on my maiden visit...

Add Value, it matters. Surrender is different from Resignation.

Though dialogue, is a means of communication, what I realized, is there is understanding and more communication even in silence……UNDERSTANDING is all that matters……in life…..but that is not business right….Some people who were near were far, some people who were very far, were near….worthy of love…AG.



Do, and complete doing, a variety of things, activities, it will keep you motivated, and on your toe…give sometime for yourself, stay determined and optimistic…Pearl…Maegen

Dream is not what you see when you sleep, it is the passion that don’t let you sleep. It is attitude and not aptitude that will determine our altitude. Keep going, when the going gets tough, the tough gets going…

Read! Read! Read!

He who reads, leads….

Read, study, learn of everything important in your life..

Quitters never win, winners never quit.

Practise makes a man perfect.

Do & Redo, unfortunately or fortunately you cannot undo in life!!!

Last few days, were double the sleepless, restless, nights for me, both in terms of work and test….though there were so many to help…..

But this too has passed away…and waiting with my figures crossed for the things yet to come…

When I thought this would be my last attempt, here they have provided me with two more opportunity.....well it was my aim, my passion since a decade, then why give up?




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I’m sure that there are several nameless faceless, homemakers, housekeepers, paan chewing uneducated (even illiterate, may be) beings out there in this world who do wonderful business without knowing the ABC of “structured business management/ administration”. These are the true heroes among us – the true visionaries, the ones who go about their ordinary daily routine with a zest and zeal that makes them extraordinary. For them, six-sigma is a way of life, total quality management is an inherent survival strategy, and providing end-to-end solutions is a simple necessity to put bread on the table.

And as for my fellow white-collared, cuff-linked, laptop-carrying professional brethren (myself included), well, as they say: ‘Some things, they teach you at Harvard. Some things, you have to learn them yourself’. Truly, there’s a lot of weight behind the saying ‘respect every job that gets dirt under a man’s fingernails’.

How many of us know the names or the background of the providers or our daily livelyhood, our housekeepers and cleaners?

For me, I am still just tiny little blue bird trying to climb up the tree to hang out with the bigger birds.

“Those who can, do. Those who can’t, .......”???? criticise/Teach/write/learn