Archive for 2006

Alright.. its been more than 2 months since I made my last post. Thought it is time to break the silence. Actually, it was not that I was busy, but its more of an idllyic negligence or lack of inspiration..

This is December and that time of the year when a BUSY schedule comes to a screeching halt. I have to be frank here. As much as I like the holidays, I really started dreading them because unless you are REALLY prepared with plan as to WHAT you would be doing during those times, you will just end up wasting them, like I did. This years Thanksgiving holidays and Christmas holidays have been just that.. wasted!!!!!

Yes, i do feel now that there were so many things I could have done during these times, so many PRODUCTIVE things... but where is the line between the need for relaxation and sense of accomplishment because you have done something worthwhile.. I do not know. All I can say is that it is always better to have a pre-planned schedule or else you will be bored to death in USA during those holidays. Funny I never felt like this when I was in India.

If you have ever played either gully cricket or cricket at your apartment or colony level, I am sure you must have noticed the following things:

1. There will always be atleast one guy who can't just wait to start batting. This guy grabs the bat, even before the toss, calls the toss even if he is not the captain, as if he knows for sure that the toss result will always be for his batting side.

2. There will always be some people who just can't stop arguing about anything. It can range from what is considered as a four to a bollower's action.

3. There will always be an umpire.. but nobody listens to him anyways.

4. Some times the wicket keeper himself is the umpire. And I do not really know how that works.

5. The space available for playing is not really an issue. Gully cricket can be played with any amount of space.

6. There always will be some people who come ALWAYS late for the match, and most of the times these are the people who keep the bat and ball in their custody, and moreover claim batting, immediately after coming.

7. The team that bats first will always be trying to find reaons to stop the match when the other team is batting.

8. If it is a bet match, the losing team never bothers to pay and in this kind of scenarios, somehow you end up in the winning team. But when you are in the losing team, for some reason you always end paying your share.

9. Hindi is the most common language used when playing this kind of cricket, and there will always be some people who do not grasp this vital point, and there by lose all arguments.

10. A cricket match without arguments is non-existent.

11. The ball will ALWAYS go to the exact place where you do not want to go. For example, if you say nobody should hit above a wall, it is GUARANTEED that the ball will go above that wall. And in most cases, there will be ONE designated guy, who is the rescue plan, who will bring the ball from ANYWHERE.

12. Only the guy most interested in palying will buy the balls, ALWAYS! he should be glad that rest of the people have agreed to play with him.

13. If you do not make your mark in the first 2 matches as a good bowler or a batsman, you will forever be fielding in all subsequent matches.

14. People with spectacles are automatically discrimanted against being a good batsman or bowler, unless they are persisent enough to show that they can do better.

15. If you have experience playing with glazed ball, you are automatically qualified for all bet matches, even though it was only ONE match where all you did was fielding.

I know there might be lot of other things.. feel free to add them in comments section.

Its been quite a few days since I posted anything. Last some days have been quite frustrating as last some months. Things just seem to get worse and worse everyday, inspite of my best efforts and best intentions. Somebody said that people are the most difficult things to understand, and I can really feel that in the last few days. One thing I have realized is that some times even your good will to help other people doesn't necessarily guarantee the same kind of response.

Life is being just a roller coaster ride now with each day throwing its own curve ball. I feel helpless, not being able to discipline my own emotions. I need to get some things atleast under my control and slowly turn the tide towards good. When you think in the nig scheme of things, how silly all other things look?

This might be the most vague and stupid blog I have posted, but that only shows my state of mind at present, doesn't it?

I have been reading this book called "Slight Edge" in the last few days. It is really a good book. I have read several books in the last couple of years, but this one really stands out. The basic concept is that life is not all about "knock-out" games, it is series of several good games.
Make sure you read it if you get a chance. Will certainly make an impact.

I heard a lot about the book, "The Alchemist" by Paul Coehelo. Need to get my hands on that. Anybody read that yet?

BTW, did anybody notice Nike's new slogan? I saw it when I was in India this July. They say "impossible is nothing!".... cool.. isn't it?

On a side note, ppl ( those few who still have the patience to read my blog everyday), I would really appreciate if you can post your comments on my blogs, will really tell me what you feel about my posts. Not that I am going to change anything, but I am just giving you an opportunity to voice your opinions :)

Just in case you do not know, there is small link called "comments" under each post. You can put in your comments using that.

I did not have anything really worth while posting over the last few days. Today, I just wanted to share some world music that I have listened to in the recent past and liked it very much. Here are some links where you can listen to the music.

1. Kothbiro by ayub ogada.

A very soul stirring and relaxing music. You can listen to this song at link given below. The best environment to listen to this is on your disc-man on your balcony in Hyderabad on a foldable bed (madatha mancham), on a summer night, around 1:00 a.m., with a cool breeze blowing around, with everything around you quiet and you looking at those zillions of stars on a black sky and enjoying the resplendent beauty of moonlight of a full moon (like today).

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2. Smooth Operator by Sade

This is a little fast paced song by Sade. The following link is actually a video which really doesn;t impress. Just minimize the window and listen to the song. This is a good one to listen to in late evening or early night... around the time of our Cibaca Geetmala.

http://www.nobodysmiling.com/hiphop/showvideo.php?rid=1821&path=SmoothOperator

3. Times a wastin by from "walk the line"

This is country music.. good for afternoons in my opinion. There is a lot of good country music out there and I have started liking it after I listened to it in the movie "walk the line". This is one of those I have liked. Country music really makes you wanna learn Guitar!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezmZ3hWG3ro

Let me know how you guys feel about this music.

Has anybody ever wondered about things like these?

1. In the stories where a genie appears and gives ONLY three wishes, why don't they ask for 100 more wishes as the first wish?

2. When you are eating something and you choke and start coughing, they say that somebody is thinking about you. Now, if you think about them the same time, will they start choking too? then with every person thinking of somebody else, won't the world be full of people coughing and thinking and then thinking and couging and coughing some more and........

3. They say it is bad if a black cat crosses your path. Now if the cat faces something bad that day, will it think about you the same way?

4. What is logic in selling bananas per dozen and apple per kilograms?

5. Why do autos in india have all these weird writings and paintings on the back side? What are they tryting to communicate to us? Is is some code we need to crack?

Any answers?

Friendship and Simple Things in Life!!

For some reason today, I happened to remember a book I read ( and re-read)...it is "Vennello Aadapilla", by Yandamuri Veerendranath. I must have read that book almost a 100 times now, but even today, the ending of that book brings a tear to my eye. If you have not read that book, it is a must read! ( in my opinion). Another book that is equally good by the same author is "Anando Brahma". Both these books have some thing in them that make us to want to read them again and again.

I think the common element between both is the beautiful description of all those simple things in life that make you really feel happy.. For example, in a letter that Ramya writes to Revanth in "vennello aadapilla", she talks about getting up early moring before sun rise in that winter chill! or waking up late in the night watching the "mallelu" fall in the moon light.....Similarly, in Anando Brahma, the author brings out the beauty of Godavari, and the small village situated on its coast, then couples it with the sanctity of vedas. The story is more than that though!

I think I like these books because Veerendranath through the letters of Ramya or the descrption of Somayaji's child hood, emphasizes the small serendipities of life... and shows us things which do not need to be a big deal for us to celebrate life... And Veerendranath has written many other brilliant novels, but its amazing how much these two books based on the very simple themes stand out among the rest..

And finally, I remember getting the following a long time back through one of those forwarded e-mails :)... bet you cannot stop a smile appearing on your face!!!!

Today was the end of the month, and I was reviewing the goals I had set for Sepetember in job and various other areas. I hit some of them, some I made it halfway through with a lot of promise for next month and some I don't even remember setting them, if you know what I mean.:)

On this note, long time back I remember reading in one of the Sherlock Holmes' stories (good book for GRE, you know.. lot of good words) , his explanation about two types of reasoning called the "synthetic reasoning" and the "analyitcal reasoning". You see, lot of people, if given a chain of events, can tell what the end result is going to be. That is called "synthetic Reasoning". But very few people can tell the sequence of events and the root cause, given the end result, and that is called "analytical reasoning". Although this "analytics" is done everyday in fields of science and engineering and so on, we really do not do that in daily life, do we?

Now, applying that to GOALS, instead of setting a sequence of events and "expecting" a result to happen ( that's what we do most of the time), what if we start with the end result, and work backwards. You fix your goal as the "end result" and then work back wards and draw out steps which might have caused that thing to happen. And behold, you have a game plan.

Sounds very intelligent. huh! However, if you noticed, there is one catch in this. The catch is that, for this to work, you will have to be more than 100% sure of the "result ( goal)", as if it has already happened. Sherlock holmes, had atleast one end of the mystery fixed. But with this, you have both the ends open and you will have really be able to believe the result.

Now that is something we find it very hard to do, isn't it?

Alright... I was thinking of what to post today...so wanted to do something different. Does any of you have one of those people who just have small tryst with you and create some good impact... but then disappaear... I am not talking about the people with whom you have long term relationships and friendships.....

Well, the first person I can remember in this category is a girl called KV Swapna, I used to study with in 5th class ( now don't get any ideas! this is not an infatuation story...sorry). I really don't remember too much from that time, but the only thing I remember being impressed was how calm and composed she used to be all the time. It was not that she was shy or less speaking.. its just that she seemed to know how to act in every given scenario. In fact, once I remember, one of my friends and I were making so much noise in the class, the teacher made me sit beside this girl for almost a month so that I can learn to be calm. But after 5th class, their family moved away to some other place and I have NEVER heard of her again. I do not know if she is still the same way but I have ever been trying to develop that quality of serenity and calmness, without too much success, :)

The second person was this guy called Kiran. In my engineering days, I went for aorund 2-3 months to learn keyboard. and obviously i hated practicing those lessons which the tutor gave us. I wanted to learn playing songs right away and impress the hell out of everybody. But i was dependent on somebody to teach me how to play each song ( and that savior was the tutor's son, who could play ANY song on keyboard and guitar). Now after 2-3 months of my joining, this Kiran guy joined. And for some reason we became instant friends. He already knew how to compose songs on his own and I remember asking him why he joined the class then. He just smiled and said, just to learn the "actual" way of playing songs. Anyways, he was the one who kind of inspired me to try and do songs on my own on the keyboard. And after 15-20 days he stopped coming to the class and 1 week after that I also stopped gooing because of exams or something and after that completely left the class. And I have never heard of him again either.

Well, if by any chance either of you two people read this blog, do not hesitate to contact me. I would love to meet you people again. For the rest of you.. happy reading!!

In my next post, I will write about some of the teachers who have influenced me the most. Until then good bye.

Today I was on Orkut and fell into nostalgia about all my old friends. Just like any other college buddies, we used to have a lot of fun. Sitting at Mehdipatnam bus stop, birthday parties at Bake Magic, bunking classes to play the carrom board in sports room, eating that hot puri for Rs.5/- every day morning and drinking that stupid chai in college canteen and so on. Lots of memories.

Where are all these people? I don;t know! looks like everybody is lost in the flow of life, too busy to regroup or reassociate themselves with these memories. Does this happen with every college group? I am not sure. Of all the people, I think I have contact only with FEW who have been with me right from school days.

God! it is so unbelievable that when in college we ( atleast I) tend to think that rest of life will be similar, same friends etc., Could I ever be so wrong? If I look at my life in the last 5-6 years it has taken so many twists which I could never see coming back then.

Anyways, logging on to Orkut just shook the dust off the memory room and I thought it would be good to post about it.

Well, finally I have decided to take the plunge and start writing this blog. In fact, the reason for not wiriting the blog all these days has been a indecision whether to write a handwritten diary or an impersonal blog on the net. After almost and year of doing neither, I have decided that I will start somewhere.

Well, in the past some weeks I have watched some really good movies ( all old though).... Vanilla sky, John Q ( man Denzel Washington is awesome), Pay it Forward and Memento ( our telugu/tamil Ghajini remake :)). I always wonder how do these guys get these ideas? and why our guys won;t get them? Or is it our Indian audience won;t understand unless you make it too simple? From the Vanilla Sky which takes the concept of "dreaming" to the "pay it forward" which takes a very simple idea and tries to implement it ( although I thought they made it too localized).

Anyways, had a nice time watching these movies which make you think. I also watched "inside man" , but did not understand what was so great about the plot. I am not actually able to remember who recommended that movie to me. I will ask them if I remember.

Gotta go to work tomorrow. Its amazing how work life gets so familiar within 2 years of starting your career.

Well, that was my first post.. will try to keep it running.

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