Mai aur Mere Tanahaayee ...

Mai aur Mere Tanahaayee ...

This is the feeling I go through whenever I have an argument or a fight with my sweetheart. I am sure everyone (especially working spouses or working relationships ) would have gone through similar feelings ....

yeh un dino ki baat hai, jab
mai mere waalee se root jaata tha, tab
mai aur mere tanahaayee saat hote the ..

yeh un dino ki baat hai, jab
outlook bhi crash hota tha unaki email khojate khojate, tab
mai, mere tanahaayee aur unake tasveer saat hote the ..

yeh un dino ki baat hai, jab
Mobile ki battery bhi dead hoti thi unake message ki wait karate karate, tab
mai mere tanahaayee aur unake yaadei saat hote the ..

yeh un dino ki baat hai, jab
mein kho jaata tha, unaki missed call wait karate karate, tab
mai, mere tanahaayee aur unaki sapnei saat rehate the ..

mere tanhaaye kehati hai mujhse,
"saale, usaki ek message aate hi, mujhe laat marake bagaawoge..
lekin mere dost hum aavenge aur yeh dosti nibhaayenge"

Mere Dil kehata hai
" karate ho pyar itana unase, phir bhi wait karate ho ek messgae ki..
Kyon na number ghoomaake bol dalana "Tum bin jiya jaaye kaise.. .. .."

phir bhi Intazaar hai bas ek mail ki
intazaar hai bas ek message ki
Aate hai, call karake yoohi sunaavunga "Rootana jaana tum mujh se kahoo to.. .. .."

Good morning ..

Jo aap se kehana tha wo DIL mein gaya ..
Jo aap ko likha tha wo DRAFT mein reh gaha
Aaj DIL aur DDRAFT dono ko clean karana tha ….
Isliye lo bol dalata hoon …
”Har Din,
Har raat,
Har ghante,
Har lamhe …
aapki bus aapki yaado mein khoya rehata hoon”

Lo isi bahaane "good morning bhi" bol dalata hoon :-)

Wo Saat Din ...

Wo saat-aat din yoohi gujar gaye ..

Jaise lamhe kate aanko ke falak badalane mein ..

Par wo hazaaro lamhe yaad bankar reh gaye haamare zindagi mein

Yeh yaade hasee layenge hamare honto pe,

Yeh yaade hasee layenge hamare honto pe zindagi ki har pal mein ..

Every Morning ....

In the morning while I walk to Office
Sun winks through clouds to make me happy…
Cool breeze swung across to make me chill and warmth…
Birds sings melody to make me smile….

But my dear,
They all don’t know that
my smile is incomplete until I remember your face.
My happiness is incomplete until I hear your voice
And my day is incomplete until I see your smiling mail

I missed you ....

missed u during morning walk in bright sunshine
missed u while I cross riverside bridge during drizzling rain
missed u when cool breeze swung across while walking back home

missed u when I see lovely old couple caring each other
missed u when I see couple sharing their coffee mug at the corner shop
missed u when a lady paints innocent girl in chalk art festival

missed u during those CWG hockey matches
missed u in dhookla party at friend's place
missed u while having ice cream in the mall

I miss you.

All is well :-)

Last weekend I was listening some songs ...but one stands out in those ...I heard ampty number of times, but still I feel like listening to it...

Mai Jaha rahoo
Mai Kahee bhi hoo
Tere yaad saath hai .....

What an awesome melodious song by Rahat Fateh Ali Khan.

I like week ends. Cuz I lead life in my own pace during week ends. Unlike weekdays which you have follow time table or at least pretend like u r following. Lying on bed doing nothing, half slept, half sleeping, listening favorite numbers in background in infinite loop, catching up with youtube videos or walking on riverside with hot coffee during chill evenings, or reading some unknown blogs. The best part of reading unknown blogs are that u never know what to expect out of it. You just go on reading with clean slate mind. List goes on but most of the times I end up in reading some blogs or watching vidoes or lying on bed listening to some soothing slow songs.

One of such occasions I was watching Rahat Fateh Ali Khan's

Chhan Se Jo Tute Koi Sapna
Jag Soona Soona Laage
Jag Soona Soona Laage
Koi Rahe Na Jab Apna
Jag Soona Soona Laage.........

while listening the songs I was also reading the comments for it. I could see comments on how singer Rahat is ...great singer from Pakistan. India Pakistan friendship, war terrorism blah blah. I have seen in many blogs whatever is the topic or the article but ultimately discussion would boils down India/Pakistan, Hindu/Muslim, South Indian/North Indian etc etc. This is one too no different to the rest. Ultimately start blaming the politicians for all the issues.

I dont buy this thought though. Who are politicians? they are one amongst us. They not from the different breed of society. They are also one of us. One us elected or selected would become politician. Its same everywhere in the world. When I was analysing the root cause for it, I realised a pattern in it.

When we are kids we blame parents, in schools we blame teacher's, at college lecturers or princi. At work we blame managers. As a citizen we blame politicians.
We are tied at one end (kids,students,employees,citizens, etc) and they at other end (parents, teachers,managers, politicians). Life is all about balancing between two ends. Interesting part of the story is when we go to other ends we behave the same way. I mean engineer behaves same as typical manager when becomes manager. So instead of blame game just enjoy wherever you are, whichever end of the rope ..
say
"All is well, Bhayya all is well " :-)

Power Of Google :-)

I am just giving one of the instance of real time to explain you the power of google.

If I remember right only times when I wonder about zodiac signs/stars/nakshtras/rashi is whenever I get a forwarded mail from friends with subjects like "Zodiac Signs" or "horoscope" or some other mail which describe characterstics or nature of person of each zodaic sign. Every one of us would have gone through such mails with curiosity to know what my sign is or do my character/nature matches with one mentioned there etc etc. Other than that may be used to see how would be following day/week/year based on zodiac signs on some dailies like "Times of India" or "Indian Express" etc.

How many people know their Birth date. Well, let me put it as "how many people know their exact date and time of birth". Well we know many people in our country doesn't know their date of birth. Even If they know, many of those dates are given by school teacher or people who come for Janaganati (Census). Only few lucky (?) people know their exact date and time of their birth. Well now a days its common every one knows it but 20-30 years back it wasn't so common especially in villages and sub urbs.

I always wondered what could be my sign/star/rashi. Given that there are different signs in Indian and western calenders. I used think about it when I get such mails or when going through news paper just was wondering what could be my sign.

But at age when u start looking alliance either by formal Matrimonial ad or informal spread of word through family and friends then you realise how important parameter is this "rashi/nakshtra".

Well, though I know my date of birth,I really dont know exact time. Last time when i dialed home I aked Mom about it. she said its there in one of the document which is at my native not at bangalore.

Hmm now i have to find my sign after 30 yrs. Well being engineer I tried all my my capabilities to find out my sign.
"Googalayanamha" :-)
I started googling what could be sign if so and so is my date of birth. I have to get one exact Rashi out of 12 rashi and 1 nakshatra out of 27. Given that there is eastern and western calender. Also some differences in panchanga followed by south Indians and north Indians. Some of these websites needed latitude and longitude. Well atleast this reason made me to go "google.earth", wikipedia etc to find my place's latitude and longitude. After some effort I zero down all the parameters needed except time. There is no link to find out your time of birth. By now I had zeroed down to two nakstra's out of 27 and 2 rashis out of 12. Now that I have atleast 4 cominations of Nakshras/Rashis based on whether I have born on midnight, morning or after noon? Then i studied all my characteristics of each the rashis and nakstras and try to match them my characteristics.

After so much of effort I found one combination of rashi and nakshatra and called Mom to tell her what I have found. But before I could say aanything she said she found the a old paper in which my birth date document along with Kula, rashi and nakstras.

Guess what ....my googling worked exactly right. My calculated rashi and nakshatra was exactly same as actual rashi/nakshtra ...That is the power of Google :-)

Undefined State of Mind

After so-so (neither good and nor bad) day at work I got into Wipro Bus to get back home. Having exchanged light smile with some and muted “Hii” to some familiar faces in the bus I settled into comfortable seat. I Tuned to Radio Mirchi hoping for good number and less RJ talk. Also I opened the Chetan Bagat’s “3 mistakes of my life”. After reading Five Point Someone I am kinda impressed with his story telling style and his desi masala angrez. Now that I have decided to read through his all three books, I am doing second now.
10-15 mins passed, I closed my eyes trying to get some sleep. Its like 3 acts I was trying to do reading, listening and sleeping. All three acts competing each other to attract the mind. Guess what! in midst of this competition mind chose to go for free ride in Disney World. I mean, mind instead of doing any these acts it started thinking about some past incidents. Then started thinking about future planing too. Again Past. And Future. Oops I lost track of it. Its like Mind doing bungy jumping between Past, Future and Present. “Teen ladke ek ladki ke peeche aur ladki chali chauthi ladke ke saath”.
This is what I am referring to ‘undefined state of mind’. The time just before really falling sleep and 15 mins down journey. Its like ‘Sandhya Vandan’ time when darkness chasing the sunlight. Sun is about to set but not completely dark yet. I am about to sleep but not slept yet. At this time my mind starts roaming as if Airtel has given all time free International roaming. During this time there is no control over thought flow and no relevance between thoughts. Its not ordered set of thoughts. Its unordered set with regards to time(could be past,future or present), unordered with regards to facts (could be incidents or imaginations) and unordered with regards to self (could be my self, some one related to me or someone no where related to me). I think its subconscious mind that is driving brain.
Eventually I slept. Only loud honks woke me up in between. I wandered my sleepy eyes around to locate my position. I guess it was around The Forum area. Again slept back, this time ‘no undefined state’. Directly to sleep mode. I woke up almost exactly at my stop. Its again the unconscious mind which, I think, exactly wakes me up at my stop.
It happens almost everyday going to undefined state before really sleeping, especially in Wipro Bus. Everyone would be going through this so (I) called ‘undefined state of mind’. But it may not be same time as mine or same as way as mine.

P.S: Wrote this one 4 months back but forgot publish here in this blog. But it was there in wipro blog which i could post here.

Success is a journey, not a destination

This week end after many days I got chance to read some blogs of my buddies. Also happened read my first blog. My first blog took me to old memories when I was just passed out of college. Yep they are sweet memories (though they were painful days at that time). In that flow of thoughts, I was just trying think what was my dream used to be in those days. Getting a job. I was trying look back recollect how was I feeling when I got the job. I vaguely remember that I was happy I called home told Mom abt it and told all my friends abt it. Threw a party to my friends...

During my initial years of job I was always wanted go onsite. I used think about life outside India, life in new country, new work place n all. When I tried recollect How I felt when I landed in US for first time, hardly I remember anything about that feeling.

Not only these two instances but many more. I was trying recollect what were my dreams used to be and how I felt when those dreams come true. In all of those instances what I see in common is that I could recollect more instances of my journey to reach those dreams rather than the moments those dreams comes true.

Thats when I realised its the Journey that we cherish than the destination. Yes we suffer, we struggle, we fall, we raise in the path to reach our dreams or goals. Once we reach our goals we celebrate and enjoy the success. Whats next. Again you set some new goals start a new journey to reach it. After many years of such life when you look back , what you remember is the journey u travelled. You remember the people you met during the journey. You remember the happy or sad moments during the journey.

Some one rightly said "Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome". Its the Journey you cherish than the destination.

Week End - TGIF to ASIM

Whats week end? Its the feeling between two expressions from THANK GOD ITS FRIDAY (TGIF) to AAH SHIT ITS MONDY(ASIM). If you are to draw graph of generic mindset/feelings of the people across the week I am sure you would get the both upper and the lower peaks within these TGIF to ASIM . Here I am writing about the point of the graph where you see conversion from positive peak to negative peak....Yeah u got it right it's Sunday Night. That's the twilight zone where the feelings start changing from Thank God.. to Aah Shit. If u r software professional then u will definitely hate Sunday nights. I guess, rather I bet, every one would hates it. Though you want to enjoy the rest of the day and go bed happily but somewhere that feeling would start creepin that its Sunday night and week end is over.

For software professional week ends are like festivals. People in this world eagerly wait for week ends as if waiting for a big a festival. By Friday lunch time people start dreaming about the week end. Its change from pathetic, busy hectic days to colorful, lovely joyful days. The week ends just breezes away just like that ....which we realize only on Sunday night.

Sunday nights are so weird you know, because as per time scale you are still in the week end but mind is already getting into 'Week day' mould. You want sleep early but u are not getting sleep.

As you lay on bed the reckless mind will start taking rounds across the streets. Order or frequency of visits to different streets differs and highly un-proportional.

It will visit the 'Happy street' i.e enjoying the nice moments during the week end, rewinding those joyful fulfill moments.

Next would be "Sorrow street"- thinking about planned, self promised week end activities that I could not finish as usual. You feel bad that you wasted a week end without really taking benefit of it and finishing off the pending activities.

Next would be " Tense street" - Suddenly realise the meetings, tasks that are piled for Monday. Even though the Monday is not started yet but u start feeling the pinch of it.

Even though I want to sleep but sleep cycle (routine of sleeping late would have set by Friday late night sleep n Saturday late night sleep). Even though we all hit bed early but mind will be either thinking about joyful events in weekend, or piled up on Monday or unfulfilled promises or pending works of week ends.
Every one agrees to statement "There aren't enough days in the weekend." Also many would agree to "week end waste is not waisted week end". How ridiculous!!! two contradictory statement yet most us would agree to both.

Enough is enough ....

I am writing this blog as this time is the when most of our buddies are at the verge of entering into the new life called "married life". So its nice time to write some thing on marriage or preface to marriage, So called girl hunting.
Other day day my buddy Harsh and me started expressing our views over a topic and soon the casual chat became the discussion and discussion into argument, well rather let me put it as debate. Its always the case, we just keep debating on the issues very seldom do we come to conclusions or mutual agreement.

Discussion was about when to stop searching for girl in case of arranged marriage. Unlike in love marriage, in arranged you have so many wide array of options to select a girl and constraints as well. Given all those options and constraints when do you think "Enough is enough" to the search and say she is THE girl I want to marry
My buddy comes back with his own marketing/HR/Entrepreneur answer and says
1. there are only 0.1% things/people that we know
2. There are 1% things/people we know that we dont know
3. There 99% things/people which we dont know that we we dont know.
Hehehehe confused? even I did :-)
His point is trying to know the things "which u dont know". So we should be not limited to things ...we should explore and widen the horizon...
My argument is that instead of widening the horizon (by trying to know the things we know we dont know or knowing what we dont know) its more meaningful to know more in depath about the things we know. Its basically deepening the depth rather than widening the horizon.

Coming back to girl thing, my point is instead of keeping searching for new girls, knowing more about the girls u already have seen n finalising within the range, Instead of keep on searching for new girls.
Even what i know from married people is that they married to their spouse not because they found the best they were looking for but its more because they tired of searching and then they settled with whatever was available at that point of time. In only few people would say i searched exhaustively n i got what i wanted. The point is basically you would have started the search with some requirements and as u go on the requirements keep changing based on girls you reject or if girl rejects you. But if you ask with guys/girls who are married, most of them would tell "it doesn't matter how much u search, it doesn't matter how best girl/guy u think u got but what matters is how best u adjust/adapt after marriage".
Some pessimist would say "In life you have to marry some point to some one and lead the rest of the life some how" or some optimist would say "Its one life I have i want best girl and enjoy my rest of life".
No matter what kind of person u are, optimistic/pessimistic, no matter how long u search or no matter weather its a love or arranged marriage ultimately u there will be ups n downs in the married life, there will be problems there be solutions to those problems, there will be smiles, there will be tears, and after all thats what is life all about.

Its nicely put in these lines ...

Zindagi Hai To Khwaab Hai
Khwaab Hai To Manzilein Hai
Manzilein Hai To Fasaley Hai
Fasaley Hai To Rastey Hai
Rastay Hai To Mushkilein Hai
Mushkilein Hai To Hausla Hai ......"

Godfather - 51

It was 21st May 2007. I was waiting for Air India flight to Newjersey via Mumbai, at Bangalore airport. Flight was delayed by more than an hour. It was half passed twelve night. I got a mug of coffee (CCD coffee its like Starbucks of India) and seated myself at the corner in the waiting hall. Taking first sip the CDD I thought Cool ..not too bad. I started my ipod shuffle


Din Dhal jaaye
raat na aaye,
tu to na aaye
teri yaad sataaye...
wow what a soothing melody ....I started reading the only novel i had "the godfather", i was through with 50 pages in my journey from US to Ind. Before reading first line in 51st page of Godfather, just took a lazy look around. Big share of crowd were Desi(Indian) and few Pardesis (Foreigners). I could overhear folks around lobby discussing on IT industries, clients, customers, process, deadline, accounts blah blah ....of course its IT capital of India and such words are bound to be heard or overheard. Few were speaking on cell phone, some were watching the TV , most of them were sleeping. Couple of them fogging the spectacles with breath(cleaning) and rest were reading either magazines or novels or in deep world of thinking.
From the outlook though i was reading book, listening to ipod and drinking coffee as well, but my mind going through every frames of moments i had spent in last one month during my vacation in India. Time spent with family and friends, long night outs, Goa trip, Parties, Marriages.... It was awesome. Though it was hectic filled with lots of t of travelling but it was wonderful. Before all the frames of every moments could complete announcement came for boarding the flight. I boarded the flight.
Loud announcement of the flight crew woke me up in middle of deep nap. Flight was in Mumbai already. Once done with security check n other formalities, seated myself in comfortable place waiting for connecting flight to NJ. And back to my stuff.

The godfather-Page 51. Number playing my shuffle was
"tere bina jindagii se koyee shikawa to nahee,
shikhwa naheee,
shikhawaaa nahe"

I just took a lazy look around before i start the novel. Airport was full packed at early in the morning 4.30am. I could hear pieces of Marathi,Hindi and Gujarathi. I somehow felt all of them going to Newjersey. I could see young gal sitting in front row. She was depressed, dull and sleepy. She looked like as if she is in deep thinking of her own. I guessed, she must be going to US for her MS and since its first time away from home she must be pretty sad and depressed. "Oh Jee" how ridiculous is it to make a story just at one glance at her face, i thought chuckled and chuckled at my stupidity.
Within just few minutes announcement made and connecting flight delayed for some 3 hours. And i guess they announced something about the breakfast arrangements which i couldn't hear completely. I was heading towards counter to enquire about same and found thatMS girl on the way ... lol :-). She told breakfast arranged for passengers to NJ in breakfast hall. We both started heading towards direction of breakfast hall. I was surprised at myself they way i started conversation myself. 9 out of 10 times i would not have talked to girl on my own. Not at good such stuff you know :-). Our conversation started.

"Any idea where exactly is this breakfast hall" I asked.
"dont know. I have no idea .." she said.
" I am going to NJ" i said. She told she too going to Dallas.
"You going to US your studies- MS?" I asked confidently as if i am 100% sure .
She told "No, I work there". I was stunned- how could my guess go wrong.
"I also work there. You going first time?" I asked with sure assumption she is going for first time. "No, going back after vacation" she told. Again wrong guess.
"Me too, going back after a month of vacation".

After discussion I realised We both are returning back to work after vacation, are employed in Indian IT compenies, work for clients in US, we are from same state blah blah ....

We had breakfast and came to waiting hall.
Back to my stuff

God father- Page 51,
"Yeh shyaam mastaani...
Madhosh kiye jaay"
again i was thinking in mind how did I assumed so confidently that she is doing MS, she is going to US for first time etc etc... and chuckled again. Heck...Why am I stuck at Godfather-51

The Fear Inc ..

Right from the birth till the death everyone goes through chain of fear factors . Form and Factor of the fear changes as we grow in life. It also varies from person to person. When we were kids we had fear of loosing the toys, fear of teachers, fear of parents, fear of failing in the exams, fear of loosing in sports. As we grow the fear factor changes to fear of falling in love- once fell in love you fear break up. In this modern world there thousands and thousands fear factors. Like fear of stock market fall (Shorts cash in on this fear though), fear of Lay off, fear of loosing election, fear of diseases. Like "All roads lead to Rome" its all fears leads to bigger fear, FEAR of DEATH.
Like any other major industry, the industry of fear, I call it, Fear Inc :-).

Fear Inc basically complements/benefits the most of the industries. If you see, Insurance industry depends on Fear Inc, Drugs companies depend on Fear Inc, Root of whole health system is FEAR Inc, Big Security agencies like CIA, CBI or NAI depends on Fear Inc. Whole funda is to create Fear and sell your products as solution to that fear. How much real risk do you run of being murdered? Or how much real risk of terrorist's attack. How much should you really be scared of contracting AIDS/bird flu? How much are you scared of global warming? In short, we need to figure out just how influenced we are by that final sum of all fears: the fear of fear itself.

A quote in "Who moved my cheese" says When You Move Beyond Your Fear, You Feel Free. If everyone moves beyond fear then what happens to all these industries and their marketing strategies. Could there be life without FEAR? If so how would it be? Think if there is no FEAR ..No fear what so ever..will there be fun in such life?

Why is fear so endemic to humankind? Obviously, in that it promotes self-preservation (When kids, Mom would have told you - Don't go in the dark, Tiger would eat you), it has evolutionary value (fear of dark invented the fire). Its counterrevolutionary (fear falling over the edge of the world you'll never discover that its round by sailing across it).
"Jo Dar Gaya samjo Mar Gaya" ..... [If u r worried then its like u died]....

Temporary Visa Permnent Settling

How many of us came to USA just to stay for few weeks? How many of came here on business visa for few months? How many of us came to here just to explore/visit? How many of us came here just as visitors/tourists? Well the answer would be many of us ..rather MOST OF US.

H1/L1 petition should not have been named "temporary work permit" cuz you make it perment one eventually :-)
After all what is it here which makes most people in world come and settle here? Is the MONEY, the work culture or the life style or the career opportunities or the business opportunities? Or the comfort living? Whatever it is people do come and settle here. Fundamentalists may term it as "Brain Drain", Socialists may term it as "Westernisation", or some may term it as "Globalization". Whatever it is but people like to come and stay here initially by choice later may be force(?)
I feel most of the people come n stay here because of the freedom u get, free from all family bonding or social bonding, free from all restrictions with added extra opportunities to make money (currency conversion). You get to do whatever u feel like doing. Like higher eduction, business opportunity, Enjoying fun filled out door activities, Night life or Downtown party life, etc.
Typically people come here for earning some quick bucks and plan to go back their country to live rest of the life comfortably, plan to buy some property or clear some debts etc. Initially they will spend some time here then in late twenties or early thirties people get marry. Couple of years down the line there will be kids too. In the mid life crisis many might want go back to their country but they would continue to stay because of spouse or kids. They get the thousands of reasons for themselves to continue to stay Children's future, children's eduction, good work domain etc etc. Unless big recession or deep depression life goes on ....Phase comes such that you like it or not u end up in staying here ......... ಅಲ್ಲಿದೆ ನಮ್ಮನೆ ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಬಂದೆ ಸುಮ್ಮನೆ .... :-)

Do it the way you want to do it ...

I just wanted to share a wonderful poem by Oriah which I happened to read recently. Its really nice one. Just read it and feel it.

It doesn't interest me what you do for a living.
I want to know what you ache for,
and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.

It doesn't interest me how old you are.
I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love,
for your dream,
for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon.
I want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrow,
if you have been opened by life's betrayals
or have become shrivelled and closed from fear of further pain.
I want to know if you can sit with pain,
mine or your own,
without moving to hide it or fade it or fix it.

I want to know if you can be with joy,
mine or your own,
if you can dance with wildness
and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes
without cautioning us to be areful,
to be realistic,
to remember the limitations of being human.

It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true.
I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself,
if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul;
if you can be faithless and therefore trustworthy.

I want to know if you can see beauty,
even when it's not pretty,
every day,
and if you can source your own life from its presence.

I want to know if you can live with failure,
yours and mine,
and still stand on the edge of the lake
and shout to the silver of the full moon,

"Yes!"

It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have.
I want to know if you can get up,after the night of grief and despair,
weary and bruised to the bone,
and do what needs to be done to feed the children.

It doesn't interest me who you know or how you came to be here.
I want to know if you will stand in the centre of the fire with me and not
shrink back.

It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied.
I want to know what sustains you,
from the inside,when all else falls away.

I want to know if you can be alone with yourself
and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.

By oriah mountain dreamer (http://www.oriahmountaindreamer.com/ )


Its wonderful poem from Oriah.
It makes you to listen to your hearts. Follow your inner urge. It makes us to think that the life without the passion is nothing. Everyone has passions for something but during the daily fight in our mechanical life we tend to loose our passion.

For moment think about the passion and embrace it and then see how it feels when u have passion for something and u do it the way you want to do it.

After all its your own life and live it the way you want. Imagine how it feels, when one fine day at the fag end of your life, you see you lived all through the life without any passions. Atleast once in a while do what u feel like doing, listen to your heart, listen to your inner urge and do it the without really worrying about the consequences of it.

E606 ....

E606....
Its neither a chipset number nor a processor number. Its house number. House in E block, sixth floor. My house number, located on bank of Valley forge park. Highway 422 bisects our apartment and the park. We are blessed with nice green view and gentle breeze. Its wonderful feeling to sit on veranda with mug of hot coffe during winter and chill tin during summer. Apartment complex is located at nice cool place with full of trees and apartment had tennis courts, pool and gym which we hardly use :-)

On the journey to our home you would across the "Lift" which is antic piece . "Kya Lifta hai yarroon ekdam jhakas hai " Dost loga bolate hai... It makes you physically feel that you moving up. Wonderful long journey from ground to sixth floor.

As soon as you enter the home you will feel the anokha odor of E606...you gotta feel it no words to explain:-) Home is very well maintained. You know when bachelor says "house is well maitained", what exactly he means.....

For the want of a better description, I'd say that 'E606' makes you "Feel at home". Cuz all the roommates have been so cool that any guest (be it anybodies friend or new colleague of IDCC or new consultant from wipro or relatives of any of friends) immediately feels very much comfortable. So much so comfortable that they start cooking at E606.
"Bhaaii hum apane guest ko guest nahi balki gharwaale samjate hai ...isiliye unse khana banawaate hai:-)

I had roommates who were pretty good at cooking their own special stuff. Guru's dal, Mohan's pulivagare, Rohan's Bhel, Amith's pakode, Bhavin's pulaav, Harish's chicken curry, Sudhy's rasam, manju's avalakki, Dibya's egg curry etc were amazing. E606 has unique culture of preparing food/tea/snacks. It's basically playing some games to decide who is going to cook or who is going to wash the dishes. We used play chess or carom or putt (golf) in home. Whoever looses had to prepare tea/food/pakoda. Sometimes we had played poker to decide whose turn is it to cook.

"Dal Chawal" is the main food of E606. Because of this food habit combined with other habits each one of has developed "One Pack tummy". This "One Pack Tummy" is product of sheer hard work and dedication :-) We have been playing tennis,cricket,golf and gym too but all that neither increased our packs nor decreased our weights.

I have spent some unforgettable moments which i would cherish through out my life. Moments when CSR was here, Birthday party moments, Sa Re Ga Ma Pa moments, long late nite send off parties for my buddies, fun full Carom games and putting, "The angrez" moments, Raju Srivatsav's moments, Tough Wipro assignement moments for band change, memorable days when Dibs was here etc are unforgettable. I miss my bangalore buddies Harsh,Sid,Chonch and Sachay very much. With them it would have complete fun.

Off late E606 and friends associated with it have developed a new slang after watching "The angrez" and GILC's Raju Srivatsav.

Recently we got some new roommates. They are plenty in number. They started from few and have grown in numbers. They always singing n flying all over E606 and enjoying the "homely environment". Everyday we come from office in the evening they welcome us. Whenever we try to throw them out, it has been unsuccessful effort.
"Hum honge kaamiyaab, hum honge kaamiyaab, hum honge kaamiyaab ek din"......Pata nahi Kab aayega wo Ek din

But as of now we with our new roomate singing " Hum sab saath saath hai ...." together while waiting for wo Ek din :-)

People who have stayed here at E606, i am sure, they will have special cherishing moments associated with it. It holds special place in every one of our hearts ....

E606 ..

ಬಾಳ ಪಗಡೆ ಆಟದಲ್ಲಿ... ಸುತ್ರಧಾರಿ ಯಾರು [Who drives the life on earth]

We human beings we live in group. We live in society/state/nation. How can so many creatures live under common place without any conflicts? I don't think constitutional law alone can make people of a country live with peace. What is the centrifugal force that runs this Human race? What is the eternal power that runs the life on earth?
For such questions default answer is GOD .... I think god is always associated with religion. Each religion has its own gods and goddesses. After all every religion is created/started by human beings. I think its religion that plays major role in everybody's life.

What is religion?
A religion is a set of beliefs and practices, often centered upon specific supernatural and moral claims about reality, the costumes, and human nature. Basically its a set of beliefs, thoughts and practices followed by set of people. Though every religion has its own rigid set of rules, beliefs and thoughts but it changes along with the time. Change is inevitable. And the thoughts and beliefs do change accordingly. As the time changes religion also changes.

Beliefs, thoughts and practices conflicts from one religion to other religion. If we look into the history many wars took places because of religion. Basically, some people trying to force their religion to others. Even today whole world is divided logically on the basis of religion. There is every attempt going on to pull people into their religion by force/power or by attracting with some other means. Some people attract other religion people by money or by giving socio economical aids or by lectures etc. Some might take extreme steps by fighting wars and even by terrorism.

Religion helps individual to live in society with harmony and peace, some says it helps individuals to attain liberation and some says it tells how to do your duty. Religion tells about Artha(purpose),Kama (pleasure), Dharma(duty) and Moksha(liberation). Though in modern life not many of us believe in Moksha :-)

Every religion preaches on doing right things. It stops you from doing wrong things. Right and wrong are always perspective. Good or bad is perspective. It’s all in our belief, in our mind or in our thinking. The belief/thought might be right for me where as wrong for some one else. What about the soldier fighting a war and killing his opposition? A soldier might be just following the orders of some higher officers or some government. But for him its his duty. He thinks is doing right. Even if he knows that he is killing some innocents still he will do it thinking that its his duty. What about police killing someone in an encounter? What about a doctor performing an abortion? What about judge ordering 'hang till death'? What about the deaths occur during the communal violence? What about the deaths due to accidents?

In all the cases each one is doing their duty. It’s right in their perspective. But it could be wrong in other party's perception. What is one’s duty? Who defines it? Is it defined by religion or law/constitution? Or is it the profession that teaches it? Or is it defined by self sense?

It's rightly said "ಬಾಳ ಪಗಡೆ ಆಟದಲ್ಲಿ ಬರಿ ಕಾಯಿ ಎಲ್ಲರು, ನೆಡೆಸುವಾತನು ಬೇರೆ, ಅವನ ಇಚ್ಛೆ ಯಾರು ಬಲ್ಲರು" [In life, the game of dice, we are all are pawns, who know what the intensions of the player (god) ] ….

Whole point is who that player is?!!! Again back to zero level …same question who drives the life on earth????

Aa dinagaLu ....Naa mareTilla ... [Gone are the days ...Still i remember]

avanauna moor savara sikra kyaki hodeetini ... [If I get 3K per month that’s good enough for me]
This what I used to tell my buddies when we were done with our engineering n planning to go for Job hunt in Bangalore.It’s neither a under statement nor an exaggeration of the situation we were in. 2002 was tricky year ...market was just recovering from slowdown and it was second attempt for small Indian IT companies after .com bubble. Job opprtunities were just opening up. Competation for each job not only by 02 passed out guys but also 00,01 passed out. Struggle for existence and Survival of the fittest was the mantra and motto of life for jobs in those days.

"Ooraga enara business madu illandra yawadara engineering illa polytechnic college ge part time mastar agoodu best tamma ....bangaloorige hodra kooLu neeru illadanga baaLe maadabekagutta" ... [Its better to work as part time lecturer for some college or do some business in your city... if you go to Bangalore you have to struggle for food] still I remember the Mahabali's (college senior) words. I was mentally set to take up a lecture job in Gadag Polytechnic College and handle some business in my native place. But cousin of mine (Vicky) promised me to provide me accommodation in his room at Bangalore. He said try hard for 6 months with sustained never say die attitude then u will get a job. After that if I don’t get job it's up me to decide if I have continue or go back to my native.

I remember those initial days when I dint even meet single friend of mine. Trying to read some books without understanding anything, Checking mails often and hoping to see any calls from any companies, Trying reach all college & school friends to share my feelings, Trying all the links recommendations from close relatives, far relatives, old relatives, new relatives, college help desk …trying all the available known and unknown ways to get an interview or written test call for companies….. Every night I used call home update my job hunt. "Yaawa compenyaagu openings illa ....ellera ondu call ittandra savra savra mandi ..." [no calls from any compeny, if at all any call are there then thousands of people in queue]. Had Naveen Prabhakar or Raju Srivatsav seen my condition they would have performed same thing on GILC instead of bar girl talking to her home. :P
"Those were tough days of my life ....Oh yaaaa…" not because job hunt but I dint meet any of my buddies (JNV/BVB). That was hurting me a lot. Person like me who stayed in hostel through out student life it’s hard live without friends. Once I meet first friend then the chain started growing and all buddies were back in link with “connected mode” then onwards job hunt was fun :-)
“Paan besyaga tindaag baayi kempaagudu …. Traasa koodi edirisidrana dosti gaTTi agoodu”
Gone are the days ....when
- we used meet at Majestic platform no 1.
- we used explore new places in Bangalore (courtesy BMTC monthly pass)
- we were sent back by securities guards of IT companies without taking our resumes
- we used to eat in one plate and in one account ( Siddana rotti ootada mess)
- we used share everything .... not only joys n happiness but also Cha, Batti matte Butti(oota)
- we used quiz our C, OS and Networking skills within our friends
- used to share 1 batti n 2 cha between four of us


Gone are the days …