Inspiring Speech By Steve Jobs

I know this is just a copy paste of an existing article, but this is something so inspiring that I want this to be there in front of my eyes always. If I cannot 100% do what Steve Jobs says, I can atleast give a try. Right!!!!

'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says

This is a prepared text of the Commencement address delivered by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, on June 12, 2005.

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.

The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

My second story is about love and loss.

I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.

I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.

I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

My third story is about death.

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.

This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope it's the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Thank you all very much

Courtesy: http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html

The Cursed

Insomnia or sleeplessness is most often defined by an Individual's report of Sleeping disorder. "Report"!!! Why would someone "report' a sleeping disorder. He/She should simply throw a party for being gifted!!!. Yeah Gifted....I define Insomnia as a gift given by God to those very very few people who have actually got extra time in a day to live their life, to do something productive.

A day has 24Hrs in it, out of which we are recommended to sleep for a minimum of 8Hrs. So, a day simply has only 16 productive Hours. Now this is for a "normal" person neither 'gifted" nor "cursed". Cursed!!!! A very apt word in this context. I would say a person who has been showered upon with tonnes and tonnes of sleep is nothing but "cursed" by the creator himself. Its like "Child, I curse you, that you will waste all your time in sleep and will never get enough time achieve anything in your life in this world".

Unfortunatly I seem to be one of the person who was cursed. As soon as I get up after sleeping like straight 12Hrs,  ask me to go to bed and no doubt I will surely fall asleep easily for another 3 to 4 hours and yet my quota of sleep still doesn't get over. I am just so J about the gifted people and feel like thrashing those who complaint about it and do not recognize the gift they have been belssed with.

Top Ten Signs of an Awesome Web Analyst by Avinash Kaushik

Web Analytics by Avinash Kaushik. This is one such book which can be read by a basic web analyst to a person who wants to set up a web analytics company. Yeah... You will also find tips on whom to hire and who not to hire.


I always had the habit of reading the author's acknowledgement before starting to read a book. While reading the acknowledgement of Avinash K I came to know that this is going to be a beautiful book. In the acknowledgement I came across two points which struck a very strong chord in my brain and are going to stay there for an ample amount of time... Those two points are
1. Eat like a Bird, Poop like an Elephant
2. Think "Book" not "dairy" when it comes to blogging.


Now here is something interesting I found in this book..something very interesting for a person working on web analytics.


Top Ten Signs of An Awesome Web Analysts
1. They have used more than one web analytics tool extensively.
2. They frequent the Yahoo! web analytics group and the top web analytics blogs. (Here is the list of those top web analytics blogs http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/top-ten-web-analytics-blogs-january-2007/)
3. Before doing any important analysis, they visit the website and look at the web pages.
4. They understand the technical difference between page tagging, log files, packet sniffing and beacons.
5. They are comfortable in the quantitative and qualitative world.
6. They are avid explorers
7. They are effective communicators.
8. They are street smart.
9. They play offense and just not defense
10. They are survivors.


I feel point 10 is the most important. The reality is that the web decision makers mostly just want to measure the hits (Jim Sterne author and organizer of eMetrics summit defines hits as: "how idiots track success"). a key skill of great analysis is the ability to have patience, survive and say motivated in the world where people ask for suboptimal things.


Well, if you meet 6 of the above criteria you are a good web analyst and are on your way to greatness.
If you meet 9, you are a great web analyst. Congratulations!
If you meet all of the above criteria, you are a purple squirrel and you can command any salary at any company in this world!!!


Source: Web Analytics by Avinash Kaushik 

My First Crush at New Job

I generally have a habit of judging an institution or an organization by its library. My school though not very popular had a huge library with a variety of books. 
The moment I checked my college library I was depressed. It was a small dark and clumsy place to keep the books and a huge empty hall to sit and read. 
I became even more depressed when I checked the library at my 1st workplace. It was a room, the size of my bedroom with a few 100 books and no place to sit and read.


From my past experience I didn't expect much from my new workplace. The moment I came to know that there is a library at this workplace too I jumped with joy and expected it to be atleast the size of the library at my previous workplace but I was shocked looking at it. It was a room smaller than my bedroom with a few 10's of books.


As i had lots of free time I thought why not have a look at the books.... they must have been really special as they were the chosen one for this library. I checked out the books and since that day I everyday spend an hour at the library. 


That day I realized something, its not the size of the library that make it special, its the books in the library which make it special. That day when I first stepped into the library I fell in love with this book called "Web Analytics" By Avinash Kaushik and every day without fail I step into the library and try to complete a chapter from that book.

Why??? - Part 1

Great people say.. If you want to increase you knowledge ask yourselves one question .... "why?" If you are able to answer each and every "why" then you are intelligent in the real sense.


So I want all the intelligent men on this earth to answer this "why?"


Why should always a girl relocate after marriage?? Why should it always be that the girl changes her job or takes a transfer or quits the job and relocates to the place where the guy is working? 


Is it that men are not intelligent enough to get a job in the city where the girl is working? 


Or is it that men these days are "I want my mommy and daddy" types???


Or is it something else.... I really don't want to be a trend follower. I want to be a Trend Setter atleast in this case. Let me see how successful I am going to be.

Mental Instability

Yesterday Night's dream was the heights of mental instability. This is not the first time that I got a strange dream, but yesterday's dream was actually a mix of the movies I watched during the weekend and my current work tensions. 


Dreams are mostly based on what we see in our day to day life or what we want to see. Everyone gets dreams, but what kind of dreams people get and how frequent do they get matters a lot. If you get dreams like me, i.e. every night, then you are actually mentally unstable just like me.


Well, I am not a neurosurgeon or a real scientist who is doing research on dreams so let me not go into technicalities of dreams and write what I saw.


I hope you people are not going to call Erragadda for the 500Rs. Please let me know in case you are thinking so, we can negotiate :)


This weekend, I watched 4 movies; 2 of them were Inception and Despicable me. From past two weeks I am actually tensed about my release from my job. So how do you think these two movies can be related to my release in my dream?


So, my dream was something like this. I am at my office busy in a meeting, of course my release meeting. I was negotiating with my manager regarding the release and he actually accepted it. Hurray!!! But then, he said I should work very diligently for the next one month. I happily nodded my head and moved towards my cubicle. Now at my cubicle, my manager enters and asks me the status of the work which he gave me the last time. Now here I remember that in my last dream a few days back I was assigned a work (i.e. I know I am dreaming now and this dream is a continuation of my previous dream where I was actually assigned a work). Now, you can clearly relate this to the movie inception. 


So, I say them, yeah the work is done. He asks me to show it. And now...suddenly we are in open air standing in front of a roman Colosseum  Yeah, building a roman Colosseum was the task assigned to me in my last dream. So here comes the despicable me part, where actually the pyramid of Egypt went missing and replaced with a dummy pyramid. 


Well, the funniest part of this dream was that I built a Colosseum  the way it looks now i.e. broken and dilapidated and actually the Colosseum was built out of red bricks, leave aside the plastering I wonder if there was any cement in between those bricks to hold them together.


Now that's how my mind reacted to the last week's work pressure and tensions. Total gone case!!!

Who is the Best in Being the Worst???

How many of you have complaints that people at government offices do not work at all, never complete things on time, never help people, never work without taking money??? How many of you are tired of files being passed from one table to another, every person pointing to the other person as the point of contact?

If you are complaining about this and want all the government offices to be privatized, please think again. You are putting yourselves in a much bigger trouble.

I work in a private sector. Recently I went to my manager and told him that I want to quit the company. He first smiles, then he sighs, then he asks..."what happened?" I tell my story and he comes up with his standard lame offers to make me stay back. I directly reject his offer and asks him to plan my release.

The next day when I ask him, what’s the update on my release and why am i being assigned a 6 months project at this point, he again sighs and tells me in his totally unprofessional slang "you seeee, the onsite manager for this project is on leave, he will be back on Tuesday. For now you continue with the project, when he is back we will talk and then you can transition this project to someone else".  (What do you think I playing some April fool trick on you when I say I am quitting???Goddammit... Understand... your project is at RISK!!!) Then he says "Look the client manager wants you to handle the project. We can’t tell them directly that you are leaving. So its better you start with the project and then we can slowly tell them". (What f****** nonsense is this??? You are not giving any death news that you have to be cautious about the client not getting a heart attack!!!)

Well, I thought its better I go ahead and talk to the client manager and let him know the truth. But "No!!!" my project manager is very smart in thinking that I have the guts(for him)/confidence(for me) to tell the client that I may not be able to take the tasks. So he calls me and pleads not to let the client know about this as of now. He says..."Look, I spoke to the onsite manager, he says that we have a discussion with the Senior project manager and Delivery manager tomorrow, so lets wait for their verdict" (Ohh great... Now the delivery manager will talk tomorrow and do some black magic on me so that I don’t quit the company)

My wait continues till the next day, just to listen that the Delivery manager is busy and the meeting is postponed to next day, so another day wasted.

The next day, my Senior Project manager and the Delivery Manager attend the meeting thinking that they will promise to give me Taj  Mahal if I don’t quit but they didn't know that I will quit even if they give me White house. So the meeting ended and my project manager lost all hopes.

Finding the date of relieving - The same day i meet my project manager "Can I get to know an approximate date of relieving?" He just dusts me out of his cubicle saying, "Ohh...that will be taken care of by Senior Project manager...contact him"

I go to my senior project manager he says "you see, its not easy to give a date just like that, we need some time. (And how much is that "some time"??? Indefinite??? Are you even managers who are supposed to plan for project for every quarter???? I think the servant maid in my house takes much faster decisions than our managers) Well, I was totally pissed off, so "If you can't give a date, then let me give you a date, I am not going to come after so and so date. That’s it". Now that scares them a little, ohh this girl has an offer if she leaves without teaching anything project will be in risk. So let us try to show some love and care. "Look, that’s not the way. We'll talk tomorrow. I have to talk to your Project manager and he has to tell how much time it is going to take for you to teach everything" (D'oh.....again.....project manager.... ) "Ohh you already spoke to your project manager, ok...then talk to the Delivery manager, he has to decide" (aarrghhhhhh..... what f****** nonsense is this!!!!)

I put a mail to my delivery manager saying that I want to meet him and also want the project manager and Senior Project manager to be present. The next day, he royally answers to the mail, "Talk to them only!! They have to deicide I have nothing to do in this case" (In case we have a re-incarnation of Abhimanyu from mahabharatha and if he was in my place, he would say that getting out of chakravyuha would have been much easier than getting a relieving date)

Picture abhi baaki hai mere dost!!! So I get back to my project manager and senior project manager together and tell them the situation. They try to point to the delivery manager again. Now this was the heights of my patience. All that was left was blackmail. "Boss, if you don’t release me, I'll give my 2 months’ salary to the HR and leave". Now comes the twist in the story, the main difference between the Government organizations and private organizations.

My manager listens to this dialog and smiles, "You think giving us money you can get rid of the project and get a release. It’s only when we approve then the HR will accept money and we are nowhere interested in taking money."

I don't work at a government office, but I know how it works. There were days when I thought, its good I work for a non-government organization, but soon I realized the problem is not in private or government companies. The problem is in the country we are in, where people are used to pointing to others, files changing desks for no reasons, no work being done on time but in one way at the government offices you can give some money and get your work done atleast, but in private organizations, you will come across such people who are worse than government officials

Mohandas

Last week I watched another non popular type movie called Mohandas.


Strange co-incidence, last movie a saying by Mohandas K Gandhi and the next Movie Mohandas.


It was neither the name of Mr. Gandhi which led me to this movie nor was it directed by Anurag Kashyap. The name that led me to this movie was Mr. Aditya Srivastata. This guy has something in him. You always need not be 6-pack macho personality or chocolate boy to get noticed. There are people like Mr Aditya Srivastava, who are somehow exceptionally talented and stand out in their roles, how ever small it may be only with their acting talent and not the fake 6-pack or plastic surgery's. Be it Satya, Gulaal, Black Friday or Mohandas, this actor has brought life to every role he was in.


Mazhar Karman the director of this movie. You already know one of his most popular movies "Satya". The role of Manoj Bajpayee in that movie was initially offered to Mr. Aditya Srivastata, but the producers were behind popular names than real talent. If Manoj Bajpayee wouldn't have been the lead actor in that movie, maybe you wouldn't have heard of Satya, yet it would release and the perfection of work done would be nothing less than what it is now.


Mohandas is a slow paced movie in the beginning, but soon it catches speed and things start happening. Nakul Vaid, Mohandas of the movie actually has very few dialogs and is most of the time missing. The main actors of the movie are Sonali kulkarni and Aditya Srivastava. Sonali Kulkarni has done a nice reporter job, while Aditya's role initially was a person who ignores the wrong, happening around him and then slowly he comes out to help Mohandas find his identity.


Well, the story line was average, but Sonali Kulkarni with her revolutionary dialogs, Nakul Vaid with his silence and Aditya Srivastava with his fight for justice made the movie a good time pass movie to watch.

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind!!!!

I am not a big fan of Mahatma Gandhi… But Yes, Today I have turned a big fan of Anurag Kashyap.
He is popular Bollywood film director, and mostly popular for his controversial story lines. After all truth is always bitter and bitter truth always leads to controversy.


Who said the 1st impression is the best impression???
The first movie I watched which was directed by Anurag Kashyap was Dev D. I must have watched it for 45mins and I was totally unimpressed with the story line. The only reason being, I have watched all the "Devdas" movies from black and white to SRK, Madhuri and Aishwarya and I always felt that the story was of the kind which can be watched with whole family. Devdas was a 20th century story and I wanted it to be the 20th century type. Imagining it as a 21st century story was really impossible for me.


Anurag Kashyap and his 1st magic on me!!!
Gulaal, A story based on Rajputana movement. Though the story started from a ragging scene at a college and fight for winning college elections, yet it had so much information about the Rajputana movement which hardly any of us have read anywhere.


The beauty of this movie lies in its real life story line, about how people of Rajputana fought for their freedom.


The beauty of this movie lies in its powerful dialogs mostly sayings by john Lennon.


The beauty of this movie lies in its songs. To tell about the songs in this movie, I fall short of words. Every word in every song will make so much meaning to the current situation of the country that you can never ever find such effective lyrics in any other movie. Especially, raanaji..., sarfaroshi ki tamanna... and duniya... are something one should never miss.


The movie which made me a big time fan of Anurag Kashyap!!!
Black Friday, A movie based on 1993 Bombay blasts. This one sentence is enough to explain the whole movie and the reality present in it. I was just 6-7 years old when this incident happened. Most of you like me wouldn't even have had an idea that such an incident ever happened in Bombay. This movie is a must watch for such people.


An Eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. This is a very apt line, which is clearly proved by this movie.


The beauty of this movie again lies in its true story line including true names of the people involved in it. You'll get to hear the names like Shiv Sena, Bal Thackeray, Advaani, Dawood Ibrahim and many such people who were involved in the incident directly or indirectly.


The beauty of this movie lies in its Cinematography. The bombing... , the babri masjid .., the victims... and the noise of blankness... in the blast scenes!!! The noise created by blankness explains every emotion in those blast scenes!!!


The beauty of this movie lies in its background score. Indian ocean has done a beautiful job with its numbers like bharam bhaanp ke..sharam dhaanp ke… and raat hindole pe baitha ek....


And finally the beauty of both the movies above also lies in the actor's and their performances which when compared to any of the popular bollywood actors would be an insult to their outstanding performances. The two common actors in both the movies who have brought life to their characters are Kay Kay Menon and Aditya Shrivastav.

A Traditional South Indian Pelli Chupulu (Marriage Proposal) - Satirical

I am going to write in short about what happens at a traditional south Indian Pelli chupulu.

The Gal's father comes till the bus stop to pick the guy's family... The guy's family reaches gal's house..

The gal's father talks to the guy...asks him about his job...

The guy looks for the gal... but she is not to be seen

The gal's mom goes and gets something to munch... and also arranges a chair for the gal

The gal comes out and sits on the chair...

The gal's father says... "This is XYZ...This is abc"

The guy says Hi...The gal just smiles

Then the Gal's mother gets tea... everyone drinks tea while the gal's father talks to the Guy...

The guy keeps talking and talking

The Guy's father tries to make the gal talk... asks.. "how do you go to office"

The gal reply's .. "office transport".

Everyone is done with tea...

The guy's father asks the gal if she wants to ask anything to the Guy....

The gal nods her head saying No...(Not actually saying, just nods)

The Guy's father asks again.. the gal again nods her head..

The gal's father says that we asked all the questions that my daughter wanted to ask...we have nothing to ask

Then the Guy and the family leave.

Now that you have read about traditional south indian pelli chupulu... read my experience too

The Guy's father comes till the bus stop to pick the gal's family... The gal's family reaches guy's home..

The guy's father talks to the gal...asks her about her job...

The gal looks for the guy... but he is not to be seen

The guy's mom goes and gets something to munch... and also arranges a chair for the guy

The guy comes out and sits on the chair...

The guy's father says... "This is XYZ...This is astonish"

The gal says Hi...The guy just smiles

Then the Guy's mother gets tea... everyone drinks tea while the guy's father talks to the Gal...

The gal keeps talking and talking

The Gal's father tries to make the guy talk... asks.. "how do you go to office"

The guy reply's .. "office transport".

Everyone is done with tea...

The gal's father asks the guy if he wants to ask anything to the Gal....

The guy nods his head saying No...

The Gal's father asks again.. the guy again nods his head..

The guy's father says that we asked all the questions that my son wanted to ask...we have nothing to ask

Then the Gal and the family leave.

The moment i stepped out of their house i was like

#&@*&^# What nonsense.... Did I come all this way to talk to Guy's Dad??? Am i going to marry Guy's dad??? I just can't believe this meeting is over and the Guy didn't speak at all and now they are going to ask me if i like the guy??? If those two golden words wouldnt come out from that guy's mouth i would think he was a wax model from Madame Tussauds

Crazy Days - The End

Finally the crazy days ended....!!!
Yup... Wednesday was the last crazy day. It started with nice suprabhatam in my Manager's car and ended with me running away finishing the dinner and skipping the DJ.
Did I say, that i walked the Ramp and was named "The Gyan Guru Of The Account" ???
Yup....


I, a person who is scared to be the centre of attraction stepped on to the stage and stayed there for complete 60 Seconds. Hats off to me..*claps*
Well, this Ramp walk gave me an awesome Idea.
All these days i used to think, how should i convince my parents for a court marriage, to avoid me sitting the whole day on the stage while hundreds of people stare at me.... Now I need not convince my parents for a court marriage. All i have to do is to convince them for a night time muhoortham and make the audience section dark :)
Parents bhi khush... mai bhi khush !!!


Ok now... let me not divert the topic as my marriage is quiet far. So, this was the 2nd stage performance of my life time with the 1st being a dance performance in 7th class.


Now what should I say about the second thing. "The Gyan Guru Of The Account"
I got a 250 Rs. Lifestyle voucher as an award.
I feel this award was totally rigged by my event manager, because I don't have "Gyan" as to what can i get in 250 bucks at lifestyle....
So, I throw an open offer.... Who ever can name 5 Useful things which can be bought from Lifestyle for 250 bucks ...will be named as the Guru of This Gyan Guru :)

Crazy Days - Continued

My office mailbox is giving me nightmares...
My onsite manager says ...you are a senior now... act like one
My event manager says... there is still no progress... start showing some progress...
My mind says .... Which is the way to Himalayas????


Have you ever thought that if you pass this interview you will be the most happiest person on this earth???
Believe me, every interview i have passed has caused so much trouble in my life that, i regret the moment when i stepped into the interviewers room


My first interview - After a lot of suspense, results were out and i was selected for the job. My mom cried out of happiness and i cried cursing myself for getting selected. This is the job i am still struck in.


My second interview - After wasting one complete saturday at an office in hitech-city i got the call, you are selected. Again my mom cried out of happiness and i cried out of confusion. Bearing the confusion for complete one month i decided not to join and literally had to get rid of the HR telling her that I am getting married and going to US :P


My third interview - One full hour, the interviewer asked me question. After 4 questions, i was least bothered to listen to the questions as the answers to all the questions were "Sorry...I donno". Looking at the expression of the interviewer i was happy that i was not selected. But, unfortunately he selected me and now because of that my mailbox is giving me nightmares. I am a BCM-Star.


From last one week, I am getting nearly 30-35 mails everyday in my mailbox out of which i couldn't understand a single sentence till date. I know the mails have questions, as i can see the question mark in every mail and also a few people reply to those questions as i can see them replying to the mails with question marks.
My 2nd biggest problem is that i don't get time to read those mails
And my 1st biggest problem is I get those mails

Crazy Days

Questions Questions and Question!!! Why does everyone think that they are Derek O Brien and I am participating in Bournvita quiz contest?

Client: What's the status??? What doubts do you have??? What updates do you have???? When will the testing Complete???


Why do things have to be piece meal. Come on i am not a kid trying to over eat.


Manager: What is the current status of the project?? When is the install?? When will the documentation be over???


Gimme a break. When will he understand that he is the person who has to answer these question!!! I wish i could tell him.... "I am a bloody coder. You are the manager stuck to excel sheets. Wake Up!!!"


Event Manager: What is the plan??? Which events to do?? When to do?? Where to do?? How to do???


Hello....... Grow up!!!! Giving  us a "7th class mathematical example" kind of budget, you can't expect us to plan the event!!! 40,000 for fashion show. What... are we calling Kangana Ranaut as show stopper?? 3000 for prizes!!! Seems like the winners are gonna get a Pencil box and a pocket dictionary.


I think winning Bournvita quiz contest is easier than answering all these stupid question.

Mumbai!!!

Mumbai... A city where dreams come true!!!! Thats what all the film stars say. And what i say is, "thats true". It was like a dream for me, to go places, wander in the streets aimlessly, talk to unknown people, live my life my way. So for once i believed these film stars and went to Mumbai to fulfill my silly stupid dream. That is the main reason for my visit to mumbai and of course my cousin also asked me to visit Mumbai, so that is another reason.


What i did in Mumbai: Njoyed....That's the only term that comes to my mind.


I ate: Cheesy Mysore Masala Dosa on the road opposite...errr.... methibai college...?? some college..not sure about the name. Thanks to my cousin.


I Wandered: All the way from colaba to churchgate. Girl's never understand directions!!!! I took a local from andheri to churchgate, then a taxi from churchgate to colaba. Wandering aimlessly in colaba, i again reached curchgate station on foot. Then i realized.. "Ohh,.. I didn't see the gateway!!!" Again i took a taxi from churchgate to colaba to see the gateway :)


Late Night walks: Brandstand...and Carter Road... The first was awesome, the latter was a little boring. Again, thanks to my cousin.


Other Places: Hiranandaani... Mahalaxmi temple.. Haji Ali... Banganga.... Cadbury house.. Mannat... and so on


Special Experiences: Local Train. I just loved it. One of the best mode of inter city transport i have ever seen. Yes, it is crowded, but its just fun. No waiting for hours together for the bus to arrive, No Traffic Jam...and no tension of getting into the wrong bus. My best experience was evening 5:30 local from churchgate to andheri. Ladies compartment..Standing on one feet :)


Tips i got from people on how to get down from the local: If you have to get down at andheri, start moving from your place when the train is at dadar station, in case you are sitting in the 1st seat near the door. Dadar is 4 stops away from andheri. Slowly ask every person in front of you as to where they will get down. Once you reach the person who says they will get down at andheri, stand behind them. When your stop comes, "Focus". All your attention should be in going straight out of the door, else you might end up going in the reverse direction. hehe..


My Favorite Place: One is Brandstand. It is just an awesome place to walk. So calm...so serene... 
Second is Haji Ali. I just fell in love with the walk-way to haji ali. Water on both side and a small path on which you are walking, the waves come and hit the path, the mild sound of the waves. No metal barriers No human barriers!!!! Its like you are magically walking on water.


And last but not the least, people there are busy with their life, but when you ask for help they never mislead you.


All in all a wonderful place and wonderful experience.