Anger -- Health, wealth & Dignity!!!

As a child, I was always told that Anger is not good for health. During my management classes I was told to manage my anger. But, today I learnt how anger can not only be bad to health, as well as to wealth and dignity…

There was this lady in my office, who had given some of her clothes (Blanket & Towel) to be dry cleaned. The way these dry cleaners deal with others things, they happened to spoil the towel. On being caught and questioned, they also added that they could bleach it clean white. Being an expensive towel, the lady argued. The argument got hated up with the broken English manager in between. When the lady found that the dry-cleaners are not going to give her money or apologize, she happens to pick an iron rod and went whack on the glass pane. The glass pane came shattering down…

When she came back to the office, there was an government official to receive her, who politely requested her to come to the police station as the owner of the dry-cleaning agency has filed a case. Poor lady, all this happened for what.. a 800 buck towel!!!

So lesson learnt.. control your anger or else loose your health, wealth & dignity…..

Doll or Baby!!!

Happen to be at pantaloons couple of weeks back with my 4 month old Son (Rishab) and my wife. I had put Rishab in the Kangaroo bag and was roaming in the shop floor. Rishab was facing outside and not towards me while being seated in the bag, comfortably. We both were enjoying the bring colours, when one of the shops guys got into a funny conversation with me:

Sales Guy : Sir, Is that a baby
Me : Yes, It is my son, why do you ask me this??
Sales Guy : Sir, I thought it was a doll
Me : WHAT!!! Have you gone crazy... More so what made you think I would be carrying a doll… $#%&@

I felt furious at that point of time... but, later looked at my son and was thinking, was that a mockery or a complement.

Thai Chir...

My my... today, seems to be the most painful day after a long time... Was at the training center at Trivandrum and I heard that there is a new activity that is going to happen, called Taichi. When I heard it, I realized it was only the normal breathing exercise which I realized later how wrong I was. Yeah yeah, it is a breathing excercise, which also helps you maintian your physical fitness. For close to 40 mins I was in the rythym of tearing my legs apart and trying to balance my body. At the same time doing the breathing control. So many a times, either i forgot did I inhale or exhale. Which leg should go behind or to which direction do I do the twist... My my, after sometime I thought if this did not stop then I would faint and six people may have to carry me (Thanks to my huge structure!!!).

But, yeah when being done in the group, I could feel the lovely energy around me that helped me continue with the process. Ofcourse, how can I forget the great "Tanya" who made me do it and "Balaji/Teena" to ensure that I was there to do "Thai Chir" sorry Taichi....

Harried thoughts

There is this one site which I seemed to have taken a good liking for. What I liked was the flow of thoughts and the conversation style that she has put in to explain her wonderful interactions with her son...

http://www.junjuns-journey.blogspot.com/

A must read...

Rocking...

It was a desire to do a bit of rock climbing which got fulfilled on my travel to Trivandrum.. The adrenaline rush was really high.. Looking from the ground level the cliff seemed to be small but as I went up the cliff, the fall was really steep. This seemed to be an old quarry which is now used for adventure sport. On one hand I could see the greenery in front of me, spread in vastness, while on the other hand the mere fall gave me goose bumps. The guy on the top helped me with the harness and the loops. My friends said, Sid no problemo, use just need to go perpendicular to the cliff and keep walking down.. It is not at all difficult. I said, if that is it then fine, no problemo. Bloody hell, how would I know the pain and the pleasure in going down. So 1o mtrs down and I realized, that I am all shaky and can't even think of going up. The only choice left was to go down. I said to myself, Sid, you have to go down at any cost, so better enjoy the way down. Believe me, I just enjoyed apart from the shaky feeling inside. My friends kept saying, Sid you are almost there, bend down... leave more rope.. I was telling myself, "Shut-up, I can do it". What ever said and done, their support helped me in going on till I did Touch down..

Once I manage to foot my foot down on the ground, I was like, WoW!! i made it.. It is an amazing feeling, difficult to describe... The feeling now, is what next. Rock climbing is done, Can I look for some para sailing. Who knows I may actually end up doing that..

Pickled cook

It is such a difficult time to be all alone. I am surprised as to how ladies manage to cook for themselves even when they are alone (I am generalizing!!). But for me, even though I love cooking, cooking for self.. naaah.. no way. It is a herculean task. I dread to step into the kitchen. On top of that my lady keeps telling me, why don't you do this.. why not that..

Well I am waiting for her to come back home. No not for cooking but just that I seem to be longing for her company... Miss her ... cooking!!!???!!!

Forced Bachelor

It is the time for me when I had to leave Minakshi at Bhubaneswar. Rishab is now two months old and both Minakshi & Rishab need some care, which for sure I will never be able to give. But, longing to see them. It is the first time that I happen to leave Minakshi and stay. Thanks to this forced Bachelorhood, that the mobile companies do make a lot of money!! ;)

Everyday, when I hear that the little one is taking on his Dad's footsteps, I kind of feel proud on one hand but then thinking of poor Minakshi, I feel sad. She has a torid time managing a relationship with me on top of that another remake...

Happy Drive ;)

It has been a while that I have come across drivers who have a funny and sunny side of looking at life. I have been travelling quite a while and most of the time I end up with a driver who is either groggy or angry with the world. They drive as if every body in this world is an enemy and the road a battle field.

Well, today happen to come across "Amir" who had a funny way of looking at things. While being stuck in the traffic for close to half an hour, he said, "Shall I order for the food". The cop may be of good help to us. With a lot of maneuvering we managed to reach the traffic signal but were still stuck. When the cop let us go, he started saying to the other fellow traffic mates, let's go before he (Cop) runs out of his quota.

It was really funny the way he spoke. :)

Autodisk!!!

Travel life in Mumbai Auto is so funny. I happened to travel from Powai to Thane. My first surprise was that the auto driver from Powai said he can drop me only at the Thane Toll gate. Beyond that I had to catch another auto to travel inside Thane. I have changed buses / trains / flights to reach a destination but Autos!??! Wow that was an adventure..

The second pleasant and funny was the travel and the negotiation of traffic. We three (Myself, driver & his auto) were stuck in the traffic. The driver said, “sabji, pakde rahna” (Sir, pl. hang on), with these words, he moved through the gaps onto the footpath which was filled with potholes due to the major rains. Then started the lovely bumpy ride for close to a kilometer. Thanks to his maneuvering we managed to come in front of the travel and I managed not to have a slip disk…

You need to have a special disk in your back called “Autodisk”!!!

Words lost in Maze??

It so happens when my thoughts just come and go but do not let me pen it down.. Those freaky thoughts... Hope they could be captured..

Well for now they are those words lost in the maze of my excellent brain.. Those mere which state my state of unease and flirting thoughts...

2nd Innings

Everybody loves a second innings.... Ain't I right...

But some take it very seriously and want to see it coming through this time.. It so happened that I came across this case at work. Buddy is desperately trying his luck to ensure that he conveys his feelings to his felle counterpart. But the beauty is "how to do it??"

His struggle is still on.. let's see if he gets to play his second innings or would be retired hurt!!!

Time is the healer for all the fun one wants to have....

Debri Tree!!

There is so much about saving the "planet" and the so precious trees around.. But have you ever seen saving plants by pouring sand, concrete, debris... no water (not at all...)


I am surprized myself. But the plant seems to live well..

The Undertaker!!!

It was an early morning that I happened to be at the Chennai central platform to pick up one of my relatives, that I happened to bump into this undertaker. With a professional attire, all decked in brown except for his feet, which was adorned by an old slipper. My undertaker was swinging his sole brown stick trying to show his supremacy. My train was about to come on to the platform and I just had to rush when I all of a sudden stopped.

My undertaker has stopped one of the poor tea vendors who was with his tea can trying to get into the arriving train. The pleading had started by this vendor, but fell into no ears. Poor fellow trying to convince the undertaker with a few bucks.. but no way.. undertaker will not budge.. Just then happen to come rush past the scene was another lucky vendor with an extended arm.. The undertaker arm happen to touch the lucky vendor's arm and a magical band of paper passed by.. My undertaker was happy and at the same speed the magical wad of papers vanished into his pockets..

It took me 15 mins by the time I picked up my relative and passed through the same spot. Not surprised to fine my poor vendor was about to leave and my undertaker seemed happy with a new bunch of magical papers in his other pocket.. Both departed, the vendor yelling for a new customer and the undertaker in search of another victim... The life continues...

I Donno Why???

Surprised the way life has treated me... Good ... Bad.. funny... weird... Strange ... Hilarious... God knows what all..

Instances ... I want to remember.. fade away...

Instances ... I want to forget ... seem to stay for long...

Leave things for good... Nay.. back to me again...

Want to change.. tough to change...

Well it just goes on... & I donno Why???

Games!!??

Is it that difficult to be a straight forward person??!! It really surprises me... So many games people play every day. So many times they thing we know nothing and understand nothing but they keep playing.

It always surprises me the way things work around. Like it or not, bosses do favouritism. Yes if it based on work I could well understand but why on trivial matters like language, geographic limits etc. These are all short run, Not to take anyone way past many things… get on to a common playing ground and those very favourite, will no more be your favourite. The person becomes so defenseless without his favourite people around that his / her grounding is very weak. I fail to understand, why still people do this. It seems that they are like sitting on the same branch that they intent to cut…

Freaky Shots

Lazy Afternoon..











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Shattered Creations!!!

While watching “Kabul Express”, what struck me the most in the movie was the state in which “Afghanistan” is today? Having read the recent book, “The Kite Runner” by Khalid Hussaini, and the research on the net proved the state of affairs to be utter bad situation. Afghanistan had a beautiful nature, business used to flourish, with trade across the world. Today it is nothing but a mass of broken families, deserted streets, lost hopes and a future that seems to be looking into nothing. Yes there is a lot of effort at the same time going on to revive the conditions. But, when we look back a question that comes to my mind is, “Is this calamity, done by nature??” The answer off-course is a big “NO”.

We humans seem to be having no work; we love to destroy. Someone stated that the most beautiful form of art is destruction. Well this art does not take much time… on the other hand we ourselves try to take control of things and start rebuilding... yes we can build in lovely roads, park., Water pipe lines, electricity and what not for our material needs. But, in return what we have lost is so much which in the years we humans can never build up... Lost hopes are the most difficult to build up into fascinating dreams of future.

Afghanistan is one such country to be an example. Just look around, do you think it is difficult to find umpteen numbers of countries in doom and despair. Africa is a lost world. Middle East is always the center of attraction for trouble. Latin America is suffering with its own problems. APAC has unique problems. America which majority say is the best place has problems created by self as well as internal.

A few people in the greed of power seem to be killing many. What has man kind achieved by killing, nothing but destruction of what was beautiful. History has stood evidence to the gruesome past. We keep saying “let’s learn from past” but what do we do, end up doing the same mistakes and this time at large scales.

Can we not treasure this earth for the future? What do we give to our future generations?? Broken hopes, shattered live styles, individual egos, frustrated creations…

Are we on the right track?? It’s time for all of us to think before it becomes too late. Nature has its checks and balances. Let’s not hasten up what nature has in store for it self.