Cross posted at my blog
It's been two weeks but still the wrath of terror attacks on the Mumbai hasn't lowered , thanks to indian media and the politics.
Every time when such a terrorist attack happens , there is a huge uproar with the public and government faces extreme criticism with patriotic fervor reaching incredible levels and jai maatha ki being the buzz word.
No doubt , the attacks are disturbing and impacted the whole nation to a great extent. The flavor of terror did strike me hard watching the news channels , those hard to believe heart stopping shellings and gory blood stains, were indeed awful.
A grand salaam to all those brave souls , the martyrs ,police men , NSG commandos , marcos , hotel staffs and the south african commandos and to each and every one of them , with out whom , a lot of lives would have vanished with out a trace.
As an aftermath of the terror strikes , we now witness the usual political stunts and media running frenzied behind literally everything to catch hold of their TRP's aloft.
This attack has some significant impact on the politics being played across the country . Most of the time , it is only the common man who gets badly affected by these assaults - normally these happen on the roads , trains and other places where the common man moves often . Hence the slack govt hasn't cared enough to take stringent actions, but this time , the target is on the elite section of the country . Now this should be a big head ache to the government for all the rich bell weather are completely outraged and this could strain the politicians relation with them .The Tatas and the Oberois and all of them .Hence we could find some significant actions and security increased across the country.
Though many famous people like NRN has commented that the coverage of these attacks were the finest piece of journalism in this decade , famous tamil writer Gnani has an entirely different opinion about the way the news channel and politics haven taken these .Read about it here .
Instead of continuing with the blame game , we need to move on -Enough is Enough. We need to extract the learnings from these and convert them as action items and try to implement them soon.
Be more vigil and have better disaster recovery plans. There was certainly some lapses in the way operations were carried out , there was no co-operation between the different units that was part of this rescue operation . Each acted on its own and no one was able to gain the holistic picture of the situation and sped forces in sync with the events unfolding .
It's true , our country hasn't faced such an unfortunate event that the combined efforts were not diligent.We need to formulate better plans and be more prepared to handle such tragic issues.
This moment , we are united and have expressed solidarity . Let's learn from this crisis and become double stronger and declare our war against terror in all forms .
Let us believe in a positive change.
Cheerz,
D
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Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Frozen Thoughts - Magazine Review
Cross posted in my blog here
Happened to read a magazine by name 'Frozen Thoughts' for the past two months . Liked it very much for the attitude -very motivating , thought provoking and had always given me a point or two to drive home.
The monthly magazine has various articles out of which my personal favorite is the 'Voice of Love' written by the author. The striking thing put forth is the need to stay connected to the environment and GIVING BACK.
There are other articles too but we get a feel of reading a moral science book at times . Never mind , there are some gem of articles written.Articles regarding professional growth and stressing the importance of relationship are some of the featured columns.
There are some posters featured at the centre page with some inspiring quotes too.
All is fine but the magazine costs 80 bugs and half of the pages is filled with advts.Better suggest to read it from some one who owns it to get a feel.In the case of being impressed ,Go and grab your copy hence .
http://www.frozenthoughts.com/
Regards ,
D
Happened to read a magazine by name 'Frozen Thoughts' for the past two months . Liked it very much for the attitude -very motivating , thought provoking and had always given me a point or two to drive home.
The monthly magazine has various articles out of which my personal favorite is the 'Voice of Love' written by the author. The striking thing put forth is the need to stay connected to the environment and GIVING BACK.
There are other articles too but we get a feel of reading a moral science book at times . Never mind , there are some gem of articles written.Articles regarding professional growth and stressing the importance of relationship are some of the featured columns.
There are some posters featured at the centre page with some inspiring quotes too.
All is fine but the magazine costs 80 bugs and half of the pages is filled with advts.Better suggest to read it from some one who owns it to get a feel.In the case of being impressed ,Go and grab your copy hence .
http://www.frozenthoughts.com/
Regards ,
D
Friday, August 15, 2008
Happy Independence Day
Crossposted from Anitha's Blog
Former President of India APJ Abdul Kalam : 'A Leader Should Know How toManage Failure'
IndiaKnowledge@Wharton : Could you give an example, from your ownexperience, of how leaders should manage failure?
Kalam: Let me tell you about my experience. In 1973 I became the project director of India's satellite launch vehicle program, commonly called theSLV-3. Our goal was to put India's "Rohini" satellite into orbit by 1980.I was given funds and human resources -- but was told clearly that by 1980 we had to launch the satellite into space. Thousands of people worked together in scientific and technical teams towards that goal.By 1979 -- I think the month was August -- we thought we were ready. As the project director, I went to the control center for the launch. At 4 minutes before the satellite launch, the computer began to go through the checklist of items that needed to be checked. One minute later, the computer program put the launch on hold; the display showed that some control components were not in order. My experts -- I had four or five of them with me -- told me not to worry; they had done their calculations and there was enough reserve fuel. So I bypassed the computer, switched to manual mode, and launched the rocket. In the first stage, everything worked fine. In the second stage, a problem developed. Instead of the satellite going into orbit, the whole rocket system plunged into the Bayof Bengal. It was a big failure.
That day, the chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization, Prof.Satish Dhawan, had called a press conference. The launch was at 7:00 am,and the press conference -- where journalists from around the world were present -- was at 7:45 am at ISRO's satellite launch range in Sriharikota[in Andhra Pradesh in southern India]. Prof. Dhawan, the leader of the organization, conducted the press conference himself. He took responsibility for the failure -- he said that the team had worked very hard, but that it needed more technological support. He assured the media that in another year, the team would definitely succeed. Now, I was the project director, and it was my failure, but instead, he took responsibility for the failure as chairman of the organization.
The next year, in July 1980, we tried again to launch the satellite -- and this time we succeeded. The whole nation was jubilant. Again, there was a press conference. Prof. Dhawan called me aside and told me, "You conduct the press conference today."
I learned a very important lesson that day.
When failure occurred, the leader of the organization owned that failure.
When success came, he gave it to his team.
The best management lesson I have learned did not come to me from reading a book; it came from that experience.
What a wonderful leader!
Former President of India APJ Abdul Kalam : 'A Leader Should Know How toManage Failure'
IndiaKnowledge@Wharton : Could you give an example, from your ownexperience, of how leaders should manage failure?
Kalam: Let me tell you about my experience. In 1973 I became the project director of India's satellite launch vehicle program, commonly called theSLV-3. Our goal was to put India's "Rohini" satellite into orbit by 1980.I was given funds and human resources -- but was told clearly that by 1980 we had to launch the satellite into space. Thousands of people worked together in scientific and technical teams towards that goal.By 1979 -- I think the month was August -- we thought we were ready. As the project director, I went to the control center for the launch. At 4 minutes before the satellite launch, the computer began to go through the checklist of items that needed to be checked. One minute later, the computer program put the launch on hold; the display showed that some control components were not in order. My experts -- I had four or five of them with me -- told me not to worry; they had done their calculations and there was enough reserve fuel. So I bypassed the computer, switched to manual mode, and launched the rocket. In the first stage, everything worked fine. In the second stage, a problem developed. Instead of the satellite going into orbit, the whole rocket system plunged into the Bayof Bengal. It was a big failure.
That day, the chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization, Prof.Satish Dhawan, had called a press conference. The launch was at 7:00 am,and the press conference -- where journalists from around the world were present -- was at 7:45 am at ISRO's satellite launch range in Sriharikota[in Andhra Pradesh in southern India]. Prof. Dhawan, the leader of the organization, conducted the press conference himself. He took responsibility for the failure -- he said that the team had worked very hard, but that it needed more technological support. He assured the media that in another year, the team would definitely succeed. Now, I was the project director, and it was my failure, but instead, he took responsibility for the failure as chairman of the organization.
The next year, in July 1980, we tried again to launch the satellite -- and this time we succeeded. The whole nation was jubilant. Again, there was a press conference. Prof. Dhawan called me aside and told me, "You conduct the press conference today."
I learned a very important lesson that day.
When failure occurred, the leader of the organization owned that failure.
When success came, he gave it to his team.
The best management lesson I have learned did not come to me from reading a book; it came from that experience.
What a wonderful leader!
It's about L.O.V.E...
Crossposted from here
L.O.V.E...
I always believe that love shouldn't have a reason . Love has to grow with in us for some time and you would never know what's happening until it reaches your nerves one fine day and you find that the one your in love with ,is the person whom you have been with for quite some time. It should takes it's own time to grow and let it grow more and more deeper.
Some time back , I always wondered how arranged marriages work . May be some ten years back things are bit ok , but i don't think that an arranged marriage where in a boy / gal who knew very little before hand get to start a new lease of life . And i also get to see a lot of love marriages fail. It's not marriages that fail people , but its about people who fail marriages.
Happened to read the book Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus. It's true that man and woman belong to two different planets in their way of thoughts , belief and way of living.So it becomes highly imperative that you understand each other well and have mutual respect for the other persons feelings, thoughts and freedom .
The moment the other person starts giving a different perspective to what the first person said , its assumed as the dawn of an argument. It gets personal there instantly.
The problem with most of us is, whenever some one is telling us some thing , instead of listening to what is said , we start preparing to give answers on what we feel about the same there by missing the whole point , on what is said.
It's easy for some one to tell that they are in love but to prove and stand by what they really meant needs a life time.
A guy expects his gal to be like his mom and a gal expects her hubby to be like her dad and when this expectation blew out of proposition , the problem starts.
The best possible thing that can be done is to accept the people for the way they are .Though it is good to speak what ever you feel very openly , please do be reminded of the fact that it can hurt people a lot . It may not be ok when you ask a sorry .Words can be too personal and it can affect a relationship to a great extent.It's better to keep one's mouth shut whenever some weird thoughts creeps across mind . They may be just passing cloud.
It's easy to get into into a relationship,
It's easy to break from a relationship ,
But it's really tough to be in a relationship for life and live happy.
It really needs a greater level of understanding,trust,care and maturity to face every day problem and move on gracefully in life.
Happened to stumble a small anecdote of swami vivekanandha here .
Loved these lines
* Give and don't expect
* Advise, but don't order.
* Ask, but never demand.
To love and be loved the unconditional way , We need to be blessed :)
L.O.V.E...
I always believe that love shouldn't have a reason . Love has to grow with in us for some time and you would never know what's happening until it reaches your nerves one fine day and you find that the one your in love with ,is the person whom you have been with for quite some time. It should takes it's own time to grow and let it grow more and more deeper.
Some time back , I always wondered how arranged marriages work . May be some ten years back things are bit ok , but i don't think that an arranged marriage where in a boy / gal who knew very little before hand get to start a new lease of life . And i also get to see a lot of love marriages fail. It's not marriages that fail people , but its about people who fail marriages.
Happened to read the book Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus. It's true that man and woman belong to two different planets in their way of thoughts , belief and way of living.So it becomes highly imperative that you understand each other well and have mutual respect for the other persons feelings, thoughts and freedom .
The moment the other person starts giving a different perspective to what the first person said , its assumed as the dawn of an argument. It gets personal there instantly.
The problem with most of us is, whenever some one is telling us some thing , instead of listening to what is said , we start preparing to give answers on what we feel about the same there by missing the whole point , on what is said.
It's easy for some one to tell that they are in love but to prove and stand by what they really meant needs a life time.
A guy expects his gal to be like his mom and a gal expects her hubby to be like her dad and when this expectation blew out of proposition , the problem starts.
The best possible thing that can be done is to accept the people for the way they are .Though it is good to speak what ever you feel very openly , please do be reminded of the fact that it can hurt people a lot . It may not be ok when you ask a sorry .Words can be too personal and it can affect a relationship to a great extent.It's better to keep one's mouth shut whenever some weird thoughts creeps across mind . They may be just passing cloud.
It's easy to get into into a relationship,
It's easy to break from a relationship ,
But it's really tough to be in a relationship for life and live happy.
It really needs a greater level of understanding,trust,care and maturity to face every day problem and move on gracefully in life.
Happened to stumble a small anecdote of swami vivekanandha here .
Loved these lines
* Give and don't expect
* Advise, but don't order.
* Ask, but never demand.
It might sound simple, but it is a lesson that may take a lifetime to truly practice.It is the secret to true love. To truly practice it, you must sincerely feel no expectations from those who you love, and yet an unconditional caring.
Passing thought... Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away.
To love and be loved the unconditional way , We need to be blessed :)
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Have a long & nice weekend
Crossposted from Anitha's blog
"That which we persist in doing becomes easier - not that the nature of the task has changed, but our ability to do has increased." ---------Ralph Waldo Emerson
"That which we persist in doing becomes easier - not that the nature of the task has changed, but our ability to do has increased." ---------Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Have a nice Day
Crossposted from Anitha's Blog
All men out there can have a laugh and all women can have a bigger laugh
At last a guy has taken the time to write this all down
Finally, the guys' side of the story.(I must admit, it's pretty good.)We always hear "the rules"From the female side.
Now here are the rules from the male side .These are our rules!
Please note.. these are all numbered "1" ON PURPOSE!
1.Men are NOT mind readers.
1.Learn to work the toilet seat.You're a big girl. If it's up, put it down.We need it up, you need it down.You don't hear us complaining about you leaving it down.
1. Sunday sports. It's like the full moonor the changing of the tides.Let it be.
1. Shopping is NOT a sport.And no, we are never going to think of it that way.
1. Crying is blackmail.
1. Ask for what you want.Let us be clear on this one:Subtle hints do not work!Strong hints do not work!Obvious hints do not work!Just say it!
1. Yes and No are perfectly acceptable answers to almost every question.
1. Come to us with a problem only if you want help solving it. That's what we do .Sympathy is what your girlfriends are for.
1. A headache that lasts for 17 months is a Problem. See a doctor.
1. Anything we said 6 months ago is inadmissible in an argument.In fact, all comments become null and void after 7 Days.
1. If you won't dress like the Victoria's Secret girls, don't Expect us to act like soap opera guys.
1. If you think you're fat, you probably are.Don't ask us.
1. If something we said can be interpreted two ways and one of the ways makes you sad or angry, we meant the other one
1. You can either ask us to do something Or tell us how you want it done.Not both.If you already know best how to do it, just do it yourself.
1. Whenever possible, Please say whatever you have to say during commercials.
1. Christopher Columbus did NOT need directions and neither do we.
1. ALL men see in only 16 colors, like Windows default settings.Peach, for example, is a fruit, not A color. Pumpkin is also a fruit. We have no idea what mauve is.
1. If it itches, it will be scratched.We do that.
1. If we ask what is wrong and you say "nothing," We will act like nothing's wrong.We know you are lying, but it is just not worth the hassle.
1. If you ask a question you don't want an answer to, Expect an answer you don't want to hear.
1. When we have to go somewhere, absolutely anything you wear is fine.Really.
1. Don't ask us what we're thinking about unless you are prepared to discuss such topics as SEX, CARS, the shotgun formation,or BASKETBALL.
1. You have enough clothes.
1. You have too many shoes.
1. I am in shape. Round IS a shape!
1. Thank you for reading this.
And Yes, I know, the guy who wrote this would have been thrown out of the house by now;
All men out there can have a laugh and all women can have a bigger laugh
At last a guy has taken the time to write this all down
Finally, the guys' side of the story.(I must admit, it's pretty good.)We always hear "the rules"From the female side.
Now here are the rules from the male side .These are our rules!
Please note.. these are all numbered "1" ON PURPOSE!
1.Men are NOT mind readers.
1.Learn to work the toilet seat.You're a big girl. If it's up, put it down.We need it up, you need it down.You don't hear us complaining about you leaving it down.
1. Sunday sports. It's like the full moonor the changing of the tides.Let it be.
1. Shopping is NOT a sport.And no, we are never going to think of it that way.
1. Crying is blackmail.
1. Ask for what you want.Let us be clear on this one:Subtle hints do not work!Strong hints do not work!Obvious hints do not work!Just say it!
1. Yes and No are perfectly acceptable answers to almost every question.
1. Come to us with a problem only if you want help solving it. That's what we do .Sympathy is what your girlfriends are for.
1. A headache that lasts for 17 months is a Problem. See a doctor.
1. Anything we said 6 months ago is inadmissible in an argument.In fact, all comments become null and void after 7 Days.
1. If you won't dress like the Victoria's Secret girls, don't Expect us to act like soap opera guys.
1. If you think you're fat, you probably are.Don't ask us.
1. If something we said can be interpreted two ways and one of the ways makes you sad or angry, we meant the other one
1. You can either ask us to do something Or tell us how you want it done.Not both.If you already know best how to do it, just do it yourself.
1. Whenever possible, Please say whatever you have to say during commercials.
1. Christopher Columbus did NOT need directions and neither do we.
1. ALL men see in only 16 colors, like Windows default settings.Peach, for example, is a fruit, not A color. Pumpkin is also a fruit. We have no idea what mauve is.
1. If it itches, it will be scratched.We do that.
1. If we ask what is wrong and you say "nothing," We will act like nothing's wrong.We know you are lying, but it is just not worth the hassle.
1. If you ask a question you don't want an answer to, Expect an answer you don't want to hear.
1. When we have to go somewhere, absolutely anything you wear is fine.Really.
1. Don't ask us what we're thinking about unless you are prepared to discuss such topics as SEX, CARS, the shotgun formation,or BASKETBALL.
1. You have enough clothes.
1. You have too many shoes.
1. I am in shape. Round IS a shape!
1. Thank you for reading this.
And Yes, I know, the guy who wrote this would have been thrown out of the house by now;
Monday, August 11, 2008
CNBC interview with Warren Buffet
Crossposted from Anitha's Blog
There was a one hour interview on CNBC with Warren Buffet, the second richest man who has donated $31 billion to charity. Here are some very interesting aspects of his life:
He bought his first share at age 11 and he now regrets that he started too late!
He bought a small farm at age 14 with savings from delivering newspapers.
He still lives in the same small 3 bedroom house in mid-town Omaha, that he bought after he got married 50 years ago. He says that he has everything he needs in that house. His house does not have a wall or a fence.
He drives his own car everywhere and does not have a driver or security people around him.
He never travels by private jet, although he owns the world's largest private jet company.
His company, Berkshire Hathaway, owns 63 companies. He writes only one letter each year to the CEOs of these companies, giving them goals for the year. He never holds meetings or calls them on a regular basis.
He has given his CEO's only two rules. Rule number 1: do not lose any of your shareholder's money. Rule number 2: Do not forget rule number 1.
He does not socialize with the high society crowd. His past time after he gets home is to make himself some pop corn and watch television.
Bill Gates, the world's richest man met him for the first time only 5 years ago. Bill Gates did not think he had anything in common with Warren Buffet. So he had scheduled his meeting only for half hour. But when Gates met him, the meeting lasted for ten hours and Bill Gates became a devotee of Warren Buffet.
Warren Buffet does not carry a cell phone, nor has a computer on his desk.
His advice to young people: Stay away from credit cards and invest in yourself.
Amazing individual indeed...
There was a one hour interview on CNBC with Warren Buffet, the second richest man who has donated $31 billion to charity. Here are some very interesting aspects of his life:
He bought his first share at age 11 and he now regrets that he started too late!
He bought a small farm at age 14 with savings from delivering newspapers.
He still lives in the same small 3 bedroom house in mid-town Omaha, that he bought after he got married 50 years ago. He says that he has everything he needs in that house. His house does not have a wall or a fence.
He drives his own car everywhere and does not have a driver or security people around him.
He never travels by private jet, although he owns the world's largest private jet company.
His company, Berkshire Hathaway, owns 63 companies. He writes only one letter each year to the CEOs of these companies, giving them goals for the year. He never holds meetings or calls them on a regular basis.
He has given his CEO's only two rules. Rule number 1: do not lose any of your shareholder's money. Rule number 2: Do not forget rule number 1.
He does not socialize with the high society crowd. His past time after he gets home is to make himself some pop corn and watch television.
Bill Gates, the world's richest man met him for the first time only 5 years ago. Bill Gates did not think he had anything in common with Warren Buffet. So he had scheduled his meeting only for half hour. But when Gates met him, the meeting lasted for ten hours and Bill Gates became a devotee of Warren Buffet.
Warren Buffet does not carry a cell phone, nor has a computer on his desk.
His advice to young people: Stay away from credit cards and invest in yourself.
Amazing individual indeed...
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
The book I read recently
Crossposted from Anitha's Blog
Happened to read 'The 3 mistakes of my life' by Chetam Bhagat but did'nt like it much.I felt it was too much of drama and fiction to some extend.I am sure it is nowhere close to his previous book 'Five point someone'. What say????..I am biggg book freak,so please mention books which you people have read and enjoyed and I can make sure I dont miss reading it:):). I also have soft copies of a few good books as well,so if of you all need any,please feel free to put up the title and I can share it,if available with me.
Happened to read 'The 3 mistakes of my life' by Chetam Bhagat but did'nt like it much.I felt it was too much of drama and fiction to some extend.I am sure it is nowhere close to his previous book 'Five point someone'. What say????..I am biggg book freak,so please mention books which you people have read and enjoyed and I can make sure I dont miss reading it:):). I also have soft copies of a few good books as well,so if of you all need any,please feel free to put up the title and I can share it,if available with me.
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Is is blog to be based on only SACOE related info?
Is is blog restricted to just SACOE or can we discuss other stuff as well,like books and stuff??...David u have to let us know as you are the owner of this blog
Thursday, July 31, 2008
The Great Indian Dogma
Crossposted from my blog
Most of the youths in India in the age between 22-28 is obsessed with what is called as the Great Indian Dogma - the picture perfect , tranquil life of settling with a car , house and a partner . The average age by which a guy getting married nowadays has been reduced by a year or two suppose , the simple reason being they are able to place their life pretty decently.Another important reason is his working partner who is able to support the family pretty well.
We are what we see
Why is that most of the youth prefer to lead a life this way ? What inspires or motivates them to run into this inevitable.We are , what we see. The impressions that we form over the life is based on the environment that we live . Primarily it is with the parents and their attitude on what they believe can make a man's life complete. During child hood, all our opinion and belief about our lives are what our dad/mad believe or talk about. Later on , as time passes by , the people whom we meet up with you at the school , college and at our work place helps us to form our very opinion of what life actually means.
The fact is that most of us believe that a highly secured , peaceful job and a good family constitutes of having achieved the essence of life.Hence it leaves an ever lasting impression in every one's heart right from the teens that to live a life well settled is the purpose of life.And we work towards that ultimate goal of achieving the same. Many of us wouldn't want to take a risk to pursue on their dreams for the simple reason that they wish to get settled soon .
The Fear Factor
The moment we have a family to look out for, our guts to take on the world and stand for our dream vanishes . Succeeding in our dreams or ambitions becomes secondary and security of thee and our family takes the priority. We fear at change because for the very sake of relocating family and at times children education getting affected.Hence we accept our self made fate that to work on some thing which we don't love and start grunting and cribbing about it ultimately.
Do you Love your work?
When you don't love your job , you can't lead a happy life
As a result of the fore mentioned fear factor ,we slowly shift from doing things which we love to work, to work which can pay well irrespective of our love for the same .And this sacrifice is made for the very sake of spending some quality time with the family and for financial stability .For some time , things would appear to be fine that we feel like earning enough for paying the EMI and a high quality living , but sooner or later , the hate for doing work which we don't have any love for starts creeping in.
What if we don't like our work
And when we don't love what we work ,a feeling of queasiness engulfs us. This could be widely seen for the guys( like me) who actually may easily bored with stuffs like seeing our child grow up the big way , our wifey may find it more interesting to look after and spend time with the child . Though we would happy to be ad mist our family and like spending some quality time with children , life wouldn't be that exciting as each passing day , the very reason because , you get some inertia over your work which your not loving.
We have money , we have a decent life with family and friends , but the question is about , are we happy with our work ? To this , nearly 70 to 80 % of them would say a BIG No-No.
Being happy and satisfied with our work and environment in our life is some thing very very important . We spend most of the time at our work and at times , there may be a hang over which we may even bring it back home and suddenly we start feeling unhappy even though we have a picture perfect tranquil life as said before .
How to overcome this :
* Never ever settle in life until u found the love of your life - the ideal work which makes u go mad over it .Even if the craziness oozes after some time like how it happens with a gal friend , start searching for a new work , new passion once again , same as with how u find another gal friend. This would actually keep yourself moving forward . Each day u would be dealing with your new found passion and challenge that at the end of day , U feel happy over embracing the work which u love to do.
* Plan what we wanted from life . What is our idea of life . Money , Achievement,Dreams - what is that for which your running for . Make sure , partner understands you , your dreams and wishes on how you wanna place your life. On what progress you can make in life and in what time lines will you be able to reach it.
* And when your highly successful in what you love , money and fame would come to you .
I would recommend every one to watch this particular video of Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech
Steve Job's Stanford Speech
Excerpt of this speech here
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.
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
Having a very concrete plan will help one selves to live a life that he loves .We may even fall by leaps and bounds on our pursuit of dreams but it can bring us lot of happiness for having tried some thing we loved.
So whose stopping , Start chasing your DREAM JOB.
Most of the youths in India in the age between 22-28 is obsessed with what is called as the Great Indian Dogma - the picture perfect , tranquil life of settling with a car , house and a partner . The average age by which a guy getting married nowadays has been reduced by a year or two suppose , the simple reason being they are able to place their life pretty decently.Another important reason is his working partner who is able to support the family pretty well.
We are what we see
Why is that most of the youth prefer to lead a life this way ? What inspires or motivates them to run into this inevitable.We are , what we see. The impressions that we form over the life is based on the environment that we live . Primarily it is with the parents and their attitude on what they believe can make a man's life complete. During child hood, all our opinion and belief about our lives are what our dad/mad believe or talk about. Later on , as time passes by , the people whom we meet up with you at the school , college and at our work place helps us to form our very opinion of what life actually means.
The fact is that most of us believe that a highly secured , peaceful job and a good family constitutes of having achieved the essence of life.Hence it leaves an ever lasting impression in every one's heart right from the teens that to live a life well settled is the purpose of life.And we work towards that ultimate goal of achieving the same. Many of us wouldn't want to take a risk to pursue on their dreams for the simple reason that they wish to get settled soon .
The Fear Factor
The moment we have a family to look out for, our guts to take on the world and stand for our dream vanishes . Succeeding in our dreams or ambitions becomes secondary and security of thee and our family takes the priority. We fear at change because for the very sake of relocating family and at times children education getting affected.Hence we accept our self made fate that to work on some thing which we don't love and start grunting and cribbing about it ultimately.
Do you Love your work?
When you don't love your job , you can't lead a happy life
As a result of the fore mentioned fear factor ,we slowly shift from doing things which we love to work, to work which can pay well irrespective of our love for the same .And this sacrifice is made for the very sake of spending some quality time with the family and for financial stability .For some time , things would appear to be fine that we feel like earning enough for paying the EMI and a high quality living , but sooner or later , the hate for doing work which we don't have any love for starts creeping in.
What if we don't like our work
And when we don't love what we work ,a feeling of queasiness engulfs us. This could be widely seen for the guys( like me) who actually may easily bored with stuffs like seeing our child grow up the big way , our wifey may find it more interesting to look after and spend time with the child . Though we would happy to be ad mist our family and like spending some quality time with children , life wouldn't be that exciting as each passing day , the very reason because , you get some inertia over your work which your not loving.
We have money , we have a decent life with family and friends , but the question is about , are we happy with our work ? To this , nearly 70 to 80 % of them would say a BIG No-No.
Being happy and satisfied with our work and environment in our life is some thing very very important . We spend most of the time at our work and at times , there may be a hang over which we may even bring it back home and suddenly we start feeling unhappy even though we have a picture perfect tranquil life as said before .
How to overcome this :
* Never ever settle in life until u found the love of your life - the ideal work which makes u go mad over it .Even if the craziness oozes after some time like how it happens with a gal friend , start searching for a new work , new passion once again , same as with how u find another gal friend. This would actually keep yourself moving forward . Each day u would be dealing with your new found passion and challenge that at the end of day , U feel happy over embracing the work which u love to do.
* Plan what we wanted from life . What is our idea of life . Money , Achievement,Dreams - what is that for which your running for . Make sure , partner understands you , your dreams and wishes on how you wanna place your life. On what progress you can make in life and in what time lines will you be able to reach it.
* And when your highly successful in what you love , money and fame would come to you .
I would recommend every one to watch this particular video of Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech
Steve Job's Stanford Speech
Excerpt of this speech here
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.
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
Having a very concrete plan will help one selves to live a life that he loves .We may even fall by leaps and bounds on our pursuit of dreams but it can bring us lot of happiness for having tried some thing we loved.
So whose stopping , Start chasing your DREAM JOB.
Monday, July 28, 2008
Alumni Meet - Chennai 2008
Take a look at the pictures taken on the alumni day here.If you like to read my experience on that day continue reading.
After a couple of postponements and amidst confusions this year's alumni meet was conducted successfully by the management and faculty members in chennai yesterday.Thank God, finally we have one such thing called "Alumni" which was only in myths.
I was literally puzzled before going to the meet, as i don't have any idea about what we are going to do on that day there!.As they informed earlier registration will be only for those who have invitation, only little people showed up.We can't blame management for that as they need some numbers to do the arrangements clean.On seeing all the seniors and juniors every one was so exited.Thanks to management for not making this meet as a formal one with some chief guests etc.It was a great opportunity to see some of the seniors i never heard off. Even though they were in very great levels of this society there was no way to learn and get inspired from them.What a shame!
I went there at 10 AM just to see 10 alumna's with the faculties as time moves on people started pouring in ,that's the so called Indian Mentality right?.Around 11 AM the meeting was started with about 40-50 members.After the addressing of principal and secretary alumna's last year vice president HariHaraSudan(2006 Mech) addressed the members.President Ganesh(2006 Mech) was not there as he went to Delhi for his official work.Then all were asked to introduce themselves.Microphone was first given to gals and most of them came forward and introduced,but as usual boys played the hide and seek game.Only about 20 men(no more boys) introduced themselves i guess.
After that some alumna's were asked to represent their batch and talk whatever they felt in the altar.Angel(1999) started the proceedings with some emotional touch.She talked about our college culture and how it helped in her career to achieve the heights,she is a manager in IBM.Antony(1999) continued after that,he talked about how desperate he was to start a alumnae association and why it failed.Then comes balaji(2001) ,he talked about how was pissed off while he came to know about the meet in the last minute.He asked why we didn't used the media to spread awareness about the meet even we have lot of friend in the media circle. He was very emotional and given some valuable suggestions to the management.
After that lot of peoples from each batch talked on various issues they found with the college.forgive me,i don't remember all their names so i skip this(if some one remember all their names and what they talked please comment here).There was an break in between for lunch.Around this time the auditorium was filled up(150 members i guess).After lunch there was a fun event with balloons and music.After that elections for this year's office bearers were held and Antony(1999) was unanimously selected as President and Daniel(2006) was selected as Vice President of SACOE Alumni.
Good to see our principal was so polite to listen to the complaints and take notes of them.He promised to conduct meets in Chennai or B'lore every year.Hope it will happen as such.As time ran off they limited the number of peoples from 2006 batch and i feel sorry for 2007 batch as no one was allowed to talk.As it was the first time there were some glitches in the event organization, but overall it was such a big effort to gather this number of peoples.Hats off to the team which organized this.
Cheers
David
After a couple of postponements and amidst confusions this year's alumni meet was conducted successfully by the management and faculty members in chennai yesterday.Thank God, finally we have one such thing called "Alumni" which was only in myths.
I was literally puzzled before going to the meet, as i don't have any idea about what we are going to do on that day there!.As they informed earlier registration will be only for those who have invitation, only little people showed up.We can't blame management for that as they need some numbers to do the arrangements clean.On seeing all the seniors and juniors every one was so exited.Thanks to management for not making this meet as a formal one with some chief guests etc.It was a great opportunity to see some of the seniors i never heard off. Even though they were in very great levels of this society there was no way to learn and get inspired from them.What a shame!
I went there at 10 AM just to see 10 alumna's with the faculties as time moves on people started pouring in ,that's the so called Indian Mentality right?.Around 11 AM the meeting was started with about 40-50 members.After the addressing of principal and secretary alumna's last year vice president HariHaraSudan(2006 Mech) addressed the members.President Ganesh(2006 Mech) was not there as he went to Delhi for his official work.Then all were asked to introduce themselves.Microphone was first given to gals and most of them came forward and introduced,but as usual boys played the hide and seek game.Only about 20 men(no more boys) introduced themselves i guess.
After that some alumna's were asked to represent their batch and talk whatever they felt in the altar.Angel(1999) started the proceedings with some emotional touch.She talked about our college culture and how it helped in her career to achieve the heights,she is a manager in IBM.Antony(1999) continued after that,he talked about how desperate he was to start a alumnae association and why it failed.Then comes balaji(2001) ,he talked about how was pissed off while he came to know about the meet in the last minute.He asked why we didn't used the media to spread awareness about the meet even we have lot of friend in the media circle. He was very emotional and given some valuable suggestions to the management.
After that lot of peoples from each batch talked on various issues they found with the college.forgive me,i don't remember all their names so i skip this(if some one remember all their names and what they talked please comment here).There was an break in between for lunch.Around this time the auditorium was filled up(150 members i guess).After lunch there was a fun event with balloons and music.After that elections for this year's office bearers were held and Antony(1999) was unanimously selected as President and Daniel(2006) was selected as Vice President of SACOE Alumni.
Good to see our principal was so polite to listen to the complaints and take notes of them.He promised to conduct meets in Chennai or B'lore every year.Hope it will happen as such.As time ran off they limited the number of peoples from 2006 batch and i feel sorry for 2007 batch as no one was allowed to talk.As it was the first time there were some glitches in the event organization, but overall it was such a big effort to gather this number of peoples.Hats off to the team which organized this.
Cheers
David
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Alumni Meet -July 2008
Last week i got a mail forward from one of my friend regarding our alumni meet.Most of you already know about this,just for those who don't have any idea of what i am telling, I am just pasting the mail body here.
Please tell this info to all of our sacoe friends and make this meet a good one.
Cheers
David
Dear Friends,
Greetings. Hope you all are fine. It is really nice to have contact with you all
Sub: Inviting you to participate in the alumni meet at Chennai on 27.07.08-reg
It has been planned to conduct our first alumni meet at Chennai on 27.07.08, Sunday. The meet will be from 10:00am to 4:00pm on that day. We heartly invite each and every alumni to participate in the meet. Regarding this, kindly make your registration through mail before 15.06.08. So that we can do other arrangements and make this meet a grand success. The exact venue and programma will be intimated shortly.
In response to our previous mail... we have received willingness to participate in the chennai meet from some members. we have collected the data and it will be better if still more friends could express willingness. Friends, as you all know we have to give the approximate no of alumnis who would be most probably attending the meeting at chennai. I request you to knindly send your willingness in the below mentioned format... and mail it to college_sacoe@yahoo.com.
Name :
Batch:
Branch:
Present employment details:
company name:
Designation :
Office Address:
Present residential address : ( Address for communication)
Mobile no.
Email id :
:Willingness to attend chennai meet : willing / not willing
------Also please join sacoe@yahoogroups.com and please update the database with your information.
Please tell this info to all of our sacoe friends and make this meet a good one.
Cheers
David
Monday, June 23, 2008
Welcome !!!
Dear All ,
This is Dinakaran from the 2002-2006 batch of SACOE. I'm basically a mechanian working now in an IT industry and living in Chennai.
It's been quite some time that I literally lost touch with our college and my friends out there.Surged by some random musings, I wanted to keep my connectedness with the place which helped me evolve as a better person and become successful. Hence I felt it's time to give back some thing for the college , especially for those who are studying with lots of hopes ,dreams and aspirations.
This is a team blog where any sacoezian can blog about stuffs which can be useful and benefiting the larger interests of the masses.It can be most aspiring moments of your life,your dreams, the challenges that you faced as a young professional,retrospection of your life through the ages or some thing that can be note worthy to be shared.
Any one who is interested to blog , please mail be so that I can grant access to write blogs.The very responsibility of moderation will be with me as of now.When this gets active , may be we can form a team of moderators to look through this.
This blog is aimed at being a step towards building a very strong career at all stages of life and to stay connected to thee SACOEZIANS.
I hope there is an active participation from all you guys.
Good Luck!
Cheerz,
D
This is Dinakaran from the 2002-2006 batch of SACOE. I'm basically a mechanian working now in an IT industry and living in Chennai.
It's been quite some time that I literally lost touch with our college and my friends out there.Surged by some random musings, I wanted to keep my connectedness with the place which helped me evolve as a better person and become successful. Hence I felt it's time to give back some thing for the college , especially for those who are studying with lots of hopes ,dreams and aspirations.
This is a team blog where any sacoezian can blog about stuffs which can be useful and benefiting the larger interests of the masses.It can be most aspiring moments of your life,your dreams, the challenges that you faced as a young professional,retrospection of your life through the ages or some thing that can be note worthy to be shared.
Any one who is interested to blog , please mail be so that I can grant access to write blogs.The very responsibility of moderation will be with me as of now.When this gets active , may be we can form a team of moderators to look through this.
This blog is aimed at being a step towards building a very strong career at all stages of life and to stay connected to thee SACOEZIANS.
I hope there is an active participation from all you guys.
Good Luck!
Cheerz,
D
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