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Oh.. Grrr… when did I blog last time?

I apologize for such a long non-commercial break.  Where was I? I haven’t been anywhere.. I am here only in Bangalore doing well ( well ? ) .

It was not facing a blogger’s block or writer’s block or whatever.. I have been very busy for last few weeks. Well, you know, I work for a company which is 23 kms away from my home. Can you imagine that I travel 46 kms a day.  It takes 1 hour 15 mins in the morning and 1 hour 45 mins in the evening. That means I spend 3 hours daily in traveling. Thanks to the company, it provides bus facility which makes my commute easy. Otherwise, I can’t even imagine travelling such distance in such traffic in such time in bmtc bus ( well even the bus that I travel daily is also a bmtc bus for that matter but it is on contract.. so that means.. enough seats to sleep or to take rest or to listen to music or to read a book or to the whatever you want to )

You know long time back they have made a rule that every bus ( and obviously all employees who travel in buses ) should enter campus within 9. Thanks to them. Now i have my last bus at 7.30 AM !!! That means.. I have to wake up atleast 1 hour earlier. And the damn bus will be on right time and waits for none ( unlike cabs ). So most of times I endup running from home to bus stop . This is how my morning begins.

Offlate, I have rejoined the GYM ( this time .. the office gym ). Talking of gym, office gym is much much better than the one I used to go earlier nearby by my house.  Gym after office hours means… that much of delay in coming to home.  Being a lazy bum, I have started bunking gym also.. Hey wait.. not every time.. but only few times. Most of times, I bunk because of  office’s hectic schedule. Well that’s ok.. Because of all this, I reach home daily after 9 PM.

I read morning news paper with cup of tea at night.. i mean after i come from office. And after that dinner.. and some spamming on twitter ( well I do this most efficiently during commuting especially while coming back from office ) and some browsing and some chatting and some mailing. By the time, i finish all these, it will be almost 12 AM.  This is how my life is crawling. This is the reason why I am not able to blog.  Infact, I am unable to do anything. I am unable to study. I am unable to watch movies. I am unable to learn anything new. Life is just passing.. just like that. How can I organize myself in more better way? How should I manage time so that i can use that time to learn new things? Help? Pls?

I have a lot to do.. No time.. One life is definitely not enough !!!

Yes. that was what 2008 for me. More bitter.. Little sweet. 2008 was more depressing to me compared to 2007. The year end was even more worse. Well, some lessons are always learned in a hard way. Lets not discuss about the bad things that happened to me. There were few good things too..

• I went to Bangkok this year and stayed there a whole fortnight.
• H1b Visa got initiated and petition got approved too. However, stamping postponed till now due to some .. you know ^^^^ reasons.
• Made a lot of good real nice friends in InfyBLOGS. This is one of the best  thing that happened to me in my Infy career.
• Became hyper active on twitter. It is addictive. It is crapville. It is knowledge sharing platform. There are many definitions for it. If you haven’t tried it yet, try it once. But caution.. either you get it or you will not.
• Professionally improved a lot according to my team expectations but not as much as I had wished. I yet to gain technical expertise on many areas that i daily work.
• Music became part of my life. I got introduced to diversed music by fellow friends. I bought Sennheiser PX 100. Music controls me now. It has power to change my emotions. It heels me. I yet to listen/discover hidden gems of different part of world music.
• Joined gym but gave up after a week. I have become more fat now compared to last year. Fitness was in 2008 year resolution and it will be continued this year also.
• Had 3 days Hyderabad Trip. Hyderabad is one of nice tourist attraction. I totally loved Golconda Fort.
• Started swimming and learning guitar but had to stop temporarily due to shortage of time and bangkok trip. will start both again.. thats for sure. One thing i learnt after joining guitar classes is ‘guitar is not the easiet instrument to play’. If you have that in mind, give it a try.
• I had Lasik operation for my eyes. Now, no more glasses for me. Eye operation was in my to-do list for last 3 years. It took 3years for me to fulfill it. It was postponed several times till decemember.
• Decemember was the most depressing month for me. I was disturbed a lot. I never expected that i will become so weak emotionally. I will not write anything about it. I hope this new year 2009 brings a smile on my face.

Happy New year to everyone

Welcome 2009 !!!

I always wonder about the power of the words that we speak. words control us and our emotions. Words make us happy, sad, angry.. words hurt us.. words heal us.

That is the power of words. Sometimes, knowingly or unknowingly, we hurt our loved ones. Why we hurt our loved ones? Is that another form of love? Or we taken them for granted or we just not able to understand them properly. Yes, we do fail to understand our loved ones no matter how deep our relationship is..

Loving is not about finding similarities but accepting differences. Relationship starts with the process of finding similarities. It is the initial stage that make us to feel, that we are identical Gradually, we realize that, we are not identical, we too have differences just like any other person  in this world. The survival of relationship depends on this entire fact,  “Differences that make relationship and not similarities”.

In order to build a long lasting relationship, there are some responsibilities from our side irrespective of whether the person from other side does it or not.

• Never stop loving. Never stop caring. Hope for best but don’t expect anything. Love will become divine when you don’t expect anything in return. It is the form of love that a mother gives to her child. Love that hurts will turn to love that heals when it becomes divine.
• It is more important to trust your relationship than anything else. Trust gives strength.. a strength that bears the pain of wound caused by the other person in a relationship.
• Be honest. It is not necessary to share everything. But whatever you share, make sure that it is true. Being honest is very important for the survival of relationship. You spoke harsh words. You hurt the person. You spoke a lie. You cheat the person. Love can heal the wound made by hurting, but it cannot heal the wound that caused due to cheating.
• Understand the situation. Everyone has their own duties. All are busy in their own lives. Still, they try to get the time for their loved ones infact they try their best.  Most important is understanding the person in a relationship. We do everything for that person but we actually fail to understand him/her. Thorough understanding adds another 100 years to the life span of your relationship. “I can’t cry.. that doesn’t mean I am heartless”
• Forgive and apologize.  We need to learn to forgive when others make mistake and we need to learn to apologize when we make mistake.

Love heals everything. Hmmm… That’s a secret for long lasting relationship.

Yet another year ended (YAYE)! 2007 has made me feel the world a better place than previous year. It has given me a better life. During 2007, I have learnt a lot of new things both personally and professionally.2007 has introduced me lot of new friends throughout its duration. I am thankful to it as some of them have become very close to me, closer than i thought. Someone has rightly said, relationship will not fade away, if it is true, no matter how far they are. 2007 has given me very genuine friends who stay far from me and who I never met. I am very grateful to Internet for making this happen.

Professionally, I have become more better compared to last year. I have made many new friends here. 2007 introduced me to blogging and InfyBlogs for I am very grateful to it. I got interest back in blogging during 2007. InfyBlogs has played a major role in that.

Personally, I have seen some ups and downs this year. I have gained many real friends. I found some false ones too. I used to give more importance to some than what they are worth and for some very less but they had definitely deserved more. 2007 has taught me a very good lesson in the matter of relationships. Sometimes I have been seriously hurt and other times I have hurt many. 2007 has made me emotionally more weak and also more practical( in other words more cruel ).

One thing I learnt clearly in 2007, “You can’t maintain all relationships. Every relationship is not worth to continue. Don’t give equal importance to everyone ( I was wrong earlier. Eventually one lady taught me this ). Always see who deserves more. Some need to be treated very specially for the trust they have in us and some need to be thrown out of your way for the worth they deserved. I feel happy I am slowly applying it and it has given good results.

I am glad to say that 2007 has made a better person in this world and I hope 2008 will make me even more better.

As usual, for coming year, I have set some resolutions.

So here goes my list

• Learn something new everyday
• Exercise for fitness at least thrice in a week
• Read two books every month ( condition is that those two books should be purchased by myself not borrowed from someone )
• Not to use pirated software.
• Help others as much as I can.
• Involve more in blogging and wiki. Try to answer queries in tech forums.
• Encourage people to use more open source softwares. Spread FOSS.
• Learn guitar and violin.
• And last but not the least, to improve my vocabulary.

BTW, “w00t”, an expression of joy coined by online gamers, was declared as the word of the year 2008.With all smiles and roses, let us welcome a new year in a grand way!

Welcome w00t !!!

Wish you a very Happy New Year !!!

1. I am slightly suffering from somnambulism. Sometimes I walk out of my bed but never been out of my bed room. I have this since my childhood and still can’t get out of it.2. I can’t tolerate blood. Whenever I see blood, I will faint. I fainted at high school during frog dissection demonstration. Next time at 12th class zoology practical of “Identifying blood group”. My lecturer had asked me, ‘what will you do if you have to become doctor?’ I said I won’t.

3. I love tea! I love tea!! I love tea!!! I can drink as many times as you want. I have a record of drinking 20 times a day.

4. I am Final Destination Survivor. I escaped from car accident when I was in 2nd standard. I was trying to cross the road without seeing the high speed car coming across me. Driver applied brake immediately otherwise it would have been spot death! Drive got hurt little because of applying sudden brake but I wasn’t. It happened second time also, when I was in 11th standard. I was riding bicycle. Suddenly I slipped out from it and I fell on the middle of road. I was almost at the mouth of bus wheel which was coming opposite to me. Again driver of bus saved me by applying brake!

5. I had never been to L.K.G. I had been directly promoted to U.K.G as I had learnt all those L.K.G stuff before schooling. My neighbor, who was teacher, had taught me.

6. As a child, I wanted to be a Librarian. So that I can read whole library books without spending a single penny on them. (greedy) Rather I would get salary to read!

7. 7 (seven) is my favorite number. I don’t know the reason but I got addicted to it. 4 (four) comes next in the list. Coincidently, my employee no is 74747. Full of 7s and 4s.