Sriram Shining
Hi All,
I am moving on, have got a new job and so won't be updating my site for a while. Bear with me !
I thought about it in September 2001, acted on it in December 2003 and got a job now, moral of the story is don't think unless you want to do it!
Happy weekends
Tuesday, February 03, 2004
Sunday, February 01, 2004
Horses and Elephants
Now India is getting all the required attention whether it's Outsourcing, Cricket, Hockey, Chess or even politics, yeah you read it right. Politics has taken a new face in the largest democracy, in which the public is hardly takes, a note of things. Almost all are amazed to see politicians taking help from horses / elephants to win polls.
Politicians in Bihar are now fighting politics in a new way, buying horses and elephants and impressing the public, this shows how ignorant people are and how focused the politicians are. Most of them who are contesting from Bihar now own a horse / elephant and almost all of them have criminal cases against them and that too in plurals. If you want to ask for logic then there goes the story, it goes back to the times of Tipu Sultan and Sivaji, all had horses and were prospering so why to lag behind, stumped right!
When Maneka Gandhi can complain to merceeds regarding the leather seats that they were offering in their expensive cars, then why not these politicians who are buying these animals just to contest elections. Why, animal trade at all! Will the election committee intervene? Dare not, beware of "lathi politics" recently a candidate purchased an elephant for whooping 8.5 lacs.
Now, guess the name of the horse owned by Laloo.... yeah you got it right it's Chetak. God save these horses and elephants if not the politicians :-)
Now India is getting all the required attention whether it's Outsourcing, Cricket, Hockey, Chess or even politics, yeah you read it right. Politics has taken a new face in the largest democracy, in which the public is hardly takes, a note of things. Almost all are amazed to see politicians taking help from horses / elephants to win polls.
Politicians in Bihar are now fighting politics in a new way, buying horses and elephants and impressing the public, this shows how ignorant people are and how focused the politicians are. Most of them who are contesting from Bihar now own a horse / elephant and almost all of them have criminal cases against them and that too in plurals. If you want to ask for logic then there goes the story, it goes back to the times of Tipu Sultan and Sivaji, all had horses and were prospering so why to lag behind, stumped right!
When Maneka Gandhi can complain to merceeds regarding the leather seats that they were offering in their expensive cars, then why not these politicians who are buying these animals just to contest elections. Why, animal trade at all! Will the election committee intervene? Dare not, beware of "lathi politics" recently a candidate purchased an elephant for whooping 8.5 lacs.
Now, guess the name of the horse owned by Laloo.... yeah you got it right it's Chetak. God save these horses and elephants if not the politicians :-)
Friday, January 30, 2004
Liberty
We tend to take liberty with people who care for us. People whom we think will stand our anger, our agony and our brickbat, sometimes I wonder why?
People are always nice to strangers (especially a woman) or to someone in office than their own close friends or relatives. It doesn't mean that they totally ignore them, people tend to lend a helping hand to friends then to their own relatives. Somehow, I don't understand this behavior and I have noticed a bunch of people doing the same thing.
Just to quote on instance, A guy was talking to him mom over phone, just when he started the conversation his boss came to his seat for some work, immediately the guy put the phone down and said to his mom that he shall call her in 2 mins. Probably she wanted to tell something to him, she thought that he would say to the manager to come after sometime or something like "can I call you in 2 mins..." But all that concerned him was that his manager is standing next to him and he needs his attention.
What a dreadful feeling when someone just hangs up, giving importance to things in life that doesn't matter at all. Giving importance to things that matter to you most is what should be our motive, ok...I am going to call my wife ...So bye for now.
We tend to take liberty with people who care for us. People whom we think will stand our anger, our agony and our brickbat, sometimes I wonder why?
People are always nice to strangers (especially a woman) or to someone in office than their own close friends or relatives. It doesn't mean that they totally ignore them, people tend to lend a helping hand to friends then to their own relatives. Somehow, I don't understand this behavior and I have noticed a bunch of people doing the same thing.
Just to quote on instance, A guy was talking to him mom over phone, just when he started the conversation his boss came to his seat for some work, immediately the guy put the phone down and said to his mom that he shall call her in 2 mins. Probably she wanted to tell something to him, she thought that he would say to the manager to come after sometime or something like "can I call you in 2 mins..." But all that concerned him was that his manager is standing next to him and he needs his attention.
What a dreadful feeling when someone just hangs up, giving importance to things in life that doesn't matter at all. Giving importance to things that matter to you most is what should be our motive, ok...I am going to call my wife ...So bye for now.
Thursday, January 29, 2004
Wise decisions
In life at some point of time, we have to take decisions, decision to choose money over security, prosperity over stability, family over work, personal objective over professional objective. I think decisions taken at this point of time makes or break a man.
We hear of so many successful people around and I think they all would have taken the right decision at some point of time, again none of them is a wrong choice but just that at any given situation only one can be chosen and if you make a wrong choice then there is nobody else to blame to.
There can be other situations also in which you would come across equally compelling decisions, it's then your character is tested. If you think that you have never been offered a choice then it's your mistake, you have never opted to choose rather live with whatever has been provided to you.
One interesting story that comes to my mind is “Mr. Sen once complained to the railway station master in 1909 that while he was attending nature’s call the train was flagged off and he had to rush all the way back, he wanted the station master to take a decision to punish the guard, instead the station master took a wise decision to install toilets in train….”
Wasn’t that a wise decision!
In life at some point of time, we have to take decisions, decision to choose money over security, prosperity over stability, family over work, personal objective over professional objective. I think decisions taken at this point of time makes or break a man.
We hear of so many successful people around and I think they all would have taken the right decision at some point of time, again none of them is a wrong choice but just that at any given situation only one can be chosen and if you make a wrong choice then there is nobody else to blame to.
There can be other situations also in which you would come across equally compelling decisions, it's then your character is tested. If you think that you have never been offered a choice then it's your mistake, you have never opted to choose rather live with whatever has been provided to you.
One interesting story that comes to my mind is “Mr. Sen once complained to the railway station master in 1909 that while he was attending nature’s call the train was flagged off and he had to rush all the way back, he wanted the station master to take a decision to punish the guard, instead the station master took a wise decision to install toilets in train….”
Wasn’t that a wise decision!
Wednesday, January 28, 2004
Outsourcing cribs...
The recent publications about outsourcing jobs to developing countries for reducting costs has picked up, now you see these posts everywhere. You even come to know that there are associations being formed to stop outsourcing from happening.
I am very sure that Indians are not seen as Job seekers but job stealers. If this is happening just to get a bunch of votes then this is most bizzare thing happeing to the world.
Any comments?
The recent publications about outsourcing jobs to developing countries for reducting costs has picked up, now you see these posts everywhere. You even come to know that there are associations being formed to stop outsourcing from happening.
I am very sure that Indians are not seen as Job seekers but job stealers. If this is happening just to get a bunch of votes then this is most bizzare thing happeing to the world.
Any comments?
Saturday, January 24, 2004
Being away is breathing away
Just had a sip of the things to come in my future was away from my family for 6 days. Living at a place away from home was like a ball tied to a spring, always willing to go back to the center of gravity.
Not only me thousands of people who stay away from family will feel the same, I am very sure. Having given a chance they would like to peep back to their home even for a single day, that’s enough to rejoice the moments that you have spent together, to refill your memories to cherish from a away place. Things seem so simple when you remain with your family it’s only when you move out, you feel how cozy you felt when you were with them.
It’s nice experience that I think everyone should have, being away teaches you so many things about bonding, about being together and about sharing things. Now, I am back in my home town and I feel as if I am filled with energy, I have so many options and so many things that I can do here, well you do get accustomed to your new atmosphere, it’s just a matter of time, no matter how long you spend in a new place, coming home is like a thing that you would never like to miss.
I read somewhere that a fish comes back to it’s breeding ground irrespective of the distance it covers, so my line goes “if fish can, why can’t I……..”
Just had a sip of the things to come in my future was away from my family for 6 days. Living at a place away from home was like a ball tied to a spring, always willing to go back to the center of gravity.
Not only me thousands of people who stay away from family will feel the same, I am very sure. Having given a chance they would like to peep back to their home even for a single day, that’s enough to rejoice the moments that you have spent together, to refill your memories to cherish from a away place. Things seem so simple when you remain with your family it’s only when you move out, you feel how cozy you felt when you were with them.
It’s nice experience that I think everyone should have, being away teaches you so many things about bonding, about being together and about sharing things. Now, I am back in my home town and I feel as if I am filled with energy, I have so many options and so many things that I can do here, well you do get accustomed to your new atmosphere, it’s just a matter of time, no matter how long you spend in a new place, coming home is like a thing that you would never like to miss.
I read somewhere that a fish comes back to it’s breeding ground irrespective of the distance it covers, so my line goes “if fish can, why can’t I……..”
Friday, January 16, 2004
Long walk back…
Well, the time has come when I have to bid goodbye to my own Indore, which without a second thought accommodated me for almost 11 years now. Even though I have been abusing Indore like a politician does to opposition party, the city has never let me down whenever I need it the most.
I started this journey of 11 years as a school student and even though I couldn’t pick up thick friends like I had in Jabalpur / Chennai, I was content with the way things turned out. There were enough opportunities for me to hang on when I finished my graduation and I could continue till this point, really it should go into history books. They say “Faith bows to him, who knows how to wait” and I think I did the right thing. Spending 5+ years in a company, which I dreamt to be working with, was a great achievement so far in my life but as we try and reach to our expectations, aspirations tend to grow and the same happened to me also. Once as a part-timer in college and full timer in office I dreamt of becoming a software engineer and now when I have achieved that, I don’t want to wait for my own company which gave me everything so far to come out with a plan, instead I have decided to make my own fortune by venturing out.
I don’t know whether I am doing the right thing or not but I am sure that following your instincts is not wrong and I am doing the same. Leaving a city like Indore in which you have lived for so long (longest ever for me….) is not an easy choice, for you know that when you return from office there is always someone to take care of your needs and there are family members to fall back when you need them to be in your side. Living in Indore is like no cost for me, now when I think of setting up a new place at Pune then it seems like planning a career for me. Though things are not worse but you tend to fall back to your safest option whenever you come across such choices in life. They say “taking the path least traveled makes difference…” let that be true in my case (fingers crossed)
I think my heart would surely burst into tears on 4th of February which would be my last day in the company, I have to go against my sub-conscious to not to go to office on 5th, oh boy, is this what I wanted from the company, surely no. I don’t even want to complain at this point of time for I have got whatever I wanted from the co. and just that the pace of things didn’t suit me.
So, I shall be starting a new innings in a new civilization, (for me it’s like that only :-)). Like a opening batsmen I would like to start cautiously and then aggressively trying to keep the momentum going.
Till then, Good Bye! Indore, may be we were destined to live together for 11 years only.
Well, the time has come when I have to bid goodbye to my own Indore, which without a second thought accommodated me for almost 11 years now. Even though I have been abusing Indore like a politician does to opposition party, the city has never let me down whenever I need it the most.
I started this journey of 11 years as a school student and even though I couldn’t pick up thick friends like I had in Jabalpur / Chennai, I was content with the way things turned out. There were enough opportunities for me to hang on when I finished my graduation and I could continue till this point, really it should go into history books. They say “Faith bows to him, who knows how to wait” and I think I did the right thing. Spending 5+ years in a company, which I dreamt to be working with, was a great achievement so far in my life but as we try and reach to our expectations, aspirations tend to grow and the same happened to me also. Once as a part-timer in college and full timer in office I dreamt of becoming a software engineer and now when I have achieved that, I don’t want to wait for my own company which gave me everything so far to come out with a plan, instead I have decided to make my own fortune by venturing out.
I don’t know whether I am doing the right thing or not but I am sure that following your instincts is not wrong and I am doing the same. Leaving a city like Indore in which you have lived for so long (longest ever for me….) is not an easy choice, for you know that when you return from office there is always someone to take care of your needs and there are family members to fall back when you need them to be in your side. Living in Indore is like no cost for me, now when I think of setting up a new place at Pune then it seems like planning a career for me. Though things are not worse but you tend to fall back to your safest option whenever you come across such choices in life. They say “taking the path least traveled makes difference…” let that be true in my case (fingers crossed)
I think my heart would surely burst into tears on 4th of February which would be my last day in the company, I have to go against my sub-conscious to not to go to office on 5th, oh boy, is this what I wanted from the company, surely no. I don’t even want to complain at this point of time for I have got whatever I wanted from the co. and just that the pace of things didn’t suit me.
So, I shall be starting a new innings in a new civilization, (for me it’s like that only :-)). Like a opening batsmen I would like to start cautiously and then aggressively trying to keep the momentum going.
Till then, Good Bye! Indore, may be we were destined to live together for 11 years only.
Monday, November 24, 2003
What kind of a world this is! today I landed up in www and found some interesting people who have been doing their bit to keep this rather boring net live, really what a refreshing day it was.
Two blogs that have really made an impact on me
Golf Dude
Elango
Great going guys !! I wish I also could write my experiences the way these people have expressed, but neverthless I shall try to be myself and put something interesting someday or other. Keep going Sriram !
Two blogs that have really made an impact on me
Golf Dude
Elango
Great going guys !! I wish I also could write my experiences the way these people have expressed, but neverthless I shall try to be myself and put something interesting someday or other. Keep going Sriram !
Monday, August 11, 2003
HI,
I was away in NOIDA for a week to come face to face with a very bad weather. The humidity refused to slide and I had a horrible time this time around. I had been to NOIDA earlier but never have had such a bad time.
I suddenly felt that the city in which I live in is a heaven in itself. I really couldn't stop myself from posting this article on the small and self sufficient city that I live in. I dare to admit that the city lags in terms of infrastructure, development and all the hi-tech utilities and services, but what it offers is a calm and a home away from home atmosphere which I think nobody can deny.
I am back now and I am feeling lot better. Hope to gather some more info. and shall update my site shortly.
Keep watching
I was away in NOIDA for a week to come face to face with a very bad weather. The humidity refused to slide and I had a horrible time this time around. I had been to NOIDA earlier but never have had such a bad time.
I suddenly felt that the city in which I live in is a heaven in itself. I really couldn't stop myself from posting this article on the small and self sufficient city that I live in. I dare to admit that the city lags in terms of infrastructure, development and all the hi-tech utilities and services, but what it offers is a calm and a home away from home atmosphere which I think nobody can deny.
I am back now and I am feeling lot better. Hope to gather some more info. and shall update my site shortly.
Keep watching
Sunday, July 27, 2003
One of the sites where you find the support you want. Lotus Notes and everything related to the great product.Lotus Developer Domain. You get so much support so that I have never been disappointed after a post. Sure to get a response.
I have been told by Suman that this is the most widely read novel which he has written. Even though we have stayed together for close to 16 months I have never read the book once. But you can catch up, Sunnu - novel by Suman Kumar, read it and you know why I miss it so much.
Friday, August 16, 2002
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