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Dated: July 30, 2011.

Life has been good and generous to me. In all aspects! There have been things that are meant to happen predictably and things which are surprising enough to make sense out of. Puzzles of life being solved more inherently give a mental peace of mind for knowing how the universe ultimately unravels itself in front of our own eyes.

Some updates from my sides till date include a new job, nostalgia as I came back from Bengaluru to get accustomed back to the mundane and irritant life of Maharashtra Politics, truth behind the real south and the customs and traditions so honestly prevailing that mere politics of this state make me go aghast, new trends and new hobbies developed over the weeks, new ambitions and new outlook towards life, career and future. Everything has been a long process eventually answered from within myself up to the point which at one time was confusion and dilemma to me. It also involves those recent timely activities and learning that I have been lucky to be a part of!

Starting with, I finally am away from moving on with my dreams and careers prospects by a month and a few days to dwell into bigger and wider opportunities which I previously never thought could be made available to me as a resource employee from a completely different Tech background. Although I hold various tech offers till date and new offer calls pour in, it’s a feeling of appreciation and demand that makes me more liable to circumstantial happiness since I know now that my field has equal demands as I respect it for from my side. As and when time unravels itself, will the real zeal finally show its structure.

The politics at workplaces in the specifics of Northern Region of India are well famous to be talked about. I never found such kind of politics in South Offices of my current organization and hope to never find it again ever either. There are things which we talk about and things that we do behind. Each of us has a right to do so. But that does not imbibe back bitching or being opportunist in stealing someone else’s butter by means of superior ass-licking. I saw this not just once but many times to remember it cleanly and write it down here today. The more I see it on a day-to-day basis, the stronger my thoughts about this specific topic are made. The fluency of the thought is confirmed by the rigidity of the fact that no one wants the other to ever succeed in today’s competitive industry leading to opportunistic career fall-outs and rivalry and professional-cum-personal anguish between any two organizations or individuals. The times that I spent in Bangalore amongst the back biters as well as the workers has been memorable and will always be because It did not present me any mental unease and human interference in terms of work ethics. This is absent in Mumbai’s working policies with amazingly unrealistic deadlines and unreal time –based deliveries lacking quality of work.

Coming to the good part of it is the fact that I am back with my family friends and the circle of trust within which I always have been at the best comfort level and would always be! Having said this, though, there are certain factors which make me, as any normal human would, compare the intricacies of whether I coming back was a boon or a curse to my present situation in which I am endowed with? There are things which affected me badly and things that turned out for the better but the lessons learnt by losses are more which again define the efficiency of my mind being lesser correct at times when it should be. That is something I have been working on for a long time and yet progress in actual life deludes me.

My hobbies in twitter and Facebook as a part of the social networking life has improved by the fact that I am a regular twitterati following many celebs and artistes to dwell and learn from their life, the art of living. Although not extensively understood and implemented by me, there are thoughts which I could not put in words previously which have been simplified by those fellows, maybe learnt from someone else as well, and then tweeted which leads to certain gathering that I would otherwise miss out on. Not that it would matter but any new knowledge is better than sitting idle trying to count stars and infer astronomical deficiencies.

The newest belonging being the fact that nostalgia hits me when I read about Amitabh Bachchan tweeting about his Show coming back on TV –KBC. The show which I grew up watching and know how it was a show that brought the millions of junta back on the track of getting a mind to work on and solve and read books to gain knowledge about the nation and world and get better on their IQ. A single legend could do this all. And it’s a great step towards a new passion – learning!!

With all the new jinx and magnificence in life, there are doubtless many questions yet left unanswered and many questions best left to themselves for time to answer them. Fact is, the further we think, the more we lose time of what we are. And more is the loss of the life we live. So living and loving is the moral on which I wish to end this blog on. Cheers.

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Better Life!

People – Many of them, make you feel good, bad, pleasant, awry, happy, sad, circumstantial, ignored, avoided, neglected... words aren’t enough to describe what kind of people we meet across every day. It’s Life and that’s the way it has to be.

Friends – the basic subsets of people who make a mark in our lives and stay embellished through out our tenure on the planet; the best ones remain till the end while the worst one are let go off early.

Now why I am talking this?

Mainly because over the last few days, I have had terrible and excellent experiences in my life leading to a bitter difference I am afraid to have had made between people. No two people are same and no two can ever be – the thoughts, reciprocals, responses and feelings – they differ on all the terms. But that’s what makes them what they are.

“Always be a first rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else”

Well, to begin with, Life has been smoothening down over the last couple of weeks, owing to the fact that not everyone wants to remember the horrid past but remember that there are better times to come. And I for one appreciate and believe in the same. *Selfish yet logical motto*

Things finally falling in place, Losses begin to get reimburse and lot many things changing for the betterment of life. Its good to know when things fall for the better in places where you would least expect them to be. Well spent weekends and happier times with family will always make up for the time missed on occasions with Mom-Dad for discussions and family affairs.

I don’t wish to write more in this blog post since this has been an adhoc entry without much reminiscence to think or write about. But there will be better times.

Cheers for now and have a safe and healthy life.

Intervention!

Intervention arbitrarily means – Taking out time with people who share a common bond to nook out a small critique in one’s life which may be causing a huge impact in the bonded relationship. This basically means that the majority share of people in your life will be affected by the single-most/multiple decisions you have made or will be making in the due course of time. The word(s) in question – “Majority Share”

What should be an intervention like? What all should be made relevant? And is it really something of high impact analysis that needs to be amended? These are all stupid questions. The main concern of an intervention is simply to let the person stop his boring self-permissible behavior and bring him to the pedestal of justification of his actions. Not always can someone be right and most of times, people tend him/her wrong! Intervention simply soothes the blame-game effort into more realistic- sit-n-talk-make-understand kind of conversation

Needless to mention, I had one of it, when I surpassed my amount of booze and went into a consistent orgy (lonely) and was intervened by the best of the lot to quit. Nonetheless, there are self perceived as well as ternary perceived interests in the same scenario.

Well, its not really a proud moment to be intervened for some really embarrassing facts, but at the same time, it gives a kind of way to walk where. There will be tougher things to work out for and simple ways like smoke, dope and booze won’t help out, thus helping maintain the mainstream motivation of being compassionate and real in life without any stimulating help and at the same time have a life of dignity and virtue and know what’s right and perceivable wrongness in terms of one’s view!
Cheers!

Lonely Weekend

5 Days of gruel work, with the inclusion of travelling, to and fro from Airoli To Andheri is as painful as trying to win a 100 meter running race for a smoker. I have been doing it for almost 1.5 years now. And when the week ends, those Saturdays and Sundays which arrive are a boon to life. But are they always?

Most weekends are spent over the scale with friends as compared to any one wanting to stay at home and be with family. There are parties owing to slogan: “work hard, party harder”. But when those parties turn out too hard than expected, the hangover takes the fun out of the remaining weekend and all that is left is 'head-ache'. Drinking in Limit leaves out a good rep and turns down the limit of being carried away from the live to the unreal, but drinking out-limited, leave a bad remark and scar on the aftermath that I caused sometimes. I have had a chance to learn it the hard way and do regret those made drunk comments. And the worst part of it all is the bad combinations that are sometimes drunk – leading to memory losses and much more anxiety as to what could have possibly happened the previous night.

If nothing else, the scars of over-drinking are much more difficult to heal and easier to set of a distrust spark between two humans, be it friends or of any relations. Even true friends at such times, can meekly take the shift from reality to influence and turn their back against. The moral doesn’t lie in the fact of making new friends, or trying to justify the act of drunk talking, but to realize that shit happened and try to clear the mess; because that is what will eventually lead to a cleaner perspective, understanding and mutual acceptance of the facts and reality check towards oneself. Needless to say, Drinking has always been and will always be injurious to health, not just the drinkers but the listener’s as well, who has to take the hit after the drunkard is sozzled. Precariousness is the keyword to followed here in such a case.

Cheers.

Mumbai Blasts- Yet once again–7/11 -

Writing on the Facebook walls about feeling sorry for those who died/injured and victimized by the act of religious and vehement vengeance does not justify the fact that they are going to be at peace or the "Government" reads this! Instead, I prefer writing a petition and sending it umpteen number of times to the so-called "Prime Minister" working under the "Italian Lady" to understand the needs of a common man!
Hours after the Blasts, people have been running helter-skelter using the technology at its best to server to human needs at the eleventh hour; people removing their vehicles using it as a transport for anyone isolated near the bomb-stricken areas to serve as a transporter (for free, in the money-based world); People tweeting about their constant locations for help awareness using taggers to help locate the people in dire needs and pressing on remote points to help get to safety quickly. Blood Banks being quickly called for and statistics attained as to which quantity is lesser in number so those with the blood group can be quickly listed and called for donation.

Underneath all these, the undying spirit of Mumbai not only shows the enthusiasm of working out any kind of travesty the city may face, but also take care that all unite in times to come ! My Question here, which is also the reason for this post: Do we still need "Congress" or any leadership if it fails to mutilate the threats after repeated attempts on the same city and deems successful enough to kill a handful of mumbaikars every time?

After repeated attempts by the bravery shown by the Mumbai police in almost every possible activity regards to local killings, extortion, encounters, gang-wars, it fails to allot itself rightly in place for the main necessary threat - external. The Cops yet again prove that they can be scary when it comes to "night walks" and "night driving", "drunk driving" and "caught without a seat belt" - but one thought about terrorism and even the Prime Minister acts rapidly in sending the NSG and NIIs from over the state within the trauma affecting the city. Is this what it takes to be the second best police network in the world? I hardly see any of them even monitoring the road when in terms of alert (case in point: a Gujarati car held down for lack of license and being bribed over for); Under these circumstances where money becomes the chief source of dependency and a deprecating factor for most of the network of security dying out in the city and also, which remains afloat on the top of the system, beginning from the Corrupt Cabinet itself, how is this ever going to get solved. And yet there will be more money spent on the oncoming Vidhan Sabha Function for completing "God Knows" how many years of useless existence. The money if not the treatment in the hospitals will be far more fruitful if spent across the city casualties for those who were a single most- earning members of the family. But surely this will not be done since no one would want to see this money reaching any poor when there are already corrupt vultures seating on the round table of shit!

Its time and very much due that we do what the USA did:
"When Osama bombed USA, The USA entered his Safe-house and killed him; When Kasab did the same, we made his life heaven by giving him a safe house"

And thus concludes the basic foundation of security on dilapidated ruins. If not now, then when? How much more are we supposed to take till some "Raul Vinci" takes hopeful power to bring "apparent" change and yet leads to another level of corruption in the name of Youth Congress? We do not want such a leader ship and specifically the leaders from the Italian Inheritance.
And as my friend also stated: "Apparently, Kasab was born on 13th July AND 13th September. No wonder he is not dead yet."
But the entire nation will be, if this continues; we need to wake up and take stronger steps than what has been mentioned in the beginning of this blog. Let’s take an approach uninhibited and completely different than what a normal idiotic government would suspect and predict and sham in the end!!
An Excerpt from my other Friend Saikat’s Wall:

How many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?
Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have died?
... The answer my friend, is blowing in the wind ....

Peace and Sympathy to all those who have been through this heinous state of horror and fright; it remains not just a shame for the city but for the nation as a whole.

Rhythm of Life - It goes on!!

Its been a helluva time since my last post! Things have been happening at a rate where in my precedence over the networking and keeping myself active has been almost a kind of liability. Looking at the fact that even with my priced possession of a Black Berry, I have been unable to do anything but try to check in new Facebook statuses and tweet more often seeing the fact that there is now a bigger site with actual real stars who tweet comment and share their thoughts and acts of life as wisdom-nuggets.

Its been a heavy time knowing the fact that my resignation has been a annoying venture as a part of the practice to move on and explore further opportunities. What cranked the situation is the fact that they care the least to retain and that too, with enough power in their own pockets to do so! The more we try to ask for something deserving, the more conservative they get. With such a cost-center organizations in place, the least India can expect is ever to be in the G8 for next three decades, 'cause we are hell-bent on saving money and not trying to make a fortune from the talent that is garnered here and help fructify the other developed nations, mainly 'cause of the infrastructure and better economic compensation.

Finding some really good knowledgeable opportunities to learn from and Work is not a part of that. Learnt it the hard way that drinking is not meant for me. Losing 6k and dancing in the ATM singing tunes of my various Pin cards is not something I would ever advice to my children or any kids but the embarrassment did not come upon me till the next day when I realized that I was hit my the same people who called me their friends and couldn't understand the fact that I had hit them in the drunkenness utterly unknown to my fancy and reasons as to why I did so! It also showed the fact that showing my body consistent insults by means of disrespecting its make and filling it with whims alcohol will only procrastinate the backfire- not withhold it forever.

Coming back to the true state of current affairs, nothing has been of a better prejudice than the current rains which have been showering all the downpour and returning the waters being scarce from the sections of the city; there is finally something that nature doesn't seem to want us to suffer against and this works quite well as contrary to the belief that the reshuffle in the cabinet could've led to more water shortage reasons which now, seem non-prevalent. Just fine...

Many more incidences still remain to be written and yet, my previous save turned a disaster when one paragraph was not saved and I ended up writing this instead. Perhaps time will reminiscence those memories for me to write back in another blog to share with you guys in the times to come!
And I will want to add this quote as something I have learnt all along these couple of months:
Life becomes easier... When you know, which hands to shake and which hands to hold
Keep smiling till then! Have faith!
Signing out for now