Passing thought............

Someone once said, "Its great fortune to be a woman's first love and man's last". Trouble is, I found my last love but could never be her love, leave alone her first love.

Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus......

Like the age old saying goes, Men are from Mars and women are from Venus... Though this is not actually true.. figuratively this is the most accurate description of their behavior.. It is simply not possible for a woman to understand what a man says and vice-versa...

Here is a tip to both... Women base their thoughts on feelings and each sentence heard by them is masticated for a long time by their brains before absorbing it fully... This mastication by the brain generates many meanings of the same sentence and depending on the current mood of the woman the appropriate meaning is derived for the sentence.... This explains the peril of boyfriends/husbands when they say an extremely harmless sentence and the better half pounces on them with the most atrocious derivation of the sentence said.... and they are caught off guard... well you must take into account your previous fight with her to create context for all future things said to her....

Men on the other hand take the most obvious meaning of anything said to them by their better half's.... If you expect a man to understand the sentence...based on a previous context and derive a meaning that is diametrically opposite to the obvious meaning of the sentence...then you are expecting him to use too must of his brain..for trivial things....this will never happen so don't even bother to expect him to change....

Not thus... not thus....

I have seen Indian (cricket) defeats on foreign soils, but none has pained me more.... It took more than an entire team of world champion side to defeat the spirits of an resurrected Indian side...

I always thought test cricket was never won on luck factor...but I saw Indian team lose one on bad luck factor... I could understand that umpires are humans after all and as all humans they err.. what confused me.. is that while one team kept enjoying benefit of the doubt... (third umpire also included) the other team bore the brunt even when batting... and to top it all... the rival captain rubs salt into the wounds by saying that his integrity should not be questioned....

Australians may be anything...I mean anything... but they can never be persons of integrity... The captain knows he is out and does not walk... by doing this sets an example for the entire side to follow suit... time after time a horrendous decision is taken and the Australians stand their ground shamelessly.. I mean Symonds should die of shame rather than gleefully accepting man-of-the-match award...

I must commend the spirit of captain Kumble for the way he spoke after the match.. no other captain would have taken this match sportingly... also tells us ... Australians may be world champions...but they have lots of chinks in their armour... if the umpires allow... they are a beatable side...

An ode to test cricket..

Cricket as I know of it, is a beautiful game.... for no other game I know goes on for 5 days... wait a minute.. I didn't say interesting..but beautiful.. The beauty lies in the grueling encounter that goes on for 5 days and at end of the time one side comes up trumps on the other...

There is one more reason why test cricket is interesting... in more ways than one, test cricket resembles war... every day is a new day at battle and the idea is to win the war but build the victory on these battles... Each side has a general (captain) whom the the other team wants out of equation as soon as possible...also there are individual battles between lead warriors of each side... all these put together make an interesting day of cricket..

Test cricket.. unlike other sports is never dependent on luck factor and there are no instances of any team riding home on luck factor... You have to be consistent over a period of 5 days to triumph and loss of one battle seldom costs you the war.. It also tells us whilst you aim at winning the war try to win small battles and build your path to success.....

No Regrets....to Un-regretted

Have you ever wondered why do people look bogged down by a situation in their life? I have had the fortune to meet scores of such people, I tried asking them the cause of it.. I was surprised at the responses I received.....

People fear taking decisions (day to day or important) pertaining to their life due to the fear that their decision may in-fact be the wrong one. This fear leads to dependency on others to take their decisions for them and then they have to live with others mistakes..... might as well live with their own...

I for one, have learnt the trick to live by my decisions and in many cases die by it...But It gives a sense of satisfaction that, I AM ALLOWED TO MAKE MISTAKES. So "no regrets" is the key for me.

So Long.......

Fearlessness ...... Thy name is MSD.....

Someone once said, "If you want huge success, look up for a huge problem...."Given a young team to represent India at the T20 world cup, he came up trumps, are we surprised at the huge amount of accolades showered on our very own MSD.

The man feels no nerves ( or covers up too good for it) ..... you throw him a lemon and he'll tell you ways to make lemonade.... maybe a different flavor every time.

I vividly remember him trashing opposition bowlers (regardless of who it was) on many an occasion, I knew that he was here to stay, what I didn't guess was that he was here to lead.....

The captain is first to come in the firing line and the opposition always target him... So can we say that we have got the captain who has "it" in him...

Let the time decide on that one.......

In the end.....All that matters.......

First of all Chak De India!!!! A wonderful victory and a well deserved one....

There is nothing sweeter than success and there can be no substitute, because people don't remember you for aiming the target, they remember you for hitting it..... and thats the bottom line.

At the presentation ceremony none of the players said that it was a victory for the game and that winning and losing is a part of it... cos it just isn't.... Finally Indian Cricket team has learned one lesson... Winning is all that matters.............


Cheers to the Team India.........................

For Men may come and Men may go....

Take a moment and observe the pictures, hell no !! , I don't question your intelligence, HE does.
For those who said that Shah Rukh Khan is all about overacting. shut up....and take notice....

The man is simply demonstrating with his work that he is truly the Badshah of the tinsel town. After a powerful performance in Chak De India!!! where hez playing a coach with single point focus, "Victory", we watched the promos of his upcoming flick "Om Shanti Om" where he is flaunting a new look... Watch out Hritik and John, your only edge has blunted big time...

I remember the lines of a poetry which personifies Mr. Shah Rukh Khan, "For Men may come and Men may go, but I go on forever......."

The Other Side of ME...

How many times you have seen people behave strangely and wonder, is that really him? In the recent past I had such an experience, Owen Wilson attempted suicide. We all know him as a person who can get any person into splits in matter of splits. I wondered what on earth might have driven him to take an extreme step, until i read that he had a multiple split-personality disorder.

It amused me, not because it drove such a cheerful looking man into misery but the fact that each and every one of us (if we are true to ourselves) have more than one personalities. There is one personality that we are and the one which we crave to be. Many a times we are so possessed with the person we want to be that we start to emulate it, unknowingly. Its basically just a crave which needs to be satisfied because if denied for a long time, it turns into mad passion which plunges us into depression.

The next time you want to be something, and you deny it to yourself, take a moment and think, You owe it to the other person in you.

A Dream

I vividly remember arriving in Mumbai with two of my friend-colleagues on 13th Nov 2005. We had just finished our ILP (Initial lovely period) at the firm that hired us. All of us were waiting for this day to arrive... we were excited as, here we were about to begin our corporate careers.
The major mood dampener came late on 14th Nov evening at 6:00 pm when a wise @$$ announces to me that I am allocated a domestic project and that was not all, the location was CBD-Belapur ....... Hell I had to travel 90 mins to get to office.. I tried to talk him out of this decision... but it fell on deaf ears..

So the day of reckoning had arrived... at 10:00 am on 15th Nov 2005 I first set foot in the biggest data center in India. I promised my self that I'll not last more than 6 months in this project... otherwise I'll be killing my career with my own hands..... I lived in denial for at least a month saying to myself..this is just a nightmare.. one day the HR will call me and allocate me to friendlier office..... Sadly that day never came.. till I resigned on 16 July 2007. I visited that office on my last day in office.... call that a paradox..

You might wonder whats dream in this... well the period Nov 15th 2005 to July 16th 2007 was a golden period for me personally (if not professionally). I met 3 guys, lets say S,K and N and a gal, S again who became a part of my daily life... we were team mates.... but we shared more than a professional relationship.. There was never a weekend when we did not hangout together.... The best part was, we never took each other for granted... I also met two other gals lets call them P and M, who were not quite in the group but were not out of it either.....

Six months into the project, I made friends with 2 other super cool guys (G an M) who made me realize that friendship is all about sharing joys as well as sorrows.... I could trust one of them with my life.... Then... I met this cheerful chirpy character (Big D).. the heart of our 'other group'.. well I have almost never seen a negative emotion on her face...she has this wonderful knack to make people feel, they are special... She was an instant hit....or I may say.. will continue to be....

Well don't wonder about the header now..... You know that this was truly the best period of my life. I had met an assortment of people who would continue to be important in my life and on whom I could count any day.....

Herez a big cheers to them, who made a difference in my life........