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Two steps
There are only two steps that are needed to reduce issues in one’s life!
Great minds think alike! really?
If the minds are that great, they will probably not be thinking alike, but better! if all great minds were thinking alike… All of them would have been making the same light bulb, or a radio or a telephone, or music!
But we see so many great things around us, and they have been given to us by great people with great minds! and for all I know they were thinking different to give us a variety of greatness!!!
Great minds might support other great thoughts, but they for sure do not think alike in my opinion!
randomization!
Sheikh, Apni Apni Dekh
8 days since I published last!!! not fair! there has been so much happening that a lot of things, I had time for when I out of the country, have taken a back seat!
I guess its just a phase…though the last two weekends and the week has been very very good! in ways more than one! along with some sidey not so good things too!!!
Got to know a few nice people in Chandigarh, making the stay here a lot better than I had expected… driving to work and back does not take more than 15 minutes and its a pleasure to drive… the chill in the mornings and the breeze in the evenings is a pleasure to experience!
Ashu flew off to Mauritius for his project yesterday… which is another good news! I am proud of him!
Radha is doing great, and I am enjoying my long drives with her! we have driven about 2000kms already after I came back! I think in all I must have driven close to about 100,000 kms in the last 6 years! I like it!
I saw Ishqiya! and it turned out to be a bummer! Naseer wasted, Arshad and Vidhya underutilized, weak plot, slow pace… not sure if there was much about the movie that I liked except a couple of songs and some stills from the lighting point of view… my favorite being the opening sequence of the movie! and it just went downhill from there!!! My favorite line from the movie being. “Sheikh, Apni Apni Dekh”.
There is a whole lot happening other than the regular movie, home, work business, and I am very excited and at the same time a bit nervous about it… but I kind of believe that things are going to turn out just right!
Have a wonderful week everyone!
Time Travel
Small Talk!
So! what’s up?
Nothing?
YOU! nothing? impossible! Something?
Nothing!
Since when?
About an hour!
And before that?
Something!!
Ah! I see! I know! So what’s up?
Nothing!
Oh common! your nothing always means something!
Right! Everything means something! nothing means something too!
Everything is something, and nothing is also something, which kind of means, everything is nothing, or nothing is everything!
Whoa! that is something!
Or may be nothing! or everything! who knows!
Someone!
I think everyone!
or maybe No one!
Everyone has to know something about someone!
Someone would know everything about no one!
But they would claim that they know everything about someone!
No one knows everything about someone!
Someone does not know everything about someone!
What do you know?
Everything!
Everything about something?
No! something about everything!
So! What’s up?
Nothing!
The Rule of Thirds
2. A intellectually stimulating discussion which focuses on problem solving, development and/or sustainability, short or long term
3. A light hearted conversation and argument to know and tell about how much he is loved, wanted and cared for
Continuing with my mathematics (which ended up in my leg being pulled all the way from Dhaka, which I loved by the way!), let’s do some additions… tell me
1+2+3 = ?
1+2 = ?
1+3 = ?
2+3 = ?
1 = ?
2 =?
3= ?
Essentially I am asking; what if a man is getting one or two or all three of these, what does it make him?
मोजा-दस्तूर
नौकरी धंदे पर तरक्की की कार्यनीति बनाने के लिए कुछ विचार :
अपने से वरिष्ठ पदाधिकारी की मेज़ में अपने पुराने मोज़े रख दें. रोज़ सुबह दफ्तर जाकर वही मोज़े पहने औरध्यान रखें के उनको धोएं नहीं! यदि आप दफ्तर में बहुत ज्यादा समय व्यतीत कर रहे हैं और आपके मोज़े में सेबदबू आने लगी है, तो आपने उच्चतर पदाधिकारी को इसकी सूचना आपके बदबूदार मोज़े से मिल जायेगी
इस परिस्थिति में दो बातें हो सकती हैं
१. या तो आपको तरक्की मिलेगी
२. या फिर आपका बॉस आपको साबुन खरीदने के लिए कहेगा!
तरक्की मिली तो ठीक, यहीं साबुन खरीदने की बात आये तो अपनी आर्थिक स्थिति का वास्ता देकर अपने घर कीखस्ता हालत का बखान करके तरक्की पाने की कोशिश करें
इस परिस्थिति में दो बातें हो सकती हैं
१. या तो आपको तरक्की मिलेगी
२. या फिर आपका बॉस आपको दफ्तर से बहार जाने के लिए बोलेगा
तरक्की मिली तो ठीक, यदि बहार जाने की बात आये तो चुपचाप चले जायें! और अपने मोजा-दस्तूर चालू रखें. कुछ दिनों में परेशान होकर आपका बॉस इस समस्या को हल करने का प्रयत्न करेगा!
इस परिस्थिति में दो बातें हो सकती हैं
१. या तो आपको तरक्की मिलेगी
२. या आपका बॉस ही नौकरी छोड़ कर चला जायेगा!
तरक्की मिली तो ठीक, बॉस ने नौकरी छोड़ी, तो कम से कम बॉस तो नया मिलेगा! कहते हैं न भागते भूत की तोलंगोटी बहुत!
बोलो राधे श्याम राधे श्याम!
right place right time
On a completely unrelated note, how many of you have heard the “Sunder Kand” of Tulsi Ramayan? Well, more popularly known as the RamCharitmanas! I love to listen to it, can’t make out even 10% of what is being said, and that when my Nani (mother’s mother) remembers almost all of it, my parents understand it fully. I might work on getting the Sundar Kand of Ramcharitmanas here on Chai ki Dukaan sometime in future!! Some of the reasons why I like listening to it are, the voice of Mukesh, the classical music and instruments, and the unexplainable peace that I get from it!
and then….
All she could hear was her own heart pounding, and she just could not think either… it was like she needed light to think… it was too dark for her thoughts to come into her mind as well…
and she could hear were some faint creaking sounds, and breathing of the people who were left with her in that darkest of darks…
and then…
the power came back on
the elevator reached the lobby
everyone smiled at each other
and they (hopefully) lived happily ever after !
Randomness in me !
Come to think about it, Chai Ki Dukaan is a random blog !!! Not many posts are in order of being connected to each other, however there is a certain order that got built in between all this randomness over the last few years !
and here is a free flow of some randomness about myself…
1. I face Southwest in my office and at days when I reach early (like 7ish) and the day is sunny, there is sunlight on my desk… I love it
2. I like to give and get credit for things both at work and in personal life! If I am using something that someone else has worked on, I do try to ensure that the audience knows about that effort ! I absolutely hated it when a friend once used a picture that I clicked and put it on her page without a mention of me anywhere and without asking me… and all of this when she knew that the picture was very close to my heart… to top it all she comes back and tells me that she did justice to the picture by doing that !!! phew !
3. I don’t work for money.. I love what I do at work, and that’s why I work ! IT Services Consulting… love it! and money most of the time is the least of my worries… Surprisingly whenever it has been a cause of concern, it was taken care of… as if someone was ensuring it does not bother me! and at multiple times!
4. Mostly my life is driven by needs and not wants… if I want something too much then I try to figure out how it qualifies to be a need and then get it!
5. I want to get married next year… how to go about it is another story and will need a post a blog a diary an year to write about ! I am hoping I will find someone really nice who my parents would like too sometime!
6. I forget about drinking water and having food at times when I am too much into work!
7. I take my time (now) before I decide on what kind of a person someone is… earlier it used to be a quick(er) judgment !
8. There has been a phase in my life when I totally hated women and that went on for a year or so… no points for guessing that it was because of a relationship that ended at a very very bad note.. I have never cried that much in my life…
9. My behavior (mostly) is driven by how I would like to be treated in a similar situation… that has helped me a lot over the past few years !!!
10. I don’t have an excuse for not working out regularly ! and thankfully for the past two days I am regular with exercise… 😉 two needs to be 20 and 20 needs to be 200 !
11. I love tea and not all tea… tea is with tea leaves and not really anything and everything that you can dry and crush to a powder and put in a bag! Though I have to admit that I like some of them, but not many!
12. I am an extremely lucky person. There are times when I feel frustrated, but when I look back at things I realize that most of it did fall into place… and Uncle God has been around most of the time either in the form of my parents, or my friends or in forms that I did not realize then but I do now!
13. I can act strangely crazy, closed, stupid at times, and all of this while knowing that I should not be doing it… I guess I cannot lie to myself !
14. I think flowers good great in B/W photographs ! For that matter, I think most of the things look great in B/W… even life ! 🙂
15. I had a 3 gb collection of porn which I deleted last year! ok 3.4 GB!
16. I enjoy walking
18. and I feel the need of a company at times on the beaches
19. But I have sat down and looked at the sea for hours alone as well, and I loved all of those experiences !
20. I broke down the beach/hill/alone/company points above so that I finish 25 random points quicker !!
21. My interest in anything stops when learning from it stops!
22. But I also feel that I am growing up to be a more patient person than I have been all through these years ! So I tend to find ways to get some learning or make things interesting when they are too conveyor belt-ish.
23. I want to go back to London and stay there for at least 6 months during spring and fall.
24. I like open windows and fresh air… Even when the temperature was in negatives outside, I would open the window an inch or so that fresh air can circulate inside my apartment…
25. I like heights… I could jump from a plane 14500 ft above ground (Sky diving, Chicago last year) but I find it difficult to jump from a 22ft cliff into the water (River Rafting, Rishikesh every year, well almost every year).
26… So I finished 25 but I think I can write a few more
27. I like to be in love… Its a very complete feeling… and I am not really talking about the relationship love, it can be the love for someone without being in a relationship as well, and the willingness to do things to make them happy… I do not like an overuse of the word “love”… its a precious word for me!
28. I don’t understand football but I love Tennis (Pete Sampras and Steffi Graf are my favorites, but I don’t know everything about them like most fans do; watching them play was a visual delight like nothing else; I liked watching Ivan Lendl and Boris Becker as well) and Basketball( Lakers happens to be my favorite team and Kobe Bryant the favorite player)… I cannot watch cricket alone…
29. This number and my age have a certain resemblance that is both comforting and challenging at the same time
30. I am going to be 30 soon.. I wanted to take a month long break travel throughout India when that happens, but looks like I would be spending it here in the US.. the month long break has been deferred and the three must go places for me are Ahmedabad, Kolkata and Mumbai
31. I have learned how to play a keyboard and a guitar and have spent most of my college life either on the stage or in greenrooms or writing/directing/doing street plays… I really miss those times ! Really!
32. This is a very very long post ! tell me if you did manage to read it !!! Chandan, you specially 🙂
random thought…
There are times when I feel that there is a very careful planning going on to take away things that I deserve !!! It obviously is God Uncle who is doing it !!! he is the culprit !!!
At the same time, on second thoughts, the good news is that he is thinking about me !!!
I am sure it must be for good !!!
I am holding on to hope Uncle !!! But let me tell you, its getting weaker !!!
p.s. its just a thought that I had to write !!! I don’t need any comments on this one.. apologies if you had something to say about it !