Life is.....

I pity those of u who are not living in Chennai....I pity those of my colleagues and friends who commute to office by car...
8.30 am .. Friday morning.. U start ur 12km ride towards office from home... Its cool and breezy... u remove ur helmet and njoy the air... zip past snail paced vehicles with the breeze blowing right on ur face cool.. . .this is called Joy..... but then as U enter the Cenotaph Road U encounter Heaven :))).. It starts pouring ....U put on ur helmet n jerkin.. But still get drenched... Ur jeans becomes wet....Ur jerkin is of no use.... As mom used to advise, U manage to just keep ur head and face dry... U see vehicles and people in front of not through tinted helmet visor.. But through droplets of water..... visibility comes down.... but still u ride through the rain drenched streets like a hawk.. :) Watch school kids covered in knee lenght rain coats holding their parent's hands waiting for the school van.... Bust stop shelters crowded like a Honkong shopping street... Traffic lights reflect off the water on the road... Serial set lighting for the tar topped roads... U even forget that you are going to office... Smiling inside ur helmet all throught the ride... without any reason. .without any worries... Just the thought of happiness and the inner voice which keeps repeating "Aaaahhh..... Wat a weather...I am luving it"..... this is called Joy 2.0 :)))

This is how I reached office today...... Happy, Joyous and Wet.... Life is indeed Beautifullllllll....

Questions...

I feel so many things missing in life. I miss my school days. Miss my college mates. Miss all those days i spent learning and learning academically and made friends who left lasting impressions on me.I miss my room mates with whom I lived with while working in Chennai. I miss my first company, all my colleagues there.
I miss my friends from the B-School days at BIM. Every day I have so many things that I am missing. I miss so many people I would love to keep in touch regularly. Every time I meet them we talk about those days we miss and yearn even more for missing all that. This is 50% of my thoughts.

The other 50% is all about anxiety. Anxious about so many things. So many unanswered questions. as to how tomorrow will be. How the next week is gonna be, how my career is gonna progress, how my personal life is gonna be and etc etc.....

Overall if I sit down and take a moment to introspect, All that is running through my mind is questions and thoughts about my future and my past. This is what is happening for over 75% of my time. Leaving me just 25% of my time to live today.... Live this hour... Live this very moment...

So do I miss my past just because I lived my past for only a quarter of what should I have actually..??? Am I feeling anxious about the tomorrow just because I use only a quarter of my time for ensuring certainty in the future... ??

I don't know actually.. But one thing is for sure. From now on, I have decided to live the today and work for building a better tomorrow using the experience from the past. Advance New year wishes to all.. Happy 2010...

"M" Power

மதுரை ரயில் நிலையம்
நேற்று நள்ளிரவு
அனந்தபுரி விரைவு வண்டியில் இருந்து இறங்கி வெளியே வந்தேன்..
மார்கழி பணியில், பிளாட்பாரத்தில்
மனைவி மக்களுடன் படுத்திருந்தான் ஒரு பிச்சைக்காரன்
ஏழ்மை மறந்து குழந்தையை கொஞ்சிக்கொண்டு...
வாய் விட்டு மழலைச் சிறிப்பில் மலர்ந்தது குழந்தை...

There are certain things that Money and Master card can't buy.... :-)

Retrospective: a decision tat is 4 sure changin me n ma lyf...

Hey frnds,
its me.... its been quite some time since i blogged .. welll lemme giv a fresh strt to this all over again... i've been bc with ma studies these days.. pretty hectic scheduling we've got 4 ma PGDBM course @ BIM, Bangalore...

after the two dozen month stint with Ramco... i was mature enuf to luk at busienss from the rite angle... bt i needed some sharpening.. some more focus.. n lot of insights straight from the mouths of the horses.. tats wat i ve been exposed to or perhaps drenched with all these days.. it was a tuff decision to make.... to leav behind ma 1st job.. a comfortable n enriching xperience...

it was loaded with learnings each second.. d entire stint with ramco..... it was a strong foundation for me... i was fortuante enuf to hav had a gr8 set of people... to work with and learn from.... im deeply indebted to them all... forever...miss u al guys....

ramco was in transformaton stage wen i left... we had the rebranding activity takin palce in full swing... ramcos erp suite for SMEs was rolled out unofficially.. wid jus a few clients on hand. bt the future lukd brite... the outlook was promising for ramco as well as this product... i had the luck to giv support 4 tis prodct..

today wen i look back, the past 1 year or so has been steep growth for the organisation ... its growth and nothing else now... the product has picked up strongly, with ramco being the no.1 in erp for the small n medium sclae enterprises as well as the first to launch a fullfledged erp suite based on SaaS architecture in India ahead of its competitors

gr8 goin guys.... 3 cheers to ramco... miss ma first co. .... aneways.. life moves on..... i took the decision to move ahead with ma PG... am happy about it.. pretty much happy.... n happy tohav taken this decision at the rite juncture in ma career..... now jus as much as ramco is, am lukin fwd to a gr8 promisin career.... thnk u ramco.. for providing me wit a gr8 paltform for launch......

INDIA : The other perspective...

Jus four days away from Aug,15th...... India , A major player in the fields of ITES, BPO n KPO... Threshold of worlds largest Human capital... One of Worlds most respected countries.. one of the largest and most successfull democracies.. Home to diversity and culture.. and so on and so forth.... A very very drastic development in the past 50 plus years... we r fast reaching a situation which our ancestors dreamt of....
But on the other hand are we all doing justice to our roles as a part of this rich nation...???
Are we contributing in our own ways to this development is the million dollar question....?
Or are we just exploiting the boom for ourselves..and depriving our successors a better life, Wat about the other fields that we lag behind ?? .. Shouldnt we be thinking about this..
Its already late.. but not the end of the world.. we still hav our life time from now on to do something.... One of the best ways i think would be to help a poor child to get proper education.. a means for him to stand equal oppurtunities.. a means for him to rewrite his gene chain's fate... Why not we contribute alittle towards this ..
Today the problem is not of Unemplyment... it is the question of unemployability...If properly educated, the literate populatuion will grow and hence the employable workforce's ratio of the country.. This would rather contribute indirectly to the nations economy...Think today, Act today.. Put in your part.... Long live India.. Jai Hind..

How to name it...?

A shoulder to cry..
Mutual support....
Thoughts to chew upon..
A lifelong commitment...
Endless caring......
Never ending reliability...
Faultless faith...
Smiles to share...
Moments to relish...
A complex relation...
How to name it...??