PANIC Bottons are ON!!!

With Lehman brother, Merrill lynch, AIG, Wachovia all the major finance biggies in trouble everyone is scared of whose gonna fall next, which name will be flashing in all the papers and news channels. And amidst these fearful times whats the easiest trick to pull is to spread rumors about the next to fall. That's what happened when some mindless media people started spreading rumors that the next one going bankrupt is Indian Banking giant ICICI after facing huge loses because of Lehman brothers going down and UK wing being affected by Sub prime, which of course isn't true, the bank is no where near bankruptcy. But I am just amazed how people can react to such baseless claims. Every ICICI ATM in town is crowded since last night, there are people fighting to get in the ATM branches and withdraw money before the ATM machine goes bankrupt. I swear to God I have never seen such long queues outside an ATM. But why don't people realize that withdrawing of money in such large numbers can actually put the bank in a credit crunch and can make the situation actually go bad.

Perhaps when we are scared we done seem to use our brain, but these are the times when acting sensibly is the need of the hour.

Surprises - I just love them!!!

Yesterday the day began with a lot of work pipe lined; it was going to be a hectic day at work. So everything looked like a drag already I just hate to be very busy on Fridays. When I started working I realized I just won’t have time to eat also if I have to finish my work today. So skipped lunch and by lunch time I was done with the chunk of my work and then I got the CALL.

The CALL- seems fishy right? But I got a call from a very sweet friend of mine. She gave me the biggest surprise of the day a pleasant surprise she was in town. I was damn excited, we planned to meet up for lunch but as she was on official visit she had certain obligations and appointments to take care of, so we planned to meet to in the evening for coffee. So I quickly tried to wrap my work but that of amount work could not have been wrapped before 12 in the night so I just pushed some work for Monday( Man I gonna have a major Monday Blues). And delegated some part of the work to my teammates.

Oh man seeing a buddy of yours after a long time and especially when you know it’s gonna be a long time when you are going to see them again. It was great to see her. We had lots to talk about but very less time. But you know just meeting your friends no matter for how short period of time is so refreshing. All your weariness of the hectic routine just goes away. So the day ended on very happy note than what it could have been- a hectic and monotonous work day.

The Pursuit of Happiness!!!

You are driving down a highway, smooth road, no traffic, no lousy horns, no nudging, no overtaking, you are effortlessly gliding down the road on the fifth gear, that's what I call smooth. Wish life's like that, BUT NO life's not like this at all. Life's more like a road after heavy rains with gravel coming out, huge pits full of water where you hardly can judge how deep the pit is and as soon as go over the pit the jolt just twists your neck badly, that's how life most of the times.

Now as a famous saying goes "Our life is the sum of choices we make", but then why is that there is so much of stress around the choices we have to make in our lives, every sphere of life becomes chaotic just when we are faced with options everything falls apart, when we at least need the other stuff in place. Why does all decision may it be personal or professional instead of making us feel empowered leaves us feeling helpless and deprived?

Why can't we rationally take decisions and move on, why do emotions make you keep going over and over the decisions already taken? Why can't life be harmonious and peaceful?

Life of a Dreamer!!!!

Hopping from one dream to another, from one fascination to another, life keeps throwing stuff at your face and you keep battling one after the other, always on a rocker roller ride.

When I a was kid I wanted to be an astronomer, I convinced my sister to buy me a telescope as my birthday gift(I was a very demanding little kid back then and my sweet sister was like a genie for me.) But I had to go to hostel and the plan to buy a telescope was dropped.
Today my roommate bought a new camera and the carry bag had an image of the kind of telescope i wanted to buy and that took me back the memory lane. Eight years have passed and I have been moving on from one dream to another. And guess what I am a software professional now with more and more time to dream about a more exciting work life(not that I have less work but it is such an unexciting job I actually dream while I am working and besides that I've been doing the same kinda stuff for the last 3 years, OK hang on it can also be that I am too good at my work....).

But each dream I hop from still stays dormant in some corner of my head and comes back sometimes to remind me that I better do something in my life that gives me true happiness, the satisfaction at the end of the day of spending my time on something worthwhile.

Weekend Retreat

It was my turn to Enjoy and I sure did have a rocking weekend with WALL-E, trekking trip and ROCK ON. Friday evening was for a computer animation flick WALL-E, I must say a very cute movie and pretty different from some of the animation movies I have seen lately.

Saturday a few of my friends and I decided to get away from the city to experience the silence of a thick jungle and being up close and personal with nature. So we headed to Rajiv Gandhi Tiger reserve which is around 200km from Hyderabad. There are a lot of hidden water falls in this jungle and we went to two such falls.

Mallela Lodhi untouched not encroached by people, you get there by walking about a kilometer inside thick forest at the edge of mountain, which gives a nice view and has good echo effect. Echo, yep we were the ones disturbing the silence of the place. So after some more walking we could hear the sound of the water falling from a distance. But we could only see the fall when we reached the place. The view of the fall was splendid. Standing under the fall felt as if soul was quenched of its eternal thirst.

After enjoying there for two hours we headed for another waterfall, a more magnificent fall called Malella theertham. Its surrounded by a thick canopy of trees, sunlight does not penetrate much so the place very cool just the prefect temperature so sit back and relax in the lap of nature. But I guess not everything can go perfectly well so there were few insolent people to spoil the fun. But other than that the place was perfect. And so was the trip. Now was the time head back home but on the way back through the forest we were all quite alert to catch the glimpse of some wildlife but no luck!!!

After a good night sleep it was time to get ready for another interesting day. I met a college buddy of mine and went for to catch the new flick ROCK ON, well it is definitely a rocking movie. A must watch again. After the movie we went for a lavish lunch and lots of chatting. Then I got down to doing what I do best lazed around at home watched TV and enjoyed a hot cup of tea.

Wow that was a lot of activity for one weekend but I loved every minute of it. That's how I want to live do what I love doing and enjoy every single moment.

Miles to Go before I sleep!!!

I could not see beyond GMAT when I was preparing for it, now that I am done with it I see there is still a long way to go before I achieve what I am striving for, for a long time - MBA. Got to get started with essays now. So September is devoted to Essay writing. I am planing to apply to Indian School Business(India), Asian Institute of Management(Philippines), National University of Singapore(Singapore), Great Lakes(India), Nanyang Technical University(Singapore) and International Management Institute(India).

Writing Essays really scare me because I feel I am hardy a creative person, my strength is definitely not creativity. But I really wanna make it to one of these above mentioned colleges So got to do what I got to do....

Emotions mess up my head

Sometimes I feel defenceless in front of my emotions...that's what is happening these days. I know I get over things in sometime but the anxiety is killing me right now.

Someone tell me I am a fool to fall prey to feelings and emotions every time when I know all I'll eventually end up is agony....