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I was thinking to get hair cut after a shabby piece grew on my head which looked really wired and finally today I got the fresh look. A very unusual thing happened which I never expected so soon. The barber was cutting my hair and suddenly something stuck my eyes. A white hair in the bunch of my hair which got cut. I just picked it up and kept staring it. The barber took the hair from my hand and threw it away saying that it was just a small white hair which he cuts and sees daily, but for me it was THE WHITE HAIR. The imagination of white hair really shook me for a while. Am I getting old, was the first question came to my mind? What if I am getting old, I am young at heart. In another moment, the white hair turned into just another hair. I am still young and will be young forever is the notion which I am carrying today and going to sleep. Good Night :)
 

Current Location: 560078
Current Mood: optimistic
Current Music: None

My roommate was very excited to go to Mumbai as he was going there first time and yesterday before leaving he was finding all possible ways to know about Mumbai. Probably on the internet he read "Aamchi Mumbai". He asked me what is "Aachmi Mumbai", I prompted, do you what is "Namma Bengaluru" or "Saadi Dilli"? I believe he got the answer. I really wondered, India has so many different languages,  different cultures and that why it is called "Incredible India".

Current Location: 560078
Current Mood: cheerful
Current Music: None

Today while returning from office to home I saw something unusual written at the back of one's bike. It reads "My Mom's gift. Mom - World's biggest bank". It touched my heart.  
It seems that the rider would have loved his Mom a lot and the bike was given to him by his Mom. Rider was showing publicly that he loves his Mom a lot and she is the most treasured person. A Mother is just an incredible person. A Mother is really the world's largest bank. According to me the biggest gift one can give to anyone is Love and the same a Mother gives to her children without any repay.
Cheers to MOM!!!

Current Location: 560078
Current Mood: touched
Current Music: Maa o mera maa - Taare Zammen Par

Yesterday was the last day of colleague "J" in my organization. He was drafting his last day mail at his system and he asked me to sit beside him while he wrote the mail. He wrote " Please send all the future communication mails to Manish as today is my last day in this organization".
There was something which was stuck within me when I saw him writing the mail. How does it feel when one leaves his/her organization?
I asked him the same question. He said "I am well prepared to leave and that's why I do not feel anything". I was really dumbstruck on hearing his answer. One does not feel bad when he/she leaves the organization he/she worked, connects with so many people, learns so many things...
God knows how will I feel when I will leave my current organization. I am sure that that day will not be a good day for me.

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Current Mood: blank
Current Music: Nothing

Today morning when I read the newspaper that the sea spews back in Mumbai, it reminded me of my grandfather’s saying that a sea does not accept anything, the sea spits back whatever is thrown into it, when I was visited Chennai beach with my grandfather a very long time ago. Today, the Arabian Sea has thrown back 6.4 lakh kg of waste such as plastic, thermocol and polythene bags at Mumbai what the city has been throwing into it for so long. The municipal worked day and night for almost 2 days to clean the garbage.

It reflects that we are socially so miserable. Why can’t we have nicer Municipal to dispose the waste and why can’t act as a responsible citizen so that we work out to have better, cleaner and safer place to live?

Current Location: 560078
Current Mood: disappointed
Current Music: None

Why some people on earth are so cruel? What was that person's fault? Yesterday night I could not sleep, I was awake till 5 30 AM, some how managed to sleep 5 hrs.
I want to punish those people, God please show no mercy to them. I want to write so much, but cannot write...

Current Location: 110085
Current Mood: depressed

I usually carry my I Pod wherever I travel and especially when I travel 10 kms one way to office everyday. The I pod is very special to me and is one of my life lines. From past 3-4 days I was not finding my pod and hence was a little upset. Today while returning back home, I was on call with one of my friends "S" and told him that I am not finding my I pod. He shared me a little weird idea to find the I Pod. He asked me to hold my left ear with my right hand thumb and first finger. He said he got this direction from his granny and this mode really worked for him. I decided to do same thing today after reaching home and to my utter surprise it really did the magic. I got my life back. Hurrayyyyyyyyyy....:)))
Really whatever old people say, they say for a reason. May be by holding my ears, I am sorry for my mistake and careless and at the end I got my pod back. But whatever it is, I am happy now and thanks to my friend S and his granny.

Current Location: 560078
Current Mood: ecstatic
Current Music: News

Today I attended one of the mandatory trainings in my office. I was initially apprehensive about this training, thought it to be same old usual trainings. I chose to attend this training because it was happening in one of my office facilities which is very near to my house. Means, today I did not travel 20 kms up and down to go to my another office facility. :P
Anyway, I was in the training room at right desired time. I will not discuss about the training but from the course name "First Things First" suggested one should prioritize his/her work and the take away from the training was:
Life is very short so LOVE, LIVE, LEARN and LEAVE A LEGACY, and I think that these words make sense. I hope to stick with them.

Current Location: 560078
Current Mood: thoughtful
Current Music: NEWS

Today I was browsing the newspaper and suddenly one article caught my attention. The title was "Mom goes under knife to be copy of daughter".
It was quiet interesting article. A mom goes under knife, pays around $15,000 and she is confident and very happy that people mistake her to his daughter. She was very depressed and she knew that no cream or nothing could have helped her to gain her youth back so she took this step to look like her daughter and more over work out to look slim. Now, she goes out shopping with her daughter, she giggles around and gets loads of compliments.
I felt some what disgusted. Everybody tries to look good, try their best to not to look old but not this way. Aging is a natural process and one should not try to alter it. If at all one wants to look young, feel the youth, do exercises, be happy, bring happiness to others and then definitely one will be young. Try to be young at heart.

Current Location: 560078
Current Mood: thoughtful
Current Music: Tum Se He

Today is one of the happiest moments of my life. I can proudly say that our group is the best dancer troupe in my office and I can say that I can also shake my bumps well. :P
The date for the dance competition kept on changing but we did not loose out our momentum and after regression practice for more than 1 month, burning our energy on weekends for 2 hrs and for one 1 hr on weekdays between office timings really made our path to success. Really, HARD WORK PAYS.
Performing in front of about 200 people is not an easy task especially for a beginner like me but still I coped and gave my best. Thanks to my co-dancers V, S, V, A and H and also thanks to my friends H, V and N where were all time encouraging and hooting. The critics after our performance really added few extra pounds in me. :)
Hope that I keep up the tempo and entertain people.

Current Location: 560078
Current Mood: pleased
Current Music: Afterglow - INXS

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Current Mood: relaxed
Current Music: NEWS

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Current Mood: pissed off
Current Music: Genda Phool

I reached bangalore pretty early i.e. 6:30 AM after attending one of my friend's marriage. Really it was "big fat jain wedding". I was travelling in auto from station to my home and something stuck in my mind. I thought, why don't I disturb my friends sleep in bangalore on sunday early morning. I started calling my friends one by one and here are the reactions:
S - U reached bangalore (Of course I reached dumbo, that's why I am calling you).
H - Please yar, let me sleep. (hehehehe... I am disturbing your early morning sunday sleep).
V - Welcome back dear (So sweet, thanks :) ).
R - A**H***, let me sleep (Grahhhhh).
N - What the heck !!! (:P, I love irritating you).

After this, I thought it is enough now else people is gonna beat me when they would meet me. But believe me, it was real fun. Try it once.

Current Location: 560078
Current Mood: naughty
Current Music: Silent

Rather I should say that yesterday  (as it's already mid night), :P I went to attend one of the seminars conducted by many B schools of UK. I went there with one of my friends. One of the volunteer over there gave me list of universities who were participating. I ticked down few universities which I heard were good. The moment I approached them and asked about the program I want to take up, the first question which was shoot at me was "How many years of work experience do I have"? My number of work experience was par low for the entry requirement.
I was wondering, none of B schools in India ask this criteria of work experience. So, I was very depressed and at the same time was thinking that better I should gain some more experience before applying for my program.

Do, Indian B-Schools should also hold the criteria of work-exp???

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Current Mood: thoughtful
Current Music: blank

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Current Mood: cheerful
Current Music: Rock on

"ADD LIFE TO YOUR YEARS, NOT YEARS TO LIFE",

Live your best life.

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Current Mood: cheerful

Recently went to Kalavaarahalli Betta better known as Skandagiri. It took me sometime to digest the name - Kalavaarahalli Betta.
When I heard of the idea this night trek i got goose bumps. I have done trekking a lot but never did night trekking.
A group of 14 people of course including me :P started at 3 AM, climbing the hill of 7 kms, with bag packs, a torch in one hand and with heart out in another. The way ants walk in a line without distortion, we also walked the same way with helping each other in climbing. I was little scared and but excited too.



We reached hill top at around 5:30 AM. It was nerve wrecking cold and windy over there made me freeze. But the excitement of seeing the Sun rise made me survive there. The sun rose around 6:30 AM



Believe me, I had not seen such a beautiful morning in my life.
After having breakfast carried along with us and listening to guitar from one of the guitarist among us, we were back to down hill at 10 AM.
Really, it was an enthralling trek for me.

Current Location: 560078
Current Mood: excited

I wonder when people say that they are doing nothing on weekends, simply sitting at home and doing time pass.
I hate sitting at home on weekends. Today went to morning show movie named "Yes Man", was cursing my friend V for booking early morning tickets. Wait a minute, actually should thank him for showing movie in Inox theater in 100 bucks. The movie is really good.
Planned to go to Gurudwara, the place of God for Punjabis. I was surprised to see that you are not allowed to go to Gurudwara with bare head, means you should put some cloth on your head before entering. After pooja my friends decided to do "SEWA" means putting helping hand in kitchen for free food being served to people that this is called "LANGAR". It was amazing to see crowd helping each other in kitchen without say. We decided to pick the work of cooking chapatis. It was amazing experience. After the food was cooked. People sat in the hall and enjoyed the delicious food. The food was really groovy.
I really thank my friend V and M for such a beautiful sunday. :)

Current Location: 560078
Current Mood: mellow
Current Music: Aitel music-Phone ringing

Today I attended one of the Toastmaster meetings. One of the speaker spoke about WORRYWART. The topic left me thinking whole evening about the same. The speaker told that about 40% people fall into the category of WORRY-ABOUT. At one moment I thought that I also fall into this class.
I conceive unnecessarily about many things and waste my time doing nothing about it. Later I decided that I must change my attitude. I should now be a chilled out person. That doesn't mean that I will not worry and be a hassle free person. If I am thinking something, I better do something about it or stop thinking and LIVE LIFE TO THE FULLEST. :)

Current Location: 560078
Current Mood: hopeful
Current Music: None

Recent mayhem in Mumbai for about 62 hours had shaken the whole world. The terrorist identified themselves as Malasyian students and tourist and aged between 18-23 years showed the blood bath to whole world. Wonder where the future of world lies. :-/
People everywhere are saying that "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH".  Something needs to be done.  Are we so vulnerable that anyone can come in and play with the lives of people?
IS our government doing something about it? The other day was watching TV and saw that the NSG forces coming to designed place in the local bus i.e. BEST bus of Mumbai. Is this the way our government provides services to NSG force?
There should be done something before Indians loose their faith in the government of India.

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Current Mood: disappointed