Unspoken..

Observations... again... yah... I think the more proactive I try to become, the more I end up observing things...

1. Its NEVER "what" you say, its always "how" you put it. And in any form of communication.
2. Never mind what people say, think, or gossip, being yourself gives you the most sound sleep.
3. Rumors turn out to be true if your surroundings flourish on them
4. Everyone has his or her own agenda; being altruistic is also an agenda
5. If you say the truth slowly, its overheard; and if you lie assertively, its executed!

What I think to be ultimate truth is that - Genes behave just the way humans do and if you are not the one living by #5 above, your gene will be extinct!!

a first cut at corporate ...

I might just be enjoying the most exciting stint of my career right now! Post-MBA very few people get to stay in an action zone as vibrant as this. Ha! its almost evil but its right there, and man! Is it exciting!

Every day its like a drama that unfolds itself in front of me. Words like 'restructuring','re-org' are order of the day. Remember the guy who planned the entire product architecture, well he just got laid off. And did you hear about the dame you never heard of (in a small company you do hear about almost everyone who has a designation-suffix - 'manager') well she's become the VP and may kill you by auditing the entire product line. Hell! I sometimes feel why didn't I learn chess?? Remember all those words in ISB... re-aligning**business processes**, **streamlining operations**, **Business process redesign** ... Hell I am doing it!!

By Jove! every single day is just too much adrenaline to handle. And in between all these games I need to work, imagine the drudgery. I kind of got reminded of roller coaster, one minute you are up another minute you are down but when you come out of it, you laugh so hard because you are alive... I guess I can't have that laugh right now... But hey, roller coasters do give me a kick :)

-n

Smitten....

This would be a personal blog... Please ignore in case the reader is looking forward to some interesting stuff... ;-)

I guess, for me, its that time of my life when
(1)
--> "Ishq to ek jaaveda zindagi hai"
--> "Chalte chalte yunhi ruk jaata hun main, baithe baithe kahin kho jaata hun main, kehte kehte hi chup reh jaata hun main"
--> "Koi ladki hai, jab woh hansti hai"
and host of these kinds of songs start sounding very relevant...

(2)
I can smile endlessly for no rhyme or reason...

(3)
wait can become almost as painful as death (though i have not experience latter,still)

(4)
all you want to do is feel the presence... few words, sometimes just silence...

(5)
Suddenly all actresses look like someone very familiar... :) :)

(6)
Ghazals start makin a lot of sense...

(7)
you feel what the heck were you doing all this while... and you realize the value of those 4 letter that spell L-O-V-E

Here is to life and what is in store for me in the future!! :)

Social networking via web - a reality or a myth??

I feel that the word "Social networking website" is an oxymoron. If I am on a website, I am not interacting with any human being (please don't tell me that having "friendly" chat with anonymous people over net is networking!). Then how can I have a social networking website. Ah! So you get to meet a lot of old friends, lost crushes, etc. But frankly speaking, save those couple of conversations you will have with him or her about good old days, are you really networking?

So what are basic elements of an interaction?
1. Verbal communication (can be proxied by chats or orkut scraps)
2. Non-verbal communication (an impossibility on virtual world)
Statistically, the opinions we form about a person are not based on "what" she spoke, but "how" she said it. Are you going to base a network just on the fact that you met someone over net?

Ok, so you might say, "well at least you are getting to know a lot of people". Hmm!! but then why sit silent in a bus, train, flight, cafeterias, govt offices etc etc. Start talking... you will get to "know" a lot of people this way too! and what more, the earlier elements of interaction come to your help a LOT faster..

The next argument: "well all of those on net are surely a certain educated mass". Wake up! They are as average (on an average) as any sample of people can be, sometimes worse! (net stalking isnt unheard of).

A very strong argument can be in favor of sites like Linked in. I think till the time I can be assured that its not made to make recruitment easier, I will not take Linked in as a social networking site at all.

Basically social networking is possible only in one way - get out there and talk. It definitely doesn't work the orkut way.

One of the most amazing Hindi poems

http://www.geeta-kavita.com/article.asp?article=list_poems



This poem gives the conversation between Krishna and Duryodhana. No wonder Dinkar is the "Rashtrakavi"

-n