........................... am still waiting for the best name for this entry

I vividly remember

The day I first saw you

Like its happening right now

The way my eyes stuck on you

Till you entered the room and stood beside

Hardly acknowledging me

 

Chanced on looking at your id

Seeking an identity

To associate myself with

Your name fluttered my heart

Said, "He is the one!!!!"

And then there was no looking back

 

You see, I have dreamt

A dream, almost a reality

Since the time in life

Dreams held a meaning to one

Of someone with your name

Of someone like you

 

I looked at you openly, at times

I looked at you silently

I looked at you, eyes closed

When I couldn’t look at you

After work, in the night

But saw you every single moment

In my life, from then on

 

The day you first spoke to me

Was magical to say the least

You sent a million times "Thank you"

Just to tease me

And my heart thanked you a million times

Ah! The beginning of my dream come true

 

We met, we talked

We laughed, had coffee

We went to movies

Loved each other's company

And slowly you too

Fell in love with me

 

It’s now been a year and a half

Since the day we became each other's

A year and a half of

Ups and downs, fights and words

Still, a year and a half

Of beautiful moments together

 

And I still feel those flutters of heart

When I hear your name

I still feel the same love

I felt on the first day

And I still feel that

You are, my dream come true

 

But you are now far away

Miles away, in physical distance

But with each passing moment

You come closer to me

Than my very own breath

Than my very own heartbeat

 

I miss you my darling

I know you miss me equally

But there is an excitement

In this waiting

‘Coz I know I’ll be yours

Sooner or later

 

Then distances won’t be there

Then there will be no waiting

Nothing will be better then

Nothing more to wish

Coz my Rohit will be mine then

Forever, and ever, and ever......

the story of "The Washer man and the Foolish Donkey"

There was once a washer man who had a donkey and a dog. One night when the whole world was sleeping, a thief broke into the house, the washer man was fast asleep but the donkey and the dog were awake. The dog decided not to bark since the master did not take good care of him and wanted to teach him a lesson. The donkey got worried and said to the dog that if he doesn't bark, the donkey will have to do something himself. The dog did not change his mind and the donkey started braying loudly. Hearing the donkey bray, the thief ran away, the master woke up and started beating the donkey for braying in the middle of the night for no reason.

Moral of the story "One must not engage in duties other than his own"

Remake:the same story…

The washer man was a well educated man from a premier management institute.. He had the fundas of looking at the bigger picture and thinking out of the box. He was convinced that there must be some reason for the donkey to bray in the night. He walked outside a little and did some fact finding, applied a bottom up approach, figured out from the ground realities that there was a thief who broke in and the donkey only wanted to alert him about it. Looking at the donkey's extra initiative and going beyond the call of the duty, he rewarded him with lot of hay and other perks and became his favourite pet. The dog's life didn't change much, except that now the donkey was more motivated in doing the dogs duties as well. In the annual appraisal the dog managed a "meets requirement". Soon the dog realized that the donkey is taking care of his duties and he can enjoy his life sleeping and lazing around. The donkey was rated as "star performer". The donkey had to live up to his already high performance standards. Soon he was over burdened with work and always under pressure and now is looking for a job rotation…

Disclaimer: All characters in the story are not at all imaginary. Any resemblance to person living or dying of work is purely intentional. Cheers and enjoy always guys/gals

Fokat K Funde

** Happiness keeps u Sweet, Trials keep u Strong, Sorrow keeps u Human, Failure Keeps u Humble, Success keeps u glowing, but only God Keeps u going.
** Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.

** In the end, however, the universal truth of families prevails: children neverturn out quite as planned, and parents aren’t always as strong as they seem.

** Most people are right, but only from there point of view.
** Skills, Knowledge, Abilities and Experience are only useful if you are at the right place

* Never take someone for granted. Hold every person close to your heart because you might wake up one day and realize that you’ve lost a Diamond

*** They say that I don’t have brain But I do have, the only problem is that I don’t know how to use it

*** Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

ENJOY LIFE, There is plenty of time to be dead.
* It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere

* Love Is Luxury Enjoyed By Privileged I Am A Beggar Certainly In This Case

Bol Bachan

* Be understanding to your perceived enemies. Be loyal to your friends.
* Be strong enough to face the world each day.
* Be weak enough to know you cannot do everything alone.
* Be generous to those who need your help.
* Be frugal with that you need yourself.
* Be wise enough to know that you do not know everything.
* Be foolish enough to believe in miracles.
* Be willing to share your joys.
* Be willing to share the sorrows of others.
* Be a leader when you see a path others have missed.
* Be a follower when you are shrouded by the mists of uncertainty.
* Be first to congratulate an opponent who succeeds.
* Be last to criticize a colleague who fails.
* Be sure where your next step will fall, so that you will not tumble
* Be sure of your final destination, in case you are going the wrong way.
* Be loving to those who love you, and be loving to those who do not love you; they may change.
* * Above all, be yourself.

Great Mind : Funnier Side

Einstein once said that it would be hard to teach in a co-ed college since guys were only looking on girls and not listening to the teacher. He was objected that they would be listening to HIM very attentively, forgetting about any girls. But such guys won't be worth teaching, - replied the great man.
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Ernst Eduard Kummer (1810-1893), a German algebraist and poor in arithmetic Kummer calculated 7 x 9: Kummer said to himself: "Hmmm the product cannot be61, because 61 is prime, it cannot be 65, because 65 is a multiple of 5, 67 is a prime, 69 is too big - Only 63 is left."
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John von Neumann (1903-1957) [Hungarian/US mathematician and scientist] Thefollowing problem can be solved either the easy way or the hard way. Two trains 200 miles apart are moving toward each other; each one is going at a speed of 50 miles per hour. A fly starting on the front of one of them flies back and forth between them at a rate of 75 miles per hour. It does this until the trains collide and crush the fly to death. What is the total distance the fly has flown? The fly actually hits each train an infinite number of times before it gets crushed, and one could solve the problem the hard waywith pencil and paper by summing an infinite series of distances. The easy way is as follows: Since the trains are 200 miles apart and each train is going 50 miles an hour, it takes 2 hours for the trains to collide. Therefore the fly was flying for two hours. Since the fly was flying at a rate of 75 miles per hour, the fly must have flown 150 miles. That's all there is to it.When this problem was posed to John von Neumann, he immediately replied, "150 miles.""It is very strange," said the poser, "but nearly everyone tries to sum the infinite series.""What do you mean, strange?" asked Von Neumann."That's how I did it!"
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How about the apocryphal story about the MIT student who cornered the famous John von Neumann in the hallway:
Student: "Er, excuse me, Professor von Neumann, could you please help me with a calculus problem?"John: "Okay, sonny, if it's real quick -- I'm a busy man."Student: "I'm having trouble with this integral."John: "Let's have a look."(insert brief pause here)"Alright, sonny, the answer's two-pi over 5."Student: "I know that, sir, the answer's in the back -- I'm having trouble deriving it, though."John: "Okay, let me see it again."(another pause)"The answer's two-pi over 5."Student (frustrated): "Uh, sir, I _know_ the answer, I just don't see how to derive it."John: "Whaddya want, sonny, I worked the problem in two different ways!"
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When Gladstone met Michael Faraday, he asked him whether his work on electricity would be of any use. "Yes, sir" remarked Faraday with prescience, "One day you will tax it." ************************************************************************
While Boltzmann gave a lecture on ideal gasses, he casually mentioned complicated calculations, which didn't give him any trouble. His students could not follow the fast mathematics and asked him to do the calculations on the blackboard. Boltzmann apologized and promised to do better next time.
The next lesson he began: "Gentlemen, if we combine Boyle's law with Charles's law we get the equation pv= p\sub 0 v\sub 0 (1 + a t). Now it is clear that \sub a S \sup b = f(x) dx x (a), then is pv=RT and \sub V S f(x,y,z) dV = 0. It is so simple as one and one is two. At this moment he remembered his promise and dutyfully wrote 1 + 1 = 2. Then he continued with the complicated calculations from his bare mind.
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As the joint meeting of the Royal Society and the Royal Astronomical Society was dispersing [this was 6 November 1919, when the results of the eclipse expedition that confirmed Einstein's prediction of the bending of light by gravity were announced], Ludwig Silberstein came up to him and said, "Professor Eddington, you must be one of three persons in the world who understands general relativity." On Eddington's emurring to this statement, Silberstein responded, "Don't be modest, Eddington," and Eddington replied that, "On the contrary, I am trying to think who the third person is."
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The story is that Albert Einstein's driver used to sit at the back of the hall during each of his lectures, and after a period of time, remarked to AE that he could probably give the lecture himself, having heard it several times. So, at the next stop on the tour, Albert Einstein & the driver switched places, with Albert Einstein sitting at the back, in driver's uniform. The driver gave the lecture, flawlessly. At the end, a member of the audience asked a detailed question about some of the subject matter, upon which the lecturer replied, “well, the answer to that question is quite simple, I bet that my driver, sitting up at the back, there, could answer it...”.so howz it !!! even the great scientists were/are humorous and lovable in nature, not just the bookworm ... :)
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"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all"Dale Carneg

Ladies and Gentlemen, I hope that you are doing fine. This was a better week when compared to the past few weeks that I had at work**, finally I am getting released from my current assignment on 30th of this month. It had been one big battle, for I was trying to get release since past one year. I learnt a couple of lessons during this project which I thought of penning down:

1. Your manager gets a higher salary for doing his work, i.e. making you work and most of the time, making you work on what you do not want to you and he finds immense pleasure in doing that.
2. Never fall for the sweet words of your higher management and take responsibility of more than what you can handle. “This is an opportunity for you to prove your caliber” “opportunity to shine” etc. this is all bull shit. This simply means that he is already in soup and he wants you to take his place. DO YOUR WORK
3. Never join a project if you do not want to do it. Not even for a day. Most popular and most successful trick is to call you for help and asking for working for a day or two and then you don’t even realize but you become a stakeholder in that project and end up being a frustrated team member for a year(if you are lucky) to two year.
4. When you join the project always ask one question “what it has for me?”.
5. No problem is so big that you can not solve it. All you need is patience and commitment. Once Einstein said "I'm no smarter than others. But I stay with problems much longer after others leave"
6. You are as happy as you make up your mind to be.

** It wasn’t the excess of work which was making those weeks unbearable but it was the complete absence of work in office which made it difficult, very difficult to spend 8 hours in office.

Need Control over Growth?

Three days after issuing an advisory to the American citizens warning them of open manholes during the monsoons, the US Consulate on Thursday sent a letter of apology to the Mumbai civic chief. "The Consulate has written a letter to the municipal commissioner apologizing for the advisory which was received," additional municipal commissioner RA Rajeev told PTI. The warden advisory on June nine by the American citizens’ service unit on the Consulate General of UnitedStates of America website advised its citizens in Mumbai to beware of open manholes without warning signs, non-existent sidewalks, and flooded streets.

This was one and another one was Scarlette Keeling case. Is this not the time to wake up?? From India, The Educational Hub of the world, known for Taksh shila and Nalanda; being known as “Sone ki Chidia” for decades, Land of Gautam, Nanak and Budhdha, this is what we became. Earlier world was looking up to us and India was the dream destination for everyone for all the obvious reasons, but now warnings are being issued for those who are visiting India. What we see in Mumbai, Kolkata, and Hyderabad etc. is the outcome of uncontrolled and unplanned growth. Making attempts for growth and development is one very good thing to do but should it not follow some amount of initial and continual analysis of the resources available, should the authorities not continuously answer the question “Is this not the limit for this city?” People keep coming to the place where they hope that they can earn bread for them and for there family, initially everything goes as per the plan but in due course of time there is no land available for staying, there is no food to eat and there is no water to drink, or if it is then it is way too expensive to afford, which then result in increased crime. Also for the authorities it becomes very difficult to control/keep a check on crowd in city. Hours or traffic jams, bomb explosions, and other mishaps are the result of this. Developing a nation does not mean to develop a couple of cities and make them the place where some earn lakhs and crores in a year. Development also means to provide them with proper infrastructure, pollution free and clean environment, safe society and opportunities for proper physical and mental growth. India still has a lot in store for the world that is why people are still coming here, but being the educated and alert citizens is it not our responsibility to treasure what we have and proudly preserve it. Should we not take this development to different parts of the nation and help in making it a developed nation rather than a country of four or five developed cities?