Management Lessons : “List Management == Life Management”

When you are too occupied with things and you are trying to manage yourselves, by yourselves (i.e. independently) it is but natural that you miss out a certain things (it just doesn’t strike your brain at the proper time, it just slips out!).

I am not ashamed to admit , that, I have had to face those problems at the initial stages of my Univ – Life. Mistakes teach you a lot! They teach you exactly the things you MUST NOT DO, so then you don’t have to worry much about figuring out WHAT to DO!

Entering the Professional Sphere thru IET : the early thoughts…

The shift and transition from School Life to University Life has brought with it lots of new and exciting things learnt and yet to be learnt. To be able to self-help, to manage your “life” independently, to develop the skills needed to be successful in a professional life, etc are a few broadly named ones…

Involving myself in the IET has added all the extra dimensions needed to cultivate and nurture an even more effective, creative, enthusiastic, and dynamic MYSELF.

An NRI Diary

The night of 28th august, when I re-united with my motherland for my vacations. As the plane landed on the tarmac, the sensation of being “home”, after longing for over a year, was boundless!

Walking down the streets, the feeling of “belonging” and “owning” knew no limits in my heart! For an NRI like me, who may have his own “home” out there in the distant lands but no “house” of his own, the feeling is indeed melancholy and nothing of an abnormality!

I want now someone to ask me why I am walkng the streets, and then I proudly reply back saying “THIS IS MY LAND, MY PLACE, MY SOIL!”

08-08-08 : Kewl date, aint it?

Hi there!

I somehow managed to squeeze through my busy schedule and drop in here to write this post! So as to mark 08-08-08 on my cute lil blog (lyk as if its gonna bring me luck!:))

Ordinary people like me wouldn’t care if its 08-08-08 or 09-09-09 or whtever! its for those wierd people out there, who think that a date that arises from the human creation (Calendar) is a miracle, a lucky day, n bla bla… I rather feel at peace believing its all in God’s hands!

Open up any news channel (atleast the Indian ones), and you will find them all filled with Astrologers and Pundits talking to their viewers about this great LUCKY DAY!

“Any marriage that takes place today will be blessed and lucky!”

“Its a very lucky day to propose your dream-guy/gal”

“It is an auspicious day for starting some work!”

HaHaHa…watching/listening to them makes me laugh!! Does a simple date (tht comes frm a calendar created by the mortal humans) really bring in LUCK? Gimme a break!

All that reminded me of the scenario a year back – on 07-07-07! The saammmeee old stories of Astrologers, the saaammeeee old theories of Luck on such a day!! Hah! These media people need something or the other to blabber about! There should be a limti!

Speaking of limits…today, I heard a friend say tht the Olympics 2008 inaugration ceremony was to be held on 08-08-08, all the more, at 8:08:08 (PM i suppose)!! (Lyk as if thts gonna save them frm quakes!)

Thas all fr now…. be kind enuff to lemme know abt any other thngs happening tday!!

AJ.

THE FIRST RIDE ON A RED MONSTER!

The chilled night was already set in with drizzling drops of rain at around 10 PM and the Bazaar flocked with the shopkeepers and customers while I waited for an Autorickshaw to pass by and give me a ride. The time of the night, the weather and my destination – were all a bad combination to add to my misery. After waiting for half an hour, and the rain beginning to intensify, I abruptly decided to board the huge red creature – the Hyderabad public bus. After all trials turned into failure, this was my only hope to get

Rebirth!!

Hello there people!

AJ’s back to blogging! Yeah, thats true!

I am free now, off the entangled mess of burdening commitments, to brush up my journalistic skills and finally begin…umm…resume writing – thanks to a friend and mentor who added the “momentum” needed!

I shall update soon with the new & enhanced categories and works! Keep checking!

As ever, AJ.

A Strange Day of a Strange Vacation of a Strange Year

Today, maybe like the other holidays, was quite strange.

It began like the normal holidays, I woke up late (abt 10 am) and instantly, dizzily stared at my lappy’s screen – it was Fraz! He had come on MSN after about a month!! He had been messaging me since 7 A.M. but then had gone offline by 7:30 am. Sheesh! I missed him!! Now I wonder when he would be online again!

And then I refreshed myself and had a breakfast. After that, switched on the TV which showed those boring old stuff again, but I still watched until 12. And then, it suddenly dawned upon me to check on my friends – How many of them are here in KSA? How are they spending their holidays? etc…

To my surprise, I could get hold of only two of them! This is year is so strange, this vacation is so strange! Most of the Indians have gone for vacations – teachers, students – all! We couldn’t even find any to take tutions from! One friend told me he was simply wasting his holidays here. “I have 15 good channels and I spend my day with it, Or I go online, and sometimes read novels – the only useful thing I am doing is trying to improve my English” said he.

And the other one – his reply was really surprising!! He said “I have distanced myself from movies, I am studying like anything. Man, I have to prepare for IIT exams. We must work from now itself…blah blah blah…” We asked him if he wanted to join us to go to ‘Extra’ (the electronics megastore) but this is what he said – “Nah! Boring” – this was very unusual of him because as far as I know him, He is a Tech Savvy. But his IIT-Mania is nothing new to us – specially when his dad is a product of IIT. Well, we wish him the very Best of Luck!!

And the time flew like this….

It then struck me to explore WordPress and I browsed through the various themes, plug-ins, etc. and was thinking of what categories I could have. Tested a few Plug-Ins, Played with the PHP codes, etc. etc…..

Truely, these holidays are strange – 98% of the people are on vacations; this year is so strange – Silver Jubilee of my school IISD, Diamond Jubilee of my country India’s Independence, 10th Edition of our magazine “The Torch”….and still more to come. I pray that every day of this year and every year to come must prove to be a blessing for us all! Amen.

Well, I must go sleep now, I’m tired…

Bye Bye!