The Traffic Man

Have you ever thought what a road would be for a traffic police man. For each one of us the road leads somewhere, but for the Traffic man it is so still, he stands there all day long directing traffic, his position unchanging. All around there is motion but is static like the light house in the sea which keeps being hit by the waves all the time.

Jog Falls

Sometimes, rather most of the times, unplanned journeys are the best ones. Well, this time it was a visit to the beutiful Jog Falls with a freind rom office, Pawan. All credit goes to him for organizing everything, my only contribution being the agreement to go :)

Sealong travels, the bus slated to leave Bangalore at 10:30, eventually left around 12. We reached the bus stop at 10:15 and due to the delay got time to grab a bite at the nearby Shanti Sagar. I gobbled up a lot of Pavs, thanks to the good quantity of the bhaji. Pawan had his regular smokes, and we made small talk, well the initial ice breaker time when you go out with somebody you are used. So that was the time when we started talking.

Into the bus at around 11:15 we went to sleep, the long day a work being the primary culprit. And ya it was a sleeper bus, pawan had the upper berth while i was in the lower one, just above the tyre. Not surprisingly it was a like sleeping through an earthquake, but then having not slept the last night, i went unconscious as soon as i hit the bed.

Morning around 8, we landed at this place called Sagar. Sagar is small town with a typical bus adda having those pay toilets, jittery buses and small shops all around. Next we boarded a bus to the Jog as our stay was at a KSTDC guest house near the falls.

Jog falls are beautiful to say the least.

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20-20 cricket and today's society

T-20 cricket to me represents the whole conscience of the society we live in today. We want quick results, we are intolerant for failure. The slower but more solid players of old like Dravid are not valued; what is valued is the quick cameos by the Yusuf Pathans.

But where is this taking us to.

Early burn outs, a lot of one match wonder, a loss in the concept of solid foundation, a loss in the ability to give second chance to those who fail.

We as a society today respect speed, be it someone who earned quick bucks, someone who reached a higher position quickly without looking at the means used to get there. Most of the times the effort of those who actually work for society are easily forgotten. There is a mad rush to the top, cause the concept of everyone being respected has been lost. Anyways its no longer are people who are respected, its just money.

Another aspect to the issue is that we are not ready to look for solutions by discussions any more, but would rather fight or kill someone to get the work done, cause patience is no longer a virtue we carry along.

Damn ... sometimes I just become so pessimistic ! These are just thoughts. May be there are brighter things coming out of all this, may be i am just missing a basic point, but till then T20 for me is the face of the impatient society of today.

Logic killed my lover

Logic i believe is the opposite of love. Every relation, as soon as it gets into the argument of 'You did this hence I'll do that', goes one step closer to death. For love there is no logic, its unconditional ie. without conditions. And logic is defined only based on conditions. As soon as we start putting conditions there is a part of the love that is lost. Giving without expecting any return is an illogical act, but is the basis of an everlasting relation.

Death by Greed

We dont know so much about this world. I realized it today after seeing a documentry on Enron. Everyone should know the enron story to see what can happen wrong, how one lie can lead to another and giving power to people who live only for money can
I do not still understand exactly what went wrong with Enron, apart from the fact that they did a lot of futures trading and misrepresentation of their companies.

And their downfall started right after all that they did in california. It always struck to me why did California have some one Arnold as its governer. Well hge always came across as macho, but never intelligent. Today i know that he was the result of all the power games played by the top guys at Enron

The Motorcycle Diaries

Watched the motorcycle diaries today .... the voyage of transition of Che (Ernesto). It was so much like the journey of Siddharth who was stirred within after seeing the plight of people and went looking for answers. Once he found them he was no longer the same but became Gautam Buddha.

It was about the moments, the moments when you meet yourself devoid of any superficiality, about the moments when something within you cries out to stand up and fight, about moments of pity on those you meet and more so on yourself for not doing something about their state, despite have the power to do so.

Surely, the greatest journey one can ever make is the journey to find oneself, to get in touch with your real self.

Like philosophy aside, I was surprised to see the awesome similarity between the landscapes and the people of Peru to those of Arunanchal Pradesh. Reminded me of my journey to Ziro, one of the most adventurous trip i have been on. It was the kind of experience that will be hard to recreate.

Going to the Incas civilization sites in Peru along with a bike trip across India like the one in motorcycle diaries is certainly up there in the 100 things to do before i die !

Also, I think everyone should take such a journey once in his life time, the earlier the better, to travel across the country, bond with people, understand the difficulties that they go through, so that you start valuing the gift of good life that some of us are born with.

Conversations about love

Whatever one does, there needs to be love, an attempt to the highest union. Only then can one be happy. Happiness derived from the pleasure of taking and giving control to each other.Take a socccer ball for instance, inanimate till we bring it to life, but once brought to life it is a pleasure in falling in love with it, trying to understand every interaction it makes with your body.

Such is the beauty of love that it can happen with anything, anywhere. The only criteria for it being a source of lasting happiness though is that u need to give it your all.It is the principle meditation is based on. The principle of meditating on a certain object, a certain God and falling in love with it so deeply that nothing else is important, that you loose all your other thoughts but the one of him .

We .. the revolution

We are a bunch of people who are passionate about technology and strive to use it to solve problems and create products that add amazing value to the society and lot of profits for uor clients.Its time for us to group together to ignite our hidden desires andto create a forum and reserch group wherein we do stuff we like, to form something on the lines of MIT media labs,to create a forum for research like the way probably google does ..the best part of our company is the open atmosphere that we have here, with even the highest level ppeople easily accesible for discussion.With experience of the older people, and the exuberence and the creative ability of the younger crowd we can create a amazing comunity of nerds to visualize a new world for tommorow.The NEXT gen of things ... ides that will change the world in amazing ways....Lets be the torch bearers for the society and give our contribution to the way the world of tommorow will be shaped.In todays world of connectivity and open source we have all the reason to feel empowered, to be at par with anyone, anywhere else in the world.Lets gather ... brainstorm ... and take all the advantage of the atmosphere that we have all accidently or otherwise landed in ..... there is no reason for us to be restricted by anyhting .. no resource in now faraway ... every voice .. every idea is precious ... every thought might be a key to a locked ocean of ideas ...all are invited ... all are stakeholders ... all are drivers ... and all are the source ... welcome to the new world order ... be a part of the revolution ....

Smile while you sleep

I just wish that each day you sleep with a smile on your face, so i know you sleep happy and content, lost in beautiful worlds in your dreams ....

Why Floyd?

Pink Floyd brings along an amazing aesthetic appeal to most of its songs.
All their songs are multidimensional, and give you a theatrical experience.

A morning bright

Another day, another accident ... this time it was an invisible speed breaker ... damn ... when will i learn to drive !!
Just this time i didn't but rather hit the bumper of a Zen :)

Hit the Gym for the first time in life ... lets see how long can i survive the morning 6'o' clocks.

The sense of SELF

the strong sense of self of another person can sometime make one feel a loss of importance when in company of that person. If you expect respect from someone and you fails to get it, it builds a negativity towards that person for no obvious fault of his.

Looking and thinking ahead and loosing sight of the present is a common trend among a lot of enterpreneurs wherein lies the recipe for disaster.

All for a price

stars on the rise
all for a price
on the river of life
in a boat made of lies
where there is no horizon in sight
no wrong and no right
cause the rules have lost their might
and the people have lost their fright

I, the ordinary

the truth eludes me, and life continues to fool
i wasnt here for an ordinary life I'd thought
to salvation i'll take the world before it rots
but like all else here i am,
lost in small battles of mundane life, of mundane thoughts

Is money the only cause left to run behind
no goodness inside to shine
its all just become a race,
a race to find the next goldmine
and when we reach there
we run for the next one ahead,
till we find ourselves submerged in a sea of gold
shine spread all around
but the eyes they're always closed

Taniya

She sits besides getting ready to say good bye.
For the last time i look into those eyes and capture a picture to nail on the memory walls.
I cant cry right now lest she comes to know my love for her eternal.
The fleeting feeling is taking over.

What a wife/ girlfreind brings to a man

High level of Accountability

.. the list shall grow

We the unfocussed

i think this world can do with a few unfocused people.
though they might not right away serve the purposes of companies that
work in specialization, these men can definately help the world move forward.

due the hazy nature of their outlook of the world they can percieve all kinds of shapes out of nowhere,
sometimes those which others have missed and at other times those that do not exist and are purely
creation of their mind which has a propensity for works of fiction.

for the world to progress, these two kind of people will have to work together.
those with the depth and those with the breadth.

Evolution

there is no end to evolution,
so why run, ejoi it now,
believe you are evolving,
and help urself evolve,
cause it not ur mind that knows of this evolution but only your
innner soul, the one that is in connection with the soul of the world,
of the universe.

Uncertainity

something within me suddenly started feeling insecure.
The same me who was till yesterday ready to live life the way it came, suddenly sees the need for a plan.

Suddenly the feeling has creeped in that time is running out.
I am sure that it not a normal life that is a stake here. What stands at stake is the greatness, the sense of having achieved something extraordinary.

Life can go on, and with some luck finances wont ever be a problem.

The knowledge exist within that nothing can be achieved without hardwork.

What we call hardworkk actually means doing things that we dont want to do in our otherwise routine life.
Something that requires an effort. And once you start enjoing that effort its not really hardword.
So the trick is to fool urself into believing that what you are doing is actually fun.

The inner urge to do something has to be great enough to pull you over your lazy self,
that which believes in looking for shortcut to everything, that which has forgotten to think hard to fight.

The need is to revive the fighter, the spirit that can help carry off the dumbest of activities with the best of spirits feeling more refreshed that drained.

Coming back to the topic of the uncertainity of the future.

Sometime ago, Dug Tank in his talk at the company said that we need to be a master of our craft in order to survive.
That thing makes sense but what happens to this mind that is not ready to stick to anything.
That wishes to be everything, wants to do everything.

Office Time

Who said office was bad .. its at times heavenly break from the life at home ...
when u want to run away from the haphazardness spread around you to a place where
you have a goal, a mission to live by ...

Plus new faces to look at who have nothing personal to discuss but only a goal that everyone is working towards.

Life

The wind blowing through his wispy tufts of hair. Wiping his spectacles he looks at the scenery that surrounds him, right out of a National Geographic magazine page.
But he didn't know what to do next. All these years the dream he had seen, the place he wanted to be at was right in front of his eyes.
Something was missing. Probably her touch, her nagging presence that he hated then but which was missing so glaringly in this defining moment of his life.

A legion of Buddhist monks passing by him, smiling in a unexpectant way.
Out to find the truth of life, traveling far and wide, he slowly but surely started realizing that he was going on the easier route.

The Sea and the Setting Sun

On the sea shore, I sit besides my house, watching the sun set. Dreamy eyes they watch every movement in the water with a rapt attention. The only occasional disruptions are offered by the flocks of birds flying close to the water creating shadows on the setting sun, scenes right out of a painting. This time it somehow provides a perfect setting for retrospection and for reflection on life. The vast sea sets forth the stage for thoughts to flow out uninterrupted, into open space, for thoughts experiment to happen.

Far and wide I travel sitting here, any boundaries are only my creation.
Inside, outside the travel is effortless and free.
Memories zooms past at express speeds.

.. to be continue .....

Too good song

Free Bird ..... guitatring can't get better ..... the guitar sings out the lyrics!!

Lessons in Understanding People

- Every one wants rewards, if he works hard .... give it
- No politics dude ... its more often than not explicitly evident ...
- Never judge a person by the company he keeps, and actually try not to judge a person at all ....
- Give people chances and once you do so ... believe in them ... give them confidence ... everyone has potential, the need is to find the key to unlocking it!!