Thought of the Day...

After debating exhaustively with friends on a particular topic, I learnt "Good Principles need not to be widely agreed by all but they need to be deeply followed by oneself"

Winter Sporting!!

This is the autumn time in Netherlands and winter sporting has begun. I had a first skiing experience in my life and was awesome, terrible, thundering and cool (due to snow all around)!!

The game started with attempting to ramp up so that one can get onto conveyor belt (inclined) and reach a particular height. Well, hopelessness captured right from that moment as ramping up was not at all possible with skis always wanting you to ramp down two steps when you are one step up. I was the ruling democratic party and skis represented Left party and so I had to break the coalition to continue ruling. Every minute was being spent in 60 parts and almost after half an hour, I puffed on the belt! but with skis in hand...I climbed with shoes on (skis off) and then boarded the skis :).

When conveyor glided me to the top of the Everest (Madurodam (miniature) version of Everest), I was not ecstatic as there was no conveyor to revert you and the only way of reaching 0 degree inclination was skiing. I started my journey way back and there came a Dutch resting in the mid of the ski path. As a fresher, I never knew how to take a diversion and as usual in all facets of life , lack of skills toppled me down few degrees before I could control enough to recognize me half way of the slope. Well, toppling down again and again could have made me to reach 0 degree but short cuts always harm you. I followed the process, after all IT should be useful to you, controlled myself and did skiing to 0 degree successfully!

Its fun to topple down in snow and then shoving off snow. I was envy of little Dutch kids who used to ski so carelessly but skillfully which could be compared with parents in India castigating their kids for their obvious mischiefs (although scholars say that kids without mischiefs should be considered abnormal).

Anyways, somersault in snow was fun...thank God! no fractures detected till now but office colleagues must have definitely felt that we have done some hooliganism on weekend and beaten up by crowd...

Thought of the Day...

You do not need rebirth to renew life!..That's it!

We are too poor to be late - Rabindranath Tagore

I was just going through the Rabindranath's poems and I kind of paused on this line. When time is considered as wealth, we all have predecided-limited savings and simply because we are unaware of its exact amount, we afford being late.

In light mood, Mumbai subarban railways are almost always late which implies they are affluent. If we consider affluence in terms of INR, then they should increase the amenities and if in terms of time, then they should increase the frequency :)

Depleting Dining Table Size…

I am going to discuss what recession has meant to me…

I deal with IT projects means I deal with team members whenever I am out of my cube – not facing the flat screen and hitting the keys to pass 0s and 1s to Intel brain to make it think and help business use semiconductors to conduct business. (I read kind of similar analogy in some magazine couple of years ago.)

I was in US when Lehman Brothers decided to inaugurate so called Great Depression. The inauguration was so grand that other financial institutions in US did not have patience and rushed to show their pockets empty. Then came time when mergers and takeovers inundated the US financial sectors. With financial sectors going bankrupt, other industries felt the heat and started amputating IT infra.

It is at this stage when recession started taking toll on me. Don’t rush to conclude that I lost the job. Recession to me was depleting dining table size. Layoffs laid team members off the office dining table and there was a time when I used to dine alone at that table.

I was switched to new client and the same has started happening at this new dining table. With few members left in the team, to avoid feeling unused seats at the table, we have switched to a smaller table. Hope time does not come again that I will have to dine alone…

But nevertheless, recession can never devoid me of my best friend – one with Samsung face, Intel brain and remaining Logitech parts!!