On day to day basis a lot of questions will be thrown at us by the people whom we meet. For some we will have ready answers, for some we think and answer, some will be yes or no types, some you can’t answer, and some you don’t want to answer, some you will ignore. For some of the questions, you will literally would like to answer in a different way but will hold your tongue and end up saying something. Below are such questions and answer and I wish I could say so:
You will go to someone’s house and they will ask “Oh you came just now?” Then what, why will I come yesterday only and sleep in their footpath and get up and visit them now? We will foolishly end up saying “Yeah” and give a half moon smile.
On a weekend, you would have gone to watch a movie and might come across a friend during the interval. He will for dam sure will ask “Oh, you have come to see the movie ya?”. Boss what do you think I am doing in the theater? Do you think am selling Pop Corn here?
May be you will be visit some place and from some corner of earth one of your known guy will jump in front of you and ask ‘ Oh , how come you here?”. You will feel like saying - What do you mean chief? Is Am not supposed to come here? Is it a crime to come here? If so what are you doing here?
Take Away : Don’t simply shoot question. You might have the answer already.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Monday, February 16, 2009
Why I don’t like Coffee Shops?
As a whole and sole, this is my view and all you people are most welcome to visit again n again n again….
By all means I agree that the ambiances created by these shops are amazing and a great place to chit chat with friends and family. My point here is, why is bloody so so expensive? By paying so much why should I prepare my own coffee by mixing milk and sugar. Pathetic feeling man.
These shops charges nearly 45 bugs for a normal coffee, whereas for the same amount you will get 250 gm fresh coffee powder!!! Some of the best hotels charges 6- 8 bugs for the superb coffee with bubbles and the best part is by – two is allowed. Okie, for the sofa and chair you charge some extra bugs and make it 15 Rs, but not even a single paisa extra man.
More than anything, people are going just to show off his / her or parent’s money power or to swipe the dangerous credit cards or just because his / her friend is a regular visitor to coffee shop or to maintain some nonexistent level. Belive me most of them will not like the taste but still would like to go.
On top of all these things, it’s amazing to know:
1. J. K Rowling wrote first few editions of Harry Potter sitting in a coffee shop. She used to buy a coffee and sit there for ages so that she will get some light and heat.
2. The CCD on the Mysore – Bangalore road is the highest revenue earner in Karnataka for the Group. They are open 24*7.
Take Away is : I love to own a Coffee Shop.
By all means I agree that the ambiances created by these shops are amazing and a great place to chit chat with friends and family. My point here is, why is bloody so so expensive? By paying so much why should I prepare my own coffee by mixing milk and sugar. Pathetic feeling man.
These shops charges nearly 45 bugs for a normal coffee, whereas for the same amount you will get 250 gm fresh coffee powder!!! Some of the best hotels charges 6- 8 bugs for the superb coffee with bubbles and the best part is by – two is allowed. Okie, for the sofa and chair you charge some extra bugs and make it 15 Rs, but not even a single paisa extra man.
More than anything, people are going just to show off his / her or parent’s money power or to swipe the dangerous credit cards or just because his / her friend is a regular visitor to coffee shop or to maintain some nonexistent level. Belive me most of them will not like the taste but still would like to go.
On top of all these things, it’s amazing to know:
1. J. K Rowling wrote first few editions of Harry Potter sitting in a coffee shop. She used to buy a coffee and sit there for ages so that she will get some light and heat.
2. The CCD on the Mysore – Bangalore road is the highest revenue earner in Karnataka for the Group. They are open 24*7.
Take Away is : I love to own a Coffee Shop.
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Some of my Role Models
Some of my Role Models:
Don’t ask me – Am I a role model to anyone? I might hit you coz am not even I a successful follower, so to be a role model is far away. I am still working on how to be a follower and pick up positive things from the people whom I meet.
I am mentioning the names without taking the respective permission so my apologies. There are many people who inspired, helped, encouraged, guided me and would like to mention few here in this posting. As and when I get a chance I will pen down all of them.
My Dad: Mr. Adishesh
Who lost his dad when he was 6 month old in my granny’s womb. Bought up by his Mama, along with his 6 kids. Seen dirty face of the poverty at the early stage of his life and always made sure me, my sisters and brother never get a hint of it. Even though he never sat next to me and taught me through the books, so many live examples which he gave on the daily basis on how to give and take respect, owning responsibility, managing money and being strong from inside will take me long.
He is my role model because of the non conditional love and affection he gave me. Always I look up to him for what he is and think “will I gonna be a good father like him?
“. I don’t know.
My Teacher: Mr. Clyde D’ Costa
One of the most disciplined, very interesting, active and inspiring teacher I have ever met. He is the man who was very much focused in to his work and gave 100% in whatever he did. He was teaching Business Communication and techniques and a very practical person and used to teach us through Case studies and group activities. He has a very well maintained and informative car miniature collection.
I respect him a lot and in many occasion try to duplicate him. One of the beauty was, his mother used to stitch his clothes which was fitting him figure accurate !!!
Don’t ask me – Am I a role model to anyone? I might hit you coz am not even I a successful follower, so to be a role model is far away. I am still working on how to be a follower and pick up positive things from the people whom I meet.
I am mentioning the names without taking the respective permission so my apologies. There are many people who inspired, helped, encouraged, guided me and would like to mention few here in this posting. As and when I get a chance I will pen down all of them.
My Dad: Mr. Adishesh
Who lost his dad when he was 6 month old in my granny’s womb. Bought up by his Mama, along with his 6 kids. Seen dirty face of the poverty at the early stage of his life and always made sure me, my sisters and brother never get a hint of it. Even though he never sat next to me and taught me through the books, so many live examples which he gave on the daily basis on how to give and take respect, owning responsibility, managing money and being strong from inside will take me long.
He is my role model because of the non conditional love and affection he gave me. Always I look up to him for what he is and think “will I gonna be a good father like him?
“. I don’t know.
My Teacher: Mr. Clyde D’ Costa
One of the most disciplined, very interesting, active and inspiring teacher I have ever met. He is the man who was very much focused in to his work and gave 100% in whatever he did. He was teaching Business Communication and techniques and a very practical person and used to teach us through Case studies and group activities. He has a very well maintained and informative car miniature collection.
I respect him a lot and in many occasion try to duplicate him. One of the beauty was, his mother used to stitch his clothes which was fitting him figure accurate !!!
Himalayan Blunder – This is what I am reading now
This is an amazing book written by Brigadier Dalvi, which takes you through insider story of the Indo China war of 1962. I think this gentle man wrote this when he was in captive as a war prisoner. For your information this was banned by Govt of India due to its controversial revealing.
Believe me this is a page turner with facts which makes you feel pathetic about stupid decisions made by our so called national heroes and feel so proud about our brave soldiers who went to the war front with few days of food ration and only a pocket full of bullets. One of the facts mentioned in the book says that we had a ratio of 1 Indian soldier to fight 20 Chinese. Also says how drastically we failed in the areas of food storage, clothes, weapons, infrastructure & technology.
I think the situation has not changed much even today and to prove we have a standing example of 26/11.
If you get a chance please read this book.
I recently finished reading “Money Changers” by Arthur Hailey which is a 1975 novel where you get the description of how the big banks failed causing tsunami is US economics. You can easily relate to the fall of Lehman Brothers here.
Take Away: I am really proud of our soldiers.
Believe me this is a page turner with facts which makes you feel pathetic about stupid decisions made by our so called national heroes and feel so proud about our brave soldiers who went to the war front with few days of food ration and only a pocket full of bullets. One of the facts mentioned in the book says that we had a ratio of 1 Indian soldier to fight 20 Chinese. Also says how drastically we failed in the areas of food storage, clothes, weapons, infrastructure & technology.
I think the situation has not changed much even today and to prove we have a standing example of 26/11.
If you get a chance please read this book.
I recently finished reading “Money Changers” by Arthur Hailey which is a 1975 novel where you get the description of how the big banks failed causing tsunami is US economics. You can easily relate to the fall of Lehman Brothers here.
Take Away: I am really proud of our soldiers.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
It's WATER - Bloody don't say WHATEVER
I really get scared when I think of a day without Water. Just imagine, no water to - drink, brush your teeth, to take bath (you will start stinking in 3 days and no one will sit next to you in train, buses, planes – its good though , you have the whole seat for yourself !!!), wash clothes, vessels, vehicles, water plants, flush toilet ….. It goes on. Disgusting man!!!
But we have taken the water availability for granted. Bloody my wife leaves the tap on every day while brushing; I get my car cleaned every day. Just do a rewind of your daily life activities you will find loads of such stupid activities leading to wastage of water. Will I or you do the same if we have to carry the water from miles? But there are people who walk few miles just to get drinking water – this is not in Sahara, may be 500 – 600 KMS from Bangalore. I think we all need to do this at least one day to realize the value of water.
I hate paying money and buying bottled water. We have reached this situation just because we are not utilizing and saving it properly. Just imagine, one day we paying for fresh air and sun light.
In our house, my brother has used some old pipes to do rain water harvesting and bloody belive me, the water level in the well has literally increased. (no effort from my side though ). From my side what I have done is drastically cut down the wastage, posted few articles on water usage in our apartment notice board and educating myself by reading on the net.
In your free time please visit this below site, has some good info.
http://www.unep.org/OurPlanet/imgversn/141/ghazi.html
My take away: Will try to reduce the wastage as much as possible & whenever I build a house , I will make sure it has Rain water harvesting setup.
But we have taken the water availability for granted. Bloody my wife leaves the tap on every day while brushing; I get my car cleaned every day. Just do a rewind of your daily life activities you will find loads of such stupid activities leading to wastage of water. Will I or you do the same if we have to carry the water from miles? But there are people who walk few miles just to get drinking water – this is not in Sahara, may be 500 – 600 KMS from Bangalore. I think we all need to do this at least one day to realize the value of water.
I hate paying money and buying bottled water. We have reached this situation just because we are not utilizing and saving it properly. Just imagine, one day we paying for fresh air and sun light.
In our house, my brother has used some old pipes to do rain water harvesting and bloody belive me, the water level in the well has literally increased. (no effort from my side though ). From my side what I have done is drastically cut down the wastage, posted few articles on water usage in our apartment notice board and educating myself by reading on the net.
In your free time please visit this below site, has some good info.
http://www.unep.org/OurPlanet/imgversn/141/ghazi.html
My take away: Will try to reduce the wastage as much as possible & whenever I build a house , I will make sure it has Rain water harvesting setup.
To my friend - Sundeep
I can’t really imagine that I am writing a tribute note to this guy, Sundeep. Forget about this, I would have never written a letter to him coz we were in so much in contact through meetings & calls. On some incidents he just dropped in to see me or just to say hi or to be with us at midnight.
It dint take much time to get really close with this. I meant really close Okie! What and all we shared – accommodation, food, jokes, parties, travelling, work, dreams, money, cards, and passwords. Bloody it is as simple as like, I never said no to him and vice versa.
He was a lion hearted guy with no fear and hard feelings, always politically correct, filled with positive attitude and thinking, practical, fun loving, dam possessive about his things & sufferer of Irritable bowel syndrome.
In fact I started writing a book about our friendship and wrote about 13 pages and never moved from there. I will seriously think of finishing the same.
My take away from this guy is: “Move Forward”
What I think is: “He is just around, watching us but too busy to get in touch with us. We will wait “.
Monday, February 9, 2009
Rags - My Intro
Hi All,
This is my first blog posting and i really hope i make some sense out of this experience. This is the activity which i was planning to do from many days, and kept on postponing from may months.My obejective of this blog is to express my feelings, thoughts and to learn from every person i come across through this.
I am Raghavendra Rao Adishesh, called as Raghu, Rags by people i know. Am wroking as a Business Analyst at Satyam from past 2 yrs & 5 months.Married to Meera a year and half ago and staying in Bangalore, rooted to Mysore.
Normally a quite loving person, with always trying to keep a smile on face (quite hard though), down to earth, tend to make friends, enjoys PJ's, real life incidents & reading. Have few good friends.wants to make life as simple as possible.
This is my first blog posting and i really hope i make some sense out of this experience. This is the activity which i was planning to do from many days, and kept on postponing from may months.My obejective of this blog is to express my feelings, thoughts and to learn from every person i come across through this.
I am Raghavendra Rao Adishesh, called as Raghu, Rags by people i know. Am wroking as a Business Analyst at Satyam from past 2 yrs & 5 months.Married to Meera a year and half ago and staying in Bangalore, rooted to Mysore.
Normally a quite loving person, with always trying to keep a smile on face (quite hard though), down to earth, tend to make friends, enjoys PJ's, real life incidents & reading. Have few good friends.wants to make life as simple as possible.
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