I was reading through the new entries in some of my favorite BLOGs and I came across this post:
http://hodu.com/perils.shtml
A couple of snippets :
A young accountant approached her retired mentor one day and asked very expectantly how she managed such a successful career.
This answer was surprisingly brief: "Good decisions". In anticipation she launched the next question: "But how can I learn to make good decisions?" The wise mentor paused for a moment and replied: "Through experience!"
Again the eager accountant asked: "But how do I gain experience?" Her mentor smiled understandingly: "Through bad decisions!"
And
The second scenario involves the friend or colleague that is a single-minded positive thinker.
The more that you try to verbalize the problem in order to feel better, the more you get interrupted with "positive solutions". The more you crave empathy, the more they inject you with the importance of positive thinking. It leaves you feeling even more dejected and riddled with guilt about your inability to think positively during this trying time.
I have been guilty of this second situation when although my intentions have been sincere, but now in retrospective, it seems that some situations demand understanding and compassion rather than solutions to the problem.
Friday, August 11, 2006
Monday, August 07, 2006
Why GOD Gave Us Friends
GOD knew that everyone needs
Companionship and cheer,
He knew that people need someone
Whose thoughts are always near.
He knew they need someone kind
To lend a helping hand.
Someone to gladly take the time
To care and understand.
GOD knew that we all need someone
To share each happy day,
To be a source of courage
When troubles come our way.
Someone to be true to us,
Whether near or far apart.
Someone whose love we'll always
Hold and treasure in our hearts.
Companionship and cheer,
He knew that people need someone
Whose thoughts are always near.
He knew they need someone kind
To lend a helping hand.
Someone to gladly take the time
To care and understand.
GOD knew that we all need someone
To share each happy day,
To be a source of courage
When troubles come our way.
Someone to be true to us,
Whether near or far apart.
Someone whose love we'll always
Hold and treasure in our hearts.
That's Why GOD Gave Us Friends!
Happy Friendship Day !!!
Thursday, August 03, 2006
Working on other’s code
No matter how good your code is, how well commented it is, how normalized, how well structured it is. Almost always when a new person comes across your code he will curse the programmer who wrote it and reserve the choicest of unmentionable verbs.
I generally have been able to just look at codes and pretty easily decipher them and haven’t had much of problems in this area. And I attached a lot of pride to this.
Now I have begun to face this problem.
So generally you will find tones of people posting about how this programmer’s code sucks and how it should be done instead and so on.
But I find here that I have not been able to fully understand the process or maybe I am just too much in awe of the entire thing. At times my mind just seems to stop working and there are times when I feel that there is no further option or approach which I could use in the particular issue.
This is not a very good situation for me to be in. But I guess I should give myself more time to settle myself in. I have been on the project for less than 3 weeks now and am making so-so progress.
Just thinking aloud
Wednesday, August 02, 2006
So funny, I had to link up LOL
http://whyihatemyhusband.com/blog/
Sample this :
Sample this :
- It's Tuesday and John has a toothache.
Whaa whaa, f***ing whaa.
Yeah, I know, harsh but I find it hard to have sympathy for his plight when floss hasn't touched his gums in over two decades.
Monday, July 17, 2006
Dehradun
Mom and I had planned to go to Dehradun for the weekend. She has decided to buy a house there... and she needed me as a joint applicant for the loan application.
So Friday night, after I came home from Office, she and I packed our bags and took off. The plan was to take the train and reach there by morning. But the train had a waiting of 130. This is the season of kanwarias. Roads in July-August are dotted with thousands of water-carrying, orange-clad kanwarias, devotees of Shiva.
We decided to take one of the private buses. We reached the ISBT and found an agent who was selling the tickets. So we bought 2 for Dehradun and went to board the bus. On reaching there, when we asked to be seated, we suddenly discovered that everybody else had been assigned seat numbers and we had not been. And now suddenly there was no seat in the bus for us also. I harrowed with the bus conductor and with the ticket counter shop they had. Soon it appears that they had actually sold tickets to 6-7 extra people. So I wrangled with them for a good 10 mins.
They tried getting another bus but since it was the kanwaria season so all the buses were directed towards Haridwar and there wasn’t any bus available for Dehradun. So they offered to pay back the money. I was relieved that at least we were not duped by a crook. The bus to Haridwar had a few seats left and we decided to take that one. Dehradun is about an hour’s drive from Haridwar and they tell me that there is a good bus service also from Haridwar to Dehradun.
The bus ride was a nice one and I had a chance to observe closely the mannerisms of kanwarias. Not a very elegant impression, however these guys know how to have fun. They sang and dance till wee hours of the night and we had a hard time trying to sleep. Mom was a bit tired and wanted to sleep but wasn’t able to. However I took my chance to doze off whenever I could.
After a rickety ride, we reached Haridwar and took a Marshal to Dehradun. Beware of these guys as they will smell your naivety and overcharge you at every step. We reached Dehradun around 7 in the morning and were treated to some very refreshing weather.
This trip has left quite a few impressions and I will be writing about them...
So Friday night, after I came home from Office, she and I packed our bags and took off. The plan was to take the train and reach there by morning. But the train had a waiting of 130. This is the season of kanwarias. Roads in July-August are dotted with thousands of water-carrying, orange-clad kanwarias, devotees of Shiva.
We decided to take one of the private buses. We reached the ISBT and found an agent who was selling the tickets. So we bought 2 for Dehradun and went to board the bus. On reaching there, when we asked to be seated, we suddenly discovered that everybody else had been assigned seat numbers and we had not been. And now suddenly there was no seat in the bus for us also. I harrowed with the bus conductor and with the ticket counter shop they had. Soon it appears that they had actually sold tickets to 6-7 extra people. So I wrangled with them for a good 10 mins.
They tried getting another bus but since it was the kanwaria season so all the buses were directed towards Haridwar and there wasn’t any bus available for Dehradun. So they offered to pay back the money. I was relieved that at least we were not duped by a crook. The bus to Haridwar had a few seats left and we decided to take that one. Dehradun is about an hour’s drive from Haridwar and they tell me that there is a good bus service also from Haridwar to Dehradun.
The bus ride was a nice one and I had a chance to observe closely the mannerisms of kanwarias. Not a very elegant impression, however these guys know how to have fun. They sang and dance till wee hours of the night and we had a hard time trying to sleep. Mom was a bit tired and wanted to sleep but wasn’t able to. However I took my chance to doze off whenever I could.
After a rickety ride, we reached Haridwar and took a Marshal to Dehradun. Beware of these guys as they will smell your naivety and overcharge you at every step. We reached Dehradun around 7 in the morning and were treated to some very refreshing weather.
This trip has left quite a few impressions and I will be writing about them...
Monday, July 03, 2006
I turned 26 yesterday.
The entire morning was filled with birthday wish calls.
Had a small party with my extended family. Nothing special… Just some cake and dinner. Was really hot in the evening and so had a little hard time, otherwise had a lot of fun.
My brother gave me the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mein_Kampf by Adolf Hitler. I will read it in the next few days. He commented that 30% of the people who read it turn Nazi.
Anyways it will provide good insight into the mind of a great leader (whose motives are no doubt in question, but a great leader nevertheless).
Had a small party with my extended family. Nothing special… Just some cake and dinner. Was really hot in the evening and so had a little hard time, otherwise had a lot of fun.
My brother gave me the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mein_Kampf by Adolf Hitler. I will read it in the next few days. He commented that 30% of the people who read it turn Nazi.
Anyways it will provide good insight into the mind of a great leader (whose motives are no doubt in question, but a great leader nevertheless).
Sunday, June 25, 2006
Think before you Speak
I am gonna post a list of the feedback I received at the Induction later
I thought I will start working on my delta's and try and improve on them.
One of the delta's was "Think before you Speak"
Well... by nature, I like to keep making funny comments which are fairly well received. However the thing with funny is that different perople have different humour sensivities and what might be funny to one person may be irritating to another and outright offensive to some.
I did some research on Google. Most of the links were bad but I found some which had mentioned the Impact of not "Thinking before Speaking"
One humorous situation also came up.
Then I found this
43things.com is basically a site where people list things they wish to do or have done and they share their experiences in trying to achieve these goals.
One commendable quote from one of the users :
If you just take 5 seconds to think before reacting or speaking, you can save yourself a lot of headaches. Too many people act right away on gut instinct, which is not always smart. You can come off as immature, whiny, selfish, or just plain ignorant, if you just immediately speak or act without thinking about the way you sound or the consequences of what you’re doing and saying (immediately and later on) or even if what you’re saying or doing makes any sense or if you’re just reacting to react. If you would just take 5 seconds to breathe and remember that you’re a civilized human being and not an animal scrapping around in the dirt, you’ll elevate yourself and that’ll be noticed by others who’ll seek to emulate that kind of behavior for themselves. And you’ll eventually learn it as a habit, and remove a lot of stress from your life, and you’ll learn how to talk to and gingerly persuade people to be kinder and nicer to you. You’ll find more peace around you. You’ll make the world a better place.
Makes ya happy. Do it.
I think I have work to do
I thought I will start working on my delta's and try and improve on them.
One of the delta's was "Think before you Speak"
Well... by nature, I like to keep making funny comments which are fairly well received. However the thing with funny is that different perople have different humour sensivities and what might be funny to one person may be irritating to another and outright offensive to some.
I did some research on Google. Most of the links were bad but I found some which had mentioned the Impact of not "Thinking before Speaking"
- http://www.teenadviceonline.org/articles/hurtfulwords.html
- http://peek.thezeroboss.com/archives/004918.html
- http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=657145
- http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/007080.php
One humorous situation also came up.
Then I found this
43things.com is basically a site where people list things they wish to do or have done and they share their experiences in trying to achieve these goals.
One commendable quote from one of the users :
If you just take 5 seconds to think before reacting or speaking, you can save yourself a lot of headaches. Too many people act right away on gut instinct, which is not always smart. You can come off as immature, whiny, selfish, or just plain ignorant, if you just immediately speak or act without thinking about the way you sound or the consequences of what you’re doing and saying (immediately and later on) or even if what you’re saying or doing makes any sense or if you’re just reacting to react. If you would just take 5 seconds to breathe and remember that you’re a civilized human being and not an animal scrapping around in the dirt, you’ll elevate yourself and that’ll be noticed by others who’ll seek to emulate that kind of behavior for themselves. And you’ll eventually learn it as a habit, and remove a lot of stress from your life, and you’ll learn how to talk to and gingerly persuade people to be kinder and nicer to you. You’ll find more peace around you. You’ll make the world a better place.
Makes ya happy. Do it.
I think I have work to do
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