tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14220329138944069212024-03-13T23:09:02.449+05:30I see, I feel, I blogA place to vent out my feelingsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09766662233160713768noreply@blogger.comBlogger92125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1422032913894406921.post-16303388998189159652016-05-12T00:36:00.000+05:302016-05-12T00:36:38.075+05:30Storm<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>Gathering dust blown away,</i></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09766662233160713768noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1422032913894406921.post-13695514893472004682014-06-24T10:13:00.000+05:302014-06-24T10:13:40.073+05:30Revenge of the Tea boy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">A
delicious mouthwatering prospect<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">He
offered me in a cake,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">A
pastry to be specific,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Of
some exotic make.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">It
had chocolate cream,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Around
the corners,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">It
had cherry in the mid,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Devour
me it screamed,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">And
devour I did.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Though
there were some points<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">in
this saga,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">That
looked a bit sordid,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Did
the pastry tasted sour,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">May
be a little rancid?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">But
it was too little,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">And
may be too late,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">I
had cleared all of it,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">That
he gave me on the plate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Now
as I run to and fro,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">From
bed to bathroom<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">I
have ample time<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">to
ponder<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">What
had gone wrong.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">In
the morning<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">In
front of a vendor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">I
had scolded the tea boy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">What
in the name of tea you make<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">You
idiot!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">But
he didn’t reply!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">So
that was it,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">I
had zeroed it on,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">It
was a ploy,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">The
delicious looking pastry,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">was
just a decoy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">It
was a sweet revenge,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Revenge
of the tea boy !<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09766662233160713768noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1422032913894406921.post-81020982171060533412014-06-12T18:44:00.002+05:302015-11-11T13:12:21.595+05:30The Elephant and the Jackals<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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He is big,</div>
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He can trample us,</div>
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With his copious brawn.</div>
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We have to cut him down to size,</div>
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Without indulging in hand to hand fight,</div>
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How could this be done I pose to you,</div>
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The old sly jackal had spoken,</div>
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The onus was now on the crew.</div>
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I have a plan, quipped a young turk,<br />
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Ignoring around a dozen smirk,</div>
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Smirk you may, but am not a nut,</div>
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We will bleed this elephant,</div>
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Through a thousand cuts.</div>
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The left liberal jackals,</div>
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Scratched their head</div>
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Why bleed this elephant </div>
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To its imminent death?</div>
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Isn’t he after all a herbivore</div>
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What danger he poses</div>
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Strategic or core?</div>
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Herbivore my foot</div>
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That is just a sheath</div>
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Haven’t you seen </div>
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His massive twin teeth?</div>
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So do you have<br />
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any plan </div>
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To finally get rid</div>
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of this pachyderm!</div>
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We will blow him up,</div>
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yes, that will be the best.</div>
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Our brave heart Jackals,</div>
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Will wear explosive vest.</div>
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And what happens</div>
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If one feels itchy,</div>
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Or has to scratch his back,</div>
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Thundered the right winger jackal</div>
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To the applause of his pack.</div>
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We are playing with fire,</div>
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We have to be brave,</div>
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May be along the way,</div>
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We may dig a few grave.</div>
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This meeting happened</div>
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Many moons ago,</div>
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The jackals are still trying</div>
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unsuccessfully although.</div>
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Hope someday</div>
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they see the elephant</div>
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As he really is</div>
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And realize their biggest enemy</div>
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Is self deceit</div>
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Also hope that day</div>
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is never too late,</div>
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or an extinct jackal species</div>
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may be the jungle's fate !</div>
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Elephant image: <a href="http://www.cgtrader.com/">www.cgtrader.com</a></div>
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Jackals image: www.wildthornberrys.wikia.com</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09766662233160713768noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1422032913894406921.post-49929824207648085292014-06-10T18:25:00.000+05:302015-12-11T22:13:04.888+05:30Corporate Ping Pong<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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ping pong?</div>
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Please don’t mistake this for the ping pong played on table
with a ball and TT racket by two or four players. Corporate ping pong is played using computer
and laptop and mails and the best thing is there is no limit on the number of
players. Here are the requisites to play
corporate ping pong:</div>
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<span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">1.</span><span style="font-size: 7pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">You must be computer literate</span><br />
<span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">2. You must know how to use e-mails and attachments
(mostly MS Outlook).</span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--> 3.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span>You must know English (not necessary though) and
basic mail etiquettes (again, not necessary).</div>
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<span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> 4 .</span><span style="font-size: 7pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">You need to have more than a couple of people to
play this game, the more, the better.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 7pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">5. </span><span style="font-size: 7pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">You must be a master in the art of passing the
buck.</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> 6. </span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">You must be allergic to get the work done
directly.</span></div>
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For a clearer understanding, let us go through the following
case study:</div>
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Acronyms used:</div>
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QC: Quality Controller.</div>
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CM: Construction
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CASE STUDY:</div>
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<span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">1.</span><span style="font-size: 7pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">A new site worker needs safety shoes replacement
as the size he got is too big for his feet.
He informs the Civil QC about his requirement (requested directly – I
mean the old fashioned way of saying directly without e-mail).</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">2.</span><span style="font-size: 7pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">The Civil
QC mails the CM about this. The “big
shoes” is sent back to the procurement department.</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">3. The
electrical site engineer steps in and mails the Civil QC to get the correct
size of the worker.</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">4. The administrator also steps in and mails the
procurement guy to replace the shoes with perfect size.</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">5. The procurement guys mails the administrator to
give him the correct size first.</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">6. The administrator mails the CM to give him the
correct size.</span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">The CM mails the Civil QC to send the correct
size of the worker.</span></div>
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Note: <i><b>The Civil QC, Site
engineer and Construction manager (CM) are all stationed at site and Administrator
&Procurement guys are in Head office (HO).</b></i></div>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O29EJZkho6A/U5b-CYp99qI/AAAAAAAACW4/tN3BD61BbIQ/s1600/Corporate+Ping+Pong.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O29EJZkho6A/U5b-CYp99qI/AAAAAAAACW4/tN3BD61BbIQ/s1600/Corporate+Ping+Pong.jpg" width="305" /></a>In a nut shell, what happened was a poor chap needed
replacement for his new shoes and his request for new shoes had to wade through
a layer of hierarchies to get to target department. Conversely, the reply from the target
department had also to wade through the same layers to get to him. This is a classical example of corporate ping
pong.</div>
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Hope you have got an idea about how “corporate pingpong” is
played and I believe now you are raring to put your new found <b><i>ping pong</i></b>
skills to use, wishing you all good luck, lets get the ball rolling <span style="font-family: "wingdings"; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09766662233160713768noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1422032913894406921.post-26054089150169365302014-06-03T10:47:00.001+05:302014-06-04T10:11:52.353+05:30The Twin Failures<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">Our
Lamby 150 scooter had broken down & papa was repairing it by the
roadside. He had picked me up from school, and en route had stopped to
collect payment from one of his clients. He did not get payment and now
the scooter was behaving in an errant way. I felt sorry for him, there he
was, a mechanic by trade, who was trying his best to get his son educated in
the best possible way, and here was I, his son, with yet another pathetic
performance in Math & Science. My bag appeared to be heavier carrying
the weight of my twin failures. I could see wind blowing and dust
gathering up at a distance, objects were now becoming hazy, “this aptly
reflects my life” I thought to myself</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">By the
way, if you are wondering about all this, let me give you a brief. I was
a</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b></span><em><b><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">not so
interested in studies</span></b></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b></span><strong><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">student
of PTS, the prestigious convent school of Muzaffarpur. To aggravate the
miseries of people like me, the school had introduced monthly test
papers. This was done to make the students be better prepared and thereby
get good grades in terminal exams. In the last terminal examination, I
had performed poorly and had promised mom that this won’t be repeated, but like
a seasoned politician, I was well adept in not keeping with my promises and so
here I was, back with more eggs in my basket, as my mother used to put it.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 12pt;">When we
reached home, mom </span><span style="line-height: 16px;">inquired</span><span style="line-height: 12pt;"> about my health. After all, I had been sitting
on the answer sheets for 3 days and at any rate, I had to get it signed and
return to class teacher the next day, the pressure must have been telling on my
face.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">Today, I
had to get it signed somehow, but the two most important questions were who
will sign it and how I should be approaching him or her. Neither of the
two parties concerned (mom & dad) were aware of the predicament of their
son. I weighed my options.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">If I
presented my case before papa, chances were there that I would get a good
hiding. Even though, I would like to just walk in, throw the wretched
answer sheets in front of him and ask “ Papa, tum sign karte ho ya nahi” in a
Shashi Kaporean style, I could imagine nothing less than a thrashing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-i1iz2qqW3gI/U41aLA0eMzI/AAAAAAAACT8/LFk3DHi-1h0/s1600/Deewar.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-i1iz2qqW3gI/U41aLA0eMzI/AAAAAAAACT8/LFk3DHi-1h0/s1600/Deewar.jpg" height="150" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">Moreover
one slap from him would be worth 10 from mother. But the best thing was
that it will be swift and over in a jiffy. The after effect of this too
would not be hanging in the air for too long. After all we were men, such
trivial matters won’t keep us on non-talking terms for long. Also, if I
got more than the usual share of beatings from him, I can always count on mom
to bail me out.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">But for
mummy, it was different. There were 3 possible outcomes. The first
was the least dangerous one. She would get angry and may cane me and over
the years, I have developed a thick hide to counter it, so that was not a
problem. The next was slightly more dangerous, she would emotionally
blackmail me by reminding me of my treachery whenever the situation was
ripe. This could be in front of my friends, my sisters, or even in front of
father, uncles, aunties, neighbors, doodhwala, sabjiwali,….the list was
actually quite long. The third and the one I feared most was something
which would have done Gandhiji proud, yes, she would boycott me, me her only
son. And she had the perseverance to carry it on to ad infinitum.
The boycott would go on till I relented and she would extract some sort of
promise from me, which would again come to haunt me during the next exam
results. So you can see, this was a vicious circle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">After
weighing my options carefully, I thought it would be prudent to go to
father. So that day after dinner, I went straight to him and put my
answer sheets in front of him.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<em><b><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">Yes</span></b></em><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">?<span style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">My
answer sheets of Maths and Science.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><b> Okay,
so what</b></span></em><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">Please
sign it, I have to give it to class teacher tomorrow.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<em><b><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">Hmm,
usually you are letting your mother sign it, so why me</span></b></em><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">?<span style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">She will
get hysterical on seeing this.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><b><em><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Hmm, so you think I find it amusing</span></em>?</b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">But I
could see that he wasn’t in a terrible mood. He took his pen and signed
the papers and before he gave it to me, he looked straight into my eyes and
said, “she thinks very highly of you, that’s why she gets hysterical, and I
don’t, that’s why I am signing”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">Now that
was cruel, why could not he just sign it without passing any comments, he had just
blown away all the goodwill that he had accumulated from the point he started
signing till now. Even though I had got the signature with minimum fuss,
the parting sentence had hurt me a lot!! If mom had said that, it would
have been okay, I was used to that, but coming from him, it was really
un-cool. Next time, I will not let him sign my papers, I made a note to
myself as I went to bed.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: white;">carefully avoided going near my mother and went to bed.</span></b><span style="color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09766662233160713768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1422032913894406921.post-24596508000977496502014-05-26T16:38:00.000+05:302014-05-27T11:02:11.718+05:30My Grandfather & Me<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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My Maternal Grandfather passed away on May 10 2014. He was 92 years of age. Today marked the 17<sup>th</sup> day of his
passing away, and also the day when we finally immersed his mortal remains in
the Holy water.</div>
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When a person is no more with us, then only we start to analyze
about his life, his action and their consequences.<b> </b>Believe me, we never had
those heart-rendering, sugar-coated, mushy-mushy scenes which you see in movies
between grandfather and grandson. Ours I
believe was more or less likely the TOM AND JERRY show with myself being Jerry
of course.</div>
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One of the most vividly remembered episode happened when I
was in Std. III or IV. I used to strategically
put my comic books inside my science text during my studying hours and happily
bide my time. My mother would be happy
to see me studying a subject which I usually detested, at least he is trying,
she used to think. Science book being
bigger than most other books aided in shielding the comic book was my reason
for selecting it. However, he blew my
cover. Not only did he blow it, my
grandfather I am talking about, he did so in front of my mother as she had
refused to believe that her son was reading comics instead of studying. I felt a tinge of remorse when I saw her
face, but simultaneously I was planning revenge upon him (nothing more than jumping
up and down on his bed in his absence).
More about these sometime later, as this post is about my Grandfather
and not about me and my Calvin & Hobsian adventures.</div>
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My grandfather was born in Kannur (then Cannnanore) in the
year 1921 on August 15. He was 3<sup>rd</sup>
of the four siblings. I don’t know much
about his growing up years, except that he started working after his SSLC. It was while working in Mumbai (then Bombay)
that he met my grandmother and even though Chetan Bhagat and his 2 states were light
years away, he and my grandmother did what Krish and Ananya did in two states,
(Got married what else). Okay, I went
overboard a little, its not as culturally different as a marriage between a
Punjabi and a Tamilian, but believe me, we Malayalees are divided by our
eccentricities and these change every 1000 m, but we do stand united by our
love for booze and money. And I am
telling you, that I have never been a big fan of my grandfather, still am
confident that he would have beaten Arjun Kapoor’s Krish hands down, no doubt
about it with his cool quotient and glamour.</div>
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By the time he got an
opportunity to work in Singapore, he was already a father of 2 handsome boys,
who were staying at my grandmother’s ancestral house in South Kerala (where we
currently stay). It was while working in
Singapore, that my mother was born.
Unfortunately, my grandmother died while my mother was a small kid, (perhaps
class 2 or 3). Grandfather packed his
bags and together with my mother sailed to India. I believe, he had made up a small fortune by
then (I can safely assume that, going by his frugal ways).</div>
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He clumped my mother with her two brothers in south Kerala
and re-married (this time from North Kerala).
He also invested here, there and everywhere. He bought trucks, started restaurants (years
later while passing through central Kannur in a heavily crowded public bus, I
remember him telling me with a sigh, “Your grandfather once owned a restaurant
here, KG Yesudas came for inauguration.” </div>
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His luck deserted him in a big way, whatever business he
touched turned dud, even his trucks met with accident and he had to sell them
for a loss. The two families that were
dependent on his earnings from both sides of Kerala were not exactly happy with
his frugal and scroogey ways. That he
was losing money perhaps made him a bit more grumpy than he usually was. One more thing that alienated him from his
family was that perhaps he was a bit more of old school, you know the type of
people who never show love or say kind words in front of you, always
criticizing and maintaining a stoic face.
That my mother was deeply attached to him can be because of that girly
thing that these gals have for their fathers.</div>
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As I said before, my relationship with him was never hunky-dory, but after I started earning, there was change in his demeanor towards
me. Perhaps he felt the rascal won’t be
bugging him for money and was relieved because of that.</div>
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He was to the end, an active man, except for the last 2
weeks of his life, where his body became very weak and he needed support from
my mom and sis for performing basic tasks.
His mind was still razor sharp and active. He knew that Man Mohan Singh was the PM,
Pranab Da was President and Ommen Chandy was Kerala CM. A life time Sakhav (Comrade), he would beam
with pride every time he saw pictures of Sreemathy Teacher in Newsprint. She is our relative he would keep on
reminding us.</div>
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His end however was quite peaceful. On that day, in the morning, he was feeling
unwell. Mom made him drink some tea, and
was making arrangement for ambulance when he passed away. My sister was with him and he faintly replied
to her calls. They say, we suffer because
of our bad karmas and enjoy due to our good karmas, that we experience heaven
and hell both here. If that is so, then
I believe, he were not so unlucky as I always thought. At least he had somebody by his side to look after,
to cry for, not to mention the special well wishers and relatives who stood up
and supported us in various ways.</div>
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So, finally what Khuswant singh wrote for his epitaph, I
believe Appupa holds true for you too (at least partially).</div>
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<b><i><span style="background: white; color: #37404e; font-size: 24.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><br /></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="background: white; color: #37404e; font-size: 24.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">"Here lies one who spared
neither man nor God/Waste not your tears on him, he was a sod/Writing nasty
things he regarded as great fun/Thank the Lord he is dead, this son of a
gun."<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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So, Dear Appupa,</div>
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Wish you awesome luck next time, sorry for my little
inadequacies and all the fights that we had along the way, perhaps we can
settle it over a drink or whatever they have up there once we meet, till then
adios</div>
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Love n regards</div>
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Your loving grandson</div>
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DK</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09766662233160713768noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1422032913894406921.post-90445499797033144062014-05-08T16:35:00.000+05:302014-06-03T16:50:29.659+05:30The Materialistic CAD operator vs Iphone guys<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Yesterday, I was a witness to an interesting discussion during
lunch break. We were on our way to take
lunch. I was accompanied by two guys,
lets name them Iphone 4 & Iphone5S.
Needless to say, these guys are diehard users of the mentioned iphone models.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Walking ahead of us was our Autocad operator. Now let me tell you something about this
guy. He has joined our Head office two
months back. Before that he was a site
worker, his exact occupation is still a matter of debate, as some say he was electrical
helper, some say electrician, some say lineman.
Whatever the post, one thing is sure, the young man has risen from the
very bottom of the organizational line. He
is of short, frail built, has a famished look on his face. The earlier CAD operator had trained him
during weekends and after office hours in their living quarters. From the day he had joined Head office as Autocad operator,
he had made it a point to come impeccably dressed. However, his dressing style most of the time
resembled that of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZUpEiOgx4M" target="_blank">Munna </a>of Rangeela (Amir Khan) . Now today, he
was dressed in a skin tight brown pant, brown shirt, black shoes and to beat it
all, a brown tie.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">He was walking just ahead of us. Now, the Iphone 5S guy has a habit of making
fun of people. Basically, this 5s guy is
a nice person, but as they say old habits die hard. Just before we had started our walk, I had switched myself
off from the talks that Iphone 5S and Iphone 4 were having (they were
discussing Autocad operator, what else).
My reverie was broken by Iphone 5s’s patented “ho ho” “hoohoo” “hooohoooo”
laughter, which always triggers some sort of irritation alarm in me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I have tried to reason with 5s many times before, so I knew the effort
was futile. I addressed Iphone 4 this
time. I told him, “Listen Iphone 4, I
know you are a good & kindhearted young man, but since you are keeping
company with 5s, you will unknowingly pickup this habit of making fun of people
without even realizing it, so please be careful”. Now Iphone 4 was really taken aback by my
acerbic comment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">He said, “No, no, I am not making fun of him. I know him from earlier project where he
worked as electrician. That time, he was
wearing normal dress. Now that he is
transferred to Head office, he has started coming dressed like CEO. I said, "So what is the problem in that?. May be he feels, (rightly so) that he has
been promoted, and he has to keep up with the increased prestige status that
comes with promotion". “No no, you are
missing my point” said Iphone 4. "When he
is coming dressed up like this, people are casting strange glances at him. If I was in his place, I would not have worn
any dress which makes me look funny.” "Look funny ? In whose
eyes?", I asked. “Onlookers eyes” said iphone
4. “Why should he care for onlookers,
when he himself is feeling comfortable in the dress that he wears. For me, as long as he is not coming naked to
office, it is fine. Even though I don’t
agree with his color selections, I like his attitude.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Now, iphone 5s, who had been quite all the time, jumped
in. “You got us wrong completely. We were not making fun of him
personally. We were ridiculing his
materialistic attitude." Materialistic
attitude? Now this was turning out to be interesting. Yeah, continued Iphone 5S, he was working as electrician, then he
was transferred to HO as CAD operator.
Now, he is trying to show off people by wearing tie, coat etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I said, “Both you Iphone4 and 5s are engineers. Okay, your family may not be filthy rich, but
still I believe, they supported you till your engineering. Both of you are drawing good salary, (at
least compared to this AUTOCAD guy).
Both of you are Iphone users (so unmaterialistic). Now
coming back to this Autocad guy, he has this famished and fragile built. He speaks Urdu, and can talk broken
English. It can be quite safely assumed
that he comes from not a very strong family background (financially) and is not much educated too. When I see him, I feel inspired, because this
guy has traveled a rough and tough path.
He is still learning daily on his job.
When you people feel that he is showing off or whatever, just look at
this from his angle. Perhaps he feels a
kind of satisfaction coming up dressed like this, may be he just wants to keep
up with the image of Head office. If you
feel, you have something constructive to offer to him, go and tell him
personally . That you are talking behind
his back and making fun of his so called 'materialistic tendencies' is not
going to make you feel better. It is
just negative talk. I hope my point is
clear."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The rest of the way, both (Iphone 5s & Iphone 4) were
silent. Either they had got the point,
or they thought may be keeping mouths shut in front of yours truly was a safe
way to keep away from his boring lectures ;).</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09766662233160713768noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1422032913894406921.post-74539925853572603792014-03-07T20:53:00.000+05:302014-03-12T17:19:51.250+05:30The Ghost<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<i>Lurking</i><br />
<i>through streets at night</i><br />
<a href="http://maryannesjukebox.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/ghost.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><i><img border="0" src="http://maryannesjukebox.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/ghost.jpg" height="200" width="151" /></i></a><i>Hiding in abodes</i><br />
<i>long abandoned</i><br />
<i>I dread the creature</i><br />
<i>They call human</i></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09766662233160713768noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1422032913894406921.post-49456242638606999222014-03-01T14:03:00.000+05:302014-03-01T14:11:24.543+05:30The Batman<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">He stands up there,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">silent n still,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">His cape flutters on, <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">like being fanned<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"> from
a windmill<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Brooding, alone<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">he fights his holy war,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">his most powerful ally,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">is his motor car.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">A trusted butler,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">sometimes helps him out,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">When his adversaries,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">have him knocked out.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">His weapons n gadgets,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">keep troubles at bay,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">As he jumps in at the right time,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">and saves another day.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">However, I do wonder,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Adorning his broad back<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09766662233160713768noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1422032913894406921.post-42861035663397573152014-02-11T12:58:00.000+05:302014-02-11T13:02:54.328+05:30The Crane Operator<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Now all he that he had to do,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Come forward you,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Project Engineer jumped to the fore,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Okay hold on,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Said another voice,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">That was manger of construction<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">He didn’t want the operator,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Came trundling in,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">How could he be left behind,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In all this din!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What is this nonsense,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">All this is wrong,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">This crane operator,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Is one big moron!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">A moron, who, me?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I can see morons<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<o:p> ***</o:p><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 16px;">Po = malyalam for go :)</span></div>
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width="200" /></a>I have never been a gadget guy, so you can understand my </div>
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predicament when I was started toying with the idea of purchasing a smart
phone or a tab or a laptop. I wanted a
device for connecting with my people (net call), for watching </div>
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movies, playing games , reading
books. I decided to drop laptop
altogether since the cost was much more than my budget at hand. So I had to make a choice between a tablet
& a smart phone.</div>
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<b> SAMSUNG TAB 2</b></h3>
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<b>HUWAEI MEDIA PAD</b></h3>
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That was how I had purchased Sony Walkman series mobile phone from Univercell back
in 2007 while working in Coimbatore. However, this approach was more like cat running across a road buzzing with vehicles. If you have observed, the </div>
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Coming back to my electronic purchase adventure, the two major electronic purchases after that were mobile phone
& camera. I was aided & well
supported by my friend Solvin in this quest, so all I had to do was just sit
back and let him do all the bargaining and spec investigation for me.</div>
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However, Solvin was now miles away (though he gave me his recommendations via mail). I started surfing the net diligently and was amazed to find the variety of gadgets on offer. Once I decided the amount of money I was interested in investing in a gizmo, the list shrank considerably. As I said before, the choice was now between tab and a smart phone. The biggest drawback of a tab was the size, which limited the mobility. Okay, it was lighter than a laptop and easier to carry also, but still it won’t fit into a pocket like a smart phone would. However, I have had two experiences of losing mobile, once in Coimbatore (my Sony Walkman) and thence in Delhi. So, I was circumspect by my personal experience and decided on altogether shunning the mobility factor. And there I was, finally decided on a gizmo, a tab it would be.</div>
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Here, in Saudia, at that time, there were only 3 tabs which I
liked, Samsung tab 2 (7 inch), but the cost was twice more than Huwaei & Lenovo, Huwaei Media Tab (7
inch) but internal memory was 8 gb only and Lenovo Ideatab A2107 (16 GB
internal memory)…..Lesser cost & 8
GB internal memory more provided by Lenovo (compared to Huwei) swung my
decision in its favor and this is how I became a Lenovo tab owner.</div>
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width="200" /></a>I am into my sixth month of using this tab now. Overall, I am satisfied with the performance. Following threads in GSMarena.com has also been helpful in understanding the tab functions better.</div>
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Don’t burn your cash investing in a high-end gizmo. Even if you have too much cash to burn, put
the excess cash into an asset like FD, RD, even gold
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<li class="MsoNormal">Get a clear picture about
what you want to do with the device.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Check the price range of
the devices you like.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">By, now you may have spotted
more than a handful of brands offering the same set of specifications. </li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Compare these different
gizmos through online forums…I use GSM arena for this.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">You will have a good idea
by now about what you want.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Go to the shop, check the
device, if you like the look and feel of it in your hands, then bingo…go
for it.</li>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09766662233160713768noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1422032913894406921.post-34300969205098409362014-01-12T20:50:00.000+05:302014-01-13T10:28:15.201+05:30To live a life<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>do we have to fight</i></div>
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<i>every day</i></div>
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<i>with whatever life</i></div>
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<i> throws up !</i></div>
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<i>Do we have to bend,</i></div>
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<i> to buck,</i></div>
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<i>& then bounce back</i></div>
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<i> from all miseries,</i></div>
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<i>that keep on hovering unrelentingly,</i></div>
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<i>from all directions fathomable?</i></div>
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<i>To live a life,</i></div>
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<i>Can’t we take</i></div>
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<i> a deep dive ,</i></div>
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<i>and rise up elsewhere?</i></div>
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<i>New surroundings,</i></div>
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<i>new place,</i></div>
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<i>where weakness won’t be exposed,</i></div>
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<i> in a hurry,</i></div>
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<i>and even when</i></div>
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<i> they are exposed,</i></div>
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<i>may be we can go</i></div>
<i> for yet another dive
!</i><br />
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<i><br /></i></div>
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<i>Image Courtesy: www.dustincox.us</i></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09766662233160713768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1422032913894406921.post-36919098546583598862013-11-04T19:45:00.002+05:302013-11-18T17:56:05.147+05:30A Peek into the Diary of a Touchy Old Man<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4OG4xljxA_A/UnerTptt9YI/AAAAAAAACFw/EG2Tqmuyr_s/s1600/groping.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="313" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4OG4xljxA_A/UnerTptt9YI/AAAAAAAACFw/EG2Tqmuyr_s/s320/groping.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;">I touched her from behind,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;">I have been doing this,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;">For quite some time !</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;">She never raised any hue n cry,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;">Never told me I should not try!</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;">I carried on, time went on,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;">Became an MP and she won a crown,</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;"><br />Then this incident took place,<br />Really don’t know what to make!<br /><br />She stood there before me,<br />It was too enticing you see<br />I again touched her<br />She did not seem to mind<br />But I was wrong,<br />And that soon did I find!<br /><br />Only one question<br />I have to ask<br />For all these years<br />Why she did not talk<br /><br />Public service was<br />The only thought,<br />When I touched her on<br />Different spots!</span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;"><br /></span>
<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;">((Recently the media had a field day reporting on the incident involving an actress and an elderly gentleman who also happens to be a member of parliament.))</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09766662233160713768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1422032913894406921.post-1278712868633939502013-10-26T14:41:00.000+05:302013-10-26T22:39:50.539+05:30A Rendezvous with Charlie Chaplin<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I was part of an audit team and we were camped at a Hotel in
Dehradun during Nov-Dec 2012. We were 2 Executives
(I was one of them), 1 Asst. Manager and 1 Audit Manager, all sharing a double
bed room. We were not complaining as
most of the rooms falling in our budget were booked in advance because of some
VIP marriage and also during this time it was very cold in Dehradun, so
foursome was not a crowd.</div>
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As there was only 1 bathroom attached, we had to time our
rising up from bed. When I woke up in
the morning, it was already 6:30, and the other executive was up and watching
TV, I guess it was some Tamil/Telugu Action Movie. As I got up and moved out of bed, the
executive watching TV left the chair and rushed to the bathroom, exclaiming
that he would be out in 10 minutes. For
want of anything better to do, I took the remote control and started surfing
channels.</div>
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As someone who quit watching
TV long time back, I have my sympathies for the current generation of TV
viewers. It is really tough for one to
select, chose and view when there are thousands of options being bombarded from
all directions; daily soaps, reality shows, sports, movies, news channels,
fashion channels, music channels, all vying for one’s eyeballs.</div>
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Finally, I zeroed in on Children’s channel, Pogo I suppose, it
was showing Charlie Chaplin’s movie. You
know, Charlie, always the unemployed tramp, is newly employed at a
factory. </div>
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<br></div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pKyC33w2KWk/UmuEIbbFqlI/AAAAAAAACEs/1GuBcjYVaZs/s1600/Conveyor+Belt+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pKyC33w2KWk/UmuEIbbFqlI/AAAAAAAACEs/1GuBcjYVaZs/s1600/Conveyor+Belt+1.jpg"></a><b>THE SCENE</b>: The owner of the factory is not happy with
the productivity and wants everyone to work more and increase
productivity. Charlie Chaplin is very
much eager to prove himself at his new job, his job is on the conveyer belt and
all he has to do is just hammer in a screw into a metal plate. When everybody goes for break, Charlie Chaplin
continues with his hammering and upsets the conveyor belt. In the meantime, the cleaning women comes and
asks Charlie to step aside. While the
cleaning women is bent and mopping the floor, Charlie who is now hammering
every protruding object like a manic as he cannot stop his hand, spots a button
on the woman’s butt, which looks like a screw waiting to be hit, finally he
gives in and hits her with the hammer on the butt and the lady chases him
around the factory for his (mis)deed.</div>
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<br></div>
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I was laughing like a mad man while all this was going
on. The Assist. Manager woke up because
of my laughing, wondering what the hullabaloo was all about? I pointed to the
screen as I could not talk and I was breathless with all the laughing. The other executive meanwhile came out of the
bathroom and exclaimed, “Hey, you still watch all this stuff?” It was sort of an accusation, after all weren't
all of us grownups?</div>
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I immediately made a lunge towards the bathroom. Fifteen minutes afterwards I stepped out into
a different room, a room which was livelier, cheerful, and full of camaraderie. My executive colleague was all dressed up and
ready, sitting in the chair and laughing like a man possessed, giving him
company were our Assist manager, sitting on the edge of the bed and Audit
manager, still cuddled up in the bed with the blanket on.</div>
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<br></div>
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<b>THE SCENE</b>: The Owner of the company has bought some new
machine which can feed the workers, so </div>
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that company can save time on the lunch
break. The person chosen as the
volunteer for this is, yes, you must have guessed it, our dear Charlie
Chaplin. His grimaces while the machine is
forcing food down his throat, then rubbing his face with napkin, again making
him drink something, is such that it is
very difficult for any normal being not to laugh.<br>
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<br></div>
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<br></div>
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What brought this incident back to my mind was the FB status
on my friend’s time line, which said, if you can still laugh watching Tom and
Jerry, then it means life has been kind to you!</div>
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While I have never
had problems laughing while watching Tom & Jerry, Charlie Chaplin, Laurel
and Hardy, perhaps the three of my colleagues, never had the chance or time or
inclination to check out on these. However,
when chance came on a cold morning in December in Dehradun, none of them were
found wanting!</div>
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Thank you Charlie Chaplin,
Tom & Jerry, Laurel & Hardy for always
bringing the kid out of us, and thank you Richa for your wonderful time line
post, which brought this memory to the fore.<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Wingdings"><br></font>).</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09766662233160713768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1422032913894406921.post-31620304934340824282013-10-10T20:05:00.001+05:302013-10-11T12:51:26.737+05:30Rich Dad Poor Dad<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I would have studied higher</div>
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And landed my dream job</div>
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<a href="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRwubn8so7htCCnkwSA4BoIWSAn_RXT0x_YXDTTsCOs5GdVknrQSg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRwubn8so7htCCnkwSA4BoIWSAn_RXT0x_YXDTTsCOs5GdVknrQSg"></a>I would not have struggled this much</div>
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I am telling you with a sob,</div>
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Things would not have been,</div>
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This much bad</div>
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If and if only I had a rich dad!</div>
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<br></div>
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I would have ventured into trading</div>
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Grand plans I do have</div>
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Work tirelessly to see my trade thriving</div>
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And make people just rave</div>
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But this never happened</div>
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Business never I did</div>
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Capital was never forthcoming</div>
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Lenders weren’t ever stupid</div>
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But credit I wouldn’t have needed</div>
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And I don’t think I am mad,</div>
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If and only if I had a rich dad</div>
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<br></div>
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I would have built myself a castle</div>
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In castle I would dwell</div>
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My life would have been regal</div>
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It all rings a bell</div>
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But then you know,</div>
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It’s a tale which is sad,
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After all am a poor man’s son</div>
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A’int one with rich dad</div>
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<br></div>
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I caught my old man</div>
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One day napping by the tree</div>
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Gave him a wake up</div>
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And asked him why he</div>
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Couldn't create an empire</div>
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Of business for me</div>
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Nor let me study higher</div>
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So that I could be</div>
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A big hot shot</div>
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Or at least a honcho for sure</div>
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Why he did not do these</div>
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I wanted to hear</div>
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<br></div>
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He looked into my eyes</div>
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And then looked straight ahead</div>
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Perhaps there was a valid reason</div>
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Stored in his head</div>
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Had many dreams,</div>
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Perhaps even more than you,</div>
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Have my son,</div>
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I too wanted to live fully</div>
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And to have all the fun</div>
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But then those were just dreams</div>
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And dreams, they do fade</div>
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As we grow older</div>
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As we become sane</div>
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<br></div>
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And there is one more reason</div>
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Which I did not tell before</div>
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You see my father, your granddad</div>
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Wasn't a rich man after all!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09766662233160713768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1422032913894406921.post-48546378020054691392013-09-29T20:15:00.000+05:302013-09-29T20:15:05.081+05:30I will be there<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";">Don’t cry my friend<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";">For I will be
there<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";">Always for
you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";">You just need
to share<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";">On my
shoulders<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";">You can
burden your pain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";">On my chest<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";">You can let
your tears drain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";">I may not say<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";">But I too can
feel<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";">Your grief &
sorrow<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";">My touch may
heal<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";">Only one
difference<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";">Between me
and you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";">I stand on
four legs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";">And you on
two<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";">Still that
difference<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";">Does not
count<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";">On my broad
back<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";">You shall
mount<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";">And together
the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";">life journey
we can take<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";">just hold the
rein tight<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";">for I shall
make<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";">this journey
as bearable<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";"> as it can be<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";">how
exhilarating it will be<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";">you yourself shall
see<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";">lets pray
those treacherous siblings<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";">are on our
side<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";">for fate and
destiny<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";"> may still decide<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";">how long
inseparable<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";"> we may remain!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";">As for them,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";"> its just a game!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";">so lets just
count<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";">all the joys
and gain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";">& together
ride out<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";">All the
sorrows and pain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";">And let it be
engraved<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";"> in our solemn heart<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";">We shall be
together<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";"> Till death do us apart!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";">Photo courtesy: </span>https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=532959653467656&set=a.348356355261321.82963.237513286345629&type=1&theater</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09766662233160713768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1422032913894406921.post-22648594865436524802013-09-22T20:12:00.001+05:302013-09-22T20:12:25.576+05:30Not Out<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A hard stare,</div>
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A threatening look,</div>
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Bouncers galore</div>
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I try to hook</div>
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Ball whizzes in</div>
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Oh boy! tis fast</div>
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Takes a faint edge</div>
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But manages to go past</div>
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the diving fielder,</div>
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n Crosses the rope</div>
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although tis a fluke</div>
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still gives me some hope</div>
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Next one comes in</div>
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& hits the pad</div>
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All of em shout</div>
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But the one who matters</div>
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Says “not out”</div>
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Nasty fielders have a field day</div>
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Bruised n hurt, let
my bat say</div>
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Less light, game called off</div>
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What matters most</div>
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I am still not out!!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09766662233160713768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1422032913894406921.post-49688280003367042013-09-17T20:22:00.001+05:302013-09-18T00:07:39.320+05:30Twinny<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I have always known that dogs are loving, and over the years I have made some wonderful four legged friends. Loyalty and faithfulness is the hallmark of this great animal and humanity would be greatly enriched if we were to borrow a little of this trait from this “animal”. Teary eyed, I have read James Herriot’s Dog Stories many a times, but it was Twinny who gave me a real life glimpse of how much love a dog has for its master. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Twinny was not my dog and the name was given by my mother who has a name for all the animals that she feeds. Twinny was from a house nearby ours and looked to be of mixed ancestry, somebody up in her family tree was a dachshund and thus she too had a dachshund look, albeit a desi one. We started seeing her regularly only after she was fully grown up. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Twinny was in fact picked up from some place at the insistence of the young boy of the family, who was enamored by her cute looks. Once Twinny started growing up, her cuteness diminished and the young master was not interested anymore. So, they just kicked her out one day, and the young master got a new pup (this time male). It was at this time that we started seeing Twinny loitering around our back gate and also along the road and pavements and at other nearby places. My mother found striking similarity between our dog Spotty and Twinny and this is how Twinny got her name. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Her old owners, especially the kids, would not allow her anywhere in our neighborhood, perhaps it hurt their pride, or maybe they thought Twinny would somehow sneak in and hurt their new dog, I don’t know what their reason was. They did not allow her to eat peacefully in front of our gate. The boy would come on his bicycle and create such a ruckus that poor Twinny would run for cover, but she was smart enough to come back once the idiot was gone. My sister caught the boy red handed in the act once and scolded him hard, after that we did not see him doing anything like that. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">One day, there was nobody at home, and I saw Twinny standing at the back gate. I took out what mom had kept for Twinny, opened the gate, and placed it down there. Twinny was initially not comfortable taking from my hands but perhaps hunger made her overcame her shyness and in no time she was gorging over the food. I knew my duty did not finish with just giving her food, I had to make sure she ate it without any hindrance , so I just came inside my compound, closed the gate, and, stood there with my head resting on the boundary wall. I could see Twinny eating her food, she was clearly enjoying the rice and fish when suddenly I felt she was getting alert. I could see a twitch of her ear and from the corner of the eye, I saw a movement. Twinny’s old owners lived around 100 m away from my home, just across a curvy turn and it was at this turn that I saw the master of the house walking in our direction. He was perhaps going for his evening walk. As he came nearer, Twinny left her food, sat erect and to my surprise and astonishment started moving her tail. The tail movement culminated in a wag, but the old gentleman did not look in our direction and went straight along his path. I, who was the sole witness of this incident, was moved beyond words. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There she was, a small, feeble, now living on the street, dog, who after being pampered for a while, was suddenly left on her own, but who still remembered the love she once got from her owners and thereby would wag her tail….it did not matter to her that the person to whom she wagged her tail, did not pet her, did not look at her, or even may have hurt her. That is the love a dog has for its owner.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div><br><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My advice for people is that dog is not a toy, to be thrown out after use is over. He or she is like a junior family member, one who needs our love, attention, and care. Loving back and being faithful and loyal is somewhat of a default setting for this four legged “animal”. So please if you are not interested in keeping it like a family member, then please don’t adopt, and once you have decided to go for the adoption, please please never abandon !!!<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09766662233160713768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1422032913894406921.post-49205372421330754422013-09-09T19:59:00.004+05:302013-09-09T20:00:33.305+05:30I know I am changing<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I know I am changing</div>
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I can feel it in me</div>
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The old me is gone</div>
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Replaced by a new me.</div>
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A me who is hungry,</div>
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hungry for wealth,</div>
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I don’t know when</div>
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/></a>his thirst will be quenched.</div>
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A me who isn’t innocent,</div>
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innocent anymore,</div>
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Who cannot be made a scapegoat</div>
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Like the old me of yore.</div>
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A me who is quick,</div>
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To blame others for his fault,</div>
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A me who isn’t empathetic </div>
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Like the old me was.</div>
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Whether this change,</div>
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Is for better or worse,</div>
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Will it turn out,</div>
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To be a boon or curse.</div>
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May be this is a fad,</div>
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Just a passing phase,</div>
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Still I am hopeful,</div>
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The old me may resurface !</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09766662233160713768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1422032913894406921.post-40343868441332787482013-08-18T18:54:00.001+05:302013-08-18T18:54:04.183+05:30A Loss<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Those were the times</div>
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I was then young</div>
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you were so abundant</div>
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and I was a smug</div>
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You glowed & bloomed,</div>
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you held on me</div>
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but I was busy</div>
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and chose not to see</div>
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Then effects of aging</div>
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started to unfold</div>
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you too started leaving,</div>
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leaving me untold</div>
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In bunches and heaps</div>
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were how u left me</div>
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how devastated I was</div>
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everybody could see,</div>
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Come back my dear</div>
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I say this everyday</div>
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While applying</div>
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oil, cream, and spray</div>
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And because of you,</div>
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Or absence of you,</div>
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My niece calls me</div>
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Chanda Mamu <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09766662233160713768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1422032913894406921.post-56398609375872562182013-08-15T11:05:00.001+05:302013-08-15T11:05:40.613+05:30A Religion Called India<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I was born in northern part of India, but my parents were
from South of India, or to put it generically, were Madrasis. My life began in a small town in Bihar. For the first 3-4 years of my life, my
outside contact apart from my parents were neighbors and their kids, so the
childhood gibberish that I spoke did not sound anything like Malayalam, it was
Bihari. </div>
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I was a Bihari by birth, and acted like one too. However, there were times in my school life,
when I felt uncomfortable or out of place.
I could not laugh like a possessed buffoon on hearing Madrasi
jokes. The sleeping Madrasi in me
perhaps added to this discomfort.</div>
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Time flew, after completing my higher secondary, I had to
leave my birth place and settle down in my native place in Kerala. So, now I was in the place where I actually belonged,
but bigger surprise was in store for me.
It was only after I joined a college that I realized that there was no trace
of either a Madrasi or a Malayali in me.
The Malayalam which I spoke did not resemble to what others in my class
spoke, I did not resemble the traditional Malayali and somebody said I resembled
Lalu Prasad Yadav too. Thus all
pretensions about being a Madrasi were thrown out of the window on the first
day itself.</div>
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The important question now was….Who was I?</div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">((Flash Back:
1984-1985…I am studying in a Prestigious Convent School in UKG class. I am new and have made 3 friends, Chandan, Abeed, and Gaurav. Chandan asks me a question, are you a Hindu?
I tell him I am an Indian. Chandan says
no, that is not correct, he gives me an example, “See I am Hindu, Abeed is
Muslim, and Gaurav is Hindu, so you must be either Hindu or Muslim.” I feel bad as I do not fall into either
group, but I keep on parroting “Indian” Religion. After school hours, I ask mother, whether I am
Hindu or Muslim, she asks me what I feel I am, I tell her I am an Indian. She tells me that is the correct answer and
that Indian is the grandest of all religions.
I am very happy that what I told the other day in class is correct and
double happy because it is the grandest of all.
Next day, I go to school, as a proud Indian and proclaim my Indian
Religion to ignorant masses there.))</span></div>
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That was 27-28 years ago.
A lot has changed, I have grown up, have been working for near about a
decade, have traveled across the length and breadth of India, and have
interactions with people from all over India and from Asia and Middle Eastern
Countries. From these interactions, I have
come to appreciate the idea behind the foundations of my country, a country
where people from different faith can live together under one national identity,
where they can practice their faith without any kind of restrictions from
state, where they can live a life of religion or be an atheist. It takes men of vision and character to visualize
such an idea. Thank you Bapu, Bhagat
Singh Ji, Subash Chandra Bose ji, and countless other nameless heroes for
giving us this wonderful gift of Independence.</div>
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Let us take this
idea, this vision forward, let us take our country to the very pinnacle of
human achievement, let us be ……………..INDIANS…</div>
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Jai Hind</div>
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HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY TO ALL </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09766662233160713768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1422032913894406921.post-88363289066560792692013-07-20T11:31:00.001+05:302013-07-20T13:16:32.444+05:30What I saw<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Went out for an evening walk with my roommate, actually it
was supposed to be a jog, but temperature of 40 degree centigrade coupled with
extreme humidity meant that we had to temper our jog to a walk. By the time we reached the seashore, we were
drenched in sweat, then I saw something which made me jump the boundary wall
and move to the edge of the shore..........</div>
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<a href="http://www.leeroysramblings.com/Fishing%20images/jetty%20fishing.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="222" src="http://www.leeroysramblings.com/Fishing%20images/jetty%20fishing.JPG" width="320" /></a>A bed of blue</div>
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Simmering with life</div>
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Yet calm and serene</div>
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No sign of strife</div>
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Fishes galloped up in air</div>
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Seagulls dived in, might have caught a pair</div>
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Men with fishing hooks sat ashore</div>
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Cats were their company, needn't any one more </div>
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The cool wind blowing</div>
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took my breath away</div>
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I knew I had just seen</div>
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The Great Painter’s display</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09766662233160713768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1422032913894406921.post-42227744159927267332013-07-18T11:21:00.000+05:302013-07-19T22:35:09.270+05:30Run<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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All out and free</div>
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Following me</div>
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Were monkeys three</div>
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I jumped the creak</div>
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And jumped the wall</div>
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But those monkeys</div>
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Were monkeys after all</div>
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I jumped I slid</div>
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<a href="https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSTdu2VRo3gN-A1OhvOgJWY4UtbJnRkOSBgaoFjBS4DHjHKYUJkeA" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" src="https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSTdu2VRo3gN-A1OhvOgJWY4UtbJnRkOSBgaoFjBS4DHjHKYUJkeA" width="200"></a>I sprinted with all my will</div>
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Just kept coming up at me</div>
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There seemed no end</div>
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With all curves n bends</div>
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I thought to reason</div>
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As I was near spend</div>
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Hey….Shame on you</div>
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Cant you see</div>
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I am alone </div>
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And you are three</div>
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Chasing one of your own</div>
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In broad daylight</div>
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Don’t act like human</div>
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Think ape like!</div>
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One responded</div>
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May be leader he was,</div>
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Deep and gurgled,</div>
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Was his old voice!</div>
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It is no matter,</div>
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You may be a kin,</div>
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But if you steal the idol,</div>
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Tis surely a sin!</div>
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If you are fed up,</div>
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With all this son</div>
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Then please don’t play</div>
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The Temple Run……<span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Image courtesy </span><a class="irc_hol irc_itl" data-ved="0CAcQjB0wAA" href="http://livinglifewithchemobrain.blogspot.com/2011_03_01_archive.html" style="background-color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="irc_ho" style="color: #d6d6d6; margin-right: -2px; padding-right: 2px;">livinglifewithchemobrain.blogspot.com</span></a><span class="irc_dim" style="background-color: #222222; color: #7d7d7d; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; white-space: nowrap;"> &</span></div>
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<span class="irc_dim" style="background-color: #222222; color: #7d7d7d; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; white-space: nowrap;">travelblog.org</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09766662233160713768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1422032913894406921.post-55366090480471346692013-07-15T17:32:00.000+05:302014-03-21T12:54:47.072+05:30Mogambo Kush Hua<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://mindurmarathi.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/mogambo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="147" id="irc_mi" src="http://mindurmarathi.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/mogambo.jpg" style="margin-top: 0px;" width="200"></a>Watching the movies from 90s, I was amazed at the wonderful screen presence of eternal baddie,Mr. Amrish Puri. Whether it be a Mogambo (Mr. India), a Shera (Loha), a Bhairo Baba (Nagina), he was terrific and excellent in all of them. With the wacko hairdo, attire, and diction, he would instill fear in us (jab mein chota tha). His never say die attitude would give him the strength to crawl out of that bottomless pit and stab our hero from behind. His drive, passion, and dedication to get the job done were, sorry to say, not shared by his subordinates and thereby in the end, he would have to bow down before the hero. Although, if you look at it seriously, it was not his failure alone, it was the failure of his organization, or the syndicate which he was running.....<br>
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Apparently, this staple diet of Bollywood movies in the late 90s, has many parallels in the real world.....there are many Mogambos out there, who are running one man show. The CEO is the final word in all the matters and all the decisions. Take out the CEO from the equation and there is no organization.<br>
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Come to think of it, if you have watched Mr. India, you must be knowing Mogambo's Assistant Managers.....M/s Daga and Teja. Had Daga and Teja been more proactive, Mr. India could have been stopped in his tracks, but the problem with Mogambo like people is that they don't want proactive people under them for the fear that they may one day be upstaged by these people. Thus sycophancy rules and in the end, Mr. India comes up triumphant....<br>
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On a serious note, Mogambo's plans were never really defeated, as he wanted to feed people of India substandard ration, he wanted people to fight in the name of religion, caste, he wanted people fragmented and not united, and the list is quite long and sadly, I would have to tick most of the boxes....<br>
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Hello friends, hope all of you are doing great.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has been more than 1 month that I left Delhi.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am slowly settling down to the rhythm of
new country, new culture and new work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My
new job involves copious amount of 2 activities, primarily SAM n SAF.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have been trying to master the intricacies
involved in getting an expertise in these 2 entities.</div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>SAM:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stands for staring at the monitor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When you have not much to do and have time to
kill, this is what you do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are
many functions in excel and word which I have never used, so trying to learn
them now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>SAF:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
have been handed 8 files till now, which are to be kept in my control.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just going through them again and again
because of lack of anything else to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>SL:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
have just started maintaining a staring log, which can guide me over the areas I
can stare at different times, for eg, during morning while involved in SAM, I will
be staring sidewise occasionally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Similarly
during SAF in the evening, I will be staring straight ahead like trying to
remember something or trying to connect dots……<span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">:)</span></span></div>
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