Man is ANIMAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Man is a social animal! Yet if we remove so called ^social^ then he remains ANIMAL! Very greedy!
When we have individual interest then we form group & at least try to go along with the group formed till our interest, purpose is achieved and then (it might not happen always) sometimes you lose touch with those buddies of your so called special group! Take for example the current placement season… of my campus. Our class of 53 is divided & divided well in small groups which consist of not more than 4 BUDDIES (?)
If groups which are formed for definite purpose work accordingly then it do not have the danger of any unlikely events but if it is not the case then Quarrel between the two parties becomes inevitable!

Shit happens…. Still life moves on!
“Sometimes we must be hurt in order to grow, we must fail in order to know, we must loose in order to gain, because some lessons are best when learnt through pain” 

Refresh!

आजच्या दिवसाच एक विशेष महत्व आहे कारण आज 'गुरूपोर्णीमा'. तस बघायला गेल तर, केवळ ह्याच दिवशी 'गुरू' महत्वाचा किंवा त्याच पुजन करायच अस नाही पण आपण just like any other day (father's day, mother's day...) हा दिवस साजरा करूच शकत नाही. हा आता तस बघायला गेल तर शाळा सोडल्या पासून फार काही नाही केलय ह्या दिवशी, कारण आजकालच्या या धकाधकीच्या आयुष्यात (जीवन हा फार मोठा शब्द वाटतोय मला :) ) आपल्याकडे वेळ फार कमी आहे. [हे किती खर ते ज्याच त्याला ठाऊक! असलेल्या वेळेचा आपण सो कॉल्ड 'सदुपयोग ' करतो का?? हा फार मोठा प्रश्न आहे.] म्हणून निदान आपण ह्या दिवशी तरी वेळात वेळ काढून गुरूबद्दलचा आदर व्यक्त करतो.


खर तर आत्ता आत्ता मला ह्या दिवसाच खर महत्व लक्षात येतय. कारण माझा गुरू अशी को णी एकच व्यक्ती नसुन, सगळीकडे मला त्याची प्रचिती येत आहे.
आता असा प्रश्न पडण अगदी स्वाभाविक आहे की गुरू सगळीकडे कसा?? तो काय इतका सहजा सहजी available असतो काय?? ह्याला अगदी साध उत्तर आहे: YOUR POINT OF VIEW! हो खरच!!


Somebody said few months ago: "Start observing people, look in their eyes while talking..." At that point of time I didn't realized that how much this approach was going to help me & now when I'm consistently following it , I feel everywhere there is somebody who is teaching you some things & its totally up to you whether you open your eyes & listen very carefully OR simply say that no, no I do not have time! I'm too busy today! & pretend closing your eyes...

Look, Now we appreciate the management style of the famous Dabbawallas, their time management skills, & punctuality & almost 0 % defects while delivering ... (isn't it TQM??) Now when it is open secret & accepted as a management lesson to some of the B' schools, only then we have got all the time in the world to observe & learn!

As it is rightly said by someone: "Time stops for nobody! so you should change yourself accordingly to stay alive!"
In the words of famous poet Gulzar sir, in Jagjit Sing's album: MARASIM,
"वक्त रूकता नहीं कहीं टिककर
इसकी आदत भी आदमीसी है"

So refresh yourself on every second of your life, coz there is no other joy than living life LIVE!


थोडं (नाही खरतर बराच) भरकटलोय ना मी? काय करू जुनं आठवल आणी...

हां तर आज संध्याकाळी मी माझ्या अश्याच एका गुरूकडे - म्हणजेच Keskar Madem कडे गेलो होतो. किती महीने, वर्ष नक्की आठवत नाहीये पण एकंदर पहाता बराच कालावधी लोटला आहे मी त्यांना भेटून. नऊ वाजता क्लास संपेल तेंव्हा नऊ नंतर ये अस जेंव्हा कळल तेंव्हा मी म्हटल की ९:१५ पर्यंत येतो. खरतर १० एक मिनीट उशीराच पोहोचलो होतो मी.. मला वाटल की मला चांगलाच उशीर झालाय म्हणून हळूच दार वाजवल, आणी बघतो तर काय निखीलही होता तिथं. नुकताच त्याचा ब्लॉग वाचलाय.. (Wow man he's enjoying his treks. I must say he is having best time & I hope once I end up with my second year I'll take the tracks on, its so refreshing!)

तस पहायला गेल तर आता जपानी भाषेशी काहीही संबंध राहीलेला नाही [खरच तस आहे का? हा प्रश्न स्वता:ला विचारला आणी उत्तर नकारार्थीच मिळाल, कारण- Japanese management style, kaizen, 5S's, Japanese people, their culture, books on prehistory of Japan, sake, sushi, songs, आणी अश्या अनेक गोष्टी चालू आहेत... पण तरीही भाषेचा काहीही संबंध नाहीये (पण भाषेचा फक्त लिपीशीच संबंध असतो काय?? 'संवाद' साधायला बोलणच गरजेच आहे काय? लोक डोळ्यांनीही बोलू शकतात, चेहेर्यावरचे भाव वाचू शकतात नं? जपानी लोकांचा आनंद, हसणं, हे काही आपल्यापेक्षा फार काही वेगळ नसतच मूळी...

I think your perspective matters most of the time!

नुकताच 'सायुरीचा' "जपानी बॉस" हे माय बोलीवरच ललित (http://www.maayboli.com/node/1236)
वाचल आणी वाटल की, का नाही मी Keskar Madem ना जाऊन भेटत?? म्हणून आज गेलोच मुद्दाम फोन करून... खूप बर वाटल कित्येक दिवसांनी मी त्यांना भेटलो होतो. त्यां नाही खूप आनंद झाला होता मला बघून.. फार नाही बोलू शकलो वेळे अभावी पण एक नक्की प्रॉमिस केलय की वेळात वेळ काढून एखाद्या शनिवारी / रविवारी निवांत भेटीन(ते शनिवार / रविवारच आत्ता थोड कठीण दिसतय... पण एखाद्या वीकएन्डला जमवीनच... बघू कस जमतय ते...)

त्या वेळेला मनात आल ते बोललो, तरीही खुपस बोलायच आहे बघू वेळ काढून बोलीन.. तर बाकीच हे सारं बोलायला हा एवढा लेखप्रपंच!!
आता वाटतय की आपण नेटवर कस टिचकी मारून "refresh" करतो ना अगदी तस्सच झालय माझं!! ही माझ 'खुप जुनं पण फार फार मोलाच पान' मी आत्ताच refresh केलय. :)



दीप
"वक्त रूकता नहीं कहीं टिककर
इसकी आदत भी आदमीसी है"

You've Got To Find What You Love

You've Got To Find What You Love
This is text of a speech by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005 at Stanford University. I'm sharing it here and hoping that few young souls might find it enlightening...
“I am honoured to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.
The first story is about connecting the dots.
I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?
It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.
And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.
It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with,
and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:
Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.
None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it’s likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.
Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
My second story is about love and loss.
I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents’ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.
I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.
I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.
I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.
My third story is about death.
When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumour on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.
I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumour. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.
This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope it’s the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalogue, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.
Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalogue, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
Thank you all very much.”
Courtesy:
Shahid Riaz
shahid.riaz@gmail.com

After all this ultimate gyaan I think there is no need for me to say anything... You have the different paths... choose the one & move ahead!

Deep
"People come into your life for a reason or a season. They bring joy and lessons!!!"

Golden age! airmail - article as on 14/06/08

Dear all,

I went through one superb article on Indian cinema in our own M.T. I must say that we have really achieved so much even in this business, yes because entertainment has become new industry now it's great!!

The only thing which is hurting in this article is the way author have put in the map of India. I don’t think that we have updated our map without Kashmir.

Though this is only the picture one may say that there is nothing wrong in it... I personally think that the times group which is well known publication of my country shouldn't do such mistakes.

Want to know more on this. What do you think??

Deepak
"Every one wants to go to heaven, but no one wants to die"

Why is the eternal question?

Why is the eternal question?
Hey look it is (whether to write or not) absolutely your decision, still I'd say:

"Language isn't only means a of communication, it's also a method of creating a bond within a group which you have created here already!"

"Envy arises out of one's own sense of inadequacy. If you want to level with someone, there are two ways of doing the same. 1: you rise up & become as tall as the other person or else put him/her down to your level. Obliviously the easier route is the preferred option with most people. Anonymous is of that category."

"Often in simple things of life, we think that a task has no future whatsoever. A single thought like this overpowers all wits & beliefs & urges us to concede defeat, but this is the time when we most need to go ahead & not quit."
"Often people hesitate to talk to people, to make the first move. (You know who these are...)Despite feeling the need of a friend, we see several people who bury their feelings & emotions, & suffer alone. Everyone needs someone by their sides that can be called a friend - a confidante."

"Hate is the emotion which consumes most of our energy, time & patience. Though it is easier said than done, accepting people as they are & forgiving them is the first step towards strengthening our mind. For a great person once has said, forgive your enemies, nothing annoys them so much."

WHY? Though we may not know why some things happen but am sure there is a reason for every good & bad thing. The only trouble is here we may not have enough patience. At sometimes you are looking out madly for someone you are really very close to but these so called closed people stab you in the back. Someone has already said that: Snakes aren't neutral that’s really true.

The only thing you can do in these kinds of circumstances, keeping calm & moving ahead.

Well I am what I am so…

Ciao
“Every kind action has a not-so-kind reaction.”



Sorry! Due credit has been given to the anonymous author/s. :) J J

WTF*** Training?

What do we mean by training??
as per the Oxford Dictionary, Training (noun) is the activity or process of teaching or learning a skill, discipline, etc. Now trainee is that individual or a group of persons who undergoes the training & trainer/s is a individual or a group of persons who trains Horses, footballers... (he he..) as a profession!
Tell me who is the trainee & the trainer in the LIFE ? Well that's really difficult! to answer, to determine: because of our pre occupied ideas about the trainer & trainee! In the corporate world, trainee will be the employee ( Executives, Managers, & so on) In school trainee will be the kids (Generally he he ...) So same is the case with all colleges / school/s of thought!!!

What I really feel is in the LIFE every individual plays two true roles yeah i.e. trainee & trainer!
There is a reason why I feel this way because "Learning is a natural, ongoing process that has structure, with both a natural and rational cycle. Natural learning processes centre around the development of unconscious competence. Rational learning processes centre around the development of conscious competence."
Even a kid of 3-4 years learns how to say maa,mom whatever!!!!

On the one hand s/he(NO intention of gender discrimination!!) can constantly learn the new things, acquire the new skills of doing (or avoiding he he...) work by following his superiors(generally), observing them! and on the another hand, s/he gives his GYAAAN to subordinates, iisytudents & so on!!

WTF*** we think that we can solve all the problems when we don't know what might be the consequences... Training is the bull shit thing which is done through PPT & generally all the trainees are asked to learn all the dammm business process in that 1 or 2 hrs. Then these trainers who give all the gyaan generally from books... "HR doesn't know how the business is done so HR guys are dumb & good for nothing" - is the general view of all the employees! Also HR is with full of cheeks who are dumb... figures blah blah!! Am not in a mood to complete this crap so bieee for now! F*** you A**!

Notes To Myself

"What do I want to be in life?"

This being the first post ever I'd like to start with some kind of basic & real questions of life!
Assumption is there is a reason for living that is separate from life.
As in the usual rat race I'm running hard to get all the material things available in the market, & still want something different actually but not getting enough clearly.
Why the hell I just can't be like others who are or may be happy with what they have got or looking for getting the things MONEY can buy!!
I know there are so much really great things you can own but I also feel that there are some things which nobody can buy through money! At least not peace!

As I look back, one of the most constant & powerful things I have experienced is the desire to be more than I am at the moment...
"A desire to increase the boundaries of my self, a desire to feel more, learn more, express more,
A desire to grow, improve, purify, expand and finally to distribute what I've..."
I know change is constant! But it's hard to accept because, when I think I've learned the way of living Life changes and then I am same at that point zero to start the whole process once again!
The trouble is that I constantly analyze my life instead of living it, enjoying it as it is...

Well I think it’s enough for time being...
& last but not least thanks to the person who inspired me... (ankita Wasan)

God bless you...