He: :-p
Monday, June 20, 2005
"Complete Man" ?!
He: :-p
Tuesday, May 31, 2005
Mistake Mistaken - Proud to be here!
To My Folks
Long time..."No News is Good News" eh?!!!
More Often than not, most of you would have heard me brood over joining Infosys - mainly because it is an IT company and I gel with IT like oil does with water. But as I would have often mentioned too, one major reason that pushed me to join (of course other than certain few other practical reasons) is the fact that Infosys was and is one of the few "Indian" companiesthat rose to shine like a Star in this whole world. Plus the fact that"MY" company is purely indegenious.
Though life inside Infosys opened me up to some not-so-desirable facts about the company, that I persume every company as big and huge as this would have, to be as successful as this, I had never really cursed. I have questioned, yes and been concerned if Infosys can do better to those working there...never cursed. Neither did I have reason to awe about anything cos, Infosys is a largely conservative company, with strict principles and a little olden practices. Which means they were a bit tight on the Marketing and advertising Expenditures as well - until very recently.
But today morning, I woke up to see another face of my company - the Giant propaganda in the middle of Times Square in New York (supposedly the business center of the Universe). Reason - NASDAQ invited Nandan, our CEO to open the market today, the day when Infosys' Issues ran up to more than 1 billion in Share Money and again its the first Indian company to ever attain this. My Jaws dropped! Never been prouder to have been an Infoscion!
More over here:http://www.nasdaq.com/reference/200505/market_open_052605.stm
For once, a mistake I thought I did has proved me otherwise.Share my Joy!
Monday, April 25, 2005
Friday, March 25, 2005
I; 'my'
I quote Prometheus in Anthem, Ayn Rand; and adapt.
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
When Nature Calls...
So there you "Go"...
Simply "Yanni"!
As the last stop in his World Tour 2004-2005, he had played here in
I am happy that I have had very few disappointments (with an external factor) in my life that would stay green. I remember one of them - When Yanni had performed at the Taj in
So the day I found that he was touring here, I was waiting for the Web portals to open online ticket booking. And the same day, I rushed to book my seats - comfortable, near but not too close and affordable.
Two of my friends working with me here accompanied me for this show. I had wanted someone who has seen me listen to and love Yanni's music to be there to share what I call my simple down to earth "lifetime dream". My friends around here couldn’t make it. The sugar coating came when my cousins agreed to come down from
The show was to begin
When the curtains fell, I thought I cried seeing him. Nah...I just had a glob of joy mixed with surprise and a sense of greatness stuck at my throat. All through, I didn’t move from my seat. He opened with his usual popular opening piece Santorini. (The one you might have heard in lotsa Indian TV programs as Title music - sometime back). My favorite has been "Nostalgia" and boy! Did it take me back in time - nostalgic!!!!
He had included lot of Eastern Music (from his latest albums like Ethinicity). Bringing together nations, languages and ethnicities and everyone beyond the standard borders with his non-linguistic music, is what he says he is working for. Indeed!
Anyone who had come to this concert would have left the place humming or their souls slowly jiving to the inner rhythms that would remain for a few days. He had to tease us, the crowd a coupla times in the end to make us "go away".
The only thing I took away from that concert was a book with his pictures (of this tour) and of course a "floating in the cloud" feeling. I wanted to buy a T-Shirt with his fine signature on, but they ran out of stock. No photos, No CDs.
This moment, I can be right in the same place I was - in the concert, listening, relishing and devouring each piece of his - I just have to want to be there!
Glad this chance came by, More Glad I stepped on it,
Just "elated" to have been there with the ones I love,
And "Dumbstruck" seeing Yanni,
The music would play in my ears,
For a Lifetime…
Saturday, March 19, 2005
Ambition
No one can go back and make a new start. Anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Do not act from being hurt and end up feeling guilty.
Heard melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter.
Ambition stems from the base of emotions when emotion interacts with achievements or nicicities behind an achievement of others.
Ambition does not take limitation, capacity, circumstances, handicap of one while it develops iniside.
Ambition when pursued can also hurt.
I Quote My Father.
Friday, March 18, 2005
Romanticism :)
He (Chiding): “Rhea!!”
Rhea: You never call out my name except when angry!
He: (touching her hand softly) Oh dear! When do you let meI? You abode beside me…all along!
Rhea: (smiling) I shall pin this up in my blog :)
Life’s Dying Days – My Living Dreams
Driven to ask “What is Business” at seven
Yet not know how Stock works at Twenty Four
Yes, Life’s for those who believe in “Dreams” and bring it to the fore!
From Imaginations livid to wanting it to thinking it
It was the power of free will that worked
Yet every nerve of my earthly body and soul crying
“Things that you like the most set them free – If it comes back to you it is yours –
If it doesn’t it never was”
Yeah – The mind works in its own extra
Yet was what my moments, more often than not, filled with.
Simple, Easy, Sub-Conscious, no pomp but Splendid.
But when it came to mine to be spilt, I sprayed it…
All my toil, muscles, body, mind and soul caught in the product
That I can hold in the very palms that started it all – big or small.
And without much dough, I am proud I can create a palm that
Can and will do it for me in the world if I don’t.
The word and the world itself, throwing ink in her dying days,
Cheerfully dreaming Truth always.
Overture to 'You' - again
More often than not, you find yourself just ‘You’, standing alone amongst a mass of beings around; feeling silence in all the chaos they make; seeing things which otherwise would not have been captured in the REMs of our eyes; A sudden burst of mixed emotions that takes you through highs and lows at speeds that beat your mind’s speed too!
Like it, ain’t it?
I call it RE-SELF-REALISATION!
Emotional Ends
The past few weeks have been a whirlwind tour of my emotions. Past, Present, Future all merging into one and making my brains blow out…of any imaginable proportions... Well, is that what you call “Insane”???
But haven’t I always been very near and dangerously close to earth and soil… so all that it could do to me is jus make me happier in the end.
Good Life! Making emotional ends meet!
A "Gail" Conversation!
He didn’t because he hadn’t done justice to that seemingly unacceptable purpose also.
Didn’t 'cause I thought they were too abstract (even for me)
Sometimes what we claim as the goal, really mocks at us
We feel like a dinger scrubbing sewage when we explain our goals (even to ourselves)
Note: Gail as in Gail Wynand, portrayed as the Second Hander in “The Fountain Head” by Ayn Rand.
Thursday, March 17, 2005
Who let the skeletons out of my closet?
:)