A poem

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest, if you must, but don't you quit.

Life is queer with its twists and turns,
As every one of us sometimes learns,
And many a failure turns about,
When he might have won had he stuck it out;
Don't give up though the pace seems slow--
You may succeed with another blow.

Often the goal is nearer than,
It seems to a faint and faltering man,
Often the struggler has given up,
When he might have captured the victor's cup,
And he learned too late when the night slipped down,
How close he was to the golden crown.

Success is failure turned inside out--
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems so far,
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit--
It's when things seem worst that you must not quit.

- Author unknown

Orange Woods bangalore

Hi,

This is my way of notifying people of mistakes i have done. If you have googled and got to this page to know more about Orange woods(bangalore), I'll say you have hit the right place.
If you have booked your furniture with them (the Sofa set with the offer to get lot of goodies for free), you too are framed. I booked my Sofa set with them along with the Kingsize cot and one small table(they call it dinning table), thinking they'll deliver in 25 days.
Reality: After repeated calls to their call centre after a month of booking, no one knows whats the state of your order, or what your order was. They just keep telling you'll get it in another couple of days. Request to put me to their manager went in deaf ears.

Then I went to their office, in MG road, above Citibank, to get my refund. Got another assurance from the manager that I'll get it in another two days. Nothing came in..Had to waste my energies /petrol again to go there and get my refund. Today I finally got a full refund cheque for the amount.

Guys if you are in this state, run to their office in MG road..Get your money before its too late..and be away from anything that has Orange in it.

Ghar aa ja Pardeshi...Tera.....

Disclaimer: Any opinions/ ideas mentioned in this blog are purely personal and every0ne is free to have their on ideas on this subject.

Thanks to my loneliness here that I remembered my long forgotten blogs. Trust me I had to struggle to even login to my account.

Cutting it short, I am in US and trying to make out what makes thousands and millions of "Aliens" to stay and live here besides Money. First form I needed to fill as soon I enter this country was to make me feel that I am an alien and why not, we are aliens to all forms of excellence uncle Sam has developed, broader roads, better governance, high speed trains just to name a few. India needs to do a lot and I must say we are catching up fast.

So what keeps us here. Leaving money aside. Imagine that one day we loose that advantage of currencies and Ruppee becomes extremely strong against dollar (I reckon that day is not far away!!), we can argue about its advantages and disadvantages later, but will indians even then want to stay back? Ok, take all other factors like personal idiosyncrasies, job opportunities etc out of the equation. Will a general person like to go home in such a scenario(its not for people like me who are visitors for a couple of weeks or months in this country)??

My answer is NO. Thats where we need to urgently shift are attention to figure out the reasons for this behaviour. Its not that India will be at a great loss if its people dont return(we fill up each vacancy with 10 more Indians quite soon), but will help us retain our competitive business advantage in all the fields that we have presently because of the currency advantage. How will Infosys's and Wipro's of the world keep getting clients. Why will MNC have their shops open in India.

I would not like to touch on subjects like better governance , good infrastructure as most of it is not in our hands and these things will take more time to develop/improve. Whats that we can do to counter this situation which will stare at our faces very soon. Two factors that I think will make a big difference in our situation and will go a long way in getting us that position that we deserve for long.

1. How many times have we seen a traffic jam in a signal in india just because the traffic police man is busy taking the truck driver for a ride or is asconding from duty? How many times we'v just gone on one way to save on that extra meters that we would have to travel to take a U turn? How many times we show are frustrations of our personal life on roads and use our horns as a weapon? Some of the things that I have read in my classes back in school days,I have seem them in action here, have patience, you are answerable to the next generation thats watching you closely. C'on we dont need a Musharaf to dictate us all that.

2. Performance, we need to do things better, utilize our time in a manner that we always give us that competitive advantage over others. Remember people spend more on quality. If India can continue delivering that quality/performance then I dont feel we cannot sustain with our growth stories.

For people here...start planning and thinking about moving to India. I believe we are changing at a pace more than that expected by the world else how can a former chief minister of most corrupt state of India make a turnaround success of the biggest public sector undertaking in India.

Ghar aa ja pardesi tera desh bulaye re.....becasue there you will not be called an 'Alien'.

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Comments?????

SFYE syndrome!!

I dont know if you have experienced it. Its nothing to do with the big long medical jargon though, but its equally mystique. I call it the So Full Yet Empty syndrome.

This happened to me today. There is nothing that I wanted today, nothing that I even wished for. I was just satisfied today(very rare!!). Woke up in the morning to have a great day ahead. Just the perfect day for a perfect begining. But then this SFYE syndrome sneaked in.

There is one stimulus that SFYE syndrome needs to set in. In my case it was my landlord. It happend to be my Bday and we were having a rocking time till late evening. This Moron had a problem came to me first thing in the morning and vomited his calculated words on me. There went my day for a toss. The more you try to come out of it the more deep you fall into it.

If some of you have experienced it or are thinking you might experience it in near future then these are my tips to reduce it(I bet you cannot stop it at all)

1. try avoiding negative stimulus early in the morning
2. If you are already into it, invest your time on something that u like but u were not getting time for it(Like me writing a blog after a gap of months)
3. Listen to songs if you like and try to cool your self.

Go back to home peacefully in the evening and go crush the balls of the freaky landlord. That bugger should never even think of coming to you in the morning.

"Landlord can be anyone in your case" , be careful of these people.

May god give you power to handle SFYE syndrome.

Sentiments!!

For different people it invokes different memories. For me it revolves around the moments in my life that I'll label as the glorious period in my Life. Glorious not because I was highly successful in that period, but i realized that aspect of life that provided multiple functionality to my heart besides just pumping blood.

It was sometime in my early childhood when i realized the importance of my heart. I was studying in St.Josephs Academy and my class KG(A) was strategically situated just facing the outside gate and a big playing field on the other side. I never use to cry going to school like other friends of mine , but I always had that "pull you down" feeling when I use to enter the gate. My father will leave me there, never even a minute late (which I hated). From then on I'll be in a world in which I always had difficulty in relating to my other lovely world that was home. My favourite pass time was to have a peek out of the window to the gate of the school from where my father use to come everyday to pick me up, never ever even a minute late(which I loved more than anything.)

This day was sports day in our school. We were suppose to go piggy back on each other in one of the races. My friend and me were one of the lucky few who finished the race successfully that too in third place. That gave me a invaluable prize, some plastic cubes u make some buildings with , but I savoured it so much that I never ever even opened its cover. That was the only sports prize I won till date!!! Coming back to the story. So I finished the race , got the prize and was waiting for my father to come and pick me up after giving me a big hug. I sat waiting for him on a makeshit bench. All my friends gradually started disappearing one by one. My heart was doing pole vaulting somewhere in the middle of my chest. I still didn't cry though I felt like that people have transported me to Pluto all alone. I didn't want to spend even a second in that god forbidden place. Time was passing very slowly. There was katrina inside me waiting to break free.

My father finally arrived and god knows , I cried that day...And i cried a lot. I was saving all my tears for him to come. He took me, after all I guess he was only an hour late. But that time I realized how relative time works.

Anyway I realized that heart is something that makes you realize its presence at such times when you least need it. Other interactions with my heart will follow. Stay tuned.