I've learnt to drive.. yippeee..!!! I guess this is my only accomplishment over the last 3 months...Quite a bad record !!! I agree :D !!!
It took me about 7 days, starting with the A, B n C, the accelerator, break and clutch, I learnt the nitty grittys of driving a car!!! The first day I took the car out to office, nearly 16 km off home, I felt independent. It was a unique sense of joy !!! I guess everyone goes through it sometime in life :) !!!
Now I am mastering the art of maneuvering the car on Indian roads !!! Its quite an art any day !!! Observations ::
- Its close to impossible to stick to a lane as you drive. In case you manage it right, then the next good thing that would happen is a huge Volvo takes a sharp turn on a narrow road, giving almost no precursor of its arrival!!!
- People on the road do not believe in slowing down on a rainy day. Enjoy the brilliant weather, remember that the road might skid, and drive at 50-60 !! Chill Junta ... Not everybody always has to be in a hurry !!!
- I really wish I were 3 inches taller. That would have made reaching the A,B Cs a little easier, and ofcourse...As some of my friends call it..."It wouldn't look like a car without a driver" !!!
- Managing slopes was a challenge...For the Hyderabadi's ( I am talking about the Banjara Hills stretch & the Hi tech city roads) . There's a police check exactly on a 45 degree slope. The day I master that slope, with perfection, I guess I can handle any slope !!! :)
- Company makes a big difference !!! Some people almost make me forget the fact that its my second day with the car, its 8:30 in the night, its a 16 km stretch and the traffic is at its peak !!! Thanks ppl !!! :)
- Best driver I've met till date - bro....."Oru naal naanum Anna madiri ...."..Someday I'll drive as well as bhaiyya does, I guess then I'd really feel the joy :) !!!
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
A Day Out At Ashrey Akruthi
Motorola celebrated Global Services Day on the 18th of October. Employees, from all across the world, participated with loads of enthusiasm. We were divided into groups of twelve, and each group had a representative, who arranged for the activity for the day at the Voluntary Organisation. Our group went to the residential hostel of Akshay Akruti - a school for the hearing impaired.
We reached the hostel premises by the afternoon. We were graciously welcomed by the secretary of the school. We were handed a rose and a card signed by the children, as a mark of their affection. Then the wardens and the caretakers, showed us around the place - the rooms, the beds, the posters, the balcony, special facilities for girls, the study rooms, evening activity space, the lab space. We were impressed! The place was indeed maintained very well.
After all the hospitality, we set out on the task for the day. We were to paint the walls of two rooms of the Hostel, the drawing room and the kitchen. The coordinators had done a great job, we had everything ready - paint, gloves, face masks, brushes, and ofcourse the much needed guide, the man who would make do for the little goof ups we would make all through the day - the Painter, who would take care of the final coating.
We spent the evening, cleaning the walls, removing the oil stains, climbing up those huge ladders holding those little buckets full of paint... With songs, tit-bit chat sessions, hulla-bulla sessions, we had a good time painting the place. We learnt some good lessons through the day. A day out of the software industry, we realised "why we software engineers are paid 100 folds for the same 8 hours of work":) .
As evening dawned, we were served, hot tea and refreshments. The children were back from school, and it was time for some fun. We met the kids, spoke to them, and truly got inspired seeing the way they found happiness, in sensing little noise around them despite the fact that they couldn't hear us. They understood us; may be the language of compassion needed no voice !!!
We had a nice day out - working, having fun, making a difference to the little hearts !
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Voids...
People walk into our life, and walk out... As they walk out, they leave those deep voids, I can call them blackholes. They suck in all that comes their way, everything around. It takes quite a lot to fill those black holes:
- fill them up so much that, someday they vanish n there are no scars (replace memories)
- eliminate the core - the reason for the gravitational pull, and you can slowly or maybe instantly do away with the black hole (find a reason to dislike the person)
- create a force stronger that the black hole, which can pull in your all (find a distraction of a different kind all together- work, dance, music ...)
Which ever solution you chose, one FACT remains - Memories cannot be forgotten, they can only be overwritten (Thanks! For that one mi ...Just in case you read this blog!)
I've started getting used to people in my life... Especially those emotional companions, with whom I can be myself, with whom I share every moment, every emotion, every up and down, whose name strikes me first when I am happy or sad. Whom I sometimes forget, just because I am in neither extremes, but whose presence is always there at the back of my mind.
I want this person (roles change with time) to always be there for me, I want him/her to be always fine. A small problem in their life, can break lose all the knots of my life, I'm too perturbed to set myself to anything sensible or sane....
This role can be and has been taken by many people, mom, friends - friends, whom I have known for two months, friends whom I have known for 2 years...Friends whom I have know for 8-9 years...
Its more about getting used to having someone (for sure not your alterego) , around...Its not about being weak, it not about being dependent, its about needing a companion, sometimes a single person, sometimes a group of like minded people with whom you can share thoughts, discuss and be on the same page...No matter how abstract or crazy the discussion might be.
How long that person is able to retain that role, depends on loads of things. As time moves on, you expect people to understand you, many things go unsaid, many emotions need to be understood. Slowly you outgrow that relation with your mom/dad, you transition to sis/bro, then you find that companion in close pals n friends, some find such companions in the opposite sex, people just move in and out of life...And the chord strikes with a few chosen.... Statements like - " if you don't understand, nobody will"..Would come in...
Smiles and scorns, with implicit meanings would come in, more and more days would be spent wondering if you really like this one and only entity, who would know more of u than maybe yourself... ?
Slowly, you might outgrow this person, slowly you might find another person, slowly you might fall in love with this person...Sometimes, the companionship just fades away, after a few days, you wonder, what ever kept you together ?..Or sometimes, if you are fortunate enough, you can find the best friend for a lifetime...
Whatever it be, this person someday leaves, maybe in a few months, in a few years, after a life time of togetherness... But when they leave, they leave a void- which is nothing short of a black hole..A deep abyss that is nearly impossible to fill ...
- fill them up so much that, someday they vanish n there are no scars (replace memories)
- eliminate the core - the reason for the gravitational pull, and you can slowly or maybe instantly do away with the black hole (find a reason to dislike the person)
- create a force stronger that the black hole, which can pull in your all (find a distraction of a different kind all together- work, dance, music ...)
Which ever solution you chose, one FACT remains - Memories cannot be forgotten, they can only be overwritten (Thanks! For that one mi ...Just in case you read this blog!)
I've started getting used to people in my life... Especially those emotional companions, with whom I can be myself, with whom I share every moment, every emotion, every up and down, whose name strikes me first when I am happy or sad. Whom I sometimes forget, just because I am in neither extremes, but whose presence is always there at the back of my mind.
I want this person (roles change with time) to always be there for me, I want him/her to be always fine. A small problem in their life, can break lose all the knots of my life, I'm too perturbed to set myself to anything sensible or sane....
This role can be and has been taken by many people, mom, friends - friends, whom I have known for two months, friends whom I have known for 2 years...Friends whom I have know for 8-9 years...
Its more about getting used to having someone (for sure not your alterego) , around...Its not about being weak, it not about being dependent, its about needing a companion, sometimes a single person, sometimes a group of like minded people with whom you can share thoughts, discuss and be on the same page...No matter how abstract or crazy the discussion might be.
How long that person is able to retain that role, depends on loads of things. As time moves on, you expect people to understand you, many things go unsaid, many emotions need to be understood. Slowly you outgrow that relation with your mom/dad, you transition to sis/bro, then you find that companion in close pals n friends, some find such companions in the opposite sex, people just move in and out of life...And the chord strikes with a few chosen.... Statements like - " if you don't understand, nobody will"..Would come in...
Smiles and scorns, with implicit meanings would come in, more and more days would be spent wondering if you really like this one and only entity, who would know more of u than maybe yourself... ?
Slowly, you might outgrow this person, slowly you might find another person, slowly you might fall in love with this person...Sometimes, the companionship just fades away, after a few days, you wonder, what ever kept you together ?..Or sometimes, if you are fortunate enough, you can find the best friend for a lifetime...
Whatever it be, this person someday leaves, maybe in a few months, in a few years, after a life time of togetherness... But when they leave, they leave a void- which is nothing short of a black hole..A deep abyss that is nearly impossible to fill ...
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