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Krish's vedam

2010-06-05T23:32:00.000-07:00

It's good to watch a multi star movie 'Vedam' in Telugu directed by Krish. After a very long time almost a decade or two , a multi star movie has been released with a good story.

Kudos to Allu Arjun and Manchu Manoj who kept their stardom aside ,worked together in this good movie Vedam.Krish's potrayal of every character in this movie is fantastic ,the story mainly revolved around five characters and the way these characters react to their problems in life is heart touching.I believe all the songs were timely , situational and simply loved the title song .

A perfect climax to the movie where both the heroes end as Martyrs , this is not seen in telugu movies as audience can't accept their favorite hero dying in the hands of a villain . This was a big risk taken by director and also surprisingly , well received by audience .With this movie Krish proved that a movie to be hit need not have a high budget,foreign location songs and item girls ,it just needs a good story and actors.

Though Manoj was given a short character , I personally liked his character. At the end of this movie , all the characters undergo lots of transformation in their attitude and something for audience to carry back :-) . Hoping for better movies in Telugu .

PS: Though Vedam is a good movie still few criticize because they can only criticize ,they can't do anything else ;-)

Professionalism vs Friendship

2010-04-28T07:13:00.000-07:00

One of my very close friend at office expressed to me that I am backstabbing him by speaking shoddily with others in his absence. I was shocked with his statement and felt guilty but frankly I don’t remember any such incident where in I spoke shoddily about this person. Even after this mess, he is still congenial with me or at least trying to be, I appreciate his attitude. I could understand that he is professional and wanted to maintain decorum with his fellow associate that’s why he is still speaking to me.

This entire episode has taught me that in professional world never try to make a friendship just be cordial with your team. Its better not to discuss anything with our fellow mates other than work, because we never know how people would perceive our opinions, later someone would come and comment ‘I never expected you to behave like this’. Well, my classmate during the university days used to say that “The disease of trying to please everyone will eat you up. It is better to earn a bad name and live a good life than to earn a good name and live a bad life”.

Bucket List

2009-07-21T23:44:00.000-07:00

I am writing this blog, inspired by ‘Stephen Covey’s Big Rocks’.

Imagine a bucket.Put three or four big rocks in it.
Is that full ?
No you reply."of course Not" I say and put smaller rocks in it to fill in the gaps.
Full Now?, No .I put in some sand ,and some water.Now it's full.

So what's the learning here ? It's to do with the order. What would happen if you'd reversed the order.Put the water in first ,then the sand and the small rocks. There would be no room for big rocks.These big rocks are important things in our life.
You need to schedule them first, not try to squeeze them in after arranging the water (writing pointless reports), sand (unnecessary travel) or small rocks (Seminars where no-one listens and everyone looks at the clock).

What are the big rocks in your life? For many it’s things like family, time to watch the children grow up, time to write that novel, time for themselves, time to make a difference. You decide. You identify 3 or 4 things you believe are important. The 3 or 4 things that will make a difference at your funeral.

Recently, I have been to Kedarnath and places near by for trekking .It was a awesome trip,very close to nature ,spent enough time to introspect myself.
I made a bucket list ,what about you ???

Never give up

2009-05-01T22:15:00.000-07:00

People tend to abjure in the pursuit of their goals.Possibly ,due to lack of motivation .
This used to happen with me many a times. To avoid this and keep my spirits high all the time ,I read success stories of famous personalities.

Let me tell a little story ;-)

A little girl - the 20th of 22 children, was born prematurely and her

survival was doubtful.

When she was 4 years old, she contracted double pneumonia and scarlet

fever, which left her with a paralysed left leg.

At age 9, she removed the metal leg brace she had been dependent on and

began to walk without it.

By 13 she had developed a rhythmic walk, which doctors said was a

miracle. That same year she decided to become a runner. She entered a

race and came in last.

For the next few years every race she entered, she came in last.

Everyone told her to quit, but she kept on running.

One day she actually won a race, and then another. From then on she won

every race she entered.

Eventually this little girl - Wilma Rudolph, went on to win three

Olympic gold medals.

Winners never quit !

I will do , What I want to do. Even if that means pursuing something for which I don't have any evident talent.

Thuj me rab diktha hain ;-)

2009-01-01T07:06:00.000-08:00

Love is the only force that binds individuals,a family,a society and universe. It has no form and origin, an emotion that comes straight from heart.

Every one defines love in a way ,which is most convenient to them. When I asked my mom her view on love? ,she replied "doing anything for my kid" with a bit of emotional tone, thanks mom.For the same question my friend told screwing up a sexy gal ,this was a spontaneous reply .

I fancy, love is the level of comfort zone that I can share with another person. I respect every one's opinion.

I had crush on few gals . gals with a million dollar smile are more dangerous than a cupid's arrow, Their smile seduces me , this has been my weakness since school days. My thoughts and routine get preoccupied with these chicks . I enjoy their presence , I make friendship with them and express What ever feelings I have for them . They never any hard feelings for me ,but Iam left with guilt of breaking their heart.

Recently I met one ,a very rare breed . Cupid hit me so hard ,I can't resist of owning her.Interestingly,this time iam not able to express anything and I stammer a lot while speaking to her. Completely disturbed ,no concentration and utter chaos at work. I stopped thinking about her and kept silent , to introspect myself whether this is again an infactuation or 'LOVE'.

I couldn't understand this new feeling in me ,it's neither infactuation nor love. I wish ,I would express her one day .

Iam driven by my passion rather than love, yet to achieve many things in life. well, Iam working with more enthusiasm now, so that I can expedite process of achieving my objectives and she is part of my priorties now ;-)

PS: I write blogs to bring out the hidden emotions in me and cherish these rare moments.

Is it really necessary to taste failure before success ?

2008-08-28T06:48:00.000-07:00

Never believed in words like "failure is first step to success" .
and often questioned myself ---Is it really necessary to taste failure before success ?

During campus placements , friends of mine were too busy preparing their cv's for interview filling up with their strengths ,weaknesses & objectives . For the sake of impressing the interviewee , I have written big stories but couldn't figure out my real strengths and weaknesses. Things went fine and I got placement in a reputed company or I can say an important phase of my life has begun .

Year(2007-2008) was full of trauma and professional setbacks because of various reasons , I was in very bad shape and sailing in troubled waters . Messed up everything and couldn't pull back things. people around me criticised my attitude for my shortfall . I became more introspective and resilient. I shared my feelings with a close pal and he told me "calm seas can never make a skillful sailor" . I understood that criticism is as inevitable as our breathe, I have learnt to accept constructive criticism .
I felt that when we are in hostile environment , our strength & weakness are exposed . I realized my strengths, it's adversity/failure that has taught me a lesson rather than success.
All these days I was thinking Failure as an enemy to success but in my opinion FAILURE is a friend on road to success.

p.s. The close pal, I refered to in this post is myself ;-) . I have a sequel for this post "is success dangerous ?"

Faith is lost

2008-08-19T06:24:00.000-07:00

July 1st was a big day for me, my confirmation day in XXX company . I kept my fingers crossed to know my appraisals and new package. My project manager pinged me to have an informal chat regarding my appraisal . Decent rating was given to me but the package was worst and worser was , for all ratings package was more or less same.Juniors ,who have joined after us were getting same perks as we got. I was upset and tried to analyze , what the f**k ? happend to this company.

Mean-while I could observe my manager was not in his usual gay mood and rumours were spread that project is gonna debacle and resources would be ramped down due to lack of budget and so were other projects especially projects related to finance,this started happening with other companies too.

Interestingly ,in economic times an article caught my attention about the US economic recession . I was intrigued whether US recession has got something to do with decline in IT services sector in India.I started tracking the projects which were being ramped down in various companies . All these were fortune 500 companies in finance sector. since they have lost their market ,these companies were not interested to put their money on their IT division. Bad news is no more lucrative onsite opportunities :-(

Reason why these companies lost their market is more interesting than my pathetic pay package!!!! I would tell the reason, we find few idiots working long hours to impress their horrible managers. one such an idiot stayed even after office hours for completieng his work ,hmmm but he was neither an idiot nor wanted to impress his manager;-) . He was working in IT division of a reputed bank in US . what's more , this prank created fake saving accounts and took loans even with out securities by tweaking the back-end of companies database ,looted more than 3 billion dollars over night. This has surfaced after a year when company needed to show its profit/loss sheet to stakeholders. All of a sudden investors lost faith in the banks because they have gone haywired when this hacking stuff came in to light , which was done by an internal employee of the bank. Since investors lost faith in banks , much business was not recorded to reap profits. So I have lost faith in my previous employer becoz of his poor package.