Two hours of my each work day is for travel now..
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So more time to dream apart from the weekly travels to Trivandrum.... I have to see my "jathakam" again - may be now its "traveloyogam"!
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
7 Habits For Me
First I read 7 habits for "aged people", then tried "teenagers". Nothing changed. So now bought "7 habits for happy kids.. Great stories. Lachu liked the stories. But she is happy as she is, and just want the stories. Dont want to make those habits..
But if i now say "i am bored", she asks me "Are you like sammy?" The hero in the first story who is bored, bored and bored, and wants others to help him out. But finally in the story he realizes no use in complaining, and only he can help him out. Be Proactive!
But i cant. I need to complain. The best place is this blog. I AM BORED, BORED, BORED........
Monday, June 15, 2009
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Travels..
Travelling every week these days.. I used to like being alone.. I used to like dreaming.. So being in bus or train I used to enjoy a lot. Nowadays not enjoying that.. On the way home, may be its just tensions on how to make lachu do all the home work; and on back to office tensions on clearing up all the pending work..
This week in train, it was totally frustrating. Read the magazines "Open" and "Tehelka" as soon as i got into ( These days not buying "India today" or "Outlook" ).
Observing different types of people is interesting.. So started observing them.
A hi-fi "north-indian" look, malayalee family was there speaking english. From the minute they boarded train started eating cookies ,wafers, and all the snacks forcing me to have early dinner.
Some "un-reserved" people were also there travelling to "erode" and "salem". They knew that its a "reserved" compartment only after boarding. ( Thanks to Velu's and Balu's all compartments of Kochu Velli express are so dirty that nobody can identify as its a reserved compartment. Hope Ahamed Sahib will make a change for kerala). After knowing that its a reserved compartment, they went to non-reserved compartment but came back soon as the non-reserved was too full.
The person who was sitting in the sideberth was occupying only 20% of his lower berth. So 3 more people occupied his berth. And it was fun seeing him pushed by non-reserved passengers and the way he co-operates. I was like this perhaps 5-6 years back. Now life has made me arrogant enough so that i can thrash people if they try to intrude to my area. Anyway the non-reserved people won and our poor fellow was having only 1/4th of the berth.
When the TTE came nonreserved ladies started the drama.. They told him its the first time they are travelling on the train, and dont know the difference btw these.. Anyway the next stop is only salem and TTE or them doesnt have any other option.. So the ladies stayed. Since the precedent is laid, the unreserved men in sideberth also didnt have to argue to TTE.
After the TTE came , attittude of non-reserved people to the reserved gentleman in sideberth increased. They now only came to know the man who they were kicking is the owner of the berth. The kicking still continued, but with more respect now.
At Salem TTE kicked out all the unreserved ( non-reserved - i dont know which one is correcr, i keep changing the usage ) were driven out of the compartment. It started boring for me. I tried to sleep in my upper berth. But sleep was not coming.... It took me another 3-4 hours to sleep.
But once sleep is achieved, you have peace, till i woke up when it was nearing allapuzha station... I wanted a Tea, luckily I got a Tea and allapuzha and Paper at Kollam. Got to read "Indian Express" after along time. That paper is dead boring now. Lost its charm. And it didnt have the results of India , WestIndies T20 match also..
Soon it reached Kochu Velli and another boring interesting journey come to and end.
This week in train, it was totally frustrating. Read the magazines "Open" and "Tehelka" as soon as i got into ( These days not buying "India today" or "Outlook" ).
Observing different types of people is interesting.. So started observing them.
A hi-fi "north-indian" look, malayalee family was there speaking english. From the minute they boarded train started eating cookies ,wafers, and all the snacks forcing me to have early dinner.
Some "un-reserved" people were also there travelling to "erode" and "salem". They knew that its a "reserved" compartment only after boarding. ( Thanks to Velu's and Balu's all compartments of Kochu Velli express are so dirty that nobody can identify as its a reserved compartment. Hope Ahamed Sahib will make a change for kerala). After knowing that its a reserved compartment, they went to non-reserved compartment but came back soon as the non-reserved was too full.
The person who was sitting in the sideberth was occupying only 20% of his lower berth. So 3 more people occupied his berth. And it was fun seeing him pushed by non-reserved passengers and the way he co-operates. I was like this perhaps 5-6 years back. Now life has made me arrogant enough so that i can thrash people if they try to intrude to my area. Anyway the non-reserved people won and our poor fellow was having only 1/4th of the berth.
When the TTE came nonreserved ladies started the drama.. They told him its the first time they are travelling on the train, and dont know the difference btw these.. Anyway the next stop is only salem and TTE or them doesnt have any other option.. So the ladies stayed. Since the precedent is laid, the unreserved men in sideberth also didnt have to argue to TTE.
After the TTE came , attittude of non-reserved people to the reserved gentleman in sideberth increased. They now only came to know the man who they were kicking is the owner of the berth. The kicking still continued, but with more respect now.
At Salem TTE kicked out all the unreserved ( non-reserved - i dont know which one is correcr, i keep changing the usage ) were driven out of the compartment. It started boring for me. I tried to sleep in my upper berth. But sleep was not coming.... It took me another 3-4 hours to sleep.
But once sleep is achieved, you have peace, till i woke up when it was nearing allapuzha station... I wanted a Tea, luckily I got a Tea and allapuzha and Paper at Kollam. Got to read "Indian Express" after along time. That paper is dead boring now. Lost its charm. And it didnt have the results of India , WestIndies T20 match also..
Soon it reached Kochu Velli and another boring interesting journey come to and end.
Sunday, May 03, 2009
Sunday, April 12, 2009
The Leader In Me
Bought and Read a new book from Stephen Covey - "Leader in Me". Waste of money. It just states in 200 odd pages the names of some schoold who implemented 7 habits in curicullam.., and how the results improved.
I didnt get what i wanted from the book.... I was hoping to get some compass for guiding my child.. But the compass is still "7 habits", so just read that book..
I saw the advt of "7 habits for happy kids" in that book.. May be will try that also.. Better to give her emotional strength at an early age, than late thirties...
I didnt get what i wanted from the book.... I was hoping to get some compass for guiding my child.. But the compass is still "7 habits", so just read that book..
I saw the advt of "7 habits for happy kids" in that book.. May be will try that also.. Better to give her emotional strength at an early age, than late thirties...
2 Harihar Nagar
This time also lachu didnt allow to see me the second half..... She was too bored once the first half was over.
The first half was quite interesting... although some "thara" thamashakal, but i was laughing aloud. And the 1st half ended with the predicted suspense.. " Honai speaking..".
But the Lays, biscuits and Frooty couldnt make lachu sit for the second half. She couldnt take the violence and she started asking "where is the tamasha ? "
Anyway me and her were happily standing outside eating Gems and Kurkure for the second half.
I was hoping to see the film alone once i am back in bangalore.. But my wife broke away the suspense while returning back.. and so i saved a 150Rs PVR tickets.. Now i am not in the mood to see the film...
For those who have seen In Harihar Nagar, the second one would be a good see....
Today there was "Chocolate" film in TV, and lachu is seeing that for 5th time. It seems that her taste is in romance and she doesnt like the elder artists in malayam industry - mamootty, mohanlal, mukesh etc etc..... Hope new heroes will come to suit the "kid" generation like her.....
The first half was quite interesting... although some "thara" thamashakal, but i was laughing aloud. And the 1st half ended with the predicted suspense.. " Honai speaking..".
But the Lays, biscuits and Frooty couldnt make lachu sit for the second half. She couldnt take the violence and she started asking "where is the tamasha ? "
Anyway me and her were happily standing outside eating Gems and Kurkure for the second half.
I was hoping to see the film alone once i am back in bangalore.. But my wife broke away the suspense while returning back.. and so i saved a 150Rs PVR tickets.. Now i am not in the mood to see the film...
For those who have seen In Harihar Nagar, the second one would be a good see....
Today there was "Chocolate" film in TV, and lachu is seeing that for 5th time. It seems that her taste is in romance and she doesnt like the elder artists in malayam industry - mamootty, mohanlal, mukesh etc etc..... Hope new heroes will come to suit the "kid" generation like her.....
Sunday, March 08, 2009
she has a "BIG".......
Archies @ Forum has a 50% discount. So after coming out of the Dilli-6 movie me and my friend decided to take a look inside archies. Lots of bangalorian girls in Tshirts and Jeans shopping around...
I finally bought a very cute, huggable teddy bear for 125Rs at half the price.. And i was explaining to my friend the very large no. of teddy bears my daughter has, and expecially the two very BIG teddy bears she has.....
I was in the queue behind lot of good looking ladies for paying cash.. And I said to my friend.. "she has BIG............." and suddenly i stopped. I have this habit of stopping conversations in between and going to idle loop. May be i dont get the correct words, or i feel its not important to complete the sentences....
After few seconds my friend started laughing.. The girls in front of me had turned back and were looking at me... It seems they were looking sharply at me for my remarks : "she has a BIG....", and i was looking somewhere down, and resting peacefully in my idle loop.
Luckily for me, the girls in front of me didnt have anything BIG... :) so i escaped. They may have thought that i am commenting on someone else..
Anyway i escaped.. Better to improve my english and communication skills.. it will help me atleast not to get beatings .. or i shuld be in silent mode rather than partially completed dangerous sentences....
I finally bought a very cute, huggable teddy bear for 125Rs at half the price.. And i was explaining to my friend the very large no. of teddy bears my daughter has, and expecially the two very BIG teddy bears she has.....
I was in the queue behind lot of good looking ladies for paying cash.. And I said to my friend.. "she has BIG............." and suddenly i stopped. I have this habit of stopping conversations in between and going to idle loop. May be i dont get the correct words, or i feel its not important to complete the sentences....
After few seconds my friend started laughing.. The girls in front of me had turned back and were looking at me... It seems they were looking sharply at me for my remarks : "she has a BIG....", and i was looking somewhere down, and resting peacefully in my idle loop.
Luckily for me, the girls in front of me didnt have anything BIG... :) so i escaped. They may have thought that i am commenting on someone else..
Anyway i escaped.. Better to improve my english and communication skills.. it will help me atleast not to get beatings .. or i shuld be in silent mode rather than partially completed dangerous sentences....
Dilli 6
Dilli 6 I saw despite the bad reviews, because Rang De Basanti was/is a very fascinating movie and I didnt want to miss the director's next one.
The movie is see-able; The concept and execution of the movie i felt really complicated; Expecially ending ; It should not have been made so serious and should have been more fun and romantic; I dont like film makers exploiting so much emotions...
The movie is see-able; The concept and execution of the movie i felt really complicated; Expecially ending ; It should not have been made so serious and should have been more fun and romantic; I dont like film makers exploiting so much emotions...
SlumDog Millionaire..
Saw slumdog millionaire..... Instead of writing up a review, i thought i will link to a review done by a non-Indian http://thegoodflea.com/2009/01/slum-dog-millionaire-review.html.
The movie is a good masala film. It projects every bad things in India in a very well manner! Surely West will enjoy.
Also I liked the film. Its the first "outsourced" film ; well we indians are ready to give up IT and BPOs and take up films as career!!
The movie is a good masala film. It projects every bad things in India in a very well manner! Surely West will enjoy.
Also I liked the film. Its the first "outsourced" film ; well we indians are ready to give up IT and BPOs and take up films as career!!
Monday, March 02, 2009
Mutual Funds...
These funds account for 88% of my MF investments:
DSPBR Top 100 Equity Reg-G
Fidelity Equity-G
Fidelity Tax Advantage-D
HDFC Top 200-G
Magnum Taxgain-D
Reliance Growth-G
There are another set of funds which account for my 12% and which i want to clear it off once Market goes up and reaches 20K again... Hope that comes soon :)
Currently running at a 33% loss, but still investing systematically.. The money will certainly grow... But is this a correct/ethical way of investing ?
I invest my money for long-term. But does any value-addition happens because of my investments ?
DSPBR Top 100 Equity Reg-G
Fidelity Equity-G
Fidelity Tax Advantage-D
HDFC Top 200-G
Magnum Taxgain-D
Reliance Growth-G
There are another set of funds which account for my 12% and which i want to clear it off once Market goes up and reaches 20K again... Hope that comes soon :)
Currently running at a 33% loss, but still investing systematically.. The money will certainly grow... But is this a correct/ethical way of investing ?
I invest my money for long-term. But does any value-addition happens because of my investments ?
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Sunday, January 04, 2009
Houston, We have a problem
Who says films are bad ? Every time I see Apollo 13 film I get inspired. Thanks HBO< let me have a good sleep now.
Motivational stuff.....
When I need personal focus, I look for the book "7 habits of highly effective people", and for office stuff - "First break all the rules".
Despite having this and re-reading this doesnt improve.
So i am made a smart move. I had only a pirated version of "First break all the rules". I bought the original ysterday.
Also i bought a "7 habits personal handbook".
Let me see whether that helps....!
( anyway i am avoiding piracy now. I am buying only original DVDs/VCDs/Books now. And destroyed all the pirated ones i have. Good, right ? Hmm, But still i have the music mp3s. )
Despite having this and re-reading this doesnt improve.
So i am made a smart move. I had only a pirated version of "First break all the rules". I bought the original ysterday.
Also i bought a "7 habits personal handbook".
Let me see whether that helps....!
( anyway i am avoiding piracy now. I am buying only original DVDs/VCDs/Books now. And destroyed all the pirated ones i have. Good, right ? Hmm, But still i have the music mp3s. )
Saturday, January 03, 2009
Year end resolutions........
Year end resolutions got completely screwed up.....!
Screw it....
Day-by-Day.......... See wat it comes
Screw it....
Day-by-Day.......... See wat it comes
Thursday, January 01, 2009
Rab ne Bana di Jodi
Celebrated new year in a not so good way. Saw "Rab ne Bana di Jodi"
I didnt like any of the characters in the film.
The scenes i liked -
1. Hole Hole song
2. Some of the dance teaching scenes
3. And shah-rukh's dialogue when the japan trip photos are shown in last scene.
I shuld hav opted for Ghajini.....
I didnt like any of the characters in the film.
The scenes i liked -
1. Hole Hole song
2. Some of the dance teaching scenes
3. And shah-rukh's dialogue when the japan trip photos are shown in last scene.
I shuld hav opted for Ghajini.....
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