Am I done??

Its a long time since I tried to write something new. It is not because I was not willing to.. just because there was nothing to share..or ..I didn't felt like sharing it with all.
So what changed today? ..Actually nothing!! but I thought to visit back my old post and realized that how difficult it is to keep your good days in your memory.. It wipes out as soon as you get one "not so good" day. Anyways.. As I said earlier.. there is still nothing special to write about ..but I will try to keep myself motivated and write something good. Till then ..See you when I see you :)

21/22 Mar-2011

It is end of 21st Mar-2011 and beginning of 22nd- Mar-2011. Every year 21st Mar came after 20th Mar and ends with beginning of 22 Mar..so whats a BIG deal... it happens every year dude..what’s makes this day so special that I am writing a blog on it...hmm..I know you must be feeling like I am getting mad now and here you go..you are not wrong.. actually I am...
It is my 45th day in my post marriage bachelor life and I am really pissed off with staying alone and talking with myself.
I am still cursing the day when I decided to come here. I heard that if you do a mistake first time..it is learning and if you do it again..then it is stupidity.. and I gave full rights to everyone to call me a stupid.
anyways..We were on '21st cum 22nd Mar' so what are so special with day.. I saw spring flowers in my office and I enjoyed them with a snow fall of at least 2 cms. But just a snowfall doesn't make this day as special as in Windsor, we can see a snowfall even in April. Believe me friends snowfall is not as cool as it looks like in movies. In movie's snowfall, you can enjoy it with popcorn and sitting in an air-conditioned hall on a fully cushioned sofa..definitely..if you have paid at least Rs 250 for it and as soon as you come to real snowfall..you will feel like you are walking on chilled rain where you can feel wet as soon as snow touches to your face.
But it is not making this day so special..so what is special today.. As I recalled, I don't see anything special..at least I don’t remember.. so what makes this day so special..
I checked Google to make sure that I am not missing anything special but I hadn't got anything special for this day... this Google ppl are crap.. I don’t know when they will understand the requirements.. I was searching for History with 21 Mar and they were giving me today’s history. They should understand the meaning of 'History' at least.
Anyways ..finally I got what is special with this time.. actually I am missing you guys :).
I will try to be in touch with you ppl now.
now it is time when I should sleep. Good day ..evening ..night..

A life without Internet

Long time back I had seen some south park episode where people just lost internet and they were just got shocked!! I never felt that it can be very true in real life as well but this south park episode came into my life as a real thing and I really felt that how much I got habituated of Internet in my life.
So the story started approx 3 months back when I decided to change my job. After putting my papers I asked to discontinue my interne connection. There were several reasons behind this act but the major was I was not happy with the service I was getting and I was going out for approx 15 days and they refused to keep my number in safe custody.
As I was not willing to pay internet rent for this period, I decided to discontinue it and thought I to take some cheaper connection after returning back.
As a backup plan I took mobile 3G connection so that I can get a basic internet service.
My nightmare started just after flying for Delhi as I realized that the new 3G connection is not with me... I left it at my home. Now I had no other option other then stick with my dead slow GPRS and get internet.
I don’t know if it happens only with me or not but my situation turned like a person went out without umbrella in rain season.
And as expected the rain started ... I had to keep on sending mails to my last company representative and other folks for my relieving letter and at the same time I got due dates of my phone bill, credit card bill ...and all other bills due date which I never thought of.
Finally somehow I managed all these activities with my turtle speed GPRS and returned back to Hyderabad.
I joined the new office just after returning back and hadn't got any time to get any other internet connection.
After 2 days of using 3g services, I realized that it stopped working and after some R&D I come to know that it consumed my 500 bucks for 2 hours surfing :(
I never thought that it would be this much costly. I enquired for any unlimited plan but looked like people left for the adobe after creating this service. No one had any information about it. I think no need to mention here the provider of my 3G services.
Finally I decided to go back to old school and enquired about wired broadband plans. After 15 days of rigorous search, I finally landed up with one option left in my hand and the option was to ask my old provider to reconnect my connection.
Yesterday after 14 calls and 4 services cum complaint request, I got my Internet back....
Yippee... and after a full terrible night... I am back on internet now.

Resignation letter

Finally I got an opportunity to write one more resignation letter!!!.. Yes..I am leaving my current firm and going to be 'Berojgar' for next few days.
It has been a long time since I wrote my last resignation letter so I found it very difficult to write it. As usual first thing come in my mind was the mail I got long time back regarding 'World's smallest Resignation letter'. It is something like
Dear Sir,
f*** off. I am leaving.
But I have a very good relation with my manager; at least I think so, so I dropped the plan of electing it.
Then I went back on my last resignation letters. For those, who don't have any idea about my career path, my current firm is my 5th placement and for first 2 places, I hadn't submitted the resignation as there were policy of 'No last month pay' so I just run away after getting my salary credited to my account but after then I realized the need of relieving letters and work exp certificates, so I put my first resignation there.
It was a complete one page letter where I included multiple resignation letters, i got from Google.
I still remember the reaction of my Manager. He said that “Looks like you started it since you joined here. How did you get this much time to write this story?"
Well.. I was very happy at that time so I didn't react him but got the lesson that if your resignation is bigger than your appointment letter, it will make your manager unhappy!!!
Technically Appointment letter is antonym of Resignation letter but for managers, it is opposite of layoff.
It is same as saying" I quit!!" then listening "you are fired!!”
Anyways, I dropped to copy the same old letter and start a new Google search once again. While searching I realized that there is so much change comes in the materials available on net now a day. I still remember that my last time search, which was approx 5 years back, gave me 4-5 good letters on top. Now I saw that there are some 'Sponsored Links' coming in their place. I don't understand who sponsored the Resignation Letter and how they are running their business!! But it is none of my business so I moved to un-sponsored section of search and opened a few of them.
These letters were quite straight forward. I can say that it is not small as smallest resignation letter but they smell like them only so I rectified my search from 'Resignation Letter' to 'Polite Resignation letter' but I got the same results :(.
Then I thought an innovative idea and searched for 'Polite Resignation Letter for Indian Firm' and got some interesting results.
There was one post of an anonymous guy who wrote a story on which you can create a hit film. This was a story of poor family having father and mother suffering from bad health and this fellow has to take care of them so he want to relieved ASAP.
I rechecked the search subject and confirm I am still searching for polite and not emotional or Dramatic.
Any ways with some more permutation and combination, I got my final letter with search content as 'Polite Resignation Letter for an Indian Manager working in MNC' and finally I drafted my new resignation letter.
I am sending it to my manager and praying that I may get a problem free relieving.

Employer Loyalty vs Employee Loyalty

One day I was sitting at my friend's place and got engaged inside the discussion of "why people leave company". Suddenly one person quoted the statement of Aziz Premji that "Employee do not leave company but they leave their managers".
I just thought about this statement and tried to get convinced with it but finally fail to do so. If it is like most of the people leave their managers then how it is possible that some set of people left one organization and join different organization all together?
Some how it also happen and they continue their work together as a team in same way how they were working in their last firm.
Probably we should see the picture of other side first before going further. I think considering "Company" and "Manager" as different entity itself is wrong. For a company, Manager and other employees are same. Managers are just a communication medium or hierarchy created by company for effective communication.
Manager asked their employees to do what he/she got from his/her higher Management or in other words "Company".
So if a person left any firm, it means person is leaving the policy or culture created by the firm and not to the team where he/she was working earlier.
If we consider Company, Manager and Employees as an entity then following statement looks like more meaningful.
"All entities work together to get their own profits. They work together till the time every one is in win-win situation. At the stage of this situation differs, entities separates them self from each other to get an better alternative"
Most of the companies follow it as basic business guideline in case of hikes or layoffs.
Employee has to understand that they are an entity for a company like his/her manager for company and manager is not taking any decision by him/herself. He is hired to take decisions for his own and company's profit.
In that case, no one bound an employee to take decision for his own profit and it is nothing to do with employee Loyalty.
Employee's duty inside a company is to work for his/her own and company's profit and if he/she realized that he is not on the profit side, he/she has to raised the concern to company via manager (Communication Channel).
If it is not addressed by company, then he/she is free to take the measures for his/her own profit.
Most of the people do not raise the voice of their concern just because of they feel that manager will feel offended but they forget that if they wouldn't raise the voice their concern then no one will even know about it as well.
In other side, companies do it very promptly and effectively.
So next time before cribbing about your manager or company, make sure that
1) you have analyzed that you are on losing side even after putting company at winning side.
2)you have raised your concern with proper communication channel.
If the concern is not resolved by the company, you will be free to take decision for your own profit.
I hope it will help you in solving your Loyalty difference issue.

A Surperising Saturday..

There is something special about Saturday. Thought Shikha never allow me to sleep late but I got another excuse for not waking up. My mom said that I use to be a good boy in my childhood and never cry for not going school..well...I am ready to accept that I have start childish behavior a bit late and now a days I am crying for not going to office because of stomach ache.
There are so many other reasons of crying too but I am not here to discuss about it. I am here to discuss something about an adventurous Saturday.
So my Saturday started somewhere between 7:00 AM and 9:30 AM. Shikha waked me at least 6-7 times and I came out of bed with final ultimatum regarding tea. As I never like to lose my morning tea, especially when it is prepared by m lovely wife, but nothing like morning dreams!!!!!
With every call, I just open my eye for evaluating the atmosphere heat and returned back to my sweet dreams if everyone's temperament is not too hot.
Finally I realized that it is too late to stop Shikha yelling on me and suddenly opera filled with melodious music turned into battlefield and I got the sound of some gunshots fire. I wake up immediately and saw Shikha standing just next to my head with cup of tea.
My God!!! It was a narrow escape... btw…The gun shots, I heard in my dream, came from TV serial, please don't misinterpret them.
So, it was a start of my day and clock showing me 9:30. I got the news paper and start it from the last page as usual. I never like to read news paper from the first page as I like to read different story rather usual stuff of one person blaming other for something but I got my second shock of the day. I was not able to read the news paper!!! I was feeling like an illiterate, not able to understand any word, except the pictures but same time I got the reason as well. It was because of my hawker. He gave me Telugu News paper :( .. I was quite disappointed as I got a habit of reading news paper with morning tea but I had no choice left. I continued watching it and tried to get some meaning with picture attached with it. Worst part was all ads were also in Telugu only so could not waste my time with them as well.
Finally I finished fastest reading of all the time and finished paper in 5 mins. As soon as I put news paper back on the table, I saw, Shikha and mom are smiling on me, I know why they were smiling but just to hide my frustration and asked the reason. They didn't tell me anything and continued smirking on me and I felt like most stupid fellow on this earth.
I decided to change the topic and called to my niece, Anya, I think we are the best buddy on this earth. We both protect each other’s back. Whenever we found our self in an awkward situation, we call each other and most of the time I call her like today. Anya picked up the phone with big "Hellllllooooo" as usual and as soon as she realized that it is my call, she started her story telling. Let me tell one thing here that she communicate in some alien language so it is difficult to read, write and understand. Only my mom and my sister can understand this language. Even I don't understand it but I was enjoying it as my mom was looking my face as she was waiting for get the phone and talk to her. Yeeeepii.. I broke one member of rival group. I think I should be in Politics. I handed over the phone to mom and Shikha become all alone. Now she was not smiling on me as she needs support of my mom to take 'Panga' with me.
I asked her to give paranthas as breakfast cum lunch to me and she saw me with corner of her eyes and muttered about my laziness. Even I heard it but not reacted as I always believe on final outcome and not on intermediate disturbance :)
Finally after half an hour, conversation between my mom and Anya got over and in place of happiness, I saw some confusion on my mom’s face. As confusion never come alone, it always come with another set of confusions, I also got confused about reason of my mom's confusion.
In place of playing confusion game, I decided to break the game and asked the reason.
The reason was not good for me. It was traditional good news with bad news.
Good news was my sis got a full time job is very reputed school and bad news was my mom has to go there as Anya’s school timings didn't matched with my sis job timings.
Anyways she planned to go there only after coming back from dipawali holidays. As soon as I adjusted with one surprise, I got next one. My mom had a plan to visit Bareilly as well to see Mamaji and she want to do it before coming back. We tried all the permutation and combination to fit Bareilly trip in our short hometown trip but we found that we have to miss at least one planned activity to adjust it.
All of a sudden, we just got an out of box solution of the problem. If mom travels all alone to Bareilly, before our Rishikesh Trip, we can intact our original plan. I thought my mom will refuse this plan as she had to travel alone but she accepted to take it up. I think she had a storng willing to meet mamaji as he is not feeling well now a day. We rushed to the new generation railway reservation counter, which resides at one corner of my home, to check the availability.
We found that there is some seats available under 'Tatkaal' scheme for Delhi on 25th Morning.
With very deep heart, we booked this ticket and choose all time favorite 'Kashi Vishwanath' for onwards journey to Bareilly.
As we had only one day in between, so we rushed for packing the stuffs and decided to go for some sweet shopping on next day.
against my habit, I saw the clock and come to know that it was 7:00 PM and we hadn't watched TV till now.
As soon as I switched on TV to watch it, Shikha closed it with an idea to celebrate the rest of the time with playing her all time favorite card game called 'Laad' (I think my all old roommates must be agree with it) as we had not played it since our Nagarjuna Sagar trip.
For those, who don't know this game, it is a card game where cards got distributed among all players and the person who left with cards declared looser.
So we played it for next one hour and Shikha enjoyed it a lot as I earned so many cards during this one hour. Anyways all Indian ladies gets happy to see her husband earning more then others and in my case she had another reason to be happy as she had biggest contribution in it.
Finally, we decided to watch TV with our dinner and spend some more time in R & D with new automatic BP monitoring machine.
It was a very exciting day filled with so many emotions. I know that coming days will be more adventurous for my mom as she will do her first independent journey where she have to catch train independently from different station. One may feel it as not a big deal but if you think in prospect of an 50+ year old person on her first independent journey, it is as big deal as going on Mars with change over at Moon for us.
All the very best Mom!!..
I think it is too late for me to go for a sleep and here I am stopping this post!!!

Dedication, Motivation and Creativity

Yesterday I was sitting with my friends and discussing about a good thought, told by my previous manager, regarding good leadership quality.
He said “To be a successful leader, you have to work like glue with your team and after some time they will consider you as a part of the team."
At sudden Bhupi start laughing on this thought. Everyone was enthusiastic to hear the reason of his act and he didn't disappoint us. He jumbled some of the letters from the words and recreated the thought. He removed 'l'& 'e' from 'Glue' and added 'f' in place of 'p' in 'part', replaced 'p' with 'b' in 'be'.
Initially I was shocked with his ridiculous transformation which he always does during serious discussion but then I realized the dedication he has to make such kind of interpretation.
Finally I got another thought of the day:
"Dedication, Motivation and creativity is essential for getting success. In absence of any of it, person cannot achieve the true success."
It is not necessary to have dedication only in serious matters. Like in case of Bhupi, he is fully dedicated towards nonsense talk and motivated all the time to get chance to do it. Apart from it, he is quite creative to make serious thought to a senseless bizarre and laugh on it.

Thanks Bhupi, for providing me this wonderful thought...