You..

You are a beautiful soul.

You are the light that brightens the world

You are blessed with the power to create... all the goodnesses in life.

Your smile does not always mean that happiness showers on you. They just mean, you have chosen to create happiness, no matter what.

You love to sing. You love to dance. You love to enjoy the rhythm of life.

You love to keep talking, like a free bird -chirping on its own. . And you love to lend your ears, to the one in distress.

At times you feel, the entire world burdened on your shoulders. At times, you feel the world is at your feet!

You laugh when you are crying from inside, and you tactfully shed tears out of joy.

You are adventurous. You love to throw yourself into a world of strangers and circumstances, never seen before. And then you slowly collect good people and lessons, out of that world.

You have a unique way of leaving your mark, wherever you go.

You love learning from Life out of experiences - the good, and the bad.

You know when to turn into a funny, naughty kid. And you know, when to wear up your Philosopher's hat!

You love to create your own unique world, your own story – wherever you go, and with whatever you do.

You fight with with a loved one, and carry all the pain of missing him/her. Yet you don't stand their pain and move the heaven and earth to make him smile!

You are Selfless.

At times, you carry a lone heart, in the midst of a crowd. And sometimes, when you are all by yourself – you feel the entire universe is with you.

You are a girl, growing up into a woman; with all the love, and blessings that life bestows upon you.

It's not the attire or the make up you wear...
It's the grace that you carry, despite the visible scar on yo.., that makes you beautiful...

You are Special....

Open your box, before it starts stinking!

     Last Friday, I had left my lunch box at the office. Obviously! With the overloaded work and the deadline tension, I had forgotten to take it back home. It just lied there at my desk, over the weekend. It was the following Monday evening, that I carried it back home. And, the moment I opened this dabba, there was a micro-blast of foul odour in and around it! YYUCCCKKKK!! The odour got soo intolerable, that I just poured hot water into the box and left the kitchen! [was prepared to take mom's blastings, but definitely not this smell!!]...

     ...It was quite a peaceful evening. My mind was idle. Somehow, my idle mind turned into a 'Philospher's workshop'. I started to reflect on my day. All of a sudden, the fact that such a yummy curry, had started to stink, only because it was left unused in the box for a longer time - amazed me!And i started relating all this - to life!... the box! the bad odour! the food!

     Well...each one of us is blessed with some talent, some unique gift stuffed within us by GOD. Just like some yummy dish packed into a box. But how many of us, actually open it up and explore? How many of us actually savour the dish?... Some of us are just waiting for the right 'time' to open it up, and some of us for the right 'people'! And in most cases, the wait gets so long that in the end, we have forgotten what exactly were we waiting for! And by the time we remember it, the dish has already rotten! It's too late! The box has started to stink!

     Think of all the extra-curriculur activities that you pursued in your school days! You won awards for singing, dancing, painting, sports..and then you announced to the entire world 'm gonna be the world's best singer'! And then all of a sudden there's a halt to everything. You are caught in the maze of fulfilling your needs first. So lost into the rat-race that you have forgotten and abandoned the gifts that were meant exclusively for you! You start disconnecting from something for which you were born!

     Of course, not all of us can be world-famous singers, authors, sportsmen...But that doesnot mean that we stop using and exploring these strengths, just because we couldnot make it big! Why wait for the big break, when small things are sufficient to keep you going? You know you have got a great voice, then why wait till you become a great singer? Sing for yourself, right here - right now! Sing for your loved ones. Sing for the fact that God has gifted this lovely voice to you! If Guitar was always your passion, then play it for yourself! Why disappoint that you couldnot make it to the best of the music bands! God just counts how much You enjoy the gift given to you. What others think of your gift, comes secondary!

     Find out the delicacy that has been exclusively prepared for you. Explore the true purpose of your life, the reason for your existence! And once you have discovered it, dont suffocate it by suppressing it within you. Liberate it. Bring it out!  

     So what? If your taste doesnot match with the rest of the world? It's true that joy lies in sharing. But you neednot wait to the extent that the food and the container starts to stink! Start enjoying the dish yourself, before its too late. Start using the strengths and your hidden talents in your daily life! Others will look at  you and get tempted to have a share of your fun! And if that doesnot happen, still dont care! Finish the entire stuff yourself! Atleast, dont leave your special gifts stinking! Don't let your spirits die!

      Its true that there is a constant quarrel between our 'wants' and 'needs', in our daily lives. And we are so involved in trying to resolve this conflict that we fail to notice the True winner! As the law of nature goes - 'when two cats fight, the monkey wins!' Let the monkey Win! Let your spiritual pursuit [the monkey] win over this never-ending quarrel between your wants and needs [the 2 cats]! The monkey is anyways bound to win, then why take the cats' sides?

     Start exploring. Dig our your strengths. Persist. Perceive. Start living! Give time to the things you love to do! Open the box that God specially gifted for you. Start savouring the dish. If you feel that the box has already started to stink, DONT worry! Its just temporary! Gather all your courage, face the odour for a while, and put the box through a thorough cleansing activity! And if you are worried about the food inside...Remember that if God's gifted you something, he's given you the power to Create it as well! Just that you need to explore this power! After all, life's all about looking inwards, and reaching out...

    Open the box! Dont seclude it..Explore it, before it starts stinking...

Hakunamatata....:D

Excitement - Day!!:D

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Finally...A day when the super-excited cherub in me, somehow showed up (surprisingly)..for the first time @aapice:P:D...


The Laddoo story:

My day had a 'shubh aarambh' (ditto translation: lucky start), when a cab mate of mine offered me a laddoo (a prasadam for Mahashivrathri!), early in the morning.:) [Receiving a prasadam of Lord Shiva, itself was enough to make me smile for the rest of the day!]. He'd got it from his native village, and it was home made (n that made it even more special)..

When I tried breaking the laddoo for distributing it, I discovered that it was as hard as a rock :-/ .. tried applying my strength on it but it was too hard for me to break. Gave a male colleague, to try his hands at it. No luck!!

Fun began with the 'who-breaks-the-laddoo' challenge on the floor:D! A guy from the other team (towards the right of my cubicle) tried, gave up at the first attempt. Another one gave up by simply looking at the first guy losing it all!:D. Now the challenge was thrown on the team towards the left of my cubicle (the team consisting of all big bhaiyyas). Nix bhai volunteered to break it...After 3 attempts,  he managed to soften the laddoo a bit, but could not smash it:D:P..n now felt too weak to attempt on it anymore..Gave up..and gave it to his colleague who was sitting right opposite to him (cz i prompted him to do so..just for fun:P)...Finally...the laddoo get smashed into pieces..and the winner is. '.....'...(i dunno the name of the bhaiyya who broke the laddoo:):)..but thanks to him:P).Felt happy to see the the laddoo getting distributed to almost 20-25 people (including the guys who attempted breaking it, as well as the winning team). Finally, I saw an old  '16-nincompoops-sharing-half-a-laddoo' kind of a day repeating (after a looong time)..in my second company:):)..the laddoo-breaking challenge and the hullabaloo of watching people making attempts one by one, and then then the distribution..made monday look lively on the floor..!!

After that bit of fun...everyone got back to work....

The LapTop Story:


The floor again got calm, silent (of course, with a bit of energy), and everyone got busy with their tasks. "Hi"...wished my Tl..who had just arrived, and then continued to do my work. It was again mum..a typical 'office' scenario. with everyone busy into their respective system monitors. all calm and quiet.

"Surprise...", comes a voice from my right; and I see a brand new laptop at my desk, and TL standing next to me waiting to see my reaction!! [I have been pestering my boss to get me a laptop, and expected to get it by the end of the month]. And getting it so early, plus a brand new one - was sufficient to again open up the fountain of excitement in me!!And the next half an hour made our cubicle the noisiest on the floor, with  me laughing out loud trying to contain my joy, and the rest having fun looking at me that excited! The josh got me sso out-of-my-mind, that when my boss asked  me to mail the system serial number to her, I send her a mail like this,

*****

"Hi Boss,

Per your request, the serial number of my laptop is _____ [and i gloriously type the system 'model number'  instead of the 'serial number']

Regards,
[signature]

*****
...that made the atmosphere in my cubicle more energetic and exciting..with all of us rofl'ing at my mail.!!:D:D..yeah...the mail which i'd  just sent, looked more like me boasting at my  boss 'look! I got a better laptop than you!':D:$..of course, the mail contained no relevant info..everyone had known the model number of my laptop by then:D..

..the excitement did not go down, and i kept constantly smiling looking at my new laptop in the afternoon, till lunch..till almost the end...


The Pending chocolates:


Was still basking in the state of super-excitedness that I was in, perhaps for the first time in my new office!..It was 20 more minutes to go, before my log-out time. 'Yaaron..jee bhar k jee le pal, lagta hai aaj kal..daur apna aayega' , rang my phone.

'chollu pa' -in my palakkadu accent.

'romba busy oo? come to the food world fast', it was Veeru, another friend from the 'laddoo-breaking-winner-team'. I had won a challenge against him (for the India-England match), and 2 chocolates were pending:D.

[have been pestering this guy for the chocolates since the match, and this guy gets only 'this day' to get me the chocolates!] A day when i am already so hyper!!....with the few minutes that i got before log out, i summarized the entire day's story to him (without bothering if he was listening or not:D:D)..

..and then after logging out, while walking on the way towards the exit; I see bade bhaiyya's face (whose presence on the floor always makes me feel good)...

Hoo...my team has now got a story to narrate, to the evening shift guys...B-)

........*****.......

....With a rock-solid laddoo, 2 silk chocolates and a brand new lappy - all packed in one day...i feeeel like the queeeen of the werld......


.....excitement ka tadka itna lag gaya, k i am still smiling.. thinking about today's day at office.::):):):):) it was a day of its kind..March 7th, 2011! - The 'Excitement Day' - a day long awaited for a long time.specially in my life, otherwise filled with 'nothingness' since few months!.insha allah, the same mood persists on the floor...atleast, for as long as I am here...

"bachpana karo, chalta hai.." B-)

Cheers,

Just like that!

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Nothing informative here!

Was alone in the team, for a while in the morning (a colleague was on leave, and another hadnt turned up).
Had few people from the other teams coming n asking me as to why was I alone!! Felt good...atleast a few care!

Phew! Some improvements in office life!

A scene definitely better than few months ago, when my presence itself was hardly known!(or in all possibilities,  known..but ignored!)

insha allah..this goes a long way....

a li'l cheers to Corporate life now :P